#David kammerer

[flowersforfrancis]

[allen-inwonderland]

Kill Your Darlings is undeniably a dark academia movie, but it’s academic the way Taco Bell is Mexican food.

I’m talking plagiarism, skipping class, vandalizing classics, rejecting popular literature, and spending more time talking about writing something than actually writing it. It’s beautiful.

[michaelchallpics]

Woah....it´s been 10 years since this movie was released. "Kill Your Darlings" with Michael C. Hall as David Kammerer.

A movie about the beat poets Allen Ginsberg, Lucian Carr, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac before they were famous.

[songsna]

Kill Your Darlings

Maybe I just have a different point of view compared to others, but I have seen a lot of comments about how horrible it is how the movie depicted David Kammerer as sympathetic and pitiful.

I seem to be one of the very few people who watched the movie and didn’t think him to be sympathetic and don’t quite understand why people came to the conclusion.

Let me explain my feelings towards the movie and characters (which are more or less based on true events) :

We know that David Kammerer stalked Lucien, in real life and in the movie. There’s really not a nice way to put it. Why doesn’t Lucien fight back and instead sometimes went with him? Because some people go back to their abusers, it’s not that hard to understand.

That doesn’t make it right. He fed David in his obsession and used him. We need to stop thinking about how we live NOW and think about how it was during that time. Think about how David treated Lucien during the movie. He always says how much he loves him and how he would do anything for him, breaks into his ROOM. If that isn’t manipulative as well, I don’t know what is. The stalking makes it even more horrible.We have an awareness nowadays about these kind of people.

The first thing we learn in today’s time is to NOT reply to stalkers or just persistent people, to just ignore them. ANY attention feeds their obsession. When a guy I rejected started to constantly write to me, he threatened to kill himself or to “come over to where I live”, I asked for an opinion of people. What did they tell me to do? Some told me to “reply to him and reject him again” while some said “Ignore!” 

To reply to such behaviour is the wrong thing to do. Lucien made a mistake but he didn’t know any better, in my opinion. As most people during that time, and even now.

David Kammerer tried to play with Lucien’s feeling and empathy and tried to chain him to himself. As most groomers do. That DOES make him pathetic and pitiful. But David made himself look like a victim when he is NOT. He’s pitiful but not a victim.

And the movie seems to play on the viewer’s feelings as well. Because even some of the viewers seemed to think the movie’s message is that David’s a poor guy.

Let me start on Allen Ginsberg now: He’s the narrator, especially at the end. People tend to “sympathize” to narrators and think that what they say is the correct opinion. Not sure how it was in real life, but Ginsberg seemed to have an obsession towards Lucien as well. The letter, the story he told was creepy and obsessive and wrong in my opinion. He may be the narrator but being the narrator of a story doesn’t make the character flawless. And many viewers need to be reminded of that. I read many books where the narrator is morally questionable. Which is why I don’t think of Ginsberg as a poor, lovesick guy who got manipulated by Lucien and couldn’t hurt a fly.

The murder is a whole other story. We don’t know if Lucien really murdered David for trying to rape him. Maybe he was just fed up and took the chance to kill him and knew he wouldn’t go to jail for defending his honor (as it was called during that time)

Maybe David DID try to rape him. We don’t know for sure. No one knows the truth.

My opinion stands that no one is completely innocent, but David Kammerer especially isn’t.

Thus said: I freaking LOVE the actors in this movie. Each and everyone of them was awesome.

[bkenber]

John Krokidas and Austin Bunn Discuss 'Kill Your Darlings'

WRITER’S NOTE: This interview took place back in 2013. John Krokidas makes his feature film directorial debut with “Kill Your Darlings” which stars Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan and Michael C. Hall. The movie is about a murder that occurred in 1944 which brought three poets of the beat generation (Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs) together for the first time. Radcliffe portrays…

[smuttydeadwriters]

Friend he didn’t get into bed with in 1944 = Lucien Carr, I assume. Or maybe a Columbia dorm mate? I don’t think Allen got a lot of invitations in those days…

OH WAIT. David Kammerer!!!! David would sometimes flirt with Allen (awkwardly) but Allen was too innocent/shy/new to the concept of out gay men to take David up on it. (Source: Various biographies.)

Lowest depth of misery = codependency with a madman = going through a bad patch with Peter Orlovsky ☹️

The Proust Questionnaire

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

AG: Excellent health. no flu, no leprosy.

What is your most marked characteristic?

AG: Incriminating eloquence.

What is your greatest extravagance? AG: Poetry office with fax, Xerox and poetry archive

What is your favorite occupation?

AG: Writing poems in a bedside notebook.

What is the trait you most deplore in others?

AG: Insanity, drug-induced or natural.

What is your greatest regret?

