True fans write the best fanzines.
"Nothing thrills me more than attending the NY Film Festival. I used to hitchhike from Provincetown, Mass. in the 1970s and sleep on the couch of the late, great Cookie Mueller (ironically featured on the Nan Goldin poster for this year’s festival). Each day I would head uptown to Lincoln Center and gorge myself on movies. I think the only year I missed the festival (besides during Covid) was when I was having surgery on a broken leg and even then I yearned to crawl on my hands and knees for my fall season movie fix. This year has an extraordinary line-up from favorite directors and new discoveries, and even a restoration of The Mother and the Whore, a movie that really represents the kind of cinematic daring I come to expect from this glorious festival." - Dennis Dermody
This week my friend Jude Armitage wrote me a note about one of his other friends. It is worth sharing.
"I have a favorite friend named Dennis Dermody. Dennis lives in NYC and is a best friend of John Waters and the most important drag queen of all time, Divine herself. In fact (real fact) Dennis and John will join Divine in her burial plot in Baltimore when the time comes - yes, all three together.
"Peruse Dennis's website - you will find that he is a one-man review machine of amazing filmography - ghoulish, grotesque and totally legit alike. He is also a close friend of Willem Dafoe and was the nanny for his children. I predict that you will find fodder for your work here. Do Google Dennis extensively. He is full of surprises."
Website: Original Cinemaniac, Movie Reviews by Dennis Dermody