Although I’ve never sat down and hammered this out with my co-conspirator Kerry Douglas Dye, I think the two movies that we were holding up as our ultimate goal for Body/Antibody were Roman Polanski’s The Tenant and David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers. I’m not egotistical to think we actually achieved this, but the mix of eerie isolation and comedy (and, yes, Cronenberg’s films are meant to be funny, as my recent UGO interview proves) is a particularly hard nut to crack.

The main difference between a movie like Body/Antibody and Dead Ringers is the latter doesn’t need support from a complex plot. I mean – what is the plot of Dead Ringers really? Twin brothers – one starts taking drugs. I mean, that’s kinda it in terms of surface. How you fill in the rest of the two hours is what makes this such a fascinating piece. I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t blown away by this movie – it is just so fucking creepy – and, really, when you get down to it, not all that much happens. Same goes for The Tenant. THAT’S genius at work.

Ann had never seen this before & she liked it a great deal – and was all worked up when she found out it was based on a true story. Indeed, she hit the microfiche at the local library trying to find a write-up about it. Alas, our branch only has the Times. This is much more a Daily News type of story.