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Sticky and Sweet Tour 2008

October 6th...Madison Square Garden...

Chelsea Gallery Going

Source Neil Smith 2008

Wednesdays and Thursdays evenings are great times to drop by the mid 20's and 10th Ave and chug through the various openings in the Chelsea Galleries. Apart from the usual free beers and cheapish wines; the interesting New York crowds (there are never really any tourists attending) and sometimes good music, there is always some interesting art to consider. Even the gallery exteriors are adorned with provoking pieces

NYFF #2

"I'm Gonna Explode"

A really fun but thought provoking  film proving that Mexican film making is currently cutting edge

            

I’m Gonna Explode / Voy a explotar Series: 46th New York Film Festival [Sept. 26 – Oct. 12, 2008] Director: Gerardo Naranjo, Country: Mexico, Release: 2008, Runtime: 106 Was this the movie we secretly wanted to live? Mexican director Gerardo Naranjo hits his stride and promptly accelerates with this boldly hectic youth film. I’m Gonna Explode is a mood-shifting mock epic that channels Pierrot le fou complete with Georges Delerue music, albeit transposing the myth of the Last Romantic Couple to an upper middle-class Mexico City exurb. Ramon, the son of a sleazy right-wing congressman, contributes to his new high school’s talent show by ineptly attempting to hang himself on stage. Maru is the only one who claps. They bond in detention, and then it’s off in a stolen Volkswagen with daddy’s gun to the end of the night… or something like that. Absurdist and ultimately heartbreaking, I’m Gonna Explode is further proof of Mexican cinema’s ongoing vitality, a prime example of its nuevo nouvelle vague.