tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73536002781861591832024-03-13T02:46:31.207+00:00-Movies on my Mind-A rant about popular culture and industryMovies on my Mindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01728634451204645148noreply@blogger.comBlogger309125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353600278186159183.post-25291894229350661162015-12-27T15:12:00.004+00:002015-12-31T12:59:59.338+00:002015 Was a Year of Hollywood Fan Fiction<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCX181815039" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">“As this generation of baby boomers gre</span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">w older, they still clung to the infantilism of their youth.”</span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> Melanie Phillips, British journalist and columnist.</span><span class="EOP SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Cinema was pretty rotten this year. It was riddled with the dead franchises of yesteryear, somehow revived for audiences desperate to hold on to stuff of their formative years. It’s such a weird phenomena that no-one seems perturbed by its presence, perhaps </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">signalling</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> a much bigger issue in which adults look for constant comfort by revisiting resurrected material linking to their childhoods. 2015 was a year where dormant film titles were dusted off and pushed back into cinemas so that moviegoers could engage in regressive cultural consumption, eager to settle for things they’re familiar with over blockbusters that were new concepts.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The madness of this situation tells more about how wide the berth of movie reminiscence </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">sits</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">. You’ve effectively got four generations of audiences flocking to see the reanimated cadavers of dead movie franchises, most often grown adults needing to suck on the proverbial teat of movie nostalgia.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Below are the guilty culprits:</span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> </span><span class="EOP SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">You can’t get a more pro-establishment and conservative film brand than the </span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Star Wars</span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> franchise (Ronald </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Reagan</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> loved it). This has always been a showcase for childish excess, an overlong advert to sell toys and memorabilia, propped up by a series of movies taken so seriously by audiences that one must question their saneness.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">The Force Awakens</span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> was fan fiction of the highest order. Coming a decade after the last George Lucas helmed prequel, this film jettisoned the man with the plan (as in originator Lucas) and brought in a new collection of personnel who were more fanboys than creative </span><span class="SpellingError SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">groundbreakers</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">. Director-writer J.J. Abrams essentially remade 1977’s </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">A New Hope</span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> with enough recombined elements to satisfy indiscriminate tastes. This is what currently qualifies as material destined to be the biggest hit of all time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Released 14 years after the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">lacklustre</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> performance of </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Jurassic Park III</span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">, Universal Pictures commissioned a new team of filmmakers to revive the franchise’s fortunes by producing </span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">the</span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> fan fiction blockbuster of summer 2015.</span><span class="EOP SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The public went bananas for it; with audiences eager to bask in the nostalgia of watching </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">computerised</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> dinosaurs do whatever they did back in 1993 all over again, only this time somehow looking more like soulless software than before. </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Jurassic World</span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> was replete with sequences and set pieces that shamelessly ripped-off sequences and set pieces of its forbearer. There was nothing new to see here, yet we still went in our droves and treated it as something worthwhile. It wasn’t.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">When the director of the original </span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Terminator</span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> appeared in a promotional campaign extolling the virtues of a new fan fiction </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">instalment</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> of his original baby, we knew something was rotten in Hollywood.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">James Cameron had nothing to do with this fifth version of the </span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Terminator</span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> franchise other than not say anything bad about it. Lucky for Jim that we the audience defamed </span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Terminator </span><span class="SpellingError SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Genisys</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> on his behalf because the film sucks. </span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Terminator </span><span class="SpellingError SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Genisys</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">was, not unlike previous instalments, a picture that constantly riffs on </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">recognisable</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> moments seen in the 1984 original, tipping its hat and expecting us to applaud it. It watered down the violence and upped the nostalgia factor, all in the service of a movie that was made because the studio has a limited window of opportunity to exploit the property before the rights revert back to Lucky Jim. It was a characterless product that has pretty much killed off the franchise, hopefully.