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Paper Heart: Y’all are probably sick of me trying to cram this down your throat, but I swear to you: this is a GREAT film. Sweet, nerdy, awkward, charming and guaranteed to make you tear up. Comedian and performance artist Charlyne Yi doesn’t believe in “love” and thus goes on a quest across America to find out the true meaning of the word – meeting Michael Cera along the way, which puts a slight hitch in her plans. I have no idea how Yi and Cera pulled off making this seem so real when the entire thing is an act, but they do. Love, love, love and love.
The Cartoonist: Jeff Smith, Bone and the Changing Face of Comics: If you’ve never read the graphic novel “Bone”, this is a good primer (but I also heartily recommend you read it). Learn all things about Bone creator Jeff Smith, and get your geek on through interviews with other alt-comic greats Paul Pope (“Batman: Year 100”), Terry Moore (“Strangers in Paradise”) and Harvey Pekar (“American Splendor”).
Blu-ray release: Gimme Shelter (Criterion Collection): FINALLY. This Maysles Brothers masterpiece about the Altamont Speedway Free Festival gets released in Hi-Def Criterion. In addition to capturing mind-blowing performances from Jefferson Airplane, Ike & Tina Turner, and of course, The Rolling Stones, the Maysles’ cameras captured the nightmare violence that ensued between the crowds and the hired-for-beer Hells Angels “security”. Warning: the actual stabbing of victim Meredith Hunter is shown on film, so this definitely isn’t for the faint of heart – but I still count it as a must-see.
1 gary miklusek said on December 2, 2009
2 Chris Estey said on December 2, 2009
3 gary miklusek said on December 3, 2009
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