When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. Ingmar Bergman Ingmar Bergman preferred to call Andrej Arsen’evič Tarkovskij this way: the greatest of them all.…
Echoes: the best Pink Floyd’s song, according to many. A poetic lyrics, intensely wrapped in deep and intimate harmonies. A complex song that was born by coincidence: while Richard Wright was playing the amplified piano filtered by…
When he debuted in the cinemas in August 1975, the musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show didn’t go exactly as expected from the production: it was shot during the winter, after the triumphant season in…
During the whole 1992 election campaign, expressions like ”restore family values” had turned into a political motto in the United States. The Republican party, led by the then President George Bush Senior who was running…
Can you change the history of music in 2 years? Normally not. Unless you’re Lou Reed, your rock band is called The Velvet Underground and your producer is Andy Warhol. Like most masterpieces, The Velvet…
Chasing the beetle is the English slang to describe the act of smoking heroin. Although it seems a heartbreaking love song, one of Blur’s most famous single is mainly the tale of a drug experience. But…
