Video: Un Chien De Dieu
OnMy first short, co-directed with Anna Tyseng. Taken from the VHS master, which explains the kinda lousy video quality.
Twice in a Lifetime
OnHot Damn! Brian Eno and David Byrne Release Their First New Album in 27 Years! In 1981 Ronald Reagan had just taken office, I was 10 years old going on 11, and David Byrne and Brian Eno released a joint venture album…
Interview: Marc Walkow/Outcast Cinema
OnYou may have noticed a theme in the recent film reviews posted. The last three films I’ve written about (and a review of Glass Johnny is coming, I swear!) were all screened at the touring show No Borders, No Limits, brought around…
Film Review: A Colt Is My Passport
On[Purchase DVD] If you didn’t know this already, Joe Shishido is AWESOME. This is one of his first starring roles (you might remember him as the puffy-cheeked rice-smelling Number 3 hitman in Branded to Kill) and it’s clear that he deserves the…
Save Mister Rogers
OnSave Mister Rogers I’ve just sent letters to PBS and my two local PBS stations. Feel free to use this as a springboard for ideas, but PLEASE write your own letter: I was incredibly saddened when I discovered that Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood…
Film Review: Velvet Hustler
OnCover via Amazon [Purchase VHS] Sometimes Seijun Suzuki‘s fame in the US (albeit cult-levels of fame) can do other Nikkatsu directors a disservice; the story goes that Suzuki was the true artist and the other films weren’t anything special. While Suzuki was…
Review: Strange Overtones
OnCover via Amazon [Download Single] I’m very anal about how I organize my music. It’s a simple system: Albums are organized by artist, and by date of release. If an album is by a artist with a proper name, say, David Byrne,…
Film Review: The Warped Ones (a/k/a Season Of Heat, The Weird Lovemakers)
OnImage via Wikipedia Koreyoshi Kurahara was one of the hourse directors for the Japanese studio Nikkatsu — perhaps most known in the US from the Criterion and Home Vision releases of Seijun Suzuki and Shohei Imamura‘s films. Nikkatsu was primarily a genre…
Book Review: Big Bosoms and Square Jaws
On[Purchase Book] Russ Meyer has come around from being thought of as a mere exploitation film maker to a low-budget film-making maverick. Though in each way, both are correct (with the exception of the word “mere”), he was more than that. Russ…
Interview: Rafael Medina
OnRafael Medina is a pretty talented fellow. He plays lead guitar in The Anderson Council, but he’s probably best known as the writer/artist of Suicide For Hire, a comic about a couple high school kids who start their own extra-curricular business —…