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some people like pop music more than the subcultural stuff it's biting because the very fact that something that a few months ago was a local or underground thing is now on popworld is jarring, exciting, and sometimes produces something startling. i don't know what woebot thinks of schaffel or...

woebot sez: this doesn't make any sense at all to me. no-one ever says x-aspect of social totality "mirrors" y-aspect of social totality, but rather that x-pop single resonates with y-aspect of modern life, ("pop single" meaning rachel stevens OR kano obviously, both are on the 'this week's...

when even johann hari can get slam-dunks on a guy you know something must be up...

basically, it's only the name and the very basic set-up that survive in the remake, cf 'the thing'.

jonathan rosenbaum liked it. in answer to the the question, can a remake ever be good, do the words 'RIO' and 'BRAVO' mean anything to you? (or 'NIGHT', 'OF', 'THE', 'LIVING' and 'DEAD') FFS!

i don't think winterbottom is ever that interesting, and this was no exception

francesco, dunno if you're in/have experience of the uk but you're absolutely right. ardkore actually broke through in england and was relatively easy to get hold of on tapes, and, when jungle came along, on cd compilations (incredibly variable in quality). probably the internet has killed the...

at your service, francesco. this might be the first wire i'll have bought in 6 years. but i wd appreciate a free cd, like with 'energy flash'. otherwise it's a bit academic, these tracks not being all that easily accessible. i don't have the technology to get 'em. anyone who cd email them wins a...

it's terrific! and so is 'ambersons', although the ending is completely fucked. the deal with 'kane' is PARTLY the cinematographic innovation (it was a kind of compendium of new techniques) and PARTLY because it did go all-out on the Big Questions... and it's even pretty glib about the fact it...

i don't think it trivializes politics at all; it just isn't in the earnest "political film" register. it doesn't think politics is trivial though.

that said, i would love to see 'british sounds'. it has footage of the student demonstration at essex uni in '69, some early feminist stuff from sheila rowbotham, some trot car workers in oxford... produced by ken loach's company and never shown on TV, as was the intention. 'tout va bien' was a...

basically: impossible to see them publically. i saw em at the nft's godard season in 2001, and i'm pretty sure they haven't been screened since. i *think* that they are in the archives of the lux organisation, which holds the collection of the Other Cinema. one of the films (a special case)...

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no, i'd like to, but it's not really relevant to the film. i re-read sinclair's piece and it only convinced me that he's totally parochial, and i was a bit dismayed by the general reaction to the fact that it was made by the dirtectors of 'menace II society' -- sinclair just assumed they were...

i wd like to see the dvd cos the video version of this was shit -- gorin says the film as shot was lit to become less and less film-like as it went on. i think it's fairly dense, partly because godard was a bit clueless politically, but it gets something of the post-68 disillusionment anyway...

i saw 'from hell' (the movie) at the weekend. i think sinclair had hated on it because it wasn't filmed in london and was made by americans (oh no!). it was a great film, one of the best about victorian london i've ever seen.

depends what scene you mean, i guess. i think e rolled out *even further* in the late 90s. '98 was the big mitsubishi year wasn't it? when i was at uni (98 ->) it had become more of a living room drug.

i think one problem with sinclair is his 'outsider' stance: throughout 'lights out' he's bitching and pissing about channel 4 commissioning policy ect ect, which is okay as far as it goes, but now that sinclair is a penguin author and fairly well treated by television and press, the pose looks a...

from today's Guardian, diary section: "Surveillance (1): French TV and New York radio crews, last Sunday, being led through Hackney Marshes by anti-Olympic bid activists on a recce we imagine differed slightly from that taken by the IOC a fortnight ago. The sights included fridge mountains...

it's so tacky when people confuse 50 cent with hip-hop!?!?!