ARTICLES BY MILENE LARSSON
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 THE DEMON DIRECTOR’S AUTOPSY
Maaret Koskinen Found More Than a Few Skeletons in Ingmar Bergman’s ClosetWhen Ingmar Bergman was 20 years old, he faced a fairly ordinary existential predicament: What’s a guy to do with a head full of thoughts he can neither comprehend nor control? His answer: “You open the gas stove at home in the little kitchen and then it’ll all blow up. Boom!” Luckily for two generations of film crazies, he came...
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  ROY ANDERSSON
Roy Andersson is one of the most original and important living Swedish filmmakers who, despite 40 years in the industry, has only made four feature films. Not because he didn’t want to make more but because he refused to follow up his commercially successful debut A Swedish Love Story and was, ironically enough, punished with a 25 year sentence of directing commercials. He served his time well, reinvented advertising and became so rich...
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 AURALLY FIXATED
Intergalactic Mastermind Ralph Lundsten Rewires Modern MusicSwedish composer Ralph Lundsten remains one of his generation’s greatest unheralded influences—an intergalactic ambassador who's so accomplished he makes most other mortals look like lazy uninspired slobs. Besides releasing more than 100 records...
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 HELLO TITTY
Breast Milk Cupcakes Are Nature's CandyA while back, PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, made all the "weird news" columns in the US by suggesting that Ben & Jerry's should use breast milk, like the kind your mum fed you from her mum tits, instead of cow milk. What crazy nuts! What a shocking idea! WRONG. It is a FACT that...
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 WRITTEN IN THE WRITING
Graphologists Read Between the LettersSheila Lowe has been analyzing handwriting for over 40 years. She looks at one scribbled line and can tell you all kinds of secret stuff about yourself. It’s scary.
Vice: Are you a magician or something?...
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 MARTIN SKAUEN PREFERS DOGS TO HUMANS
Vice: Hello, you Norwegian artist you. I command thee to describe your drawings without using the word "amazing." Ready? Go!
Martin Skauen: They're static, like two-dimensional sculptures. And I like to use patterns to depict how things are forced to rely on each other. How everything is...
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 FUCK CONFUCIUS
Cui Jian Has the Biggest Balls Under the Red FlagMost countries outside the English-speaking world have some sort of "father of rock" figure. Cui Jian is China's, but unlike the Johnny Hallydays and Tarkans of elsewhere, he's not just another shlubby Elvis clone or closeted Europop singer. His songs served as the soundtrack to the student revoluti...
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 SOUTHERN ROULETTE
Deerhunter Killed A Girl OnceDeerhunter are from Atlanta and are good friends with people like Black Lips. They make really clever, druggy garage rock that stands out from all the gay White Stripes tribute bands that are still knocking around everywhere. Can you believe people still fall for that bullshit? We can’t. Anyway, we’...
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 HEARTS ON FIRE
Handsome Furs and Leather JacketsApart from sounding amazing, Handsome Furs also manage to be natural born style icons. What else would you expect when a wild and charming poet like Alexei sets Dan's (the singer of Wolf Parade) heart on fire and they decide to make music together? The result is monotonous, dark and mechanical. I'm ...
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 VOODOO MUSIC
Gang Gang Dance Get Money from GodThe new Gang Gang Dance record sounds like something a cult leader might play to new recruits so as to hypnotise them and ease them into cutting off the rest of the world and never having any contact with their family members ever again. Does this sound...
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