No New York — A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene: by Adele Bertei By Posted on 1 hour ago Imagine a world where Lydia Lunch and Madonna are around the corner from each other –culturally and geographically. That’s the world Adele Bertie... See more
Yasujiro Ozu is known as a director of the most somber domestic dramas; the key line from his most celebrated film, Tokyo Story may be, “Isn’t life disappointing?” Yet most of his early silents were comedies, like his earliest surviving feature, the 1929 ... See more
Michelangelo Antonioni’s final directorial credit was a short in the 2004 anthology film Eros which consisted entirely of young women frolicking on the beach. How far the mighty had fallen. If that inauspicious valedictory scene was the director’s absolut... See more
Thursday: The Jack Rubies at Quarry House In the ’80s, naming your jangle-pop band after an assassin’s assassin seemed like the stuff of B-movies. And in their first iteration, the UK’s Jack Rubies, who formed in a great English tradition (they met in art... See more
Zodiactually: by Eddie McNamara By Posted on 19 minutes ago What if everything you knew about one of the most notorious criminal cases in America, the subject of best-selling books as well as a prestigious Oscar-nominated film, was wrong? That’s what form... See more
