Superstar classical pianist, Lang Lang, will return to the Royal Albert Hall in November for two headline concerts spotlighting the work of composer Camille Saint-Saëns.
The musician, currently being seen on Channel 4’s hit show The Piano, will be accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as he performs two immortal Saint-Saëns works: the composer’s second piano concerto, and his Carnival of the Animals. The latter piece will also feature a second soloist: Lang Lang’s wife, fellow pianist Gina Alice.
Matthew Todd, Director of Programming at the Royal Albert Hall, said: “Lang Lang is one of the giants of the classical world: a unique performer whose prodigious talent has made him a worldwide sensation. These headline performances will see him take centre stage at the Hall, performing a pair of works that will show him at his incomparable best.”
Lang Lang. Credit: Haiqiang Lv
The concert will begin...
The musician, currently being seen on Channel 4’s hit show The Piano, will be accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as he performs two immortal Saint-Saëns works: the composer’s second piano concerto, and his Carnival of the Animals. The latter piece will also feature a second soloist: Lang Lang’s wife, fellow pianist Gina Alice.
Matthew Todd, Director of Programming at the Royal Albert Hall, said: “Lang Lang is one of the giants of the classical world: a unique performer whose prodigious talent has made him a worldwide sensation. These headline performances will see him take centre stage at the Hall, performing a pair of works that will show him at his incomparable best.”
Lang Lang. Credit: Haiqiang Lv
The concert will begin...
- 3/26/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
Non-profit Initiative
Real life husband and wife couple, celebrity cricketer Virat Kohli and Bollywood star Anushka Sharma, are merging their respective foundations – Anushka Sharma Foundation and Virat Kohli Foundation – to launch SeVVA, a joint non-profit initiative aimed at helping those in need.
Sharma and Kohli said in a joint statement: “In the words of Kahlil Gibran ‘for in truth it is life that gives unto life – while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.’ With this sentiment in mind, we have decided to work together through SeVVA aiming to reach out to as many people as possible. SeVVA’s work won’t be confined to a particular issue as it will continue to strive for social good by championing humanity which is the need of the hour today.”
Next up for Sharma is “Chakda Xpress,” a Netflix film inspired by the life of one of women cricket’s all-time greatest players,...
Real life husband and wife couple, celebrity cricketer Virat Kohli and Bollywood star Anushka Sharma, are merging their respective foundations – Anushka Sharma Foundation and Virat Kohli Foundation – to launch SeVVA, a joint non-profit initiative aimed at helping those in need.
Sharma and Kohli said in a joint statement: “In the words of Kahlil Gibran ‘for in truth it is life that gives unto life – while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.’ With this sentiment in mind, we have decided to work together through SeVVA aiming to reach out to as many people as possible. SeVVA’s work won’t be confined to a particular issue as it will continue to strive for social good by championing humanity which is the need of the hour today.”
Next up for Sharma is “Chakda Xpress,” a Netflix film inspired by the life of one of women cricket’s all-time greatest players,...
- 3/23/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Classical music has gone to the dogs in Sarasota, Florida, and the audience loves it!
At some point in the future, you couldn’t blame Natalie Helm if she was tempted to stray from the classics and launch into a lively rendition of “You Ain’t Nothing But a Hound Dog” on her cello.
But she knows there would be a small price to pay.
“The goal is to help calm dogs down and help them to relax,” says Helm, a concert cellist who recently started volunteering her talents to soothe homeless pets at the Humane Society of Sarasota County in Florida.
At some point in the future, you couldn’t blame Natalie Helm if she was tempted to stray from the classics and launch into a lively rendition of “You Ain’t Nothing But a Hound Dog” on her cello.
But she knows there would be a small price to pay.
“The goal is to help calm dogs down and help them to relax,” says Helm, a concert cellist who recently started volunteering her talents to soothe homeless pets at the Humane Society of Sarasota County in Florida.
- 1/9/2017
- by kellibendertimeinc
- PEOPLE.com
As I struggled, as every year, to get my end-of-year lists finished in a reasonably timely fashion, it occurred to me that I could publish half of the classical list earlier if I could find a reasonable way to split it into categories. Thus the non-contemporary/contemporary divide this year. The newer composers' work requires more listening; that's the only reason the older repertoire comes first.
