Sept 26, 2026
Coming on Sept 26…
1706.) To commemorate the death of Gerrit Graham, I present a re-air of Part 1 of my 2006 interview with him.
Sept 19
1705.) Back in the “You Ain’t Seein’ This Anyplace Else” department, I present an episode devoted to the third and final film directed by Juliet Berto, the actress best known for starring in films by Godard and Rivette. Havre (1986) is an intense and unusual fever dream set in the port city of Le Havre, centering around a group of unusual characters having overwrought encounters. At the center is Lili (Frederique Jamet), a young woman whose boyfriend has died, leaving behind an unfinished video game that contains the film’s leads as characters. In the meantime, Lili is cursed by a crazy (white-supremacist) minister who believes she’s a witch — and one other character’s fixation on Lili results in him raping her, which triggers a kung fu fight (!) and a later, truly feverish dance sequence. Havre operates on symbolic and magic realist levels and is without question the best of the three films that Berto directed during her short life. (She died at 46.)
