Mar 31, 2013
On Golden Pond (Mark Rydell, 1981)
The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a
retired professor, and Ethel who have had a summer cottage there since
early in their marriage. This summer their daughter Chelsea -- whom they
haven't seen for years -- feels she must be there for Norman's
birthday. She and her fiance are on their way to Europe the next day but
will be back in a couple of weeks to pick up the fiance's son. When she
returns Chelsea is married and her stepson has the relationship with
her father that she always wanted. Will father and daughter be able to
communicate at last?
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film
Mar 30, 2013
Devendra Banhart - jos jednom na skvotu
1. jer je srpski zet
2. jer mu je omiljeni bend suede
"..waiting in line to see suede playing..."
2. jer mu je omiljeni bend suede
"..waiting in line to see suede playing..."
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muzika
Mar 28, 2013
Mar 27, 2013
Kate Nash – Girl Talk (2013)
English songstress Kate Nash began her music career by uploading her
self-produced music to her MySpace page during the social media site’s
heyday. Her confessional songs and simple melodies gained her popularity
within the site, and she eventually signed with Moshi Moshi Records in
2007.
She attended the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology — the same South London performing arts school that brought the world Adele, Leona Lewis and Amy Winehouse.
Her first two albums, “Made of Bricks” and “My Best Friend is You,” were released in 2007 and 2010, respectively, Both were praised for Nash’s bold lyrical prowess and peppy style.
She attended the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology — the same South London performing arts school that brought the world Adele, Leona Lewis and Amy Winehouse.
Her first two albums, “Made of Bricks” and “My Best Friend is You,” were released in 2007 and 2010, respectively, Both were praised for Nash’s bold lyrical prowess and peppy style.
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muzika
Mar 26, 2013
The House of Love – She Paints Words in Red (2013)
THE HOUSE OF LOVE were one of the most critically acclaimed Indie Rock bands of the late 80s/early 1990s.
Their
eponymous Creation Records debut album was cited as one of the best
albums of 1988 (November 2012’s 3-CD deluxe edition has enjoyed rave
reviews and impressive sales).
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muzika
Mar 25, 2013
Mar 24, 2013
Mar 23, 2013
Sigur Rós - Brennisteinn
From the upcoming Sigur Rós album Kveikur, released worldwide June 17.
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muzika
Mar 22, 2013
Mar 21, 2013
Lord of the Flies (1990) , Harry Hook
Harry Hook
directed this second screen adaptation of William Golding's cult novel
about a group of British schoolchildren who revert to savagery when
marooned on a deserted island. The new adaptation replaces British
school children with a group of American military cadets and instead of a
shipwreck, their plane crashes into the sea. The children swim ashore
onto an island and try to fend for themselves, with the only surviving
adult wracked with fever and crazed with pain. As the children get the
feel of the island, the group separates into two different camps: Ralph (Balthazar Getty)
and his followers prefer to act civilized and want to expand their
efforts toward finding a way off the island; on the other hand, Jack (Chris Furrh)
and his band revert to painting their faces, carrying spears and
exploiting the island for survival. When the chances for rescue become
less and less likely, the two factions go to war with each other, with
tragic results.
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film
Mar 19, 2013
Mar 18, 2013
Jason Molina, Magnolia Electric Co. Leader, Dead at 39
Jason Molina, frontman of Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co., has died. Molina, almost totally absent from the public eye since 2009, had been in poor health in recent years. According to Chunklet, he died Saturday as a result of organ failure related to alcoholism.
Molina was born in Lorain, Ohio and played in various heavy-metal groups in Cleveland before striking out on his own. He made several lo-fi home recordings under various names, including Songs: Albian, Songs: Radix, and Songs: Unitas, before settling on Songs: Ohia in 1996. The alt-country-tinged and self-titled Songs: Ohia, which fans refer to as The Black Album, was released in 1997 on Secretly Canadian, the label he stayed with his entire career.
Molina was born in Lorain, Ohio and played in various heavy-metal groups in Cleveland before striking out on his own. He made several lo-fi home recordings under various names, including Songs: Albian, Songs: Radix, and Songs: Unitas, before settling on Songs: Ohia in 1996. The alt-country-tinged and self-titled Songs: Ohia, which fans refer to as The Black Album, was released in 1997 on Secretly Canadian, the label he stayed with his entire career.
