Nothing says Christmas quite like Anthology's annual screening of Joseph Cornell films tonight at 7:30 and 9:30. Seriously. Screw the company Christmas party and go.
There was not a little gnashing of teeth and wailing when the cinetrix realized she would be missing Cornell's collection of newsreels and proto mash-up collages. See, she was fortunate to catch a program years ago at the Harvard Film Archive, which included Cornell's drop everything and see it if it ever screens near you "feature," Rose Hobart. To say that I was forever changed would be putting it mildly.
When Cornell first showed this dreamlike collage of footage, culled from 1931's jungle adventure East of Borneo, at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1936, an incensed Salvador Dali turned over the projector and accused Cornell of stealing the idea for the film from his subconscious.
Bet that doesn't happen much at, say, Bruckheimer dailies.
