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The Kidnapping of Arabella is an offbeat Italian dramedy from writer-director Carolina Cavalli, following Holly, a directionless young woman who meets a rebellious girl running away from home and becomes convinced that she is actually her younger self, sent back as a cosmic second chance.

The film stars Benedetta Porcaroli, Lucrezia Guglielmino, and Chris Pine as Arabella’s self-absorbed novelist father, in Pine’s first Italian-language role. Porcaroli won Best Actress in the Orizzonti section at Venice for her performance.

Official trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lr3d-4YiM4

Full disclosure: I’m a co-founder of The Lone Screen, an online screening platform. We’re hosting a one-night-only online screening of the film on Thursday, August 20 at 9:00 p.m. ET / 8:00 p.m. CT / 6:00 p.m. PT. Writer-director Carolina Cavalli will also be joining the live chat after the film.

Screening details: https://www.thelonescreen.com/screenings

Would love to hear what people think of the trailer and of Pine’s Italian.

Soulful, mystic and creepy please please please

I really like the style of singing on this track. What other songs are like this?

Started listening to artists like Mac deMarco, Santana, Nujabes, Casiopea, Cocteau Twins, Eagles, Home, Jamiroquai and many more. If you know any songs that are similar to one of these artists please write them down :), or any songs that awaken nostalgia and happiness in you. It can be instrumentals or even a different genre that the artists i have mentioned(rock, metal, …), i love to experiment with music.

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I'll also take VNs, comics, webcomics, or other things along those lines

Some series I've liked:

Fire Punch, Revolutionary Girl Utena, The Summer Hikaru Died, Inside Mari, Welcome Back Alice, Gnosia, Sanda, Immortal Days, Make the Exorcist Fall in Love, Alien Stage, Shimeji Simulation, Sarazanmai, Flip Flappers, Yuri Kuma Arashi, Banana Fish, Otherside Picnic, Madoka Magica

I prefer stuff where romance isn't really the central focus or at least things which have more going on plotwise on the side

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I like how the album is soaked in melancholy, and the orchestral + piano heavy vibes, with electronic influences and modern production. Specifically looking at songs like Glass Eyes, True Love Waits, Daydreaming, Decks Dark. All these songs have beautiful arrangements but they still have strong song structures and melodic hooks. I’m looking for similar music (leaning towards piano + strings, with glitchy electronic effects). One of the closest songs I could find was Seigfried by Frank Ocean

[IIL] Car Seat Headrest, Pavement, Mogwai, Ezra Furman... among others. More recently, Rounds by Four Tet (dunno if it qualifies as catchy but I really love it), The Twisted Teens albums, Greg Mendez.

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Does anyone have any good band recs that are similar to the atmosphere and composition to Opeths early sound? Specifically, Orchid. I love the first three albums.

Nectar, in the mist she was standing, April ethereal, when, forest of October, black rose immortal - are all so perfect, and I’d really enjoy finding a similar essence in a different band. I’ve exhausted these albums, and am looking for something new.

Basically just looking for more really uplifting and fun ‘70s-80s rock songs.

TV - The tuttle cult in True Detective. This strange, evil practice going back decades, an amalgam of Southern US lifestyle, "Mardis Gras" european traditions brought over from settlement, and alien, occultist extra-dimensional philosophy. Practiced by sick and twist minds who would do anything to validate their monstrous, murderous, pedophilic instincts. Yet, through the subtle magical realism throughout the show experienced by Rustin Cohle, even with the knowledge of his mental problems, there's still an unnerving feeling that there's some dreadful truth to it.

Music - First Utterance by Comus. Something about the way this record provokes a sense of something primeval and unknowable, something lurking in the dark forests of pre-historic pagan england. Something written in the morbid rules of nature, only known to a long dead people from a time forgotten to us, yet some sinister aspect of it feels like it still lurks in the darkest corners of existence and mind. The taboo, the evil, the untouchable, the ever-present.

Real life - Strange cultural anomalies with indigenous roots like Kakadu in Australia, or weird rural cults with limited info about them like the twelve tribes or the water people.

History - The religious practices of the Proto-Indo-Europeans, niche levantine gods like Qos and their presence in the development of Christian and Jewish scripture / religion, and the Sea Peoples during the bronze age collapse.

The last isn't a great example of this, but something about the fact that this obscure and mostly unknown culture or cultures could have as much as an impact they seemingly did on lasting civilizations, and appear as such an existential threat in their surviving records as they did, intrigues me in the same way the other examples do. Ancient, anomalous and fear-provoking. Something hiding in the dark reaches of my nightmares. Something suggestive of the worst parts of the human psyche.

Looking for music that invokes the same kind of nostalgia as CFCF’s Memoryland and George Clanton’s Ooh Rap I Ya and Slide. Albums or songs that’s primary focus is on recreating that nostalgic and dreamy feeling of the 90s/2000s.

I’m looking for songs similar to “Woozy” by Cider, Jon Hopkins Remix.

I really like how calm and understated it is - the softly spoken vocals, gentle piano, warm electronic production and the way it slowly builds but without ever becoming too intense.
Basically looking for that peaceful, slightly dreamy/ambient electronic sound with piano and soft vocals. Something that feels nice rather than sad or overly dramatic.
Any recommendations?

These are bands that came after the 80's but they have a 70's or 80's vibe.