Pages tagged “issue 29”

The Wind That Shakes The Barley

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Winner of the 2006 Palm d’Or at Cannes, The Wind That Shakes the Barley thrusts viewers into the rainy landscapes and political tumult of 1920s Ireland.  read more

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The Namesake

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Lahiri's novel, already essential reading for anyone stuck in an unfamiliar place, is honestly and earnestly rendered here, and The Namesake will resonate with anyone who's ever felt the crush of a compound identity.  read more

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Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back [docudrama]

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The film itself—the 23-year-old Dylan oozing bravado, surreal wisdom and music, in iconic black and white—plays with perpetual vitality.  read more

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Woman is the Future of Man

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Hong is considered a master filmmaker by many critics, so it’s surprising to see him make a film that’s more feisty than philosophical.  read more

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Monsters and Madmen

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Corridors of Blood (1958) and The Haunted Strangler (1958) feature Boris Karloff in two of his best roles. In each film he plays a crusading agent of change undone by his own righteousness.  read more

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Cream - Classic Artists: Cream [image entertainment]

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This fact-filled doc—written by first-generation rock journalist Chris Welch and comprised almost entirely of talking-head reminiscences from the band members and their contemporaries  read more

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David Gray - Live In Slow Motion [iht]

This DVD documents the concert at London’s Hammersmith during the tour that followed. It’s thoughtfully filmed and edited...  read more

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A PASTE Conversation with Bill Mallonee

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It’s a lazy afternoon at cozy Athens, Ga., bar Flicker, and former Vigilantes of Love frontman Bill Mallonee is busy checking the levels on my portable recording gear, high-speed spewing verbatim excerpts of The Gettysburg Address, Neil Armstrong’s moon-landing speech and Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are with a tongue limber as an auctioneer’s. His new wife/keyboardist/backup singer Muriah Rose at his side, the loquacious Mallonee talks with PASTE about his new record Permafrost, life on the road, his personal struggles and the ups and downs of the music business… PASTE: All of the records I’ve listened to of...  read more

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Norah Jones

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On a music-video set just south of downtown Los Angeles, on an industrial strip trafficked by semis and surrounded by railbeds, a bewigged Norah Jones is dancing with a man in a tuxedo. Wait, make that a man in a form-fitting lime-green body stocking with a tuxedo pinned to his chest. In this converted garage behind a Streamline Moderne façade, Jones is working out some on-the-fly choreography to “Sinkin’ Soon,” from her new album Not Too Late. “Can we try that one more time?” the dancing musician asks director Ace Norton, 24, who chews gum and patrols the set sockless...  read more

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