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milos - 2013
e,pa,ovako je meni izgledala 2013. ( i kao slika i kao muzika)
1. sigur ros - kveikur
njihov najbolji album jos od onih prvih. retko ko je ukapirao. well, whatever, nevermind...
1. sigur ros - kveikur
njihov najbolji album jos od onih prvih. retko ko je ukapirao. well, whatever, nevermind...
Dec 24, 2013
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Dec 19, 2013
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) , Richard Brooks
Paul Newman recreates his Broadway role in the 1962 film version of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth. Newman plays handsome hustler Chance Wayne, who romances fading film star Alexandra Del Lago (Geraldine Page)
in hopes of winning a movie contract for himself. The mercenary Wayne
and the self-destructive Alexandra find themselves in Chance's home
town, where corrupt politician Boss Finley (Oscar-winner Ed Begley) rules the roost.
Kategorije:
film
Fuzz – Live in San Francisco EP (2013)
... Sabbath Bloody Sabbath ...
The second installment in Castle Face Records’ Live in San Francisco series captures Fuzz not only at the height of their wizardlike powers but also on Ty’s birthday at notorious leather-daddy/rock and roll bar The SF Eagle.
The show was apparently packed, and the stoner trio’s set is said to have had Segall “wailing through a guitar amp and dominating drums like it’s the easiest thing in the world. A press release notes that the four songs being preserved on the platter, due December 3, wooly and mammoth, rendered in a blistering fashion for your pleasures.”
Like the White Fence release, the show was “captured hot to tape and mixed and massaged” by Chris Woodhouse, Eric Bauer, Bob Marshall and Thee Oh Sees’ John Dwyer.
The second installment in Castle Face Records’ Live in San Francisco series captures Fuzz not only at the height of their wizardlike powers but also on Ty’s birthday at notorious leather-daddy/rock and roll bar The SF Eagle.
The show was apparently packed, and the stoner trio’s set is said to have had Segall “wailing through a guitar amp and dominating drums like it’s the easiest thing in the world. A press release notes that the four songs being preserved on the platter, due December 3, wooly and mammoth, rendered in a blistering fashion for your pleasures.”
Like the White Fence release, the show was “captured hot to tape and mixed and massaged” by Chris Woodhouse, Eric Bauer, Bob Marshall and Thee Oh Sees’ John Dwyer.
Kategorije:
muzika
Ancient Sky – All Get Out (2013)
... Sabotage ...
Wharf Cat Records in Greenpoint, NY just released the third album from seething psychedelic wizards ANCIENT SKY. A follow-up to their Castle 7″ from earlier this year, All Get Out is a tripped-out journey through over 40 minutes of cloudy, folk-informed space rock.Brooklyn psych-rockers Ancient Sky have just released their third record, but still no one pays too much attention.
Wharf Cat Records in Greenpoint, NY just released the third album from seething psychedelic wizards ANCIENT SKY. A follow-up to their Castle 7″ from earlier this year, All Get Out is a tripped-out journey through over 40 minutes of cloudy, folk-informed space rock.Brooklyn psych-rockers Ancient Sky have just released their third record, but still no one pays too much attention.
