It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years since Rufus Wainwright released his debut album. I remember reading all the raves about him on a discussion list and finally getting a copy myself. Addiction came quickly, and the one song I found myself keep listening to was In My Arms. It’s the most sparingly orchestrated [...]
“I didn’t want to offend anyone, but I did perhaps want them to be provoked. If anybody is offended, it’s his [or her] own fault. You are free to leave the theater after 5 minutes. I have always said: anyone who watches the film from beginning to end apparently has needed it,” says Austrian filmmaker [...]
The wait is finally over: my Radiohead In Raibowns discbox arrived on Wednesday!
From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms, wrote author Naomi Wolf back in April for the Guardian. Her new book, The End of America: Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot details each and every of these steps, all of [...]
The first time I saw The River, it being my first movie by Tsai Ming-Liang, I brushed it off as overdrawn and artsy. The Wayward Cloud from 2005, however, has so impressed me that I started digging into Tsai’s film archive: Goodbye, Dragon Inn is a fantastic idea somewhat lost in pretension; Rebels of The [...]
It is 1984. The totalitarian state of paranoia and terror George Orwell immortalized in his cautionary tale half a century ago is really happening right in front of our eyes. This is East Germany, where Stasi, the ruthless GDR secret police, “shield and sword” of the regime, spies on its citizens to find everything there’s [...]
