Mubi's retrospective For Ever Godard is showing from November 12, 2017 - January 16, 2018 in the United States.Jean-Luc Godard is a difficult filmmaker to pin down because while his thematic concerns as an artist have remained more or less consistent over the last seven decades, his form is ever-shifting. His filmography is impossible to view in a vacuum, as his work strives to reflect on the constantly evolving cinema culture that surrounds it: Godard always works with the newest filmmaking technologies available, and his films have become increasingly abstracted and opaque as the wider culture of moving images has become increasingly fragmented. Rather than working to maintain an illusion of diegetic truth, Godard’s work as always foreground its status as a manufactured product—of technology, of an industry, of on-set conditions and of an individual’s imagination. Mubi’S Godard retrospective exemplifies the depth and range of Godard’s career as...
- 11/19/2017
- MUBI
Macbeth, Lego Dimensions and North by Northwest top August Events listMacbeth, Lego Dimensions and North by Northwest top August Events listScott Goodyer8/1/2017 11:00:00 Am It's been a very rainy summer so why not take advantage of those gloomy days and come see a special event screening this month? The following is a list of some screenings you should definitely check out and for more information on each event, click on their titles: August 2nd: Kiki's Delivery Service (Japanese w/e.s.t.) From the legendary Hayao Miyazaki comes the beloved story of a resourceful young witch who uses her broom to create a delivery service, only to lose her gift of flight in a moment of self-doubt. It is tradition for all young witches to leave their families on the night of a full moon and set out into the wide world to learn their craft. When that night comes for Kiki,...
- 8/1/2017
- by Scott Goodyer
- Cineplex
Film inspired by Georges Bizet’s tragic opera Carmen.
Benjamin Millepied, the acclaimed dancer and former director of the Paris Opera Ballet who choreographed Black Swan, will make his feature directorial debut on an original musical.
The project is a modern story inspired by French composer Georges Bizet’s tragic opera Carmen and traces a woman’s journey from the deserts of Mexico to Los Angeles in search of freedom.
Production is anticipated to begin in Los Angeles in early 2018.
Nicholas Britell, who earned a best original score Oscar nomination for Moonlight, will compose the original score and Millepied will also choreograph.
“I’m beyond grateful to be supported by the film community in my directing debut,” Millepied said. “The incorporation of music and dance in film is a cornerstone of my creativity and having such an experienced and talented team by my side gives me confidence that we will beautifully capture the story told in [link...
Benjamin Millepied, the acclaimed dancer and former director of the Paris Opera Ballet who choreographed Black Swan, will make his feature directorial debut on an original musical.
The project is a modern story inspired by French composer Georges Bizet’s tragic opera Carmen and traces a woman’s journey from the deserts of Mexico to Los Angeles in search of freedom.
Production is anticipated to begin in Los Angeles in early 2018.
Nicholas Britell, who earned a best original score Oscar nomination for Moonlight, will compose the original score and Millepied will also choreograph.
“I’m beyond grateful to be supported by the film community in my directing debut,” Millepied said. “The incorporation of music and dance in film is a cornerstone of my creativity and having such an experienced and talented team by my side gives me confidence that we will beautifully capture the story told in [link...
- 5/4/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Renowned ballet dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied will make his feature directorial debut with a musical adaptation of “Carmen,” TheWrap has learned. Natalie Portman’s husband will also choreograph the effort, based on Georges Bizet’s tragic opera. Millepied has an impressive team behind him for his first outing: “Moonlight” composer and Academy Award nominee Nicholas Britell is on board to score the project. Cinematographer Darius Khondji (“Midnight in Paris”) will serve as Dp. Also Read: That Mysterious Jennifer Lawrence-Darren Aronofsky Movie is a Horror-Thriller, You Guys “I’m beyond grateful to be supported by the film community in my directing debut.
- 5/4/2017
- by Matt Donnelly
- The Wrap
3-D in CinemaScope? That seems like a strange combination, but this obscure treasure hunt adventure with Joanne Dru and Mark Stevens is indeed billed as being filmed in the ‘Miracle of Stereo-Vision,’ five years after the demise of Hollywood’s first fling with ‘depthies.’ Kino and the 3-D Film Archives extras include two vintage 3-D shorts, one of them never screened in 3-D.
September Storm
3-D Blu-ray
Kino Classics
1960 / Color / 2:39 widescreen / 92 min. / Street Date March 28, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 34.95
Starring: Joanne Dru, Mark Stevens, Robert Strauss Asher Dann, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Véra Valmont..
Cinematography: Lamar Boren, Jorge Stahl Jr.
Film Editor: Alberto Valenzuela
Art Direction: Boris Leven
Underwater director: Paul Stader
Original Music: Edward L. Alperson Jr., Raoul Kraushaar
Written by W.R. Burnett from a story by Steve Fisher
Produced by Edward L. Alperson
Directed by Byron Haskin
The 3-D Film Archive has been an amazing resource for the fascinating depth format,...
September Storm
3-D Blu-ray
Kino Classics
1960 / Color / 2:39 widescreen / 92 min. / Street Date March 28, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 34.95
Starring: Joanne Dru, Mark Stevens, Robert Strauss Asher Dann, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Véra Valmont..
Cinematography: Lamar Boren, Jorge Stahl Jr.
Film Editor: Alberto Valenzuela
Art Direction: Boris Leven
Underwater director: Paul Stader
Original Music: Edward L. Alperson Jr., Raoul Kraushaar
Written by W.R. Burnett from a story by Steve Fisher
Produced by Edward L. Alperson
Directed by Byron Haskin
The 3-D Film Archive has been an amazing resource for the fascinating depth format,...
- 3/14/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Yesterday we missed celebrating Zodiac's 10th anniversary (the shame the shame) so we'll have to be more careful moving forward. So let's jump right back into daily anniversaries to reflect on and / or celebrate...
1845 Florida becomes the 27th State. It's been a problem ever since! I was born there so I can say that but seriously, Florida, get your act together. Between alligators, hateful politicians, legalized murder under deplorable Stand Your Ground laws, it's seriously a mess. Have y'all ever seen John Sayles Sunshine State? What other good movies about Florida are there besides Moonlight of course which just won Best Picture - woohoo!
1875 Bizet's Carmen premiered in Paris. It would go on to considerable global fame and the story would be adapted several times for cinema...
1845 Florida becomes the 27th State. It's been a problem ever since! I was born there so I can say that but seriously, Florida, get your act together. Between alligators, hateful politicians, legalized murder under deplorable Stand Your Ground laws, it's seriously a mess. Have y'all ever seen John Sayles Sunshine State? What other good movies about Florida are there besides Moonlight of course which just won Best Picture - woohoo!
1875 Bizet's Carmen premiered in Paris. It would go on to considerable global fame and the story would be adapted several times for cinema...
- 3/3/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The celebrated Hungarian director spoke to Screen after giving a masterclass at Rotterdam.
Bela Tarr has been at International Film Festival Rotterdam this week. On Thursday afternoon, the director of The Wreckmesiter Harmonies, Sátántangóand The Man From London gave a well-received masterclass at the festival. Afterwards, he spoke to Screen International.
Tarr may have directed two short films as part of his exhibition Till The End Of The World at the Eye Museum in Amsterdam but he has no intention of returning to feature filmmaking. His most likely future endeavours will be directing opera or theatre.
For the last four years, Tarr has been at the helm of the Sarajevo Film Academy, tutoring students from all corners of the world. “I was working with young people. I love them very much. They showed me movies I did not know. We showed them films they didn’t know.”
Tarr has now left the school, which was a faculty...
Bela Tarr has been at International Film Festival Rotterdam this week. On Thursday afternoon, the director of The Wreckmesiter Harmonies, Sátántangóand The Man From London gave a well-received masterclass at the festival. Afterwards, he spoke to Screen International.
Tarr may have directed two short films as part of his exhibition Till The End Of The World at the Eye Museum in Amsterdam but he has no intention of returning to feature filmmaking. His most likely future endeavours will be directing opera or theatre.
For the last four years, Tarr has been at the helm of the Sarajevo Film Academy, tutoring students from all corners of the world. “I was working with young people. I love them very much. They showed me movies I did not know. We showed them films they didn’t know.”
Tarr has now left the school, which was a faculty...
- 1/27/2017
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
The celebrated Hungarian director spoke to Screen after giving a masterclass at Rotterdam.
Bela Tarr has been at International Film Festival Rotterdam this week. On Thursday afternoon, the director of The Wreckmesiter Harmonies, Sátántangóand The Man From London gave a well-received masterclass at the festival. Afterwards, he spoke to Screen International.
Tarr may have directed two short films as part of his exhibition Till The End Of The World at the Eye Museum in Amsterdam but he has no intention of returning to feature filmmaking. His most likely future endeavours will be directing opera or theatre.
For the last four years, Tarr has been at the helm of the Sarajevo Film Academy, tutoring students from all corners of the world. “I was working with young people. I love them very much. They showed me movies I did not know. We showed them films they didn’t know.”
Tarr has now left the school, which was a faculty...
Bela Tarr has been at International Film Festival Rotterdam this week. On Thursday afternoon, the director of The Wreckmesiter Harmonies, Sátántangóand The Man From London gave a well-received masterclass at the festival. Afterwards, he spoke to Screen International.
Tarr may have directed two short films as part of his exhibition Till The End Of The World at the Eye Museum in Amsterdam but he has no intention of returning to feature filmmaking. His most likely future endeavours will be directing opera or theatre.
