All week, we’ve been chatting with the Criterion Collection‘s Susan Arosteguy about Wim Wenders’ ‘Wings of Desire‘, the director’s cinematic return to his hometown, Berlin. At once heartbreaking and beautiful, Wenders’ portrait of Berlin captures a turbulent time in the nation’s history. It would take a time machine to get back to the Berlin depicted in the film — a ... Read More »
For the third edition of his six-song tour, Museyon Guide James Hendicott tackles his biggest challenge yet — Ireland. See the Galway-based writer’s homegrown picks, after the jump… Read More »
We’ve been hearing a lot recently about Brazilian artist Carlinhos Brown. So we were psyched to see a story in the ‘New York Times’, about how the singer-songwriter-percussionist has changed his neighborhood of in Salvador, Brazil’s third-largest city. Reporting from Candyall Ghetto Square, the Candeal Pequeno studio where Brown records with his percussion band Timbalada, the Times talked to Brown ... Read More »
Last week we chatted with Criterion Collection producer Susan Arosteguy about the new Criterion edition of Wim Wenders’ homage to Berlin, ‘Wings of Desire’, which comes out November 3. We had so much to talk about — after all, Arosteguy has been with Criterion since the laserdisc days, working with directors like Wes Anderson and Richard Linklater and even the ... Read More »
Thanks to everybody who made it out to the Adventures in Travel Expo this weekend! We had an awesome time meeting new people and seeing all the exhibits. We heard some great speakers, met some new friends at the amazing and beautiful Afar magazine, and we got pretty much the greatest endorsement ever — from a Mr. Jesus Christ himself! Read More »
On November 3, the Criterion Collection releases the newest edition of Wim Wenders’ 1987 masterpiece, ‘Wings of Desire‘. Set in post-War, pre-unification Berlin, the film is tells the story of a pair of angels — played by Bruno Ganz and Otto Sander — cursed with watching over humanity, but never experiencing it. Until, that is, one falls in love with ... Read More »
New York, ya’ll better get ready to party. This weekend, Hard is coming to NYC. And the LA-based audio-visual extravaganza is bringing an all-star line-up of artists — including Major Lazer, Destructo and Crookers — to Terminal 5 (610 W 56th St., New York City; 212-665-3832), Saturday night from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. To sample what’s in store, check ... Read More »
It’s no secret that we’re eagerly awaiting the October 16 premiere of Spike Jonze’s interpretation of ‘Where the Wild Things Are‘. And clearly, we’re not alone. The folks at New York’s Museum of Modern Art are celebrating the film with an exhibition, “Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years,” the director’s first-ever retrospective, part of the Filmmaker in Focus series, which ... Read More »
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