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Two celebrated films with young female protagonists opened at my local theatre today, and while Lone Scherfig's An Education flies onto screens without the endorsement of Oprah Winfrey or Tyler Perry (more on Precious in an upcoming post) it is by far the superior film. This richly detailed ...
Celebrities
A whiny, vague post that goes off on perceived self-absorption in indie rock. Was the Garden State soundtrack really that influential? More importantly, did this post fall through a time warp from 2004? What does the following paragraph mean? (PopMatters) But while Tommy NewYorkBigwig used to ...
Music
Natalie
I'm of the mind that Palin isn't worth talking about. Andrew Sullivan disagrees , but I think the notoriety he gained last year questioning the parentage of Trig may have gone to his head. It's dubious to claim that Palin is the "likeliest nominee" for the GOP in 2012 and a 3rd party candidacy ...
Celebrities
Sarah Palin
Dave Eggers has received the Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation, the people who give out the National Book Awards. The Literarian Award is given for "outstanding service to the American literary community" and the NBF website mentions Eggers's cofounding of the 826 tutoring ...
Movies
Foundation
The expectations game can't be ignored when discussing Norah Jones's new CD The Fall since the album has been billed as her sort of gentle coming-out as a "rock" artist" (Jones has been playing guitar in concert for a little while now ) and it has become cliche to dismiss Jones's previous work ...
Music
Norah Jones
Ryan Adams
Five reasons Pirate Radio flopped. (I'm seeing it this week) (IFC) 1. No one cares about Richard Curtis in the US. Richard Curtis did time on "BlackAdder" and "Mr. Bean." That means nothing in the US (sadly). He did, however, write the following romcom staples: "Four Weddings and a Funeral," ...
Movies
Disney Studios
Paste magazine listed its 50 Best Albums of the 2000s recently, and while I admire Sufjan Stevens (a little more than I actually like him I think) I can't quite get behind Illinoise as the decade's best. I also think the new Avett Brothers is fantastically overrated on this list; as you might ...
Music
Wilco
What did the Wall Street Journal have to do to get Cormac McCarthy to sit down for an interview? He's pretty engaging on family life, work habits, and the upcoming film of The Road . (The film's director John Hillcoat joins in the chat) WSJ: The last five years have seemed very productive for ...
Movies
Two profiles in today's Times: the long piece on Megan Fox spends a good deal of time recounting past controversies and is notable for Fox's apparent utter honesty and lack of affect about her own abilities and what's expected of her as a sex symbol. Jennifer's Body may well have made more ...
Celebrities
Megan Fox
Kristen Stewart
The Coen Brothers' (mostly) black-hearted A Serious Man has been described in some quarters as their most "personal" film, as if all their previous work had been made from a kit. The late-1960's Minnesota setting and academic father do parallel the Coen's own childhood, but A Serious Man isn't ...
Movies
A Serious Man
Joel & Ethan Coen
How does Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore feel about the last decade ? What decade? (Monitor Mix) I don't even think of the 2000s or whatever it's called as a specific decade, really. The decades of the last century each had such significant cultural developments, I feel like there's some kind of ...
Music
Sonic Youth
10 Years
The Jam - That's Entertainment Drive By Truckers - Feb 14 Elvis Costello - Jack of All Parades New Pornographers - Mystery Hours Spinanes - Sunday Husker Du - How To Skin A Cat Silver Jews - San Francisco BC ( I accidentally hit the back button on this one halfway through and then decided to ...
Music
Elvis Costello
The Hours
Bon Iver
Pavement
Bright Eyes
...to add the movie Next Day Air to my Netflix queue? In Armond White's review of Precious he compares Next Day Air to the plays of August Wilson. Thoughts?
Movies
I've been thinking about an artist's work habits lately, inspired by the fact that I am appearing in a production of As You Like It at my alma mater and everyone else in the cast is an undergraduate. It occurred to me that I really have no memories from my student days of doing shows there; ...
Music
Jazz
40 Songs That Define The Brooklyn Sound (NY Mag) Couldn't this also be titled "40 Songs To Help You Decipher What Music Blogs are Talking About," or something similar? At least we finally have a way of understanding what cause so many celebrated young bands to cohere in such a small place. ...
Music
Vampire Weekend
I like this appreciation of Malick's Days of Heaven so much I might go home and pull out the DVD tonight. There is much love for the narration of Linda Manz and of course the famous cinematography. (Sheila Variations) Her voice is so distinctive. So her own. It is wise beyond its years, and ...
Movies
Sam Shepard
The cast for Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan (NP as ballet dancer, sex scene with Mila Kunis, etc.) is getting bigger and better . (/Film) Ryder will play Beth, Nina’s “sorta friend” who has been the school’s running lead in all the productions, but who is nearing the end of her career. All the ...
Celebrities
Meryl Streep
Natalie Portman
Darren Aronofsky
Mila Kunis
The 10 worst Criterion DVD's. The choice of the two Michael Bay discs is obvious, but the list also points up Criterion's tendency to pick lesser films by hip directors. (Viceland/Kottke) 6. The Last Days of Disco – Director Whit Stillman, 1998 Really? This thing? All of Stillman’s films ...
