Town Bloody Hall
Blu ray
Criterion
1979 / 85 min.
Starring Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston
Cinematography by D.A. Pennebaker
Directed by D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus
No matter the subject, Norman Mailer was the star of whatever he produced—in Advertisements for Myself, a mix of self-criticism and self-congratulation—he could have been talking to himself. He took to using the third person in The Armies of the Night. He sometimes adopted a new name—in Of a Fire on the Moon he was “Aquarius.” He directed and acted in a handful of independently made films and plastered his mug on campaign posters that papered New York when he ran for mayor in 1969. His career was one big selfie. But what an ambitious self portrait it was—Hemingway, Faulkner, Dos Passos—he tried to top them all.
He worked hard to be a new kind of empathetic writer, sinking into the psyche of all creatures bright,...
Blu ray
Criterion
1979 / 85 min.
Starring Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston
Cinematography by D.A. Pennebaker
Directed by D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus
No matter the subject, Norman Mailer was the star of whatever he produced—in Advertisements for Myself, a mix of self-criticism and self-congratulation—he could have been talking to himself. He took to using the third person in The Armies of the Night. He sometimes adopted a new name—in Of a Fire on the Moon he was “Aquarius.” He directed and acted in a handful of independently made films and plastered his mug on campaign posters that papered New York when he ran for mayor in 1969. His career was one big selfie. But what an ambitious self portrait it was—Hemingway, Faulkner, Dos Passos—he tried to top them all.
He worked hard to be a new kind of empathetic writer, sinking into the psyche of all creatures bright,...
- 8/22/2020
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
One of the biggest film industry shocks of 2019 was “Joker” winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The prestigious victory announced the comic book drama as a major awards contender, and “Joker” would go on to earn a leading 11 nominations at the Academy Awards, winning the Best Actor prize for Joaquin Phoenix. A member of the jury that gave “Joker” the top Venice prize was Mary Harron, best known as the director of “American Psycho.” Harron recently spoke to Vulture about the 20th anniversary of her serial killer drama and touched upon the reasons her jury decided to award “Joker” with the Golden Lion.
“Apart from that it was a brilliant piece of filmmaking, I thought it was a great portrait of madness,” Harron said. “It had a class theme you very rarely find in American films.”
More from IndieWireMary Harron Reflects on Nearly Losing 'American Psycho...
“Apart from that it was a brilliant piece of filmmaking, I thought it was a great portrait of madness,” Harron said. “It had a class theme you very rarely find in American films.”
More from IndieWireMary Harron Reflects on Nearly Losing 'American Psycho...
- 4/22/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
It might seem odd to tell a story about the fight for social progress through the lens of the people fighting against it, but that’s exactly what drew Dahvi Waller to place legendary conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly at the center of the debuting FX limited series, “Mrs. America.” Waller tells us in our recent webchat (watch the video above) that she found Schlafly (portrayed in the program by double Oscar winner Cate Blanchett) to be an immensely complex person. “When I first started doing research into her, I learned that she was originally very interested in a career in strategic defense and not women’s issues. That was a question I wanted to answer: Why did she pivot? What did she hope to get out of it, pivoting to the Equal Rights Amendment,” Waller says. From there she also started discovering the various leaders of the women’s movement...
- 4/15/2020
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
Following the success of last year’s Dallas Buyers Club, director Jean-Marc Vallée returns with another high profile title and a big Hollywood star that should easily be this week’s Specialty Box Office go-getter, Wild. Starring Reese Witherspoon, who also produces with Bruna Papandrea under their Pacific Standard label, the Fox Searchlight title will open in a comparatively wider release by this weekend (it opened in NY and La Wednesday) than some of its more recent high-profile brethren including last week’s The Imitation Game or last month’s Foxcatcher. Liv Ullmann returns to the director’s chair after a long absence with her take on Strindberg’s Miss Julie with Jessica Chastain, Collin Farrell and Samantha Morton via Wrekin Hill Entertainment. IFC Films and Magnolia Pictures will each open features Comet and Life Partners respectively which have at their center two people in an intense relationship. And two...
- 12/5/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
The Crazy Salad essays gave me what I was looking for: a more humorous, outsider's interpretation of Us feminism in the 1970s
It was hot, clammy and claggy, in only the way New York can be in August, and I had just moved back to the city after living in London for more than 20 years. Finally unable to bear my oven of a flat any longer, I decided to explore my new neighbourhood and stepped out on to the pavement, which swam before my eyes in the heat and was entirely empty, as every other right-thinking New Yorker had either left the city or was lying prostrate in front of their air conditioner. I wandered around for as long as I could bear it before flinging myself into a little shop I barely looked at save for noticing it had a blessed air conditioner in the window.
It turned out...
It was hot, clammy and claggy, in only the way New York can be in August, and I had just moved back to the city after living in London for more than 20 years. Finally unable to bear my oven of a flat any longer, I decided to explore my new neighbourhood and stepped out on to the pavement, which swam before my eyes in the heat and was entirely empty, as every other right-thinking New Yorker had either left the city or was lying prostrate in front of their air conditioner. I wandered around for as long as I could bear it before flinging myself into a little shop I barely looked at save for noticing it had a blessed air conditioner in the window.
