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Film and opera posters by Franciszek Starowieyski<\/a> (see below).<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 At first glance, Jerzy Skolimowski’s new film, Essential Killing<\/em><\/a>, sounds like Joseph Losey’s Figures in a Landscape<\/em><\/a> (1970) reworked for our era of renditions, torture and war without end. The trailer is here<\/a>; Sight & Sound<\/em> liked the film<\/a> and dismissed any Losey comparisons.\u00a0The Quietus<\/em> interviewed the director this week<\/a>, and there’s also a video interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n “He was trying to tell the truth about war. In the 1950s the US was telling itself a mythic, grandiose, heroic story about the second world war and GI Joe saving the world. [James] Jones was saying, ‘That wasn’t the war I saw, I want to write something more honest and realistic. Whatever the mid-America myth, one of the things men were doing was giving blow jobs for money.'”<\/p>\n From Here to Eternity is published in an uncensored edition<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2022 Edogawa Rampo<\/a>‘s sinister short story The Human Chair<\/em> concerns a man who conceals himself inside a chair. Taiwanese artist Lan Hungh may have had Rampo’s story in mind for his Demolished Chair<\/em> art piece about which we’re told “Hungh\u2019s flaccid penis is the only body part that\u2019s visible, and becomes hard as soon as anyone starts discussing the chair or sitting on it.” BUTT<\/em> magazine spoke to the artist<\/a>.<\/p>\n …unaware of their double standards, the police objected to the portrayal of men in Harrison’s work as demeaning. There was Hugh Hefner squeezed into a bunny girl costume, a beefy but emasculated Captain America wearing false breasts and a stars ‘n’ stripes-patterned basque, and Valerie Solanas, the radical feminist who tried to murder Andy Warhol, stamping on his Brillo box artwork.<\/p>\n A piece about artist Margaret Harrison<\/a> whose work is on show at Payne Shurvell<\/a>, London.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2022 Connecting Science and Art<\/a>: “Novelist Cormac McCarthy (!), filmmaker Werner Herzog, and physicist Lawrence Krauss discuss science as inspiration for art and Herzog\u2019s new film on the earliest known cave paintings.”<\/p>\n \u2022 At Tumblr: Gurafiku<\/a>, “a collection of visual research that encompasses the history of Japanese graphic design”, and Archidose<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 “Michael Moorcock’s Modem Times 2.0<\/em> is a good introduction to the literary legend<\/a>.”<\/p>\n \u2022 The Spring 2011 edition of Periwinkle Journal<\/a> (Queer Art + Creativity) is now live.<\/p>\n \u2022 Rick Poynor (again) on [Franciszek] Starowieyski’s Graphic Universe of Excess<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Coudal now have a page of links for the great Terrence Malick<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Wake in Progress<\/a> is Finnegans Wake<\/em> illustrated.<\/p>\n \u2022 Brown Study<\/a>, a blog by Jay Babcock.<\/p>\n \u2022 RIP Sidney Lumet<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let’s Have a Ball<\/em> is a film by Les Blank<\/a> of a fantastic performance by Cooder’s band in Santa Cruz, California, in 1987. 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