The sound oft he 80s have been ridiculed mostly in the following decade when even commercial artists abolished everything reminiscent of sounding upfront digital. From the 2000s onwards there still is an enduring retro-mania with synth-ladden music which reminds us of the age of neon and bewildering hairspray looks. BUT scarcely any want-to-be-cool artist harks back to the glassy synth-layers and fanfares, the big reverberated lynn drums, the chorus-drenched guitar sound-aesthetics of late 80s pop music tob e found in the Music of producers such as Jan Hammer, Trevor Horn and bands like Scritti Politti. It is exactly that period from which Tom Welsh culls his influences since he started to produce music in 2007. It is by no surprise a sound-patch from a glorious Roland Synth, the D50, which he chose as his alias: DigitalNativeDance. You can find that transparent, slightly ghost-l ike preset even in Miles Davis‘, so you can call it nothing but glorious.
Having delivered a remix for Hot Hot Hawk’s feat. Pasha’s „Space Traveller“ (EDR006), „Los Canarreos“ is a full-length 4-track originals-only E.P. on Emerald & Doreen spanning a theme „from dusk to dawn“ that could have easily been the soundtrack behind Miami Vice. The introduction-track „Sunrise“ starts with a jazzy feel – this doesn’t give any hint of what is to follow since the track rather bears the trademark of NuJazz from the mid-Nineties. The title-track „Los Canarreos“ gets you into the mood with a funky bass-motif and lush synthsweeps. The guitar is - as you can guess – a boisterous 80s party, riffing it’s way through the thick plot of machine drums and fat key-stabs. „Ocean Drive-Through“ has the Jazz-Pop flavor which you get when Sonny & Tubbs have a cruise on Miami Beach Blvd. in the setting sun. The guitar with its casual feel add perfectly up to the bells from a n FM-Synth collection. Consequently, „After Dark“ closes the circle as an action-packed dance tune which again sounds so authentic, that - as a kid who was born in the 70s - has a backflash to TV series keeping you awake at night.
On 23rd August the whole world can see the brand new episode 'Deep Breath' from ‘Doctor Who’. In Belgium you can see this in the theatres from Ghent, Leuven, Brussels and Antwerp. The screening is a feature length and also 15 minutes behind the scenes-footage.
Directed by acclaimed Director Ben Wheatley (Sightseers, A Field in England) and written by Lead Writer and Executive Producer Steven Moffat, the beginning of the Twelfth Doctor’s era stars Peter Capaldi as the Doctor, Jenna Coleman as his companion Clara Oswald and sees the return of fan favourites The Paternoster Gang - Madame Vastra (Neve McIntosh), Jenny Flint (Catrin Stewart) and Strax (Dan Starkey) – in a pulse-racing adventure through Victorian London.
Tickets: €12 or €10 with Kinepolis Student Card
Hours: 20u45
More information on the website from Kinepolis.
DUTCH VERSION
Op 23 augustus zenden bioscopen over de hele wereld de gloednieuwe aflevering 'Deep Breath' van BBC-reeks ‘Doctor Who’ uit. In België zal deze première van het achtste seizoen te bekijken zijn in Kinepolis Gent, Leuven, Brussel en Antwerpen. De screening zal bestaan uit de feature length aflevering en 15 minuten exclusief materiaal van achter de schermen.
Doctor Who vertelt het verhaal van 'The Doctor' die met zijn ruimtetuig TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space) doorheen tijd en ruimte kan reizen. De sci-fi serie vierde vorige jaar zijn vijftigste verjaardag en is daarmee een echte tv-klassieker. De populariteit van ‘The Doctor’ kent in het Verenigd Koninkrijk geen grenzen, maar zelfs in België bestaat er een fanclub: Belgian Whovians United. Ondertussen is de reeks aan haar achtste seizoen en twaalfde dokter toe. In ‘Deep Breath’ zal Peter Capaldi voor de eerste keer de rol van ‘The Doctor’ op zich nemen.
Tickets: €12 of €10 met Kinepolis Student Card
Kinepoliscomplexen: Antwerpen, Brussel, Gent & Leuven.
Uren: 20u45
Meer info op de Kinepolis-site.
Renowned independent distributor Odyssey DVD is re-launching in the UK and returns with a fantastic slate of cult and classic films. Including box office hits and all-star casts, the first six films are Grey Owl, Glengarry Glen Ross, Drums Along the Mohawk, Electra Glide in Blue, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry and Julia, all to be released on 15 September, followed by further titles in the Autumn.
Glengarry Glen Ross
‘One of the 1990s' greatest triumphs’ The Guardia
With an all-star cast including Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon and Kevin Spacey, the acclaimed Glengarry Glen Ross based upon David Mamet's award-winning play, follows a group of desperate real estate agents in Chicago.
