James Vincent McMorrow – Post Tropical (2014)

Nils Frahm – Spaces (2013)

... Album of the month za Diskurs Xernia month ...

Nils Frahm straddles a few musical worlds. The Berlin artist has released star-gazing synth epics ("For"), intimate solo piano pieces (Screws) and plenty in between, and he does it all pretty well. His live show lays bare the sheer scope of his work: he's usually got at least three pianos, plus an array of synths and other gadgets. These performances often show the true breadth of his talent in a way his individual records can't. Spaces is here to fix that problem. It's a welcome compilation of live recordings from the past two years, collecting snapshots of him in different moods at different concerts. Over almost 80 minutes, we hear everything from climactic synth crescendoes to plaintive, whisper-quiet ballads. Spaces, in other words, is the wide-ranging sampler Frahm has needed all along.

Blackfish (Gabriela Cowperthwaite, 2013)

Killer whales at SeaWorld are looked at and the truth about their conditions and abuse are shown in the new documentary, BLACKFISH. Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite went inside SeaWorld to show how Orcas turn on their handlers and how the animals suffer from being shipped around the world and treated abusively.Shocking, never before seen footage and riveting interviews with trainers and experts manifest the orca's extraordinary nature, the species' cruel treatment in captivity over the last four decades and the growing disillusionment of workers who were misled and endangered by the highly profitable sea-park industry. This emotionally wrenching, tautly structured story challenges us to consider our relationship to nature and reveals how little we humans truly know about these highly intelligent, and surprisingly sentient, fellow mammals that we only think we can control.

Choice of Arms (Alain Corneau, 1981)

This French production concerns a gangster (Yves Montand) who retires to the countryside after living a full life of traditional crime. After settling into his new residence with his wife (Catherine Deneuve), his home is invaded by an unruly punk (Gerard Depardieu) who has some new-fangled ideas about the way crime should work.

Kristofer Åström – An Introduction To (2013)

Kristofer Åström has been around, both metaphorically and literally. His hardcore punk band Fireside was the first Swedish band to ever play the Lollapalooza Festival. In 1998, he was given a guitar, trust and studio time and has since released eight albums and several EPs under his own name. Spanning folk, country, pop and rock, these records explore both human relationships and, quoting his third album’s title, the condition of “northern blues”. Sometimes with Hidden Truck or The Rainaways next to his name, sometimes singing duets with musicians such as Britta Persson and Maria Taylor. Sometimes releasing two records within one year and sometimes disappearing for three years.

Blancanieves ( Pablo Berger, 2012)

It's too soon to declare a trend, but a silent film once again seems likely to become a success in the contemporary film world: "Blancanieves," a striking, visually stunning Spanish feature, written and directed by Pablo Berger.
Although the story draws on the Brothers Grimm and the legend of Snow White, it is anything but a children's movie. It is a full-bodied silent film of the sort that might have been made by the greatest directors of the 1920s, if such details as the kinky sadomasochism of this film's evil stepmother could have been slipped past the censors.

Evil (Mikael Håfström, 2003)

Evil is adapted from a best selling novel and directed by Mikael Håfström (Derailed and 1408). This 2003 Swedish language film follows a teenager, Erik, played by Andreas Wilson. The film opens with a very violent scene of Erik beating a fellow student to a bloody pulp. The camera focuses tight on his face, this is clearly the face of evil. Erik is subsequently expelled from school and his mother despairs at the path her son is on and so sells some of her possessions in order to send Erik to the prestigious Stjärsnberg Academy. There, she hopes, he will get a chance to continue his schooling.

Xiu Xiu - Nina (2013)

Tess Parks – Blood Hot (2013)

Inch'Allah (2012) , Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

Quebec-born doctor Chloé (Evelyne Brochu) finds herself thrust into the middle of a conflict that's raged for centuries while living on the Israeli side of the West Bank divide and also working at a women's health clinic on the Palestinian side. Over time, Chloé strikes up a close friendship with her Israeli neighbor Ava (Sivan Levy) -- a young woman who's working as a checkpoint guard as part of her mandatory military service. Meanwhile, at work, Chloé finds her sympathies shifting to Rand (Sabrina Ouazani), an expectant mother who's trapped in a life of destitution, and whose older brother Faysal (Yousef Sweid) won't rest until the Palestinian people have been liberated.

