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That Was 2024

My year in review

 ~ 12 minute read

Philadelphia Organ Festival

~ 2 minute read

That Was 2023

My year in review

 ~ 15 minute read

Letterboxd Loose Ends 2023

Bite-sized film reviews

 ~ 3 minute read

Q: Into the Storm

~ 1 minute read

Brute Force

~ 1 minute read

I Watched All 10 Saw Movies in Five Days So You Don’t Have To

~ 9 minute read

2023 Ottawa International Animation Festival

~ 17 minute read

Cade: The Tortured Crossing

~ 1 minute read

Metallica with Pantera and Mammoth WVH

~ 5 minute read

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

~ 1 minute read

Love and Death

~ 1 minute read

Kali Malone with Stephen O’Malley

~ 1 minute read

Police Story 3: Supercop

~ 2 minute read

Unwound with Teke Teke

~ 1 minute read

Otoboke Beaver with Gladie

~ 1 minute read

That Was 2022

My year in review

 ~ 19 minute read

Letterboxd Loose Ends 2022

Bite-sized film reviews

 ~ 4 minute read

31st Philadelphia Film Festival: Animated Shorts Program

~ 6 minute read

Ghost with Mastodon and Spiritbox

~ 2 minute read

Mad God

~ 1 minute read

We Own This City

~ 1 minute read

Amyl and the Sniffers with Upchuck and C.O.F.F.I.N.

~ 1 minute read

Low with Divide and Dissolve

~ 1 minute read

The Godfather

~ 1 minute read

Line Goes Up: The Problem With NFTs

~ 1 minute read

That Was 2021

The highlights and lowlights of another pandemic year

 ~ 16 minute read

The House

~ 2 minute read

Letterboxd Loose Ends 2021

Bite-sized film reviews

 ~ 6 minute read

The Matrix Resurrections

~ 1 minute read

Rope

~ 1 minute read

Baroness

~ 2 minute read

The Crucible

~ 1 minute read

Mary Lattimore with Ana Roxanne

~ 1 minute read

Human Impact with Boozewa and L.M.I.

~ 1 minute read

Idles with Gustaf

~ 1 minute read

Greet Death with The Twin and Plight

~ 1 minute read

2021 Ottawa International Animation Festival

28 countries, 51 shorts, 1 feature, 13 days

 ~ 23 minute read

White Reaper with Glove and Buddy Crime

~ 4 minute read

Blade Runner

~ 1 minute read

Zola

~ 1 minute read

Possessor

~ 1 minute read

Nomadland

~ 1 minute read

That Was 2020

It sure was.

 ~ 16 minute read

Letterboxd Loose Ends 2020

Bite-sized film reviews

 ~ 4 minute read

Tim’s Vermeer

~ 1 minute read

Terminator: Dark Fate

~ 1 minute read

Office Killer

~ 1 minute read

Street Trash

~ 1 minute read

2020 Ottawa International Animation Festival

30 countries, 82 shorts, 3 features, 11 days

 ~ 33 minute read

Verotika

~ 1 minute read

That Was 2019

The highlights of what I took in and put out

 ~ 20 minute read

Letterboxd Loose Ends 2019

Bite-sized film reviews

 ~ 3 minute read

Slayer with Primus, Ministry, and Philip H. Anselmo and the Illegals

~ 3 minute read

The Misfits with Rancid and The Damned

~ 5 minute read

Lake Mungo

~ 1 minute read

2019 Ottawa International Animation Festival

21 countries, 76 shorts, 5 features, 48 hours

 ~ 26 minute read

Behind the Curve

~ 1 minute read

Rebelmatic with The 1865, Maafa, and None Above All

~ 1 minute read

Black Midi with PC Worship and Norman Westberg

~ 2 minute read

Phish

~ 9 minute read

Uranium Club with Nandas and Pinocchio

~ 1 minute read

Björk’s Cornucopia

~ 1 minute read

Reich Richter Pärt

~ 1 minute read

Colleen Green with DeGreaser

~ 1 minute read

Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk

~ 1 minute read

Mike Doughty with Wheatus

~ 1 minute read

That Was 2018

The highlights of what I took in and put out

 ~ 20 minute read

Letterboxd Loose Ends 2018

Bite-sized film reviews

 ~ 6 minute read

2018 Ottawa International Animation Festival

~ 9 minute read

Hereditary

~ 2 minute read

A Quiet Place

~ 1 minute read

The Fountainhead

~ 1 minute read

That Was 2017

The highlights of what I took in and put out.

