Directed by Anton Corbijn. The Miriam Collection. When Anton Corbijn, best known for his work as a rock photographer and music video director, announced plans to film the story of Joy Division front man Ian Curtis, anticipation amongst Joy Division followers immediately rose, for although there has always been a great deal of familiarity with […]
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The Future Is Unwritten
Directed by Julien Temple. Parallel Films/Sony Legacy. Joe Strummer was a son of a British diplomat, boarding school bully, bohemian, busker, scoundrel, field general, passionate soul, survivor, obsessive lyricist, cheerleader, wandering beatnik, father and punk warlord. Director Julien Temple excellently weaves the complex and often contradictory lines about the former frontman and mouthpiece for the […]
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Mr. LaFarge’s Blues
After watching Robert Altman’s 1973 film The Long Goodbye for the upteenth time, Altman had commented that he and lead actor, Elliot Gould, had decided to reinvent the legendary Phillip Marlowe as if he was a Rip Van Winkle-like character who, after a long slumber, woke up in the middle of the early 1970s Los […]
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As You Like It
Directed by Kenneth Branagh. HBO Films. With Henry V in 1989, Kenneth Branagh burst onto the world cinema scene as a combination Orson Welles (theatre enfant terrible who directs and stars in his first major film while in his twenties) and Laurence Olivier (choosing the same play as Olivier did for his first of several […]
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On The River
With Mark Shikuma If not for a bit of trouble along the way, 2008 would have marked the 25th anniversary of the quintessential SoHum music festival Reggae on the River. To avoid enflaming the ire of non-irie Reggae fundamentalists (and we’re not talking about the Rastafarian kind), we’ll skip the history of “the troubles.” Suffice […]
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My Favorite Waste of Time
Album by Freedy Johnston Singing Magnet Records Singer/songwriter Freedy Johnston is a strange artist. His last studio record, Right Between the Promises, was released in 2001. Since then, he has released an album of unreleased material, The Way I Were: 4-Track Demos, 1986-1992 (2004), and a solo concert album, Live at McCabe’s Guitar Shop (2006). […]
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Creature From the Black Lagoon: The Legacy Collection
Universal Has there yet been a remake of a genre classic that’s better than the original? Now they’re trying it with Creature From the Black Lagoon, slated for release next year. Do yourself a summertime favor and see all three Creature features from the 1950s, on this nifty two-disk set from Universal’s Legacy Collection series. […]
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The Death of Don Juan
Elodie Lauten Unseen Worlds In the current world of modern composition, no movement has been more influential than minimalism. With the canon of bona fide first-generation minimalism set almost in stone with the big four (La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass), not much is left undiscovered. However, much less examined is […]
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30th Humboldt Folklife Festival
In its 30th year, the Humboldt Folklife Society’s annual summer music festival has grown to eight days — four evening concerts, two dances and two admission-free daytime events. That many shows usually brings to mind touring artists (and high ticket prices) but it is Humboldt’s own musicians who fuel the labor of love that began […]
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Spaced
I’m not really into MySpace. I heard they upgraded the whole thing recently, but it doesn’t seem any different. It’s just as slow and clunky as ever. But despite the shortcomings, I end up using it pretty much every week to check out one band or another. Today I was taken to Space by accident. […]
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What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann
Director/Producer: Steve Cantor Stick Figure Productions/Zeitgeist Films/HBO Documentary Films “It’s so strange to me that anyone would ever think that a work of art shouldn’t be disturbing or shouldn’t be invasive. It is to disturb, it is to make you think, it is to make you feel. If my work doesn’t disturb, from time to […]