August 2012 Reviews

These are the reviews and other 
pieces I'm working on this month.

Amazon DVDs: Going for the Gold - The '48 Games, Misfits - Season One [two-disc set], Mighty Morphin Powers Rangers - Season 1, Vol. 1 [three-disc set], and Judge John Deed - Season Six [two-disc set]. 

Amazon Theatricals: Old Goats, The Words (with Bradley
Cooper and Zoë Saldana), and Sparkle (with Whitney Houston). 

Still playing (or yet to open): For a Good Time Call..., Hello I Must Be
Going, The Hunger Games, Neil Young Journeys, and To Rome with Love. 

Line Out: Frankie Rose Takes a Trip to the 1980s, Psychic Ills-Moon Duo Split Single, Redd Kross's Welcome Return, Black Moth Super Rainbow Conquers Kickstarter, Releases New Single, Eats Your Face, Levek's Lovely "French Lessons", Franco Falsini's Cosmic Saudade, BURN!, Moon Duo - "Sleepwalker,"   Melody's Echo Chamber Meets UMO, Django Django's Intergalactic Show-
down, The Presets - "Youth in Trouble," Soft Moon - "Die Life," Onuinu's Shimmering Mirror Gazer, Redd Kross - "Stay Away from Downtown," Catching up with Matthew Cooper, The Dream of the '80s Is Alive in Greenpoint, Nude Beach: Video and Tour Dates, ESP EP and ESP-Disk, Moon Duo and Lumerians at Octopus Fest, Mouse on Mars - "They Know Your Name," Sic Alps - "Glyphs," Ty Segall - "The Hill," Matmos - "Very Large Green Triangles." 

East Portland Blog: My pics are in this piece.

KCTS 9: History Café on Seattle Rock History.  

Seattle Film Blog: Your Sister's Sister (holdover from SIFF '12).  

Video Librarian: Changing Your Mind, Coping to Excelling, The Chilean Building, Eating Baba Yaga - An Evening with Brian Rohr, Family Portrait in Black and White, Hit So Hard - The Life and Near Death Story of Drummer Patty Schemel, Shakespeare High, Tales of the Waria, Water Children, John Gorka - The Gypsy Life [Blu-ray], Kasabian Live [Blu-ray], Rockwell - A Night of Legendary Collaborations, The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, 4.3.2.1, Parenthood - Season 3 [4-disc set], Raspberry Magic, Slipknot: (sic)nesses—Live at Download, Tonight You’re Mine, Leave It on the Floor, Pink Ribbons, Inc., The Slut, Going for the Gold, Boardwalk Empire - Complete 2nd Season [5-disc set].

Researching the Blues image from Merge Records.

July 2012 Reviews

These are the reviews and other pieces I'm working on this month.

 

Amazon DVDs: Super WHY!: Around the World Adventure, Art: 21 - Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season Six, Birdsong, Great Expectations, and Secrets of the Manor House.

Amazon Theatricals: Jonathan Demme's Neil 
Young Journeys and  
For a Good Time, Call... 

 

Still playing (or yet to open): 21 Jump Street, Hello I Must Be Going, The Hunger Games, The Lucky One, Salmon Fishing in Yemen, The Three Stooges, To Rome with Love. 

Line Out: YouTube to Upgrade Comment System, Blues Control's Valley Tangents, Deep Time Album Teaser and Stream, ESG and the Factory Dance Archives, The Comet Gets a New Mural, Shin-
taro Sakamoto Makes Me Feel Fine, Black Bananas - "Foxy Play-
ground," Brits Keep the Flame of Krautrock Alive, Washington Post Pummels Twin Shadow, Pre-Decibel Orbital Mega-Post, Dirty Three - "Rising Below," Girls Names - "A Troubled See," ByDesign: Music Films and Events, A Million Miles Away with Nude Beach, I Want My Name Back, Love Rock Revolution at Elliot Bay Book Co., Thee Oh Sees Rock AllSaints, Estonian Brings Hazed Beats to Town, XTC: Melt the Guns (and the Thugs), Taken by Storm at the NWFF, Tame Impala: New Keyboards, Old Producer, Stream New Shawn Lee Album, More Weird and Creepy Imagery from BEAK>.

