30 Best Films of the 2000s (Part One)
Hydra Magazine presents Part One of our 30 Best Films of the 2000s.
Hydra Magazine presents Part One of our 30 Best Films of the 2000s.
Imagine if you will, a man in a dark tight fitting suit, a black fedora atop his head, a knife tucked into his belt, and a purple sash on his neck while a cigarette limply hangs from the corner of his mouth.
It all seemed a bizarre mystery; a label owner and source of the project (Paul Reynolds), who didn’t want to talk about the Patrick Gleeson's San Francisco Express recording, musicians who didn’t quite remember it, and a neglected soundscape that stood out as solidly original and experimental for its time. time
In the last hundred or so pages of Infinite Jest, Don Gately, a big, lovable ex-drug-addict living at the Ennet Halfway House, finds himself in a really difficult position. He has just been shot in the shoulder. He is at the hospital, where doctors keep materializing all serpent-like asking if he wants any drugs
Carlos Reygadas' "Silent Light" is not a film that centers on the religion of the Mennonites in Mexico, but it is a religious film that treats of miracles: the everyday miracles of love, harvest, and repentance.
Many literary purists may dismiss the photographs, colored markings and letter facsimiles of Jonathan Safran Foer’s book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close as mere gimmicks–flashy pyrotechnics meant to catch the attention of lazy readers. But for the attentive reader these visual artifacts are props in creating the semiotic drama of Foer’s intention. Throughout the
Julien Duvivier is an early 20th century French film director whose work spans 67 films over a 30 year career; prolific is too small of a word for this man.
Navigation by celestial positioning has been as useful to seafarers as to poets. As a result of Peter Gizzi’s newest book of poems, The Outernationale, it is possible—perhaps necessary—to generalize further about the art of locating oneself by approximation of arcs of distance and nearness in relation to true places of heavenly bodies. For
Roy Andersson's "You, the Living" completes the diptych that began with "Songs from the Second Floor" and gives us a message of hope within the ennui of modern life.
A review of the “The Grandfather Paradox” ; a mix/album put together by production duo AME, Dixon and Henrik Schwarz.
