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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10072 Registered: 05-2005 |
I went to the cinema for the first time in months today and saw Nobody. It's a good, escapist shoot 'em up. No third digit in your IQ required to enjoy it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZti8QKB WPo | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4600 Registered: 03-2005 |
Adam Curtis - The Mayfair Set It's on youtube in four parts. I've just watched the first two tonight. Quite an education so far! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtgEXlWD puY | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4604 Registered: 03-2005 |
Continuing with my Adam Curtis fascination, I've watched the first of six (!) parts of Curtis' new "Can't Get You Out of My Head." He recycles a bit of footage I recognize from "The Mayfair Set" but in the first 75 minute segment he manages to thread together a 19th Century Irish mathematician with Mao Ze Dung's wife and JFK conspiracy theories. He's creative to be sure. Bring along a little salt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHFrhIAj 0ME | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10083 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fontaines DC live in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin. Hopefully this isn’t geoblocked in your country. https://www.rte.ie/player/series/other-v oices/SI0000001278?epguid=IP000066907 | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 183 Registered: 05-2005 |
That Fontaines DC show is being released as part of Record Store day in June. You may be interested in the release by The Coterie. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10087 Registered: 05-2005 |
I don’t think I’ve ever seen these clips of The Go-Betweens on Later... With Jools Holland in 2000 before (well, if I did I’ve forgotten them). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukIGBQiQ h1A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WMRAGLm 1TY | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10089 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cathal Coughlan on how Procol Harum influenced his new album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhp2t0D3 a8s&t=1606s | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4605 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for the Go-Bees links Pádraig. I never saw these. In the context of a live performance it's striking how much these two songs make clear that the band had indeed returned. I'm assuming the drummer is not Glenn, correct? It sure doesn't look like him even though whoever it is has the multi-instrumentalist thing going. Maybe the German guy they toured with? The Cathal link I'll have to watch later because I want to see the entire 59 minutes. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10091 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm just back from seeing Creation Stories, the biopic of Alan McGee. It's good, and worth seeing. It's more a series of vignettes than one through story, though. And I remember King Tut's as being upstairs, but in the film it's in a basement. Can anyone help me out here? There were three people in the cinema, by the way. But the suburb the cinema is in is the wealthiest and one of, if not the, oldest in Australia. Not the prime target audience for an Alan McGee biopic. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1362 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, King Tut's Wah Wah Hut is below street level and you have to descend stairs to enter the premises ( bar / lounge.) Once inside, access to the gig room is via a door at the rear of the bar / lounge and my recollection is that you then have to ascend one or two flights of stairs to access same. Check out the following link and click on the image. I am guessing that the gig room is probably level with the shop premises above King Tut's.The gig room is windowless with very low ceilings and does have the feel / look of a basement. https://www.bing.com/search?q=king+tuts+ glasgow&cvid=ac651fd9214c43ca85f8ca7b069 4ec83&aqs=edge..69i57.3830j0j1&pglt=515& FORM=ANNTA1&PC=U531 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10092 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, thank you. I think I just remembered all the stairs and then misremembered them as being up, not down. It's 20 years since I was there, so time played some tricks on me. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1363 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, As well as being windowless with very low ceilings the vast majority of the gig room is painted matt black. This gives it the feel / look of a basement despite the fact that it is actually upstairs from the lounge / bar / kitchen of King Tuts. Extremely odd layout. | ||
| Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 223 Registered: 09-2004 |
Seeing the reformed Go-Betweens at King Tut's and hearing them play "To Reach Me" as their first song was by far the greatest live music moment of my life. "Never thought I'd ever hear from you..." Breathtaking! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10095 Registered: 05-2005 |
I remember one of the Webb Brothers, who were headlining the night I was in King Tut's, swinging from the low lying rafters. There was also a mostly girl band called Kirby, who were great too. And there was a third band, who I can't remember right now. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10096 Registered: 05-2005 |
This video on how fake news spreads is hilarious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EaTNuqw QW4 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10098 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've just been to see Antoinette dans les Cévennes. It was the most people I've seen in a cinema in about 18 months. Very good film. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1928 Registered: 10-2006 |
