So it turns out the key to happiness is Zoloft and a gorgeous women 20 years your senior. At least that’s the message in Stefan Sagmeister and Ben Nabors‘ The Happy Film, a quest to, among other things, approach happiness as a design problem. This wouldn’t include designing objects that, in everyday practice, make one happy or expand upon one’s happiness. Largely, the design proposed by Sagmeister is the expression of happiness — which occasionally involves bouncing around the word “happiness,” formed in gelatin and capturing this in slow motion.
While an opening inter-title warns that The Happy Film will not make you happy, it should also come with a warning that what’s to come is a self-indulgent bore as Sagmeister challenges himself to discover happiness through meditation, counseling, and (legal) drugs. Based in New York City, Sagmeiser is best known for his innovative album covers for The Rolling Stones,...
While an opening inter-title warns that The Happy Film will not make you happy, it should also come with a warning that what’s to come is a self-indulgent bore as Sagmeister challenges himself to discover happiness through meditation, counseling, and (legal) drugs. Based in New York City, Sagmeiser is best known for his innovative album covers for The Rolling Stones,...
- 4/18/2016
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Top brass at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival presented by At&T have announced selections in the Us Narrative, International Narrative and Documentary Competition strands.
The films comprise 55 out of 110 features that will play during the 15th edition of the New York festival from April 13-24. The festival will present features films in the Spotlight, Midnight, and Special Sections on March 8.
Also included in Wednesday’s announcement are the out-of-competition Viewpoints titles.
The world premiere of Bill Ross and Turner Ross’ Contemporary Color will open the World Documentary competition on April 14, while the world premiere of Kicks by Justin Tipping will open the Us Narrative competition.
The world premiere of Madly directed by Gael García Bernal, Mia Wasikowska, Sebastian Silva, Anurag Kashyap, Sion Sono, and Natasha Khan will open the International Narrative Competition. Viewpoints will open with the world premiere of Nerdland directed by Chris Prynoski.
One third of the festival’s feature films are directed by women...
The films comprise 55 out of 110 features that will play during the 15th edition of the New York festival from April 13-24. The festival will present features films in the Spotlight, Midnight, and Special Sections on March 8.
Also included in Wednesday’s announcement are the out-of-competition Viewpoints titles.
The world premiere of Bill Ross and Turner Ross’ Contemporary Color will open the World Documentary competition on April 14, while the world premiere of Kicks by Justin Tipping will open the Us Narrative competition.
The world premiere of Madly directed by Gael García Bernal, Mia Wasikowska, Sebastian Silva, Anurag Kashyap, Sion Sono, and Natasha Khan will open the International Narrative Competition. Viewpoints will open with the world premiere of Nerdland directed by Chris Prynoski.
One third of the festival’s feature films are directed by women...
- 3/2/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, slated to open in mid-December, will be the first major feature to be screened at 48 frames per second. Both Mike Bracken (Movies.com) and Carolyn Giardina (Hollywood Reporter) wonder just how many theaters will be able to handle the High Frame Rate Jackson and James Cameron have been promoting.
In other news. Senses of Cinema is back online with a new look.
Books. Ada Calhoun finds that Frank Langella's new memoir, Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women as I Knew Them, "paints Hollywood and Broadway as teeming with vulgar, neurotic and irresistible company, and Langella as relentlessly affable in the face of nonstop groping by famous people in far-flung locations. He ambles into history and falls into notable beds like some kind of sexy Forrest Gump or beefcake Zelig."
Reviewing Claude Lanzmann's memoir The Patagonian Hare for the New Republic,...
In other news. Senses of Cinema is back online with a new look.
Books. Ada Calhoun finds that Frank Langella's new memoir, Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women as I Knew Them, "paints Hollywood and Broadway as teeming with vulgar, neurotic and irresistible company, and Langella as relentlessly affable in the face of nonstop groping by famous people in far-flung locations. He ambles into history and falls into notable beds like some kind of sexy Forrest Gump or beefcake Zelig."
Reviewing Claude Lanzmann's memoir The Patagonian Hare for the New Republic,...
- 4/24/2012
- MUBI
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers? Carancho Trailer Ricardo Darin gets a pass from me simply because of The Secret in Their Eyes. A taut thriller that didn’t relent, that...
- 1/22/2011
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
When he strutted out on stage with a boombox at the start of Stop Making Sense in 1984, David Byrne may not have guessed that he was about to kick off the best live concert film ever. Over a quarter of a century on, he brings some of that magic back to the movies with Hillman Curtis's part-live/part-documentary Ride, Rise, Roar - which chronicles his dancetastic 'Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno' tour. Click 'play' below to watch David talk about music, visuals, and just why he decided to don a tutu for (more)...
