Some 2025.
by Craig Keller
Laura Branigan’s “Gloria” and “Self-Control” express so much; it’s difficult to listen to the two singles, the pair simply convey almost too much… they’re will against death, screams from an assignment of power; she understood so much, they’re the songs I listened to, alternating, on repeat, forty times here and there in a row years ago.. there have been days for years I’ve played Kammerflimmer Kollektief’s “We Paint the Town Beige” 199 times straight, it’s the recording that resembles me inside, or “Strawberry Fields Forever” or Angel Deradoorian’s “Saturnine Night” as always and “Like Spinning Plates” and “Life in a Glasshouse”.. With a Dying Fall | Baby Invasion the greatest new’ish movie (2024) I’ve seen this year, it blows everything into distance, a kind of > perfection of gargantuan AGGRO DR1FT agonistes
no order
Sabrina Greco. - Lockjaw
Mary Bronstein. - If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Charlotte Ercoli. - Fior di Latte
Claire Denis. - Avec amour et acharnement (2022)
Claire Denis. - High Life (2018)
Claire Denis. - S’en fout la mort (1990)
Abdellatif Kechiche. - La graine et le mulet (2007)
Abbas Kiarostami. - Nān o kūche (1970)
Peter Bogdanovich. - What’s Up, Doc? (1972)
Billy Woodberry. - Bless Their Little Hearts (1984)
Lucio Fulci. - Zombi 2 (1979)
Alain Guiraudie. - Miséricorde (2024)
Jerry Schatzberg. - Scarecrow (1973)
Isiah Medina. - Gangsterism
Richard Linklater. - Blue Moon
Joseph Cates. - Who Killed Teddy Bear (1965)
Josh Safdie. - 6-minute social media teaser trailer for Marty Supreme, the one with the ballstorm
Harley Weir. - 15-second social media ad for Tiffany & Co.’s HardWear Collection with Mikey Madison
Man Ray. - L’étoile de mer (1928)
Paul Morrissey. - Mixed Blood (1984)
Paul Thomas Anderson. - One Battle After Another
Brian De Palma. - Carrie (1976)
Jim Jarmusch. - Permanent Vacation (1980)
Matt Reeves. - Let Me In (2009)
Bong Joon Ho. - Mickey 17
Dario Argento. - Suspiria (1977)
Shinji Sōmai. - Taifū Club (1985)
Alex Ross Perry. - Pavements (2024)
What else to write, ‘what else’ but: the insupportable shame of Gaza, of the genocide in Gaza —
David Berman, I always keep you in mind. “It gets really, really bad.” “Take a look at this fuckin view.” “Shame is coming back to the redneck people. / Top ten redneck moments: / There aren’t any.” “Heard you heard the news / Adam and Eve were Jews / And I always loved you to the max.” “Crazy Horse, age 35 / Covered in powder burns and paper cuts / Living with a cushion / — Everyone wants it, redneck / But you’re willing to fuck over your brothers / And so, it’s time for shame to come back.”
“How we stand the standard distance / Distant strangers stand apart…… / I’ve been forced to watch my foes enjoy / Ceaseless feasts of schadenfreud’….. / Well a setback can be a setup / For a comeback if you don’t let up / But this kind of hurtin won’t heal” •