Mark Bringelson

email: my name at aol (dot) com.

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A ★★★★½ review of All of Us Strangers (2023)

Another extraordinary film from Andrew Haigh. & if you're queer like me & have parental stuff ("issues") that you know will never find closu

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Love this new single from Jack Antonoff's ultra-cool band. I get Ray Davies/Kinks "Everybody's In Showbiz" Album vibes, in terms of the sound. That's a delectable thing.

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A ★★★★★ review of The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

Snazzy-est embellishments of 1968 Art-Hip are a gleeful constant surprise. Norman Jewison directs with saucy elan, image-wise, bombarding th

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Thomas Bangalter and Hans Ulrich Obrist on La Caverne du Pont Neuf

An immersive installation on Paris’ Pont Neuf bridge, by JR and Thomas Bangalter, opening this month, pays tribute to the 40th anniversary o

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1920s Bronze elevator doors at One North LaSalle Building in Chicago, Illinois. From Art Deco and Art Nouveau, FB.

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Formosa Cafe "this afternoon" in West Hollywood Evocative photo stolen off David Mullen's fb

One of the places I love going to for a drink. Real old Hollywood, so close to my apt I can walk to it.

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A ★½ review of The Final Days (1989)

Politics Junkies like me will watch. This film treats the Nixon downfall as a very personal tragedy for an ultra patriotic man doing his bes

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FROM THIS LEFTY

Jill Biden is promoting a non-helpful book & shows up everywhere re-running the last election. Same for DNC talking, "What'd we do wrong last election." GO AWAY. We're past it. We're moving forward.

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From the second film I wrote/directed, NOTHING UNTOWARD (2024) - L to R: David Lorell, Bradley Layne Beachum.

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A few months after I posted the original video (on its release day) I'm now putting up this new solo piece, same fantastic pop song. Damn I love Pop Music. I love this song. Eric Nam with Artist Charisma to spare.

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Charli XCX Sets New Album 'Music, Fashion, Film' for July 24 Release

The album cover features Martin Scorsese, Marc Jacobs, and the Velvet Underground's John Cale

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Review: Elliot Tuttle’s “Blue Film” is a transfixing transgression  - Blog - The Film Experience

by Cláudio Alves © Obscured Releasing Every year, so-called provocateurs...

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Hollywood, Gaza, and the Invisible Blacklist | Los Angeles Review of Books

Perfecting the art of the blacklist.

"[Entertainment Industry] Careers are built on short bursts of employment stitched together over years, dependent on relationships that are rarely formal and almost never transparent. The distinction between inside and outside those networks matters enormously."

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Jock, Basic, Leather, Western | Los Angeles Review of Books

Artist and critic Hal Fischer discusses his seminal photographic series ‘Gay Semiotics’ and a new career-spanning monograph.

"There was a lot of crazy shit in the seventies. When I moved to San Francisco, the Zodiac Killer was out. I’d rather deal with a Zodiac Killer than have a president who’s destroying the United States"