 | Category: | Music | | Genre: | Dance & DJ | | Artist: | Cut Copy |
Trio Melbourne, Dan Whitford / Tim Hoey / Mitchell Scott akhirnya meluncurkan album setelah 3 tahun album fenomenal mereka. banyak yang bilang album ini gelap dan kurang meyakinkan, kontras gue justru merasa album ini sangat foreward. cut copy seperti melihat trend musik 80'an mulai basi dan melongok ke 90'an, mungkin sesuai dekade yang sudah mau berakhir. track 1 'feel the love' seperti mendengar suara brett anderson dan lightning seeds berkolaborasi dan mencoba bereksplorasi dengan synth dan sampler. track 'nobody lost nobody found' seperti mendengar bee gees yang akhirnya bersedia menurunkan suaranya 2 kunci, lalu meminta diproduceri seorang dj new york.dan seperti deklarasi mereka, indeed mereka terdengar seperti mantan istri anda. tapi track favorit saya 'far away'. 10 bintang   | Category: | Books | | Genre: | Literature & Fiction | | Author: | Seno Gumira Ajidarma |
kalo ada buku yang gue baca berkali-kali selain Pendekar Super Sakti nya Kho Ping Hoo, adalah buku ini. Cerita sukab menulis surat buat alina dan menyertakan sepotong senja itu sangat membawa rasa aneh. nelangsa, romantis, apatis, jatuh cinta, mengawang sekaligus. absurdia romantika ciri khas seno. Kunang Kunang Mandarin dan Peselancar Agung adalah favorit gue.
Cerita2 dibuku ini bisa di baca terpisah, tapi tetap merupakan kesatuan.
top banget  | Category: | Movies | | Genre: | Documentary |
Gue beli fim ini tahun 2004 akhir lalu, tapi baru gue tonton sekarang, dan damn,
gue nyesel banget. film ini banyak banget mengubah cara pandang gue. dan mungkin istilah yang tepat adalah mendapatkan pencerahan dan kira-kira pengetahuan dari segala teka-teki di dunia ini. tonton deh. it's really a mindfucking and you will have multiple multiply orgasm. and you never look at the world the same way again. and welcome to the bleep community. mari ngobrol..
WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW?! is a new type of film. It is part documentary, part story, and part elaborate and inspiring visual effects and animations. The protagonist, Amanda, played by Marlee Matlin, finds herself in a fantastic Alice in Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel, revealing the uncertain world of the quantum field hidden behind what we consider to be our normal, waking reality.
She is literally plunged into a swirl of chaotic occurrences, while the characters she encounters on this odyssey reveal the deeper, hidden knowledge she doesn’t even realize she has asked for. Like every hero, Amanda is thrown into crisis, questioning the fundamental premises of her life – that the reality she has believed in about how men are, how relationships with others should be, and how her emotions are affecting her work isn’t reality at all!
As Amanda learns to relax into the experience, she conquers her fears, gains wisdom, and wins the keys to the great secrets of the ages, all in the most entertaining way. She is then no longer the victim of circumstances, but she is on the way to being the creative force in her life. Her life will never be the same.
The fourteen top scientists and mystics interviewed in documentary style serve as a modern day Greek Chorus. In an artful filmic dance, their ideas are woven together as a tapestry of truth. The thoughts and words of one member of the chorus blend into those of the next, adding further emphasis to the film’s underlying concept of the interconnectedness of all things.
The chorus members act as hosts who live outside of the story, and from this Olympian view, comment on the actions of the characters below. They are also there to introduce the Great Questions framed by both science and religion, which divides the film into a series of acts. Through the course of the film, the distinction between science and religion becomes increasingly blurred, since we realize that, in essence, both science and religion describe the same phenomena.
The film employs animation to realize the radical knowledge that modern science has unearthed in recent years. Powerful cinematic sequences explore the inner-workings of the human brain. Quirky animation introduces us to the smallest form of consciousness in the body – the cell. Dazzling visuals reinforce the film’s message in an exciting, powerful way. Done with humor, precision, and irreverence, these scenes are only part of what makes this film unique in the history of cinema, and a true box-office winner.
