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buñuel and malle meet, smile, and discuss just who is truly more surrealistic in their celluloid pursuits? maybe they just talked about how much they love this song and how it should’ve been their nonexistent sitcom’s intro music. by sv
quote of the day
“…a million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death and some of them even know it….”
–thomas pynchon, gravity’s rainbow
Pierrot le fou
japanese movie poster of godard’s masterpiece “pierrot le fou”. japaneses do it better, right? by lil
yo shot challenge – surf photo contest
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the nysea collective brings us the YO SHOT CHALLENGE, new york’s premier surfing photo challenge with $1500 on the line to the winning photographer who captures the viewer’s favorite photo. there is a swell hitting NY over the weekend so check back to see some new entries from some of NY’s best surf photographers doing their thing. by jr
peter sellers: our kind of playboy
the incomparable mr. sellers mocking as he does all too well. by sv
gregoire alexandre – wire portraits
great story by great photographer gregoire alexandre by pp.
ed ruscha and some los angeles apartments
that must be a great book, and a great gift. by pp.
coffee shop surprise!
perhaps next time you’ll think twice about being such a pain in the ass about that triple mocha soy latte? by hk
dead ringer
poster for the paul henreid directed film starring ms. ruth elizabeth davis herself. henreid and davis also starred together in now, voyager; one of my all time favorite films, and the one to launch henreid as a romantic lead. i’ve never seen dead ringer, well, besides the cronenberg of a similar name, but this poster is certainly intriguing.
by sv
stanley shoots stanley
my favorite narcissist. by sv
a thundering meow
“and that changes the discussion from what a sports car can do to how well it can do it.” well, it’s not the size of the boat after all, it’s the…you know…. a veracious and innuendo filled vintage advertisement from our friends at jaguar. i don’t drive; i never have, and i certainly never will. however, i can get behind this. meow.
by sv
we have an anchor
Jem Cohen: We Have An Anchor from EMPAC @ Rensselaer on Vimeo.
i attended the friday night screening of jem cohen’s we have an anchor at BAM. the film had a three-night run at the harvey theater, a beautiful space for both film and performance. many moons ago nick cave scored a rendition of kafka’s metamorphosis there, and i had a lovely august saturday seeing woody allen’s summer ode to a streetcar named desire, blue jasmine. shown on five screens and featuring a seven member musical ensemble, cohen’s film is a melancholy ode to cape breton, the island off the northeastern coast of nova scotia. the ensemble featured such musicians as jessica moss, efrim manuel menuck, sophie trudeau, mira bilotte and jim white; all painstakingly present in the score they also composed. a film of few words with noteworthy exceptions, such as the poet elizabeth bishop, it is a quaint, convalescent mixture of past, present and future–beautifully depicting a graveyard of ideas. cohen came out and gave a little wave of his cap after the performance; many were moved, as i overheard in both the corridors and the front of the theater. what’s certain, to me, is that this film undoubtedly belongs in the permanent collection of moma, or maybe criterion, if they’re feeling arty. to learn more about the “unusual but accessible” mr. cohen, read here. by sv
