What's good.

Red Road.

First full length by British filmmaker Andrea Arnold who won an Oscar (and a bunch of other awards) for her 2005 Short Film Wasp.

The film is a nicely slow unraveller that follows a woman named Jackie who works in Glasgow as a surveillance camera monitor(er?)... that is, she monitors the video feeds of various public space video cameras for crimes and other emergencies. One day on the job a glimpse of a certain man sets her off on a single-minded pursuit that is hinted at but not fully explained until near the film's conclusion.

Arnold does some truly interesting things with p.o.v., both in the video surveillance and in the filmed reality... especially (not trying to be titillating, but...) the sex scenes that are shot atypically and provocatively. In colour and composition it reminds me of Morvern Callar; another UK film by Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay. Above all it is a very quiet film... very sparse dialogue... very rich imagery... and the violent undercurrent is always uneasily there, but still shocks when it erupts.
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I sporadically watch Vice TV... one of the few online video entertainment sites that actually provides something better than "real TV" and is watchable. This is part of an interview from one of their programs called Soft Focus that is hosted by Ian Svenonius, who used to front the groups Nation of Ulysses, The Make Up and Weird War. The interviewee is the enigmatic Will Oldham who records as Palace, Palace Bros. and most recently Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. This is part 3 of 4 recorded in front of an audience at the Guggenheim Museum.