Tuesday, November 27, 2007
R.B. Kitaj R.I.P.
Easily my favorite contemporary painter, I only read today that he died October 21 in Los Angeles.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Monday, November 12, 2007
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007)
Regency South Coast Village, Santa Ana, Calif.
Directed by Julian Temple, who directed the Sex Pistols documentary “The Filth and the Fury,” this is the only documentary that matters about the leader of the only band that mattered—Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros.
Cleverly interspersed throughout are clips from various film adaptations of George Orwell (“Animal Farm,” “1984”), audio from Joe Strummer’s own BBC radio show, and footage of a band called The Clash.
The film doesn’t play by certain tired rules of the genre, such as identifying who’s speaking, but it does provide previously unseen footage, obscure biographical information, and a redemptive narrative arc.
Truly inspiring.
Directed by Julian Temple, who directed the Sex Pistols documentary “The Filth and the Fury,” this is the only documentary that matters about the leader of the only band that mattered—Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros.
Cleverly interspersed throughout are clips from various film adaptations of George Orwell (“Animal Farm,” “1984”), audio from Joe Strummer’s own BBC radio show, and footage of a band called The Clash.
The film doesn’t play by certain tired rules of the genre, such as identifying who’s speaking, but it does provide previously unseen footage, obscure biographical information, and a redemptive narrative arc.
Truly inspiring.
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