June 2010
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Lee "Scratch" Perry's Wild World: Watch a Clip... →
80 seconds of The Upsetter leaked onto Rolling Stone’s website in supplement to their big article on Lee Scratch Perry in this month’s issue.
In this particularly bizarre scene unearthed from Lee’s personal home video archives, Lee spins half naked around a bonfire in his kitchen with a gigantic stone on his head while neighbor and friend Carl Bradshaw, perhaps Jamaica’s...
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Lee Scratch Perry in Rolling Stone (full article)
With the stars aligning as usual Lee Perry graces the world with his magical presence in this month’s Rolling Stone, arguably the most Upsetting issue of Rolling Stone in decades due to the infamous General McCrystal controversy.
The biographical section of the article runs on nearly the exact beat-by-beat narrative of my documentary on Lee - The Upsetter, co-directed with Ethan Higbee....
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Minoru Kawasaki
Minoru Kawasaki is one of the more intriguing filmmakers working today. I recently stumbled upon the official website for his new film Neiko Ramen Taisho aka Pussy Soup.
The film played at the last Asian Film Festival of Dallas but so far has no scheduled release in the US, theatrical or DVD. Here’s the synopsis:
Taisho, a young cat-model who cannot live up to his father’s level of...
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L’HOMME DERRIÈRE THE CARTER - On s’est entretenu...
Vice Magazine in France did an interview with me for this month’s issue during the premier of The Carter in Paris last week.
Interestingly the interviewer, Julien Morel, asked me about MF DOOM (who I worked with on a couple music videos 10 years ago).
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Skinemax Cinema has been announced
What started as a joke will become a movement. Jump on board the Skinemax train, you’re all invited…
Full text below.
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Splatter Sisters’ Writer/Director Adam Bhala Lough On Samurai Marilyn Manson, Skinemax
Posted 6/10/10 3:06 pm ET by Adam Rosenberg in News
A couple of weeks ago, I had an extensive chat with Adam Bhala Lough about his upcoming...
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The Carter in Rap Pages this month.
Article about The Carter in TSUGi (the French...
Review of The Carter in Libération one of France’s...
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The Carter in Télérama →
This is an incredible article about The Carter in Télérama one of France’s biggest and best weekly cultural magazines/websites. The gist of the article is this is a documentary in the style of DA Pennebaker & The Maysles bros about one of the most fascinating people in American music, a ‘musician evoking Prince and Sly Stone.’ Wow.
Cover page for my new screenplay
93 pages of pure Skinemax goodness.
Lil Wayne devoile au Festival Filmer La Musique #4
“Vous ne pouvez pas inventer un personnage comme Lil Wayne. Il existe parce que Dieu décide parfois de créer quelque chose de bizarre et d’étonnant.” Adam Bhala Lough a filmé pendant 6 mois la superstar du rap, qui finalement n’approuve pas le documentaire, et a retiré son autorisation juste avant la première de The Carter au Festival de Sundance.
Pourquoi ? Le...
Aziz Ansari references The Carter in the NY Times →
Aziz was present at the LA premier of The Carter back in November 2009 and mentioned it on his tumblr as well.
To Mr. Ansari, the musicians he satirizes are fascinating not for their over-the-top lifestyles but for their single-minded devotion to their craft. Citing a scene from “The Carter,” a documentary about the rapper Lil Wayne, Mr. Ansari said: “He says something that I thought...
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Kate Winslet to star in my new film →
“Kate and Evan will be teaming up again in a future film called the “Splatter Sisters,” which is set to be a “sexploitation-serial-killer-slasher-road-movie circa 1989.” Celebrity-Gossip.net
The internet said it so it must be true. hahaha.