Preko žice do slobode

Korejanski vajar Seung Mo Park koristi žičanu mrežu kako bi stvorio svoje portrete. 

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Sigur Rós – Ekki Múkk / Kvistur 2012

Sigur Ros have never been the chart-friendly sort, and their latest release ‘Ekki Mukk’ is about as far from mainstream as they get. Seeminly influenced by lead singer Jonsi’s side-project Riceboy Sleeps, this epic track is awash with looped samples, distant choirs and radio static. Stirring stuff from Iceland’s finest band.

It' Winter, Rafi Pitts(2006)

Iranian director Rafi Pitts's searing psycho-social drama It's Winter opens in wintertime Tehran, when the middle-aged Persian husband and father Mokhtar (Hashem Abdi) is suddenly laid off. Despondent, Mokhtar temporarily abandons his wife Khatoun (Mitra Hadjar), his mother-in-law, and his young daughter, and leaves the country in search of employment. Months then pass, with his family receiving no news or communication from him. During his absence, a much younger and less experienced Iranian, Marhab (Ali Nicksolat), turns up in Tehran, in search of employment as an auto mechanic. He meets Khatoun and - sensing that Mokhtar may be dead and will probably never return - courts the woman and ultimately marries her. Circumstances go completely awry, however, when Marhab acts irresponsibly by getting into an ugly dispute with his employer and is promptly fired. In a fit of rage, he decides to vandalize an automobile plant that refused to hire him. Finally, in desperation, Marhab prepares to abscond from the town (sans Khatoun) when Mokhtar unexpectedly turns up once again - and permanently changes Marhab's course.

The Raveonettes – Into the Night [EP] (2012)

Real Estate @ Live At Coachella 2012

Eva Braun-Zmajevi

Sands Hollow – Half the Night is Candlelight (2012)

Winston Chapman wrote 100 songs. Zach Biggs whittled away at them. Between shifts of guarding an oil field and teaching special ed., the two of them pared down the pile, squeezing cheap keyboard strings, campfire acoustic strumming and optimistic warnings into the fake-nostalgia, cassette-recorded jams of their debut full-length album, "Half the Night is Candlelight", out in early 2012 on Monofonus Press on vinyl. From the label - "Sands Hollow smoothly jump to the long format and still leave us wanting more with Half the Night is Candlelight. Keeping the sun in even their darker corners, they’ve made an excellent debut that plays out not as a “psych” album, but as a folk record that accidentally got weird."

The War On Drugs +1

The Walkmen +1

The Walkmen discuss recording their latest album and play its title track, "Heaven", at Union Transfer in Philadelphia.

Horror Electro Pop

At the Drive-In - One Armed Scissor (Coachella 2012)

Gareth Dickson – Quite a Way Away (2012)

...Five Leaves Left...Bryter Layter...Pink Moon...
Sentences needn’t be long winded. Keep the language concise. True meaning can be conveyed without the need for convoluted word play. Cut to the heart of the matter. Be direct. Don’t divulge from what is intended.Forget about words for now. The intricacies of vocal expression will be put on hold. In the context of this passage let’s consider something richer: sound. This isn’t just another cog, although it does evoke something circular, round, spiralling and full of motion. The noise it emanates is generated from a guitar, an instrument whose strings are cherished and tenderly plucked by its player. Its music glides around an open space, creating kaleidoscopic patterns to those that absorb its reverberations.
Now let’s merge these two elements. The sweeping, gliding and hypnotic guitar picks are met by short bursts of dialect. As they bind, images are sketched and feelings evoked. Imagine the words to be like a howling wind, and the instrumentation to be the science behind its foundation. It is from this that tangible products are produced: songs.

