Hat tip to @vhopeful
Category: These Are Those Things
That inspire, that I like, and that I hope you feel the same about
We hosted Anna Boden as an Artist In Residence at The San Francisco Film Society recently. I found it interesting to hear her say she and Ryan Fleck had been inspired by Peter Sollet’s RAISING VICTOR VARGAS and the prize-winning short that preceded it 5 FEET HIGH & RISING. They had written the HALF NELSON script and in trying to figure out how to do a short that could help get the feature made they decided to shift the focus away from the focus on the teacher (later played by Ryan Gosling in the feature) and put in on Shareeka Epps the student (and who stars in each the short and feature). This is the short GOWANUS BROOKLYN that helped get the feature HALF NELSON shot.
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True Facts About Hedgehogs
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I saw Black Flag live for the first time around 1984 and they blew my mind, full throttle. To see Henry Rollins powered by the band’s onslaught was to see rage and force and commitment unleashed. It was scary fun and is forever seared onto my DNA. I owe a debt to that band (among others). That must be why I find it so much fun to see him now tell it like it is, in his “cranky old man” guise — but he really gets it right, and you don’t have to be a “young person” to need to be reminded of this advise. It is not fair, but so what? Be stronger and don’t let their good fortune or bad ways get in the way of what you know must be done.
But oh man was he anything but that back when:
And check out this show too when it really was just people in a garage letting loose.
Dash Shaw (Bodyworks, Bottomless Bellybutton), John Cameron Mitchell, Sigur Ros. What more could you want?
It’s Banned Book Week. What better way to celebrate than with the Pope Of Filth himself?
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Big hat tip to Open Culture who has been delivering great discoveries on a daily basis for some time now.
There’s more from this great series produced at The City’s own City Lights Bookstore.
Joshua Mohr reads from Anthony Burgess’ A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.
Don’t worry that the Hollywood output this week is a bunch of crap, Hulu has a great collection of Cinema Rarities courtesy of Criterion up that you can watch for free. We all can’t go see The Master multiple times so it’s nice to sit at home and get caught on some classics you may have missed.
Robert Bresson’s A Man Escaped,
Elaine May’s Mikey and Nicky,
Kenji Mizoguchi’s The Life of Oharu
Wim Wenders’
