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–The Wow Jones Report

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Lincoln Center Honors Michael Jackson on August 30th, 2009

Tuesday, August 25, 2009 — by Wow Jones

Groundbreaking Pop Star Michael Jackson is the subject of a one-of-a-kind presentation this week at New York City’s Lincoln Center.

Controversial NY Press Film Critic (and current New York Film Critics Circle Chairman) Armond White is dedicating an entire evening to the work of Michael Jackson in the music video genre. His “KEEP MOVING: Michael Jackson’s Video Art” will be held on Sunday, August 30, 2009 at 6 pm at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater.

In this 90 Minute Presentation, esteemed critic and author Armond White will take an in-depth look at Michael Jackson’s innovations in the music video genre.

White notes, “When Hollywood didn’t come calling, Michael Jackson responded with a series of short musical films that displayed his affection for the pop tradition. From the popular Thriller to the GREAT Black or White and other landmarks, Michael Jackson—the ultimate performer-as-auteur—changed the way the world responds to cinema.”

In the past Armond White has offered interpretations of a number of music videos by acclaimed filmmakers (Mark Romanek, Marcus Nispel, Hype Williams, Ben Stokes, Spike Jonze, Joseph Kahn, etc), musicians and singers. This is the second time he has focused an entire presentation to one pop artist/music video subject. Armond White had music video presentation devoted to Michael Jackson in January of 2008.

Armond White will also be signing copies of his new book, “KEEP MOVING: The Michael Jackson Chronicles”.

For more information or to purchase tickets for this event please visit:

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/mj.html

KEEP MOVING: Michael Jackson’s Video Art is on Sunday, August 30, at 6:00 pm at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater.

This Event is Sponsored by the Film Society Of Lincoln Center.

Excerpt from Armond White’s “Pop Video Artists And Hollywood Influence” Presentation

JAN 18, 2008

Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center

From Armond White’s “Pop Video Artists and Hollywood Influence” Presentation

Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center

JAN 18, 2008

Came across this earlier today. It’s a review of the writing of Critic Armond White.

It focuses on Armond White’s review of the new PIXAR movie, “Up”. In it, the writer explains in detail just what makes Armond White’s reviews worth reading.

Read it when you have a moment.

For those interested in more of Armond White’s take on movies, music and pop culture, purchase a new or used copy of his book, ”The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook The World“.

After Armond White’s book review in The New York Times Book Review Section on Sunday, March 1, 2009; the bio at the end of the story says that Armond White is to release a new book called, “What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Movies” later this year.

A new book featuring the writing of Armond White?  On one of the greatest (and one of the most popular) movies ever made? Bring it on!

By the way, he reviewed the Molly Haskel book on the movie (and book) GONE WITH THE WIND called, “Frankly My Dear, ‘Gone With The Wind’ revisited”.

–The Wow Jones Report

For those interested in reading past writing by Armond White, purchase a new or used copy of his book, “The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook The World“.

There’s a revealing profile of Critic Armond White in the February 23, 2009 issue NEW YORK  (Model Kate Moss is on the cover–Spring Fashion Issue) Magazine. No mention of Armond White’s book, “The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook The World”, but a okay profile nonetheless. Sums up his career, his background and notes his…notoriety.

In the profile on Armond White, the writer Mark Jacobson covers:

- Armond White’s dismissal of the films SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, MILK, WALL-E, and the Romanian “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”.

- Armond White’s BETTER THAN List  where he offers alternatives to overpraised hyped-to-death films.

- Transporter 3 vs The Dark Knight and the noise over Armond White’s dismissal of the financially successful and popular (yet HORRIBLE) The Dark Knight.

- Internet coverage and response to Armond White.

- Armond White’s upbringing in Detroit and how it shapes how he looks at the world and movies.

- the kinds of films Armond White loved as a child.

- Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris.

- discourse in cinema today.

- Armond White’s  reputation within the critical community.

- the aesthetics of film reviewing (theatre vs a DVD screener?)

- Armond White on watching movies today.

- Armond White on Wes Anderson and Paul Thomas Anderson.

- Blade Runner vs…

- Armond White on Steven Spielberg and John Ford

- An anecdote of A Screening of Steven Spielberg’s film, Close Encounters of The Third Kind.

If this interests you, then check out the Armond White profile in NEW YORK Magazine.

–The Wow Jones Report

For those who aren’t familiar with this critic’s writing, you may want to purchase a new or used copy of his book, “The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook The World.”

Just noticed that Editor-At-Large/TV Critic for the magazine ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, Ken Tucker has written a book on the movie SCARFACE.

The book is called “SCARFACE NATION: The Ultimate Gangster Movie And How It Changed America”.

In book, Ken Tucker quotes Armond White’s “THE RESISTANCE: Ten Years Of Pop Culture That Shook The World” in reference to Armond White’s defense of the work of director Brian DePalma, who also directed the movie SCARFACE.

–The Wow Jones Report

DEFinition: The Art And Design Of Hip-Hop Front Cover

The new coffee-table styled photo book, “DEFINITION: The Art And Design Of Hip-Hop” by Cey Adams and Bill Adler offers…

a number of photos and essays for those interested in the subject.   The book includes an essay by NY Press Film Critic ARMOND WHITE and is quite a read. 

