Nick Hakim seems to inherently understand the value of silence, of sparseness. The child of a Peruvian father and a Chilean mother, Hakim was born in Washington, D.C., and now resides in a quiet pocket of the Ridgewood neighborhood in Queens, New York, along the Brooklyn border. When we catch up over Zoom recently, he’s calm and composed, occasionally plinking his piano as he speaks. Near the end of our interview, the conversation veers toward legendary experimental composer John Cage. Hakim goes to his bookshelf, and shows me his copy of Silence,...
- 1/23/2023
- by E.R. Pulgar
- Rollingstone.com
The new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, located along Manhattan’s “Museum Mile,” features Madonna, MTV, Run-dmc, Talking Heads, Sonic Youth, John Zorn, Liquid Liquid, Max Roach, Fort Apache Band, and much more.
“During the Eighties, there was a community-driven musical renaissance in New York City. It was an era of creativity and genre-defying performance that, in my mind, stands as one of the most influential in musical and cultural history,” says Sean Corcoran, the museum’s curator of prints and photography. “That wide range...
“During the Eighties, there was a community-driven musical renaissance in New York City. It was an era of creativity and genre-defying performance that, in my mind, stands as one of the most influential in musical and cultural history,” says Sean Corcoran, the museum’s curator of prints and photography. “That wide range...
- 7/2/2021
- by RS Editors
- Rollingstone.com
Blood Orange’s Devonté Hynes will release the score to HBO miniseries We Are Who We Are on October 2nd via Milan Records.
The album features 12 pieces written by Hynes for the coming-of-age drama, along with four previously issued instrumentals from composers Julius Eastman and John Adams. The eight-episode show — co-created, co-written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Luca Guadagnino (2017’s Call Me By Your Name, the 2018 remake of horror classic Suspiria) — debuted September 14th on HBO/HBO Max and airs on Mondays at 10 p.m. Et.
As Pitchfork reports, Milan...
The album features 12 pieces written by Hynes for the coming-of-age drama, along with four previously issued instrumentals from composers Julius Eastman and John Adams. The eight-episode show — co-created, co-written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Luca Guadagnino (2017’s Call Me By Your Name, the 2018 remake of horror classic Suspiria) — debuted September 14th on HBO/HBO Max and airs on Mondays at 10 p.m. Et.
As Pitchfork reports, Milan...
- 9/22/2020
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
Above: Light in the TropicsOne moment in Paula Gaitán’s seventh feature, Light in the Tropics, which premiered in Berlin in the Forum section, contains a visual key to the entire work. It’s an inverted image of the vast landmass, created by the camera obscura. Gaitán’s ambitious project draws not so much on literal parallels as loose continuities between the environs of contemporary New York and the Hudson Valley and Brazil’s Mato Grosso, including Pantanal, and up the Xingu River, into the Amazon. That continuity between two vastly distant locations is established mostly through the experiences of the areas’ indigenous communities. It’s also a connection that envisions a symbolic line leading from today’s artists—particularly a young sculptor featured in the New York part—to the expedition by the Russo-Prussian doctor, Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff, and his artsy stragglers, into the Amazon, in 1824. The varied group included the Swiss-French inventor,...
- 3/9/2020
- MUBI
Exclusive: Punk rock documentary Kill Your Idols is coming back with a series of special event theatrical screenings and its VOD debut after Submarine Deluxe picked up the worldwide rights.
The film, which was directed by Scott Crary, who went on to be a music consultant on HBO’s Vinyl, tells the story of New York City’s diverse art punk and no wave music scenes across three decades and features bands such as Sonic Youth, Suicide and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (pictured).
It was originally released by Palm Pictures as well as Showtime and Sundance Channel in 2006 but is being re-released by the Searching for Sugar Man and Citizenfour firm. In addition to theatrical screenings, it will be released digitally for the first time as well as a two-part DVD set, which will include over 90 minutes of bonus content, including 20 minutes of never-before-seen footage from the original production, commentaries and two brand new featurettes.
The film, which was directed by Scott Crary, who went on to be a music consultant on HBO’s Vinyl, tells the story of New York City’s diverse art punk and no wave music scenes across three decades and features bands such as Sonic Youth, Suicide and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (pictured).
It was originally released by Palm Pictures as well as Showtime and Sundance Channel in 2006 but is being re-released by the Searching for Sugar Man and Citizenfour firm. In addition to theatrical screenings, it will be released digitally for the first time as well as a two-part DVD set, which will include over 90 minutes of bonus content, including 20 minutes of never-before-seen footage from the original production, commentaries and two brand new featurettes.
- 6/29/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Remember the first time you heard a band that didn't cop to anyone else's style or music vibe before? I can namecheck Patti Smith and the Talking Heads as bands that made that immediate impact on my ears and brain. Couldn't shake them out of my brain. Well, it's happened again. Heard a song on random shuffle on a Spotify playlist and bam!... I was hooked. Beauty Pill's tune "Afrikaner Barista" got lodged in my cranium and simply couldn't shake it loose. Nor did I want to. So I tracked down the publicist, begged for the album that the song was released on, sadly to no avail, and bought the album anyway.
