#Katherine DeBoer

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The Dandy Warhols - The Little Drummer Boy (1994) Katherine Kennicott Davis / Harry Simeone / Henry Onorati from: "Little Drummer Boy"​/​ "Silent Night" (Single) "It's finally Christmas" (CD) (1994 Compilation) "It's a Cool Cool Christmas" (CD) (2000 Compilation)

Alternative | Neo-Psychedelia | Christmas

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YouTube The Dandy Warhols - The Little Drummer Boy featuring Jefferey Wonderful

Personnel: Courtney Taylor-Taylor: Vocals / Guitar Peter Holmström: Guitar Zia McCabe: Keyboards Brent DeBoer: Drums

Recorded: 1990's

"It's Finally Christmas!" Released: 1994 Tim/Kerr Records

"It's a Cool Cool Christmas" Released: on November 21, 2000 Jeepster Records

Single: Released: on November 29, 2013 Beat the Worlds Records Records

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Them That Follow

August 2, 2019

[balioc]

BALIOC’S READING LIST, 2021 EDITION

This list counts only published books, consumed in published-book format, that I read for the first time and finished.  No rereads, nothing abandoned halfway through, no Internet detritus of any kind, etc.  Also no children’s picture books.

1. Lies of the Beholder, Brandon Sanderson

2. Cthulhusattva, various (ed. Scott R. Jones)

3. The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, Christopher Lasch

4. The Solitudes, John Crowley

5. On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera, Elizabeth Bear

6. The Mask of Mirrors, M. A. Carrick

7. The Cult of Smart, Fredrik deBoer

8. A Russian Doll & Other Stories, Adolfo Bioy Casares

9. Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character, Jonathan Shay

10. The Invention of Morel, Adolfo Bioy Casares

11. Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power, Anna Merlan

12. Bloodline, Will Wight

13. Lammas Night, Katherine Kurtz

14. Never Knew Another, J. M. McDermott

15. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, Anne Applebaum

16. When We Were Executioners, J. M. McDermott

17. The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future, Andrew Yang

18. We Leave Together, J. M. McDermott

19. The House of Always, Jenn Lyon

20. The Assassins of Thasalon, Lois McMaster Bujold

21. Darth Bane: Path of Destruction, Drew Karpyshyn

22. The Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire, Tom Holland

23. The Maidens, Alex Michaelides

24. The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks, Various (ed. Benedicta Ward)

25. Hawkwood's Sword, Christian Cameron

26. The Dying Earth, Jack Vance

27. The Eyes of the Overworld, Jack Vance

28. The Most Holy Trinosophia, the Comte de Saint Germain (ed. P. Manly Hall)

29. Cugel's Saga, Jack Vance

30. Rhialto the Marvellous, Jack Vance

31. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law, Mary Roach

32. Strange Beasts of China, Yan Ge

33. Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance, Various (ed. George R. R. Martin & Garner Duzois)

34. The Dragon Waiting, John M. Ford

35. An Unclean Legacy, Jenna Moran

36. The Girl and the Stars, Mark Lawrence

37. The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Alexandre Dumas

38. Ten Years After, Alexandre Dumas

39. Louise de la Vallière, Alexandre Dumas

40. The Man in the Iron Mask, Alexandre Dumas

41. Reaper, Will Wight

42. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Grace Lin

43. Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV, Franz Funck-Brentano

44. The Moon and the Sun, Vonda N. McIntyre

45. The Liar's Knot, M. A. Carrick

46. The Last Graduate, Naomi Novik

47. Knot of Shadows, Lois McMaster Bujold

48. Jade Legacy, Fonda Lee

49. Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

50. Zadig; or, the Book of Fate, Voltaire

Plausible works of improving nonfiction consumed in 2021: 11

[“plausible” and “improving” are being defined very liberally here]

Works written by women consumed in 2021: 17

Works written by men consumed in 2021: 30

Works written by both men and women consumed in 2021: 3

Balioc's Choice Award, Fiction Division: An Unclean Legacy

>>>> Honorable Mention: The Dying Earth

Balioc’s Choice Award, Nonfiction Division: The Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire

>>>> Honorable Mention: The Cult of Smart

Cultural Heritage Award For "Good Job Spending Many Hundreds of Pages Painstakingly Foreshadowing and Setting Up a Plot That Will Instantly and Dramatically Go Nowhere": The Vicomte de Bragelonne et al.