It turned out...
- 8/6/2013
- by Hadley Freeman
- The Guardian - Film News
You finally made it to the big leagues for whatever culturally relevant thing you have wanted to bring to the masses, be it your movie, music, love of being nobody relevant; the TV wasteland awaits you. Your publicist has arranged a few choice outings to go and ‘get your name out there’ but did your publicist provide a guideline of what you can and cannot do in front of a television camera? Probably not. Or maybe they did. It depends if your publicist is your mom’s best friend or a professional mover and shaker.
If it’s the former, no worries. WhatCulture has you covered with these 5 basic rules that have been established through time immemorial (so about, 1976) in regards to how you should act when your persona is being beamed out through the cosmos through a magical process that has yet to be scientifically explained or proven but...
If it’s the former, no worries. WhatCulture has you covered with these 5 basic rules that have been established through time immemorial (so about, 1976) in regards to how you should act when your persona is being beamed out through the cosmos through a magical process that has yet to be scientifically explained or proven but...
- 4/26/2013
- by jay royston
- Obsessed with Film
Susan Bee is a painter, editor, and book artist who lives in New York. Bee is represented by Accola Griefen Gallery, New York, where she will have a solo show of new paintings from May 23 to June 29, 2013. Criss Cross: New Paintings will be accompanied by a catalog with an essay by art critic and poet Raphael Rubinstein.
Bradley Rubenstein: Susan, I just saw this piece by Roger Denson in the Huffington Post: "Mira Schor and Susan Bee, the Thelma and Louise of the Feminist Painting and Crit set, pose the biggest threat to male domination of the medium and criticism of painting in that they are critics as wellas painters, and editors to boot, whose joint imprimatur has been pulsing out the feminist-left political art journal M/E/A/N/I/N/G since the mid-1980s." (Huffington Post, May 1, 2012)
I thought that was really great. It ties...
Bradley Rubenstein: Susan, I just saw this piece by Roger Denson in the Huffington Post: "Mira Schor and Susan Bee, the Thelma and Louise of the Feminist Painting and Crit set, pose the biggest threat to male domination of the medium and criticism of painting in that they are critics as wellas painters, and editors to boot, whose joint imprimatur has been pulsing out the feminist-left political art journal M/E/A/N/I/N/G since the mid-1980s." (Huffington Post, May 1, 2012)
I thought that was really great. It ties...
- 3/16/2013
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Tags: Morning BrewAmy RayKate MillettSandra BernhardJackie WarnerJillian MichaelsAllison MillerTegan and SaraGLEERuth MarimoJodie FosterZhang JialeMarijane MeekerIMDb
Good morning! I hope you are having a fabulous Friday.
Out musician Allison Miller has a new song called "No Morphine, No Lilies" for your listening pleasure.
Icymi on our Tumblr/Facebook yesterday, Tegan and Sara have leant their song "Closer" to next week's episode of Glee. In this promo, though, I am thrilled to see "Bye Bye Bye" will also be performed. Hi, I'm Trish and I was an NSync fan.
And Tegan and Sara are keeping busy by performing for and talking with The Current this week.
Veer NYC had a fashion show at The Dalloway and the good news is they met their Indiegogo goal of raising funds to produce their androgynous fashions for you or your girlfriend.
Jodie Foster took her sons to a tennis match, and then she did some walking around L.
Good morning! I hope you are having a fabulous Friday.
Out musician Allison Miller has a new song called "No Morphine, No Lilies" for your listening pleasure.
Icymi on our Tumblr/Facebook yesterday, Tegan and Sara have leant their song "Closer" to next week's episode of Glee. In this promo, though, I am thrilled to see "Bye Bye Bye" will also be performed. Hi, I'm Trish and I was an NSync fan.
And Tegan and Sara are keeping busy by performing for and talking with The Current this week.
Veer NYC had a fashion show at The Dalloway and the good news is they met their Indiegogo goal of raising funds to produce their androgynous fashions for you or your girlfriend.
Jodie Foster took her sons to a tennis match, and then she did some walking around L.
- 3/8/2013
- by trishbendix
- AfterEllen.com
The defiant romantic of British cinema never lacked for critics but his prime inspiration was surely in music
Part glam rocker, part wild-haired conductor, Ken Russell was the populist maestro of the screen, the great defiant romantic of British cinema. Russell's films showed his great love for music and composers: Elgar, Tchaikovsky, Delius, Strauss, Liszt – and Sandy Wilson and Roger Daltrey. Other film-makers might have found their creative impetus in novels or plays; Russell's inspiration was surely primarily in music. His ideas, his images, his rows, his career itself were all one colossal, chaotic rhapsody.
His adventures were a rebuke to British parochialism, literalism and complacency, and he had something of Kubrick's flair for startling or mind-bending spectacle. Russell gave us the nude wrestling scene between Alan Bates and Oliver Reed in the Oscar-winning Women In Love (1969) in which each actor, with Russell's cheerful consent, was said to have taken...
