In this Friday, Jan. 20, 2017 photo, a marquee from the legendary Los Angeles rock ‘n’ roll club, Whisky a Go Go, glows at the Saco River Auction Co., in Biddeford, Maine. The sign that adorned the West Hollywood club during the heyday of punk, new wave and grunge in the 1980s and ’90s, will go up for auction on Wednesday, Jan. 25. In this May 25, 2002 photo provided by Stephen Dyrgas, the marquee sign, “The Whisky” adorns the legendary West Hollywood rock ‘n’ roll club, Whisky a Go Go, in Los Angeles.
Category: New-Wave
‘Loving,’ ‘Jackie’ and ‘Hail, Caesar!’ make Kenneth Turan’s Top 10 films of 2016
It’s been more than half a century since the formidable Sam Fuller looked directly at the camera in Jean-Luc Godard’s “Pierrot le Fou,” but what he said came instantly to mind as I was putting together my 10 best list for 2016. The year just ending was unusually strong across the board, with impressive work visible in films with astronomical budgets, like Marvel’s $165 million Benedict Cumberbatch/Tilda Swinton “Doctor Strange,” as well as those with tiny ones, like the 150,000-Euro-budgeted, Anna Rose Holmer-directed “The Fits.”