May Reviews

These are the reviews and other pieces I'm working on this month.

Amazon DVD: Women in Love (with Rosamund Pike and Rachael Stirling).

Amazon Theatricals: Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundament-
alist (with Riz Ahmed), Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha (with Greta Gerwig), Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's (documentary with Giorgio Armani, Marc Jacobs, etc.), Scot McGehee and David Siegel's What Maisie Knew (Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan), and The Spectacular Now (Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley).

Still playing: Admission, Disconnect, Life of Pi, Quartet, and The Sapphires.

 

Line Out: The Phoenix Foundation Goes Deep, Scout Niblett:
No Wigs, No Scrubs, Psych-Glam Band The Burnt Ones' "Web" 
and You'll Never Walk Alone, UV Race and Life Stinks at Barboza, Sic Alps' Top-of-the-Pop-Tart Jam "Biz Bag" Is Rocking My World, King Khan Signs to Merge Records, Issues Statement Filled with Movie References, and More Musical Goodness from Burger.

Still playing: The Source Family.  

Video Librarian: 110%, Face 2 Face, Flirting with Danger - Power & Choice in Heterosexual Relationships, It Was Rape, Love, Hate and Everything in Between, Saving Face, Still Around, Wonder Women! - The Untold Story of American Superheroines, Paul Anka - Live in Switzerland [Blu-ray], Save the Date, OMD Live: Architecture & Morality & More, Steel Magnolias, An Affair of the Heart, A Tribute to Ron Asheton, Wine, Women & Friends.



Endnote: Frances Ha still from IFC (opens in Seattle on 5/24). 

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April Reviews

These are 
the reviews 
and other 
pieces I'm 
working on 
this month. 

Amazon 
DVDs: A Late Quartet [Blu-ray] (Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Cath-
erine Keener), Weeds - Season Eight: The Final Season [two-disc set], and Parade's End (Judi Dench).

Amazon Theatrical: Disconnect (Alexander Skarsgård).

Still playing (or yet to open): Admission, Amour, Beyond the Hills, 
The Guilt Trip, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Quartet, and The Sapphires.

Line Out: Herbcraft's Fantastic Voyage, Ellen Alien Composed
a Score for You, New Video and Song: The Cyclist's "Bones in Motion," King Tuff: Bad Words and Classic Beats, New Dark Dark Dark Song: "What I Needed," Colleen Green Makes Pure Pop for Now People, The Burnt Ones Are on Your Side, Carmen Villain's Video Focuses on Faces, Angel Olsen's New Record & Tour, A Trip to the Past with Dead Ghosts, Angel Olsen's Stunning Set at Barboza, New Helado Negro Video: "Relatives," It Came from Toronto: Odonis Odonis, Bobby Whitlock: Rock & Roll Survivor.



Video Librarian: Barbie in the Pink Shoes [Blu-ray], Sousa on the Rez - Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum, I’m Now - The Story of Mudhoney, Spirit of the Church, Vol. 1, Miles Davis with Quincy Jones & the Gil Evans Orchestra - Live at Montreux 1991 [Blu-ray], GLOW - The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, Michael Jackson - Moscow Case 1993 - When the King 
of Pop Met the Soviets, and Future Weather.



Endnote: Herbcraft image from Woodsist.  

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March Reviews

Still from Beware of Mr. Baker.

These are the reviews and other pieces I'm working on this month. 

Amazon DVDs: The Sessions [Blu-ray] (with John Hawkes and Helen Hunt) and Secrets of Highclere Castle.

Amazon Theatricals: The Sapphires, Admission (with Tina Fey and Paul Rudd), At Any Price (Dennis Quaid and Zac Ephron), and Cristian
Mungiu's Beyond the Hills.  

Still playing (or yet to open): Amour, Bless Me, Ultima, The Guilt
Trip, Life of Pi, Lincoln, The Master, Quartet, and Rust and Bone.