AG: I didn’t accept a friend’s invitation to get in bed naked in 1944

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

AG: Continuous cowardice

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

AG: Renew my body, set at 17.

Which living person  do you most despise?

AG: New York City’s Cardinal O'Connor, for his gay hypocrisy, considering that his powerful predecessor Cardinal Spellman was notoriously gay.

On what occasion do you lie?

AG: To protect friends from my public life in poetry. Candor for oneself doesn’t require snitching on others

What do you consider the most overrated virtue?

AG: Virginity and/or cynicism and/or machismo

What do you regard as the lowest depths of misery?

AG: Co-dependency with madman or - woman

What is the quality you most like in a man?

AG: Intelligent beauty.

What is the quality you most like in a woman?

AG: Sympathetic self-reliability.

Who is your favorite hero of fiction?

AG: Prince Myshkin in Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot

Who are your heroes in real life?

AG: William Seward Burroughs, Tibetan lama Nawang Gelek Rinpoche, sensei Philip Whalen, Bob Dylan

What is your favorite journey?

AG: To Benares, the “oldest continually inhabited city in the world”.

Where would you like to live?

AG: Sometimes Paris, sometimes London, sometimes Benares, sometimes San Francisco, sometimes New York.

How would you like to die? AG: In Buddhist community peacefully, aged 100, in presence of a helpful lama

What is your motto?

AG: “First thought, best thought”

If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what do you think it would be?

AG: The Eiffel Tower

What is it that you most dislike?

AG: Theopolitical nationalist “family values” TV hypocrites and their corresponding heads of state

Which words or phrases do you most overuse? AG: “Situation”, “sitting practice of meditation” and “Beat Genereation”

[geekcavepodcast]

Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein" Adds to Cast

Jacob Elordi, Christoph Waltz, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, and Christian Convery have joined Oscar Isaac and Mia Goth in Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Frankenstein tells of a scientist whose experiments bring a creature to life.

(Image of Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster in 1935's Bride of Frankenstein)

[svankmajerbaby]

ok, so a casting change and a bunch of new additions!

[maximumwobblerbanditdonut]

Edinburgh Royal Mile 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 is on set for the new “Frankenstein” film by Director Guillermo Del Toro

The film set up in the Old Town of Edinburgh was spotted on Sunday in Parliament Square next to St Giles' Cathedral and has been transformed into the gothic backdrop for the upcoming Netflix film a remake of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'. The Netflix remake of Mary Shelley is being filmed all over Scotland this year 🎬

Edinburgh is being used as a Gothic backdrop (Image: Peter Fraser)

Guillermo Del Toro and Mia Goth spotted on set (Image: Peter Fraser)

Crews were spotted on the Royal Mile (Image: Scottish Sidequests / TikTok)

Parliament Square, on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, has been transformed by film crews for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein movie

The filming kicked off in Toronto back in January Directed by the Oscar-winning Guillermo del Toro, the film 🎥 is an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel, the cast of Frankenstein includes Mia Goth, Oscar Isaac (as Victor Frankenstein) and Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein’s monster) Christoph Waltz, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley and Christian Convery also star in the film. It's understood Guillermo del Toro has been working on the film for more than a decade following his love for the novel.

According to Edinburgh City Council, filming is expected to take place in the area until Saturday, September 14 – other filming locations including St Giles Street and High Street from Tuesday, September 10.

Other Frankenstein filming locations in Scotland include Dunecht House in Aberdeenshire and Hospitalfield House in Arbroath as well as Glasgow Cathedral.

Sounds a classic. It’s alive.

📹 Scottish Sidequests / TikTok

#frankenstein #netflix #maryshelley #filmset #guillermodeltoro #edinburgh #royalmile

Posted 10th September 2024

[christophfanalways]

We still have Christoph. : ) I'm leaning towards his character being Dr. Frankenstein.

Netflix will be a great platform for this!

[allen-inwonderland]

[weclassybouquetfun]

First look at Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley (who can currently be seen in the delightful WICKED LITTLE LETTERS) as Frankenstein's monster and The Bride from Maggie Gyllenhaal's aptly titled THE BRIDE (slated for a October 3, 2025 release).

Bale's Monster is giving

What is it about?

"A lonely Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to seek the aid of Dr. Euphronius in creating a companion for himself. The two reinvigorate a murdered young woman and the Bride is born. She is beyond what either of them intended, igniting a combustible romance, the attention of the police, and a wild and radical social movement."

The film also stars Gyllenhaal's odious husband Peter Sarsgard, Annette Bening and Penélope Cruz.

There is another Frankenstein film on the way with Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein project for Netflix.

del Toro with some of his cast: (either director David Cronenberg was there to hang or he is also in the film. If he is in the film it would be a nice tip of the hat to him as his Frankenstein project never got off the ground.),Goth, Jacob Elordi and David Bradley. Also in the film is Christoph Waltz, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, and Christian Convery.

