🎬✔️ "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%
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%
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%
(🇮🇪 "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
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
🎵💿 Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Released: April 20, 1998
Labels: Warp, Skam, Matador
Genres: electronic, IDM, ambient, downtempo, trip hop
Denoscription on Apple Music:
"Michael and Marcus Eoin Sandison's 1998 debut hit with the force of an idea fully formed - and beamed from a distant galaxy, at that. The sources of their crackling ambient tracks - the boom-bap beats of '80s hip-hop, the eerie synths of '70s nature documentaries - are familiar, but the overall effect is as strange as an out-of-body experience. Melodies warble like warped tape, and disembodied voices dart through the murk like auditory hallucinations. It's a spellbinding balancing act between childlike wonder and grown-up dread."
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Released: April 20, 1998
Labels: Warp, Skam, Matador
Genres: electronic, IDM, ambient, downtempo, trip hop
Denoscription on Apple Music:
"Michael and Marcus Eoin Sandison's 1998 debut hit with the force of an idea fully formed - and beamed from a distant galaxy, at that. The sources of their crackling ambient tracks - the boom-bap beats of '80s hip-hop, the eerie synths of '70s nature documentaries - are familiar, but the overall effect is as strange as an out-of-body experience. Melodies warble like warped tape, and disembodied voices dart through the murk like auditory hallucinations. It's a spellbinding balancing act between childlike wonder and grown-up dread."
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🎵💿 Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Released: April 20, 1998
Labels: Virgin, Circa
Genres: trip hop, electronica ...
Denoscription on Apple Music:
"Trip-hop was plenty bleak to begin with, but Massive Attack's third album reached new extremes of desolation. The beetle on the cover is a good indicator of the menace inside. Tempos crawl. Vocals are pitched between a whisper and a growl. Even the milk is black in their midnight world. Hip-hop beats and dub bass come cloaked in paranoid atmospheres, but the all-encompassing sense of dread is never anything less than electrifying. On "Teardrop", featuring Cocteau Twins' angelic Elizabeth Fraser, the storm clouds briefly part - a reprieve that only accentuates the heaviness of the rest."
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Released: April 20, 1998
Labels: Virgin, Circa
Genres: trip hop, electronica ...
Denoscription on Apple Music:
"Trip-hop was plenty bleak to begin with, but Massive Attack's third album reached new extremes of desolation. The beetle on the cover is a good indicator of the menace inside. Tempos crawl. Vocals are pitched between a whisper and a growl. Even the milk is black in their midnight world. Hip-hop beats and dub bass come cloaked in paranoid atmospheres, but the all-encompassing sense of dread is never anything less than electrifying. On "Teardrop", featuring Cocteau Twins' angelic Elizabeth Fraser, the storm clouds briefly part - a reprieve that only accentuates the heaviness of the rest."
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🎵💿 Portishead - Third
Released: April 28, 2008
Labels: Island, Mercury
Genres: experimental rock, psychedelic rock, trip hop, electronica ...
Denoscription on Amazon:
"Portishead's Third has been a long time coming, the result of a lengthy creative torpor following 1997's dark, distinctly underrated album Portishead. Importantly, though, they've shaken it. While the core trio of Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow, and Adrian Utley remains, this is quite a different band to Portishead's 90s incarnation: gone is the slo-mo turntable scratching and smoky jazz feel, replaced by heavy, brooding rhythms, vintage-sounding electronics, and spindly guitar. Still present, though, is that sense of emotional fracture and deep gloom. "Silence" opens with a dense drum loop which suddenly falls away to reveal Gibbons' voice, cold but magnificent: "Wounded and afraid, inside my head/Falling through changes". "Nylon Smile", meanwhile, is a fine example of Third's occasional folksy edge, an acoustic song reminiscent of Leonard Cohen that, around its midpoint, lifts off on a propulsive electronic rhythm, Gibbons holding one clear, hard note as synthesisers bubble beneath. At times, it's a harsh and foreboding listen: the electronic drums of "Machine Gun" might put off the listener hoping for smooth dinner party fare. But Third is a brave and forward-thinking return, and one great enough to justify its lengthy gestation."
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Released: April 28, 2008
Labels: Island, Mercury
Genres: experimental rock, psychedelic rock, trip hop, electronica ...