 ~ 20 minute read

I, Tonya

~ 1 minute read

Letterboxd Loose Ends 2017

Bite-sized film reviews

 ~ 15 minute read

Call Me by Your Name

~ 1 minute read

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

~ 2 minute read

The Disaster Artist

~ 2 minute read

The Florida Project

~ 1 minute read

Loving Vincent

~ 2 minute read

Canoa: A Shameful Memory

~ 1 minute read

Frankenstein’s Army

~ 1 minute read

10 Cloverfield Lane

~ 1 minute read

It (1990)

~ 1 minute read

78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene

~ 1 minute read

Mother!

~ 1 minute read

Super Dark Times

~ 1 minute read

2017 Ottawa International Animation Festival

21 countries, 67 shorts, 3 features, 48 hours.

 ~ 29 minute read

The Evil Within

~ 1 minute read

Hounds of Love

~ 1 minute read

In a Lonely Place

~ 1 minute read

Kubo and the Two Strings

~ 1 minute read

Graffiti Bridge

~ 1 minute read

Author: The JT LeRoy Story

~ 1 minute read

Rashomon

~ 1 minute read

Arrival

~ 1 minute read

Gates of Heaven

~ 1 minute read

Letterboxd Loose Ends 2016

Bite-sized film reviews

 ~ 8 minute read

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

~ 1 minute read

I Saw the Devil

~ 1 minute read

The Visit

~ 1 minute read

Under the Shadow

~ 1 minute read

Bloody Birthday

~ 1 minute read

Don’t Breathe

~ 1 minute read

Snowden

~ 1 minute read

River’s Edge

~ 1 minute read

Inequality for All

~ 1 minute read

Terminator Genisys

~ 1 minute read

Fantastic Lies

~ 1 minute read

Midnight Special

~ 1 minute read

The Witch

~ 2 minute read

The Look of Silence

~ 1 minute read

The Witch

~ 1 minute read

Letterboxd Loose Ends 2015

Bite-sized film reviews

 ~ 2 minute read

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

~ 1 minute read

Rdio Reviews, Vol. 4

Violator, Courtney Barnett, Life Sex & Death, Nirvana, Wussy, Faith No More

 ~ 2 minute read

Nightcrawler

~ 1 minute read

The Damned

~ 1 minute read

It Follows

~ 1 minute read

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

~ 1 minute read

The Trip to Italy

~ 1 minute read

Best Films of 2014

~ 1 minute read

Letterboxd Loose Ends 2014

Bite-sized film reviews

 ~ 3 minute read

Whiplash

~ 2 minute read

Chelsea Peretti: One of the Greats

~ 1 minute read

Society

~ 1 minute read

Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom

~ 1 minute read

Black Sabbath

~ 1 minute read

The Mist

~ 1 minute read

Rdio Reviews, Vol. 3

Yuck, Def Leppard, Diarrhea Planet, Cloud Nothings, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Meatmen, White Lung, Skinny Puppy

 ~ 3 minute read

Muscle Shoals

~ 1 minute read

Breadcrumb Trail

~ 1 minute read

Stripped

~ 1 minute read

Narco Cultura

~ 2 minute read

House of Cards, Season 2

~ 2 minute read

Mud

~ 1 minute read

20 Feet from Stardom

~ 1 minute read

Veronica Mars

~ 2 minute read

Thelma & Louise

~ 1 minute read

The Price of Gold

~ 1 minute read

The Act of Killing

~ 2 minute read

The Lego Movie

~ 1 minute read

Elena

~ 1 minute read

In the House

~ 1 minute read

12 O’Clock Boys

~ 1 minute read

The Wolf of Wall Street

~ 1 minute read

Her

~ 1 minute read

Letterboxd Loose Ends 2013

Bite-sized film reviews

 ~ 1 minute read

Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me

~ 1 minute read

Rdio Reviews, Vol. 2

Baroness, Michael Jackson, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Rush, The Besnard Lakes, Winger, Enforcer, Justin Timberlake, Billy Bragg, Colin Stetson, Fucking Invincible, Shudder to Think

