S.A. CRARY
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"The Official MySpace Presence for the film KILL YOUR IDOLS"
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30 years old
NYC/L.A., New York
United States
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S.A. CRARY's Interests
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| General |
the anticipated.
the echoed.
| | Music |
listen:
A Silver Mount Zion
Antlers
Antony & The Johnsons
Arvo Pärt
Beirut
Bob Dylan
Burial
Can
John Coltrane
Company Flow / El-P
Coughs
Delia Derbyshire
Devendra Banhart
Dymaxion
The Fall
GangStarr
György Kurtág
György Ligeti
Henryk Górecki
Ilitch
Janácek
John Jacob Niles
JOY DIVISION / Warsaw
Leonard Cohen
Lubos Fiser
Magnetic Fields
Marissa Nadler
Max Richter
Momus
MORRISSEY / THE SMITHS
Mulatu Astatke
Murcof
Nick Cave / Birthday Party / Grinderman
NICO
Odetta
Pan Sonic
Pergolesi
Pierre Bastien
Pjotr Leschenko
Pulp
The Roots
Rufus Wainwright
Schubert
Scott Walker
Serge Gainsbourg
Shostakovich
Slits
Svarte Greiner / Deaf Center
Swans / Angels of Light
This Mortal Coil
TOM WAITS
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Valentin Silvestrov
Velvet Undergound
Vladimir Visotsky
William Basinski
Wolf Eyes
...etc.
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"The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good."
--Andrey Tarkovsky.
Pierrot Le Fou (Godard)
Persona (Bergman)
Vivre Sa Vie (Godard)
(all Godard, really)
The Mother & The Whore (Eustache)
Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson)
That Obscure Object of Desire (Buñuel)
Eraserhead (Lynch)
The Seventh Continent (Haneke)
Teorema (Pasolini)
L'Avventura (Antonioni)
Rope (Hitchcock)
Rosetta (Dardenne Bros.)
Stroszeck (Herzog)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder)
The Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky)
Les Enfants Du Paradis (Carné)
Institute Benjamenta (Bros. Quay)
Possession (Zuwalski)
Even Dwarves Started Small (Herzog)
Zéro de Conduite (Vigo)
Nostalghia (Tarkovsky)
Lovers On The Bridge (Carax)
Mauvais Sang (Carax)
Baby Doll (Kazan)
Satantango (Tarr)
Sunset Boulevard (Wilder)
Beau Travail (Denis)
Import/Export (Seidl)
Spalovac Mrtvol (Juraj)
Wanda (Loden)
Mother Joan of The Angels (Kawalerowicz)
(the films of Paolo Gioli)
"The great art of film does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation."
--Louise Brooks.
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| | Books | compulsively pleasing authors:
Diogenes, Kafka, E.M. Cioran, Wilde, Daniil Kharms, Marina Tsvetaeva, Italo Calvino, Dostoevsky, Bukowski, Jean Genet, Marina Galperina, Kundera, Edward Gorey, Jean Cocteau, Knut Hamsun, Buchner, Graham Greene, Emo Philips, Brecht, Baudelaire
favorite books:
-Oscar Wilde's "Picture of Dorian Gray"
-Robert Walser's "Jakob von Gunten"
-Plato's "Symposium"
-Stendahl's "Love"
-Milan Kundera's "Book of Laughter and Forgetting"
-Fernando Pessoa's "The Book of Disquiet"
-...and the book of Ecclesiastes for ending with the only line in literature that negates all that came before or that would come after: "One further warning, my son: there is no end to the writing of books."
| | Heroes |
-"In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention." -Simone Weil.
-"Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man." -J.L.G.
-"Life is so meaningless we might as well try to make ourselves extraordinary." -Francis Bacon
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S.A. CRARY's Details
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| Status: | Engaged | | Orientation: | Not Sure | | Zodiac Sign: | Aries | | Occupation: | Dramaturgy |
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S.A. CRARY's Companies
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HUNGER ARTIST PRODUCTIONS.
NYC/L.A., US
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S.A. CRARY's Latest Blog Entry
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03/21/08: BLACK BOOK picks ’KILL YOUR IDOLS’ as influential doc
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02/14/08: Party for ’KILL YOUR IDOLS’ tonight in ROME, ITALY!
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11/16/07: ’KILL YOUR IDOLS’ screens in FINLAND!
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11/07/07: ’KILL YOUR IDOLS’ now on DVD in ITALY!
