Chaos EnsuesFrom time to time, I'll be excavat-ing reviews that aren't otherwise available online. Before I started freelancing for Amazon, I used to contribute customer reviews. In 2000, I reviewed Alice et Martin. Since then, the DVD has gone out of print (I've been writing for Amazon for 10 years now). On the off-chance it disappears from the site, this review also lives here. ALICE ET MARTIN(André Téchiné, France, 1998, 120 mins.)When I first read a description of this film—man falls for hisgay brother's female best friend, chaos ensues—I didn't thinkit sounded too promising. Then I noticed who directed it, An-dré Téchiné (Les Voleurs), and who co

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Pursuing the MuseThe Gift Machine, goodbye/goodluckKnw-Yr-Own Rec-ords [3/3/09]"I may be green,but I did-n't fall off the truck, goodbye, goodbye/goodluck."-- the title trackThe fourth full-length from the Gift Machine arrives in a striking silk-screened sleeve on which black and white ceram-ic owls cluster beneath a deep-red sky emblazoned with the re-lease details letter-pressed in gold. If the band's propulsive pop isn't as stark or dramatic as that cover suggests, it gets the job done, recalling a lo-fi Beatles or Velvet Underground in a laid-back mood. Andrea Gruber's delicate backing vocals softenDave Matthies's deep, Lee Hazlewood-esque lead li

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Flowing Outside of Time: An Interview with Stephen Kijak From time to time, I'llbe excavating uneditedversions of interviews that aren't otherwise available online. To that end, here's the first draft of my conversation with director Stephen Kijak. The finished edition, tit-led "Great Scott," appear-ed in the 9/07 issue ofResonance, which ceas-ed publication in 2/08.In the 1960s, a good looking Ohio-bred baritone named Scott Engel fronted the chart-topping UK baroque pop outfit the Walk-er Brothers. (Yes, the unrelated trio preceded the Ramones in tak-ing the same surname.) In Stephen Kijak’s eye-opening docu-mentary Scott Walker: 30 Century Man, tour

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January ReviewsThese are the reviews and other pieces I'm working on this month.Amazon DVDs: The Rockford Files - Season Six [three-disc set] (click here and here for seasons two and three) and MGM - When the Lion Roars: The Story of a Hollywood Empire [two-disc set].Amazon Theatrical: Notorious, my second B.I.G.review after Nick Broomfield's Biggie & Tupac, which Icovered for Amazon and the SIFF '02 program guide.Still playing or yet to open: Burn After Reading, Doubt, Lakeview Terrace, Let the Right One In, Milk, Rachel Getting Married, Timecrimes, and Waltz with Bashir.Siffblog: Wendy and Lucy and the continuation of aninterview with Tia Lessin

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