When a hotshot executive from the head office arrives and proposes a vicious sales contest in which the losers will be fired, competition gets stiff, and salesmen who have worked a lifetime for the company find their jobs in jeopardy.
Electra Glide in Blue
‘One of the greatest treasures of the decade, combining achingly beautiful storytelling with a melancholy tone that utterly captivates' Empire
Golden Globe nominated crime drama stars Billy Green Bush alongside Robert Blake as John Wintergreen, a brainy motorcycle cop from Arizona, who dreams of becoming a detective.
Due to his short stature, he is not taken seriously by his superiors, but a smart hunch about an apparent "suicide" lands him the promotion he wants. However a few days on to the job, Wintergreen begins to realise how corrupt his boss Poole (Mitchell Ryan) is, discovering the job is less glamorous than he had imagined.
Drums Along the Mohawk
‘One of the most beautiful and distinguished achievements of early colour’ Radio Times
This Western Adventure classic starring Henry Fonda and Claudette Cobert was John Ford’s first film in colour and became a box office hit when released in 1939.
Set in pre-Revolutionary America, Gilbert and Lana Martin, a newly married couple, are trying to make a home in New York State’s Mohawk Valley, but after repeated attacks by native American tribes, they are forced to take shelter in a nearby fort. Along with other settlers in the valley, they watch helplessly as the natives lay ruin to their farms and cabins.
Julia
‘Miss Fonda and Miss Redgrave are marvelous’ NY Times
Nominated for 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and four acting awards, Julia is a stunning drama about friendship and courage directed by Fred Zinnemann (From Here to Eternity, A Man for All Seasons), starring Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave.
In the early 1930s, playwright Lillian Hellman travels to Vienna to visit her childhood friend Julia, a committed anti-fascist, who has been injured during a demonstration. With a growing sense of awareness of the emerging threat of the Nazi’s, Lillian is persuaded to smuggle a large sum of money into Germany, leading to her involvement in a dangerous resistance operation.
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
‘The cars crash and career spectacularly… eye-catching Californian scenery’ Radio Times
On DVD for the first time, Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry directed by John Hough (Eye Witness, Twins of Evil), is a cult 1974 car chase film much loved by action fans for its hair-raising stunt work.
Larry (Peter Fonda) is a NASCAR hopeful whose reckless nature has caused him a string of bad luck. Alongside his friend and mechanic Deke (Adam Roarke), Larry steals $150,000 dollars from a supermarket to buy a new sports car. The heist goes well, except Larry’s on off girlfriend, Mary (Susan George) has planted herself in the car and refuses to budge.
With Mary along for the ride, Larry and Deke set off on a journey across California with the cops in tow.
Grey Owl
‘Brosnan is excellent…the film abounds with genuine pleasures’ Sight and Sound
Archibald Belaney was a British man who grew up enchanted with Native American culture so in the early 1900s he left the United Kingdom and headed for Canada, where he reinvented himself as Archie Grey Owl and lived in the wild as a North American Indian trapper.
Based on Belaney’s true story, James Bond star Pierce Brosnan plays Grey Owl in Richard Attenborough’s classic adventure biopic.
Forthcoming releases from Odyssey DVD due for release in October include By the Light of Day, Borsellino The 57 Days and the Luca Zingaretti Box Set.
One of the defining films of the French New Wave, The 400 Blows - Francois Truffaut's semi-autobiographical first feature - stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel, an unruly young Parisian whose unhappiness leads him into trouble.
Frequently running away from school and home, Antoine spends much of his time playing with his friends on the steets of the city, but events take a more serious turn when an accusation of plagiarism leads him to quit school and the theft of a typewriter lands him in trouble with the police. Léaud was to reprise his role as Doinel in four further Truffaut-directed adventures: 'Antoine et Colette' (1962), 'Baiser volés' (1968), 'Domicile conjugal' (1970), and 'Love on the Run' (1979).
Blu-ray Details
Format: Blu-ray B&W
Region: B
Released: 11th August 2014
Subtitles: English
Blu-ray Extras
Restored
Introduction by Serge Toubiana
Audio Commentary with Robert Lachenay
Screen Tests.
In Belgium we still have to wait to see the first one, but as Hollywood is always ahead of us, a sequel for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is set for 2016.
With a 65 million opening weekend, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies on Sunday announced plans for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2, with a release date of June 3, 2016.
Michael Bay will return to produce with his Platinum Dunes partners, and Turtles writing team Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec are on board to pen the sequel script and executive produce. The statement did not specify whether or not Jonathan Liebesman would return to direct.
