Alberta Cross – Songs of Patience (2012)

Samara Lubelski – Wavelength (2012)

Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun, Filmore East 1970

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Hunting and Gathering (2007), Claude Berri

Acclaimed director Claude Berri (Jean de Florette) helms the whimsical romantic comedy Ensemble, c'est tout (Hunting and Gathering, 2007). A box office blockbuster in France, the picture follows the romantic couplings that form in the lives of several lonely Parisian singles. The lead characters include: an emotionally fragile, exhausted cleaning lady named Camille (Audrey Tatou) who is suffering from anorexia; a well-to-do young man named Phillibert struggling with his own sexual orientation (Laurent Stocker) but who begins to drift toward heterosexuality and a stable relationship with a woman; and Phillibert's rebellious pothead roommate Franck (Guillaume Canet), who can never quite breach the possibility of committing to one woman, or come face to face with his dream of opening a French restaurant - until he meets Camille and the pieces begin to fall into place. Writer-director Berri adapted the novel by Anna Gavaldi.

Summertime (1955), David Lean

Katharine Hepburn stars as Jane Hudson, an Ohio secretary on the verge of spinsterhood. Carefully saving her money, Jane takes an extended trip to Venice, half hoping to find the romance that has always eluded her. Luck of luck, she meets handsome Renato Di Rossi (Rossano Brazzi), who sweeps her off her feet. Jane's flight on Cloud Nine comes to a flaming crash when she learns that Renato is married and the father of a large family. Picking herself up and dusting herself off, Jane is determined to keep her romance alive, and hang the consequences. She ultimately does what's best for everyone, and heads back to Ohio, wistfully clutching to the memory of the happiest summer of life. Gorgeously color-photographed on location by Jack Hildyard, Summertime was an adaptation of (and vast improvement upon) Arthur Laurents' play The Time of the Cuckoo.

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Les derniers jours du monde

Les derniers jours du monde
(Arnaud et Jean-Marie Larrieu,2009)

Mathieu Amalric je car!
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The end of the world is at hand, and, in typical French fashion, it involves beaucoup sex of all varieties, taking “l’amour a mort” to its logical conclusion, with much wine imbibed en route. Described by its authors as a celebration of Eros and Thanathos (love and death), This Is The End is an unbridled, inconclusive, vaguely sci-fi madcap adventure. Amalric, a fine actor, looks completely bemused by the requirements of his part. The women who throw themselves at him seem totally immersed in their own affairs and use him mostly for sexual relief.

De La Guerre

De La Guerre
(Bertrand Bonello,2008)

Spiritual disciplines span the spectrum from quiet personal self-reflection to physically militant offensives against the ego that tyrannizes us all. Writer/Director Bertrand Bonello’s latest film On War deals with the latter.On War is a film about purging—the purging of self, of attachment to the world, and of attachment to assumptions about one’s self in the world. As the characters in the film suggest, it is only through this purging that a person may fully release into the immediacy of joy and pleasure. And it is joy and pleasure, things real and authentic, that our protagonist Bertrand (Mathieu Amalric) is searching for.

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OM – Advaitic Songs (2012)

...Set The Control To The Heart Of The Sun...


According to the the band’s label, Drag City, the five-song effort “maintains the singularity of purpose that informs the core sound of OM, yet every element reaches further than before. Whatever drone-doom genre that had been hoisted on the duo in years past has been decimated by the sheer imagination, expansive quality, and meticulously detailed arrangements of this new album.
Advaitic Songs finds OM continuing along the same pathways they began establishing with its predecessor, achieving “a level of composition that would have been impossible to foresee”.
Philosophy/Religion. Heavy ascends to a level it would have been impossible to foresee, decimated by sheer imagination and expansive quality.

All We Are - We Hunt (2012)

Woman of the Year (1942),George Stevens

Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn costarred for the first time in the delectable romantic comedy Woman of the Year. Tracy plays New York sportswriter Sam Craig, who becomes incensed at comments about the uselessness of sports made by foreign correspondent Tess Harding (Hepburn). Sam and Tess subsequently use their respective columns to carry on a feud-at least, until they finally meet face to face. After Sam takes Tess to her first baseball game (one of the funniest scenes ever committed to celluloid), the two fall in love. Once married, however, their happiness is threatened by their wildly divergent lifestyles (Sam hadn't intended to spend his honeymoon helping to hide a prominent European refugee from the authorities, nor is Tess prepared for her husband's rowdy sports-oriented pals). When Tess is voted "Woman of the Year", a jealous Sam walks out on her. She endeavors to win him back by cooking him breakfast-with disastrous results. Despite their oil-and-water relationship, Sam and Tess are made for each other, and they're back together for the final fadeout. A hands-down winner at the box office, Woman of the Year earned a "best original screenplay" Oscar for Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin. Nominated for an award was director George Stevens, an RKO contractee brought to MGM at Hepburn's insistence. And need we remind you at this late date of the subsequent lifelong romance between stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn?

