Set list:
1) Start Me Up
2) It s Only Rock n Roll
3) Street Fighting Man
4) Ruby Tuesday
5) Doom And Gloom
6) Honky Tonk Women
7) You Got The Silver
8) Happy
9) Miss You
10) Midnight Rambler
11) Gimme Shelter 1
2) Jumpin Jack Flash
13) Sympathy For The Devil
14) Brown Sugar
Encore:
15) You Can't Always Get What You Want
16) (I Can't Get No) Satisfactio
踏入二千年以来,Madonna这位已「女人四十」的流行音乐天后似乎有一种愈战愈勇之势。2005年,Madonna在出版过一张以Future Disco为大前提的Confessions On A Dance Floor专辑(也是其第十张专辑)、重拾她的Dancing Queen / Queen Of Clubland姿态后,再引伸出是两款她的DVD录像出品:先是为其04年Reinvention Tour拍摄的纪录片I’m Going To Tell You A Secret在去年面世,继而是在这个07年初推出的现场演出影片The Confessions Tour。两者同是由合作多时的Jonas Akerlund执导摄製。她的乐迷绝对不愁寂寞吧。
在The Confessions Tour内,收录了Madonna在2006年的Confessions Tour世界性巡迴演出在英国伦敦Wembley Arena举行的一站,共三场音乐会,最后一晚(8月16日)演出,正是她的四十八岁生辰,故也别有纪念性意义。
早已得悉她的Confessions Tour是何等精采绝伦。而毋庸置疑,这张The Confessions Tour的DVD,亦是那么叫人为之目不遐给。变化多端的舞台(包括令到由Stuart Price担任音乐总监的伴奏乐团可以「神出鬼没」),精湛而慑人的录像投射,加上舞蹈员的配合,达至每首歌曲的表演皆有不同的Setting配套。现在在DVD里,又不时重新将本来的录像投射与舞台的画面加以重迭,效果更嘆为观止。后期製作的出色乃毋庸置疑。
开场曲Future Lovers跟重玩Donna Summer的1977年Euro-Disco名曲I Feel Love水乳交融而来,加上身穿骑马服的Madonna与舞蹈员带来充满S&M意味的演出,已够先声夺人。每首歌曲,都附上不同的舞台表演环节,如Like A Virgin里的「骑马舞」,Jump里舞蹈员的体操舞蹈,Confessions的舞蹈员读白,Live To Tell里那备受争议的钉十字架场面(背后的数字是要道出在非洲爱滋病令到一千二百万名儿童成为孤儿并带出连串关注非洲儿童的信息再以马太福音作结——为音乐会最触动心灵、发人深省的一曲),Forbidden Love的两男一女「缠手舞」,Isaac的号角前奏,Sorry把舞台变成街头,Music Inferno的滚轴溜冰,在视觉上已令人留下深刻印象。
音乐会里有三首歌曲可看到Madonna弹奏结他。玩出I Love New York这首Disco-Punk曲目的时候,她背著电结他出场带来介乎The Stooges与Post-Punk式之间的结他Riff与製造Feedback,台上投映出纽约市曼哈顿的空中轮廓线,非常之酷;未段Madonna不断敲打结他时,镜头便做出地动山摇的效果,甚为震憾呢。跟著再玩了Ray Of Light。后来她又弹奏木结他与Issac Sinwani合唱Paradise (Not For Me)。来到尾段,便玩尽劲歌热舞的主题。在Erotica时娜姐换上白色紧身舞衣出场,La Isla Bonita在流丽的Flamenco结他下她大喊”It’s time to put on your dancing shoes!”把舞台变成狂热舞会;Lucky Star娜姐在紧身舞衣上披上印有”Dancing Queen”字样斗篷先向Abba致敬,末段已穿插著Abba的79年名曲Gimme!Gimme!Gimme!(A Man After Midnight)的前奏Sample,随即便引伸出结幕曲Hung Up,亦成为整场音乐会的高潮位,全场大合唱:”Time goes by….so slowly”。
Stuart Price(aka Jacques Lu Cont)的音乐总监角色固然功不可没,经他重新编曲下,为Madonna的歌曲重新注入舞池动能,甚至像Like A Virgin和Lucky Star等廿三、四年前的曲目,都变身成摩登的Electro-Disco House舞曲。1983、84年,Madonna初露锋芒的年代,小Stuart才得六、七岁咋。
专辑曲目:
1.Future Lovers
2.Get Together
3.Like a Virgin
4.Jump
5.Live to Tell
6.Forbidden Love
7.Isaac
8.Sorry
9.Like It Or Not
10.Sorry (remix)
11.I Love New York
12.Let It Will Be
13.Ray of Light
14.Drowned World/Substitute for Love
15.Paradise [Not For Me]
16.Music
17.La Isla Bonita
18.Erotica/You Thrill Me
19.Lucky Star
20.Hung U
quot;Bob Dylan going electric" at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival is one of those epochal moments in rock history that seemingly everyone has heard about, but what few people seem to know is that it wasn't some ephemeral event that we only know from word of mouth -- filmmaker Murray Lerner documented the performances at the Newport Festival for several years running, and The Other Side of the Mirror collects footage from the three years Dylan appeared at the celebrated folk gathering, allowing us to see Dylan's rise through the folk scene for ourselves. Watching Lerner's documentary, what's most remarkable is how much Dylan changed over the course of 36 months; the young folkie performing at the afternoon "workshop" at the side of Joan Baez in 1963 is at once nervy and hesitant, singing his wordy tunes while chopping away at his acoustic guitar and energizing the crowd without seeming to know just what he's doing. In 1964, Dylan all but owns Newport, and he clearly knows it; he's the talk of the Festival, with Baez and Johnny Cash singing his praises (and his songs), and his command of the stage is visibly stronger and more confident while his new material (including "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "It Ain't Me, Babe") sees him moving away from the "protest songs" that first made his name. When the audience demands an encore after Dylan's evening set (Odetta and Dave Van Ronk were scheduled to follow him), Peter Yarrow tries to keep the show moving along while Dylan beams at the crowd's adulation, like the rock star he was quickly becoming. By the time the 1965 Newport Festival rolled around, Dylan's epochal "Like a Rolling Stone" was starting to scale the singles charts, and the hardcore folk audience was clearly of two minds about his popular (and