Jamie Reid, the artist responsible for the Sex Pistols’ album and singles artwork, has died at the age of 76.
Reid’s passing was first reported by Louder Than War. As of publication, a cause of death has not been disclosed.
Reid was behind the iconic artwork for the Sex Pistols’ debut album Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols, as well as the 7-inch picture sleeves for “God Save the Queen,” “Pretty Vacant,” and more. His cut-and-paste collage style would become emblematic of the punk-rock movement and remains synonymous with the aesthetics of the genre.
While Reid is best known for his classic Sex Pistols designs, he used his collage style for other projects — often political — including recent pieces targeting Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
Some of Reid’s colleagues took to social media to pay tribute to the late visual artist, such as British writer Jon Savage,...
Reid’s passing was first reported by Louder Than War. As of publication, a cause of death has not been disclosed.
Reid was behind the iconic artwork for the Sex Pistols’ debut album Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols, as well as the 7-inch picture sleeves for “God Save the Queen,” “Pretty Vacant,” and more. His cut-and-paste collage style would become emblematic of the punk-rock movement and remains synonymous with the aesthetics of the genre.
While Reid is best known for his classic Sex Pistols designs, he used his collage style for other projects — often political — including recent pieces targeting Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
Some of Reid’s colleagues took to social media to pay tribute to the late visual artist, such as British writer Jon Savage,...
- 8/9/2023
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
The first attempt to dramatize the Sex Pistols saga came with the release of the Julien Temple’s movie The Great Rock and Roll Swindle in 1980, just two years after the band imploded. The farcical film tells the story from the perspective of manager Malcolm McLaren and is so cartoonish that parts of it are actually animated.
It was the start of a mini-industry of Sex Pistols retrospectives that told their story from every conceivable angle, including the Gary Oldman/Chloe Webb movie Sid and Nancy, the Julien Temple documentary...
It was the start of a mini-industry of Sex Pistols retrospectives that told their story from every conceivable angle, including the Gary Oldman/Chloe Webb movie Sid and Nancy, the Julien Temple documentary...
- 6/5/2022
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
With Sundance now wrapped up, this month we turn our sights on Berlinale and a number of notable releases arriving both theatrically and digitally. From international Oscar contenders to long-delayed releases to musician-focused docs to our favorite group of jackasses, it’s an eclectic month. See our picks below.
15. The Sky Is Everywhere (Josephine Decker; Feb. 11 in theaters and Apple TV+)
Curiously absent from Sundance and Berlinale is the latest by an alum of both, Josephine Decker. Following Madeline’s Madeline and Shirley, the director is back with The Sky Is Everywhere, which was adapted by Jandy Nelson, based on her novel. Produced by A24 and Apple, it follows a high-schooler who loses her older sister and attempts to regain her footing in life. With the YA material, it looks like Decker is carving a new path; we’re curious to see the results.
14. Taste (Lê Bảo; Feb. 16 on Mubi...
15. The Sky Is Everywhere (Josephine Decker; Feb. 11 in theaters and Apple TV+)
Curiously absent from Sundance and Berlinale is the latest by an alum of both, Josephine Decker. Following Madeline’s Madeline and Shirley, the director is back with The Sky Is Everywhere, which was adapted by Jandy Nelson, based on her novel. Produced by A24 and Apple, it follows a high-schooler who loses her older sister and attempts to regain her footing in life. With the YA material, it looks like Decker is carving a new path; we’re curious to see the results.
14. Taste (Lê Bảo; Feb. 16 on Mubi...
- 2/2/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
For a young teenager steeped in grunge, Britpop, and the Beatles, the discovery of 1970s UK punk rock was tantamount to a swift slap in the face—and a glorious one, at that. And one of the crucial pieces of pre-internet background information was England’s Dreaming, Jon Savage’s indispensable study of the era. The book is full of memorable figures—none more so than Poly Styrene. She is only a minor player in Savage’s text, but few resonate more. The author explains that “Poly was a star, with her dayglo clothes, multi-racial background, teeth braces, and surreal songs which wittily commented on that very process of consumption and packaging that she was at once celebrating and transcending.”
All of these elements and many others are represented in the long-in-the-works documentary Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, which makes its Canadian premiere at Hot Docs 2021. The timing is apropos.
All of these elements and many others are represented in the long-in-the-works documentary Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, which makes its Canadian premiere at Hot Docs 2021. The timing is apropos.
- 4/30/2021
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
Matt Wolf’s Sundance Film Festival documentary “Spaceship Earth” arrives at quite a moment in history, as the film ponders a science experiment that wanted to find the good, and science-expanding possibilities, in self-imposed quarantine. Check out the first trailer for the film below, which Neon will release in May on digital platforms — including the websites of restaurants, bookstores, and other small non-theatrical businesses — as distributors get used to skipping theatrical in these crazy times.
“Spaceship Earth” is the true, stranger-than-fiction adventure of eight visionaries who, beginning in 1991, spent two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered biome called Biosphere 2. The glass terrarium deep in the Arizona desert sought to replicate earth’s ecosystem, end became a pilot program for Mars colonization. The experiment became a global phenomenon, chronicling daily existence in the face of life-threatening ecological disaster, from food shortages to oxygen deprivation, while contending with growing assumptions from the...
