Warfare (2025)

Warfare, Alex Garland's follow-up to last year Civil War, team him with Iraq war veteran Ray Mendoza, his military advisor on Civil War, to tell the story of a f**ked up Navy Seals mission in 2006's Ramadi, Iraq. It's the grittiest battle of that war and this is a small vignette of an isolated team stuck in the chaos. The film plays in real time !

Tough, gritty, realistic, treated as a documentary, Warfare is a standalone piece of cinema, on the footsteps of Black Hawk Down and The Hurt Locker. Also it had 1/3 of their budgets. 

No music on 90 minutes of carnage and chaos, just an end credits song by Low ("Dancing and Blood", from 2018. Fantastic sound design from Glenn Freemantle (Oscar for Gravity). 

To be played Loud !!!!

4 out of 5, 8 out of 10 !!!

Luke Winslow-King & T.R.E.S. LIVE at Rockstadt for Transilvania Blues Nights / 23 Mai 2025

 🎸 Luke Winslow-King & T.R.E.S. LIVE @ Rockstadt

🗓 23 mai 2025, ora 19:30 !🎸

Bilete aici

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🎶 O seară specială marca Transilvania Blues Nights!

Pentru prima dată în România și în exclusivitate la Brașov, Luke Winslow-King urcă pe scenă alături de Roberto Luti și trupa T.R.E.S. (Tres Radio Express Service), într-o combinație de blues autentic american mixat cu energia de power-blues a uneia din cele mai speciale grupuri italiene.

🔵 Concertul va dura trei ore si va avea pauzå între recitalurile Luke Winslow-King, Roberto Luti și trupa T.R.E.S .
🔹 Luke Winslow-King (USA)
Originar din Cadillac, Michigan, chitarist, vocalist și compozitor de excepție, cu peste 15 ani petrecuți în New Orleans, muzica sa e o fuziune rafinată de Americana, delta blues, gospel și jazz.
În 2008, a fost numit de Gambit Magazine „Cel mai bun artist de blues”.
The Luke Winslow-King Band s-a format acum peste 15 ani și a avut concerte în toată lumea. Secundul lui Luke Winslow este Roberto Luti, chitarist și cantautor extraordinar originar din Toscana dar cu 10 ani petrecuți în New Orleans, cunoscut mai ales prin aparițiile sale din proiectul ”Playing for Change”.
🔵 Luke a fost prezent în premieră în România, la Brașov, la Rockstadt pe 26 aprilie 2024 în cadrul seriei de concerte marca Transilvania Blues Nights!

🔹 T.R.E.S. (Tres Radio Express Service) (IT)
Un trio italian cu o chimie scenică explozivă, format din frații în muzică Roberto Luti, Simone Luti și Rolando Cappanera. Povestea lor începe încă din adolescență, cu trupa First Experience, și continuă prin cariere individuale impresionante, colaborări internaționale și participări în proiecte de talie mondială, precum Playing for Change.

T.R.E.S. s-a înființat în 2010 într-un proiect muzical sincer și dinamic, unde blues-ul, funk-ul, rock-ul și psihedelia se unesc într-un sound vibrant. Pe scenă, T.R.E.S. (acronim de la Tres Radio Express Service) înseamnă intensitate și libertate artistică!

🎙 Eveniment prezentat de: Transilvania Blues Nights cu sprijinul Institutului Italian de Cultură București

✅ Recomandat de: Rock FM & Zile și Nopți
🤝 Sponsori: BCR, Butan Gaz, Dräxlmaier Group, Tehnic Mihor, BitDatamining
🛎 Partener de ospitalitate: Brașov Old Town Apartments
🍴 Parteneri culinari: A-Ha Bistro, Coliba Haiducilor

Let There B. Blues!

Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer (2024)

A cute little film, which I found by total accident. Never heard of, more (Woody) Allenesque than Jarmuschian (as read in the reviews). An a bit of Mamet plays.

Tough to deal with the title tho. The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer. The Psycho Therapy: I guess, was added later. 

The writer-director Tolga Karaçelik is Turkish, arthouse fares and this is fis first English language film. Shot in New York, cool locations.  There's plenty of Turkish backers & producers on the credits.

A pleasure to see Steve Buscemi tho, in such a nice quirky part. Great name to, Kollmick. He's a retired serial killer that liked the writer's first book, about Mongolians ;)

The Protagonist is the lamest, Keane as John Magaro, a whinny loser writer, we know it's intended but it's hard to see why such a woman as Suzie (Britt Lower, from the Severance series) will still put up with him after so much time.

There's also a cool Tom Waits song and moment. 

Slovenia 40.000 BC is a cool pun. In black and white. "they move together".

 and the Llama, any film with llamas since the credits on Holy Grail...

Cannes 2025/ #78 Poster-s

Announced now. From Claude Lelouch's legendary Un homme et une femme (1966).

Pas un, mais deux ;)
Un Homme. Une femme.  

A man.

A woman.

A deserted beach.

A turbulent sky.

Intoxicating music.

A 3-month-old idea.

A 3-week shoot.

A 20-second scene.

Eternity lasts but a moment in the end.

It was 60 years ago. In 1965, two damaged beings played by Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant met, charmed each other, resisted, and finally twirled under Claude Lelouch's incandescent camera. The Palme d'or in Cannes in 1966, the two Oscars in Hollywood in 1967 and the dozens of awards around the world pale in comparison to this grandiose moment of tenderness, simplicity and beauty.

Because it is undoubtedly the 7th Art’s most famous embrace ("étreinte" in French, the anagram of "éternité"), because you can't separate a man and a woman who love each other, because you can't separate that Man from that Woman, the Festival de Cannes has chosen for the first time in its history to present a double official poster. A Man and a Woman. Side by side. Back together.

— He: When something’s not serious, we says it’s like a film. Why aren’t films taken seriously, do you think?

— She: Maybe because we only go to the cinema when all is going well?

— He: So you think we should go when all is going wrong?

— She: Why not?

During times that seem to want to separate, compartmentalize or subjugate, the Festival de Cannes wants to (re)unite; to bring bodies, hearts and souls closer together; to encourage freedom and portray movement in order to perpetuate it; to embody the whirlwind of life to celebrate it, again and again.

This man and this woman who both won awards in Cannes —Best Actor (Z, 1969), Best Actress (A Leap in the Dark (Salto nel vuoto), 1980)— are no more. These two posters also pay homage. Magnificent heroes of delicacy and seduction, Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant forever illuminate the film of our lives, like these two posters, whose colors express the intensity of a passionate love that triumphs over despair. This light no longer comes from the heavens, today troubled on all sides by dark clouds; it emerges from the radiant fusion of two beings who reconcile us with life.

78th Festival de Cannes official poster credits: © Les Films 13 - A Man and a Woman, Claude Lelouch (1966) / Graphic design © Hartland Villa