{"id":7268,"date":"2010-05-31T02:11:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T01:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=7268"},"modified":"2010-05-31T02:11:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T01:11:01","slug":"house-of-harrington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/05\/31\/house-of-harrington\/","title":{"rendered":"House of Harrington"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Curtis Harrington.<\/em><\/p>\n

House of Harrington<\/em><\/a> is a short documentary from 2008 about the late filmmaker Curtis Harrington which has just been posted to YouTube by its makers, and by a curious coincidence this appearance occurs in the week of Dennis Hopper’s death. Harrington gave Hopper the lead in his debut feature Night Tide<\/em><\/a> (1961) at a time when the actor was ostracised in Hollywood after a falling out with director Henry Hathaway. Hopper’s diligent performance in Harrington’s film, a low budget horror, is a long way from the histrionics one usually finds in works of this sort and is a good reason to seek it out.<\/p>\n

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Marjorie Cameron in The Wormwood Star.<\/em><\/p>\n

Also in Night Tide<\/em> in a wordless role is the enigmatic occult artist Marjorie Cameron who drifts around looking spooky and mysterious. Cameron had earlier appeared with Harrington in Kenneth Anger’s Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome<\/em><\/a> (1954), he as Cesar\u00e9 the Somnambulist from Caligari<\/em><\/a>, she as Aleister Crowley’s Scarlet Woman. That encounter led to Harrington making her the subject of one of his experimental shorts, The Wormwood Star<\/em> in 1956. I’ve wanted to see this film for years, if only to sate a persistent curiosity, and House of Harrington<\/em> contains a few tantalising glimpses. With luck it may turn up on YouTube (or even DVD) in the future.<\/p>\n

Lastly, Automat Pictures, the makers of House of Harrington<\/em>, also have a lengthy filmed lecture in their channel, Queer for Fear<\/em><\/a>, which “explores gay and lesbian subtext in the horror film, and examines the intertwining of queer history and monster movies.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 House of Harrington: Part 1<\/a> | Part 2<\/a> | Part 3<\/a> | Part 4<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Curtis Harrington, 1926\u20132007<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Cameron, 1922\u20131995<\/a>
\n\u2022 Kenneth Anger on DVD\u2026finally<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Curtis Harrington. House of Harrington is a short documentary from 2008 about the late filmmaker Curtis Harrington which has just been posted to YouTube by its makers, and by a curious coincidence this appearance occurs in the week of Dennis Hopper’s death. Harrington gave Hopper the lead in his debut feature Night Tide (1961) at … Continue reading “House of Harrington”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,5,22,16],"tags":[391,1376,1375,1373,401,121],"class_list":["post-7268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-gay","category-horror","category-occult","tag-aleister-crowley","tag-automat-pictures","tag-curtis-harrington","tag-dennis-hopper","tag-kenneth-anger","tag-marjorie-cameron"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1Te","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}