A farmer's daughter, Little Nell, is abducted and it's up to two of her faithful admirers to rescue her..


Imagine, if you dare, a pastoral poem hurled into a threshing machine: that is Nonsense. Reels unwind like a drunken square dance—barn doors yawn into expressionist gateways, and the horizon keeps sliding sideways as though some prankster loosened the pegs of the world. Our ingénue, Little Nell, crowned with flaxen b...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Jack White

Edgar Jones
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" Imagine, if you dare, a pastoral poem hurled into a threshing machine: that is Nonsense. Reels unwind like a drunken square dance—barn doors yawn into expressionist gateways, and the horizon keeps sliding sideways as though some prankster loosened the pegs of the world. Our ingénue, Little Nell, crowned with flaxen braids that catch the sun like wheat aflame, becomes the absent center around which two beaus orbit in ever-more-ludicrous ellipses. One is Lige Conley’s gangly tinker, a human excl..."
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