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Found and Restored: Search and Destroy Reevaluated

Stephen Lee Naish

I've been watching Dennis Hopper's more obscure and straight-to-DVD movies now for a number of few years; all in the name of 'research' you understand. I've seen some real clunkers (Space Truckers, Tycus) but I've also discovered some incredible work … [Read more...]

The Unforgivable Sin of Joss Whedon

Sam Guthrie

The Unforgiveable Sin of Joss Whedon

Avengers: Age of Ultron is upon us, and that means the odds have gone up considerably of me having to confront The Whedon Problem with my more sophisticated, artsy friends. First you have to understand that my friends and I spend way too much time … [Read more...]

The Great Consciousness of Life

Paul Maher Jr.

grass

Reaching in, pulling out. The great divide is conquered; and there lies an ever-evolving mission to extract meaning from chaos. This, then, is where it resides, the theater of the soul and the heart. In rewriting my biography of Jack Kerouac, I found … [Read more...]

Dennis Hopper as Daniel Morgan in Mad Dog Morgan

Stephen Lee Naish

Dennis Hopper as Daniel Morgan

The film Easy Rider (1969) made its director and star Dennis Hopper, and the film's producer and co-star Peter Fonda, counter-cultural icons of the late 1960s. The film's minuscule budget, roaring box office success, and critical acclaim paved the way for … [Read more...]

Movie Review – Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom

Richard Marcus

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

As a kid in the 1960s, I remember asking my mom why we didn't ever have Granny Smith apples in the house. She replied that she refused to buy anything from South Africa because of what the government did to its people. As the years passed and I became … [Read more...]

(Movie Review) Come Back Africa: The Films of Lionel Rogosin, Volume ll

Richard Marcus

Come Back Africa: The Films of Lionel Rogosin, Volume ll

Documentary movies always seem to get short shrift. For too many people there the things people tell them to watch at school so they will learn something. Growing up on a diet of talking heads sitting around talking about subjects you're not really … [Read more...]

Movie Review – Kill Your Darlings

David Meadows

KILL YOUR DARLINGS

Long before Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William S. Burroughs would be celebrated as the poetical and political figureheads of a 'beat generation,' there was a murder. In the new film, Kill Your Darlings, the crime scene sets itself at Columbia … [Read more...]

The Beat Spirit Within Llewyn Davis: A Film Rumination

Jared Feldschreiber

Inside Llewyn Davis poster (detail)

A film about a struggling artist could be many things: arty, pretentious, too ambitious and above all unfocused. For all its many cinematographic achievements and clever performances, the absurdity of I'm Not There (Todd Haynes, 2007) fell to the weight … [Read more...]

Film Review – Broken, starring Tim Roth & Cillian Murphy

Richard Marcus

Broken movie

There are some books you always remember for the way in which they opened your eyes to the world around you. They might have stripped away your innocence in the process, but they also reassured you that no matter how bad things could get, there were … [Read more...]

Film Review – The Last Song Before The War

Richard Marcus

Poster - The Last Song Before The War

I can't remember when I heard about the Festival au Desert, which has been taking place in Northern Mali since 2001, for the first time. I do remember it was in 2009 I was offered press credentials to cover the Festival, and regretting having to turn the … [Read more...]

Beat Generation film – “Kill Your Darlings” trailer released!

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KILL YOUR DARLINGS

Kill Your Darlings dramatizes an actual event that took place in 1944, as the writers who would later be identified with the Beat Generation became embroiled in a murder that made headlines. While attending Columbia University, Allen Ginsberg became … [Read more...]

Book Review – Erik Verhaar’s Andalusian Dogging

Denise Enck

Andalusian Dogging by Erik Verhaar

Andalusian Dogging by Erik Verhaar, translated by Jonathan Ellis / The Reception Game / 2013 / 17 pages In Erik Verhaar's short story, inspired by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali's 1929 film An Andalusian Dog (Un Chien Andalou), the film itself becomes a … [Read more...]

Love That Loves Us: The Two Loves of To the Wonder

Paul Maher Jr.

To the Wonder

note: Here there be spoilers By now it is cliche to label a Terrence Malick film a "visual poem," but in the case of To The Wonder, that is what it is. Malick's cinematic eye defers to poetry more strongly than that of cinema and though I'm certain … [Read more...]

Film Review – Searching for Sugar Man

Daniel Young

Searching for Sugar Man review

Searching For Sugarman (2012) 4 stars A documentary about the mysterious Rodriguez, the singer/songwriter who released the album Cold Fact in 1970. Directed by Swedish-British filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul, this is a well told underdog story that left … [Read more...]

Paintings: Kristen Stewart as Marylou Moriarty in On the Road

Thom Priemon

On the Road with Kristen Stewart by Thom Priemon

T.E. Priemon - Encaustic Artist Artist's Statement I am an artist who paints using a 2000-year-old painting medium used in the way the Fayum Egyptian artist used their encaustic paints for portraits, which have survived in much the same way as they were … [Read more...]

Terrence Malick, Badlands and Caril Fugate: An Interview

Paul Maher Jr.

caril ann fugate

Photos courtesy of Jeff McArthur (All Rights Reserved) Jeff McArthur is the author of Pro Bono: The 18-Year Defense of Caril Fugate. Mr. McArthur’s grandfather, John C. McArthur, defended Caril Fugate in her trial for her part in the Starkweather … [Read more...]

Jack Kerouac – “Big Sur” Movie Trailer

Denise Enck

Big Sur film - Kerouac

The film, Big Sur, based upon Jack Kerouac's novel of the same name, released nationwide on November 1, 2013. Directed by Michael Polish, who also wrote the screenplay, it stars Jean-Marc Barr as Jack Kerouac. Other cast are: Stana Katic as Lenore; … [Read more...]

How Dennis Hopper Conquered the American Century

Stephen Lee Naish

dennis hopper - cannes

Dennis Hopper’s extensive filmography is filled with an array of painfully bad films. His early career saw him appear in any number of B-Movies and exploitation flicks; his late eighties/early nineties excursion into mainstream blockbusters such as Super … [Read more...]

The Official Kerouac “On the Road” Movie Trailer is Here!

Denise Enck

On the Road movie poster

"On the Road," the movie based on Jack Kerouac's novel of the same name, will be released in the United States on December 21, 2012. Produced by Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope, it's directed by Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) and stars Sam … [Read more...]

The Biggest Mystery in Hollywood History

Gary Sanders

Hollywood Mystery

"An author should have no other biography than his books." “The biography of a creative man is completely unimportant.”  - B. Traven Warner Brothers bought the novel THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE in 1941 with John Huston in mind as director. When … [Read more...]

Down by Law: The Loneliness of Jim Jarmusch

Siddharth Pillai

Down by Law - Jim Jarmusch

Not that it would make any difference. But if only for the sake of morale, you are willing to admit that it's a welcome shade of orange that breaks east at the horizon of what has been a roughandtumble one hell of fucked up night. A dull weariness works … [Read more...]

(Revisiting) Mondo Hollywood: A Film and Event

Hammond Guthrie

Mondo Hollywood

At midnight on June 10, 2006, in a special event for the Moondance Film Festival, The Chaplin Theater (5300 Melrose Ave) in Los Angeles will be presenting the digitally-enhanced Director's cut of Mondo Hollywood. Written, produced, directed and edited … [Read more...]

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