Dylan in Prospect Park, Wilco at McCarren Pool, Trey Anastasio‘s triumphant return to full-on electric shredding with Classic TAB at All Points West and the Music Hall of Williamsburg — and that’s just the stuff I missed. The shows I managed to catch weren’t too shabby either: Animal Collective driving a sun-blitzed afternoon crowd wild, [...]
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"A fast, complex, exhilarating roadster ride through history and time.... Kino is an intoxicating Euro-brew, written with enormous skill and dedication." — Frederick Barthelme
"Jürgen Fauth's deft mashup of genre and historical period is both a full-throttle literary thriller of ideas and a contemplative examination of film and fascism. Kino is a debut of great intellectual force."– Teddy Wayne
"A surprising alternative history. Kino brings the golden age of German cinema to light with loving, sometimes gritty, detail and great precision." – Neal Pollack, author of Jewball.
"A delirious melange of conspiracy, magic, sex, history, bad behavior, and cinema, Kino is a stellar entertainment, and Jürgen Fauth is a writer of rare, sinister imagination." – Owen King, author of Reenactment
"A light-hearted romp that leads straight into darkness and back through the shadows on the wall."– Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
"Movie nuts arise! A happy and felicitous debut."– Terese Svoboda
All posts tagged bob-dylan
The Week in Music
Posted by Jürgen on August 16, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/08/16/the-week-in-music/
Konsum: One More Saturday Night
Fewer movies than usual because I’m working on several top secret plans for world domination, we’re still catching up with The Wire, and my obsession with Daniel Plainview shows no signs of abating. (Check out the new entries in the contest.) The notable exception was Etgar Keret’s Jellyfish, a sweet film that plays like minor-key [...]
Posted by Jürgen on April 7, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/04/07/konsum-one-more-saturday-night/
NYFF45 Wrap-Up
The New York Film Festival is a marathon, not a sprint, and I hit the wall somewhere around week 3 (sorry, Alexander Sokurov and In the City of Sylvia) but recovered for the final stretch. It’s been a heady month: from the dizzying heights of Blade Runner: The Final Cut and Secret Sunshine, the joyful [...]
Posted by Jürgen on October 12, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/10/12/nyff45-wrap-up/
I’m Not There Press Conference
Someone’s got it in for me, they’re planting stories in the press Whoever it is I wish they’d cut it out but when they will I can only guess. Around festival lobbies and parties, all over the blogosphere and on the cover of the New York Times magazine, the merits of Haynes’s Dylan picture are [...]
Posted by Jürgen on October 8, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/10/08/im-not-there-press-conference/
Four More Festival Reviews
I took a break from the festival today to catch up with reviews. Here’s a quick rundown: I’m Not There Todd Haynes’s Dylan picture only truly takes off when a Dylan song is playing, and that should tell you something. Cate Blanchett is great fun, but I liked her even better in tonight’s Elizabeth: The [...]
Posted by Jürgen on October 3, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/10/03/four-more-festival-reviews/
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
At the end of every trip, this is the song that gets stuck in my head.
Posted by Jürgen on September 16, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/09/16/just-like-tom-thumbs-blues/
Happy Birthday, Jerry
They say the show ain’t over till the fat man melts, but that particular show has been over for quite some time now. Yup, Jerry Garcia would have turned 65 today, and I don’t really know what else to say about that. Maybe I’ll just quote Dylan’s eulogy again and link some tunes? There’s no [...]
Posted by Jürgen on August 1, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/08/01/happy-birthday-jerry/
Phish Covers
Too many lousy movies, not enough rock’n roll: what this blog needs is more Freebird, more Bohemian Rhapsody, more Big Pimpin’ — as played by the popular rock band Phish. Bohemian Rhapsody (with the Boston Community Choir) Freebird (with Wynonna Judd) While My Guitar Gently Weeps 99 Problems and Big Pimpin’ (with Jay-Z) Some of [...]
Posted by Jürgen on May 11, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/05/11/phish-covers/
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