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CineVegas Lineup

May 7, 2008 – 1:05 pm

Abel Ferrara and Sonic Youth, together at last in Las Vegas.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in CineVegas 2008, Film festivals | Comments (0)

Trade Roughage 02/07/08

February 7, 2008 – 8:31 am

The Academy’s Sid Ganis, desperate to come to some sort of revealable conclusion as to what kind of Oscars he’s going to preside over, has been pestering the WGA to grant a waiver to allow the producers to use writers/put on a show and not get picketed. So far he’s been denied, and it sounds [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Awards, Classics | Comments (0)

Richard Kern’s Thurston Moore-Scored Softcore. Clip of the Day.

January 28, 2008 – 1:52 pm

It’s like Girls Gone Wild, but art!

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Clip of the Day, Culture/art, Video | Comments (1)

Sonic Youth by Claire Denis. Clip of the Day.

January 11, 2008 – 11:00 am

Above: a video for Sonic Youth’s “Jams Run Free”, from their Rather Ripped album, shot by French cinema bad girl Claire Denis. Daniel Stuyck writes about this, and the four other videos Denis has made for the band, in the new issue of Film Comment:
The antecedent to these pieces is not so much Denis’s [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Clip of the Day | Comments (0)

SpoutBlog Week in Review

November 30, 2007 – 10:43 pm

Sundance fever begins just as the awards season gains momentum. Plus: Martin Scorsese, Joe Swanberg, and Julian Schnabel.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Week in Review | Comments (0)

Sonic Youth on Juno Soundtrack

November 27, 2007 – 8:42 am

The Playlist passes along word that Sonic Youth’s cover of The Carpenters’ “Superstar” has made it onto the Juno soundtrack album. The song plays a key role in my favorite part of the film, the friendship between Ellen Page’s pregnant teen and Jason Bateman’s 30-something would-be adoptive father, through which Juno learns perhaps the most [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Technology & Web | Comments (3)