“Ultranationalist” politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky apparently likes what he sees: “Everyone who sees the film will understand that Russians and Ukrainians are one people — and that the enemy is from the West.”

Meanwhile, “The premiere inspired viewers in Krasnodar to shave their heads into Cossack haircuts, and early this month Russian Fashion Week devoted an afternoon to a collection called Cossacks in the City.”

Everybody now!
April 1 is Gogol’s 200th birthday
now we drink Cosmos when we’re thirstay

The full schedule:

FRIDAY, JULY 11
The Kid Brother 7:00PM
Opening Night Party 9:15PM

SATURDAY, JULY 12
Amazing Tales from the Archives 10:00AM
The Soul of Youth 11:40AM
Les Deux Timides (Two Timid Souls) 2:15PM
Mikaël (Michael) 4:15PM
The Man Who Laughs 7:45PM
The Unknown 10:45PM

SUNDAY, JULY 13
The Adventures of Prince Achmed 10:30AM
The Silent Enemy 1:10PM
Her Wild Oat 3:50PM
Jujiro (Crossways) 6:10PM
The Patsy 8:45PM

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{national film schedule}

• The Shining
• An Angel at My Table
• Double Indemnity
• Naked Lunch
• Rosemary’s Baby
• The Third Man
• East of Eden
• Short Cuts
• Walkabout
• Masculin Feminin

While you’re there, maybe check out a show at the Creeker’s new club The Slowdown – which has some good bands slated. Better yet, go early and swing by BMK Favorite Pettit’s Pastry for a donut:

 Since you asked, here’s mine:

1. Blazing Saddles–the mind shudders to think that Richard Pryor could’ve played Sheriff Bart.
2. Flirting with Disaster–Ben Stiller’s first foray into his 21st century Woody Allen, but Mary Tyler Moore stole the show.
3. Big Lebowski–the Creedence tape pretty much says it all.
4. Groundhog Day–eternal recurrence, perfect for island living
5. Blues Brothers–just learned that the excellent soundtrack tragically omits Boom Boom.

being a Saul Bellow fan, I was drawn to the fact that Bellow called him [John Berryman] America’s greatest writer,” Finn said. “He became Minneapolis’ most famous suicide. He also had converted to Catholicism before his death. In my mind, all that added up to a Hold Steady song.

Neko Case’s Austin City Limits performance is now available on DVD. I just picked up a copy over lunch and am happy to see that one of my favorites “Deep Red Bells” is included. Check it out! She’s got a new web site, too — complete with RSS. [STILL KIND OF MISS THE ALL CAPS SCREAMFEST THAT WAS THERE PREVIOUSLY]

I’ll be going to see Cursive at the Fillmore tonight and am curious to see opening act Chin Up Chin Up. I recall reading some minor web-buzz a bit back, but never have heard them. With no basis in reality, my spider senses don’t have me expecting much.

Ed on The Departed (a movie I very much enjoyed, with some quibbles)

Contrary to the raves and plaudits now making the rounds, The Departed is not a Martin Scorsese masterpiece, but of the so-called Leo Trio (The Gangs of New York and The Aviator being the first two installments of Scorsese’s Faustian deal with the studios), it is the most satisfying and truest Scorsese picture of the bunch. It’s telling that a slightly lesser Scorsese mob film, sizzling with the kind of punch and life that few contemporary films seem capable of these days, stands so distinguished against its multiplex brethren.

Clinton at WFMU’s blog takes an impressive look back at the Choose Your Adventure series, staple reading for yours truly when I roamed the halls of Thomas Alva Edison Elementary.

Geek out on lexicography with a healthy dose of Orwell references.

Next year starts today. Are we there yet?

I like Proust and Mayor McCheese, so I choose to laugh at and with.

Is “eyebrows” a euphemism for “muff”?

The New York Times recently reported that trend-setting stylists from Milan, Italy, and Paris to New York and Beverly Hills, Calif., are unleashing the hairy eyebrow as this fall’s beauty signature – in a way not seen since Brooke Shields’ 1978 feral brow.

But local estheticians reassure that today’s hairy brow isn’t that hairy: It’s somewhere between the bushy Brooke brow of the ’70s and the severe, thin, “Beverly Hills, 90210″ brow of the ’90s.