Archive for January, 2004
it’s just a jump to the left, and a step to the fucking right
This is brilliant: Rocky Horror Punk Rock Show. It’s astounding it took over 30 years for someone to get this idea into record stores. Madness takes it’s toll as 19 punk acts perform covers of Rocky Horror songs, arranged in order like a soundtrack. But listen closely, and some of these terrific songs are reinvented, [...]
Kerry better hope Osama is well-hidden
Apparently, John Kerry’s makeover is complete. One can hardly argue with two-for-two at this point, even though it’s taken numerous campaign shakeups. He’s being groomed (quite literally), and it’s not a pretty site. The guy is not comfortable talking in prepackaged sound bites. He’s got the pedigree, but he needs to concentrate on loosening up [...]
raspberry revisited
It was an unexpected surprise to see Bruce LaBruce comment here on my blog about my mini-review of his film The Raspberry Reich at Sundance. It brings up some interesting questions for me. I’m not in the movie business and I’m not a professional film reviewer, but I hold strong and valid opinions based on [...]
one more
The problem with seeing 4 or 5 movies a day is that you don’t have time to write about them, and you often don’t have time to fully process one film experience before you’re on a shuttle bus headed to the next theatre to see the next film. After 19 movies, I now realize it [...]
heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses
After my first three films at Sundance, I think one would be hard pressed to pick three films to cover a wider variety of genres. I’ve seen one documentary about moviemaking, one wildly inventive melodrama, and an agitprop porn flick.
You’ll never work in this town again: Overnight is a documentary that follows the meteoric rise [...]
iWant
Sometimes, smaller can be better. Return of the King, for instance. I totally agree with the oft-expressed opinion that the umpteen codas just seemed to drag on and on. Not to take anything away from the incredible cinematic achievement of this historic film trilogy, but it nearly wore out it’s farewell. Another example is Order [...]