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Music Review : Tribulation – The Children of the Night (2015)
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Apr 28, 2015
Music Review : Tribulation – The Children of the Night (2015, Century
Media)
Coming from
Sweden, the black/death impersonating of progressive rock metal of Tribulation
might be the next Ghost
B.C. but with greater depth the quartet brings aggressivity and hanger to a
genre that seemed read more
Come and See
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Apr 27, 2015
Come and See
aka Idi i smotri (Elem Klimov, 1985)
After finding an old
rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet Army and experiences the horrors of World
War II.
Often
described as the most realistic War film ever made, Elem Klimov’s final film, Come
and See is a tour de force of
acting, cine read more
Music Review : The Mountain Goats – Beat the Champ (2015)
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Apr 23, 2015
Music Review : The Mountain Goats
– Beat the Champ (2015, Merge)
With their
indie rock infused with melancholy and a certain naive charm, The Mountain
Goats released a new record based around wrestling and the ecosystem it is
linked with. Scrumy basement rings and a respect for the dis read more
Music Review : Lightning Bolt – Fantasy Empire (2015)
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Apr 22, 2015
Music Review : Lightning Bolt – Fantasy Empire (2015, Thrill Jockey)
The noise
rock duo of Lightning Bolt has done it again for a seventh time with their new
album Fantasy Empire.
Playing with
high intensity and fast tempos it is at first almost exhausting to listen to
their music. read more
Music Review : Alambik – Utopie (2015)
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Apr 21, 2015
Music Review : Alambik – Utopie (2015, Label For Rent)
Rising from
the country of Portneuf near Quebec City, the four-piece Alambik has recently
released their second album Utopie.
Working with Jef Fortin of thrash
metal band Anonymus, the production has a contemporary sound and a nice read more
Analyzing Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining For The Great Villain Blogathon
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Apr 13, 2015
Analyzing Jack Torrance in Stanley
Kubrick’s The Shining For The Great Villain Blogathon 2015
As anyone who
followed this blog for many years, you can easily guess that Stanley Kubrick is my favorite movie
director, it is also a given that The
Shining is my
favorite film from his filmography read more
The Exterminating Angel
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Apr 10, 2015
The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, 1962) The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave. Often described as the twin film to director Luis Buñuel’s own The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Exterminating Angel is a surrealist exercise of style and screenw read more
Beau travail
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Apr 9, 2015
Beau travail
(Claire Denis, 1999)
This film focuses on an
ex-Foreign Legion officer as he recalls his once glorious life, leading troops
in Africa.
This
critically acclaimed film by Claire
Denis is a beautiful tale of manhood in the 20th Century. A century that
was punctuated by wars and the evo read more
India Song
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Apr 7, 2015
India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1975)
Poetical tale of Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in India in the 1930s. At 18 she had married a French colonial administrator and went with him on posting to Savannakhet, Laos.
Visually stunning and populated with long shots of almost st read more
Music Review : Viet Cong – Viet Cong (2015)
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Apr 3, 2015
Music Review : Viet Cong – Viet Cong (2015, Jagjaguwar)
Playing noise
rock, art rock, post-punk, indie rock, well rock infused with all those labels,
Viet Cong’s self titled record goes
and flows in seven songs with a sad hook like early Interpol or 1980’s The
Cure. Only the read more
Él
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Apr 2, 2015
Él (Luis Bunuel, 1953) Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on her becoming his wife and courts her until she agrees to marry him. With the important number of films by Luis Bunuel that are availabl read more
Music Review : Dodheimsgard – A Umbra Omega (2015)
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Apr 1, 2015
Music Review : Dodheimsgard – A Umbra Omega (2015)
In the early
to mid 1990’s a bunch of Norwegian musicians were a part of the rise of the
second wave of black metal, one of the most infamous genre in music history. Of
this bunch many disappeared after a few years but tho read more
Music Review : Enslaved – In Times (2015)
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 31, 2015
Music Review :
Enslaved – In Times (2015)
Coming from a string of acclaimed albums from Below the Lights , ISA, Ruun, Vertebrae, Axioma Ethica Odini, and RIITIIR,
the Norwegian progressive black metal masters of Enslaved have put in front
their rock influences like Rush, Pink Flolyd a read more
Music Review : Melechesh – Enki (2015)
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 30, 2015
Music Review : Melechesh – Enki (2015)
Mostly known
for being one of the most important Extreme Metal band coming from Israel, Melechesh who deported themselves in
the Netherlands a few years ago claim to be playing Assyrian Metal mixing some
elements of black, death, and middle eastern read more
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 27, 2015
The Criminal Life of
Archibaldo de la Cruz (Luis Bunuel, 1955)
The delirious journey of
a mental disordered man, who is obsessed in making the perfect crime.
Another film
from Luis Bunuel’s Mexican period, The
Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz, works on many recurrent themes of
the di read more
Link: Editors Guild Selects 75 Best Edited Films of All Time
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 26, 2015
Here is a list of the 10 best edited films of all time from Rope of Silicon's list of the 75 best edited films of all time.
Raging Bull (Thelma Schoonmaker, 1980)
Citizen Kane (Robert Wise, 1941)
Apocalypse Now (Lisa Fruchtman, Gerald B. Greenberg, Walter Murch, 1979)
All That Jazz (Alan Heim, read more
Catching on 2014 Music : Young and in the Way – When Life Comes to Death (2014)
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 25, 2015
Music Review : Young
and in the Way – When Life Comes to Death
(2014)
Formed in Charlotte, North Carolina, YAITW are a blackened
crust punk band or a crust punk band playing black metal. In fact, they are
using various elements of each genre to form their own particular sound.
As read more
Music Review : Marduk – Frontschwein (2015)
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 23, 2015
Music Review : Marduk – Frontschwein (2015)
For 25 years
Marduk is at the forefront of Extreme metal. At first, the Swedish outfit was
playing death metal and progressively endorsed black metal elements such as
fast uncompromising aggressive elements of the young genre. With Frontschwei read more
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Le Mot du Cinephiliaque Posted by Michael on Mar 18, 2015
Kumiko, the Treasure
Hunter (David Zellner, 2014)
A jaded Japanese woman
discovers a hidden copy of Fargo (1996) on VHS, believing it to be a treasure map indicating the
location of a large case of money.
Just like Fargo itself, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter is based on a true story. We read more