NY Export: Opus Jazz

There is no other way to say it, this was the best film I saw this year. Try as I may to find a film better suited for this title I can’t. I’ve seen NY Export: Opus Jazz almost 20 times. I’ve stood outside theaters on multiple occasions where it was showing just to watch [...]

Nowhere Boy

So we are going to do a John Lennon biopic, where do we start? Hmmm let me think, the origins of the band and his relationship with Paul McCartney, or wait maybe with the time in his life when he was getting to know his mother for the first time right before she was killed, [...]

Pretty Pictures of Dangerous Things

A little over a week ago I went to a really tasty Indian Food Restaurant and two drab and obese women were sitting next to me.  My initial observations were laid to rest as I heard their conversation. Essentially they were discussing how to best utilize green screens with stop motion. Immediately I knew they [...]

American: The Bill Hicks Story

American: The Bill Hicks Story, is exactly that, his story no more, and no less, as told by those who loved him the most. The filmmakers applied an interesting approach by animating photos to recreate memories that would never or could never have been filmed. You’d think that this would work towards creating context for [...]

Harmony Korine: Trash Humpers

Dressed all in white and with a smile, Harmony upon meeting me asked if I’d ever added an “I – A” to my last name.  Thus began our what was actually a pretty normal conversation for two filmmakers to have. Cinemalogue: What time did you come in? Harmony Korine: Well I’ve been filming rum ads [...]

Frank V. Ross: Audrey the Trainwreck

Audrey starts in the middle of a party, everyone is talking and there really is no time to gather your bearings before the story begins. I caught up with writer/director/editor Frank V. Ross and his cinematographer David Lowery in much the same way. So it seemed to make sense that I should speak with them [...]

Tiny Furniture

Before there was Home Video there were these theaters that took on long runs of films like Clockwork Orange, Harold and Maude, or Grey Gardens. Where audiences would just return to the theater to watch a film over and over again. These films developed multifaceted cult followings. Certain groups could watch the film like a [...]

SXSW Wrap up Part Three of Three: The Sundancers

Upon leaving Gaspar Noe’s latest film, Enter the Void, a friend of mine stood up and stated, “Now that’s how you make a fucking movie.” I couldn’t agree more. Films at this level are nothing more then a spectacle to behold. As the film begins it completely assaults your senses. It feels on par or at [...]

Harmony Korine’s Lost Home Movies of Back When He Was a Creepy Old Man

It is pointless to conduct a dialogue as to whether one likes or dislikes Harmony Korine’s latest “film” Trash Humpers, unless you are from the ages 10 to 13. Which in my discussion with Harmony (which I will be posting soon), we mused about its intended audience and prospect of the film’s effects.  Furthermore it [...]

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