One of Fassbinder’s very favorite places to play out madness and violence (besides supermarkets) is the family and suburban dynamic. Fear of Fear is a perfect example of a housewife, who starts to recognize severe anxiety and panic attacks while she is pregnant and perfectly situated within a ‘happy home’. She knows something is wrong, […]
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January
14
Fear of Fear – Fassbinder predicts the medicated society. (Film Review)
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January
13
The NOW Now right now – Day four. (festival review)
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Unfortunately for me, day four is my last day at the NOW Now Festival. I have to put out a huge round of thanks to the organizers, Andrew Brooks, Jeremy Tatar, Laura Altman, Rishin Singh and Sam Pettigrew for a truly amazing festival. Fortunately the events I went to were all well attended so I […]
January
13
Jeph Jerman and the sound of bands, gongs and drone. (music review)
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/azanimist/4793672613/ If you take a look at the above link. you see immediately Jeph Jerman’s point when he describes small rubber bands attached to fans hitting against gong’s. Fascinatingly, the sound doesn’t imply the visual, and likewise, the words used to describe the event don’t imply the visual. Here is the description Jeph uses to […]
January
13
God’s of the Plague – Fassbinder and the haunted power of the image (film review)
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God’s of the Plague is a very underrated film (so many of Fassbinder’s are) and one of Fassbinder’s favorite that he made. It has a thin plot, and is the second in the gangster trilogy, coming in An American Soldier and after Love is Colder than Death. We are following Fanz Walsch now that he […]
January
12
The NOW now right now – Day 3 (Festival Review)
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One of the most popular events of the festival is an interesting art space / sound experiment with Food. Over three of the five days of the Festival, Rosita Holmes and Rishin Singh host a lunch for approximately ten to twenty people, “at a warehouse” in Marrickville. Here is the blurb that acts as introduction: Rosita and Rishin’s […]
January
12
The NOW now right now – Day 2 (festival review)
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Well, if there’s one thing we all know for sure now, it’s that the Now now is a mighty big festival. The music is huge and every set a series of highly accomplished musicians doing what they do so well. There is pretty much no chance of sticking to the timetable, which means (unfortunately) for […]
January
11
The NOW now right now – Day 1. (festival review)
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The Red Rattler is the perfect venue for the Now Now festival with its deep velvet antique-esqe armchairs, retro bar and red red red atmosphere. If anything, it may be a tad small given the sizeable crowd that attended the opening of the festival on Wednesday night. Overhead fans had to be turned off due […]
January
10
Land of Plenty – Wim Wenders as a friend of America (film review)
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It probably wasn’t the best place to begin my march through Wim Wender’s, but DVD rental doesn’t always let me choose the films – sometimes they choose me. Land of Plenty carries many of the trade mark Wender’s moments, particularly his ability to make everyday landscapes seems so beautiful. But this was an odd film for me – a little too preachy and […]
January
09
Gangster Squad – Ruben Fleischer’s good v’s evil. (film review)
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Next year it will be thirty years since Brian de Palma made The Untouchables (I know! I know!) one of the many rough parodies of Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin, which was made sixty-two years earlier. Gangster Squad is our latest incarnation in the long running homage (we even have the all-important massacre on the steps scene) to a […]
January
08
Everyone’s talking about Berberian Sound Studio and Broadcast (music review)
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Berberian Sound Studio is a film I am yet to see, but if you want an excellent review of the film, check out one of my favourite film sites, Bonjour Tristesse for the low down. It’s certainly one that is ‘on my list’ as they say. However, what I do have, is a copy of the amazing […]
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