April Movies and Music

 

As an Erik Satie fan I was thrilled to learn about this album last week on BBC Radio 3. I have had it on repeat ever since. My introduction to Satie was through film. I heard his music the first time as a small boy when I saw the movie Being There with Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine. It would not be until I was an adult that I find out who composed the music that I could not forget.

Movies & documentaries that I have watched in the last month:

Drifter (set in Berlin and loved it)

Downtown 81 (that period of New York fascinates me. Dreamy and gritty.)

The Killing Of A Sacred Deer (there isn't a Yorgos Lanthimos film that I haven't liked)

Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak (loved Where The Wild Things Are as a child and Sendak does not disappoint as a documentary subject.)

The Man Who Skied Down Everest (stunning visuals in this documentary. I'll never be convinced that the seventies weren't the best decade of film.)