I watched Las Hurdes (land without bread) today and very strangely, it happened to be reviewed in the New York Times today as well. Pure coincidence – Its been sitting in my quickflix que for months. I’m not sure why a 1932 documentary about an impoverished part of Spain is getting this sort of attention. […]
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The Skin I Live In: Almodavar at his most disturbing best.
posted by lisathatcher
I saw The Skin I Live In this week, and I have to say it was easily the best new release that I saw in 2011. I watched Volver a few days before it (review coming) and I loved that film as well. Almodovar just gets better and better. The Skin I Live In doesn’t […]
Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening. 21 – 25
posted by lisathatcher
One of the dire pleasures of trawling my way through the Wire 100 records that set the world on fire is discovering music that slices in at the heart of something I have always liked anyway. That is what we have in this list of five. From the cruisy blues of Ram John Holder to […]
The Weeknd: Echoes of Silence
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This album is being touted as completing ‘The trilogy’ of one man outfit The Weeknd’s R & B contribution for 2011. It landed at the base of our chimney’s December 21 – and it turns out its settling in somewhere between ‘Baloons’ and ‘Thursday’. Despite it being a break with popular opinion, I preferrred Thursday […]
1Q84: Murakami and the great disappointment.
posted by lisathatcher
I’ve just completed reading most of the Amazon reviews for 1Q84, and the recurring advice those who have completed the novel give to those about to take it on, is – Don’t think too hard. That is excellent advice. To be fair, they all say don’t start reading Haruki Murakami with this novel either […]
Trent Parke: The Christmas Tree Bucket #2
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The Trent Parke Christmas Tree Bucket is a beuatiful series of photographs and many of you have been coming to take a look. So I thought I would add the rest of the series. These stunnings images of a typical Australian suburban Gothic Christmas are available for puchse through the Stills Gallery here. Believe me […]
Red Desert : Michelangelo Antonioni embraces colour
posted by lisathatcher
Giuliana”…must confront her social environment. It’s too simplistic to say – as many people have done – that I am condemning the inhuman industrial world which oppresses the individuals and leads them to neurosis. My intention… was to translate the poetry of the world, in which even factories can be beautiful. The line and curves […]
Trent Parke: The Christmas Tree Bucket
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The Christmas tree Bucket is a collection of suburban Australian Christmas photogrpahs taken by Magnum photographer, Trent Parke. I went to a lecture given by Trent Parke about this collection and other works a few years back when the exhibition was current. The story behind the above photograph goes, Trent came home ‘unwell’ around Christmas […]
Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening. 11-20
posted by lisathatcher
Feel the fire and groan the moan, this is the passion based 10 series from the greatest list ever. I’m listening to Dr John as I write this and letting the music fill me up – is there anything like a groove that ‘works’? That magical moment when you have exactly the right music for […]
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