Yeesh. First Harvey Pekar goes, and now comes news that Tuli Kupferberg, the writer and poet and anarchist and guiding spirit of The Fugs and so many other vital artistic…
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A perfunctory peek at the précis and pedigree of Winter's Bone might set off certain alarms for more jaded cinephiles, along the lines of, "Yeah, yeah, won an award at…
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Above, a shot taken with a camera off of my Hitachi plasma display, of a particularly arresting image from the Blu-ray iteration of The Criterion Collection's new edition of John…
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If you have to ask what film, you may be at the wrong blog. This screen cap is ripped directly from the standard-def disc of the new Criterion transfer; both…
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My old pal and former colleague Steve Simels finds an amusing example of the Old Grey Lady's...class bias? aesthetic hierarchical thinking? faulty fact checking?...in the New York Times obit for…
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The exceptionally untimely death of Alex Chilton, one of the most dynamic talents of American popular music, period, got me thinking and listening hard. While I'm having trouble digging up…
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