The Black Angels - She's Not There

Everything Is Illuminated (2005), Liev Schreiber

A young man takes a strange and unexpectedly funny journey in search of a family heroine he's never known in this screen adaptation of the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. Jonathan (Elijah Wood) is a lifelong collector of any and all objects pertaining to his family, and he has become obsessed with a woman he's never met. The woman saved the life of his grandfather during World War II, when the Ukrainian town where he was born was destroyed by Nazi troops. Wanting to know more about the woman, Jonathan flies to the Ukraine, where with the help of a hip-hop obsessed, gold-toothed tour guide and translator named Alex (Eugene Hütz), Alex's grandfather (a chauffeur who has claimed to be blind since his wife's death, played by Boris Leskin), and a dog named Sammy Davis Junior Junior, Jonathan searches for the meaning of the present that lies buried in the past, unexpectedly shedding the same such light on the lives of those around him. Everything Is Illuminated was the first directorial assignment for acclaimed actor Liev Schreiber.

Le Voyage en Douce (1980), Michel Deville

Released outside of France as Travels on the Sky, Voyage en Douce stars Dominique Sanda and Geraldine Chaplin as sisters. Both ladies are married, though Chaplin has just left her husband. Insecure about this move, Chaplin joins the self-reliant Sanda for a weekend vacation in the south of France, where the two siblings carry on a long discussion about male-female relationships. By the time Monday rolls around, the previously indecisive Chaplin emerges as the more resilient of the two sisters. Voyage en Douce director Michel Deville prevailed upon 15 famous French writers to contribute anecdotes concerning their sexual experiences; the most powerful (and best staged) was the story of a rape--a story contributed anonymously.

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Chicken with Plums (2011) , Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud

Nasser-Ali, a talented musician, loses the will to live after his wife breaks his beloved violin during an argument. He searches for a replacement, and finding none that sounds quite the same, he vows to die. Eight days later, he does. This is the story of his last week of life, where we see flashbacks and flash forwards of his previous life and his children's futures. We also see appearances of a nude Sophia Loren as well as the angel of death, Azarel. As we see his life, we realize exactly why he chose to end it and the profundity of this choice.

King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine Jubilee Edition (2012)

Diamond Mine, the critically acclaimed debut collaborative album from King Creosote & Jon Hopkins, is getting the deluxe version treatment on 16^th April 2012. The original, Mercury-nominated album is augmented with extra material including all three tracks from the Honest Words EP, B-sideMissionary and two brand new songs, Third Swan andStarboard Home.

Paul Thomas Saunders – Descartes Highlands (2012)

For those of you out there who have a tendency to get a bit stressed out on the odd occasion and may need calming in some small way, then Paul Thomas Saunders is your man!  His new EP Descartes Highlands draws you in with its captivating beauty and soothing nature.  The first and second track The Trail Remains Unseen and A Lunar Veteran’s Guide to Re – entry, despite their similarities, exude class and maturity whilst having a certain simplicity and innocence.  They show true talent and delicacy and are tracks which you will never get bored of hearing.

Weekend (1967), Jean-Luc Godard

French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's Le Weekend remains his most consistently relentless attack on the bourgeois values of his own country and the perceived imperialism of the United States. Mireille Darc plays the central character, an "average" woman who is systematically radicalized during a weekend motor trip. No sooner have the woman and her husband (Jean Yanne) embarked on their journey than they become enmeshed in the mother of all traffic jams. The motorists rave, rant, burn, rape, murder, pillage and even descend into cannibalism -- all of which is treated by Godard as a natural progression of events. The prevalent theory that Jean-Luc Godard had intended Weekend as the apotheosis of his career is bolstered by the film's last two titles: "End of Film." "End of Cinema."

