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Richard Kern and Nick Zedd, The Manhattan Love Suicides: Thrust in Me, 1985, 35 mm, black-and-white, 35 minutes.

What I wouldn't give to find a model with this effect! #cheekbonesasweapon

What becomes of cities, post-spectacle?

"America Lost and Found" featuring the independent cinema of America circa late 60's, early 70's

This morning I woke up to this amazing impromptu review by Joseph Lally of "America Lost and Found" . I'm so grateful for this find. Eternal thanks Joseph!

Riding across Manhattan in a limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's day devolves into chaos

An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.

“I’m not an artist known for my spectacular scale or anything like that. So I had to go somewhere I’d never been before."

Note to fashion's itinerant class, currently perched in London. Please make Tacita Dean's "The Unilever Series" at Tate Modern a must see. It's an event, a pilgrimage and a rite of passage. It was made by turning a Cinemascope lens 90 degrees and upending the usual landscape format of the movie screen so it becomes vertical, scaling itself to the proportions of the hall. The film itself was constructed using disappearing techniques such as masking, double-exposure and glass matte painting, to recapture the sense of wonderment generated by these skills during the early days of cinema.

Director Hiroshi Teshigahara was a pivotal figure of the Japanese new wave

"The film ... manages to take on new meaning in our current culture where people are willing to give up their individuality by having plastic surgery in order to obtain what they consider “perfect” looks or to hide the unstoppable signs of age."

Kimberly Lindbergs

Winter's Bone is set in a rural community in the Ozark Mountains where the local industry is crystal meth

Based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell, "Winter's Bone" was the film that nabbed that coveted Grand Jury Prize for Drama at Sundance 2010. It has its MOMA premiere on June 9th and TI assures you "Winter's Bone" has the grit and the grain that makes for the very best of American cinema. Full press release after the jump.

Elisa Sednaoui PH Diane von Furstenberg for V Magazine

I remember being in the bar of the hotel El Embajador in Santo Domingo with Miss Sednaoui and her mentioning that she had just finished this movie. Well one sizziling V Mag layout later...it all makes sense now. Beautiful exploration of feminine sensuality by Madame DVF as a photographer too. Multiplicity of talent is the everything this decade