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John Goodman
Oshima
Turner Classic Movies channel (TCM) broadcasts two films by Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Oshima back to back on Saturday, June 10, beginning with Cruel Story of Youth (1960) at 11 p.m. followed by Boy (1969) at 1 a.m. Influenced by Western pop culture, but pushing everything conceptually off the scale, Oshima’s Cruel Story of Youth has been compared to Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause and Jean-Luc Godard’s early nouvelle vague masterpieces like À bout de souffle, Bande à part and Pierrot le fou. As Godard was doing his thing in Paris, Oshima was picking up the vibe and running it through his own viewfinder in Tokyo. Derek Malcolm of The Guardian chose Boy as one of his top 100 films of all time. Oshima shot the work throughout Japan on a low budget with a 15-person crew (tcm.com).Supplied

NAGISA OSHIMA
Trailer for Boy: bit.ly/2qZOwyO.

LIL INDIA
Soundcloud: bit.ly/2rZUCTf.

SARAH DAVACHI
New album from electronic musician – All My Circles Run: bit.ly/2s04V9U.

THE UNTHANKS
Diversions Vol. 4 – Songs and Poems of Molly Drake: bit.ly/2ra0dSH.

SARAH SHOOK & THE DISARMERS
“Heal Me” from new album, Sidelong: bit.ly/2r07Vj3.

TIFT MERRITT 
“Heartache is an Uphill Climb” from new album, Stitch of the World. Playing Vancouver folk fest July 14-16. Early bird deadline for tickets ends today (thefestival.bc.ca/ticket-information): bit.ly/2r9Sd4s.

DION & THE BELMONTS
Dion - Kickin' Child: Lost Columbia Album 1965 just released: bit.ly/2s7XhLE. “I Wonder Why” (1958): bit.ly/2r65csL.

THE NATIONAL
New track “The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness.” Play Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Dec. 1 and 2: bit.ly/2pmDnLX.

ARCADE FIRE
New track, “Everything Now”: bit.ly/2rpyTBZ.

LOS TRES GARCIA
1947 film teaser. Seventh Mariachi Festival at the Vogue, June 17: bit.ly/2sHeVTj.