Wonderful Hitchens

You have to have a lot of respect for a man who tells it like it is. Christopher Hitchens latest book is called God Is Not Great and I recommend it. Unless you are a big fan of God. He's speaking about the recently deceased Reverend Jerry Falwell

Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz Coming To Dvd

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's controversial, fifteen-hour-plus Berlin Alexanderplatz, based on Alfred Doblin's great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at age thirty-four, had already made forty films. Fassbinder's immersive epic, restored in 2006 and available on DVD in this country for the first time, follows the hulking, childlike ex-convict Franz Biberkopf (Gunter Lamprecht) as he attempts to "become an honest soul" amidst the corrosive urban landscape of Weimar-era Germany. With equal parts cynicism and humanity, Fassbinder details a mammoth portrait of a common man struggling to survive in a viciously uncommon time.

http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=411

Lola fest 2007

This year's Lola Festival brings a wide selection of bands and visual artists as well as the Canadian premiere of Brian Eno's 77 Million Paintings. The events take place September 20-23.

http://www.lolafest.com/index.html

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