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From our bookshelves, iPods and laptops to your Thursday morning breakfast table, here are our recommendations for the best of recent culture. Click on, check out and press play on these favorites - because there is a world outside "the bubble."
Temporada de Patos
(Mexico, 2004)
This quirky film was a major success in its native Mexico, winning the grand jury prize at AFI Fest as well as garnering a nomination for best foreign film at the Independent Spirit Awards. Set in Mexico City and filmed in black-and-white, this low-budget comedy follows two bored kids left without any parental supervision for a day. Once their neighbor and a pizza deliveryman turn up, the seemingly lighthearted movie takes on a darker tone, highlighting issues of divorce, childhood and loneliness.
- Grace Duggan
X-Ray Photographer Nick Veasey
British photographer Nick Veasey has been exploring relatively unchartered photographic territory over the past decade. His elegant x-rays reveal intricate, unseen detail in the everyday, and subtly criticize our concern with the superficial surfaces of things. He has recently garnered attention for his massive x-ray of a Boeing 777 in a warehouse. He took 500 separate x-rays to produce one final, modest product.
- Andrew Throdahl
"Knives Don't Have Your Back"
Emily Haines
Last Gang Records (2007)
Released from the albeit delicious yet torrential techno-beats of New York darlings Metric, Emily Haines' pure vocals quiver and quake over her impressive piano skills on her first solo release. From the gothic "Doctor Blind" to the fairytale "Reading in Bed" to the modernist "Our Hell," the album is a storybook of low-key perfection. Simple, mellow and staggeringly beautiful, "Knives Don't Have Your Back" proves that Ms. Haines can make us shiver as well as shimmy.
- Melissa Marshall
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