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This fan fiction flop overestimated America’s love for a franchise that has never been considered−−by most grey matter-blessed citizens, at least−−as anything other than overproduced toilet </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">humour</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">. </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Vacation</span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> peddled forth a series of skits that are designed to service an absent sense of nostalgia for the original </span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">National Lampoon’s Vacation</span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">, even wheeling out geriatric versions of Chevy Chase and </span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Beverly D'Angelo </span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">as senior figureheads of the Griswold clan, while also throwing in enough variations of Lindsey Buckingham’s </span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Holiday Road</span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> signature track. In a summer littered with crap that homages its predecessors’, bringing back this so-called ‘classic’ proved to be an exercise in serious brand unawareness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Creed</span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> is the oddest Hollywood fan fiction piece of 2015, only inasmuch as how seriously Americans seem to take it. This movie focuses on the illegitimate son of Apollo Creed called Adonis (Creed?), who dons his late father’s iconic </span><span class="SpellingError SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Stars’n’Striped</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> pugilist pantaloons (Apollo, as you know, died in </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Rocky IV</span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">), all the while floating like a butterfly and stinging like a mundane bee in a middling filmic affair that essentially repeats all the known story beats from </span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Rocky</span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">.</span><span class="EOP SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Creed</span><span class="TextRun SCX181815039" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> proved to be a sensational hit with American critics and audiences alike. Rife with montages and moments seen in previous franchise instalments, the word is that this mediocre melodrama is tipped for serious Academy Award attention (Sylvester Stallone is actually decent in it). I guess you’ve got to be a true American to really appreciate all of its conservative nationalistic greatness because otherwise this plays like a pointless TV special.</span></span></div>
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Movies on my Mindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01728634451204645148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353600278186159183.post-38120423023002839212015-12-10T13:33:00.000+00:002015-12-10T13:36:09.808+00:00Cinema is Everywhere, Anywhere and Anything<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCX141818120" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s new film </span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">By the Sea</span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> hits the UK tomorrow. It was released in the States a scant few weeks ago, where it died on arrival. Mainstream audiences, who revel in the tabloid column inches both movie stars generate, didn’t care to watch the power couple’s perceived pretentious film project, and more educated audiences stayed away from it for exactly the same reasons.</span><span class="EOP SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">So now it’s up to European audiences to salvage the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">lacklustre</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> fortunes of </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">By the Sea</span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, which seems possible because the film is a paean to the 1970s art movies of filmmakers like Antonioni, </span><span class="SpellingError SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bertolucci</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> and Visconti; seriously sophisticated films set in picture postcard locations in southern European resorts that feature characters laden with marital ennui. It is, in a way, highbrow cinema for audiences with postgraduate diplomas in humanities.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Yet </span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">By the Sea</span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> is an even bigger anomaly considering its bearings. It’s a proper Hollywood studio movie made by Universal Pictures that cost more than $10 million to produce (and even more to distribute internationally). There is an argument that a picture like </span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">By the Sea</span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> would have sought art-house-crossover fortunes even up until the last decade, but in this current climate of anti-intelligence and low creative risk-taking in Hollywood, the existence of a film like this is both astounding and thoroughly perplexing.</span><span class="EOP SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">By the Sea</span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> isn’t a terrible film - no way as bad as US commentators will have you believe, but it’s misguided on almost every level imaginable, from its intentions as a profound homage to serious European cinema, to its assumptions that movie stars still matter. On paper, the onscreen coupling of real life partners Jolie and Pitt must have seemed like a deal worth making for the studio, but the reality of that assumption has </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">materialised</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> in a significant financial write-off.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">It all points to the bigger issue of audiences not wanting to see anything other than branded blockbusters all year round. The give and take was that the film industry operates on a basis where the summer period is dominated with expensive high concept blockbusters and the winter brings about prestige fare designed to win awards for movie stars and filmmakers, while also bringing in a princely box-office sum for its investors. Think of it as the summer was for the kids and the winter for the grownups, but in an era where middle-aged men await the new </span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Star Wars</span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> film while decked out in licensed Jedi accoutrements, you know something has changed in our cultural expectations of cinema.</span><span class="EOP SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">There is a risk here that mainstream cinema is losing all sense of plurality, thus becoming a one-note manufacturer of oversized industrial products that delight in spectacle and immaturity. 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This month will see awards-baiting performances by Will Smith in </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Concussion</span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">, Jennifer Lawrence in </span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Joy</span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> and Leonardo DiCaprio in </span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">The Revenant</span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, all serious studio films desperate to be thought-provoking features that, in turn, make few </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">bob</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">due</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> to the fact that they are original and credible pictures.</span></span></span><br />
