1. George Washington (Dir: David Gordon Green, 2000) “They used to get around, walkin’ around, lookin’ at stuff. They used to try to find clues to all the mysteries and mistakes God had made. My friend George said that he was gonna live to be 100 years old. He said - He said that he was going to be the president of the United States. I wanted to see him lead a parade and wave a flag on the Fourth of July. He just wanted greatness. The grown-ups in my town, they were never kids like me and my friends. They had worked in wars and build machines. It was hard for them to find their peace. Don’t you know how that feels? I like to go to beautiful places where there’s waterfalls and empty fields. Just places that are nice and calm and quiet.” http://www.criterion.com/films/691

2. Destroyer, Bay of Pigs EP (2009) “Nearly five minutes of ambient bleed makes up the first movement, Bejar’s off-kilter delivery the only object in the fog with definite outlines. When the full band finally kicks in a few minutes later, it’s more of a “band,” with an improbably shimmery guitar and clockwork rhythm section making it all resemble a karaoke-room soundtrack. But it’s an arrangement full enough of Easter eggs to keep up with Bejar’s usual densely-packed lyrics, with only the quiet coda at the end feeling superfluous. Perhaps it’s a necessary soft landing after a long, rewarding expedition that delivers a five-year payoff.” (Source)

3. Claudie De Sepra Soares, Rape Of The Sabine Women, 2005 “The Rape Of The Sabine Women was conceived as allegory based loosely on the ancient myth that follows Romulus’ founding of Rome. Re-envisioning the myth as a 1960’s period piece with the Romans cast as G-men, the Sabines as butchers’ daughters, and the heyday of Rome allegorically implied in an affluent international style summer house, this version is a riff on the original story of abduction and intervention, in which Romulus devises a plan to ensure the future of the empire. While the Roman myth traces the birth of a society, this telling suggests the destruction of a utopia. The intervention of the women is fraught, and the chaos that ensues transforms the designed perfection into nothingness.” (Source)