A Stevenson homage, I'm guessing, and also with the "funny one" from Call My Agent, so I hope to see it myself one day. Nothing bad happens to the donkey, right? Otherwise it's a no-no. So much French cinema is never seen abroad, but it has a strength in depth that often makes even its "smaller" works worth seeing. I'd never heard of Cycling with Moliere when I sat down to watch it a while back and it was excellent. I wish Sky would dedicate a channel to little-known European film. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10100 Registered: 05-2005 |
It is, Stuart. There’s a good explanation of Stevenson’s trip too. They do this very well - it could have come across as just so much exposition. My local arthouse cinema is good at showing French films, thankfully. I must check out Call My Agent. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1424 Registered: 04-2005 |
Here in France the cinemas are still not open  We also saw « Antoinette dans les Cévennes » last week, streamed from the Dordogne’s libraries site. Enjoyable and a good tourist advert for the Cévennes. As the French say a film « bon enfant ». Gentle humour. And no donkey bloodbath. I've never seen Call My Agent ("Dix pour cent") but know from friends that the agency is called ASK (Agence Samuel Kerr) which is a decidely un-French name and also the name of my son. He is currently suing the producers for unauthorised use of his name and the resulting trauma  | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10103 Registered: 05-2005 |
Panic On The Streets Of Springfield - that exceedingly rare thing, a funny Simpsons episode. So funny that its target, Mxxxxxxxy, took great umbrage. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1929 Registered: 10-2006 |
It will be the most, and most widespread, publicity he has had in years, so surely he should simply grit his teeth and grin. But, going on newspaper reports, attacking him for being a fat meat-eater, as well as some of the other more apparently pointed satire, seems a bit aimless, like mocking Trump for being a skinny ecologist. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10120 Registered: 05-2005 |
A fascinating interview with my favourite cartoonist, Peter Bagge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYU6fIYD Eqc | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10134 Registered: 05-2005 |
Two videos from a tribute concert to the late Andrew Brough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPBWOwS3 diA and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOBFuR3C jxI The singer/guitarist is Andrew Brough's brother and a lovely fella. I met him in Auckland a couple of years ago through a mutual friend. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 682 Registered: 08-2005 |
Just about to watch Italy vs Spain at the 2020 (sic) Euros. I'm a very occasional gambler - about a dozen bets in 15 years though I am in profit - but I should have put a fiver accumulator on the quarter-finals, all of which I correctly predicted. Instead I put my first bet in years on Richie Porte to finish in the first three of the Tour de France. He's presently about a week behind! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1432 Registered: 04-2005 |
A second film at the cinema since they reopened their doors here in France. The first was the excellent "Petite Maman" by Céline Sciamma. Possibly the shortest film that I've ever seen on the big screen at a mere 72 minutes, but hey it's quality that counts and not quantity. A beautiful film. Sciamma is a real artist. And last night was "Annette" by Leos Carax, made with Sparks. Frankly bonkers ! I'm not a huge fan of musicals and this morning I'm really not too sure what to think of it. Marion Cotillard seems a bit wasted in her role, but Adam Driver is convincing in his, a huge lumbering presence. Think I'll have to come back to you all on this one Apparently, quite incredibly, Sparks were involved in a film project with Jacques Tati back in the 70s that never saw the light of day. http://graphikdesigns.free.fr/jacques-ta ti-confusion.html | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1437 Registered: 04-2005 |
Nick Cave - 20,000 Days on Earth I'm not a huge Cave fan, but this is an very interesting film. https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/103878-000 -A/20-000-jours-sur-terre/ I never know whether the ARTE (a co French/German channel) site works outside those 2 countries, but they always have a fascinating selection of films and documentaries. The Townes Van Zandt documentary ("Be Here To Love Me") is there at the moment too. Someone from the States or Australia fancy giving that link a shot please ? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4661 Registered: 03-2005 |
Well, it loads up in California. But the screen that shows Cave has the following message: "Cette vidéo n'est pas disponible dans votre pays." | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1438 Registered: 04-2005 |
Ah OK merci Randy. Well it guess it looks to the IP address and if you're not in France or Germany doesn't work then. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 533 Registered: 05-2005 |
Friends has presented a wildlife documentary on the snow leopard in Cannes this year. Music composed in six days by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. Big success with several minutes of standing ovation. https://www.festival-cannes.com/fr/festi val/films/la-panthere-des-neiges | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10163 Registered: 05-2005 |
A trailer for the upcoming Microdisney documentary. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/--213 199/coming_soon | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1440 Registered: 04-2005 |
A great (and very informative) documentary about Moe Tucker's drumming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Y-qPgl JQ0 It seems amazing that for a band from over 60 years ago that only made 4 studio recordings can still generate such interest. But then again, they were truly unique. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10177 Registered: 05-2005 |
