Resources for October 31, 2017

"Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972)." Philosophical Films (ND)

Bailey, John. "Kim Stringfellow: Greetings from the Salton Sea." John's Bailiwick (October 30, 2017)

Barton, Ryland. "Gov. Matt Bevin’s Pension Proposal Is Out. Here’s How It Will Affect Kentuckians." WFPL (October 29, 2017)

"B. Ruby Rich (also with Club Des Femmes and Yance Ford)." The Cinematologists #49b (June 28, 2017) ["This episode of the podcast - produced in association with Club des Femmes and The Barbican - focuses on the recent retrospective and celebration of the American Film Critic, Scholar and Curator B. Ruby Rich (@brrich1) entitled Bring Ruby Rich. The centrepiece of the podcast is a wide ranging interview with Ruby herself covering, among many things, her initial entry into film criticism, her promotion of the cinema as a social space, the legacy of her concept of New Queer Cinema, and the possibility of a political cinema in the digital age. We also interview Sophie Mayer (@tr0ublemayer) and Selina Robertson (@Clubdesfemmes), from Club Des Femmes who organised the event. And there is an in-depth Q&A hosted by Ruby and featuring Yance Ford (@yford) who discusses his first feature, to be released on Netflix in September, entitled Strong Island."]

Bird, Daniel, et al. "On the Silver Globe (1988)." The Projection Booth #329 (June 27, 2017)["Initially begun in 1977 and not released until (1988, Andrzej Zulawski, On the Silver Globe, is based on a series called The Lunar Trilogy by Zulawski's great uncle Jerzy. Joe Yanick and Heather Drain join Mike in an attempt to unravel the Polish sci-fi epic."]






Bichlbaum, Andy.  "Behind the Hijinks of The Yes Men." Waging Nonviolence (June 4, 2015)

Brown, Aileen, Will Parish and Alice Speri. "Leaked Documents Reveal Counterterrorism Tactics Use at Standing Rock to 'Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies.'" The Intercept (May 27, 2017)

D'Anna, Becky, James Hancock and Adam Rackoff. "30 Years of Star Trek: The Next Generation." Wrong Reel #287 (June 2017)

Donnie Darko (USA: Richard Kelly, 2001) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Francois Ozon." Cinema Axis (May 20, 2014)

Hichens, Christopher. "Once Upon a Time in Germany." Vanity Fair (August 2009) ["Movies have often romanticized Communist revolutionaries—think Benicio Del Toro as Che. But a new action thriller, The Baader Meinhof Complex, counterpunches, exposing the violent psychosis that gripped the young militants of the Red Army Faction in 1970s West Germany."]

Koski, Genevieve, et al. "It Comes at Night / The Thing (Pt. 1)." The Next Picture Show #82 (June 27, 2017)

---. "It Comes at Night / The Thing (Pt. 2)." The Next Picture Show #83 (June 29, 2017)

Lieber, Ron. "A Student Loan Nightmare: The Teacher in the Wrong Payment Plan." The New York Times (October 27, 2017)

---. "Panicked Borrowers, and the Education Department’s Unsettling Silence." The New York Times (April 7, 2017)

MacGillis, Alec. "The Ordeal of Appalachia: A new account challenges our notion of how the people of Appalachia 'acquired civilization and then lost it.'" ProPublica (October 30, 2017)

Mann, Doug. "Enid as Situationist: Commodity Fetishism, Alienation and Authenticity in Ghost World." (ND: Posted on his academic page for Western University - Canada)

---. "Hunting Elk in the Ruins: Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club as Neo-Situationist Satire of Consumer Capitalism." (ND: Posted on his academic page for Western University - Canada)

Muldowney, Decca. "Info Wars: Inside the Left’s Online Efforts to Out White Supremacists." Pro Publica (October 30, 2017)

Strether, Lambert. "In Praise of Libraries." Naked Capitalism (October 29, 2017)

Subissati, Andrea and Alexandra West. "Mark of the Beast: American Werewolf in London (1981) and Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)." Faculty of Horror (June 26, 2017)

---. "Undead Walking: Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985)." Faculty of Horror #54 (October 31, 2017)