Video Librarian: Drop Dead Diva - The Complete Third Season [3-disc set], Love Never Dies [Blu-ray], Chicago in Chicago, The FP, Girl Model, Gone - The Disappearance of Aeryn Gillern, Good Deeds [Blu], Marley, From the Back of the Room, Pink Floyd - The Story of Wish You Were Here [Blu], and Muddy Waters and the Rolling Stones - Checkerboard Lounge: Live Chicago 1981.
 
Neil Young poster image from Sony Classics.

June 2012 Reviews

Abbott and Lynskey in Hello I Must Be Going

June 

Reviews

These are 
the reviews 
and other 
pieces I'm 
working on 
this month 

Amazon DVDs: Albert Nobbs [Blu-ray] and Emmanuelle.

Amazon Theatricals: Hello I Must Be Going (with
Melanie Lynskey) and Woody Allen's To Rome with Love.

Still playing (or yet to open): 21 Jump Street, The Hunger Games,  
The Lucky One, Salmon Fishing in Yemen, and The Three Stooges.

KCTS 9: Speaker at this month's History Café on Seattle Rock.  

Line Out: The Womack - on the Screen and in the Studio, Julia
Holter, Naomi Yang, and Sigur Ros, Lee Hazlewood and Martin Newell, Blues Control - "Love's a Rondo," "You Are Not a Curator, You Are Actually Just a Filthy Blogger", What Is the Summer MixTape Festival?, I Faced the Music (and Survived), Deep Time - "Clouds," Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13, and The Source, Bruce Spring-
steen and the Ties That Bind, Cate Le Bon Announces Cyrk II EP, Doom Metal Pioneer Rises from the Grave, Neneh Cherry Meets The Thing, Sub Pop Signs METZ, I've Done a Lot of Foolish Things, "It's a rip off!," Ty Segall Band's Slaughterhouse, The Night I Met METZ, Getting a Fix on Franco Falsini, New Laetitia Sadier Track.

Seattle Film Blog: Blurry Pictures of Dynamic Directors.

Video Librarian: Menopause in an Hour [two-disc set], 
Quadrangle, Bonsái, Chick Corea and Friedrich Gulda - 
The Meeting: Live Recording from the Muncher Klaviersom-
mer '82, Girl Fight, Here, John Mellencamp - It’s About You  
[Blu-ray], Queen of Hearts, The Raconteurs - Live at Mont-
reux 2008 [Blu-ray], Simply Red - Live at Montreux 20-
03 [Blu-ray], and Ultrasuede - In Search of Halston.

Kate Winslet and Lynskey in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures

Endnote: Hello I Must Be Going image from Indiewire via Oscilloscope Laboratories, Heavenly Creatures from Miramax.

May 2012 Reviews

These are the reviews and other 

pieces I'm working on this month.

Amazon DVD: Weeds - Season Seven [three-disc set] (click here for six). 

Amazon Theatricals:  
Sound of My Voice (with
Another Earth writer-
actress Brit Marling).

Still playing (or yet to open): 21 Jump Street, The Hunger Games,
The Lucky One, Salmon Fishing in Yemen, and The Three Stooges.

