Carlos Valladares
Writer at Freelance
south central LA // yale phd film // in the Demy-monde
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1 month ago |
artnews.com | Carlos Valladares
We look to history to chart the future. I came to this basic reaffirmation while reading J. Hoberman’s latest, addicting, grand cultural history, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop. The snake of a title promises a lot to chew on—and the book delivers.
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2 months ago |
mubi.com | Carlos Valladares
At 97, the photographer-turned-filmmaker—director of “The Panic in Needle Park,” ”Scarecrow,” and more—remains a realist and a romantic. “Maybe I should have a fall at the end of every film now!”I’m calling to check in with Jerry Schatzberg, who is fresh out of the hospital. Two days earlier, at the opening night of a Museum of Modern Art retrospective of his film career, he had shown his feature debut, Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970), released when he was 43 years old.
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2 months ago |
artnews.com | Carlos Valladares
“I like your comics, kid. They’re very good. Just stay away from cocktail parties.” Charles Bukowski delivered this evergreen piece of advice in the 1960s to the King of Underground Comics, Robert Crumb. Crumb indeed did his best to steer clear of the US bourgeois jet-setting class that he and Bukowski had then pinpointed as the veritable enemy.
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Feb 21, 2025 |
mubi.com | Carlos Valladares
The cinematic event of the year so far is the rerelease of Charles Burnett’s long-unavailable romantic masterpiece, The Annihilation of Fish (1999). It has weathered Todd McCarthy’s snide, vicious Variety review that sealed its obscurity until now.
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Feb 14, 2025 |
artnews.com | Carlos Valladares
Every party should have Warhol films projected. That’s my conclusion after revisiting some of them for hours at the tiny but warm New York Museum of Sex show “Looking at Andy Looking.” Everyone should fall asleep to Sleep (1964). Every film frame can, if hung over a bed, lull you.
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RT @cvalladares0896: I wrote about J Hoberman’s excellent new book for @ArtinAmerica. https://t.co/FoUfdOm8aK
