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9 items from 2012
The Playlist Soundtrack Series Revisited: Wes Anderson
25 May 2012 11:58 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
In 2006, before I started The Playlist film blog, out of boredom I began what I called the The Playlist Soundtrack Series. A sort of "If I Were _______ (insert filmmaker's name here)" type thing. The concept was naive and simple: choose a handful of music-savvy filmmakers whose work I admired and create imaginary soundtracks for movies they hadn't made, based on their taste and music they might conceivably use one day. It began as nothing more than a fun exercise for me, as I had time on my hands back then.
Eventually, I had amassed a half a dozen of these soundtracks in various states of completion, and to host them somewhere I started The Playlist blog in 2007. It then became a place to discuss music in film, soundtracks, etc., and when that topic was outgrown slightly (after a while you tend to hit all the classic film and soundtrack bases »
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Roland Emmerich, ‘White House Down’ and the ‘Die Hard’ Formula
9 April 2012 2:47 PM, PDT | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
Last month, Sony Pictures picked up a spec script titled White House Down, written by James Vanderbilt (Zodiac, The Amazing Spider-Man). Sources say it sold for $3 million, a pricey purchase in the revitalized spec market and the largest sale of the year. At the very least, the buzzed-about purchase is a good sign that Sony executives are happy with his The Amazing Spider-Man script, and they are certainly willing to pay to make sure he is happy too.
Then, a week ago, director Roland Emmerich was reportedly in talks to make White House Down his next feature, all but promising his usual bombastic brand of large-scale action (Deadline). Emmerich is the same director who famously obliterated the President’s house in his 1996 blockbuster Independence Day and toppled more historical landmarks the world over in 2012 and The Day After Tomorrow.
Except, this time, the action will take place primarily on the inside of the West Wing, »
- Jeff Leins
Andy Warhol Foundation Seeks to Dismiss Velvet Underground Lawsuit
21 March 2012 8:04 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
The Andy Warhol Foundation is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by The Velvet Underground over the famous banana image that adorns its classic 1967 album, The Velvet Underground & Nico. In the motion, the Warhol Foundation makes the point that the band hasn't been in existence for 40 years, doesn't have a current licensing program on the claimed trademark and is under no legal threat so it can't pursue a case. The influential band, whose members included Lou Reed and John Cale, brought the lawsuit in January, claiming the Andy Warhol-created cover art's copyright was
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- Eriq Gardner
Andy Warhol was much more than an icon of modern cool
22 February 2012 8:07 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
25 years after his death, a new online film reduces Warhol to trashy cypher – but his art was subtle and profound
Andy Warhol died a quarter of a century ago today, on 22 February, 1987. He is in no danger of being forgotten. But what, exactly, is he being remembered for?
To mark today's anniversary, a new 40-minute film called Andy X, directed by Jim Sharman, who made the Rocky Horror Picture Show, is being released online. You can pay to watch, or alternatively Facebook users can use friends as currency, which is clearly a very Warholian idea. At least, it's the kind of idea we instantly label "Warholian", without thinking about what it really has to do with Warhol or his art. This is part of the problem when remembering Andy Warhol.
More problems arise when you actually look at Sharman's film. It's a musical. Ok. It is not the first quasi-operatic »
- Jonathan Jones
Members of Velvet Underground Suing Warhol Foundation
12 January 2012 9:57 AM, PST | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »
Members of the Velvet Underground are suing the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for the use of the band’s iconic “banana” image, the New York Post reported. Lou Reed and John Cale said the foundation illegally licensed the logo for use on iPad cases and accessories. Warhol was the band’s manager and producer when the album was produced, but never copyrighted the design. »
Velvet Underground Sues Warhol Group
12 January 2012 6:00 AM, PST | Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal | See recent Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal news »
Everett Andy Warhol (center) with The Velvet Underground, Nico (bottom left), Paul Morrisey (far right) and Gerard Melanga (bottom right), c. 1966
The Velvet Underground sued a foundation that manages artist Andy Warhol’s legacy on Wednesday in a trademark dispute over the influential New York-based rock band’s iconic cover for its 1967 album “The Velvet Underground & Nico.”
The cover (pictured) features a banana on a white background with Warhol’s signature. The artist selected the banana design from an element »
- WSJ Staff
Velvet Underground Sues Andy Warhol Foundation Over Famous Banana Album Cover
11 January 2012 1:44 PM, PST | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
The Velvet Underground has filed a lawsuit in New York federal court against The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts over new uses of an iconic cover from the band's 1967 album, The Velvet Underground & Nico. The Andy Warhol-created banana image is instantly recognizable, and now the two parties are fighting over who gets to control it. A copyright on the banana design was never formally registered, but band members including Lou Reed and John Cale maintain it "became a symbol, truly an icon, of the Velvet Underground" for decades. After reading reports that the Warhol Foundation
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- Eriq Gardner
Lou Reed and John Cale are suing the Andy Warhol Foundation over their iconic album cover
11 January 2012 11:00 AM, PST | Nerve | See recent Nerve news »
Even if you haven't listened to the classic 1967 album The Velvet Underground & Nico, you've undoubtedly seen its iconic front cover. Well, now, that unassuming banana is at the center of a war: former Velvet Undergrounders Lou Reed and John Cale are fighting the Andy Warhol Foundation over the right to retain ownership of the image. Although Warhol famously discovered The Velvet Underground and brought them into his fold — and therefore into the limelight — Cale and Reed are less than thrilled that the Andy Warhol Foundation is treating the album cover as their property when it comes to licensing Warhol's work. Their lawsuit seeks to compel the Awf to stop selling their versions of the album cover, recognize that ownership of the image resides with the band, and fork over the classic "unspecified damages." The ownership is a thorny issue: Warhol designed the album [...] »
First Look 2012. Supplementary Roundup
9 January 2012 2:12 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
As a followup to Jesse Cataldo's guide to the inaugural edition of the Museum of the Moving Image series First Look, which runs through January 15, when it closes with Raya Martin's Buenas Noches, España (he'll be there — and that's the trailer above, of course), I thought I'd round up a few supplementary items, starting with Eric Hynes's overview in the Voice, where he notes that First Look "already has a discernible identity":
In each their own way, the invited filmmakers approach film as a terrain for formal dexterity. They hail from all over the world—representing 11 countries and four continents — but nationality seems well beside the point. These are films in which borders are crossed as a matter of course: An Italian filmmaker tails a hero of the Armenian avant-garde (The Silence of Peleshian), while a Belgian master conjures Malaysia in the Cambodian jungle (Almayer's Folly); dramas resemble »
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