Allen

Aug 1

Sex

Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman.

Love
Even as a kid I always went for the wrong women, when we went to see Snow White, everyone fell in love with Snow White, I immediately fell for the wicked queen.

Death
It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

God
If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans.
A new Woody Allen film has arrived, titled, “Vicky Christina Barcelona”

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

Jul 15

The band behind the album The Good The Bad And The Queen officially doesn’t have a name at all. The band members’ names however are known with certainty - Damon Albarn (vocals, keyboards, guitars), Simon Tong (lead guitar), Paul Simonon (bass) and Tony Allen (drums). Four musicians from diverse musical backgrounds, all with impressive CVs as part of bands and projects that have sold millions of records each, and attracted the highest levels of critical acclaim. One might be tempted to call them a supergroup, if it were not for the fact that every member determinedly eschews the traditional band mentality. The fact is that they have all been there and done that - and how. This time it’s all about the album, the perfomance and the songs.
Enjoy it here…

THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN

Jul 5

When the Clash was labeled “The Only Band That Matters,” it may have been record company hype, but when I was a teenager, there was probably no band that mattered more to me. The idealism, the earnest anger, the democratic, sometimes clumsy way of mixing styles and sounds — I am almost as susceptible to it now as I was at 15. This is all by way of disclosure: It’s likely that I would have been stirred and moved by “Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten,” even if it were the straightforward, VH1-ready rock star biography it might, at first, appear to be. The film, however, is much more than a biography of the Clash’s guitarist and lead singer: It’s history, criticism, philosophy and politics, played fast and loud.

Cocalero

Nov 8

What first drew me to the story was the historical
significance of Evo’s unlikely bid to become the first
indigenous president of a country that more than 500 years
after the arrival of Christopher Columbus continues to live
in a de facto Apartheid. Evo’s story mirrors the
complexities of his country and its place in the world. With
a population of only nine million, but home to vast coca
fields and colossal natural gas reserves, Bolivia seemed a
sort of regional battleground.

Helvetica

Sep 25



Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type.

HELVETICA FILM
EXHIBITION

About the Exhibition

BERGMAN

Jul 31

Ingmar Bergman, the “poet with the camera” who is considered one of the greatest directors in motion picture history, died on the small island of Faro where he lived on the Baltic coast of Sweden, Astrid Soderbergh Widding, president of The Ingmar Bergman Foundation, said. Bergman was 89.
Critics called Mr. Bergman one of the directors — the others being Federico Fellini and Akira Kurosawa — who dominated the world of serious film making in the second half of the 20th century.

He moved from the comic romp of lovers in “Smiles of a Summer Night” to the Crusader’s search for God in “The Seventh Seal,” and from the gripping portrayal of fatal illness in “Cries and Whispers” to the alternately humorous and horrifying depiction of family life in “Fanny and Alexander.”

Mr. Bergman dealt with pain and torment, desire and religion, evil and love; in Mr. Bergman’s films, “this world is a place where faith is tenuous; communication, elusive; and self-knowledge, illusory,” Michiko Kakutani wrote in The New York Times Magazine in a profile of the director. God is either silent or malevolent; men and women are creatures and prisoners of their desires.

Roberto Fontanarrosa

Jul 31

Born in 1944, Fontanarrosa kicked off his career as part of a generation of satirical cartoonist that came of age in the 1970s. He is primarily known for two characters that became best-selling series anchors: Inodoro Pereyra and Boogie, el aceitoso. Fontanarrosa was widely prolific, working in a number of magazines, publishing collections of gag work, becoming a well known novelist and short-story writer particularly of football (soccer) stories, and even, as Baeza mentions, putting together the occasional stand-alone projects such as an anthology of shorts in different styles called Continuara, books that might have served as the entirety of other cartoonists’ careers.

In his final months, Fontanarrosa suffered from a debilitating disease that in January of this year forced him to give up drawing. He continued to write for his ongoing features. Roberto Fontanarrosa was 62 years old.

Babylon Circus

Jul 4

The French group make leftist politics fun and funky, in the spirit of Mano Negra and Les Negresses Vertes. Drawing on everything from chanson to reggae to punk, the group’s musicians have worked together for more than a decade, toured the world, performed 700 shows in 15 countries. This is a celebration of their mixture of traditional Folk from Eastern Europe, a neo-realistic sounds of their French origins with urban reggae, Ska, Jazz, Dub & Punkrock. This explosive mixture created enormous power on stage, sweeping any audience off their feet with a unique sonic experience. But there’s more to a good circus than just music. With Clownery, pantomime and funny extemporization, Babylon Circus satisfy your every sense to make their performance an almost magic experience.

ALAN BERLINER

May 29

Alan Berliner:Wide Awake is the fifth film in a series of films I’ve made that explore family relationships, family dynamics, memory, personal history, and identity issues, all using my own life as a kind of living laboratory. In this film I explore my lifelong struggle with sleep - or to be more precise, the lack of it.

KEEPINTIME

May 29

“Rhythm, the drum, is the most immediate thing.

If I was to put a great drum track on now, you would respond to it, no matter what.”


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