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Night of the Living Dead & Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Race and Capitalism in Trump’s America

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History has puzzling patterns. Michelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman (two film directors who both explored the post-World War II malaise of European society) died on the same day in 2007. Ten years later another juxtaposition was just as revealing about American society. George Romero (who directed the most politically charged horror film of the 1960s) …

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The Wild Pear Tree (2018)

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Saliha Enzenauer
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Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan “You know, sometimes things I see in you, me and even Grandad remind me of a wild pear tree. I don’t know. We’re all misfits, solitary, misshapen.“ Nuri Bilge Ceylan is at the peak of his powers and on an impressive roll: since the Turkish auteur made his first feature film …

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Melancholia (2011)

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Melancholia is a very special film for me, coming from my favorite director in cinema, the Danish Lars von Trier. The story begins with the opera “Tristan und Isolde“, by the legendary composer Richard Wagner. While we listen to it we see the space trajectory of a mysterious and unknown planet that is getting closer …

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Winter Sleep (2014)

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Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan “Not seeing a man for what he is, idolizing him like a god, and then being mad at him, because he’s not a god. Do you think that’s fair?” Inspired by three short stories by Anton Chekhov and some of Dostoevsky’s writings, Winter Sleep is the most ambitious film by the …

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Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid & Her 26 Years With Bowie: Black, Muslim, Not Existent In The Narrative

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I’m always my father’s daughter, and I’ll always be a Somali girl. And that is the pride that you put in yourself, the pride of yourself and never lowering your worth. You don’t have to lower yourself. They’ll meet you where you stand. Iman (Originally published on April 8, 2021, this article was the most …

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Bryan Ferry – Another Time, Another Place (1974)

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The last film was shot and I put my camera and flash in my bag. One last cigarette before I would head home, and I watched the buzz around me that got slowly muted by the upcoming dawn. The waiters started picking up glasses and shards around the pool; carefree beauties swimming and kissing between …

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An Interview with Ripley Johnson (Rose City Band)

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Ripley Johnson is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter for Wooden Shjips, Moon Duo, and his most recent project Rose City Band. Rose City Band’s newest album Earth Trip will be released through Thrill Jockey Records on June 25. Ripley Johnson’s music has been described as “dazzled psychedelic wandering” (AllMusic), “some of the decade’s most mesmerizing …

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Benjamin Biolay – Rose Kennedy (2001)

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La vie est presque belle- Life is almost beautiful. Benjamin Biolay (‘Novembre Toute L’année’) ‘Rose Kennedy’ (2001) is the spellbinding debut of Benjamin Biolay, an album like no other that holds a special place in this great French artist’s discography. The wonder and amazement starts with the fact that a young French musician records a …

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Iggy Pop on Steve Reich’s ‘Music For 18 Musicians’ (1978)

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Suddenly I felt anger and shame This record is important to me, because in a certain way it saved me. When Music For 18 Musicians was released, I lived the rock’n’roll lifestyle with every fibre of my body and continued to incite myself. I went through every wall with my head first. I tried to …

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Japan – Nightporter (1983)

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I first heard Nightporter whilst listening to the Top 40 on Radio 1 one Sunday evening. It was sandwiched incongruously between Supertramp and Dionne Warwick.  The elegant simplicity and lack of clutter in the sound created space in my head. Everything else seemed clattering and brash by comparison; it was uniquely at odds with the world. I …