Geoff Dyer
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Super 8: Barth, Black and Birzeit
Black Editions Since the ’80s, Japan’s P.S.F. Records has attained cultish status for the wide variety of avant-garde-leaning jazz, psychedelic and sheerly unclassifiable music it’s released. Acid Mothers Temple and Ghost are among the eclectic array of musicians championed by label founder Hideo Ikeezumi, who’s never shied away from following his philosophy: “I only release what I like.” Now, the new label Black Editions will be bringing that catalogue to the states, in the process releasing many of P.S.F.’s records to vinyl for the first time. Bruce Sterling’s SXSW Interactive Closing Remarks “Most of the joy in your life is […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Apr 21, 2016 -
Advice for Producers, Crowdfunding, the Wu-Tang Clan, Dirty Old New York and More: Sunday Links
Here are some of the articles I’ve read this week that I recommend for your Sunday afternoon reading. “Whose Brooklyn Is It Anyway?” wonders A.O. Scott at the New York Times as he considers Spike Lee’s recent comments on the borough’s gentrification: Every city is simultaneously a seedbed of novelty and a hothouse of nostalgia, and modern New York presents a daily dialectic of progress and loss. As Colson Whitehead notes in “The Colossus of New York,” you become a New Yorker — or perhaps a true resident of any place, whether you were born there or not — when […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 30, 2014 -
TELLURIDE: MAVENS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE
Over the years, many friends and colleagues had mentioned the cinephile haven that is Telluride, but I was either too busy or too far to make the trip to the mountain tops. Finally I caved in to the (positive) peer pressure and applied to be a volunteer for the 39th Telluride Film festival over Labor Day. The deal is simple: work 40 hours over 4 days and you will eat for free, see incredible films and probably get hooked for the rest of your life. Enticing. Telluride is not easy to get to: you will need multiple connecting flights, an […]
by Camille Bertrand on Sep 1, 2012 -
Into the Zone: On Geoff Dyer’s Critical Memoir about Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker
Originally appearing in our Spring, 2012 print issue, my short report on Zona, Geoff Dyer’s fascinating critical memoir on Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker is being reposted today timed to the film’s run at Lincoln Center and forthcoming release by Criterion. — SM My first Tarkovsky film, my gateway picture, was his penultimate, Nostalghia, at the Olympia Theater near Columbia University in Morningside Heights. The seats slanted one way, the screen slanted the other, and there was a leak in the ceiling. Water dripped from the roof into a bucket on the floor, blending into Tarkovsky’s typically excellent sound design of distant […]
by Scott Macaulay on Apr 17, 2012 -
“ZONA” AUTHOR GEOFF DYER HOSTS WEEKEND OF NYC TARKOVSKY EVENTS
I’m halfway through Zona, Geoff Dyer’s book-length consideration of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker but wanted to post now to alert Dyer/Tarkovsky fans to a weekend of great events. In Zona, Dyer critiques Stalker in what feels like real-time, explicating each scene and then allowing his mind to free associate and wander, filling up the book’s many footnotes with fascinatingly digressive asides. I’ll have some thoughts on the book in the next print edition, but take note now of this weekend of appearances in support of the book. If I wasn’t in Austin I’d be at some of these. Friday, March 9—NYC […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 9, 2012