For the last four years, Tarr has been at the helm of the Sarajevo Film Academy, tutoring students from all corners of the world. “I was working with young people. I love them very much. They showed me movies I did not know. We showed them films they didn’t know.”
Tarr has now left the school, which was a faculty...
- 1/27/2017
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Franceso Rosi's warm, thoughtful tale sees a family gathering observe grievous modern problems -- after so much violence in Italian politics people are still looking for humanistic solutions. Philippe Noiret heads a great cast (with Charles Vanel) in this mellow reflection on 'the things of life.' Three Brothers Region B Blu-ray + Pal DVD Arrow Academy (UK) 1981 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 111 min. / Street Date April 4, 2016 / Tre fratelli / Available from Amazon UK Starring Philippe Noiret, Michele Placido, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Charles Vanel, Andréa Ferréol, Maddalena Crippa, Rosaria Tafuri, Marta Zoffoli, Simonetta Stefanelli. Cinematography Pasqualino De Santis Editor Ruggero Mastroianni Original Music Piero Piccioni Written by Tonino Guerra, Francesco Rosi from the book by A. Platonov Produced by Antonio Macri, Giorgio Nocella Directed by Francesco Rosi
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
So few of Francesco Rosi's films were released in the United States that until Criterion's disc of Salvatore Giuliano my only image of...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
So few of Francesco Rosi's films were released in the United States that until Criterion's disc of Salvatore Giuliano my only image of...
- 4/23/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
This podcast focuses on Criterion’s Eclipse Series of DVDs. Hosts David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett give an overview of each box and offer their perspectives on the unique treasures they find inside. In this episode, David and Trevor discuss Eclipse Series 6: Carlos Saura’s Flamenco Trilogy.
About the films:
One of Spanish cinema’s great auteurs, Carlos Saura brought international audiences closer to the art of his country’s dance than any other filmmaker, before or since. In his Flamenco Trilogy—Blood Wedding, Carmen, and El amor brujo—Saura merged his passion for music with his exploration of national identity. All starring and choreographed by legendary dancer Antonio Gades, the films feature thrilling physicality and electrifying cinematography and editing—colorful paeans to bodies in motion as well as to cinema itself.
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Buy The Box Set On Amazon No, don’t bother,...
About the films:
One of Spanish cinema’s great auteurs, Carlos Saura brought international audiences closer to the art of his country’s dance than any other filmmaker, before or since. In his Flamenco Trilogy—Blood Wedding, Carmen, and El amor brujo—Saura merged his passion for music with his exploration of national identity. All starring and choreographed by legendary dancer Antonio Gades, the films feature thrilling physicality and electrifying cinematography and editing—colorful paeans to bodies in motion as well as to cinema itself.
Subscribe to the podcast via RSS or in iTunes.
Buy The Box Set On Amazon No, don’t bother,...
- 4/11/2016
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
Enter here for your chance to win two passes to all of the 2016 performances in the Metro Detroit area that are part of the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning Live in HD series of cinema presentations, including Les Pêcheurs de Perles (The Pearl Fishers), Turandot, Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly, Roberto Devereux, and Elektra.
Go behind the scenes with the Met’s stars! During intermission, interviews with cast, crew, and production teams give a revealing look at what goes into the staging of an opera. Celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series The Met: Live in HD.
For your chance to receive two (2) complimentary passes to all of the performances listed below, just look for the “Enter the Contest” box further down on this page (we’ll ask what city you live in so we know what might be the closest theater to you).
But,...
Go behind the scenes with the Met’s stars! During intermission, interviews with cast, crew, and production teams give a revealing look at what goes into the staging of an opera. Celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series The Met: Live in HD.
For your chance to receive two (2) complimentary passes to all of the performances listed below, just look for the “Enter the Contest” box further down on this page (we’ll ask what city you live in so we know what might be the closest theater to you).
But,...
- 12/18/2015
- by Administrator
- CinemaNerdz
In the wake of the terrible attacks in Paris, I found myself listening to a lot of French music and thinking about the Leonard Bernstein quote going around on Facebook: "This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." This list came to seem like my natural response. A very small response, I know. This list is chronological and leaves off people I should probably include. The forty [note: now forty-one] composers listed below are merely a start.
Léonin Aka Leoninus (c.1135-c.1201)
The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris in the 1100s was a major musical center, and Léonin (the first named composer from whom we have notated polyphonic music) was a crucial figure for defining the liturgical use of organum, the first polyphony. Earlier organum was fairly simple, involving parallel intervals and later contrary motion, but the mid-12th century brought...
Léonin Aka Leoninus (c.1135-c.1201)
The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris in the 1100s was a major musical center, and Léonin (the first named composer from whom we have notated polyphonic music) was a crucial figure for defining the liturgical use of organum, the first polyphony. Earlier organum was fairly simple, involving parallel intervals and later contrary motion, but the mid-12th century brought...
- 11/15/2015
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
The team behind "u-Carmen eKhayelitsha" - a modern remake of Georges Bizet's classic 1875 opera "Carmen," shot entirely in Xhosa (one of South Africa's official languages), with an all-black South African cast, combining both music from the original opera with traditional music - have done a similar thing with Giacomo Puccini’s classic 1896 opera, "La Boheme." Directed by Mark Dornford-May, and starring Pauline Malefane (who also starred in "u-Carmen eKhayelitsha"), the upcoming "La Boheme" adaptation is titled "Breathe – Umphefumlo." The film was shot in Khayelitsha...
- 11/6/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Sylvain Chomet, the director of several beautiful animated films including The Triplets of Belleville and The Illusionist, has unveiled his music video for Belgian singer and songwriter Stromae’s “Carmen.” The video style, which is everything you would come to expect from the Academy Award nominated director, draws on the 1800s opera by French composer Georges Bizet, and features an animated Stromae being consumed by his Twitter addiction. Premiering on Buzzfeed, the video garnered over five million views in less than 24 hours.
In the past five years, the 29-year-old discovery has become a sensation across the Atlantic, beginning with his song “Alors on danse”, which became number one in several European countries. The Belgian rapper is redefining what it means to be a contemporary male pop star, and much like Michael Jackson in the early 80’s, he’s using the visual medium to further thrust him into the spotlight. Check out the video below,...
In the past five years, the 29-year-old discovery has become a sensation across the Atlantic, beginning with his song “Alors on danse”, which became number one in several European countries. The Belgian rapper is redefining what it means to be a contemporary male pop star, and much like Michael Jackson in the early 80’s, he’s using the visual medium to further thrust him into the spotlight. Check out the video below,...
- 4/5/2015
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
I'd never heard of Rwandan-Flemish singer/rapper Stromae until today, thanks to this new music video that landed on my virtual desk this morning, directed by acclaimed French animator Sylvain Chomet (of "Triplets of Belleville" and "The Illusionist" fame). The video, which is very much in Chomet's visual style, is for a track by Stromae titled "Carmen" (borrowing from Georges Bizet’s well-known opera) that's actually been out for a little while, as I discovered. But Chomet's delightful video, released just today, helps bring to visual life the song's criticisms of disposable social media culture. It...
- 4/1/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
★★★★☆ Mark Dornford-May won Berlin's Golden Bear in 2005 for U-Carmen, his adaptation of Bizet's opera. He obviously hopes for similar success with his latest venture, Breathe Umphefumlo (2015), which transports Puccini's opera La Boheme from 19th century Paris to a modern-day township in South Africa. Lungelo (Mhlekazi Mosiea) meets Mimi (Busisiwe Ngejane) at university. She's a botany student while he's an aspiring poet and studying to be a journalist. They meet on campus in mid-summer. The students are engaged in preparations for the public holiday commemorating the 16 June massacre of Soweto schoolchildren in 1976. A concert is planned and singer Zoleka (Pauline Malefane) is due to appear.
- 2/7/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Catherine Deneuve: César Award Besst Actress Record-Tier (photo: Catherine Deneuve in 'In the Courtyard / Dans la cour') (See previous post: "Kristen Stewart and Catherine Deneuve Make César Award History.") Catherine Deneuve has received 12 Best Actress César nominations to date. Deneuve's nods were for the following movies (year of film's release): Pierre Salvadori's In the Courtyard / Dans la Cour (2014). Emmanuelle Bercot's On My Way / Elle s'en va (2013). François Ozon's Potiche (2010). Nicole Garcia's Place Vendôme (1998). André Téchiné's Thieves / Les voleurs (1996). André Téchiné's My Favorite Season / Ma saison préférée (1993). Régis Wargnier's Indochine (1992). François Dupeyron's Strange Place for an Encounter / Drôle d'endroit pour une rencontre (1988). Jean-Pierre Mocky's Agent trouble (1987). André Téchiné's Hotel America / Hôtel des Amériques (1981). François Truffaut's The Last Metro / Le dernier métro (1980). Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Le sauvage (1975). Additionally, Catherine Deneuve was nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category...
- 1/30/2015
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Kristen Stewart, Catherine Deneuve make César Award history (photo: Kristen Stewart in 'Clouds of Sils Maria,' with Juliette Binoche) Kristen Stewart and Catherine Deneuve are two 2015 César Award nominees making history. The French Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Crafts announced the nominations on Jan. 28, 2015; the César Awards ceremony will take place on Feb. 20, 2015, at Paris' Théâtre du Châtelet. Kristen Stewart is in the running in the Best Supporting Actress category for Clouds of Sils Maria / Sils Maria. Catherine Deneuve has been shortlisted as Best Actress for In the Courtyard / Dans la cour. So, how are Stewart and Deneuve making César history? Well, let's begin with "the expected one": Deneuve. Catherine Deneuve One of the biggest film icons ever, Catherine Deneuve is one of those relatively rare international film superstars who has never bothered with – or needed – a Hollywood career. Deneuve, who turned 71 last October 22, has been...
