David Lynch Launches Transcendental Television Site
“The anger that I had when I first started meditating in 1974 lifted in two weeks. It kinda just went away.”
Film That Matters
Grant Morrison Gets Deep On Superman, Batman, Cosmology, Crisis
From mind-warping revisions of comic book heroes in All-Star Superman, Batman R.I.P. and Final Crisis, to pop-cultural and philosophical exegeses like The Invisibles, The Filth and We3, brainiac graphic novelist Grant Morrison is a master of the Gordian-knot narrative.
Wonder Woman Plays The Sex Card
Wonder Woman is an ancient goddess with a sexualized back story.
Coraline’s Dazzling, Terrifying Stop-Motion Animation
It takes nerve to craft a horror story about children in this day and age.
Archaeologizing Watchmen: An Interview With Dave Gibbons
When acclaimed artist Dave Gibbons sat down to create epochal comic book series Watchmen with writer Alan Moore, neither had any idea what was to come.
David Lynch Signs Up For The Lime Green Set
David Lynch’s Absurda Studio releases a compilation of his weirdest work.
Beware, The Pentagon’s Robot Hunters!
How does the robot pack decide which human is cooperative and which is not? Welcome to the wonderful, dystopian world of defense pork.
Who Killed Amanda Palmer?
“It was so incredibly untrue to life and yet so perfectly exposing at the same time.”
Mogwai’s Ready For Its Hollywood Close-Up
“We would love to drop some jams for The Hobbit,” Braithwaite cracks. “In fact, I think that Barry should do the voice for Smaug.”
Post Up: Batman’s Musical Mutations
From Nelson Riddle and Prince to Danny Elfman and Siouxsie and the Banshees.
Twin Piqued: David Lynch’s TV Legend Makes Musical Comeback
“Everyone was watching that show. Angelo Badalamenti had a huge influence on the shoegaze sound.”
Does M. Night Shyamalan Have a Thing for Pixies?
And where Hitchcock leaned on the striking scores of Bernard Hermann to propel his movies, Night seems to be borrowing ideas from … the Pixies?
Body Language: An Interview With David Cronenberg
“body horror was not my term. It was a term someone used to describe what I was doing, so it is not a category in my head that I use to make films.”
Mogwai Scores, Zidane Kicks
The greatest instro-rock band on earth soundtracks a film about one of European football’s infamous titans, and the result is a win for all.
Earth’s Altered States
Our reliance upon fossil fuels could spell the end of our species as a whole if we don’t get our shit together.
David Lynch’s Weird, Wired World
It’s all an experiment. I want to find things that fire me up, and see if it works for the people.
David Lynch, Uncut, Part Three
Scientists are so beautiful. They come up with these things, and then the other side of the coin is that artists grab hold of them, and who knows what can happen? The world is always changing, that’s rule number one.
David Lynch, Uncut, Part Two
It’s a dream world now. But like I always say, everybody has access to a piece of paper and a pencil. But how many great stories are written?
Michel Gondry Keeps It Reel
“ I stopped my son from playing videogames, and he began to develop all kinds of creative skills.”
You Can’t Go Home Again: Return of the King
we may never experience this kind of cinema storytelling again in our lifetime.
Being There: William Gibson, No Maps For These Territories
Gibson, as Neale’s documentary is happy to point out, is so much more than the father of cyberspace.
Through The Looking Glass, Simply: Jonathan Miller’s Alice In Wonderland
I like great simplicity in all my work. I don’t like lots of florid detail.”
Richard Linklater’s School of Rock Kids Are Alright
When people say that it must have been hard to make this movie, I just go, “Uh, no.” Being an offshore oil worker, that was hard. But this?
No Bark, Some Bite: The Mouse That Roared
that rare nuclear holocaust flick you can watch with the kids.
It’s Customary To Have The Father’s Watch: Rest In Peace, Gregory Peck
Who among his sons — or daughters — will execute that watch so capably, so persistently, so quietly?