There is a David McComb documentary on the way https://www.loveinbrightlandscapes.com/ | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4673 Registered: 03-2005 |
That's a really big deal Pádraig. Thanks for posting this. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10179 Registered: 05-2005 |
The brilliant video for 3Ds’ Outer Space. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePvmxGA2 vqU | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1977 Registered: 10-2006 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92_ptDO_ hbU The wonderful Pomme. Very similar to the concert Andrew saw, I guess! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10183 Registered: 05-2005 |
A brilliant film about record collecting that I all too easily relate to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkCMSrvO TAo&t=0s | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 536 Registered: 05-2005 |
We're like stamp collectors. No future... | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1448 Registered: 04-2005 |
Ryűsuke Hamaguchi's film "Drive My Car". 3 hours long, but you just don't notice the time passing. Sublime. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10186 Registered: 05-2005 |
A great Echo & The Bunnymen short film, Life At Brian's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-0pCy2w 3VE | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1983 Registered: 10-2006 |
Italian X-Factor (auditions) Ah, good, here we are again, the judges all know each other now and are relaxed and funny and intelligent and, when they want to be, caustically authoritative. There are fewer Lana del ray wannabees amongst the auditioning contestants this year but a lot of tormented rappers. One lanky youth, like a teenage blond Peter Tork, ambled in lugubriously and informed everyone, “Yeah, this is a bit of rap I wrote myself, it’s called The Suicides.” (It wasn’t bad, actually.) But towards the end, glory be, a young girl bounced in and danced around and sang a song like an actual proper pop singer, like a youthful Sandy Shaw or Cyndi Lauper, and it was exhilarating. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 2041 Registered: 08-2006 |
If no one's seen it, I highly recommend Todd Haynes' new documentary on the Velvet Underground. Since I have immense affection for the band and have read several bios about them, I was a little wary of this but it really surprised me. It's almost more of a cultural study as opposed to some behind-the-music rehash of the band's story. He doesn't dwell on the salacious stuff and gossip and someone like John Cale, who had his issues with Lou, is gracious and insightful. Given that it's a bit experimental and pretty dry-eyed about it's subject, I was surprised to find myself strangely moved by the end of the film. Even if you don't have a lot of interest in the band it's a cool look at a time and a place that birthed a lot of talent. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 694 Registered: 08-2005 |
Rob, thanks for that. I like the Velvet Underground a lot so I shall give it a go. Not that we do Netflix/Apple or the like, but I'm sure I'll be able to find it somehow. I might even be able to get to see it on the big screen with a bit of luck. The trailer certainly looks very promising. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1452 Registered: 04-2005 |
Cheers Rob for that summary ! As a huge fan of the band I would love to see it too on the cinema screen. Managed to catch the Aretha Franklin "Amazing Grace" film in the cinema and it was a wonderful experience. Almost enough to turn you into a true believer and regular church-goer Never taken out a subscription to any of these streaming platforms, but it's maybe looming with the Beatles documentary coming out in November. I hate Disney though. I usually have enough to watch with films on the ARTE site and the 4 films a month free with our local library card. And still working through the 24 DVD Truffaut set !! | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 2043 Registered: 08-2006 |
Andrew, I feel the same way. So many of my co-workers maintain all these subscriptions - to Hulu, Disney, Apple+, Netflix, etc. I formerly only had a Netflix subscription, which, given that I've never had cable TV and so never paid to watch anything outside a movie theater, seemed extravagant. And given that I rarely watch TV, it seemed like plenty. The only reason I signed up for Apple+ is I get all the streaming music, plus the TV function, plus extra storage in my iCloud drive. And, bonus, the VU doc! If you make it through that Truffaut set I think you should get some kind of official recognition (not because Truffaut isn't great, just that 24 DVDs is A LOT). | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1453 Registered: 04-2005 |
Rob, My partner got the Truffaut collection as a birthday present 4 years ago ! Just watched "Le Dernier Métro" so only 2 to go At the weekend saw Kelly Reichardt's "First Cow" at the cinema. An absolute gem. At a couple of moments we see a guy playing the fiddle (badly!), credited as Stephen Malkmus ! We were in Paris last week and just missed a retrospective of her work at the Pompidou centre by a few days. I'd love to see some more of her films, especially on the big screen. Here's the Guardian's review from last year. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/fe b/22/first-cow-review-kelly-reichardt-su perbly-chewy-tale-of-milk-cakes-in-the-o ld-west Maybe it's just a coincidence but the 3 filmmakers whose work has impressed me the most in the last year are women...Reichardt, Céline Sciamma and Alice Rohrwacher. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2001 Registered: 10-2006 |
What are your stand out Truffaut films so far, Andrew? I watched many of them as a young man, though they rarely had the same impact on me as some of his contemporaries like Louis Malle. Perhaps it was something to do with the frequent presence of Jean-Pierre Léaud, who got on my nerves for some reason. Isn't there one that ends with Marie France Pisier winding down the shutters of a book shop, or am I transferring that from elsewhere? And what a weird life she went on to have, it seems. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2004 Registered: 10-2006 |
