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The Strokes’ First Music Video in Five Years Is a Deliciously Silly Art-Film Pastiche

Edit New York Magazine 28 Jun 2016
It's been five years since the Strokes released a proper music video (the lyric video for the thrumming "Drag Queen" doesn't count), and the quintet decided to provide some major fan service by releasing one for "Threat of Joy," the smooth closer from their newest EP, Future Present Past. Between the ... More » ... ....

'Cell': Review

Edit Screen Daily 27 Jun 2016
Dir. Tod Williams. US. 2016. 97mins ... The action veers towards zombie pastiche more often than it achieves a satisfying creepiness ... The effects and production values are good by indie standards, but under eventual director Tod Williams (Paranormal Activity 2) - Eli Roth had at one time been attached - the action veers towards zombie pastiche more often than it achieves a satisfying creepiness ... Production companies ... US distribution ... Producers ... ....

Bat Boy The Musical: A Bat Boy's Gotta Do What a Bat Boy's Gotta Do

Edit Houston Press 27 Jun 2016
A A. Facebook-. Twitter -. More shares recommend reddit email -. -. The set-up. ... The execution.. This is sung by half feral/half human Edgar, a.k.a. Bat Boy (the nimble and audacious Colton Berry, looking every inch like Max Schreck in F.W ... The humor still bites though ... 3, 6.00pm ... The pastiche score isn't forgiving, running from Sondheim patter, heavy metal, fleeting rap, to generic musical knockoffs of Stephen Schwartz and Frank Wildhorn ... D. L ... ....

7 Albums to Rock Your Week

Edit Rhapsody 25 Jun 2016
Even when drenched in melancholy the Avetts have always managed to sound heroic, but this isn’t the case with the aptly titled “Satan Pulls the Strings” and “Ain’t No Man.” Each are confessionals from men who have been humbled by failure and personal upheaval; Seth himself bears all on “Divorce Separation Blues,” a slice of country and western pastiche (replete with yodel) that looks back on the 2013 dissolution of his marriage ... > ....

How painter Winifred Knights became Britain’s ‘unknown genius’

Edit The Guardian 25 Jun 2016
Knights’ use of classical subjects in a modern age made her the most promising painter of the 1920s. So why is she only now receiving her first retrospective exhibition?. The Deluge (1920) remains one of the most instantly familiar artworks of the first half of the 20th century ... Twitter ... Twitter ... simple shapes, flat colour, a quattrocento approach reimagined for the modern age without ever descending into pastiche ... Twitter ... ....

Shipler expands

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 24 Jun 2016
ARAB AND JEW. WOUNDED SPIRITS IN A PROMISED LAND by David Shipler. Broadway Books. $39.95. Reviewer. T.H. Seal ... Arab and Jew was published in 1986, revised in 2002, and now worked over once more. Shipler has decided to eschew the pessimistic advice of an Israeli friend, who recommended that he "simply insert a sentence at the beginning ... Advertisement ... The net effect is not a collage or a pastiche but a proper, fully-formed palimpsest ... ....

Senior figures in remain campaign say they were 'hobbled' by Number 10

Edit The Guardian 24 Jun 2016
Downing Street blocked personal attacks and refused to broaden message on economic risk of Brexit ... They said that, until near the end of the campaign, Downing Street was paralysed by fear of “blue on blue” attacks. Cameron is understood to have blocked an attack ad – a pastiche of the party’s 2015 general election poster which showed Ed Miliband tucked inside the breast pocket of Alex Salmond ... One strategist said ... A soure said ... ....

Movie review: French drama 'Les Cowboys' artfully reworks 'The Searchers'

Edit The Oklahoman 24 Jun 2016
It’s fall 1994 in eastern France, at a festival where country-western enthusiasts have gathered to celebrate their shared passion ... Bidegain directs in a more contained and classical style than Audiard, and for all his interest in topicality and pastiche, he also respects the simple, melodramatic appeal of his story and the primal emotions lurking beneath this story of parents and children torn apart ... ———. Justin Chang ... ———. LES COWBOYS ... ....

“I’m Actually Trying to Create a Film for Women”: Anna Biller on The Love Witch

Edit IMDb 23 Jun 2016
However indebted these forms are to their masculinist forebears, Biller is not content to be considered a pastiche artist ... She […] » ... ....

New Monash Prato Centre garden launched (Monash University)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Jun 2016
(Source. Monash University). Officially opening on Friday 24 June, the Monash Prato Centre garden in Italy is not simply a serene space for students to study and absorb the rich culture of their surroundings. The garden's elegant, yet simplistic design respectfully and creatively pays tribute to the area's history ... History had forgotten the garden at Palazzo Vai ... It's not a pastiche version of an Italian garden.' ... Ms Zampatti concurs....

Mumford & Sons, Baaba Maal, The Very Best & Beatenberg - 'Johannesburg EP'

Edit NME 21 Jun 2016
What do you get IF you cross a wholesome British folk rock group with singers from Senegal and Malawi, a buzzy South African trio, and two all-night recording sessions in Johannesburg? A pretty solid EP, as it turns out. Mumford & Sons’ ‘Johannesburg’ isn’t a lame pastiche, but nor is it a revelation ... But it’s far from a dilettante project, partially thanks to their collaborators ... Their winning performance of ‘Wona’ on Later... ....

The Tender Arsonist

Edit The Atlantic 21 Jun 2016
Not yet 40, Jesse Ball has published six novels, three collections of poetry and prose, a book of drawings, and a pedagogical monograph, Notes on My Dunce Cap, in which he introduces courses he has given at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on lying, lucid dreaming, and the Brothers Grimm ... As his body of work has expanded, what might have at first resembled pastiche has differentiated into a peculiar vision all his own ... What?....

Why we should share our emirate's many wonders

Edit The National 20 Jun 2016
Regular readers will know that I have a soft spot for the country's heritage, wildlife and environment. Indeed, it's more of a passion than just a soft spot, an abiding interest that has absorbed me for decades ... Where culture comes in, it often seems to be of a pastiche kind, such as desert safaris that conclude at fake Bedu camping sites where imported belly-dancing is put forward as some kind of authentic Emirati experience....
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