Something else important to say about Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum, who appears as Christopher Severin in PICC. Jeremy, as should now be known, made several movies. What I neglected to mention in the book is that his own movie tastes were European art-house tastes; he was not that keen on Hollywood and Hollywood productions. I have not yet seen myself the films he produced at Villanova in the 90s, but from his own descriptions, which I do recall, they were experimental, dream-like, and surreal. They made few concessions to commerciality and the demands of the marketplace. So that, at any given time you might accost Jeremy or he might accost you in the Aughts, what he'd want to talk about, film-wise, were discoveries around what was fresh, new, and exciting in art-house cinema. Directors like Scorsese, Tarantino, and David Lynch were not all that interesting to him. Bunuel, for instance, here shown, was. So that, wherever Jeremy roamed during the P.F.S. years, it was with a head filled with visual imagery, as well as with the frustrations of films not yet released. Stay tuned.
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