Kategorije:
ostava
Mar 17, 2013
Autumn Tale (1998) , Eric Rohmer
The final installment in Eric Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons
quartet of films examines matchmaking among the middle-aged and romance
in the Rhone Valley. The target of the matchmakers is widowed vintner
Magali (Béatrice Romand), alone at her vineyard after the departure of her grown children. Her best friend (Marie Rivière) plots to pair her with a friendly businessman (Alain Libolt), while her son's girlfriend (Alexia Portal) schemes to introduce her to a high-school philosophy teacher. Rohmer's
film was shown at the 1998 Venice Film Festival, the 1998 Telluride
Film Festival, the 1998 Toronto Film Festival, and the 1998 New York
Film Festival.
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film
A Summer's Tale (1996) , Eric Rohmer
The third film in Eric Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons quartet takes place in a resort town in Brittany. Gaspard (Melvil Poupaud) has come to enjoy a vacation with his girlfriend, Lena (Aurelia Nolin). However, Lena has yet to arrive, and Gaspard finds his attention drawn to two other women: Margot (Amanda Langlet), a captivating waitress who makes it clear that she only wants friendship, and Solene (Gwenaëlle Simon),
a friend of Margot's who isn't against the idea of a brief fling but
demands to be treated with the utmost respect. Over the next three
weeks, it becomes clear to Gaspard that he must choose among the three
women, but who should it be? The final episode in the series, Conte d'Automne, was released two years later.
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film
Dead Reckoning (1947) , John Cromwell
In Dead Reckoning, Rip Murdock (Humphrey Bogart) recites the film's plotline to a priest in the confessional. Murdock and Johnny Drake (William Prince)
are Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, en route to Washington by
train. Drake hops off and disappears, leading Murdock on a hectic
manhunt. Upon meeting Drake's former girlfriend Coral Chandler (Lizabeth Scott), Murdock is thrown into a maelstrom of intrigue involving a crooked gambler (Morris Carnovsky) and a complex blackmailing scheme. The upshot of this is that Murdock finds himself the prime suspect in a murder.
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film
Mar 16, 2013
Mar 14, 2013
Alex Calder – Time (2013)
... Drugarcic Mac DeMarca...
Edmonton, Canada is is better known for its oil exports than its songwriters. However, 23 year old Alex Calder is taking a strong step in towards this changing. Shifting to Vancouver saw Alex pairing with fellow Edmontonion Mac Demarco (that’s Alex as the female lead in the “Only You” video) playing in Makeout Videotape, scraping by, sleeping on couches and washing dishes. A move back to his mom’s in Edmonton was when Calder began to write and record his own material honing his craft only ever showing close friends his work. A strong love for classic 60’s/70’s guitar pop (Beach Boys, Beatles) as well as soft spots for Prince and Hall and Oates display his self proclaimed ‘fascination with pop music’. While his influences certainly shape his work it is his natural ear for melody and movement, which make Calder’s work both fluid and engaging. His knack and ambition both in his song writing and production provide a solid foundation for Calder’s music to drift in an out of psychy realms.
Edmonton, Canada is is better known for its oil exports than its songwriters. However, 23 year old Alex Calder is taking a strong step in towards this changing. Shifting to Vancouver saw Alex pairing with fellow Edmontonion Mac Demarco (that’s Alex as the female lead in the “Only You” video) playing in Makeout Videotape, scraping by, sleeping on couches and washing dishes. A move back to his mom’s in Edmonton was when Calder began to write and record his own material honing his craft only ever showing close friends his work. A strong love for classic 60’s/70’s guitar pop (Beach Boys, Beatles) as well as soft spots for Prince and Hall and Oates display his self proclaimed ‘fascination with pop music’. While his influences certainly shape his work it is his natural ear for melody and movement, which make Calder’s work both fluid and engaging. His knack and ambition both in his song writing and production provide a solid foundation for Calder’s music to drift in an out of psychy realms.
Kategorije:
muzika
Charles Bradley – Victim of Love (2013)
Soul artist Charles Bradley is set to release Victim of Love, the follow-up to his debut album No Time for Dreaming,
on April 2 via Daptone Records. Dubbed the “Screaming Eagle of Soul,”
the 64-year old singer experienced a late-in-life career boom after
being discovered by Daptone’s Gabriel Roth. Following the release of No Time for Dreaming Bradley garnered praise and buzz for his intense live performances as well as spots on several year-end best lists.
