'As hedonistic a picture about a life of crime as has ever been committed to film, it is not about guilt, or male angst, or Catholicism ...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
PREVIEW: Nils Frahm on tour
'Encylopedias regular hmm and haw over whether the piano is a string instrument or a percussion instrument. In the hands of classical Ge...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
How I Killed the Movies
'It’s hard not to fall in love with the Superman of the thirties, but then what’s not to love about Depression-era America? The Depressi...
Saturday, April 11, 2015
QUOTE of the DAY: Gopnik on Sinatra
'There are, to be sure, at least two Sinatras—the swinging Sinatra and the sad Sinatra—and if one is hostile to the personality (or to t...
Sunday, April 5, 2015
Best Albums of 2015 So Far
1. Carrie and Lowell — Sufjan Stevens 2. Solo — Nils Framm 3. If I Was — The Staves 4. Kintsugi — Deathcab for Cutie 5. Vestiges and Claw...
Thursday, April 2, 2015
On my iPod: April 2nd 2015
1. Should Have Known Better — Sufjan Stevens 2. America — First Aid Kit 3. Sleepers Beat Theme — Ben Lukas Boysen 4. Ballad of the Might...
4:18 AM
ReRELEASE: Blade Runner (dir. Scott)
'If Blade Runner demands to be seen on the big screen today it is as much for its evocation of film’s past as it’s future — it’s achie...
4:17 AM
PROFILE: ROBERT ALTMAN
From my piece about Robert Altman for the New Statesman :— 'Here is the Altman way of doing things. First, you get a script, preferabl...