Kategorije:
muzika
TVRĐAVA SAMOĆE Džonatan Letem
„Fenomenalna knjiga s ritmom Skorsezea i Spajka Lija, živopisnom maštom
The Funkadelica, iz pera rođenog pripovedača... Možda bi autor više
voleo poređenje s ljupkim Alom Grinom ili grčevitim, ćoškastim Talking
Headsima. U svakom slučaju, sići ćete do reke...“ Uncut
„Ovo je bolna, prelepa, hrabra, poetska knjiga... koju će veliki broj ljudi voleti, braniti i iznova iščitavati.“ Nik Hornbi
„Roman Džonatana Letema je najbolji roman o Njujorku u poslednjih deset ili petnaest godina, s besprekorno dočaranim rasnim odnosima, i o soul muzici sedamdesetih i osamdesetih. Jedan od američkih romana koje ove godine ne smete da propustite.“ Rik Mudi, Daily Telegraph
„Bez premca knjiga godine, možda čak i poslednjih pet... Bolja od filma, bolja od simfonije, bolja od pozorišnog komada, bolja od slikarskog remek-dela – jer je sve istovremeno.“ Austine Chronicle
„Ovo je bolna, prelepa, hrabra, poetska knjiga... koju će veliki broj ljudi voleti, braniti i iznova iščitavati.“ Nik Hornbi
„Roman Džonatana Letema je najbolji roman o Njujorku u poslednjih deset ili petnaest godina, s besprekorno dočaranim rasnim odnosima, i o soul muzici sedamdesetih i osamdesetih. Jedan od američkih romana koje ove godine ne smete da propustite.“ Rik Mudi, Daily Telegraph
„Bez premca knjiga godine, možda čak i poslednjih pet... Bolja od filma, bolja od simfonije, bolja od pozorišnog komada, bolja od slikarskog remek-dela – jer je sve istovremeno.“ Austine Chronicle
Kategorije:
knjige
David and Lisa (1962), Frank Perry
This stark and spare look at the world of the mentally disturbed was one
of the beacons of the new American independent film movement. Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin star as two adolescents who make contact with each other in a home for disturbed youngsters.
Kategorije:
film
Strangers When We Meet (1960) , Richard Quine
Sexual misconduct in white-collar suburbia is the topic of this routine
melodrama involving two neighboring couples. Architect Larry Coe (Kirk Douglas), unhappy with his wife Eve's (Barbara Rush) fixation on their bank balance, starts taking an interest in Maggie Gault (Kim Novak),
whose husband has been losing interest in her. The two steal several
illicit moments together, but this activity has not gone unnoticed. Good
ol' neighbor Felix (Walter Matthau) figures that Eve might be feeling a little neglected, so he decides to move into the picture. Richard Quine's direction is an asset to an otherwise clichéd tale.
Kategorije:
film
Butterfield 8 (1960) , Daniel Mann
A woman who has long been short on feelings falls in love with a married man in this emotional drama. Gloria Wondrous (Elizabeth Taylor)
is a model and party girl who lives for pleasure and is willing to take
men for what she can get from them. Gloria bounces from man to man, but
feels that she can only truly confide in Steve Carpenter (Eddie Fisher), a longtime friend with whom she shares a close but strictly platonic relationship, though his fiancée (Susan Oliver) suspects otherwise.
Kategorije:
film
Dec 18, 2013
Israel Nash Gripka – Israel Nash’s Rain Plans (2013)
Israel Nash Gripka has now signed to Loose Music and is commencing the
next chapter of his career. The forthcoming album Rain Plans was
inspired by Israel's new home outside Austin, deep in Texas hill
country. The young songwriter has fully embraced the meandering hills
and endless skies of his Texas home, where you can find yourself so
isolated that it is not uncommon for your path to be crossed by a
tumbleweed or to hear the percussive warning of an agitated rattlesnake.
Kategorije:
muzika
Dec 17, 2013
Kira's Reason: A Love Story (2001)
Ole Christian Madsen follows up on his debut Pizza King with this Dogma
95 approved character study of a woman on the verge of a nervous
breakdown. At the film's outset, Mads (Lars Mikkelsen) dumps his
girlfriend and picks up his wife at the local mental asylum. Upon being
cast out of the peace and quiet of the institution, Mads' wife Kira
(Stine Stengade) is noticeably agitated about being out in the real
world.
Kategorije:
film
Dec 16, 2013
Compulsion (1959) , Richard Fleischer
Compulsion
is a compelling, stylish thriller, loosely based on the famous 1924
murder trial of thrill-killers Loeb and Leopold, two homosexual students
who murdered a young boy to demonstrate their intellectual superiority.