- 1/19/2011
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
A concert movie featuring the ever-inventive David Byrne, showcasing an album he made with Eno. By Andrew Pulver
Despite the presence of cutting-edge new media designer Hillman Curtis behind the camera, this is a pretty straightforward concert movie featuring an impressively spry David Byrne, in which the onetime Talking Head showcases songs from the Everything That Happens Will Happen Today album he made with Brian Eno. In between each song, Curtis inserts a short interview segment, the most interesting of which are chats with the avant-garde choreographers Byrne commissioned to put together dance sequences for the stage show. Unfortunately Curtis doesn't do a particularly good job of filming the action, resorting to prosaic mid-shots rather too often to develop a sense of spectacle. But Byrne comes across as an affable, watchable performer, always up for a new idea or three.
Rating: 3/5
David ByrnePop and rockAndrew Pulver
guardian.co.uk © Guardian...
Despite the presence of cutting-edge new media designer Hillman Curtis behind the camera, this is a pretty straightforward concert movie featuring an impressively spry David Byrne, in which the onetime Talking Head showcases songs from the Everything That Happens Will Happen Today album he made with Brian Eno. In between each song, Curtis inserts a short interview segment, the most interesting of which are chats with the avant-garde choreographers Byrne commissioned to put together dance sequences for the stage show. Unfortunately Curtis doesn't do a particularly good job of filming the action, resorting to prosaic mid-shots rather too often to develop a sense of spectacle. But Byrne comes across as an affable, watchable performer, always up for a new idea or three.
Rating: 3/5
David ByrnePop and rockAndrew Pulver
guardian.co.uk © Guardian...
- 1/14/2011
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
The Vancouver International Film Festival is my baby. In its 29th year, this is the event I look forward to every year. The lists I've kept through the year come out and I eagerly look through the list of titles in search of those little gems and every year Viff responds with a huge assortment of titles. This year's festival is no different.
Some of the titles we're most eagerly anticipating include Tsumetai Nettaigyo’s Cold Fish (trailer), Gareth Edwards’ Monsters (trailer, review), Jo Sung-Hee’s apocalyptic road movie End of Animal, Carl Bessai’s Repeaters (trailer) and Xavier Dolan's Heartbeats (trailer, review).
There's loads more so be sure to check the titles (so far) after the break. Many more to be announced in the coming days.
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Altitude (Kaare Andrews), B.C.
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A weekend getaway aboard a small plane turns deadly for a rookie pilot and four teenage friends.
Some of the titles we're most eagerly anticipating include Tsumetai Nettaigyo’s Cold Fish (trailer), Gareth Edwards’ Monsters (trailer, review), Jo Sung-Hee’s apocalyptic road movie End of Animal, Carl Bessai’s Repeaters (trailer) and Xavier Dolan's Heartbeats (trailer, review).
There's loads more so be sure to check the titles (so far) after the break. Many more to be announced in the coming days.
Canadian Images
Altitude (Kaare Andrews), B.C.
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A weekend getaway aboard a small plane turns deadly for a rookie pilot and four teenage friends.
- 9/8/2010
- QuietEarth.us
Rating: 7/10
Director: Hillman Curtis
After Jonathan Demme’s 1984’s concert documentary, Stop Making Sense, fans of the Talking Heads may wonder if another doc chronicling frontman David Byrne’s onstage life is totally necessary. But whereas Demme’s take focused on the Heads and their outsized stage presence, Hillman Curtis’ Ride, Rise, Roar pulls the show (and the main man) back down to earth, only to show the moving pieces that make such a show possible. For fans of Byrne and the Talking Heads, it’s an intimate look inside what goes into creating a show that lives up to Byrne’s expectations and desires.
Read more on SXSW 2010 Review: Ride, Rise, Roar…...
Director: Hillman Curtis
After Jonathan Demme’s 1984’s concert documentary, Stop Making Sense, fans of the Talking Heads may wonder if another doc chronicling frontman David Byrne’s onstage life is totally necessary. But whereas Demme’s take focused on the Heads and their outsized stage presence, Hillman Curtis’ Ride, Rise, Roar pulls the show (and the main man) back down to earth, only to show the moving pieces that make such a show possible. For fans of Byrne and the Talking Heads, it’s an intimate look inside what goes into creating a show that lives up to Byrne’s expectations and desires.
Read more on SXSW 2010 Review: Ride, Rise, Roar…...
- 3/19/2010
- by Kate Erbland
- GordonandtheWhale
Here is Ride Rise Roar director David Hillman Curtis’s post-screening, post-Austin blog. Back in Brooklyn. Missing the warmth. The house we rented. The juice shack down the street I went to everyday, the festival and the films and the camaraderie we shared in that big house on Barton Blvd. It was an exciting trip for so many reasons. Like any big project, our film almost met an early fate several times. There were the cuts David rightly did not like and the commercial projects that sidelined the film for months at a time. A couple little flare ups looked as if they might not go away and then there was the slow syphoning of money and time that if thought about too long could keep you up all night. Finally premiering the film on a big...