“Spaceship Earth” is the true, stranger-than-fiction adventure of eight visionaries who, beginning in 1991, spent two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered biome called Biosphere 2. The glass terrarium deep in the Arizona desert sought to replicate earth’s ecosystem, end became a pilot program for Mars colonization. The experiment became a global phenomenon, chronicling daily existence in the face of life-threatening ecological disaster, from food shortages to oxygen deprivation, while contending with growing assumptions from the...
- 4/21/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
The Visual Effects Society is handing out its 18th annual Ves Awards tonight at the Beverly Hilton, and Deadline is updating the winners list live as they are announced. Check out the list below.
Patton Oswalt is hosting the ceremony, which recognizes and honors the most outstanding visual effects work of the year and honors the artists who created them. Check out the latest winners and the nominees in all remaining categories below.
Since the Ves Awards launched in 2002, the winner of its top film category — Best Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Motion Picture — has gone on to score the Best Visual Effects Oscar in 10 of the 17 years. (Hugo won the Ves in the Feature Motion Picture category in 2011 and later won the Oscar.) But Ves and the Film Academy have differed in each of the past two years, with War for the Planet of the Apes losing the...
Patton Oswalt is hosting the ceremony, which recognizes and honors the most outstanding visual effects work of the year and honors the artists who created them. Check out the latest winners and the nominees in all remaining categories below.
Since the Ves Awards launched in 2002, the winner of its top film category — Best Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Motion Picture — has gone on to score the Best Visual Effects Oscar in 10 of the 17 years. (Hugo won the Ves in the Feature Motion Picture category in 2011 and later won the Oscar.) But Ves and the Film Academy have differed in each of the past two years, with War for the Planet of the Apes losing the...
- 1/30/2020
- by Erik Pedersen and Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
Chris Feil continues his look at the films of Tamara Jenkins...
The Savages came nearly a decade after Tamara Jenkins arrived in 1998 with Slums of Beverly Hills, and the wait found the writer/director’s onscreen family dynamics develop to something tougher. Turns out time brings a whole host of concerns both harder to reconcile and compromise with, both in fiction and real life. Though it deals with timeless issues like family and aging, The Savages is also quite of its time, though in subtle ways it has maybe taken over another decade to see. What’s always been clear is that the film is miraculous.
Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman star as adult siblings and unfulfilled creatives Wendy and Jon Savage, forced to care for their estranged and formerly abusive father as he succumbs to dementia. Jenkins again is fascinated with our unfortunate bodies and social pretenses, this...
The Savages came nearly a decade after Tamara Jenkins arrived in 1998 with Slums of Beverly Hills, and the wait found the writer/director’s onscreen family dynamics develop to something tougher. Turns out time brings a whole host of concerns both harder to reconcile and compromise with, both in fiction and real life. Though it deals with timeless issues like family and aging, The Savages is also quite of its time, though in subtle ways it has maybe taken over another decade to see. What’s always been clear is that the film is miraculous.
Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman star as adult siblings and unfulfilled creatives Wendy and Jon Savage, forced to care for their estranged and formerly abusive father as he succumbs to dementia. Jenkins again is fascinated with our unfortunate bodies and social pretenses, this...
- 10/5/2018
- by Chris Feil
- FilmExperience
“In 1762, Rousseau argued that puberty had such fundamental emotional and mental effects that it represented ‘a second birth.'”—Jon Savage, Teenage: The Prehistory of Youth Culture
“Maybe I’m an undramatic guy, but I remember a complete lack of anything big going on in high school.”— Richard Linklater
“Hey, watch the leather, man!”—Wooderson
What do you remember about your high school years? Is it the big stuff — scoring the winning touchdown, your valedictorian speech, getting pantsed in front of the girls’ volleyball team? Or maybe it’s the smaller,...
“Maybe I’m an undramatic guy, but I remember a complete lack of anything big going on in high school.”— Richard Linklater
“Hey, watch the leather, man!”—Wooderson
What do you remember about your high school years? Is it the big stuff — scoring the winning touchdown, your valedictorian speech, getting pantsed in front of the girls’ volleyball team? Or maybe it’s the smaller,...
- 9/24/2018
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
British film-maker Grant Gee has got together with Turkey’s Nobel prize-winning novelist, and the result is a mesmerising, original meditation on love and the city
Having cut his teeth on music videos (and then graduated to the cerebral Joy Division documentary, on which he collaborated with Jon Savage), Grant Gee has reinvented himself as a formidable force in the microgenre of literary travelogues, a space hitherto largely occupied by Patrick Keiller, Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair. Gee headed for Suffolk for Patience (After Sebald), a reconstruction and reinvestigation of Wg Sebald’s Rings of Saturn; now he has cast his net much further afield, to Istanbul, and a creative meeting of mind’s with Turkey’s Nobel-prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk.
As with his Sebald film, Gee has here carefully assembled a collage of textual fragments, painterly visuals and mysterious voiceovers. The major difference of course, is that Pamuk is...
