films
Punk ‘n’ Pie
Mon, 2008/11/10 - 09:30 — jimgroomHats off to the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Cinematèk once again for their upcoming Punk ‘n’ Pie film series, which looks to be an amazing retrospective focusing predominantly on the UK Punk/New Wave sce
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Formative 10: Escape from New York
Sat, 2008/10/25 - 18:03 — jimgroomWell, I guess I gotta get going on my formative 10 because what has taken me almost eight months, has taken D’Arcy Norman all of three
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NYCeventies Double Feature
Sun, 2008/10/19 - 13:21 — jimgroomNew York City during the 1970s as captured on film is possibly by favorite aesthetic of all time, outside of the black and white ads in Filmfax. There’s just something so beautiful about the filth, the clothing, the hairstyles, the mutton chops, and the ever looming sense that someone had sneaked a razor blade in the big apple.
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Fischli und Weiss: Der Lauf der Dinge - in DivX!
Fri, 2008/02/08 - 14:55 — blambThis remarkable short film from Peter Fischli and David Weiss, usually translated as The Way Things Go would seem to me a classic example of a work you need to see to get it, the piece really defies description. Though Arthur Danto does pretty well... It's a real-world application of Rube Goldberg effects, the kind of stuff that makes my son howl with laughter in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure or the Wallace and Gromit films. As you watch the mechanism unfold, it seems ready to fall apart at any moment, the whole process is a marvel of precarious dramatic tension...
A short clip is up on YouTube:
But if you move now, you can see the entire film in wondrous DivX quality. Thanks again to Andy Rush for opening my eyes to this amazing online video format.
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