Hollywood Elsewhere: Grain Monk Spells It Out

Hollywood Elsewhere Movie news and opinions by Jeffrey Wells

Grain Monk Spells It Out Jul 13th 2013, 20:36, by Jeffrey Wells For years I’ve been describing black-and-white Blurays with over-abundant grain as being covered in a swarm of billions of silver digital mosquitoes, a.k.a., a malevolent “grainstorm.” I was obviously describing an unpleasant experience. But in his review of the Criterion Bluray of John Frankenheimer‘s Seconds, the last great Frankenheimer film of the ’60s and a kind of adult horror film about a futile attempt to escape from the conformist nightmares of that era, DVD Beaver’s Gary W. Tooze, an outspoken fan of grain, uses my insect-swarm terminology to describe what he believes to be a pleasurable viewing experience. Mindblowing! The lizard eating its own tail and calling it foie gras!

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