Having cut his teeth on music videos (and then graduated to the cerebral Joy Division documentary, on which he collaborated with Jon Savage), Grant Gee has reinvented himself as a formidable force in the microgenre of literary travelogues, a space hitherto largely occupied by Patrick Keiller, Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair. Gee headed for Suffolk for Patience (After Sebald), a reconstruction and reinvestigation of Wg Sebald’s Rings of Saturn; now he has cast his net much further afield, to Istanbul, and a creative meeting of mind’s with Turkey’s Nobel-prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk.
As with his Sebald film, Gee has here carefully assembled a collage of textual fragments, painterly visuals and mysterious voiceovers. The major difference of course, is that Pamuk is...
- 9/10/2015
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Paramount
In his book Teenage, Jon Savage pinpoints the exact era when the idea of mopey, angry, hormone-filled adolescents finally took root in popular culture. Before 1945, there was no such thing as a teenager, no hinterland between childhood and adulthood. You finished school, then you were a grown up. No time to tread water or get used to things, just thrown in at the deep end. It’s only in the 20th century that the “liminal state of development that is temporally finite, cut short by the onslaught of responsibility and exhilaration of adulthood” reared its ugly head. Which coincides, rather handily, with the invention of the teen movie.
The fifties saw the rise of the rebellious biker picture, all rebels without causes and wild ones. The seventies was the time for George Lucas’ nostalgic American Graffiti to take the young folks’ minds off the draft. The eighties was presided over by John Hughes,...
In his book Teenage, Jon Savage pinpoints the exact era when the idea of mopey, angry, hormone-filled adolescents finally took root in popular culture. Before 1945, there was no such thing as a teenager, no hinterland between childhood and adulthood. You finished school, then you were a grown up. No time to tread water or get used to things, just thrown in at the deep end. It’s only in the 20th century that the “liminal state of development that is temporally finite, cut short by the onslaught of responsibility and exhilaration of adulthood” reared its ugly head. Which coincides, rather handily, with the invention of the teen movie.
The fifties saw the rise of the rebellious biker picture, all rebels without causes and wild ones. The seventies was the time for George Lucas’ nostalgic American Graffiti to take the young folks’ minds off the draft. The eighties was presided over by John Hughes,...
- 9/15/2014
- by Tom Baker
- Obsessed with Film
On the surface, Matt's Wolf's film about the rise of the teenager -- a 20th-century phenomenon -- seems like many other historical documentaries. It is an interesting subject stemming from a well-researched book (Jon Savage's Teenage), backed by archival footage and narration performed by noted actors (Jena Malone and Ben Whishaw). But Teenage is not like anything normally seen on PBS. For starters, there aren't any expert talking heads explaining the rise of the teenager -- in fact, there are no interviews at all. "The subject matter demands a more energized approach," director Matt Wolf explains to The Hollywood Reporter.
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- 3/28/2014
- by Chris O'Falt
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Filmmaker Matt Wolf's Teenage, a glossy video collage about the growth of youth culture in the early to mid-20th century, is inspired by author Jon Savage's Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture, 1875-1945. Austin Film Society hosted a screening of the film (with Wolf in attendance) last August, but Teenage returns to Austin this weekend for a theatrical run.
Opening in 1904, scenes of children at factories are shown as narrators explain how child-labor laws led to further schooling for kids. Jena Malone (Contact, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) and Ben Whishaw (Bright Star, Skyfall) are two of the four voices who speak from a specific point of view.
Amid the vintage photos and footage are live-action sequences -- with color adjustments and added graininess to blend in with the older stock -- used to illustrate singular stories representing significant movements. These silent scenes, scored with ambient...
Opening in 1904, scenes of children at factories are shown as narrators explain how child-labor laws led to further schooling for kids. Jena Malone (Contact, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) and Ben Whishaw (Bright Star, Skyfall) are two of the four voices who speak from a specific point of view.
Amid the vintage photos and footage are live-action sequences -- with color adjustments and added graininess to blend in with the older stock -- used to illustrate singular stories representing significant movements. These silent scenes, scored with ambient...
- 3/27/2014
- by Elizabeth Stoddard
- Slackerwood
Today’s teenagers may be their own industry, but the idea that there’s a distinctive time between childhood and adulthood is still relatively new.
Filmmaker Matt Wolf explores this concept, and the genesis of western youth culture, in Teenage, an intoxicating, genre-bending portrait of teenage life inspired by Jon Savage’s eponymous book. With never-before-seen archival footage, recreations, an original score from Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox, and voiceovers from the likes of Ben Whishaw and Jena Malone, Wolf creates an experimental, creative non-fiction collage that covers the turn of the century through 1945.
In retelling the stories of boxcar children,...
Filmmaker Matt Wolf explores this concept, and the genesis of western youth culture, in Teenage, an intoxicating, genre-bending portrait of teenage life inspired by Jon Savage’s eponymous book. With never-before-seen archival footage, recreations, an original score from Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox, and voiceovers from the likes of Ben Whishaw and Jena Malone, Wolf creates an experimental, creative non-fiction collage that covers the turn of the century through 1945.
In retelling the stories of boxcar children,...
