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Dean Wareham: My Firsts

Nov 12, 2014 Dean Wareham

For this My Firsts we talk to Dean Wareham. Born in New Zealand in 1963, his family relocated to Australia before settling in New York City in 1977 (when the punk scene was still going strong). More

Pleased to Meet You Spotlight: Springtime Carnivore

Nov 12, 2014 Web Exclusive

According to the bio on Springtime Carnivore’s Facebook page, Greta Morgan once joined a traveling circus as an acrobat and tightrope walker, where she suffered a fall which broke her leg. While rehabbing from the injury, she rediscovered the old family piano and began writing music. More

Director Barbara Kopple on ‘Running From Crazy’

Nov 10, 2014 Barbara Kopple

Barbara Kopple is a legend in documentary filmmaking. Her debut film, Harlan County USA (1976), made while she was still in school, won the Best Documentary Oscar. Kopple’s latest film, Running From Crazy, is an intimate documentary portrait of actress Mariel Hemingway as she fights back against her famous family’s long history of mental illness and suicide. Kopple intertwines family home video, an unfinished documentary by Mariel’s sister Margaux (who committed suicide in 1992), and contemporary footage of Mariel as she raises two teenaged daughters and participates in various suicide prevention activities. I had the chance to speak with Kopple about watching Mariel watch those home videos for the first time and how Ernest’s legacy impacts the Hemingway family. More

Filmmaker A.J. Edwards Discusses ‘The Better Angels’

Nov 07, 2014 Web Exclusive

The Better Angels is a breathtaking cinematic interpretation of three critical years in Abraham Lincoln’s youth. Starting before the death of his birth mother in 1818 and spanning through his stepmother’s arrival in his life, the film is not only a realistic, un-romanticized portrayal of American frontier life, but a poetic study of the bonds between a child and its mother. The Better Angels speculates on the impact these two women had in shaping the future leader, and does so quite convincingly. More

Jessie Ware

Nov 06, 2014 Issue #51 - September/October 2014 - alt-J

Before she succumbs to the inevitable blitz of promotion and performances surrounding her highly-anticipated sophomore album Tough Love this fall, Jessie Ware still has one big commitment on her agenda to cross off: her wedding day. More

Pleased to Meet You Spotlight: Ballet School

Nov 05, 2014 Web Exclusive

Vocalist Rosie Blair embarked for Berlin with little else beyond a plan to form a band. One night, by chance, she overheard Michel Collet busking in the U-Bahn, Berlin’s underground mass transit system, and was struck by his beautiful, complex guitar style. She approached the guitarist; they bonded over shared musical tastes, and decidedly quickly that they were meant to work together. More

iamamiwhoami

Nov 01, 2014 iamamiwhoami

As iamamiwhoami, Jonna Lee crafts electropop that seems to twist and turn based on its own internal logic. More

Guest Analysis: Pelican’s Trevor de Brauw on the Horror Films of Lucio Fulci

Oct 31, 2014 Web Exclusive

In his four decades of filmmaking, Lucio Fulci created a body of work that established his legacy as one of Italy’s masters of horror. Among euro cult and horror fans, Fulci’s best films are held in the same regard as those of directors Dario Argento and Mario Bava.

Getting his start in the late 1950s with comedies and spaghetti westerns, Fulci eventually moved into the realm of giallos – an Italian horror subgenre that shares elements with the American slasher film – and eventually, the more surreal and supernatural style of horror that became his trademark. Fulci is most famous – or, at least, notorious – for his heavy use of realistic (and disgusting) gore effects, which are on best display in the director’s zombie films of the late 1970s and early 1980s. More

Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple, and author Joe Hill on ‘Horns’

Oct 30, 2014 Web Exclusive

In Horns, Daniel Radcliffe stars as Ig Perrish, a young man who finds himself accused of murdering his girlfriend—a crime he knows he didn’t commit, but lacks any proof to clear his name. Perceived as a villain in the public eye, Ig awakes to find he’s sprouted a pair of devilish horns, and possesses powers that compel others to tell him their darkest, most tucked-away secrets. With his new abilities, he sets out to prove his innocence by finding the person who took away the love of his life and bringing them to justice. More