TEKE TEKE - Full Performance (Live on KEXP at Home) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej0LV6MC teo Several songs live from the Montreal/Japanese collective I mentioned on song of the day. Any band with a flute and trombone upfront are going to get my attention, but here we also have gleeful singer Maya Kuroki with a voice robust enough to cut through all that busy buzz of instrumentation. Highly invigorating. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1454 Registered: 04-2005 |
Short but so sweet. The Everly Brothers - Kentucky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4LiID96 SjQ I saw them in Edinburgh in the 80s and those voices were still beautiful. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1455 Registered: 04-2005 |
Stuart, There were quite a few that I hadn't seen that were excellent..."La Nuit américaine", "L'Enfant sauvage" and "L'Histoire d'Adčle H" stand out. I love the Antoine Doinel films. It'a amazing to watch Léaud in his audition...at 14 he has such confidence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sThPjkkK Ydo The film with Pisier is "L'Amour en fuite" (the last of the Dionel cycle). Here are the 3 principal actresses talking about the film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sWxbynt eBM | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 192 Registered: 05-2005 |
It looks like The Triffids documentary is being shown more widely in the next couple of days. The website seems unfinished. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1456 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hello Trou ! Your friends' film "La Panthčre des neiges" is showing this weekend at the festival in Sarlat. I'll try and go ! The film festival is celebrating its 30th birthday. It is organised by the students of the local lycée (where both my kids went), where you can study cinema. https://festivaldufilmdesarlat.com/proch aine-edition/ | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 541 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hello Andrew, Cheers to Vincent and Marie from Trou if you meet them... I'll see the film next week in a northern France festival.. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2024 Registered: 10-2006 |
Reading up about Hunky Dory alerted me to the fact that Trident studio’s 1898 Bechstein grand piano was a key instrument in rock and pop music – Bowie, Space Oddity to Aladdin Sane, Elton J, Elton John to Madman, Beatles, Hey Jude, Queen, 7 seas of rye etc, Supertramp, Carly Simon (You’re so vain), Genesis, Harry Nilsson etc. Ken Scott said, “I have heard many pianos in my time but I have never heard a better "rock" piano than that one.” There’s also this nice little video about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tesy80w wR0 | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1463 Registered: 04-2005 |
Cheers Stuart, that was indeed very nice ! The presenter looks about 11 years old ? I'm currently trying to decide for how long I can hold out before cracking for a month's subscription to Disney for the Beatles' documentaries. I've never entered that world of streaming subscriptions but all those brief (illegal) teasers on YouTube might force me ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VrYIQMD gtc Reckon that Lennon was dyeing his sideburns ? | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2025 Registered: 10-2006 |
So young, yes. They're everywhere, youth. The last doctor who checked me out before my vaccine, I wanted to ask him for his birth certificate. The Beatles are hard to exhaust, I've been through the 8-VHS documentary at least twice and would probably watch it again if I still had a recorder connected up. Rare that a group is composed of four so facinating (and smart and funny) figures and then that together they are also so inextricably woven into the fabric of their times. I saw the clip with Paul vamping his way into Get back, taking the piss out the sound engineer (Paul does good posh) and George yawning throughout, probably thinking, "Well it's not exactly Something, is it now?" | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1464 Registered: 04-2005 |
"they are also so inextricably woven into the fabric of their times" I'm not exactly of their times, being born in '62, but the first record I ever bought was a Beatles album. Trying to explain to my children how culturally important the Beatles must have been at that period is somewhat of a lost battle. And my children both like music, but it doesn't hold the central place in their lives, like it did (does ?!) for me. And trying to describe how the Beatles went from "Love Me Do" to "Tomorrow Never Knows" in 4 years... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10232 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mate of Easttown. Wow. Believe the hype. It's fantastic. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10234 Registered: 05-2005 |
That should be Mare Of Easttown, of course. I've just watched a documentary about Fairytale Of New York. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUSNzqqL FT0 Oh, and I've also been watching a show called The Flight Attendant. It strikes me as a stupid person's idea of an intelligent TV program. Make of that what you will. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2032 Registered: 10-2006 |
Wasn't it awful? Something that might have just worked if dialled down and played straight but instead dialled WAY WAY UP, especially Kaley Cuoco. Unwatchable. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2033 Registered: 10-2006 |
There's a good rainy afternoon film on Netflix at the moment, Wind River. Tough stuff! Good performances all round, an unforgiving winter landscape and a man burdened with grief who's got to do what a man's got to do. Well-written & gripping, plus a typically effective appearance by Jon Bernthal - virtually a cameo, but beautifully done. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2035 Registered: 10-2006 |
