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Jack Smith in Star Spangled to Death (ca 1958)
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Although sporadic updates may be found in “Events”, necessary modifications and relevant additions have and will accrue to “Biography,” and there may be occasional posts or plugs at “Overlooked & Hoberrated,” Das Blog mainly serves to link to material published in other venues, with new stuff featured on “The Home Page” [see below].
On the Oscars and the Holocaust [Los Angeles Times]
The office pools have closed, let the drama begin: Silent film or 3-D talkie, Streep’s Thatcher or Williams’ Marilyn or maybe Viola Davis? Scorsese again? For me, the most fascinating question is which of the five foreign-film nominees will win. Read more…
Feb 18 (one time only!)
LAND PASSION WAR OF THE DEAD CHRIST WORLDS
Quid est veritas? Explore the movi-verse, relive the horror of the Bush years—Katrina, Iraq, 9/11, all allegorized and superimposed! Ken Jacobs’s A Good Night for the Movies changed the world and showed the way. Now, hysteria reigns, synchronicity rules, and consciousness gets crazy mixed-up! LAND PASSION WAR OF THE DEAD CHRIST WORLDS is based on 25 years of stunt projections and class presentations at NYU and Cooper Union. It’s Doomsday USA, starring Asia Argento, Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Dennis Hopper, and the mind of Mel “Mad Max” Gibson. With subtitles!
Interview (J. Hoberman with Ken Jacobs) and another (with additional information)
On It’s Halftime in America [NYRBlog]
A lone lean figure strides purposefully through a dark tunnel, maybe a highway underpass. There’s no fear. A familiar husky voice whispers that “it’s half time—both teams are in their locker rooms, discussing what they can do to win this game in the second half.” One needn’t be a genius like Karl Rove to catch the drift of the two-minute Clint Eastwood-narrated Chrysler spot shown mid-Super Bowl last Sunday and everywhere else ever since. But get it Rove did. Read more…