paris FRANCE

2 or 3 things i know about her is another hard to find GODARD film which has found its american release by criterion…

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new york NEW YORK

penguin’s great loves series spills over with “tales of blissful and all encompassing, doomed and tragic, erotic and absurd, seductive and adulterous, innocent and murderous love.” the books are gorgeous with their sinister stamped covers and black spines. titles include d.h. LAWRENCE’S the virgin and the gypsy, NABOKOV’S mary, TOLSTOY’S the kreutzer sonata, KIERKEGAARD’S the seducer’s diary, and BOCCACCIO’S the eaten heart.

puerto rico

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

jaenes BONG + jonathan ALOTTO: inspired by hieronymus bosch’s painting ‘the garden of earthly delights’, the hell’s scenery abstracted the metamorphic relationship between human and nature. it leads us to a poetic narrative which we wanted to create a proposal that reflects hong kong’s hidden natural beauty and its chinese spiritual mythology.

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new york NEW YORK

originally published in 1969, rudolf WIRLITZER’S cult classic nog has been republished by two dollar radio. the novel’s unreliable narrator who may or may not be ‘nog’ travels across the american west of the 1960’s. he drifts across the continent with a trailer containing an octopus in a bathysphere and a slowly loosening grip on his consciousness. the prose churns back and forth to find an unsettling rhythm as the story unfolds across the western landscapes, down to panama, into a food commune in san francisco, and eventually back east.

northern GERMANY

michael HANEKE’S chilling white ribbon explores issues of violence, guilt, and mob rule against the black and white backdrop of a rural german village on the eve of world war I. the village and the film are set into a strange state following the alarming, mysterious fall the town doctor takes from a horse and the chain of violent events which follow. the story investigates the relationship between oppressor and oppressed as played out by the children and their parents in the town. this never ending propulsion of violence, aggression, and spite builds and builds to instill anxiety and fear in the whole town.

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denmark COPENHAGEN

‘chaos reigns’ in lars VON TRIER’S shocking new film antichrist. a psychological horror film full of insane visuals and mesmerizing set design, the movie drags willem dafoe and charlotte gainsbourg into the woods for a truly haunting, perverse trip full of grief, pain, and despair. although heavy handed and laughable at times the horrifying atmosphere of the dark woods veiled in hazy blues, browns, and greens creates an intense visual experience. the nightmarish dream sequence that is the movie comes complete with storms of acorns, repulsive animals, gratuitous perversity, and a bit of genital mutilation.

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london ENGLAND

although not a major departure in character and story from his previous films, the fantastic mr fox is the most enjoyable wes ANDERSON outing in quite a while. the success relies heavily on the virtuoso puppet work of mackinnon & saunders. the detail and mood evoked by the stop motion techniques are mesmerizing as the animation allows for anderson’s control of set design and atmosphere to reach a new level complete with plenty of cutaways and autumnal colors.

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new york NEW YORK

log 17 , “the superficial issue,” explores issues of form, sensation, mood, styling, and affect in architecture while creating some distance from the contemporary hangups of sustainability, scientific data, and process. the issue contains excellent writings by sylvia lavin, david erdman, and the not to be missed essay “hair and makeup” by jason payne. there are also three illuminating conversations with participants including thom mayne, hernan diaz alonso, marcelo spina, elena manferdini, peter zellner, tom wiscombe, and kivi sotamaa.

new york NEW YORK

nathaniel WEST’S classics the day of the locust and miss lonelyhearts have been collected in one volume and published by new directions. both are darkly comic visions ahead of their time set in new york and los angeles. desperation, misery, failure, and lost hope were never so funny.