Gun Talk

The Exiles was released on DVD just yesterday. Read about it...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:35:00 -0500

The Exiles was released on DVD just yesterday. Read about it here.

Candy Clark

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:03:54 -0500

Candy Clark

Leslie, My Name is Evil (2009)

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:18:12 -0500

Leslie, My Name is Evil (2009)

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Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:58:00 -0500

An exemplar of film posters by significant German designer Hans...

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:05:07 -0400

An exemplar of film posters by significant German designer Hans Hillman (via The Auteurs Notebook). The posters for Pickpocket and A Woman is a Woman are particularly great.

T.R.O.Y.

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:00:00 -0400

T.R.O.Y.

Neurosis in film: part one

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:43:00 -0400

Charlie’s (Charles Aznavour) thoughts as he walks Lena (Marie Dubois) home are conveyed to the viewer through voice-over…

…She’s laughs…

…He reacts…

… and she states the obvious…

The preceding series of frames is only a part, albeit a sizable chunk, of what is one of my favourite sequences in a film in (my) recent memory. The sequence comes from François Truffaut’s Shoot the Piano Player, which is actually the follow-up to his seminal film The 400 Blows. Anyway, even though I cut off the beginning and end of the sequence, I’m pretty sure I captured enough frames from the film to demonstrate what I enjoyed about it.

Okay so here’s where I’m supposed to eloquently explain just what is so memorable about this sequence but once I started to do so, I realized the Herculean effort it would require of myself to do it with any measure of clarity or succinctness, and so I quit.

What I will say is that the sequence is a perfect example of the “movie magic” which Truffaut was able create -something that I can’t really explain, that you’ll have to see for yourself - and is present in surfeit in Shoot the Piano Player.

Jake One ft. Elzhi and Royce da 5’9” -...

Sat, 30 May 2009 05:02:00 -0400

Jake One ft. Elzhi and Royce da 5’9” - Glow

“The cool thing about Jake’s album is that it IS backpacker rap sometimes. It’s everything though. It makes shit like Slug rapping alongside Posdnous, Buck atop “Triggerman” and Keak rasping on boom bap all seem like it comes from the same place. Which it does.

You know, this little thing called hip hop.”

- Noz, from the comments section of a post on his blog featuring a video for the song Home which is included alongside Glow on Jake One’s very good 2008 release White Van Music.

The trailer for the film Revanche, a Janus films release. Armond...

Wed, 13 May 2009 05:44:40 -0400

The trailer for the film Revanche, a Janus films release. Armond White reviews it here.

The El Michaels Affair - Can it all be so...

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 04:56:46 -0400

The El Michaels Affair - Can it all be so simple

…’Member back in the days when, shit, everything was all smooth and calm… like back in like ‘79, nah, nah, ‘87 that was my favourite…

The Alchemist ft. C-N-N - Follow the dollar From...

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:23:00 -0400

The Alchemist ft. C-N-N - Follow the dollar

From Alchemist’s CookBook EP. If I was going to do a full write-up I would have mentioned something like “gurgling synths”. ~~Also I was going to make a poor joke about this being loosely inspired by Robert Bresson’s L’Argent but thankfully better judgement prevailed~~. At any rate, this knocks and I need at least one rap song on each page of the blog.

An interview with Film critic Glenn Kenny, who was David Foster Wallace's editor at Premiere Magazine

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:41:00 -0400

An interview with Film critic Glenn Kenny, who was David Foster Wallace's editor at Premiere Magazine

Mayer Hawthorne - I wish it would rain

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:42:59 -0400

Mayer Hawthorne - I wish it would rain

Dinah Washington - This bitter Earth: featured in Killer of...

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:20:00 -0400

Dinah Washington - This bitter Earth:

featured in Killer of Sheep, a film by Charles Burnett.

Marley Marl talks shop with Funky Drummer Clyde Stubblefield....

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:49:00 -0400

Marley Marl talks shop with Funky Drummer Clyde Stubblefield. This video is significant for me as someone who was concerned with drum sounds - they were very important to my beat-making endeavours and yet I knew nothing about actually playing the drums - in that I never knew some drummers actually hit both the rim and the skin of the snare drum simultaneously.

via Cocaine Blunts and Hip Hop Tapes

After just having watched Godard’s Made in U.S.A., I think...

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:10:00 -0400

After just having watched Godard’s Made in U.S.A., I think I may safely say that watching said film need only be reserved for the most die-hard Godard fans (and/or Anna Karina fans), film studies majors and individuals with one, two or several liberal arts degrees - they would probably have a better chance of making any sense of the film (obviously these three groups are not mutually exclusive). Which is to say that there are much more enjoyable, entertaining Godard films, such as Masculin Feminin. However, this particular sequence from the film with Marianne Faithfull singing acappella is pretty damn great.

You know at least one member of a band skates when the cover of...

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:03:00 -0400

You know at least one member of a band skates when the cover of their newest EP is shot at a famous and at one point ubiquitous L.A. skate spot.

(spotted at PotW as usual)

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Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:21:57 -0500

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Sat, 21 Feb 2009 07:30:38 -0500

The Final Solution - I don’t care There’s a great...

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:30:31 -0500

The Final Solution - I don’t care

There’s a great but sad story behind this one. Also, this would have been on my best of 2008 list if I had actually bothered to compile one.