Everything Comes Full Circle

It looks as if Spanish Films won all the important awards given at the Cannes Film Festival. Pedro Almodovar and Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu are some of my favorite directors. This year their work will hopefully win some more awards at next year’s Academy Awards.

Inarritu nabbed the Best Director prize for Babel, which featured, in addition to an absent Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Gael Garcia Bernal. The multicultural drama weaved together stories connecting families in Morocco, Japan and the U.S., and according to Inarritu, incorporated the blood, sweat and tears of more than 1,000 crew members.
“I’m receiving this award on behalf of all of them,” he said. “It’s a collaborative art and I owe them all this award. This is a dream for me, I can’t believe it happened. And my kids will not believe that I received my award from Tim Burton.”

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http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,19144,00.html?fdnews

Spain’s festival entry, the Pedro Almodóvar-written and directed Volver, nabbed two prizes at the ceremony, taking home both the Best Screenplay Award and the collective Best Actress award, which went to the film’s female ensemble cast, among them Penélope Cruz.
“You cannot highlight one over another,” Almodovar said of his leading ladies’ joint nod. “The film is about family…the performances are complementary.”
“It’s such an honor to be able to share this award with all these amazing women,” Cruz said. “I think this award really belongs to Pedro, the master…Thank you so much, Pedro, for what you do for women.”
It was the director’s second time leaving the festival with some heavy metal. He was previously honored in 1999 with the Best Director award for the Cruz-starring All About My Mother.
Meanwhile, the Best Actor award also went to an ensemble, doled out to the men in Rachid Bouchareb’s Days of Glory. The Algerian film chronicled North African soldiers who battled the French in WWII.
While foreign films flourished at Cannes, U.S. produced efforts didn’t fare nearly so well.

and Sofia Coppola, whom is knocked up by lead singer of Phoenix had plenty of people boo her entry “Marie Antoinette” but did have some cheers….the movie is a biopic with one of my favorite actors of all time, Jason Schwartzman, which I believe is her cousin as well. Village Voice didn’t seem impressed, you decide.

http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0622,hoberman,73374,20.html

More Rock and less disco

Phoenix’s new album is a change from their previous efforts. I felt that there was more emphasis on the song writing and musical arrangements instead of plugging the synthesizers and hammering away. I enjoyed quite nicely and definately worth buying.

Ellen Allien and Apparat -Orchestra of Bubbles

I slept on this release and regret not listening to this earlier. It is definately one of the best pick-up of the year. Heavy loops and progressive. For fans of Dave Seaman, you get the idea…..

and last but not least

Thom Yorke-The Eraser

has anybody else picked this up, it was leaked earlier this week and i just got it….i don’t know what to think, half of me wants to say this album is a sham, yet the other half is forcing me to listen to it till i like the album….please help!