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The Brothers Quay - Terrence Rafferty (essay date June 1987)
Terrence Rafferty (essay date June 1987)
SOURCE: "Twin Cinema: The Animated Art of the Brothers Quay," in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 259, No. 6, June, 1987, pp. 74-6.
[In the following essay, Rafferty presents a stylistic and thematic overview of the Quays' body of work.]
The Brothers Quay on the influence of their family background:
What if we said we [were] born of a heavily tainted family, neurasthenic, microcephalic, each with one atrophied testicle, a sly liking for geese, chickens, etc., pigtails in pillowcases, suffer from dry tongues, overly predisposed towards music and abandoned organ lofts, blah, blah, blah. No, we grew up sweating with obedience. Our Father was a 2nd class machinist for Philadelphia Electric, our mother your impeccable housewife (who was a figure skater before marriage). On our Father's side there were two grandfathers: one a tailor from Berlin who had a shop in South...
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Criticism
- Mark Le Fanu (essay date Spring 1984)
- Tony Rayns (review date June 1986)
- The Brothers Quay with Chris Petit (interview date June 1986)
- Julian Petley (review date June 1986)
- Raymond Durgnat (review date June 1986)
- Michael O'Pray (review date June 1986)
- Peter Greenaway (review date Summer 1986)
- Richard Combs (review date July 1986)
- Roger Noake (review date July 1986)
- Vincent Canby (review date 29 April 1987)
- David Edelstein (review date 5 May 1987)
- Amos Vogel (review date May-June 1987)
- Terrence Rafferty (essay date June 1987)
- Georgia Brown (review date 2 April 1991)
- Jonathan Romney (essay date March 1992)
- Jonathan Romney (review date May 1992)
- Denise Tilles (essay date January 1993)
- Michael Atkinson (essay date September-October 1994)
- The Brothers Quay with Ryan Deussing (interview date 9 February 1996)
- Stephen Holden (review date 13 March 1996)
- J. Hoberman (review date 19 March 1996)
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