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Diane from Michigan wants to split a column of names into two columns. Episode 1145 shows two approaches and the problems with each.

Drew Barrymore's Whip It (260 screens) opened seven weeks ago and still hasn't broken even on its initial cost. What's going on? When I walked out of the press screening, the critics were all buzzing about how much fun they'd had. The reviews were stellar: it has an 82% on Rotten Tomatoes. But somehow this critical enthusiasm just didn't translate for viewers. Something about tough chicks beating each other up during roller derby games just didn't appeal to the masses. Maybe it's because the movie is supposed to be set in Texas and was actually shot in Michigan. Maybe it's because our hero Bliss Cavendar (Ellen Page) was supposed to fall in love with a cute boy (Landon Pigg) who really wasn't very interesting, and you actually root for them to break up.Filed under: Columns, 400 Screens, 400 BlowsContinue reading 400 Screens, 400 Blows - What's Up with Whip It? Permalink | Email this | Comments

For four consecutive evenings, White Columns will host a series of narrative performances by Alexandre Singh. Taking the mantle from Homer, Singh will be reciting from memory ?The Alkahest,? a series of interwoven tales featuring golems, monks, parrots, 20th-century abstract painters, and the creation of the world. In addition, he will be giving three lectures, entitled ?The Assembly Instructions,? consisting of a series of rhapsodic academic discourses delivered while two overhead projectors display a variety of images collaged by Singh, forming the backbone of a meandering discussion that ranges from Ikea to Giordano Bruno, and from Snow White to oranges.

Director Claire Denis -- who was born in France but raised in colonial Africa -- enjoyed a measure of art-house buzz when she leapt onto the scene in 1989 with her film Chocolat (not to be confused with the awful 2000 Johnny Depp/Juliette Binoche movie of the same name). Siskel these tend to cause people to think, thus making them very uncomfortable. Some of her movies couldn't get distribution and remain difficult to see. Others received only the tiniest distribution and even most critics didn't notice them. Such is the case with her wonderful new 35 Shots of Rum (2 screens), which is one of the year's best films. Filed under: Columns, 400 Screens, 400 BlowsContinue reading 400 Screens, 400 Blows - 'Rum' Diary Permalink | Email this | Comments

Here's a quick look at what's opening in limited release this weekend. If they're not playing where you live, keep an eye out as they make the rounds. And if all else fails, there's always DVD.... Ong Bak 2: The Beginning (pictured) is something of a prequel to Ong Bak, the Thai sensation from a few years ago. Tony Jaa, whose multi-discipline fighting skills are beyond impressive, plays a guy who fights a lot. Cinematical's Todd Gilchrist sums up the way many of us felt when we first caught the film at South By Southwest: The fight scenes are spectacular; unfortunately, the plot that holds them together is incomprehensible and takes itself too seriously. At Rotten Tomatoes, the critics are almost evenly split between yea and nay, with the only question being whether the awesomeness of the fights is enough to compensate for the dullness of the rest of it. Playing on 10 screens in New York, L.A., San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, and Washington D.C. Antichrist is an art-house horror film from Lars Von Trier, starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a grieving couple to whom some supernatural and terrible things happen. It's been appalling audiences since it premiered at Cannes this spring. The critics all seem to agree that it's repellent, grisly, unsettling, and hard to watch. Where they part company -- about evenly down the middle, so far -- is whether that's good or bad. Playing on one screen each in L.A., New York, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. It will also be available through some Video On Demand systems starting Oct. 28.Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Foreign Language, Horror, Independent, New Releases, Columns, Indie SpotlightContinue reading Indie Spotlight: New Releases for Oct. 23 Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Crew of Freeborders take over an SF street to create a real life video game. http://www.freebord.com.Music: Copy, You cannot believe it . Remixed by e*rock Author: Freebord Tags: Freebord Freeboard video game puzzle skateboard neon tetris Mario columns erock oldschool 80s night amazing trippy cool Posted: 24 September 2009 Rating: 4.4 Votes: 114

James Kalm has been hearing rumors rumbling around New York about a Reality TV show dealing with artists and their careers for months. Tipped off about these auditions by Martin Bromirski, he peddles over to the West Village on a Sunday afternoon in July to see what all the hubbub is about. In the process, he s intimidated, taunted, threatened with arrest, and shunted to the side. Ironically this Report delivers a reality check on Reality TV, and gives exposure to many artists who failed to fit the template and clich s of the Mainstream Media.