All Things To All People
Earlier this year, the largest video store in the United States, Scarecrow Video had a Kickstarter to help fund its survival and conversion to a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of video. Of course, being a film-loving Seattlite, I was just…
We will create and destroy ten art movements in ten years. That’s what’s being typed in the new video for Janelle Monáe‘s brilliant single “Q.U.E.E.N.”, with Erykah Badu. And if anyone’s going to do it, it’s Monáe and her cohorts at Wondaland. …
[Purchase DVD] Le couple témoin, or, in English, The Model Couple, is, unfortunately, William Klein‘s last fiction film to date. Like Who Are You, Polly Maggoo and Mister Freedom, it’s available in the great Eclipse DVD set The Delirious Fictions of William Klein. It’s a satire,…
[Purchase DVD] William Klein‘s first fiction film, Who Are You, Polly Maggoo is more sedate than his next film Mr. Freedom, and while, perhaps not quite as successful as that film, it’s still interesting.
[Purchase DVD] Some movies don’t need to be perfect. Some films are uneven and a little scattershot but couldn’t be anything else. Mister Freedom is one of those. The whole’s not greater than the sum of its parts, but the parts themselves…