Unfairly maligned by some as a grown man playing with dolls houses, this makes the case for Anderson as a distinctive filmmaker of depth and genius, one whose vision of adult life as painful and chaotic is cloaked in meticulously curated detail. Featuring admiring though insightful interviews with Anderson and a wealth of storyboards, artwork and preparatory material for all his films (including last year’s brilliant Moonrise Kingdom, bittersweet gem The Royal Tennenbaums and the still bracingly strange Rushmore), this is one of the most visually sumptuous and satisfying books about film in years. Michael Chabon adds a typically stylish and smart foreword.
Month: January 2014
Favourite Films of 2013
Death Metal Angola
Frances Ha
The Spectacular Now
Before Midnight
Her
For Those In Peril
Blancanieves
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Drinking Buddies
The Punk Singer
The Past
The Way, Way Back
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Silver Linings Playbook
Lincoln
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
You Make Me Feel So Young
The Hunt
This is The End
The Place Beyond The Pines
Honourable mention: Mistaken for Strangers
Favourite Gigs of 2013
Neutral Milk Hotel
Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band
The Gaslight Anthem
My Bloody Valentine
Veronica Falls
All Tomorrow’s Parties I’ll Be Your Mirror (My Bloody Valentine & Godspeed You! Black Emperor)
Sharon Van Etten
Mono
The XX
Billy Bragg
Martha Wainwright
Ash play 1977
Cat Power
Vampire Weekend
Cloud Nothings
Bob Mould
Bat For Lashes & Japandroids at Laneway
Olof Arnalds
Sleepmakeswaves
Perfume Genius
Favourite Songs of 2013
BEST SONGS
1. Veronica Falls – Teenage
2. Veronica Falls – Buried Alive
3. Josh Ritter – New Lover
4. Phosphorescent – Song For Zula
5. Lorde – Royals
6. Low – So Blue
7. Daft Punk – Get Lucky
8. Saturday Looks Good To Me – Polar Bear
9. Superchunk – Me & You & Jackie Mitoo
10. Eleanor Friedberger – Echo or Encore
11. The National – I Need My Girl
12. Camera Obscura – Do It Again
13. Tullycraft – Lost in Light Rotation
14. The Avett Brothers – Another Is Waiting
15. Arcade Fire – Reflektor
16. The Ballet – Feelings
17. Lily & Madeleine – Sounds Like Somewhere
18. My Bloody Valentine – Only Tomorrow
19. The Preatures – Is This How You Feel?
20. Deafheaven – Dream House
21. Kanye West – Bound 2
22. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Wide Lovely Eyes
23. Vampire Weekend – Step
24. Say Lou Lou – Julian
25. The Knife – Wrap Your Arms Around Me
26. Sigur Ros – Isjaki
27. Scott and Charlene’s Wedding – Clock Out and Leave
28. Jason Isbell – Elephant
29. Parenthetical Girls – Sympathy For Spastics
30. Beyonce – XO
31. Vampire Weekend – Hannah Hunt
32. The Fireworks – Runaround
33. Future Bible Heroes – Keep Your Children in a Coma
34. Math and Physics Club – Thank God I Met You
35. Savages – Shut Up
36. Haim – Falling
37. Billy Bragg – Handyman’s Blues
38. Dick Diver – Alice
39. CHVRCHES – We Sink
40. Fuck Buttons – Hidden Xs
