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Backbeat
Centered around the original fifth member of The Beatles, Stuart
Sutcliffe, this biopic takes place within the little-known
but seminal time before the band became the Fab Four, circa
1960-62. An intimate love story strums the power chords between
John Lennon, his best friend Sutcliffe, and Astrid Kirchherr,
the avant-garde German photographer who first captured The
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Hellboy
This devilishly good guy originally hails from Mike Mignola's eponymous cult
comic book, which shrugs off the respectability of the new literary graphic
novels to embrace good, old-fashioned monster fighting. The loose, underwritten
plot may keep Hellboy from hitting the genre-flick heights, but the gothic
imagery astonishes while the freaky protagonist wins our sympathies.
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Duel
The film that launched Steven Spielberg's career into the fast lane. Duel is
a nail-biting tale of cat-and-mouse between an Average Joe and a menacing,
vengeful 18-wheeler, whose driver is never seen. Speilberg crafts a scant story
with almost no dialogue into a quintessential thriller that shows how editing,
music, cinematography, and inspiration can make up 90% of a riveting experience. |
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Anchorman
If you guessed that the topic of 1970s news anchormen and rampant sexism in television
can't possibly bear a feature-length spoofing, you'd be right. While it boasts
a surreal touch here and again, and may find favor with Will Ferrell fans,
Anchorman's one-joke premise runs like an over-long "Saturday Night Live" sketch.
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The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
Dan Auerbach's ferocious six-string and Patrick Carney's cymbal-and-snare
seizures continue to embody the archetypal blues fever that
induced the birth of rock. With even greater assurance on
their third album, The Black Keys' roots-chewing, hormone-laced
blues mesh melody and rhythm into a primal force that's raw
and pure. |
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Tara Fuki - Kapka
Andrea Konstankiewicz and Dorota Blahutova are two energetic cellists whose music
is an experiment between classical and folk styles, with emotive lyrics about
life, love and human experience. These 10 tracks (sung in Polish, Czech and
French) were recorded in the beautiful acoustic space of a renaissance chateau.
The result is an exceptional, haunting album of dream-like poetry and dark
urgency. |
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Do Make Say Think - & Yet & Yet
Blending elements of jazz with chamber pop, this Canadian post-rock instrumental
ensemble has composed a collection of gently flowing meditative tracks punctuated
by shimmery cymbals, warm tones from analog synths and horns, and swells of
guitar feedback. A good example of a small band helping to make the music industry
a better place. |
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Duke Ellington - Three Suites
In addition to Ellington and Strayhorn's own superb "Suite Thursday",
this CD displays Duke's brilliant tailoring of two great classics - "The
Nutcracker Suite" and "Peer Gynt Suite" - to his unique, sometimes
humorous, renditions. This is creative homage of the highest order, which reconceives
the originals in gorgeous, fluid jazz terms. |
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CDs and DVDs available at www.bontonland.cz
and www.dvdexpress.cz.
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