Film

This afternoon Garbage’s One Mile High… Live DVD showed up in my mailbox, courtesy of Eagle Rock Entertainment… I was pretty sure it had been more than a decade since I’d actually heard Shirley Manson and the boys play their electro-trip-hop alt rock… live or on CD.  Before watching...

Crossfire Hurricane, Brett Morgan’s recent doc chronicling the legacy of the Rolling Stones, very much wishes it were D.A. Pennebaker’s Dont Look Back… which it’s not… But it’s far closer than I would have imagined.  It’s the best film on the Rolling Stones in more than four decades and...

  This past Friday (April 27th), a group of local video and film creatives organized the third installment of an event they call Philly UNfestival at PhilaMOCA. The event is organized by Anthony Zagarella of Fractal Circus, as well Joe Reidl and Nick Hatsis–and is hosted by Aidan Rich....

For the better part of a decade my family and my students have continuously asked me (a UArts grad., who cites The Smiths and Belle & Sebastian as his two favorite bands, and who says things like “In film, there was before Breathless and there was after Breathless.”) “What...

So The Stones are a tricky thing.  Chances are you’re at least somewhat of a fan.  Even better are the chances that your parents are fans (And you probably each think you “get” the band better than the other one.)  Nikki Sixx is a big fan… so are The...

I’m sure we can all remember where we were the first time we saw The Human Centipede.  Okay, so the film proved to be about as shocking and memorable as a John Mayer song, but I actually have a sort of cute story to accompany my first viewing of,...

So I know we’ve all been watching The Playboy Club on NBC… I’m kidding.  If you have seen that show, stop reading my blog (Seriously, you’re not welcome here).  But this Tuesday the Criterion Collection drops Olivier Assayas’ Carlos, the three-part, 339-minute biopic recounting the adventures of Illich Ramirez...

So this entry is not exactly substantial.  In fact, it probably could’ve been slightly edited and conveyed via Twitter.  However, I feel as though our subject deserves a little more than that.  I just wanted to formally wish Anna Karina, likely the most gorgeous creature to ever grace this...

Like all great works of prose, this article began with my mother’s acupuncturist.  She mentioned that I had recently begun writing about cinema and he asked for some recommendations.  As my mother, friends, and readers know, my taste in film tends toward the kinds of things that maybe you...