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A savagely brutal period piece with an adult rating that was filmed entirely on location using only natural daylight; </span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">The Revenant</span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> seems both a technical tour de force and experimentally </span><span class="SpellingError SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">groundbreaking</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> feature. This ought to be the movie event of the season as it stars a true movie icon in DiCaprio and its director,</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Alejandro G. </span><span class="SpellingError SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Iñárritu</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">, won the Oscar this year for </span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Birdman</span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">, but that may not be the case. </span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">The Revenant’s</span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> complex production and taxing artistry meant the film went massively </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">overschedule</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> and punishingly over budget. 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If audiences were resistant to check out a movie about the origins of their ubiquitous iPads, then </span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">The Revenant </span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">seems an even tougher sell.</span><span class="EOP SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">It all points to where cinema as we know it is headed. Francis Ford Coppola, the director of </span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">The Godfather</span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> trilogy and </span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Apocalypse Now</span><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">, while speaking at this year’s Marrakech International Film Festival, contemplated the future of his medium. The filmmaker was cautiously optimistic, saying: “We have had so many great films made so far, it’s hard to imagine that films won’t always be like that. But you can’t get there without experimentation. And experimentation means you might fail.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This perhaps suggests that cinema will have to become something more malleable in the future, a fluid medium that breaks the limitations of the silver screen and redefines our perceptions about the televisual experience. Cinema will have to take narrative risks and review the ways in which it courts audiences. Its salvation will depend on us readjusting our collective views on how cinema is accessed and valued. It can no longer be exclusively pigeonholed by filmmakers, executives, distributors, booking schedulers and exhibitors, and has to be better defined by our demands as consumers. In that sense cinema must no longer be the preserve of movie theatres, not if it wants to survive and remain relevant. It must become a prevailing entity that equally occupies the big screens in multiplexes and flat screens at home. There needs to be options for audiences or else the only thing that will suffer is cinema itself. Likewise, we needn’t look down on movies that bypass a theatrical run in </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">favour</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> of streaming services, while also not labelling exclusive cinema releases as soulless mainstream corporate products. It’s all cinema.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX141818120" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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Movies on my Mindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01728634451204645148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353600278186159183.post-15694735258524292752015-11-30T13:05:00.001+00:002015-11-30T15:52:14.374+00:00-Music Videos on my Mind- Dilly Dally's "Candy Mountain"<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCX67492851" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX67492851" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Dilly Dally’s debut album </span><span class="TextRun SCX67492851" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Sore</span><span class="TextRun SCX67492851" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> has scored some of the best reviews across the Atlantic this year. Rolling Stone magazine compares them to Nirvana and The Pixies, arguing that 2016 will be their year. That’s big.</span><span class="EOP SCX67492851" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX67492851" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX67492851" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Such adulation will undoubtedly ire the UK music press, only because that’s the way it works. If they (the US) like it first then that’s uncool, however, if </span><span class="SpellingError SCX67492851" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Blighty</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX67492851" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> had identified them as noteworthy from the start then they’d have been praised to seventh heaven. One has never understood this transatlantic tug-of-war twixt our two nations’ cultural tastemakers.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX67492851" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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Movies on my Mindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01728634451204645148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353600278186159183.post-32401576977220590812015-11-28T13:15:00.001+00:002015-11-28T17:49:33.357+00:00-Music Videos on my Mind- Man Made's "Bring Some"<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCX10403930" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX10403930" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX10403930" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Man Made, a new band from Manchester, England, deserve good things to come their way. One says this because Nile Marr, frontman and chief songwriter, comes across as exactly the type of musician you like and feel an affinity with. He spent his teens growing up in the Pacific Northwest of America yet still speaks with an unaffected Mancunian accent. He attests to spending much of </span><span class="SpellingError SCX10403930" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">is</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX10403930" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> youth trying to figure out how to be cool because it never came easy, even declaring he recruited band member Callum Rodgers because “he looked cool”. Furthermore, Marr isn’t ashamed to say that he wants to make alternative pop music rife with guitars and chord changes, but heavily steeped in pleasing melody.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX10403930" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX10403930" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">Also, Marr is the 24-year-old son of none other than former Smiths’ member Johnny Marr. It ought to be clarified that this familial connection was only brought to this blogger’s attention 6 weeks after first hearing and verily liking </span><span class="TextRun SCX10403930" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">Bring Some</span><span class="TextRun SCX10403930" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">, which means Man Made is a band that is worthwhile on its own terms and not just because the lead singer’s old man is a UK legend.</span><span class="EOP SCX10403930" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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Movies on my Mindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01728634451204645148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353600278186159183.post-47616907041608157352015-11-23T16:10:00.002+00:002015-11-23T16:12:46.978+00:00-Music Videos on my Mind- Car Seat Headrest's "Something Soon"<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCX60822431" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX60822431" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">Car Seat Headrest now comprises of more band members than just Toledo, and their new album </span><span class="TextRun SCX60822431" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">Teens of Style</span><span class="TextRun SCX60822431" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US"> consists of a re-recorded and rearranged material from the singer’s previous three albums. But what registers most strongly is Toledo’s heavy baritone vocals, grounding the music with a signature style and powerful emotional force. It’s hard to ignore.</span></span></div>
