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Watched this last night and loved it. I've always been a bit of a sucker for "minor" Polanski.
One tech geeky question: does anyone know why the disc is so dark? Granted, I watched the SD version, but the actors faces (especially) are often obscured in shadow in a way that makes me think it's a creative decision. Was it a Polanski-approved choice?
Image of the day, 8/10/11
The hand of Françoise Dorleac, the vinyl of Thelonious Monk (music not featured), Cul-de-sac, Roman Polanski, 1966.
Wheat Chex-Corn Chex-Rice Chex-Oat Chex-Raisin Bran Chex
Night of the Hunter-Night of the Hunter-Night of the Hunter-Night of the Hunter-Night of the Hunter
This is the most fucking stupid little parlor game in a realm that takes pride in coming up with fucking stupid little parlor games (remember the whole "swimming pool movie" thing a while ago?).
The thing I hate about the AV Club is its need to compartmentalize and list-ify all encounters with music/movies/etc. It won't be long before every article on there is a series of bullet points.
That said, I do very much admire the Mike D'Angelo column. But, ye gods, that New Cult Canon thing? Ugh.
The current cinema: "Sarah's Key"
So I was thinking of composing a post entitled " 'Theres' to which one really ought not go" in which I would take friendly but firm issue with Andrew O'Hehir's rather feckless speculation that maybe RKO had a point in mutilating The Magnificent Ambersons (a notion that one could say is almost ...
I love both ANTICHRIST and DANCER IN THE DARK (I've liked all of the LvT films I've seen). I think that his funny lil' antisemitic rant is pretty reprehensible (and fail to see any Polanski correlation). And I think the Cannes sanction is absurd. I guess I'm kind of a centrist here.
Lars von Trier, master of understatement
Reading all the ohmigodhesaidhesympathizedwithHitler staggering-to-the-fainting couch over today's big Cannes Film Festival press conference "gaffe," I recall, not so fondly (I had to cancel a trip to Moscow on account of it—long story), my sole phone interview with the insouciant Lars von Trier...
Thanks for this! I'm a huge Fahey/Kottke fan so I'll add this guy to the heap of under-appreciated musicians I, uh, appreciate.
Given your musical proclivities, I highly recommend you check out the VDSQ acoustic guitar series. The Chris Brokaw stuff is especially stunning.
A joke
Q: What's the difference between a rock guitarist and a jazz guitarist? A: A rock guitarist plays three chords in front of thousands of people. Told by the great Michael Chapman last night, in front of, okay, dozens of people, at Littlefield in Brooklyn. Here is a clip of Chapman in the '70s, me...
I hope someone Youtubes* this for posterity. Wish I could swing by!
*(The English language has been bastardized enough to where "Youtube" is a verb now, right?)
Personal appearance alert
My great friend the brilliant guitarist and songwriter Gary Lucas is enacting one of his if-not-now than soon-to-be legendary Beefheart Seminars, this Friday April 8 at 8 p.m. at Brooklyn's Knitting Factory, and he has very kindly asked me to participate; I shall be reading a Beefheart text ( I...
I like how the article smash cuts to a portrait of the Pinkett-Smiths. That's the scariest still of them all!
Great collection of films my squeamish self has (mostly) avoided. I do love TROUBLE though.
Not "there will be." Rather, "there IS."
Blood, that is. As in the above striking image from Claire Denis' 2001 Trouble Every Day. My friends at MSN Movies, impressed by the prodigious sticky-ick factor of Neil Marshall's new and fabulous Centurion, asked me to come up with a bunch of pictures with as high if not higher a stock of ...
Oliver_C - I subscribed to PREMIERE from 1991 to 2000 and those William Goldman Oscar pre-mortems still pop into my head from time to time. (Other fond Premiere memories include the DFW Lynch piece, the David Strick photos, and the John H. Richardson stories on Scientology and Sonny Gibson.) Good call.
Hasn't everyone figured out by now that this current troll is merely the latest incarnation of the previous troll? The same sociopathic subtext (and subject-derailing result) underlies the comments of both.