1. Ivan Moravec Twelfth Night Recital Prague 1987 (Supraphon) Supposedly this release of a previously unissued concert recording was approved by the pianist shortly before his passing in July 2015. Certainly it's hard to hear anything of significance that he wouldn't have liked about it, because it is a magnificent testament to everything that made him one of the greatest pianists who ever lived: one of the most beautiful piano tones ever heard, allied to liquid phrasing that gave him one of the greatest legato touches ever recorded.
1. Ivan Moravec Twelfth Night Recital Prague 1987 (Supraphon) Supposedly this release of a previously unissued concert recording was approved by the pianist shortly before his passing in July 2015. Certainly it's hard to hear anything of significance that he wouldn't have liked about it, because it is a magnificent testament to everything that made him one of the greatest pianists who ever lived: one of the most beautiful piano tones ever heard, allied to liquid phrasing that gave him one of the greatest legato touches ever recorded.
- 1/6/2016
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
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
by Seth Metoyer
MoreHorror.com
The first round of horror films have been announced for the Colorado based horror festival Telluride Horror Show. This years lineup looks sweet and includes premieres and a special screening of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas with director Q&A! Check the list of films below.
From The Press Release
The first wave of films is now live for the 2015 Telluride Horror Show, October 16-18 in picturesque Telluride, Colorado (elevation 8,750 ft.).
Most of the films will make their Colorado premieres at this year's festival or will screen fresh off their Fantastic Fest debuts. The festival will also feature a special screening of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas followed by a director Q&A.
Here's the complete lineup, which can also be found at http://telluridehorrorshow.com/films.html
Guests
Henry Selick
Guest Director
Henry Selick is an American stop-motion director, producer and writer...
MoreHorror.com
The first round of horror films have been announced for the Colorado based horror festival Telluride Horror Show. This years lineup looks sweet and includes premieres and a special screening of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas with director Q&A! Check the list of films below.
From The Press Release
The first wave of films is now live for the 2015 Telluride Horror Show, October 16-18 in picturesque Telluride, Colorado (elevation 8,750 ft.).
Most of the films will make their Colorado premieres at this year's festival or will screen fresh off their Fantastic Fest debuts. The festival will also feature a special screening of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas followed by a director Q&A.
Here's the complete lineup, which can also be found at http://telluridehorrorshow.com/films.html
Guests
Henry Selick
Guest Director
Henry Selick is an American stop-motion director, producer and writer...
- 9/8/2015
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Halloween is in less than two months, and Cavity Colors wants to help you get an early start on the festivities. Also: the lineup at the 2015 Telluride Horror Show and four posters from American Backwoods: Slew Hampshire.
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Cavity Colors' Halloween Celebration Shirts: "'The Girl Who Dreams Of Halloween' Limited Edition Print ($30.00)
Lucy found herself constantly daydreaming about candy corn, jack-o-lanterns, and paper skeletons... 1 day a year was not enough.... The giant pumpkin hovered over her head constantly... There was no escape.
Limited Edition of 100 Signed and numbered by Aaron Cavitycolors 17 x 22 inches (will fit any 18 x 24 frame) Printed with Archival inks on Velvet Cotton Paper Please allow 1 - 2 days for shipping (each print is made to order)
"Xenofloss" T-Shirt / Tanktop ($25.00)
In space, no one can hear you eat Halloween candy. But if you're an alien, you should always floss! There's no time for cavities!
Designed by Hillary White. Pre-order...
- 9/4/2015
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
We have someone (actually two people, the Coen bros.) to preside over the famed Cannes Film Festival jury and now we have a poster. Next? The movies themselves. The Festival du Cannes revealed the poster for the 68th edition of the famed international film festival today and this year's edition puts the spotlight on Ingrid Berman. The acclaimed Swedish actress presided over the Cannes Jury in 1973. Hervé Chigioni and Gilles Frappier designed this year's poster which always sets the stage for the upcoming festival. Besides the poster, the festival also released an animated video inspired by the new image featuring the music that plays before every Cannes screening, "The Carnival of the Animals" by Camille Saint-Saëns. This version was arranged by two Swedish musicians, Patrik Andersson and Andreas Söderström. You can watch the new video below the embedded poster image in this post. The 68th Festival du Cannes runs from...