Denoscription on Amazon:
"Portishead's Third has been a long time coming, the result of a lengthy creative torpor following 1997's dark, distinctly underrated album Portishead. Importantly, though, they've shaken it. While the core trio of Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow, and Adrian Utley remains, this is quite a different band to Portishead's 90s incarnation: gone is the slo-mo turntable scratching and smoky jazz feel, replaced by heavy, brooding rhythms, vintage-sounding electronics, and spindly guitar. Still present, though, is that sense of emotional fracture and deep gloom. "Silence" opens with a dense drum loop which suddenly falls away to reveal Gibbons' voice, cold but magnificent: "Wounded and afraid, inside my head/Falling through changes". "Nylon Smile", meanwhile, is a fine example of Third's occasional folksy edge, an acoustic song reminiscent of Leonard Cohen that, around its midpoint, lifts off on a propulsive electronic rhythm, Gibbons holding one clear, hard note as synthesisers bubble beneath. At times, it's a harsh and foreboding listen: the electronic drums of "Machine Gun" might put off the listener hoping for smooth dinner party fare. But Third is a brave and forward-thinking return, and one great enough to justify its lengthy gestation."
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🎬✔️ "Jules and Jim"
(🇫🇷 "Jules et Jim")
Director: François Truffaut
Writers: Henri-Pierre Roché, François Truffaut, Jean Gruault
Country: France 🇫🇷
Year: 1962
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre ...
Genres: drama, romance
Denoscription on IMDb:
"Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman."
Ratings
IMDb: 7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 94%
- Audience score 89%
(🇫🇷 "Jules et Jim")
Director: François Truffaut
Writers: Henri-Pierre Roché, François Truffaut, Jean Gruault
Country: France 🇫🇷
Year: 1962
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre ...
Genres: drama, romance
Denoscription on IMDb:
"Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman."
Ratings
IMDb: 7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 94%
- Audience score 89%
🎬✔️ "The Worst Person in the World"
(🇳🇴 "Verdens verste menneske")
Director: Joachim Trier
Writers: Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Countries: Norway 🇳🇴, France 🇫🇷, Sweden 🇸🇪, Denmark 🇩🇰
Year: 2021
Starring: Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Herbert Nordrum ...
Genres: drama, romance, comedy
Denoscription on IMDb:
"The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is."
Ratings
IMDb: 7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 96%
- Audience score 86%
(🇳🇴 "Verdens verste menneske")
Director: Joachim Trier
Writers: Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Countries: Norway 🇳🇴, France 🇫🇷, Sweden 🇸🇪, Denmark 🇩🇰
Year: 2021
Starring: Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Herbert Nordrum ...
Genres: drama, romance, comedy
Denoscription on IMDb:
"The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is."
Ratings
IMDb: 7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 96%
- Audience score 86%
🎬✔️ "Easy Rider"
Director: Dennis Hopper
Writers: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1969
Starring: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson ...
Genres: adventure, drama
Denoscription on IMDb:
"Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware."
Ratings
IMDb: 7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 84%
- Audience score 82%
Director: Dennis Hopper
Writers: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1969
Starring: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson ...
Genres: adventure, drama
Denoscription on IMDb:
"Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware."
Ratings
IMDb: 7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 84%
- Audience score 82%
🎬✔️ "Inherent Vice"
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Writers: Paul Thomas Anderson, Thomas Pynchon
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 2014
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston ...
Genres: crime, mystery, comedy, drama, romance
Denoscription on IMDb:
"In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles private investigator Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend."
Ratings
IMDb: 6.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 74%
- Audience score 53%
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Writers: Paul Thomas Anderson, Thomas Pynchon
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 2014
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston ...
Genres: crime, mystery, comedy, drama, romance
Denoscription on IMDb:
"In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles private investigator Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend."
Ratings
IMDb: 6.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 74%
- Audience score 53%
🎬✔️ "Drifting Clouds"
(🇫🇮 "Kauas pilvet karkaavat")
Director/writer: Aki Kaurismäki
Countries: Finland 🇫🇮, Germany 🇩🇪, France 🇫🇷
Year: 1996
Starring: Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen, Elina Salo, Sakari Kuosmanen ...
Genres: drama, comedy
Denoscription on IMDb:
"The recession hits a couple in Helsinki."
Ratings
IMDb: 7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 100%
- Audience score 91%
(🇫🇮 "Kauas pilvet karkaavat")
Director/writer: Aki Kaurismäki
Countries: Finland 🇫🇮, Germany 🇩🇪, France 🇫🇷
Year: 1996
Starring: Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen, Elina Salo, Sakari Kuosmanen ...
Genres: drama, comedy
Denoscription on IMDb:
"The recession hits a couple in Helsinki."
Ratings
IMDb: 7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 100%
- Audience score 91%
🎬✔️ "Casablanca"
Director: Michael Curtiz
Writers: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1942
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid ...
Genres: drama, romance, war
Denoscription on IMDb:
"A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco."
Ratings
IMDb: 8.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 99%
- Audience score 95%
Director: Michael Curtiz
Writers: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1942
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid ...
Genres: drama, romance, war
Denoscription on IMDb:
"A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco."
