In February 2009 a group of Danish soldiers accompanied by documentary filmmaker Janus Metz arrived at Armadillo, an army base in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. Metz and cameraman Lars Skree spent six months following the lives of young soldiers situated less than a kilometer away from Taliban positions.
In theaters April 8th, 2011
TweetDespite a traumatic event, a group of friends decide to go ahead with their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt and friendship are sorely tested. They are finally forced to own up to the little white lies they’ve been telling each other. From the director of Tell No One, Guillaume Canet, he again works with François Cluzet as Max the father and epicenter of events.Funny, sad, and O’ so French.
In theaters April 15th, 2011
www.lespetitsmouchoirs-lefilm.com
TweetThe fact that it’s audience grows year on year, and media interest with it, is testament to its quality and content. It is so much more than just a film festival. They have countless screenings of great films but with these are also many brilliant special events, workshops, outdoor screenings, music, art, poetry and top drawer guests.
Check the website for full details. Exit’s personal highlight, the fully restored version of Ken Russell’s, The Devils, with an Introduction by director himself, on May 1st, 2011.
From Oakland, California, tUnE-yArDs second album, w h o k i l l,
released 18th April 2011 through 4AD.
The Upsetter tells of Lee “Scratch” Perry, a visionary musician and artist from poor rural Jamaica who journeyed to the big city in the late 1950s with dreams of making it in the burgeoning record industry.
Lee Perry burst on the scene with a brand new sound, inventing a genre of music that would come to be called reggae, while mentoring a young Bob Marley and gaining international recognition as a record producer and solo artist. The Upsetter charts 70 years in the life of Lee “Scratch” Perry and is equally a documentation of 30 years of Jamaican music and culture. The film is narrated by Academy Award winner Benico Del Toro.
Preview of the forthcoming album from Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi. The songs Two Against One, featuring Jack White and Norah Jones, will be available digitally from 10th April and as a limited 7” single on 16th May as part of the Record Store Day celebrations!
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