Birdeatsbaby - 'What The Water Gave Me'

Various Artists – The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project: The Journey Is Long (2012)

The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project is following 2009’s acclaimed We Are Only Riders collection with a second volume of the late Gun Club leader’s previously-unreleased works-in-progress, brought to life by old friends, collaborators and acolytes.
Many songs started as nascent ideas captured on a cassette unearthed by Pierce’s latter day collaborator Cypress Grove while clearing out his loft. Harking back to the collective ethos of Pierce’s beloved jazz, artists spill into each other’s tracks, reinterpreting or finishing lyrical and melodic sketches while some chose personal favorites from his catalogue.
This time, the Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project includes Nick Cave (who also takes part in a return duet with Debbie Harry on ‘The Breaking Hands’), Mick Harvey, Debbie Harry & Chris Stein, Lydia Lunch, The Jim Jones Revue, Kid Congo Powers, Tav Falco’s Panther Burns, Mark Lanegan and Isobel Campbell, Youth’s Vertical Smile, Steve Wynn (Dream Syndicate), Warren Ellis, Barry Adamson, Bertrand Cantat & Pascal Humbert, Thalia Zedek & Chris Brokaw, Hugo Race, Dom Beken and Kris & Michelle Needs, sometimes in different combinations.

Long Day's Journey Into Night (Sidney Lumet,1962)

Odavno nisam gledao ovako dobar film.

Playwright Eugene O'Neill sold Random House the text of his intensely autobiographical 1941 play on the proviso that the play not be produced during O'Neill's lifetime. Two years after the playwright's death in 1953, the play was given its first Broadway staging and won a Pulitzer Prize. Set in 1912 New England, the story takes place in the summer home of aging actor James Tyrone (Ralph Richardson) and his family. Tyrone, patterned after Eugene O'Neill's father James O'Neill, has long abandoned any aspirations to be a truly great actor, choosing instead to tour in the same weary stage vehicle year after year. Thanks to an earlier act of stinginess on Tyrone's part, his wife Mary has turned into a rambling morphine addict, with little or no contact with reality. Oldest son Jamie is a troublemaking alcoholic, envious of the writing talent of sickly younger brother Edmund (the Eugene O'Neill counterpart). 

Radiohead - Coachella 2012

Flying Horseman – Twist(2012)

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Flying Horseman is the band of singer-songwriter Bert Dockx. This selection of Antwerp’s top musicians creates bloodcurdlingly beautiful albums and live shows. Think in terms of menacing post-folk and dark blues, with the emotional depth and soul-lacerating atmosphere that characterises Flying Horseman. Music is rarely given such a keen edge.
Flying Horseman will release their second studio album “Twist” on Unday Records (whose artists also include Yuko). For this album the band worked with producer Koen Gisen (who has also worked with bands such as Bony King of Nowhere).
Twist has become a dark romantic album, sultry and ghost-ridden, the ultimate soundtrack of the night.

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Nouvelle Vague (1990), Jean-Luc Godard

Nouvelle Vague marks the beginning of a period in Jean-Luc Godard's career in which he made films that looked back on his previous work. In these retrospective films, Godard asked himself whether it is possible to continue as a film director under the conditions imposed by international commercial cinema. Appropriately enough, Nouvelle Vague concerns the return of a man (Roger Lennox / Richard Lennox, played by Alain Delon, superstar of 60s and 70s international cinema) who may or may not have returned from the dead. The film's narrative is extremely disjointed and might be better understood as an essay on the idea of returning. The theme of a return from the dead gives Godard the opportunity to come back to the religious imagery and theological considerations that interested him from 1983's Hail Mary. The film's dialogue is a patchwork of unattributed quotations from works of literature, philosophy, and economics, a technique that Godard adopted in most of his films after this one. Even if the film's "story" is not easy to understand, the beauty of its images and sounds, along with the sublime rhythms of the editing, may be enough to ravish some audiences.

Rufus Wainwright - Out Of The Game

Emily Wells – Mama (2012)

There really isn’t another musician out there like Emily Wells. She fearlessly combines her classical training with a flurry of genres to create something truly unique and ever changing.
Wells’ new album, Mama, is set to come out on April 10th.
This is a more restrained and demur album than we’re used to getting from Wells. She seems to have set some parameters for her experiments and she stays well within them.