Venus in Fur

Dir : Roman Polanski

Die Wand

Dir : Julian Roman Pölsler (2013)
based on the novel "Die Wand" by Marlen Haushofer

Le Grand Cahier

Dir : Janos Szasz (2013)
based on the novel by Agota Kristof

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Tango libre (2012), Frédéric Fonteyne

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Liv & Ingmar (Dheeraj Akolkar, 2012)

One of world cinema’s greatest creative and romantic pairings—that of director Ingmar Bergman and actor-turned-director Liv Ullmann—comes vividly to life in Dheeraj Akolkar’s vibrant documentary, aided immeasurably by the radiant Ullmann’s on-screen narration.
Bearing the subtitle "Painfully Connected," Akolkar’s examination of the 42-year-long relationship is told from Ullmann’s point of view and captures the many highs and lows of their tumultuous time together. Through a collage of sound and image from the timeless Bergman-Ullmann films—they made 12 together, including such towering classics as Persona and Scenes from a Marriage—as well as behind-the-scenes footage, still photographs, passages from Ullmann’s book Changing and excerpts from Bergman’’s love letters to his lead actress, a candid and humane picture emerges of what can truly be called a love story.

The Luminans- Costa Blanca (2013)

on repeat...

The Debauchees – Big Machines and Peculiar Beings (2013)

As word begins spreading about the “funky spunk rock” trio that is the Debauchees, let’s clarify a few points of interest. 1) They are all 19-20, and two of them had little-to-no experience on their instruments until fairly recently. True. But you’d never know it from hearing the fantastically creative ways they manipulate their strings and drums into an accessible yet artsy take on underground rock that barely even sounds like something as boring as “rock music”. Drummer Cameron Lowe and bassist Ashley Bowen’s approach to rhythm is classically post-punk in every way, yet adds so many more textures, tempos and accidents to their songs; guitarist/vocalist Sydney Chadwick’s jagged riffs clear a path for them while bouncing off walls like a parkour champ.

Forest Fire – Screens (2013)

The Brooklyn indie rockers Forest Fire have been sidling closer to the cosmos with each album, and Screens is their most prolonged and soulful glance into the starry sky yet. The synths billow upward, fat and soft-edged, and beneath them, lead singer Mark Thresher whispers hushed, folky inquisitions into the natural world and his place in it. Screens is an expansive, patient, gentle record, the kind where hooks sharpen slowly out of drifting songs only by accumulation. “Cold Kind” returns repeatedly to a sighed, descending four-note melody, and it’s only by the end of the song’s dilated run-time that it occurs to you: That was the hook.

A Bad Son (Claude Sautet, 1980)

This is a quiet drama about the struggles of a former drug addict and dealer, Bruno Calgagni (Patrick Dewaere), as he is released from prison in the U.S. and arrives back home in France. His unhappy father blames this disgraceful prison stint for the death of Bruno's mother. No one wants to hire an ex-con, and a romantic liaison with another, very delicately balanced former addict only adds to the burden Bruno is carrying. Mauvais Fils skillfully limns Bruno's daily fight to keep his head above water.

Thesis on a Homicide (Hernán Goldfrid, 2013)

Roberto Bermudez, a specialist in criminal law, is convinced that one of his students committed a brutal murder. It leads him to start an investigation that becomes his obsession.

Lisa O’Neill – Same Cloth or Not (2013)

Beyond the Road (2010), Charly Braun

Jordan Klassen – Repentance (2013)

In the Realms of the Unreal (2003) , Jessica Yu

Award-winning short filmmaker Jessica Yu makes her feature-length debut with In the Realms of the Unreal, a documentary about outsider artist Henry Darger. Born in 1892, Darger lived in Chicago and worked as a janitor for most of his life. When he died in 1972, his landlord found his life's work: The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion (often simply referred to as The Realms). A massive, multiple-volume fantasy novel, The Realms also contains nearly 300 illustrations of collages, drawings, and paintings. Rather than interview art scholars and psychologists, Yu chooses to look at Darger's work from the viewpoints of those who knew him. Yu also incorporates animation segments into the documentary, using Darger's original images. In the Realms of the Unreal was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004 as part of the documentary competition.

