Month: December 2012

Here are my favourite records released this year:

Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
Mina Tindle – Taranta
Django Django
Dark Dark Dark – Who Needs Who
Andrew Bird – Break It Yourself
Barbara Carlotti – L’amour, l’argent, le vent
Bowerbirds – The Clearing
TOPS – Tender Opposites
Laura Gibson – La Grande
Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
Lambchop – Mr. M

The Limes published a playlist of songs we enjoyed in 2012. I put my favourite ones, but which were only released this year.

Here are some other songs I liked this year. It starts with songs from 2012 and then goes back in time.

To finish with, I discovered awesome songs in films I saw this year, and made a playlist with them:

The Three Degrees – Everybody gets to go to the moon (The French connection)
Franklin Boukaka – Le Bûcheron (Viva Riva!)
Mina – Eclisse Twist (L’Eclisse)
Elizete Cardoso – Manha do Carnaval (Orfeu Negro)
Duran Duran – The Chauffeur (Laurence anyways)
Violeta Parra – Volver a los Diecisiete (Violeta)
Ketty Lester – Love Letters (Cogan)
Karen O – Strange Love (Frankenweenie)

Here are my favourite films released in French theatres this year:

Cyril Mennegun – Louise Wimmer
Philippe Lefebvre – Une nuit
Gilles Balbastre + Yannick Kergoat – Les nouveaux chiens de garde
Safinez Bousbia – El Gusto
David Fincher – The girl with the dragon tattoo

Guillaume Brac – Un monde sans femmes
Guy Maddin – Keyhole
Michaël R. Roskam – Bullhead
Joachim Trier – Oslo, August 31st

Stéphane Lafleur – En terrains connus
Andrey Zvyagintsev – Elena
Paul Lacoste – Entre les Bras
Virginie Despentes – Bye Bye Blondie

Julie Delpy – 2 days in New York
Fernand Melgar – Vol spécial
Benoît Forgeard – Réussir sa vie
Emmanuel Finkiel – Je suis
Özcan Alper – Future lasts forever

Sebastián Silva + Pedro Peirano – Gatos viejos
J. C. Chandor – Margin call
Konstantin Bojanov – Avé
Jonathan Caouette – Walk away Renee

Tim Burton – Dark shadows
Wes Anderson – Moonrise kingdom
Mohamed Diab – 678
Claudine Nougaret + Raymond Depardon – Journal de France
Leos Carax – Holy motors

Asghar Farhadi – The beautiful city
Xavier Dolan – Laurence anyways
Pascal Bonitzer – Cherchez Hortense
Mamoru Hosoda – Wolf children

William Friedkin – Killer Joe
Quentin Dupieux – Wrong
John Hillcoat – Lawless

Craig Zobel – Compliance
Whit Stillman – Damsels in Distress
Matteo Garrone – Reality
François Ozon – Dans la maison

Jaime Rosales – Sueño y silencio
Hong Sang-soo – In another country
Katsuya Tomita – Saudade
Régis Sauder – Être là

Thomas Vinterberg – The hunt
Rachid Djaïdani – Rengaine
Cristian Mungiu – Beyond the hills
Claude Miller – Thérèse Desqueyroux

Sébastien Lifshitz – Les invisibles
Kim Nguyen – Rebelle
Andrea Arnold – Wuthering heights

Miguel Gomes – Tabu
Michel Leclerc – Télé Gaucho

Here are some art shows I particularly enjoyed this year in Paris:

La France en relief – Grand Palais
Marcel Storr, bâtisseur volontaire – Pavillon Carré de Baudouin
L’invention du sauvage – Musée du Quai Branly
Josef Albers – Centre Pompidou

Debussy, la musique et les arts – Musée de l’Orangerie
Matisse, paires et séries – Centre Pompidou
Le crépuscule des pharaons – Musée Jacquemart-André
Doisneau, Paris Les Halles – Hôtel de Ville

Cima – Musée du Luxembourg
La Presse à la Une – BnF Mitterrand
Degas et le nu – Musée d’Orsay
Eugène Atget, Paris – Musée Carnavalet

Radio : ouvrez grand vos oreilles – CNAM
Monumenta 2012 – Buren – Grand Palais
Laurent Grasso : “Uraniborg” – Jeu de Paume
Gerhard Richter – Centre Pompidou

Paris vu par Hollywood – Hôtel de Ville
Les arts de l’Islam – Musée du Louvre
Canaletto – Musée Maillol
Chaïm Soutine, l’ordre du chaos – Musée de l’Orangerie

Victor Baltard, le fer et le pinceau – Musée d’Orsay
L’âge d’or des cartes marines – BnF François Mitterrand
Nigeria, arts de la vallée de la Benoué – Musée du Quai Branly
La photographie en France, 1950-2000 – Maison européenne de la photographie

Manuel Álvarez Bravo – Jeu de Paume
Voici Paris, modernités photographiques – Centre Pompidou

Here is a review of our concert at L’International.