- 1/30/2015
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Kristen Stewart picked up the first nomination for an American actress at France's César Awards since opera singer Julia Migenes' performance in the 1984 film adaptation of "Carmen," nabbing a Best Supporting Actress nod for her role as an aging film star's assistant in Olivier Assayas' "Clouds of Sils Maria." Bertrand Bonello's "Saint Laurent" leads this year's nominations with 10, including Best Film and Best Director. "Les Combattants" (nine), "Timbuktu" (eight), and yet another biopic of the famed French designer, "Yves Saint Laurent" (seven), were also among those lauded by the French Académie today. Stewart's "Sils Maria" co-star Juliette Binoche, Oscar nominee Marion Cotillard ("Two Days, One Night"), and screen legend Catherine Deneuve ("Dans La Cour") all feature in the packed race for Best Actress, while Céline Sciamma's acclaimed "Girlhood"...
- 1/28/2015
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide rights outside South Africa to Mark Dornford-May’s Breathe Umphefumlo, which will premiere Out Of Competition at the upcoming Berlin film festival.
The film transports Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Boheme to contemporary South Africa and includes songs in Xhosa, one of the official languages of South Africa.
Dornford-May previously directed U-Carmen, which gave the same treatment to Bizet’s Carmen and won Berlin’s Golden Bear in 2005.
Produced by South Africa’s Advantage Entertainment and Isango Ensemble and the UK’s Film and Music Entertainment (F&Me), the film is written by Dornford-May and Pauline Malefane with musical direction by Mandisi Dyantyis.
The story follows a group of artists, writers and actors struggling to survive in the township of Khayelitsha, which has high rates of tuberculosis, in common with 19th Century Paris, the original setting of La Boheme.
The film is set for theatrical release in South Africa later this year...
The film transports Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Boheme to contemporary South Africa and includes songs in Xhosa, one of the official languages of South Africa.
Dornford-May previously directed U-Carmen, which gave the same treatment to Bizet’s Carmen and won Berlin’s Golden Bear in 2005.
Produced by South Africa’s Advantage Entertainment and Isango Ensemble and the UK’s Film and Music Entertainment (F&Me), the film is written by Dornford-May and Pauline Malefane with musical direction by Mandisi Dyantyis.
The story follows a group of artists, writers and actors struggling to survive in the township of Khayelitsha, which has high rates of tuberculosis, in common with 19th Century Paris, the original setting of La Boheme.
The film is set for theatrical release in South Africa later this year...
- 1/27/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
The team behind "u-Carmen eKhayelitsha" - a modern remake of Georges Bizet's classic 1875 opera "Carmen," shot entirely in Xhosa (one of South Africa's official languages), with an all-black South African cast, combining both music from the original opera with traditional music - have done a similar thing with Giacomo Puccini’s classic 1896 opera, "La Boheme." The creative group's most recent film, a re-imagining of another operatic work, Benjamin Britten’s 1957 piece, "Noye’s Fludde," made its World Premiere in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto...
- 1/16/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Simon Curtis’ Woman in Gold is to receive its world premiere at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival (Feb. 5-15). The film, starring Ryan Reynolds and Helen Mirren, will play in the festival’s special galas line-up.
Also announced today are Anton Corbijn’s Life, starring Robert Pattinson and Dane DeHaan; Dagur Kari’s Virgin Mountain; Ava DuVernay’s Selma; and the European premiere of Bill Pohland’s Love & Mercy, starring John Cusack.
Woman in Gold tells the true story of an octogenarian Jewish refugee, who takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family. The film is is produced by Origin Pictures, BBC Films and The Weinstein Company.
Corbijn’s Life, also receiving its world premiere, is inspired by the true story of a friendship that developed between Magnum photographer Dennis Stock (Pattinson) and actor James Dean (DeHaan) when Stock was commissioned to photograph...
Also announced today are Anton Corbijn’s Life, starring Robert Pattinson and Dane DeHaan; Dagur Kari’s Virgin Mountain; Ava DuVernay’s Selma; and the European premiere of Bill Pohland’s Love & Mercy, starring John Cusack.
Woman in Gold tells the true story of an octogenarian Jewish refugee, who takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family. The film is is produced by Origin Pictures, BBC Films and The Weinstein Company.
Corbijn’s Life, also receiving its world premiere, is inspired by the true story of a friendship that developed between Magnum photographer Dennis Stock (Pattinson) and actor James Dean (DeHaan) when Stock was commissioned to photograph...
- 1/15/2015
- by Ali Jaafar
- Deadline
Italian director and screenwriter died on Saturday.
The 65th Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 5-15) is to pay homage to Francesco Rosi, one of one of Italy’s most-celebrated and influential filmmakers from the 1950s to the 1990s.
The director and screenwriter, who inspiring the likes of Francis Coppola and Martin Scorsese with his Italian post-war neo-realist style, passed away on Saturday (Jan 10) at the age of 92.
In homage, the Berlinale has added Many Wars Ago (Uomini Contro) to the upcoming programme, Rosi’s 1970 anti-war drama set on the mountainous Austrian-Italian front during the First World War.
Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick said: “The loss of Francesco Rosi is the loss of an outstanding filmmaker. With their explosive power, Rosi’s films are still persuasive today. His works are classics of politically engaged cinema.”
Rosi’s films often examined corruption and criminality and some of his best-known films told the stories of real events and real people in order...
The 65th Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 5-15) is to pay homage to Francesco Rosi, one of one of Italy’s most-celebrated and influential filmmakers from the 1950s to the 1990s.
The director and screenwriter, who inspiring the likes of Francis Coppola and Martin Scorsese with his Italian post-war neo-realist style, passed away on Saturday (Jan 10) at the age of 92.
In homage, the Berlinale has added Many Wars Ago (Uomini Contro) to the upcoming programme, Rosi’s 1970 anti-war drama set on the mountainous Austrian-Italian front during the First World War.
Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick said: “The loss of Francesco Rosi is the loss of an outstanding filmmaker. With their explosive power, Rosi’s films are still persuasive today. His works are classics of politically engaged cinema.”
Rosi’s films often examined corruption and criminality and some of his best-known films told the stories of real events and real people in order...
- 1/13/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Italian director Francesco Rosi had died, aged 92.
Rosi was one of Italy's most-celebrated and influential filmmakers, working throughout the 1950s to the 1990s.
He was known for his Italian post-war neo-realist style of filmmaking, inspiring the likes of Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese.
He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1963 for Hands Over the City, and the Palme d'Or in Cannes in 1972 for The Mattei Affair.
Two years ago, he was awarded an honorary Golden Lion for his lifetime achievement.
Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino said in tribute: "There are directors, and they are few and far between, who are capable of constructing worlds, and they do it by the invention of methods and styles. Rosi was one of the very few."
Among his other films were Salvatore Giuliano, Carmen and his last project The Truce in 1997.
Watch a trailer for Salvatore Giuliano below:...
Rosi was one of Italy's most-celebrated and influential filmmakers, working throughout the 1950s to the 1990s.
He was known for his Italian post-war neo-realist style of filmmaking, inspiring the likes of Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese.
He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1963 for Hands Over the City, and the Palme d'Or in Cannes in 1972 for The Mattei Affair.
Two years ago, he was awarded an honorary Golden Lion for his lifetime achievement.
Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino said in tribute: "There are directors, and they are few and far between, who are capable of constructing worlds, and they do it by the invention of methods and styles. Rosi was one of the very few."
Among his other films were Salvatore Giuliano, Carmen and his last project The Truce in 1997.
Watch a trailer for Salvatore Giuliano below:...
- 1/12/2015
- Digital Spy
The release of Ridley Scott.s epic biblical tale Exodus: Gods and Kings failed to snag the number one box office slot over the weekend; with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 still reigning supreme.
Scott.s saga stars Christian Bale and Aussie Joel Edgerton as Moses and Ramses respectively; two Egyptian princes raised as brothers but who turn on each other when Moses. true Hebrew heritage is revealed.
Estimated to be made for $US140 million ($168.9 million), the film raked in $ 2,685,175 over 504 screens in its opening weekend, landing in the number two spot behind Mockingjay.
The third instalment in The Hunger Games series, Mockingjay: Part 1 has been a massive success at the box office so far, scooping $3,039,934 in its third weekend on 549 screens and bringing its Australian box office total to $25,733,039.
The film follows Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) as she agrees to be the symbol of rebellion for the districts rebelling against the Capitol,...
Scott.s saga stars Christian Bale and Aussie Joel Edgerton as Moses and Ramses respectively; two Egyptian princes raised as brothers but who turn on each other when Moses. true Hebrew heritage is revealed.
Estimated to be made for $US140 million ($168.9 million), the film raked in $ 2,685,175 over 504 screens in its opening weekend, landing in the number two spot behind Mockingjay.
The third instalment in The Hunger Games series, Mockingjay: Part 1 has been a massive success at the box office so far, scooping $3,039,934 in its third weekend on 549 screens and bringing its Australian box office total to $25,733,039.
The film follows Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) as she agrees to be the symbol of rebellion for the districts rebelling against the Capitol,...
