The devil and his minions crop up in a rash of new horror films, from Deliver Us and Immaculate to reboots of The Exorcist and The Omen. What does this tell us about our current anxieties?
Let’s hear it for the diabolically entertaining Late Night With the Devil, the latest example of the Ghostwatch school of things going horribly wrong on live TV. It’s a stunning exercise in sweaty desperation from the always brilliant David Dastmalchian, as a 1970s chatshow host whose ratings grab goes south when he makes the mistake of inviting a demonically possessed cult survivor on to his show. And hello there, long time no see, to Pazuzu (or is it Lamashtu? The jury’s still out), popping up again in The Exorcist: Believer, which tries to get one over on its ancestor The Exorcist by offering two possessed schoolgirls for the price of one – though,...
Let’s hear it for the diabolically entertaining Late Night With the Devil, the latest example of the Ghostwatch school of things going horribly wrong on live TV. It’s a stunning exercise in sweaty desperation from the always brilliant David Dastmalchian, as a 1970s chatshow host whose ratings grab goes south when he makes the mistake of inviting a demonically possessed cult survivor on to his show. And hello there, long time no see, to Pazuzu (or is it Lamashtu? The jury’s still out), popping up again in The Exorcist: Believer, which tries to get one over on its ancestor The Exorcist by offering two possessed schoolgirls for the price of one – though,...
- 4/5/2024
- by Anne Billson
- The Guardian - Film News
As December begins, you might be looking forward to spending time with friends and family over the holidays—and in need of some gift-giving inspiration. Look no further than Notebook's Cinephile Gift Guide, the proverbial online Shop Around the Corner (1940).Below is our third annual, lovingly curated guide to the holiday season. It's sure to spread film-themed cheer, and we hope it's thorough enough to surprise all of the film fans in your life.Jump to a category:Books about cinemaBooks by filmmakers and artistsHome videoMusicHome goods, posters, and gamesApparel Books About CINEMAFirst up is UK culture and music critic Ian Penman’s kaleidoscopic, genre-bending offering to Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors. The book has drawn comparisons to Charles Baudelaire and Roland Barthes, but is undoubtedly a sui generis response to a singular legacy.On offer this year from Another Gaze Editions is My Cinema by Marguerite Duras, a...
- 12/12/2023
- MUBI
Les Films du Losange will also kick off sales on Nicolas Philibert’s ’On the Adamant’ and Patric Chiha’s ’The Beast In The Jungle’ at the Rendez-Vous in Paris.
Screen can reveal the first English-language trailer for Benoit Jacquot’s By Heart (Par Coeurs) that will market premiere at Unifrance’s upcoming January Rendez-Vous in Paris.
The documentary follows Isabelle Huppert and Fabrice Luchini learning their lines as they prepare to take the stage at the 2021 famous Festival d’Avignon theatre festival in Southern France. Jacquot’s camera follows them behind-the-scenes, in rehearsals and during their performances as they...
Screen can reveal the first English-language trailer for Benoit Jacquot’s By Heart (Par Coeurs) that will market premiere at Unifrance’s upcoming January Rendez-Vous in Paris.
The documentary follows Isabelle Huppert and Fabrice Luchini learning their lines as they prepare to take the stage at the 2021 famous Festival d’Avignon theatre festival in Southern France. Jacquot’s camera follows them behind-the-scenes, in rehearsals and during their performances as they...
- 1/5/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Warning: major spoilers below for the season finale of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power."
"The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" has a lot going for it, but if any aspect of the series has baffled me, it's its sense of pace. The show's many plotlines seem to gain incredible momentum, only to let it dissipate unexpectedly before ramping up again later. It's kept its connections to J.R.R. Tolkien's text pretty ambiguous, until the moments it suddenly reveals hugely important references to its roots. But the show's first season finale pretty deftly side-stepped the poor pacing allegations by delivering a satisfying, surprising, and heartfelt conclusion that revealed the secret identities of two of its major characters.
According to showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay and Halbrand actor Charlie Vickers, the Sauron reveal was always going to come at the end of the season.
"The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" has a lot going for it, but if any aspect of the series has baffled me, it's its sense of pace. The show's many plotlines seem to gain incredible momentum, only to let it dissipate unexpectedly before ramping up again later. It's kept its connections to J.R.R. Tolkien's text pretty ambiguous, until the moments it suddenly reveals hugely important references to its roots. But the show's first season finale pretty deftly side-stepped the poor pacing allegations by delivering a satisfying, surprising, and heartfelt conclusion that revealed the secret identities of two of its major characters.
According to showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay and Halbrand actor Charlie Vickers, the Sauron reveal was always going to come at the end of the season.
