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Urban Landfill

 Russell Williams ― http://theurbanlandfill.wordpress.com

A Paris-based cultural criticism website. I cover contemporary art, music, film and books. I tend to ramble a bit, but I mean well.

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Listed: Mar 27, 2011

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Call for papers – Intoxication

Urban Landfill ― ULIP Postgraduate Conference Summer 2013, June 28th, 2013 Throughout literary history writers have consistently been drawn to intoxication. They have used their work to ponder the temptation of intoxicants, and the altered states of perception ...

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Russell Williams ― 12 weeks ago

Django Unchained (dir: Quentin Tarantino, 2013)

Urban Landfill ― In some ways, a new Tarantino film is a very much like a pair of Clarks, a Vauxhall car or a bottle of seven quid wine from Sainsbury’s. Reassuringly, you know pretty much in advance what you’re going to get.  Unlike the desert boots, the Corsa or...

Tags: Film, Django Unchained, Film, Jamie Foxx, John Travolta, Leonardo Dicaprio

Russell Williams ― 16 weeks ago

Killing Them Softly (Dir: Andrew Dominik, 2012)

Urban Landfill ― Killing Them Softly, a film set in a nameless urban American wasteland and directed by a Kiwi is a resolutely French piece of noir filmmaking. Let me explain. Andrew ‘Chopper’ Dominik’s latest movie, which tells of score-settling, amongst ...

Tags: Uncategorized, Brad Pitt, Chanel?, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Killing Them Softly, Roberta Flack

Russell Williams ― 19 weeks ago

New publication: Autour de l’extrême littéraire

Urban Landfill ― I’m very pleased to announce the publication of my first book, edited in collaboration with Alastair Hemmens. Full details are below. The book can be bought direct from the publishers here or via Amazon here. “The extreme is an ...

Tags: Uncategorized, Agota Kristof, Annie Ernaux, Baudelaire, Bret Easton Ellis, Christine Angot

Russell Williams ― 26 weeks ago

Amour (dir. Michael Haneke, 2012)

Urban Landfill ― Describing the work of Michel Houellebecq, English writer Julian Barnes said that his novels ‘hunt big game, while others settle for shooting rabbits’. The same could be said of the Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke. His films frequently pursue ...

Tags: Uncategorized, Amour, Drama, Emmanuelle Riva, Entertainment, Michael Haneke

Russell Williams ― 28 weeks ago

Kenneth Anger, galérie du jour, Paris 4ème

Urban Landfill ― There are few figures in the art world more enigmatic or more paradoxical than Kenneth Anger. Whilst he is regularly championed by high-profile figures such as Martin Scorsese for his “poetic” filmmaking and the influence of his work pervades...

Tags: Film, Music, Anais Nin, Anton Lavey, Film, Kenneth Anger

Russell Williams ― 33 weeks ago

La Route du Rock, Fort du Saint-Père, Saint-Malo, 10-12 August, 2012

Urban Landfill ― I lost interest in music festivals standing in rain watching icons-turn-trout-fishermen The Who languidly going through the motions at Glastonbury in 2007. My passion for big-scale rock events had already started to wane a couple of years earlier...

Tags: Music, Chromatics, La Route Du Rock, Leeds, Mark Lanegan, Mazzy Star

Russell Williams ― 35 weeks ago

Intense Proximité, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Urban Landfill ― As you might expect, the Palais de Tokyo being firstly, a contemporary art gallery and, secondly, located in Paris, its new show is supported by an overtly complex theoretical platform. Both traditions seeming somewhat preoccupied by considering ...

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Russell Williams ― 48 weeks ago

Jesper Just, “This Unknown Spectacle”, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne

Urban Landfill ― There is something inherently subversive about video art, something its audience can find instinctively challenging, even innately disturbing. What to make of he work of, say, Nam June Paik or Bruce Nauman? In some ways, video art is deceptively...

Tags: Art, Film, Bruce Nauman, Jesper Just, Nam June Paik, Paul McCarthy

Russell Williams ― 12 Jan, 12

A Dangerous Method (dir: David Cronenberg, 2011)

Urban Landfill ― David Cronenberg is a particularly violent film director. When his films aren’t perpetuating violence on his protagonists or his audiences as in The Fly (1986), Videodrome (1983) or Crash (1996), they create a similarly oppressive, threatening,...

Tags: Art, Film, A Dangerous Method, Cronenberg, Fassbender, Film

Russell Williams ― 9 Jan, 12

Juremir Machado da Silva, En Patagonie avec Michel Houellebecq (Paris: CNRS Editions, 2011)

Urban Landfill ― Of all the books to predictably trickle onto the French books market in the wake of Michel Houellebecq’s 2010 Prix Goncourt win for La Carte et le territoire (just published in a fine English translation by Gavin Bowd as The Map and the ...

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Russell Williams ― 30 Oct, 11

Éric Reinhardt, Le Système Victoria (Paris: Éditions Stock, 2011)

Urban Landfill ― The world has recently been particularly interested in bourgeois bedroom activities. Generally, it is reality TV “celebrities” and sporting “heroes” who get the bulk of English-speaking tabloid attention. The occasional political scandal...

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Russell Williams ― 15 Sep, 11

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