Life During Wartime (Criterion Collection)In LIFE DURING WARTIME, independent filmmaker Todd Solondz (WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE) explores contemporary American existence and the nature of forgiveness with his customary dry humor and queasy precision. The film functions as a distorted mirror image of Solondzs acclaimed 1998 dark comedy HAPPINESS, it's emotionally stunted characters now groping for the possibility of change in a post 9 11 world. HAPPINESS's grim New Jersey setting is transposed

The viola d'amore has six or seven strings and the same number of resonance strings placed under the bridge

Following in the footsteps of Francis Ford Coppola and Peter Bogdanovich

Nightmare at Noon is a non-stop adrenaline pumping thrill ride

Ab Heute Heit Du Sara from Today on Your Name Is

marks the band's first endeavor as a quartet with all members' artistry permeating it's newer yet mature incarnation

These musical "games" were not only notes

as an homage to Sunny

that same year he released his career-defining masterpiece World of Echo

Their garage teen rockabilly is reminiscent of early Johnny Powers

a nobleman on a grand tour in 1787

hoping to move them

" There is an aesthetic sensibility that persists throughout the album