2011-05-15 20:15:04 2011-05-15 00:00:00 Abacus, HK$153
★★1/2 ]]> 2011-05-15 00:00:00 2011-05-15 00:00:00 Sub Pop
★★★1/2 In interviews since Fleet Foxes began work on Helplessness Blues, Robin Pecknold made it clear he wanted to move away from its pop sensibilities and towards murkier folk territory. He name-dropped seminal stuff such as Roy Harper's Stormcock as inspiration. Those hoping for that sort of proggy departure will be disappointed; they'll also be missing the point. ]]> 2011-05-15 00:00:00 2011-05-15 00:00:00 Animal Kingdom, there's one that truly stands out. It's not the unexpected - but entirely deserved - best supporting actress Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for star Jacki Weaver. Or the World Cinema Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Or even the staggering nine Australian Film Institute awards. ]]> 2011-05-15 00:00:00 2011-05-15 00:00:00 2011-05-15 00:00:00 2011-05-15 00:00:00 Wayfaring Stranger - Emmylou Harris My playlist is never without Emmylou. A little bit of country, a little bit of rock 'n'  roll and a whole lot of soulfulness; she defies conventions without posturing as rebellious. ]]> 2011-05-15 00:00:00 2011-05-15 00:00:00 4th Estate, HK$117
★★★1/2 ]]> 2011-05-15 00:00:00 Ryan Giggs: My Life, My Story
by Ryan Giggs
Headline
HK$216
★★★★
Simon Hattenstone ]]> 2011-05-15 00:00:00 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. ]]> 2011-05-15 00:00:00 The Beaver would be about potential Oscar nominations for star Mel Gibson and supporting actors Jennifer Lawrence and Anton Yelchin. There also would be plenty of buzz for Foster herself. But there's been nothing normal about The Beaver. ]]> 2011-05-15 00:00:00 The Forgotten Waltz
by Anne Enright
Jonathan Cape
HK$229
★★★★ ]]> 2011-05-15 00:00:00 Hot Sauce Committee
Part Twp
Capitol
★★★★1/2 Twenty-four years after their debut, the Beastie Boys are now middle aged - and they know it. "Grandpa been rapping since '83," they bark at one point on their eighth album Hot Sauce Committee, Part Two. ]]> 2011-05-15 00:00:00 The Troubled Man
by Henning Mankell
translated by Laurie Thompson
Harvill Secker, HK$234
★★1/2 ]]> 2011-05-15 00:00:00 I Put a Spell on You
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Okeh/Epic ]]> 2011-05-15 00:00:00 Hiam Abbass,
Alexander Siddig
Director: Julian Schnabel
★★ Just like his previous, much-acclaimed film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Julian Schnabel's new film is also an adaptation. But that's where the similarities end: unlike that wonderful 2007 film, Miral is a disjointed enterprise, with the director seemingly unable to decide how to handle an epic story which spans four decades in a Palestine wrought by war, suppression and internal schisms. ]]> 2011-05-15 00:00:00 2011-05-15 00:00:00 The World is Yours (But Also Ours) series features Chinese teenagers wearing T-shirts emblazoned with English-language statements such as "What Makes You So Special?"; Maoist slogans from the Cultural Revolution have been added to the bottom of the photographs. Horizons, a series from 2004, features portraits of young girls from peasant areas facing a camera for the first time - a picture of the "other" China that has had little interaction with the outside world. ]]> 2011-05-15 00:00:00 The Grandmasters in time for this year's Cannes Film Festival. Yet he remains omnipresent on the Croisette: a still of his 1988 film As Tears Go By is plastered all over town as the key art of this year's Critics' Week sidebar programme, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. ]]>