Here We Go Magic – A Different Ship (2012)

As previously reported, Here We Go Magic has teamed with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich for their third LP. According to Pitchfork, the end result, entitled A Different Ship, will arrive on May 8th via Secretly Canadian. Below, you can download one of the album’s 10 tracks, ”Make Up Your Mind”.
The band began recording with Godrich in 2011, first in L.A. and later in London. Discussing the new album with Stereogum, Temple called it “much more organic” than the band’s 2010 album, Pigeons.

Ane Brun – Do You Remember EP (2012)

 










Ane Brun is a singer-songwriter from Norway, currently living in Sweden. In addition to releasing 8 of her own albums, Brun also runs a label, Balloon Ranger Recordings. On April 10, 2012, she released her latest EP, Do You Remember.
The EP is made up of 5 tracks, “Do You Remember,” “One Last Try,” “I Would Hurt a Fly,” “Another World,” and “Alfonsina y el Mar.” The first track is incredibly different from the rest. It’s dominated by percussion, something noticeably absent from the other tracks. It’s presence on the first track, which is also the title track, then, is worth noting. It’s a peculiar choice, and a peculiar song, with a very primal feel.

NAHTY - Silence In Your Mouth (2012)

NAHTY svira alternativnu, indie rock muziku obojenu elementima noise-a. Zapaženiji nastupi su ostvareni na Exit festivalu u Novom Sadu 2007. i 2010. godine, zatim kao predgrupa bendovima Disciplina Kitchme i bendu Vrooom. Dva puta je bend svirao na festivalu Nisomnija 2005. i 2008. godine kao i na Cinema City festivalu u Novom Sadu 2008. uz brojne nastupe u niškom kultnom klubu Feedback.

Moonface-Teary Eyes And Bloody Lips

Spiritualized – Sweet Heart, Sweet Light (2012)

...Iznenadjenje Godine...Neocekivani Masterpiece!!!
"When you make a record, it has to be the single most important thing in your world. This time around, I wanted to do something that encompassed all I love in rock'n'roll music," Pierce said in a statement. "It's got everything from Brötzmann and Berry right through to Dennis and Brian Wilson. I'm obsessed with music and the way you put it together and I don't believe there are any rules."


Spiritualized - Hey Jane from Fat Possum Records on Vimeo.

Julia Holter

LA musician pops up in an empty house to play ‘Moni Mon Amie’, a track from her recent album Ekstasis.

   

La fée (Dominique Abel,Fiona Gordon, 2011)

Dom works the night shift in a small hotel near the industrial sea port of Le Havre. One night, a woman arrives with no luggage and no shoes. Her name is Fiona and she tells Dom that she is a fairy that can grant him three wishes. Fiona makes two of his wishes come true then mysteriously disappears. Dom. who has fallen in love with her by then, searches for her everywhere.

22-20s – Got It If You Want It (2012)

22-20’s disbanded in 2005 but got back together in 2008 after the band’s former manager offered Trimble and Bartup some studio time, and in need of a drummer called up Irving to play on the sessions. At the time, the band didn’t know whether the tracks would ever be released or if they did, whether they would be as 22-20s. They were then offered a gig at the Heavenly Festival in September 2008 at the Royal Festival Hall in London at the request of Heavenly Records. The band were joined by second guitarist Dan Hare, an old school friend and formerly of fellow Sleaford band ‘The Jubilees’ Coombes was not present and is no longer involved with the band. Despite debuting a new song at the gig, a spokesman for the band claimed that there were no plans for the band to continue beyond the gig.

iLiKETRAiNS – The Shallows (2012)

Tout Va Bien (1972),Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin

After collaborating on a series of small-scale political films under the alias of the Dziga Vertov Group, pioneering French director Jean-Luc Godard and filmmaker and activist Jean-Pierre Gorin attempted to fuse their Maoist theories of revolutionary art with a more accessible structural framework in this leftist comedy drama. Susan (Jane Fonda) is an American journalist working as a French correspondent for a radio network; her husband, Jacques (Yves Montand), was once a major filmmaker during the French New Wave, but now supports himself directing television commercials as he tries to come to terms with his political responsibilities.

