From 5^th November on Pride will hit the Belgian film theatres.

Director:Matthew Warchus
Stars:Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West

U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.
"Warm and witty, with terrific performances"- The Guardian
"Terrific"- The Times

DUTCH VERSION

Een film van Matthew WARCHUS.
Met een grote ensemble cast bestaande uit bekende Britse acteurs als Bill NIGHY ('Love Actually'), Imelda STAUNTON ('Vera Drake') en Dominic WEST ('The Wire') en nieuwe talenten als Ben SCHNETZER ('The Riot Club') en George MACKEY

Een inspirerende komedie gebaseerd op waargebeurde feiten.

Het is de zomer van 1984 - Margaret Thatcher is aan de macht en de Britse mijnwerkersbond staakt. Tijdens de Gay Pride in Londen, besluit een groep homoseksuele activisten geld op te halen om de families van de stakende mijnwerkers te ondersteunen. Maar ze stuiten op een probleem: de bond lijkt gegeneerd om hun steun te ontvangen.

De actievoerders laten zich echter niet uit hun lood slaan. Ze besluiten de bond te negeren en de mijnwerkers rechtstreeks te benaderen. Ze trekken in een klein busje naar een mijnwerkersdorp op het platteland van Wales om hun donatie persoonlijk te overhandigen.

Een buitengewoon verhaal over twee totaal verschillende gemeenschappen die zich, ondanks alle vooroordelen, verenigen voor een gezamenlijk doel.

Release in België op 5 november 2014

One year after the successful release of Adrenochrome and its follow-up remix EP, Meathead’s Lost HD, Marco Visconti and Marko Resurreccion are back and ready to unleash the Alchemy Series: three EPs planned to be released no more than six months from each other, an non-stop audio assault that will once again set aflame the alternative dancefloors worldwide with its mixture of old and new influences from the classic sounds of trance to the modern beats of EDM.

Three releases as three are the phases of the Alchemical process, said to transform the lower metals such as lead into gold, and which is nothing else but a veiled allegory of the initiatory path from man to Godhead.

The second phase of the alchemical transformation will be reached on on the eve of 31st October 2014, in time for the pagan festivities of Samhain (also know as Hallowe’en), with Two Of Three: Albedo.

Following the chaos or 'massa confusa' of the Nigredo stage, the alchemist undertakes a purification in Albedo, which is literally referred to as 'ablutio' – the washing away of impurities. In this process, the subject is divided into two opposing principles to be later coagulated to form a unity of opposites or 'coincidentia oppositorum' during Rubedo.
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Albedo will be release on October 31st on 2393 Records and will be available on Bandcamp, iTunes, Spotify and all other major digital distributors.

On 13th November Paradiso will release The Immigrant

Director: James Gray

Stars: Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner

1921. In search of a new start and the American dream, Ewa Cybulska and her sister Magda sail to New York from their native Poland. When they reach Ellis Island, doctors discover that Magda is ill, and the two women are separated. Ewa is released onto the mean streets of Manhattan while her sister is quarantined. Alone, with nowhere to turn and desperate to reunite with Magda, she quickly falls prey to Bruno, a charming but wicked man who takes her in and forces her into prostitution. And then one day, Ewa encounters Bruno's cousin, the debonair magician Orlando. He sweeps Ewa off her feet and quickly becomes her only chance to escape the nightmare in which she finds herself.

DUTCH VERSION

Op 13 november verschijnt The Immigrant bij Paradiso op dvd.

SYNOPSIS:

New York, 1921. De Poolse immigrante Ewa (Marion Cotillard) wordt bij aankomst op Ellis Island opgevangen door de ogenschijnlijk behulpzame Bruno Weiss (Joaquin Phoenix), die wat te eten en een dak boven haar hoofd regelt. Maar al snel komt zijn ware aard naar boven en dwingt hij haar op agressieve wijze tot een leven als burlesque gezelschapsdame om zo de kosten voor haar doodzieke zusje te betalen. Wanneer ze de illusionist Orlando (Jeremy Renner) ontmoet, valt hij direct voor de mooie Ewa, en zet hij alles op alles om haar te redden uit deze onveilige situatie. Bruno geeft echter zijn pronkstuk en beste inkomstenbron niet zomaar op.