Cultural Heritage Award For "Some of You Guys are Pretty All Right, Some of You are Entirely Bonkers, But All of You Have Like 1000% More Integrity and Insight than Your Contemporary Counterparts": The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks

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Somehow, impressively, this year was even worse for my reading habits than 2020. I didn't read nearly enough -- you'll notice a lot of very short works on that already-pretty-damn-short book list -- and, overall, the stuff I did read was much too low-quality.

(I was seriously contemplating making a couple of snarky anti-awards this year. Some of those books were bad.)

Public transit really made a difference, man.

Anyway. Onwards and upwards. I'm guessing that 2022 may continue to be pretty rough, reading-wise, but...we will do better.

I continue to seek recommendations for Really Good Reading Material. Especially recommendations for Really Good nonfiction -- stuff in the "I now feel I know something substantial and important about the world" or "I now feel like I've been shown how to see things in a whole new light" categories. Excellent fiction is also great, of course, but I do have a small stack of plausibly-excellent fiction to which I haven't gotten yet (so that I could plow through easily-digestible trash, in many cases).

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Them That Follow

A Pentecostal pastor, Lemuel Childs, and his believers handle venomous snakes to prove themselves before God. Lemuel’s daughter, Mara holds a secret that threatens to tear the church apart: her romantic past with a nonbeliever, Augie. As Mara’s wedding to a devoted follower looms, she must decide whether or not to trust the steely matriarch of their community, Hope, with her heart and life at…

[tabloidtoc]

In Touch, November 12

Cover: Kate Named Queen��

Page 1: Contents 

Page 2: Who Wore It Better? Iggy Azalea vs. Kaley Cuoco, Yara Shahidi vs. Rowan Blanchard, Jasmine Sanders vs. Olivia Culpo, Olivia Wilde vs. Priyanka Chopra 

Page 4: The Crown’s new royals -- Olivia Colman, Tobias Menzies, Josh O’Connor, Emerald Fennell, Helena Bonham Carter

Page 5: David Schwimmer recreates robber lookalike, Post Malone spent $40,000 on the Postmates app, Rose Byrne goes blonde, Duh of the Week -- Chris Pine on his full frontal scene, Admission of the Week -- Jennifer Aniston on The Rachel 

Page 6: Mariska Hargitay puts her NYC townhouse for sale, multimillionaire building Titanic II, John Mayer blabs about his sex life again 

Page 8: Worst Creature Co-Stars 

Page 9: Man Candy of the Week -- Jonathan Lapaglia, Winner of the Week -- Halloween, Loser of the Week -- Johnny Depp dropped from Pirates franchise (Good luck with that), Lady Gaga keeps using the same line about Bradley Cooper 

Page 10: Oh Baby -- Natalie Portman and son Aleph, Chelsea Houska and Cole DeBoer’s daughter Layne, Curtis Stone and Lindsay Price’s son Hudson, Blac Chyna and Rob Kardashian’s daughter Dream, Tobey Maguire and Jennifer Meyer’s daughter Ruby, Tamera Mowry and Adam Housley’s son Aden 

Page 12: Up Close -- Gigi Hadid

Page 13: Katy Perry, Khloe Kardashian’s daughter True, Julia Roberts and stylist Elizabeth Stewart 

Page 14: Brad Pitt and stuntman, David Beckham and sons Romeo and Cruz, Victoria Beckham and daughter Harper 

Page 16: Kendra Wilkinson and daughter, John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, Sam Asghari, Chris Pratt 

Page 18: Jessie James Decker, Kylie Jenner and daughter Stormi, Sigourney Weaver, Amy Schumer 

