Don’t Explain

Happy New Year, folks. My Xmas gift this year was… getting told by management that I’d be moved to the graveyard shift (10pm to 6:30am) beginning Jan 26th. Sigh.

In other news, pleased to see a few more notices for the Jim McAuley album:

• Ben Ratliff in the NY Times: nice to see that Jim gets a photo here, too.
• a nice unsigned piece here — I guess this guy (guys?) prefers to keep a low profile….
• Dan Warburton in Paris Transatlantic (an issue that also contains my rundown on a bunch of Canadian releases) — as usual with this journal, there’s no convenient way of linking to the review itself on the enormous webpage, so just use your ctrl-F “find” function to locate it…
• Mike Wood in Music Emissions: unfortunately he gets Jim’s last name wrong… I hope they fix that.
• & a positive but fairly desultory writeup here.

The new Cinematheque schedule arrived — Dreyer’s the marquee name for the winter season, which I’m looking forward to (any tips for his lesser-known films to check out, folks?). They’re also doing a feature on Joan of Arc in the cinema — Dreyer (obviously), Rivette, Preminger, Fleming, DeMille, Bresson (but they seem to have drawn the line at Besson) — plus Terence Davies, Jia Zhang-ke, Jancso, &c. It’s a shame though that this is the first season for which they’ve programmed absolutely NOTHING to interest younger viewers — they used to make a serious outreach effort, but it’s dwindled to nearly nothing. Despite the spottier offerings in the past year or so, Anne has always seen at least one or two things in every season — in recent months she was thrilled to see Boetticher’s Ride Lonesome in its all its tough, every-frame-counts glory. (She was also sorely disappointed that no-one bothered to secure a rating for Kurosawa’s Stray Dog, which meant she was not permitted to go; it’s a favourite of hers.)

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