Further to my rant posted earlier today, I wasn’t aware that Luke Buckmaster has already written at length on his opinion of numbered lists and star ratings on his blog Cinetology: Ultimately all this feeds back to a simple truth: that numbers and evaluation of art do not make natural bedfellows. What’s the point in [...]
Immaculate workprint of Manos: The Hands of Fate found in warehouse
December 13th, 2011 By Leave a Comment
On lists and star ratings
December 13th, 2011 By 6 Comments
It’s now December, the month in which two mysterious and omnipresent beings magically appear: Christmas music at shopping centres, and the year-end top ten list. Big-hitters like TIME, New York magazine and Rolling Stone as well as local luminaries such as Quickflix’s Simon Miraudo have got in early to take full advantage of the link-baiting [...]
Tim Allen knows his shit
December 12th, 2011 By 1 Comment
Philip Glass’s Qatsi trilogy live in Melbourne
December 12th, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Philip Glass and his ensemble will appear over three nights in Melbourne in 2012 to live-score the iconic Qatsi trilogy directed by Godfrey Reggio. Reggio conceived these films over a period of 20 years using streams of raw, emotional and honest images, with no dialogue or linear narrative, to create three unique works of art [...]