Page 20: Flower Power -- Vanessa Hudgens, Rachel McAdams, Rita Ora, Misty Copeland 

Page 22: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, Jimmy Kimmel 

Page 23: Christina Aguilera and daughter, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and daughter 

Page 24: Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, Jessica Alba, Ariel Winter 

Page 26: Halloween -- Rande Gerber and Cindy Crawford and George Clooney, Kendall Jenner, Leonardo DiCaprio, Olivia Munn, Harry Styles 

Page 28: Duchess Kate is the new queen 

Page 31: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in Fiji and Tonga 

Page 32: TV’s Most Hated Host Megyn Kelly Gets Dumped 

Page 34: Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott -- new mansion for a new baby 

Page 36: Jennifer Garner’s risky new romance 

Page 38: Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin are morphing into each other 

Page 40: Jennifer Lopez feuding with Alex Rodriguez’s ex 

Page 41: Priyanka Chopra’s swanky bridal shower, Lisa Vanderpump and Kyle Richards epic fight, blind item, Star Sightings -- Victoria Justice, Jessie James Decker, Camila Cabello, T.J. Oshie, Teddi Mellencamp, Sara Sampaio 

Page 42: Ben Affleck cozies up to Meghan Markle’s BFF Janina Gavankar 

Page 43: Becca Kufrin and Garrett Yrigoyen talk babies, Amy Schumer and Chris Fischer hoping for a baby girl, wedding bells for Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger 

Page 44: Tara Reid 

Page 48: How Kourtney Kardashian got her best body ever 

Page 50: Style -- Bomber Jackets -- Alexa Chung, Kiernan Shipka, Karlie Kloss, Olivia Palermo, Gigi Hadid 

Page 52: Red Carpet Pajamas -- Zendaya, Priyanka Chopra, Olivia Munn, Chrissy Teigen, Kate Beckinsale, Heidi Klum, Sarah Jessica Parker 

Page 54: Beauty -- Bangs -- Jennifer Lopez, Julianne Hough, Kat Graham, Dakota Johnson, Bella Hadid 

Page 56: Did I Really Do That? Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga 

Page 58: Sneak Preview -- Real Housewives of Atlanta 

Page 60: What Team Are You On? Jennifer Aydin 

Page 61: Blast from the Past -- The cast of Pineapple Express -- Seth Rogen, James Franco, Danny McBride, Amber Heard, Rosie Perez, Gary Cole 

Page 62: Animal Overload -- Dog who looks like Chris Pratt 

Page 64: My Night at Home -- Sailor Brinkley Cook, Guess Whose Nose Ring -- Lenny Kravitz, Ava Phillippe, Zayn Malik, Willow Smith, Teyana Taylor, Bella Thorne 

Page 66: Double Take -- Olivia Munn 

Page 68: Horoscope -- Scorpio Leonardo DiCaprio 

Page 70: The Top 10 Hottest Joes -- Joey Lawrence, Joseph Sikora, Joseph Morgan, Joe Amabile, Joey McIntyre, Joe Jonas, Joe Keery, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Joe Alwyn, Joe Manganiello 

Page 72: Last Laughs 

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Sundance 2019: 20 Films We Can’t Wait to See in Park City

The Sundance Film Festival is starting tomorrow, January 24th, and promises 11 days of cinematic discovery. The film year doesn’t really start until Sundance starts, premiering some of the movies that will be on year-end lists in 11 months. The 2018 iteration was a particularly strong one, including the premieres of “Sorry to Bother You,” “Blindspotting,” “Eighth Grade,” “Leave No Trace,” “Wildlife,” “Minding the Gap,” “Three Identical Strangers,” “Blaze,” and many more. Looking over the lists of what will play at Sundance over the next week-and-a-half, it’s easy to pick out 20 movies that we’re particularly excited to cover, although we’re just as excited at what will come completely out of nowhere, surprising us with its stellar quality. Come back soon for coverage from Brian Tallerico, Nick Allen, Monica Castillo, Tomris Laffly, and the Ebert Fellows—Niani Scott, Whitney Spencer, and Tiffany Walden, including reviews of all 16 films in the U.S. Dramatic Competition program. Below are twenty stand-outs from various programs that we’re eager to cover, alphabetically, including the official synopsis courtesy of the Sundance Film Festival.

