Woodstock

This performance is insane, in particular the drum solo by Michael Shrieve. Wow!

Deathbowl to Downtown - A history NYC Skateboarding

Going to watch Deathbowl to Downtown at MIFF next week.
"A visceral 30-year history of New York City’s skateboarding street culture, as it kick-flipped its way from marginalisation to acceptance.
Coan Nichols and Rick Charnoski (Fruit of the Vine, MIFF 06) continue a 20-years-plus skating addiction with this artful sketch of NYC skating’s epochal shifts, from the parks and pools of the 70s, to ramp skating in the 80s, to the street ascendancy of the 90s.
Blends exclusive interviews and never-before-seen footage with narration by Chloë Sevigny and a pumping period soundtrack.
“It started as a little project. It was like, we''ll do a quick 20 minute primer on the New York history… Then we fucking crawled down the rabbit hole and ended up in the wild, putting together this project that spans 30 years.” – filmmaker Coan Nichols

Wake In Fright

I saw the re-release of "Wake In Fright" last night, bloody ripper mate.

'Brutal, uncompromising and stunning WAKE IN FRIGHT tells is the story of a young teacher, John Grant, who arrives in a rough outback mining town planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But, on this one hot night in Bundanyabba, Grant decides to go into a smoky, crowded pub...

However, one night stretches to five, in which he discovers gambling, ruins himself financially and plunges headlong toward his own destruction.'

For many years, the only known print of Wake In Fright, found in Dublin in the 1990s, was of insufficient quality to transfer to DVD or video. In reaction to this, in 1994, Wake in Fright’s editor Anthony Buckley began to search for a better-quality print of the film. In 2004, in Pittsburgh, Buckley found a print of Wake in Fright in a shipping container labelled “For Destruction.” WIKI