- 10/14/2022
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Luisa (Lou Strenger) and Chrissimo (Christoph Bertram) get distracted by the wildflowers on their way to his parents, Ferhat (Ferhat Kaleli) and Peter (Peter Brachschoss) in Florian Schmitz’ smartly edited Le Pré Du Mal
Florian Schmitz’s Le Pré Du Mal, along with Alison Kuhn's Fluffy Tales, Jonatan Schwenk’s Zoon (co-written with Merlin Flügel), Luis Schubert’s Blind Spots, Kilian Armando Friedrich’s Edgy, Lina Drevs’s Sis - Best Sister, Felix Länge’s Why We Juggle, Laurenz Otto’s Against All Odds (Allen Zweifeln Zum Trotz), and Jakob Werner’s How Such An Annoying Drizzle Can Be Silent (Wie Ein So Lästiger Regen Schweigen Kann) is in the Next Generation Short Tiger program screening at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Florian Schmitz with Anne-Katrin Titze: “I have different influences I would say. The basis for me - I know it sounds like a cliché, but Truffaut is always a big inspiration.
Florian Schmitz’s Le Pré Du Mal, along with Alison Kuhn's Fluffy Tales, Jonatan Schwenk’s Zoon (co-written with Merlin Flügel), Luis Schubert’s Blind Spots, Kilian Armando Friedrich’s Edgy, Lina Drevs’s Sis - Best Sister, Felix Länge’s Why We Juggle, Laurenz Otto’s Against All Odds (Allen Zweifeln Zum Trotz), and Jakob Werner’s How Such An Annoying Drizzle Can Be Silent (Wie Ein So Lästiger Regen Schweigen Kann) is in the Next Generation Short Tiger program screening at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Florian Schmitz with Anne-Katrin Titze: “I have different influences I would say. The basis for me - I know it sounds like a cliché, but Truffaut is always a big inspiration.
- 5/24/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
For years, I’ve been longing for someone to make a documentary about the Velvet Underground. They are, along with the Beatles and the Stones, one of the three seminal groups in the history of rock ‘n’ roll. So surely they deserve to be captured and memorialized in a film that does them justice.
There’s a reason we’ve never seen that film. Every time I’ve raised the subject with those in the know, the explanation comes down to: “There’s no footage.” What they mean is: There are random bits of footage, and plenty of photographs, but if you want to see the Velvets in their prime performing “What Goes On” or “White Light/White Heat” in a steamy rock club, or get a taste of what it was like to see the Exploding Plastic Inevitable at the Dom in New York City in 1966, or to see...
There’s a reason we’ve never seen that film. Every time I’ve raised the subject with those in the know, the explanation comes down to: “There’s no footage.” What they mean is: There are random bits of footage, and plenty of photographs, but if you want to see the Velvets in their prime performing “What Goes On” or “White Light/White Heat” in a steamy rock club, or get a taste of what it was like to see the Exploding Plastic Inevitable at the Dom in New York City in 1966, or to see...
- 7/7/2021
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation director Lisa Immordino Vreeland on Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams: “He was always a mise-en-scène of himself, while Tennessee was just there.” Photo: courtesy of Getty Images
In Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s universal and revealing Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation, Truman Capote notes that Toulouse-Lautrec, Oscar Wilde, Carl Van Vechten, Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, and Cole Porter would have loved Studio 54, and Tennessee Williams states “I think the most moving writer to me that ever lived was Chekhov.” The director of Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel, Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, and Love, Cecil on Cecil Beaton captures the spirit of strong individuals of the 20th century like no other documentarian.
Lisa Immordino Vreeland with Anne-Katrin Titze on Dick Cavett and David Frost: “We had Truman first and when we added Tennessee in the mix, we saw that we had another great interview.
In Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s universal and revealing Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation, Truman Capote notes that Toulouse-Lautrec, Oscar Wilde, Carl Van Vechten, Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, and Cole Porter would have loved Studio 54, and Tennessee Williams states “I think the most moving writer to me that ever lived was Chekhov.” The director of Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel, Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, and Love, Cecil on Cecil Beaton captures the spirit of strong individuals of the 20th century like no other documentarian.
Lisa Immordino Vreeland with Anne-Katrin Titze on Dick Cavett and David Frost: “We had Truman first and when we added Tennessee in the mix, we saw that we had another great interview.
- 6/12/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Lucifer has successfully pulled off yet another reprieve from hellish cancelation with Netflix’s official renewal for Season 6.
Indeed, to paraphrase a quote attributed to Charles Baudelaire famously used in The Usual Suspects, “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world that his show got canceled.” In this case, Lucifer’s procurement of a sixth season occurs after a year’s worth of bittersweet advance goodbyes by way of social media in the lead-up to Season 5, which was officially designated as the show’s final season. Now, the title of Lucifer’s purported final season has been handed down to the freshly-ordered Season 6, as Netflix reveals in a teaser video.
the devil made us do it.
