Monday, 23. August 2010
Franco-German tv-network arte has put their focus on the 1960ies lately. Tonight they start a short-series of documentaries entitled "Beaches Of The Sixties", produced by Emmanuel Blanchard, Emmanuelle Nobécourt, and Samuel Lajus. Tonight's episode circles around the glamorous St. Tropez, the upcoming episodes feature Malibu, Daytona, the Copacabana and Capri. ...
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Friday, 20. August 2010
Finally this documentary made it to Germany, a good opportunity to give it some space here on The Reference Council. "Until The Light Takes Us" tries to chronicle the history, ideology and aesthetic of the early 90ies Norwegian black metal, one of the most extreme, violent and threatening chapters in ...
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Friday, 02. July 2010
W+K pulled another great advertisement out of their hat with this new and absolute hilarious ad for Old Spice. Too bad Old Spice is rank, but who cares. This ad is just about as good as they get.
Enjoy.
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Wednesday, 26. May 2010
"Towards the end of World War II the staff of SS officer Hans Kammler made a significant breakthrough in anti-gravity.
From a secret base built in the Antarctic, the first Nazi spaceships were launched in late ‘45 to found the military base Schwarze Sonne (Black Sun) on the dark side of the Moon. ...
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Thursday, 20. May 2010
Cameron Crowe is without a doubt the best film director when it comes to music films ( Almost Famous, Walk The Line, Ray ) Cameron Crowe is throwing his hat into the ring with a film depicting the life of Motown legend Marvin Gaye. The project has been in development ...
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Wednesday, 05. May 2010
If you have never had the pleasure of watching the short films by Tyler Manson over on the Mollusk Surf Shop site then this is a great one to start with. In one of the more recent series, Gary Hanel give some insight into some of his awesome shapes including ...
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Tuesday, 04. May 2010
I got an email from a good friend of mine, Billy Leroy, on Sunday notifying about a film, by him and about hit. Billy owns and runs "Billy's Antiques" in the Bowery, New York and is sadly one of the last originals in downtown, New York. He's a character and ...
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Thursday, 22. April 2010
Trust me, I really wanted to hate "A Single Man", the directing debut of fashion designer Tom Ford. I love beautiful things, but a movie? That's too much. Stay away, I thought, leave directing to some talented youngster.
Unfortunately the movie which plays in 1962 turned out to be a real ...
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Friday, 09. April 2010
In the late 1970s, the "greatest city in the world" was teetering on the edge of total chaos. A failed economy, crime and en mass housing corruption gave way to a city in crisis. Yet out of the economic and social strife that held the "Big Apple" hostage, a family ...
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Tuesday, 06. April 2010
This movie came out in 2009 and saw a dvd release some months ago already . It's not really new, however it deserves much more talk about it than it has been happening so far. Ti West's (Cabin Fever II) "The House Of The Devil" is a beautifully shot, carefully ...
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Tuesday, 30. March 2010
Over the weekend while enjoying a late night brew or two with a neighbor, he popped in this Led Zeppelin DVD from 2003. Now I am sure most have seen "The Song Remains The Same" but this is an even more essential view into one of the worlds greatest rock ...
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Thursday, 25. March 2010
Think about the word "cool". If spaceship-lookalike sneakers, allover printed hoodies and sticker-strewn Caps pop up before your inner eye ... stop reading. If there is a vision of a guy wearing a black turtle-neck sweater, driving a green Mustang ... you are right on track. The great Steve McQueen ...
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Saturday, 20. March 2010
I thought about sorting this in the "Daily-WTF" first, but then ... it's not really "WTF" but "OMFG I never thought this might happen again!". In the 80ies and early 90ies we lived in a testosterone-soaked paradise of b-action movies. There was nothing wrong about depicting armies of mercenaries ravaging ...
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Tuesday, 09. March 2010
This popped up in my twitter-stream this morning. Head over to http://www.program-glitch-esc.net/ and have a look at the second (not the first, thanks for the info Mr. Llywarch) trailer for the upcoming TRON Legacy movie. Set 20 years after the original movie, judging on what's shown in the trailer, the ...
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Thursday, 04. March 2010
The Gentlemens Guide To Midnight Cinema podcasters Big Willy and The Samurai sat down with director Mike Malloy to talk about his upcoming documentary "Eurocrime! The Italian cop and gangster films that ruled the 70s" (which we told you about here). Head over to the GGTMC homepage and download this ...
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