Published by Nan A. Talese
Sep 22, 2014
Books
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Margaret Atwood has returned with a collection of short fiction for the first time in eight years.
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Studio: Strand Releasing
Directed by Hong Khaou
Sep 22, 2014
Cinema
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In some minor but important ways, writer-director Hong Khaou’s film, Lilting, resembles The Wedding Banquet: on its surface, it has the same kind of conceit wherein a young man must hide his sexuality (and boyfriend) from his, in this case, mother.
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Sep 22, 2014
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It’s helpful in understanding Cassavetes’ last great feature, Love Streams, to know that it was pitched to Cannon Films as a comedy.
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Sep 22, 2014
Music
Common
Something strange happened to hip-hop in the past decade: the genre’s most conscious artists, once considered incendiary, somehow became legacy artists.
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Sep 19, 2014
Music
Issue #51 - September/October 2014 - alt-J
Alt-J‘s 2012 debut, An Awesome Wave, is one of the great modern indie success stories. The now-trademark unconventional and accessible songs took both the independent and the mainstream music worlds by storm, catapulting the band from the blogosphere to three Brit Award nominations and a Mercury Music Prize.
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Vertigo/DC
Written by Ian Edginton, Art by Francesco Trifogli
Sep 19, 2014
Comic Books
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Mankind has been all but wiped out by a deadly plague. Former metropolises-New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, among others-have been reduced to pocket colonies of survivors, and Mother Nature has reclaimed the cement and concrete.
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Studio: Amplify
Directed by Terry Gilliam
Sep 19, 2014
Cinema
Issue #51 - September/October 2014 - alt-J
If Brazil was his dystopian interpretation of stifling bureaucracy in the 1980s, then The Zero Theorem is Terry Gilliam’s chilling portrayal of our Internet age.
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Sep 19, 2014
DVDs
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Jacques Demy — best known for his whimsical musicals and almost obscenely-bright color palettes — receives a beautiful, extras-packed box set from Criterion.
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Sep 19, 2014
Music
Zammuto
Nick Zammuto‘s first post-The Books album was busy, wild, and eclectic, making pop music out of experimentation. On sophomore release Anchor, Zammuto remains as fidgety as ever, but this time around, he’s given the music space to breathe.
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