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I watched this film on DVD, and I found it really scary. Been in the industry, specially as an editor makes you very insensitive. When you see horror films and not been afraid of the content and the effect. But some reason the way this film was made it really scared the hell out of me.

Remembering Stanley Kubrick

At the age of eight my dad show's me a film that change my view of life forever.
I'm talking about "2011: Space Odyssey". A powerful movie that talks about life, death, evolution, technology and the origin of all.

Stanley Kubrick is the director and I still finds so shocking that he did just a few movies. He take the time to make one, but the films were delivered with such quality and detail.

Today I discovered a very beautiful homage to this director it was made by Marti Wouttiseth and I have to say he delivered a great piece. He seems to have a great eye for design and illustration and most of all, very perfectionist, still the Stanley Kubrick video is a work in progress.

Stanley Kubrick - a filmography - from mwoutisseth on Vimeo.

Francois Truffau revisit Star Wars

I recently saw this Youtube posting about a Star Wars been revisited as a existentialist french film. Overall looks funny, you need to pay attention to the subtitles and what characters are saying. Unfortunately is not accurate.

Nikita vs Leon: The Professional

Last night I saw the film "Hanna" by the director  which became famous for the movie Atonement a few years ago. This time brings a film about a trained assassin, that can be confused with a young "La Femme Nikita" but with a Mathilda flavor from Leon: The Professional. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana.
The movie explore great locations, nice acting, great editing and a perfect soundtrack by The Chemical Brothers. This film worth to see it.

Good Concerts for Spring

Spring start with an amazing line up. Faithless begin on April 25 in NYC, Irving plaza was the venue and i consider that this types of places to kick concert like this one, this artist is ussed to play in arenas like wembley, but im pretty sure, that the reason is not enough audience and is totally understandable. Anyway the point is the tour related to the new album "To all New Arrivals" a very interesting collextion of tunes that focus on newlybon babies, the future of the world and the war ouf course. The tour have at least 3 songs of the new album and the rest was collection of the biggst hits: Salva Mea, Imsomnia, Weapon of Mas Destruction, Everything will be alright Tomorrow, God is a DJ, i Want More. The band play hard, compare the shows in Coachella, and the tour in England. The set list is very similar to the others cities and this is the type of badn that seems very gratefull to be on stage for a New York audience. I really love the show even if it was a small venue this people rock like i never seen before, dance music is complex to play in shows, bceause you don't have a clue if is everything is just computers or not, the drumer and the guitar player were amazing

The next show was Bjork, the tour related to the new album Volta is kicking United States and then Europe, we have to consider that bjork doesn't care about the mainstream, so even if the album wasn't out she is going to do a tour to promote and show in the way the we know her. Radio City Music Hall, which i don't consider the best venue for her, in 2003 she play at the kespan stadium in borrklyn which is the place for her, more free envoirment. The stage was interesting great guests that spice the show a little bit, bjork play almost the 70% of the new album and a few classical stuff like, Venus is a Boy, Army of Me, Joga, All is Full of Love. Electronics was one of the best part of the show, well doesn't call their djs, DJS she call them electronics, the girls who play all the orquestra from Iceland also the first song "Earth intruders" they brought the guys from Konomo, also the opening show that night.

Air launch the New album Pocket Sympohony so they decide to have a tour to promote this very mellow and cool new tunes. The show in the Madison Square Garden Theater prove that air can deliver i show beyond expectations, i really liked what they did, of course was 60% of the "Moon Safari" album, the Cherry Bloosom girl hit and others to name a few. I consider that was one of the cleanest sound i ever hear, you have such a level of details that night that you can apreciate guitar, drums and bass without loose the attention of electronics. god that was awsome.

Overall this first month is been good the shows are to the level of my expectations. Now is Summerstage and all the activcities related to music in NYC

She is out of the Woods

Is very difficult when an artist that is been related to a band or multiple bands can come out of the light and become a single artist with new breed and a style totally different from the past. Lucky for us Tracy Thorn did it, well know for two great things, she is the voice of Massive Attack in the album "Protection" a masterpiece which combine a great ensemble of singers such as Tricky and Nicolette. Tracy have two tracks in this album, the name of the album itself and "Better things", the other band related to this amazing woman with such a particular voice is "Everything but the Girl" well know by great disco or dance songs, like "Wrong", "The Future of the Future , "Temperamental", "Five Fathoms" and the hit "Like the Dessert Miss the Rain".

With the album "Out the Woods" Tracy Thorn do her best to separate herself of all those sounds from the past an create something that make her different from this bands, not because she thinks that is time to not be the voice of Massive Attack or EVBG is more create a unique sound. "It's all true" the first single of the album we found a wonderful performer with electronic sounds that can be 80's style with some brazilian touch. "Get Around to it" reminds me a little bit to EVBG but not too much, why she use certain percussion more cheerful. Her lyrics are more in deep, more personal, "Grand Canyon" which is one of my favorites is very dance song with experimental sequences... definitely i love it. The romantic and melancholic song which start the album "Here It Comes Again" she prove that Tracy Thorn is way beyond the past or roots, she can separate herself from there and stand on a stage and perform with style and strength.

A truly recommended album

In the recent years, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino are focusing on this type of plots that to me are not original as it is.
Im kind against several people, specially friends that they love this bloody carnage or situations like been in cafeterias talking about matters like, Madonna's songs or impressive vintage vehicles. So when i saw the long!!! double feature "Grindhouse" my intention was to be entertain, not bored, anyone can have their own opinion about it, but to me this movies wasn't what i was expecting to see.
Two years ago Rodriguez did Sin City, that really impressed me not only for the concept, also direction, performance and techniques develop. In Tarantino's case was Kill Bill, both movies a real piece of work, with a strong performance of Uma Thurman, of course those films still have similarities here. Honest i found more entertaining the trailers of the fake movies, "Machete" and "Werewolf Women of the SS" even the horror film "Don't" was hilarious.
Let me start with the movie "Planet Terror", is about this scientific experiment of that take place in a sinister town where everyone becomes monster inmidiatly , something that is nothing new to a film done in the late 60' also b movie. This story was funny, that's it, in some moments, specially situations with actors like Jeff Fahey, Michael Biehn Marley Shelton and his son scaping from the hospital and her broken hand, that was gross and the missing leg/wooden leg of Rose McGowan.
But at the end, well wasn't the end because several people though that the movies was ending and they left the theater without knowing that the Tarantino movie and some of the trailers hasn't even started yet. Thats the point when i realize that i was in a theater for 3 hours. Death Proof has one of Quentin signatures bring situations that you are asking why or what for? i was asking myself about Kurt Russell and his motivation of his actions and to me i never get it. May be i was so focusing on all this gorgeous woman's, Sidney Tamiia Poitier, Rosario Dawson, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Vanessa Ferlito to name a few that i loose the real feeling of the story, JA! But the case of Death Proff is i was bored in some point because Im was looking for to be more in deep of the story and is just insinuations of action scenes and smart filming, honest i didn't like it.

But i know that Tarantino's fan will love, sorry im not one of those, i love some his films, but this one, reminds me to "From Dusk Till Down" with no George Clooney and Salma Hayek.