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MUCKED UP

Saturday, March 1, 2014

Bored with the usual cinema fare?  Look no further.  L’Enfant (or I suppose now l’adolescent or l’adulte depending on your feelings towards said provocateur) terrible Matthew Barney returns to the cinema fray with his operatic River of Fundament, a collaboration between him, several powerhouse thespians, Gaspard Noé, Jonathan Bepler, and…Norman Mailer?!  Premiered at the Brooklyn Academy [...]

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The Secret Lives of Mr. Smith and Ms. Tapner

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Before you’re heading off tonight, two things, two secrets: Mr. Stan Smith stole a piece of the Brooklyn Bridge banks (for a reason), and Ms. Rosie Tapner ain’t no up-and-coming model, but a runner and rider and racer and drinker of copious cups of tea. Now you know.

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Watching the Berlinale

Thursday, February 6, 2014

The 64.Berlinale started today, presenting national and international films, shorts, new talents, retrospectives,…
A corporation with the German television channel ZDF allows you to follow the event online: here
Film still of the short film Birds, directed by Ulu Braun

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FUNHOUSE

Friday, December 20, 2013

Peter Pan (or for that matter, Marina Abravomic) is not the only one getting the Bob Wilson treatment.  Working with Dissident Industries Inc, theater’s hallowed maverick, Robert Wilson has constructed video portraits–or caricatures?–of an odd population, including stars such as Isabelle Huppert and Brad Pitt to a…horned frog and Boris the porcupine (above).  Though the stylistic [...]

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DON’T MAKE FUN OF OTHERS

Monday, December 16, 2013

Throwing back to our launch-screening a couple of weeks back, one question: did Marina make You cry?
If you didn’t, it’s my obligation to bad taste that I recommend you take some reformatory lessons from the Marina Abravomic Made Me Cry tumblr.  The grandiloquence of empathy will persuade a few milligrams of salt water from the [...]

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GILDA, ARE YOU DECENT?

Monday, November 18, 2013

It is crucial to choose the right topic while procrastinating. Old movies, especially Rita, Ginger and Fred would be the ones to cure the Sunday/Monday blues with their charm and dances!

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TALKING FASHION

Saturday, November 9, 2013

It’s the book we would have liked to publish, but money beat us to it: Talking Fashion, a compendium of interviews, ranging from Raf Simons to sound designer Michel Gaubert, from Showstudio master mind Nick Knight to vogueing icon Willi Ninja, and looking at the fashion industry from all angles, handsomely compiled over several years [...]

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Spell of the Authors name

Friday, July 19, 2013

Beware of the very angry writer! Whistleblowing and wicked warts, undisclosed officials confirm Snowden doesn’t have a finger in this leak pie, nor does the marketing department.

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FRESH FROM THE OVEN

Friday, June 14, 2013

‘Let them eat pepper gas’
Recep Tayyip Antoinette
‘Welcome the the gas festival’, ‘There is a beach under the stones’, ‘There is a revolution going on here, Signorita’,‘I could not find a slogan’ were some of the slogans written on the walls of beauteous cities of Turkey, the land of pepper. All you have been seeing in the news was a [...]

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ONE PERSON WITH A LOT OF MACHINES

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

The legend foreseeing the future. Mr. Morrison is informing the death of rock.
“It may rely heavily on electronics, tapes…One person with a lot of machines; tapes and electronic set-ups…”

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