Describes Things As They Are (Butterscotch Records) is/was worth every damn penny, my friends. Like the Heads filtered through TV on The Radio, with a dash of the sonic flourishes of The Flaming Lips, but still unique,...
Describes Things As They Are (Butterscotch Records) is/was worth every damn penny, my friends. Like the Heads filtered through TV on The Radio, with a dash of the sonic flourishes of The Flaming Lips, but still unique,...
- 3/4/2017
- by Dusty Wright
- www.culturecatch.com
Renaissance man, musician, actor, and painter John Lurie is one of our cultural giants, a national treasure on a cult level at least, but because of a stalking incident and a debilitating lyme disease sickness, the jack-of-all-trades artist somewhat dropped out of the public eye over the past two decades. (This terrific New Yorker piece details much of what has gone down in his personal life). But thanks to Twitter, where he showcases his art, Lurie has found a way to cope with his ongoing illness while still communicating with the public world. Lurie’s made some major contributions to music, film and art. In the late ‘70s he formed the seminal jazz noiseniks The Lounge Lizards with Arto Lindsay, and as a painter he worked alongside Jean Michel-Basquiat and had the bizarre and unique experience of watching his friend become an art darling sensation overnight. But for many,...
- 4/19/2016
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
Christian Marclay’s The Clock returns to New York beginning tomorrow, July 13, through August 1 at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center. For details click here, and note that on the weekends the installation will run 24 hours. At special Twitter account, @LCClock, will post wait times. The following piece appeared in our Fall, 2011 issue.
Christian Marclay’s The Clock video installation is many things. Structurally it is a 24-hour video installation in which film clips from across the history of cinema are meticulously edited together so that the fictional time inside each clip matches exactly the time at which you are watching it. Culturally, The Clock is an art-world sensation. When it ran last year for several 48-hour stretches at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York, visitors waited in long lines in the cold weather for the chance to watch part of it. Die-hard fans skipped the lines by...
Christian Marclay’s The Clock video installation is many things. Structurally it is a 24-hour video installation in which film clips from across the history of cinema are meticulously edited together so that the fictional time inside each clip matches exactly the time at which you are watching it. Culturally, The Clock is an art-world sensation. When it ran last year for several 48-hour stretches at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York, visitors waited in long lines in the cold weather for the chance to watch part of it. Die-hard fans skipped the lines by...
- 7/12/2012
- by Peter Bowen
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Jason Solomons on all the gossip from Tilda Swinton's Film on the Rocks festival in Thailand
Realm of the Six Senses
Film festivals come in all themes and sizes and give prizes from Golden Bears to Audience Awards – but if there were an award for the world's most exclusive, it would surely go to Film on the Rocks, inaugurated and curated by Tilda Swinton and Palme d'Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul last week at the blissful Six Senses resort on Koh Yao Noi, a tiny island off Phuket in Thailand. I'm not really sure what it was I just attended in the line of journalistic duty – "Castaways," Swinton called the assembled guests. "Not quite a festival but a mind orgy," preferred Apichatpong (a national hero following his 2010 win at Cannes with Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives). A diverse selection of guests included British director Joanna Hogg (if...
Realm of the Six Senses
Film festivals come in all themes and sizes and give prizes from Golden Bears to Audience Awards – but if there were an award for the world's most exclusive, it would surely go to Film on the Rocks, inaugurated and curated by Tilda Swinton and Palme d'Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul last week at the blissful Six Senses resort on Koh Yao Noi, a tiny island off Phuket in Thailand. I'm not really sure what it was I just attended in the line of journalistic duty – "Castaways," Swinton called the assembled guests. "Not quite a festival but a mind orgy," preferred Apichatpong (a national hero following his 2010 win at Cannes with Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives). A diverse selection of guests included British director Joanna Hogg (if...
- 3/18/2012
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
Jonathan Ames enters the rustic Italian cafe with an unassuming hunch, sporting a scruffy beard and newsboy cap, happily anonymous on the streets of Brooklyn. It’s his usual joint, and he knows the waiter well.
As an essayist, he was an exhibitionist, chronicling his zany and perversely meaningful adventures through New York. But that was less attention-seeking than it was an attempt to delight, and as he promotes the third season of his HBO comedy, "Bored To Death," Ames struggles with our new digital narcissism. On one hand, he thinks it just may help him draw attention to the show; but on the other, he's afraid that little blue bird will destroy communication and writing as we know it.
"It's probably just a big waste of time. But everyone's doing it," he sighs. "Alec Baldwin twitters. Is everyone just walking around with their phone, making these pithy comments? It's...
