November Reviews
These are
the reviews
and other
pieces I'm
working on
this month.
Amazon DVD: The Tree (with Charlotte Gainsbourg).
Amazon Theatricals: Werner Herzog's Into the Abyss,
Alexander Payne's The Descendants (with George Cloon-
ey), and Martin Scorsese's Hugo (with Asa Butterfield).
Still playing (or yet to open): 50/50, Contagion, Drive, The Help,
Melancholia, The Rum Diary, The Skin I Live In, and Weekend.
Line Out: Graveyard Smash: Thee Cormans - "Open
the Gates," The Darkest of Waves: Soft Moon - Total De-
cay, Fucked Forever: SpokAnarchy!, Back for the Attack
with Black Bananas, In the Blue TV Screen Light: James
Blake vs. Joni Mitchell, German-Engineered to Fit Your
Life: Rheingold, Tasseomancy - "Heavy Sleep," Hungry
Like the Wolf: Cate Le Bon, Turning on the Charm with
Brian and Bob, A New Thing from Field Music, Don't
Ever Fade Away, Exotic Sounds of Young Magic &
Martin Denny, Life Lessons with Mark E. Smith,
They've Lost Control, Music Films at the NWFF:
Winter 2011-12, Fleet Foxes - "Shrine / An Ar-
gument," Two Weeks Barbershop: They Cut
Heads, U Daft Piece of Slack Shit, Trish Kee-
nan Tribute Album, Blowfly's On-Screen
Freak Party, Air, Scorsese, Méliès, and
the Moon, Let's Get Small, Y'all, and
Total Control in Total Control.
SIFF: Love Crime and My Afternoons with Marguerite.
Video Librarian: From Trash to Tunes, Girls on the Wall, Pink
Saris, Queen of the Sun - What Are the Bees Telling Us?, Riot Acts -
Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance, Silver Girls,
Women in the Dirt, Yogiños - Yoga for Youth: Vishnu's OHMazing
Journeys, Fambul Tok, Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power Live,
Mr. Nice, Out Late, A Passionate Woman [2-disc set], The Tree.
Endnote: Image from Wikipedia (screen grab from
video taken at the Soft Moon show on Feb. 6th, 2011).