populist) success. When Dylan, Fender Stratocaster in hand, performs "Maggie's Farm" backed by Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield and the rhythm section from the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the raucous but hard-driving number inspires a curious mixture of enthusiastic cheering and equally emphatic booing, and while legend has it that the version of "Like a Rolling Stone" that followed was a shambles, the song cooks despite drummer Sam Lay's difficulty in finding the groove, though if anything the division of the crowd's loyalties is even stronger afterward. After these two numbers, Dylan and his band leave the stage, with Yarrow (once again serving as MC) citing technical problems (if Pete Seeger really pulled the power on Dylan, as legend has it, there's no sign of it here); Dylan returns to the stage with an acoustic six-string to sing "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" before vanishing into the night without comment. While much of the audience at Newport in 1965 wanted the "old" Dylan back, his strong, willful performances even on the acoustic stuff makes it obvious that the scrappy semi-amateur we saw at the beginning of the movie was gone forever, and the ovations suggest more than a few people wanted to see Dylan rock. Lerner's film tells us a certain amount of what we already knows, but it gently debunks a few myths about Dylan during this pivotal moment in his career, and his performances are committed and forceful throughout; no matter how many times you've read about Dylan's Newport shoot-out of 1965, seeing it is a revelatory experience, and Lerner has assembled this archival material with intelligence and taste. This is must-see viewing for anyone interested in Dylan or the folk scene of the '60s.
1869年,一列驶往美国德克萨斯州科尔比镇的列车,羁押着即将被送往当地处决的杀人魔头卡文迪什(威廉·菲德内尔 William Fichtner 饰),未料途中卡文迪什在同伙的协助下逃脱。同在囚犯车箱内的印第安人杀手Tonto(约翰尼·德普 Johnny Depp 饰)和联邦检查官约翰·雷德(艾米•汉莫 Armie Hammer 饰)历经万险,侥幸逃生,谁知却被后者投入监牢。约翰身为骑警的老哥丹(詹姆斯·戴尔 James Badge Dale 饰)率手下追捕卡文迪什,结果遭到对方残忍屠戮。随行的约翰在越狱逃走的Tonto的帮助下再度捡回一条命,并得知骑警中叛徒的真身。对于这个本应死掉的人来说,也许只有戴上面具才能匡扶正义。
白人和印第安人,两个原本没有任何交集的人踏上复仇之路……
The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take command responsiblity.
哥伦比亚新浪潮导演Carlos Mayolo的长片处女作,一部哥特风格的幻想片,获葡萄牙幻想电影节最佳女主角和最佳影片提名。是导演向Roman Polanski的《Rosemary's Baby》致敬的作品。
"Flesh of your flesh" is a political allegory trhough a love story, framed into the magical colombian universe. In 1955, in the middle of a military dictatorship, a teenage girl seduces her brother and due to their incestous relationship the lovers are possessed by the ghosts of their ancestors. The two youngsters become vampirical and criminal creatures like those created by the colombian "violencia", mingling with the mythological beings of the countryside like "drafts" and other ghost sowing fear into the heart of men.
Directed by Carlos Mayolo. Centers on a wealthy family fighting over the last testament of a just-deceased matriarch. From there, the family members are shown to have an incestuous relationship, and eventually vampires come into the picture, as well as unbridled slaughter.
Tropical Gothic Baroque. An extremely interesting film about La Violencia in Colombia which captures the strange social and political heterogeneity of this dark set of events. Mayolo developed his own aesthetic - partly in collaboration with filmmaker Luis Ospina and the late Andrés Caicedo - 'el gótico tropical' in order to convey this strangeness. The film combines local Colombian myths - caspi, la madremonte, el hojarasquin del monte - with themes of vampirism and incest to convey the place of La Violencia within a repetitive and cyclical history characterised by interpartisan conflicts that benefit the empowerment of the Colombian aristocracy.
The exploits of three young Roman criminals are chronicled in this socially conscious drama. The young men commit petty crimes all day begin with arms theft, and culminating with a night with three streetwalkers. After their pleasure, the boys try to cheat the hookers, but they ladies are smarter than that and have stolen their cash ahead of time. The punks then return to the city for more crimes. Exploits include the harassment of three homosexuals, and attempts to seduce some women.