Indeed, to paraphrase a quote attributed to Charles Baudelaire famously used in The Usual Suspects, “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world that his show got canceled.” In this case, Lucifer’s procurement of a sixth season occurs after a year’s worth of bittersweet advance goodbyes by way of social media in the lead-up to Season 5, which was officially designated as the show’s final season. Now, the title of Lucifer’s purported final season has been handed down to the freshly-ordered Season 6, as Netflix reveals in a teaser video.
the devil made us do it.
- 6/23/2020
- by Joseph Baxter
- Den of Geek
Jazz, Parisian dreams and menacing realities abound in the sophisticated series created by Jack Thorne and partly directed by Damien Chazelle, due for worldwide release on Netflix on 8 May. "Beauty doesn’t last, beautiful things are fragile, and they tend towards death, somehow". We’re in modern-day Paris and a teacher is delivering a lesson on Charles Baudelaire before his high-school students move on to a maths session where the solution to a problem consists of “grouping the same elements together”. Echoing his two references, the jazz improvisations which are at the heart of the series The Eddy are themselves born out of an evanescent type of poetry of the present moment and a demanding and collective form of precision engineering. Set to be launched worldwide by Netflix on 8 May, the series’ first two episodes are helmed by French-American director Damien Chazelle, whose cinematographic talent and musical addiction have been.
There was no chance that Greta Gerwig was not going to direct “Little Women.”
She was originally hired to write the screenplay, but then insisted on directing, too. “I told them no one else could direct it; I must direct it,” Gerwig recalls on Thursday’s episode of “The Big Ticket,” Variety and iHeart’s movie podcast. “They were like, ‘Alright. Well, you’ve never directed anything or … you’ve never solo directed anything.”
This happened before Gerwig’s solo directorial debut, “Lady Bird,” was released, but Sony was willing to take the chance. “I was hell bent on it,” Gerwig said. “It’s funny because I have never quite gone after something like that. I felt the confidence I had was, in some ways, the confidence of the character Jo and Louisa May Alcott as Jo. Then similarly when Saoirse [Ronan] heard I was thinking about making the movie, she...
She was originally hired to write the screenplay, but then insisted on directing, too. “I told them no one else could direct it; I must direct it,” Gerwig recalls on Thursday’s episode of “The Big Ticket,” Variety and iHeart’s movie podcast. “They were like, ‘Alright. Well, you’ve never directed anything or … you’ve never solo directed anything.”
This happened before Gerwig’s solo directorial debut, “Lady Bird,” was released, but Sony was willing to take the chance. “I was hell bent on it,” Gerwig said. “It’s funny because I have never quite gone after something like that. I felt the confidence I had was, in some ways, the confidence of the character Jo and Louisa May Alcott as Jo. Then similarly when Saoirse [Ronan] heard I was thinking about making the movie, she...
- 12/26/2019
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Director Noboru Iguchi best known for his over the top, practical effect showcases such as “Slaveman“, “Ghost Squad” and “The Machine Girl”, has completed production on his most recent feature “Flowers of Evil”. The production is an adaptation of the manga of the same title by Shuzo Oshimi. The twisted coming of age tale was previously adapted into an anime in 2013.
“Flowers of Evil” is set to release on September 27th, 2019 in Japan. A trailer for the production has been made available and can be viewed below.
Synopsis
Bookworm Takao falls in love with Nanako, but he cannot express his feelings through words. Instead he secretively acts out in a heat of passion which creates a huge scandal in his school. There is one person who knows his true nature, and this girl will do anything to nurture what this Charles Baudelaire hides. (AnimeNewsNetwork)...
“Flowers of Evil” is set to release on September 27th, 2019 in Japan. A trailer for the production has been made available and can be viewed below.
Synopsis
Bookworm Takao falls in love with Nanako, but he cannot express his feelings through words. Instead he secretively acts out in a heat of passion which creates a huge scandal in his school. There is one person who knows his true nature, and this girl will do anything to nurture what this Charles Baudelaire hides. (AnimeNewsNetwork)...
- 8/4/2019
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
André Leon Talley’s contributions to fashion are well known inside the hallowed halls of Vogue, but his exuberant personality and colorful style have made him a cultural figure in his own right. Cinephiles first became aware of the former Vogue editor-at-large when he stole scenes in 2009’s “The September Issue.” An omnipresent figure in shades at Anna Wintour’s side, Talley’s tossed off witticisms lightened the mood as he lamented a “famine of beauty.” Last year, Talley got his own dedicated silver-screen treatment in Kate Novack’s excellent documentary, “The Gospel According to André.”