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Movies on my Mindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01728634451204645148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353600278186159183.post-67336611444181097182015-11-15T12:29:00.000+00:002015-12-05T11:44:02.934+00:00The Breakdown of Sandi Thom and the Cruelty of British Culture<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCX78254474" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Before seeing the video below, you need to put this in context. Sandi Thom is a Scottish singer-songwriter who, </span><span class="TextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">at the age of 17, was the youngest student granted a place at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, subsequently signing to RCA in 2006. She then had her single </span><span class="TextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLyw7jytykE" target="_blank">I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)</a></span><span class="TextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> shoot to No 1 in the UK and her debut album </span><span class="TextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Smile … It Confuses People</span><span class="TextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> also landed at to No 1, selling 363,018 copies to date.</span><span class="EOP SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="TextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; color: white; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Almost a decade on from such unprecedented success, Thom released this soliloquy on her Facebook page, but then deleted it upon </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">realising</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> such statements of anguish may burn the last vestiges of any remaining bridges.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">So there it is: a performer who has gone from relevant to irrelevant within one decade, all the while sticking to a middling formula that has seen progressively depleting fortunes. Thom’s second album </span><span class="TextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">The Pink & the Lily</span><span class="TextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> sold 20,012 copies since its release in 2008, and then she issued a contract-filling </span><span class="TextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">The Best of Sandi Thom</span><span class="TextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> compilation that sold 4,583 to date. She got dropped from her label and her last 2013 independently issued </span><span class="TextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Covers Collection</span><span class="TextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> managed sales of just 435 copies to date.</span><span class="EOP SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">There’s something tearful and tangibly tragic about Thom’s confession to camera, a reminder of the ephemeral nature of pop music and how perilous it is to assume the world owes you a something for having once been germane.</span><span class="EOP SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCX78254474" paraeid="{3ec19d5f-e4fc-437c-a45f-15c6a6beaaf0}{30}" paraid="1758137650" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; color: windowtext; font-size: 6pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;" xml:lang="EN-US">
<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">To this blogger, Thom’s music was always crap. It was a pedestrian affair, symptomatic of a music industry hooked on peddling out rubbish to a culture that has seriously low expectations for what qualifies as quality. Thom made music for people who don’t really like music, but most pop stars operate on such a remit. Most consumers see music as disposable cultural bubble gum, completely innutritious stuff that you chew on while the fleeting </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">flavour</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> immediately satiates, but then spit out in </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">favour</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> of the next sweet taste.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCX78254474" paraeid="{3ec19d5f-e4fc-437c-a45f-15c6a6beaaf0}{34}" paraid="1851536793" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; color: windowtext; font-size: 6pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;" xml:lang="EN-US">
<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">But it speaks volumes of just how nasty British culture is when we consider that Thom has had a sudden re-emergence in the press because of her emotional online meltdown. It pretty much guarantees the end of her music career and transforms her into overnight tabloid fodder. Britain as a nation embodies a culture that takes absolute delight in uncomfortable </span><span class="TextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">schadenfreude. </span><span class="TextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Yet there is a part of our national identity that is totally accepting of this malice, a sentiment shared by all of us which proclaims that what goes up must be cruelly brought down to earth in cringe-inducing humiliation. And then we move on, totally forgetting the victim.</span><span class="EOP SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Sandi Thom’s self-declared “really fucking good” new song is called </span><span class="TextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASBQyGK_WzU" target="_blank">Earthquake</a></span><span class="TextRun SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-GB">. It’s not my thing, but one shouldn’t kick a fallen pop star when she’s down, especially not while those that once loved her, as in tastemakers and industry types, are delivering the ultimate beating.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX78254474" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></div>
