Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tony Manero – d. Pablo Larrain [I wrote about this earlier this summer, so here's a slightly edited version of that.] Like Taxi Driver ’s Travis Bickle and Man Bites Dog ’s “Ben,” Pablo Larrain's Tony Manero offers a new addition to the league of cinema's most fascinatingly maladaptive sociopaths with Raúl Peralta (Alfredo Castro). Set in Chile during Pinochet's...
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
UK/USA/France/Japan Feature Film Director: Harmony Korine Writers: Avi Korine, Harmony Korine Cinematographer: Marcel Zyskind Cast: Diego Luna, Samantha Morton, Denis Lavant, James Fox, Werner Herzog, Leos Carax, Richard Strange A lonely Michael Jackson impersonator, barely scratching a living in Paris, meets a friendly Marilyn Monroe impersonator, who convinces him to join her at an impersonators...
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
While there's not really any hard news about a follow-up to Joanna Newsom's grandiose 2006 release Ys (other than a snippet on Vogue 's website indicating that she's recording her album in Tokyo), there's absolutely no shortage of pictures of the singer. There's pictures of Joanna Newsom at the Emmys , pictures of her and Harmony Korine's girlfriend on Vice 's website , and now she's doing the whole...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
We thought Lars von Trier’s Antichrist would be the strangest thing we saw this year that starred Charlotte Gainsbourg. Turns out, we were wrong. Up top is the new video for “Heaven Can Wait,” the first from Gainsbourg’s collaborative album with Beck, IRM. Beck co-stars in the clip, a two-and-a-half minute montage that seems to [...]
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
by BBG A pale and heavily photoshopped David Pajo returns from church As previously discussed, Until The Light Takes Us is the much talked about documentary chronicling the Norwegian Black Metal scene, which after months of anticipation, is FINALLY getting...
In Theaters This Week (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Starring Varg Vikernes, Fenriz , Harmony Korine, Hellhammer
Autoblog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Filed under: Motorsports , Etc. Hot For Words host Marina - Click above to watch the video Can you believe it's been one solid year since we first saw Ken Block's eye-popping, mind-numbing, death-defying Gymkhana video ? How time flies when you're hooning it at 11/10s.To celebrate this monumental moment in the history of car-related YouTubeage, DC Shoes (Mr. Block's extreme sports clothing company)...
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Recent Saturday Night Live host Taylor Swift made history at the Country Music Awards, becoming the youngest artist ever to win the Entertainer of the Year award, beating three-time winner Kenny Chesney. Swift also snagged the awards for Female Vocalist of the Year, Music Video of the Year for her clip for “Love Story” and [...]
motel de moka (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Photo: Leighton Roberts Subo hacia el segundo piso y me doy cuenta de que la tiniebla está untada a las paredes, carne de los muros, como si éstas fueran ella misma y yo pudiera transponerlo, como se horada la neblina y, de esa forma, atravesar todos los edificios del Centro, mirando sus vergüenzas y sus orgullos, [...]
TheHoundBlog (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Kenneth Anger at the Cinematheque,Paris, 1950 Marianne Faithful as Lilith in Lucifer Rising, 1980 Donald Cammell as Osiris, Lucifer Rising, 1980 Seal of Crowlery's magick order of Argenteum, good for 10% discount. Kenneth Anger, child of Hollywood. Autograph..... Invocation Of My Demon Brother, Mick Jagger at the moog on the soundtrack. Anger on Crowley, April 2009 Scorpio Rising part one.... Anger...
GreenCine Guru (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Reviewer: Amy Monaghan Rating (out of 5): **** It is, a title archly informs us, “the very early '80s†- “September,†to be exact - but the strobelight flicker of the opening credits and the thumping beat make it clear that we are in The Last Days of Disco (1998). In the final film of director Whit Stillman 's informal trilogy...
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
They were something strange in the neighbourhood - but John and Edward Grimes' Ghostbusters X Factor routine was praised by their fiercest critic.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Film Festivals: 'Welcome,' 'Good Heart,' 'Pivellina' compete -- Philippe Lioret's "Welcome," Dagur Kari's "The Good Heart" and Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel's "La Pivellina" will compete at the 47th Gijon Film Festival.
Filmshaft.com (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
And so the 53rd London Film Festival has come to ...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Harmony Korine is the one-man awkward squad of indie cinema, and his new film Trash Humpers, a tale of delinquent seniors, looks to be his most off-putting yet On stage during a Q&A after the London premiere of his new film Trash Humpers, it's as if Harmony Korine has become a character in one of his movies: a bad-taste bar mitzvah comedian, perhaps. Someone in the audience asks how he cast the...
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