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Jason Shawhan

Tunisia

Journalist at Nashville Scene

Media prophet. Film critic. Cohost of @JJLpodcast . Catsitter. Very Gay. DJ (https://t.co/iAHxgygd8b). (He/Him). Black lives matter. http://jshawhan.bsky.soc

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  • 1 week ago | nashvillescene.com | Jason Shawhan

    Who hasn’t wanted to take the ongoing stress of making a living and put that energy into radical body transformation? Why not take the seething tension of interpersonal conflict and use it to shed your nails and start eating faces? If you’re going to dabble in nihilism, how can specific acts of score-settling human cruelty and the disassembling of all systems compare to the act of liberatory demonic possession?

  • 1 month ago | nashvillescene.com | Jason Shawhan

    Playing 8 p.m. Sunday, April 27, at Marathon Music WorksYou might think you’ve never heard Alison Moyet, but regardless of your own aesthetics and means of engaging with music, that’s probably not the case. That would be putting aside more than four decades of elegant, passionate performances from an international icon based in the U.K. who’s had the occasional American success.

  • 1 month ago | nashvillescene.com | Jason Shawhan

    When you spend a lot of time immersed in the work of a particular filmmaker, you can find yourself fitting patterns and finding through lines across decades. And it can be great, because you feel like you’re defining a commonality that allows everything to make sense according to some easily summarized plan.

  • 1 month ago | nashvillescene.com | Jason Shawhan

    For a film that so expertly captures the sun-blasted anomie of Southern California and its habit of desaturating whatever shades and emotions trespass into its path, it’s the bookending moments in labyrinthine, verdant gardens that shape the emotional space we find ourselves in. One of the greatest and most difficult-to-see films of the 1970s, Play It as It Lays is finally receiving its laurels in the form of a 4K restoration, with four upcoming screenings at the Belcourt.

  • 1 month ago | nashvillescene.com | Jason Shawhan

    Join us for a brief journey through some of what’s new and interesting in the world of physical media, from sexploitation classics and lost films maudits to historical moments in American cinema. The Keep (Vinegar Syndrome UHD/Blu-ray)The fact that this even exists is still staggering.

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