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Movies on my Mindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01728634451204645148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353600278186159183.post-51248346496655431052015-11-11T12:55:00.001+00:002015-11-12T11:56:17.117+00:00-Music Videos on my Mind- Dan Croll's "One of Us"<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCX37472403" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX37472403" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">The biggest surprise when listening to Dan Croll’s new single </span><span class="TextRun SCX37472403" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">One of Us</span><span class="TextRun SCX37472403" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US"> is that the singer is not an American. In fact, Croll is an Englishman</span><span class="TextRun SCX37472403" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX37472403" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">—and not just any Englishman, the geezer is a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX37472403" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">s</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX37472403" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">c</span><span class="TextRun SCX37472403" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">ouser</span><span class="TextRun SCX37472403" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">. He literally is, one of us (as long as you’re from Liverpool, that is).</span><span class="EOP SCX37472403" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX37472403" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX37472403" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">To backtrack, the reason why this track surprises is because of its gloriously catchy US indie college radio vibe that harks back to the sounds of Weezer and Sloan; bands that had more relevance to ‘90s pop culture than music of today. The music video even seeks to replicate the </span><span class="SpellingError SCX37472403" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">aesthetics</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX37472403" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> of MTV back then, intact with 4:3 aspect ratio, fast speed film stock, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKEcElcTUMk" target="_blank">bullet time</a> depth enhanced simulation that was all the rage in those days. </span></span><span class="TextRun SCX37472403" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">One of Us</span><span class="TextRun SCX37472403" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX37472403" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> is equally homage as it is a statement of not liking the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX37472403" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">homogen</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX37472403" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">eit</span><span class="TextRun SCX37472403" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">y</span><span class="TextRun SCX37472403" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US"> of contemporary pop music. A sentiment that many may echo.</span></span></div>
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Movies on my Mindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01728634451204645148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353600278186159183.post-64184761556588722812015-11-07T15:07:00.003+00:002015-11-07T15:17:47.367+00:00-Music Videos on my Mind- Bloc Party's "The Love Within"<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCX88025651" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX88025651" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">One is suspicious of any band that comes screaming out of the gates with alternative-minded aplomb, makes an impact and gets success, gets notoriety for having lots of internal feuding, goes on an indefinite hiatus, then remerges years later with discarded original band members that have now been substituted with hitherto unknown replacements. The Smashing Pumpkins do it all the time, and now Bloc Party have done it by adding </span><span class="TextRun SCX88025651" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">bassist Justin Harris and drummer Louise Bartle to its repurposed lineup.</span><span class="TextRun SCX88025651" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span><span class="EOP SCX88025651" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX88025651" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">And to see lead singer </span><span class="TextRun SCX88025651" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">Kele Okereke </span><span class="TextRun SCX88025651" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">appear in the video for </span><span class="TextRun SCX88025651" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">The Love Within</span><span class="TextRun SCX88025651" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">, while sporting a seemingly affected smile and chipper dance moves, suggests that either the band is pretending to be in a creatively inspired place or is genuinely thriving in its new incarnation.</span><span class="EOP SCX88025651" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="TextRun SCX88025651" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="color: white;">Let’s go with the latter because this song is simply brilliant. The precision-edited music video, assembled with utmost consideration of graphic continuity, e</span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; white-space: normal;">njoyably entails consumerist satire while matching it with surreal contemporary modern dance action. Love it, man.</span><br />
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Movies on my Mindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01728634451204645148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353600278186159183.post-28746994531689434402015-11-05T13:51:00.000+00:002015-11-05T13:55:24.594+00:00-Music Videos on my Mind- Misty Miller's "Next To You"<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCX165926038" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX165926038" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">Upon hearing British singer-songwriter Misty Miller’s new song </span><span class="TextRun SCX165926038" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">Next To You</span><span class="TextRun SCX165926038" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">, one is immediately struck by its throwback qualities. Miller is only 21-years-old, but her sound is that of alternative female artists of the mid-nineties like </span><span class="TextRun SCX165926038" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">Justine Frischmann</span><span class="TextRun SCX165926038" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US"> and </span><span class="TextRun SCX165926038" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">Miki Berenyi; we’re talking Britpop jaunty-guitar playing matched with an off-kilter vocal harmony that was at one time the very definition of popular music.</span><span class="EOP SCX165926038" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX165926038" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">How times have changed because Misty Miller is pretty much the antithesis of what kids now consider good music. In an interview with </span><span class="TextRun SCX165926038" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/south-london-singer-songwriter-misty-miller-interview" target="_blank">DJ Goldierocks</a>, Miller talked about her struggles with the current state of the UK music industry, saying: “…</span><span class="TextRun SCX165926038" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX165926038" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I didn’t just want to be like another girl with an acoustic guitar, and that’s what my label really wanted to put me in, and the whole folky scene – that whole Laura Marling thing, all that which I was never into and so I did make sure I just wasn’t </span><span class="SpellingError SCX165926038" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">categorised</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX165926038" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> as that because it’s not what I do.”