​​🎬✔️ "The Bohemian Life"
(🇫🇷 "La Vie de Bohème")
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Writers: Aki Kaurismäki, Henri Murger
Countries: Finland 🇫🇮, France 🇫🇷, Sweden 🇸🇪, Germany 🇩🇪
Year: 1992
Starring: Matti Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi, André Wilms, Kari Väänänen ...
Genres: drama, comedy, romance

Denoscription on IMDb:
"Three struggling artists try to make passable livings in Paris despite knock backs and tragedies."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Audience score 86%

​​🎬✔️ "Lost in Translation"
Director/writer: Sofia Coppola
Countries: USA 🇺🇸, Japan 🇯🇵
Year: 2003
Starring: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson ...
Genres: comedy, drama, romance

Denoscription on IMDb:
"A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 95%
- Audience score 85%

​​🎬✔️ "Coffee and Cigarettes"
Director/writer: Jim Jarmusch
Countries: USA 🇺🇸, Japan 🇯🇵, Italy 🇮🇹
Year: 2003
Starring: Roberto Benigni, Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop, Cate Blanchett, Jack White, Bill Murray ...
Genres: comedy, drama, music

Denoscription on IMDb:
"A series of vignettes that all have coffee and cigarettes in common."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.0/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 64%
- Audience score 75%

​​🎬✔️ "The Menu"
Director: Mark Mylod
Writers: Seth Reiss, Will Tracy
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 2022
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau ...
Genres: thriller, horror, comedy

Denoscription on IMDb:
"A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 88%
- Audience score 76%

​​🎬✔️ "About Schmidt"
Director: Alexander Payne
Writers: Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor, Louis Begley
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 2002
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, Kathy Bates ...
Genres: drama, comedy

Denoscription on IMDb:
"A recently retired man embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding, only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 86%
- Audience score 74%

​​🎵💿🖤 Placebo - Sleeping with Ghosts
Released: March 24, 2003
Labels: Virgin, Hut Recordings, Elevator Music
Genres: alternative rock, indie rock

Denoscription on AllMusic:
"...Fourth album "Sleeping with Ghosts" works with the band's post-grunge/experimental desire to keep things campy and emotionally intact; however, Placebo's a bit reserved this time around. While "Without You I'm Nothing" boasted a glam rock edge and "Black Market Music" captured more of a punk-glam polish, "Sleeping With Ghosts" crawls with mopish, gnarled ballads..."

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​​🎵💿🖤 Depeche Mode - Memento Mori
Released: March 24, 2023
Label: Columbia
Genres: synth-pop, alternative rock

Denoscription on AllMusic:
"Death and loss loom large over the mournful Memento Mori, Depeche Mode's 15th album and first without founding member Andy Fletcher. Started long before his passing in 2022 and influenced more by the effects of a global pandemic, the somber set took on even more gravity and significance after he died. Understandably subdued and emotionally heavy, this is the sound of two old friends reeling from tragedy while keeping an eye on the days that remain. Without Fletch as a buffer and peacemaker, Martin Gore and Dave Gahan were forced to get closer, resulting in one of their most engaging and thematically cohesive statements to date..."

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​​🎬✔️ "Nebraska"
Director: Alexander Payne
Writer: Bob Nelson
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 2013
Starring: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Bob Odenkirk ...
Genres: drama, comedy, road movie

Denoscription on IMDb:
"An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 91%
- Audience score 83%

​​📖✔️ "Waiting for Godot"
(🇫🇷 "En attendant Godot")
Author: Samuel Beckett
Country: France 🇫🇷
Publication date: 1952
Genres: play, tragicomedy

Denoscription on Goodreads:
"The story revolves around two seemingly homeless men simply waiting for someone—or something—named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree, inhabiting a drama spun of their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as mankind’s inexhaustible search for meaning. Beckett’s language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured the existential post-World War II Europe. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time."

​​🎬✔️ "Evil"
(🇸🇪 "Ondskan")
Director: Mikael Håfström
Writers: Hans Gunnarsson, Mikael Håfström, Jan Guillou
Countries: Sweden 🇸🇪, Denmark 🇩🇰
Year: 2003
Starring: Andreas Wilson, Henrik Lundström, Gustaf Skarsgård, Linda Zilliacus ...
Genre: drama

Denoscription on IMDb:
"A teenage boy expelled from school for fighting arrives at a boarding school where the systematic bullying of younger students is encouraged as a means to maintain discipline, and decides to fight back."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 68%
- Audience score 87%

​​🎵💿🖤 Lana Del Rey - Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
Released: March 24, 2023
Labels: Interscope, Polydor
Genres: alternative pop, americana ...