“After the Wedding”

Starring Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, and Billy Crudup

Written and Directed by Bard Freundlich

Category: Premieres

Isabel (Michelle Williams) has dedicated her life to working with the children in an orphanage in Calcutta. Theresa (Julianne Moore) is the multimillionaire head of a media company who lives with her handsome artist husband (Billy Crudup) and their two adorable twin boys in New York. When word comes to Isabel of a mysterious and generous grant for the financially struggling orphanage, she must travel to New York to meet the benefactor—Theresa—in person. And when Isabel is spontaneously invited to Theresa’s daughter’s wedding, Isabel discovers a connection to Theresa that takes her on an unexpected journey into her own past.

“The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind”

Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Maxwell Simba, and Lily Banda

Written and Directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor

Category: Premieres

Young William Kamkwamba lives with his family in rural Malawi, where he attends school regularly and shows great aptitude for his studies. Yet after land development and poor weather lead to a meager harvest, famine strikes the village, alarming the community and forcing William to drop out of school when his father (Chiwetel Ejiofor) can no longer afford the fees. Determined to find a way out of the life-threatening situation his family is facing, William sneaks into the school library to research—and soon conspires to build a windmill pump to irrigate the land. Caught between his father’s close-minded skepticism and the difficulty of creating a machine out of bicycle parts and scrap materials, William races against the clock to fight for his community’s survival.

“Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile”

Starring Zac Efron, Lily Collins, Haley Joel Osment, Kaya Scoledario, John Malkovich, and Jim Parsons

Directed by Joe Berlinger

Written by Michael Werwie

Category: Premieres

1969. Ted (Zac Efron) is crazy-handsome, smart, charismatic, affectionate. And cautious single mother Liz Kloepfer (Lily Collins) ultimately cannot resist his charms. For her, Ted is a match made in heaven, and she soon falls head over heels in love with the dashing young man. A picture of domestic bliss, the happy couple seems to have it all figured out … until, out of nowhere, their perfect life is shattered. Ted is arrested and charged with a series of increasingly grisly murders. Concern soon turns to paranoia—and, as evidence piles up, Liz is forced to consider that the man with whom she shares her life could actually be a psychopath.

“The Farewell”

Starring Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin, Zhao Shuzhen, Lu Hong, and Jiang Yongbo

Written and Directed by Lulu Wang

Category: U.S. Dramatic Competition

After learning their beloved matriarch has terminal lung cancer, a family opts not to tell her about the diagnosis, instead scheduling an impromptu wedding-reunion back in China. Headstrong and emotional writer Billi rebels against her parents’ directive to stay in New York and joins the family as they awkwardly attempt to rekindle old bonds, throw together a wedding that only grandma is actually looking forward to, and surreptitiously say their goodbyes.

“Greener Grass”

Starring Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe, Beck Bennett, Neil Casey, Mary Holland, and D’Arcy Carden

Written and Directed by Jocelyn DeBoer & Dawn Luebbe

Category: Midnight

Jill and Lisa live in their perfect homes in their idyllic suburban community with their happy families. Their days are spent in the grocery store exchanging fashion tips and at birthday parties complimenting their neighbors’ potluck dips. As the women desperately vie for validation, they struggle to maintain pleasantry and normalcy, even when things get weird. And they do get weird. When Jill gifts Lisa her newborn baby in an altruistic gesture, paranoia overwhelms Jill while her fears and anxieties quickly unravel.

“Late Night”

Starring Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling, John Lithgow, Paul Walter Hauser, Reid Scott, and Amy Ryan

Directed by Nisha Ganatra

Written by Mindy Kaling

Category: Premieres

Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson) is a pioneer and legendary host on the late-night talk-show circuit. When she’s accused of being a “woman who hates women,” she puts affirmative action on the to-do list, and—presto!—Molly (Mindy Kaling) is hired as the one woman in Katherine’s all-male writers’ room. But Molly might be too little too late, as the formidable Katherine also faces the reality of low ratings and a network that wants to replace her. Molly, wanting to prove she’s not simply a diversity hire who’s disrupting the comfort of the brotherhood, is determined to help Katherine by revitalizing her show and career—and possibly effect even bigger change at the same time.