- 3/23/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
While we hungrily await the 2015 Cannes lineup, which will be announced April 16, feast your eyes below on this year's official poster that pays tribute to Ingrid Bergman. Using a photo by David Seymour, Hervé Chigioni, who also created for last year’s poster of Marcello Mastroianni, was once again behind this year’s image with graphic designer Gilles Frappier. He also created an animated film alongside the poster featuring a remix of the Festival’s theme by Camille Saint-Saëns, that seductive tune that sweeps you into every screening. This year we'll see Stig Björkman's documentary "Ingrid Bergman, in Her Own Words" on the Croisette as part of the Cannes Classics sidebar. Cannes is also supporting an upcoming Ingrid Bergman tribute organized by her daughter Isabella Rossellini to toast Bergman's 100th birthday (she was born August 29, 1915). The show will be performed in the five key cities in Ingrid Bergman’s life:.
- 3/23/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
The sun is staying out longer and the days are getting warmer, which for movie fans means that the Cannes Film Festival is around the corner. We're already made our list of the 20 Films We Hope To See At The 2015 Cannes Film Festival and soon the announcements, hype and buzz will be escalating into fever pitch. But today things start out softly with release of the festival's official poster. Ingrid Bergman is this year's highlight star —the image above is based on a photograph by David Seymour, and the poster was put together by graphic designer Gilles Frappier. In addition, Frappier also put together an animated promo featuring a new version of Camille Saint-Saëns' "The Carnival of the Animals" by Patrik Andersson and Andreas Söderström. As festivalgoers know, that song is played along with the Cannes Film Festival logo prior to each screening at the fest. Check out the full one sheet below,...
- 3/23/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
The choice to pay tribute to Ingrid Bergman on the 2015 Cannes Film Festival poster is no surprise as she's been an icon in world cinema for ages, but I can't say I am particularly moved by Herve Chigioni's design here, using an image taken by David Seymour and collaborating with his graphic designer Gilles Frappier. It just looks rather plain to me, especially compared to last year's, which Chigioni was also behind, featuring Marcello Mastroianni. The image definitely has class, but it just doesn't quite pop for me the same as so many others have recently. On top of the 2014 poster featuring Mastroianni, just check out 2013's poster featuring Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, 2012's poster featuring Marilyn Monroe and 2011's featuring Faye Dunaway. In addition to the poster, Chigioni produced an animated film based on the visual, featuring a remix of the Festival's theme music, "The Carnival of the Animals" by Camille Saint-Saens,...
- 3/23/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
I used to work at a store where some of us employees liked to dress up for Halloween. One year the young woman I worked with that day dressed in her full Goth regalia (this is someone with a spiderweb tattoo), and when one customer said to her, "I love your costume," she replied, coldly and seriously, "It's not a costume." Ever since then I have thought of Halloween as the one day each year when Goths "fit in."
From whence does "Goth" come as a description of this subculture? Not from the original Goths, Germanic barbarians who sacked Rome and later founded the kingdom that eventually became Spain and Portugal. Rather, it comes from "Gothic fiction," an English literary movement (so called in reference to the architecture of castles) that dates from Horace Walpole's 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto.
Such famed literature as Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein,...
From whence does "Goth" come as a description of this subculture? Not from the original Goths, Germanic barbarians who sacked Rome and later founded the kingdom that eventually became Spain and Portugal. Rather, it comes from "Gothic fiction," an English literary movement (so called in reference to the architecture of castles) that dates from Horace Walpole's 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto.
Such famed literature as Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein,...
- 10/31/2014
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Michael Yezerski is an award-winning Australian composer who wrote the score for The Little Death, which is having its North American debut at Tiff 2014. The film is part of the Discovery programming and will be screening on Sept. 7th and Sept. 14th. Kate Kulzick had the opportunity to speak at length with Yezerski about his score for The Little Death (below) and his approach to composition (available here).
