Apocalypse: A Bill Callahan Tour Film: A personal portrait of the celebrated musician as he toured across the US

Apocalypse: A Bill Callahan Tour Film


Each track Bill Callahan crafted during his (thus far) 24-year career posses unfathomable depths of beauty and thought. There’s an ever-intimate progression within the singer/songwriter’s lyrics—moving, melodic and masterful—which all the while keeps his message…

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Mistaken For Strangers: Behind-the-scenes brotherly love in Tom Berninger’s unscripted documentary about indie rock band The National

Mistaken For Strangers


The National is a band of brothers. Twins Aaron and Bryce Dessner both play guitar and piano, while siblings Scott and Bryan Devendorf play bass and drums, respectively. Lead singer Matt Berninger is technically the fraternal…

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Interview: Frank Pavich, Director of Jodorowsky’s Dune: The filmmaker on his breakout documentary, about one of the greatest movies never made

Interview: Frank Pavich, Director of Jodorowsky’s Dune


by Charlotte Anderson Some 10 years before David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of the popular science fiction novel “Dune” by Frank Herbert, Chilean-French filmmaker (and icon) Alejandro Jodorowsky was already penning his own screenplay. His goal was ambitious: to create a philosophically minded, aesthetically…

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Fantastic Man: Filmmaker Jake Sumner and record label Luaka Bop try to answer the question: “Who Is William Onyeabor?”

Fantastic Man


by Leo Walton Like many of us, you may have already enjoyed the fascinating and utterly infectious music of William Onyeabor. A mysterious Nigerian producer of the late ’70s and early ’80s, Onyeabor’s cult-like status has…

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Home Ground: UK-based filmmaker James Aiken embarks on a nautical exploration of Greenland

Home Ground


The desolate region surrounding Iceland and Greenland is, in essence, pure wilderness. The landscape, the people—every aspect of the area is unique. While the two isolated countries share an impressive amount of geographic similarities, the native cultures are each wholly their own, developing…

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Link About It: This Week’s Picks : Philip Seymour Hoffman’s inimitable talent, architecture in ice, bionic hands and more in our weekly look at the web

Link About It: This Week's Picks


1. Farewell, Philip Seymour Hoffman The number of thoughtful tributes and articles about the tragic passing of Philip Seymour Hoffman is a veritable testament to the huge loss the public feels—let alone that of his colleagues, friends and family. Tom Junod of Esquire…

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Kapital Creation: A Beijing State of Mind: An upcoming film explores the juxtaposition of unbridled economic development and burgeoning creativity in the city

Kapital Creation: A Beijing State of Mind


Urbanization is a major global issue, but nowhere more pressing and extreme than in China. The country’s urban population is expected to hit one billion over the next decade, according to the World Bank. Alongside unprecedented economic development and resource consumption, China has…

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Outerlands: Season One: The documentary series from AREA 5 aims to debunk sterotypes and explore non-traditional gaming coverage

Outerlands: Season One


Every now and then a project comes along that can make even the most jaded curmudgeon crack a smile—Outerlands is one of those projects. Video games are a diverse form of entertainment, and one that…

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Weekend of a Champion: Formula 1 racing in the ’70s told through an enduring love story

Weekend of a Champion


So often artists hold on to material and work, squirreling it away from the public due to timing or budget or perfectionism—half-painted masterpieces rolled up and forgotten, or handwritten novels tucked in a bottom drawer. Fortunately, Roman Polanski’s masterpiece “Weekend…

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theFINproject by Timothy Hogan: Celebrating the beauty and role of the fin and its creators throughout surfing history

theFINproject by Timothy Hogan


Sometimes the most integral aspects of a craft receive the least attention. This rings especially true in surfboard design where the fin is often overlooked. But theFINproject, a new photo series and upcoming documentary by still-life…

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