</span></span><span class="EOP SCX165926038" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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Movies on my Mindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01728634451204645148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353600278186159183.post-56129415338632632222015-11-01T15:14:00.002+00:002015-11-01T15:14:43.549+00:00-Music Videos on my Mind- Golden Rules' "It's Over"<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCX208264149" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX208264149" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">It’s the way things work nowadays, Forest Hill in south London-based producer Paul White, who has up to now engineered stuff for Charli XCX, took a professional curiosity in Floridian rapper </span><span class="TextRun SCX208264149" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">Eric Biddines’ </span><span class="TextRun SCX208264149" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">2014 album </span><span class="TextRun SCX208264149" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="SpellingError SCX208264149" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">planetcoffeebean2</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX208264149" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">,</span><span class="TextRun SCX208264149" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span><span class="TextRun SCX208264149" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">and took the initiative to post the latter some of his beats to check if the two had any simpatico sonic symbiosis.</span><span class="EOP SCX208264149" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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Movies on my Mindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01728634451204645148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353600278186159183.post-26812341893629569432015-10-28T00:13:00.001+00:002015-10-28T00:15:04.373+00:00-Music Videos on my Mind- Leftfield feat. Tunde Adebimpe’s “Bad Radio”<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="line-height: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Up until now, Bad Radio was the name of Eddie Vedder’s first band who, in the 1980s, used to perform Duran Duran inspired songs to audiences in San Diego. Fast forward a few decades and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bad Radio</i> is the title of Leftfield’s new track, delivering a body blow of electronic dance music that simply renders the listener both shaken and stunned. The sounds going on in this record are astoundingly produced, reminding us of an era when dance music was not a throwaway affair, it was a statement of intent, a British movement that defined a culture and invoked the wrath of Parliamentary ire hastening in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Justice_and_Public_Order_Act_1994" target="_blank">Criminal Justice Act</a> to stamp out its hedonistic footprint. It was deemed as both corruptive and recklessly emancipating to a generation of youths experimenting with drugs and social boundaries. In Leftfield’s own words: “We changed the possibilities of what you could do on a dancefloor.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Leftfield returned with a new album this year called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alternative Light Source</i>, its first since 1999, and first without original music partner Paul Daley, thus leaving Neil Barnes as the sole member of the group. But Barnes has been very open about his split with Daley, saying they both wanted to pursue different things. In an interview with the <a href="http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/leftfield-in-the-studio-neil-barnes-reveals-details-of-new-album-influenced-by-very-dark-episodes" target="_blank">N.M.E’s</a> Louis Pattison, Barnes candidly discussed his hiatus, saying he wanted to spend the last sixteen years raising his kids, also revealing that his battles with depression caused him to lose months of creative time to psychological trauma. Barnes says that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bad Radio</i> is a track that was forged within the furnace of his emotional instability, claiming: “When depression hits you it takes you to a place where it seems like there’s no way out. That’s what <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bad Radio</i> is about. But out of all that, good things can happen. There’s light and darkness. Despair and hope. You go through it [and] then come out the other side.”</span></span></div>
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Movies on my Mindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01728634451204645148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353600278186159183.post-80679850010035707372015-10-26T16:05:00.001+00:002015-10-26T16:07:21.046+00:00-Movies on my Mind- Unloved’s “Guilty of Love”<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="line-height: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">One of the key components of music to feature on this blog is, essentially, how well it compliments one’s love of cinema.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most folk of our generation may have been profoundly affected by hearing pop songs used in movies, which henceforth triggered a fascination of how music in films generates an emotional effect that both invokes period and soul. Think of it like alchemy, the filmmaker matching pieces of recorded song against film to see what reaction it engenders.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">So if one was to inform you that the group Unloved is the brainchild Hollywood music composer David Holmes (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oceans Trilogy, Out of Sight</i>), television composer Keefus Ciancia (HBO’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">True Detective</i>), and songwriter-vocalist Jade Vincent (she probably watches a lot of films), you’d get the sense that this is a distinctly cinematic affair made into music.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And you’d be correct. It’s a sound that Lana Del Rey would walk down the aisle to, a film-noir drenched spectacle of drugged-out wasted glamour and forgotten ‘60s L.A. girl groups. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Guilty of Love </i>is dark, dark stuff, shaded with expertly produced jangly arrangements and moody vocal tints, though, never losing its sense of melancholic playfulness.</span></span></div>
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Movies on my Mindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01728634451204645148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353600278186159183.post-90665384638127427992015-10-21T12:34:00.003+01:002015-10-21T12:36:30.319+01:00-Music Videos on my Mind- U.S. Girls' "Window Shades"<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCX77895774" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;">
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Movies on my Mindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01728634451204645148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353600278186159183.post-5704261525403940882015-10-12T13:01:00.004+01:002015-10-15T11:56:48.745+01:00-Music Videos on my Mind- This is the Kit's "Silver John"<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCX33103875" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;">