As Iggy Pop said in the lead-in to "Louie, Louie" on "Metallic K.O.," "I never thought it's come to this, baby!"
I am sitting in the Burger King on 42nd Street off Eighth Avenue, across the street from the Port Authority, availing myself of the venue's convenient Internet service. Let me tell you, this keyboard is grimy. I am the only one in the store wearing a suit. I've been in Manhattan all day on busin...
I always love this album in theory rather than practice (kind of like the Eno DALI'S CAR live set). It's three of my favorite artists (and Nico) performing some of my favorite songs ("Shouting in a Bucket Blues" - YOWZA). Maybe it's owing to the quality of the recording, but it always feels a little flat or rote when I spin it.
According to the internet, Cale performed "Gun" during this set but it didn't make the cut. How could that have missed?!
Well, why NOT start a John Cale appreciation thread?
Cale, in his autobiography What's Welsh For Zen: "My first appearance on an Island recording was on an LP made from a concert which took place at London's now defunct Rainbow Theatre on 1 June 1974; the date became the album's title. I was actually one-fourth of the featured band—the others ...
ptatleriv is now following Glenn Kenny
Aug 11, 2010
Lovely piece, Glenn. I've bounced from cozy offices to grueling sweat mills more times than any competent tradesman should. You've nicely captured that schizoid sense of "what am I doing here"/"hey I could get used to this bullshit-less existence" that always permeated my forays into manual labor.
Day labor
I have to wonder what folks like Glenn Kenny, Michael Atkinson, Rob Nelson, David Ansen, Dessen Thomson, et. al. do for money nowadays?—Anthony Kaufman, July 7, 2009, at his blog You know what's not fun? When you've got a consulting gig, and you're on a retainer, and you submit an invoice th...
Nathan: Did you happen upon Damon Packard's fire sale? (http://tinyurl.com/26ehpxa)
Sub Kuchar
George Kuchar feigns sleep agony in Thundercrack (or Thundercrack!, as the IMDB puts it) the porny cult film that could well be the strangest subject of a Foreign Region DVD Report ever. At The Daily Notebook, as ever. You know you love it, you perv.
Man... prior to reading this blog ere these past coupla weeks, I had no knowledge of either Ray Carney or John Nolte. I love you Glenn but I think SCR is destroying my innocence.
That's okay; Nicholas Ray doesn't like YOU, either.
Anthony Kaufman claims to admire young "filmmaker" filmmaker Lena Dunham and her work, but he and the Village Voice certainly didn't do her any favors by allowing her to hold forth on Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life in an interview published in the paper yesterday. Although Kaufman's questio...
Just noticed that this is tagged as "polemics." Brilliant.
Image of the day, 6/9/10
From The Big Snooze, Robert Clampett, 1946
(The program has since "gone rogue"; I no longer have control.)
Panahi, Polanski, the Taliban, Zizek...
...Whatever you want to say about this week's Topics, etc., you can't say that it doesn't get into some, you know, stuff. At The Daily Notebook. Argue with me there or here.
Full disclosure: Nolte is something I created for the 10th grade science fair (this was back in '92, hence all the Al Bundy references). It was the early days of the internet, so he's a pretty basic bot/troll. He's mainly programmed to latch on to certain words/phrases and regurgitate them, adding a pithy one-liner (at least, they seemed pithy to me when I was fifteen). It was a simple algorithm. I got a B.
Panahi, Polanski, the Taliban, Zizek...
...Whatever you want to say about this week's Topics, etc., you can't say that it doesn't get into some, you know, stuff. At The Daily Notebook. Argue with me there or here.
That's right, the mascara snake. Fast and bulbous. ('Bout all there is left to say on this matter, actually.)
Panahi, Polanski, the Taliban, Zizek...
...Whatever you want to say about this week's Topics, etc., you can't say that it doesn't get into some, you know, stuff. At The Daily Notebook. Argue with me there or here.
brad - Let me do the honors: Nolte and his BH goons are fuckhats, asswads, blowhards, and boohoos. Which all might be forgivable had they A SINGLE THING TO SAY.
