Saturday, October 10, 2020

New Stuff: Christian Keßler

 


Stella Maxwell


Shanty Tramp (1967)


 
On a hot night in Dixie, the local shanty tramp heads out for adventure and leaves disaster in her wake. 
 
Absolute sleazy smalltown exploitation drama with a superficial anti-racist message is mainly remarkable for its dark, nihilist view of rural Americana with no hope for redemption.
 
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Jane Birkin



New Stuff: The New Yorker


 

(art: Bob Staake)

Friday, October 9, 2020

Who's That Girl?


 

Art: Enoch Bolles


 
Bio:

Jasmine Tookes


Emma. (2020)


 

 
In 1800s England, a well meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends. 

This is a solid, lively and entertaining adaptation of the Jane Austen classic, maybe not the best, but it has great performances and excellent period detail. 

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Aira Ferreira


ph: Michael Sanders

Today's Cat


Angela Lindvall


Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Spring Night Summer Night (1967)


 

The eldest daughter of a coal miner-turned-farmer, has a fling with her half-brother, which complicates things more when she becomes pregnant. 

Intense, realistic smalltown melodrama is fascinatingly offers poetic cinematography and convincing amateur performances.

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Zooey Deschanel


Today's Cat


Ugbad Abdi


ph: Ethan James Green

A day in the life, Mar 16


A day in the life, Mar 16, the view from my home office

Dorit Revelis


ph: Jens Ingvarsson

New Stuff: Thumbscrew



Darya Yanchik


The Fall (2019)


A masked mob cruelly punish a lone masked man.

Dark, nightmarish short excellently serves as warning against present-day fascism.

Pooja Mor


ph: Stanislaw Boniecki

New Stuff: John Foxx & the Maths



Kristine Froseth


Unsolved Mysteries (2020)


Immersive, character-driven stories are rooted in the experiences of ordinary people who have lived the unthinkable. Families, detectives and journalists hope viewers hold the clues to solving these mysteries.

Well-produced. good selection of not yet resolved crimes and occurrences gives both victims and their families/friends equal room as well as the investigators, although the UFO episode somehow falls a bit out of line within the series.

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Edie Sedgwick


New Stuff: Rodrigo Amado & Joe McPhee & Kent Kessler & Chris Corsano



Who's That Girl?


Photographer: Bruno Bisang

Chiara Pasetto


ph: Simone Panetta

Victor Frankenstein (2015)


Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man - and the legend - we know today.

Despite presenting a new angle to the classic tale this lively and action-packed version smothers any originality below its inept urge to entertain.

Nana Komatsu


ph: Harley Weir

Today's Cat



Monday, October 5, 2020

Eva Lilienthal


ph: Elmar Weiss

A day in the life, Mar 15


A day in the life, Mar 15, objet trouvé

Ji Hye Park


ph: Daniella Rech

New York


New York Flatbush Avenue in the early 1980s.

Anna Selezneva


First Lines: Marcus Sedgwick - Midwinterblood


The sun does not go down.

Veruschka


ph: Franco Rubartelli

Beware of Mr. Baker (2012)


Ginger Baker looks back on his musical career with Cream and Blind Faith; his introduction to Fela Kuti; his self-destructive patterns and losses of fortune; and his current life inside a fortified South African compound.

Interesting insight into the (quite obnoxious) character of one of the most outstanding and influential rock music drummers, although it never questions his overrated and self-proclaimed genius on the instrument.