Distributed by Magnolia Pictures to largely positive reviews, the “Gospel” fills in the gaps of how this fashion icon came to be; from his humble beginnings in the Jim Crow era South, to his Brown undergraduate thesis on Charles Baudelaire, to his early runway reporting in 1970s Paris and his tenure at Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine.
Distributed by Magnolia Pictures to largely positive reviews, the “Gospel” fills in the gaps of how this fashion icon came to be; from his humble beginnings in the Jim Crow era South, to his Brown undergraduate thesis on Charles Baudelaire, to his early runway reporting in 1970s Paris and his tenure at Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine.
- 5/9/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
The major thing that “Mapplethorpe” has in its favor is that the film is afraid of neither the life nor the work of the notorious photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
Documentary director Ondi Timoner (“We Live in Public”), making her narrative debut, has ensured that this movie acknowledges the many hard edges and unattractive qualities of this man while also celebrating and not looking away from his most explicit and scariest photographs, many of which rather surprisingly appear on screen.
Most mainstream films are afraid of showing the male penis, or anything having to do with sadomasochism, but Timoner’s attitude here seems to be, “Bring it on!” Timoner’s gutsiness is shared (and then some) by her star Matt Smith, a British actor who very convincingly played another gay male icon, writer Christopher Isherwood, in a TV movie of Isherwood’s memoir “Christopher and His Kind” in 2011.
Also Read: 'Mapplethorpe,...
Documentary director Ondi Timoner (“We Live in Public”), making her narrative debut, has ensured that this movie acknowledges the many hard edges and unattractive qualities of this man while also celebrating and not looking away from his most explicit and scariest photographs, many of which rather surprisingly appear on screen.
Most mainstream films are afraid of showing the male penis, or anything having to do with sadomasochism, but Timoner’s attitude here seems to be, “Bring it on!” Timoner’s gutsiness is shared (and then some) by her star Matt Smith, a British actor who very convincingly played another gay male icon, writer Christopher Isherwood, in a TV movie of Isherwood’s memoir “Christopher and His Kind” in 2011.
Also Read: 'Mapplethorpe,...
- 2/27/2019
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
What do you do with the quirky minor failures of a major creator?
Well, you can ignore them, and that’s what happens most of the time. You can also try to spiff them up a bit, and get them walking two by two, in hopes that they’ll look more impressive in company. If the creator is major enough and his backlist extensive enough, you might find yourself doing that.
In this case, you did — if “you” are DC Comics and “the creator” is writer and self-proclaimed chaos magician Grant Morrison. And you probably made a bit of money out of it, which is the whole point of the exercise.
But these are still quirky minor failures, even twenty-five years later, and perhaps at this remove even more clearly show Morrison’s characteristic failure modes: a reliance on high concepts even when they don’t make narrative sense, a...
Well, you can ignore them, and that’s what happens most of the time. You can also try to spiff them up a bit, and get them walking two by two, in hopes that they’ll look more impressive in company. If the creator is major enough and his backlist extensive enough, you might find yourself doing that.
In this case, you did — if “you” are DC Comics and “the creator” is writer and self-proclaimed chaos magician Grant Morrison. And you probably made a bit of money out of it, which is the whole point of the exercise.
But these are still quirky minor failures, even twenty-five years later, and perhaps at this remove even more clearly show Morrison’s characteristic failure modes: a reliance on high concepts even when they don’t make narrative sense, a...
- 10/6/2018
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
Each week you and I meet here in this virtual space to talk about Fargo, to compare notes and (sometimes) even find amusement in my struggles to make funny -- we've all got our hobbies -- but before we get rolling, I want to acknowledge that this might be the smartest episode of television I've ever watched. Did I hook you? Well, it's true. Creator Noah Hawley and writer Robert De Laurentiis have pulled together all the little threads and bits of nothing from this too-short season of Fargo to remind us that they're pretty good at this TV show-making thing. They still have a few hole cards left to turn over next week, but this next-to-last episode is a master class in character, plot, and mood.
We open on a quiet Minnesota residential street threatening to escape winter, the trees still flocked with snow. A man in a robe...
We open on a quiet Minnesota residential street threatening to escape winter, the trees still flocked with snow. A man in a robe...
- 6/15/2017
- by David Kozlowski
- LRMonline.com
Edgar Allen Poe: Buried Alive screens Thursday March 9th at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). The movie starts at 7:30. Director Eric Stange, a visiting fellow with the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, will answer questions following the screening. This is a Free event!