Ratings
IMDb: 8.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 99%
- Audience score 95%
📖✔️ "The System of Objects"
(🇫🇷 "Le Système des objets")
Author: Jean Baudrillard
Country: France 🇫🇷
Publication date: 1968
Genres: nonfiction, essay, sociology, philosophy ...
Denoscription on Goodreads:
"The System of Objects is a tour de force — a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.
Pressing Freudian and Saussurean categories into the service of a basically Marxist perspective, The System of Objects offers a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society. Baudrillard classifies the everyday objects of the "new technical order" as functional, nonfunctional and metafunctional. He contrasts "modern" and "traditional" functional objects, subjecting home furnishing and interior design to a celebrated semiological analysis. His treatment of nonfunctional or "marginal" objects focuses on antiques and the psychology of collecting, while the metafunctional category extends to the useless, the aberrant and even the "schizofunctional." Finally, Baudrillard deals at length with the implications of credit and advertising for the commodification of everyday life.
The System of Objects is a tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard, who emerges in retrospect as something of a lightning rod for all the live ideas of the day: Bataille's political economy of "expenditure" and Mauss's theory of the gift; Reisman's lonely crowd and the "technological society" of Jacques Ellul; the structuralism of Roland Barthes in The System of Fashion; Henri Lefebvre's work on the social construction of space; and last, but not least, Guy Debord's situationist critique of the spectacle."
(🇫🇷 "Le Système des objets")
Author: Jean Baudrillard
Country: France 🇫🇷
Publication date: 1968
Genres: nonfiction, essay, sociology, philosophy ...
Denoscription on Goodreads:
"The System of Objects is a tour de force — a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.
Pressing Freudian and Saussurean categories into the service of a basically Marxist perspective, The System of Objects offers a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society. Baudrillard classifies the everyday objects of the "new technical order" as functional, nonfunctional and metafunctional. He contrasts "modern" and "traditional" functional objects, subjecting home furnishing and interior design to a celebrated semiological analysis. His treatment of nonfunctional or "marginal" objects focuses on antiques and the psychology of collecting, while the metafunctional category extends to the useless, the aberrant and even the "schizofunctional." Finally, Baudrillard deals at length with the implications of credit and advertising for the commodification of everyday life.
The System of Objects is a tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard, who emerges in retrospect as something of a lightning rod for all the live ideas of the day: Bataille's political economy of "expenditure" and Mauss's theory of the gift; Reisman's lonely crowd and the "technological society" of Jacques Ellul; the structuralism of Roland Barthes in The System of Fashion; Henri Lefebvre's work on the social construction of space; and last, but not least, Guy Debord's situationist critique of the spectacle."
🎵💿 Underwater Sleep Orchestra - Insomnolence
Released: April 4, 2023
Label: Cryo Chamber
Genres: ambient, dark ambient, field recording, drone
Denoscription on Bandcamp:
"Underwater Sleep Orchestra is a project by Bruce Moallem of God Body Disconnect and Pär Boström of Cities Last Broadcast/Kammarheit.
Where their debut album was presented as two dreams from the same night, this album is for the insomniacs who stayed behind: the drifters between sleep and wake. Music calling from blurry forests of the mind.
For fans of gritty textures, eerie ambience and deep dreaming sonics.
All music carefully processed through VHS tape."
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See also:
Underwater Sleep Orchestra - The Night and Other Sunken Dreams (2021)
Aindulmedir - Star Lore (2023)
Released: April 4, 2023
Label: Cryo Chamber
Genres: ambient, dark ambient, field recording, drone
Denoscription on Bandcamp:
"Underwater Sleep Orchestra is a project by Bruce Moallem of God Body Disconnect and Pär Boström of Cities Last Broadcast/Kammarheit.
Where their debut album was presented as two dreams from the same night, this album is for the insomniacs who stayed behind: the drifters between sleep and wake. Music calling from blurry forests of the mind.
For fans of gritty textures, eerie ambience and deep dreaming sonics.
All music carefully processed through VHS tape."
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Apple Music
See also:
Underwater Sleep Orchestra - The Night and Other Sunken Dreams (2021)
Aindulmedir - Star Lore (2023)
🎬✔️ "MASH"
Director: Robert Altman
Writers: Ring Lardner Jr., Richard Hooker
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1970
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt ...
Genres: comedy, drama, war
Denoscription on IMDb:
"The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war."
Ratings
IMDb: 7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 84%
- Audience score 83%
Director: Robert Altman
Writers: Ring Lardner Jr., Richard Hooker
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1970
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt ...
Genres: comedy, drama, war
Denoscription on IMDb:
"The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war."
Ratings
IMDb: 7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 84%
- Audience score 83%