By Bob Margolin The more blues-driven musicians commandeered the instruments at the jam, and played some old favorite songs together, mostly Robert Johnson’s. This sounds like a common scene at open-mic jams […]
THE LAST WALTZ BLUES JAM
The Ten Best Films of All Time
By Paul Schrader I’ve participated in the Sight and Sound ten best list since my critic days in the early 70’s. Every decade the list mutates (and dilutes as the list of […]
Hollywood’s first sex symbol was Asian
By @historycoolkids Considering how poorly Asian men are portrayed in Hollywood, I was genuinely surprised to learn about Sessue Hayakawa, a Japanese actor who became one of the biggest stars during the […]
WATCH: Dennis Hopper in Witch Hunt
WITCH HUNT, 1994. Thought it was lost to time, but here it is on YouTube. How did this movie get on my c.v.? Not sure. I was shifting gears and ended up […]
Trailer: Rip It Up and Start Again
A ‘proof-of-concept’ trailer for a four-part series covering the post-punk scenes of the years 1978-82, using Simon Reynolds’ book ‘Rip It Up + Start Again’ as a roadmap. This version is a […]
The 10 best movies of all time
By Paul Schrader SECOND THOUGHTS. I think the time has come to let Citizen Kane go. It is, after all, the granddaddy of all time best film lists. But I’m replacing it […]
Robert Altman listens to Duke Ellington
Remembering Oscar-nominated “Nashville” director Robert Altman, who died of a heart attack on November 20, 2006, aged 81. “I grew up in Kansas City. The housekeeper that kind of raised me was […]
Fire Music: The Story of Free Jazz
Although the free jazz movement of the 1960s and ‘70s was much maligned in some jazz circles, its pioneers – brilliant talents like Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, and […]
ECHO: The Music of Harold Budd and Brian Eno
A documentary revisiting the seminal works ‘The Plateaux of Mirror’ (1980) and ‘The Pearl’ (1984), by artists Harold Budd and Brian Eno. Rare interviews and anecdotes from the artists accompany a fan-crafted […]
The Weather Underground
When the Beatles land in America in the early 1960s, young men wearing their hair long strike the nation as an abomination. But within a few years, youthful rebellion grows more severe: […]
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