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Cloverfield Party Mix

 

For your next fateful, monster-interrupted loft party, do it Cloverfield style; Hypeful has assembled fulll MP3s of all the “indie-tastic tunes playing in the background of Rob’s farewell party” (starring Spoon, Architecture In Helsinki, and of Montreal, etc.).

via hypeful

New Arcade Fire Video- Black Mirror

Awesome video and site http://rorrimkcalb.com/arcadefire.html

New Fiest Video “I Feel It All”

Another charming one take video from leslie fiest.

Cloverfield Review

Cloverfield

4/5

I am going to try to keep this review as ‘spoiler-free’ as possible, but if you want surprises, stop reading now.

Cloverfield, if you have been living under a rock, is the much ballyhooed new project from J.J. Abrams. It is a monster movie shot from a single camera, to chilling results.

The film takes place in Midtown and Manhattan, while the monster is destroying the city. For those worried about seeing the monster, you see more of it than i would have cared to, but the real scares are that of the ‘parasites’ that fall off the monster during the attack.

a couple tips for seeing Cloverfield:

Sit as far back as possible, unless you enjoy motion sickness.

Pay close attention to the final scene.

Stay through the credits.

Heath Ledger Dead

4/4/1979-1/22/08

No details, but pills were found near the body.

I’ll try and keep this up to date as the story develops.

80th Academy Awards Nominees

Best Picture

• Atonement
• Juno
• Michael Clayton
• No Country for Old Men
• There Will Be Blood

Best Director

• Paul Thomas Anderson – There Will Be Blood
• Ethan Coen and Joel Coen – No Country for Old Men
• Tony Gilroy – Michael Clayton
• Jason Reitman – Juno
• Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Best Actor

• George Clooney – Michael Clayton
• Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood
• Johnny Depp – Sweeney Todd
• Tommy Lee Jones – In the Valley of Elah
• Viggo Mortensen – Eastern Promises

Best Actress

• Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth: The Golden Age
• Julie Christie – Away from Her
• Marion Cotillard – La Vie en Rose (La môme)
• Laura Linney – The Savages
• Ellen Page – Juno

Best Supporting Actor

• Casey Affleck – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
• Javier Bardem – No Country for Old Men
• Philip Seymour Hoffman – Charlie Wilson’s War
• Hal Holbrook – Into the Wild
• Tom Wilkinson – Michael Clayton

Best Supporting Actress

• Cate Blanchett – I’m Not There
• Ruby Dee – American Gangster
• Saoirse Ronan – Atonement
• Amy Ryan – Gone Baby Gone
• Tilda Swinton – Michael Clayton

Best Original Screenplay

• Diablo Cody – Juno
• Nancy Oliver – Lars and the Real Girl
• Tony Gilroy – Michael Clayton
• Brad Bird – Ratatouille
• Tamara Jenkins – The Savages

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Atonement – Christopher Hampton
• Away from Her – Sarah Polley
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – Ronald Harwood
• No Country for Old Men – Joel and Ethan Coen
• There Will Be Blood – Paul Thomas Anderson

Best Animated Feature

• Persepolis
• Ratatouille
• Surf’s Up

Best Cinematography

• Roger Deakins – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
• Seamus McGarvey – Atonement
• Janusz Kaminski – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Roger Deakins – No Country for Old Men
• Robert Elswit – There Will Be Blood

Best Art Direction

• Arthur Max and Beth Rubino – American Gangster
• Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer – Atonement
• Dennis Gassner and Anna Pinnock – The Golden Compass

Best Costume Design

• Albert Wolsky – Across the Universe
• Jacqueline Durran – Atonement
• Alexandra Byrne – Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Best Documentary Feature

• No End in Sight
• Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
• Sicko
• Taxi to the Dark Side
• War/Dance

Best Documentary Short

• Freeheld
• La Corona
• Salim Baba
• Sari’s Mother

Best Film Editing

• Christopher Rouse – The Bourne Ultimatum
• Juliette Welfling – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Jay Cassidy – Into the Wild
• Roderick Jaynes – No Country for Old Men
• Dylan Tichenor – There Will Be Blood

Best Makeup

• Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald – La Vie en Rose
• Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji – Norbit
• Ve Neill and Martin Samuel – Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

Best Original Score

• Dario Marianelli – Atonement
• Alberto Iglesias – The Kite Runner
• James Newton Howard – Michael Clayton
• Michael Giacchino – Ratatouille
• Marco Beltrami – 3:10 to Yuma

