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Few contemporary filmmakers are as provocative – and divisive – as Larry Clark, the 75-year-old photographer-turned-director whose grimy aesthetic and offhand style are getting the full-on retrospective treatment at Metrograph, beginning August 25. The Oklahoma native first came to national prominence with the 1971 publication of his photo book Tulsa, which he followed in 1983 […]
We’ve kept an eye on Lola Kirke since she charmed her way through Mistress America, her breakthrough role; since that 2015 gem, she’s enchanted us on Mozart in the Jungle, amazed us in the woefully underseen AWOL, and startled us in the forthcoming Gemini. Point is, when she’s in a new movie, it has our […]
With his latest film The Square, Ruben Östlund continues his interest in the questions of human psychology and group behavior through the lens of a masculine figure, and again the crisis of masculinity is at the center of the story. Ostlund’s works portray men who are not always capable of comprehending what’s happening around them, […]
Adult cinema is frequently left out of the discussions about independent movies, but the experimental and avant-garde works of directors like Radley Metzger, Roberta Findlay, and Joe Sarno demand a place in the canon. These filmmakers are being honored in a new series at New York’s Quad Cinema. Erotic City, which runs today through August […]
Brooklyn-based duo Low Fem’s first two songs, which Flavorwire is lucky enough to premiere (for they are, full disclosure, friends of Flavorwire), begin sweetly, unassumingly. In “I Will Be There,” the soft androgyny of lead singer Max Silver’s vocals invites you in, as minimal electronic thwacks (via multi-instrumentalist Lucas Segall) punctuate his crooning. Abruptly, Silver’s […]
Rollercoasterwater, aka Chuckie Behring, is readying for the release of his self-titled LP this Fall, and Flavorwire has the pleasure of premiering its oneiric first single, “Well Aware.” The Animal Collective influenced L.A. musician took on the Rollercoasterwater title back in 2011, and has since explored the mysteries of consciousness through abstractly autobiographical soundscapes. In […]
Super 8 is synonymous with nostalgia. Its beautifully saturated color tones and grainy texture seem like memories come to life, and it’s so evocative that it’s almost clichéd at this point; finding new ways to use it is difficult. Hats off, then, to Seattle duo Acid Tongue, whose video for “Get Free” deploys the Super […]
In April 2010, an explosion at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico catalyzed perhaps the most disastrous oil spill since the Exxon Valdez. Nearly 5 million barrels of oil — enough to fill 311 Olympic-size swimming pools — leaked into the Gulf, affecting 665 miles of coastline, and the lives of thousands of […]
In his just published work, How Soon Is Now, author, speaker, and thinker Daniel Pinchbeck — known for his 2002 book Breaking Open the Head and 2012’s The Return of Quetzalcoatl — undertakes a review of the current state of humanity, of consciousness, and of planet Earth. Pinchbeck argues that without fundamental change, we’re hurtling towards an […]
Thirty-eight years after it was first published in 1979, Octavia Butler’s Kindred remains one of the most uncategorizable, and uncompromising, narratives about slavery in the United States. It relates the story of Dana, a black woman in the 1970s, who finds herself pulled back through time to rescue Rufus, a white boy from a slaveholding […]
