In the four episodes available to critics so far, Irma Vep engages with its multiple sources, its medium, and the lives of its creators in increasingly surprising and thought-provoking ways. On this week’s podcast, Film Comment editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute invited critics Adam Nayman and Beatrice Loayza to dig into the series’ endless rabbit holes and riffs on the history of serials, cinema, and, err, “content.”
Links & Things Irma Vep (1996) on the Criterion Channel Irma Vep (2022) on HBO Max Adam Nayman on Irma Vep (2022) in The Ringer Lucy Sante on Les vampires and Louis Feuillade in The Criterion Collection
