Subject: David Lynch

• She Wore Blue Velvet ... Tonight and Tomorrow

  Some of the best writing in OC Weekly can be found in a place you have to hunt for: Greg Stacy's Special Screenings. We love Greg a lot around here, but every so often he gets his dates wrong and he'll have a movie playing a week late or early or whatever. Thank the God of Educational Loans for our amazing interns, because they catch these errors. But today's fix comes courtesy of an Eagle-Eyed Timekeeper who just so happened to drive past the Edwards South Coast Village marquee on the way to t

  May 16, 2006

• Independent Cinema Comes to Santa Ana

  As some readers may know, I occasionally dabble in acting and film-making, though I've only been paid for acting once, playing an evil American druglord in a Chinese movie called A Date in Paradise that, from what I understand, will likely never see the light of day. Last week, I got to show my stuff again, as my half-French sister Nicole “Nini” Ayach and her boyfriend Andrew Shemin came through town as part of their ongoing cross-country shoot for their independent feature Walkin' My Baby

  July 24, 2007

• LYT's Film Pick of the Weekend 10-26-07

  How to go about this, when I've already written so much about this week in film? Well, for starters, SAW IV is only a pick for hardcore SAW fans like me, and it's still likely to disappoint them a little bit. FINISHING THE GAME, the Justin Lin comedy about the making of Bruce Lee's GAME OF DEATH, is recommended if you're a cinephile with a taste for indie comedy, and also just because it's worth encouraging Justin Lin's indie films rather than his big-studio paychecks. For more on this, read t

  October 26, 2007

• INDIEFEST/FAIF -- DAY 3

  November 1, 2007

• Om, Lichens, Echoplex, January 20, 2008

  Lichens (Chicago guitarist/vocalist Robert Lowe) has balls. Before a crowd of metal heads who wanted to rock the fuck out on cochlea-threatening volume and controlled bombast, he began his set with field recordings of birdsong, while seated off to the left side of the stage. You could sense he was sending currents of unease through the audience at Echoplex. He gradually added dulcet vowel sounds from his throat and then intricately looped the “oh”s and “ooh”s. Soon after came Frippian el

  January 21, 2008

• Conceptual Cacophony

  February 14, 2002

• [Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Strangers,' 'Sid and Nancy,' More

  February 12, 2009

• The Raveonettes at the Glass House and Detroit Bar

  February 28, 2008

• How the Holechek Brothers' '305' Went From Hit YouTube Short to Full-Length Film

  February 28, 2008

• In Sound We Thrust

  February 7, 2008

• DVDish

  A Bitter End

  November 1, 2007

• Martini Space Noise

  April 24, 2003

• Talkin' Gnarled Roots Blues

  Rural Canadian MC Buck 65 goes against the grain

  June 14, 2007

• Kings of the Otherworld

  January 8, 2004

• Summer Cinema: A Vaguely Helpful Guide

  Ten films to see, five worth a look, and five more to shield your eyes from

  June 7, 2007

• His Biggest Break

  Indie 103.1’s Surf Junkie Jeff keeps an eye on the waves—and tries to get Jonesy out on the water

  June 7, 2007

• Dreamgirl

  Paprika leaps into the collective consciousnessand spices it up

  April 12, 2007

• Glittering Hunks of Trash

  Grindhouse welcomes you to the democracy of cinephilia

  April 5, 2007

• The Big Valley

  OnDVD: Twin Peaks: The Second Season

  April 5, 2007

• Weird and Wonderful

  Eraserhead, A History of Violence, Star Wars Episode IV and more

  January 4, 2007

• Hall of Famer

  Legend, yes. But Clint Eastwoods not done yet

  December 28, 2006

• Hall of Famer

  Legend, yes. But Clint Eastwoods not done yet

  December 28, 2006

• Get Out!

  June 29 - July 6: Handjobdrugscum
  

  June 29, 2006

• Obsession, He Calls It

  June 15, 2006

• Special Screenings

  May 11, 2006

• Movie of the Week Also Showing

  May 11, 2006

• This Week in Epic Failures

  January 26, 2006

• This Week in Reluctant Do-Overs

  January 5, 2006

• The Passion of the Rad

  December 8, 2005

• Eclectic Boogaloo

  September 1, 2005

• Pay Attention!

  August 4, 2005

• The Tweakings of the Decent

  March 3, 2005

• Have Yourself a Celluloid Little Christmas

  December 16, 2004

• Pan American

  August 5, 2004

• Crying Time

  May 6, 2004

• Dickian Nightmare

  December 25, 2003

• Black Jack

  November 28, 2002

• Were Open to Stucco

  U.K.s Lube ready to loosen up

  September 5, 2002

• Newport Beach Film Festival Beams Down

  April 18, 2002

• Dazed and Amused

  March 28, 2002

• Ambient Sidewinding

  March 21, 2002

• Smells Like Spleen Spirit

  January 24, 2002

• Without Words

  January 3, 2002

• Childhoods End

  November 1, 2001

• Point of No Return

  October 18, 2001

• We Gotta Get Out of This Place

  June 28, 2001

• Without a Prayer

  February 15, 2001

• Coming to America

  June 3, 1999

• 'I Do a Mixed Bag'

  January 21, 1999

• Satanique Samba Trio's Sangrou

  Satanique Samba Trio Sangrou (Amplitude Art) Curb Your Cynicism is a recurring blogtastic feature in which the music editor pithily enthuses about new releases and reissues he thinks will enhance your life and erode your cynicism about the state of music, circa now. On their MySpace page, Satanique Samba Trio write that their music sounds like “a jar full of wrong.” Sounds right to me. SST hail from Brazil, but don't expect any “Girl From Ipanema” mellowness or Mutantes-like psychede

  July 10, 2007