- 3/21/2014
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
The common perspective is that teenagers are strange, uncertain creatures, temperamental, stubborn, hard to discipline and quick to rebel, and while there is some truth in those descriptions, they ignore the undeniable impact the demographic has had on history and culture. Indeed, teenagers are such a relatively new subculture, we're only now beginning to understand their role in the social sphere to its fullest extent. Jon Savage's book "Teenage: The Prehistory of Youth Culture: 1875-1945" explores the rise of what we now know as the teenager, and it serves as the foundation for Matt Wolf's documentary/visual essay/docudrama "Teenage," which is a clever assemblage of archival and historical material that unfortunately doesn't quite go far enough. Certainly, the aesthetic is impressive. With what we can only imagine was a tremendous amount of digging through boxes of old film, followed by an exhaustive editing process, Wolf collects vintage film,...
- 3/19/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Based on Jon Savage’s 2007 book Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture, Matt Wolf’s elliptical and handsome documentary Teenage delves into the history of teen-hood, revealing how those formative years between 12 and 20 produced generations that were cultural forces to be reckoned with in the West during the 20th century’s earliest decades. Using a collage style that includes archival footage, newsreels, dramatic reenactments (anchored by recognizable young actors such as Jenna Malone and total newcomers found by street-casting impresario Eleonore Hendricks), the movie takes us to pre-war Germany, through the pages of diaries of midwestern 15-year-olds, and to dance […]...
- 3/16/2014
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Based on Jon Savage’s 2007 book Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture, Matt Wolf’s elliptical and handsome documentary Teenage delves into the history of teen-hood, revealing how those formative years between 12 and 20 produced generations that were cultural forces to be reckoned with in the West during the 20th century’s earliest decades. Using a collage style that includes archival footage, newsreels, dramatic reenactments (anchored by recognizable young actors such as Jenna Malone and total newcomers found by street-casting impresario Eleonore Hendricks), the movie takes us to pre-war Germany, through the pages of diaries of midwestern 15-year-olds, and to dance […]...
- 3/16/2014
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Based on British author Jon Savage's punk history novel, Matt Wolf's "living collage" of a documentary, "Teenage," aims to tell the story of the formulative of years of youth culture. The doc, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and opens this Friday via Oscilloscope, presents a bounty of rare archival footage and beautifully shot reconstructions that delve into the lasting effect that flappers, swing kids, Nazi Youth and Boy Scouts had in the period between the enacting of child labor laws in the beginning of the twentieth century to the dropping of the atom bomb. It's a stylish, freewheeling and fun ride, buoyed by an astounding score from Deerhunter front-man Bradford Cox, but it also opens up the thought-provoking subject of the evolution of youth culture and where it's headed in contemporary times. Read More: Trailer of the Week -- Rebellion Never Gets Old in Matt Wolf...
- 3/13/2014
- by Mark Lukenbill
- Indiewire
With "Teenage," documentarian Matt Wolf has assembled an impressive array of footage, facts, and photos to nimbly tell the pre-history of teenagers. Adapting Jon Savage’s 2007 book, "Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture," Wolf shrewdly interweaves four narrators as various storylines chronicle how teenagers in the U.S., UK, and Germany developed socially, culturally, and politically between 1904 and 1945. A pre-credit sequence shows “typical” American teenagers on a school campus. Various unidentified teens discuss their ambitions, and provide remarks about social and cultural change, as well as clothes, and records. One emphasizes that his parents bug him. Wolf artfully shows how these teenagers came to be. Teenagers were, in fact, a “wartime invention.” They chose to define themselves, rather than let adults do it for them. Seamlessly edited and evocatively scored by Bradford Cox (of the band Deerhunter), Teenage practically spellbinds viewers as eloquent voice-overs by Ben...
- 3/13/2014
- by Gary M. Kramer
- Indiewire
One of the most sought after demographics, a key influence on the shifting tides of pop culture, and early adopters of trends in tech, film, music and more that will affect future generations, teenagers hold more sway than you might give them credit for. But it wasn't always the case, and in fact, the term "teenager" is relatively new, popularized in the middle of the 20th century. And the upcoming documentary "Teenage" will explore the rise of this subculture and how they went from invisible to integral. Based on the book "Teenage: The Prehistory of Youth Culture: 1875-1945" by Jon Savage, director Matt Wolf uses archival material, filmed portraits, and diary entries to explore how teenagers came to define themselves, particularly through subcultures such as flappers, swing kids and much more. And in this exclusive clip, we see Wolf's technique in action, providing an interesting approach to this historical documentary.
- 3/11/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
2014 is now in full swing, the Sundance Film Festival has closed its doors, and film festivals like South by Southwest and Tribeca are generating more buzz for the year’s noteworthy indie narratives and documentaries. In recent years, documentaries such as Restrepo, Gasland, and Searching For Sugarman went on to become heavyweights. This year’s contenders include topics taken from popular memoirs and biographies, along with subject matter pertaining to youths and youth culture. Below, you’ll find a comprehensive list of Sundance and non-Sundance documentaries to keep an eye out for this year, equipped with official synopsis and trailer when available. 2014 is shaping out to a versatile year in the documentary world, ranging from heavy-handed family dramas such as Tracy Droz Tragos’ and Andrew Droz Palermo’s Rich Hill, to baseball biographies such as Chapman and Maclain Way’s The Battered Bastards of Baseball and Jeff Radice’s No No A Dockumentary,...
