3 minutes from downtown Atlanta, rolling east on Simpson…
I’ll accept the #latepass of the year on this. There’s no telling what I was on that would have caused this to fly by, but it did. When I was first contacted by one of the films producers I initially thought “Snow On The Bluff” was another ATL hood movie that was released around 2005 – 06, called the “The Bluff“. Guess what? I WAS DEAD WRONG. Because while “The Bluff” looks like a elementary school student film project shot with a broken vhs recorder, the real movie “Snow on the Bluff“, is actually a entertaining and excellent body of work, that will most likely determine how deep into the westside of Atlanta “the pioneers” will continue to gentrify. [Read more...]
We got plenty Snow On Tha Bluff. #therealatlanta
Tarantino: The Discple of Hong Kong
Quentin Tarantino has a pretty versatile ghetto pass. Well, not really a ghetto pass. Lets call it diplomatic immunity…in the movie industry. After all, he IS allowed is Hoover Vac Hong Kong cinema, then shake it, flip it and rub it down and repackage it into Hollywood bankrolls. And we eat it up every single time. But guess what? [Read more...]
Levi’s x MoCA “Art in the Streets” Truckers
Art in the Streets is over. Bags and boxes are packed. Fumes consumed and it’s back to bombing, from an artist perspective or that of corporate America. While a majority of the companies came in with a proverbial game face for the arts, one company actually stands out from the wolf pack with year round efforts. The Levi’s Production Workshops are a democratic approach to arming people with a slew of valuable resources that are oft-inaccessible to the average creative individual. With the focus on the native arts of a particular city, the initiative has been a success at every stop. [Read more...]
A Tribe Called Quest Breaks Silence [interview]
Even the green light is moving in regards to the highly anticipated ATCQ Documovie, there are still technicalities between the group and director Michael Rappaport. Here the group lets loose after a hefty silence regarding some very interesting point in the whole situation. Un-aired portion of the same interview after the jump. [Read more...]
ATCQ: BeatsRhymes+Life doc picked up by Sony
Phife Dog.Q-Tip.Ali Shaheed.and sometimes Jarobi
Sony Pictures Classics recently announced that they have acquired all North American rights to Michael Rapaport‘s directorial debut, Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest. Rival Pictures and State Street Pictures produced the film, which was in Documentary Competition at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. [Read more...]
Saul Bass
Jacked from Wikipedia: Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 – April 25, 1996) was an American graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, but he is best known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences. [Read more...]
Enter the Void: A Gasper Noe Film
(Warning if you suffer from photosensitive epileptic seizures please avoid this film)
My first trip into the mind of Gasper Noe was the movie Irreversible. That being said, it was a very short trip indeed. It was the first time in my life that I had come across a scene in a movie that I just couldn’t handle. The crazy thing is that Argentinian-born French filmmaker intended for me to have that reaction. Enter the Void was rather different experience. For me, the highlight was the opening sequence, but hey I’ve also be diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. Watch it after the jump, let your brain simmer down, then read the Gasper Noe interview. After that, if you’re reading from Atlanta catch the whole movie at the Plaza Theater on Ponce . [Click here for showtimes]