- 3/18/2010
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
This week we have a number of guest bloggers posting here from SXSW. Follow them before and after their screenings to get a taste of the festival as well as their personal thoughts on premiering their films. First up is David Hillman Curtis, whose film Ride, Rise Roar captures David Byrne’s recent “Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno” concert tour. SXSW. We arrived in Austin Wednesday night…late. My wife and I decided to bring the kids, 9 and 3, and make SXSW a family trip… we are exhausted and might leave early. Just kidding. When I heard the good news that our feature film, Ride, Rise, Roar would premiere here I was psyched. My history with SXSW goes way back. I won a SXSW Best of Show award for a...
- 3/13/2010
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Less than a week worth of recovering from the Sundance Film Festival, and we are already looking forward to our next, big film fest coverage. That would be the South by Southwest Film Festival held annually in Austin, Texas. Last year, Scott and I brought you all kinds of coverage from the Lone Star State, and this year doesn’t look to be much different.
With that, the announcement came last night of the feature films that will be playing at the SXSW Film Festival. Previous announcement were already made about films like Cold Weather, Electra Luxx, Hubble 3D, Lemmy, Saturday Night, and The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights making their debut. Kick-ass was recently announced as the opening night film, as well.
Among the other films being presented this year are some Sundance darlings, a few, highly anticipated premieres, and MacGruber.
Check out the full list...
With that, the announcement came last night of the feature films that will be playing at the SXSW Film Festival. Previous announcement were already made about films like Cold Weather, Electra Luxx, Hubble 3D, Lemmy, Saturday Night, and The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights making their debut. Kick-ass was recently announced as the opening night film, as well.
Among the other films being presented this year are some Sundance darlings, a few, highly anticipated premieres, and MacGruber.
Check out the full list...
- 2/4/2010
- by Kirk
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
I was so excited at seeing the SXSW line up last night that I completely forgot to post it and started searching the interwebs for cool content to go with it. Oops. Yes, I wish I was there but alas, it wasn’t mean to be (though don’t despair. We’ll be bringing you wicked awesome coverage).
But enough rambling, you want to know what’s all playing. Well, for a start there’s the much anticipated McGruber (trailer), the Duplass’ semi-mainstream comedy Cyrus, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Micmacs (trailer, review), Daniel Stamm’s horror flick Cotton and that’s on top of the previously announced titles which include Electra Luxx (Carla Gugino as a pregnant porn star? Bring. It. On.) and Kick-Ass (trailer). That’s already a great line-up but dear me, some of the other titles are pretty awesome too.
There’s Clay Liford scifi drama Earthling (trailer...
But enough rambling, you want to know what’s all playing. Well, for a start there’s the much anticipated McGruber (trailer), the Duplass’ semi-mainstream comedy Cyrus, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Micmacs (trailer, review), Daniel Stamm’s horror flick Cotton and that’s on top of the previously announced titles which include Electra Luxx (Carla Gugino as a pregnant porn star? Bring. It. On.) and Kick-Ass (trailer). That’s already a great line-up but dear me, some of the other titles are pretty awesome too.
There’s Clay Liford scifi drama Earthling (trailer...
- 2/4/2010
- QuietEarth.us
Late yesterday the SXSW Fim Festival, which runs from March 12-20 in Austin, TX, announced the full lineup of films that will be screening at this year’s event. And baby, it’s quite a list. Mixing big name films with intimate indie gems, the sheer number of films and the vast array of talented filmmakers is sure to be a hit with attendees and critics alike.
This lineup includes premieres of studio films such as Universal’s MacGruber, Lionsgate’s teen superhero actioneer Kick-Ass and smaller films like Tim Blake Nelson’s Leaves of Grass, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Micmacs, Michel Gondry’s The Thorn in the Heart and Steven Soderbergh’s And Everything Is Going Fine. With so many films to watch, it will be very difficult to find time to seem them all during the events nine days. But hell, we’re going to try.
For more on...
This lineup includes premieres of studio films such as Universal’s MacGruber, Lionsgate’s teen superhero actioneer Kick-Ass and smaller films like Tim Blake Nelson’s Leaves of Grass, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Micmacs, Michel Gondry’s The Thorn in the Heart and Steven Soderbergh’s And Everything Is Going Fine. With so many films to watch, it will be very difficult to find time to seem them all during the events nine days. But hell, we’re going to try.
For more on...
- 2/4/2010
- by Chris Ullrich
- The Flickcast
Produced with Hillman Curtis as part of his Artist Series, starring artist Lawrence Weiner.
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Debbie Millman has worked in the design business for over 25 years. She is president of the design division at Sterling Brands, where over the past 15 years she has worked on the redesign of global brands for Pepsi, Procter & Gamble, Campbell’s, Colgate, Hershey and Hasbro. Prior to Sterling, she was a senior vice president at Interbrand and a marketing director at Frankfurt Balkind. Debbie is president of the Aiga, the professional association for design. She is a contributing editor at Print Magazine and the Chair of the Masters in Branding at the School of Visual Arts. In 2005, she began hosting the first weekly radio talk show about design on the Internet, Design Matters with Debbie Millman, which is now featured on Design Observer.
- 10/2/2009
- by Debbie Millman
- Fast Company
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