Monthly Archives: March 2011
Femme Fatale by Britney Spears
by Carl Wilson
Since I haven’t been able to do a full-blown post for a little while, I thought I’d share one of the pieces I have written lately in the B2TW spirit – my review for The Los Angeles Times of the new Britney Spears album, Femme Fatale. Continue reading
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Vagabond (1985) – written and directed by Agnès Varda
by Margaux Williamson
(My friend Amy Lam asked if I wanted to go see this at the Bell Lightbox in Toronto. I had seen it before, but only once on my television. We ran into our friend Jon Davies in the theatre and sat next to him. After the movie Jon told us that this particular Vagabond screening had a no-popcorn-allowed policy. Amy and I were pretty surprised by this information though we hadn’t wanted any popcorn.)
Vagabond is about a young female drifter named Mona who lives mostly in a tent [..] Continue reading
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Little Boxes #39
(from “Rumors I’ve Heard About Anna Wintour,” by Lisa Hanawalt, 2011)
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Tea With Chris: Marinetti as MC
Tea With Chris is a roundup of recommended links, posted every Friday. Here are a few of our favourite things from the Internet this week: Chris: Thanks to everyone who attended our 100,000th Word party on Wednesday! We’re going to … Continue reading
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Rescue Dawn (2007) – directed by Werner Herzog, based on the life of Dieter Dengler
by Margaux Williamson
(I saw this while in a hut on the coast of Mexico. For dinner, I had split a can of beans with my boyfriend while we looked through the movies I always bring with me when I travel. They are movies that I sort of want to watch and sort of don’t want to watch so they keep for a while. Rescue Dawn was there in a sleeve along with Old Boy, Dawn of the Dead and a Cassavettes movie. We decided on Rescue Dawn. It ended up being a great movie to watch in the tropical dark while the palm trees shook around outside, ants climbed into my drink and giant cockroaches walked by.)
Rescue Dawn is a drama based on the true story of Dieter Dengler’s crash into enemy [..] Continue reading
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Little Boxes #38
(from Aya, script by Marguerite Abouet and art by Clément Oubrerie, 2007)
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Notes on Summer Camp: Rebecca Black’s “Friday” and Jenna Rose’s “My Jeans” (both 2011)
by Chris Randle Several days ago a lulz-starved Internet fastened onto Rebecca Black’s “Friday,” sending the Orange County eighth grader and her low-budget music video to viral fame. It’s already near 15 million Youtube hits, and there are many derivative … Continue reading
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The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) – directed by Uli Edel, written and produced by Bernd Eichinger, based on the book by Stefan Aust, based on the extremist group, the Red Army Faction
by Margaux Williamson
(I saw this at a cine club in Mexico City. The club is run by the director Jorge Aguilera. I had been brought in by my photographer friend Lee Towndrow. I was told beforehand that the movies for viewing were chosen “somewhat democratically”. After arriving, Jorge put out a number of movies on the floor. The one I wanted to see most was The Baader Meinhof Complex. I tried to secretly will the group to choose that one, and also tried not to. The Baader Meinhof Complex was somewhat democratically selected. In the end, the two and a half hour movie wasn’t such a big hit.
It was a strange time to watch a movie about a Western terrorist group while the Middle East was on fire with predominately peaceful protests against oppressive governments; protests ignited by the suicide of Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian fruit seller who set himself on fire after police confiscated his cart.
The next night, a few of us ended up gathering again and we watched Jacques Tati’s beautiful Play Time. A good movie to see when you are in someone else’s big city.)
The Baader Meinhof Complex tells the story of the leftist terrorist group The Red Army [..] Continue reading
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Little Boxes #37
(from Young Love #106, writer unknown and art by Mike Sekowsky, 1973)
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