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Mike Everleth passes on a philosophical Jonas Mekas quote on the purpose of critics/criticism: “If the critic has any function at all, it is to look for something good and beautiful around him, something that can help man to grow from inside; to try to bring it to the attention of others, explain it, interpret it — and not to clutch at some little pieces of dirt, or mistakes, or imperfections.” David...
"Whenever film students romance unease, irony, or postmodern self-reflexivity by mating discarded footage to narratively irrelevant yet accidentally evocative audio, they are saluting the Canadian filmmaker Arthur Lipsett, whether they know it or not," writes Bruce Bennett in the...
I loved Cabinet before I wrote for them, and I love them after. In the latest issue, #30 The Underground, Colby Chamberlain looks at an awesome 1971 drawing by Robert Smithson titled, Toward the development of a Cinema Cavern...
This one from my mates over at the Curzon who work so hard to keep it real in the Blockbuster state of the West End. Jonas Mekas, perhaps one of the most influential Avant-Garde filmmakers of our times, will be in conversation (that means live) at the Curzon Soho on Saturday the 19th of July [...]
Rental 120 East Broadway, 6th floor, 212-608-6002 East Village / Lower East Side July 17 - August 17, 2008 Opening: Thursday, July 17, 7 - 9PM Web Site Curated by Haley Mellin David Adamo Claire FontaineRyan McGinleyDarren Bader Robert Gober Jonas Mekas Matthew Brannon Felix Gonzalez-Torres Olivier Mosset Brian Clifton Matt Keegan Ylva Ogland Peter Coffin Mike Kelley R.H. Quaytman Ann Craven Masato...
Film Reviews: Sonic Youth has been documented by a host of filmmakers ranging from Jonas Mekas to Braden King, but the leading band of the No Wave movement has never been quite as expressively and thoroughly captured as by the high school crew behind "Sonic Youth: Sleeping Nights Awake."
10 90s Indie Hits That Should Be Franchised Albert Maysles on Showman, and commerce vs. humanity. Marnie as bondage fantasy. We have new columnists! “The porno version of Cloverfield.” If an Iraq metaphor comes this easily, it should probably go through a second pass. “Leave Britney Alone”? Jonas Mekas invented the concept. The Universal Studios fire and its impact on classic film [...]
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The Onion headline: MTV Movie Awards Snubs Director Jonas Mekas Yet Again . The fake-quote gem: “It is a travesty that Mekas’ stark vision of elegiac melancholia has not been rewarded with the coveted Golden Popcorn statue,” Boston University film studies professor Ray Carney said. “His [1997] film Letter From Nowhere—Laiskas Is Niekur No. 1 should have easily walked away with Best On-Screen Duo,...
London's (UK) no.w.here lab continues its programme of specialist small film courses over the coming weeks; Optical Printing, 14th May, £55, 10:30 – 4:30pm This course will demonstrate how you transfer super 8 to 16mm or 16mm to 16mm, create freeze frames from footage already captured, fast and slow motion effects, double exposures, bi-packing, and the use of filters with the JK optical printer. More...
***Carmen Kass was honored by the U.S.-Baltic Foundation at the USBF Gala Awards in Washington D.C last week. Carmen was awarded a Baltic Image Enhancement Award. Filmaker Jonas Mekas, founder of the Film-Makers Cooperative was awarded with a Baltic Cultural Achievement Award. Mekas once wrote : “Warhol seems to have incorporated all the transitoriness of things into his very aesthetics, and that's...
WASHINGTON, April 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Some of the world's
most creative, innovative, and beautiful people are coming to Washington,
D.C. this weekend - April 17-19. The silent auction reception and dinner
will be held on Saturday, April 19, from 6:00- 10:00 pm at the Mayflower
Hotel at 1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
Carmen Kass, the international supermodel, the face of...
VILNIUS, Lithuania, March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Three internationally
acclaimed architects, Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid and Massimiliano Fuksas
will unveil their proposals for a new museum in Vilnius on April 8, 2008. A
jury chaired by Thomas Krens, the Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Foundation in New York and panel members Dr. Mikhail Piotrovsky, the
Director of the State Hermitage Museum in...
Village Voice critic J. Hoberman isn't much for self-congratulation and conducts himself in a way that resembles his writing: He's concise, direct, explains even the tough stuff so clearly a kid could understand, and is perfectly soft around the edges.
Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson will be joined by director Martin McDonagh at tonight's Jameson Dublin International Film Festival opening presentation, In Bruges.
"As exhaustively, rather sycophantically chronicled at the outset of Doc, Harold 'Doc' Humes knew everyone (Baldwin, Duchamp, Dietrich, Ornette Coleman, Timothy Leary) and did everything," writes Nathan Lee in the Voice. "Lovingly assembled by Mr Humes's daughter Immy Humes...