 ~ 3 minute read

The Sapphires

~ 1 minute read

House of Cards, Season 1

~ 2 minute read

Compliance

~ 2 minute read

A Dead Kennedys Primer

A playlist and introduction to the legendary Bay Area punk band.

 ~ 8 minute read

Best Films of 2012

~ 2 minute read

Paranormal Activity 3

~ 3 minute read

The Innkeepers

~ 2 minute read

Not of These Earths

~ 8 minute read

Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel

~ 1 minute read

Rdio Reviews, Vol. 1

The Besnard Lakes, Craig Wedren, Off!, Explosions in the Sky, Philip Lynott, Japancakes, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band, Andrew W.K., Evile, Thin Lizzy, Meshuggah, Van Halen, Dat Politics, Larsen, Primus, The Smiths, Walter Schreifels, Old Man Gloom, Guided by Voices, Turbonegro, Alan Menken, Portishead, Fine Young Cannibals, Future Islands

 ~ 10 minute read

Sleepwalk with Me

~ 1 minute read

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

~ 1 minute read

Hit So Hard

~ 1 minute read

Moonrise Kingdom

~ 1 minute read

US Air Guitar 2012: Washington, DC

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US Air Guitar 2012: New York City

~ 2 minute read

US Air Guitar 2012: Boston

~ 2 minute read

Once Upon a Time in America

~ 1 minute read

Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure

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The Fly

~ 1 minute read

The Statue of Liberty

~ 1 minute read

Crips and Bloods: Made in America

~ 1 minute read

Just Like Being There

~ 1 minute read

Refused Are Fucking Dead

~ 1 minute read

Bobby Fischer Against the World

~ 1 minute read

Life During Wartime

~ 1 minute read

Bill Cunningham New York

~ 1 minute read

Rambo: First Blood Part II

~ 1 minute read

The Myth of the American Sleepover

~ 1 minute read

The Undefeated

~ 1 minute read

The Trip

~ 1 minute read

Red State

~ 1 minute read

Halloween III: Season of the Witch

~ 1 minute read

The Crazies

~ 1 minute read

The Others

~ 1 minute read

Hostel Part II

~ 1 minute read

Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories

~ 1 minute read

Judas Priest Brings All of British Steel Live Album to Rock Band

~ 2 minute read

Rust in Peace: Thoughts from a Super Fan

~ 1 minute read

Saw VI

~ 2 minute read

Song of the Thin Man

~ 1 minute read

Watchmen

~ 1 minute read

D.O.A.

~ 1 minute read

Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?

~ 1 minute read

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

~ 1 minute read

The Corner

~ 1 minute read

Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale

~ 1 minute read

Watchmen

~ 1 minute read

The Book of Other People

~ 1 minute read

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

~ 1 minute read

How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

~ 1 minute read

Here and Now

~ 2 minute read

The Ten Commandments of Typography / Type Heresy: Breaking the Ten Commandments of Typography

~ 1 minute read

Titonic

~ 3 minute read

Looking Down My Nose Into the Mirror

~ 1 minute read

Candykiller

~ 1 minute read

Mint: A Stats Odyssey

~ 3 minute read

Hollowed-Out Human Head

~ 2 minute read

The Immortal Gutenberg

~ 1 minute read

It Ain’t Broke, But I’ll Fix It

~ 2 minute read

Into the Maze of Darkness!

~ 2 minute read

Revenge of the Sith

~ 3 minute read

A Musical Baton

~ 2 minute read

The Kids Are All Right

~ 2 minute read

The New Wave of British Heavy Metal survives in Philadelphia, thanks to the majesty of Wastoid, whose performance Saturday night...

