Saturday, September 14, 2019

Natalie Portman


First Lines: Neal Stephenson - Quicksilver


Enoch rounds the corner just as the executioner raises the noose above the woman's head.

Liya Kebede


ph: Cass Bird

A day in the life, Aug 20


A day in the life, Aug 20, Regensburg by night

Ugbad Abdi


New Stuff: Iggy Pop



Eugenia Volodina


Flaming Creatures (1963)

An experimental film that features graphic sexual imagery, an earthquake, and a lipstick commercial. 

Both aesthetically appealing and provocatively appalling experimental short remains controversial to some, but also arguably is considered a classic in its own right.

 

Mena Suvari


New Stuff: Startling Comics


Laura Roth


Sleepless in Seattle (1993)


A recently widowed man's son calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a partner.

Quite likable, old-fashioned romantic comedy, with the two leads well cast for the occasion, is so easy-going and unexcited (and predictable due to all the allusions to An Affair to Remember) the happy ending hardly makes any emotional impact.

Halliwell*: "Enjoyable romantic comedy, although its overall tone is excessively sweet."

Maltin***: "Sweet romantic comedy, with perfectly cast stars, though it's repeated allusions to the old tearjerker AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER make you wonder if the only way to generate old-fashioned romance in a '90s movie is to invoke a product of Hollywood's Golden Age."

Friday, September 13, 2019

Tanya Dziahileva


ph: Danil Golovkin

New Stuff: Yes



Who's That Girl?


Art: Aaron Johnson

Chanel Postrel


Black-and-white


Regensburg, September 2019

Jennifer Love Hewitt


A day in the life, Aug 19


A day in the life, Aug 19, helicopter

Melodie Vaxelaine


New York


Sherril Schell, The New Building, New York c. 1930

Freja Beha Erichsen


ph: Jürgen Teller

First Lines: Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake


Snowman wakes before dawn.

Pan Haowen


ph: Xiaowei Xu

A day in the life, Aug 18


A day in the life, Aug 18, evening over the Danube

Gabrielle Haugh


New Stuff: Bat For Lashes



Françoise Dorléac


Watership Down (2018)


Fleeing their doomed warren, a colony of rabbits struggle to find and defend a new home.

Well-made and staged TV miniseries adaptation of the beloved novel has a rather meandering plot till the final showdown; intriguing, but not quite as heart-wrenching as the 1978 movie version.

Monday, September 9, 2019

Imaan Hammam


Black-and-white


Burghausen, August 2019

Aya Jones


A day in the life, Aug 17


A day in the life, Aug 17, leaves on a tree trunk

Saoirse Ronan


ph: Carlos Serrao

New York


Alfred Statler    Subway Station, New York City      c. 1960

Anna Karina


First Lines: Jeanne DuPrau - The City of Ember


In the city of Ember, the sky was always dark.

Valentina Zelyaeva


A day in the life, Aug 16


A day in the life, Aug 16, withering leaves

Tanga Moreau


New Stuff: Jay Som