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11′-09″-01

Following what's now uniformly referred to as "the events of 9/11", producer Alain Brigand invited 11 respected directors to each make a reactive film lasting eleven minutes, nine seconds and one frame. Among the diverse responses, the most intriguing come from Ken Loach, Claude Lelouch, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Sean Penn.

Fluke – Puppy

Strong return for the veteran techno-poppers, now slimmed down to a duo

Jason Mraz – Waiting For My Rocket To Come

American singer-songwriter's debut underwhelms

Paul The Girl – Electro-Magnetic Blues

Left-field art rock dance lives on

Mommy And Daddy – Live How You Listen

NYC duo possibly too fashionable for their own good

Debut by Bowery punk revivalists

Quicksilver Messenger Service – Classic Masters

They headlined the first "Human Be-In" at Golden Gate Park, played Monterey and fired rifles at The Grateful Dead

The Fall

Mark E Smith compilation overload continues

Vendredi Soir

Haunting brief encounter in Paris

Silver Dream Racer

David Essex and his cheeky grin may have starred in two of the '70s' great British rock'n'roll fantasy movies, That'll Be The Day and Stardust, but he came a cropper in this 1980 motorbiking mess. Champion racers macho it out—it's clichéd, lazy and sexist. Then again, how many movies star Essex, Beau Bridges and Harry H Corbett?
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