“Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta”
Sweet pages of calligraphy and illustration from the 16th Century!
The Projection Booth watches Daughters of Darkness (1971)
At The Projection Booth, friend of the Gutter Mike White watches Daughters of Darkness (1971) and discusses it with guest hosts Kat Ellinger and Heather Drain and special guest Danielle Ouimet. “It seemed a fairly ordinary night when Stefan (John Karlen) and his wife Valerie (Danielle Ouimet), two […]
“Jean-Claude Van Damme is on the Eagle Path”
At City On Fire, JJ Bona has news of the twisty path of JCVD’s film, The Eagle Path / Soldiers / Full Love. “The action drama is Van Damme’s first directorial effort since 1996’s The Quest. The project was shot on a budget of about $5 million (much of […]
Vanguard 2016 Line Up
Here’s the line-up for the 2016 Vanguard program at the Toronto International Film Festival: Message from the King; Nelly; Colossal; Interchange; I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House; Godspeed; My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea; Buster’s Mal Heart; Without Name; Prevenge; The Bad […]
The Clothes Of Hercule Poirot (And Captain Hastings)
Gentleman’s Gazette has a piece on the sartorial splendor of Hercule Poirot and of Captain Hastings in the BBC television adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Poirot mysteries.
Recreating the Tarot in Haiti
The Haitian art collective Atis Rezistans and photographer Alice Smeets have created some amazing photographs recreating images from the Rider-Waite Tarot deck. See them here, watch a video of members of Atis Rezistans talking about the project and read an interview with Smeets. “The spirit of the Ghetto […]
