"Things We Lost In The Fire" (Susanne Bier)

For some reason I don't really want to like Danish director Susanne Bier. I think it's still the mass appeal of "Den Eneste Ene", that causes me to categorise her with all the other uninteresting Danish Directors. But I liked "Brødre" I must admit, and I certainly like her new film "Things We Lost In the Fire". This is her first film in Hollywood, but she pulled it of nicely. The story is an emotional one, but it never goes over the top. Benicio del Toro (whom I loved ever since he played a fat drug-using Samoan Attorney) gives an amazing performance, and Halle manages her end very nicely as well. I also like the cutting of the film, which is not chronological. So if you like dramas and great acting, I highly recommend this.

Explosions In the Sky "All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone (Remixes)"

The post-rock genre can get quite stale and repetitive (pun intended), and maybe it has served it's purpose already. It's easy to hear the influence of post-rock on other genres, especially it's powerfull crescendos and climaxes are widely used. I was a bit dissapointed with Explosions in the Sky's latest album All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone, not that they had changed the style, rather they hadn't changed it enough. But then I heard the remix album, and was blown away. It starts of fantastic, with my new favorite song The Birth and Death Of the Day, remixed by my much beloved Jesú, and continues to on with great remixes by other artists I really love: Four Tet, The Paper Chase, Eluvium and more. It's still all instrumental, but very far from the original album. It's how it should have sounded in the first place, and breath of fresh air for the genre.