Word: gardistes
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...decade and change later, Blur has broken up. But Albarn stayed on his artistic trajectory and has assumed the throne, vacant since David Bowie's prime, of popular music's avant-gardist in chief. In the past few years, he's launched a cartoon hip-hop band (Gorillaz), an Afro-pop album (Mali Music) and a side project with a member of the Clash. All were slightly ridiculous (hip-hop, world music, supergroup--the hubristic rock star's triple crown) but well received, yet none can quite prepare you for Albarn's latest: Journey to the West, a "circus opera...
...challenge for any movie without a strong, conventional narrative is to find another way to keep the momentum and the audience's interest from flagging. Haynes, like Taymor, is an avant-gardist with a showman's flair, and his movie has as many styles borrowed from '60s movies - from Richard Lester's Beatles films, from D.A. Pennabaker's cinema verite Dylan documentary, from Woodstock and European art films - as it has actors playing Dylan. This buffet of styles makes the movie consistently diverting, if not engrossing...
...would be lovely if lots of people saw this documentary about an avant-gardist who loved old Hollywood movies. It might remind them that there are lands beyond today?s blockbusters and timid dramas that are worth visiting and, for an hour and a half, living...
...triple-sec alternative to Mel Brooks' very wet humor, Peter Greenaway is the commercial cinema's pre-eminent avant-gardist. Back before he made The Draughtsman's Contract and 8 1/2 Women, he made meticulously malevolent short films (seven are collected here) and The Falls, a three-hour fake-umentary about 92 people whose lives were altered by a Violent Unknown Event. The textual and textural density is intoxicating, the English wit so dry you could choke on it. A sturdy challenge for movie lovers--and unmissable...
...people to his arena operas at London's Royal Albert Hall, Freeman, 53, has helped revolutionize the art form from within. As founder of the Opera Factory, first in Sydney and later in London as part of the English National Opera, he earned his stripes as an avant-gardist, famous for stripping his singers - literally, as in his 1988 Cos? Fan Tutte set on a beach. (Amelia, Jaewoo and Emma, fear not.) But when The Magic Flute opens in Sydney this week, their talents will be similarly exposed. "I wanted to make the magic of the piece human and physical...