Raveonettes - "She Owns the Streets"

The latest Raveonettes video "She Owns the Streets" is a shimmering ode to self expression, individuality, and punk couture. From their forthcoming album, Observator, out 9/11 on VICE Records.

Katharine Hepburn - All about me

Stage Door (1937) ,Gregory La Cava

Adapted from the Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman play, Stage Door is a comedic portrait of the theatrical community in New York. Katharine Hepburn stars as Terry Randall a young woman who comes from a wealthy, socially connected family. Aspiring for a career on the stage, Terry opts to see if she can make it on her own gumption and moves into a boarding house with several other wannabe Broadway starlets attempting to make a mark for themselves in show business. Terry's sassy roommate Jean (Ginger Rogers) just might get the opportunity to do that when she meets a lecherous producer, but at what cost? Unamused by Terry's attempts to pull herself up by her bootstraps, her father offers her an opportunity for a starring role in a show that's sure to fail. Lucille Ball, Eve Arden, and Ann Miller are among the other residents of the boarding house.

Yngve & The Innocent – The Sadness of Remembering (2012)

Adam's Rib (1949) , George Cukor

Written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, Adam's Rib is a peerless comedy predicated on the double standard. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn play Adam and Amanda Bonner, a husband-and-wife attorney team, both drawn to a case of attempted murder. The defendant (Judy Holliday) had tearfully attempted to shoot her husband (Tom Ewell) and his mistress (Jean Hagen). Adam argues that the case is open and shut, but Amanda points out that, if the defendant were a man, he'd be set free on the basis of "the unwritten law." Thus it is that Adam works on behalf of the prosecution, while Amanda defends the accused woman. The trial turns into a media circus, while the Bonners' home life suffers. Adam's Rib represented the film debuts of New York-based actors Jean Hagen, Tom Ewell, and David Wayne (as Hepburn's erstwhile songwriting suitor), and the return to Hollywood of Judy Holliday after her Born Yesterday triumph. One of the best of the Tracy-Hepburn efforts, it inspired a brief 1973 TV series starring Ken Howard and Blythe Danner.

Johnny Belinda (1948) , Jean Negulesco

After years of dumb-blonde and best-friend roles, Jane Wyman proved her skills as a dramatic actress -- and won an Academy Award in the bargain -- in Johnny Belinda. Adapted from a stage play by Elmer Harris, the story takes place in Nova Scotia, where deaf-mute Belinda (Wyman) leads a lonely existence on the hardscrabble farm of her father Black Macdonald (Charles Bickford) and her aunt Aggie (Agnes Moorehead). Newly arrived doctor Robert Richardson (Lew Ayres) takes a special interest in Belinda, vowing to ease her road in life by teaching her sign language. Despite initial resistance from her father and aunt, Belinda quickly learns how to communicate with others, opening a whole, wonderful new world for her. But things take a sorry turn when local lout Locky (Stephan McNally) corners poor Belinda after a village dance and rapes her. If the ending seems a bit ambiguous, it is because director Jean Negulesco intended it that way, allowing the viewer to draw his or her own conclusion regarding Belinda's future relationship with her mentor Dr. Richardson. Upon accepting her Oscar, Jane Wyman commented on the fact that she accomplished this feat through the simple expedient of "keeping my mouth shut." But there is nothing simple or facile in Wyman's astonishing performance as Belinda, which far outclasses the actresses who repeated the role in the two TV remakes. Also worthy of praise is the lush musical score by Max Steiner, one of his best post-Casablanca efforts.

Wild Nothing – Nocturne (2012)

Milina...Gde je letnja vrelina?


Wild Nothing released the “Nowhere” / “Wait” seven-inch back in February, but if that wasn’t enough to sate your jangle-pop heart, you’ll be glad to know the project will deliver a new LP, Nocturne, this fall. The Jack Tatum-led troupe will release the 11-song set August 28 through Captured Tracks. While Wild Nothing issued the Golden Haze EP in late 2010, Nocturne acts as the proper follow-up to his debut album Gemini.
Lead single and album opener “Shadow” will drop digitally and be pressed onto seven-inch vinyl on June 2
Wild Nothing will also be touring throughout the summer with Beach House...

