A strong lady.

Provincetown, Cape Cod  2008

Trailers

Both of these look good:
New Coen Brothers "Inside Llewyn Davis"
and new Michel Gondry "Mood Indigo":

Lucrecia Martel

Steve turned me on to Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel a few years ago. She's made three films: La Cienega (2001), The Holy Girl (2004) and (my favorite) The Headless Woman (2008). I was just wondering what wazzup with her and found some good info. Her next film has been announced: an adaptation of the historical novel "Zama" by Antonio di Benedetto (Hollywood Reporter says it's set to start shooting in July 2013). And then this promo/short film she did in 2011 for the fashion label Miu Miu. It's distinctly stranger and more stylized than her films though there's something of the psychological brink, conceptual sound engineering and quietly stunning beauty (like around the 4:40 mark where the models bodies become shifting planes) that winds through her work (especially Headless Woman). Let's do this, Lucrecia!

Four Tet, Grimes & Brandy

Have listened to this about 20 times the last two days - such strange bliss... Soundcloud. There's also a link to download the Four Tet radio session this is from (and it starts with an a capella version of Brandy's "Almost Doesn't Count") at FADER. I remember watching this Brandy performance on Leno while I was living in Somerville, MA and writing a poem about it, which I entered in to a Pavement poetry contest and won a signed poster. Love those lady-island moments like the rise of her voice singing "you'll come running back, baby, from the cruel cruel world."