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To be continued....

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The Coen Brothers made THE ODYSSEY long before Christopher Nolan. O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (2000) is one of the funniest and most inventive modern retellings of Homer’s epic ever put on screen.

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Long before Siamese Dream made them one of alternative rock's biggest bands, "Siva" helped establish The Smashing Pumpkins' identity. Featured on their 1991 debut album Gish, the song combined Billy Corgan's ambitious songwriting with the heavy psychedelic sound that defined the band's early years. This Reading Festival performance from 1992 captures The Smashing Pumpkins earning their reputation as one of the most powerful live acts of the era.

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First teaser for the 4K IMAX re-release of ‘AKIRA’.

In theaters this September.

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I love posting early AC/DC…I won’t stop!
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One of those songs you could loop for hours... Is there one like that for you?

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Stanley Kubrick

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Alice in Chains performing "Man in the Box" on ABC's In Concert in 1991 is one of their best live performances. Layne Staley was incredible, and Jerry Cantrell's guitar tone is absolutely crushing. Have you seen it?

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Eva Marie Saint turns 102 today
North by Northwest (1959)
She’s the oldest living Oscar winner and one of the last surviving stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Her scene with Cary Grant is still among the hottest ever filmed; every look, pause, and line lands. This is how it’s done

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"Friday I'm in Love" remains the perfect track for those who need a dose of simple joy at the end of the week. A song that proves that even though The Cure is known for deeper lyrics and dense atmospheres, Robert Smith also knew how to write about the sheer pleasure of being alive on a Friday.

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According to Roy Scheider, "Filming 'Sorcerer' (1977) made 'Jaws' (1975) look like a picnic". He considered the Bridge scene to be the most dangerous he has ever acted in. The scene was so real that he said, "What the audience will see on that screen is what really happened." Building the bridge cost about a million dollars. It took 3 months to complete. Friedkin called it "A mad enterprise and definitely life threatening".

The bridge was built on what they considered to be a "perfect river" in Dominican Republic. It was 12 feet deep. However, there were weeks without rainfall and the level of the river started dropping. The river has never went dry before according to the locals. When the bridge was completed, the river had only 1 feet of water making it impossible to film the scene there. With only 2 scenes left to film, the crew had to leave for Mexico to shoot the bridge scene.

So they decided to shoot the scene in a river in an Aztec village in a remote location in Mexico. The Bridge had to be reassembled and anchored in the new location. The shutdown of production had lasted a month which was a huge expense to the management.

When the crew arrived at the village, there was a huge exodus of the local population. When Friedkin enquired, he was informed by one of the authorities that it was because of word of William Friedkin's arrival. They were a deeply religious people, and when they heard the man who made "The Exorcist" (1973) was coming to their village: they felt it was "bad karma". But few of the locals stayed and helped with the filming.

Before arriving, Friedkin was informed that it rained often in the area, but didn't know that it was only in the summer season. Since it was the fall, there was no rain and the river began to drop at the rate of six inches or more a day. The water was diverted to the location of the bridge in the river using large pipes and pumping equipment. Since Friedkin wanted to shoot the scene in the rain, they brought in half a dozen large sprinklers that drew water from upriver. The scene runs twelve minutes, roughly 10 percent of the final cut, but it took months to complete and cost more than $3 million, most of it not budgeted.

("The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir", William Friedkin, 2013 & Roy Scheider's interview to the The New York Times, 1977)

P.S: On this day, 49 years ago, "Sorcerer" (1977) was released in the USA.

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"I'm Afraid of Americans" was co-written by David Bowie and Brian Eno during the sessions of 1. Outside (1995) and originally released on the soundtrack of the film Showgirls. Bowie re-recorded a new version for the album Earthling (1997) with his band of the time, including Reeves Gabrels on guitar.
The track took on a life of its own with the remixes produced by Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), especially the famous V1, which gave an industrial and aggressive tone to the song. The music video, directed by Dom & Nic, shows Reznor playing an obsessive taxi driver (clearly inspired by Taxi Driver) chasing Bowie through the streets of New York.

Released as a single, reached #66 on the Billboard Hot 100, being Bowie's last single to enter the chart until the release of Blackstar in 2015. Although not a major commercial success, the song became one of the most striking and dark moments of Bowie's experimental phase in the 90s.

