ART OF FILM #5: EYES WITHOUT A FACE

FEATURED FILM FRIDAY #2: SALOME

SALOME

(aka “Salomè”)

Dir. Carmelo Bene

Starring Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, Alfiero Vincenti, Donyale Luna.

83 min. Italy.

Italian with English subtitles. 

This 1972 Italian obscurity is easily the wildest production of Oscar Wilde's fin de siecle masterpiece SALOME you'll ever see. For that matter, it's one the most outrageous films ever made. Overflowing with eye-burning colors, bellowed dialogue, hyper-kinetic editing and camerawork, costumes and props made of neon, and even vampires, director Carmelo Bene's film is an unrelenting sensory assault that still manages to find time for quiet, lyrical moments.

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MIXTAPE MONDAY #2

Mixtape #2 from _iamheather on 8tracks Radio.

01. Here Comes A Regular- The Replacements
02. My Name Is Carnival- Jackson C. Frank
03. Underneath The Bottle- Lou Reed
04. Paint It Blue- Smoke
05. Thirsty Dog- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
06. Street and Exile- The Blue Angel Lounge
07. Sunday Morning Coming Down- Kris Kristofferson
08. Whiskey In The Jar- Thin Lizzy
09. Borracho- Mark Lanegan
10. One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer- John Lee Hooker
11. Junk Bones- Dark Dark Dark
12. Moonshiner- Cat Power

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FEATURED FILM FRIDAY #1: UNA VITA VIOLENTA

UNA VITA VIOLENTA (1962)

(aka “A Violent Life”)

Dir. Brunello Rondi & Paolo Heusch

Based on the novel by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Starring Franco Citti and Serena Vergano

103 min. Italy.

Italian with English subtitles.

Set in post-war Italy Violent Life chronicles the deeds of young Tommaso (Franco Citti), a reckless hoodlum, who spends his time on the streets of Rome. Flirting with both the Fascists and the Communists Tommaso unexpectedly falls in love with the beautiful Irene (Serena Vergano), and his life takes an unusual turn.

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ART OF FILM #4: ACCATTONE

MICK ROCK #3

ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE #3

ANTON CORBIJN #2

SWEET SOUNDS OF VINYL #4: GIVE ME CONVENIENCE OR GIVE ME DEATH BY DEADKENNEDYS

COOL RIDER #1

MIXTAPE MONDAY #1

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01. Desire- The Rockets
02. Drug City- The Contenders
03. Jobriath- Balcony
04. This Time- The Wasps
05. When It Rains- Smoke
06. No Pills- The Torpedos
07. Say Goodbye- Weeping Messerschmitts
08. No Way Out- D Generation
09. We Ended Up- The Mumps
10. The Time Of Your Life- This Perfect Day
11. Love's Gone Bad- The SeatBelts
12. Soldier- Prostitutes
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THROUGH THE LENS #2: LARRY CLARK

"My work is always about me, just like your work is always about you. I am a storyteller. I've never been interested in just taking the single image and moving on. I always like to stay with the people I'm photographing for long periods of time."

"I've told people my lesson for photography. I tell people to frame the picture. Make the greatest, most perfect composition you can . . . and then take a step forward. It skews it a bit and makes it more interesting."

"It's interesting because we were coming out of the 1950s, and that was such a repressed time. I think I started making photographs in reaction to that. "Why can't you show everything?" "Why do people pull their punches?" There were great photo essays in LIFE magazine, but they always stopped at a certain place. There was always a place where everybody stopped. It was just a rule. For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them."

"You know I always shot with black and white, I start shooting color in the 90’s when I started shooting skate kids. Because I had been in a dark room since I was teenager, I was sick of the dark room. I had to get out of the dark room, so I switched to the color photography, because if you shoot with color, you can take it to the drug store and 24 hours later, you can get little prints. So it was not really an aesthetic choice, I was just sick of being in a dark room, and you see in color anyway."

"I am always shooting against the light. So you see the light, you see the light source, you see the window, you see where the light comes from."

"Because photography to me, is about light and feeling, and you can do so much with that." 

"I have never sold out, and I never will. And I do not do any commercial photographs. I do not do any campaigns. [I had] lots of dollars offered for campaigns, and I laughed at them, “fuck you”. I am not going to do that. So, I guess I am an artist, because I have always felt the reason I am here is to make work, and I only care about making work, and making art. I am always moving forward, doing new work. And as I do new work, people don’t get it, they think, “what the fuck is Larry is doing?” They don’t get it, but they will get it, they will catch up, I am always ahead."

"I cut out my own territory. It’s my territory. I think it’s just to try and make work that reflects real life. The way real life is. That is what I’m trying to do. I try to be honest, honest with people, and make honest work."

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