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Patrick Ready, 1947-2012
We’re sad to hear that artist, writer, and inventor Patrick Ready has died. Our sympathy goes to his friends and loved ones. Here’s some video of Patrick and longtime collaborator Hank Bull in last year’s television project Public Access: 1999 & Beyond (curated by Weekend Leisure). The video is an adaptation of material from the…
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This week’s film: F. W. Murnau’s Faust
Screened on August 15, 2012 This week, our film is based upon a classic German tale; famously adapted in literature by Goethe, but the subject of probably thousands of adaptations and retellings. Murnau, who earlier had created the vampire silent Nosferatu, made this film in 1926, before moving to Hollywood to make Sunrise. You can…
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This week: “buddhist”/rock’n’roll western Zachariah
Screened on August 8, 2012 This week’s film contains a few of cultural strands that ran through late-60s and early-70s “counterculture”. Zachariah comes from a script written by the Firesign Theatre, loosely based upon Herman Hesse’s novel Siddhartha, starring Don Johnson and John Rubinstein as rock’n’roll gunfighters (who seem to be pretty much in love with…
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Tokyo Drifter
Screened on August 1, 2012 This week’s film: Tokyo Drifter. Viewable online, and on our patch of street. We’ll be making some announcements about fall events very soon. Part of the Pitt’s summer screenings.
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This week’s film: Fritz Lang’s M
Screened on July 25, 2012 We’re between exhibitions (until September 7), but there are still things to see (and hear). This week’s screening in our front window is a non-subtitled German-language version of Fritz Lang’s M. You can see it from the sidewalk in front of 15 East Pender Street from 8 to 11 pm…