by Ryland Walker Knight [The Resnais series playing at the PFA this month and next is part of a broader, traveling retrospective with a concurrent run in Chicago at the Gene Siskel Film Center and a proposed stop at the newly renovated Museum of the Moving Image in early 2010.] Perhaps...

It was like the world had broken open and nothing was hidden anymore, like we were crawling all over it like salamanders. I felt my own life, a minnow in a brook, silvered and fleet. I was alive for no reason at all, finally unindentured… Download: ZAZEN, Chapter 19 — “The Sea Goat” (pdf, 57k) The...

NOVEMBER 25 — BA JIN Chinese anarchist, lifelong revolutionist, novelist. “I am a person always full of contradictions… It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.” NOVEMBER 25 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS Islamic HAJJ begins. USE EVEN IF SEAL IS BROKEN DAY...

Yuichi Yokoyama has complete a series of murals for a Nike store in Tokyo. click here for pix.

by Steven Boone Hippy dippy Woodstock director Michael Wadleigh made only one narrative feature film, the majestically weird horror fable Wolfen. Having not seen it since Late Late Show screenings in the 1980's, I remembered Wolfen, faintly, as that other...

by Ryland Walker Knight —Have a heart-rose, shy off

Grace keeps all of Cady’s things in a crib so that no one ever forgets to whom she really belonged. Stuffed rabbits, snap-on black leather bracelets with metal studs, half-used hair dye—Enchanted Forest and Electric Lava—black nail polish, a plastic record player, Mutant Ninja Turtle stickers...

NOVEMBER 24 — TOULOUSE-LAUTREC Decadent French society painter, illustrator, anarchist. NOVEMBER 24 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS FESTIVAL OF SILENCE.������������ THE WORLD IS A PAPER AIRPLANE DAY. ALSO ON NOVEMBER 24 IN HISTORY… 1632 — Philosopher Baruch Spinoza born, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 1713 —...