Far more than a biography, Edgar Allen Poe: Buried Alive employs a variety of tools to create a narrative that is both visually stunning and deeply engaging. Drawn on the rich palette of Poe’s evocative imagery and sharply drawn plots to help bring new understanding to his life, his place in American art and history, and the iconic position he holds in popular culture around the world. This film has received a production grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and will be broadcast on the acclaimed PBS arts and culture series American Masters.
Tony-award-winning actor Denis O’Hare portrays...
Far more than a biography, Edgar Allen Poe: Buried Alive employs a variety of tools to create a narrative that is both visually stunning and deeply engaging. Drawn on the rich palette of Poe’s evocative imagery and sharply drawn plots to help bring new understanding to his life, his place in American art and history, and the iconic position he holds in popular culture around the world. This film has received a production grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and will be broadcast on the acclaimed PBS arts and culture series American Masters.
Tony-award-winning actor Denis O’Hare portrays...
- 3/6/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
It’s an odd world, and that’s a beautiful thing. Through centuries of normality come significant figures of oddness: Van Gogh, Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire. All are artists and innovators who still inspire us to this day. What made them so brilliant? The truth is, they were all a little cuckoo.
Alas, there’s a new guy in town. His name is Wit Oddoski, and he’s the creator of flavours so unbelievable your tastebuds will probably abandon your mouth if you try them. His invention is the mind-bending, tongue-waltzing Oddka: bottles of marvellous and wonderful flavours you need to experience to believe.
Ever wondered what Electricity tastes like? What about Fresh Cut Grass? Step away from that lawn mower and take your tongue from that live socket: Oddka mischievously brings these unknown flavours to your senses. On top of these delights there’s also Peach Bellini, Twisted Melon...
Alas, there’s a new guy in town. His name is Wit Oddoski, and he’s the creator of flavours so unbelievable your tastebuds will probably abandon your mouth if you try them. His invention is the mind-bending, tongue-waltzing Oddka: bottles of marvellous and wonderful flavours you need to experience to believe.
Ever wondered what Electricity tastes like? What about Fresh Cut Grass? Step away from that lawn mower and take your tongue from that live socket: Oddka mischievously brings these unknown flavours to your senses. On top of these delights there’s also Peach Bellini, Twisted Melon...
- 9/29/2014
- by Nina Cresswell
- Obsessed with Film
WWE.com
“Hardcore isn’t about blood, barbed wire and tables. It was always and will always be about a competitor giving everything they have physically, mentally and emotionally in their match”.
– Tommy Dreamer
According to the 19th Century French poet Charles Baudelaire, everything is worthy of art. Logically, this includes the scripted sport of professional wrestling, as well as its deranged (and quite possibly inbred) cousin, hardcore wrestling.
For some bizarre reason, it is still fashionable within wrestling circles to criticize hardcore wrestling. To these doubters, hardcore was wrestling without science, wrestling without substance and, worst of all, it was wrestling without skill.
Today, no matter how many hardcore wrestlers become World Champions, no matter how many hardcore wrestlers get inducted into halls of fame and no matter how many hardcore wrestlers remain big money draws long after any passing fad would have ended, the naysayers are still saying nay.
“Hardcore isn’t about blood, barbed wire and tables. It was always and will always be about a competitor giving everything they have physically, mentally and emotionally in their match”.
– Tommy Dreamer
According to the 19th Century French poet Charles Baudelaire, everything is worthy of art. Logically, this includes the scripted sport of professional wrestling, as well as its deranged (and quite possibly inbred) cousin, hardcore wrestling.
For some bizarre reason, it is still fashionable within wrestling circles to criticize hardcore wrestling. To these doubters, hardcore was wrestling without science, wrestling without substance and, worst of all, it was wrestling without skill.
Today, no matter how many hardcore wrestlers become World Champions, no matter how many hardcore wrestlers get inducted into halls of fame and no matter how many hardcore wrestlers remain big money draws long after any passing fad would have ended, the naysayers are still saying nay.
- 9/11/2014
- by Chris Quicksilver
- Obsessed with Film
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn’t exist.” –Charles Baudelaire It is something peculiar that I had noticed decades ago from the first time I screened one of my own short films and began writing film criticism: many of us as Black people spew our most harsh and bitter criticism towards Black Independent films and yet rush to see White studio films without so much as raising a question concerning the plausibility of the content (or lack thereof) nor an objection to the lack of diversity in casting and/or the continuation of stigmatizing racial tropes and stereotypes. As long as there is action, explosions and state-of-the-art CGI any...
