Anyone Who Had a Heart
New "Private Life" interview with Joyce Carol Oates is out now!
Last Sunday as the snow started falling Candystore and I settled in to watch Kieślowski’s Bleu (1993) on The Criterion Channel. I actually had his Three Colors trilogy on DVD in high school, but I hadn’t seen them since (I wish I still had all those DVDs—back to physical media!)
I guess returning to Wuthering Heights has me thinking about the books and films that impacted me as a teenager (my aesthetic through line has always been zero chill). This particular viewing was also precipitated by our Valentine’s date to see Leos Carax’s Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991) at Metrograph, which was stunning (fireworks and waterskiing! Rembrandt by candlelight!) and returned me to the sphinx-like beauty of Juliette Binoche.
Seeing it again, I still loved everything about Bleu, but with an even deeper appreciation for its abstraction and ambiguity, without expository dialogue, sustained by the strength of images and music to communicate in their own terms.
When it finished around 1am we looked out the windows into a world of fluffy twilight. From our kitchen window I snapped some pictures of snow-covered branches backlit by the bright night, glowing with reflected, suspended, light…
The purpose of this note is to let you know that episode three of “Private Life” is now out— a sprawling interview with the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates. It was actually the first one I recorded, last August, and I think captures the wide-ranging intimate conversations I hoped the show would make possible. You can find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and pretty much everywhere else you find podcasts.
