You might know Louise Post as the co-frontwoman of ’90s alt-rock icons Veruca Salt, but she’s now going solo with Sleepwalker, her debut album under her own name.
After Veruca Salt released their 2015 comeback album Ghost Notes, Post went back to writing music as usual. But the songs that began flowing out of her — which she says “almost appeared to be writing themselves” — felt much more personal to her than what she’d done previously with a band.
“I have always identified as a sleepwalker,” Post said of the album’s title in a statement. “I slept-walked around my house routinely when I was a child, and even down the street. I believe in hindsight it was me trying to process what was going on in my home with my parents’ troubled marriage. As far as I know, I stopped sleepwalking after the divorce when I was eight, but...
After Veruca Salt released their 2015 comeback album Ghost Notes, Post went back to writing music as usual. But the songs that began flowing out of her — which she says “almost appeared to be writing themselves” — felt much more personal to her than what she’d done previously with a band.
“I have always identified as a sleepwalker,” Post said of the album’s title in a statement. “I slept-walked around my house routinely when I was a child, and even down the street. I believe in hindsight it was me trying to process what was going on in my home with my parents’ troubled marriage. As far as I know, I stopped sleepwalking after the divorce when I was eight, but...
- 6/2/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
By Jacob Oller
Jacques Tourneur’s pirate classic had sexuality pulling off its sleeves. irector Jacques Tourneur made a lot of eclectic films during his career, though few were as positioned as amorously in their genre as Anne of the Indies. Featuring a female pirate captain that takes what- (or whom-) ever she wants and a trove of suggestively […]
The article Off the Shoulder Wardrobe in ‘Anne of the Indies’ appeared first on Film School Rejects.
Jacques Tourneur’s pirate classic had sexuality pulling off its sleeves. irector Jacques Tourneur made a lot of eclectic films during his career, though few were as positioned as amorously in their genre as Anne of the Indies. Featuring a female pirate captain that takes what- (or whom-) ever she wants and a trove of suggestively […]
The article Off the Shoulder Wardrobe in ‘Anne of the Indies’ appeared first on Film School Rejects.
- 12/18/2017
- by Jacob Oller
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies
Dear Adam,
I want to quibble with you on a point you made about an art installation in the Forum Expanded section. Discussing the simple but strangely transfixing Je proclame la destruction, you wrote to me of the order of its two shots, of first the radical speaker coming to the microphone and then the young student hero pushing through the crowd. But this installation was on loop—couldn't it be the other way around, that the hero enters, we see an empty stage, and then the radical steps up to declare destruction? I don't recall Robert Bresson's original film (from which these two shots are taken) enough to know the order, but one of the shifting pleasures of this installation was how sometimes one shot seemed to precede the other, only for the continual repetition to shift that sense of time and causality.
Dear Adam,
I want to quibble with you on a point you made about an art installation in the Forum Expanded section. Discussing the simple but strangely transfixing Je proclame la destruction, you wrote to me of the order of its two shots, of first the radical speaker coming to the microphone and then the young student hero pushing through the crowd. But this installation was on loop—couldn't it be the other way around, that the hero enters, we see an empty stage, and then the radical steps up to declare destruction? I don't recall Robert Bresson's original film (from which these two shots are taken) enough to know the order, but one of the shifting pleasures of this installation was how sometimes one shot seemed to precede the other, only for the continual repetition to shift that sense of time and causality.
- 2/16/2015
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
Dear Danny,
Ah, yes, the plague of "not getting it" is one that afflicts all of us festival-goers on occasion, but I admire your willingness to write on Peter Kern's peculiar film as well as Jiang Wen's totally gonzo farce (which you were nevertheless able to appreciate more than myself). As you and I both know, "getting it" isn't completely necessary and doesn't always get in the way of enjoyment and appreciation. Being a relaxed and open-minded viewer doesn't always make one an expert, but hopefully it prepares them for being responsive, a quality we should all aspire to whether we find ourselves in or outside of our wheelhouses.
In my previous letter, I teased at an incredible viewing experience I had, and indeed it may be one my all-time favourite screenings. Let me start off by describing what is my new favourite place to sit and watch a...
Ah, yes, the plague of "not getting it" is one that afflicts all of us festival-goers on occasion, but I admire your willingness to write on Peter Kern's peculiar film as well as Jiang Wen's totally gonzo farce (which you were nevertheless able to appreciate more than myself). As you and I both know, "getting it" isn't completely necessary and doesn't always get in the way of enjoyment and appreciation. Being a relaxed and open-minded viewer doesn't always make one an expert, but hopefully it prepares them for being responsive, a quality we should all aspire to whether we find ourselves in or outside of our wheelhouses.
In my previous letter, I teased at an incredible viewing experience I had, and indeed it may be one my all-time favourite screenings. Let me start off by describing what is my new favourite place to sit and watch a...
