As the hipster kleptomaniac at the center of Josh Safdie’s adorable debut feature The Pleasure of Being Robbed, Eleonore Hendricks steals a lot of things, but mainly the audiences’ hearts. The twentysomething actress, despite her newfound indie cinema fame, still works at the video store Cinema Nolita and binges on way too much Lukas Moodysson. After just wrapping Eric Juhola’s short film The Nowhere Kids (a fictional speculation on Gotham Award nominee and Slamdance winner Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa), Hendricks is getting ready to begin production on Safdie’s new project, Go Get Some Rosemary. In the meantime, I caught up with her to chat about Barbara Loden’s Wanda, her extra special week of moviegoing and why she gave up listening to WFMU. …Read more
Henry Rollins is picking up where Bob Hope left off. In the clip above, from the IFC special Henry Rollins Uncut From Israel, the actor/punk rock legend/TV host describes the experience of visiting wounded soldiers as a representative of the USO. The special aired on IFC several months ago, but I stumbled across the clip again today whilst reading Chris Catania’s lengthy interview with Rollins at PopMatters, in which Rollins discusses Iraq, Iran, the internet, and aging out of culture.
UPDATE: The clip described above has been removed from YouTube. I’ve replaced it with a an interview with Rollins about his experiences touring with Black Flag and traveling as a spoken word artist in Iran.
We’ve had a bit of trouble getting this episode to go through the iTunes feed, so we hope this re-post will fix the problem. The original post, with episode description and embedded player, is here.
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