THE SCIENTISTS
PHYSICISTS
William Tiller, Ph.D.
Amit Goswami, Ph.D.
John Hagelin, Ph.D.
Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D.
Dr. David Albert
NEUROLOGISTS, ANESTHESIOLOGISTS & PHYSICIANS
Dr. Masaru Emoto
Stuart Hameroff M.D.
Dr. Jeffrey Satinover
Andrew B. Newberg, M.D.
Dr. Daniel Monti
Dr. Joseph Dispenza
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Dr. Candace Pert
SPIRITUAL TEACHERS, MYSTICS AND SCHOLARS
Ramtha
Miceal Ledwith, Ph.D.
Film Makers:
Combining over 25 years of filmmaking experience William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, and Mark Vicente have embarked on their most important project to date: Delivering to the world through the combined mediums of film, documentary, animation and visual effects the answers to the most asked question in the universe. “ What is it? Where do we fit in? And, why do we do what we do?”
William Arntz
Producer, Director, Screenwriter, President - Captured Light
William Arntz graduated summa cum laude in 1972 from Penn State University with a degree in Engineering Science and accepted employment as a Research Physicist with Pratt and Whitney Aircraft. There he worked on developing the first wave optics simulator for high-energy gas dynamic laser weapons (a.k.a. “Star Wars”). After two years of corporate life, William “retired,” and drove around the country. Eventually he ended up in Boston where he reunited with a longtime friend who was enrolled in the Master’s Degree film program at Boston University. Together they created, Beat the Deva, a one-hour animated film noir, which won a Cine Eagle, the Kenyon Film Festival, and received distribution on the art house circuit.
Upon completion of the film in 1980, William moved to California to pursue a film career, but found the process of moving up through the ranks daunting and less than ideal. So he moved to San Francisco, “retired”, and became a Buddhist. By the late 80’s his Buddhist teacher assigned him the task using his meditation/visualization skills to create a software product and company, which was to become a huge success. Lacking the common sense to realize what he was up against, he took $100,000 in savings, no business experience, and sat down and in 5 months wrote “AutoSys” – a distributed job scheduler. The skills must have worked, for AutoSys went on to be one of the most widely used pieces of System Management software ever written, with clients as diverse as Merrill Lynch, NASA, ILM, Sun Microsystems, Cisco, and Boeing.
In 1995 William Arntz sold his company and took a year off. He then devised a second successful software company, which he sold nine months after creating it. After “retiring” for the 3rd time he became interested in uniting his 4 great interests: (1) leading edge science, (2) spiritual inquiry, (3) filmmaking and (4) computers. After realizing that with the success of his two software companies he had succeeded in bypassing the onerous task of rising through the ranks, he happily (despite still lacking common sense) embarked upon the creation of “What the #$*! Do We Know?”
Betsy Chasse
www.eloramedia.com
Producer, Director, Screenwriter
In 2004, Betsy was part of the creative team behind the sleeper hit, What The Bleep Do We Know?!. She is credited as Writer, Director and Producer of the movie, along with William Arntz and Mark Vicente. To date, “The Bleep” is one of the highest grossing documentaries of all time, and has shipped over 1 million DVDs in the first six months of its DVD release. Betsy was listed in Variety’s top 50 Independent Producers of 2004.
Betsy began her film production career as a Production Assistant on a low, low, low budget action picture where, on her first day, she promptly totaled her car. Fortunately, the Producer was in the car with her and could think of no other way to assist her except by promoting her to Production Coordinator (She didn’t need a car for that). After that, Betsy served as Production Coordinator on several films including, Best of the Best 2, and Robert Altman’s, The Player. Her first outing as a Production Manager came with the independent film, Public Access, directed by Bryan Singer, which won the 1995 Sundance Film Festival
Since then she has freelanced as a Production Manager and Line Producer on over 30 feature films. In 1996 Betsy started her own production company, Rampant Feline Films, which has produced several features, cable specials, and music videos.
In 2006 Betsy started her own media and publishing company, Elora Media www.eloramedia.com, which offers spiritually oriented, motivational books, videos and music for children of all ages – adults included! She is a highly sought after speaker on such subjects as spirituality, the blending of science and spirituality, and marketing to the cultural creative demographic.