As an essayist, he was an exhibitionist, chronicling his zany and perversely meaningful adventures through New York. But that was less attention-seeking than it was an attempt to delight, and as he promotes the third season of his HBO comedy, "Bored To Death," Ames struggles with our new digital narcissism. On one hand, he thinks it just may help him draw attention to the show; but on the other, he's afraid that little blue bird will destroy communication and writing as we know it.
"It's probably just a big waste of time. But everyone's doing it," he sighs. "Alec Baldwin twitters. Is everyone just walking around with their phone, making these pithy comments? It's...
- 10/10/2011
- by Jordan Zakarin
- Huffington Post
AudioPlayer.setup("http://nerve.com/files/players/audio/player.swf", { width: 350 }); Five Albums You Should Be Listening to Right Now Every two weeks, titans of the mediasphere give Nerve their music recommendations. This week: Elliot Aronow, co-founder and creative director of Rcrd Lbl. 1. The Lounge Lizards, The Lounge Lizards I'll be the first to admit I don't know much about jazz, and that's probably why I enjoy the no-wave jazz/not-jazz of early-period Lounge Lizards so much. It's disrespectful to the genre in all the right ways. Saxophonist John Lurie (of Stranger Than Paradise and Fishing with John fame) is backed by a who's who of downtown legends like Arto Lindsay (DNA) and Anton Fier (the Feelies) and man do they go in. Skronk, soul, confusion, chaos, and bliss, all rolled together. Listen: "Do The Wrong Thing" MP3 AudioPlayer.embed(&[...]...
- 3/8/2011
- by Elliot Aronow
- Nerve
“Downtown 81 represents Manhattan’s last stand as a beatnik haven for creatively driven impoverished artists, a moment where everyone was connected in one giant electrical circuit creating their own cultural power.”
Downtown 81, featuring a nineteen year old Jean-Michel Basquiat, captured the movers and shakers from the no wave, hip-hop, graffiti, and alternative fashion scenes, as they collided down in the depths of New York’s lower east side. Originally shot by director Edo Bertoglio in the winter of 1980-81, it remained unreleased for nearly twenty years before being re-assembled in 1999 by co-producer Maripol Fauque (a Polaroid photographer and fashion designer, behind the iconic look for Madonna on the cover of Like a Virgin). Basquiat first acquired notoriety in the early eighties New York art scene with his ‘Samo’ graffiti slogans, which caught the attention of TV Party host Glenn O’Brien. After Basquiat appeared as a guest on...
Downtown 81, featuring a nineteen year old Jean-Michel Basquiat, captured the movers and shakers from the no wave, hip-hop, graffiti, and alternative fashion scenes, as they collided down in the depths of New York’s lower east side. Originally shot by director Edo Bertoglio in the winter of 1980-81, it remained unreleased for nearly twenty years before being re-assembled in 1999 by co-producer Maripol Fauque (a Polaroid photographer and fashion designer, behind the iconic look for Madonna on the cover of Like a Virgin). Basquiat first acquired notoriety in the early eighties New York art scene with his ‘Samo’ graffiti slogans, which caught the attention of TV Party host Glenn O’Brien. After Basquiat appeared as a guest on...
- 2/23/2011
- by Tom Jarvis
- SoundOnSight
DVD Playhouse September 2010
By
Allen Gardner
The Girl Who Played With Fire (Music Box Films) Follow up to the hit The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo finds Lisabeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) and Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) joining forces once again as Blomkvist is about to break a story on Sweden’s sex trade, which leads unexpectedly to a dark secret from Elizabeth’s past. Starts off well, then quickly nose-dives into sensationalism and downright silliness, with a pair of villains who are straight out of a Roger Moore-era James Bond film. A real letdown for those of us who felt Dragon Tattoo had finally breathed life into the cinema’s long-stagnant genre of the thriller. Bonuses: English language track; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby 5.1 surround.
The Killer Inside Me (IFC Films) Michael Winterbottom’s adaptation of Jim Thompson’s classic, and notorious, novel about the psychotic mind of a small town sheriff (Casey Affleck,...
By
Allen Gardner
The Girl Who Played With Fire (Music Box Films) Follow up to the hit The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo finds Lisabeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) and Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) joining forces once again as Blomkvist is about to break a story on Sweden’s sex trade, which leads unexpectedly to a dark secret from Elizabeth’s past. Starts off well, then quickly nose-dives into sensationalism and downright silliness, with a pair of villains who are straight out of a Roger Moore-era James Bond film. A real letdown for those of us who felt Dragon Tattoo had finally breathed life into the cinema’s long-stagnant genre of the thriller. Bonuses: English language track; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby 5.1 surround.
The Killer Inside Me (IFC Films) Michael Winterbottom’s adaptation of Jim Thompson’s classic, and notorious, novel about the psychotic mind of a small town sheriff (Casey Affleck,...
- 9/25/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.