10 Years In The Making The Magnetic Fields Documentary ‘Strange Powers’ Still Feels Rote
10 Years In The Making The Magnetic Fields Documentary 'Strange Powers' Still Feels Rote
Jason Statham Joins ‘Safe’; Magnetic Fields Doc ‘Strange Powers’ Gets Picked Up; ‘Carlos’ Poster Revealed & More
The poster for "Carlos," Olivier Assayas' epic biopic on famed terrorist Carlos The Jackal has landed and it's.....okay. It doesn't change our anticipation for the film, which is fairly high. "Carlos" will prem...
SXSW Catch-Up: The Magnetic Fields Documentary ‘Strange Powers’
On an usually hot Sunday in typically balmy mid-March Austin, Texas we made a horrible call. In retrospect, it's a no brainer decision, but we chose unwisely. Our choices were either the eponymous documentary ...
Trailer For Magnetic Fields Doc ‘Strange Powers’ Arrives
We were pleasantly surprised when we learned that a documentary about the notoriously private, misanthropic, surly, funny and genius songwriter Stephin Merritt was in the works."Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt ...
Magnetic Fields Documentary To Sneak Preview At SF Film Society’s SF360 Film+Club Series
Wow, this is interesting. A ten-year-in-the-making documentary on the Magnetic Fields and its notoriously private (plus misanthropic and surly) singer-songwriter Stephin Merrit is apparently mostly complete and...
Stephin Merrit’s ‘Coraline’ Musical Adaptation Coming Off-Broadway This Fall
You'll remember we noted a few months back that our preferred monotone-sounding wet blanket, Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields was working on a musical adaptation of Neil Gaiman's “Coraline” which unfortun...
Short Cuts: Stephin Merritt, John Cougar & Stephen King, Andre 3000, ‘Juno,’ More
Our favorite monotone-sounding curmudgeon, Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields, always has a plethora of music projects on his plate and recent interviews reveal this continues to be the case. The brown-wear...
No Magnetic Fields Until 2008? I Think I Need A New Heart
News arrived in our inboxes the other day that the long-awaited Magnetic Fields disc (the follow-up to 2004's I) had been pushed back to early 2008. Originally scheduled to come out in spring of this year (yeah...