“Little Monsters”

Starring Lupita Nyong’o, Alexander England, and Josh Gad

Written and Directed by Abe Forsythe

Category: Midnight

After a rough breakup, directionless Dave (Alexander England) crashes at his sister’s place and spends his days expanding his young nephew’s questionable vocabulary. When an opportunity arises to chaperone an upcoming school excursion alongside the charming and enigmatic teacher, Miss Caroline (Lupita Nyong’o), Dave jumps at the chance to impress her. What he wasn’t anticipating was Teddy McGiggle (Josh Gad), an obnoxious children’s television personality who shapes the excursion’s activities. What he was expecting even less was a zombie invasion, which unfolds after an experiment at a nearby military base goes awry. Armed only with the resourcefulness of kindergartners, Dave, Miss Caroline, and Teddy must work together to keep the monsters at bay and carve a way out with their guts intact.

“Native Son”

Starring Ashton Sanders, Margaret Qualley, Nick Robinson, Kiki Layne, Bill Camp, and Sanaa Lathan

Directed by Rashid Johnson

Written by Suzan-Lori Parks

Category: U.S. Dramatic Competition

Bigger “Big” Thomas, a young African American man, lives with his mother and siblings in Chicago. Half-heartedly involved with a girlfriend, he sports green hair and a punk jacket, smokes weed, and carries a pistol—but rebuffs his buddy’s “easy-money” scheme to knock off a corner store. Full of self-determination, Big accepts a job as the chauffeur for wealthy businessman Will Dalton’s family. Moving into their mansion, he begins driving Dalton’s vehemently progressive daughter, Mary. But his involvement in an accidental death places Big on a collision course with the powerful social forces pitted against him.

“Official Secrets”

Starring Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Rhys Ifans, Adam Bakri, and Ralph Fiennes

Directed by Gavin Hood

Written by Sara Bernstein, Gregory Bernstein, & Gavin Hood

Category: Premieres

Based on the book The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War, Official Secrets tells the true story of British secret-service officer Katharine Gun, who during the immediate run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq leaked a top-secret National Security Agency memo. The memo—which exposed an illegal U.S.-U.K. spying operation against members of the United Nations Security Council—proposed blackmailing smaller, undecided member states into voting for war.

“Paddleton”

Starring Mark Duplass, Ray Romano, and Christine Woods

Directed by Alex Lehmann

Written by Alex Lehmann & Mark Duplass

Category: Premieres

An unlikely bromance between two misfit neighbors becomes an unexpectedly emotional journey when one of them is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Suddenly facing their mortality, the two bros (who spend their free time playing a game they made up called Paddleton) decide to go on a trip. Yet their literal journey turns into a metaphorical one as their experiences reveal the true bond of friendship—and what that means between two men who use humor to avoid expressing any real emotion.

“Paradise Hills”

Starring Emma Roberts, Danielle Macdonald, Awkwafina, Eiza Gonzalez, Milla Jovovich, and Jeremy Irvine

Directed by Alice Waddington

Written by Nacho Vigalondo & Brian DeLeeuw

Category: NEXT

When Uma wakes up alone on a strange island called Paradise, she instantly suspects it’s anything but. Helmed by the Duchess (Milla Jovovich), Paradise Hills is a center for emotional healing that at its core serves as a reformatory-style boarding school for privileged young women. Yet behind the rose-covered pathways and fairy-tale decor, Uma and her friends learn something more sinister is at work.