Betsy lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband Gordie, and their daughter Elorathea. When not producing, directing, writing, marketing, or traveling, she can be found happily at work in her organic vegetable and flower garden.
Mark Vicente
Director, Director of Photography
Mark Vicente was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1965. With a father in Radio and a mother in the Diplomatic Service, he rarely stayed in one place for very long. As a child he traveled the world and lived in such diverse places as Portugal, Brazil, Canada, and the US. When it came to his life’s passion, he took his cue from his Grandfather who owned an advertising agency. Taking his first photograph at age 4 he soon developed a keen eye for visual storytelling. This led to his "professional" decision at age 13 that he wanted to make movies.
After finishing high school in South Africa (where he learnt that white men discovered Africa) he enrolled in Wits Drama School. There he studied Cinematography, Stage and Set design, Theater Lighting Design, Radio, Television Production and Music. But much to his horror he found himself also having to Dance, Act, and make strange primal noises in Voice Class. At the time, he stalwartly announced, "I just want to be a cinematographer!" (He was wearing tights at the time) Little did he realize that all this diverse training would serve him well in the future, as a director.
After mastering the Steadicam and working as a news-cameraman in Apartheid South Africa, he went on to shoot music videos and commercials. He got his first big break as Director of Photography on the musical, "SARAFINA " starring Whoopi Goldberg. In 1992 he got the opportunity to go to Hollywood and shoot a picture for Disney entitled, "FATHERHOOD" starring Patrick Swayze. Excited and nervous, he found himself at the age of 26 as one of the youngest Cinematographers to shoot a big budget studio picture.
He never left the United States and over the next 8 years, amassed experience shooting another 14 feature films. As exciting as it was to visually interpret stories presented to him by other directors, he found that the subject matter was sorely lacking. Driven by the conviction that tales of greatness could be as exciting and financially successful as the subjects of rape, pillage, plunder and scandal so beloved by the industry, he decided that no one else was telling the stories that he deeply cared about.
In 2000, driven by creative desperation, he decided it was time to embrace his inevitable destiny as a director. He began directing and shooting commercials and documentaries that gave voice to his rebelliousness and politically incorrect sense of humor. The Rockumentary, "WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD", produced by Linda Evans, takes to task organized religion and the lengths to which human beings will go to abuse minorities and specifically woman, in the name of God.
"What the Bleep do we Know" is his most recent project and it's success has been astounding. The audience, which Hollywood never said existed, seems to have come out in their droves in support of the film. And his dream of creating cinema to uplift and inspire, is finally coming to fruition.
Mark has a number of projects in development with mysterious, reflective and unusual subject matters. He is currently preparing to shoot “BENDING TIME”, a large budget spy thriller which includes themes of remote viewing, reincarnation and time travel… and of course a healthy dose of cutting edge science.
THE ACTORS
Marlee Matlin
Barry Newman
Elaine Hendrix
Armin Shimerman
Robert Bailey, Jr.
John Ross Bowie
Marlee Matlin as Amanda, the protagonist and heroine of the story. Matlin brings her art and passion to a role historically reserved for a male lead. Matlin is no stranger to challenging roles and is enormously accomplished, having received worldwide critical acclaim for her film debut in Children of a Lesser God when she won the Academy Award in 1987. She was the youngest recipient of the Best Actress Oscar and one of only four actresses to receive that honor for a film debut.
In addition to the Oscar, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association honored Marlee with the 1986 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama. An actress of stage, film, and television, Matlin’s fans have enjoyed her work on numerous television shows, and has had a role on the popular prime-time drama, The Practice, and a recurring role in The West Wing.
She also serves on the boards of several charitable organizations including the Starlight Foundation, VSA Arts, and Victory Over Violence and the American Red Cross. Her children’s novel, Deaf Child Crossing is being published by Simon & Schuster this year.
A role model for deaf and hearing-impaired children and adults, Business Week, in 2001 said she “Is perhaps the world’s most renowned deaf person.” Matlin says, “I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind.”
