Arts
Review: Missing Victor Pellerin
Missing Victor Pellerin Sophie Deraspe Atopia Street: 06.05 Missing Victor Pellerin tells the story of famous Quebecian artist, Victor Pellerin, who in January of 1990, burned all his paintings and disappeared. At first, I was turned off by it and couldn’t make it past the first 30 minutes due to aloof camera angles and a
Review: Heavy Petting
Heavy Petting Obie Benz and Joshua Waletzky New Video Group Street: 05.29 A documentary based around the culture of sexuality in the 50s and 60s? Sign me up! With conversations on these topics from the likes of Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, viewing this felt like sitting around telling somewhat shocking stories with your
Review: Gothic Vampires From Hell
Gothic Vampires From Hell Fred Austin and Rob Walker Cleopatra Street: 05.15 Getting new material to review is sometimes like waiting to be kicked in the penis. You realize it has large potential for pain, but you also know you have to get through it one way or another. When this movie was placed into
Review: The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips U.F.O.s at the Zoo: The Legendary Concert in Oklahoma City Warner Bros. Street: 07.07 Fans have been waiting a long time for this; a concert DVD that lives up to the unique live The Flaming Lips experience. The changes the Lips have undergone over the years don’t constitute a reinvention of style,
Review: Black Test Car
Black Test Car Yasuzo Masumura Fantoma Street: 05.22 The Fast and the Furious, Red Line, Days of Thunder… all these movies deal in one form or another with cars and racing them. Most of the time, these movies involve babes with tons of cleavage, outrageous, impossible cars and the people who drive them. Interestingly, Black
Review: Vic Damone: On the Street Where You Live
Vic Damone: On the Street Where You Live MVD Street: 06.05 I don’t know much about crooner Vic Damone and I don’t much care, but I do know that the sound engineer for this performance and the guy who mastered the DVD are incompetent assholes. That said, the shitty sound quality of this disc is
Review: Le Petit Lieutenant
Le Petit Lieutenant Xavier Beauvois Koch Lorber Films Street: 04.17 The police crime genre is one that is inundated with small variations on ultimately similar stories. A rookie cop is usually a prime main character, said rookie cop is a standout of his class, an out of the ordinary crime occurs and the rookie cop
Review: La Belle Captive
La Belle Captive Alain Robbe-Grillet Koch Lorber Street: 03.13 Watch out movie fans, any distribution company with the word “Lorber” in it, is bound not to be technically up to par, and this DVD is no exception. La Belle Captive is one of Alain Robbe-Grillet’s later works that seems to recapitulate themes from some of his
Review: The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume One
The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume One Kenneth Anger Fantoma Street: 01.23 Finally the films of Kenneth Anger are being restored, and restored beautifully at that. Forever (literally), Anger’s films have been out-of-print due to copyright issues concerning pop songs in his films. Anger’s influence stems from his idiosyncratic vision and inspiration to combine stylistic,
Review: Escape to Canada
Escape to Canada Albert Nerenberg The Disinformation Company Ltd. Street: 05.22 I don’t think I have ever cringed so often during a documentary in my entire life. No, not because there was shocking material presented in a thought-provoking way, but instead because of the absolutely absurd ties between marijuana and gay marriage, hilariously terrible and
Review: Einstuerzende Neubauten
Einstuerzende Neubauten Palast Der Republik MVDvisual Street: 03.13 Nowadays, in order to be an industrial act all you have to do is have a drilling beat and a few steam whistles. In this DVD, Neubauten revitalizes the term “industry” in industrial music. Not so much a band as a performance group, Neubauten continues to be
Review: 131st Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show
131st Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show USA Network Street 05.15 Dog shows are an awesome commentary on modern society. They showcase the extreme end of spending too much time and money on animals. Still, dog shows are cool as hell to watch, and the Westminster Kennel Club show is maybe the top event of its
