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Category Archives: Culture/art

Jessica Alba and the Female Gaze

May 9, 2008 – 12:00 pm

You’ve been looking at Jessica Alba for years. Now it’s her turn to look back.

By Christopher Campbell | Also posted in Film watching, Stars, Technology & Web, Video | Comments (1)

Superhero Fashion Exhibit at the Met

May 7, 2008 – 11:45 am

An exhibit called Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy opens today at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, and runs through the end of the summer. From the Met’s website:
Fashion not only shares the superhero’s metaphoric malleability, but actually embraces and responds to the particular metaphors that the superhero represents, notably that of the power of transformation. [...]

By Karina Longworth | Comments (0)

Moving Image Institute: Andrew Sarris & Molly Haskell

April 16, 2008 – 10:03 am

The legendary coupled critics talk feminism, Kael, and how the war on terror made the rise of Judd Apatow possible.

By Karina Longworth | Also posted in Community | Comments (5)

Iron Man and new subversive cinema

April 14, 2008 – 3:13 pm

Is Robert Downey Jr. cashing in or taking his message to the streets?

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Kanye gets Kar Wai and Herzog eats boot

April 11, 2008 – 3:12 pm

If 2046 was used “illegally,” that means an amazing music video cost Kanye the price of a smart editor’s day rate

By Paul Moore | Comments (1)

Moving Image Institute in New York

April 11, 2008 – 10:00 am

I’ve had an amazing time in Sarasota over the past week but, alas, I’ve headed back to New York for my next event: I’ve been invited to take part in the Moving Image Institute in Film Criticism and Feature Writing, a five day series of workshops and panels co-sponsored by the Museum of the Moving [...]

By Karina Longworth | Also posted in Spout.com | Comments (2)

Mister Lonely: The Book

April 8, 2008 – 12:15 pm

Cool Hunting has a preview of a beautiful book that’s out in the UK in the conjunction with the release there of Harmony Korine’s Mister Lonely (which I reviewed at SXSW, and loved). The book includes the shooting script, by Harmony and his brother Avi Korine, as well as photographs from the set, some taken [...]

By Karina Longworth | Also posted in Indies | Comments (0)

A Heston for Every Generation

April 7, 2008 – 11:57 am

Who could boycott the late great Charlton Heston? He was so funny!

By Kevin Buist | Also posted in Classics, Humor, Politics | Comments (4)

FULL HOUSE Avant-Garde. Clip of the Day.

April 2, 2008 – 11:34 am

The Onion’s A.V. Club says this deserves to “float around the ‘ol blogosphere,” and I agree. Because if we can get enough people to support experimental films based on scenes from TV’s Full House, then one day I’ll be able to watch Candace Cameron and Dave Coullier on a big screen at Anthology Film Archives [...]

By Christopher Campbell | Also posted in Clip of the Day, Video, short-films | Comments (1)

NYUFF Opens Tonight

April 2, 2008 – 10:28 am

The final installment of the New York Underground Film Festival opens with HEAVY METAL IN BAGHDAD.

By Karina Longworth | Also posted in Film festivals | Comments (0)