“The Report”

Starring Adam Driver, Annette Bening, Jon Hamm, Ted Levine, Maura Tierney, and Michael C. Hall

Written and Directed by Scott Z. Burns

Category: Premieres

Senate staffer Daniel Jones is assigned the daunting task of leading an investigation into the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program. After analyzing extensive evidence, he learns about the “enhanced interrogation techniques”—proven to be brutal, immoral, and ineffective—that the CIA adopted after 9/11. When Jones and the Senate Intelligence Committee attempt to release the results from his investigation, however, the CIA and White House go to great lengths to prevent the truth from getting out.

“Share”

Starring Rhianne Barreto, Charlie Plummer, Poorna Jagannathan, J.C. MacKenzie, Nick Galitzine, and Lovie Simone

Written and Directed by Pippa Bianco

Category: U.S. Dramatic Competition

After a night of partying, high-school sophomore Mandy discovers that a series of cell-phone videos of her—half-dressed and semiconscious—have gone viral. Struggling to piece together what happened, reeling at how quickly the normalcy of her life has been upended, unsure about her friends’ attempts to usher her back into their normal social routine, and uneasy about her parents’ inclination to take action on her behalf, Mandy has to navigate a landscape littered with others’ good intentions and find a way to heal from a wound she can’t identify.

“The Sunlit Night”

Starring Jenny Slate, Zach Galifianakis, Alex Sharp, Gillian Anderson, and David Paymer

Directed by David Wnendt

Written by Rebecca Dinerstein

Category: Premieres

Summer is off to a terrible start for Frances (Jenny Slate). Her art project fails, her boyfriend unceremoniously kicks her out of his Hamptons home, and, to top it all off, her younger sister reveals she’s engaged just moments before her parents announce their separation. Out of a mixture of panic and frustration, Frances hastily takes an opening for an art residency in Norway and heads off to an isolated island where the sun never sets.

“Them That Follow”

Starring Olivia Colman, Kaitlyn Dever, Alice Englert, Jim Gaffigan, Walton Goggins, and Thomas Mann

Written and Directed by Britt Poulton & Dan Madison Savage

Category: U.S. Dramatic Competition

In the rugged wilderness of Appalachia, the members of an isolated community of Pentecostal snake handlers led by Pastor Lemuel (Walton Goggins) risk their lives to attest themselves before God. Lemuel’s daughter Mara (Alice Englert) prepares for her upcoming wedding to the young believer her father has singled out for her under the watchful eye of Hope (Olivia Colman), while scrambling to hide a secret that has the potential to drive her father’s church to ruin.

“To the Stars”

Starring Kara Hayward, Liana Liberato, Jordana Spiro, Shea Whigham, Malin Akerman, and Tony Hale

Directed by Martha Stephens

Written by Shannon Bradley-Colleary

In a god-fearing small town in 1960s Oklahoma, bespectacled and reclusive teen Iris endures the booze-induced antics of her mother and daily doses of bullying from her classmates. She finds solace in Maggie, the charismatic and enigmatic new girl at school, who hones in on Iris’s untapped potential and coaxes her out of her shell. When Maggie’s mysterious past can no longer be suppressed, the tiny community is thrown into a state of panic, leaving Maggie to take potentially drastic measures and inciting Iris to stand up for her friend and herself.

“Untouchable”

Directed by Ursula Macfarlane

Category: Documentary Premieres

The inside story of the meteoric rise and monstrous fall of movie titan Harvey Weinstein, Untouchable reveals how Weinstein acquired and deployed his formidable power over the course of decades. Former staffers, college friends, and reporters reflect upon the public perception of Weinstein as a visionary, while detailing his ruthless attempts to preserve his power as scandal threatened to engulf him. In candid, emotional, often-harrowing testimony—with many accusers speaking on camera for the first time—Untouchable exhumes both the method and the collateral damage of Weinstein’s alleged abuse. As the criminal case against him continues, the film questions whether meaningful change in the justice system—and in the film industry—is really possible.

