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Still Dots #83
Crosscuts
Sep 2012
Hunched and toadlike in this strangely unpopulated train station cafe (there seems to be no one working), Holly seems to be studying his coaster closely as a way of hiding his face. As we know from the last two posts, Holly has made a deal trading Harry for Anna, and of course, Anna knows nothing […]
Hunched and toadlike in this strangely unpopulated train station cafe (there seems to be no one…
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Blogs
“Her Life Was In Your Hands, Dude:” Jenny Jones’ New Book on The Big Lebowski
Crosscuts
Sep 2012
Much ado has been made about Joel and Ethan Coen’s legendary Twin Cities roots. From the cheesy Minnesota colloquialism in William H. Macy’s accent in Fargo to their magnum Minneapolis opus, the St. Louis Park epic A Serious Man, these two natives have never left their home far behind. But now, springing up in the […]
Much ado has been made about Joel and Ethan Coen’s legendary Twin Cities roots…
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Articles
Surreally Yours: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinematic Journey
Kathie Smith
Sep 2012
As a student in Chicago, Apichatpong Weerasethakul saw some of the Surrealists’ Exquisite Corpse drawings and, upon returning home to Thailand, used them as an inspiration for his first film, Mysterious Object at Noon (2000). Since then, his career has traversed dreamlike and surreal terrain, from Blissfully Yours (2002) to his Palme d’Or–winning Uncle Boonmee (2010).
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Art News from Elsewhere
The Source
Via tate.org.uk
Sep 2012
For his new project at Tate Liverpool, Chris Aitken ponders the source of creativity: where ideas come from and how they’re realized. In video interviews, he tackles the topic with Tilda Swinton, David Adjaye, Lucky Dragons, Philippe Parreno, and others.
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Art News from Elsewhere
Blocking YouTube
Via voanews.com
Sep 2012
After attempting to get the anti-Islam film The Innocence of Muslims blocked on YouTube, the Sudanese government has shut down access to the entire website. Officials say it will only be restored when Google, who owns YouTube, honors their request.
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Articles
Natalia Almada’s Borderlands: Life, Death, and Mexico’s Drug War
Jeremy Meckler
Sep 2012
Fifty thousand people or more have been killed in Mexico’s drug war since 2006. But in her new documentary, El Velador, Natalia Almada addresses the death without depicting it: focusing on the quiet work of a night watchman in the cemetery where some of the Sinaloa drug cartel’s most notorious members are laid to rest, the violence has already happened, or it’s about to.
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Art News from Elsewhere
Ebert Honored
Via ap.org
Sep 2012
The Sundance Institute will honor film critic Roger Ebert with its Vanguard Leadership Award next June. Robert Redford says Ebert was one of Sundance’s first supporters when it was founded in 1980, and he’s remained an unfailing champion of independent cinema.
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Art News from Elsewhere
Shock Value
Via nytimes.com
Sep 2012
For the next week, four New York Times art critics will be discussing shock value in art. “Can art still shock?,” asks Roberta Smith. “Of course. It can, it must and it inevitably will in ways both large and small, interesting and not, lasting and fleeting.”
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Blogs
Still Dots #82
Crosscuts
Sep 2012
Anna Schmidt finally has some good fortune coming her way, for what might be the first time in months (or years?): her passport issues have finally been resolved with the Russian authorities, as she’s kindly escorted by Sergeant Paine onto a train presumably bound for her native Czechoslovakia. But at what price comes her freedom? […]
Anna Schmidt finally has some good fortune coming her way, for what…