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Jean-Luc Godard Font →
A free font inspired by the title sequences from Jean-Luc Godard’s films, used prominently in the most recent issue of the great film magazine Cinema Scope.
December 2010
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Captain Beefheart's 10 Rules for Guitarists
1. LISTEN TO THE BIRDS That’s where all the music comes from. Birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. And watch hummingbirds. They fly really fast, but a lot of times they aren’t going anywhere.
2. YOUR GUITAR IS NOT REALLY A GUITAR Your guitar is a divining rod. Use it to find spirits in the other world and bring them over. A guitar...
November 2010
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Jim O’Rourke, “Pictures of Adolph...
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October 2010
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“You have here, Reader, a book whose faith can be trusted, a book which warns you...”
– Michel de Montaigne, introduction to his Essays
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WatchTwo early music videos by Olivier Assayas
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“The true cinema is in John Wayne’s rolling gait, Emil Jannings’s...”
– the great, underrated French New Wave director and Cahiers du Cinema critic Luc Moullet, speaking on his Politique des Acteurs
September 2010
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August 2010
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Martin Scorsese's Guilty and Unguilty Pleasures
“On the whole, these films are not good. They’re guilty. But there are things in them that make you like them, that make them worthwhile.” - Martin Scorsese
THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY (1965, Carol Reed)
ALEXANDER THE GREAT (1956, Robert Rossen)
BARABBAS (1961, Richard Fleischer)
THE BIBLE (1966, John Huston)
BLACK MAGIC (1944, Phil Rosen)
BLOOD ON SATAN’S CLAW (1971,...
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July 2010
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June 2010
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Thomas Pynchon's "Togetherness"
An early Pynchon article, from the December 1960 issue of Aerospace Safety:
Airlifting the IM-99A missile, like marriage, demands a certain amount of “togetherness” between Air Force and contractor. Two birds per airlift are onloaded by Boeing people and offloaded by Air Force people; in between is an airborne MATS C-124. One loading operation is a mirror-image of the other, and...
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May 2010
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Words David Foster Wallace Circled in his...
Courtesy the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas-Austin’s Wallace archive.
Ablative absolute
Ablaut
Abulia
Acephalous
ACTH
Adit
Adumbrate
Agrapha
Ailanthus
Aleatory
Alfresco
Algolagnia
Alpestrine
Ament
Anecdotage
Androsterone
Anemone fish
Anneal
Antiphon
Antipode
Apathetic
Apercu
aphagia
Aphotic
Apocarpous
Appoggiatura
Aquavit
Arc-boutant
Archimedean...
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“I met the cinematographer of FACES, Al Ruban, yesterday. He told me he didn’t...”
– Bill Callahan (aka Smog, aka (smog)), introducing John Cassavetes’s FACES
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“Nobody onstage can hear anything the audience doesn’t hear. No click...”
– James Murphy, giving his rules for the LCD Soundsystem live show
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Richard Linklater's "To the Filmmakers" for DAZED...
Director Richard Linklater supplied the following notes to the filmmakers during pre-production for his masterpiece DAZED AND CONFUSED. They consciously take the shape of Bresson’s famed “Notes on the Cinematographer”:
We are in a fight against compromises, cliches, easy answers, vulgarity. It is a simple yet troublesome journey to perfection
We are not rulers of some fake...
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April 2010
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