Nick Hornby is one of the coolest writers of this century and whenever he writes a screenplay TrendEngel is in. The premise of Brooklyn is simple: In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries. Saoirse Ronan is brilliant in it and the movie rocks -totally different to other Hornby features such as Fever Pitch and High Fidelity.
The trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szRFS4NO6f8
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Paul Smith for Caran d’Ache
Paul Smith who has been a regular user of the 849 for many years wished to pay a distinctive tribute to Caran d’Ache to celebrate the 100th anniversary.
Thirty shades that featured in Paul Smith’s recent fashion collections have been added to 70 of Caran d’Ache’s colour chart selected by him. The Caran d’Ache craftsmen have then produced the designer’s special assortment of 100 pieces, where each 849 pen carries his signature. This harmonious, stunning composition of colours calls for a special presentation box worthy of its contents. Caran d’Ache and Paul Smith have created a stylish metal box in immaculate white that dramatically highlights the colours inside. A narrow window in the top of the box subtly reveals the band of stripes that is his famous motif.
This creative collaboration has also produced a limited edition of 849 that has become a fashion icon, in 10 exclusive pastel shades selected by Paul Smith.
Dungen – Everyone’s Thing
The sheer versatility provided by the varying prominence of guitar, flute, sax and piano, creates an atmospheric journey for the listener, improving with each listen. It begs for, and ultimately earns, the listener’s personal experiential association that Estjes desired all along.
Swedish psychedelic four piece, Dungen, have recently released their strongest LP since the 2004 masterpiece Ta Det Lungt, and it’s their first LP in five years. Allas Sak, ‘everyone’s thing’, separates the band from the hordes of 21st century shoegazing-psych-pop at the very least in terms of consistency and longevity. Few other bands have lasted like Dungen have: Without a bad release and without signs of succumbing to the seductive, technologically-orchestrated mainstream.
Mastermind frontman Gustav Estjes explained that he intended the album to be an associative experience for listeners, one in which they will be able to create their own stories, to which they can ascribe their own meanings, and in that way the album can be their thing, and even “allas sak.”
Graffiti of the Week – Street Art Nr. 185
Little Simz – This is Real Hip Hop
Little Simz is,, a technically astonishing MC. Her verses freewheel from skippy, breathless flows that pack an impossible number of syllables per bar, to stop-start rhymes so tight to the beat they could’ve been superglued there. Live she’s an engaging, personable performer; using breakdowns as an opportunity to flop around the stage like a ragdoll before corralling the crowd into chorus clapalongs. Little Simz is from London and she has all the potential in the world – not only Kendrick Lamar and Jay-Z have championed her. Her album is out and is calledA Curious Tale Of Trials + Persons. A little taster:
Red Oaks – Steven Soderbergh’s High School Dream
STEVEN SODERBERGH HAS called it quits in the realm of directing movies, but since his last feature played in theaters (Side Effects in 2013) he’s been busy as hell directing plays and TV shows. Now we’ve got a full season of Red Oaks, an Amazon series about growing up in the New Jersey suburbs in the 1980s ^and it is almost as good as Fast Times…but more of it. The lead boy is played by Craig Roberts, a young Brit with an interesting and already long filmography behind him, including a breakout turn in the Richard Ayoade-directed indie Submarine from 2010
Craig is joined here by Richard Kind and Paul Reiser, which is a Mad About You reunion we can really get behind, as well as Jennifer Grey and Josh Meyers.
Dangerous Liaisons in London – The Domar
If you want to see one more play this year make it LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES at the Donmar Warehouse in London. The run starts on December 11 and this is the plotFormer lovers, the Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont now compete in games of seduction and revenge. Merteuil incites Valmont to corrupt the innocent Cecile de Volanges before her wedding night but Valmont has targeted the peerlessly virtuous and beautiful Madame de Tourvel. While these merciless aristocrats toy with others’ hearts and reputations, their own may prove more fragile than they supposed.
All of this is not really important once you know that the play features Dominic West (The Wire) and Michelle Dockery (Yes – Lady Mary from Downton Abbey) as well as Jane McTeer.
Mercury Price Nominations – The Winners
The Mercury Price is arguably the most important award in the music business. Every single album nominated is an amazing work of art. Here are the 12 nominees:
Aphex Twin – Syro
Benjamin Clementine – At Least for Now
Gaz Coombes – Matador
C Duncan – Architect
ESKA – Eska
Florence and the Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Ghostpoet – Shedding Skin
Róisín Murphy – Hairless Toys
Slaves – Are You Satisfied?
SOAK – Before We Forgot How to Dream
Wolf Alice – My Love Is Cool
Jamie xx – In Colour
Our favorite? Possibly Ghostpoet
Winner will be chosen on November 20.
Graffiti of the Week – Street Art Nr. 184
The Walk – Breathtaking for 30 Minutes
What percentage of a film has to be great for it to be worth watching? The Walk, Robert Zemeckis’ dramatised account of Philippe Petit’s lunatic mission to tightrope walk between New York’s Twin Towers, is perhaps 25 per cent terrific, tops. Yet those 30-odd minutes are so good, they just nullify all the other meandering, irritating minutes around them.
If you’ve already seen Man On Wire, 2008’s Oscar-winning documentary about Petit, then there’s little here to demand another two hours of your time. Petit was an exceedingly self-confident street performer, who in 1974 read about the construction of two 415-metre towers in Manhattan. He decided he had to walk between them, even if it might land him in jail, because this is the sort of thing Petit thinks.
But an – those last 30 minutes in 3D on the tight rope. Just breathtaking: