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Paris is Burning – A Film by Jennie Livingston |
 The movie is riveting simply for the details it provides of the drag-ball subculture — the postmodern slang, the voguing duels (which, prior to Madonna's sugarcoated appropriation, were essentially gang fights turned into self-referential dance contests), the tensions between ridicule and reverence that render the balls themselves a kind of proletarian performance art. |
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Seventh Seal (Criterion Collection) – A Film by Ingmar Bergman |
 The Seventh Seal tells the story of a knight named Antonius Block (Max von Sydow) and his squire Jöns (Gunnar Bjönstrand), who have just returned from ten fruitless years in the Crusades to a Sweden in the throes of the black plague. There the knight is confronted by the specter of Death; and, in an image parodied from Woody Allen’s Love and Death to Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey to the lame Schwarzenegger action-comedy The Last Action Hero, the knight challenges Death to a game of chess. |
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 Set in a holiday camp in the south of England (Butlins Minehead or Pontins Camber Sands), ATP sells itself as the music fans' music festival; the premise being that bands and fans have as much of a hand in curating the line-up as the organisers themselves. This is all well and good if you're a fan of the latest fave rave on pitchfork.com, but not if your only interest is in seeing the smattering of genuinely exciting headliners, chief among them Portishead and the Stooges. |
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