For AhkeemEstablished in 2002, the Tribeca Film Festival has had a bit of trouble defining itself during the course of its 15-year run. It lacks the grit and quirk of SXSW or the finesse of Sundance, but like the latter, it serves a springboard with its own lab for first time directors. Tribeca's ambitious programming has evolved to encompass much more than movies. A Virtual Reality sidebar is innovative and conveniently forward-looking, the television slate, chock full of hotly anticipated premieres, is opportunely adaptive, and the Talks section is fascinating in its pairings, both expected (Noah Baumbach and Dustin Hoffman, whose work together will be showcased at Cannes) and funkily improbable (Barbra Streisand and Robert Rodriguez). There's even a curation of interactive media in the Games section.While the festival is often unfairly maligned, there are many decent offerings, including spillover from the international film festival circuit and a premieres of some more well-known titles,...
- 5/4/2017
- MUBI
In April 2015, documentarian brothers Turner and Bill Ross went to Dayton, Ohio, with David Byrne to witness the Color Guard World Championships, an annual competition that finds costumed teams blending interpretive dance with an acrobatic use of flags, sabers and rifles. Byrne had been fascinated by the event – equal parts balletic art and rigorous sport – ever since a team asked to license one of his instrumentals and sent him a DVD of their performance. But for the Rosses, who grew up 30 minutes from Dayton, the event might as well have been on Jupiter.
- 3/3/2017
- Rollingstone.com
You'd normally be hard-pressed to find a link between color guards – those tween-to-teen troupes who do military-style dance routines involving waving flags and spinning rifles – hipster rock/Edm bands and micro-indie regional documentarians; a microscope used to be required to view the Venn diagram overlap. Enter David Byrne, an artist who's never found a bunch of disparate elements he couldn't turn into a creative goulash, and who became a fan of the Middle-America past time after a group asked to use his music for a routine. The former Talking Head...
- 3/1/2017
- Rollingstone.com
“Feud: Bette and Joan” is a TV show built on pure gossipy indulgence; one that’s inclined to believe the most juicy stories about its characters, but not in a bad way. Historical reports about the truth of what happened on the set of “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” and surrounding events are up for dispute, so instead we have the popular myths surrounding Bette Davis and Joan Crawford’s legendary — and last — on-screen collaboration put on display by Ryan Murphy and his team. The end result is at times simultaneously obvious, essential, and not nearly as campy as you might expect.
And it turns out, that’s for the best.
Read More: ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Will ‘Lean Into the Pain’ of Aging Actresses in Hollywood
The first thing you might notice about the show is the level of attention paid to recreating 1962 and ’63. In January, during the Television Critics Association press tour,...
And it turns out, that’s for the best.
Read More: ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Will ‘Lean Into the Pain’ of Aging Actresses in Hollywood
The first thing you might notice about the show is the level of attention paid to recreating 1962 and ’63. In January, during the Television Critics Association press tour,...
- 2/14/2017
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
In Mariah's world -- her literal world, which also obviously serves as legendary fodder for the aptly titled eight-part E! docu-series Mariah's World -- if there's no Apple TV, there's no show. (It makes you wonder: How did the diva of all divas perform before digital media players?)
But in the grand scheme of Mariah Carey's outsized life, which we're privy to in this "don't call it a reality series" circus of a show that actually does feature her ex-fiance James Packer (and new admirer Bryan Tanaka), it's as vital as the oxygen she breathes and the fifth octave she hits. According to Molly, a past pet poop scooper-turned-new Mariah assistant, without it, "she can't sleep," which means, "she can’t perform. … If it’s not there, everything else falls apart."
"It's the most important thing for Ms. Mc," Molly reveals in earnest.
Watch: Mariah Carey and Bryan Tanaka Kiss, Show Off All...
But in the grand scheme of Mariah Carey's outsized life, which we're privy to in this "don't call it a reality series" circus of a show that actually does feature her ex-fiance James Packer (and new admirer Bryan Tanaka), it's as vital as the oxygen she breathes and the fifth octave she hits. According to Molly, a past pet poop scooper-turned-new Mariah assistant, without it, "she can't sleep," which means, "she can’t perform. … If it’s not there, everything else falls apart."
"It's the most important thing for Ms. Mc," Molly reveals in earnest.
Watch: Mariah Carey and Bryan Tanaka Kiss, Show Off All...
- 12/5/2016
- Entertainment Tonight
In Mariah's world – her literal world, which also obviously serves as legendary fodder for the aptly titled eight-part E! docu-series Mariah's World – if there's no Apple TV, there's no show. (It makes you wonder: How did the diva of all divas perform before digital media players?)
