Today in culture: Occupy Oakland is in full radical swing, R. Kelly’s Soulacoaster does not disappoint (how could it?) and the Paperboy trailer comes out.
-The Occupy movement limps (or rages?) on in Oakland.
-The New York Review of Tweets is upon us. There will soon be a scholarly branch devoted to the study of tweet intent.
-Has Rashida Jones resurrected the screwball comedy? Manohla Dargis expounds on the ethos of Celeste and Jesse Forever.
-Beyonce may direct and star in a documentary film about her life. The world waits with baited breath.
-A brief history of electronic music in America.
-Water and movies? Why has academia not picked up on this sooner! Geoffrey O’Brien discusses the role of water in film from Buster Keaton’s Our Hospitatlity to Beasts of the Southern Wild.
-R. Kelly’s Soulacoaster: The Diary of Me has been released, and it is rife with Freudian implication.
-Michael Sicinski on Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre, recently released by Criterion.
-Or happy-making clip of the day comes in the form of this new trailer for The Paperboy, which premiered at Cannes and promises to be a salacious, sweaty romp, in the way only a film featuring Zac Ephron in tightie-whities could be. Will Nicole Kidman revive her career? Will John Cusack be able to save his? Will success spoil Zac Efron? So many questions, and we haven’t even begun to cover the plot.
-Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film is screening at Anthology Film Archives.
-“Bastards of Hitch” starts now at the 92nd st. Y, screening work by Jonathan Demme, Brian De Palma and Nicholas Roeg.
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