The Union Forever Archives


May 8, 2008

The Union Forever | 'I'm Not There' DVD

This past Tuesday, Todd Haynes' film inspired by the music and many lives of Bob Dylan, I'm Not There, was released on DVD and I got a chance to relive the excellent experiment in narrative filmmaking. Not to mention......

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Apr 17, 2008

The Union Forever | The Online Cinema

Last week saw the announcement that the National would be releasing a DVD chronicling the making of their most recent album, Boxer. Directed by Vincent Moon, the documentary should bring some of his visual aesthetic to a larger audience......

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Apr 9, 2008

The Union Forever | A Skin, A Night

Back in April of 2006, the director of La Blogoteque's Take Away Shows, Vincent Moon, announced that he was working on a documentary about The National, recording what would become 2007's year-end list-topping album, Boxer. Well, now there is a......

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Mar 17, 2008

The Union Forever | SXSW Edition: On Set with Music Supervisors

I got off the plane in Austin, Texas and headed directly to meet up with LMB's Justin and Sam, as well Dave from Earvolution.com at a taco place on 2nd street. They had just finished their 11am breakfast and we......

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Feb 27, 2008

The Union Forever | It's Beeple!

I went back to Madison for the night last Thursday to see a show at my drawing teacher Kendra’s new venue, the Project Lodge. She opened the venue with her boyfriend and fellow Portland, Oregon transplant, Chris. Both people......

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Feb 12, 2008

The Union Forever: The Battle for Ireland

ONCE: Falling Slowly - A Live Performance [video] I recently viewed two types of music-orientated films that were typical of the current approach to the music-film continuum, yet they both attempted to progress beyond the normal boundaries of current......

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Jan 30, 2008

The Union Forever

Intrigued by the recent successful collaboration between the Moldy Peaches and the film Juno, I wondered if this was an example of the union of music and film or if this was evil corporate synergy at its deceiving worst. It......

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Jan 22, 2008

Introducing...The Union Forever

Movies and Rock & Roll have always been partners in crime, soliciting promiscuity and danger while keeping every American slightly interested in this non-sense world. Both James Dean and Jim Morrison garner the same idolatry, the same cool, but in......

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