(Listen links take you directly to the WFMU realaudio archives. Many other DJs' best faves can be found here.)
FILM.
Volver - Director: Pedro Almodovar
L'enfant - Director(s): the Dardennes Brothers
The 3 Burials of Melquiades Estrada - Director: Tommy Lee Jones
The Proposition - Director: John Hillcoat, written by Nick Cave (listen to songs from the soundtrack here and here)
El Aura - Director: Fabin Bielinsky
Sympathy for Lady Vengence - Director: Park Chan Wook
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - Director: Larry Charles (written by Sacha Baron Cohen) (listen to songs from the soundtrack here and here)
Babel - Director: Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu
Science of Sleep - Director: Michel Gondry (listen to songs from the soundtrack here | here and here)
The Departed - Director: Martin Scorsese
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints - Director: Dito Montiel
The Last King of Scotland - Director: Kevin Macdonald
Inland Empire - Director: David Lynch
FILM (Revivals)
El Topo - Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky (Listen to music from the soundtrack here)
Cleo from 5 to 7 - Director: Agnes Varda (1961, re-released at IFC cinema)
The Spirit of the Beehive - Director: Victor Enrice (1973, re-released in January 2006)
Saint Jack - Director: Peter Bogdanovich (1979, re-released 9/2006 at BAM)
Army of Shadows - Director: Jean-Pierre Melville (1969, 5/2006 re-released at Film Forum)
Kwaidan - Director: Masaki Kobayashi (1964, re-release screening shown at Lincoln Center)
MUSIC.
Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza - Azioni 2CD/DVD (DIE SCHACHTEL) listen
Charlemagne Palestine & Tony Conrad - An Aural Symbiotic Mystery (Sub Rosa) listen
Marty & Elaine. Live cabaret recording cdr (unreleased); LA lounge act.
Ekkehard Ehlers - A Life Without Fear CD/LP (STAUBGOLD) listen
Scott Walker - The Drift CD/LP (4AD) listen here | here and here
Galbraith/Neilson/Youngs - Belsayer Time lp (Time-Lag)
Lionel Marchetti - Red Dust 3xCD (ltd. ed. 300, Crouton records) listen here and here Derek Bailey - To Play: The Blemish Sessions CD (SAMADHI SOUND) listen here | here and here
JOSEPH HOLBROOKE TRIO - The Moat Recordings 2xCD (TZADIK) listen here
MARTIN DAVORIN JAGODIC - Tempo Furioso (Cramps re-issue) listen here
FOLKE RABE/JAN BARK - Argh! (Tjaft) listen here
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI - The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Obuh) listen here
LIVE & OTHER.
The War Against Terror & The War on Drugs. Art print series by Nigel Ayers
Rhys Chatham live at Issue Project room (9/2006)
Little Howlin' Wolf - Live in Harlem (show)
Cucumber Castle
Tropicalia: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture (Fall 2006 - Bronx Museum)
BOOKS.
Vinyl: Records and Covers by Artists - A Survey (book) by Guy Schraenen
Broken Screen: 26 Conversations with Doug Aitken (Book)
The Music Library - Graphic Art & Sound (book) by Jonny Trunk (Fuel
Publishing, London)
The World of Harry Bertoia by Nancy Schiffer & Val Bertoia (book)
Robert Altman
Syd Barrett
Gyorgy Ligeti
Gordon Parks
Glenn Ford
Sven Nykvist
Jack Palance
Shelley Winters
Arthur Lee
Rufus Harley
Hi Fabio-- thanks for putting my prints on your "best of 2006" list!!
Have a great 2007.
Posted by: Nigel Ayers | January 02, 2007 at 06:29 AM
These Encounters of Theirs Straub and Hullet 2006 68m
I won ticket to this film on your show last week. Always curious about this pair, never seen their work, free tickets, what the hell?, right?
I've seen alot of film, both as a cinema usher, film student, projectionist, film professor, rider of long airplane flights...anyway, I dont think I have ever seen a less cinematic film.
This had the effect of questioning, during the entire film, "What is cinema?". That is great. The film as stated is probably one of the most underacheiveing works ever filmed.
Local Tuscan residents dressed in everyday clothes, speaking mock classical verse, without moving [raising a head, once] in natural settings. No camera movement. All shot from a standing person's viewing angle. An occasional medium shot to obiviously edit the log difficult to remember text. It's all about the words, but the film's first third had bad sound, either the print or some post problem. Subtitles. White French on the bottom and grey English just above came and went according to the pace of the dialect.
Brilliant. They had a life of their own. Instesd of abandoning the subtitles in a film like Volver [just to watch Ms. Cruz] They became the premiere cinematic event. Hypnotic. One stopped reading and just watched the formation of letters and words. One knew the dialogues were concluding [each was a reel long] by noticing the dirt and dust that gathers at the end of a roll of film. A change-over mark. Another. The event of the reel change. It was all very reassuring. Buddhist or Gregorian Chant of Cinema. Unintentional, but still oddly fulfilling. Thanks for the tickets.
JM
Posted by: John Murphy | March 01, 2007 at 02:46 PM
hi,
what is the theme music that opens your show? it's so odd it haunts me
Posted by: jim | April 26, 2007 at 12:11 PM
Fabio's theme is "Giant Man", by James Last.
Posted by: Scott | April 26, 2007 at 02:13 PM