My article on Pop Matters

Below is a link to an article I wrote for popmatters.com, a nifty pop-culture web site, on my current obsession, French film pioneer Georges Melies:

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/122089-george-melies-the-most-important-filmmaker-youve-probably-never-seen/P0/

The guy is well worth checking out, if you care to track down DVDs of his stuff...

The above still is from his 1901 movie The Man With the Rubber Head, in which Melies uses a bellows to expand a copy of his own head to enormous size. It eventually explodes. If this doesn't sound like something you want to see, I can't help you.