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Has anyone read A Feast Unknown by Philip José Farmer? Apparently the story is that Tarzan's father was Jack the Ripper. Sounds like perfect crack fic!
I'm really looking forward to seeing The Pervert's Guide to Cinema next month. Zizek discussing Hitchcock and the Marx Brothers for two and an half hours! While reading some of the reviews for ( Read more... ) -
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I really should be doing some writing, but I'm too busy sulking over the fact that La Piovra isn't available on dvd with english subtitles. Why?! I need to relieve my childhood!
Have been writing articles for the the Stockholm film festival cataloge. Best movie I've seen so far is the directorial debut of Dani Sánchez Arévalo called ( Read more... ) -
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"Warner Music became the first major record label to let YouTube's legions of amateur filmmakers use its songs - free and legal - as soundtracks for their homemade movies." Read on -
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Thanks to astolat I've rediscovered my love of Wiseguy. It's gloriously gay and it has a young Kevin Spacey, Ray Sharkey and a brief appearance by Annette Bening. And to top it all of it has Joe Dallesandro, the guy Lou Reed sings about in Walk on the Wild Side.
So here are a few icons for the series. Please comment and credit if you take.
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I’m really looking forward to the Revelation exhibit from the Israel Museum coming here this autumn. It’s basically an exhibit examining the changing imagery of Christ in the history of photography. Julia Margaret Cameron and Andre Serrano are two of the photographers whose work is being shown. There has been a bit of a controversy about it over ( Read more... ) -
Stephen Colbert song and dance
Real life has been terribly busy lately, but now I'm back. Dug out my Strangers with Candy Dvds yesterday and reacquainted myself with Jerri, Noblet and Jellineck. Mr.Noblet: "Historically, syphilis is right up there with Germans. It wiped out the Romanovs, it decimated our fleet at Pearl Harbor, and of course, Fidel Castro impersonated Marilyn ( Read more... ) -
meme
Go to Wikipedia. In the search box, type your birth month and day (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.
Events:1. 1916 - Mary Pickford becomes first film star to get million dollar contract ( Read more... ) -
Stoppard dream
I had a Rosencrantz & Guildenstern/Arcadia cross-over dream last night. Guildenstern, Thomasina and Lord Byron where discussing mathematics, while Noakes walked around the room watering the floorboards. Meanwhile, Septimus and Rosencrantz where performing Tom Lehre's song The Irish Ballad on piano and banjo. Unfortunately non of my friends are ( Read more... ) -
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I went to see Shooting Dogs yesterday. It qualifies as the movie that has pissed me of the most this month. The press material goes on and on about the director and producer wanting to show "the suffering of the rawandian people" during the genocide and "letting the rwandans own the story". How do you accomplish this? Well, let's make all the ( Read more... ) -
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Over at darkvictoria empousa posted some really nice photographs by the Russian photographer Vladimir Telepnev and I thought I'd spread the love:
"The Film Diva series presents many dual portraits, such as that of the ballerina Ilze Liepa posing as Ida Rubinstein, a cult figure in Russian art at the beginning of last century; Katya Mtseturidze, a film critic, ( Read more... )