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John Huston’s Wise Blood (1979) is one of his lesser-known films, but it deserves a wider audience. Based on Flannery O’Connor’s 1952 novel of the same name, Wise Blood is the most faithful screen adaptation I have ever seen, largely because the screenwriter truly loved and understood the source material. The script was written by Benedict Fitzgerald, who knew Flannery O’Connor from childhood. Read more …
(1965) is my all-time favorite comedy. Based on a 1948 
by Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One stands alongside Flannery O’Connor’s 
(the book and 
) as a savagely on-target, dark comic satire on American Protestant civilization.
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 269
The Sublime & the Grotesque
Friedrich Schiller
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I gave this lecture on the concepts of the sublime and the grotesque in a course on Basic Concepts of Aesthetics on September 5, 2000. I apologize for the poor sound quality and noise from the audience. There are also some abrupt cuts where I removed the voices of students, who were mostly inaudible. Read more …