I had been blissfully unaware of their site (and yet, somehow, aware of the Panahi petition) up until this little kerfuffle. I hope to remain so in the future. They and their Fox News compatriots are major contributors to the destruction of conservatism's proud intellectual legacy.
Panahi, Polanski, the Taliban, Zizek...
...Whatever you want to say about this week's Topics, etc., you can't say that it doesn't get into some, you know, stuff. At The Daily Notebook. Argue with me there or here.
Um... I had a point before it was derailed by Some Guy. It was that most public conservative mouthpieces these days can't hold an articulate, respectful debate. That they resort to blustering ad hominem attacks and strain gnats while swallowing camels. I think that was my point. And it's now been made for me, both here and at MUBI. So... never mind.
Panahi, Polanski, the Taliban, Zizek...
...Whatever you want to say about this week's Topics, etc., you can't say that it doesn't get into some, you know, stuff. At The Daily Notebook. Argue with me there or here.
Yick. I stand guilty as charged using the other "F" word. I was employing it as hyperbole, as explained there. Indeed, anyone attuned to Nolte's beloved irony can probably see what I tried (and failed) to do there. If I've soiled the MUBI name, I apologize.
Panahi, Polanski, the Taliban, Zizek...
...Whatever you want to say about this week's Topics, etc., you can't say that it doesn't get into some, you know, stuff. At The Daily Notebook. Argue with me there or here.
I had to stop after the unveiling of his "clever" headline. I like how he doesn't even pause to think that such a hilarious anecdote might be a little inappropriate because, y'know, Ledger died tragically and all.
Personal to Albert Stern
You should be ashamed of yourself, neighbor. Deeply ashamed.
New Lodge Kerrigan?! As the kids say, FUCK YEAH.
Cannes cognition
This morning indieWIRE posted a report on the official announcements, thus far, concerning the Cannes FIlm Festival lineup this year. Some observations from where I sit: * At the moment, despite the presence of new films from Abbas Kiarostami, Bertrand Tavernier, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, t...
Rublev, avant-rock, epicurean revel, and (though subtle) scorpions. Here all things Running meet in a glorious screed. Thanks. I'm e-clipping this recipe.
Lasagna.
Remember the final section of Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev? After Andrei's taken the vow of silence, and the plague has wiped out most of the region? And the prince's soldiers come to the bell-maker's house to demand a bell, and the bell-maker's whole family is dead, except his teenage son, the ...
@ Ben - I can't believe someone would use "shekels" in a particularly loaded context AND THEN invoke the Holocaust.
The Old Skull reference works, but this conflict also reminds me of the less-obscure tagline to a horrible sequel: "Whoever wins... we lose."
Feeling left out
For some reason I haven't gotten any of the e-mails that I'm told are circulating around the "community," asking film critics to stand in solidarity with Armond White. I can't imagine why that is. UPDATE: A friend sent me the text of one of the e-mails, which I reproduce, with some redactions, ...
Yep. Just so long as you make a lot of catty fashionista remarks (i.e. "Memo to [SO-AND-SO]! [BYGONE FASHION ERA/OBSOLETE CELEB] called! They want their [ILL-ADVISED ARTICLE OF CLOTHING] back!")
Another reader poll!
Should I "live-blog" the Oscars? I ask because the couple of times I did in past years I sort of/almost had a kind of good time doing so, and also because nowadays, with the kids and the tweets and all that, "live-blogging" seems almost old-fashioned, quaint even, and hence, desirable in my p...
Some Velvet Morning in MORVERN CALLAR. Anything by Can in anything (most recently - Vitamin C in BROKEN EMBRACES). The Louvin Brothers' Satan is Real in JESUS' SON. The brief snatch of King Crimson in CHILDREN OF MEN (though I think they kind of wasted the awesomeness of the song there). I could go on and on...
Chalk up another victory for the avant-garde
I've just returned from a screening of Shutter Island. I think I'm not yet permitted to review it, and want some time to gather my thoughts in any case. (I think, also, that I can at least say I was very impressed with it.) But I do want to announce that I was extremely chuffed to hear a snip...
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