Watching movies from inside books.
Don DeLillo's new novel "Point Omega" is narrated by a documentarian and begins and ends with a description of Douglas Gordon's "24 Hour Psycho," a 2006 MoMA installation in which Hitchcock's film was slowed down to stretch over a day and night. Maybe that's why everyone writing about the book seems more focused on DeLillo's obsession with movies than with how it ranks in his canon. At the New York Times, Geoff Dyer, who knows more than most about art criticism (check out his own recent novel "Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi," set during the 2006 Venice Biennale) sees DeLillo's take on "24 Hour Psycho" and raises him with Gordon's "5 Year Drive-by," which played "The Searchers" in "real time" -- one frame every 20 minutes. At the Boston Globe, Mark Feeney's interested in DeLillo's ongoing relationship with more mainstream movies -- he points out that DeLillo's voracious cinephilia...
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