Ben Lewin -The Sessions
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Ben Lewin — The Sessions | DeRank™: 0,00

The film tells the story of the life (a snippet of life) of the poet Mark O'Brien. Afflicted by polio since the age of six and nearly completely paralyzed, forced to live for much of the time within an 'iron lung,' Mark, at 38, decides to seek contact with a woman, to try to establish a connection with a woman or at least to attempt to have a sexual relationship. The film clearly has positive content and intentions, even commendable, regarding self-love and love for others, the love of life, but it did not resonate with me. more
McDonald's Farm
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McDonald's Farm | DeRank™: 0,00

Just eat shit! more
Jim O'Rourke -Simple Songs
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Jim O'Rourke — Simple Songs | DeRank™: 0,00

Despite the title, 'Simple Songs' actually contains eight tracks constructed with the calculated intelligence and technical skill that is typical of O'Rourke, who is undoubtedly a great musician and producer, as well as one of the most influential figures in American music over the past twenty years. Celebrated with great acclaim from both the public and critics, I personally find that the overall sound is too sophisticated and ultimately leads me to prefer his more experimental works. more
Graham Nash -This Path Tonight
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Graham Nash — This Path Tonight | DeRank™: 0,00

A solo album by Graham Nash is still an event. If nothing else, it's because, in so many years of his career, he hasn’t released that many (the last one: fourteen years ago). A figure among the most intelligent and brilliant in the USA and international music scene, 'This Path Tonight' is not some kind of testament nor is it an attempt by a poor old man (seventy-four years old) to feel alive again, but a robust album made up of a handful of good songs, where you can feel a certain strength right from the first track. Here and there, there is a certain reference to sounds - rather: atmospheres - of soft-progressive music (see the title track) or typically late-seventies, but everything is nonetheless balanced, well-produced, and avoids falling into unpredictable and unpleasant excesses. more
Bob Marley & The Wailers
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Bob Marley & The Wailers | DeRank™: 0,00

Marley was the official disseminator of reggae and Rastafarian culture. Often boring and repetitive, never an innovator or a genius, Marley stole riffs, arrangements, and melodies from all commercial genres, both white and black, from spiritual to Tin Pan Alley. Camouflaged as music of the Third World underclass, it was actually just dance music for American teenagers, and its author a late, aspiring, and superficial hippie. (SCARUFFI) more
Uriah Heep -Look At Yourself
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Uriah Heep — Look At Yourself | DeRank™: 0,00

They have never been this close to being a classic hard-rock band. Great drive and a chilling Paul Newton, but they've done better. more
Janis Joplin
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Janis Joplin | DeRank™: 0,00

Singer with an incredible voice. What a shame, because who knows what they would have done with a voice like that. more
Sergio Caputo
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Sergio Caputo | DeRank™: 0,00

restless, unrecognized, brilliant! more
yellow6 -No Memories, Only Photographs
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Instrumental album by Jon Attwood. The project is all in the title: we need photographs. When the memory of everything that has happened—from our personal experiences to the horrors of the world wars, the death of Kennedy, the man on the Moon, and the events of September 11—these memories will fade away with our death, and the same will happen with the eventual demise of digital media. Keep taking and developing photographs: that’s the message. The album will surely appeal to fans of ambient music. I find it beautiful, but frankly, it’s endless. It’s suited for marathoners. more
Luciano Ligabue -A che ora è la fine del mondo?
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It's the record of the very famous cover of 'It's the End of the World as We Know It' by REM and 'Urlando contro il cielo', two songs that have particularly brought him luck. It has an incredibly polished and overly produced sound. I'm glad that the Rats saved 'Fuori tempo', a song that Ligabue had written years earlier and that the band from Spilamberto had already recorded (with the collaboration of Ligabue himself) on 'Indiani padani' in 1992. more
Guided by Voices -Please Be Honest
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I can't keep up with all of Robert Pollard's record releases anymore, because it's almost impossible, although every time I catch one, I still give it attention. Every time, I expect the unexpected. The album he released under his own name last February on Fire Records ('Of Course You Are') is really beautiful, in my opinion. This one, on the other hand, I don't know, you can listen to it on repeat without getting bored, and that's one of the strengths of Pollard's songwriting abilities (his greatest asset - and that's not a small thing), but overall, I didn't find any particular highlights. more
Hayao Miyazaki
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Hayao Miyazaki | DeRank™: 0,22

Vision and imagination, the perfect complement to the stylistic and directorial rigor of the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, Isao Takahata. Unfortunately, he was not always a perfect coordinator of all the narrative material (Howl is the most affected), and subjectively, I have not always appreciated his simplistic view of the world. more
Isao Takahata
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Isao Takahata | DeRank™: 0,48

Melancholic and cultured director, he has always directed beautiful productions very well, crossing into masterpiece territory multiple times, from the more "streamlined" series like 'Heidi' and 'Marco' to films that are a bit more complex and expansive, where Japanese culture and darker themes have finally been able to express themselves freely. more
Jake Schreier -Robot & Frank
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Jake Schreier — Robot & Frank | DeRank™: 0,00

I'm sorry, but I can't access external websites. However, if you provide the text you'd like translated, I'd be happy to help! more
Tom Waits
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Tom Waits | DeRank™: 3,35

A great singer, with a unique vocal tone... Immense. more
Gert Wilden
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Gert Wilden | DeRank™: 0,00

And who could forget that miracle of a soundtrack from 'Heidi'? more
Freddie Mercury
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Freddie Mercury | DeRank™: 0,00

The greatest. Period. more
Craig David
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Craig David | DeRank™: 0,00

Harmless and occasionally enjoyable R&B artist. Too bad he has vanished from circulation... more
Kevin Connolly -Gardener of Eden
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Kevin Connolly — Gardener of Eden | DeRank™: 0,00

Following themes already explored in cinema, starting from 'Taxi Driver' or the very Italian 'Il giocattolo', and concluding with the entire series of 'Death Wish' featuring Charles Bronson, this film tells the story of a boy like many others, a misfit, expelled from college and thrown out of his home by his parents, who by sheer coincidence commits a heroic act. An act that changes his life. An act that sparks in his mind the idea that the only way to improve himself and the society he lives in is through violence or – better – what he defines as 'justice'. But as always, the concept of justice has a definition too broad to be grasped and cultivated by a single person. Beautiful. Perhaps the ending is a bit weak. more