Notice: Sureterday, Marianne Religionfull handed away at age 78. In her memory, we’re conveying again a favourite from deep in our archive. It originally appeared on our website in June 2012. If you need to study a factor or two about Jean-Luc Godard, you flip to New Yorker movie critic Richard Brody. I do, anymethod,…
Picture by Sasha Kargaltsev through Wikimedia Commons As each cinephile has by now heard, and lamented, we’ve simply misplaced an excellent American moviemaker. From Eraserhead to Blue Velvet to Mulholland Drive to Inland Empire, David Lynch’s features will certainly continue to bewilder and encourage generation after generation of aspiring younger auteurs. (There appears even to…
This previous Friday, the bassist of The Grateful Lifeless, Phil Lesh, handed away at age 84. Nearly immediately the tributes poured in, most recognizing that Lesh wasn’t your ordinary bassist. As Jon Pareles wrote within the New York Occasions, Phil Lesh held songs “aloft.” His “bass strains hopped and bubbled and constantly conversed with the…
One would have imagined Sinéad O’Connor impervious to any reaction from a hostile audience, no matter how vitriolic. However even for a public figure as outspoken and unapologetic as her, it may all get to be a bit a lot at occasions. Take the 1992 concert Columbia Information placed on for the thirtieth anniversary of…
Word: With the unhappy crossing of James Earl Jones, at age 93, we’re conveying again a put up from our archive–one featuring Jones learning two nice American poets, Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman. These learnings first appeared on our website in 2014. For all its many flaws the original Star Wars trilogy never strayed…
As of late, references to seventies television increasingly require prefatory explanation. Who beneath the age of 60 recollects, for examinationple, the cultural phenomenon that was Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, an absurdist satire so religionful to the soap-opera type it parodied that it aired each weeknight time, placing out 325 episodes between early 1976 and mid-1977?…