Apocalypse Now

The year was 1970, Coppola decade. Participated in the successive masterful films as a screenwriter Patton, American Graffiti, producer, director of the first two Godfather movies and talking, and finally, in 1979, as the author of Apocalypse Now. Burned our time, and now we see that the Apocalypse is now not only the best movie to come out of the Vietnam experience, but one of the great works of the madness of our time. Immediate early morning preview screening of "Apocalypse Now" and then a press conference in Cannes, where it began, saying: "My film is not about Vietnam, Vietnam, " and added that, while filming "Little by little we went insane. " What was brave and prophetic.

Coppola took Heart of Darkness, mysterious story of Joseph Conrad's the atrocities of colonialism, and turned it into the 20 century story about neo-colonialism, where the story perfectly sober narrator, Marlow, Captain Willard is the killer of special services, so crazy when he is assigned to quarry, Colonel Kurtz. The difference is that unlike everyone around him, from the top brass, Willard knows that's crazy.

Everything about the Taliban, al-Qaeda, the pressure to take us to Afghanistan and Iraq, Abbottabad and deadly attack on the problems facing us are the way of Willard. This is a brilliant falter a bit towards the end, but not fatal. This newly released version is more or less the one shown in Cannes and final. A half hour of material has been introduced 10 years ago, Apocalypse Now Redux "there is no value, reducing the film, and should be avoided.

Death Cab for Cutie

The last time Death Cab for Cutie played in Bend, in the opinion of the 2008 album "Narrow stairs" poured in, hailing as a sharp, dark and experimental. Except for the album was not really such a thing. The song was one of a long, ominous intro, and had some tough lyrical parts, but the most "narrow stairs" sounded like Death Cab.

Three years later, the Seattle-based pop-rock quartet return to the city (see "If you go"), again riding the wave of a new version, Death Cab seventh full-length "codes and keys," is from Tuesday. "If you told me that ... it just sounds like a Death Cab record," drummer Jason McGerr said in a telephone interview last week: "I might say that listening to a bad stereo."

The band is still essential components: the singing guitarist Ben Gibbard and Chris Walla, a reliable rhythm section McGerr and bassist Nick Harmer, Gibbard and the earworm melodies and plenty of heartbreak / love lyrics. This is the formula that propelled the quartet to the rise in the late '90s indie-pop upstarts play amphitheaters, and embeds the "Twilight" soundtrack.

Boston Bruins

Nathan Horton of the Boston Bruins in four games away from ending the longest title drought in the city. The epic Game 7 that no sanctions recommended for the first time in the playoff race at least two decades - 52 minutes without a goal - Horton was determined to make a cross-ice finish to David Krejci in the final minute of the third period. '1 -0 to the Bruins victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning for the Bruins to the Stanley Cup finals against the Vancouver Canucks. This is the first final of Boston by 21 years.

The Bruins have not won a title since 1972, barely 86 years of drought, the Red Sox are separated by the 2004 championship. Still, Friday night the hero recognizes that he heard a few mentions of the untitled series, which is older than any player in the locker room, except for the Bruins, Mark Recchi. "This is hockey country," said Horton. "Everybody wants to win it. We're trying. trying to do for ourselves and the fans do. feeling the pressure throughout the year."

The Bruins were the better team from the start, as the goalie Dwayne Roloson sent 15 shots in the first period - the first scoreless period in the series. He dropped shots came from almost all parts of the ice, including a leading group when he was the right path to turn away from Milan Lucic. Roloson faced 38 shots in total, as the Lightning were outshot in the first series.