A biopic exploring the darker side of the late French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent is to represent France as a possible contender in the Best Foreign Language Film category at next year's Oscars.

"Saint Laurent", directed by Bertrand Bonello, will be France's nomination for the category, the country's National Cinema Centre said Monday.

Bonello's film shows the designer, who pioneered tuxedos for women and ready-to-wear, cruising for sex and taking cocaine and pills.

Concentrating on a few episodes between 1967 and 1976, it vividly conjures up the hedonistic pre-AIDS days of the early 1970s, with gay sex parties and drinking and drug-taking in nightclubs -- where Saint Laurent's muses Betty Catroux and Loulou de la Falaise are on hand.

A team from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will watch all the selected films from each continent before announcing a shortlist of nine films in December. That will be whittled down to just five in January 2015.

The Oscars ceremony will take place in Los Angeles on February 22, 2015, with nominations announced on January 15.

France last won in the Best Foreign Language Film category in 1993 for the film "Indochine" starring Catherine Deneuve.

Belgium, which has scored seven noms — including two in the last three years, with Bullhead (2011) and The Broken Circle Breakdown (2013) — but never has won, entered Two Days, One Night, the latest neorealist work from the brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne. Starring Oscar winner Marion Cotillard, a Frenchwoman, the gutwrenching, High Noon (1952)-like drama has been among the most widely acclaimed films on this year's festival circuit. The Dardennes' three previous films that Belgium submitted for Oscar consideration — Rosetta (1999), The Son (2002) and The Child (2005) — did not even make the shortlist, but that seems likely to change this time around. 

Wild Smiles will release their brilliant debut album, Always Tomorrow, on Sunday Best Recordings on 27th October. The fast-rising trio, comprising brothers Chris and Joe Peden with drummer Ben Cook, will tour throughout the summer, taking in festival dates.

Sat 6 SEPT Bestival Festival, Isle of Whight

Sat 18 OCT Psychedelia Weekend, Southampton

Hailing from Winchester, Wild Smiles were amazed when their first forays made such a splash. Their 2013 7”, Sweet Sixteen/Tangled Hair, took in elements of Beach Boys surf pop, Velvet Underground drones, Wall Of Sound beats, Jesus & Mary Chain low-fi garage clatter and Nirvana filth. A dazzling stew of sound, it was simultaneously classic, timely and forward thinking – it seemed amazing no one had smashed such sprawling decades of music together before.

A five-track Wild Smiles EP followed on Geoff Barrow’s Invada label that summer, led by the MBV-flecked Take Me Away, and, in that song’s spirit of escape, the band hit the road for much of the rest of the year, earning their touring chops before going on to sign with Sunday Best.

Wild Smiles then took time out to concentrate on honing their songwriting, determined that every track on their debut album would be a classic. Their sound expanded – the likes of The Ramones, Pulp and Dinosaur Jr crept in. And Chris Peden blossomed as a lyricist. Tracks like the thrash-pop The Gun hark back to past traumas with a previous band; while the free download single Fool For You is “a simple love song.” The album traces a thematic arc of growing up and getting out, the struggles of the debt-heavy, priced-out youth generation.

Indeed, many of the songs on the album tackle issues that most other young bands are too scared or ignorant of to approach. Hold On was inspired by a friend of Chris’ who sadly killed himself, and faces up to the hopelessness of British youth in 2014. “People my age can't get a job,” Chris sings. “Nothing to do, it’s so fucked up/People my age can't get a job/Get a house, get a car, get a life… who’s there for us?” While I’m Gone and the single, Never Wanted This, are bold rejections of the mundane sort of life we’re expected to settle for: “I could get a job I could wear a suit/A monkey in a suit to make some money”.

“It’s our perception of life,” says Ben. “Not the voice of a generation but just how we three see it.”

Always Tomorrow was recorded and produced by Chris Peden. The debut album’s tracklisting runs as follows: Fool For You; Never Wanted This; Always Tomorrow; Everyone’s The Same; Hold On; The Best Four Years; The Gun; Figure It Out; Girlfriend; See You Again; I’m Gone.