“The cinema is an invention without any future.”
- Louis Lumière

It’s a sad time for cinephiles as film distributor New Yorker Films has called it quits and will no longer be in business. After 43 years of releasing stateside releases of quintessential foreign films—the works of Godard and Bertolucci included—the company has shut its doors after financial mishandling and debts. →

Travel Chronicles with Steve Powers from wejetset video on Vimeo.

Philly native and New York transplant Steve Powers aka ESPO talks with wejetset about traveling 120,000 miles across the world, being understood as an artist in Ireland and surrendering to the experience of travel. →

An archive of twenty conversations with inspired creative talents. Let’s talk with Matt Pyke, Alex Trochut, James Jean, Sci Scott, Leah Hayes, Michael Cina, and more. Plus, “en avant-première” on Computerlove’s new Facebook page, an interview with Christian Acker (aka Handselecta.com).

Read it here: Twenty Conversations

The last time I saw Dan Boeckner, we were drinking lukewarm Heinekens backstage at the Metro in Chicago. I was mostly there for the free beer. Dan was mostly there to play guitar with Wolf Parade. But both of us were also mostly there to snicker at ex-semi-bandmate (groupie?) Dante DeCarlo as he unsuccessfully hit on an anonymous (fellow?) groupie in the green room. →

Star from “The Lost Boys” might be Jamie Gertz’s finest role to date. As head vampire David’s girlfriend she was all big hair, white slip dresses and unattainable vampiric charm. If I could have it my way Star would have been rocking Ann-Sofie Back’s fall 2009 collection instead. A →

Verdugo Bar
Glassell Park, CA
2/24/09
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El disco es Cultura! Join Mas Exitos tonight with resident selectors: Chico Sonido, Lengua, Ganas, Enorbito, Hoseh as they spin Central and South American Psych and global grooves!  With special guest DJ Renz dropping some deep Peruvian vinyl culture!  Location: 3408 Verdugo Avenue

If you are familiar with Korean cinema, you have undoubtedly heard of Korea’s version of Tarantino, Park Chan Wook (he has written every movie he directed.) With its extreme, but beautifully executed violence, his masterpiece, Old Boy essentially placed an asterisk next to South Korea in the international film community.

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Presenter:  Everyone knows this category can get a little sudsy…

The screen behind him fills up the stage and the screenplay types itself over the footage.

INT. FOOTE FAMILY KITCHEN – VENEZEULA – DAY

A beautiful woman, Marianella, stands over the sink, soapmaking.  After a moment, she cries out in frustration:

If only we could wash our hands of this tiny venture!
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In October ’08, twenty-nine-year-old Esha Momeni was arrested by Iranian authorities for a traffic violation. Upon her arrest, she was escorted to her family’s home where her academic research and computer was confiscated; she was then transferred to Evin Prison, known to house political prisoners.  Momeni, a dual national, is a CSUN graduate student who was documenting the women’s movement in Iran as a part of her Master’s thesis. →

Some people prefer movies that highlight the vivid features of real life.  But if you’re like me and enjoy periodically escaping through a good story of fantasy or science fiction there is a project that you should be aware of.  If you haven’t heard of the movie  9 you’d do yourself a favor by taking a peek at the trailer that should be hitting silverscreens everywhere by now.

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