Tuesday, July 21, 2009

TIMELESS SPIRAL—Mike Black Offers Three YouTube Favorites

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Long-time bud Mike Black—with whom I have spun a vinyl or two—offers three YouTube oldie goldies. Thanks, Mike! Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Up A...

INDIAN SILENT CINEMA—3rd i's "Snakes, Sirens & Vamps: A Short History of Early Indian Cinema"

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One of the spectatorial pleasures of K.M. Madhusudanan's Bioscope (2008) was its revelatory glimpse into Indian Cinema's silent fi...

SFJFF09—Eight Michael Hawley Screener Previews

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The 29th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (SFJFF) begins this Thursday, July 23 and continues through August 10 at various Bay Area venue...
Sunday, July 19, 2009

WRAPPING OSHIMA

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I've been living with Nagisa Oshima since late May and now find myself a bit melancholic that James Quandt's retrospective is leavin...
Saturday, July 18, 2009

LEAVE IT TO PORNO

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Mike White has created a video for Doctor Kosmos' "Porno Person":
Thursday, July 16, 2009

ECCENTRIC CINEMA: COMING APART (1969)—A Critical Overview

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When I consider the term "eccentric", I think of the orbits of comets, irregularly-shaped pearls, and the conversation I had with ...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

ARGENTINE CINEMA—Lucrecia Martel on La Ciénaga

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In yet another masterful programming coup, Joel Shepard scores one for the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts with—not only the Bay Area premi...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

SFSFF09—Underworld (1927) Introductory Remarks

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I first caught Josef von Sternberg's Underworld (1927) at the Pacific Film Archive von Sternberg retrospective earlier this year acco...