Olivier Dahan, director of La Vie En Rose—the Oscar-winning flick based on the life of Edith Piaf—looks very “French movie director,” so it was fitting that he be seated at the head of the table at a cocktail hour for French films at the Tribeca Film festival on Friday evening. (The L-shaped table was mere Read More
Jane Birkin stands on the cover of Serge Gainsbourg’s 1971 album, Histoire De Melody Nelson, naked to the waist, covering herself strategically with a doll, her hair cropped short just below her ears. This is the same Jane Birkin that, two years earlier, had faked—or possibly had—an orgasm at the end of “Je T’aime … Read More
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The Raveonettes, Chain Gang of Love (Columbia), the big-label debut from Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo, the Danish duo whose last album, Whip It On , was a cathartic retro blast of fuzzy guitars, driving drumbeats and machine noise. This time around, the Raveonettes sweeten their sonic assault: Chain Gang is more melodic, Read More
