Sep 10 2008
Kubrick’s Boxes

I have always been fascinated with the 610 cardboard boxes that encompass Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules; his attempt to document the 1960’s through the 1980’s. I imagine that for a museum curator, the thought of riffling through the great artist’s boxes of magazine clippings, photographs, and random correspondences, is attune to that first walk through [...]
Bret Easton Ellis strikes again; Wayfarers, New Order, drugs, sex, and rich LA brats. Welcome to the first look at “The Informers”, the film adaptation of Ellis’s 1994 novel of the same name in which he also wrote the screenplay.
“The drama is set over the course of a week in 1983, in the chillingly [...]
In the 1950’s Hollywood was producing around forty westerns per year, that number fell to twenty during the 60’s, around ten per year in the 1970’s through 90’s, and in the new millennium, we are lucky to get five westerns each year. But when those westerns are of the caliber of 2007’s “3:10 [...]