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Sunday, October 12, 2008
Thanks to the handsome Patrick Lacharite, the store is now equipped with an awfully high-end sound system (which means better sound for our events, amongst oh so many things) and... the most beautiful record player ever. It has sensors instead of buttons, need I say more? Yeah, didn't think so.
Among the records we will play for youguises, our favorites (for now) have to be Genesis' Invisible Touch...
 ... and the Hooliganship Realer, which we bought from the gorgeous duo when they stopped by Montreal to give an earth shattering performance for Pop Montreal on the 5th at Sport Benefica.
 We have more up our sleeves: Ennio Morricone, the Doors, Roxy Music, Leonard Cohen, Dire Straits, etc. So next time you come to the store, brace yourselves for some hot tunes!
Posted by Julien at 1:13 PM
     Keeping on the cinema theme, I bring you: "Instant Light-Tarkovsky Polaroids" Sixty colour plates taken by Tarkovsky between 1979-1984 in Russia and Italy. The pictures are very beautiful, mostly country sides with his son, his wife and dog appearing regularly. The Polaroids alone look like something you might find in your grandmothers photo album (albeit, if it were my grandmother it would be the German countryside or West coast Vancouver Island)it is together they form a constant mystery and depth comparable to his films. Thames & Hudson, printed in Italy
Posted by Rory at 11:48 AM
As if our excellent selection of graphic novels, art books, posters, novels, hand-made books wasn't enough we've added select titles from the Criterion collection. Have you always wanted to own and view again and again the Quebecois film Mon Oncle Antoine? Here's your chance. Criterion has just released a deluxe treatment of Claude Jutra's 1971 classic. Often cited as Canada's greatest film this coming of age tale focuses on a young boy in rural 1940s Quebec. This expanded DVD contains numerous interviews, an experimental short, and a recent documentary about this beautiful film.
This is what it'll look like here in a couple of weeks!
If there is a film more deeply engrained in my brain than Albert Lamorisse's Red Balloon, I can't think of it. To me this is the quintessential elementary school classroom film, watching it now I can practically here the rattling of the projector behind me. Criterion has done their usual stellar job on this DVD short.
Okay, I'm going to borrow copy from the Criterion website on this next one because I haven't seen it yet: With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer's brilliance at achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery (The Passion of Joan of Arc and Day of Wrath) was for once applied to the horror genre. Yet the result--concerning an occult student assailed by various supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside Paris--is nearly unclassifiable, a host of stunning camera and editing tricks and densely layered sounds creating a mood of dreamlike terror. With its roiling fogs, ominous scythes, and foreboding echoes, Vampyr is one of cinema's great nightmares.
Posted by Tom Devlin at 11:44 AM
 I'm going to out on a limb and say that most of us haven't read enough Phillip Roth. Oh, maybe, you read Portnoy's Complaint years ago but then moved onto other authors and kept thinking "I need to read more Roth." The man's a national (um, U.S.) treasure. Well, here's the perfect place to jumpstart your new Roth fixation. Indigination is short, brutal, and funny--just like life! (I don't remember the exact phrase.)
Posted by Tom Devlin at 9:00 AM
Saturday, October 11, 2008
We've actually been waiting on this one for a little while. The new Art Spiegelman collection is out featuring much of his pre-Maus formalism as well as some more recent material. Are there that many must have comics in the world? Well, yeah, but this is easily one of the 5 you need to buy this year (after you buy all of the ones we publish.)
Posted by Tom Devlin at 10:21 AM
Friday, October 10, 2008
Do you want me to tell you when there's a new issue of the Believer on the stands? I would imagine you would because I imagine you as an intelligent and interested reader of things that require reading! Just in yesterday.
Posted by Tom Devlin at 12:46 PM
Thursday, October 9, 2008
....here's a further explanation as to why you need to get yourself to the Librairie early on the evening of the 15th to make sure you get to see Shary Boyle's much-anticipated talk!
Posted by Kit Malo at 1:22 PM
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