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Bert Jansch – Sweet Sweet Music (Live) (2012)

‘Bert Jansch, legendary sonwriter and guitarist, is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential musicians of all time. Since the mid 1960s generation after generation have been held spellbound by his extraordinary ground-breaking acoustic guitar playing and classic emotive songs. He began performing his unique synthesis of folk, blues and jazz in the early 1960s, before forming Pentangle, the acoustic supergroup in 1967 with John Renbourn, Jacqui McShee, Danny Thompson and Terry Cox.
After Pentangle split in 1973, Bert returned to his prolific solo career. His 21st solo album, Crimson Moon, appeared in 2000 accompanied by a Channel 4 documentary, Dreamweaver.
In 2006 Bert worked with some of the latest musicians to emrege on the scene on his highly acclaimed most recent album, The Black Swan, which was hailed internationally as one of Bert’s greatest albums. This edited live set was recorded in 2007.
Bert Jansch’s Sweet Sweet Music contains a 12 track single disc of his classic 2007 live set.

Susanna – Wild Dog (2012)

”Wild Dog” is Susanna´s eight album, including three with Susanna and the Magical Orchestra, her ”Norwegian” album ”Jeg Vil Hjem Til Menneskene” and the recent ECM album with Giovanna Pessi. That is effectively one album a year of quality releases since her debut in 2004, indeed a very rare treat these days. Possibly best known for her unique and striking interpretations of iconic songs like ”Jolene”, ”Hallelujah” and ”Love Will Tear Us Apart”, she has also proved herself as an original songwriter with a strong signature. Bonnie ”Prince” Billy has performed and recorded her songs and Mojo named her song ”Believer” as ”one of the greatest break-up songs ever”. The ten originals on ”Wild Dog” are darker, wilder and more intensely seductive than ever. Susanna has assembled some prominent guests on the album with Emmett Kelly from Bonnie ”Prince” Billy´s band and Jeremy Gara from Arcade Fire appearing on all ten tracks while Shahzad Ismaily is credited on seven tracks and Jo Berger Myhre on two. Co-producer Helge Sten (Deathprod) is typically credited with ”space and beyond” on one track while The Sheriffs of Nothingness (Ole Henrik Moe and Kari Rønnekleiv) do their thing on another track.

Simone Felice – Simone Felice (2012)

Former member of New York State folk-rockers The Felice Brothers, chief member of The Duke & the King and published author to boot, Simone Felice has long been associated with a dusty, widescreen Americana that has gathered numerous plaudits for its honesty, literacy and spirit. Striking out under his own name with this record, the result is a sadly mixed bag of songs that often sags under the weight of its own production values.
When Felice hits the sweet spot, though, he does it with aplomb. Hey Bobby Ray opens the record, a striking portrait of physical abuse that swells with strings and an all-female choir from Felice’s hometown, while the piano-led New York Times finds him scanning the front-page news in order to deliver a bleak, bracing meditation on human affairs. Felice is at his best here, offering up impassioned slices of life and injustice shaded by the kind of details that mark him a songwriter with talent to spare.

Helder – The Rhythm Of Change (2012)

Autodidact multi-instrumentalist Helder Deploige (°77 Ghent B) worked as a composer, musician and producer with Sukilove, Flip Kowlier, Chitlin’ Fooks, Kommil Foo, The Rhythm Junks, The CraB Four…