Line Out: The Asshole Glory of Ginger Baker, Cellist Julia Kent Has Character, Yellowbirds - "Young Men of Promise," Helado Negro - Calm Cool, and Collected, The Music and Movies of the L.A. Rebellion, Web of Sunsets - "Fool's Melodies," Odonis Odonis's "Better" Brings Me Back, Julian Lynch's Psych-Jazz-Folk Lines, Carmen Villain: Model, Musician, Dreamer, RocketNumberNine's Get-to-Work Music, METZ and Master's Freddie Quell: "Wasted."  

Video Librarian: The Big Picture - Rethinking Dyslexia, Lost and Sound, The World Before Her, No Way Out But One, Phineas and Ferb - Animal Agents, Starlet, and Wuthering Heights.



Endnote: Ginger Baker image from Snag Films.  

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February Reviews

Paul Williams (Paul Williams: Still Alive) at the Egyptian on 5/12.

These are the reviews and other pieces I'm working on this month. 

Amazon DVDs: Downton Abbey -Season Three [two-disc set] and Boardwalk Empire - The Complete Third Season [five-disc set].

Amazon Theatricals: Bless Me, Ultima. 

Still playing (or yet to open): Amour, Anna Karen-
ina, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Quartet, and Rust and Bone.

Line Out: Feeding People's Island Universe, Yo La Tengo - Steadfast and True, Sleepwalking in Space with Psychic Twin, Julian Lynch's Lovely "Carios kelleyi I," Mouse on Mars Are on
the Move, Pony Time - "What If You Caught Me," White Fence's Fuzztastic "Pink Gorilla," Sonny Smith Contains Multitudes,
Anika Covers Chromatics on New EP, Mouse on Mars, Mat-
mos, and Horse Lords, "Bitter Buddha" Eddie Pepitone at NW-
FF, Barren Girls - "She-Devil," Melt Yourself Down's Life-Fixer.



Video Librarian: Chicken with Plums, Color Me Obsessed -
A Film about the Replacements, Gossip Girl - The Complete
Sixth and Final Season [three-disc set], 28 Hotel Rooms, Face-
book Follies, Loving a Stranger, Paul Williams - Still Alive,
Sext Up Kids - How Children Are Becoming Hypersexualiz-
ed, and Transgender Tuesdays - A Clinic in the Tenderloin.

 

Endnote: Image from my personal collection. 

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January Reviews

These are the reviews and other pieces I'm working on this month.

Amazon DVDs: The Life & Times of Tim - The Complete Third Season [2-disc set], The Hour - Season Two [2-Blu set], Scarecrow and Mrs. King - The 4th and Final Season [5-disc set]. 

Amazon Theatricals: Amour (Michael Hanecke
directs Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva) and Quartet (Dustin Hoffman directs Maggie Smith and Tom Courtenay).

Still playing (or yet to open): Anna Karenina, The Guilt Trip,  
Life of Pi, Lincoln, Playing for Keeps, and Rust and Bone. 

Line Out: Raw Balls and Bad Eggs: The Ballad of UV Race, Listen to Broadcast's Semi-Final LP, Girls Names - "Hypnotic Regression," New Year's Greetings from Michel Gondry, Nick Cave Knows Who You Are, Woodsist Signs Eat Skull, the Woolen Men, The Return of Camper Van Beethoven, Back from the Grave with Segall and Cronin, Surf Party with the Traditional Fools, LISm: Ellen Allien's Headphone Dance Score, Haunting New Videos from Angel Olsen, Lonnie Holley: Before Music, Outside Time, On Her New Single, Colleen Green Has All the Time in the World, Julia Kent's Dramatic Tourbillon, and Herbcraft's Flute-Saturated Stunner.



Video Librarian: (A)Sexual  - A Minority No Longer Silent, 
Jason Becker - Not Dead Yet, The Boy Game, From Dust to 
Dreams - Opening Night at the Smith, Grrrl Love and Revolution - 
Riot Grrrl NYC, The Light in Her Eyes, Mama C - Urban Warrior in the African Bush, Patti Smith - Live at Montreux 2005 [Blu-ray], Strong!, World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements, Ike & Tina - On the Road: 1971-72, Lady Antebellum - Own the Night: World Tour, Let the Music Play - Story of the Doobie Bros., Joan Rivers - Don’t Start with Me, Playing for Keeps, Rust and Bone.

Endnote: British poster image from Artificial Eye. 

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