VA – Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac (2012)

The Philadelphia Story (1940) ,George Cukor

We open on Philadelphia socialite C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) as he's being tossed out of his palatial home by his wife, Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn). Adding insult to injury, Tracy breaks one of C.K.'s precious golf clubs. He gallantly responds by knocking her down on her million-dollar keester. A couple of years after the breakup, Tracy is about to marry George Kittridge (John Howard), a wealthy stuffed shirt whose principal recommendation is that he's not a Philadelphia "mainliner," as C.K. was. Still holding a torch for Tracy, C.K. is galvanized into action when he learns that Sidney Kidd (Henry Daniell), the publisher of Spy Magazine, plans to publish an exposé concerning Tracy's philandering father (John Halliday). To keep Kidd from spilling the beans, C.K. agrees to smuggle Spy reporter Macauley Connor (James Stewart) and photographer Elizabeth Imbrie (Ruth Hussey) into the exclusive Lord-Kittridge wedding ceremony. How could C.K. have foreseen that Connor would fall in love with Tracy, thereby nearly lousing up the nuptials? As it turns out, of course, it is C.K. himself who pulls the "louse-up," reclaiming Tracy as his bride. A consistently bright, bubbly, witty delight, The Philadelphia Story could just as well have been titled "The Revenge of Katharine Hepburn."

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
Mature Themes (4AD,2012)

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Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti are to release their new album, Mature Themes, on August 20th / 21st (US), the band's second for 4AD and the official follow-up to 2010's breakthrough Before Today.

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Daisy Kenyon (1947) , Otto Preminger

Daisy Kenyon stars Joan Crawford as the eponymous heroine, a Manhattan commercial artist. Daisy is torn between two men: a handsome, married attorney (Dana Andrews) and an unmarried Henry Fonda. Deciding to do the "right thing", Daisy marries Fonda, but carries a torch for the dashing Andrews. When the lawyer divorces his wife, he calls upon Daisy and tries to win her back. She is very nearly won over, but her husband isn't about to give up so easily. Both men argue over Daisy, who is so distraught by the experience that she nearly has a fatal automobile accident. In the end, Daisy realizes that she truly loves Fonda, and gives Andrews his walking papers. Daisy Kenyon is given a contemporary slant with a subplot about child abuse (in a Joan Crawford film!); and, in one scene set at New York's Stork Club, several celebrities (Walter Winchell, Leonard Lyons, John Garfield) make unbilled cameo appearances.

The Antlers – Undersea [EP] (2012)

Russell Swallow and the Wolf – Sunrise Mountain (2012)

The Three Faces of Eve (1957) , Nunnally Johnson

When Alistair Cooke shows up to introduce Three Faces of Eve, we know that the fact-based story will bear more than a little fidelity to truth. Joanne Woodward won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Eve, a young Georgia housewife suffering from multiple personalities. Eve's husband (David Wayne), confused by his wife's aberrant behavior when assuming her two "other selves," seeks out help from a psychiatrist (Lee J. Cobb). Carefully probing Eve's subconscious via hypnosis, the doctor finds out that, though each of Eve's personalities is aware of the other's existence, none are related. After months of therapy, Eve is purged of her negative selves and is totally cured. Ironically, Joanne Woodward would herself play a psychologist confronted with a multiple-personality case in the Emmy-winning 1976 TV movie Sybil.

Joe McKee – Burning Boy (2012)

“Am I losing time with reality? Or am I waking up from some lucid dream?”

The Darling Ranges lie about 35 km's south of Perth. The drive is mostly highway, fairly droll until you start actually ascending the hills themselves, at which point great dips and troughs reveal themselves and the whole region takes on a strange arid quality. The area was on fire for about 4 days in early 2011. Joe Mckee grew up in these hills and, after 4 years under the spell of London, he returned to them. Burning Boy is his debut album.

Alū – Madhouse Masquerade (2012)

Alu has been called many things!An Indie Phenomenon, The Princess of Darkness, Echoes Radio Sweetheart, Martian Music Maker, Chanteuse Noir!

But Alu is a woman who simply cannot ignore the music in her head. Madhouse Masquerade CD music She was put on this Planet to share those special sounds.
Critically acclaimed Los Angeles based composer Alu returns with her third album “Madhouse Masquerade. ” This latest collection blends the darkness and apocalyptic despair of her debut album “Infomercial Gasmask” with the ethereal and whimsical charm of her sophomore release “Lobotomy Sessions. ” The end result takes the listener on a surreal and psychological journey to Pangaea and back.

