Salvador Dali – A Soft Self Portrait (1970)

Originally produced for a French television audience, this portrait of the surrealist artist Salvador Dali details the dreamlike inspiration behind many of his avant-garde creations. Set in Dali’s hometown of Lligat, Spain, the artist himself takes the viewer on a tour of the creative process that is behind his remarkable body of work. Journey into the subconscious of one of the most influential artists of the 20th century and take a look at the world through Salvador Dali’s eyes with this program that he both designed and performed. The documentary is directed by Jean-Christopher Averty, with narration provided by Orson Welles.

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195228/

INFLUENCERS (2010)

INFLUENCERS is a short documentary that explores what it means to be an influencer and how trends and creativity become contagious today in music, fashion and entertainment.

The film attempts to understand the essence of influence, what makes a person influential without taking a statistical or metric approach.

 

Written and Directed by Paul Rojanathara and Davis Johnson, the film is a Polaroid snapshot of New York influential creatives (advertising, design, fashion and entertainment) who are shaping today’s pop culture.

 

“Influencers” belongs to the new generation of short films, webdocs, which combine the documentary style and the online experience.

>> influencersfilm.com

>> facebook.com/influencersfilm 

Restless (2011)

Director: Gus Van Sant

The story of a terminally ill teenage girl who falls for a boy who likes to attend funerals and their encounters with the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot from WWII.

Les Amours Imaginaires (2010)

Director: Xavier Dolan

Cast: Xavier Dolan, Monia Chokri, Niels Schneider

Year: 2010

A must see to all the indie movie lovers!

The story of three close friends who are involved in a love-triangle.

“The Model: Oshun and the Dream” – Seu Jorge & Almaz

Part I

Seu Jorge and Almaz - The Model (Chapter One) from Now-Again on Vimeo.

Part II

"The Model: Oshun and the Dream" from Now-Again on Vimeo.

Now-Again Records and What Matters Most present a film based on the released Seu Jorge and Almaz album by Brazilian singer and actor Seu Jorge. "The Model: Oshun and the Dream" stars Jorge as he continues to struggle with this echoing image of "The Model"...

Directed & Edited by Kahlil Joseph 
Photography by Bradford Young 
Music by Seu Jorge and Almaz 
Produced by Omid Fatemi and Daniel Song for What Matters 
Most  Featuring music from the Now-Again Records album Seu Jorge and Almaz

Music/Movie of the day – Que sera sera

Lyrics:

When I was just a little girl
I asked my mother, what will I be
Will I be pretty, will I be rich
Here’s what she said to me.

Que Sera, Sera,
Whatever will be, will be
The future’s not ours, to see
Que Sera, Sera
What will be, will be.

When I was young, I fell in love
I asked my sweetheart what lies ahead
Will we have rainbows, day after day
Here’s what my sweetheart said.

Que Sera, Sera,
Whatever will be, will be
The future’s not ours, to see
Que Sera, Sera
What will be, will be.

Now I have children of my own
They ask their mother, what will I be
Will I be handsome, will I be rich
I tell them tenderly.

Que Sera, Sera,
Whatever will be, will be
The future’s not ours, to see
Que Sera, Sera
What will be, will be.

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

           

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Dr. Ben McKenna, his wife Jo and their son Hank are on a touring holiday of Africa when they meet the mysterious Louis Bernard on a bus. The next day Bernard is murdered in the local marketplace, but before he dies he manages to reveal details of an assassination about to take place in London. Fearing that their plot will be revealed, the assassins kidnap Hank in order to keep the McKenna’s silent. Ben and Jo go to London and take matters into their own hands. 

source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049470/

Music of the day: All my days

All my days – Alexi Murdoch

(2006– from the Album “Time Without Consequence”)

you can also find him in the Away We Go (2009) Original Movie Soundtrack:

Lyrics:

Well I have been searching all of my days

All of my days

Many a road, you know

I’ve been walking on

All of my days

And I’ve been trying to find

What’s been in my mind

As the days keep turning into night

Well I have been quietly standing in the shade

All of my days

Watch the sky breaking on the promise that we made

All of this rain

And I’ve been trying to find

What’s been in my mind

As the days keep turning into night

Well many a night I found myself with no friends standing near

All of my days

I cried aloud

I shook my hands

What am I doing here

All of these days

For I look around me

And my eyes confound me

And it’s just too bright

As the days keep turning into night

Now I see clearly

It’s you I’m looking for

All of my days

Soon I’ll smile

I know I’ll feel this loneliness no more

All of my days

For I look around me

And it seems He found me

And it’s coming into sight

As the days keep turning into night

As the days keep turning into night

And even breathing feels all right

Yes, even breathing feels all right

Now even breathing feels all right

It’s even breathing

Feels all right

Official Website: http://www.aleximurdoch.com/index_towards.php

Hey, Big Spender!

 

“Big Spender” is a song written by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields for the musical
Sweet Charity: The Adventures of a Girl Who Wanted to Be Loved(1969) – [Link]
It is originally sung, in the musical, by the dance hostess “girls”; it was choreographed
by Bob Fosse for the Broadway musical and the film.

Screenshots:

Der ewige Jude – The Eternal Jew (1940)

Link: http://youtu.be/kbfbnKOgvyY

It’s a cold and anti-Semitic view of the events, that will make you feel the level of atrocity conducted by the 20th-century Germany.

The Eternal Jew (1940) is an anti-Semitic German Nazi propaganda film, presented as a documentary.
Its original title  is Der ewige Jude -the German term for the character of the “Wandering Jew” in medieval folklore.

Screenshot:

“The Jews of Poland (invaded by Germany in 1939) are depicted as filthy, evil, corrupt, and intent on world domination. Street scenes are shown prejudicially, along with clips from Jewish cinema of the day and photos of Jewish celebrities, while the narrator “explains” the Jewish problem. The climax and resolution of the film is Hitler’s 1939 announcement that the Jewish race will meet its “annihilation” (Vernichtung).”

source:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0156524/

Nuit et brouillard (Night and Fog) – Worth seeing!

Night and Fog (1955)

“Those of us who pretend to believe that all this happened at a certain time
and in a certain place, and those who refuse to see, who do not hear the cry to the end of time. “

Storyline

One of the most vivid depictions of the horrors of Nazi Concentration Camps. Filmed in 1955 at several concentration camps in Poland, the film combines new color and black and white footage with black and white newsreels, footage shot by the victorious allies, and stills, to tell the story not only of the camps, but to portray the horror of man’s brutal inhumanity.

Watch all the movie here:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0DED1B39B1F289A2

source:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048434/