Lots of light breaking today.
Daylight has beamed along a singular path, from early rehearsals through a blisteringly fast shoot, extended post-production, select festival screenings, scaring Marisa Tomei out of a Lower East Side theater space….
The Afterlight has gone through a different prism….
Monsters. Obsession. Computer Games.
Common sense says you can’t make a living in America playing avant-garde improvisational jazz. But Ken Vandermark does it anyway.
A ferocious film in two parts, depicting and severely criticizing the rise and reign of Alexander Lukashenko, dictator of Belarus.
“Indelible portraits of power’s absolute corruption…an astonishing diatribe…heaves with disturbing scenes of violence against innocent Belarussians…a primal howl of outrage.”
- Jeannette Catsoulis, NY TIMES
The Legendary Science Fiction Film
From “The greatest U.S. band today” (The Guardian)
It’s Christmastime, and the colonization of Mars is underway. However, when an oxygen generator and a gravity control pod malfunction, Major Syrtis (the Flaming Lips’ Steven Drozd) and his team (including the Lips’ Michael Ivins) fear the worst.
Cinema Purgatorio
