400 Blows After Netflix
François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows is one of cinema’s all-time classics, the 1959 film that demonstrated how deftly a new generation of French critics could transform themselves into the filmmakers of la nouvelle vague.(...)
III, by Holy Tongue
Holy Tongue is a testament to the ongoing versatility of the dub aesthetic, roughly half a century since it began to branch off as a separate musical genre.(...)
Until the End of the World, Director’s Cut
The director’s cut of Wim Wenders’ 1991 film Until the End of the World is both a masterpiece and a remarkably astute commentary on its demise as an artistic category, shattered into fragments by the technological advances it both celebrates and repudiates.(...)
Escapology, by Kode9
Kode9’s new record, Escapology: Music from Darien, is a strange document, yet all the more compelling for that strangeness.(...)
Reconsidering Susan Sontag, Part II
Even as Susan Sontag’s celebrity has dimmed, the time she spent in battered Sarajevo in the 1990s, directing Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot remains a touchstone in discussions of intellectual engagement.(...)
Folk on Acid, by OOPUS
If you stumbled upon Estonian band OOPUS at a festival, where many different acts are on the schedule, it might take you a few minutes to realize how special they are.(...)
Reconsidering Susan Sontag
There was a time in the 1960s and 1970s when Susan Sontag somehow became an international star. (...)