Watching Movies With John Ashbery
3 Quarks Daily • 2/17/2026
Summary
John Yau wrote about an experience with John Ashbery at the Paris Review. They attended a screening of Joseph Cornell’s collage film, Rose Hobart (1936), at a small gallery space on Franklin Street in Tribeca. The film is a nineteen-minute piece created by splicing segments from the B-film East of Borneo (1931), which features Rose Hobart and Charles Bickford, along with an educational nature film.
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