Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) is a 1988 Italian drama film written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. The film offers a nostalgic look at films and the effect they have on a young boy who grows up in and around the title village movie… Continue Reading
Inbetween Movies is a new Swiss electro-shoegazing act, enchanting with dream pop and classic indie melodies. Lava, their first single, is embedded in cinematic elements. The track is about chance: nothing is predictable, everything is changeable. The song was inspired… Continue Reading
Nathan John Feuerstein known by his initials NF is an American rapper, singer and songwriter. Feuerstein has credited Eminem as his prime influence in hip hop, claiming that at one point that was all he listened to. NF’s style has also been compared to Logic and Machine Gun… Continue Reading
El bar (The bar in the english version) is a 2017 Spanish black comedy thriller film directed, produced and co-written by Álex de la Iglesia. A group of completely different people are trapped inside a cafe in Madrid; anyone that leaves is immediately shot by… Continue Reading
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a 1987 American comedy film written, produced, and directed by John Hughes. The film stars Steve Martin as Neal Page, a high-strung marketing executive, who meets Del Griffith, played by John Candy, an eternally optimistic, outgoing, overly talkative, and clumsy shower curtain ring salesman.… Continue Reading
Small Black is an American indie band from Brooklyn, New York. After releasing the critically acclaimed Small Black EP, the band signed to Jagjaguwar to release their debut full length, New Chain (2010). Their second full length, Limits of Desire was released in May 2013, with the single “No Stranger” a mainstay… Continue Reading
Sam starts working at Spoetnik, a clandestine chips stand named after its specialty. Right across the street is a brothel with an alluring girl who evidently needs Sam’s help. A slightly surreal tale of love at first sight, Noël Loozen’s Spoetnik doesn’t do… Continue Reading
Michael Volpe, professionally known as Clams Casino is an Italian-American record producer and songwriter from Nutley, New Jersey. His music has been described as a mix of conventional hip-hop drums, a sensitive ear for off-to-the-side melodies, and an overdose of oddly moving atmosphere. Associated… Continue Reading
MGMT (pronounced “Management”) are a genre-bending psychedelic synth-pop duo, formed in 2002 at Wesleyan University. Originally with Cantora Records, they signed with Columbia and RED Ink in 2006 and released their debut album Oracular Spectacular the next year. After the release of Oracular Spectacular, Congratulations was released on 2010. In 2011 they began work… Continue Reading
The War of the Roses is a 1989 American black comedy film based upon the 1981 novel of the same name by Warren Adler. The film follows a wealthy couple with a seemingly perfect marriage. When their marriage begins to fall apart, material possessions become the center… Continue Reading
La Ville des pirates (City of pirates in the english version) is a 1983 French fantasy film directed by Raúl Ruiz. Made during Ruiz’s most active and fruitful era of filmmaking, the film is considerably one of Ruiz’ best works and exemplifies several recurring… Continue Reading
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape is a 1993 American drama film directed by Lasse Hallström and starring Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Darlene Cates and Leonardo DiCaprio. The film follows 24-year-old Gilbert (Depp), a grocery store clerk caring for his morbidly obese… Continue Reading
On the night before Christmas, a man will commit a desperate act. A tale about morality and the holiday season, by director DC Kasundra and cinematographer Tom Krymkowski, with an original composition of “Carol of the Bells” by Gene Hudson;… Continue Reading
Ich seh, Ich seh (Goodnight Mummy in the english version) is a 2014 Austrian horror film based on capgras syndrome of identical twin boys. After undergoing a cosmetic facial surgery, a woman (Susanne Wuest) comes back home to her modern, isolated lakeside house and to her… Continue Reading
Valerie a tide divů (Valerie and Her Week of Wonders in the english version) is a 1970 Czechoslovakian surrealist horror film directed by Jaromil Jireš and based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Vítězslav Nezval. The film portrays the heroine as living in a disorienting dream, cajoled by priests, vampires,… Continue Reading
Monogrenade is a francophone band based in Montreal. After releasing their first EP in 2009, entitled La saveur des fruits on Paper Bag Records, they came in second place at the 2010 edition of Les Francouvertes. The band gained quite some attention when the video for their song Ce soir was… Continue Reading
Glas is a 1958 short documentary film by director and producer Bert Haanstra. The film won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject in 1959. The film is about the glass industry in the Netherlands. It contrasts the handmade crystal… Continue Reading
Sweet Sugar is a 1972 blaxploitation women in prison film directed by Michel Levesque, about a woman sentenced to work on a chain gang. A prostitute, Sugar Bowman, agrees to serve two years working on a sugar-cane plantation rather than go to jail on a… Continue Reading