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  • I was happy to see that Criterion has finally issues a good DVD transfer of Edward Yang’s magnificent Yi Yi. If you haven’t seen it, get it in your Netflix queue forthwith.
  • An entire Drive-By-Truckers concert, gratis. Admittedly, it leans slightly more heavily on The Dirty South and A Blessing And A Curse than would be optimal, but 1)it still skims most of the cream from the two great albums that preceded the two good ones, and 2)as the Yankee ticket agent told the player who was complaining about the nosebleed tickets his friends and relatives received in Ball Four, “How’d they like the price?” (Via Henley.)
  • An interview with Rainer Maria, whose new album I agree is very underrated. (Via AltWeeklies.)
  • I really wish I could arbitrate the dispute between Ross Douthat and pretty much every other critic on earth in re: M. Night Shyamalan, but alas I’ve never actually seen one of his movies, so that will have to be left to the comments. On the abstract issue, I can appreciate Douthat’s admiration for a director that pursues an idiosyncratic vision rather than churning out product. But the catch is that if your vision leads you to stuff as bad as The Lady In Water sounds, it’s really better to churn out some well-turned superhero movies. (TLIW seems to have created a Jersey Girl turn, a picture so incredibly bad that critics finally stop defending a director many people (including me, in Smith’s case) feel they should have stopped defending several films ago. But I don’t really plan to find out if it’s true…)
  • Apparently there will be new Pynchon in December. I’m not sure if I can steel myself up for this one or not…
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