Cool, mostly straight-ahead jazz album via the guitarist from Tortoise.
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/04/10/jeff-parker-istanbul-cool-mostly/
Youth of the Beast (1963)
Can a noir be vibrant? The color-play and set pieces (that movie theater mob HQ!) are such stunning eye candy that one is hopefully excused for losing track of the plot. Don’t expect anything less from a movie that begins with stylish ‘60s girls dancing to a jukebox (that’s, for some reason, in the middle of the street) while someone gets stomped on as the smallest car in Japan drives by. *
The movie also left me wondering how I can get ahold of one of these telephones:
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/04/09/youth-of-the-beast-1963/
The American Soldier (1970)
Ricky is the noir protagonist of Fassbinder’s dreams — unflappable, irresistible, unassailable, part-American, stoically focused on the task at hand, instantly deadly with a firearm, and usually in close proximity to a bottle of scotch. But the dream overtakes Ricky as the film unfolds. Ricky becomes more and more exaggerated and, certainly, ridiculous in his increasingly dubious charms. We’re eventually confronted with a final scene that is absurd but, truth be told, not entirely surprising. It’s the culmination of a dream that’s taken on (or taken over) life. *
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/04/09/the-american-soldier-1970/
It’s 1978 and here’s Andrei Tarkovsky on the set of Stalker.
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/04/09/its-1978-and-heres-andrei-tarkovsky-on-the-set/