Peter Falk telling Gena Rowlands that her performance in A Woman Under The Influence is the greatest ever and will be remembered 100 years from now and being absolutely correct

RIP actress Gena Rowlands, GOAT. As the creative partner of John Cassavetes, she gave one indelible performance after another, & for my 💰 her tour de force in 1974’s A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE is the finest achievement in screen acting since the invention of the talking picture

Egyptian poster for John Cassavetes’ 1980 crime thriller GLORIA. RIP Gena Rowlands, GOAT. instagram.com/p/C-rOEl8tIkd/…

FINAL DAY: Japanese poster for Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 epic SEVEN SAMURAI—the kinetic template for the modern action film—starring Toshiro Mifune & Takashi Shimura, in gorgeous new 4K restoration at @filmforumnyc through Thursday 8/15. More posters at instagram.com/p/C-sn5ATOXge/…

A.B.E.L.A.—aka Asociación de Bateristas ElektrónikXs de Latinoamerika during their groovy live set at ⁦Industry City⁩ curated by ⁦Dada Strain⁩ More 📹 at instagram.com/p/C-vGzuSu_46/…

The Max Roach-founded 🥁 ensemble M’Boom (w/ 90-years-young original member Warren Smith) perform “Onamatopoeia” & Monk’s “Epistrophy” at the Max Roach Centennial Tribute in Marcus Garvey Park via SummerStage⁩ & ⁦Jazzmobile⁩ More 📹 clips: instagram.com/p/C-xuS0xu3uO/…

RIP Alain Delon, whose steely beauty was utilized by Jean-Pierre Melville to play arguably cinema’s most impassive hit man (after his early career had established him as a smoldering sex symbol). Image: Cuban poster for Melville’s 1967 LE SAMOURAÏ. More: instagram.com/p/C-0WrR_OTHY/…

Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra (⁦Peter Gordon⁩) perform “Beginning of the Heartbreak/Don’t Don’t” at ⁦The Bowery Electric ⚡️⁩ (featuring trombonist ⁦Peter Zummo⁩, 🎷 Eve Essex, & 🥁 David Van Tieghem), The Bowery. More 📹 clips at instagram.com/p/C-2ymhzuNUC/…

Remembering filmmaker/actor/composer/singer/novelist Melvin Van Peebles, born 92 years ago today in Chicago. In the mid ‘90s I was fortunate enough to spend an afternoon with MVP in his Hell’s Kitchen apartment, for an interview in MOTORBOOTY #8. More at: instagram.com/p/C-8dCu9yWFn/…

Hungarian poster for Roman Polanski’s 1974 neo-noir masterpiece CHINATOWN, starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, & John Huston, in luminous 4K restoration as part of ⁦MoMA The Museum of Modern Art⁩’s “Paramount in the 1970s” series. More posters at: instagram.com/p/C--nPMhOnWP/…

Polish poster for Daryl Duke’s 1978 thriller THE SILENT PARTNER, starring Elliott Gould, Susannah York, & Christoper Plummer (with an early role by John Candy & a script by Curtis Hanson), streaming on ⁦Criterion Collection Channel⁩ til 8/31. More posters at instagram.com/p/C_DsjIcuWeW/…

Detroit’s ⁦⁦RIDE OR DIE⁩ spins “Knights of the Jaguar” by ⁦I AM UR⁩’ Djrolandoelexplosivo at the climax of his Music at MoMA set in the sculpture garden at ⁦MoMA The Museum of Modern Art⁩, Midtown. More 📹 at instagram.com/p/C_I1FDjOZ48/…

Chicago house producer ⁦Jamie Principle⁩ & Detroit techno producer ⁦RIDE OR DIE⁩ following Craig’s DJ set for Music at MoMA in the sculpture garden of ⁦MoMA The Museum of Modern Art⁩, Midtown instagram.com/p/C_JDRrYOjni/…

RECOMMENDED: Director Nathan Silver & screenwriting partner @CMasonWells following the Q&A for their hilariously meshuggah new comedy BETWEEN THE TEMPLES, starring Jason Schwartzman, Carol Kane, Robert Smigel, & Dolly de Leon, at ⁦BAM Film⁩ instagram.com/p/C_KGEcLtapQ/…

Remembering incendiary jazz 🎸 Warren Harding “Sonny” Sharrock, born 94 years ago today in Ossining, NY. Images: contact sheet 📸 of Sonny Sharrock Trio (with bassist melvin gibbs & 🥁 Pheeroan Aklaff (pheeroan aklaff) live at ⁦Knitting Factory NYC⁩ circa 89-90 instagram.com/p/C_L4JheSfg0/…

Remembering jazz pianist/keyboardist/harpist/composer Alice Coltrane, aka Swamini Turiyasangitananda, born Alice Lucille McLeod in Detroit 87 years ago today. Images: 1972 live portrait 📸 by Leni Sinclair; poster by Gary Grimshaw for 3/17/73 concert at instagram.com/p/C_Me6mQNSQw/…

Walking through the SoHo streets on Saturday night, I followed a siren song of shimmering synths & found ambient electronic buskers sexdeathvoid providing a (tangerine) dreamy soundtrack to Manhattan in motion. The duo perform at 7pm at the ⁦Brooklyn Public Library plaza tomorrow 8/29

RECOMMENDED: Streaming on Criterion Collection Channel til 8/31, Walter Saxer’s 1986 documentary SEPA: OUR LORD OF MIRACLES—about an open-air prison deep inside Peru’s Amazon where prisoners live beside their families—has a Herzogian stranger-than-fiction feel … instagram.com/p/C_PXQW4sl4r/…

Polish, Hungarian, Japanese, Italian, Swedish, Spanish, Danish, & US posters for John Cassavetes’ 1977 backstage drama OPENING NIGHT, starring Gena Rowlands, Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Joan Blondell, Paul Stewart, & Zohra Lampert, at @paristheaternyc. More: instagram.com/p/C_iYHBuOlPT/…

Filmmaker Jem Cohen & Fugazi 🎤/🎸 Guy Picciotto following our conversation onstage at @paristheaternyc before the 25th anniversary screening of their 1999 collaborative documentary INSTRUMENT. Posters + Chris Toliver 📸 from 4/20/91 Columbia U. show at instagram.com/p/C_lmZPcS5yC/…