- 3/9/2014
- by Christopher Clemente
- SoundOnSight
Matt Wolf's documentary film "Teenage," narrated by the ever-popular Jena Malone ("The Hunger Games: Catching Fire") and Ben Wishaw ("Skyfall") explores a world before Justin Bieber and Facebook; the film, which screened at the the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival takes a look at adolescence at the start of the 20th century. Read More: Tribeca: Jason Schwartzman, Matt Wolf and Jon Savage Discuss Their Epic 'Teenage' Undertaking In this trailer we are given snapshots of 1900 youth and see the lasting effects that changing labor laws, flapper culture and World War II had on teens at the time. Bradford Cox, lead singer of Indie bands "Deerhunter" and "Atlas Sound" scores. It's a beautiful, quick-paced montage that analyzes our formative years before people even know that our formative years was something worth understanding. Executive Produced by Jason Schwartzman, "Teenage" is slated for a limited March 14th release.
- 2/19/2014
- by Eric Eidelstein
- Indiewire
As a sucker for coming of age films, a new documentary produced by actor Jason Schwartzman about the dawn of youth culture has caught my eye. At one time, the idea of teenagers didn't exist, but they are now a coveted demographic and audience as kids grow into adults and are easily influenced and building their tastes. The documentary Teenage focuses on the rise of these young people and their culture during the late 19th century and early 20th century by way of archival footage from history. Complete with voiceovers from Jena Malone and Ben Whishaw, this adaptation of Jon Savage's novel looks pretty interesting. Here's the first trailer for Matt Wolf's documentary Teenage, originally from Yahoo: Once, “teenagers” didn’t exist. But then, they were invented. As the cultural landscape around the world was thrown into turmoil during the industrial revolution, and with a chasm erupting between adults and youth,...
- 2/11/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Teenage Matt Wolf's documentary Teenage - based on the book by British author Jon Savage - is out in cinemas now and screening as part of the Glasgow Youth Film Festival. The film traces the origins of the breed of youngsters we now know as "teenagers", examining their emergence across three cultures. When the film premiered at Tribeca Film Festival last year, we caught up with Wolf and Savage to discuss it.
Can you talk a bit about finding the archival footage?
Matt Wolf: Yes, the archival footage is the foundation of the film so before we even figured out what story we were going to tell, we started doing archival research and that process was led by an extraordinary researcher named Rosemary Rotondi and she worked with a team of researchers in Washington DC, Germany and England. And basically, we gave her a vast, expansive list of.
Can you talk a bit about finding the archival footage?
Matt Wolf: Yes, the archival footage is the foundation of the film so before we even figured out what story we were going to tell, we started doing archival research and that process was led by an extraordinary researcher named Rosemary Rotondi and she worked with a team of researchers in Washington DC, Germany and England. And basically, we gave her a vast, expansive list of.
- 1/31/2014
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
British culture was once open to 'messy kids' from secondary moderns. But if you want to make it in 21st century Britain, you'd best have a cut-glass accent and public school pedigree
Last week the actor Stephen McGann spoke out about how difficult it is for young people from working-class backgrounds to enter his profession. "Opportunities are closing down," he said in an interview with the Independent. "If you're a messy kid from a council estate today, I think the chances of you making it as a successful actor are a lot worse than they were."
McGann, 50, youngest of the family of acting brothers, grew up on the edge of Toxteth in Liverpool and was educated at a Catholic grammar school. "What counted for me and my brothers – and for mates of ours like David Morrissey and Ian Hart, all growing up in Dingle and Toxteth – was the real change in education,...
Last week the actor Stephen McGann spoke out about how difficult it is for young people from working-class backgrounds to enter his profession. "Opportunities are closing down," he said in an interview with the Independent. "If you're a messy kid from a council estate today, I think the chances of you making it as a successful actor are a lot worse than they were."
McGann, 50, youngest of the family of acting brothers, grew up on the edge of Toxteth in Liverpool and was educated at a Catholic grammar school. "What counted for me and my brothers – and for mates of ours like David Morrissey and Ian Hart, all growing up in Dingle and Toxteth – was the real change in education,...
- 1/26/2014
- by Sean O'Hagan
- The Guardian - Film News
Inspired by Jon Savage’s book of the same name and, “dedicated to young people in every generation, who continue to re-imagine the future”, Matt Wolf’s Teenage is a celebration of the revolutionary spirit of youth. Whilst it may not provide many revelations in terms of when and how this notorious breed of ‘the teenager’ came into being, Wolf’s scrapbook in motion, compiled of mostly archival material, does well to re-establish the cult of youth as one of great importance, especially in terms of societal influence.
Though most definitely a historical document, Teenage is nothing like the history lessons snoozed through in many a classroom. A punk aesthetic and Bradford Cox’s (Deerhunter, Atlas Sound) brilliant complimentary soundtrack give life to Wolf’s strangely addictive “living collage”. Images are collected, hoarded and plastered in layers like obsessions pasted over the walls of any teenage bedroom. The material is...
Though most definitely a historical document, Teenage is nothing like the history lessons snoozed through in many a classroom. A punk aesthetic and Bradford Cox’s (Deerhunter, Atlas Sound) brilliant complimentary soundtrack give life to Wolf’s strangely addictive “living collage”. Images are collected, hoarded and plastered in layers like obsessions pasted over the walls of any teenage bedroom. The material is...