- 12/9/2014
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
‘Starry Eyes’: The feel disturbed movie of the year
This film is at its very core a success story. A very demented, gory, horrifying and darkly comical success story – one with tinges of satanic cult horror wrapped in psychological terror. The plot follows a young aspiring actress, Sarah, as she is called back to audition for a horror film that is being produced by a mysterious production company that pushes her to her limits – a dark exchange for fame and fortune… click here to read the article.
‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part I’ is all prologue
In a previous review of the second instalment of The Hunger Games series for this website, I expressed some dismay that Catching Fire didn’t really have a conclusion to speak of, with its cliffhanger ending reminding me less of The Empire Strikes Back and more of The Matrix Reloaded orPirates of...
This film is at its very core a success story. A very demented, gory, horrifying and darkly comical success story – one with tinges of satanic cult horror wrapped in psychological terror. The plot follows a young aspiring actress, Sarah, as she is called back to audition for a horror film that is being produced by a mysterious production company that pushes her to her limits – a dark exchange for fame and fortune… click here to read the article.
‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part I’ is all prologue
In a previous review of the second instalment of The Hunger Games series for this website, I expressed some dismay that Catching Fire didn’t really have a conclusion to speak of, with its cliffhanger ending reminding me less of The Empire Strikes Back and more of The Matrix Reloaded orPirates of...
- 11/22/2014
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
“If I love you, that’s the end of you.” — Carmen x
Following Passion (1982) and Scenario du film passion (1982), Jean-Luc Godard directed First Name: Carmen (1983), starring Marushka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffe, and himself. Godard was inspired by Otto Preminger’s Carmen Jones (1954), a musical-comedy about a woman that seduces a soldier ordered to escort her to the authorities. Preminger’s film is an adaptation of a 1943 stage production by Oscar Hammerstein II, which is itself an adaptation of the 1845 novella Carmen by Prospere Merimee. Anne-Marie Mieville was very interested in writing a script that was similar to the spirit of Preminger’s film, and Godard loved that film as well but wanted to change the music. Exit Bizet’s music and enter Beethoven’s “Late Quartets”, which are integral for First Name: Carmen.
Godard again collaborated with Raoul Coutard, but this time the famous New Wave cinematographer was billed as “lighting...
Following Passion (1982) and Scenario du film passion (1982), Jean-Luc Godard directed First Name: Carmen (1983), starring Marushka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffe, and himself. Godard was inspired by Otto Preminger’s Carmen Jones (1954), a musical-comedy about a woman that seduces a soldier ordered to escort her to the authorities. Preminger’s film is an adaptation of a 1943 stage production by Oscar Hammerstein II, which is itself an adaptation of the 1845 novella Carmen by Prospere Merimee. Anne-Marie Mieville was very interested in writing a script that was similar to the spirit of Preminger’s film, and Godard loved that film as well but wanted to change the music. Exit Bizet’s music and enter Beethoven’s “Late Quartets”, which are integral for First Name: Carmen.
Godard again collaborated with Raoul Coutard, but this time the famous New Wave cinematographer was billed as “lighting...
- 11/21/2014
- by Cody Lang
- SoundOnSight
South African adaptation of Puccini’s opera directed by Berlinale Golden Bear winner Mark Dornford May.
Shooting has wrapped in Stellenbosch, South Africa on a contemporary adaptation of Puccini’s La Boheme.
Breathe – Umphefumlo is directed by Mark Dornford May and moves the story from its usual Parisian setting to modern South Africa. It centres on star crossed lovers Mimi (Busisiwe Ngejane) and Lungelo (Mhlekazi Mosiea).
The film is a partnership between South Africa’s Isango Advantage, the UK’s Film and Music Entertainment (F&Me) and Germany’s Arte/Propeller Film. Support comes from Desmond and Leah Tutu’s Legacy Foundation
Dornford May won the Berlinale Golden Bear in 2005 with U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, a modern take on Bizet’s Carmen also set in South Africa.
Dornford May adapted this new approach to La Boheme with Pauline Malefane, who also handled the musical direction with Mandisi Dyantis. The score will be played by an orchestra of marimbas and steel...
Shooting has wrapped in Stellenbosch, South Africa on a contemporary adaptation of Puccini’s La Boheme.
Breathe – Umphefumlo is directed by Mark Dornford May and moves the story from its usual Parisian setting to modern South Africa. It centres on star crossed lovers Mimi (Busisiwe Ngejane) and Lungelo (Mhlekazi Mosiea).
The film is a partnership between South Africa’s Isango Advantage, the UK’s Film and Music Entertainment (F&Me) and Germany’s Arte/Propeller Film. Support comes from Desmond and Leah Tutu’s Legacy Foundation
Dornford May won the Berlinale Golden Bear in 2005 with U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, a modern take on Bizet’s Carmen also set in South Africa.
Dornford May adapted this new approach to La Boheme with Pauline Malefane, who also handled the musical direction with Mandisi Dyantis. The score will be played by an orchestra of marimbas and steel...
- 10/9/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The team behind "u-Carmen eKhayelitsha" - a modern remake of Georges Bizet's classic 1875 opera "Carmen," shot entirely in Xhosa (one of South Africa's official languages), with an all-black South African cast, combining both music from the original opera with traditional music - are now going to do similar thing with Giacomo Puccini’s classic 1896 opera, "La Boheme." The creative group's most recent film, a re-imagining of another operatic work, Benjamin Britten’s 1957 piece, "Noye’s Fludde," made its World Premiere in the Contemporary World Cinema section at last...
- 8/20/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Exclusive: South African adaptation of La Boheme to be directed by Berlinale Golden Bear winner Mark Dornford May and supported by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Shooting has begun this week in Stellenbosch, South Africa on a contemporary adaptation of Puccini’s La Boheme.
Breathe – Umphefumlo is directed by Mark Dornford May and moves the story from its usual Parisian setting to modern South Africa. It centres on star crossed lovers Mimi (Busisiwe Ngejane) and Lungelo (Mhlekazi Mosiea).
Dornford May won the Berlinale Golden Bear in 2005 with U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, a modern take on Bizet’s Carmen also set in South Africa.
The director said: “La Boheme is a glittering piece of musical history but it also contains a searing emotional cry for understanding and action about the brutal realities of the everyday life of the poor and their struggle for shelter, food and medicine. This is what we want to bring to the screen in Breathe – Umphefumlo.”
Dornford May has...
Shooting has begun this week in Stellenbosch, South Africa on a contemporary adaptation of Puccini’s La Boheme.
Breathe – Umphefumlo is directed by Mark Dornford May and moves the story from its usual Parisian setting to modern South Africa. It centres on star crossed lovers Mimi (Busisiwe Ngejane) and Lungelo (Mhlekazi Mosiea).
Dornford May won the Berlinale Golden Bear in 2005 with U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, a modern take on Bizet’s Carmen also set in South Africa.
The director said: “La Boheme is a glittering piece of musical history but it also contains a searing emotional cry for understanding and action about the brutal realities of the everyday life of the poor and their struggle for shelter, food and medicine. This is what we want to bring to the screen in Breathe – Umphefumlo.”
Dornford May has...
- 8/20/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The eight-film series This Is Softcore: The Art Cinema Erotica of Radley Metzger opens today at New York's Film Society of Lincoln Center with Carmen, Baby (1967), Metzger's "take on Prosper Mérimée’s 19th-century novella that inspired the Bizet opera Carmen," as Stephen Holden notes in the New York Times. Plus: Melissa Anderson in the Voice on Camille 2000 (1969), Maitland McDonagh in Film Comment on Score (1973), Steve Macfarlane's interview with the 85-year-old director for Slant, an overview of the oeuvre from Dennis Harvey in Keyframe and Adrian Curry's collection posters for Metzger's films in the Notebook. » - David Hudson...
- 8/7/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
The eight-film series This Is Softcore: The Art Cinema Erotica of Radley Metzger opens today at New York's Film Society of Lincoln Center with Carmen, Baby (1967), Metzger's "take on Prosper Mérimée’s 19th-century novella that inspired the Bizet opera Carmen," as Stephen Holden notes in the New York Times. Plus: Melissa Anderson in the Voice on Camille 2000 (1969), Maitland McDonagh in Film Comment on Score (1973), Steve Macfarlane's interview with the 85-year-old director for Slant, an overview of the oeuvre from Dennis Harvey in Keyframe and Adrian Curry's collection posters for Metzger's films in the Notebook. » - David Hudson...
- 8/7/2014
- Keyframe
The selection of films making up the New Directors section has been presented. The Director of the San Sebastian Festival, José Luis Rebordinos, revealed the titles of the films to compete for the Kutxa New Directors Award, decided by a specific international jury. The Award comes with €50,000.
At the coming Festival, the New Directors section will propose thirteen first or second works by a new generation of filmmakers. With this selection and the Kutxa New Directors Award, the San Sebastian Festival maintains its firm commitment to the cinematic talents of the future.
"Chrieg" Simon Jaquemet (Switzerland) On a boot camp for kids in the Swiss Alps, four delinquent teenagers have taken over. They have a mission and rush down to the city. Feverish nights full of violence and destruction. Their war. Against grown-ups. Against everything. Against Love.
"In Her Place" Albert Shin (Canada - South Korea) A mother and her teenaged daughter living on a rural farm in South Korea take in a mysterious woman from Seoul with the hopes of helping each other repair their damaged lives.
