Single of the Day – Kamuran Akkor – Ikimiz Bir Fidaniz (Baris K re-edit)
Causing a bit of a furore with his 2008 re-edit mixes and promos, today’s SOTD is taken from Baris K’s fantastic Eurasia Mix series of rare Turkish disco, rock and psyche gems. Turkish psychedelia or should I say Turkish psychedelia re-edits is making a bit of a comeback this year and I predict that you’ll be hearing [...]
Monday Morricone Madness!!!
The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci, 1968) There are certain films that have endings so unique, distinctive and downright unexpected that these endings often become the most famous thing about the films themselves. Think Planet of the Apes. Think The Wicker Man. Think Don’t Look Now. The last 5 or 10 minutes of [...]
Film of the Day – The Last Tycoon (Elia Kazan, 1976)
“The past is a foreign country” writes novelist L.P. Hartley (most famous for authoring Fly-fishing, of course) at the start of The Go-Between, and you’ve got to admit he was onto something. Certainly old films strike me as somewhat “foreign” and it’s really hard sometimes to get a handle on things that happened decades [...]