A rumpled Jarvis Cocker takes a break from “exhibiting himself” at London’s Village Underground. The art/music happening, which replicates a similar affair at Paris’ Galerie Chappe, draws to a close this evening with a concert at 9pm. If you can’t get down and want to scope the man merging with his fans, you can watch [...]
Author Archives: Clodagh Kinsella
Harmony Talks Trash
November 6, 2009 – 12:11 pm
Harmony Korine is gleefully recycling the diabolical tagline to the assembled press at London’s Mayfair Hotel: “It’s about people who fuck trash. Not just about people who fuck trash, but that is one of the things that they love to do.” It’s hard to know whether the overgrown wünderkind has hit the festival circuit to [...]
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
October 23, 2009 – 11:56 am
It was unlikely that Werner Herzog’s re-visitation of the Abel Ferrara cult classic Bad Lieutenant was ever going to be as funny as the directorial war of words it provoked back in 2007. With Ferrara in the anti-remake corner crying “Burn in Hell” and the hubristic Herzog in the other howling “fight the windmills”, the stage [...]
Trash Humpers: The Title is Literal
September 30, 2009 – 1:48 pm
Harmony Korine has dubbed his new trashcore romp a “found object” – something you might stumble across during a good bin rifle, although, after the film, you might have to sidestep perverts exploring their erotic potential. Regressing via the conventional Mister Lonely to the territory of Gummo’s hermetic misfits, it follows a crew of geriatric burn [...]
Dictator of Style: The September Issue
September 16, 2009 – 3:17 am
Film is not very good at inhabiting the diaphanous folds of fashion. Recent reports from Venice on A Single Man, Tom Ford’s directorial debut, suggest that fashion might make a slicker transition to film. In any case, while master photographers and designers routinely gesture towards the life outside the shot – the model mid-leap caught [...]
