Will Waltz·Apr 27, 2021On My Tweet About Mulholland Dr.The initial trappings of Mulholland Dr. are obvious — innocent, pretty young girl becomes trapped in the twisted world of Hollywood…
Will Waltz·Mar 17, 2021On eXistenZeXistenZ — Capital X, Capital Z. The game of games. Cronenberg’s bridge between the squishy-squeamy sex-pest films of his breakout career…
Will Waltz·Mar 31, 2020GOD’S LIQUOR CABINETAs it happened one of my wealthier friends was leaving town on short notice- something about a chemical plant in the northeast, poisonings…
Will Waltz·Feb 17, 2020NOW, FOREVER, NEVEREvery time I visit the St. Louis Cathedral Basilica, I am denied entry, due either to mass or- more often- matrimony. I tiptoe through the…
Will Waltz·Feb 2, 2020On CosmopolisEric Packer is dead, and we are his procession. We are as chilly of onlookers as Packer himself, at a camera angle just above and tilted…
Will Waltz·Dec 2, 2019The JewelboxesOne of the more incisive things I’ve ever heard about Uber is that one minute of Uber worker time will always equal one minute of…
Will Waltz·Nov 20, 2017A Good Eye Is Hard to FindThe literature-to-film pipeline has always been a lucrative field for Hollywood, now and in the past, but how a film is adapted has always…
Will Waltz·May 16, 2017Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, the Twitter botThis is the only important paragraph, so it is the first.
Will Waltz·Feb 1, 2017Hilbert’s Grand HotelYou are the desk clerk at an upscale hotel, owned by a very wealthy mathematician named David Hilbert. Hilbert’s Grand Hotel is known…