What I would be doing tonight if I didn’t have rehearsal
Going to Silent Movie for this event: The release and screening of Wholpin #5. Flavorpill.com says:
McSweeney’s DVD-based little brother Wholphin is officially one year old; the quarterly pub’s infancy included Spike Jonze’s lost 2000 Al Gore election documentary, Daily Show writers reviving the Japanese Bewitched, and a sci-fi homage by Steven Soderbergh, amongst others. Selections from Wholphin’s fifth issue are screened tonight, with rumors of a crying competition, a Consumer Service Announcement to Identify Clone-Free Products, and never-before-seen footage from Jim Jarmusch, Werner Herzog, and P.T. Anderson.
The revamped Silent Movie is quickly becoming the contemporary LA equivalent of the Little Art Theatre of yore. I wrote about both beloved screening houses here.