I See New York, I See Frants

November 29, 2009

The new trailer for ‘Here Come the Waves: Hazards of Love Visualized,’ available on iTunes Dec. 1st. Psychedelicize. Caramelize. Betty Davis Eyes.

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November 28, 2009

Big Apple Circus time!!!!

10:40pm | URL: http://frants.tumblr.com/post/261544880/big-apple-circus-time

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UWS Apple Store is the shit!

5:05pm | URL: http://frants.tumblr.com/post/261186460/uws-apple-store-is-the-shit

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Love this town.

4:43pm | URL: http://frants.tumblr.com/post/261162670/love-this-town

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November 27, 2009

Someone is on Google Street View.

3:22pm | URL: http://frants.tumblr.com/post/259808292/someone-is-on-google-street-view

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Great old warehouse windows on the High Line.

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November 26, 2009

Poker….. like the Pilgrims played.

7:57pm | URL: http://frants.tumblr.com/post/258858656/poker-like-the-pilgrims-played

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Turkey time.

3:23pm | URL: http://frants.tumblr.com/post/258611715/turkey-time

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November 25, 2009

Babies

Zamile and I saw this trailer before Broken Embraces. The opening bit, with the two siblings, is fantastic.

3:05pm | URL: http://frants.tumblr.com/post/257262586/babies

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Movie of the Day

THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME

This 1932 film was practically the test reel for the directors’ next film, the classic King Kong. Huge jungle sets, high suspense, Fay Wray. This film adapts the classic story about a man on an island who hunts shipwreck victims. The film is short, 63 minutes. And it’s a bit simplistic, too. But there’s a lot of great shots in there, and it still feels huge. And of course, the seeds of the King Kong are all over it, making this almost a bonus material inclusion for a Kong DVD.

11:32am | URL: http://frants.tumblr.com/post/257059374/movie-of-the-day

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November 24, 2009

I live across the street from a school. The kids, probably about 6 years old, are all joyfully chanting something right now. From my 4th floor window, it sounds a lot like “Attica, Attica!”

Like, a LOT like it.

11:56am | URL: http://frants.tumblr.com/post/255791692/i-live-across-the-street-from-a-school-the-kids

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Movie of the Day

SLACKER

I talked a bit in the review for Fast Food Nation about Richard Linklater’s style of film. This, his first feature and the one that brought him his first success (he followed this 1991 hit with Dazed and Confused), is the movie he’s basically been remaking for most of his career. Telling the tale of maybe 100 different people across Austin, Texas, it follows from one story to the next, each linked by a person from the previous. Hippies, eggheads, conspiracy theorists, drunks, anarchists, thieves…. It’s filled with people talking about life and philosophy and everything else you can talk about. While it’s not nearly as engaging as his later films, which use this same formula to develop a core set of characters, it’s an important cinematic cornerstone, helping to launch the 1990s’ independent film movement (Kevin Smith credits Slacker for inspiring Clerks, for instance).

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“Small Worlds” by David Shute.

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