The Beat Goes On

Πόλεμος και βιντεοπαιχνίδια Από τον Σουν Τζου στο Xbox

By book From Sun Tzu to Xbox is now available in Greek! With an even more bizarre cover.

According to Google Translator, here's what one reviewer had to say about the translation:

One such book is indispensable to those who have children (especially in childhood and teenage age): what he says - which achna recoverable here-giving clear the extent of a phenomenon that is not a phase of maturity and therefore has much yet to impose. In the current phase has affected (though it has not changed) behaviours, relationships, interpretations, decisions. Chances are that the impact on downstream will be greater. As for the completeness of the issue, has everything to the translator main Nektario Kalaitzi, carried on the language in our clearest way the original and had the patience and courage to complete his efforts with a glossary explaining the efficiency and definitions concerning video games.

Link: Βιβλιοπωλείο Ψαράς, Εκδόσεις Δίον, Βιβλία, Ελληνική λογοτεχνία, Έλληνες συγγραφείς, βιβλιοπωλείο online

Famous Amos

My godchild Tiana's birthday is coming up this weekend (turning five!). So I bought some more books for her as a gift--The Red Balloon, The Story of Ferdinand, Harold and the Purple Crayon, a weird and wonderful Maurice Sendak-illustrated obscurity called A Hole is to Dig: A First Book of First Definitions, and finally this gem pictured above.

Experimental cinephiles will recognize Amos Vogel as founder of Cinema 16, early shaper of the New York Film Festival and author of the definitely not-for-kids-book Film As a Subversive Art. Sendak also did artwork for advertisements for Cinema 16's children's shows. Kino-geeks take note: one of the stores on the street is called "Marcia's"--no doubt after Marcia Vogel, Amos's wife and co-runner of Cinema 16--and the film society itself hangs its shingle a little ways down the block!

On the Marks

Touch: Sensuous Theory and ... - Google Book Search

Light Linking

The first show of Light Industry happens tonight at 8pm! Here's some recent chatter from Internetland:

Filmmaker Magazine blog

Rhizome

BadLit

Brownstoner

ArtCal

Documents on Art & Cinema

Invisible Cinema

GreenCine Daily

(photo: the view from outside the entrance to Light Industry's digs!)

I Am In The Whitney Biennial

Well, sort of. This Saturday!

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Please join
Jennifer Montgomery and Peggy Ahwesh
and our esteemed Lecturers (listed below) for an Evening Salon
"ALCOHOL, TOBACCO and FIREARMS"
Featuring educational orations on the histories of New York and the struggles
of her People, their tribulations and recreations, during tumultuous times.

Lecturers include: Yvonne Buchanon, Ben Coonley, Ed Halter, Jeanne Liotta,
Melissa Ragona, Judith Rodenbeck, Keith Sanborn, Leslie Thornton, Emily Vey Duke,
and Tom Zummer.

Traditional stimulants: Absinthe, Bombay Sapphire, and Whiskey
will be served.

Free and open to the public!
Whitney Biennial at the Park Avenue Armory
Fourth Floor (take the Elevator at the left end of the entry hall)
643 Park Avenue at 67th Street
armoryonpark.org

Saturday, March 22, 2008

In Exile

Noted typomane Mike Atkinson announces blogwise that Exile Cinema: Filmmakers at Work Beyond Hollywood is finally hitting the shelves of your local bookstore, virtual versions included.

I happened to hold a physical copy of this tome myself this past weekend while meandering through the academic press book-faire set up within the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in Philadelphia. I should have snapped a phone-pic to document my findings, which felt something like a Bigfoot sighting for this long-rumored release. The design looks good and the book feels solid in the hand in that wonderfully durable heavy-glossy-paper academic-publishing way, even if its contributors have fewer Ph. D's and more Certificates of Survival from film criticism's School of Hard Knocks (or is it a School for Scoundrels? My diploma has become too smudgy to tell).

Here's the redoubtable table of contents from the SUNY Press site:

Table Of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Michael Atkinson Part 1: Rockets from East Asia 1. Double Trouble: Tsui Hark & Ching Siu-tung Howard Hampton 2. Bullet Ballet: Seijun Suzuki Jonathan Rosenbaum 3. Kuala L'Impure: The Cinema of Amir Muhammad Dennis Lim 4. A Kurosawa Kiyoshi Kit B. Kite 5. The Bong Show: Bong Joon-ho Ed Park Part 2. On the European Outskirts 6. Beyond the Clouds: The Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan Geoff Andrew 7. Pawel Pawlikowski: Dreaming All My Life Jessica Winter 8. Bela Tarr Jonathan Romney 9. Blunt Force Trauma: Andrzej Zulawski Michael Atkinson 10. Sharunas Bartas Laura Sinagra Part 3. Documentarians and Mad Scientists 11. Ken Jacobs David Sterritt 12. A Few Moments of Arousal in a Film by Martin Arnold George Toles 13. Ross McElwee Godfrey Cheshire 14. Judith Helfand: Secret Stories, Video Diaries, and Toxic Comedy Patricia Aufderheide Part 4. Lost between Genre and Myth-Making 15. The Beardo: José Mojica Marins Guy Maddin 16. Dellamorte Dellamore and Michele Soavi Maitland McDonagh 17. Guy Maddin Mark Peranson 18. James Fotopoulos Ed Halter 19. Christopher Munch: For Those We Have Loved Graham Fuller Part 5. Defiant Lions of the New Wave Generation 20. Pleasures of the Flesh: Walerian Borowczyk David Thompson 21. Chris Marker: The Return to Work at the Wonder Factory Joshua Clover 22. Moebius Dragstrip: Monte Hellman Circles Back Chuck Stephens 23. The Not-Too-Long Discourses of Chantal Akerman Stuart Klawans List of Contributors Index