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ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: LITTLE WHITE LIES

Saturday, January 14, 2012

One of my favourite magazines out there at the moment is the UK based film magazine Little White Lies which has been around since 2005. Each issue of Little White Lies is themed around a single cover film, inspiring the design and editorial content of the entire issue.
On the cover they always feature an illustration [...]

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MONO.LUX #01: MONO.GRAMM A/W 2011

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Everyone seems to be doing a fashion film these days, and we’ve been mostly pretty disappointed with what we’ve seen so far. But since complaining is one of our bad habits, we thought we’ll just make our own – as far away as possible from being a fashion film, of course. So here it is, [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: KAREN O, TRENT REZNOR & ATTICUS ROSS

Monday, January 9, 2012

Never change a winning team, David Fincher must have thought, when he invited our third cover star Trent Reznor, with Atticus Ross, to pen the soundtrack for his inevitable adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, after winning the Oscar for best soundtrack with Social Network. In suitably heavy-handed mode, with Karen O lending [...]

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EVIL ADVENT TREATS

Sunday, December 11, 2011

This must have been fun…

A Touch of Evil
Directed by Alex Prager

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Have you ever felt shame or sadness or ostracized?

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Having answered ‘Every day.’ to that question of David Milch, actor John Hawkes landed the role of the jewish merchant Sol Star in genius HBO series Deadwood. He’s been in Miranda July’s Me and You and Everyone We Know and was nominated for an Oscar for his supporting role in Winter’s Bone. Films he’s in [...]

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CINEMASCAPES

Monday, November 28, 2011

Prejmer, Romania
We’ve discussed photographers and artists who use Google Street View before, but a novel project that pushes past those previous appropriations, Aaron Hobson’s cinemascapes is worth a look. Hobson isn’t interested in Street View’s potential for reaching documentary truthfulness, or in the bizarre compositions it captures, or in the visual texture of its pixelation; [...]

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NO ‘CUTS’ IN THE FILM

Thursday, November 24, 2011

The filmmaker and artist Philippe Parreno is going to present his new film Continuously Habitable Zones, aka C.H.Z. His work primarily revolves around the interrogation of the nature of an image, as well as the modes of its exhibition.
‘There are no ‘cuts’ in the film but only stretching and folding of the landscape. Because of [...]

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Cosy Thursdays presents Kissenkino

Monday, November 21, 2011

Kissenkino (that literally means Pillow Cinema) is a new event happening one evening per month, with the aim of warming up Berlin’s long, sometimes boring and cold winter evenings. Cosy Thursdays propose you to leave the comfort and solitude of your warmed up flat to step into João Cocteau’s space in Neukölln to meet your [...]

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NEWS FROM CALIFORNIA

Friday, October 21, 2011

Miranda July’s Future has been announced for German release in cinemas in late October, and our beloved Mrs July has promised that she will introduce it to us in person. In the meantime, the latest newsletter from our beloved friends at McSweeney’s says that they have just published a new book by the same Miranda [...]

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BEING A CROWD

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Stadiums used to be built so that the audience on the stands could feel their numbers and feel the rush of emotions being felt by tens of thousands of people simultaneously. If you’ve never been in a full stadium like this it’s worth trying, you can’t compare it to anything. Big crowds can often be [...]

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