Paris vu Par... (1965) , Jean Douchet Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Daniel Pollet Eric Rohmer Jean Rouch Claude Chabrol

A sextet of French filmmakers collaborated on Six in Paris (originally Paris vu Par...) Jean Douchet directed the film's first episode, "Saint Germain-des-Pres," the story of the up-and-down relationship between a male model (Jean-Francois Chappey) and an American coed (Barbara Wilkin). Jean Rouch's "Gare du Nord" is a haunting twist-of-fate tale involving a suicidal handsome stranger (Gilles Queant). Written and directed by Jean-Daniel Pollet, "Rue Saint-Denis" unites an experienced prostitute (Micheline Dax) with a garrulous customer (Claude Melki). "Place de l'Etoile," a Chekhovian guilt trip involving salesman Jean-Michael Rouziere and shabby, supposedly dead street person Marcel Gallon, was Eric Rohmer's contribution. Jean-Luc Godard's "Montparnasse-Levallois," photography by American documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles, finds Joanne Shimkus in an imaginary menage a trois. Six in Paris is topped off by Claude Chabrol's "La Muette," wherein a family man (played by Chabrol himself) comes to grief when he purchases a pair of earplugs.

Alabama Shakes-Live In Boston

Jeremy Fisher – Mint Juleps (2012)

Anna Ash – These Holy Days (2012)

Grand Hotel (1932), Edmund Goulding

Based on Vicki Baum's novel and produced by Irving Thalberg, this film is about the lavish Grand Hotel in Berlin, a place where "nothing ever happens." That statement proves to be false, however, as the story follows an intertwining cast of characters over the course of one tumultuous day. Greta Garbo is Grusinskaya, a ballerina whose jewels are coveted by Baron von Geigern (John Barrymore), a thief who fancies Flaemmchen (Joan Crawford), a stenographer and the mistress of Preysing (Wallace Beery), businessman boss of Kringelein (Lionel Barrymore), a terminally ill bookkeeper who is under the care of alcoholic physician Dr. Otternschlag (Lewis Stone). Grand Hotel won Best Picture at the 1932 Academy Awards.

Stan Ridgway – Mr. Trouble (2012)

Charlotte Gainsbourg feat Connan Mockasin – Anna

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The Seven Year Itch (1955), Billy Wilder

Like thousands of other Manhattanites, Tom Ewell annually packs his wife (Evelyn Keyes) and children off to summer vacation, staying behind to work at the office. This particular summer, the lonely Ewell begins fantasizing about the many women he'd foresworn upon getting married (in one of the fantasies, Ewell and Marguerite Chapman parody the beach rendezvous in From Here to Eternity). He is jolted back to reality when he meets his new neighbor--luscious model Marilyn Monroe. Inviting Monroe to dinner, Ewell intends to sweep her off her feet and into the boudoir. Things don't quite work out that way, thanks to Ewell's clumsiness (and essential decency) and Monroe's naivete. Still, Ewell becomes convinced that his impure thoughts will somehow be transmitted to his vacationing wife and to the rest of the world, leaving him wide open for scandal and ruination. In the original play, the husband and the next-door neighbor did have an affair, but both play and film arrived at the same happy ending, with Ewell and his missus contentedly reunited at summer's end. Featured in the cast of The Seven Year Itch are Robert Strauss as a lascivious handyman, Sonny Tufts as Evelyn Keye's former beau, Donald MacBride as Ewell's glad-handing boss, and veteran Broadway funny man Victor Moore in a cameo as a nervous plumber.

Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), Max Ophüls

Perhaps the finest American film from the famed European director Max Ophüls, the film stars Joan Fontaine as a young woman who falls in love with a concert pianist. Set in Vienna in 1900, the story is told in a complex flashback structure as the pianist, Stefan Brand (Louis Jourdan), comes upon a letter written to him by Lisa Berndl (Fontaine), a girl who has been in love with him for years. Stefan is in the process of fleeing Vienna on the eve of fighting a duel. As he prepares himself for the nocturnal journey, the letter arrives. It begins, "By the time you read this letter, I may be dead." As Stefan sits back in his study to read this letter, it turns out to be a confession of unrequited love from Lisa. The story flashes backs to when Lisa was 14 years old and Stefan was her neighbor. After following Stefan with a girlish obsession, the romance gets much more serious, and they have a brief encounter. Stefan promises to come back to her after a concert tour, but he never does. Meanwhile, Lisa marries another man when she discovers that she is pregnant with Stefan's child. When she runs into Stefan years later, he doesn't remember her and tries to seduce her. After Stefan reads the letter, he wants to rush to her side, but now poor Lisa is dying from typhus.

