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What’s So New about New Wave?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agnès Varda, Blondie, Caroline Coon, Devo, Duran Duran, François Truffaut, garage rock, Gary Numan, glam, Jacques Rivette, Jean Luc Godard, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Malcolm McLaren, Minimalism, Mod, New New Wave, New Wave Coffee, Post-Punk Revival, power pop, punk, Sex Pistols, synthrock, Talking Heads, Television, The B-52's, The Boomtown Rats, The Human League, The Nouvelle Vague, The Only Ones, The Pretenders, The Stranglers on December 12, 2010 | 4 Comments »

I’ve outlined some of the following in my Looking at Movements series of posts (more of which are forthcoming), but here I want to examine the New Wave tradition exclusively, and from a different direction. I’m increasingly fascinated by how that simple two-word term has been used over the past 50 years to describe [...]

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Two-Lane Blacktop

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arlo Guthrie, Barbara Loden, Chuck Berry, Dennis Wilson, Easy Rider, existentialism, François Truffaut, Ingmar Bergman, Jack Nicholson, James Taylor, L'avventura, Laurie Bird, Michelangelo Antonioni, Monte Hellman, Normal Theater, Persona, Pickpocket, Point Blank, Red Desert, regionalism, Robert Bresson, Roger Corman, Roger Ebert, Rudy Wurlitzer, Sam Peckinpah, The 400 Blows, The Doors, The Wild Bunch, Two-Lane Blacktop, Vanishing Point, Wanda, Warren Oates on July 22, 2010 | 15 Comments »

After college, a friend and I went on a tear, spending our weekends watching everything we could find by Godard, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Kurosawa, others. My friend’s father, a former cinephile who’d seen many of these movies during their initial US releases, occasionally poked his head into the living room, watching a few minutes here and [...]

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In Memory of William Lubtchansky

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agnès Varda, Bulle Ogier, Claude Lanzmann, Danièlle Huillet, Dziga Vertov Group, François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Jean Luc Godard, Jean-Marie Straub, Juliet Berto, Philippe Garrel, William Lubtchansky on May 8, 2010 | 5 Comments »

26 October 1937 – 4 May 2010. William Lubtchansky was one of the greatest cinematographers of our time, and of any time. He shot films for Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, Agnès Varda, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, François Truffaut, Claude Lanzmann, Philippe Garrel, and many others. Among his many accomplishments was helping to “romanticize” the [...]

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