Bijou Romance

B=I=J=O=U Romance

”The cinema seems to have
been invented to express the
subconscious life, whose roots
penetrate so deeply into poetry;
but it is almost never used for
that end.”
—Luis Buñuel,
“Cinema, Instrument of Poetry,”
The Shadow and Its Shadow:
Surrealist Writing on the Cinema

1. Autobiography = Filmography

2. BIJOU Filmography = postmodern deployment of one’s personality through Film.

3. BIJOU Filmography = transgressive, subversive, camp, kitschy, schmaltzy, lavender, mid-mauve, high-artifice, anti-mimetic, paratactic, cubo-serial, deconstructive denouement of SNARK Romance.

4. BIJOU Romance = Manuel Puig’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” Alberto Fuguet’s “The Movies of My Life,” Nathanael West’s “The Day of the Locusts,” Walker Percy’s “The Moviegoer,” John Berendt’s “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” Christopher Bram’s “Father of Frankenstein,” Barry Gifford’s “Devil Thumbs a Ride,” Edward Field’s “Variety Photoplays” & Joe Brainard’s “I Remember.”

5. BIJOU Films = I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE (1958), DAUGHTER OF DR. JEKYLL (1957), THE LEECH WOMAN (1960), BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935), I REMEMBER (2008), ACE IN THE HOLE (1951), FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956), SUMMER AND SMOKE (1961), THE BIG SLEEP (1946), THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS. STONE (1961), COFFEE AND CIGARETTES (2003), HOLLYWOOD BABYLON (2008), REVENGE OF THE CREATURE (1954), FAULKNER, STEIN, BUKOWSKI, CRUMB (2008), DRIVE IN MOVIES: THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954), I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE (1958), SUMMER AND SMOKE (1961), NIGHT OF THE IGUANA (1964), FIEND WITHOUT A FACE (1958), CRUMB (2006), BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (2005), MONSTER’S BALL (2001), BLONDE VOODOO (1932), THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE (2001), CASABLANCA (1942), SAPPHIC QUEST FOR CORVO (2007), MOROCCO (1930), GOLDEN EARRINGS (1947), BLONDE VENUS (1932), NOTES ON BLONDE VENUS (1932), AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000), THE BIG CARNIVAL (1951), HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1959), THE HARELIP OF NOTRE DAME (2008), I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN (1957)