Barry Newman as Frank. Drama, comedy; he does it all. With a commanding talent and discerning eye, he’s crafted a career encompassing the Broadway stage, feature films, Movies of the Week, mini series and TV series. His recent feature film credits include 40 Days 40 Nights (as Josh Hartnett’s father), The Limey (Steven Soderberg’s critically acclaimed film, with Peter Fonda and Terence Stamp), Bowfinger (as Classy Agent opposite Eddie Murphy and Steve Martin), Brown’s Requiem, Goodbye Lover (as Immoral Senator), Good Advice (as a Tough Media Mogul with Charlie Sheen), Jack the Dog, and Daylight (opposite Sylvester Stallone).
Playing it cool, but with an edge, has become a trademark of Newman’s style. When director Sydney Furie came to New York in search of an actor to play the title role in the Paramount film, The Lawyer, Barry was cast and received critical acclaim for his portrayal of a cocky, but brilliant attorney, a character loosely based on F. Lee Bailey. As the star of the now classic film, Vanishing Point, Barry portrayed a man outside of the system, a true symbol of the times. His other starring credits include The Salzburg Connection; Fear is the Key, City on Fire, and Amy, for which the Los Angeles Times hailed him as the “Spencer Tracy of the 80’s.”
In Television, Newman is well remembered for his title role in the NBC series, Petrocelli, for which he received both Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. He has also guest starred on N.Y.P.D. Blue, Murder, She Wrote, and as a partner on L.A. Law 2.
In addition, Barry has starred in more than 20 made-for-television movies, including Second Sight, opposite Elizabeth Montgomery, Having it All, with Dylan Cannon, Fantasies, with Suzanne Pleshette, the controversial My Two Loves, with Mariette Hartley and Lyn Redgrave, and the Award Winning King Crab. Other Newman credits include the much-heralded mini-series Fatal Vision, playing the attorney who unsuccessfully defends Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the real life Green Beret accused of killing his wife and two daughters. Both the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times critics termed his performance “overpowering” and “outstanding.” He also starred in the TV series Nightingales, the Murder, She Wrote pilot, Ballinger, and the BBC production of Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d, co-starring Clair Bloom.
Born in Boston, Barry was graduated from the prestigious Boston Latin School and earned a degree in anthropology from Brandeis University. A friend took him to Lee Strasberg’s Actor’s Studio, where he fell in love with acting, and almost overnight, decided to pursue an acting career. He hasn’t looked back since.
Newman’s resume also includes important work on the Broadway stage having been featured in Herman Wouk’s comedy, Nature’s Way, Mel Tolkin’s Maybe Tuesday, the musical version of What Makes Sammy Run?, the controversial America Hurrah, and Christie’s Mousetrap. At the same time, he starred on the daytime soap, The Edge of Night.
In addition to his many acting accomplishments, Newman is now adding the title of producer to his credits and is busy developing film and television projects. He is currently developing a motion picture based on Joan Peyser’s book, Bernstein – A Biography. Newman, who bears a striking resemblance to the legendary composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein, will produce the picture and star in the title role.
Elaine Hendrix as Jennifer recently finished filming Mr. St. Nick opposite Kelsey Grammer for Hallmark Entertainment. She plays conniving weather girl Heidi Gardelle, who seduces Grammer in an attempt to steal his fortune. Mr. St. Nick also stars Charles Durning, Katherine Helmond, and Wallace Shawn, and is directed by Larry Sanders alumni, Craig Zisk.
Hendrix has also recently completed a string of projects including the Disney sequel, Inspector Gadget 2 as the latest Gadget robot, G2, alongside French Stewart, the hit Sci-Fi series “The Chronicle” as New York Times reporter Kristen Martin, and was reunited with her former Get Smart (FOX) co-star Andy Dick for the 1950’s spoof “See Dicks” on The Andy Dick Show.
Hendrix is perhaps most recognized for her breakout performance in Disney’s remake of The Parent Trap from the writing/producing/directing team of Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer. As Dennis Quaid’s scheming fiancée, Elaine truly solidified her position as a skilled comedic actress. Film critic Roger Ebert singled out Hendrix’s performance with special mention of her work in the film’s camping sequence where she unquestionably “earns her comedy stripes.”
