War: Why Can't We Be Friends?
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War: Why Can't We Be Friends?
2 aug 16
Il settimo album in studio della band funk americana di Long Beach, California. Mescolando diversi generi ed elementi di rock, funk, jazz, latino e rhythm and blues, 'Why Can't We Be Friends?' è uscito nel 1975. La title track, in realtà uno dei loro successi più famosi, ha raggiunto l'ottavo posto nella Billboard Hot 100 e, insieme all'altro singolo, 'Low Rider', è stata nominata ai Grammy Awards. Difficile dire come considerare questo album in una discografia così vasta, di sicuro le due lunghe tracce 'Heartbeat' e 'Smile Happy' sono state due (la prima in particolare) dei momenti più grandi della musica nera negli anni settanta. Altre canzoni, come 'So' o 'Lotus Blossom', sono più in una linea classica del soul. Comunque, un album classico, buono per tutte le stagioni.
  • imasoulman
    2 aug 16
    Oh well... not their best (after all, how could they top "The World is a Ghetto"?) but... what a great, varied, ecumenical band the War were.
Warren Beatty & Buck Henry: Heaven Can Wait
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Warren Beatty & Buck Henry: Heaven Can Wait
10 jun 16
Ultra-awarded (Oscar for Best Production Design) romantic comedy written, directed (jointly with Buck Henry), and starred by Warren Beatty. I believe that among other things, it is a remake, but after all, this idea has been revisited several times in the cinema world. The plot: Joe Pendleton, an American football champion, finds himself in heaven before his time due to a 'mistake' by what would be his guardian angel. Because of this mix-up, he is given the chance to return to life, but he must do so in a body different from his, which, in the meantime, has been cremated. A brilliant comedy that was a huge success at the time and perhaps still works today despite the passing years and a style that is definitely very much from the seventies.
Waxahatchee: Early Recordings
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Waxahatchee: Early Recordings
1 jul 16
'Cerulean Salt' (Wichita, 2013) I liked a lot, to the point that I considered it one of the best albums released that year, and in the same way, I found the subsequent and critically acclaimed 'Ivy Tripp,' released last year, to be irrelevant, mundane, even superfluous. This EP, on the other hand, forcibly reconciles me with Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) and her more indie and lo-fi nature, which is what I have always appreciated about her. It couldn't be otherwise, after all, since 'Early Recordings' (Merge Records) is nothing more than a collection of a handful of songs (five) written in 2011 and until now only released on cassette. Beautiful as a breath of fresh air.
Wayne Wang: The Center of the World
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Wayne Wang: The Center of the World
6 may 16
Masterpiece film by Wayne Wang (already the director of the double masterpiece 'Smoke' + 'Blue In the Face'). There is a man and a woman who cannot love each other. In physical contact, something is always missing, and the emotional connection is altered and hindered by the fact that evidently neither of them believes in the possibility of love anymore. The scenes, not just those of eros, and the settings, the colors—all of it is fantastic and in some way psychedelic. We are in Las Vegas, but the film could be set anywhere. We could be anywhere and nowhere at the same time. Like the two characters in the film.
Werner Herzog: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
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Werner Herzog: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
30 apr 16
In the end, as Herzog emphasized after a heated dispute with Abel Ferrara, this film is not a remake of the 1992 film starring Harvey Keitel. Thank goodness, I say, because otherwise the comparison for poor Herzog would have been ruthless. The plot is filled with twists and turns that unravel in the finale with incredible ease, almost magically. It’s a weak film, crammed with rhetoric, where the only redeeming quality is the great effort (at least that) that Nicholas Cage puts into playing the bad lieutenant. Not to mention the beauty of Eva Mendes. Other talented actors and character actors like Michael Shannon (first and foremost), Val Kilmer, Fairuza Balk, and even Xzibit are also wasted. The best part is the setting in a New Orleans that is desperately trying to recover after the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.
William Friedkin: Cruising
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William Friedkin: Cruising
26 apr 16
A scandalous masterpiece by William Friedkin, which sparked much controversy at the time and would do the same today. Al Pacino, a New York City police officer, goes undercover in the city's gay club scene in pursuit of a murderer. One of his best performances in my opinion, though perhaps one of the least celebrated, due to a certain 'censorship' that still prevails over this film, to which the director was forced to make several cuts of scenes deemed scandalous and extreme.
Wim Wenders: Every Thing Will Be Fine
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Wim Wenders: Every Thing Will Be Fine
24 apr 16
One of the best films released in 2015. It's inevitable to think of 'Reservation Road' by Terry George, from which this film partially draws its themes. James Franco is skilled and versatile in portraying different parts and does well here too, where perhaps the development of the plot may not please everyone. At the heart of it, there is not so much guilt or a thirst for revenge or anger; what prevails is always the desire to find balance. In this sense, it is a drama with a happy ending after all.
Woodkid: Desierto OST
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Woodkid: Desierto OST
22 apr 16
Yoann Lemoine is definitely one of the most 'hype' names of the moment. I wasn't displeased with 'The Golden Age', but this time it's a soundtrack for a film, 'Desierto', directed by Jonas Cuaron (son of Alfonso Cuaron, ('Gravity', 'Children of Men')) on the theme of immigration. The sounds seem suitable for the film's atmosphere and made me think of the first album, the self-titled one, by Calla, the band from Brooklyn, New York, which had its moment of glory last decade.
Woody Allen: Midnight In Paris
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Woody Allen: Midnight In Paris
19 jul 16
A movie that, on one hand, seeks to be an invitation to not abandon your dreams and to try to realize them now, in the present, and on the other hand, aims to pay homage to a special era. Paris during the 1920s was a reference point and a place where many artists created an exceptional moment in culture that remains relevant today in figurative arts and literature. Gil Pender (Owen Wilson), who is truly fascinated by this world and wants to become a writer, starts traveling back in time where he meets all his idols (Hemingway and Dali, Bunuel and Scott Fitzgerald...). A journey through time that helps him to understand his life. A low fantasy romantic comedy in a style that Woody Allen has applied to his recent films, generally appreciated by critics and the public, but that, to tell the truth, feels redundant and never as deep as it pretends to be.
Wussy: Forever Sounds
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Wussy: Forever Sounds
26 apr 16
If it had come out in the nineties, an album like this could probably have tried to climb the charts, presenting themselves as the alternative band of the moment. The sound of this band, which is their trademark, is typically nineties, after all. This doesn't exclude the possibility that they could have a following and fans today. Certainly, I am not among them.
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