The essay is entitled “CAMERA READY: Hip-Hop And The Moving Image” and in it Armond White offers a chronological list that’s

“my personal collection of the seminal milestones in video, film, and television that have helped define the look of hip-hop, from its early days in the 1980s to the 2000s.”

Care to know what’s on that list?  Well it includes…

• Intro
• singer BLONDIE and her “Rapture” music video and how the music video was a “perfect pop-culture hybrid that proved hip-hop was firmly on the map.”
• Filmmaker CHARLIE AHEARN and his “Wildstyle” film and how it cast hip-hop’s “real-life movers and shakers to define and celebrate themselves in a theatrical drama”
• Mars Blackmon (character from SPIKE LEE film “She’s Gotta Have It“) and how that character became a pitchman (along with Basketball Legend Michael Jordan) for the NIKE sneaker company.
• Filmmaker Lionel Martin and his music video for PUBLIC ENEMY “Night Of The Living Baseheads” and writes about how the music video “broke the boundaries of music video” in its time.
• RUN-DMC and the Rick Rubin-directed film “Tougher Than Leather” and how the movie is “a fascinating demonstration of how resilient RUN-DMC’s individual styles–and the codes of hip-hop culture–could be.”
• The IN LIVING COLOR Television show and how it “gave recognizable faces to the comic sensibility of hip-hop culture.”
• Actress ROSIE PEREZ in SPIKE LEE‘s film, ”Do The Right Thing” and how in that film she was “the embodiment of hip-hop energy, sass and physicalized intelligence.”
• John Singleton’s BOYZ N THE HOOD movie and how it was an example of  ”the soulful side of hip-hop made visual.”
• ICE CUBE’s Film Career and “Dead Homiez” music video and it being an example of “the images of black males being surprisingly heartfelt.”
• Drag Performer RuPaul and the “Back To My Roots” Music Video and how it showcased “cosmetic culture”.
• Filmmaker Hype Williams and how his music videos often expressed “the observable reality of black experience.” 
• Rapper MC HAMMER and how “Dance, an important part of hip-hop, achieved its greatest expression in the music videos by MC Hammer”.
• Filmmaker Charles Stone III and how his Budweiser “Whassup?” TV commerical ”went beyond product to highlight a lifestyle.” 
• Filmmaker Bryan Barber and his music videos for BIG BOI “The Way You Move” and ANDRE 3000 “Hey Ya” took the medium to a new level.
• Filmmaker Mark Romanek and how his music video for JAY-Z’s “99 Problems“, “transcended the form of music video.”
• Beastie Boys concert movie “Awesome: I Fuckin’s Shot That” and how it was the “most radical music film experiment of 2006.”

Now mind you, the quotes included are only a HINT of the insight and revelatory information provided in the essay.  Read it if you are intrigued.

The Book also includes the following essays:

INTRO: “Hip-Hop From The Jump: Peace, Love, Unity, Having Fun…And Making Money” — by Bill Adler

1) “Getting Up and Getting Over: Hip-Hop And Street Art”  PART ONE: New York Underground, 1969 To 1980 by Sacha Jenkins.   PART TWO: Out Of The Subways and Into The World; 1980 To The Present by Franklin Sirmans,

2) “Rhymin’ and Designin’ : Hip-Hop And The Art Of The Album Cover” — by Carlo McCormick

3) “From Tags To Riches: Hip-Hop And Advertising” — by Tamara Warren

4) “Camera Ready: Hip-Hop And The Moving Image” — by ARMOND WHITE

5) “The Beating Drum: Hip-Hop And Cars”  — by Cheo Hodari Coker

6) “Kicks: Hip-Hop And Sneakers”  — by Michael A. Gonzales

7) “So Fresh and So Clean: Hip-Hop And Fashion” — by Raquel Cepeda

– The Wow Jones Report

P.S.  Also, if you are interested in a website that offers observations and analysis on attaining celebrity and stardom, check out the Self-Stardom Blueprint when you have a moment.

Also, if interested in this critic’s past writing–purchase a new or used copy of his book “The Resistance: Ten Years Of Pop Culture That Shook The World.”

104)  Armond White Movie Review of Quentin Tarantino’s film Pulp Fiction    -1994-

“Pulp Fiction itself is a misleading title; it should simply be renamed

Trash.  It keeps within the shallow, thoughtless boundaries of cheap

fiction (potboiler crime novels and B movies), but no ugly mean truth gets revealed.  Here’s the catch: Quentin Tarantino shows such an unenlightened, film buff’s faith that he fails to redeem or improve the pulp genre in any way that matters.  Pulp Fiction is a modernized rehash of the fast killings, stylish poses and affectations that appeal to the adolescent taste for pop.  This trash aesthetic often is carelessly valorized in the postmodern age as a preference over the staid, conventional style and pleasures of classical film and fiction.  However, Quentin Tarantino’s…”

To read more of Armond White’s take on Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction film, purchase a new or used copy of The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook The World.