Denoscription on AllMusic:
"Lana Del Rey could have retired after the cinematic grandeur of her 2019 high-water mark "Norman Fucking Rockwell!". That album's imaginative songwriting, finely crafted performances, and exceptional production served as a realization of the magnificence promised by earlier efforts, and the deepest look yet at Del Rey's stormy inner world. Subsequent albums suggested a little bit of a comedown after such heights.
...
Ninth album "Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd" finds Del Rey returning to the powerful level of song sculpting she reached on "NFR!", and feels like a strong step forward as much as it does a worthy follow-up to her best record. ... The tone of "Ocean Blvd" is more mature than previous albums but also more distant.
...
Much of the album hovers in this darkly dreamy mood, with lyrics sometimes circling around themes of family or long-term partnership, but usually choosing a thick atmospheric malaise over overt statements..."

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​​🎬✔️ "The Night"
(🇮🇹 "La Notte")
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Writers: Michelangelo Antonioni, Ennio Flaiano, Tonino Guerra
Countries: Italy 🇮🇹, France 🇫🇷
Year: 1961
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti ...
Genre: drama

Denoscription on IMDb:
"A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship."

Ratings
IMDb: 8.0/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 86%
- Audience score 91%

​​🎬✔️ "Bonnie and Clyde"
Director: Arthur Penn
Writers: David Newman, Robert Benton, Robert Towne
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1967
Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard ...
Genres: crime, drama, action, biography

Denoscription on IMDb:
"Bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 90%
- Audience score 88%

​​🎬✔️ "The Graduate"
Director: Mike Nichols
Writers: Calder Willingham, Buck Henry, Charles Webb
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1967
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross ...
Genres: drama, comedy, romance

Denoscription on IMDb:
"A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter."

Ratings
IMDb: 8.0/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 86%
- Audience score 90%

​​🎬✔️ "The Quiet Girl"
(🇮🇪 "An Cailín Ciúin")
Director: Colm Bairéad
Writers: Colm Bairéad, Claire Keegan
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Year: 2022
Starring: Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett ...
Genre: drama

Denoscription on IMDb:
"Rural Ireland 1981. A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 96%
- Audience score 93%

​​🎵💿 Ryuichi Sakamoto - 12
Released: January 17, 2023
Labels: Milan, Commons
Genres: electronic, ambient, modern classical, minimalism

Denoscription on Apple Music:
"Thereʼs a haunting intensity and rare poetic beauty about Ryuichi Sakamotoʼs blend of ambient sounds, stripped down to the bare essentials of melody and rhythm. And for all its simplicity, this is an album that is profoundly moving.

His dozen pieces, created spontaneously in March 2021 during the early stages of convalescence from major cancer surgery, speak of lifeʼs fragility and of musicʼs power to comfort, console, even to heal. It feels almost intrusive at first to listen to what originated as private musical thoughts, conceived on synthesiser and piano out of an innate need for the presence of pure, unadorned sounds.

Sakamotoʼs choice of 12 favourite sketches, each named for its date of composition, charts the stages of his recovery, from pieces infused with his laboured breathing to a sublime final sequence of impressionistic miniatures."

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Ryuichi Sakamoto
January 17, 1952 – March 28, 2023

​​🎬✔️ "Annie Hall"
Director: Woody Allen
Writers: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1977
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton ...
Genres: comedy, romance

Denoscription on IMDb:
"Alvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages."

Ratings
IMDb: 8.0/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 97%
- Audience score 92%

​​🎬✔️ "Manhattan"
Director: Woody Allen
Writers: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1979
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway ...
Genres: comedy, drama, romance

Denoscription on IMDb:
"The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 94%
- Audience score 92%

​​🎬✔️ "Black Swan"
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Writers: Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, John J. McLaughlin
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 2010
Starring: Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey ...
Genres: drama, thriller

Denoscription on IMDb:
"A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake"."

Ratings
IMDb: 8.0/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 85%
- Audience score 84%

​​🎬✔️ "Rosemary's Baby"
Director: Roman Polanski
Writers: Roman Polanski, Ira Levin
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1968
Starring: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer ...
Genre: psychological horror

Denoscription on IMDb:
"A young couple trying for a baby moves into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, where they find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors."

Ratings
IMDb: 8.0/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 96%
- Audience score 87%

​​🎬✔️ "Enter the Void"
Director: Gaspar Noé
Writers: Gaspar Noé, Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Countries: France 🇫🇷, Germany 🇩🇪, Italy 🇮🇹, Canada 🇨🇦, Japan 🇯🇵
Year: 2009
Starring: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy ...
Genres: drama, fantasy

Denoscription on IMDb:
"An American drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal. His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 72%
- Audience score 71%