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Pod Monk No Zero
Greetings all and more again. Just a quick one this time. Thanks to everyone who has been messaging me regarding the Disinformation World News Podcast and The Wicked – the new CD I am in the middle of recording with Jean Paul Lilliston. A new Podcast should be up in a few weeks so go [...]
The Sleepless Film Festival Presents – The Tears of a Clown Double Feature: Renaldo and Clara and Les Enfants du Paradis
Good morning, comrades. Today – for your enjoyment – another chapter in our ongoing programming at The Sleepless Film Festival. Today’s pick will be Bob Dylan’s 1975 epic, Renaldo and Clara. More than just a concert film, Renaldo’ clocks in at nearly 4 hours and is packed with improvised scenes featuring Mr. Zimmerman as well [...]
The Sleepless Film Festival Presents – Grindhouse Lotus Venoms: A Shaw Brothers Double Feature
Hola bueno. Ok, so, It is SPRINGTIME in The Old South. This means I am strolling through a wonderland of tulips and other flowers I don’t know the names of. There are these sorta droopy ones that come in both yellow and purple. They are also pretty – however – they lack the stately architecture [...]
Heroes in the Seaweed
Ciao lovelies, I am drinking a bit of the blood and bleeding a bit of the luminous ink in this here fine hour of the evening. I am posting this as I watch the video of the Isle of Wight festival. This 1970 fest was the biggest – and last – of its kind. Wight [...]
The Sleepless Film Festival Presents an Academy Awards Special – A Drink with Mickey Rourke: An Evening at the Shamrock Social Club, Part II
Avast! Welcome to the Persian immersion! Please find a space on the rug and sit facing East. The wine has only just started to pour. Cold Southern mornings are marked by a damp cataract the blurs the air and makes your bones feel wet. Then again, your bones are already pretty wet, what with all [...]
The Sleepless Film Festival Presents an Academy Awards Special – A Drink with Mickey Rourke: An Evening at the Shamrock Social Club
The Academy Awards are upon us and – as every faithful reader of this blog knows – we are crazy for film! As every reader – so brilliant, so dangerous – also must know, the Academy Awards are mostly bullshit. Just like the Grammy Awards, these American pop-culture celebrations can never seem to decide if [...]
The First to Know
What up? Just a quick word and a promise-keeping on my last post. Here is the brand new short film The First to Know. Directed by Chris Rubin de la Borbolla, this enigmatic video stars Jen Rieger as Anna Karina as the Mystery Girl. Where is she going? What is she saying? Who is the [...]
The Sleepless Film Festival Presents – Children of the Night: The Films of Tod Browning
Just in time for Halloween, this edition of the Sleepless Film Festival highlights two feature films by horror master Tod Browning! Pull the shades, turn down the lights, and prepare to watch The Mark of Dracula followed by the masterpiece Freaks. As a special bonus, we are also including a fascinating biography on Browning’s greatest [...]
The Sleepless Film Festival Presents – Tea and Oranges: Leonard Cohen on Film
To most readers of this blog, Leonard Cohen is no exotic commodity. An award-winning poet, recognized as a national hero in his native Canada, Cohen was a young man with the world on a string when he decided to return to his original love and try his hand at music. On his way to Nashville, [...]
The Sleepless Film Festival Presents – Once Upon a Time: The Films of Jean Cocteau
The Sleepless Film Festival Presents – Once Upon a Time: The Films of Jean Cocteau Jean Cocteau was a poet, novelist, visual artist, screenwriter, actor and film maker. An early pioneer of surrealist film, Cocteau’s work as a writer/director left an indelible impression on cinema, and continues to confound and inspire film makers and audiences [...]
