The 2007 New York Film Festival: A Preview
Benjamin Strong09.27.07
By nature, the New York Film Festival is always slanted towards American filmmakers, despite its first-class international selections. But as Benjamin Strong explains, the 45th annual edition includes uncommonly strong autumnal entries from Hollywood elders Brian De Palma and Sidney Lumet. Fanzine gives you a full report on the festival.
John Russell Q & A
Gean Moreno09.27.07
Gean Moreno corresponds with London artist/cum curator/cum publisher/cum jack of all trades mad man (in the best of ways) John Russell seeking to find an answer to the question what else can art do?
from The Season of Gene, a novel
Dallas Hudgens09.25.07
Dallas Hudgens, FANZINE regular and author of the rollicking Drive Like Hell, returns with another novel for sports fans and literati alike, The Season of Gene (available now). Here’s an excerpt (Chapter 20 in fact) of this tale of beer league baseball, mobsters and gamers, pain pills, lost love and lifted lids. Illustrations by Danny Jock.
Interview with director Marco Williams
Benjamin Strong09.24.07
Benjamin Strong interviews director Marco Williams prior to the run of his documentary Banished at New York’s Film Forum. Banished tackles seriously the sensitive, often scoffed at, subject of literal reparations for stolen land in three communities in the South.
John Cage’s 95th
Mike Powell09.20.07
…birthday that is. Mike Powell attended a memorial for the legendary composer at NYC’s Kitchen this September 5th. While he forgot to bring us back any of Yoko’s flowers from the event, he did deliver us a nice reflection on it.
Talk Show 2: with Steve Almond, Emily Franklin, Lydia Millet, and Neal Pollack
Jaime Clarke09.06.07
In the second episode of Talk Show, the monthly Fanzine feature where writers talk about anything except for writing, our guests discuss movies they would like to remake. Illustrations by Danny Jock.
Gardeners Anonymous
Trinie Dalton09.02.07
Trinie Dalton, author of Wide Eyed, delivers Fanzine a tale of ghosts, gardens and Pinocchio, just right for ringing out the summer! The story was inspired by the accompanying plant drawings by Dalton’s brother Greg, an avid botanist and artist based in LA.
No Pomp Just Circumstance: Notes on Two Weeks of Croatian Dining
Nick Sylvester08.28.07
Nick Sylvester travels to Croatia, wines and dines on squid (complete with ink), pasta and fresh sea bass – what the locals call branzin, and ultimately makes all our stomachs growl with envy.
Reviews: Wayne Koestenbaum’s Hotel Theory and Masha Tupitsyn’s Beauty Talk & Monsters
Brian Pera08.26.07
Brian Pera reviews two new books: Wayne Koestenbaum’s Hotel Theory, a visually experimental work which juxtaposes two seemingly disparate texts, a collusion of dead stars and theory and into one cohesive package, and Masha Tupitsyn’s Beauty Talk & Monsters, a collection of observations, "Disguised as a series of short stories," of women seeking "apartness-as-refuge."
The Braffing of Daft Punk or…
Nick Sylvester08.19.07
Editing Nick’s piece, I had to ask him what "Braffed" meant. He replied in an email that "to be Braffed is a sideways reference to Garden State and Zach Braff and ‘The Shins will change your life’ line – any overly dramatic preordained significance given to a piece of art’s power to transcend." Alas, this piece is Sylvester’s response to some Braffing he read concerning a recent Daft Punk show.