James Acaster - Repertoire (Netflix) I’ve always been mightily impressed by those who have the wit, skill, energy and discipline to hone a performance night after night into a well-oiled thing of beauty. I’ve been trying to acquaint myself with the new generation of British comics, having skipped a couple of generations, I suppose Stewart Lee is the last big name to come to mind. Acaster isn’t a gag man, he weaves a sort of surreal narrative involving various identities, folding in typical observational comedy and autobiography, sometimes delivering a punchline when you least expect it and combining this with sudden outbursts of physical comedy. The show on Netflix is four different performances but all inter-related and inter-referential so that he kind of builds up a series of comic patterns that become funnier each time he goes back to them. There is a joke about cows which is so well put together I kind of gasped and laughed at the same time. Anyway, I immediately ordered the only two books he’s written, figuring that anyone as smartarse as this can probably write well too. We shall see. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1466 Registered: 04-2005 |
Trou, Finally got to see your friends' film "La Panthčre des neiges" at our local cinema this afternoon. Absolutement magnifique ! La beauté, l'émotion, la poésie des images et la philosophie. At the end there was spontaneous applause from the cinema goers. Seems to be going to get a UK release in 2022 under the title "The Velvet Queen". A film to make the effort to go and see in the cinema on a big screen. This is the English trailer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7k4P-A2 gPE Great music by Warren Ellis and Nick Cave. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 543 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hello Andrew, I still haven't seen it (not distributed in Belgium)... but already more than 300.000 spectators in the french cinemas ... Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - We Are Not Alone (La Panthčre des Neiges) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGVhwgHI y74 | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1467 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hi Trou, A friend took her children to see it the day before we went and said that they were completely mesmerised by the images. And that there was the same spontaneous clapping at the end It doesn't really need saying, but what have we done to the world in which we exist ? To destroy so much which is beautiful and natural is clearly insanity. As is our sheer arrogance towards our fellow animals. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1473 Registered: 04-2005 |
And "La Panthčre des Neiges" won best documentary at the "Césars 2022" (French Oscars) ! Pentangle live on Belgian TV in 1972 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3DFCXaq Lrg Wonderful. Once again a posting on this great blog https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.c om/ | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 2045 Registered: 08-2006 |
Dunno if anyone saw this, but here's Patti Smith singing the Ukrainian nation anthem. Pretty cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=deskto p&v=tk8GW1DmmHo&fbclid=IwAR1iuHxIcpSrqOP gstno5K-s9JW-CVUQjogLiwWjujuNx-ZMeqW98Di decE | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4731 Registered: 03-2005 |
World on Fire, first season. I was blown away by this series dramatizing the runup to WWII when I first watched it maybe a year ago or so. I decided to watch it again, binging through the first three parts last night. I wondered how it would look to me in light of current events. I found myself crying like a baby through so many of the scenes. Thank you for that Patti Smith link, Rob. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2075 Registered: 10-2006 |
WOF not available here, unfortunately, might arrive one day. My own weepy watching is provided by This is us at the mo'. Big American Emotions combined with the snappiest dialogue since Gilmore Girls days. Anything that can make Russell T Davies go green with envy must be pretty good! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4737 Registered: 03-2005 |
A segment of a Nińa Lobo concert in Montevideo, Uruguay in December 2020. Uruguay was one of the earlier countries to be vaccinated, theoretically making a December 2020 concert feasible. As we all learned the following year, the vaccines were not quite the get-out-of-jail-free card that we thought. Like everywhere else Uruguay has suffered through multiple Covid surges since then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ1rec4w OZ8 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4738 Registered: 03-2005 |
More Nińa Lobo, this time pre-Covid. They're a good band onstage, with balanced vocal harmonies and good band discipline. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXyFZdws 65Q | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2088 Registered: 10-2006 |
Celest – Full Performance (Live on KEXP) Some of Mexican band Celest’s music veers into a sort of soft-centred Latin pop that I can take or leave but this KEXP session seems to encourage their rockier side, so my first thought was something like, oh, Nana Mouskouri fronting Ride, which is not a bad idea. Good solid drumming, lovely harmonies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXlLKqky tHo | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2091 Registered: 10-2006 |
Almost by chance, a Mads Mikkelsen sort of trilogy: Riders of Justice, Another round, Arctic. I suppose the link might be male solitude in the modern world, though perhap that would be stretching it. He is, anyway, and my wife will offer intense backup here, an immensely alluring performer. His dance at the end of Another round is one of the most life-enhancing moments in cinema. |