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10/01/07: ’KILL YOUR IDOLS’ now playing on SUNDANCE CHANNEL.
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S.A. CRARY's Blurbs |
About me:
Film Director/Scribe. Born on the island of Oahu. Currently resides on the island of Manhattan.
Directed, shot, produced and edited "KILL YOUR IDOLS", a documentary (from the executive producers of David Cronenberg's "History of Violence") tracing the history of NYC's art punk scene from its inception in 1972 with Suicide through the No-Wave acts of the late 1970's and the early inheritors immediately after (with bands like Sonic Youth and Swans) to the most recent generation embracing the ideals of transgressive innovation (including bands like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Liars, Gogol Bordello, Black Dice, etc.) After being screened to critical and audience acclaim at over 35 international film festivals--including Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival, where it was awarded the prize for Best Feature Documentary by members of the NY Film Critics Circle--the film was released in select theatres throughout Europe in 2005. "KILL YOUR IDOLS" opened theatrically in the U.S. on July 7th, 2006 and became available on DVD in North America on August 29th, 2006. The film is also now on DVD in Italy, Switzerland, and Japan.
**THIS IS THE ONLY OFFICIAL PAGE
FOR THE FILM "KILL YOUR IDOLS"**
((( PLEASE WATCH THE MOVIE TRAILER IN THE 'VIDEO' SECTION )))
......click poster image to order dvd from AMAZON.COM......
PRESS QUOTES for "KILL YOUR IDOLS":
-"KILL YOUR IDOLS thrills!" - THE VILLAGE VOICE
-"****--Compelling stuff. Thrillingly scratchy and lo-fi." - NME
-"The music gets to spill all over you, scalding and still shocking, from the screen."
- UNCUT magazine
-"Engagingly raw style...An enjoyable monument to an undervalued chapter in rock history."
- SIGHT & SOUND
-"Edgy and energetic!" - FLAVOURPILL London
-"Funny, informative and thought-provoking." - CLOSE-UP FILM
-"If you have any interest in the alternative music scene of the last few decades, this documentary is definitely worth a look...Has an obvious relevance well beyond the confines of the New York punk scene."
- FILM247.NET
-"A masterpiece of a documentary." -CINEMA SOURCE
-"RECOMMENDED." -AMOEBA MUSIC
-"KILL YOUR IDOLS is the only documentary that digs deep enough into the Underground to truly portray the intensity of New York's No Wave movement and the impact it had on the future of noisemakers everywhere." -LYDIA LUNCH
-"Hot Ticket! This is the most vital rock scene New York's had since Blondie, the Talking Heads and the Ramones hung out at CBGB."
- PAPER magazine
-"Film of the month!" -DAZED & CONFUSED
-"Damn good!" -THE PORTLAND MERCURY
-"Far more compelling and entertaining than virtually any of this summers big budget blockbuster movies..."Kill Your Idols" is just as powerful and disturbing as the music scene that inspired it."
- REELMOVIECRITIC.COM
-"Mischievous...Anyone with a niggling suspicion that contemporary bands are more hyped than heard would do well to catch the film."
- THE LONDON TIMES
-"Equal parts art and music...making KILL YOUR IDOLS thoroughly enjoyable and informative."
- ROTTEN TOMATOES
-"Intriguing!...Rough & ready!" -CHANNEL 4 (UK)
-"Cocky, hypocritical, noisy, and just a little bitter—exactly the way a documentary about No Wave should be." - DVD VERDICT.com
-"Any self-respecting punk's wet-dream!" - ART ROCKER
-"***--Illuminating." - ALL MOVIE GUIDE
-"Ostensibly about the ultra-obscure New York art-punk scene of 1977-82, this cleverly edited film is really a meditation on originality and nostalgia." - EMPIRE MAGAZINE (UK)
-"Crary convincingly conveys the fiercely confrontational spirit of the No Wave movement."
- BBC
-"HIGHLY RECOMMENDED--Not just a history of a specific time in music. It's also a testament to the lasting effect of the era's influence, for better or worse." -DVD Talk
-"Manages to leave even those who know nothing about punk feeling nostalgic for the passion and intelligence of its early days."
- CINEMATICAL
-"***--A sharp look at the crisis of innovation in an age of commodified nostalgia." -TV GUIDE
-"Could find worshippers!"
- DAILY VARIETY
WINNER:
OFFICIAL SELECTION OF OVER 35 INT'L FILM FESTIVALS.
ON DVD NOW!!!
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NICO circa 1959.
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