Punishment Park Directed by: Peter Watkins (New Yorker Video)Punishment Park is a chilling and haunting pseudo-documentary about how the American government decides to deal with “traitors” and “dissidents.” An opening voiceover explains how Nixon uses the 1950 McCarran Internal Security Act—the right to collapse the traditional justice system and detain anyone who is “a risk […]
Trevor MacLaren
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Wilco
WilcoSky Blue Sky(Nonesuch)After the alt-rock masterpiece Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco’s A Ghost is Born was even darker and delved deeper into avant-garde composition. Each album featured some of Jeff Tweedy’s finest work, but both alienated many of the early Wilco fans who loved the band’s Americana style. Sky Blue Sky walks away from those experimental […]
