"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
Pat Padua bridges high-brow and low-brow to form a distinctive American pan-browism. He hears the voices cry out from the Western Canon to Justin Timberlake, and, with an arsenal of optical tools ranging from disposable message cameras to the sharpest Hassy glass, he coaxes out the voices with a visual acuity akin to shamanism. "A talented, if quirky, photographer," in the words of the Washington Post, Padua has exhibited his photographs in San Francisco and Baltimore, as well as in his home town of Washington DC. His astute criticism of music and cinema has appeared in the All Music Guide and Cinescene.com.
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Book Review: Otaku: Japan's Database Animals by Hiroki Azuma
A slim but dense tome that examines Japanese anime culture in the context of postmodern philosophical discourse.
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TV Review: Phantoms of History - Savannah, Georgia
Phantoms of History may be smart ghost hunting but it is not compelling television.
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DVD Review: Frownland
If you ever wanted to see Robert Bresson direct an Adam Sandler movie, then Frownland is for you.
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DVD Review: Eclipse Series 18: Dušan Makavejev, Free Radical
Dušan Makavejev's early feature films pave the way for his groundbreaking WR: Mysteries of the Organism: sexy, provocative, and hilarious.
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Movie Review: People *LOVE* Photos
People *LOVE* Photos looks at three very different photographers and the ways they interact with their human subjects.
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DVD Review: Last Year at Marienbad
An essential avant-garde masterpiece that gives you something you don't expect from an avant-garde masterpiece: sheer pleasure.
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DVD Review: A Grin Without a Cat and Inquiring Nuns
The revolution is still boring.
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Art Review (NYC): Jonny Fenix at Leo Kesting Gallery
The art that we deserve: Fenix's "Michael's Jacksons" and more.
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Meta-Grief and the Celebrity Mourner
I come not to praise the common man but to bury the celebrity.
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Movie Review: 'Tis Autumn - The Search for Jackie Paris
Raymond De Felitta's bittersweet documentary is a fine introduction to an unheralded jazz singer.
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