Kate Kulzick: It’s got to be very exciting to have one of your films opening at Tiff this weekend.
Michael Yezerski: We’re so excited about it. I’m really, really proud of this film… I’m just thrilled we get to share it with North American audiences finally.
Kk: For those unaware, The Little Death is a look at the lives of five couples in suburban Sydney… and the potential sexual dysfunctions or just various explorations of their relationships…...
Kate Kulzick: It’s got to be very exciting to have one of your films opening at Tiff this weekend.
Michael Yezerski: We’re so excited about it. I’m really, really proud of this film… I’m just thrilled we get to share it with North American audiences finally.
Kk: For those unaware, The Little Death is a look at the lives of five couples in suburban Sydney… and the potential sexual dysfunctions or just various explorations of their relationships…...
- 9/6/2014
- by Kate Kulzick
- SoundOnSight
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will open the 2014 edition of the TCM Classic Film Festival with the world premiere of a brand new restoration of the beloved Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! (1955). TCM’s own Robert Osborne, who serves as official host for the festival, will introduce Oklahoma!, with the film’s star, Academy Award®-winner Shirley Jones, in attendance. Vanity Fair will also return for the fifth year as a festival partner and co-presenter of the opening night after-party. Marking its fifth year, the TCM Classic Film Festival will take place April 10-13, 2014, in Hollywood. The gathering will coincide withTCM’s 20th anniversary as a leading authority in classic film.
In addition, the festival has added several high-profile guests to this year’s lineup, including Oscar®-winning director William Friedkin, who will attend for the screening of the U.S. premiere restoration of his suspenseful cult classic Sorcerer (1977); Kim Novak, who...
In addition, the festival has added several high-profile guests to this year’s lineup, including Oscar®-winning director William Friedkin, who will attend for the screening of the U.S. premiere restoration of his suspenseful cult classic Sorcerer (1977); Kim Novak, who...
- 2/14/2014
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The one-of-a-kind New Wave singer Klaus Nomi was born Klaus Sperber in Bavaria on January 24, 1944. Though his career effectively lasted just five years and he had no hits, he became a beloved cult artist and introduced people outside the realm of classical music to the glories of opera through stunning, highly stylized performances that crushed genre boundaries in a way that the many more calculated "classical crossover" acts since have been unable to achieve, no matter how many more records they may have sold.
Some sources say Nomi (adopted as a stage name as an anagram of "omni") was "classically trained" (though that could just mean piano lessons); Kurt Loder, writing for MTV, calls him "a true, if untrained, countertenor." (A countertenor is basically a male alto.) He did, in his youth, work as an usher at the German Opera in West Berlin, and informally sang there for an audience of his fellow workers.
Some sources say Nomi (adopted as a stage name as an anagram of "omni") was "classically trained" (though that could just mean piano lessons); Kurt Loder, writing for MTV, calls him "a true, if untrained, countertenor." (A countertenor is basically a male alto.) He did, in his youth, work as an usher at the German Opera in West Berlin, and informally sang there for an audience of his fellow workers.
- 1/24/2014
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Dead at 99: Opera star and Crosby's ex-girlfriend in 1944 Best Picture Oscar winner Risë Stevens, the Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano that moviegoers remember as Nelson Eddy's romantic partner in Roy Del Ruth's 1941 musical The Chocolate Soldier and as Bing Crosby's ex-girlfriend in Leo McCarey's 1944 Oscar-winning blockbuster Going My Way, died on Wednesday, March 20, at her Manhattan home. The former singer was 99 years old. (Pictured above: Stevens in her most famous operatic role, that of Bizet's anti-heroine Carmen.) Born in The Bronx, New York City, Stevens sang at the Metropolitan from 1938 to 1961; among her most popular roles were Dalila in Camille Saint-Saëns' Samson et Dalila, Mignon in Ambroise Thomas' opera of the same name, and most notable of all, the lead in Bizet's Carmen. After leaving the stage, she became an arts administrator with the Met and president of the Mannes College of Music.
