#montreal festival

[respectthepetty]

You're American?!

Anon, this is the expression I feel you had while you wrote that sentence.

Yes. Yes, I am American. What gave it away? Me stating all the time I'm American (rural Southwest, Catholic, bisexual, a slut, Hispanic/Black, a Leo, a vegetarian) or was it the way I spell "colors"?

For an aging millennial who knows better, I actually offer up way too much information in the tags. So . . . fuck it, let me offer up more - I was born in Japan due to America's strategic colonization in over 80 countries (aka my father was in the Air Force), so my first passport has a picture of a week-old me! Whenever I renew my license or fill out any type of legal paperwork, I have to present five documents to prove my American citizenship since I was born in a regular Japanese hospital instead of the one on the American base. When I travel, internationally or domestically, it never fails that I get held up because my passport is American, my place of birth is Japan, and my place of residency is . . . just know people don't realize it's an American state. I travel often, but I think about two years ago, I might have fucked an international criminal at a Canadian music festival because I got held up in the Montreal airport for hours trying to leave and since then, I always have to go to the counter to print out my boarding pass and I always get asked additional questions. Odd, but if the criminal was who I think it was, the sex was worth it.

[three-red-horns]

Abraza tu alma!

[fuckyeahelijahwoodfan]

Elijah wood in Montreal at St viateur bagel shop 😋 😍

[kizaba]

KIZABA Travelling to performing in Taïwan 😎🎼 ta World Music Festival Taïwan

[saladgold]

Rave queen OF MY DREAMS

O S H 24

[dreabee86]

A night at the Christmas Cafe 🎅🏻

[stickto-otherartists]

Camille Léon and her band captured by Colin Medley in Montréal || 09.27.23

[whileiamdying]

The Settlers review – ultra-violent study of Chile’s butchery of its indigenous people

★★★★☆ Europe’s early 20th-century exploitation of Tierra del Fuego is told in an unsparingly bloody drama-thriller by first-time director Felipe Gálvez Haberle

Brutish … Alfredo Castro (left) and Mark Stanley in The Settlers. Photograph: Quijote Films

his almost unbearably brutal and violent western drama-thriller from first-time feature director Felipe Gálvez Haberle was a prize winner at Cannes and Chile’s official entry for best international feature at the Academy Awards. At once explicit and yet mysterious and elliptical, it dramatically recreates some of the story behind the exploitation and colonisation of Tierra del Fuego by European commercial interests and the Santiago political establishment at the beginning of the 20th century. This involved the genocidal slaughter of Indigenous peoples by the now notorious businessman José Menéndez, a kind of Latin American oligarch who had been granted land rights for sheep farming, and used mercenaries to hunt and butcher Patagonian natives; these hired killers included ex-British Army soldier Alexander MacLennan, known as the “red pig”.

Chilean character actor Alfredo Castro plays the cold-eyed Menéndez, and Mark Stanley is the brutish MacLennan who still wears his red military tunic and affects the title “Lieutenant”. An ugly scene suggests that his capacity for violence, always substantial, escalated at least partly due to being brutalised himself. Haberle imagines an American “Indian-hunter” called Bill (Benjamin Westfall) who goes out with MacLennan on their murderous expeditionary adventure into the vast and forbidding southern wilderness and they have a tracker called Segundo (Camilo Arancibia), who is a “mestizo” – part indigenous – and resented by Bill who fears Segundo will turn on them.

There is a scary encounter with another British soldier-for-hire, played with dark menace by Sam Spruell, who appears to have the same vocation as MacLennan, but for whom the violence and alienation have become (even) more normalised. With a terrifyingly empty landscape shot by Simone D’Arcangelo and crazed, clamorous, timpani-clashing score by Harry Allouche, The Settlers is really unsettling: an evocation of the violence and colonial brutality mixed into the foundations of Chile’s nation state, and which, it is implied, provided a lesson in political violence for later on.

And what is worse is the history rewriting and legacy management: a sequence in which Indigenous peoples are forced to pose for semi-official photographs in demure western clothes, coerced into erasing their own distinct identity and appearing to cooperate in a new voluntary submissive absorption into white culture. It’s a fierce, stark, almost primitive parable of cruelty and power.

The Settlers is released on 9 February in UK and Irish cinemas.

[sandwichtribunal]

10 Years of Sandwiches

The Tribunal has been writing about sandwiches for 10 years now, and if we've learned anything, it's to eat more sandwiches!

10 years ago today, on August 21, 2014, I registered the domain sandwichtribunal.com. A Quick Recap I’ve told the story before but essentially, early in 2014 my friends Josh and Thom and I started tweeting pictures of sandwiches at each other, basically bragging about the delicious things we were eating. We started calling ourselves the Sandwich Tribunal in jest. @dodecaphonix @El_Josharino 2…

[nothingexistsnever]

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[romanbymarta]

During The Montreal World Film Festival 1963. At restaurant Le Colbert : Jean-Luc Godard, Johanne Harrelle, Claude Jutra, Arthur Lamothe, Gian Vittorio Baldi, Roman Polanski, Adolfas Mekas, Robert Hershorn, Victor Desy.

Claude Jutra, Jean-Luc Godard, Roman Polanski, Jonas Mekas, Robert Hershone & Victor Désy at The Montreal World Film Festival 1963. In August 1963 Roman Polanski was invited to the Montreal World Film festival with Knife in the Water.

Claude Jutra, Jean-Luc Godard, Roman Polanski, Johanne Harrelle, Victor Désy, Jonas Mekas, Robert Hershone at Le Corbet restaurant during The Montreal World Film Festival 1963. Roman Polanski was invited to the Montreal World Film festival with "Knife in the Water".

During The Montreal World Film Festival 1963. At restaurant Le Colbert : Jean-Luc Godard, Johanne Harrelle, Arthur Lamothe, Claude Jutra, Gian Vittorio Baldi, Roman Polanski, Adolfas Mekas, Robert Hershorn. Roman Polanski was invited to the Montreal World Film festival with Knife in the Water.

[schlock-luster-video]

On August 30, 1986, Blue Velvet premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival.

[ascle]

O . M . G !

[yz]

Second night of the Montréal circus festival.

July 2024.

Fujifilm XT-50 with XF-23mm lens.

[kizaba]

KIZABA

WWW.KIZABA.CA

[musikblog]

https://www.musikblog.de/2024/08/highfield-festival-2024/ Das Epizentrum der Festivalszene befindet sich Mitte August unweit von Leipzig. Das Highfield lockte am vergangenen Wochenende wieder rund 30.000 Besucher*innen an den Störmthaler See, von denen viele den Vorteil der Location nutzten, um dem überwiegend schattenlosen Campinggelände zu entfliehen und sich bei tropischen Temperaturen am und im Wasser auf drei tolle Tage einzustimmen. Die […]