"This is my life!!" Kino Lorber has revealed a new official trailer for the 4K restoration and re-release of a 1998 film titled Slam, from director Marc Levin and starring the talented actor / filmmaker / musician Saul Williams. This originally premiered back in 1998 at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won a few prizes, later playing at Cannes, Deauville, Helsinki, Toronto, and New York Film Fests that same year. "Slam is a landmark film that defies easy categorization. This emotionally powerful and technically innovative film deserves to be seen on the big screen." Williams stars as a guy named Ray Joshua who copes with urban crime and despair by competing in poetry slams. This also stars Sonja Sohn, Marc Levin, Bonz Malone, and Beau Sia. Slam has been digitally restored from the 35mm interpositive, and a new 4K Dcp created in collaboration between Sundance Institute, the Academy Film Archive, the UCLA Film & Television Archive,...
- 4/10/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The 2023 Sundance Film Festival will host special screenings of “Slam” and “The Doom Generation,” the Sundance Institute announced Wednesday.
The films, which premiered in 1998 and 1995 respectively, are the first titles announced for the upcoming festival. Both received their world premieres at Sundance — “Slam” premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section and won the Grand Jury Prize, while “The Doom Generation” premiered in the festival’s Premieres section. Both screenings will take place as part of the festival’s From the Collection section, which is dedicated to rescreening notable titles that previously played at Sundance. Each screening will be followed by a panel and discussions with the filmmakers, the details of which will be announced at a later date.
“Before we announce the full slate for the upcoming festival, we are taking a moment to honor our past in anticipation of what is to come,” Kim Yutani, Sundance’s director of programming,...
The films, which premiered in 1998 and 1995 respectively, are the first titles announced for the upcoming festival. Both received their world premieres at Sundance — “Slam” premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section and won the Grand Jury Prize, while “The Doom Generation” premiered in the festival’s Premieres section. Both screenings will take place as part of the festival’s From the Collection section, which is dedicated to rescreening notable titles that previously played at Sundance. Each screening will be followed by a panel and discussions with the filmmakers, the details of which will be announced at a later date.
“Before we announce the full slate for the upcoming festival, we are taking a moment to honor our past in anticipation of what is to come,” Kim Yutani, Sundance’s director of programming,...
- 10/12/2022
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
Before the full slate is announced for the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, the Park City, Utah event has already teed up two movies: the 25th Anniversary and digital restoration screening of Marc Levin’s Slam and the uncensored director’s cut and restoration of Gregg Araki’s The Doom Generation.
Both titles are showing in the fest’s From the Collection section.
“Before we announce the full slate for the upcoming Festival, we are taking a moment to honor our past in anticipation of what is to come,” said Kim Yutani, Director of Programming. “Sundance has always been a place for discovery, inspired conversations, and critical reflection, all thanks to the independent storytellers we are so fortunate to encounter each year. These screenings are our opportunity to present newly restored films From the Collection, reemphasize our commitment to artists throughout their careers, and find new ways to recontextualize the work that...
Both titles are showing in the fest’s From the Collection section.
“Before we announce the full slate for the upcoming Festival, we are taking a moment to honor our past in anticipation of what is to come,” said Kim Yutani, Director of Programming. “Sundance has always been a place for discovery, inspired conversations, and critical reflection, all thanks to the independent storytellers we are so fortunate to encounter each year. These screenings are our opportunity to present newly restored films From the Collection, reemphasize our commitment to artists throughout their careers, and find new ways to recontextualize the work that...
- 10/12/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
In-person festival runs January 19-29 with online component.
Sundance has announced the first two films in the 2023 festival’s From The Collection section – the 25th anniversary digital restoration of Slam and the uncensored director’s cut and restoration of The Doom Generation.
Marc Levin directed Slam, which premiered in U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 1998 festival and won the grand jury prize. The film exposes the structural inequity of the criminal justice system through the story of a young Black performance poet imprisoned for a petty crime who finds salvation in his rhymes. Bonz Malone, Beau Sia, Sonja Sohn, and Saul Williams star.
Sundance has announced the first two films in the 2023 festival’s From The Collection section – the 25th anniversary digital restoration of Slam and the uncensored director’s cut and restoration of The Doom Generation.
Marc Levin directed Slam, which premiered in U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 1998 festival and won the grand jury prize. The film exposes the structural inequity of the criminal justice system through the story of a young Black performance poet imprisoned for a petty crime who finds salvation in his rhymes. Bonz Malone, Beau Sia, Sonja Sohn, and Saul Williams star.
- 10/12/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Welcome to another episode of the Scene 2 Seen Podcast! It’s your host Valerie Complex and I am back with another exciting episode.
This week, I talk to Neptune Frost co-directors American poet, musician, and actor Saul Williams, and actress, playwright Anisia Uzeyman. Frost had its world premiere last summer in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival in 2021, before screening at Toronto and NYFF during fall of last year.
The film takes place amid the hilltops of Burundi, where a collective of computer hackers emerges from a mining community, the result of a romance between a miner and an intersex runaway. Set between states of being—past and present, dream and waking life, colonized and free, male and female, memory and prescience—Neptune Frost is a call to reclaim technology for progressive political ends. The film offers an amalgamation of many of the themes, ideas and songs...
This week, I talk to Neptune Frost co-directors American poet, musician, and actor Saul Williams, and actress, playwright Anisia Uzeyman. Frost had its world premiere last summer in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival in 2021, before screening at Toronto and NYFF during fall of last year.
The film takes place amid the hilltops of Burundi, where a collective of computer hackers emerges from a mining community, the result of a romance between a miner and an intersex runaway. Set between states of being—past and present, dream and waking life, colonized and free, male and female, memory and prescience—Neptune Frost is a call to reclaim technology for progressive political ends. The film offers an amalgamation of many of the themes, ideas and songs...
- 6/14/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Two-thousand-double-one came in with the roar of Tiger Mommy and the tragic devastation of Japan’s tsunami. As it continued, the NBA waved farewell to Yao Ming, Gary Locke took a plane to Beijing — and Asians in the library made their cell phones ring. As 2012 begins, here are Tao Jones’s picks for the best, the worst and the most memorable events, individuals and phenomena of the year that was.
People of the Year: Angry men and brainy girls, diplomats,...
People of the Year: Angry men and brainy girls, diplomats,...
- 12/31/2011
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
If you believe that young people are all ill-informed and incapable of expressing themselves beyond 140 characters, then flip over to HBO's Brave New Voices. Every year, high school performers from across the country come together to perform at the Brave New Voices Grand Slam Finals poetry slam competition, and in the final round, it comes down to four teams. In 2010, the teams were from Denver, Albuquerque, San Francisco Bay area, and New York City. Brave New Voices gives viewers a glimpse into the world of competitive high school poetry slams and the raw emotion that these teenagers put into their art.
The 2010 Brave New Voices was hosted by actress Rosario Dawson and rapper/actor/Fox News “cop killer sympathizer” Common, and judges included Beau Sia, Mayda Del Valle, Talib Kweli, Sanaa Lathan, and Penn Jillette from Penn and Teller (bonus!). For the finals, each team picks a line-up of four poems,...
The 2010 Brave New Voices was hosted by actress Rosario Dawson and rapper/actor/Fox News “cop killer sympathizer” Common, and judges included Beau Sia, Mayda Del Valle, Talib Kweli, Sanaa Lathan, and Penn Jillette from Penn and Teller (bonus!). For the finals, each team picks a line-up of four poems,...
- 8/10/2011
- by Rachel Kolb
- JustPressPlay.net
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