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Terrence Malick: From essence to experience

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I remember that moment i've heard about the Knight of Cup's project, a notice put in title: Released new poster and synopsis of Terrence Malick's film. Excited, mainly because i had liked "To The Wonder", I opened the link. The film poster looked to be provoking and the synopsis were summarized to a line: "A lost man in a world of fame". This is a genuinely Malick's mote in all the senses, because in these everyday journeys lives the frontier wich so remains in his films. The fury of a mother against God's evil, the fear of killing bigger than be killed, the anguish of a strange culture, the limits of a obsessive passion. The scale of this dramas is reduced by a essence that was always evocated by the thougts, and this is in all your movies since the Sissy Spacek's premiere in 1973. From there, however, the "empty" was never a conflit that suports itself just to exists. Malick uses this gaps to move forward the thinking process, li

Art Pop: Lady Gaga, Hermeto Pascoal and Sócrates

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The brazilian multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal has a pretty quote in Francis Vale's documentary "Hermeto and Quarteto" (to be released this year), about a travel he makes to USA, when he doesn't undestanding the language: "The music haven't language, the music is the feeling". In another moment, he says: "The music is like the wind, like the stars, like the sky, like the mountains, It's nobody. Mainly the air we breath" The testimony is about the 50º aniversary of the unique Quarteto Novo's álbum, released in 1967 by one instrumentalist group formed, beyond Hermeto, by Theo de Barros, Heraldo do Monte and Airto Moreira. Without one word, eight musics acess almost mathematically (notes and arrangements) the imagination of consumer of a musical style wich can say more about himself than the lyric style. It's more or less this understanding of music's term than explains the bold concept of "ARTPOP", the fourth s