Oftentimes, the best and brightest of our musical talent never get to take center stage as an adoring crowd cheers them to glory. Some of the industry's most talented players happily occupy backstage roles, studio slots or, in the case of the subjects of Scott Rosenbaum's SXSW premiere "Sidemen - Long Road to Glory," careers as sidemen. Rosenbaum's new documentary focuses on some of American music's most skilled (and most unheralded) stars, so-called "sidemen" Pinetop Perkins, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith and Hubert Sumlin, lovingly bringing the three men's individual and collective stories to the big screen in a toe-tapping, eye-opening new feature. Read More: SXSW 2016 Coverage From Indiewire Per the film's official synopsis, the film is "an intimate look at the lives and legacies of piano player Pinetop Perkins, drummer Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith and guitarist Hubert Sumlin, all Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf sidemen. The film captures some of the.
- 3/15/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Part of the Tony Scott: A Moving Target critical project. Go here for the project's description, index and links to project's other movement.
To the overabundance of text, sounds, images—and moving images—in Tony Scott, we reply with something like our own. So let me (try to) keep this (almost as) short as a Tony Scott shot. Scott’s death this past summer would elicit film critics’ own counterpart to American politics: opinions and generalizations bandied between two camps who were, as always, preaching to their respective choirs. And needless to say, such discourses would be about as useful, informative, and interesting as American politics. For Scott’s work was hardly encamped: the outward liberalism of Enemy of the State, perhaps Hollywood’s most overt attack on our surveillance nation and the Nsa, possible only before 9/11, concludes that only Nsa aspirants can take down the Nsa, just as Man on Fire,...
To the overabundance of text, sounds, images—and moving images—in Tony Scott, we reply with something like our own. So let me (try to) keep this (almost as) short as a Tony Scott shot. Scott’s death this past summer would elicit film critics’ own counterpart to American politics: opinions and generalizations bandied between two camps who were, as always, preaching to their respective choirs. And needless to say, such discourses would be about as useful, informative, and interesting as American politics. For Scott’s work was hardly encamped: the outward liberalism of Enemy of the State, perhaps Hollywood’s most overt attack on our surveillance nation and the Nsa, possible only before 9/11, concludes that only Nsa aspirants can take down the Nsa, just as Man on Fire,...
- 12/3/2012
- by gina telaroli
- MUBI
Got a scoop request? An anonymous tip you’re dying to share? Just want to say hi? You can send any/all of the above to ausielloscoop@ew.com Question: It's great to see Jesse Spencer getting a powerful storyline on House. Any news on how he'll cope without Cameron? —Angela Ausiello: Not well. In the Nov. 23 episode — the first sans Jennifer Morrison as Cameron — he loses it and punches House in the face! "Chase is very clearly off his game," says a House insider, "and struggling with the loss of Cameron." What prompts the fisticuffs? Apparently, Doc Crankypants unfavorably...
- 11/5/2009
- by Michael Ausiello
- EW - Inside TV
Got a scoop request? An anonymous tip you’re dying to share? Just want to say hi? You can send any/all of the above to ausielloscoop@ew.com Question: It's great to see Jesse Spencer getting a powerful storyline on House. Any news on how he'll cope without Cameron? —Angela Ausiello: Not well. In the Nov. 23 episode — the first sans Jennifer Morrison as Cameron — he loses it and punches House in the face! "Chase is very clearly off his game," says a House insider, "and struggling with the loss of Cameron." What prompts the fisticuffs? Apparently, Doc Crankypants unfavorably...
- 11/5/2009
- by Michael Ausiello
- EW - Inside TV
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