Artie Straus (Bradford Dillman) is a sadistic, mother-dominated bully. Judd Steiner (Dean Stockwell)
is a submissive, introverted sissy. Having been raised by wealthy,
arrogant families, both Artie and Judd consider themselves above
conventional morality. Unfeeling and conceited, the boys, after the
killing, take delight in offering to aid in finding the culprits.
Kategorije:
film
Dec 15, 2013
Dec 12, 2013
Human Desire (1954) , Fritz Lang
Carl Buckley (Broderick Crawford) needs the intervention of his beautiful wife Vicki (Gloria Grahame) to keep his job, so Vicki meets with Carl's boss Owens (Grandon Rhodes), and Carl's job is secure. Insanely jealous, Carl finds Vicki with Owens on board a train and kills Owens. Jeff Warren (Glenn Ford),
an off-duty train engineer protects Vicki and they begin an affair.
Still obsessively jealous, Carl becomes an alcoholic and blackmails
Vicki into staying with him. Vicki persuades Jeff to kill Carl, but at
the last minute Jeff relents, taking on the letter which Carl has used
to blackmail Vicki with. Vicki leaves town on the train with Carl -- all
the while taunting him with her infidelity. Carl is overcome with a
jealous rage that ultimately leads to tragedy. Directed by Fritz Lang), Human Desire an updated remake of Jean Renoir's adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, La Bete Humaine, is a grim sordid story in which desperate people try to relieve their desolate lives with cheap pleasures. Gloria Grahame is perversely alluring as the sexually driven Vicki and Broderick Crawford evokes some empathy as the obsessed Carl.
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film
Dec 10, 2013
Kevin Morby – Harlem River (2013)
... Album of the month ...
Fear not: the Babies frontman Kevin Morby has you covered with his first solo LP, “Harlem River.” A mix of smooth jazz and low-test 70s rock, there are no sudden movements on the album. At no point does “Wild Side” separate into minimalist electro-punk—though it does drop a Seuss-ism or two in its chorus. Even “Reign,” the album’s so-called murder ballad, is kind of precious. On it, Morby inverts “Amazing Grace” over a Western swing rhythm: “Ain’t no God to save a wretch like me.”Despite Morby’s relative youth, his solo debut is deeply nostalgic. Morby’s focus isn’t on reforming but retracing genres of old, trusting his songwriting hand to make the difference.
Fear not: the Babies frontman Kevin Morby has you covered with his first solo LP, “Harlem River.” A mix of smooth jazz and low-test 70s rock, there are no sudden movements on the album. At no point does “Wild Side” separate into minimalist electro-punk—though it does drop a Seuss-ism or two in its chorus. Even “Reign,” the album’s so-called murder ballad, is kind of precious. On it, Morby inverts “Amazing Grace” over a Western swing rhythm: “Ain’t no God to save a wretch like me.”Despite Morby’s relative youth, his solo debut is deeply nostalgic. Morby’s focus isn’t on reforming but retracing genres of old, trusting his songwriting hand to make the difference.
Kategorije:
muzika
Dec 8, 2013
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Dec 6, 2013
Josh Tillman – The History of Caves (2013)
Most artists take a well-deserved break after so much work, but not
Tillman. Instead, he began his most ambitious project yet: composing and
recording a score for the short film The History of Caves, which
was written and directed by his wife, Emma. It’s a no-budget horror
flick (guised as an indie drama) that tells the story of a promiscuous
father and his suspicious children, who invoke witchcraft to get rid of
the young women who keep sleeping with their dad.
Kategorije:
muzika
Dec 5, 2013
The Servant (1963) , Joseph Losey
Wealthy wastrel James Fox hires insouciant cockney Dirk Bogarde
as a valet. No sooner has he donned his working clothes than Bogarde
begins exercising a subtle but insidious control over his master.
Suggesting that the house could use a little fixing up, Bogarde
convinces Fox to spend a whopping amount of money on it. But this is
just a warm-up session for Bogarde, who by mid-film is calling all the
shots in the Fox household, all the while pretending to keep his place.
