‘Wattstax’: The ‘Black Woodstock’ music festival
The Watts Riots are often referred to by lefties as “The Watts Rebellion.” While both are technically accurate descriptions, “rebellion” is considered the preferable word…
Movies Archives: 08/2014
Behind-the-scenes of the ‘Star Wars’ Cantina bar set
Raiders of the Lost Tumblr has turned up a trove of behind-the-scenes shots of sets, models, sketches and costumes from Star Wars’ ultra seedy and…
The director of ‘Heavy Metal Parking Lot’ returns with ‘Led Zeppelin Played Here’
I’m sure that many–if not most–of our good-looking, high IQ readers have seen quirky documentarian Jeff Krulik’s underground classic “Heavy Metal Parking Lot,” a short…
12-hour ambient music pieces from ‘Blade Runner,’ ‘Alien,’ ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘Star Wars’
Before the advent of recording media, a piece of music could be quite long without its duration meriting much notice, but when the mechanical limitations…
A video montage of every Alfred Hitchcock cameo
Here’s a nice little montage of all (or nearly all) of Alfred Hitchcock trademark cameos in his films. By far, his most clever cameo is…
‘48% Bug-eyed, unblinking, creepy staring’: Werner Herzog movies in chart form
Fitzcarraldo The editorial brain trust of The Dissolve has released an amusing feature breaking down sixteen mostly early Werner Herzog movies and presenting them as…