Never forget.

[dramyhsturgis]

Dark Academia Works Inspired by True Crime Cases?

Hello, all! I am looking for recommendations of Dark Academia works (novels, short stories, films, television series) based on true crime. I would be grateful for any suggestions for my list. Thank you!

I am intentionally casting my net widely, defining the Dark Academic genre (as opposed to the aesthetic) as one that focuses on an academic setting and educational experience, employs Gothic modes of storytelling, cultivates a dark mood by contemplating the subject of death, and offers critique for interrogating imbalances and abuses of power.*

Below the cut is my current list of Dark Academia Works Inspired by True Crime Cases. All suggestions are welcome!

Dark Academia Works Inspired/Informed by True Crime Cases

Note 1: “True crime” is defined here as a specific case (for example, a murder or missing person’s case), not as a larger historical event (for example, the Salem Witch Trials or the Opium Wars) or an amalgam of cases (for example, general hazing in fraternities). Note 2: This list is in chronological order based on the true crime case. Note 3: Some works that aren't fully DA but incorporate DA sections are included.

TRUE CRIME: 1897 disappearance of student Bertha Mellish from Mount Holyoke College DA novels: The Button Field by Gail Husch (2014) Killingly by Katharine Beutner (2023)

TRUE CRIME: 1924 killing of Bobby Franks by University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb DA Novels: Compulsion by Meyer Levin (1956) Nothing but the Night by James Yaffe (1957) Little Brother Fate by Mary-Carter Roberts (1957) These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever (2020) Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed (2022) Jazzed by Jill Dearman (2022) DA films: Rope (1948), Compulsion (1959), and Murder by Numbers (2002)

TRUE CRIME: 1932 kidnapping and killing of Charles Lindbergh, Jr.; 1933 kidnapping and killing of Brooke Hart; and 1932-1934 crime spree of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow DA novels: Truly Devious books by Maureen Johnson (especially the first trilogy, 2018-2020)

TRUE CRIME: 1944 killing of David Kammerer by Columbia University student Lucien Carr DA film: Kill Your Darlings (2013)

TRUE CRIME: 1946 disappearance of student Paula Jean Welden from Bennington College DA novels: Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson (1951) Last Seen Wearing by Hillary Waugh (1952) The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992) Shirley by Susan Scarf Merrell (2014) Quantum Girl Theory by Erin Kate Ryan (2022)

TRUE CRIME: 1973 killing of student Cynthia Hellman at Randolph-Macon Women’s College DA novel: Good Girls Lie by J.T. Ellison (2019)

TRUE CRIME: 1978 killing of students Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy and attack of students Kathy Kleiner and Karen Chandler by Ted Bundy at Florida State University DA novel: Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll (2023)

TRUE CRIME: 1985 killing of Derek and Nancy Haysom by University of Virginia students Elizabeth Haysom and Jens Söring DA novel: With a Kiss We Die by L.R. Dorn (2023)

TRUE CRIME: 1999 killing of student Hae Min Lee from Woodlawn High School (by Adnan Syed? debated) DA novel: I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai (2023)

TRUE CRIME: 2022 killing of students Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin from the University of Idaho (by Washington State University student Bryan Kohberger? currently awaiting trial) DA novel: This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead (2025)

*(I go into this definition in further detail in my segment here on the StarShipSofa podcast, my graduate course on Dark Academia, and my 2023 academic essay "Dark Arts and Secret Histories: Investigating Dark Academia.")

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SUONO DOMENICA | Dodici ore di musica di ricerca Domenica 21 aprile 2024, ore 12-24 Conservatorio di Musica “G. B. Martini”, Bologna

Una vera e propria maratona sonora, un viaggio lungo un giorno che se da un lato ha lo scopo di presentare il capillare lavoro della Scuola di Musica Elettronica, dall’altro si relaziona con la città e con realtà diverse del panorama italiano, spaziando dall’audiovisione, all’improvvisazione, dalla sound art alla composizione acusmatica, interrogando ospiti e musicisti anche extra-accademici sul significato dell’arte sonora di oggi. Il tutto esplorando gli spazi incontenibili del Conservatorio di Bologna, sottolineati da allestimenti e proposte in grado di dialogare con l’architettura e la tecnica. “Suono Domenica” non è quindi un festival o una vetrina: può essere visto più come una festa, o magari come un “orologio sonoro” che scandisce il tempo della giornata attraverso il fare musica e lo stare insieme.

