Arrow Video announced the UK release of The Count Yorga Collection on Blu-ray and DVD. Also in today’s Highlights: a look at six preview pages from the hardcover edition of the Dead Vengeance comic and DVD and Digital HD release details for Sean K. Robb’s Scars.
The Count Yorga Collection UK Blu-ray / DVD Release Details & Cover Art: From Arrow Video: “Updating the vampire mythos to early 1970s Los Angeles, these much-loved cult classics star Robert Quarry (Dr. Phibes Rises Again) as the svelte Count Yorga, living in a mansion in the southern California hills with his equally mysterious “brides”. Introducing himself as a mystic from Bulgaria who’s an expert on séances, his true nature is given away by the title of his first film, Count Yorga, Vampire, long before the hapless Donna (Donna Anders, Werewolves on Wheels) and her friends discover the truth.
The sequel, The Return of Count Yorga,...
The Count Yorga Collection UK Blu-ray / DVD Release Details & Cover Art: From Arrow Video: “Updating the vampire mythos to early 1970s Los Angeles, these much-loved cult classics star Robert Quarry (Dr. Phibes Rises Again) as the svelte Count Yorga, living in a mansion in the southern California hills with his equally mysterious “brides”. Introducing himself as a mystic from Bulgaria who’s an expert on séances, his true nature is given away by the title of his first film, Count Yorga, Vampire, long before the hapless Donna (Donna Anders, Werewolves on Wheels) and her friends discover the truth.
The sequel, The Return of Count Yorga,...
- 5/9/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
1. William Parker: For Those Who Are, Still (Aum Fidelity/Centering)
I have been an admirer and observer of William Parker for a quarter century, but nothing prepared me for the impact of this three-disc set's final CD, which features an orchestral composition, Ceremonies for Those Who Are Still, which ranks high among the best orchestral music of the 21st century, and I'm including classical composers. In other words, don't cringe while imagining the usual jazz-with-strings hack job. There are moments in Ceremonies for Those Who Are Still -- particularly when the choir is singing Parker's poems of life and loss and creation -- when the grandeur of the year's most fashionable jazz album, Kamasi Washington's The Epic (also a three-cd set) comes to mind, but the difference -- the reason Parker's set ranks much higher -- is that his orchestrations are vastly more contrapuntal, colorful, individual, and just plain daring.
I have been an admirer and observer of William Parker for a quarter century, but nothing prepared me for the impact of this three-disc set's final CD, which features an orchestral composition, Ceremonies for Those Who Are Still, which ranks high among the best orchestral music of the 21st century, and I'm including classical composers. In other words, don't cringe while imagining the usual jazz-with-strings hack job. There are moments in Ceremonies for Those Who Are Still -- particularly when the choir is singing Parker's poems of life and loss and creation -- when the grandeur of the year's most fashionable jazz album, Kamasi Washington's The Epic (also a three-cd set) comes to mind, but the difference -- the reason Parker's set ranks much higher -- is that his orchestrations are vastly more contrapuntal, colorful, individual, and just plain daring.
- 1/3/2016
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
We have a look at four pages from Dark Horse Comics' Dead Vengeance #4, stay tuned after the jump. Also in this morning's round-up: new details / trailer for Rooster Teeth's Lazer Team and Dance of the Blue Tattoo casting news.
Dead Vengeance #4: From Dark Horse Comics: "When John Doe uncovers the conspiracy that led to his untimely demise, he comes face to face with his betrayers as he squares off against the villainous Purple Gang!
* The thrilling conclusion!
* A noir horror story by Bill Morrison (The Simpsons)!
Writer:
Bill Morrison
Penciller:
Tone Rodriguez
Inker:
Keith Champagne
Colorist:
Carlos Badilla
Cover Artist:
Bill Morrison
Genre: Action/Adventure, Crime, Horror
Publication Date:
January 06, 2016
Format:
Fc, 32 pages; Miniseries
Price:
$3.99."
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Lazer Team: Press Release: "Austin, TX - Monday, December 14, 2015 - Sci-fi comedy Lazer Team, the first feature film from pioneering creative studio Rooster Teeth, is coming to YouTube Red in the U.
Dead Vengeance #4: From Dark Horse Comics: "When John Doe uncovers the conspiracy that led to his untimely demise, he comes face to face with his betrayers as he squares off against the villainous Purple Gang!
* The thrilling conclusion!
* A noir horror story by Bill Morrison (The Simpsons)!
Writer:
Bill Morrison
Penciller:
Tone Rodriguez
Inker:
Keith Champagne
Colorist:
Carlos Badilla
Cover Artist:
Bill Morrison
Genre: Action/Adventure, Crime, Horror
Publication Date:
January 06, 2016
Format:
Fc, 32 pages; Miniseries
Price:
$3.99."
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Lazer Team: Press Release: "Austin, TX - Monday, December 14, 2015 - Sci-fi comedy Lazer Team, the first feature film from pioneering creative studio Rooster Teeth, is coming to YouTube Red in the U.
