First up is a reissue of this doco called The Thin Blue Line, which incidentally was one of the ONLY films I didn't fall asleep in during my Introduction To Cinema class at Uni.
"Errol Morris's groundbreaking 1988 documentary presents the case of Randal Adams, a drifter sentenced to death for the murder of a police officer.
A cast of real life players tell the meticulously plotted story, and Morris intercuts with reenactments, noirish close-ups and a decent pinch of Hitchcock.
The Thin Blue Line was intrumental in Adams' release from prison in 1989 and set a new benchmark for documentary film-making.
Neighsayers claim it's manipulative, and it is, but still deserves its reputation as modern classic."
FOUR STARS
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Next, a CD - Carla Bruni. Loved this one.
"A former supermodel and one-time muse of Donald Trump sings the poetry of history's great stylists, from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Parker.
On paper this should be flung directly into the 'embarassing career moves' bin, with Naomi Campell's 1994 debut 'Baby Woman'.
But Carla Bruni is no ordinary model dabbling in music for the cash.
The divine Italian/French beauty released her first album 'Quelqu'un m'a dit' (Someone Told Me) to amorous acclaim in 2005, then shifted 2 million copies of the thing.
Here, she's still in fine form, caressing the lyrics into syrupy, thinking-persons lounge music.
Like a blast of languid Parisian sunshine, 'No Promises' is ambitious, intelligent and effortless."
FOUR STARS
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Lastly, a real rockabilly number, a live album called Los Valientes Del Mundo from The Black Lips.
Never heard of em!!!
This live album was recorded one tequila stained evening in Tijuana, Mexico.
It sounds like these NYC groovers and their woozy audience all swallowed the worm.
Represented by cool-for-school indie mag VICE's new label, The Black Lips fancy themselves as breakneck pioneers in a world of overproduced slick rock.
And they might be onto something.
With an average age of just 22 years, these boys have been slumming around the underground scene for years, booking themselves and supporting the likes of the Yeah Yeah Yeah's.
What ensues is a slice of shambolic, psychedlic flower-punk amped off the dial.
Coming soon to a hipster houseparty near you."
THREE-AND-A-HALF STARS
(PS: I don't REALLY know what I'm talking about)
2 comments:
My friend - as someone who reviewed NW's CD section for three years - I can confirm you know what you're talkingabout (Willis) These are great. Make a move on that Entertainment Ed position!
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