- 1/23/2014
- by Georgia Fleury Reynolds
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
★★★☆☆The notion of the 'teenager' dominates popular culture to such a degree that it's difficult to reconcile the fact that the concept is a relatively new one. It's the emergence of the term and, more crucially, the very idea of this isolated period in a young person's life that concerns Matt Wolf's innovative documentary Teenage (2013). Punk historian Jon Savage's book, Teenage: The Creation of Youth: 1875-1945, provides the blueprint for this crafted, if somewhat amorphous piece. Here, Wolf eschews conventional techniques, crafting a shifting collage narrated by our own Ben Whishaw and American actress Jena Malone, amongst others.
- 1/23/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The Wolf Of Wall Street | Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus | Devil's Due | Tim's Vermeer | Oh Boy | The Night Of The Hunter
The Wolf Of Wall Street (18)
(Martin Scorsese, 2013, Us) Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Kyle Chandler, John Bernthal, Matthew McConaughey. 180 mins
Perhaps Scorsese has more of a right than anyone to make a banking epic in the mould of a crime epic – and sure enough, this is Gordon Gekko, GoodFellas-style: a sprawling, seriocomic, voiceover-tracked rise-and-fall with a morally dubious hero. Excess is the name of the game here, to the point there's actually an excess of excess; endless choreographed tableaux of cash, drugs, cars, naked women, shouting men and celebrity cameos. These regular shots of energy keep the story buzzing, even as they bloat the running time, but Scorsese is aiming for greatness here, and there's no reining him in.
Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus (18)
(Sebastián Silva, 2013, Chi) Michael Cera,...
The Wolf Of Wall Street (18)
(Martin Scorsese, 2013, Us) Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Kyle Chandler, John Bernthal, Matthew McConaughey. 180 mins
Perhaps Scorsese has more of a right than anyone to make a banking epic in the mould of a crime epic – and sure enough, this is Gordon Gekko, GoodFellas-style: a sprawling, seriocomic, voiceover-tracked rise-and-fall with a morally dubious hero. Excess is the name of the game here, to the point there's actually an excess of excess; endless choreographed tableaux of cash, drugs, cars, naked women, shouting men and celebrity cameos. These regular shots of energy keep the story buzzing, even as they bloat the running time, but Scorsese is aiming for greatness here, and there's no reining him in.
Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus (18)
(Sebastián Silva, 2013, Chi) Michael Cera,...
- 1/18/2014
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
If you thought teenagers had been around since the dawn of time, painting #Yolo on innocent cave walls, think again. New York filmmaker Matt Wolf has a new documentary, Teenage, to remind us that the term dates back only as far as the end of World War II, when young people emerged from the wreckage to help jolt the world back to life. Rebels with a cause, they exploded in a riot of dancing, fashion, sex and revolt. All are evident in the film’s new trailer. It debuts here and it’s well worth a watch. brightcove.createExperiences(); The film, which won plenty of admirers at the London Film Festival, takes Jon Savage’s book Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture as a diving-off point into the flappers, swing kids and sub-debs. Even the dreaded Hitler Yoot get their moment in the sun.If you think that sounds like heavy social history,...
- 1/10/2014
- EmpireOnline
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In the news today
• Alexander Skarsgard and Jamie Dorman tipped for Fifty Shades of Grey as replacement sought for Charlie Hunnam
• Joseph Gordon Levitt and Paul Rudd frontrunners for Edgar Wright's Ant Man
• Brad Dourif claims to have been Tim Burton's first choice for The Joker
• Gravity cleared for release in China
• Iron Man 3 kid lands lead in Jurassic World
Coming up elsewhere on the site
• An exclusive clip of the restored print of the classic 1959 Hammer horror, The Mummy, starring Christopher Lee
• A quiz on those spooky Stephen King adaptations
• Cine-files offers a paean to the Filmhuis Den Haag
• We'll have a first look review of the New York film festival hot ticket, the Ben Stiller-directed remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
More first look reviews, this time from the London...
- 10/15/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to Matt Wolf’s documentary and plans a ‘robust’ festival run prior to 2014 theatrical and ancillary run. Separately, Generation Iron will open in September.
Teenage premiered at Tribeca and presents a collage of archival footage of voices and filmed portraits depicting the experience of being a teenager.
The film is based on Jon Savage’s book Teenage: The Pre-History Of Youth Culture 1875-1945. Ben Howe and Kyle Martin produced and Philipp Engelhorn, Michael Raisler and Jason Schwartzman served as executive producers.
New York-based Vladar Company and American Media Inc will release last Vlad Yudin’s Generation Iron in theatres on Sept 20. The film chronicles the careers of seven top bodybuilders.
Teenage premiered at Tribeca and presents a collage of archival footage of voices and filmed portraits depicting the experience of being a teenager.
The film is based on Jon Savage’s book Teenage: The Pre-History Of Youth Culture 1875-1945. Ben Howe and Kyle Martin produced and Philipp Engelhorn, Michael Raisler and Jason Schwartzman served as executive producers.
