Film
Goosin’ With The Gestapo Hepcats
by Nick Glossop on June 10, 2013
This film short is called “Lambeth Walk – Nazi Style” and was made by Charles A. Ridley in 1941. He re-edited existing footage of Hitler and Nazi soldiers (taken from the propaganda film “Triumph of the Will”) to make it appear they were marching and dancing to “The Lambeth Walk”. He used the music because members of the Nazi party had called the tune “Jewish mischief and animalistic hopping”. The
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Period Pieces
by Nick Glossop on June 9, 2013
You’ll hear it in the blues, in country, in roots music, in alt+country, insurgent country, or less-breathlessly in what’s being called Americana these days. John Fahey (1939-2001) called it American primitive guitar, and he played it on the steel-string acoustic which he pioneered.
He was raised on bluegrass and country, but found the blues upon hearing Praise God, I’m Satisfied by Blind Willie Johnson. Here, Fahey’s Desperate Man Blues…
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Geoff Berner And The Pack Mule* Panacea
by Nick Glossop on June 1, 2013
Friend of the site, Geoff Berner, has a new video to go along with his stomping crowd-pleaser When DD Gets Her Donkey, Everything Will Be Alright. It’s a cure for what ails you.
For more of what ails you, let me recommend That’s What Keeps The Rent Down, Baby, a wry take on creative urban gentrified poverty and its discontents. Have you hugged your mugger recently? Do. …
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BC Film And Television – All Quiet On The Western Front?
by Gaalen Engen on April 17, 2013
A precipice has been steadily building over the last five years and with the collapse of the global economy, parity of the Canadian dollar and an aggressively competitive marketplace, BC’s film and television production industry is teetering on the edge of it. What used to be the third largest producer of film and television in North America next to Los Angeles and New York is now slipping past fifth place. …
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Richard Griffiths (31 July 1947 – 28 March 2013)
by Nick Glossop on March 30, 2013
Richard Griffiths has passed away at 65. Most, I suspect, knew him as the mean and foolish Uncle Vernon from the Harry Potter films. For me, however, he’ll always be the kindly, pig-loving accountant from A Private Function.
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Joyce’s Phantom Power
by David Reddall on March 17, 2013
I am prepared to affirm this proposition: only James Joyce could read Finnegan’s Wake. It is not my desire to assert that only James Joyce could read it insofar as that verb can signify studying it closely in order to ascertain its meaning. Instead, I would invite you to consider the possibility that the characters who speak, for example, in the scene whose improbable, necromantic reading we owe to …
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Jerry Jerry ~ I, Showbiz
by Nick Glossop on March 14, 2013
Some talk of Buñuel here at the site prompted me to put this clip together. Luis Buñuel made this strange film L’Âge d’Or in 1930. When I first saw it, I had a eureka moment as I thought I had discovered the cradle in which Monty Python had been birthed. The inception point comes earlier in the movie, when the protagonist becomes enraged at the site of a blind beggar, …
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Has film lost the plot? House of Cards proves TV is ideal for complex narrative
by Laurence Miall on February 21, 2013
Having watched all 13 episodes of the Netflix remake of House of Cards, featuring Kevin Spacey at pretty much his most delightfully evil, I’m left wondering if it is to TV, rather than to film, that viewers should look if they want complex narrative. While mainstream film tends ever-more toward the spectacle – do we really need a 3D everything, including Piranhas? – popular television (of the high …
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1000 Words, 1000 Days: Day 377: My Story Pitches For The Upcoming Hungry Hungry Hippos Movie
by Marty Schwartz on February 18, 2013
Back in October, a news item plopped onto my desk like a sack of wet rubber thimbles. Perhaps you remember it. Hasbro, the toy company behind Nerf, Play-Doh and Catchphrase, announced that their film division, which runs out of a tiny yet surprisingly whimsical windowless office on the Universal Pictures lot, would be following up the immense lack of success from last year’s Battleship film with a new three-picture deal.…
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Dept Of Bad Trip Retro Glam
by Nick Glossop on February 16, 2013
The highly prolific Ty Segall ~
Thank God For the Sinners
Put a little Satan in space and you got the sound.
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Deja Voodoo ~ Viet Cong
by Nick Glossop on February 1, 2013
Four-string, no-cymbals sludge-a-billy duo of Montreal Deja Voodoo put Viet Cong on their third album, Swamp of Love in 1986. They also ran Og Records which played an essential role in allowing Canadian indie music to flourish. A lifetime of kudos is owed them (and perhaps a couple of seats in our appointed senate).
In 1989, Peter Jackson, now of Lord of the Rings fame, released Meet the Feebles, …
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Answering To The (Rivet) Guns Of Brixton
by Nick Glossop on January 31, 2013
Robots of Brixton
Robots of Brixton from Kibwe Tavares on Vimeo.
Brixton has degenerated into a disregarded area inhabited by London’s new robot workforce – robots built and designed to carry out all of the tasks which humans are no longer inclined to do. The mechanical population of Brixton has rocketed, resulting in unplanned, cheap and quick additions to the skyline.
The film follows the trials and tribulations of
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