Like Will Oldham, another indie-folk rocker who is currently starring in the film “Old Joy,” Ms. Marshall is considering a foray into acting. She said that the cult director Wong Kar-wai invited her to play Jude Law’s ex-lover in the movie he is now shooting. Mr. Wong, she said, told her he was in the habit of playing “The Greatest” for his actors before each scene.Cat Power
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden Oscar-winning Swedish filmmaker Sven Nykvist, who was director Ingmar Bergman's cinematographer of choice, has died after a long illness, his son said. He was 83.
Nykvist died Wednesday in his bed at a Swedish nursing home where he was being treated for aphasia, a form of dementia, said his son, Carl-Gustaf Nykvist. The exact cause of death was not immediately known.
Nykvist won Academy Awards for best cinematography for the Bergman films "Cries and Whispers" in 1973 and "Fanny and Alexander" in 1982.
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Andrew Bujalski's latest film Mutual Appreciation is starting a theatrical run later this month and will be playing throughout September. | "The Scene" travels to Hong Kong to meet acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle and hears how his adopted city has inspired him in his work. (Thanks Via Sean!!) | |
Cigarette #1 out of 100.
The Beautiful Game
July 10, 2006
In this Episode of CH Video we explore 'The Beautiful Game' (soccer that is) and its correlation with contemporary art by spotlighting a recent New York City wide exhibition of the same name curated by Trevor Schoonmaker and Franklin Sirmans. In a recent tour of Roebling Hall Art Gallery, co-curator Sirmans explains the motivations and ideas of contributing artists from around the globe.
| Google Video of Chris Marker's La Jetee. It's without subtitles, so here's a copy of the script. (via pas au-dela) | |
Michel Gondry's latest film The Science of Sleep premiered earlier this year at Sundance. The film's production company, Gaumont, has just put the trailer online. The Science of Sleep is slated to be released stateside in NYC and LA on 4 August (my birthday!) via Warner Independent Pictures. 
Friday, June 23, 2006 - Sunday, September 17, 2006SFMOMA
SFMOMA is the only U.S. venue for this full-scale survey, the first to gather together Matthew Barney’s entire DRAWING RESTRAINT series. Spanning almost 20 years, DRAWING RESTRAINT is an ongoing, performance-based project exploring the notion that form emerges through struggle against resistance. A site-specific installation designed by the artist, the exhibition occupies the Museum’s entire fourth floor, which has been reconfigured to eliminate the gallery walls and so encourage a nonlinear experience of the art. The presentation includes DRAWING RESTRAINT 9, a recent project comprising a feature-length film and related photography, drawing, video, and sculpture. DRAWING RESTRAINT 9 is shown daily in the Phyllis Wattis Theater.
A complete set of lego figurines made for The Life Aquatic is out on flickr. Not bad I say! Checkout the rest of the brothers brick for other minifigs and lego projects. My personal favorite is the Musical Minifigs featuring Sleater-Kinney, Death Cab, U2 & Rilo Kiley. 
Sam Brown (of explodingdog.com) says goodbye to his Titanium G4 Power book.at least three or four of the times that my powerbook has been declared dead the expert making the declaration was an Apple Genius and the Apple store. each time they would declare it dead, then offer to sell me a nice new computer.I think it's cute that the scratched up bottom of the computer looks similar to his drawings. Anyways, take a look at his art, they're magnificent!
i would decline and then buy a new battery or a new power supply or whatever i thought was the problem. and when i would get it home it would work again. the apple geniuses did not believe in my powerbook, but i did.
Ranging from A-ha to Bone Thugs to Til Tuesday, the Pitchfork's staff choose an eclectic mix of classics and guilty pleasures for their list of "100 Awesome Music Videos."When selecting the following vids we decided to chuck anything from the Director's Label Series-- virtually everything on those collections would be obvious candidates for a list like this-- and stick to clips roughly from the MTV era. Crucially, they also all had to be on YouTube-- we prefer giving you the chance to see a clip to simply talking about one. Best to check these out early and often, then-- it is possible that some record label funcrusher could come around and wrinkle his nose at us pointing you all to a commercial for his company's product.Seems that RIAA is looking for blood.
New Radiohead CD=2007.