Feral & Stray – Between You And The Sea (2013)

Produced by Mark Lawson (Arcade Fire, Beirut, Timber Timbre). Features Taylor Kirk and Simon Trottier (Timber Timbre) & Emi Honda and Kristina Koropecki (Elfin Saddle). Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s Dave Bryant mixed the album’s instrumental tracks.
“The warmth in the gentle voice of Lang, the yearning guitar play, tender string moments and the bittersweet melancholic melodies they provide. You could call it dream pop, but maybe that would be to simple.”

Arcade Fire live at Bridge School Benefit Concert 2013

Arcade Fire live at Bridge School Benefit Concert (26 Oct 2013)
Setlist:
1. The Suburbs
2. Reflektor
3. Awful Sound (Oh Eurydice)
4. Normal Person
5. I Dreamed A Neil Young Song (new song debut) (feat. Neil Young)
6. Wake Up

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Mick Turner – Don’t Tell The Driver (2013)

Haight-Ashbury – Perhaps (2013)

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Grant Hart - Sin

Anika- No one's there...

Anika

Jeremy Jay – Abandoned Apartments (2013)

Angel Olsen - "Forgiven/Forgotten"

Angel Olsen "Forgiven/Forgotten" from the forthcoming release Burn Your Fire For No Witness, out Feb. 18 2014, on CD/ LP/ Digital on Jagjaguwar.

The Sadies – Internal Sounds (2013)

Oh Boy (2012) , Jan Ole Gerster

This tragicomedy is a self-ironic portrait of a young man who drops out of university and ends up wandering the streets of the city he lives: Berlin. The film deals with the desire to participate in life and the difficulty to find one's place.

Foxing – The Albatross (2013)

La Ciénaga (2001) , Lucrecia Martel

Two families try to make the best of a bad situation as they suffer through a crippling heat wave in this neo-realistic drama, featuring a primarily non-professional cast. Tali (Mercedes Moran) is minding four small children with little help from her husband, who is preoccupied with the opening of hunting season, as a record hot spell grips Argentina. Things aren't much better for her cousin Mecha (Graciela Borges), who is looking after four teenagers and a husband (Martin Adjemian) who can hardly be bothered to help out, but Mecha does have a pool, even if it hasn't been cleaned in quite a while. Tali and her brood end up spending much of the summer with Mecha as the town is riveted by the appearance of the Virgin Carmen on the city's water tower, and a series of thunderstorms add an awful humidity to the summer's unbearable heat. While seemingly improvised, La Cienaga was actually carefully scripted by Lucrecia Martel, who won a screenwriting award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival prior to making her directorial debut with this feature.

Moonface 'Love The House You're In' (Paper Bag Session)

Andrew Bird – I Want To See Pulaski At Night (2013) EP

Our Children (2012) , Joachim Lafosse

Passionate young couple Murielle (Emilie Dequenne) and Mounir (Tahar Rahim) find their marriage threatened when they become overly dependent on Mounir's overbearing mentor Doctor Pinget (Niels Arestrup), a development that soon sets the stage for a tragedy that could destroy the lives of all involved.

Cate Le Bon – Mug Museum (2013)

Stories We Tell (2012), Sarah Polley

Sarah Polley's documentary Stories We Tell finds the director/actress exploring a family secret. She had discovered a few years earlier that her biological father was not actually the person she knew as her father; in an effort to fully understand this long-held family secret, Polley interviews every member of her family, and had the man she thought of as her dad write his version of events and record it, using him reading his story as a recurring voiceover throughout the film. Stories We Tell screened at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.

