"Like Kim's, the selection at Reel Life was massive, hand picked, and full of quasi-legal (read: not legal) bootlegs and VHS tapes. Now another store, Reel Life South, is preparing to close its doors. "I am always quick to point out that I learned more from working at Kim's than I did from going to film school at NYU," he writes at Hammer to Nail. Alex Ross Perry ( The Color Wheel) once managed a floor at the legendary Kim's Video in New York's East Village, now shuttered, though there's still a much smaller Kim's on 1st Ave. Today's review of Geoff Dyer's Zona comes from Nathan Rogers-Hancock at Cinespect. The book is slim, only 124 pages, and I'm glad it was also fleshed out with pictures from the movie (which might be the only chance we will ever get to 'see' it)." He gives us a sample and then announces that he's republishing the book, which will be out next month and already has a fan page.Īnother book. He tells us the story of how he came upon what amounts to P Ramlee's own novelization of Sitora Harimau Jadian, "describing what happens in his movie, scene by scene. I almost succeeded." Amir Muhammad ( The Last Communist, Malaysian Gods) would eventually see 33 Sitora Harimau Jadian (1964) seems to have been lost. "When I wrote 120 Malay Movies I tried to watch all of the 34 movies that P Ramlee directed.
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