ONE - ARTHOUSE FILM NEWS - Cosmic Disco Detective Rene at Film Noir Cinema, NYC starting 7/12/24

Great visuals.  Check it out: FADE TO BLACK - Julien Levy - Quai Branly Museum (sample) from julien levy on Vimeo . For more Julien Levy work, go to his site . - S

* Playing at BAM 11/4-19.  More info here . - S

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Here are some photos from my latest NYC area bookstore discovery (a couple of mins away from Manhattan - driving/by bus, etc) - B&F Books in West New York, NY - at 6-60th St.  Here's the store on Facebook .  And here's their website w/ link to their massive Amazon collection (for those who like to shop at Amazon).  You can call them at the store at 201-663-1751 about Special Events, sales, visiting the store/store hours, to sell your books, etc.  The Store * The Owner - Lawrence Arteaga (who is brave for attempting to run a real life/physical bookstore, though many are closing around the country due to the popularity of internet book selling)  * The Neighborhood - Beautiful!  Saw some amazing visuals that I need to work into my next movie :)  Great sights of NYC from West New York, NJ.  This photo was taken a few feet away from the bookstore. *  Seen inside the store :) * Lots of books! * My find of ...

At Vulture .  New boxing movie, related to Rocky. - S

I heard about a new film called Mother's Day recently.  Film is being completed and should be released in 2016.  Here's the IMDb page for the film . And here are several articles about the film: http://www.cinemablend.com/ new/Christina-Ricci-Joins- Susan-Sarandon-Mother-Day- 31257.html http://www.hollywoodreporter. com/news/susan-sarandon-eva- amurri-martino-321685 http://deadline.com/2012/07/ sharon-stone-joins-mothers- day-296104/ http://screencrush.com/susan- sarandon-eva-amurri-mothers- day/ http://deadline.com/2014/09/ mothers-day-casts-paul-wesley- keiynan-lonsdale-john-ortiz- to-star-in-disney-the-finest- hours-841424/  From the Cinema Blend article on the film (from 2012): "Mother's Day  is described as a drama, and seems to bear no relation to other recent "Day" movies ( Valentine's Day, New Years Day ), with Duddridge's past credits appearing to be focused mainly on television. But it looks like the movie is alre...

Interesting - "Warhol’s filmmaking was motivated in large part by his fascination with individuals, but he was also driven by his desire to capture the actual experience of living. As he wrote in his book, POPism: The Warhol ‘60s: “What I liked was chunks of time all together, every real moment…I only wanted to find great people and let them be themselves…and I’d film them for a certain length of time and that would be the movie.”"  Read the rest here . - S

Race was an idea developed and used in America to support slavery.  Post-slavery race and other ideas, and practices and institutions that supported slavery, were not fully dismantled.  Instead those things changed names and went underground a couple of levels, and continued to operate in American society.  This is why that now, in 2015, we have two levels of wealth, freedom, and justice in America (as made clear by the many cases of unjust violence against African-Americans by the police, the wealth disparity between Whites and Blacks, the massive Black prison population due to harsher sentencing for Blacks).  There exists in America now one level of opportunities, wealth, freedom for Whites and a lesser one for Blacks. Obviously this is not a good idea - given the fact that it is a source of harm and pain for millions of people in America and a source of unrest which interferes with the quality of life and peace for all.  Also, the continued existence of the i...