- 12/29/2015
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
The Miners' Hymns (2011) is "an elegant, elegiac found-footage work from Bill Morrison, best known for his silent-film reverie Decasia," writes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times. "A miner himself of a type, Mr Morrison has dug into the archives of the likes of the British Film Institute to cull primarily black-and-white images so rich, so alive with dirty faces, shadows and the occasional pit pony that they resurrect a world that for many has long been lost to history." It screens from today through Tuesday at Film Forum with three of Morrison's shorts, previewed by Cinespect's Ryan Wells. Release (2010) "uses found footage of the 1930 release of Al Capone from Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary," while Outerborough (2005) "gorgeously catches a ride on a trolley making its voyage across the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan. Morrison gives us a split screen with two perspectives: a camera facing Brooklyn, another looking back at Manhattan.
- 2/9/2012
- MUBI
Experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison will probably always be best known for 2002’s “Decasia,” his 67-minute meditation on the terrifying beauty of decomposing film prints. But Morrison has made many other films that take advantage of movie archives’ mysterious power to conjure up the past in ways both vividly real and distorted. Morrison’s 2011 piece “The Miners’ Hymns” is being shown with a trio of those earlier works: 2010’s “Release,” which mirrors a panoramic shot of Al Capone being let out of prison such that the assembled crowd collapses into itself; 2005’s similar “Outerborough,” which runs two ...
- 2/9/2012
- avclub.com
Filmmaker Bill Morrison is one of the leading international artists working within the genre of found footage filmmaking. In his previous work, like "The Highwater Trilogy" (Tff '06) and Release (Tff '10), he often uses shots replete with signs of chemical deterioration and decay. He then refashions these images via digital processing techniques into meditations on the fragility of human existence. In "The Miners' Hymns," Morrison shifts his emphasis from ...
- 4/14/2011
- Indiewire
Filmmaker Bill Morrison is one of the leading international artists working within the genre of found footage filmmaking. In his previous work, like "The Highwater Trilogy" (Tff '06) and Release (Tff '10), he often uses shots replete with signs of chemical deterioration and decay. He then refashions these images via digital processing techniques into meditations on the fragility of human existence. In "The Miners' Hymns," Morrison shifts his emphasis from ...
- 4/14/2011
- indieWIRE - People
The 39th annual Festival du Nouveau Cinema is set to run in Montreal on Oct 13-24. But, within the overall, massive festival is the Fnc Lab, the avant-garde and experimental section that will be having screenings and live film performances every night on Oct. 14-22.
This year, the Fnc Lab is showcasing two retrospectives; plus, a short film program of strictly 16mm films, films from the Korean Jeonju Digital Project, four feature-length projects and several special one-of-a-kind performances.
The retrospectives are of two key American women experimental filmmakers. First, in conjunction with the Double Negative Collective, the fest presents a career overview of Chick Strand, the eminent ethnographic filmmaker who sadly passed away last year at the age of 77.
Then, there’s also a retrospective of playful avant-garde filmmaker Marie Losier, who is well known for her collaborations with and film portraits of key underground figures like George Kuchar, Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge.
This year, the Fnc Lab is showcasing two retrospectives; plus, a short film program of strictly 16mm films, films from the Korean Jeonju Digital Project, four feature-length projects and several special one-of-a-kind performances.
The retrospectives are of two key American women experimental filmmakers. First, in conjunction with the Double Negative Collective, the fest presents a career overview of Chick Strand, the eminent ethnographic filmmaker who sadly passed away last year at the age of 77.
Then, there’s also a retrospective of playful avant-garde filmmaker Marie Losier, who is well known for her collaborations with and film portraits of key underground figures like George Kuchar, Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge.
- 10/6/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Official Press Release
Berkeley, CA – Jane Wiedlin (The Go-Go’s) and Bill Morrison (Bongo Comics) blast off this July with the out-of-this-world space adventure Lady Robotika from Shadowline and Image Comics. Scribes Wiedlin and Morrison get an assist by Tone Rodriguez (Shadowhawk), who works with Morrison on the art.
“I never meant for it to be like this,” exclaims Wiedlin. “One minute I was just another hard-workin’ guitar slinger, ripping out power chords while traveling the hinterlands with my band, The Go-Go’s. The next, I was blasted into a crazy adventure in Space, with powers far beyond a damn fine F chord and some nice sexy stage banter. But hey, it’s a big Universe out there, and someone’s got to save it. Guess that someone is Me.”
Morrison adds, “I heard someone say ‘Lady Robotika is bigger than Jesus!’ I certainly didn’t say it. I would never say something like that.
Berkeley, CA – Jane Wiedlin (The Go-Go’s) and Bill Morrison (Bongo Comics) blast off this July with the out-of-this-world space adventure Lady Robotika from Shadowline and Image Comics. Scribes Wiedlin and Morrison get an assist by Tone Rodriguez (Shadowhawk), who works with Morrison on the art.
“I never meant for it to be like this,” exclaims Wiedlin. “One minute I was just another hard-workin’ guitar slinger, ripping out power chords while traveling the hinterlands with my band, The Go-Go’s. The next, I was blasted into a crazy adventure in Space, with powers far beyond a damn fine F chord and some nice sexy stage banter. But hey, it’s a big Universe out there, and someone’s got to save it. Guess that someone is Me.”
Morrison adds, “I heard someone say ‘Lady Robotika is bigger than Jesus!’ I certainly didn’t say it. I would never say something like that.
- 4/25/2010
- by Jason Moore
- ScifiMafia
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