Perfume. Revisited.

Why? Well, for one thing, Tom Tykwer is still making the rounds; he talks with Michael Fox at SF360, for example, and in a conversation with Lauren Hock in North by Northwestern, he recalls his days as a projectionist at Moviemento: "I have a very sensual, tactile relationship to the way film goes through a projector and all that, and I love the smell of it, of the lamp and the 'BZZZZZ' when I put it on."

But Perfume is also sparking a few tangential pieces worth noting. There's Will Gore at Time Out on the concept of the "unfilmable novel" and, in the Times Literary Supplement, Stephen Romer reflects on the film, the book and another book, Richard Stamelman's Perfume: Joy, Scandal, Sin: A Cultural History of Fragrance from 1750 to the Present.

And then there's "The Unfilmables: A List of the Hardest Novels to Film" at Screenhead, via Chris Ullrich at Cinematical. Definitely worth your click.

Posted by dwhudson at January 13, 2007 2:40 PM