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It’s a Friday night in 1994, and I’m with my friend Ann on our way to Veniero’s in the East Village. On most Fridays, we both waitress at a local Mexican restaurant, but we have this night off when our restaurant is shut down by the Department of Health because the ceiling over the smoking section is collapsing. At a [...]
I wondered if a movie could produce the same terror decades on, even if I’d worked hard to forget the plot and its disquieting images. Like the severed ear lying in a field—a waxy dead thing, crawling with ants. And Dennis Hopper, huffing into a mask. Isabella Rossellini’s red mouth in eerie close-up. Not to mention the gory ending. Decades [...]
