Out via Tailwhip Records is the newest EP by Ethan Fawkes, "From The Chaos Night". The EP holds the title track plus remixes by two young Liège based projects, Anamorphosis and E-Squad.

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Taken from the album "THE HOUSE OF RAIN".

written and directed by Milton Decamotan and Sevren Ni-Arb

AMPLIFIED DICHOTOMY

we´re shaking our hands

and break the contract

we´re telling the truth

and live our lies

we´re crying out loud

and sleep with dried tears

we´re moving the mountains

and we fall in the wind

I hate you

you love me

amplified dichotomy

I leave you

you need me

amplified dichotomy

I kill you

you save me

amplified dichotomy

Rod Taylor, the suave Australian native who came to Hollywood and starred in such films as The Birds and The Time Machine, has died. He was two days shy of turning 85.

Taylor died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles, his daughter Felicia told confirmed to The Los Angeles Times.

Taylor's big breakthrough came with his starring turn in The Time Machine, director George Pal's 1960 adaptation of the H. G. Wells 1895 sci-fi classic.

He also played the heroic Mitch Brenner in Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 classic The Birds, coming to the aid of Tippi Hedren, and he starred opposite Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in another 1963 release, The V.I.P.s.

Most recently, he played Winston Churchill in Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds (2009).

The Sydney native made an early mark when he starred on the ABC 1960-61 series Hong Kong. At $3,750 per episode, he was said to be the highest-paid actor in a one-hour show.

His film resume also includes the romantic comedy Sunday in New York (1963), playing a bachelor opposite the virgin Jane Fonda; 101 Dalmatians, where he was the voice of Pongo; and Do Not Disturb (1965) and The Glass Bottom Boat (1966), both opposite Doris Day.

Taylor tested for the role of middleweight boxing champion Rocky Graziano in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), but the part went to Paul Newman. Still, he impressed MGM studio chief Dore Schary, who gave him a contract and cast the actor in the Bette Davis-Ernest Borgnine comedy The Catered Affair (1956) in which he is engaged to Debbie Reynolds' character.

During this time, he also landed supporting roles opposite top-flight casts in Giant (1956) and Separate Tables (1958).

"To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed," he told Screenland magazine in 1961. "I would only do the good things. I wouldn’t do anything I didn't consider prestige. I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture."

Taylor was also memorable in the 1964 films Fate Is the Hunter and 36 Hours; as the title character in Young Cassidy (1965); and Dark of the Sun (1968).

Later, he had regular roles on the TV series Bearcats!, The Oregon Trail and Outlaws, and he played Frank Agretti on the CBS primetime soap Falcon Crest.

In 1977, he returned to Australia to star in the nostalgic The Picture Show Man. He also starred in the 1982 Australian thriller On the Run and was Daddy-O in Welcome to Woop Woop (1997).

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Powerful Oscar nominated 'The Overnighters' comes to DVD 9 February 2015

Desperate, broken men come from far and wide to North Dakota to chase their dreams and run from their demons, hoping to find work in the local oil fields. The powerful Oscar nominated feature documentary, The Overnighters follows the life of a local Pastor, who risks everything to help them. Following its critically acclaimed theatrical release it comes to DVD on 9 February 2015, courtesy of Dogwoof.

Winner of Special Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival 2013 and the Grand Jury Prize at Full Frame Film Festival 2014, it is produced, directed and filmed by Jesse Moss (Full Battle Rattle, Speedo) alongside producer Amanda McBaine (Speedo, The Investigators). This hard-hitting, engrossing and painfully relevant film offers an urgent and compassionate picture of life in 21st Century America.

LIMITED SLIPCASE EDITION ON BLU-RAY 26th JANUARY 2015

Arrow Video is excited to announce the UK Blu-ray release of Michael Mann’s debut feature film Thief, which arrives on 26th January 2015. This new release will be limited to 3,000 exclusive slip-case Blu-rays which will include two versions of the film, the original theatrical cut and an extended director’s cut.

Released in 1981, Thief, Michael Mann's first theatrical feature, paved the way for his iconic 80s TV show Miami Vice and his acclaimed films which followed thereafter; Manhunter, Heat and Collateral. The new restoration of the film includes a director-supervised 4k transfer of the film and a host of exciting new extras, including a Michael Mann and James Caan commentary, an hour-long doc on Michael Mann's career and two interviews with James Caan, one conducted in 1981 for French television, the other especially commissioned for this release. 

Alongside this, this exclusive edition will also include the new featurette The Art of the Heist, an examination of Thief with writer and critic F.X. Feeney, as well as a theatrical trailer, a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by maarko phntm and an illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Brad Stevens.

Synopsis

For his first theatrical feature, Michael Mann (Manhunter, The Insider, Miami Vice) returned to the rain-soaked streets of his hometown, Chicago, for a stunning piece of neo-noir starring James Caan (The Godfather, Rollerball) at his toughest.

Caan plays Frank, a jewel thief and former convict who is looking to settle down with his girlfriend (Tuesday Weld, Once Upon a Time in America) and begin a family. But when his ‘fence’ is thrown from a window and the Chicago mafia begin to flex their muscles, his hopes of a quiet life become anything but…

With a sterling supporting cast in the shape of James Belushi, Robert Prosky, Willie Nelson and Dennis Farina, lush electronic score by Tangerine Dream and the assured direction of Mann, Thief is a standout eighties crime flick that paved the way for the his later urban thrillers such as Heat and Collateral as well as Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive.

Special Features

· Limited Slipcase Edition [3000 units] featuring two versions of the film

· High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of the director’s cut from a new 4K film transfer, approved by director Michael Mann, with uncompressed 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio

· High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of the original theatrical cut [Limited Edition Exclusive] with original uncompressed 2.0 Stereo PCM audio

· Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

· Optional isolated music and effects track on the theatrical cut

· Audio commentary by writer-director Michael Mann and actor James Caan

· The Directors: Michael Mann – a 2001 documentary on the filmmaker, containing interviews with Mann, James Belushi, William Petersen, Jon Voight and others

· Stolen Dreams – a new interview with Caan, filmed exclusively for this release

· Hollywood USA: James Caan – an episode of the French TV series Ciné regards devoted to the actor, filmed shortly after Thief had finished production

· The Art of the Heist – an examination of Thief with writer and critic F.X. Feeney, author of the Taschen volume on Michael Mann

· Theatrical trailer

· Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by maarko phntm

· Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Brad Stevens