- 3/22/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Shortly after 9/11, and very definitely as a personal response to that event, I wrote an article about Requiems for Cdnow, where I worked at the time (just a few blocks away from Ground Zero; fortunately our workday started at 10 Am, so I wasn't there yet that day, but in the weeks that followed there were days where, if the wind came from the wrong direction, we would go home early, it made us so sick). In the years since, I have written about music composed in response to that tragedy, such as John Adams's On the Transmigration of Souls. But now I find myself being drawn back to the Requiem idea. Here's a much-expanded take on it.
This roughly chronological list confines itself to works with a sacred basis, though the 20th century yielded secular Requiems, most notably Paul Hindemith's When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom...
This roughly chronological list confines itself to works with a sacred basis, though the 20th century yielded secular Requiems, most notably Paul Hindemith's When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom...
- 9/11/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Plan B's London riots-inspired directorial debut misses out on the opportunity to make a political statement
Ill Manors is a multi-stranded urban crime drama set in east London, the debut feature film from Ben Drew, otherwise known as singer-songwriter Plan B, and developed from his widely hailed song of the same name, all about the 2011 summer riots. The first half-hour of this movie is great: chaotic, inventive, energetic. But after this, the dynamism worryingly leaks out of the film; it turns out to be disappointingly and determinedly apolitical, while the lairy characters and situations look increasingly forced, derivative and unconvincing, with a touch of Guy Ritchie. By the time Natalie Press turns up, playing a woman forced to work as a prostitute by a sex-trafficking gang, the film has turned into a geezery Brit-Pulp Fiction knockoff. Riz Ahmed – so great in Chris Morris's Four Lions and Eran Creevy...
Ill Manors is a multi-stranded urban crime drama set in east London, the debut feature film from Ben Drew, otherwise known as singer-songwriter Plan B, and developed from his widely hailed song of the same name, all about the 2011 summer riots. The first half-hour of this movie is great: chaotic, inventive, energetic. But after this, the dynamism worryingly leaks out of the film; it turns out to be disappointingly and determinedly apolitical, while the lairy characters and situations look increasingly forced, derivative and unconvincing, with a touch of Guy Ritchie. By the time Natalie Press turns up, playing a woman forced to work as a prostitute by a sex-trafficking gang, the film has turned into a geezery Brit-Pulp Fiction knockoff. Riz Ahmed – so great in Chris Morris's Four Lions and Eran Creevy...
- 6/7/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Plan B's London riots-inspired directorial debut misses out on the opportunity to make a political statement
Ill Manors is a multi-stranded urban crime drama set in east London, the debut feature film from Ben Drew, otherwise known as singer-songwriter Plan B, and developed from his widely hailed song of the same name, all about the 2011 summer riots. The first half-hour of this movie is great: chaotic, inventive, energetic. But after this, the dynamism worryingly leaks out of the film; it turns out to be disappointingly and determinedly apolitical, while the lairy characters and situations look increasingly forced, derivative and unconvincing, with a touch of Guy Ritchie. By the time Natalie Press turns up, playing a woman forced to work as a prostitute by a sex-trafficking gang, the film has turned into a geezery Brit-Pulp Fiction knockoff. Riz Ahmed – so great in Chris Morris's Four Lions and Eran Creevy...
Ill Manors is a multi-stranded urban crime drama set in east London, the debut feature film from Ben Drew, otherwise known as singer-songwriter Plan B, and developed from his widely hailed song of the same name, all about the 2011 summer riots. The first half-hour of this movie is great: chaotic, inventive, energetic. But after this, the dynamism worryingly leaks out of the film; it turns out to be disappointingly and determinedly apolitical, while the lairy characters and situations look increasingly forced, derivative and unconvincing, with a touch of Guy Ritchie. By the time Natalie Press turns up, playing a woman forced to work as a prostitute by a sex-trafficking gang, the film has turned into a geezery Brit-Pulp Fiction knockoff. Riz Ahmed – so great in Chris Morris's Four Lions and Eran Creevy...
- 6/7/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
There are a whopping nine films nominated for Best Picture at this year’s Academy Awards. And between your work, family, and constant USA marathons of Law & Order: Svu (when will those ever stop being addictive?!), you simply may not have time to catch all nine in the theaters or at home. But never fear, dear PopWatchers — that’s why we’re here! Each day leading up to the Academy Awards Feb. 26, we’ll provide you with a deep dive into one of the nine Best Picture nominees. Fear showing up to your Oscars party unprepared to discuss the year’s most notable films?...
