{"id":8834,"date":"2011-02-09T03:09:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T03:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=8834"},"modified":"2011-02-09T03:09:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T03:09:18","slug":"the-writhing-on-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/02\/09\/the-writhing-on-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"The writhing on the wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dracula<\/a> (1992).<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the closest you’ll get to a guest post here even though it’s been done remotely and I’ve changed things around a little. Following my mention yesterday of the Cocteau-derived lantern-arms in Francis Coppola’s Dracula<\/em>, Jescie<\/a> sent me an abandoned blog post which collected similar examples of the arms-through-the-walls motif. I’ve done this kind of thing here in the past so it’s good {feuilleton} material. Almost all these examples are fantasy- and horror-related which isn’t too surprising, and I’m sure there’ll be other examples in films I haven’t seen. If anyone has any suggestions just remember that hands grasping through doors and windows don’t count with this, it’s through the wall or not at all.<\/p>\n

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La Belle et la B\u00eate<\/a> (1946).<\/em><\/p>\n

Jean Cocteau sets things off in 1946, a perfect piece of fairytale Surrealism and one of the many memorable aspects of this film.<\/p>\n

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La Belle et la B\u00eate (1946).<\/em><\/p>\n


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Jack the Giant Killer<\/a> (1962).<\/em><\/p>\n

One I almost forgot, a Ray Harryhausen-like adventure which is pretty good as I recall although I’ve not seen it for years. IMDB says there’s a remake on the way.<\/p>\n

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Repulsion<\/a> (1965).<\/em><\/p>\n

Roman Polanski’s classic of mental disturbance in a London flat.<\/p>\n

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The Thin Wall<\/a> (1981) by Ultravox: 12″ sleeve.<\/em><\/p>\n

One I wouldn’t have known about without Jescie’s suggestion. I had the Rage in Eden<\/em><\/a> album from which this single is taken but don’t remember the song at all, probably because I disliked the band by this point; Ultravox and I part company at Vienna<\/em><\/a>. The design for this, as with the band’s other sleeves of this period, was by Peter Saville.<\/p>\n

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The Thin Wall (1981) by Ultravox: 7″ sleeve.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Day of the Dead<\/a> (1985).<\/em><\/p>\n

I think this was the last George Romero film I watched, it’s certainly one of the last zombie films I watched having lost my patience in recent years with the entire sub-genre of shambling corpses. New monsters, please.<\/p>\n

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Labyrinth<\/a> (1986).<\/em><\/p>\n

The Helping Hands from Jim Henson’s fantasy wherein Mr Bowie sports that wig<\/em> and that codpiece<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Ave Maria (2007) by Maurizio Cattelan.<\/em><\/p>\n

The final example isn’t a film at all but a sculpture by an Italian artist who apparently dislikes being taken seriously<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Jescie!<\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Le livre blanc by Jean Cocteau<\/a>
\n\u2022 Cocteau\u2019s sword<\/a>
\n\u2022 Cristalophonics: searching for the Cocteau sound<\/a>
\n\u2022 Cocteau at the Louvre des Antiquaires<\/a>
\n\u2022 La Villa Santo Sospir by Jean Cocteau<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dracula (1992). This is the closest you’ll get to a guest post here even though it’s been done remotely and I’ve changed things around a little. Following my mention yesterday of the Cocteau-derived lantern-arms in Francis Coppola’s Dracula, Jescie sent me an abandoned blog post which collected similar examples of the arms-through-the-walls motif. I’ve done … Continue reading “The writhing on the wall”<\/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":[2,4,21,7,22,3,41,18],"tags":[1301,977,2089,2241,2250,132,5320,2251,2252,753,262,2249,2210],"class_list":["post-8834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","category-fantasy","category-film","category-horror","category-music","category-sculpture","category-surrealism","tag-david-bowie","tag-dracula","tag-francis-coppola","tag-francis-ford-coppola","tag-george-romero","tag-jean-cocteau","tag-jescie","tag-jim-henson","tag-maurizio-cattelan","tag-peter-saville","tag-ray-harryhausen","tag-roman-polanski","tag-ultravox"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2iu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834","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=8834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}