Line Out: Seun Kuti - From Africa with Fury, Prins Thomas Remixes Dent May, Happy Trails with MV and EE, Willis Earl Beal - One-Man Band at Barboza, Ty Segall and White Fence at Chop Suey, Beak > Returns to Bedevil Your Text, Melody's Echo Chamber - "Crystallized," Live Music + 35mm Classics at the NWFF, On Musical Perpetual-Motion Machines, Pickled Pig's Feet and Corn Liquor (Standing in the Shadows of Motown), A Band Called Death: The Documentary, Dent May Does Things His Own Way, Alpine Party Rock with Thee Oh Sees, Young Magic Remix and Mixtape, "Don't Fuck with the Fat Kid," Bad Brains: A Band in DC, Shintaro Sakamoto - "In a Phantom Mood," Julia Holter and Jib Kidder at Barboza, Redd Kross Research the Blues, Paul Williams at the Egyptian, Roll the Dice's Canadian Mixtape,
The Soft Moon and John Foxx, and Blouse - "Time Travel."  

SIFF (notes for the 2012 guide): Finding North, Rebellion, Step
up to the Plate, Goodbye, Winter Nomads, A Checkout Girl's Big Adventures, The Crown Jewels, The Fourth State, The Blindfold, L’Afrance, Free Throw, The Details, and The Intouchables.

Seattle Film Blog: SIFF Dispatch #1, SIFF Dispatch #2,  
SIFF Dispatch #3.

Video Librarian: Legends of Folk - The Village Scene, Sleep-
ing Beauty, The Man on the Train, The Best of Bluegrass Un-
derground, The Fat Body (In)Visible, The Jeff Healey Band - 
Live in Belgium, Leaving Home, Me Facing Life - Cyntoia's 
Story, One Alcoholic to Another - Demystifying AA, Wild Life - 
Une Vie Sauvage, Dawn of the Dead - The Grateful Dead and 
the Rise of the San Francisco Underground, Led Zeppelin - 
Dazed and Confused, and When the Drum Is Beating.  

Image from Fox Searchlight Pictures.

April 2012 Reviews

These are
the reviews
and other
pieces I'm
working on
this month.

Amazon DVD: Eight Is Enough - The Complete First Season [three-disc set].

Amazon Theatricals: Peter and Bobby Farrelly's The Three Stooges, The Lucky One (with Zac Efron and Taylor Schilling).

Still playing (or yet to open): 21 Jump Street,
Hugo, The Hunger Games, The Iron Lady, A Separation,
Salmon Fishing in Yemen, and We Bought a Zoo.

Line Out: Sophie Madeleine Covers "Spooky," Tony Visconti
Remembers Thin Lizzy, White Fence - Family Perfume, Vol.
1, Julia Holter - New Video and Tour, Branden Daniel & the
Chics - "Mor Yay," Mr. Little Jeans - "Runaway," Bat Urin-
ates in Eye of Florida Rocker, Taking the Back Roads with
Mariee Sioux, Tim Cohen's Latest Magic Trick, Neneh
Cherry's New Thing, MV & EE - "Too Far to See," Ty
Segall, White Fence, & the Animated Egg, The Long,
Strange Saga of Fishbone, Cats Rule...in Orbital's
New Video, In Bloom with Beach House, Nio-
be's Walk the Walk!, Ty Segall and Tim Presley -
Easy Riders, The Heart and Soul of Texas Funk,
AU's Watercolor Explosion of a Video, Fuck
You, We're From Detroit, When Sun Araw
Met the Congos, Bring on the Rabbitheads!

SIFF: Thirteen notes or blurbs for the annual program guide.  

Video Librarian: Aggression in Young Children [two-disc
set], HD Yoga [four-disc set], Al Di Meola - Morocco Fantasia
[Blu-ray], Songs Along a Stony Road, The Richard Thompson
Band - Live at Celtic Connections [Blu-ray], Valentino's Ghost,
World on a Wire - Criterion Collection [two-disc set], Echo-
tone, Lovelorn, Attenberg, Goon, Miss Bala, Paraíso, Ro-
mantics Anonymous, Lula, Son of Brazil, The Hedgehog.

Endnote: World on a Wire image from MoMA.

March 2012 Reviews

These are the reviews and other
pieces I'm working on this month.

Amazon DVD: The BBC/BBC America's Come Fly with Me [two-disc set].