Hendrix also garnered critical praise co-starring in the Paramount Pictures comedy Superstar. Hendrix and “Saturday Night Live” comedian Molly Shannon play high school students vying for the attention of the most popular boy on campus played by SNL cast member Will Ferrell. Her other film credits include the FOX 2000 drama Here On Earth with Leelee Sobieski and the MGM drama Molly starring Elizabeth Shue.
Elaine first captivated film audiences as Vogue magazine fashion editor Lisa Luder in the Touchstone Pictures comedy Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion starring Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino. Independent features include Wish You Were Dead in which she stars as a sexy, mysterious hit woman opposite Carey Elwes, Dawg with Dennis Leary, and The Hebrew Hammer with Adam Goldberg.
Born and raised in Tennessee, Hendrix moved to Atlanta, Georgia to attend the former Northside School of Performing Arts. Within a few years she was dancing professionally with the Gary Harrison Dance Co. and subsequently traveled the world dancing and modeling for such companies as NIKE and Levi’s.
Hendrix currently resides in Los Angeles with her Australian Cattle Dog, Tiloc. She is a member of Women in Film and Women of Los Angeles and is actively involved in humanitarian efforts on behalf of children, cancer research and the environment.
Armin Shimerman as Old Man has dabbled in diverse arenas. Most people are familiar with his portrayals of Quark on Star Trek: DS-9, Principal Snyder on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or an assortment of judges and anal-retentive beauracrats. He’s played over sixty different characters on television and had major recurring roles as Pascal in Beauty and the Beast, Cousin Bernie in Brooklyn Bridge, Tommy Walker on The Invisible Man, and presently Edmund Graves on David E. Kelley’s Girl’s Club.
Immediately after graduating from UCLA with a degree in English, he apprenticed at the prestigious San Diego Old Globe Shakespeare Theater and eventually took over the lead comic roles. Immediately afterward, he migrated to New York, where, within a year, he performed for Joseph Papp in the highly acclaimed production of 3-Penny Opera. He went on to work for many years on Broadway in St. Joan with Lynn Redgrave at the Circle in the Square, Broadway, with Teri Garr and Glen Close, and finally Richard Rogers’ last musical, I Remember Mama.
Years of work in Regional Theater followed including Stage West, Connecticut Shakespeare Festival, Vermont Champlain Shakespeare Festival, Indiana Repertory, Rutgers’ Mason Gross Theater, Tyrone Guthrie Theater, and Seattle’s ACT. The prestigious Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle nominated his last stage endeavor in Pinter’s Birthday Party for best lead performance.
In addition, he has co-written Sci Fi novels for Pocket Books; The 34th Rule, The Merchant Prince, and the upcoming Outrageous Fortune. He is currently penning a Tudor mystery, The Toad-eater. This is in conjunction with years of teaching Elizabethan Rhetoric. He recently completed six years of service as a National officer of SAG whereby he negotiated the current TV/Film contract, among other duties.
Robert Bailey, Jr. as Reggie has been in front of the camera for nine of his 12 years. He was “discovered” at age three by talent scouts who came to his Minnesota preschool seeking to cast a boy in a national print campaign for children’s clothing. Two years later, Bailey, while watching television, pointed to an actor and firmly asked his mother, “Why can’t I do that?” The following year, Bailey made his television debut in Nash Bridges and has been on the go ever since.
His work in TV series includes ER, Presidio Med, Becker, The Practice, Touched by an Angel, Diagnosis Murder, and The Parent ‘Hood, to name a few. Bailey’s TV movies include Hallmark’s Little John (as Little John), MC Hammer (as the young MC), and Baby Bedlam (as Zeke). His feature films include Dragonfly (with Kevin Costner), and Brian De Palma’s Mission to Mars. Bailey is the recipient of a Young Artist Award for his starring role in Becker.
John Ross Bowie spent 4 years performing all over the country with the acclaimed sketch comedy group “Naked Babies” and studying at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in his native New York City. After graduating with a degree in English from Ithaca College, John went through several careers before settling on acting – 1 year as a high school teacher, 2 as a copywriter for a consulting firm, 4 years as the bassist for the seminal pop-punk band “Egghead.” And even one day as a real-life paralegal (which is a far harder job than it appears on TV.)