New York-based Vladar Company and American Media Inc will release last Vlad Yudin’s Generation Iron in theatres on Sept 20. The film chronicles the careers of seven top bodybuilders.
- 8/15/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to Matt Wolf’s documentary and plans a ‘robust’ festival run prior to 2014 theatrical and ancillary run. Separately, Generation Iron will open in September.
Teenage premiered at Tribeca and presents a collage of archival footage of voices and filmed portraits depicting the experience of being a teenager.
The film is based on Jon Savage’s book Teenage: The Pre-History Of Youth Culture 1875-1945. Ben Howe and Kyle Martin produced and Philipp Engelhorn, Michael Raisler and Jason Schwartzman served as executive producers.
New York-based Vladar Company and American Media Inc will release last Vlad Yudin’s Generation Iron in theatres on Sept 20. The film chronicles the careers of seven top bodybuilders.
Teenage premiered at Tribeca and presents a collage of archival footage of voices and filmed portraits depicting the experience of being a teenager.
The film is based on Jon Savage’s book Teenage: The Pre-History Of Youth Culture 1875-1945. Ben Howe and Kyle Martin produced and Philipp Engelhorn, Michael Raisler and Jason Schwartzman served as executive producers.
New York-based Vladar Company and American Media Inc will release last Vlad Yudin’s Generation Iron in theatres on Sept 20. The film chronicles the careers of seven top bodybuilders.
- 8/15/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Answering the questions you didn’t know you had about how your parent’s parents, and for that matter, your grandparent’s parents were like when they were in their adolescence, Matt Wolf’s (Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell) docu-essay narrative film was one of the better items to be found in a paltry sampling of films I caught at this year’s Tribeca Film Fest edition. Teenage has found a taker in Oscilloscope Laboratories, who’ve picked up the film targeting more festival play and a 2014 release.
Gist: Before the ‘Teenager’ was invented, there was no second stage of life. You were either a child or you went to work as an adult. At the turn of the century, child labor was ending, ‘adolescence’ was emerging, and a struggle erupted between adults and youth. Would the young be controlled and regimented, or could they be free? Inspired...
Gist: Before the ‘Teenager’ was invented, there was no second stage of life. You were either a child or you went to work as an adult. At the turn of the century, child labor was ending, ‘adolescence’ was emerging, and a struggle erupted between adults and youth. Would the young be controlled and regimented, or could they be free? Inspired...
- 8/15/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
A loose adaptation of Jon Savage’s Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945, Wolf's cleverly constructed documentary is told by way of archival footage, seamlessly rendered reenactments and voiceover readings from diaries (by Jena Malone, Ben Whishaw, Julia Hummer, Jessie Usher). Wolf saturates Teenage with a lot of interesting information, but this is a documentary that will almost certainly leave you craving much more. The quick pacing and relatively short (77-minute) run-time lend Teenage the feeling of an extended teaser for a massive PBS series about this subject; or maybe it feels like an introductory chapter to a documentary about teenagers post-1945. I never imagined that I would want to learn so much more about the teenage existence, but Teenage convinces me that this is a subject that I need to know a lot more about.
- 4/27/2013
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Based on British author Jon Savage's punk history novel, Matt Wolf's "living collage" of a documentary, "Teenage," aims to tell the story of the formulative of years of youth culture. The doc, which premiered at Tribeca last Saturday, presents a bounty of rare archival footage and beautifully shot reconstructions that delve into the lasting effect that flappers, swing kids, Nazi Youth and Boy Scouts had in the period between the enacting of child labor laws in the beginning of the twentieth century to the dropping of the atom bomb. It's a stylish, freewheeling and fun ride, buoyed by an astounding score from Deerhunter front-man Bradford Cox, but it also opens up the thought-provoking subject of the evolution of youth culture and where it's headed in contemporary times. We sat down with Wolf, Savage and executive producer Jason Schwartzman to talk about the arduous research process, how the film...
- 4/26/2013
- by Mark Lukenbill
- Indiewire
It's Tribeca time again as the film fest kicks off tomorrow in typical New York fashion with The National rock-doc Mistaken for Strangers. We took a look at that film, the other galas, and the midnight lineup yesterday -- and today we turn our attention to the documentary and narrative competitions. The documentary competition specifically has become a real focus for Tribeca in recent years. Here are a few films in each of those sections that caught our eye. World Documentary Competition Michael H. Profession: Director Prolific behind-the-scenes documentarian Yves Montmayeur takes a look at the man, the myth, the legend, and the twitter account of director Michael Haneke. Teenage Based on a book by Jon Savage and narrated by Jena Malone, Ben Whishaw,...
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- 4/16/2013
- Screen Anarchy
A while back I wrote about Marten Persiel’s This Ain’t California, the Berlinale-winning “punk fairytale” about skateboarding in East Germany that caused a bit of a stir overseas for its liberal use of staged reenactments. Regardless of the controversy, Persiel’s film is like nothing I’ve seen in recent years, the closest comparison probably being Grant Gee’s 2007 Joy Division (written by Jon Savage), which employs a collage of images to conjure up the Manchester atmosphere during that music scene’s heyday. In fact, Manchester and East Berlin shared a similar aesthetic in the ’70s and ’80s, composed of drab grey buildings …...