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Rick James created "Super Freak" by improvising the lyrics on top of a funk riff and called on the Temptations to record the backing vocals. The song became one of his biggest hits and was sampled by MC Hammer on "U Can't Touch This". https://t.co/rnMGxHYniJ

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James Bond actor Roger Moore says ‘SKYFALL’ is the best Bond movie ever made.

“Daniel Craig is, without a doubt, the Bond. He has just got it all. He brings to Bond the killer instinct.“

“Skyfall is just an extraordinary piece of motion picture. It guaranteed another 50 years.”

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Bassist Tim Commerford confessed that at first he thought "Like a Stone" was a romantic song and only understood the real meaning when Cornell explained it! It was the second single from Audioslave's debut album and became the band's biggest hit: #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock charts, #31 on the Hot 100 and is, to date, the most streamed track of Chris Cornell's entire career (over 1 billion plays on Spotify).

The video, directed by Meiert Avis, was shot at Jimi Hendrix's former mansion in Los Angeles, the same place where Hendrix composed "Purple Haze"!

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“Making Whoopee” in The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) is one of the most sexually charged, erotic moments in cinema.
Michelle Pfeiffer and Jeff Bridges in perfect sync: slow, smoky, and intimate. A private love scene unfolding in public without anyone taking a single stitch off.

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Solaris (1972 dir. Andrei Tarkovsky) (Cinematography by Vadim Yusov)

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"Sledgehammer" is the biggest hit of Peter Gabriel's solo career and his single #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (1986). The revolutionary music video, directed by Stephen R. Johnson with animations from Aardman (the same as those from Wallace & Gromit), used stop-motion, claymation and pixilation in an unprecedented way at the time. Peter Gabriel spent 16 hours lying motionless under a glass plate while animators moved objects frame by frame, the entire clip took almost a week of insane recording. Result? It won a record 9 awards at the 1987 MTV VMAs (including Video of the Year) and is to this day the most played music video in MTV history.

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John Cassavetes on why he is against movies like Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" (1971):

"There’s a difference between being violent and having violent emotions. There’s a difference between anger and the act of shooting somebody in the face. I’ve never known anyone in my life that ever shot anyone in the face. And I’ve seen it on the screen too many times. There’s no morality there, no feeling of anything for anyone. It’s a lie to say that people are violent. There are more good people than there are bad people. To see constant terror builds a nation, builds moviegoers that can only love constant terror. We become used to it, inured to it like doctors knowing they have to be tough. They can’t think of that person with tenderness, but must be dispassionate.

There’s a lot of violence in 'Minnie and Moskowitz' (1971) but violence that I can understand. Violent feelings, but nobody ki!!s anybody or shoots anyone or knifes anybody. Without having seen 'A Clockwork Orange' (1971), I know, because I know the story. I really couldn’t go to see it, because I don’t want to see people ki!! each other. I don’t want to see any more hostility toward one another. I just don’t want to see that reflected any more. I’m tired of violence and dehumanization. I think the artist has a tremendous obligation to bring trust to people. Because the only thing we don’t have time for is ourselves. We can’t live with ourselves if we have no respect for our life and the human condition and the foibles that exist in all of us – then we have no tolerance, we’re all Nazis. We can’t survive with people being that inhuman. It’s impossible.

I look at 'A Clockwork Orange' and ask, why did Stanley make it? Did he make it for anyone in particular? Why did he choose a story like that, in this day and age? For what: to incite a revolution, to stop everything? Maybe that would be OK, if he really believed that, but I don’t believe it. I don’t know why he made it.

The more films are made about insanity, the more fashionable it will become. And, eventually, as we become more and more dehumanized, there will be no answers for anyone. You can’t get any pleasure out of being an animal. There should be a Kubrick who can make that film and show that life can be violent and harsh. But, on the other hand, where are the equalizing forces of happiness? Art films, in stressing the weakness of society, have lost their balance. The majority of people would rather be filled with illusion than disillusion. And we just have to find some way to reflect that. Not just to constantly say, ‘Oh, God, things are wrong and all, and I don’t know what to do about it.’"

('Cassavetes on Cassavetes', edited by Ray Carney, 2001)

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Pink Floyd - Live in Venice (1989)

Full concert. Enjoy this masterpiece.

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Here’s the first trailer for Asghar Farhadi’s 'Parallel Tales', starring Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, and Vincent Cassel. Inspired by Krzysztof Kieślowski’s 'Dekalog VI', the film will compete in the official selection at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.