Film: August 2008 Archives

THE KOURTAJME COLLECTIVE DENY A CITY THEY BARELY KNOW.

The picturesque Paris of beauty and high culture is a foreign city to Kourtrajmé. They rarely see it, and they won’t show it. But they are Parisians. Yes, Parisians, driven by the city as they know it, a city of decay, desolation and neglect, but a city of people the authorities would rather forget.

AN INTREPID YOUTH WHO WENT FACE TO FACE WITH AN ICON.

In 1969, the 14-year-old Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape recorder, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room for a chat. The tapes form the basis for this intriguing animated short.

WHY DON’T ALL BIKES COME RIGGED TO THE TEETH FOR BASS?

Kellog’s Frosties once gave away brightly coloured beads which you could add to your bike spokes to make other kids turn green with envy. To an eager to impress ten year-old like me, it seemed like a pretty painless improvement to make to my BMX. But there are people who put glow in the dark beads on their bikes, and then there’s this bunch from Queens.