Programma

Ore 12 > OPEN/Cortile, scalone e piazza Rossini Giuseppe Chiari, Improvvisazione libera. Esperienza musicale per 70 solisti

Ore 13 > Apertura Installazioni/Consbo (le installazioni terminano alle ore 23) • Sala Respighi > Sequenzer Kammer, a cura di Enrico Cosimi, con Maru Barucco, Dario Boccato, Bruno Cusumano, Tommaso Michelini • Aula 9 > Pierpaolo Ovarini, this could be us, installazione multimediale interattiva; in collaborazione con Home Movies-Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia • Corridoio I piano > Daniele Carcassi, Nuova terra, installazione sonora per tre totem di altoparlanti (tecnica a cura di Gerarda Avallone) • Saletta area Banda > Lorenza Ceregini, Tu mi vedi?, installazione audiovisiva

Ore 14 > Sala Fugazza Audiovisione Bologna Francesco Di Stefano, Stripping Away Reality (2022) Tommaso Marzini Della Ragione, Unfortunate event (2023) Lorenzo Mostura, Nomo Echoes (2024) Fulvio Daviddi, Ground (2023) Lorenza Ceregini, Riccardo Tesorini, Dissimmetrie (2023), video di Elena Bianchini, Giulia Pellegrini, Mika Sollecito, Serena Ugolini In collaborazione con Fondazione Zucchelli e Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna-Corso di linguaggi del cinema e dell’audiovisivo

Ore 15 > Aula Banda Acusmatica Camilleri Lelio Camilleri, Apostrophe (1995), Summer 2018 (2018), Parallel (2000), Beat (2024) - prima esecuzione assoluta Ore 16 > Sala Fugazza Audiovisione Cipriani Naufragio-The Last Shipwreck, Due movimenti dalla trilogia audiovisiva Shipwrecks Naufragi (2020-2023) Video Giulio Latini; Musica, sound design e testi Alessandro Cipriani Memoria d'Utopie, opera audiovisiva multischermo (2023-2024) da un testo di Alberto Gianquinto Video Giulio Latini; Musica Alessandro Cipriani e Alessandro Sbordoni; Sound design Alessandro Cipriani; Voci recitanti registrate Roberto Herlitzka e Virginia Guidi

Ore 17 > Aula Banda Concerto Improvvisazione Silenzio Direzione: Walter Prati Performer: Andrea Brutti, Andrea Fabris, Andrea Giorgelli, Salvatore Miele, Francesco Paolino, Dino Piccinno, Erica Ruggiero, Leonardo Vita

Ore 18 > Sala Fugazza Audiovisione Coslovi The Wrong Side of the Tracks (2020-) Progetto fotografico: Marcello Coslovi Performer e progetto sonoro: Gabriele Andrisani, Andrea Cardellicchio, Matteo Coceva, Stefano Corino, Tommaso Grandi, Chiara Matarazzo, Davide Ricchi, Valerio Timo

Ore 19 > Sala Bossi Concerto Mantra Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mantra, per due pianisti (1970) Pianoforte: Stefano Malferrari e Franco Venturini Live electronics e regia del suono: Francesco Vogli (con Vijay Comino e Alessandra Giachetti)

Ore 21 > Sala Fugazza Audiovisioni Camera Ludens. Il gioco della memoria, per video e quattro performer (2023) Performer: Francesco Giomi, Simone Grande, Salvatore Miele, Andrea Sanna Selezione e montaggio: Michele Manzolini ed Enrico Riccobene Camera Ludens è un progetto di Home Movies-Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia BSCRZCLL732NN, improvvisazione audiovisiva per tre performer e quattro videomaker (2023) Performer: Antonio Ciaramella, Andrea Fabris, Nicola Venturo Videomaker: Andrea Boschini, Silvia Campostrini, Giulia Costantini, Chiara Vitofrancesco In collaborazione con Home Movies-Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia, Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna-Corso di linguaggi del cinema e dell’audiovisivo, Fondazione Zucchelli, Mast

Ore 22 > Aula Banda Acusmatica Bologna Federico Inzerillo, Grid grips (2023) Alessandra Giachetti, Verrières (2024) Francesco Interlandi, Var hälsad du Maria (2023-24) Jacopo Casasola, Scenario possibile (2023) Fernando Hester, Zooming (2023)

Ore 23 > Sala BossiConcerto Bologna Filippo Giuffrè | NicoNote | Stefano Pilia

Ingresso libero a tutti gli eventi fino a esaurimento posti

[franciscomaldo]

#JacobElordi será el monstruo de Frankenstein en adaptación de #GuillermoDelToro y #Netflix √

Jacob Elordi, Christoph Waltz, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley y Christian Convery formarán parte del elenco estelar de Frankenstein de Guillermo del Toro en Netflix.  Jacob Elordi, Felix Kammerer, Christian Convery / Imágenes cortesía Gett Elordi interpretará al icónico monstruo, reemplazando a Andrew Garfield, quien se retiró debido a los aplazamientos de huelgas que llevaron a…