According to the album’s press release, “where Dreaming hewed close to the rough-and-ready R&B sound Daptone has become known for, Victim is stylistically more restless, edging closer into the kind of psychedelic soul The Temptations explored in the early ’70s.”
According to the album’s press release, “where Dreaming hewed close to the rough-and-ready R&B sound Daptone has become known for, Victim is stylistically more restless, edging closer into the kind of psychedelic soul The Temptations explored in the early ’70s.”
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muzika
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2011) , Werner Herzog,Dmitry Vasyukov
Filmmakers Dmitriy Yasyukov and Werner Herzog team to offer a portrait
of the rugged, self-sufficient Siberian trappers who lead incredibly
difficult yet fulfilling lives far outside the confines of contemporary
society. Though the southern region of Siberia is populous and
prosperous, a long journey north eventually leads to the village of
Bakhita, on the edge of the Yenisei river. With a population of just
300, Bakhita is reachable only by helicopter or boat, and offers no
telephone lines or running water. The lives of the people who live there
have changed little in the last few hundred years, and as a result,
they're experts in living off of the land. By examining the culture and
traditions of Bakhita, Yasyukov and Herzog challenge our concept of what
it really means to live a truly free life.
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film
Mar 12, 2013
Minnie and Moskowitz (1971), John Cassavetes
Can a straight-laced woman find happiness with a scruffy hippie who has a bad habit of getting beaten up? Minnie Moore (Gena Rowlands)
was a prom queen in high school but has become disillusioned with life
now that she is a divorcée who has just turned 40. Her marriage ended
badly, and her current relationship with her boyfriend Jim (John Cassavetes),
who is inconveniently married to another woman, is hardly going any
better. Jim treats Minnie with little respect, but she tries to calmly
soldier on with her work as a curator at a museum. When Jim's wife
threatens to commit suicide if he doesn't break off his affair with
Minnie, he agrees to stop seeing her.
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film
Das Boot (1981) , Wolfgang Petersen
synopsis
Das Boot
is one of the most gripping and authentic war movies ever made. Based
on an autobiographical novel by German World War II photographer
Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, the film follows the lives of a fearless
U-Boat captain (Jurgen Prochnow)
and his inexperienced crew as they patrol the Atlantic and
Mediterranean in search of Allied vessels, taking turns as hunter and
prey. There's very little plot, so the movie's power comes from both its
riveting, epic battle scenes and its details of the boring hours spent
waiting for orders or signs of the enemy.
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film
Mar 10, 2013
A Tale of Springtime (1990) , Eric Rohmer
French filmmaker Eric Rohmer begins his Tales of the Four Seasons series with A Tale of Springtime. Parisian philosophy teacher Jeanne (Anne Teyssedre)
is temporarily without a place to stay as her cousin occupies her own
home and she refuses to stay in her boyfriend's messy apartment while he
is away. A young pianist, Natasha (Florence Darel),
offers the use of her house and she accepts. After the two become
friends, it is apparent there is a rivalry between Natasha and her
father Igor's girlfriend, Eve. As Natasha's father drifts away from Eve,
Natasha unwittingly finds herself embroiled in the mess. A Winter's Tale is the following installment.
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film
Le Signe du Lion (1959), Eric Rohmer
This was the first film directed by Eric Rohmer, and although it is not without flaws, this story of a down-and-out foreigner in Paris has its merits. Pierre (Jess Hahn)
is a music student and already living on a shoestring when he hears
that he has inherited a large sum of money. But just when it looks like
his luck is changing for the better, his so-called inheritance is
suddenly ephemeral. Saddled with debts, he wanders around the shadier
side of the city throughout the summer, trying to survive but instead
sinking deeper and deeper into the morass of poverty. His friends help
out, and at the end it looks like his luck will be changing once again.
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film
Mar 9, 2013
Hymnalaya – Hymns (2013)
Tónlistarárið hér heima var með eindæmum gott í fyrra og man
undirritaður vart annað eins. Svo virðist sem góðærið ætli að halda
áfram á nýju ári og hefst tónlistarárið 2013 byrjar með látum. Út er
komin plata sem ekki hefur farið mikið fyrir en mun eflaust vera á hvers
manns vörum áður en langt um líður. Plata þessi heitir Hymns og er með stórsveitinni Hymnalaya.
