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Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Season Two, Transmission Six (Part 3.2)

Wed, 19 Sep 2018 19:03:38 +0000

(The following is the second half of Nick Toti’s interview with Megan Boyle and Tao Lin of MDMAfilms. Part one can be found here.) Hammer to Nail: A lot of reviews of your movies that I’ve read compare the MDMAfilms project […]

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Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Season Two, Transmission Six (Part 3.1)

Thu, 06 Sep 2018 18:35:13 +0000

This interview is the third and final installment of my series on MDMAfilms. To be as frank as possible, I’m not terribly happy with how this interview turned out, but I think it’s worth publishing regardless. Both Megan Boyle and […]

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Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Season Two, Transmission Five (Part 2)

Wed, 22 Aug 2018 18:19:51 +0000

In the last Digital Gods installment, we examined the cultural context surrounding MDMAfilms, the production company created by authors Megan Boyle and Tao Lin. This article will now look at the actual movies that MDMAfilms produced. Particularly, this piece will […]

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Movies About Museums

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 23:56:06 +0000

“A process in which no one wants to take a risk is too Dutch for me,” laments one of the embattled Spanish co-architects in Oeke Hoogendijk’s The New Rijksmuseum, a 2013 doc I caught up with over the holidays. The […]

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VOD REPORT

Michael Tully — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:42:58 +0000

Note: This month, we welcome contributing watcher/writer John Lichman into the fold—hooray!—to not only take the pressure off your overburdened head writer/editor, but to bring some linguistic variety to the table. Hopefully in the future our contributor horizons will only […]

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DVD RELEASES 2010/6/8

Michael Tully — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:16:30 +0000

There have certainly been more wild and crazy weeks on the DVD release front, but that’s okay. You still have some work to do: New Release of the Week The Sun (Kino/Lorber) — Technically, Alexander Sokurov’s long overdue—on these shores, […]

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MOVIES ON BIG SCREENS – November 20, 2009

Michael Tully — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:23:40 +0000

Once again, too many new releases to see in one weekend, so allow me to point you in the direction of just a few, if I may: The Sun (Alexander Sokurov, Russia/Italy/Switzerland/France, 110 minutes) — Richard Lorber (Lorber Films) deserves […]

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MOVIES ON BIG SCREENS – May 21-24, 2009

Michael Tully — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:37:34 +0000

While Cannes is in the home stretch, there are still a few more days of competition films to unveil, not to mention the awards themselves. But let us not forget that in New York City, every night feels like a […]

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