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- Sex and the Single Cinema
NOTE: The youtube links in this article are NSFW.
Whereas porn and the sex industry has entered into the globalized mainstream consciousness, American cinema is still woefully inept at exploring it. Granted movies like Boogie Nights and Sex, Lies and Videotape did do a fairly excellent job of exploring the rough edges, there really [...]
- Khanate, Biking, and Michael Mann
So I guess it wasn’t the best thing to try and fall asleep last night to Manhunter. I mean its a pretty awesome movie in context even for its soundtrack and pretty goddamned hypnotic in pacing. I did fall asleep a couple of times which was my intention. I woke up to [...]
- Richard Serra - Boomerang (1974)
One of the highlights for me at least last night of John Satrom’s selections was Richard Serra’s piece from 1974 entitled Boomerang.
A woman on what presumably on a TV soundstage speaks freely with a pair of isolating headphones battles a two or three second tape delay. Her confusion in reaction to the constant meddling and [...]
- Glitch: Creative Problem Solving
Conversations at the Edge
Organized by the Department of Film, Video, and New Media at SAIC in association with the Video Data Bank and the Gene Siskel Film Center, Conversations at the Edge is a weekly screening series dedicated to showcasing some of the most exciting work being produced in media today.
September 18, 6pm
Curator Jon Satrom in person!
GLITCH: [...]
- My own pocket Roger Ebert…
I was one of the many who looked at the bald-headed stepchild that was facebook and scowled a hearty emo scowl. Lately, I’ve been getting more and more into it simply because after looking at the clunkiness that is Myspace’s interface, its like staring out at calm waters versus a lake full of neon vomit.
One [...]
- In regards to your monthly subscription to Highlights…
I’ve fired back up the Netflix locomotive once again. I hit the brick wall when my Handbrake got more love than my actual dvd player. The backlog was killing me and my pocketbook.
But I’m back in the queue again and just got the delivery of Kurosawa’s (the modern one) Charisma which I still [...]
- “Drinking in a hospital is not ok…”
SAIC alumnus, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, director of Mysterious Object at Noon and Tropical Malady, is reportedly in a showdown with the Thai government over his latest film, Syndromes of a Century.  Apparently after submitting it to the Thai censorship board, they’ve held it hostage until four cuts to the film are made.
 From Variety:
“Controversial scenes in the movie [...]
- The Altamont Incident
At about 4 or 5 am this morning, I woke up to a really weird whine from motorcycles buzzing on I-55. It sounded particularly violent and strange, but I eventually got back to sleep. I didn’t realize how prophetic is was until I actually rose later on.
At about 7am I got out of bed and [...]
