March 2012
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January 2012
2 posts
“In a profession which specialises in hypocrisy, Mr Gingrich’s performance stands...”
– Newt Gingrich harried Bill Clinton for having sex with an intern 27 years his junior when he was having sex with a staffer 23 years younger than himself. His arrogance, meanwhile, verges on monomania. He once wrote of himself as the “definer of the forces of civilisation”. (via theeconomist)
September 2011
4 posts
Awesome in the form of advertising. →
“Investors who are shocked today by Best Buy’s miserable performance in the...”
– Deadline Hollywood, today. - http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/ -
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July 2011
1 post
Joe Walsh turns out to not care so much about the... →
June 2011
4 posts
AWESOME →
Modern Art as a Weapon, During the Cold War. →
“…young Alvarez could turn into a major scribe…”
– Variety’s Bob Verini on Sofia Alvarez. Link: http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117945366
May 2011
14 posts
Sleep No More
This live theater event has created quite a stir, here in NYC. Last night, I had the opportunity to taste the madness. Sadly, I found the experience underwhelming. The only fear I felt while walking through the haunted-house-like-hotel was that this spectacle could be the “future” of theater, as some of my friends in the NYC theater community have mused. The performance, which...
See Too Big To Fail
This one is gonna be short and sweet.
1. The cast rocks.
2. The story is one we know and yet have much to learn about.
3. It is fascinating.
4. The film is well structured and easy to watch. Give it 100 minutes and it’s like you half-read a book.
See Gasland
Josh Fox is a man with a personal story to tell, and he does a fine job telling it in his documentary film, Gasland. Over the course of the film, Mr. Fox lays out an argument against Hydraulic Fracturing, gathering anecdotal evidence as he travels across the United States interviewing people who can light their tap water on fire, people who have lost relatives to cancer after their ground water...
“We say it is higher than the mountains, deeper than the oceans, stronger than...”
– Pakistan’s ambassador to Beijing describes the robust friendship between the two countries. Many suspect China has asked Pakistan for the remains of the American stealth helicopter abandoned during the bin Laden raid. (via theeconomist)
“Mr. Branagh has not failed to make an interesting, lively, emotionally...”
– AO Scott.
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/movies/thor-with-chris-hemsworth-review.html?sudsredirect=true
Do Not Watch
Stanley Kubrick’s first feature film, “Fear and Desire,” on Google video as you will inevitably find the pixalated, jumpy images quickly overpower the underwhelming and non-diegetic-sound-dependent story.
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
I just saw this appetizing documentary at Tribeca’s special screening of the film to benefit the Red Cross in Japan.
My enjoyment of the film was only enhanced by the fact that I had a chance to eat at Sukiyabashi Jiro this past September for what turned out to be the best and most memorable Sushi experience of my life. While the film is much more of an advertisement for the two...
April 2011
40 posts
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything...”
– Sir Ken Robinson
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
Meek's Cutoff
Kelly Reichardt’s new film, starring Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Will Patton and Michelle Williams, feels much more like a European film in its pacing than an American one. The film follows three families, traveling by wagon through the Oregon Desert in 1845 with a guide that has gotten them lost. As their situation worsens, water becomes more valuable than gold. Soon they are so desperate that...
New REM video is WEB video →
The Bang Bang Club
This new drama, directed by Steven Silver, who is best known for directing documentaries, is based on a true story of photojournalists capturing images of brutality in South Africa in the 1990’s. It is captivating and proves Mr. Silver’s immense talent while demonstrating that Ryan Phillippe is an actor with more talent than he is given credit for.
The film raises a number of...
foxesinfiction:
Jackson C. Frank - Milk and...
Viva Riva
Viva Riva is an electric action-thriller that just happens to be set in Democratic Republic of Congo. This setting is what sets it apart from many similar shoot-up films made each year.
Riva, a petroleum trafficker who has ripped off his own crew, returns to his hometown of Kinshasa to sell a truck full of petrol at a time when gas is so scarce it can be sold for 8 bucks a liter. Upon his...
Sleeping Sickness
Silver Bear winner Ulrich Köhler deserves many future kudos for his feature film Sleeping Sickness. The film balances beautifully captured scenes and characters with just the right amount of political query: is foreign aid helpful to its recipients, or does a lack of accountability for the tax collectors ease their burden of accountability? This cycle has been discussed extensively by one of my...
A Serbian Film
Having just seen the controversial film by Srđan Spasojević, I am repulsed. This piece of pornography has no place beyond DVD stores on back alleys; the director deserves all the world’s shaming for trying to veil an exploitive appeal to the sexual appetites of the depraved as a political commentary. Perhaps the great tragedy of the technological advances that have brought cinema to the...