Crystal Antlers – Nothing Is Real (2013)

The evidence that California trio Crystal Antlers has dialed down their frenetic psych-rock blitzkrieg comes quickly on their third album, Nothing Is Real. First, the skittering organ runs that punctuated 2009’s Tentacles and 2011’s Two-Way Mirror are nowhere to be found, allowing guitarist Andrew King’s textural riffs and live-wire solos to take center stage. Second, singer-bassist Johnny Bell transforms his feral, unintelligible howl into a surprisingly malleable, even pleasant croon on “Rattlesnake” and “Wrong Side.” Sure, Crystal Antlers still executes scuzzy, ’60s-influenced garage punk brilliantly on “Licorice Pizza,” “Persephone” and “Anywhere but Here.

Kurt Vile & Sore Eros – Jamaica Plain (2013) EP

Kurt Vile and Robert Robinson were introduced to each other back in 2001 by a mutual friend because they were born on the same day (January 3,1980), and by the following year they had begun recording these recently unearthed and previously unreleased tracks.  As one of the most celebrated American songwriters of today, now on his fifth studio album recently released to widespread international acclaim, Kurt Vile really needs no introduction (well he does have his own day in Philadelphia). Collaborator and long-time friend Robert Robinson is a past member of The Violators, has toured in Ariel Pink's band, but is best known for his own outfit, Sore Eros. 

Bungalow (2002) ,Ulrich Köhler

German director Ulrich Köhler made his feature debut with Bungalow. Pro skateboarder Lennie Burmeister stars in his first film role as Paul, a disaffected teen who lets his ennui carry him out of the army. He goes AWOL out of boredom, it seems, and goes to his family's bungalow in the country. There, he runs into an old girlfriend, Kersten (Nicole Glaser), who eventually grows tired of his fecklessness. That's okay with Paul, because his brother, Max (David Striesow), soon arrives with his sexy Danish girlfriend, Lene (Tryne Dyrholm), an actress gunning for a role as an android in a German science fiction film. Between dalliances with Kersten and attempts to avoid the military police who are looking for him, Paul, who has a fairly hostile relationship with Max, decides that he's fallen in love with Lene. He exerts what, for him, seems a great effort to get a few moments alone with her, and tries to persuade her to run off with him.

A Teacher (2013), Hannah Fidell

Flickering Lights (2000) , Anders Thomas Jensen

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Luksuz!!! Luksuz!!! Luksuz!!!!

Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Ingmar Bergman

Gledati bar jednom godisnje...Ovog puta poptuno novi i drugaciji utisak!

Cass McCombs – Big Wheel And Others (2013)

Grizzly Bear – Shields: B-Sides EP (2013)

Savages - Waiting For A Sign - Glasgow 2013

Breathe Owl Breathe – Passage of Pegasus (2013)

Perhaps the last time you heard from Breathe Owl Breathe, you were bemoaning the misfortune they suffered in California this summer when their van full of instruments was stolen. Now, I don’t want something like that to happen to the worst of my enemies, but, like, Breathe Owl Breathe are the last group of people I wanted something like that to happen to. The saccharine, whimsical folk trio from East Jordan, MI makes music that fans find precious; songs that feel like homemade keepsakes from someone special: singular, a little rough around the edges, maybe kitschy but all the better because of it. When I heard about Breathe Owl Breathe’s stolen vehicle, it felt like something awful happened to a friend.

Bill Callahan "Small Plane"

Ty Segall "The Man Man"

The Great Beauty (2013) , Paolo Sorrentino

Josephine Foster – I’m A Dreamer (2013)

Le Doulos (1963), Jean-Pierre Melville

Confusion and wrong assumptions are the cause of tragedy in this stylish gangster noir by director Jean-Pierre Melville. Maurice (Serge Reggiani) and Silien (Jean-Paul Belmondo) are friends going way back, and both have had a shady past. Silien wants to leave his illegal activities behind him -- but would he actually be in league with the police, as an informer? That is what Maurice suspects after he kills a fence who is responsible for the murder of one of his friends and then takes some jewels as an extra bonus. Doubts assail Maurice as well as others until it is finally decided that something has to be done about Silien.