Á Hymns er öllu til tjaldað enda samanstendur hljómsveitin að strengja-, lúðra- og áslattarsveit auk gítara, píanós, orgels og söngs. Lögin á plötunni byggja á gömlum sálmum sem búið er að klæða í nútímalegan búning (indie/folk/ambient) en einnig má vel greina áhrif heims- og frumbyggjatónlistar.
Á Hymns er öllu til tjaldað enda samanstendur hljómsveitin að strengja-, lúðra- og áslattarsveit auk gítara, píanós, orgels og söngs. Lögin á plötunni byggja á gömlum sálmum sem búið er að klæða í nútímalegan búning (indie/folk/ambient) en einnig má vel greina áhrif heims- og frumbyggjatónlistar.
Kategorije:
muzika
Apparat – Krieg und Frieden (Music For Theatre) (2013)
For Apparat, aka Berlin-based Sascha Ring, experiments
in sound are strongly linked to exploring emotions. Over the course of
seven album releases he has developed a multifarious, emotional
universe. From early works, such as “Multifunktionsebene“ (2001) and
“Duplex“ (2003), which took the abstractness out of electronic music and
introduced a new spectrum of feelings beyond electronics’ well-tested
modes, through collaborations with Ellen Alien (Orchestra of Bubbles)
and Modeselektor (as Moderat), Apparat is always in transition. In 2010
he founded the Apparat Band and opened himself to a new sonic cosmos
that culminated into “The Devil’s Walk” (2010), his first release on
Mute.
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muzika
Mar 8, 2013
Mar 7, 2013
Mar 6, 2013
Phosphorescent – Muchacho (2013)
...Heart & Soul...
Matthew Houck’s sixth album as Phosphorescent underwent an odd, protracted gestation.
Exhausted following a lengthy stint touring 2010’s acclaimed Here's To Taking It Easy, the Alabama-born singer-songwriter returned to Brooklyn and bought a bunch of old analogue gear.
Duly equipped, he began cooking up “strange sound pieces”. “I was thinking I might make an ambient record that had vocals, but no lyrics,” he says of this period.
A sudden, unexplained domestic crisis forced his hand, however, leading to an impulsive trip down to Mexico’s Yucután peninsula in the opening months of 2012.
He spent a week there, living in a beach hut and working on his songs, before returning to New York and restoring some sense of order to his life.
Exhausted following a lengthy stint touring 2010’s acclaimed Here's To Taking It Easy, the Alabama-born singer-songwriter returned to Brooklyn and bought a bunch of old analogue gear.
Duly equipped, he began cooking up “strange sound pieces”. “I was thinking I might make an ambient record that had vocals, but no lyrics,” he says of this period.
A sudden, unexplained domestic crisis forced his hand, however, leading to an impulsive trip down to Mexico’s Yucután peninsula in the opening months of 2012.
He spent a week there, living in a beach hut and working on his songs, before returning to New York and restoring some sense of order to his life.
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muzika
Mar 5, 2013
David Bowie – The Next Day (2013)
...Jebi ga, ALBUM OF THE YEAR...
David Bowie's new album The Next Day – his first for a decade – is a bold, beautiful and baffling electric bolt through its own mythos!
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muzika
Tomboy (2011), Céline Sciamma
A little girl's innocent deception quickly snowballs into
something that gradually becomes a crucial component of her identity in
director Céline Sciamma's
tender childhood drama. Ten-year-old Laure and her family have just
moved into a new neighborhood. Although the little girl longs to make
friends her age, she isn't quite certain how to go about it. Then, one
day, Laure meets Lisa, and the two girls seem to hit it off. When Lisa
makes the assumption that her new friend is a boy, however, Laure
assumes the identity of Mikael, and quietly plays along. Before long,
Mikael has made friends with the other children in the neighborhood as
well. Meanwhile, the closer Lisa and Mikael become, the more delicate
Laure's deception grows.
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film
Mar 4, 2013
Mar 3, 2013
Mar 1, 2013
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Ronald Neame, 1969)
Based on the novel by Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie stars
Maggie Smith in the title role. Smith won an Academy Award for her
delicately textured portrayal of an eccentric teacher at an exclusive
Scottish girl's school. Miss Jean exhorts her "gels" to follow their
hearts and never lose their youthful idealism. Unfortunately for her,
she also stumps for her favorite political figures: Mussolini and
Franco. In addition, she can't keep the innermost details of her private
life a
secret, and in fact
boasts about her sex life to her students.
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film
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