The In Crowd

A movie about Rock n Roll in 1966 England when it was still rebellious and actually illegal! I need that in my life!

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Pirate Radio - movie website

About Disney and Dali's Destino:

"In 1946, surrealist Salvador Dali formed an unlikely friendship with Walt Disney and they spent a short time collaborating on a short film called Destino. Unfortunately, only 18 seconds of Destino were ever shot, but in 1999, Roy Disney reconstructed the entire short using computer rendering and hand-drawn imagery based on the original sketches and storyboards."

[via Kanye's blog]

"Inspired to Gogols short story entitled "The Nose" from The Petersburg Tales director, Yi Zhou has written her latest short film about the absurd story of the loss of an ear. The ear is actually the key element of the film, shot in RED and partly to be made in 3d animation.

Throughout the film, the ear and inner ear as a whole turn themselves into an EarBrige as they get crossed by a bridge. The EarBridge is part of a public project proposal for Baku, Azerbaijan that includes a number of important international contemporary artists."

CREDITS:

Directed by Yi Zhou. Music by Ennio Morricone. Costumes by Rick Owens and BBC Ice Cream (natch).

Featuring Hopeton Lewis, Judy Mowatt, Ken Boothe, Leroy Sibbles, Marci Griffiths, U-Roy, The Tamlins and more.

This movie just opened in the Tdot, not sure if it playing in NYC. The premise, that the "remaining great singers and musicians of Jamaica's Golden Age of music, Rocksteady, come together after 40 years to record an album of their greatest hits, to perform together again at a reunion concert in Kingston, and to tell their story", is kind of like a reggae version of The Buena Vista Social Club.

From F.Luxury.B:

"Documentary filmmaker R.J. Cutler followed Anna Wintour and her Vogue team for nine months as they put together the 2007 September issue. The film, titled The September Issue, screens at Sundance this weekend. With seemingly unreal access, Cutler followed Anna and her team to Fashion Weeks around the world, to photo shoots, to visits with designers like Vera Wang and Nicolas Ghesquière. But mostly, they were in the Vogue offices. In this two-minute taste of the movie, we see scenes of Anna working in her office with her team."

A movie about a typeface?! Yes! Helvetica is one of the world's most widely-used, ubiquitous fonts and this movie explores its origins and impact from its late 50 European, modernist roots to the present day. I just watched this and it's a surprisingly engaging movie, although more so if you have an interest in design-related topics and themes.

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Helvetica - website 

The track in this ad is the theme song from the new James Bond movie, Quantum Of Solace. What the hell does that title mean anyway??

Related:

"Jack White unhappy his Bond theme tune is being used for Coke advert." [The Telegraph of London]

Where to score free flicks alfresco, from Brooklyn to the Upper West Side in New York from Metromix.com:

"It’s a summer for burgeoning tightwads—gas prices are above $4 a gallon, airlines are now chargine $25 per bag, and—more important—a single blockbuster movie ticket complete with deep-freeze air conditioning now clocks in at $11.75…plus $1.50 for service charges.

But cinema lovers can give their strained wallets a break this season by taking in one of the many free (or nearly free) outdoor films playing in parks and on rooftops all over the city almost every night of the week. Be forewarned, though: The scene is BYOPB (that’s Bring Your Own Picnic Blanket, for newbies), and many die-hards camp out in the primo spots well before sunset."

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The Italian Job meets Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels? 

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The Bank Job - UK website  |  US website