Cuba libra 8/10 I was going to start this post with a summary put down of biopics and it’s many crimes against good filmmaking. From pointless impersonation (‘Ali’), to line-towing, officially sanctioned dross (‘Ray’), to films of such massive pretension that you suspect the filmmaker to be covertly, deliberately assassinating the credibility of its subject [...]
Film Review: Che – Part One – Steven Soderberg
January 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Film
Tags:Argentina·Benicio Del Toro·Che Guevara·Cuba·Fidel Castro·Latin America·revolution·Steven Soderberg·War
Album Review: Juana Molina – Un Dia
September 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Ambient, Electronica, Folk/Acoustic, Music, World music
One day in Buneos Aires 6.5/10 FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE LINE OF BEST FIT Juana Molina is a former Argentine television actress with an unlikely passion for making a kind of cut and paste folk-tinged electronica (look, I managed to do that without saying ‘folktronica’). Molina’s latest album for Domino comprises eight lengthy, carefully assembled [...]
Tags:Argentina·cut and paste·Electronica·Folktronica·harmonies·Juana Molina·loops·Sampledelica