The Films of Luis Bunuel: Subjectivity and Desire (Oxford Hispanic Studies)
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
“..The Coen brothers, it has been written, can be tricky. As the two fraternal film-making mavericks drift higher into the Hollywood firmament — loaded with Oscars from No Country for Old Men, glowing with kudos from Fargo, Barton Fink and half a dozen modern classics — – their creeping disdain for the interview process becomes [...]
Wired: Underwire (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
HOLLYWOOD — After celebrating the 20th anniversary of its pop-punk classic Doolittle with thankful fandom across the pond, the legendary Pixies has returned to America to share its noisy love of surreal sonics and eye-candy visuals. That deafening blast you hear is thousands of Pixies monkeys gone to heaven. See also: Minotaur Maps Pixies’ Massive Pop-Punk [...]
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The seminal band kicks off a U.S. tour commemorating the 20th anniversary of its 1989 college-rock classic 'Doolittle' at the Palladium. The seminal band kicks off a U.S. tour commemorating the 20th anniversary of its 1989 college-rock classic 'Doolittle' at the Palladium.
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Well, here it is, the first of sure-to-be-many end of the year/decade lists on the blog. As most of the DVD releases for 2009 have already been announced, I figured it safe to cross the Region 1, US DVD premieres off the list early. All of the DVDs below are for films that were previously unavailable on DVD in the States (though it's possible one or two might have had an unofficial bootleg circulating)....
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
There are drawbacks to performing an entire album live in concert — even for the Pixies, who unfurled 1989’s groundbreaking Doolittle on Wednesday in the first of three sold-out nights at the Hollywood Palladium. “You can’t skip it if you don’t like any of the songs,” bassist-singer-chatterbox Kim Deal noted onstage with a blissful grin. [...]
New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Frank Black and co get things off to a raucous start
Film Forno (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Max Reinhardt, king of German theater had to flee Nazi oppression at the height of his creative success. He came to America, staged A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Hollywood Bowl and was signed to a contract by Warner Bros. to direct a film version. I guess it didn’t make money because Reinhardt didn’t get [...]
Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
A ballsy Georges Marchal gives his greetings to the local authorities in Death in the Garden, a 1956 Luis Buñuel oddity from right before his second great period. Why oddity? It's a French-Mexican coproduction shot in Mexico, from a French-language...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Archeologists exhume the mass grave where Federico Garcia Lorca, executed by militia loyal to Francisco Franco, has lain for 73 years
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Recommended THE MOVIE: I haven't seen a lot of movies from Luis Bu uel's Mexican period, but what I have been able to catch suggests to me that this fruitful work time often saw the surrealist director turning to more conventional stories rather than the looser, more anarchic films that bookended his creative career. 1956's Death in the Garden ( La morte en ce jardin ) is no exception. Based on a...
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky is a diverse artist with an eclectic background that includes being a scholar, playwright, composer, actor, comic book writer, historian and psychotherapist. The man is a chameleon. In May it was announced that Jodorowsky was going to work with acclaimed director David Lynch on King Shot which was described as a "metaphysical spaghetti western." Though...
LAist (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
This may be the twentieth time I've declared this in this space, but one more time can't hurt: watch Battlestar Galactica! It may not be the best show of the last ten years, but it's as good as any. How a floundering NBC never thought to scoop it up from its little Syfy sister and air it on the big network still astonishes me. Whatever Works isn't nearly as good as recent Woody Allen gems Vicky Cristina...
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Gem of a documentary tracks the hard life of salt workers on a bleak Venezuelan peninsula in the late 1950s.
BigPictureBigSound.com (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
If Luis Bunuel directed an unholy union of "Scenes from a Marriage" and "Friday the 13th", the resulting beast would bare some resemblance to Lars von Trier's "Antichrist".
YesButNoButYes (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
"Antichrist" *1/2 (out of four): If Luis Bunuel directed an unholy union of "Scenes from a Marriage" and "Friday the 13th", the resulting beast would bare some resemblance to Lars von Trier's "Antichrist". The film is divided into four chapters...
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