Lásky jedné plavovlásky (Loves of a blonde or A Blonde in love in the english version) is a 1965 Czechoslovakian film directed by Milos Forman. Revered as one of the finest examples of foreign cinema ever produced, the film paints a portrait of small town… Continue Reading
Written and directed by American cinematographer Po Chan, The Last 3 Minutes is an unashamedly tear-jerking flashback through a dying man’s life. Every shot is lovingly crafted and there are some beautiful American landscapes, as one might expect from an American DoP.… Continue Reading
Tokyo Police Club is an indie rock band from Newmarket, Canada. It consists of vocalist and bassist David Monks, keyboardist Graham Wright, guitarist Josh Hook and drummer Greg Alsop. The band formed in 2005 while playing for fun in a basement after the four had disbanded from a previous… Continue Reading
Tokyo! is a 2008 anthology film containing three segments written by three non-Japanese directors, all of which were filmed in Tokyo, Japan. Michel Gondry directed “Interior Design”, Leos Carax directed “Merde”, and Bong Joon-Ho directed “Shaking Tokyo”. The last one centers on a man who has lived… Continue Reading
Friday the 13th is a 1980 American slasher film directed by Sean S. Cunningham and written by Victor Miller. The film concerns a group of teenagers who are murdered one by one while attempting to re-open an abandoned campground. It… Continue Reading
This short film is a nicely twisted take on the fun we have carving pumpkins, only that it’s told from the point of view of a pumpkin. It follows a pumpkin that is kidnapped from a pumpkin patch, stabbed and… Continue Reading
Die Antwoord is a South African rap-rave group formed in Cape Town in 2008. Fronted by rappers Ninja and Yo-Landi Vi$$er and backed by DJ Hi Tek. Their image involves a counterculture movement called zef (described as modern and trashy,… Continue Reading
Låt den Rätte Komma In (“Let the right one in” in the english version) is a 2008 Swedish romantic horror film directed by Tomas Alfredson, based on the 2004 novel of the same title by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who also… Continue Reading
Barfly is a 1987 American film which is a semi-autobiography of poet/author Charles Bukowski during the time he spent drinking heavily in Los Angeles. The screenplay by Bukowski was commissioned by the French film director Barbet Schroeder and published with… Continue Reading
Offside is the second short film in the trilogy by Erez Tadmor & Guy Nattiv regarding the Middle East conflict. This one is a follow-up to their last short film Strangers. Offside was shot in Israel, during September 2005, at… Continue Reading
Chris Clark is an English electronic musician who performs under the mononym Clark. He is currently signed to Warp Records. Clark’s music is generally considered to fall under the genre of electronic music, although Clark himself finds this label ambiguous and… Continue Reading
Oh Boy (A coffee in Berlin in the english version) is a 2012 German comedy film directed by Jan-Ole Gerster. It is the director’s debut film in black and white, and thesis project for the German Film and Television Academy in… Continue Reading
La Grande Bouffe (The big feast or Blow-Out in the english version) is a 1973 French–Italian film. Subversive Italian satirist Marco Ferreri directed and co-wrote (with Rafael Azcona) this grotesquely amusing French black comedy about four men who grow sick of… Continue Reading
A young African boy with a haunting back story starts school in Ireland, and finds out quickly exactly what it means to be the new kid. Winner of Best Narrative Short at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and nominated for… Continue Reading
Metronomy is an electronic music group formed by Joseph Mount in Totnes, Devon, England in 1999. The current band consists of Joseph Mount (composer, singer, keyboards and guitar), Oscar Cash (saxophone, backing vocals, guitars and keyboards), Anna Prior (drums and vocals)… Continue Reading
Crazy Heart is a 2009 American drama film, written and directed by Scott Cooper and based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Thomas Cobb. Jeff Bridges plays a down-and-out country music singer-songwriter who tries to turn his… Continue Reading
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is a 1958 American low-budget science fiction feature film directed by Nathan H. Juran (credited as Nathan Hertz) from a screenplay by Mark Hanna. The story concerns the plight of a wealthy heiress whose close… Continue Reading
The Saddest Boy in the World is a short film directed by Jamie Travis, which follows young Timothy Higgins as he reflects on the many reasons he is compelled to hang himself at his ninth birthday party. It has a clear… Continue Reading
Little Dragon are a Swedish electronic music band from Gothenburg, formed in 1996. The band consists of Yukimi Nagano (vocals, percussion), Erik Bodin (drums), Fredrik Källgren Wallin (bass) and Håkan Wirenstrand (keyboards). Little Dragon’s first release was the double A-side 7″… Continue Reading
