Stream: “These Flowers Never Die” (mp3) Titular psych-stormer off The Phantom Family Halo’s new double LP, Monoliths & These Flowers Never Die, now available from the good people at Karate Body Records of Louisville, Kentucky. The Phantom Family Halo are currently on tour. Remaining dates: DEC...

Originally published in Arthur No. 2 (Jan 2003)… Our Dead Bodies are Like Honey to the Flies Gabe Soria meets 21-year-old Devendra Banhart It’s a cold and gray afternoon in Brooklyn. I’m sitting in Devendra Banhart’s fourth floor walk-up apartment and we’re both slightly hungover. The furniture in...

So you didn’t get into Sundance…. I’m sorry. Trust me, I feel your pain. As a producer I’ve received both the acceptance calls as well as the rejection ones. (Actually, the rejection call is sometimes not even a call, but a form email or letter.) In some cases, I’ve known that the film probably didn’t have much of a shot, although in others, the rejection came as a shock — one that threw our director and production team into a quandary over the film’s future direction. So, what do you do if your film didn’t get into Sundance? The first thing: for a few days, forget about it. Don’t think about your film. This weekend go out to a concert, or a museum, or a park. Watch football. Probably don’t...

By Niven Govinden You can keep your Goonies and Karate Kid trilogies, for a precocious 4th former Beineix‘ Betty Blue was the film of the ’80s, and one that I was obsessed with for a good couple of years. Zorg a handyman, who lives quietly and writes in his spare time, finds his life taking a wild [...]

DECEMBER 5 —CAMARÓN DE LA ISLA Spanish nuevo flamenco cantaor, countercultural rebel. DECEMBER 5, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS Ancient Rome: FESTIVAL OF FAUNUS. Feasting and merrymaking. Belgium: ST. NICHOLAS’ EVE. Black Peter, Nick’s Moorish servant, drops down the chimney with gifts for children...

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...

As he has shown exactly how lacking in integrity these money-inflated idiocy panderers, marching in lockstep, can be, and that whatever they have said in the past cannot be trusted, I see no reason why we should begin to trust them now. The critics got it wrong before by praising what they should...

one day one of the "clients" threw a metal rod at my head because i wouldn't let him have a juicebox before lunch later i found out that first he had killed his bird then his dog and then his parents and had been sent to us only after a nearby mental hospital got shut down By John...

one day one of the "clients" threw a metal rod at my head because i wouldn't let him have a juicebox before lunch later i found out that first he had killed his bird then his dog and then his parents and had been sent to us only after a nearby mental hospital got shut down By John...