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Experimental & Underground · Uncategorized
The following short films, each less than one minute in length, were created for the compilation project, OneDreamRush. First, we have Asia Argento on the fluidity of SEXUAL IDENTITY. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgIgiQ-2TNo][…]
“Tashlin’s tenure at Warner Bros. did not provide him with a ‘cartoon aesthetic’ that could be applied, ready-made, to his features; rather, it allowed him to develop a feature filmmaking aesthetic through cartoons.”
Documentaries · Music & Musicals
“I’m dealing in rock ‘n’ roll. I’m, like, I’m not a bona fide human being.” — Phil Spector
Experimental & Underground · Memoir
“Because they assume that memory is fallible and experience inassimilable, they’re more like inquests or excavations than diaries or memoirs. Instead of reminiscing, they dig.”
“Ford creates a unique cinematic experience in which the visual, the aural, and even the olfactory mix to produce a powerful synesthetic experience.”
They can never really knock you off your feet as long as you’re wearing Blahniks
“In our devotion to realism-as-catharsis, we’ve become so obsessed with psychologizing fictional characters that we forget we are the ones who need humanizing.”
“Sanshiro is ultimately after spiritual gain — to achieve the purity he found in the moonlit flower.”
“They rapin” everybody out here.” — Antoine Dodson
“Whose stories do these films really tell?”
Festivals & Awards · LGBT & Queer
“She had a lot of action inside!”
“Aldridge’s shoot is so striking because it purports to discover glamour in the mind of an unhinged woman: an associative path that has been cut by cinema.”
That still finds musicians easier to rob
“There remain only intimations of squalor and suffering, of rough beasts stumbling across the landscape without any stability or security in sight.”
Activist & Political · Actors & Personalities · Historical & Epic · Writers & Critics
“Being Marxist in the Groucho rather than Karl sense would have required the Ten to not take themselves or their politics so seriously.”
“In Mad Men, as in modern American politics, the past is a pre-lapsarian paradise to which it is imperative to return, and the fantasy is of those exiled from history itself.”
Interviews · SF & Fantasy · Writers & Critics
In which the author talks about being a lifelong SF movie freak and updating his seminal SF compendium Keep Watching the Skies! for the new millennium
Directors · Interviews · Music & Musicals
“Being middle-age rock and rollers, just trying to pay the bills, isn’t an easy lifestyle.”
Actors & Personalities · Reviews
“Today’s Rosa Moline would treat her lack of sophistication as a resource and her isolation as a launching pad.”
“There is always some madness in love; but, there is always some reason in madness.” — Nietzsche