Amazon Theatricals: 21 Jump Street (with Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill) and The Hunger Games (Jennifer Lawrence, Stanley Tucci, Elizabeth Banks, etc.).

Still playing (or yet to open): Coriolanus, The Des-
cendants, Hugo, In Darkness, The Iron Lady, A Separa-
tion, Salmon Fishing in Yemen, and We Bought a Zoo.

Line Out: Ace T-shirt for Lincoln Lovers, Teen Irritates the Fuck out of Colin Newman, David Vincent Reep's Place in the Sun, Beloved Promo Item Turns 21, Robert Glasper's Neosoul Cool, Calvin Johnson and Friends at the NWFF, UMO - "Strangers Are Strange," Time to Get Low...with Low Times, Freewheelin' Like Bob Dylan, There Can Only Be One - Carol Channing, Broken Promo Item Turns 21, Teen Daze - New Song, Remix, and More, La Sera Lets the Sunshine In, So I Sing a Song of Love to..., The Magnificent Music of Dent May, The Semi-Forgotten Fruit of Apple Records, JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound - Want More, Washed Out on TV and on Tour, Woods & Amps for Christ - Split
LP, Segall and Presley's S.F. Sorrow, and Former Bandmates Release New Videos (Dee Dee, La Sera, Rose).

Still playing: Jay Reatard - Better Than Something.

Video Librarian: Memphis - The Original Broadway Production
[Blu-ray], Everyday Sunshine - The Story of Fishbone, The Love
We Make [Blu], The Opportunity to Succeed - Inclusion in Music
Education, Outside In, Resilience, Cirkus Columbia, Domaine,
Roadie, Strange Fruit - Beatles’ Apple Records, Before Your Eyes.

Endnote: Carol Channing image from Otto Preminger's Skidoo.

February 2012 Reviews

Amazon DVDs: Glee - The Concert [two-disc set] and Board-walk Empire - The Complete Second Season [multi-disc set].

Amazon Theatricals: Salmon Fishing in Yemen (Lasse Hallström directs Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt), Declaration of War, and Agnieszka Holland's In Darkness.

Still playing (or yet to open): Coriolanus, The Descendants, Drive, Hugo, Into the Abyss, The Iron Lady, A Separation, and We Bought a Zoo.

Line Out: Music Films at the NWFF: Spring 2012, Benefit Al-
bum with Broadcast, Four Tet, La Sera - "Please Be My Third Eye,"
Marisa Monte's Popular Brazilian Music, Field Music's Pop, Prog,
and Pomp, Teen Daze - "Brooklyn Sunburn," Lux Covers Black
Tambourine, Two New Punk Docs Ponder Authority: The Other
F Word and Last Fast Ride - The Life, Love & Death of a Punk
Goddess, A Trip to the Moon with Air, Out of Sight with Fran-
kie Rose, New Pack a.d. Tour and Video, Belltown Watch: This
Time It's Chic, The Ordinary People of Ceremony, Cate Le
Bon: On Air, Stage, Street, Soul Brother in Heaven and
Hell, Girls and Boys in Bars and Stores, Revival: Black
Tambourine and Chickfactor, Sleigh Bells/Black Ban-
anas at the Showbox, The Lost Sounds of Jay Rea-
tard, and The Wedding Present's Valentina.

Video Librarian: Janie Jones, Jess + Moss, The Doors - Mr.
Mojo Risin’ [Blu-ray], Queen - Days of Our Lives [Blu-ray], Trou-
badour Blues, Last Fast Ride - The Life, Love and Death of a Punk
Goddess, The Other F Word, Charlotte Rampling - The Look,
The Love We Make [Blu], The Mighty Macs, Summer Holiday.

Endnote: Illustration by Jo Estey from Have You Ever
Had a Beard? The film plays the Northwest Film Forum on Mon.,
3/5. The directors (Kathy Wolf and Pat Thomas) and participants
(Calvin Johnson and Chris Estey) will be in attendance.