A dedicated young German boy pulls off an elaborate scheme to keep his mother in good health in this comedy drama from director Wolfgang Becker. Hailed as the Best European Film at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival, Goodbye Lenin! is set… Continue Reading
Bad Lieutenant is a 1992 American crime drama film directed by Abel Ferrara. The film stars Harvey Keitel as the eponymous “bad lieutenant”. The screenplay was written by actress-model Zoë Lund, who also plays a small role in the film.… Continue Reading
Based on a true story, Bus 44 takes place on the outskirts of a small town and tells the story of a bus driver (Gong) and her passengers’ encounter with highway robbers. The Short film was written & directed by Chinese-American filmmaker… Continue Reading
Chet Faker is an Australian electronica musician. In 2012 he signed to Downtown Records in the United States and issued an extended play, Thinking in Textures. In October that year he won Breakthrough Artist of the Year and Thinking in… Continue Reading
A shy trainee massage therapist at a luxury hotel on the German coast strikes up a very unusual friendship with a loud, no-nonsense apprentice from the kitchen in Love Steaks, the second feature of precocious filmmaker Jakob Lass (the film… Continue Reading
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a 1970 American schlock melodrama, in which three girls come to Hollywood to make it big, but find only sex, drugs and sleaze. The film starred Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John… Continue Reading
Written and directed by Ben Phelps, Checkpoint is a short film in which an encounter ends in tragedy when a Lebanese-Australian family is harassed by a group of soldiers at a checkpoint in outback Australia.
Wild Beasts are an indie rock band from Kendal, England. They released their first single, “Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants”, on Bad Sneakers Records in November 2006, and subsequently signed to Domino Records. They have released four acclaimed albums, Limbo, Panto… Continue Reading
Broken Flowers is a 2005 French-American comedy-drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and produced by Jon Kilik and Stacey Smith. The film focuses on an aging “Don Juan” (Bill Murray) who embarks on a cross-country journey to track… Continue Reading
Schwarzfahrer (Black Rider in english) is a 1993 German 12-minute Short film directed by Pepe Danquart. It won an Academy Award in 1994 for Best Short Subject. The Short film is about an incident of colour related racism on a tram… Continue Reading
The Peach Kings are Texas-born Paige Wood and Silver Lake, Los Angeles native Steven Dies. The band’s sound is a playful exchange of dynamic vocals and riff-heavy guitar. Comparisons and influences aside, The Peach Kings arrive at a sound that is wholly… Continue Reading
25th Hour is a 2002 American drama film directed by Spike Lee and starring Edward Norton. Based on the novel The 25th Hour by David Benioff, who also wrote the screenplay, it tells the story of a man’s last 24… Continue Reading
Goodfellas is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a film adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese. The film follows the rise and fall of Lucchese… Continue Reading
Germany 1942: In order to protect her son, Marianne Meissner tried to make him believe that the Jewish neighbors are going on a journey to ‘Toyland’. One morning her son has disappeared – the Jewish neighbors too. Spielzeugland (Toyland) is a… Continue Reading
Chazwick Bradley Bundick (born November 7, 1986), better known by his stage name Toro y Moi, is an American recording artist and producer. His music has taken on many forms since he began recording, but he is often identified with… Continue Reading
Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (a breakthrough performance by Ellar Coltrane), who literally grows up on screen before… Continue Reading
Delicatessen is a 1991 French film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, starring Dominique Pinon and Karin Viard. It is set in an apartment building in a post-apocalyptic France of an ambiguous time period. The story focuses on the… Continue Reading
A beautifully crafted Short film by Dennis Villeneuve based on an idea by Phoebe Greenberg. During an opulent and luxurious banquet, complete with cavalier servers and valets, eleven pampered guests participate in what appears to be a ritualistic gastronomic carnage.… Continue Reading
Beach House is a dream pop duo from Baltimore, Maryland, formed in 2004. The band consists of French-born Victoria Legrand and Baltimore native Alex Scally. Their self-titled debut album was released in 2006 to critical acclaim and has been followed… Continue Reading
Adams Äpfel (Adam’s Apples) is a 2005 Danish black comedy film that revolves around the theme of the Book of Job. An overly-optimistic preacher (Mads Mikkelsen) with a penchant for taking in lost causes to help around his remote church, finds… Continue Reading
Duel is a 1971 television (and later full-length theatrical) thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Richard Matheson. It stars Dennis Weaver as a terrified motorist stalked on a remote and lonely road by the mostly unseen driver… Continue Reading