If I still lived at my old place in New York, this is something I would have jumped on in a mirco-second. Granted, you can see most of Jean Luc Godard’s new wave films via Netflix, but nothing compares to seeing them on the big screen in a cinema. Ray recently made me [...]
Coan Nichols and Rick Charnoski have been amassing some serious footage and pictures for the past three years and are ready to release the highly anticipated film, Deathbowl to Downtown a history of skateboarding in NYC. Their nostalgic style has produced two of my all-time favorite skate documentaries, Fruit of the Vine and Northwest. [...]
Skate season is in full swing and the parks are open and events are happening all over the City. I kicked things off with a new setup. My Girl deck was inspired by the groundbreaking video from Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Jackass), Fully Flared. The intro above is just a [...]
Most of the tattoos that grace my winter ravaged skin were inspired by old-school tattoo legends Sailor Jerry (aka Norman Keith Collins) and Bert Grimm. I’ve been fascinated with the Hawaiian-based tattoo artist’s Japanese influenced art for the better part of the last 5 years and was psyched to see that Philly filmmaker Erich [...]
I loved Indiana Jones when I was a kid, but when I heard another sequel was coming out after 18 years, I was skeptical. Well most of that went away when I saw the teaser trailer that just came out. It looks just as adventurous and action-packed as the originals, but with better [...]
I was browsing around Som Records in Washington, D.C. a few weeks ago when I first heard the music of Sunil Ganguly. The owner of the shop had just received Ganguly’s Electric Guitar Hindi Film Tunes from an outside source and was playing it for the first time. I listened to the first [...]
I got around to seeing Persepolis (trailer) last week, a film directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Peronnaud, based on Satrapi’s best selling graphic novel. The animated movie (done in mostly high contrast black and white with the occasional appearance of color) is set mostly in Tehran beginning just before the 1979 Iranian Revolution [...]
Here’s the movie trailer for one of my favorite cartoons growing up as a kid. The live action sequences and cast seem like tha bomb, though I’m not sure of Emile Hirsch playing the lead character. Christina Ricci as Trixie is a hot choice.
[MP3] Speed Racer “TV Theme”
Over the weekend, I caught This Is England, a semi-autobiographical film written and directed by Shane Meadows (A Room for Romeo Brass and Once Upon a Time in the Midlands). The film is centered on a group of young skinheads in 1983 Thatcherite England and also touches on the The Falklands War and the [...]
I was one of the lucky few to witness the debut of Sufjan Stevens‘ BQE last night at BAM. Set in the regal Howard Gilman Opera House, the show consisted of two parts, the BQE and “Sufjan plays the hits”.
The civic-themed evening was a vision expressed by Sufjan through film and music. [...]
Photo: Storming the beach at Normandy
For the past two weeks, from 8-10PM, I’ve been glued to my TV to experience the captivating series on The War from the documentary master, Ken Burns. Of course when I say The War, I mean WWII, since it was the last world war where many veterans are still [...]
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Trailer just released this week for the upcoming Michel Gondry film Be Kind Rewind, starring Jack Black and Mos Def. The plot is perfect for Gondry, where two video store owners need to re-enact movies that they lost the on tape. No shortage of cardboard-esque props here with Mos Def and Black creating [...]
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The trailer for Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited came out this week. The trifecta cast of Wilson, Schwartzman, and Brody portray three brothers re-forging family bonds by taking them on a train trip around India. Anderson has a way of making things funny and at the same time pulling on your heartstrings. [...]
Yeah, I know, I know, three days late on this and in the blog world, three days might as well be three weeks. I actually just got back this morning around 3am and didn’t really have a chance to think about and reflect on what made this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival so much fun [...]
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