Month: December 2015

Thank you again, Alan Cross:

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

Claudine Bories + Patrice Chagnard – Les règles du jeu
Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher
Christian Petzold – Phoenix

Ben Rivers – Two years at sea
Thomas Salvador – Vincent n’a pas d’écailles
Quentin Dupieux – Réalité

Gabe Polsky – Red army
Laura Poitras – Citizenfour
Jérome Bonnell – À trois on y va

Benoît Jacquot – Le journal d’une femme de chambre
Florian Habicht – Pulp, a film about life, death & supermarkets
Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche – Histoire de Judas

Stéphane Batut – Le rappel des oiseaux
Lisandro Alonso – Jauja
Stéphane Brizé – La loi du marché

Asif Kapadia – Amy
Jacques Audiard – Dheepan
Apichatpong Weerasethkaul – Cemetery of Splendour

Paolo Sorrentino – Youth
Nabil Ayouch – Much loved
Xavier Giannoli – Marguerite

Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Journey to the shore
Ulrich Seidl – Im Keller
Joshua Oppenheimer – The look of silence

Maïwenn – Mon roi
Jean-Gabriel Périot – Une jeunesse allemande
Patricio Guzmán – El botón de nácar

László Nemes – Son of Saul
Yorgos Lanthimos – The Lobster
Roberto Minervini – The other side

Nanni Moretti – Mia madre
Grímur Hákonarson – Rams
Jia Zhangke – Mountains may depart

Here are my three favourite records released this year:

Julia Holter – Have You In My Wilderness
Joanna Newsom – Divers
Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell

Win records thanks to Mélissa Mayer at Culturethèque (digital platform for the French Institute in the UK):

RT to #win CDs from @llbpromotion (before 30/12/2015) including @Orooouni @cleotmusic #Algo and @omohmusic pic.twitter.com/pwqjjIofO8

— Culturethèque (@culturetheque) 18 Décembre 2015

Thank you The Sound Of Confusion for this interesting review of our latest single ‘The Peanut Specialist’:

Thank you Mélissa @ Culturethèque:

Anna Atkins (1799–1871)

You can see some early work by Robert Doisneau at the Muséum d’histoire naturelle in Paris, where the video for The Peanut Specialist was shot.