Best Song

• Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova – “Falling Slowly” from Once
• Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz – “Happy Working Song” from Enchanted
• Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz – “So Close” from Enchanted
• Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz – “That’s How You Know” from Enchanted
• Chris Trapper – “This Time” from August Rush

Best Animated Short

• I Met the Walrus
• Madame Tutli-Putli
• Even Pigeons Go To Heaven
• My Love
• Peter and the Wolf

Best Live Action Short

• At Night
• The Substitute
• The Mozart of Pickpockets
• Tanghi Argentini
• The Tonto Woman

Best Sound Mixing

• Scott Millan, David Parker, and Kirk Francis – The Bourne Ultimatum
• Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, and Peter Kurland – No Country for Old Men
• Randy Thom, Michael Semanick, and Doc Kane – Ratatouille
• Paul Massey, David Giammarco, and Jim Steube – 3:10 to Yuma
• Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell, and Peter J. Devlin – Transformers

Best Sound Editing

• Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg – The Bourne Ultimatum
• Skip Lievsay – No Country for Old Men
• Randy Thom and Michael Silvers – Ratatouille
• Matthew Wood – There Will Be Blood
• Ethan van Der Rym and Mike Hopkins – Transformers

Best Visual Effects

• The Golden Compass
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
• Transformers

Best Foreign Language Film

• Beaufort (Israel)
• The Counterfeiters (Austria)
• Katyń (Poland)
• Mongol (Kazakhstan)
• 12 (Russia)

Breakdown

(List of films which received multiple nominations)

• 8 No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood
• 7 Atonement, Michael Clayton
• 5 Ratatouille
• 4 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon), Juno
• 3 Enchanted, The Bourne Ultimatum, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, La Vie en Rose (La môme), Transformers
• 2 3:10 to Yuma, American Gangster, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Away from Her, The Golden Compass, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Into the Wild, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, The Savages

Vampire Weekend

You’ve been warned.

Radiohead Announce Environmentally Sound North American Tour

Via pitchfork

There are three essential components to any respectable Pitchfork News tour story– dates, cities, and venues– but when your band is called Radiohead, you can get away with announcing them one at a time.

Today Radiohead confirmed that they are indeed coming to North America in the near future, and provided folks with a handy list of just which cities they’ll visit. No dates, no venues, just cities. Did yours make the cut? Have a look (arranged alphabetically):

Atlanta
Boston
Charlotte
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Houston
Indianapolis
Los Angeles
Miami
Montreal
New York
Philadelphia
San Diego
San Francisco
Santa Barbara
Seattle
St. Louis
Tampa
Toronto
Vancouver
Washington, DC

The cities listed above will be graced by the men of Radiohead in two waves, the first popping off before that oft-reported European jaunt (which begins June 6), and the second taking place sometime after said jaunt ends (on July 8).

As the guys explained on Dead Air Space late last month, they’ve been working with environmental group Best Foot Forward to reduce their carbon emissions on this forthcoming tour, which may go some to explain why it’s taking them a minute to put it all together. They also provided some pointers on how YOU can help. Observe:
* If average car occupancy increased from 2.2 to 3, the whole tour’s overall CO2 output would be reduced by 22%.
* Halving fans flying would reduce overall CO2 consumption by 5%
* And if 10% of car users travelled by bus it would reduce CO2 emissions by 7%

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
4.5/5

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead is the story of two brothers botched robbery of their parents jewelry store, and the events that followed. it stars Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Marisa Tomei. and Albert Finney as their father. The film sets out to show just how slimy and terrible people can be. Without revealing too much, their father spends the film on a manhunt, only to find out the one he is looking for is his own son. Everyone in this movie has some horrible qualities, but that only lends itself to the depth and believability of the characters. This is by no means a ‘popcorn flick’ and has no hollywood resolution or happy ending.

This film is another notch on Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s already impressive belt, and while robbed of a golden globe nod, i think his performance was oscar-worthy. The cinematography was outstanding, and gave a real feel of the hopelessness of the actors on screen. The film has an out of order timeline, a’la Tarantino, which doesn’t bother me but the way the editor decided to show passage of time. He used these jittery little cuts that went back and forth between the two scenes, and it got old quick.

The film’s title comes from the Irish saying ” May you be in Heaven half an hour, before the Devil knows you’re dead”, and fits it perfectly. While the golden globes overlooked it, and the academy may; this is a film worth seeing.