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LeBron James was just named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated, which came with a cover that portrays the fashion plate (and NBA champ) in a sharp cream suit over a turtleneck – plus one notable accessory: a safety pin on his lapel. James appears to be nodding to the the safety pin movement that’s been taking over social media, which uses the pin to represent solidarity with and support for minority groups.
The 31-year-old Cleveland Cavaliers forward has been involved in politics in 2016, vocally endorsing Hillary Clinton in her run for the White House, so...
LeBron James was just named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated, which came with a cover that portrays the fashion plate (and NBA champ) in a sharp cream suit over a turtleneck – plus one notable accessory: a safety pin on his lapel. James appears to be nodding to the the safety pin movement that’s been taking over social media, which uses the pin to represent solidarity with and support for minority groups.
The 31-year-old Cleveland Cavaliers forward has been involved in politics in 2016, vocally endorsing Hillary Clinton in her run for the White House, so...
- 12/13/2016
- by kaitlynfrey
- PEOPLE.com
Each month, Boris Kachka offers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations. You should read as many of them as possible.A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories, by Lucia Berlin (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, August 18)May we never run out of great, unsung authors to unearth after they die, as Berlin did in 2004. Her 76 stories, more than half of them collected here, range widely in location and technique: a post-funeral Mexican vacation introduced via tourists' chorus; an Oakland cleaner's life meted out in bus routes; a woman remembering, in local twang, her journey across the El Paso border for an abortion. Together, they make up the mosaic of Berlin’s thinly fictionalized, widely traveled, and traumatically eventful life, a Knausgaardian journey by other means. Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim, by Justin Gifford (Doubleday, August 4) Before there was rap, there was pulp — mainly the work of Robert Beck, a.k.a.
- 8/5/2015
- by Boris Kachka
- Vulture
The brilliant and essential Incite! Journal of Experimental Media issue #4 is going into its 2nd printing and can be pre-ordered right now. The 1st printing of this epic tome sold out almost immediately. The 2nd printing will be limited to just 300 copies and it would not be surprising if it sold out just as quickly.
Subtitled “Exhibition Guide,” Incite! #4 is an in-depth and exciting survey of the microcinema movement past and present with many chapters written by those who have been active participants in keeping the world of underground film screenings active. Some of the contributors to the issue include Steve Anker, Jeanne Liotta, Clint Enns, Walter Forsberg, Brian L. Frye, Sarah, Halpern, Ed Halter, Bryan Konefsky, Marcus Rosentrater, Jesse Malmed and Audrey Young. There are also loads of photographs and a fantastic portfolio of flyers for microcinema screenings at the legendary Other Cinema, The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, Light Industry and more.
Subtitled “Exhibition Guide,” Incite! #4 is an in-depth and exciting survey of the microcinema movement past and present with many chapters written by those who have been active participants in keeping the world of underground film screenings active. Some of the contributors to the issue include Steve Anker, Jeanne Liotta, Clint Enns, Walter Forsberg, Brian L. Frye, Sarah, Halpern, Ed Halter, Bryan Konefsky, Marcus Rosentrater, Jesse Malmed and Audrey Young. There are also loads of photographs and a fantastic portfolio of flyers for microcinema screenings at the legendary Other Cinema, The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, Light Industry and more.
- 8/8/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
April 29
7:30 p.m.
Light Industry
155 Freeman Street
Brooklyn, NY 11222
Hosted by: Light Industry
Although currently an assistant law professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law, Brian L. Frye will be in attendance at this retrospective of his films made between 1999 and 2002. Following the screening, he will participate in a discussion of his work with Chrissie Iles, a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
The full lineup of films screening are listed below with thorough descriptions of each film written by the filmmaker. The majority of his work involves found footage, much of it heavily manipulated. Some films, though, consist of majorly abstracted, but fully original footage.
P.S. Brian L. Frye has the best mustached cat of all time, named The T.J. Hooper, as a companion.
The screening lineup:
The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1999, 16mm, 11 mins
Sometime in the 1960s, a chiropractor from Kansas City...
7:30 p.m.
Light Industry
155 Freeman Street
Brooklyn, NY 11222
Hosted by: Light Industry
Although currently an assistant law professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law, Brian L. Frye will be in attendance at this retrospective of his films made between 1999 and 2002. Following the screening, he will participate in a discussion of his work with Chrissie Iles, a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
The full lineup of films screening are listed below with thorough descriptions of each film written by the filmmaker. The majority of his work involves found footage, much of it heavily manipulated. Some films, though, consist of majorly abstracted, but fully original footage.
P.S. Brian L. Frye has the best mustached cat of all time, named The T.J. Hooper, as a companion.
The screening lineup:
The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1999, 16mm, 11 mins
Sometime in the 1960s, a chiropractor from Kansas City...
- 4/26/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Brian L. Frye says:
Brian L. Frye (Our Nixon & obscure art films) is a filmmaker & law professor. The T.J. Hooper was a 28th birthday present from filmmaker Marie Losier. Hooper is named after the case in which Judge Learned Hand defined the standard for negligence. Her moustache echoes Justice Holmes’s.
Underground Film Journal says:
Having a background in the law, Brian L. Frye really brings a unique perspective that stands out in the underground film world. We particularly enjoy his short found footage film A Reasonable Man, which stirs up all kinds of uncomfortable connections between reality and filmed “entertainment” in a very simple, but direct way.
Our Nixon, which Frye produced and was directed by Penny Lane, was a huge hit on the festival circuit last year, then aired on CNN and is currently streaming online.
Plus, in addition to making films, for many years Frye ran...
Brian L. Frye (Our Nixon & obscure art films) is a filmmaker & law professor. The T.J. Hooper was a 28th birthday present from filmmaker Marie Losier. Hooper is named after the case in which Judge Learned Hand defined the standard for negligence. Her moustache echoes Justice Holmes’s.
Underground Film Journal says:
Having a background in the law, Brian L. Frye really brings a unique perspective that stands out in the underground film world. We particularly enjoy his short found footage film A Reasonable Man, which stirs up all kinds of uncomfortable connections between reality and filmed “entertainment” in a very simple, but direct way.
Our Nixon, which Frye produced and was directed by Penny Lane, was a huge hit on the festival circuit last year, then aired on CNN and is currently streaming online.
Plus, in addition to making films, for many years Frye ran...
- 4/23/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Title: Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp Director: Jose Hinojosa Pimp turned successful urban fiction author Robert Beck gets a loving, burnished treatment in the new documentary “Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp,” a film which awkwardly straddles the line between amiable hagiography and a more discerning sociological study of the constricted economic opportunities for African-Americans in the pre-Civil Rights era. A world premiere at last fall’s Toronto Film Festival, director Jose Hinojosa’s colorful movie is consistently engaging, but also consistently marked by pockets of missed opportunity. An idol to rappers like Ice-t and others, the late Beck would help birth the Blaxploitation film genre with a series of bleak, [ Read More ]
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- 7/23/2013
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
“You name a movie ‘Portrait of a Pimp’ and people don’t know what to expect. The biggest fans of this film are the people going in expecting to hate it, and walk out changed,” says veteran rapper, actor, author and film producer Ice-t of his latest documentary – and follow up to Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap from last year - Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp, directed by his long time manager Jorge Hinojosa, and which Ice-t executive produced. Iceberg - which got a warm reception when it premiered at last year’s Toronto Film Festival, and in theaters on a limited release starting this Friday 7/19 - is a complex, compelling and provocative portrait of Robert Beck, who became...
- 7/18/2013
- by Vanessa Martinez
- ShadowAndAct
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