Part glam rocker, part wild-haired conductor, Ken Russell was the populist maestro of the screen, the great defiant romantic of British cinema. Russell's films showed his great love for music and composers: Elgar, Tchaikovsky, Delius, Strauss, Liszt – and Sandy Wilson and Roger Daltrey. Other film-makers might have found their creative impetus in novels or plays; Russell's inspiration was surely primarily in music. His ideas, his images, his rows, his career itself were all one colossal, chaotic rhapsody.
His adventures were a rebuke to British parochialism, literalism and complacency, and he had something of Kubrick's flair for startling or mind-bending spectacle. Russell gave us the nude wrestling scene between Alan Bates and Oliver Reed in the Oscar-winning Women In Love (1969) in which each actor, with Russell's cheerful consent, was said to have taken...
- 11/29/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
While critics and odds makers tell us that Meryl Streep is a shoe-in for Best Actress at next year's Oscars, the competition definitely is worth watching. And the next couple of weeks just may bring a new name to the race — one that we haven't heard enough lately — with the release of Another Happy Day starring Ellen Barkin.
The movie, which won Best Screenplay at Sundance, puts Barkin in a role unlike anything we've seen from her before and, according to reviewers, she gives the performance of a lifetime.
Barkin plays Lynn, a wealthy but troubled mother who travels to her parents' estate for her oldest son's extravagant wedding. The parents, played by Ellen Burstyn and George Kennedy, have a much better relationship with Lynn's ex-husband (Thomas Hayden Church) and his current wife (Demi Moore) than they do with their daughter. As the wedding unfolds, every character's dysfunction comes to the surface,...
The movie, which won Best Screenplay at Sundance, puts Barkin in a role unlike anything we've seen from her before and, according to reviewers, she gives the performance of a lifetime.
Barkin plays Lynn, a wealthy but troubled mother who travels to her parents' estate for her oldest son's extravagant wedding. The parents, played by Ellen Burstyn and George Kennedy, have a much better relationship with Lynn's ex-husband (Thomas Hayden Church) and his current wife (Demi Moore) than they do with their daughter. As the wedding unfolds, every character's dysfunction comes to the surface,...
- 11/18/2011
- by the linster
- AfterEllen.com
A great year for women? Twelve months ago we predicted that it would be. Were we right?
This time 12 months ago we promised it was going to be the biggest year in feminism ever. So was it? Er, sort of. We weren't wrong about it being a celebratory year. But our predictions of the feminist events to watch in 2010 were a bit hit and miss. Where did we strike gold? The significance of the movie Precious, the story of an overweight, illiterate teenager in 80s Harlem, pregnant by her abusive father ("primarily female cast", "a must-see", we said). Come the Oscars, the film won six nominations and two awards. What did we overestimate? The impact of Drew Barrymore's directorial debut Whip It! ("a great film"). That turned out to be a bit of a howler. The film went right under the radar, more's the pity.
So what else did we get right?...
This time 12 months ago we promised it was going to be the biggest year in feminism ever. So was it? Er, sort of. We weren't wrong about it being a celebratory year. But our predictions of the feminist events to watch in 2010 were a bit hit and miss. Where did we strike gold? The significance of the movie Precious, the story of an overweight, illiterate teenager in 80s Harlem, pregnant by her abusive father ("primarily female cast", "a must-see", we said). Come the Oscars, the film won six nominations and two awards. What did we overestimate? The impact of Drew Barrymore's directorial debut Whip It! ("a great film"). That turned out to be a bit of a howler. The film went right under the radar, more's the pity.
So what else did we get right?...
- 12/27/2010
- by Viv Groskop
- The Guardian - Film News
This looks set to be an exciting year for feminism. Here Viv Groskop rounds up the books, films, theatre and marches that will inspire us all in the coming months
This is a big year for feminist anniversaries. It was 40 years ago that the first ever National Women's Liberation conference was held in the UK, that Germaine Greer published her groundbreaking book The Female Eunuch and Kate Millett published the life-changing work Sexual Politics. The year looks set to include a whole host of celebrations then, one of which is already underway – the Ms Understood exhibition at the Women's Library in London, which traces "the sisterhood and spirit of 1970s feminism" and runs until the end of March.
But this year's feminist calendar isn't solely historical. Three major new feminist books are to be published in Britain, the TV series Mad Men continues to explore the sexual politics of the 1960s,...
This is a big year for feminist anniversaries. It was 40 years ago that the first ever National Women's Liberation conference was held in the UK, that Germaine Greer published her groundbreaking book The Female Eunuch and Kate Millett published the life-changing work Sexual Politics. The year looks set to include a whole host of celebrations then, one of which is already underway – the Ms Understood exhibition at the Women's Library in London, which traces "the sisterhood and spirit of 1970s feminism" and runs until the end of March.
But this year's feminist calendar isn't solely historical. Three major new feminist books are to be published in Britain, the TV series Mad Men continues to explore the sexual politics of the 1960s,...
- 1/8/2010
- by Viv Groskop
- The Guardian - Film News
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