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Brian Darr

@hellonfriscobay.bsky.social

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Cinephile, music lover & library worker originally from San Francisco now living in Maine. These are personal opinions that may not reflect the views of my employer.

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · Sep 4

My fellow Christopher Maclaine-iac Brecht Andersch will be presenting a Sunday afternoon screening of the Belson-shot masterpiece The End and contextualizing it within the early Beat era of San Francisco’s underground scene. I’ll be 3000 miles away but present in spirit.

Ste @stefifofum.bsky.social · Sep 2

Jordan Belson Festival at @grayarea.org last weekend of this month! grayarea.org/event/jordan...

Jordan Belson: COSMOGENESIS A Symposium of Transcendental Films, Lectures, Performances, and Visual Arts

grayarea.org

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 59m

Ken's last Eternalism

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 10h

Planning to go- never seen it and always wanted to, but theatrical opportunities are so rare!

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 10h

Finally someone else willing to admit they haven’t seen it yet.

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 15h

a little girl in a wig is covering her face with her hand .

Alt: Shirley Temple wiping sweat from her brow in relief, captioned “Phew”

media.tenor.com

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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 15h

Vadim Rizov gets the full picture of Ken Jacobs in his memorial for @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy:

Ken Jacobs (1933-2025)

Ken Jacobs wasn’t just a single (albeit huge) formative force in experimental film, but a river through which an array of streams flowed to their own artistic destinations. For New Yorkers…

filmmakermagazine.com

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 18h

Now imagining code-friendly versions of the complete works of Pasolini…

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 21h

Discussing the seed in one negative clause & the album’s advancement in another seems to indicate that you feel Steel Wheels should have beaten Bleach last round. Is that accurate? (He asks, after having voted for Earwig himself.)

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 21h

Yes you can :)

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 22h

There is no Young God.

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 1d

I got the impression Swans was WAY sold out here. And maybe the last tour?

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 1d

We did not. Our days have turned out to be full enough that we haven’t had energy for nightlife. Maybe on a longer trip…

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 2d

So sorry for your and your family’s loss.

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 2d

Check out Maciste in Hell sometime. One of Fellini’s favorites as a kid.

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 2d

Jacobs was almost definitely the major avant-garde figure I’m farthest from having a handle on.

J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 2d

Ken Jacobs (1933-2025)

A great artist, a wonderful teacher, & speaking personally, a close friend for over 50 years. Linking to a piece I wrote to mark his 80th birthday.

www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/m...

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 3d

How about Abel Ferrara, Leon Ichaso and Adam Shankman?

(Bojan Bazelli has worked with each multiple times)

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 3d

As I once said n the other site:

helloncascobay.bsky.social @helloncascobay.bsky.social · Feb 1

Every Coen Brothers picture rankled.

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 3d

If you can’t you can’t but are you absolutely sure?

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 3d

Wild Grass? One of his best for sure. If you ever see Mon Oncle d’Amerique it may feel like a more palatable version of the editing technique he used in the earlier Je T’aime Je T’aime.

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 3d

I like both l but I will be voting for The Cactus Album tomorrow and hope you will join me!

The Best Album of 1989 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 3d

Hey folks — the Best Album of 1989 tournament will pick up where we left off tomorrow, 9am CST. In case you forgot, this will be:

The Jesus and Mary Chain, AUTOMATIC
vs.
3rd Bass, THE CACTUS ALBUM

See you then!

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 4d

It’s definitely an unusual one! Are you generally into Alain Resnais?

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 4d

Cover to Killing Joke album Hosannas From the Basements of Hell

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 5d

Don’t you lose your head!

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 5d

Was Timecrimes and Je’Taime Je’Taime a double bill? Because it sounds like an amazing pairing but it also sounds like it could be exhausting (though I love both films.)

Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 5d

Also Clark Kent and his dad, apparently.

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Brian Darr @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social · 5d

That seems like an awful lot of effort for someone to go through just for me to check an apparent Best Picture Oscar winner off my watchlist.