In 2001, John distilled his various jobs into a one man show "Paid to Stand Around,” performing it in New York and L.A. He plays Wally Berman in NBC’s “AUSA” and will be seen in the upcoming features “Glory Days” and “What the &*%$ do we know?” opposite Marlee Matlin. Other credits include “Road Trip”, NBC’s “Happy Family”, “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” and over 20 TV commercials.
 | Category: | Music | | Genre: | Dance & DJ | | Artist: | Shitdisco |
pecah...berantakan...perhatikan 'I Know Kung Fu', 'Reactor Party' dan 'Disco Blood' dijamin bikin lantai disko berdarah-darah! perpaduan sound guitar raw dan beat bass dancey. serta element synth yang kental dicampur aduk sesembarang mungkin sesuai dengan cara anak2 muda ini menabrakan warna2 pakaian mereka. gemerlap nu rave yang oke lah. cocok buat alkohol atau altered mind substances yang chemical.
NME,April 14, 2007
"Shitdisco reveal themselves to be focused on being a great disco-punk band...as soon as Kingdom Of Fear finishes you want to hear it again"  | Category: | Music | | Genre: | Dance & DJ | | Artist: | Radio 4 |
band yg terinspirasi bgt ama band post punk era 80 awal Gang of Four, tapi namanya diambil dari lagu Public Image LTD. seperti band post punk kebanyakan, mereka meracik keragaman musik dgn ciamik dan tematik. irama reggae bahkan ikut campur di satu track, sedangkan track Enemies Like This ditandai dengan gebukan drum keras dan cepat, mengajak badan berdansa rusuh.  | Category: | Music | | Genre: | Other | | Artist: | Moving Units |
KEREN, setelah sekian lama gue nunggu mbrojolnya album mereka setelah 'Dangerous Dream'. album ini seperti melihat New Order era awal setelah curtis gantung diri, lahir kembali di hiruk-pikuk nu rave. 'Dark Walls' track berbahaya, yang siap untuk menggugat hati untuk menuntu substansi, setidaknya barbiturat. gelap, mengajak berkencan dengan dingin malam setelah pulang dari diskotik. seperti album post punk umumnya, album ini terlihat tematik dan berkonsep. perselingkuhan antara synthesizer dan akustik lainnya tidak kentara. tercampur dgn sempurna.  | Category: | Music | | Genre: | Other | | Artist: | Hot Hot Heat |
Salah satu band yang selalu gue tunggu albumnya, setelah kecewa dgn album 'Elevator' yg drop bgt dr album hacep 'Make Up Break Down', kwartet ini seperti menemukan kembali ketajaman mereka. gue inget dulu bahkan Franz Ferdinand adalah pembuka buat band Kanada ini. tapi skrg Alex Kapranos dkk udh melejit kemana, HHH masih berkutat berusaha menemukan senjatanya lagi. Lagu '5 Times Out Of 100' cukup memacu adrenalin, sementara beberapa track lainnya sgt ear friendly.  | Category: | Movies | | Genre: | Drama |
Always: Sanchome no Yuhi (aka: Sunset on The Third Street)
Starring: Hidetaka Yoshioka, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Koyuki, Masako Motai
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
Studio: EVS Entertainment (Thai)
Rating: NR
Genre: Drama
Synopsis:
Always: Sanchome no Yuhi (aka: Sunset on The Third Street)
DVD release of the film that took Tokyo by storm with its moving presentation of the hopes and dreams of 50s-era Japan. Directed by "Juvenile" and "Returner" director Takashi Yamazaki. Features impressive location shooting and stunning visual effects work to bring back the feel of 50s Japan during its reconstruction after the war..
Nipponese nostalgia for the post-WWII era that saw optimism reborn is portrayed with CGI spice and too much sugar in "Always -- Sunset on Third Street," a family-oriented mellermeller. Based on a popular manga and shot on Toho's soundstages, visually delightful pic lovingly recreates the ramshackle streets of Tokyo, circa 1958. While familial disruption and problems of big-city living are universal, reference points are decidedly local, and emotions don't always translate.