“Velvet Buzzsaw”

Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Toni Collette, Zawe Ashton, Tom Sturridge, and Natalia Dyer

Written and Directed by Dan Gilroy

Category: Premieres

In the cutthroat world of fine-art trading and representation, up-and-coming agent Josephina (Zawe Ashton) stumbles across a secret weapon: hundreds of dazzling paintings left behind after an elderly tenant in her building dies. Ignoring the instructions the clandestine artist left to destroy his work, she promptly starts circulating the paintings, which soon attract the attention of the heavy hitters around her—including her boss Rhodora (Rene Russo), art critic (and Josephina’s sometime lover) Morf (Jake Gyllenhaal), and competing collectors, managers, and curators like Bryson (Billy Magnussen) and Gretchen (Toni Collette). Yet as the deceased artist’s portraits gain posthumous acclaim, they also awaken something imperceptible and sinister that threatens to punish those who have profited from his work.

“The Wolf Hour”

Starring Naomi Watts, Emory Cohen, Jennifer Ehle, Kevin Harrison Jr., and Brennan Brown

Written and Directed by Alistair Banks Griffin

Category: NEXT

It’s July 1977, and New York City is awash with escalating violence. A citywide blackout is triggering fires, looting, and countless arrests, and the Son of Sam murders are riddling the city with panic. June, once a celebrated counterculture figure, attempts to retreat from the chaos by shutting herself inside the yellowed walls of her grandmother’s South Bronx apartment. But her doorbell is ringing incessantly, the heat is unbearable, and creeping paranoia and fear are taking hold. Visitors, some invited, some unsolicited, arrive one by one, and June must determine whom she can trust and whether she can find a path back to her former self.

“Wounds”

Starring Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson, Zazie Beetz, and Brad William Henke

Written and Directed by Babak Anvari

Will is a bartender in New Orleans. He has a great job, great friends, and a girlfriend, Carrie, who loves him. He skates across life’s surface, ignoring complications and concentrating on enjoying the moment. One night at the bar, a violent brawl breaks out, which injures one of his regular customers and causes some college kids to leave behind a cell phone in their haste. Will begins receiving disturbing texts and calls from the stranger’s phone. While Will hopes to not get involved, Carrie gets lost down a rabbit hole investigating this strange malevolence. They’ve discovered something unspeakable, and it’s crawling slowly into the light.

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Ancient Organisms Ebb and Flow in Max Cooper's New Music Video

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On Emergence, electronic musician Max Cooper took as inspiration the various ways in which order forms out of chaos when organisms coalesce to form larger entities. A series of music videos, with work by Kevin McGloughlin and Maxime Causeret, explore this theory through visuals tightly linked to the music. In Cooper’s latest animated music video, “Seed,” featuring vocals by Katherin deBoer, colorful deep-ocean organisms react to the song’s rhythms, textures, and vocals. Cooper says that these building blocks of artistic expression were paired with the early expressions of life.

Initial recordings of deBoer’s vocals were layered and powerful, but Cooper ultimately decided to strip her voice down to its barest. This, he felt, seemed to fit with the idea of the music being part of a larger narrative of early multicellular life, where organisms competed for nutrients in an aquatic environment for more than 500 million years before land life began. With this as the artistic seed, digital artist Vincent Houze took over with his CG animation.

“Vincent did an amazing job of making this early life, and the ebb and flow of the ocean, dance to the music,” says Cooper. “If you watch carefully, every movement and change in visual structure is linked to tonal changes and rhythms in the music. Of course, it’s not biologically accurate—it’s Vincent’s interpretation of the story, as it’s not supposed to be a science lecture.”

Houze’s visuals riff on Cooper musical details, including the partially randomized complexity in the percussion. As a result, the video reflects the song’s organic rhythms, spectral and glitchy effects, and tremolo chord sequence.

“As with all of the Emergence content, it’s primarily designed to point us towards the beauty of natural processes and systems, and their links to how we feel,” Cooper says. “The feeling conveyed also makes me think of the fragility of these systems, in light of the bleaching of many reefs in recent times, by rising sea temperatures.”

Max Cooper feat Kathrin deBoer - Seed (Official video by Vincent Houze) from Max Cooper on Vimeo.

Click here to see more of Vincent Houze’s work, and here to download Max Cooper’s Emergence.

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