In 2003 Helder recorded his debut album “The king lost his crown”. A compilation of honest, rootsy pop music produced in his own bedroom. Taking care of the entire recording process, Helder played every single instrument. Additional vocals by a.o. Mich Walschaerts (Kommil Foo), Trixie Whitley (Black Dub), Pascal Deweze (Metal Molly). In 2006 Helder released his second solo full album: “The ceiling is not the sky”. This time Helder also went to New York and Morocco to write, gig and record. Again, he plays all the instruments himself, but yet the album features a.o. Steven De bruyn (Rhythm Junks) and Trixie Whitley (Chris Whitley).
In 2012 the last part of the “The” trilogy will be released: “The rhythm of change”. A selection of 12 personal songs. Taking care of the entire recording process, Helder played every single instrument. An intens album, for which Helder isolated himself and that he released three years after completed.
On stage Helder plays dobro, 5-string banjo, ukelele, harmonica and drums as a one-man-band, or together with Pieter Van Buyten (Flip Kowlier) on double bass, Gino Geudens (Vive La Fête, bettie serveert, Metal Molly) on drums and Niels Verheest (The Whodads, Eva De Roovere) on keyboards.

M. Ward – A Wasteful Companion (2012)

Some musicians write for car stereos; others for laptops, boom boxes or weight-room sound systems. M. Ward writes for beat-up transistor radios, as if he were sending his songs hurtling backward through time and space, to a point where music coexists with a ghostly, almost otherworldly crackle.
With She & Him, Ward plays to rose-colored nostalgia; paired with singer Zooey Deschanel, his work gives timeless pop a thick coat of sugar. But, while Deschanel shows up to shine a few sunbeams on A Wasteland Companion — notably in the appropriately named “Sweetheart” — Ward’s sixth solo album mostly marks his welcome return to the dusty shadows. After three years and three albums for two side projects (lest we forget Monsters of Folk), it’s about time Ward booted the interlopers out of the spotlight for a little while.
Out April 10, A Wasteland Companion opens where other albums might naturally end, basking in a moment of hard-won redemption. In the barren and beautiful “Clean Slate,” Ward ruminates on fresh starts, second chances and earned wisdom: “When I was a younger man, I thought that pain and defeat would last forever,” he sings by way of introduction, adding, “but now I don’t know what it would take to make my heart back down.”

The Adjuster (1991), Atom Egoyan

Written and directed by Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, The Adjuster is an examination of the sexual quirks of a married couple. Starring such Egoyan regulars as Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin, and Don McKellar, the film focuses on Noah Render (Koteas), an insurance adjuster who enjoys sleeping with his clients, and his wife, Hera (Khanjian), a film censor who finds excitement in making copies of the most explicit parts of the movies she's assigned to review. When they invite Bubba (Chaykin) into their house to make a movie, the Renders find their lives becoming even more complex. McKellar plays a young film censor who works with Hera.

Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action At A Distance (2012)

This is the second album from Lotus Plaza, the solo nom de plume of Lockett Pundt, better known as the guitarist in Deerhunter. Pundt has penned a number of the best songs on the last two Deerhunter albums, and his first album, The Floodlight Collective was a tour de force of guitar pop smarts.He has the uncanny ability to build soaring, melodic gems from simple musical phrases; a möbius strip of a guitar line and repeating clipped drum roll in “Strangers”; a tribal drum beat holding down the foundation on “Out of Touch”; two acoustic guitar chords and a slight bit of snare as the basis for “Dusty Rhodes”; a series of slowly descending piano chord scales on “Jet Out of the Tundra”.

Lost in the Trees – A Church That Fits Our Needs (2012)

...ALBUM OF THE MONTH...UZNEMIRAVA I OBUZIMA...

The album is as intricate and well-crafted as a Radiohead release, with highly emotional content that was inspired by the recent suicide of frontman Ari Picker’s mother. Picker said he wanted to give her “a space, in the music, to be, and to become all the things she didn’t get a chance to be when she was alive.”
The outcome is an expansive collection of thematically and musically complex songs that serves as a beautiful dedication to the musician’s mother, whose photo graces the album’s cover.

Friendly Strangers – Where We Go, We Grow (2012)

The members of Friendly Strangers came together at Sarah Lawrence College, where they discovered their shared fondness for gospel, bluegrass and Romanian folk punk. Front man Curtis McMurtry (banjo) assembled Liam O’ Brien (fiddle) and Max Mamis (accordion) in September 2010, and Lucy Kahn (upright bass) joined them shortly thereafter. Since then, Friendly Strangers have developed a repertoire of songs regarding cosmopolitan angst, southern funerals, general bitterness and occasionally love (but usually not).

