January 2012
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Andrew made an awesome music video. Check it out.
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Director, Producer, Editor, Cinematographer: Andrew Droz Palermo
Actors: Tamara Coker, Caitlin Ward, Gordon Rogers Production Design, Wardrobe, Art Direction: Lanie Faith Marie Overton Gaffers: Mike Wilson & Jordan Lundy VFX: Andrew Droz Palermo & Josh Johnson Production Assistant: Dan Bugnitz
Special Thanks:...
BACK SOON. HEADED TO MARFA.
Film & Video: Jean-Luc Godard - Schick Commerical... →
Duration: 60 seconds Godard & Gorin, according to the profitable contract signed with the publicity agency Dupuy Compton, from which they had a salary, were forced to propose one project per month and deliver at least one advertisement film per year. For Schick, they got the budget to pay the hole crew for a week, even though the shooting only took half a working day. Schick was...
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David Thomas Broughton - Staying True
This just happened to me with Boardwalk Empire.
December 2011
The New Song by W.S. Merwin
Winter thoughts perfectly composed by W.S. Merwin.
For some time I thought there was time and that there would always be time for what I had a mind to do and what I could imagine going back to and finding it as I had found it the first time but by this time I do not know what I thought when I thought back then there is not time yet it grows less there is the sound of rain at night arriving...
Longreads: Edith Zimmerman: My Top 6 Longreads of... →
getthatlook:
longreads:
Edith Zimmerman is a writer and co-editor of The Hairpin.
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“All the Single Ladies,” Kate Bolick, The Atlantic
Kate’s story on the current state of marriage, and men, and women, is sad and happy and fascinating, and just generally makes me want to give her a high-five and…
…and marry her!
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Thinking that an office job might be a good thing to try, she did a six-month...
– “Stumptown Girl.”
Very well might have a forthcoming academic article in me about the myriad and obvious connections between humor and the consistent self-reflexive cred-checks we place on a countercultural sensibility in the 21st century, including Portlandia and Henry Owings’ insanely...
A great film is one in which the range of meaning is so imaginatively new,...
– Pauline Kael
“Her deepest subject, in the end, almost isn’t movies at all - it is how to live more intensely.”
- Sanford Schwartz on longtime New Yorker film reviewer Pauline Kael in The Age Of Movies: Selected writings of Pauline Kael
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Recipe: Kasha Varnishkes
According to wikipedia, the kasha varnishkes dish was brought over to America from eastern Europe by Ashkenzazi Jews. This makes sense, seeing how a) my Dad gave me this recipe and b) my family escaped the pogroms against Jews in the late 1800s and moved to the LES of New York.
So the moral of this story is: enjoy this delicious winter dish! My family certainly has since the days when they were...
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HUBBLE (aka ben greenberg)
sub-genre: Rejecting the movie theater argument →
newmanbrian:
It’s time I come out - and admit that I no longer care about seeing films on the big screen at the movie theater. Horrible of me to suggest. No serious film lover could say this. Blasphemy. On and on.
Yeah, whatever.
I used to simply argue that of course, I love seeing films on the big screen…
November 2011
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TENNIS PLAYER MICHAEL JOYCE'S PROFESSIONAL... →
This essay by David Foster Wallace, originally published in Esquire, is a masterpiece for reasons that I find hard to describe. Just read it. Trust me.
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Let’s See What’s Inside That Pretty Head via NYT →
“A Dangerous Method,” directed by David Cronenberg, is the latest film from Hollywood about mental illness. The patient, as usual in such films, is female.
This is how to write about film…a delicate blend of critical film theory with historical context.
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an interview with House of Pleasures director... →
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Melina Matsoukas speaks on ‘We Found Love’... →
Melina is an incredible director.
Blind Mountain on MUBI
you can rent this film for a mere $3
http://mubi.com/films/blind-mountain
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