In 1958, with the impending completion of Tokyo's TV broadcasting tower as a symbol of Japan's escalating post-war economic recovery, rural schoolgirl Mutsuko (Maki Horikita) arrives from the provinces to begin her first job with Suzuki Auto. Initially impressed by meeting company "president" Norifumi Suzuki (Shin'ichi Tsutsumi), Mutsuko is shocked to discover her workplace is actually a shabby auto repair shop in Tokyo's down-at-heel Yuhi district.
Suzuki is a bad-tempered employer but Mutsuko is welcomed by his wife, Tomoe (Hiroko Yakushimaru), and their impish 5-year-old son, Ippei (Kazuki Koshimizu). One of Ippei's favorite haunts is a five-and-dime store managed by struggling serial writer Ryunosuke Chagawa (Hidetaka Yoshioka). Regarding now-successful writers like Nobel-prize winner Kenzaburo Oe, as overrated, Chagawa wants to be more than a hack churning out sci-fi yarns and selling cheap toys on the side.
When alluring newcomer Hiromi (Koyuki) opens a sake bar in the area, she gathers clientele quickly -- in dramatically compressed manga style -- but also finds herself lumbered with Junnosuke (Kenta Suga) the orphaned offspring of the bar's previous tenant. Drunk, and smitten by Hiromi, Chogawa accepts custodianship of the boy.
Pic follows each character as their lives intersect and diverge but has a half-baked feel, as if auds are expected to already know the story. (Given the source material's enduring popularity, this may well be the case for some.) Time, and economic improvement, is marked by the Suzuki household's technological acquisitions, with a washing machine, a refrigerator and, of course, a TV comprising the holy trinity.
Despite the distinctly melancholy resolution to some strands, with actions that will be baffling, or at least unconvincing, to non-Japanese auds, pic maintains an upbeat tone and revels in its nostalgic hue. Cultural references and in-jokes abound, with Yasujiro Ozu's "Ohayo" (1959) and Keisuke Kinoshite's "Carmen Comes Home" (1951) being the most obvious.
Helmer Takashi Yamazaki has cred in both the movie ("Juvenile," "Returner") and gamer ("Onimusha 3: Demon Siege") worlds, and uses acquired skills from both to advantage, creating a cohesive mixture of live action, archival footage and the healthy support of CGI to recreate Tokyo's recent past.  | Category: | Music | | Genre: | Indie Music | | Artist: | !!! |
This is the newest album for my recent favorite band. one word: Perfecto. seandainya the safari akan bikin album ke dua, gue pgn bgt jadi kaya gini, keren abis, must have! bayangkan sebuah petualangan MDMA dari mantan junky heroin, dan diakhiri dengan perselingkuhan marijuana dan LSD. Mabuk berat! anti disco suburban soul. gue pgn bgt bikin musik cosmic psychedelic yet dancey and full of punk spirit seperti ini.  | Category: | Movies | | Genre: | Drama |
Semalam gue baru saja menyaksikan satu masterpiece lagi. Stanger Than Fiction semakin membuat gue pengen membelah isi kepala Chuck Palahniuk. Emang gue belum baca bukunya. Tapi dari film yang secanggih ini, lo semua dapet asuransi dari gue kalau bukunya pasti lebih hebat. Ditilik dari penggarapan film, gue harus mengakui kalau gue sangat terpukau. Karakter Harold Crick yang dimainkan Will Ferrel bener-bener keren, karakter Ana Pascal (Ana, if you often visit my multiply you will be as familiar as me with this name) dimainkan oleh salah satu perempuan paling gue idolai pula Maggie Gyllenhaal. Lalu karakter lain yaitu Karen yang dimainkan oleh Emma Thompson adalah seorang penulis yang adiksi terhadap tembakau, walah-walah. Tapi, eits tunggu dulu… gue semakin ‘pecah’ berkeping-keping ketika suara Paul Weller dan The Jam-nya mengalunkan ‘That’s Entertainment’. Gokil! Marc Forster (the director), I have to you give my ten for this popular offbeat movie.
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