i just got back from a screening of amateur, the 1994 hal hartley film. if we're talking about cartoons for the billionth time (mind you, i watched the b&s cartoon as a child and loved it, and know nobody did it on purpose, but this is at least the third time it's been a thread) then we can mention hal hartley. it's so beautiful. i wanted to cry at the end, but i was too sad. i ended up walking home in a daze, which was partially aided by the fact that one of my contacts had fallen out earlier so one eye was blurred anyway. so basically, my advice is to see this movie. kind of the film equivalent to belle and sebastian songs, in my opinion. his latest film was shot on digital video for french tv and is called the book of life. p.j. harvey plays mary magdalene and yo la tengo play something too. not sure what. and how can you resist a film with roles like mormon thug #1? i haven' tseen it yet though, there was a screening on tuesday but it was all sold out so i cried a lot, oh wait, no i didn't. i just sat home and watched felicity. m'i bad. anyway, i also found out some belle and sebastian related information, more related then my other tenuous connections anyway. acid house, the film which featured b&s on the soundtrack, will be premiering in new york on march 10 at the anthology film archive. it's opening night of the ny underground film festival, so it will probably sell out. all right, that's pretty much all i know. not much going on in the music front that i know of these days, all the cool stuff seems to be happening in the uk, which is sadly distant from me. but oh well, i have my movies to escape into (and it's hard to feel too sorry for yourself when you live in the city ;). xoxo megan mkl206@is8.nyu.edu visit the NEWLY UPDATEDmagnetic fields web page at: http://www.dissemination.com/megan/magneticfields/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+