Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to see Jim Sheridan's Brothers this week. But when I was co-hosting the Show Me Your Titles podcast, Cathy and I dedicated a full episode to Danish film-maker Susanne Bier. Bier's tremendous body of...

We absorb art in different ways. There’s art that makes you grin, art that makes you gag, art that you meet with a perfectly neutral expression. Then there’s art that slaps you in the face with its sheer loony brilliance. Occupying this last category is Meredith Dittmar, a Portland-based sculptress...

By Matt Zoller Seitz Film criticism as we know it tends to fall into a handful of time-worn categories: an expression of one's personality, politics and taste, with traces of social critique and memoir (Pauline Kael, James Agee); or a kind of performance art on the page, using individual films...

By Matt Zoller Seitz Clint Eastwood owes a great deal to Sergio Leone, who jump-started the actor's movie career with the Dollars trilogy of “spaghetti westerns.” His collaboration with Leone gave him the seeds of his screen persona. It also foretold many of Eastwood’s obsessions as a director. Obsession No. 1 is revenge. The most unusual treatment of the subject occurs in the second Dollars film, For a Few Dollars More (1965), in which Eastwood's Man With No Name teams up with a bounty hunter, Col. Mortimer, to track down a bandit named Indio. While flashbacks reveal that Indio raped Mortimer's sister and killed her lover, Leone and his co-screenwriters complicate the...

Leave it to a web artist to push the boundaries in interview formats! Keep reading to experience mine and Kristin Lucas’s systems vs. networks conversation, Twitter style… Nikksters: How do you define systems and networks? What’s the diff between the two? ksl2: Systm n Netwrk not easy 2 dstnguish;...

Kristin Lucas creates video, installation, intervention, digital photographs, sculpture, and projects for the web.���Positioning herself at the center of her projects, Lucas’s work addresses the effects of rapid-spread technology on the human condition. Reversing a popular concept of infusing...

In case you didn’t notice, ETeam did a pretty good job of turning the tables on me. It would seem that systems and networks are tricky and unpredictable that way… ETeam’s take on systems and networks was a fairly big departure from that of EcoArtTech’s. EcoArtTech seemed to accept the role of...

To celebrate the DVD release of Aaron Rose’s epic art documentary, Beautiful Losers, approximately a million rad people and entities including Amoeba Music and Oscilloscope Laboritories are coming together to host an all-out bash at Cinefamily in Los Angeles. Spike, Harmony Korine, Geoff...

On 7 AM on Thanksgiving morning and I was sitting on my aunt’s couch in Atlanta, watching news coverage about the “uninvited, well dressed Virginia couple” that had crashed Obama’s dinner party the night before. I was thinking about how gutsy you have to be to think you can outsmart the Secret...