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Of course, not everyone is Bumbershooting this Labor Day weekend. But that doesn't mean you can't enjoy a personal music festival. Abbey from The Sound on the Sound emailed me about the Doe Bay Sessions, and I would be greedy indeed to keep the news from you. Every Tuesday, from now through October, they're posting a new live session from bands like The Head and the Heart, Hey Marseilles, Ravenna Woods, Drew Grow and the Pastors' Wives, and Fences.

It's a new project from SOTS, which begins with music videos of The Maldives somewhere in the woods, filmed during this year's Doe Bay Fest. The initial idea was to invite a few bands to the SOTS yurt for a Vincent-Moon-style "takeaway" shoot...but these things have a way of getting away from you, and now:

Over the next 10 weeks we will be releasing videos featuring a candlelit session from Fences, The Head and the Heart (and the Doe Bay All-Stars) singing down the sun, Ravenna Woods using trees for percussion, a mid-trail serenade from Drew Grow and the Pastors’ Wives, The Maldives on a mossy knoll, picnic table perching with Hey Marseilles and many more.... (more)

"Their Love Was a Flame That Destroyed!" was a tagline for The Postman Always Rings Twice. Remade  in '81 with Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange, it was the 1946 original with Lana Turner and John Garfield that set the standard for erotic thrillers to come.

The YouTube trailer, above (compare with the original trailer), updates the opening credits so you aren't fooled into thinking all classic black-and-white films feature wholesome glimpses of sleepy small towns. Some are about plotting to kill your husband.

Tomorrow, Sunday, February 21, SIFF presents Postman (1:30 p.m., 6 p.m.) in a double feature with John Garfield's last film, 1951's He Ran All the Way  (4 p.m., 8:30 p.m.). There's a small-time hood, a cop shooting, a manhunt, and Shelley Winters. The Guardian says, "It's a doom-laden movie, wonderfully lit by cinematographer James Wong Howe." Here's a clip.