RIP John Sykes, Garth Hudson, Bernard Blier, Jeannot Szwarc & Joan Plowright

...had no time to post more, in time of our Eamonn McCormack gig on Friday 24 !

English guitar hero John Sykes, from Blue Murder, Thin Lizzy, Tygers of Pang Tang and Whitesnake, he was only 65 !!!

Garth Hudson, the last surviving member of THE BAND is gone at 87 ! After the demises of   Richard Manuel (suicide in 1986 at 42 !), Rick Danko(1999), Levon Helm  (2012) & Robbie Robertson on my Bday in 2023....

Bertrard Blier, the great French director of Nihilistic films like Les Valseuses and Buffet Froid, he was 85. 

also French director Jeannot Szwarc, at 87. Somewhere in Time, Jaws 2, Supergirl. 

and Dame Joan Plowright, sir Laurence Olivier's former wife at 95. She shot in Romania in Callas Forever. 

Lynch would've been 79 (LMA !)

 David Lynch died 4 days ago. Today he would've been 79. 

                                                                     Lynch by Lynch

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from his X account:

David Lynch, our beloved dad, was a guiding light of creativity, love, and peace. On Monday, January 20th—what would have been his 79th birthday—we invite you all to join us in a worldwide group meditation at 12:00pm NOON PST for 10 minutes. Let us come together, wherever we are, to honor his legacy by spreading peace and love across the world. Please take this time to meditate, reflect, and send positivity into the universe. Thank you for being part of this celebration of his life. Love, Jennifer, Austin, Riley and Lula Lynch

(that is Ten PM in Romania)

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Toototabon's song  from You Don't Know Jack !, Lynch's short film is on Netflix released on his 74th birthday !

Yesterday I saw Blue Velvet's Extended Cut. 47 minutes of lost footage put together by Felipe Guerra, it's here on youtube. 

Today I'm watching his commercials, love the ones for Japanese Georgia coffee with the Twin Peaks cast.

here are Lynch's Ten favorite films. 

Six of his films are on MUBI, streaming now for free (one week).  under the title: Delusions and Dreams !

Eamonn McCormack @Transilvania Blues Nights 24.01.25

Pentru prima oară în România și la Brașov, ”A True Irish Blues Legend”, Eamonn McCormack vine la clubul Rockstadt pentru un concert unic, vineri 24 ianuarie ora 20.00 !!!

Eamonn McCormack e originar din Dublin, Irlanda și e cunoscut ca o ”Adevărată legendă de blues irlandez/ True Irish Blues Legend”. De peste 4 decenii pe scenă, chitarist virtuoz, Eamonn are un stil energic, inventiv și exploziv, cu o energie maximă live. Rădăcinile sale muzicale și de concept sunt Slade, Cat Stevens, Neil Young și Rory Gallagher, cu care a și cântat. De fapt ultima piesă înregistrată de Rory Gallagher, este chiar cu Eamonn McCormack.

A plecat din Irlanda în America pentru a-și trăi visul, a cântat cu Cannes Heat și chiar și cu J. J. Cale.   S-a întors în Irlanda și a cântat în diverse formule, pînă la cea de acum, un ”power blues trio”. A înregistrat pe disc cu mulți artiști de valoare de gen, de la Rory Gallagher la Jan Akkerman, Pat Travers, George Thorogood, Walter Trout, Johnny Winter, Nils Lofgren.

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The Substance (2024)

Coraline Fargeat's second feature The Substance (after her thriller Revenge in 2017), won best screenplay in last year's Cannes Film Festival. Should've won best actress for Demi Moore but they gave that for ensemble to Emilia Perez. No comments. But now Demi has won the Golden Globe, will be nominated for an Oscar and I hope she wins, she deserves that totally and More than that.

Also Margaret Qualley is great in it (and stunning). You've seen her in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Lanthimos' Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness and Drive-Away Dolls. Her future is Bright !

Dennis Quaid plays cartoonlike a caricature of a manager, Ray Liotta was supposed to play this part but he died before the film production. I think Quaid is better, 'cos he played a lot of straight characters, while Liotta was lampooning himself in a lot of his films.

See it in a cinema, for the sound design, the cinematography and the visceral effect. Also warning, not for the faint at/of heart. 

There are many posters for the film, all good, from the B&W to this kaleidoscope puzzle. 

References galore: from Lynch's LA (shot in Cannes and Antibes no less), to David Cronenberg (The Fly is quoted tooth and nail ;), Brian De Palma (Carrie's blood shower),  Kubrick's The Shining, The Elephant Man, Frankenheimer's Seconds, All about Eve, Sunset Blvd., even Zemeckis' Death Becomes Her. 

As Demi Moore described the film: " a blend of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Death Becomes Her (1992), and a Jane Fonda workout video."

a great and extended making of from Mubi (the worldwide distributor of the film buying it Cannes cos the original backer, Working Title, a division of Universal backed away ):