Fox's fiance Wendy Craig sees through Bogarde's game. Bogarde then brings his own lady friend Sarah Miles
into the house. At Bogarde's insistence, Miles seduces Fox, thereby
loosening Craig's hold on the confused young man. And so it goes. The
homosexual subtext of The Servant disturbed some of the more hidebound critics of 1963; Harold Pinter based his cryptic screenplay on a novel by Robin Maugham.
Dec 4, 2013
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Higgs Boson Blues
...Oh let the damn day break
The rainy days always make me sad
Miley Cyrus floats in a swimming pool in Toluca Lake
And you're the best girl I've ever had
Can't remember anything at all ...
Kategorije:
ostava
Le Corbeau (1943) , Henri-Georges Clouzot
A small French village is plagued by a poison-pen writer, whose principal target is Doctor Germain (Pierre Fresnay).
The vitriolic letters wreak so much havoc that soon neighbor turns upon
neighbor. Eventually, even the doctor himself becomes one of the
suspects, as the townspeople are driven to commit paranoia-fueled crimes
and suicides. The actual culprit is revealed to be one of the least
likely candidates. Though it can now be seen to be a subliminal
indictment of the paranoia fomented by the Nazi occupation of France, Le Corbeau (aka The Raven) was condemned as unpatriotic after the liberation, and director Henri-Georges Clouzot was banned from filmmaking until 1947. Based on a story by Clouzot and Louis Chavance, Le Corbeau was remade in Hollywood by Otto Preminger as The 13th Letter (1951).
Kategorije:
film
The Blue Gardenia (1953) , Fritz Lang
After learning that her boyfriend, a GI in Korea, has found someone else, Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) impulsively agrees to meet womanizer Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr)
for dinner. Norah allows herself to get drunk and accept Prebble's
invitation to his apartment. When he tries to force himself on her, she
hits him with a poker. Unfortunately, Prebble is found dead the next
morning, and Norah, not even remembering how she got home, thinks that
she killed him. Meanwhile, newspaperman Casey Mayo (Richard Conte),
looking for an angle, invites the "Blue Gardenia Murderess" to turn
herself in to him. The high point of the film is the interplay between
the vulnerable Baxter and Burr at his smarmiest.
Kategorije:
film
Dec 3, 2013
Trespassing Bergman (2013) , Jane Magnusson, Hynek Pallas
A group of renowned international filmmakers including Michael Haneke,
Clair Denis, and Alejandro González Iñárritu explore the secluded house
built by acclaimed Swedish director Ingmar Bergman on the island of Fårö
in the Baltic Sea while reflecting on Bergman's rich cinematic legacy,
and visiting the nearby locations seen in many of his most beloved
films. Additional interviews with such luminaries as Martin Scorsese,
Lars von Trier, Wes Anderson, Ang Lee, Zhang Yimou, Woody Allen, Francis
Ford Coppola, Takeshi
Kitano, Robert De Niro offer testament to Bergman's rich vision, and
enduring impact in the world of film.
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film
Le passé (Asghar Farhadi, 2013)
Le Passé is neither a morality tale, nor a political allegory, nor a philosophical exposé.
In the realm of conventional cinema, a film functions like Horace’s
sugar-coated pill: it instructs as it entertains. A conventional film
shows life with certain elements imposed on it, so that we can deduce an
ultimate ‘essence’, a ‘meaning’. Le Passé only confuses: it casts us
into the extremely complicated lives of a group of people surrounding
Marie (Bérénice Béjo), an employee of a Parisian pharmacy, and then
abandons us there. It has no essence, no meaning, just like life, pure
and simple
Farhadi has designed Le Passé so that we are led to roam endlessly in it. It would be naïve to imagine the film as a didactic attempt to persuade us against judging others or to prove to us that morality is relative.
Farhadi has designed Le Passé so that we are led to roam endlessly in it. It would be naïve to imagine the film as a didactic attempt to persuade us against judging others or to prove to us that morality is relative.
Kategorije:
film
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