- 2/20/2012
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW.com - PopWatch
When a music teacher ends up as the main course for a swarm of rats, Nick and Hank suspect a former student may be responsible. Nick discovers that Roddy Geiger is not only a talented musician, he has a strange empathy with rodents, perhaps to the point that he can make them commit murder on his behalf.
Grimm Season 1, Episode 5: “Danse Macabre”
Written by David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf
Directed by David Solomon
Aired Thursday at 9pm on NBC
The Pied Piper used music to free the citizens of Hamelin from a plague of rats. When they refused to pay, the piper took a terrible revenge, luring all of the children in the city away, into an opening in the nearby hills which closed just as the terrified parents arrived, too late to save all but a single crippled boy. This episode of Grimm attempts to update the tale,...
Grimm Season 1, Episode 5: “Danse Macabre”
Written by David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf
Directed by David Solomon
Aired Thursday at 9pm on NBC
The Pied Piper used music to free the citizens of Hamelin from a plague of rats. When they refused to pay, the piper took a terrible revenge, luring all of the children in the city away, into an opening in the nearby hills which closed just as the terrified parents arrived, too late to save all but a single crippled boy. This episode of Grimm attempts to update the tale,...
- 12/12/2011
- by Cath Murphy
- SoundOnSight
Mention October to some and revolution and Eisenstein will spring to mind. To others, it'll be the journal of art criticism and theory (whose latest issue, as it happens, concentrates on film and video). But for many more, it'll be "the arrival of coolth and crispidy after months oppressive heat and intrusive sunshine… the downward spiral of maple leaves from the tree tops, the wind in the willows, the shadow over Innsmouth, the silence of the lambs, the howling in the woods, I love every damned thing about this glorious but all-too-short season!" exclaims Richard Harland Smith at Movie Morlocks. And of course, what he especially loves are "all the shades of Halloween, from the ticky-tack gee-gaws on the shelves at Cvs and Rite Aid to the widespread enjoyment of classical music (Camille Saint-Saëns's Danse Macabre, Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue), literature (Henry James's The Turn of the Screw,...
- 10/1/2011
- MUBI
The best of your comments on the latest films and music
When Bands Attack Bands sounds like such a natural TV show for the outer edges of the cableverse that it's a miracle no one has yet made it. If any programmers are reading, might I suggest you take a look at the thread beneath Bob Stanley's article last week, in which he mulled over musicians rowing over who owns the band's name. Honestly, you'll find enough material for a whole series.
An award for conspicuous devotion to duty in the face of multiple groups all claiming to be the real thing (not the Real Thing) goes to Kalyr: "There are currently two Wishbone Ashes and two Barclay James Harvests on the live circuit, each with one surviving original member. Having seen all four live, I would say the better live bands are versions that aren't the legal owners...
When Bands Attack Bands sounds like such a natural TV show for the outer edges of the cableverse that it's a miracle no one has yet made it. If any programmers are reading, might I suggest you take a look at the thread beneath Bob Stanley's article last week, in which he mulled over musicians rowing over who owns the band's name. Honestly, you'll find enough material for a whole series.
An award for conspicuous devotion to duty in the face of multiple groups all claiming to be the real thing (not the Real Thing) goes to Kalyr: "There are currently two Wishbone Ashes and two Barclay James Harvests on the live circuit, each with one surviving original member. Having seen all four live, I would say the better live bands are versions that aren't the legal owners...
- 9/8/2011
- by Michael Hann
- The Guardian - Film News
This past week, Film Score Monthly has released a new soundtrack album for Terrence Malick’s 1978 drama Days of Heaven. The film’s Academy Award-nominated score is composed by Ennio Morricone. The album comes in a 2Cd set and includes the 1978 soundtrack album including most of Morricone’s major themes and some music not heard in the picture, as well as the composer’s cues as heard in the final film on one disc. The second disc presents an extended, freestanding program of most of Morricone’s score as recorded. For audio clips and more information, visit Film Score Monthly’s album page. Days of Heaven starring Richard Gere, Sam Shepard and Brooke Adams centers on a hot-tempered farm laborer who convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune. The movie was nominated for four Academy...