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Movies on my Mindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01728634451204645148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353600278186159183.post-76415488459270703862015-10-07T12:50:00.002+01:002015-10-07T12:53:42.273+01:00-Music Videos on my Mind- Deerhunter's "Breaker"<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCX41481274" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;">
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Movies on my Mindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01728634451204645148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353600278186159183.post-4121861646737537902015-09-30T19:59:00.002+01:002015-10-01T12:22:37.466+01:00Lilies On Mars Go Cinematic With New Song "Stealing"<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCX18962944" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;">
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Movies on my Mindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01728634451204645148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353600278186159183.post-64642819912457895082015-09-25T12:21:00.001+01:002015-09-26T10:55:12.931+01:00The Mesmerising Sounds of Farao<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In this era of nostalgia-driven sequels and remakes, and heavy aversion to original storytelling, one can deduce that established filmmakers are attempting to sell their wares by harking back to serious cinema, promising audiences that their films will tap into a celluloid energy that has long lain dormant. What they are essentially attempting to guarantee is a level of sophistication and intelligence that they </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">realise</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> serious film aficionados pine for, though it is apparent that all of the films mentioned above incorporate gimmicks like </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3-D</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> or IMAX or throwback aspect ratios to make them stand out from standard fare: to make them non-televisual.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Beasts of No Nation</span><span class="TextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> was originally set up at Universal Pictures’ specialist subsidiary Focus Features, but was dropped because its commercial prospects looked questionable. With the project in turnaround hell, producers attempted to shop it to other studios. </span><span class="SpellingError SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fukunaga</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> and his team eventually independently optioned the lapsed rights to </span><span class="SpellingError SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Uzodinma</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span class="SpellingError SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Iweala’s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 2005 novel on which the film is adapted. The director acknowledges that the necessary brutality of his film was a huge obstacle, stating: “There were many questions asked early on from financiers about how I was going to execute the violence.”</span></span><span class="EOP SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Beasts of No Nation</span><span class="TextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> is the type of film that worries Hollywood distribution systems: It features a black cast, is about the third world, has a social message, is bleak though purposefully savage, and is a resolute passion project. In that sense it has no place in the current climate of risk -averse </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">moviemaking</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> as it wears its provocation with pride.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="TextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: white;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The film is a true </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">labour</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> of love, an important story made by filmmakers who put their own money and talent into a project that Hollywood didn’t have the nerve to carry through. After a production that can only be described as hellishly challenging, </span><span class="SpellingError SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fukunaga</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> completed the movie and Focus Features contractually had first refusal, though they bailed. It was at this point that Netflix entered discussions and put down a bid worth more than double the movie’s production costs.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The difficult part about all this is the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">realisation</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> that the nature of cinema is changing and that the traditional route of theatrical exhibition for quality films may no longer be a requirement. One supposes that those who discovered a love of movies through VHS ought to be accustomed to home viewing, but it still seems off-kilter. The disappointment is that Hollywood doesn’t want to produce intelligent cinema and mainstream exhibitors don’t want to show it.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Netflix and its other subscription streaming competitors could reshape the way films are developed and distributed, meaning that if it’s successful then one assumes major movie studios may want to get in on the game, though this is pure supposition.</span><span class="TextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> After all, </span><span class="TextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ted </span><span class="SpellingError SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sarandos</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> argues: “There’s no theatrical revenue expectation in our business model on any movie.”</span></span><span class="EOP SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB">So we return to the need of creating the types of films they don’t make anymore, this insatiable requirement to see qualitative material absent of superficiality. </span><span class="TextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><i>Beasts of No Nation</i></span><span class="TextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> is a film that, in a theatrical arena, will live or die by the reviews it courts, but that is less vital as it will be greatly more accessible to Netflix’s 65 million (and growing) subscriber base.</span><span class="EOP SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span class="TextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Netflix is adamant on ruffling Hollywood’s feathers, committing to an awards campaign for </span><span class="TextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Beasts of No Nation</span><span class="TextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> that will include an all-out multimedia advertising campaign and limited theatrical run in cinemas </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">favourable</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> to the way they want to do things. </span><span class="SpellingError SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sarandos</span></span><span class="TextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> </span><span class="TextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">says: “I feel like it’s incumbent on us to make and distribute movies that are so good that </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">theatre</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> owners will want to book them,” adding that their scope won’t preclude the concept of producing exclusive blockbuster movies as Netflix has over $500 million to invest in original content and is already producing material on a </span><span class="SpellingError SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-image: url(data:image/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">tentpole</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX71706621" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> scale.</span></span></span></div>
