Guest Contributor Stephen Lamb: A Short Defense of Melancholia and “Images from a Closed Ward”
[This post comes to us from guest writer Stephen Lamb.] At the premier last Friday of Michael Hersch’s “Images from a Closed Ward,” performed by Nashville’s Blair String Quartet, the program notes included some thoughts from Michael Mazur, the artist whose etchings bearing the same name had inspired the new work. “These compositions are filled sometimes with frightening sounds,” Mazur wrote for the liner notes of the first recordings of Hersch’s work, words... Read More
Von Trier, “A perfect imitation of a fake” – Film Comment
excerpts from THE SIX COMMANDMENTS OF THE CHURCH OF THE ANTICHRIST by Larry Gross Film Comment, September/October 2009 . . . Lars von Trier . . . can’t seem to shut up about his beliefs, his lack of beliefs, his sincerity, his upbringing in a paradoxically rigid hippie commune, his phobias, his dishonest mommy (on her deathbed in 1995, she revealed that her husband was not von Trier’s biological father). He doled out endless amounts of this at Cannes, as if Antichrist couldn’t... Read More
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