- 4/10/2013
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Tribeca Film Festival organizers on Wednesday announced 46 of the 89 feature films screening at the New York-set festival starting next month, including selections in the World Narrative and Documentary Competition film sections, as well as out-of-competition Viewpoints screenings.
"Big Men," a documentary about American corporations pursuing oil reserves in Africa, will serve as the opening night film for the World Documentary portion; "Bluebird," a small-town drama featuring "Girls" star Adam Driver, will kick-off the World Narrative slate. "Flex Is Kings," a documentary about Brooklyn street performers, is the Viewpoints opener. All three films premiere on April 18. The Tribeca Film Festival runs from April 17 through April 28, with "Mistaken For Strangers," a documentary about The National, serving as the fest's opening night film.
"Our competition selections embody the quality and diversity of contemporary cinema from across the globe,” Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frederic Boyer said in a release. “The cinematic proficiency that...
"Big Men," a documentary about American corporations pursuing oil reserves in Africa, will serve as the opening night film for the World Documentary portion; "Bluebird," a small-town drama featuring "Girls" star Adam Driver, will kick-off the World Narrative slate. "Flex Is Kings," a documentary about Brooklyn street performers, is the Viewpoints opener. All three films premiere on April 18. The Tribeca Film Festival runs from April 17 through April 28, with "Mistaken For Strangers," a documentary about The National, serving as the fest's opening night film.
"Our competition selections embody the quality and diversity of contemporary cinema from across the globe,” Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frederic Boyer said in a release. “The cinematic proficiency that...
- 3/5/2013
- by Christopher Rosen
- Huffington Post
The Tribeca Film Festival announced the first half of its 2013 movie slate today, including its World Narrative and Documentary Competition film categories, along with selections from the out-of-competition Viewpoints section, which highlights international and independent cinema. Festival organizers reviewed more than 6,000 submissions to select 89 feature-length films from 30 different countries for this year’s festival, which boasts 53 world premieres. “Our competition selections embody the quality and diversity of contemporary cinema from across the globe,” said Frederic Boyer, Tribeca’s artistic director. “The cinematic proficiency that harnesses this lineup is remarkable and we’re looking forward to sharing these new perspectives, powerful performances,...
- 3/5/2013
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Bowie, Christiane F and Taxi zum Klo: these are the things that made Berlin so alluring to the British pop culture of the late 70s and early 80s. Jon Savage remembers a bewitching era
Frank Ripploh is fed up. Stuck in hospital for six weeks with some unnamed contagious sexual disease – most probably hepatitis – he receives a visit from his live-in lover. Instead of listening sympathetically to Frank's moans about the other patients, Bernd gives him a right telling-off about his promiscuity: "I hope lying here teaches you something." After Bernd leaves, a furious Frank pulls his clothes on and hails a taxi. There then follows a mad dash around various public toilets. With the meter running, he desperately searches for a quick pick-up and eventually ends up in Berlin's Tiergarten – a large public park near the centre of the city that was a notorious cruising ground at that time.
Frank Ripploh is fed up. Stuck in hospital for six weeks with some unnamed contagious sexual disease – most probably hepatitis – he receives a visit from his live-in lover. Instead of listening sympathetically to Frank's moans about the other patients, Bernd gives him a right telling-off about his promiscuity: "I hope lying here teaches you something." After Bernd leaves, a furious Frank pulls his clothes on and hails a taxi. There then follows a mad dash around various public toilets. With the meter running, he desperately searches for a quick pick-up and eventually ends up in Berlin's Tiergarten – a large public park near the centre of the city that was a notorious cruising ground at that time.
- 4/21/2011
- by Jon Savage
- The Guardian - Film News
Ian Curtis is the inspiration for a special Joy Division symphony. BBC News reports that a series of events to mark the 30th anniversary of his death are to take place, including the launch of an exhibition featuring letters, set lists and posters. "This exhibit brings together a wide range of material - posters, handbills, hand-written documents and other memorabilia - for the first time," curator Jon Savage said. Local schoolchildren (more)...
- 5/18/2010
- by By Paul Millar
- Digital Spy
Digital Spy presents the full list of winners for the 2009 Mojo Honours List, held last night at The Brewery, London. The Mojo Breakthrough Award
White Lies The Mojo Inspiration Award
Blur The Mojo Best Album
Paul Weller - 22 Dreams The Mojo Classic Album Award
The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle Mojo Vision Award
Joy Division (documentary by Grant Gee/Jon Savage) The Mojo Maverick Award
Manic Street Preachers The Mojo Hero Award
The Pretty Things The Mojo Icon Award
Phil Lynott - collected by Scott Gorham The Mojo Outstanding Contribution To Music Award
Joe Brown The Mojo (more)...
White Lies The Mojo Inspiration Award
Blur The Mojo Best Album
Paul Weller - 22 Dreams The Mojo Classic Album Award
The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle Mojo Vision Award
Joy Division (documentary by Grant Gee/Jon Savage) The Mojo Maverick Award
Manic Street Preachers The Mojo Hero Award
The Pretty Things The Mojo Icon Award
Phil Lynott - collected by Scott Gorham The Mojo Outstanding Contribution To Music Award
Joe Brown The Mojo (more)...
- 6/12/2009
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
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