Fra le novità musicali più belle dell'ultimo periodo c'è un brano di un artista italiano famoso nel mondo e che pure forse è più noto ai nostri genitori o ai nostri zii piuttosto che agli attuali fruitori di musica. Si tratta di Salvatore Adamo, meglio noto solo come Adamo . Nato a Comiso ma trapiantato in Belgio, fra l'Italia, il Belgio e la Francia ha sviluppato una carriera che dal 1963 ad oggi lo ha reso ricco e famoso, uno degli ambasciatori dell'Italia nel mondo ma al contempo anche uno degli artisti francofoni più celebri di sempre [...]
Ellie Goulding's favorites, including her favorite: beauty product, cocktail, movie, date activity, food, way to unwind, item in her house, childhood memory, TV show, Twitter, vacation spot, album, . The interview was conducted by idolator.com - a Buzz Media web property.

Over the last eleven year's TIFF has slowly become a major when it comes to Academy Award winners. Two of the last three Best Picture winners ( Slumdog Millionaire and The King's Speech ) were also winners of TIFF's prestigious People's Choice Award. 2009 Best Picture winner, The Hurt Locker , did not win the People's Choice Award, but it screened at the festival the same year as Slumdog Millionaire . If you look closely at the Best Picture nominees over an eleven year span you will noticed that eighteen of the sixty-five [...]
End of the year lists: Sometimes I love them but this year I hate them. I guess I just got lazy alright? And besides, The Social Network's ego is out of hand as it is.

By Sweet Sound of Sunrise Yann Tiersen was born in Brest, France in 1970. He was classically trained in music throughout the country, and began his career by writing and playing background music for theatre productions and films. He became famous within France with the release of his third album, Le Phare , in 1998. However, his fame outside the country was limited until the release of the internationally popular movie Amelie [...]

Micmacs Recently I have been thinking a lot about my experiences at TIFF (aka The Toronto International Film Festival) over the last 9 years. I may even compile a reflective piece on the various years I attended for a future blog post. One of the catalysts for my nostalgic trip down memory lane is the release of my favourite film from the 2009 TIFF, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Micmacs . Bazil's (Dany Boon) life is turned upside down after a drive-by-shooting [...]

Sarà fisicamente impossibile dare spazio a tutti (sono 988!), ma alcuni ve li facciamo sentire. Quelli che abbiamo trovato in rete e che ci hanno colpito. Parliamo degli esclusi da Sanremo Nuova Generazione , di alcuni brani che ci hanno colpito. L'invito è a tutti voi, artisti che avevate presentato un brano per la selezione: avete un video del pezzo o una traccia audio su youtube? Segnalatecela alla casella e.lombardini@gmail.com [...]
HANK ALTOGETHER: Watch the magical composer Yann Tiersen play a piece of music from his score of Amelie on six iPhones.

In addition to my usual year end lists , I'm also doing decade lists . Following are my favorite films that were released between 2000-2009... Muruch's Best of the Decade: Films 20. Mama Mia I didn't expect to include this musical on the list until my husband reminded me how much we enjoyed it. When it comes to favorite movies that I watch again and again, I tend to lean [...]
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"I'll be back" Yann Tiersen - A quai
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Toronto - The French are not linked to eccentricity without solid evidence. When the opening scene rolled for Micmacs, which is when Bazil's mom found out her husband was vaporized by a landmine, I could have bursted out laughing because the YELP she gave had no audio sense of shock or grief except that it was implied by context. It was this little, giddy yelp that you exhale after seeing a baby monkey being accidently thrown into a 12 diameter well from a 60 ft tall branch by its sibling, sort of saying: wow, it's just one of the ways [...]

Asobi Seksu will be sharing the stage with French musician and composer Yann Tiersen for a heap of dates starting tomorrow across the U.S. and Canada. Tiersen is best known for composing the score to the lauded French-language film Amelie , and of course Asobi Seksu are supporting their recent release Hush . Some tickets for the dates are still available (find out more here ) and Asobi Seksu will be announcing more solo dates after this run soon. Asobi Seksu [...]

Maybe we Belgians suck at soccer, but we're still alive and kicking in the music bizz'! Amelie is a DJ from Antwerp, who is eager to prove this. DJ on the new up and coming label Bon Appetit , he already made a few remixes and productions. It's got a minimal vibe, and I really like his own song Painstiller and the remix of GRUM, check it out! Amelie - Painstiller (Mediafire) Amelie - Kolo (Mediafire) Amelie - Pandora (Mediafire) Booka [...]

L'équipe Streetkiss vous souhaite un joyeux Noël ! Alboon : A l'heure où l'on se fait clairement insulter d'animaux dans toutes les bonnes soirées éléctro, il est de bon ton de se demander si Noël est bien sûr pour nos amis les bêtes. Si un certain Oizo répond "Positif", les bestioles d'Of Montreal pensent le contraire ... Une chose reste certaine, à Noël y fait bon pour l'animal que je suis ! [...]

After quite some research, Thieves By Tuesday* presents the movie posters that, despite not being the big blockbusters or top grossing movies (well, for others) they wished to be, made it to the top of our BEST POSTERS OF ALL TIME list. Did you think their posters were a benefit to their success? I think so . Read more of the post here. [...]

So, this is really exciting for all you XTC fans out there; Over at their myspace/fan site , there is a weekly feature where they'll post up an XTC song and Andy Partridge will discuss it. I'm not talking about a quick paragraph or two. No, these are multi-page conversations covering seemingly every possible angle and tidbit. Hours, if not days and weeks, of fun to be had if you're into XTC. Andy Partridge - I Wonder Why The Wonderfalls The song featured this week is "I [...]

"Go! Go away monsters. Who do you work for?" Amelie ~ Monsters from The Real Nature Of The Fantastic Ice Cream Car by Amelie Thanks for reading my blog! xoxo, asley