Last night, I got to see a new print of The Holy Mountain (1973). The director of the film, Alejandro Jodorowsky, has a cult following and actually performed the marriage of Marilyn Manson and Dita Von Tees. Jodorowsky once said that he wants from film what most people want from drugs, and I’ll buy that. […]
The above is a fabulous clip of John Waters telling theatergoers not to smoke during the movie. I have a deep, unshakable love of John Waters. This is in part because in high school, a time when many people turn to musical subgenres whose practitioners have become critical successes and get called “seminal” all the […]
Genre-bending film director Robert Altman died at the age of 81.
I recommend everyone go rent Nasvhille or M*A*S*H in tribute.
Here at the Film and History, we conference-goers were treated to a plenary session featuring two members of Hanson and documentarian Ashley Greyson, who has completed Strong Enough to Break, a documentary about how the boys in the band got screwed by the recording industry.
For me, the event raised some significant issues about what […]
Memo to makers of music videos parodying famous films: be more clever.
I got all excited about this Pipettes video, because I heard it was a Russ Meyer send up inspired by Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Now, I’m all for pre-fabricated retro girl pop, but the video’s a bit of a disappointment — not […]