A bittersweet, hilarious, enlightening and inspirational road trip through Japanese arthouse cinemas with independent filmmaker Hirobumi Watanabe, who also struggles to release his own movies in real life. This delightful minimalist micro-budget dramedy ironically and truthfully depicts a sorrowful post-Covid situation in Japanese cinemas, the rapidly changing film culture and the newly (re)discovered habits of […]
John Duncombe, the British consul in Florence, returns home from his wifes funeral to his two children, who are unaware of their mothers passing. He makes the decision to tell his eldest son, Andrea, but hides the truth from his sickly younger son, Milo. Director Luigi Comenicini (The Sunday Woman) captures the innocence and carefree […]
First Marianne Faithfull compilation since 2001’s ‘An Introduction to…’ and the first to contain rare and unreleased material since the Island Anthology ‘A Perfect Stranger’ in 1998. Containing 4 previously unreleased recordings including 1 completely unheard song. In addition to the unreleased material, 22 of the 29 tracks on the LP are making their first […]
Maria Callas, known as La Divina, is credited with changing the history of opera. Born 100 years ago, she continues to fascinate as a supreme artist, but also as a woman and an icon of style. Her interpretations were as compelling for their dramatic truth as for their musical integrity. Her voice, with its extraordinary […]
Based on Hiroshi Moris mystery novel, this animated season comprised of eleven episodes adapts the story of Saikawa (voice of Yasuyuki Kase) and Nishinosono (Atsumi Tanezaki) and their attempt to solve mysterious murders at a remote island laboratory. The episodes are: White Meeting, Azure Encounter, Red Magic, Rainbow-Colored Past, Silver Hope, Crimson Resolve, Gray Boundary, […]
Freedom – the debut album from Leah Weller – a modern soul soundtrack to her head spinning twenties turning into empowered, contented thirties. Completed last year, Weller’s first complete album follows a decade-long career on catwalks, in front of cameras and making dancefloors shake, constantly on the move and with music as a constant companion. […]
1. Angel 2. Gorilla 3. Silhouette 1. No Merci 2. X 1. Heart On Fire 2. Broken 1. Sideways 2. Who Even Cares 3. Control If 2021’s “Sometimes I Might Be Introvert” catapulted Simz into the big leagues, crashing into the Top 5 of the albums charts, collecting Mercury Music Prize, Mobo, Ivor Novello and […]
01. Alexandra 02. Held Down 03. Strange Girl 04. Only The Strong 05. Blow By Blow 06. Song For Our Daughter 07. Fortune 08. The End Of The Affair 09. Hope We Meet Again 10. For You Laura Marling’s exquisite seventh album Song For Our Daughter arrives almost without preamble or warning in the midst […]
Over the course of her career, spanning three-plus decades, Laetitia Sadier has never shied away from the hard topics, or stopped advocating for the possibility of self determination and emancipation in the face of the powers that be, conscious or unconscious. This is an essential part of the foundation she co-built with Stereolab, showcasing her […]
Pierre Brice and Scilla Gabel star in this Italian gothic horror directed by Giorgio Ferroni. When student Hans van Arnim (Brice) travels to a remote Dutch island to write a story about celebrated sculptor Professor Gregorius Wahl (Herbert A.E. Böhme) and his famed carousel of female statues, he finds himself falling in love with Wahls […]