- 7/14/2014
- by Andre Seewood
- ShadowAndAct
Rose Marcus KnowMoreGames 14 February - 19 March 2014 Rose Marcus Eli Ping/ Frances Perkins 6 March - 13 April 2014
Rose Marcus’s recent overlapping exhibitions of color photographs speak to the city’s telling and accumulated uncertainties as well as its pleasures. The first series of medium-sized photographs at KnowMoreGames, with their reflective perspectives, its glints and glimmers and facets, has as its subject the porous city and the shifting relationships between interior and exterior spaces, between public and private. Marcus points to the ambiguous hallucinatory city, the city of glass, reflective of a variety of texts.
By contrast, Marcus’s exhibition of large scale photographs at Eli Ping/Frances Perkins of people hanging out at an art opening refers to soma, the social body and the disassociated urban self.
For Marcus there is no grand narrative of Metropolis possible. The city resists easy definition and the artist work veers away from providing totalizing coherencies.
Rose Marcus’s recent overlapping exhibitions of color photographs speak to the city’s telling and accumulated uncertainties as well as its pleasures. The first series of medium-sized photographs at KnowMoreGames, with their reflective perspectives, its glints and glimmers and facets, has as its subject the porous city and the shifting relationships between interior and exterior spaces, between public and private. Marcus points to the ambiguous hallucinatory city, the city of glass, reflective of a variety of texts.
By contrast, Marcus’s exhibition of large scale photographs at Eli Ping/Frances Perkins of people hanging out at an art opening refers to soma, the social body and the disassociated urban self.
For Marcus there is no grand narrative of Metropolis possible. The city resists easy definition and the artist work veers away from providing totalizing coherencies.
- 3/25/2014
- by Dominique Nahas
- www.culturecatch.com
"Le vieux Paris s’en va!"1
—Rallying cry, late 1800s
"Old Paris is no more (the form of a city
Changes more quickly, alas! than the human heart)"
—Charles Baudelaire, “Le Cygne,” Fleurs du mal
Paris s’en va. Paris goes away. Paris disappears.
Two women lying next to each other on a bench, wake up. A hard cut to a shot of one of the women approaching a newspaper stand on a Parisian street. She scans the rack of postcards and chooses five with a picture of the Arc de Triomphe. The characters played by Bulle and Pascale Ogier in Jacques Rivette’s Le Pont du Nord (1981) could be described as that classic French type, the flâneur, “masking under multiple impressions the void” felt within and around themselves.2 In Paris s’en va (1981), these unnamed characters appear more like spirits, ghosts awoken from a centuries-long slumber by the expansive...
—Rallying cry, late 1800s
"Old Paris is no more (the form of a city
Changes more quickly, alas! than the human heart)"
—Charles Baudelaire, “Le Cygne,” Fleurs du mal
Paris s’en va. Paris goes away. Paris disappears.
Two women lying next to each other on a bench, wake up. A hard cut to a shot of one of the women approaching a newspaper stand on a Parisian street. She scans the rack of postcards and chooses five with a picture of the Arc de Triomphe. The characters played by Bulle and Pascale Ogier in Jacques Rivette’s Le Pont du Nord (1981) could be described as that classic French type, the flâneur, “masking under multiple impressions the void” felt within and around themselves.2 In Paris s’en va (1981), these unnamed characters appear more like spirits, ghosts awoken from a centuries-long slumber by the expansive...
- 2/25/2014
- by Ted Fendt
- MUBI
It wrecks lives – but it has also inspired art from the poetry of Baudelaire to the music of Lou Reed. In Paris and Berlin, Andrew Hussey traces the path of heroin through modern culture
One of the easiest places to find heroin in Paris is in the streets in and around the Gare du Nord, a stone's throw away from the Eurostar terminal. I know about this place partly because I live in Paris and I am a frequent Eurostar traveller, and partly because this is where Google sent me when I typed in the request "Where to find heroin in Paris". Apparently the most popular spot for dealing is the rue Ambroise-Paré which contains a series of entrances to underground car parks where users can shoot up in relative privacy. The place permanently stinks of piss and is under constant police surveillance, as dealers and clients scurry back and forth between their hiding places.
One of the easiest places to find heroin in Paris is in the streets in and around the Gare du Nord, a stone's throw away from the Eurostar terminal. I know about this place partly because I live in Paris and I am a frequent Eurostar traveller, and partly because this is where Google sent me when I typed in the request "Where to find heroin in Paris". Apparently the most popular spot for dealing is the rue Ambroise-Paré which contains a series of entrances to underground car parks where users can shoot up in relative privacy. The place permanently stinks of piss and is under constant police surveillance, as dealers and clients scurry back and forth between their hiding places.
- 12/22/2013
- by Andrew Hussey
- The Guardian - Film News
Holiday shopping season is upon us and if you're like us, you are always looking for fun suggestions for loved ones. For the special "American Horror Story" fan in your life, here are some recommendations from Zap2it.
