Winter 2002-3
60 pages, digest-sized
Us, Mainstream Independent Pop Culture and the Whole Damned Thing
An essay about what the term “independent” really means, and how it fits in with us selling our wares at trade shows.
Non-Linear Motion
Reviews of experimental films that were viewed in the fall of 2002: Arc-En-Cl (2000); Bautismo (2001); The Books of James (2000); Canadian Pacific (1974); Current (1982); Cyclone Alley Ceramics (2000); Desert Veils (1992); Energies (1957); Energy Energy (1999); Fall (2001); Gossamer Conglomerate (2001); Her Glacial Speed (2001); Hold Me While I’m Naked (1966); Impulses (1959); The Light Touch Dust Nebula (2001); Lightplay Black White Gray (1930); Light Shaft (1975); Linear Dreams (1997); Luminous (2001); Maas Observation (2002); Mr. Kafka’s Holiday (2002); Nocturne (1996); Nudes (A Sketchbook) (1975): Plein Air Etude #1 (1991); Sheep (1991); Song of the Firefly (2002); Text of Light (1974); 3 Etudes (2001); Whirlwind (1998).
Plus: a retrospective of Jack Chambers: Mosaic (1966), Hybrid (1967), R34 (1967), Circle (1969), Hart of London (1970).
49th Parallel
Michael Snow’s feature *Corpus Calossum.
Discoveries in the Dark
Jim Morrison’s experimental featurette HWY. (Yes, that Jim Morrison.)
words on the bottom
The final half of a study of Luis Buñuel’s “director for hire” years in Mexico. Films: El (1952); Illusion Travels by Streetcar (1953); Wuthering Heights (1954); The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1956); Death in the Garden (1956); Nazarin (1958); The Young One (1960).
Midnite Movies
The 3D softcore epic, The Stewardesses.
Print Film
Book reviews: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, by Chuck Barris; Donald Lyons’s Independent Visions: A Critical Introduction to Recent American Independent Film; Underground Film: A Critical History, by Parker Tyler.
Short Takes
Capsule reviews of: Bread and Roses (2000), Damaged Lives (1933), The Devil Probably (1977), Flight into Fury (1965), He Walks By Night (1948), Hi De Ho (1947), Indiscreet (1931), Necromancy (1972), Newman’s Law (1974), O.C. and Stiggs (1985), The Perfect Killer (1977), Red Scorpion (1989), River of Grass (1995), The Savage Eye (1960), Straight to Hell (1987), Strangers Kiss (1983), Swamp Women (1957), Tarzan of the Apes (1918), Watched! (1972), Zombie and the Ghost Train (1991)
The Back Page
What has happened to Friday nights on Bravo and Showcase?
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