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Movies on my Mindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01728634451204645148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353600278186159183.post-29257920295503849902015-08-30T12:37:00.003+01:002015-08-31T12:25:12.634+01:00-Music Videos on my Mind- How To Dress Well's - "♡ ♡ ♡ Precious Love ♡♡♡ (Thank You)"<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCX237526457" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;">
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Movies on my Mindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01728634451204645148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353600278186159183.post-6084297686037113352015-08-17T13:33:00.004+01:002015-08-31T12:30:10.207+01:00-Music Videos on my Mind- The Maccabees' "Something Like Happiness" <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">
Blimey, the music video for <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(84, 84, 84); color: #545454;">The </span>Maccabees new track <i>Something Like Happiness</i> has been out for a month, though it’s taken that long for it to seep in and for me to finally declare it song of the summer. This was that one track one would spark up upon hearing it play on the radio, the perfect song for long journeys in the car cutting through the motorways and byways of England. This song is summer 2015 to me.</div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(84, 84, 84); color: #545454;">The </span>Maccabees had a fraught time recording this track, with the band describing the process as “painful, tricky and traumatic.” The music video is directed by Joe Connor who shot it in the band’s base in south London’s Elephant & Castle, a part of the world that may rank among its most dourly depressing locations. Conner’s vision was to upgrade Elephant & Castle’s normalcy, to “make the mundane seem amazing, the grotesque beautiful and the forgotten prominent.”</div>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="275" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/E5iezedSefI?rel=0" width="400"></iframe>Movies on my Mindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01728634451204645148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353600278186159183.post-67556074096053725492015-08-10T18:25:00.001+01:002015-08-31T12:30:37.537+01:00-Movies on my Mind- Trust Funds’ (Feat. Alanna McArdle) “Dreams”<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="line-height: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Alanna McArdle Is the lead singer of sensational Welsh alternative band Joanna Gruesome, a rock group so fast rising that to be on board is a passport to inevitable global infamy. It is, therefore, totally bizarre that McArdle issued a statement last month saying: “Lately, my mental health problems have become a lot worse and I've gone through a pretty shitty time … so I won't be singing in Joanna Gruesome anymore.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It seems, however, that her recovery process is in full swing as McArdle’s wounded vocals feature on Bristolian group Trust Fund’s new song <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dreams</i>. Trust Fund will be playing gigs across the UK this year while the remaining members and new recruits of Joanna Gruesome are touring North America throughout the rest of 2015. It seems majorly rock’n’roll for McArdle to have thrown in the towel at the height of prospective transatlantic fame, though, it seems her priority right now is to be part of something that makes her happy.</span></span></div>
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Movies on my Mindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01728634451204645148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353600278186159183.post-87772725043524278072015-08-02T14:19:00.001+01:002015-08-31T12:31:09.508+01:00-Music Videos on my Mind- Fronteers’ “Youth”<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="line-height: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our kid Jon Robb in a recent radio interview with the BBC on New Order’s thirty-two year anniversary <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Power, Corruption and Lies</i> talked about British northerners’ affinity to New York, saying that it essentially boils down to the fact that if you squeezed Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield and Hull together you basically get the Big Apple. This special relationship is perhaps best demonstrated through the powerhouse music cultures of these territories. Fronteers, an exciting new indie group fresh on the scene, furthers this potent music culture analogy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Fronteers is a young band from east Yorkshire, a group of 19-year-old lads with a common interest in girls, guitars and their local football team. They’re releasing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Youth</i> through a boutique singles label called Human Music; however, it’s been a canny strategy because on the strength of this track the UK music industry is falling over each other to sign these kids up for a major album release.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Fronteers are perhaps a gang of white guys with guitars that may reappraise the dwindling fortunes of home grown alternative music, fuelling a sound that’s rife with classic Merseybeat riffs and of the moment boyish charm. It’s innately transatlantic, though, stubbornly parochial at heart.</span></span></div>
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Movies on my Mindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01728634451204645148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353600278186159183.post-13026048010827528302015-07-31T17:18:00.001+01:002015-08-31T12:30:55.977+01:00-Music Videos on my Mind- Lower Dens’ “To Die in L.A.”<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="line-height: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The title <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">To Die in L.A.</i> immediately brings to mind William Friedkin’s movie of an almost similar name (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGBe8mltpkA" target="_blank">To Live and Die in L.A</a>.</i>), a 1985 cop thriller drenched in neon blasted <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Miami Vice</i> aesthetics and antiquated snyth score. The movie was replete in style, carrying an MTV-type look that was most befitting the era.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lower Dens are obviously mining similar territories with their song and music video, showcasing a showgirl straight from a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82o3A7ARJ_M" target="_blank">Paul Verhoeven</a> fantasy who embodies the rotting core of L.A. L.A. land glamour, the starlet decaying within from her absurd dislocation to reality and total immersion in fatalist fantasy, or something like that because in all honesty it doesn’t make much sense. The song is the real winner, though.</span></span></div>
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