links for 2009-04-10

"What would it be like if Jacques Rivette remade John Boorman's masterpiece "Point Blank"? Or what if [experimental French filmmaker] Marguerite Duras (writer of "Hiroshima mon amour") remade Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Samourai"? Michelangelo Antonioni looms large in my subconscious so he's probably there, but I wasn't thinking about him beforehand. I was obliquely thinking of Euro crime films from the 1970s and 1980s, like some of [Italian crime and political drama director ] Francesco Rosi's work. These impressionistic inspirations floated through my head, in terms of finding a style rather than imitating these movies."

This is still the best Beck album (honest!) — the It's All In Your Mind bonus cut is fantastic.

"The 2nd collection of videos, now titled, "Michel Gondry 2: More Videos Before & After DVD 1," is due April 14 on his website and features videos Beck's "Cellphone's Dead," The White Stripes "The Denial Twist" (which featured Conan O'Brien) Björk's "Declare Independence," and Radiohead's "Knives Out," – a video that band themselves hated at the time and made sure it did not come out on the original Director's Label DVD."