October 2018 Reviews

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

The Stranger Film Opening: None.   

The Stranger Music Things to Do: Oh Sees, 4AD Welcomes Tune-Yards + U.S. Girls, Ty Segall & White Fence,
Lavender Flu, and Exploded View, Darto, Advertisement.

Video Librarian: Serenade for Haiti, Tania Libre, 3 Seconds Behind the Wheel, The Foreigner’s Home - Toni Morrison at the Louvre, In the Heat of the Moment, Livingston Taylor - Life Is Good, and Restoring Tomorrow.



Endnote: Joy cover image from Drag City.  

September 2018 Reviews

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


The Stranger Film Openings: Bad Reputation Shows No One Is Better at Being Joan Jett Than Joan Jet and Love, Gilda, an Affectionate Portrait of a Great Comedian.



The Stranger Music Things to Do: Florence + The Machine, St. Vincent, Lizzo, Angel Olsen, Hand Habits, and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Cheap Trick.

Video Librarian: Lou Andreas-Salomé: The Audacity to be Free, Full Circle - The Birth, Death & Re-Birth of Circle of Dust, Grace Jones - Bloodlight and Bami [Blu-ray], We’re Still Here - Johnny Cash’s Bitter Tears Revisited, Breaking Silence, The Jazz Ambassadors,
Little Stones, Shadow Nation, and Whipping Zombie.

Joan Jett poster image from Magnolia Pictures.  

August 2018 Reviews

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


The Stranger Film Openings: That Summer, a Doc For Those Who Can't Get Enough of Grey Gardens and Half the Picture, a Documentary About How Hollywood Still Sucks for Women, Regina Hall Shines in Support the Girls.


The Stranger Music Things to Do: Amen Dunes, Okay Kaya, Hop Along, Thin Lips, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Soccer Mommy, and Six Organs of Admittance, Wino, Xasthur.

Video Librarian: 2e2 - Teaching the Twice Exceptional, Love
After Love, Sidemen - Long Road to Glory [Blu-ray], Larger Than
Life - The Kevyn Aucoin Story, Next Time I’ll Aim for the Heart, 
The Us Festival 1982: The US Generation, Badass Beauty 
Queen, and Neil Gaiman - Dream Dangerously.



That Summer poster design from IFC Films.

July 2018 Reviews

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






The Stranger Film Openings: Larger Than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story Is a Doc About a Makeup Designer Who Rose From Porn Shots to Top Models, and Black Man Who Can Talk Like a White Man Rises to the Top in the Miraculous Sorry to Bother You.

The Stranger Music Things to Do: Wye Oak, Harry Styles and Kacey Musgraves, Sheryl Crow, and the Roots.

Video Librarian: Borderline, Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on 
the 405, Linefork, Love the Sinner, Mankiller - Activist, 
Feminist, Cherokee Chief, Many Loves One Heart,
Nothing Is Forgiven, Pride Denied - Homona-
tionalism & the Future of Queer Politics,
Tipping Point, and What Doesn't Kill 
Me - Domestic Violence and 
the Battle for Custody.



Photograph by Peter Prato / Annapurna Pictures.

June 2018 Reviews

Liz Phair circa Exile to Guyville

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





Seattle Film Blog: SIFF 2018: Texas Songwriters, California Filmmakers, and Single Fathers of Every Kind and updated, cleaned-up versions of La Chinoise and Suburbia.

The Stranger Music Things to Do: Yo La Tengo, Liz Phair - Girly Sound to Guyville Tour, Janelle Monáe, St. Beauty, Joan Shelley, Marisa Anderson, serpentwithfeet, Katie Gately, Brownout.

Video Librarian: Big Sonia, Forever, Chinatown, Geek Girls,
Hippie Family Values, Straight/Curve - Redefining Body 
Image, Stumped, and The Wrong Light.



Image from Matador Records (photo by Robert Manella). 

May 2018 Reviews

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




Seattle Film Blog: SIFF 2018 - Dueling Ian McEwan Adaptations, Convention-Defying Documentaries, and Stunning Archival Restorations.

The Stranger Music Things to Do: Taylor Swift - The Reputation Tour, Nordic Nights: Jenny Hval, Iceage, Wooden Shjips, Prana Crafter, Black Whales, and Yo La Tengo. 

The Stranger Film Opening: 1945. 

Teen Tix: I edited Jessie B.'s review of ​La Vie Magnifique de Charlie (with assistance from press corps coordinator Mariko Nagashima).

Video Librarian: Shameless - The Complete Eighth Season [three-disc set], Robert Glasper Experiment - Live, Advertising at the Edge 
of the Apocalypse, Ask the Sexpert, and A Better Man.

   

1945 image from Menemsha Films.

April 2018 Reviews

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

The Stranger Music Things to Do: The Breeders and Khruangbin, the Mattson 2.

The Stranger Film Openings: Claire's Camera, a Film by the Productive Korean Auteur Hong Sang-Soo, New Wim Wenders Thriller Submergence Goes Through the Motions, and Death Metal and Techno Joan of Arc in Jeannette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc.

The Stranger SIFF Notes: Angels Wear White, I Miss You 
When I See You, Last Child, Naila and the Uprising, On 
Borrowed Time, and Virus Tropical.

Video Librarian: A Revolution in Four Seasons, The Divine Order, OneRepublic: Live in South Africa, and A Woman and Her Car.

Image from L'Avventura Films.