~ 1 minute read

The Philadelphia Film Festival ended a couple of weeks ago, and as it turned out, about 4 of the 8...

~ 1 minute read

The 13th Philadelphia Film Festival began on Thursday and I’ve managed to fit 8 screenings into my schedule this year,...

~ 1 minute read

Spaceboy Music got the new Tortoise album, It’s All Around You, nearly two weeks ahead of its release date, so...

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BREDSTIK Entertainment made its second foray into frenetic weekend filmmaking, this time for the 48 Hour Film Project, on the...

~ 3 minute read

I’m not often interested in shows that could conceivably sell out in less than five minutes after tickets have been...

~ 1 minute read

Okay, here’s a pretty charming concept: You’re a musician who combs estate sales for the personal slide collections of the...

~ 1 minute read

Philadelphia is in the eye of a winter storm today; the snow and ice already coating the ground will soon...

~ 1 minute read

Over the last couple of months, this site has offered its visitors little respite from boredom. I’ll make no apologies...

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You know, neither my physique nor my personality suggests a similarity to any hibernating animal that I can think of,...

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I emerge from over three weeks of silence to tell you about The Darkness. If you’re like everyone else on...

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Since Pittsburgh is the other big city in Pennsylvania, and I had never been there, I decided to check it...

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I remain too distracted to produce contemplative opuses detailing my recent experiences, so here is some brusque vagueness about my...

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I pedaled to the Khyber last night to see Stars, my second blind date in as many nights with a...

~ 1 minute read

I hadn’t heard Broken Social Scene before tonight. Having recently been informed that the band is comprised, in part, of...

~ 1 minute read

Kevin Cornell recently launched Bearskinrug version 4; it is as delicious as might be expected. Lots of shows lately: The...

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I have been very fortunate (except perhaps in the case of Thirteen) to have so many free movie opportunities lately....

~ 1 minute read

I learned so much tonight! Were you aware that adolescence is difficult, and that teenagers sometimes abuse drugs and alcohol?...

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Mine is now the supreme pleasure of having viewed the Japanese cult hit Battle Royale. The premise goes like this:...

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Massive Attack and Mondays don’t mix. My eyelids weren’t giving gravity much of a fight this afternoon. Last week’s lucky...

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After redeeming my pass to a sneak preview of Dirty Pretty Things, I somehow stumbled into the wrong theater; when...

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My friends and fellow Kutztown alumni in the Table Collective opened a small exhibition with a variety of work in...

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I was going to begin this long-overdue post with a verbose description of the difficulties of keeping a weblog like...

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I ventured out to the Friendship House last night, a cool space in North Philly previously unknown to me. DAT...

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My roommates and I have found a rather nice apartment in South Philadelphia. We signed the lease on Friday. We...

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I did a stupid thing Monday night: I forgot to bring my camera when I went to see I Am...

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It was a beautiful day for a drive to Doylestown yesterday, where an “Independent Double Feature” screened at the County...

~ 1 minute read

Last night was the sixth installment of R5’s “In the Sanctuary Concert Series,” featuring Essex Green, Aereogramme and The Delgados...

~ 1 minute read

If you read Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None: Hollywood fed it through the Shyamalan and Craven machines and...

~ 1 minute read

So a bunch of stuff happened in the last week. Puppetmania on Monday turned out to be the best of...

~ 1 minute read

More film fest stuff this weekend. I caught a little bit of the Lost Film Fest 8.0 on Friday, including...

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Congratulations to my cousin Bill and his wife Tara, who, around 3:00 on Friday afternoon, gave birth to my tiny...

~ 1 minute read

Two shows, seven bands at the Church this week. Sentence fragments ahead. Sunday Dysrhythmia: My favorite Philadelphia band; missed the...

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I saw Lost in La Mancha last night, a documentary account of visionary filmmaker Terry Gilliam’s ill-fated first stab at...

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Lightning Bolt’s Wonderful Rainbow refuses to detach itself from my playlist, and has come dangerously close to bullying the rest...

