Fabio's Best (and the gone) of 2007

(In no particular order)
Films.
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. Director: Sidney Lumet
No Country for Old Men. Director: Coen Brothers
It is Fine! Everything is Fine. Crispin Hellion Glover (With Slide show presentation and Q&A) hear Crispin interviewed on WFMU by Clay Pigeon, and by Pseu Braun (also here)
There Will Be Blood. Paul Thomas Anderson
Eastern Promises. Director: David Cronenberg
World of Glory. Director: Roy Andersson (Sweden, 1991. Released on Cinema 16: European Short Films 2x dvd collection)
Brand Upon the Brain. Director: Guy Maddin (Performed with Live orator, orchestra and live foley crew).
Los Muertos. Director: Lisandro Alonso (Argentina)
The Films of Alejandro Jodorowski. DVD box collection check this link to hear soundtrack music splayed on FMU
The Fernando Arrabal Collection. DVD box set (featuring Viva La Muerte, I Will walk like a Crazy Horse, and The Guernica Tree) hear music from Viva La Muerte on FMU here
Mafioso. Director: Roberto Lattuada (1962, re-released. Italy)
The Lives of Others. Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Radio On. Director: Christopher Petit (DVD re-release, 1980)
The Assassination of Richard Nixon. Director: Niels Mueller (from 2004. Missed this the first time around).
3:10 to Yuma. Director: James Mangold
I'm Not There. Director: Todd Haynes hear soundtrack music on FMU here
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis. Director: Mary Jordan (Primarily for the incredible footage of Jack Smith himself)

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Music. links in this section take you straight to WFMU playlists and archives, so you can hear the fabiosity yourself

Organ Eye. Organ Eye LP version (Staubgold)
Alog. Just Recordings LP (En/Of. released in 2006) catch a live set on Hatch's show
Baby Grandmothers Baby Grandmothers LP (Subliminal Sounds, Sweden)
Zweistein. Trip/Flip Out/Meditation. 3x cd re-issue (Captain Trips, Japan)
Noah Howard. Black Ark LP (Bo Weavil recordings, UK)
Lou Reed. Metal Machine Music Performed Live by ZEITKRATZER Cd + DVD (Asphodel)
Tyshawn Sorey. That/Not 2x CD (Firehouse 12 Records)
Karl Bösmann. Eskalation LP (YOUDONTHAVETOCALLITMUSIC, Germany)
Various. Psychedelic Days: Decca Psych Master Volume 1. 6 x 7" box set (Acme UK)
Sun Ra. Complete Disco 3000 concert 2xCD (ReR USA)
Esplendor Geometrico. The First Decade, 1980-1989. 3 x LP + 7" (Vinyl on Demand)
Joy Division lp re-issues (Unknown Pleasures, Closer and Still). Rhino Records
Sarin Smoke. It Chars our Lips Yet Still We Drink LP (Wholly Other)
Mudboy. Hungry Ghosts! These Songs Are Doors LP (Not Not Fun)

Sir Richard Bishop. While My Guitar Violently Bleeds lp (Locust)
Thierry Muller. Rare and Unreleased 1974-1984 CD (Fractal)
Ignatz. They are as Quiet as Mice. Cassette (Beniffer Editions, Canada)
Caetano Veloso. early solo re-issues: Tropicalia, Self Titled (Irene), Self Titled (A Little More Blue) and Araça Azul. LP & CD (Lilith, Russia. Questionable origin, but worth having as these are great recordings)

Live and Other stuff.
David Tudor's Rain Forest IV re-creation @ The Kitchen NYC
Stephen Shore exhibit. International Center of Photography, NYC...
...and these two books by Stephen Shore: American Surfaces (Phaidon Books); & Uncommon Places (Apperature books)
Richard Serra show @ Museum of Modern Art NYC
Rhys Chatham Guitar Trio All-Stars @ Issue Project Room, Brooklyn
Doug Henderson @ Location One, NYC
Electric Eclectics @ Funny Farm, Meaford, Canada
Slide Show: The Color Photographs of Helen Levitt
Ennio Morricone Conducting Live @ Radio City Music Hall NYC (With 200 Piece Orchestra & Choir)
Belmont Raceway, Queens NY
Tulum, Quintana Roo & Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Antony Gormley's Blind Light II Installation @ Sean Kelley Gallery, NYC

R.I.P.

Michelangelo Antonioni
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Alice Coltrane
Ingmar Bergman
Luigi Comencini
Jean Baudrillard
Lee Hazelwood
Max Roach
Kurt Vonnegut
Emmett Williams
Robert Anton Wilson
Lady Jaye Bryer P. Orridge
and,
Don Ho (pictured here with WFMU über volunteer Christine Z)

Comments

[Tootle]

It was year for great music and movies. I loved No Country for Old Men so much. I'll miss Lee Hazlewood most of all.