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The Endless Summer

It’s only April, but it’s already feeling like summer here in NYC. And there’s absolutely nothing I love more than that. So last night when I caught The Endless Summer, I only got more excited for the best season of the year, in which I plan on spending as much time at the beach as [...]

Listening to: Party Girl

The 1995 movie “Party Girl” is full of really great party inspiration and kooky clothes–plus cameos from long-gone landmarks like Keith Haring’s Pop Shop–but for me its all about the tunes. The film stars Parker Posey as Mary, a ditz who balances palling around with her buds, wooing the local falafel guy, screwing up her [...]

Les Rallizes Dénudés 裸のラリーズ

Tonight Spectacle Theater is showing a documentary “about the mythical Japanese political psych-noise pioneers Les Rallizes Dénudés, the ultimate revolutionary cult band whose bass player was a member of the Japanese Red Army “terrorist group” and part of the faction that hijacked a plane with samurai swords and GOT AWAY WITH IT, [...]

Satanis

Satanis: The Devil’s Mass is a 1968 documentary featuring Anton Szandor LaVey, the controversial, charismatic and influential founder of the Church of Satan. Despite LaVey’s bad reputation, his Church of Satan doesn’t actually worship the man downstairs, in fact, LaVey didn’t even believe in the devil (or god, for that matter). Instead, the religion is [...]

Back to Berlin

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in Wim Wender’s ‘Wings of Desire’

Blue Monday

loving everything about this right now.

S-T-A-U-N-C-H

 
 
The new Grey Gardens just premiered and I must admit at first I was skeptical. How would the film fill in the blanks in Little Edie’s life not included in the Maysles’ documentary? And more importantly, who could top Christine Ebersole’s Broadway turn or Ms. Body Beautiful Beale herself? But after I saw the previews [...]

After the Fall

Why is it that people in dystopian films always have the coolest clothes? Maybe it’s because when the end is near everyone just says fuck it and decides to let their freak flags fly.

 
Marc Jacobs and McQueen gave us tastes of Brazil-style excess for Fall/Winter 09.

Now I’m all for going big in every aspect of [...]