This x That: Agyness Deyn quits modelling to do whatever the hell else she wants because she’s Agyness Deyn. Ceiling porn . Laurent Champoussin’s Cardiovascular Paper . An impossible papercraft castle that took its creator four years to put together. Apple/pear-shaped Post-it notes . Mean Green Knitting Machine . Timbuk2’s sweet Dolores Cooler messenger bag holds 12 cans of PBR or...
I am a blogger from Istanbul , Turkey . On my personal blog which is called " Ay'dan İzlenimler (Impressions from the Moon), I write my views over the movies, music and cultural events. A Trip to the Moon (1902) .. Georges Méliès Aelita (1924) .. Yakov Protazanov Citizen Kane (1941) .. Orson Welles Casablanca (1942) .. Michael Curtiz Sunset Boulevard (1950) .. Billy Wilder The...
There really is no end to the serpentine jamming that Amon Düül gets into. The various line ups might have had varying impact on music, but a good chunk of it, in general, is pretty decent. That clip up top even made it into Niklashauser Abfart , a 1970 Rainer Werner Fassbinder flick from 1970.
That could be a web show (get on it Reid! :), but, for the moment, a blog entry will have to do. From Reid Rosefelt's recent post " What Andrei Tarkovsky Said About Francis Coppola ": "In the early 80’s, I was running a movie PR firm called “Reid Rosefelt Publicity.” The title sounded impressive, but it was only me and an assistant or two working out of my bedroom in...
Courtesy of B.Z. and Michael Schwartz "Big Camera, Small Camera," 1977, by Laurie Simmons "The Pictures Generation," a new show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, features the work of artists reared in the burgeoning, media environment of post-WWII America.
Today is the 27th anniversary of Rainer Werner Fassbinder vacating his director's chair. It was front page news, I remember (I saw it on the front page of the Daily Telegraph). I shall be devoting space to RWF in my forthcoming book, New Waves in Cinema , due out next year. In the meantime, raise a glass in the great man's honour. (Or, perhaps more in keeping with his own predilictions, do something...
The accepted history of violent left-wing radicalism in 1970s Germany suggests that it began, like the First World War, with a single killing. On June 2, 1967, during a demonstration against the Shah of Iran’s visit to West Berlin, a policeman named Karl-Heinz Kurras, supposedly a right-wing gun collector, shot an unarmed student. Supported by his union and much of the press, Kurras successfully...
The Century of Films The Century of Films was a weekly column by British film critic Derek Malcolm published in The Guardian between 2000 and 2002. Malcolm chose one hundred films he deemed artistically or culturally important. In choosing the films, he used two guidelines. First, only one film would be chosen for each director highlighted. Also, he tried to include as many films from different countries...
DVD Video Review: Wim Wenders' 1982 film, an insight into the American film industry, is the latest for the deluxe Axiom DVD treatment. Noel Megahey reviews.
Home Ent News: Skolimowski film to be restored, re-released -- Bavaria Film Intl. is following its successful restoration of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "Berlin Alexanderplatz: Remastered" for the high-def DVD market with Jerzy Skolimowski's second English-language film, "Deep End."
Inside New York / Tribeca Film Festival: Art-film exhibitor has made career of good taste -- Dan Talbot, the renowned art-film exhibitor and distributor, "never cared about the film marketplace," he says. "How I managed to survive all these years with zero interest in the business end of things always puzzled me."
Gotham: 'Germany' to kick off film exhibition -- "Germany 09," a compilation pic comprising 13 shorts by leading Teutonic filmmakers, kicks off this month's contempo German film exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
International News: 'Germany 09' to open Kino! At Thirty -- "Germany 09," a compilation pic comprised of 13 shorts by Germany's leading filmmakers, kicks off this month's contemporary German film exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Kino! at Thirty: New Cinema from Germany, the Museum's 30th annual survey of recent German cinema, from April 22 through 30, 2009. Over the last three decades, MoMA has celebrated new cinema from Germany with an annual presentation of
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