"Cain's Children"
Marcell Gerő (Hungary - France) Three boys, they all committed murder. After discovering their haunting faces and disturbing stories in a banned prison documentary from 1984, the filmmaker goes out to find them and discovers untold secrets and a Hungary he has never known.
"Name Me" Nigina Sayfullaeva (Russia) Two 17-year-old Muscovite girls, Olya and Sasha, are going to Crimea to meet Olya’s father Sergey. At first girls have their fun. Little do they know that the innocent joke they invent will turn into great drama and change their lives forever.
"Limbo" Anna Sofie Hartmann (Germany) A small town in rural Denmark; teenager Sara and newly arrived teacher Karen grow a connection amidst projections, quiet expectations and daily life all around. Courage leads to disappointment and when an unexpected event occurs, Karen is left on her own.
"The Mother of the Lamb" Rosario Espinoza, Enrique Farias (Chile) Cristina, a 49 year old woman, has spent her entire life caring for her mother Carmen. She re-encounters Sandra, a liberal and open-minded ex-colleague who will show her friend other ways to live.
"Modris" Juris Kursietis (Latvia - Greece - Germany) Unable to deal with her teenage son, the boy's mother turns him in for a small crime. But a teenager's life cannot handle police probation. Based on true events.
"A Moonless Night" Germán Tejeira (Uruguay - Argentina) On New Year's night, three lonely night owls arrive in a small town way out in the Uruguayan countryside, where they will have the opportunity to change their destiny. A film about love, loneliness, opportunities and the passing of time.
"It´s Not Vigil" Hermes Paralluelo (Spain - Colombia) In his new film, Hermes Paralluelo tells a love story. A love story that begins when its lead characters, Antonio and Felisa, have been together for over 60 years and their delicate health means they can no longer care for one another. The prospect of having to move into a home for the elderly looms menacingly on the horizon. The film portrays love in old age, nights of fitful sleep over the worry of loneliness, death and separation from a loved-one. Fear of leaving life in the hands of others and of losing independence.
"Toto and His Sisters" Alexander Nanau (Romania) From Emmy-Award winning German-Romanian director Alexander Nanau comes an amazing family love story. Totonel (10) and his sisters are growing up in a poor city suburb, waiting for their mother to come home from prison.
"The Silly Ones and the Stupid Ones" Roberto Castón (Spain) Second feature by Roberto Castón, whose movie Ander competed in the Panorama Section at Berlin in 2009. Mario, Paula, Miguel and Lourdes run into one another while looking (some more than others) for a way out of a life they don't like. The situation forces them to make decisions, listening either to their hearts or to the fear of change. They are accompanied in the process by the film's director, played by Roberto Álamo.
"The Lesson" Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov (Bulgaria - Greece) In a small Bulgarian town, Nadezhda, a young teacher, tries to find out which of her students is stealing in class, so that she can teach them the difference between right and wrong. But when she finds herself in debt to moneylenders, will she know the right road to take? What happens when an honest person turns into a criminal?
"Vincent" Thomas Salvador (France) Vincent is not just a young man among others. His strength, reflexes and agility increase when in contact with water. There he meets Lucie, falls in love, and shares his secret with someone for the first time...
At the coming Festival, the New Directors section will propose thirteen first or second works by a new generation of filmmakers. With this selection and the Kutxa New Directors Award, the San Sebastian Festival maintains its firm commitment to the cinematic talents of the future.
"Chrieg" Simon Jaquemet (Switzerland) On a boot camp for kids in the Swiss Alps, four delinquent teenagers have taken over. They have a mission and rush down to the city. Feverish nights full of violence and destruction. Their war. Against grown-ups. Against everything. Against Love.
"In Her Place" Albert Shin (Canada - South Korea) A mother and her teenaged daughter living on a rural farm in South Korea take in a mysterious woman from Seoul with the hopes of helping each other repair their damaged lives.
"Cain's Children"
Marcell Gerő (Hungary - France) Three boys, they all committed murder. After discovering their haunting faces and disturbing stories in a banned prison documentary from 1984, the filmmaker goes out to find them and discovers untold secrets and a Hungary he has never known.
"Name Me" Nigina Sayfullaeva (Russia) Two 17-year-old Muscovite girls, Olya and Sasha, are going to Crimea to meet Olya’s father Sergey. At first girls have their fun. Little do they know that the innocent joke they invent will turn into great drama and change their lives forever.
"Limbo" Anna Sofie Hartmann (Germany) A small town in rural Denmark; teenager Sara and newly arrived teacher Karen grow a connection amidst projections, quiet expectations and daily life all around. Courage leads to disappointment and when an unexpected event occurs, Karen is left on her own.
"The Mother of the Lamb" Rosario Espinoza, Enrique Farias (Chile) Cristina, a 49 year old woman, has spent her entire life caring for her mother Carmen. She re-encounters Sandra, a liberal and open-minded ex-colleague who will show her friend other ways to live.
"Modris" Juris Kursietis (Latvia - Greece - Germany) Unable to deal with her teenage son, the boy's mother turns him in for a small crime. But a teenager's life cannot handle police probation. Based on true events.
"A Moonless Night" Germán Tejeira (Uruguay - Argentina) On New Year's night, three lonely night owls arrive in a small town way out in the Uruguayan countryside, where they will have the opportunity to change their destiny. A film about love, loneliness, opportunities and the passing of time.
"It´s Not Vigil" Hermes Paralluelo (Spain - Colombia) In his new film, Hermes Paralluelo tells a love story. A love story that begins when its lead characters, Antonio and Felisa, have been together for over 60 years and their delicate health means they can no longer care for one another. The prospect of having to move into a home for the elderly looms menacingly on the horizon. The film portrays love in old age, nights of fitful sleep over the worry of loneliness, death and separation from a loved-one. Fear of leaving life in the hands of others and of losing independence.
"Toto and His Sisters" Alexander Nanau (Romania) From Emmy-Award winning German-Romanian director Alexander Nanau comes an amazing family love story. Totonel (10) and his sisters are growing up in a poor city suburb, waiting for their mother to come home from prison.
"The Silly Ones and the Stupid Ones" Roberto Castón (Spain) Second feature by Roberto Castón, whose movie Ander competed in the Panorama Section at Berlin in 2009. Mario, Paula, Miguel and Lourdes run into one another while looking (some more than others) for a way out of a life they don't like. The situation forces them to make decisions, listening either to their hearts or to the fear of change. They are accompanied in the process by the film's director, played by Roberto Álamo.
"The Lesson" Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov (Bulgaria - Greece) In a small Bulgarian town, Nadezhda, a young teacher, tries to find out which of her students is stealing in class, so that she can teach them the difference between right and wrong. But when she finds herself in debt to moneylenders, will she know the right road to take? What happens when an honest person turns into a criminal?
"Vincent" Thomas Salvador (France) Vincent is not just a young man among others. His strength, reflexes and agility increase when in contact with water. There he meets Lucie, falls in love, and shares his secret with someone for the first time...
- 8/6/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
I first came to know of Radley Metzger through his posters, which bears out what the 85-year-old erstwhile king of high-class erotica told me recently, that “my respect for poster design came from my realization that more people would see my posters—for a longer period—than would see my films.” That should be rectified somewhat next week when the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York embarks on a week-long, 8-film retrospective of Metzger’s legendary, ground-breaking “Art Cinema Erotica.”
The poster that first caught my eye was for a 1975 film directed by one Henry Paris. The film was the arrestingly titled The Opening of Misty Beethoven and I was struck by its combination of the austere and the voluptuous: its clean, monochrome simplicity, its beautifully balanced composition, and its nice use of the blocky serif typeface Clarendon, a favorite of mine. That juxtaposed with the lead-off quote...
The poster that first caught my eye was for a 1975 film directed by one Henry Paris. The film was the arrestingly titled The Opening of Misty Beethoven and I was struck by its combination of the austere and the voluptuous: its clean, monochrome simplicity, its beautifully balanced composition, and its nice use of the blocky serif typeface Clarendon, a favorite of mine. That juxtaposed with the lead-off quote...
- 8/2/2014
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
A total of 13 new films will compete for the $67,000 prize.
The San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 19-27) has revealed the films that will make up its New Directors section and compete for an award worth €50,000 ($67,000).
The strand will feature 13 first or second works by new filmmakers. The titles include:
Chrieg
Simon Jaquemet (Switzerland)
On a boot camp for kids in the Swiss Alps, four delinquent teenagers have taken over. They have a mission and rush down to the city. Feverish nights full of violence and destruction. Their war. Against grown-ups. Against everything. Against Love.
In Her Place
Albert Shin (Canada - South Korea)
A mother and her teenaged daughter living on a rural farm in South Korea take in a mysterious woman from Seoul with the hopes of helping each other repair their damaged lives.
Cain’s Children (Káin Gyermekei)
Marcell Gerő (Hungary - France)
Three boys, they all committed murder. After discovering...
The San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 19-27) has revealed the films that will make up its New Directors section and compete for an award worth €50,000 ($67,000).
The strand will feature 13 first or second works by new filmmakers. The titles include:
Chrieg
Simon Jaquemet (Switzerland)
On a boot camp for kids in the Swiss Alps, four delinquent teenagers have taken over. They have a mission and rush down to the city. Feverish nights full of violence and destruction. Their war. Against grown-ups. Against everything. Against Love.
In Her Place
Albert Shin (Canada - South Korea)
A mother and her teenaged daughter living on a rural farm in South Korea take in a mysterious woman from Seoul with the hopes of helping each other repair their damaged lives.
