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Manufactured Consent
Manufactured Consent By Hugh Lilly Matthew Barney is an American sculptor, photographer and filmmaker whose most prominent work, The Cremaster Cycle, has been variously described as “one of the most imaginative and brilliant achievements in the history of avant-garde cinema” and, at perhaps the opposite end of the appreciation spectrum, “[a] humongous riff on struggle, … Continue reading
I guess at least this means someone’s reading my reviews
From: Gringo Stevens <senorita66@live.co.uk> To: <film@craccum.co.nz> Subject: This year it’s Enter the Void Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 09:39:50 +0000 Last year it was Synecdoche, New York. I imagine you were an Antichrist fan, too, Hugh Lilly, because your bad taste knows no bounds. Go back to mashing F5 on slantmagazine.com so you can steal … Continue reading
Ways of Seeing
Part one of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, the 1972 BBC documentary based on Berger’s book of the same name:
Painting with Words
On YouTube in four parts, “Painting with Words,” a great little documentary about the writer and historian David McCullough.
R.I.P. Chatroulette, 2009-2010
In the interest of journalistic integrity, I went on Chatroulette this morning to verify its obsolescence. Time it took for someone to show me his unit: 10 seconds. I clicked the “next” button. There, in extreme close-up, was a penis. I clicked “next” again. And there was no one there at all. Just vast, empty … Continue reading
Bjork v. Abramović
Marina Abramović: Why do u think my husband divorced me? Bjork: I dunno. U look kinda bitchy? Marina Abramović: What do u mean? I looked rugged and real. Bjork: I am just not sure I’d want to sit across from you for every meal. Marina Abramović: But I look so real. Bjork: I mean, it … Continue reading
Cinephilia: “uncanny juxtaposition”?
At its core, cinephilia is the divining of obvious logic from the contradictions of cinema as a whole. It is in cinephilic observation (versus critical observation) that mise-en-abyme manifests itself, because these recursions and similarities do not serve obvious critical functions, though they are often a window into an idea from which a critical meaning … Continue reading
Here Lies Love
David Byrne & Fatboy Slim—Here Lies Love Nonesuch Reviewed by Hugh Lilly Former Talking Heads front man David Byrne is a master collaborator: his work with Brian Eno—most recently 2008’s Everything That Happens Will Happen Today—has been continually inventive, and “Knotty Pine,” his contribution (with Dirty Projectors) to last year’s Red Hot aids-awareness compilation, Dark … Continue reading
Hari Kunzru’s bookshelf
(click to embiggen) @harikunzru‘s bookshelf. (well, at least it’s his twitter background, so I assume it’s his bookshelf.)
Coffee & paper
A Zen master advises his student: “When drinking coffee, just drink coffee.” The next morning, the student finds the master drinking coffee and reading the paper. Surprised, he inquires. The roshi says: “When drinking coffee and reading the paper, just drink coffee and read the paper.” from the comments on “Seek to seek” @ HTMLGIANT
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