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Category Archives: Art
The Year So Far: Documentaries
There have been so many great documentaries in recent years. It’s an incredibly flexible art form. The following fourteen are the best of what I saw from January through June of this year. ______________________________________________________ Abacas: Small Enough to Jail (Steve … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Documentaries, Film, Home Video, Streaming, TV & Cable
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“Dawson City: Frozen Time” – Amazing!
Dawson City: Frozen Time is unlike any film you’re likely to have seen before. The discovery and subsequent restoration of 533 reels of 35mm nitrate film prints buried as landfill in a swimming pool provides the way into director Bill … Continue reading
Movie Tie-Ins: Novelizations & Comic Books
NOVELIZATIONS Film novelizations have been around since the 1920s, but it was in the 1950s, with the proliferation of mass-market paperbacks, that they began to appear in large numbers. This is when I started reading them. Novelizations, as you would … Continue reading
Men’s Adventure Magazines: Weasels Ripped My Flesh
I often find some very interesting stuff when I’m doing a search for film posters, stills, and other materials. Recently the cover for a men’s adventure magazine from the 1950s popped up. I dropped what I was doing and started … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Film, Film posters
Tagged Exploitation cinema, Men's adventure magazines, Mothers of Invention, Mysogyny, Pulp magazines, Sexism, Snake attacks, Women in peril
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“Be curious. Stand up. Keep your eyes open. Don’t blink.” – Robert Frank
What a terrific year this has been so far for documentaries. I just saw another great one, Don’t Blink – Robert Frank, directed by Laura Israel. I wish I had time to write a more finished piece, but we’re leaving … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Film, photography
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Andrea Frank, Cocksucker Blues, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, Julius Orlofsky, June Leaf, Mary Frank, Me and My Brother, Mick Jagger, Pablo Frank, Peter Orlofsky, photography, Pull My Daisy, Robert Frank, Rolling Stones, The Americans
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Varieties of Human Experience: Recent Documentaries
In the last ten to twenty years, in addition to informing us in a journalistic sense, the best documentaries have been artistic expressions in their own right. The ones I’ve seen lately have been outstanding, uplifting, deeply moving, and extremely … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Film, Home Video, Music, TV & Cable
Tagged A. M. Rosenthal, Alexander Sokurov, Anderson Cooper, Anthony Weiner, Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker, Eva Hesse, Gloria Vanderbilt, Huma Abedin, Kitty Genovese, Kutiman, Liz Garbus, Mother and Son, New York Times, Nonhuman Rights Project, Princess Shaw, Russian Ark, Samantha Montgomery, Silk Road Ensemble, Steven Wise, the Louvre, William Genovese, Yo-Yo Ma
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The Supercharged Art of Walter Molino
Last week a friend of mine in Minneapolis, Mark Ryan, sent me a series of illustrations by Walter Molino, an Italian comics artist and illustrator. I’d never heard of this guy, but was totally blown away by his work. I’ve … Continue reading
