Tag: Film
Here’s a series of film posters so minimalist, they’re essentially one or two sheets of slightly, ever-so-deliberately damaged paper (with deliberate shades/textures/fancy names, as listed in the gallery above). Jaws looks like a perfect ocean blue “bit” by the tiniest of sharks, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a crumpled (“wrinkled”) white sheet that gets […]
With the recent release of Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive, it looks like the vampire genre is getting a long overdue overhaul. This one comes our way from Hong Kong. In Juno Mak’s Rigor Mortis, a washed-up actor (self-referentially played by Chin Siu Ho, former star of Ricky Lau’s Mr. Vampire, the seminal comedic action film that shaped the Chinese genre in 80s) […]
Oliver Stone is no stranger to making movies about things that just happened: W, his George W. Bush biopic, dropped months before the man left office, and he released a film about 9/11 in 2006. So it’s no surprise that the director’s latest project is an adaptation of The Snowden Files, Luke Harding’s recently released book about NSA leaker […]
Even if you lived in New York while Louis Hardin aka Moondog was stationed on the corner of 6th Avenue and 54th Street, you might pass off the story as a typical eccentric tale of the city. But Moondog who busked and sold poetry dressed in Viking garb for 30 years, was much more than that. […]
Above, watch outtakes from Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton, a new documentary about the legendary underground hip hop label Stones Throw. Kanye West is interviewed and waxes about the influence of the late J Dilla and Stones Throw figurehead Madlib. On Dilla: We gotta make music and we think, ‘If Dilla was alive, would he like this?’ I […]
BAM is hosting a Spike Lee retrospective this month that will feature the filmmaker and gentrification-hater‘s NYU master’s thesis alongside his better-known work. It’s called Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads, and it was assistant directed by the auteur’s classmate Ang Lee. Here’s the plot synopsis, via BAM: Lee’s Student Academy Award-winning NYU thesis film displays the brash stylistic […]
It’s like the opposite of the “Nicolas Cage losing his shit” supercut: above, watch a 20-minute edit of every single time our generation’s most beguiling actor has laughed on-screen, from Best of Times (1981) to Rage (2014). Enormous kudos if you get through the entire thing. […]
New York artist Scott Cummings has nearly completed a 30 minute experimental film starring the Juggalo community of Buffalo, NY, and is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter. BUFFALO JUGGALOS is not a documentary, but a collaboration between Cummings and the people he met over his six months “embedded” in the Juggalo community. The artist explains […]
Jack Chick’s Evangelist mini-comics known as “Chick Tracts” have sold more than 750 million copies to “soul-winners” preaching the most ludicrously rendered bites of the Gospel, world wide. One of them has been a cult favorite in the gaming and RPG community — one warning of the demonic dangers of RPG. It is called Dark Dungeons and it […]
If you think 3D is for superheroes and the mass destruction of cities, Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language is proving that 3D is for whatever Jean-Luc Godard wants — like completely disorienting the audience by making them go cross-eyed. The 83-year-old filmmaker’s latest is blowing critics away, bringing more innovation and spit-in-your-eye punk attitude to […]