Cain’s Children (Káin Gyermekei)
Marcell Gerő (Hungary - France)
Three boys, they all committed murder. After discovering...
- 7/30/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Lorin Maazel, who died at age 84 on Sunday, from complications of pneumonia, was a true Renaissance man of music: a child prodigy as a conductor and violinist, and later a composer as well.
Born in France in 1930 to American parents, he was raised in Los Angeles. His family was musical: one grandfather was a violinist in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Lorin’s father taught voice and piano, and Lorin’s mother started the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra. A child prodigy blessed with perfect pitch, Lorin was playing violin at age five and piano at age seven, but was especially captivated by conducting. Studying with Vladimir Bakaleinikov, the associate conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Maazel made his conducing debut at age eight with the University of Idaho Orchestra and quickly moved on to more prestigious ensembles. When Bakaleinikov became assistant conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra the same year, the Maazel family went with him.
Born in France in 1930 to American parents, he was raised in Los Angeles. His family was musical: one grandfather was a violinist in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Lorin’s father taught voice and piano, and Lorin’s mother started the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra. A child prodigy blessed with perfect pitch, Lorin was playing violin at age five and piano at age seven, but was especially captivated by conducting. Studying with Vladimir Bakaleinikov, the associate conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Maazel made his conducing debut at age eight with the University of Idaho Orchestra and quickly moved on to more prestigious ensembles. When Bakaleinikov became assistant conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra the same year, the Maazel family went with him.
- 7/14/2014
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
One of the world's most celebrated flamenco guitarists
The fame and influence of the guitarist Paco de Lucía, who has died aged 66 from a suspected heart attack, reached far beyond the intense and sometimes enclosed world of Spanish flamenco. His musical role in Carlos Saura's Carmen (1983) was as arresting in its way as the first glimpse of Laura del Sol, the film's luminous lead. The director-choreographer Saura cleverly reinvented the opera as a contemporary fable while retaining the original's elements of passion, possession, jealousy and obsession. De Lucía's interpretation respectfully returned Bizet's score – a French fantasy of Spain – to its Moorish antecedents. He also gave Carmen's timeless melodies a fresh, international appeal that chimed with the movie's arthouse success.
De Lucía had begun to broaden his horizons in the late 1960s, on teaming up with the charismatic young singer Camarón de la Isla. Their partnership yielded many...
The fame and influence of the guitarist Paco de Lucía, who has died aged 66 from a suspected heart attack, reached far beyond the intense and sometimes enclosed world of Spanish flamenco. His musical role in Carlos Saura's Carmen (1983) was as arresting in its way as the first glimpse of Laura del Sol, the film's luminous lead. The director-choreographer Saura cleverly reinvented the opera as a contemporary fable while retaining the original's elements of passion, possession, jealousy and obsession. De Lucía's interpretation respectfully returned Bizet's score – a French fantasy of Spain – to its Moorish antecedents. He also gave Carmen's timeless melodies a fresh, international appeal that chimed with the movie's arthouse success.
De Lucía had begun to broaden his horizons in the late 1960s, on teaming up with the charismatic young singer Camarón de la Isla. Their partnership yielded many...
- 2/27/2014
- by John L Walters
- The Guardian - Film News
YouTube’s importance at Sundance grows every year. This year, they held free workshops on how to maximize your use of YouTube. Here is the latest schedule of YouTube on Main Street events and press assets, please visit google site ytsundance2014 or Twitter at #YouTubeSundance.
YouTube offered film fans access to the 2014 Sundance Film Festival both on and offline through several initiatives including:
Youtube On Main Street (596 Main Street, Park City, Ut 84060)
Open January 16-25, 2014 at various times. Warm up at “YouTube on Main Street,” the place for the creative community to convene for must-see panels, happy hours, film receptions, screenings, talks and DJ sets. Free Wi-Fi and drinks are available to badge holders when programs are not in session.
Daily Events at YouTube on Main Street:
“Live @ Sundance” On The Sundance Film Festival Youtube Channel Live daily from January 17-24, 2014 at 11am Mst at www.youtube.com/sff. Whether you’re in Park City or Phuket, you can check out the best of the fest daily with “Live @ Sundance.” The one-hour talk show will air live daily at 11am Mst January 17-24, 2014 from “YouTube on Mainstreet” on the sff (Sundance Film Festival) YouTube channel. The show will feature guest hosts Shira Lazar,Casey Neistat andJimmy Conrad, filmmaker interviews, the latest news from the festival, exclusive sneak peeks and more.Yoga (Jan. 17-24; 7:30-9am Mst) - Breathe and ease into warrior pose at these daily yoga sessions. Cassey Ho, star of the popular blogilates channel on YouTube, will lead these classes on January 17-21 Free and open to the public.
Individual Events:
How and Why to Use YouTube Panel (Jan. 22; 2-3pm Mst) - Hear from independent filmmaker Casey Neistat about how he successfully uses YouTube to distribute his films and build an audience. Free and open to the public.YouTube on Main Street and Paste Afternoon Showcase (Jan. 22; 3- 6pm Mst) Paste Magazine’s Josh Jackson will introduce performances by Sleeping at Last, Matt Scannell of Vertical Horizon, Michael Tolcher, and Carina Round. Press RSVP recommended.YouTube Party (Jan. 22; 9pm-1am Mst) Includes Dj set by Mick By invitation onlyNext and Midnight Cocktails (Jan. 23; 9:30-11pm Mst) By invitation onlyThey Came Together Film Reception (Jan. 24; 6:30-8:30pm Mst) - A reception for the world premiere of the romantic comedy. Includes a live Google+ Hangout with talent from the film including Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd. By invitation only.Film Contact: Shelby Kimlick – skimlick@mprm.com
Youtube Presents The 2014 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Program As the presenting sponsor of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Program, YouTube will help showcase some of the official shorts in competition on the sff (Sundance Film Festival) YouTube channel. For a complete list of this year’s short films, please visit Sundance.org. Additionally, Sundance audiences will be exposed to some of the best content on YouTube with select videos from popular YouTube channels to run before short film screenings at the festival.
Youtube Audience Award
On Saturday, January 25, 2014, the YouTube Audience Award will be presented at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony to a short film in competition that garners the most amount of views on YouTube between January 16-24, 2014. Check out the films on the sff (Sundance Film Festival) YouTube channel or click here.
The Sundance Institute selected 15 films eligible for this award from this year’s competition that include:
Allergy to Originality
Directed by Drew Christie
4 min, U S A
Animation
A humorous animated 'Op-Doc' explores the rich history of adaptation, plagiarism, and other forms of appropriation in art.
The Big House
Directed by Musa Syeed
5 min, U S A/Yemen
fiction
When a young Yemeni boy ventures out of his cramped apartment and finds a key to the empty mansion down the street, he lets himself and his imagination run wild in the big house.
Burger
Directed by Magnus Mork
11 min, Norway/United Kingdom
fiction
It's late night in a burger bar.
Catherine
Directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp
13 min, U S A
fiction
Catherine returns to work after a hiatus.
Chapel Perilous
Directed by Matthew Lessner
13 min, U S A
fiction
Levi Gold is paid an unexpected visit by Robin, a door-to-door salesman with nothing to sell. The ensuing encounter forces Levi to confront his true mystical calling, and the nature of reality itself. A metaphysical comedy trip-out with Sun Araw.
Crime The Animated Series (Marcus McGhee)
Directed by Alix Lambert and Sam Chou
4 min, U S A/Canada
Animated documentary
From Bank robbers to cops to victims to observers, Crime: The Animated Series explores how crime affects us all. The series is dark, compelling, heartbreaking, and yes - sometimes funny.
Cruising Electric (1980)
Brumby Boylston
1 min, U S A
fiction
The marketing department green-lights a red-light tie-in: 60 lost seconds of modern movie merchandising.
Dig
Directed by Toby Halbrooks
10 min, U S A
fiction
A young girl watches her father dig a hole in their backyard. Mystified about his purpose, the neighborhood comes to watch.
Funnel
Directed by Andre Hyland
7 min, U S A
fiction
A man's car breaks down and sends him on a quest across town that slowly turns into the most fantastically mundane adventure.
Gregory Go Boom
Directed by Janicza Bravo
17 min, U S A
fiction
A paraplegic man leaves home for the first time only to discover that life in the outside world is not the way he had imagined it.
MeTube: August Sings Carmen 'Habanera'
Directed by Daniel Moshel
4 min, Austria
fiction
George Bizet`s "Habanera" from Carmen has been reinterpreted and enhanced with electronic sounds for MeTube, a homage to thousands of ambitious YouTube users and video bloggers, and gifted and less gifted self-promoters on the Internet.
Notes on Blindness
Directed by Peter Middleton and James Spinney
13 min, United Kingdom
Documentary
In 1983, writer and theologian John Hull became blind. To help make sense of his loss, he began keeping an audio diary. Encompassing dreams, memories, and his imaginative life, Notes on Blindness immerses the viewer in Hull's experience of blindness.
Passer Passer
Directed by Louis Morton
4 min, U S A
Animation
An animated city symphony celebrates the hidden world of background noise.
Rat Pack Rat
Directed by Todd Rohal
19 min, U S A
fiction
A Sammy Davis, Jr. impersonator, hired to visit with a loyal Rat Pack fan, finds himself delivering last rights at the boy's bedside.
Tim and Susan Have Matching Handguns
Directed by Joe Callander
2 min, U S A
Documentary
Love is swapping clips with your spouse...