Gifts Under $50
The official "Murder House" poster ($14.95): This image has always creeped us way out. Pregnant Connie Britton in the floor and Rubber Man lunging from the ceiling. A definite must-have for the "Ahs" fan who prefers Season 1.
Pentagram Gaelic-plait bracelet ($29.95): The official FX store is mostly T-shirts and DVDs, but they do have a few pieces of jewelry that are quite lovely. This simple pentagram bracelet will charm any witch or warlock in your life.
The "Books of Blood" by Clive Barker ($45): No horror library is complete without some Clive Barker and a great place to start is his collection of short stories that propelled him into the...
Gifts Under $50
The official "Murder House" poster ($14.95): This image has always creeped us way out. Pregnant Connie Britton in the floor and Rubber Man lunging from the ceiling. A definite must-have for the "Ahs" fan who prefers Season 1.
Pentagram Gaelic-plait bracelet ($29.95): The official FX store is mostly T-shirts and DVDs, but they do have a few pieces of jewelry that are quite lovely. This simple pentagram bracelet will charm any witch or warlock in your life.
The "Books of Blood" by Clive Barker ($45): No horror library is complete without some Clive Barker and a great place to start is his collection of short stories that propelled him into the...
- 11/25/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
With the film of Les Misérables on release and a Royal Academy exhibition opening, France's cultural giants and their views of the city take on a fresh importance
The iron gates of the short passageway, a stone's throw from the increasingly trendy Montorgueil district of Paris and a brief walk from the prostitutes of Saint Denis, are closed to the public these days. It was here, in what was Passage Saumon off the Rue du Bout du Monde – the end of the world road – that Victor Hugo is said to have sheltered between the stone pillars of the public baths and a ballroom of low repute from a raging battle between republican and monarchist forces on 5 June 1832. The gates were slammed shut then too, leaving the writer trapped in the crossfire.
A decade on, Hugo would use what he had heard and seen of the failed student uprising, known as the Republican Uprising,...
The iron gates of the short passageway, a stone's throw from the increasingly trendy Montorgueil district of Paris and a brief walk from the prostitutes of Saint Denis, are closed to the public these days. It was here, in what was Passage Saumon off the Rue du Bout du Monde – the end of the world road – that Victor Hugo is said to have sheltered between the stone pillars of the public baths and a ballroom of low repute from a raging battle between republican and monarchist forces on 5 June 1832. The gates were slammed shut then too, leaving the writer trapped in the crossfire.
A decade on, Hugo would use what he had heard and seen of the failed student uprising, known as the Republican Uprising,...
- 1/27/2013
- by Kim Willsher, Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
Founded by Christofer Johnsson over a quarter-century ago and heralded as one of the standard-bearers of symphonic metal, Swedish band Therion tend to set musical trends rather than follow them... so it wasn't so much a surprise to me to discover that the band has moved even further out of the metal domain to explore other realms of grand-scale gothic rock in their fifteenth studio album Les Fleurs Du Mal. The title (which translates as “The Flowers of Evil”) comes from a collection of darkly erotic poems by controversial 19th-century writer Charles Baudelaire, and it's a fitting concept for a band whose lyrics often focus on grandiose nightmare imagery and sinister seduction – except I guess this isn't technically a concept record; it's actually more of a unique approach to a covers album. Very unique in fact, since the tunes being covered here are all vintage French “chanson” pop songs and...
- 12/7/2012
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
Does he have babies on the brain? Goth rocker Marilyn Manson seems to be thinking about becoming a father someday. "My girlfriend Lindsay's twin just had a baby," he recently told the U.K.'s Observer, "and I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity." When it comes to family, the musician also reveals that his good friend Johnny Depp is "like a brother to me." "We have matching tattoos on our backs - Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton thing,...
- 7/16/2012
- PEOPLE.com
Earlier this month Titan Books released Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion, a compilation of pieces by the magazine/website PopMatters, and we have an excerpt from the book to share exclusively with Dread Central readers.
Read the excerpt below, check out our Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More: The Essential Guide to the Whedonverse review, and then grab the newly released book from the EvilShop!
“The strength and conviction to lose so relentlessly”: Heroism in Angel
Ian Mathers
“Evil happens without effort, naturally, fatally; Good is always the product of some art.”
—Charles Baudelaire, “The Painter of Modern Life”
“In a fight between you and the world, bet on the world.”
—Franz Kafka, “Aphorism 52”
“Not Fade Away,” the final episode of Angel, ends the show with (most of) the Angel Investigations (A.I.) team facing down a literal army of demons.
Read the excerpt below, check out our Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More: The Essential Guide to the Whedonverse review, and then grab the newly released book from the EvilShop!
