Saturday morning hear electronic music from Jon Jenkin's "Flow"; Markus Reuter's "Trepanation"; David Helping's "Sleeping On the Edge of the World"; Kaya Project's "Elixir"; Rudy Adrian's "Moonwater"; Dean De Benedictis' "Salvaging the Past"; Between Interval's "Radio Silence" and Lena, with a song from "Extended Gestures For Cello".

"Letting go,

I can see the sadness what once was me.

And all this time I have known that

the river,

this river

would carry me home." ~ Jon Jenkins "Flow"

The Fairfield Film Festival "is a 5 months long series of events, mainly of the screenings of documentary movies at the Sondheim Center." It opens this Friday night with Burzynski: The Movie directed by Eric Merola. Burzynski "is the compelling story of  pioneering medical doctor and PhD biochemist Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, who has discovered the genetic mechanism to cure most human cancers. This timely, eye-opening documentary takes the audience through the treacherous, yet victorious, 14-year journey that both Dr. Burzynski and his patients have had to endure in order to obtain FDA-approved clinical trials of Antineoplastons."  Eric Merola and Fairfield Film Festival Director Anya Petrova will join us in the studio to talk about Burzynski  and the film festival. [Click on "Read More" below to continue...]

Filmosopher's co-host Chris Busch is in New York, so we're posting a Filmosopher's show blog celebration. Burt Chojnowski, "Fairfield First! Buzz" icon, documentary filmmaker and cultural-district innovator will once again co-host the show. We'll have esteemed Fairfield Public Library Director Rebecca Huggins in the studio to talk about their 2ND FRIDAY FREE FILM: The Wind Journeys. (click on Read More below to continue)

Toy Story 3 opens Friday and the buzz (Lightyear) about it is phenomenal. It's a film about plastic toys and yet, as Claudia Puig wrote in USA Today "any sentient being will surely shed (tears) by the film's heartfelt conclusion." By most accounts it is the best of the Toy Story franchise and one of the best films of the summer so far. How Pixar continues to create animated films with such emotional depth is extraordinary. We'll talk about this gem on The Filmosophers.

Also opening Friday, Jonah Hex, the post-civil war western from DC Comics. From a filmosophical point of view it's the yin to T.S. 3's yang. We were hoping Jonah Hex would be fun, but the consensus on RottenTomatoes.com is "Josh Brolin gives it his best shot, but he can't keep the short, unfocused Jonah Hex from collapsing on the screen." [Click on "Read more" to continue.]

A new mix from Pirate Satellite, greatly inspired by Canadian Peter Beamish, who went in to a movie theatre in 1999- the last year of the Last century- to see The Matrix. "I stepped outside the theatre after seeing The Matrix and the world was somehow slighted tilted. It never did straighten-out for me again." What does that mean? "It means buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy, because Kansas is goin' bye-bye." -Cypher

We'll hear music from the compilation albums Artificial Intelligence 2; Dance: Dream: Dance; and From Here To Tranquility, Ambient Compilation Volume 3.

Hear "Perfect" music from Depeche Mode; Kid Loco's Once Upon a Time In The East remix of Talvin Singh's ambient classic Traveller and music from the films Ink and The Damned United. [Click "READ MORE" below to continue.]

There are two major films released this weekend, the videogame adaptation Prince Of Persia for the boys and the sequel Sex And The City 2 for the girls. Early reviews indicate Prince is a "suitably entertaining swashbuckler -- and a substantial improvement over most video game adaptations." Unfortunately Sex is not the treat  fans are hoping for, it's not even the best "chick flick" currently showing in theaters. We'll tell you about not one, but two other films that we recommend instead. 

We saw two small international films on DVD we're happy tell you about. From Japan Floating Weeds, made in 1959, from Iran, the award winning Song Of Sparrows.[Click "READ MORE" below to continue.]

Saturday we're featuring the latest Depeche Mode album Sounds Of The Universe. "Recorded in Santa Barbara and New York, Depeche Mode returned to using a lot of vintage gear, from analogue synthesizers to drum machines, in order to conjure up the retro-futuristic arrangements featured on the album. Sounds Of The Universe bleeps and thumps and hisses with a seemingly primitive array of manufactured noises in a way that only fans of, say, Orbital, Autechre, or Kraftwerk can really appreciate."

Also hear music from Interval's latest album The Edge Of A Fairytale; music by A.R. Rahman & BlaaZe from the Oscar winning Slumdog Millionaire. [Click "READ MORE" below to continue.]

Shrek Forever After opens Friday, Robin Hood last Friday and Iron Man 2 the week before. Three "tentpole" films in a row means one thing- it's the summer blockbuster movie season! We'll talk about that and alert you to other new releases, including the well reviewed MacGruber: "Will Forte brings Saturday Night Live's clueless soldier of fortune to the big screen, a gleefully silly action parody that doesn't run out of steam before it's over." [Click "READ MORE" below to continue.]

Musician Mark Torgeson and his wife Carol Fitzpatrick are in Fairfield with Living The Miracle, a Global Alliance for New Paradigm Leadership. Living The Miracle is "a fast-growing, emerging social enterprise with a mission to serve as the turning point in human consciousness evolution." They’re hosting events in Fairfield this weekend "designed to open the heart, strengthen the inner voice, and envision how we want to live." I listened to Mark play the piano and synthesizer this evening (Friday) and was inspired to invite he (and Carol, if she can make it) on the show Saturday morning. We'll play some music from Mark’s CDs, talk about their mission, the Global Alliance goals and their events  in Fairfield this weekend.
“The music of Mark Torgeson has found its way cross-country and internationally. His first two albums, Between Mountains and Stars and Sundance In Moonlight, gained critical acclaim and were listed on Top Twenty playlists of Adult Contemporary, New Age and Acoustic Instrumental radio stations.” (click on "Read More" below)

Last January a friend sent me a video on youtube titled "2010 Predictions From Beyond". I loved it- the message from the Sedona Journal Of Emergence, the intriguing production and resonant music by One Eskimo. I was inspired to check out the producer's website, aura.ca and discovered Peter Beamish. Turns out he produced the 2 DVD set video I almost checked out from the Fairfield Library: Introducing Abraham; the Secret Behind "The Secret"?

Peter was going along very successfully in broadcast and corporate television for two decades, but felt the longing for a deeper experience of Life many of us understand. The rabbit hole to his spiritual highway was ignited by the Redpill, the film The Matrix. "I stepped outside the theatre after seeing The Matrix and the world was somehow slightly tilted. It never did straighten out for me again." [click "Read more", below]