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Shearwater’s The Golden Archipelago
From now until February 23rd, you can stream the new Shearwater record, “The Golden Archipelago” from NPR’s website. The stream has been up for a couple of days now, and I think I’ve nearly worn out my...
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Naked Lunch, 50 Years On
I used to know a guy who had a VHS tape full of sex films from the 1920s. And though they were tame by today’s standards, I remember seeing the tape and saying out loud, “what kind of deviant did you...
View ArticleHow Charles Bronson Is Like Robert Moses
There’s a nice piece over at Design Observer comparing Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson’s character in the 1974 vigilante revenge classic Death Wish) with the controversial American urban planner Robert...
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Metropolis Screening at Seaholm Power Plant
Just last week, the restored version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis premiered at the Berlinale, with a live score performed by the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Apparently this new version contains...
View ArticleTreme
I don’t normally get excited about television these days, but I absolutely can’t wait for the first season of Treme, which premieres on HBO this April. Co-created by David Simon (whose HBO series The...
View ArticleArt of the Title Sequence: Zombieland
Art of the title Sequence is a blog dedicated to film and television title design. Very cool idea. What really caught my attention, though, was this piece about the brilliant title sequence for Ruben...
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Hausu
If you haven’t seen Nobuhiko Obayashi’s severely bonkers 1977 horror / comedy / fantasy masterpiece Hausu, you need to. Immediately. It’s hard to believe that a movie so sublimely ridiculous,...
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The Act of Killing
Try this: read Errol Morris’ essay “The Murders of Gonzago”–a long, but riveting piece on the Indonesian mass killings of 1965, and Josh Oppenheimer’s documentary The Act of Killing, which interviews...
View ArticleEscape From Tomorrow
This movie, shot surreptitiously (and possibly illegally) at Disneyland, looks downright incredible. A surreal “noir/horror/fantasy”, it’s gotten a lot of good press out of Sundance, and is at the top...
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The Complete David Lynch: Eraserhead
This summer I’m watching every David Lynch movie ever, as part of the Alamo Drafthouse’s The Complete David Lynch series. These are my notes. Don’t take them seriously. At a downtown Austin bar in the...
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The Act of Killing
Try this: read Errol Morris’ essay “The Murders of Gonzago”–a long, but riveting piece on the Indonesian mass killings of 1965, and Josh Oppenheimer’s documentary The Act of Killing, which interviews...
View ArticleEscape From Tomorrow
This movie, shot surreptitiously (and possibly illegally) at Disneyland, looks downright incredible. A surreal “noir/horror/fantasy”, it’s gotten a lot of good press out of Sundance, and is at the top...
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The Complete David Lynch: Eraserhead
This summer I’m watching every David Lynch movie ever, as part of the Alamo Drafthouse’s The Complete David Lynch series. These are my notes. Don’t take them seriously. At a downtown Austin bar in the...
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