“The strength and conviction to lose so relentlessly”: Heroism in Angel
Ian Mathers
“Evil happens without effort, naturally, fatally; Good is always the product of some art.”
—Charles Baudelaire, “The Painter of Modern Life”
“In a fight between you and the world, bet on the world.”
—Franz Kafka, “Aphorism 52”
“Not Fade Away,” the final episode of Angel, ends the show with (most of) the Angel Investigations (A.I.) team facing down a literal army of demons.
- 5/10/2012
- by Mr. Dark
- DreadCentral.com
On the occasion of Joseph Nechvatal's upcoming exhibition at Galerie Richard in New York (April 12 through May 26), the recent publication of his new book Immersion into Noise, and a concert of his remastered viral symphOny in surround sound. Taney Roniger is an artist and writer who lives and works in Brooklyn.
Bradley Rubenstein: We really want to get into the new book, as well as the upcoming show, but can you take a minute and give us a little backstory? You have always slipped in and out of categories: actions, painting, sound art, writing....
Joseph Nechvatal: Well, when I was going to undergraduate art school at Southern Illinois University (Siu), I was making drawings and little gouaches and smaller-type paintings on paper, generally. And they were well-received. I was not so interested in painting on canvas at the time. You have to put it in the perspective of the...
Bradley Rubenstein: We really want to get into the new book, as well as the upcoming show, but can you take a minute and give us a little backstory? You have always slipped in and out of categories: actions, painting, sound art, writing....
Joseph Nechvatal: Well, when I was going to undergraduate art school at Southern Illinois University (Siu), I was making drawings and little gouaches and smaller-type paintings on paper, generally. And they were well-received. I was not so interested in painting on canvas at the time. You have to put it in the perspective of the...
- 3/29/2012
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
When Henry James re-edited his complete works for the so-called New York Editions, photography had recently emerged as an artistic technology and a shiny new means of telling stories. Critics such as Charles Baudelaire scorned the camera, claiming it didn't allow for human interpretation of events the way painting did. It didn't allow the audience to use their imagination, either. "It is useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me," Baudelaire wrote. "I prefer the monsters of my fantasy to what is positively trivial."
But as any photographer will tell you, people view the world from different vantage points. Where some saw a stifling medium of mindless shutter-clicking, James saw an opportunity. He hired a photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn to illustrate the covers of his novels and asked that the artist abide by one rule: That the images suggest more than they specify.
Today, a...
But as any photographer will tell you, people view the world from different vantage points. Where some saw a stifling medium of mindless shutter-clicking, James saw an opportunity. He hired a photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn to illustrate the covers of his novels and asked that the artist abide by one rule: That the images suggest more than they specify.
Today, a...
- 3/7/2012
- by Madeleine Crum
- Huffington Post
In what has to be one of the greatest genre stories in recent years, the horror genre’s most prolific writer, Edgar Allan Poe, will be given a royal ceremony beginning on October 7th with a public viewing of his body at the Poe house and continuing all the way to October 11th with a funeral procession and service.
Because there is so much fantastic information in this press release, I’m going to leave it as is. Be sure to check out Poe Bicentennial for even more information, and in the meantime get comfortable and read on! I so wish I could be there for this.
This will be the biggest Poe Bicentennial event in the country that marks Poe’s death and life. Poe’s body will lie in state at his Amity Street home for an unprecedented 11 hours on Wednesday, October 7th, for public viewing. Immediately following...
Because there is so much fantastic information in this press release, I’m going to leave it as is. Be sure to check out Poe Bicentennial for even more information, and in the meantime get comfortable and read on! I so wish I could be there for this.
This will be the biggest Poe Bicentennial event in the country that marks Poe’s death and life. Poe’s body will lie in state at his Amity Street home for an unprecedented 11 hours on Wednesday, October 7th, for public viewing. Immediately following...
- 9/30/2009
- by Masked Slasher
- DreadCentral.com
Los Angeles Time countdown only 13 days left....nbspIn the second part of our fanpowered Robert Pattinson interview Part I is here Rob talks and giggles about reading his fan mail yup he reads a lot of it that crazy trip to Mexico playing Salvador Dali in Little Ashes and what he likes best about himself. Again if your question didnt make it this time Ill be talking to the cast Saturday and Ill make a final attempt to get some in. Ill also be speaking with Kristen Stewart at length so any lingering questions for her should go in the comments section below.Do you read the fan mail? Yeah. I do that quite a lot actually because I get batches sent from London. I go through tons and tons of it at a time. I get sent some good stuff. Ive gotten some really good books. I had this...
- 11/8/2008
- twilightersanonymous.com
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