But in the grand scheme of the superstar's outsized life, which we're privy to in this "don't call it a reality series" circus of a show that actually does feature her ex-fiance James Packer (and new admirer Bryan Tanaka), it's as vital as the oxygen she breathes and the fifth octave she hits. According to Molly, a past pet poop scooper-turned-new Mariah assistant, without it, "she can't sleep," which means, "she can’t perform. … If it’s not there, everything else falls apart."
"It's the most important thing for Ms. Mc," Molly reveals in earnest.
Watch: Mariah Carey and Bryan Tanaka Kiss, Show Off All the Pda on Hawaii Beach Getaway...
But in the grand scheme of the superstar's outsized life, which we're privy to in this "don't call it a reality series" circus of a show that actually does feature her ex-fiance James Packer (and new admirer Bryan Tanaka), it's as vital as the oxygen she breathes and the fifth octave she hits. According to Molly, a past pet poop scooper-turned-new Mariah assistant, without it, "she can't sleep," which means, "she can’t perform. … If it’s not there, everything else falls apart."
"It's the most important thing for Ms. Mc," Molly reveals in earnest.
Watch: Mariah Carey and Bryan Tanaka Kiss, Show Off All the Pda on Hawaii Beach Getaway...
- 12/5/2016
- Entertainment Tonight
Justin Timberlake is heading to the big screen with a concert film focusing on his 20/20 Experience World Tour.
The musician is working with Philadelphia director Jonathan Demme on the project, EW reports.
Demme filmed Timberlake's show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas – his final tour on the 134-date tour - for the movie on January 2.
Speaking to EW, Demme said: "It's very emotional, very exciting. It's a space age music film!"
He added: "There's tremendous dancing in this piece.
"[Timberlake has] got an extraordinary band called the Tennessee Kids. Huge horn section, two lead guitars, two drummers, eight dancers, four exquisite background singers. And we caught them on their last performance."
Justin Timberlake and Alfonso Ribeiro do the Carlton Dance together and it's amazing
Demme is well known for his work on such films as The Silence of the Lambs, The Manchurian Candidate and Philadelphia – as well as Talking Head...
The musician is working with Philadelphia director Jonathan Demme on the project, EW reports.
Demme filmed Timberlake's show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas – his final tour on the 134-date tour - for the movie on January 2.
Speaking to EW, Demme said: "It's very emotional, very exciting. It's a space age music film!"
He added: "There's tremendous dancing in this piece.
"[Timberlake has] got an extraordinary band called the Tennessee Kids. Huge horn section, two lead guitars, two drummers, eight dancers, four exquisite background singers. And we caught them on their last performance."
Justin Timberlake and Alfonso Ribeiro do the Carlton Dance together and it's amazing
Demme is well known for his work on such films as The Silence of the Lambs, The Manchurian Candidate and Philadelphia – as well as Talking Head...
- 8/30/2015
- Digital Spy
Directed by: Steve James Written by: N/A (though based on the memoir Life Itself by Roger Ebert) Main Cast: Talking Head type appearances by the likes of Roger Ebert, Chaz Ebert, Steve James, Martin Scorsese, Werner Herzog, and many more… Past Oscar relations: Steve James was nominated for Best Film Editing for Hoop Dreams Here now we have a brand spanking new article in this series of mine on 2014 releases hoping to compete for some sort of Oscar attention as contenders at the upcoming 2015 ceremony. Next up for us is the documentary Life Itself, which looks to become the latest doc to bring a tear to an Academy voter’s eye. This documentary about the life of Roger Ebert comes to us from Steve James, a documentarian who is greatly admired in the industry, not unlike the late great Ebert himself. He’s yet to actually score a Best Documentary Feature nomination,...
- 7/3/2014
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Mamoru Oshii (Kokaku Kidotai, Innocence, Patlabor 2, Sky Crawlers) has one hell of an impressive resume, containing some of the biggest, challenging and most successful animation films out there. At the same time he never stopped experimenting, expanding his oeuvre with smaller, more artistic films (think Tenshi no Tamago or Tachiguishi Retsuden). Talking Head clearly belongs to this second category of films and should be approached with at least some level of caution.Talking Head is part of the unofficial live action trilogy Oshii directed between '87 and '92. It's not a true trilogy though as Talking Head has little (actually nothing) to do with the other two films. Red Spectacles and Stray Dog are both set in the Kerberos universe, Talking Head is a meta...
- 5/3/2012
- Screen Anarchy
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