YouTube offered film fans access to the 2014 Sundance Film Festival both on and offline through several initiatives including:
Youtube On Main Street (596 Main Street, Park City, Ut 84060)
Open January 16-25, 2014 at various times. Warm up at “YouTube on Main Street,” the place for the creative community to convene for must-see panels, happy hours, film receptions, screenings, talks and DJ sets. Free Wi-Fi and drinks are available to badge holders when programs are not in session.
Daily Events at YouTube on Main Street:
“Live @ Sundance” On The Sundance Film Festival Youtube Channel Live daily from January 17-24, 2014 at 11am Mst at www.youtube.com/sff. Whether you’re in Park City or Phuket, you can check out the best of the fest daily with “Live @ Sundance.” The one-hour talk show will air live daily at 11am Mst January 17-24, 2014 from “YouTube on Mainstreet” on the sff (Sundance Film Festival) YouTube channel. The show will feature guest hosts Shira Lazar,Casey Neistat andJimmy Conrad, filmmaker interviews, the latest news from the festival, exclusive sneak peeks and more.Yoga (Jan. 17-24; 7:30-9am Mst) - Breathe and ease into warrior pose at these daily yoga sessions. Cassey Ho, star of the popular blogilates channel on YouTube, will lead these classes on January 17-21 Free and open to the public.
Individual Events:
How and Why to Use YouTube Panel (Jan. 22; 2-3pm Mst) - Hear from independent filmmaker Casey Neistat about how he successfully uses YouTube to distribute his films and build an audience. Free and open to the public.YouTube on Main Street and Paste Afternoon Showcase (Jan. 22; 3- 6pm Mst) Paste Magazine’s Josh Jackson will introduce performances by Sleeping at Last, Matt Scannell of Vertical Horizon, Michael Tolcher, and Carina Round. Press RSVP recommended.YouTube Party (Jan. 22; 9pm-1am Mst) Includes Dj set by Mick By invitation onlyNext and Midnight Cocktails (Jan. 23; 9:30-11pm Mst) By invitation onlyThey Came Together Film Reception (Jan. 24; 6:30-8:30pm Mst) - A reception for the world premiere of the romantic comedy. Includes a live Google+ Hangout with talent from the film including Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd. By invitation only.Film Contact: Shelby Kimlick – skimlick@mprm.com
Youtube Presents The 2014 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Program As the presenting sponsor of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Program, YouTube will help showcase some of the official shorts in competition on the sff (Sundance Film Festival) YouTube channel. For a complete list of this year’s short films, please visit Sundance.org. Additionally, Sundance audiences will be exposed to some of the best content on YouTube with select videos from popular YouTube channels to run before short film screenings at the festival.
Youtube Audience Award
On Saturday, January 25, 2014, the YouTube Audience Award will be presented at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony to a short film in competition that garners the most amount of views on YouTube between January 16-24, 2014. Check out the films on the sff (Sundance Film Festival) YouTube channel or click here.
The Sundance Institute selected 15 films eligible for this award from this year’s competition that include:
Allergy to Originality
Directed by Drew Christie
4 min, U S A
Animation
A humorous animated 'Op-Doc' explores the rich history of adaptation, plagiarism, and other forms of appropriation in art.
The Big House
Directed by Musa Syeed
5 min, U S A/Yemen
fiction
When a young Yemeni boy ventures out of his cramped apartment and finds a key to the empty mansion down the street, he lets himself and his imagination run wild in the big house.
Burger
Directed by Magnus Mork
11 min, Norway/United Kingdom
fiction
It's late night in a burger bar.
Catherine
Directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp
13 min, U S A
fiction
Catherine returns to work after a hiatus.
Chapel Perilous
Directed by Matthew Lessner
13 min, U S A
fiction
Levi Gold is paid an unexpected visit by Robin, a door-to-door salesman with nothing to sell. The ensuing encounter forces Levi to confront his true mystical calling, and the nature of reality itself. A metaphysical comedy trip-out with Sun Araw.
Crime The Animated Series (Marcus McGhee)
Directed by Alix Lambert and Sam Chou
4 min, U S A/Canada
Animated documentary
From Bank robbers to cops to victims to observers, Crime: The Animated Series explores how crime affects us all. The series is dark, compelling, heartbreaking, and yes - sometimes funny.
Cruising Electric (1980)
Brumby Boylston
1 min, U S A
fiction
The marketing department green-lights a red-light tie-in: 60 lost seconds of modern movie merchandising.
Dig
Directed by Toby Halbrooks
10 min, U S A
fiction
A young girl watches her father dig a hole in their backyard. Mystified about his purpose, the neighborhood comes to watch.
Funnel
Directed by Andre Hyland
7 min, U S A
fiction
A man's car breaks down and sends him on a quest across town that slowly turns into the most fantastically mundane adventure.
Gregory Go Boom
Directed by Janicza Bravo
17 min, U S A
fiction
A paraplegic man leaves home for the first time only to discover that life in the outside world is not the way he had imagined it.
MeTube: August Sings Carmen 'Habanera'
Directed by Daniel Moshel
4 min, Austria
fiction
George Bizet`s "Habanera" from Carmen has been reinterpreted and enhanced with electronic sounds for MeTube, a homage to thousands of ambitious YouTube users and video bloggers, and gifted and less gifted self-promoters on the Internet.
Notes on Blindness
Directed by Peter Middleton and James Spinney
13 min, United Kingdom
Documentary
In 1983, writer and theologian John Hull became blind. To help make sense of his loss, he began keeping an audio diary. Encompassing dreams, memories, and his imaginative life, Notes on Blindness immerses the viewer in Hull's experience of blindness.
Passer Passer
Directed by Louis Morton
4 min, U S A
Animation
An animated city symphony celebrates the hidden world of background noise.
Rat Pack Rat
Directed by Todd Rohal
19 min, U S A
fiction
A Sammy Davis, Jr. impersonator, hired to visit with a loyal Rat Pack fan, finds himself delivering last rights at the boy's bedside.
Tim and Susan Have Matching Handguns
Directed by Joe Callander
2 min, U S A
Documentary
Love is swapping clips with your spouse...
- 1/29/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The odds of having your short film included in this year’s Sundance Film Festival are .008 percent. Out of the 66 short film line-up (selected among 8,161 submissions) we find actress Rose McGowan move behind the camera for her directing debut (Dawn), we have Ain’t Them Bodies Saints producer Toby Halbrooks shovel out Dig (see pic above) and Todd Rohal (The Guatemalan Handshake) returns to the fest in between features with Rat Pack Rat. Filmmaker Magazine New Faces of Independent Film director Dean Fleischer-Camp rolls up his shirt sleeves with Catherine, Matthew Lessner returns to Park City with the helping hand Chapel Perilous while The Strange Ones (’11 accepted short) co-helmer Christopher Radcliff won’t be making a dissappearing act with Jonathan’s Chest. Finally docu feature-film helmer Lucy Walker moves into The Lion’s Mouth Opens. I’ll of course be covering several of these – look out for our coverage.
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- 12/10/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Short films can go a long way. Especially when they’re showcased at the Sundance Film Festival. The festival’s Shorts program, which was announced today, has a tradition of identifying remarkable filmmakers as well as introducing stories that ultimately make it to the big-screen as features. For example, David O. Russell brought his first film, a short titled Bingo Inferno to Sundance in 1987, while Half Nelson, which earned Ryan Gosling his first Oscar nomination, grew out of Ryan Fleck’s 2004 Sundance short titled, Gowanus, Brooklyn. “If you look back at the directors who got their start by having a short at Sundance,...
- 12/10/2013
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
This is another edition of Short Starts, where we present a weekly short film(s) from the start of a filmmaker or actor’s career. First of all, let me disappoint everyone by clarifying that The Houseguest is not technically softcore pornography. It doesn’t even include nudity except for a man’s backside. But it is part of one of the anthologies put out by Playboy in the early 1990s called Inside Out, which are comprised of shorts that are predominantly of a a softcore nature. Alexander Payne, whose latest feature Nebraska is out in limited release today, directed three erotica shorts for the label. The earlier two were co-written by himself and regular collaborator Jim Taylor and one of them appears in the first video in the series while the other is lost or buried. The Houseguest, meanwhile, was scripted by Ken Rudman and appears on Inside Out III. But...
- 11/15/2013
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The team behind u-Carmen eKhayelitsha - a modern remake of Georges Bizet's classic 1875 opera Carmen, shot entirely in Xhosa (one of South Africa's official languages), with an all-black South African cast, combining both music from the original opera with traditional music - are planning on doing a similar thing with Giacomo Puccini’s classic 1896 opera, La Boheme. But first, their next completed film, a re-imagining another operatic work, this time, Benjamin Britten’s 1957 piece, Noye’s Fludde, will make its World Premiere in the Contemporary World Cinema section at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Director Mark...
- 8/23/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
As I noted in an earlier post, I'm salivating over the Contemporary World Cinema section of this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Several films whose production progress we've been following over the last 12 to 24 months will be screening at the festival (many making the World premieres) when it kicks off next month, September 5. Here's another one to get excited about. We featured their last production, U-Carmen, an adaptation of perhaps the world's most-loved opera, Bizet's Carmen, and to follow that acclaimed film, the internationally acclaimed South African Theater Company, Dimpho Di Kopane (Ddk), is re-imagining another operatic work,...
- 8/14/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Need a break from the summer heat and blockbusters?
