Roger Guenveur Smith's Huey Newton and Watts Tower works are both available as audio recordings from L.A. Theatre Works, which preservers phenomenal stagings of contemporary plays. I love listening to their stuff during my commute to work.

Thank Christ. This has been keeping me up at night for days.

it was funded by iWoz. Corporate sponsorship came from various alcohol companies

why the fuck do Chris Hardwick, Donald Trump and Jenny McCarthy still exist in 2017?

Would it kill Pitchfork and the AV Club to review some contemporary prog albums?

It just didn't mean much to me. I like facets of CONTACT, but I wish George Miller had been able to direct it.

It's every bit as much Richard Williams' film as it is Zemeckis'. Honestly, the latter's post-DEATH BECOMES HER career is astonishingly abysmal, and I think it's best if we pretend that he died/retired years ago.

Caught 35mm screenings of Clair Dennis' BEAU TRAVAIL and Robert Altman's CALIFORNIA SPLIT at the Cinefamily.

Great place, although you're fucked if you have a physical disability, as EVERY room has stairs and it's quite narrow in parts

But the "small government" party will dangle the carrot on a stick that'll get these states to sell out for more money. Fuck, I hate America, and I'm kind of glad it's being burned to the ground

the massive retrospective of his films that just toured throughout North America was an astonishing event. Seeing works like CARMEN FROM KAWACHI, A TALE OF SORROW AND SADNESS, ZIGEUNERWEISEN, CAPONE CRIES A LOT and KAGERO-ZA in beautiful 35mm prints which primarily came from the Japan Foundation was tremendous. His…

Chumbawumba did something similar https://web.archive.org/web…

Its production and distribution was so mysterious, too. All of its 35mm prints were destroyed after a few weeks, and possibly the negatives, too. The director is very odd

The mesmerizing and seemingly created by a sentient computer After Last Season:

His background in visual effects and photography is key, too. Watch the fantastic TWICE UPON A TIME (1983) too see his fantastic composition skills in some of the opening scenes, which merge multiple overlays of cut-out animation and three dimensional objects

The Ring is not his best. The Weather Man is absolutely terrific, and I hope it develops a bigger cult following.

"The Pre-Persons" would be a good comedy for all the wrong reasons.

My favourite McEwan-related film is the brilliant The Ploughman's Lunch (1983) starring Jonathan Pryce, which was an original script by him.

why should I care if he's a god-fearing individual?

Beyond the truly awful THE INFORMERS, I really love his other books. LESS THAN ZERO captures Los Angeles so well; I still hear people repeating things that are similar to what characters say. The ending has an absolutely beautiful monologue. If you didn't enjoy this, try Joan Didion's PLAY IT AS IT LAYS (and Frank…