Possessed on AllMovie Possessed (1947) ,Curtis Bernhardt

We first meet Joan Crawford, star of the moody flashbackfest Possessed, wandering aimlessly through the city streets, moaning "David....David." She goes to pieces in public and is rushed to the mental ward, where a team of psychiatrists try to find out who she is and where she's been. Who she is is a practical nurse, hired by Raymond Massey to care for Massey's invalid wife. While going about her duties, Crawford renews her acquaintance with an old flame, architect Van Heflin. Though Heflin is indifferent, Crawford is still crazy for the man. She remains so even after marrying her employer Massey, whose wife has committed suicide. Any further details would give away the ending, but we can note that Van Heflin's character name is David. Best scene: Crawford, descending into schizophrenia, imagining that she's killed Massey's vitriolic daughter Geraldine Brooks. While the psycho-babble delivered in the asylum scenes is laughable, Possessed still holds up well as one of the best of Joan Crawford's Warner Bros. soap operas. This black-and-white film is also available in a colorized version, but don't blame us.

Sigur Rós - Fjögur píanó

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Edmund II – Floating Monk (2012)

Brooklyn-based Edmund II – aka Edmund Pellino — has created an atmospheric solo debut that falls somewhere between the lush, shimmering guitar chord washes of shoe-gaze and the more Floyd-ian elements of the grand-art progressives.

Jack Colwell & The Owls – Picture Window (2012)

...Captain Of The Melody...
...You're The One Full Of Regret, I'm The One Who Can't Forget Anything...

Jack Colwell, who performs live with his band, The Owls, has made an impressive debut with the emotionally-charged Picture Window, using his classical training to create songs withmemorable hooks and sophisticated arrangements.
Colwell delves into the nuances of a broken heart; bitterness, madness, hopefulness and patience – all musically brought to life with driving piano chords coupled with medieval flute and recorder embellishments, a style at times comparable to Texan band Midlake. His bitterness is expressed as he spits out “You’re the one full of regret, I’m the one who can’t forget everything” in Spitfire, an anthemic and evocative declaration dramaticised further by the sizzling strings and Colwell’s theatrical vocals. The Labyrinthmetaphorically unveils his feelings of incarceration and confusion – “I am the padlock, you are the key… set my body free” – with the soaring violin carving its way deeper into his desperate plea.

Dr. John - Revolution

The Silence (Baran bo Odar, 2010)

Baran bo Odar won two awards in the category of Best New Director for his student feature film Under the Sun (Unter der Sonne), which he worked on with Nik Summerer. The Silence (Das letzte Schweigen) is born out of the duo’s powerful cinematic language and refined craft of using nuanced visual images to reach inside the characters’ psyche. The film handles heavy subject-matter with sensitivity and a quality of empathetic acting that pulls the audience along with the characters at the crescendo of the picture.

Dead Can Dance – Anastasis (2012)

...ALBUM OF THE MONTH...

Tous les Garcons S'Appellent Patrick (1957) ,Jean-Luc Godard

Charlotte et Véronique, also known as Tous les garcons s'appellent Patrick, was one of five shorts Jean-Luc Godard made in collaboration with his Cahiers du Cinema cohorts in the late '50s and early '60s, prior to embarking on feature films. The script was written by Eric Rohmer and is a slight, but charming, story about two girlfriends (Nicole Berger and Anna Collette) who are seduced by lothario Patrick (Jean-Claude Brialy) over sidewalk café Cokes and on Tuileries park benches. When both Charlotte and Véronique arrive for the date, Patrick brings another woman. The story is told in a fairly straightforward style. Godard's early love of youthful frivolity, pop culture, and referential film geekery are in abundant evidence (the girls' apartment walls are decorated with film posters, they mimic their idols) and there are some tentative steps taken with visual and audio jump cuts. The short is available as a special feature on Criterion's release of A Woman is a Woman (Une femme est une femme), a Godard feature where Brialy plays one of the two male leads.

Gallon Drunk– The Road Gets Darker from Here (2012)

...Junkyard In My Yard...
Even with Gallon Drunk’s fledgling flush of notoriety and hipness in the early-’90s – that included high profile touring with Morrissey and PJ Harvey alongside a Mercury Music Prize nomination – James Johnston and co. have always been outsiders looking in on artistically likeminded but commercially shrewder others. During the nineties-into-noughties this meant the likes of Morphine, Rocket From The Crypt and The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion being more successful on the back of similar sources of inspiration – and indeed the same dress sense – as Gallon Drunk. More recently, the band’s muse has been echoed again, with the likes of Moon Duo, Wooden Shjips, Grinderman and The Jim Jones Revue indirectly funnelling some of Gallon Drunk’s undying love for The Stooges, Suicide, Link Wray, Ennio Morricone and garage-rock primitivism.

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