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Interpol and The Raveonettes played the Troc last night. I was quite pleasantly surprised by the feedback-drenched Raveonettes, who sounded...

~ 1 minute read

I waited in line for an hour last night in 20º weather to see Godspeed You! Black Emperor, the first...

~ 1 minute read

Busy, busy week. We have updated the BREDSTIK site for the first time in almost a year, with Flash goodies...

~ 1 minute read

Peter and I took a trip up to New York yesterday. The early afternoon was occupied by sifting through galleries...

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The Relapse Contamination Festival took over the Troc for the weekend and what a wicked weekend it was. To avoid...

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Sonata for the Unaware, the new k10k issue by carbonatedjazz, is the best issue I’ve seen in a long time....

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I guess it’s been pretty quiet around here. In the last month: I braved the Philadelphia blizzard fallout to get...

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I avoided seeing The Piano Teacher when it was in theaters in the States last spring because I didn’t want...

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Okay, Tolkien by himself (or even filtered through the eyes of demigod Peter Jackson) generally bores me, but somehow the...

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I really have to start trusting my instincts. Hell, even trusting the evidence of my senses would have sufficed in...

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Halloween was fun. The afternoon was begun with a matinee of P.T. Anderson’s pitch-perfect Punch-Drunk Love, and rounded out by...

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Happy Birthday, Dad! Lethargy month is drawing to a close. I’ve been out and about for the usual films and...

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I’ve been back from Ottawa for nearly a week now and the annoying cold I contracted while I was there...

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I’ll be in Ontario for the next five days at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. Some brief scattered comments before...

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I caught a free sneak preview of Das Experiment last night. It stars Moritz Bleibtreu of Run Lola Run fame...

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Apparently a 2-disc Faith No More tribute album called Tribute of the Year: A Tribute to Faith No More was...

~ 1 minute read

There was much rocking this week. Saturday night was Andrew W.K. in Jersey, at this weird sprawling complex filled with...

~ 2 minute read

Oh man, this Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights album is soooo good; I cannot stop listening to it. Spacey,...

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During a relaxing and uneventful four days in Ocean City, MD, I couldn’t say no to “The Metal Issue” of...

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After having been informed that an MP3 from the forthcoming Dillinger Escape Plan / Mike Patton collaboration is now online,...

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I drove 100 miles last night to see Andrew W.K. play in Towson, MD (near Baltimore). I found out about...

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At long last, “The Simpsons: The Complete Second Season” DVD set arrived yesterday. As with the first season set, the...

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M. Night Shyamalan is smart. He knows people don’t want to see a movie about Mel Gibson struggling with his...

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This month’s Exhumed Films event (which was last night) featured two films from Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna, the director/producer...

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Mary and I were all set to go see Tuatara last night before we discovered that they cancelled the show...

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Friday night was a rewarding but ultimately forgettable show at the Troc with The Shins, Beachwood Sparks, and some horrible...

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Ah, the Khyber. I hadn’t been there in awhile. Tonight’s crowd was just the size I like: the audience was...

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I was very pleased today to discover that the lineup on the new Skeleton Key album Obtainium is identical to...

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Great show last night at the Balcony. Thoughtstreams kicked off the show around 10:00. I’d heard of them before (mostly...

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Just got back from a weekend in New York, primarily for two nights’ worth of sold out shows at North...

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The bad news: Tuesday’s Mogwai show in Brooklyn sold out before I could get tickets. Although I bet if I...

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I finally saw Miller’s Crossing this weekend; it was the last of the Coen brothers’ films I hadn’t seen. It...

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It’s a three movie week. Spiderman was pretty fun; it’s rare these days for a movie to have an acceptable...

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Czech surrealist Jan Švankmajer’s fantastic Conspirators of Pleasure screened tonight at the International House. This is the first Švankmajer feature...

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I hadn’t been to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in a year or so, so I went on Saturday. Primary...

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Yesterday I escaped the unseasonable sweltering heat for a couple hours with a visit to the Philadelphia ICA. The Photogenic...

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My generous hosts and I got back a couple hours ago from seeing a gorgeous digitally remastered 70mm print of...

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