- 7/31/2011
- by filmmusicreporter
- Film Music Reporter
Chicago – “Where is it that we were together? Who were you that I lived with? The brother. The friend. Darkness, light. Strife and love. Are they the workings of one mind? The features of the same face? Oh, my soul. Let me be in you now. Look out through my eyes. Look at all the things you made. All things shining.”
These hardly appear to be the sort of words one would expect to end a war film. And yet, in the haunting final moments of Terrence Malick’s intimate WWII epic, “The Thin Red Line,” Pvt. Train (John Dee Smith) delivers these lines as if they were erupting out of his very soul. It’s the sort of poetic prose that only a bona-fide artist such as Malick could pull off without seeming pretentious. His entire oeuvre is poetry of the highest caliber, from the ever-exploring lens of his...
These hardly appear to be the sort of words one would expect to end a war film. And yet, in the haunting final moments of Terrence Malick’s intimate WWII epic, “The Thin Red Line,” Pvt. Train (John Dee Smith) delivers these lines as if they were erupting out of his very soul. It’s the sort of poetic prose that only a bona-fide artist such as Malick could pull off without seeming pretentious. His entire oeuvre is poetry of the highest caliber, from the ever-exploring lens of his...
- 6/3/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Bruce Robinson’s follow-up to Withnail And I was the less acclaimed How To Get Ahead In Advertising. Zoe looks back at an underappreciated British comedy...
What do you get if you mix Richard E Grant with two heads, madness, paranoia, anti-commercialism and a lot of swearing? A Bruce Robinson film, of course.
Introducing How To Get Ahead In Advertising, then. No doubt you've heard of the cult classic, Withnail And I, the story of two actors who go on holiday by mistake. A flop when first released, the film gained cult status after being rediscovered on video many years later. And now with the recent DVD release of this 80s classic, I think it is about time How To Get Ahead In Advertising got the praise it deserves.
The plot is very simple. Advertising executive, Denis Bagley, played by Richard E Grant, is finding it difficult to create an advertising campaign for boils.
What do you get if you mix Richard E Grant with two heads, madness, paranoia, anti-commercialism and a lot of swearing? A Bruce Robinson film, of course.
Introducing How To Get Ahead In Advertising, then. No doubt you've heard of the cult classic, Withnail And I, the story of two actors who go on holiday by mistake. A flop when first released, the film gained cult status after being rediscovered on video many years later. And now with the recent DVD release of this 80s classic, I think it is about time How To Get Ahead In Advertising got the praise it deserves.
The plot is very simple. Advertising executive, Denis Bagley, played by Richard E Grant, is finding it difficult to create an advertising campaign for boils.
- 2/22/2011
- Den of Geek
Presumably not just so the world's figure skating commentators could keep discussing how poetic it was for the pairs to take the ice on Valentine's Day, competition got underway Sunday at the Vancouver Games. China's married two-time Olympic bronze medalists Xue Shen and Hongbo Zhao (pictured, far left), who came out of retirement in their thirties (!) to go for gold, performed first and set a new short program record. NBC's package on their 18-year partnership and dorm-room marriage made me emotionally vulnerable, so yes, I got chills when they hit their perfect side-by-side triple toe loops. They were skating to...
- 2/15/2010
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
If you've ever been to the Cannes Film Festival, or attended one of their screenings, then you know that the intro that plays in front of every film features a snippet of the brilliant score from Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (specifically the song "Aquarium" by Camille Saint-Saëns). They love Malick at Cannes and I truly believe that's where his new film The Tree of Life will be premiering in 2010. The Playlist has yet another update on some buzz regarding the auteur's elusive next film, which we've been hearing about for years now, but as we know, Malick likes to continue editing until he finally feels ready to unleash it upon the world. Since we know nothing about the actual film itself, and probably won't know anything until Cannes, all we've been writing about for the past few months is its prospective release. The Playlist discovered another new mention...
- 1/6/2010
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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