Three years ago I interviewed Arnaud Desplechin about his new film, A Christmas Tale, for Paste Magazine. As grateful as I was to have an ...
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On this edition of the podcast, J. Robert Parks and Robert Davis talk about the new film from Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman ...
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Davis was the chief film critic for the late, great Paste Magazine (which lives on now as a website) from 2005 through 2009, and he counts this interview with Claire Denis among his favorite moments. Every once in a while he pops up on Twitter. He's presently sipping puerh in Chicago, even at this hour. Meanwhile, Parks, whose work has appeared in TimeOut Chicago, The Hyde Park Herald, and Paste, is molding unsuspecting, college-aged minds in the aforementioned windy city. Media types are warned to stay clear of his semester-sized field of influence because of the distorting effects that are likely to develop.
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I've posted a final scorecard for this year's Sundance film festival over at Paste. I have a few more capsules to wrap-up the coverage, and then I'll be back here at Daily Plastic with a backlog of goodies. Just you wait.
Nice. I will cross my fingers for Unmade Beds and O'er the Land to come to a Bay Area festival or venue.
I noticed that Big River Man was supposed to have a new Kenneth Anger film playing before it. Did you get to see that short?
I did, yeah. I haven't really written about the shorts I've seen, in part because most of the ones I saw didn't really strike me. I'm not familiar with Anger's work, so I'm probably not the best to comment on his latest, but it was mostly a collection of clips of Bunker Spreckels, recovered footage of an odd, self-shot screen test for Anger's Lucifer.
BTW, it's been fun hearing about the 16mm stuff that you and Ryland pulled out of the PFA vault... which included some Anger, capital A.
I'm glad you enjoyed listening. I dig the podcast form, as you may know. I hope there's more Plastic podcasting in the works...