The Metropolitan Opera and Ncm Fathom Events once again present the fifth year of Summer HD Encores, a series of encore performances from the groundbreaking Live in HD series, in nearly 400 select U.S. cinemas nationwide including five theaters in St. Louis.
The Summer HD Encore series feature four of the most popular operas from previous seasons:
Bizet’s “Carmen” - June 19 Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” - June 26 Rossini’s “Armida” - July 10 Verdi’s “La Traviata” - July 17
Tickets for The Met: Live in HD Summer 2013 Encores, shown in cinemas Wednesday evenings at 7:00 p.m. in all time zones, are available at www.FathomEvents.com or at participating theater box offices.
The Summer Encore Series will be playing at the following movie theaters in your area:
Esquire 7 Chesterfield 14 with IMAX Gravois Bluffs Stadium 12 O’Fallon Stadium 14 St. Louis Mills...
The Metropolitan Opera and Ncm Fathom Events once again present the fifth year of Summer HD Encores, a series of encore performances from the groundbreaking Live in HD series, in nearly 400 select U.S. cinemas nationwide including five theaters in St. Louis.
The Summer HD Encore series feature four of the most popular operas from previous seasons:
Bizet’s “Carmen” - June 19 Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” - June 26 Rossini’s “Armida” - July 10 Verdi’s “La Traviata” - July 17
Tickets for The Met: Live in HD Summer 2013 Encores, shown in cinemas Wednesday evenings at 7:00 p.m. in all time zones, are available at www.FathomEvents.com or at participating theater box offices.
The Summer Encore Series will be playing at the following movie theaters in your area:
Esquire 7 Chesterfield 14 with IMAX Gravois Bluffs Stadium 12 O’Fallon Stadium 14 St. Louis Mills...
- 6/25/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Bradford is about to host a live version of Carmen with full Bollywood trimmings. Alfred Hickling hears how the organisers plan to get 3,000 audience members dancing in fountains
A team of bullfighters is being put through their paces, but there isn't a red cape or an ornate bolero jacket in sight. Instead, the toreadors are waving variously coloured silk scarves and prancing around as if the ground is too hot to stand on. Just as it's all seeming a bit too camp for Carmen, we reach the opera's toreador's march – and a heavily amplified Indian dhol beat kicks in. Suddenly it all makes sense: this is a rehearsal of Bollywood Carmen, an ambitious mash-up of Bizet, bhangra and Britain's biggest water feature.
Due to be televised live this Sunday, the production is the latest of BBC3's grand outdoor projects, which have so far brought us an R&B Bible...
A team of bullfighters is being put through their paces, but there isn't a red cape or an ornate bolero jacket in sight. Instead, the toreadors are waving variously coloured silk scarves and prancing around as if the ground is too hot to stand on. Just as it's all seeming a bit too camp for Carmen, we reach the opera's toreador's march – and a heavily amplified Indian dhol beat kicks in. Suddenly it all makes sense: this is a rehearsal of Bollywood Carmen, an ambitious mash-up of Bizet, bhangra and Britain's biggest water feature.
Due to be televised live this Sunday, the production is the latest of BBC3's grand outdoor projects, which have so far brought us an R&B Bible...
- 6/5/2013
- by Alfred Hickling
- The Guardian - Film News
Yesterday I featured their last production, U-Carmen, an adaptation of perhaps the world's most-loved opera, Bizet's Carmen. Today brings news that the internationally acclaimed South African Theater Company, Dimpho Di Kopane (Ddk), is re-imagining another operatic work, Benjamin Britten’s 1957 work, Noye’s Fludde. ScreenDaily reports exclusively that director Mark Dornford-May (who made his feature film debut with U-Carmen) has wrapped production on Unogumbe, a filmed opera based on Benjamin Britten’s work, which is a medieval retelling of the Noah's Ark story. The film stars stars Pauline Malefane, who also starred in U-Carmen, playing the...
- 5/16/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
The National Media Museum and Bradford, Unesco City of Film celebrated the centenary of Indian cinema on May 3rd by welcoming Bollywood superstar Jackie Shroff.
Shroff, star of more than 150 films, marked 100 years since the first public screening of the first Indian feature film Raja Harishchandra on May 3, 1913, with a VIP visit to the city organised in association with Asian Express Newspaper.
During his visit, part of Bradford’s 100 Years of Indian Cinema celebrations, Shroff was welcomed to the National Media Museum and its exhibition Bollywood Icons: 100 Years of Indian Cinema. He was interviewed by exhibition curator Irna Qureshi before chatting to Bradford College students about filmmaking. He also visited City Hall, meeting the Lord Mayor of Bradford.
He said: “I am delighted to be visiting Bradford, the world’s first Unesco City of Film, and the National Media Museum, to join their celebrations around 100 years of Indian cinema.”
“I...
Shroff, star of more than 150 films, marked 100 years since the first public screening of the first Indian feature film Raja Harishchandra on May 3, 1913, with a VIP visit to the city organised in association with Asian Express Newspaper.
During his visit, part of Bradford’s 100 Years of Indian Cinema celebrations, Shroff was welcomed to the National Media Museum and its exhibition Bollywood Icons: 100 Years of Indian Cinema. He was interviewed by exhibition curator Irna Qureshi before chatting to Bradford College students about filmmaking. He also visited City Hall, meeting the Lord Mayor of Bradford.
He said: “I am delighted to be visiting Bradford, the world’s first Unesco City of Film, and the National Media Museum, to join their celebrations around 100 years of Indian cinema.”
“I...
- 5/4/2013
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Former ‘Eastenders’, ‘Bombay Dreams’, ‘Four Lions’ and ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ star Preeya Kalidas is to star in a stunning Bollywood-influenced live event, to be broadcast this Summer on BBC Three.
Kalidas plays the lead role of ‘Karmen’, in a one hour live music extravaganza ‘Bollywood Carmen’, a contemporary Bollywood spin on Bizet’s classical opera ‘Carmen’, in front of a live audience at City Park in Bradford on 9th June.
Preeya Kalidas said: “Bollywood Carmen really does have something for everyone, it’s an amalgamation of music, dance, story and a lot of fun! Live theatre is very exciting and I think to have the audience as part of that is not only an experience for them but will also be an experience for us.”
‘Bollywood Carmen’ coincides with the Indian film industry’s 100 year anniversary celebrations. Kalidas adds: “Bollywood films have always been close to me, I started...
Kalidas plays the lead role of ‘Karmen’, in a one hour live music extravaganza ‘Bollywood Carmen’, a contemporary Bollywood spin on Bizet’s classical opera ‘Carmen’, in front of a live audience at City Park in Bradford on 9th June.
Preeya Kalidas said: “Bollywood Carmen really does have something for everyone, it’s an amalgamation of music, dance, story and a lot of fun! Live theatre is very exciting and I think to have the audience as part of that is not only an experience for them but will also be an experience for us.”
‘Bollywood Carmen’ coincides with the Indian film industry’s 100 year anniversary celebrations. Kalidas adds: “Bollywood films have always been close to me, I started...
- 5/4/2013
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
London, May 03: Actress Preeya Kalidas, who played Amira Masood in the TV drama 'EastEnders', is all set to star in a Bollywood style production of the opera Carmen.
Georges Bizet's work is being adapted for BBC3 and will be televised live from Bradford's City Park on 9 June, BBC reported.
Kalidas, who also played the lead in Andrew Lloyd Webber's West End hit Bombay Dreams, will be leading the cast as Karmen and will be accompanied by Indian film actor Abhay Deol.
The line-up also includes Waterloo Road and Strictly Come Dancing star Chelsee Healy as Karmen's friend Shazzy.
The lead character's other friend, Kylie, will be played by Coronation Street actress Rachel Leskovak.
Emmerdale's Stephen Rahman-Hughes.
Georges Bizet's work is being adapted for BBC3 and will be televised live from Bradford's City Park on 9 June, BBC reported.
Kalidas, who also played the lead in Andrew Lloyd Webber's West End hit Bombay Dreams, will be leading the cast as Karmen and will be accompanied by Indian film actor Abhay Deol.
The line-up also includes Waterloo Road and Strictly Come Dancing star Chelsee Healy as Karmen's friend Shazzy.
The lead character's other friend, Kylie, will be played by Coronation Street actress Rachel Leskovak.
Emmerdale's Stephen Rahman-Hughes.
- 5/3/2013
- by Meeta Kabra
- RealBollywood.com
London, Apr 8: Auditions have started for 'Bollywood Live,' a BBC production adapted from the opera Carmen by Bizet, in Bradford.
The musical will also include original music and pop songs.
The lead cast is yet to be announced and the event will be taking place on 9 June in Bradford's City Park with a simultaneous broadcast on BBC Three
The volunteer performers will be working alongside professional actors and dancers.
Choreographer Honey Kalaria said that their team has seen some fantastic and extremely talented members of the public and it would be a real challenge for them to use different skills and experiences to make sure that the routines on the night look professional and extravagant.
Director.
The musical will also include original music and pop songs.
The lead cast is yet to be announced and the event will be taking place on 9 June in Bradford's City Park with a simultaneous broadcast on BBC Three
The volunteer performers will be working alongside professional actors and dancers.
Choreographer Honey Kalaria said that their team has seen some fantastic and extremely talented members of the public and it would be a real challenge for them to use different skills and experiences to make sure that the routines on the night look professional and extravagant.
Director.
- 4/8/2013
- by Diksha Singh
- RealBollywood.com
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