Innocent bystanders have described Friendly Strangers’ music as “really pretty except for that one song” and “like that other band but not really at all.”

Pretentious folks have described Friendly Strangers songs as “modern Americana sewn to the corpse of a prominent early 20th century poet” or “a collection of spiteful hymns sprinkled with rosemary and carefully burned about the edges.”

Laura. The Irresistible

Eccentricities of a Blonde Haired Girl (2009), Manoel de Oliveira

Adapted from the short story by author Eça de Queiroz, Manoel de Oliveira's poetic drama tells the tale of a beleaguered man named Macário (Ricardo Trêpa), who recounts his romantic woes to a patient neighbor (Leonor Silveira) during a train ride to the Algarve. While working as an accountant in Lisbon, Macário became smitten with the radiant blonde whose window he could spy from his modest office. Her name was Luisa (Catarina Wallenstein), but according to Macário's uncle she was well out of the humble accountant's league. Determined to win her love at all costs, Macário retreats to Cape Verde and attempts to earn enough money to be considered an acceptable suitor.

AllMovie Dream (2008) , Kim Ki-duk

In this unusual and slightly ominous romantic fantasy from Korea, Joe Odagiri stars as Jin, a young man who experiences a foreboding nightmare about a traffic accident and feels compelled, upon waking, to travel to the same spot he visited in the dream. As it turns out, a hit-and-run accident indeed occurred there; curious, Jin tails the police to the home of the suspect - a beautiful young woman named Ran (Lee Na-Young) who vehemently denies involvement and cites, as an alibi, the fact that she slept the entire night. Jin relays the specifics of his dream to the cops and insists that they arrest him; they dismiss him as a crank and arrest Ran instead, but in time the young man and woman discover a bizarre pattern: when he dreams of specific events, she acts out those events in real life.

His Clancyness – Always Mist: Revisited (2012)

Splendour announce the re-issuing of the re-mastered edition of His Clancyness’ debut LP ‘ALWAYS MIST’, which was originally released in 2010 in a run of 100 tapes (via Mirror Universe). Splendour, in co-operation with Italian label Secret Furry Hole, will be re-issuing this release digitally and on vinyl with 7 additional tracks.
All tracks were originally recorded at the Clancy residence in Bologna but have been re-mastered by Carl Saff (Real Estate, Julian Lynch, How to Dress Well) in Chicago. The A side is the original track listing of the tape recorded between 2009-2010 and the B side is a collection of other tracks that have been floating around the internet recorded and released from 2009-2011. The B side includes covers of Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, the Everly Brothers and My Bubba & Mi.

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Cats on Fire – All Blackshirts to Me (2012)

 









Cats on Fire, a shambling Finnish twee group whose nostalgic tunes nod to the Smiths, the Wedding Present, and the Orchids, thanks in no small part to lead singer Mattias Bjorkas’ warbly, Morrissey-esque croon, formed in Vasa, Finland, in 2001.
This month, Cats On Fire release their third album All Blackshirts to Me. This is the most accomplished recording the band’s put together yet, which will surely have fans of any sort of indie-pop raving over the group.

Isbells – Stoalin’ (2012)

This is very exciting. One of my favourite artists has announced their new album. Isbells launched themselves in 2009 with their self titled album, Isbells. The Belgium band have a likeable trait of producing sweet melodies and often somewhat melancholic lyrics – this of course made it my perfect ‘break-up’ album at the time. I highly urge you to get your hands on it, you won’t regret doing so.

They released a charity song in 2011 called, No Light Bright Light, to raise money for the Psychiatric Hospital St. Annendael in the Belgian city Diest. This track confirmed my hope that their first album wasn’t a golden one-off, their songwriting was as beautiful as ever. I recommend you check out the song.

The Family Friend (2006), Paolo Sorrentino

Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...