- 2/16/2015
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
Dear Adam,
What a pleasure to be at another film festival with you. Despite the frenzy of activity, the audiences and the society of such events, I tend to find them lonely places, so much time in the dark with your own thoughts, so many single-minded scrambles from venue to venue, most conversations before the late hours being mere passing salutations or monosyllabic recommendations. The only other time I’ve been able to strike up a correspondence like this is with the inimitable Fernando F. Croce during Toronto’s film festival, and I count myself lucky to be able to resume this missive format with you. It’ll be good to have a place to chat, both out there, in Berlin, and here.
This year, for the first in many, I have optimistically opted to visit the Berlin International Film Festival rather than attend the International Film Festival Rotterdam, mainly...
What a pleasure to be at another film festival with you. Despite the frenzy of activity, the audiences and the society of such events, I tend to find them lonely places, so much time in the dark with your own thoughts, so many single-minded scrambles from venue to venue, most conversations before the late hours being mere passing salutations or monosyllabic recommendations. The only other time I’ve been able to strike up a correspondence like this is with the inimitable Fernando F. Croce during Toronto’s film festival, and I count myself lucky to be able to resume this missive format with you. It’ll be good to have a place to chat, both out there, in Berlin, and here.
This year, for the first in many, I have optimistically opted to visit the Berlin International Film Festival rather than attend the International Film Festival Rotterdam, mainly...
- 2/5/2015
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
Catch up with the last seven days in the world of film
The big story
As predicted, The Dark Knight Rises continued to dominate headlines this week, with other film releases struggling to make their presence felt.
Much of the news surrounding the film centered on the terrible events in Colorado. Following the mass killing at the late-night showing of the film, Warner Brothers took the decision to cancel the Paris premiere, disclosed plans to make a "substantial" donation to charities supporting victims of the killings and, as a mark of respect, delayed the reporting of opening box office figures.
Once the numbers were made public, box office analysts confirmed that The Dark Knight Rises had debuted with the third highest Us opening of all time last weekend, $160.9m. The figure was lower than expected, but still enough to put it firmly in the 'massively successful' category.
However, despite hefty...
The big story
As predicted, The Dark Knight Rises continued to dominate headlines this week, with other film releases struggling to make their presence felt.
Much of the news surrounding the film centered on the terrible events in Colorado. Following the mass killing at the late-night showing of the film, Warner Brothers took the decision to cancel the Paris premiere, disclosed plans to make a "substantial" donation to charities supporting victims of the killings and, as a mark of respect, delayed the reporting of opening box office figures.
Once the numbers were made public, box office analysts confirmed that The Dark Knight Rises had debuted with the third highest Us opening of all time last weekend, $160.9m. The figure was lower than expected, but still enough to put it firmly in the 'massively successful' category.
However, despite hefty...
- 7/26/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Historical accuracy is tossed overboard in this fierce drama of cigar-smoking, grog-drinking, bear-punching female pirates
Anne of the Indies (1951)
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Entertainment grade: C+
History grade: E
Anne Bonny was one of history's most famous female pirates, operating in the Caribbean in the early 18th century.
Films
Considering how kick-ass the real Anne Bonny's story is, it's surprising that this 1951 attempt by 20th Century Fox is one of the few efforts to turn her into a leading lady. Paul Verhoeven had a go in 1993 with a project called Mistress of the Seas, which was supposed to star Geena Davis as Bonny. Davis was lured instead to Renny Harlin's rival woman pirate movie Cutthroat Island, which sunk Verhoeven's project in development before spending all of Carolco Pictures' buried treasure and glugging its way down to the box-office equivalent of Davy Jones's Locker.
People
In Anne of the Indies,...
Anne of the Indies (1951)
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Entertainment grade: C+
History grade: E
Anne Bonny was one of history's most famous female pirates, operating in the Caribbean in the early 18th century.
Films
Considering how kick-ass the real Anne Bonny's story is, it's surprising that this 1951 attempt by 20th Century Fox is one of the few efforts to turn her into a leading lady. Paul Verhoeven had a go in 1993 with a project called Mistress of the Seas, which was supposed to star Geena Davis as Bonny. Davis was lured instead to Renny Harlin's rival woman pirate movie Cutthroat Island, which sunk Verhoeven's project in development before spending all of Carolco Pictures' buried treasure and glugging its way down to the box-office equivalent of Davy Jones's Locker.
People
In Anne of the Indies,...
- 7/26/2012
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
Wadding through a roster of blockbuster wannabes can feel less like watching than rummaging, a scavenger hunt in which one scans every corner of the frame for something striking—a shot, a camera movement, a swell of emotion—to justify the overriding inanity. Some recent findings: Branagh’s Thor flashed some of the crimson-and-bronze designs from Mike Hodges’s Flash Gordon before dissolving into a marsh of witlessly canted angles, while Judd Apatow’s Sucker Punch (a.k.a. Bridesmaids) offered the gleeful sight of Kristen Wiig doing a roadside foxtrot to some wild brass band only she seemed able to hear. The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise used to understand this glaneur side of movie-watching. Scattered junk drawers of CGI swarming and dervish star turns, the earlier installments knew how to refresh the lenses by turning the screen into a bazaar of shifting images, with details hawked hurriedly and noisily and sometimes rather beguilingly.
- 5/28/2011
- MUBI
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