It’s been a stellar year of cinema and pop culture-themed books, and the texts (and Blu-rays) in this round-up all make fine gifts. One additional book that should be on your year-end list is Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier. It’s a satisfying companion to season three of Peaks, not to mention Frost’s own Secret History of Twin Peaks. So be sure to check out Nick Newman’s recent interview with the Peaks co-creator.
Live Cinema and Its Techniques by Francis Ford Coppola (Liveright)
The legendary Francis Ford Coppola has spoken of “live cinema” with regularity over the years, specifically with respect to 1981’s One From the Heart. That film, a box office flop now held in some regard, is an essential part of Live Cinema and Its Techniques, a fascinating new book authored by Coppola himself. The lessons from that experience, Coppola says,...
Live Cinema and Its Techniques by Francis Ford Coppola (Liveright)
The legendary Francis Ford Coppola has spoken of “live cinema” with regularity over the years, specifically with respect to 1981’s One From the Heart. That film, a box office flop now held in some regard, is an essential part of Live Cinema and Its Techniques, a fascinating new book authored by Coppola himself. The lessons from that experience, Coppola says,...
- 12/4/2017
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
‘They Will Never Know Her’: Prince William Admits He’s Sad Princess Diana Will Never Meet His Family
Prince William is opening up about the death of his late mother Princess Diana in his most honest and revealing interview ever.
William, 34, spoke with British GQ and posed for a series of intimate family portraits with Princess Kate, Princess Charlotte and Prince George for they magazine’s July cover story.
The royal admits that he is “in a better place” about the upcoming 20th anniversary of Diana’s death but also revealed that he is sad that she isn’t able to meet her grandchildren.
“I would like to have had her advice,” he said. “I would love her...
William, 34, spoke with British GQ and posed for a series of intimate family portraits with Princess Kate, Princess Charlotte and Prince George for they magazine’s July cover story.
The royal admits that he is “in a better place” about the upcoming 20th anniversary of Diana’s death but also revealed that he is sad that she isn’t able to meet her grandchildren.
“I would like to have had her advice,” he said. “I would love her...
- 5/29/2017
- by Maria Mercedes Lara
- PEOPLE.com
Tom Jones got emotional during a Sunday appearance in the U.K., just six weeks after losing his wife to cancer. Appearing at the Hay Festival in Wales on Sunday, Jones broke down in tears as he spoke about his late wife, Lady Melinda Rose Woodward, who died eight weeks ago. "I realized that she's always been very important to me, throughout my life, but I now realize she might have been the most important thing in my life - and she still is," he said. The 75-year-old singer, known for his popular hits such as "It's Not Unusual" and "Delilah,...
- 6/6/2016
- by Monique Jessen, @moniquejessen
- PEOPLE.com
Kim Kardashian certainly isn't shy about showing off her killer body, but her latest completely nude spread may even make the most hardcore Kim fans blush. The reality star took part in a steamy photo shoot for British GQ's October issue, including showing off her famous derrière while lying provocatively on a bed. Kim shared shots of the sexy spread on her Instagram shortly after she took home the award for woman of the year at the UK magazine's annual GQ Men of the Year Awards on Tuesday. She made sure to show off her curves at the event in a revealing gown and even shared an adorable Pda moment with her main man, Kanye West. On Thursday, Kim thanked the magazine for the honor and also clarified any rumors that she was mad at GQ after she made a joke about her new name being Kim Kardashian West. She...
- 9/4/2014
- by Maria-Mercedes-Lara
- Popsugar.com
Kim Kardashian accepted the Woman of the Year award at the GQ Men of the Year gala Tuesday evening, one day before she appeared nude on the cover of Britain’s GQ.
Kim Kardashian's Nude 'GQ' Cover
Breaking the news of Kardashian’s naked GQ cover was her mother and manager Kris Jenner, who took to Instagram to gush about her daughter’s Women of the Year Award win and accompanying cover. “Congratulations @kimkardashian on receiving @GQ's Woman of the Year Award and on your @BritishGQ cover!!” Jenner captioned the snap. “So proud of you! #TomMunro photography #stunning.”
Inside the magazine, which has yet to hit newsstands in the UK, Kardashian leaves little to the imagination. Aside from a pair of pink pumps, the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star poses with nothing on while lying amidst gray satin sheets on a bed. While her chest is covered up in the racy snaps,...
Kim Kardashian's Nude 'GQ' Cover
Breaking the news of Kardashian’s naked GQ cover was her mother and manager Kris Jenner, who took to Instagram to gush about her daughter’s Women of the Year Award win and accompanying cover. “Congratulations @kimkardashian on receiving @GQ's Woman of the Year Award and on your @BritishGQ cover!!” Jenner captioned the snap. “So proud of you! #TomMunro photography #stunning.”
Inside the magazine, which has yet to hit newsstands in the UK, Kardashian leaves little to the imagination. Aside from a pair of pink pumps, the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star poses with nothing on while lying amidst gray satin sheets on a bed. While her chest is covered up in the racy snaps,...
- 9/3/2014
- Uinterview
The Experimental Film Festival Portland will host its 3rd annual edition on May 28-June 1 at various locations around the city, including the Hollywood Theatre, the Clinton Street Theater, Disjecta and more.
The Opening Night festivities at the historic Hollywood Theatre features a massive lineup of short films, including Kent Lambert‘s award-winning Reckoning 3 and films by Clint Enns, Stephen Broomer, Jb Mabe, Cornelia Abrecht and Michelle Mellor.
Some special events to keep an eye out for throughout the fest include the EFFPortland Throwdown, a series of showcases where local Portland filmmakers battle it out for bragging rights and supreme galactic superiority. The first event is on May 29 featuring work by Bob Moricz, Julie Perini, Karl Lind and more.
In addition to the Throwdowns, there are just an absolute ton of short experimental films, including work by Christine Lucy Latimer, Andrew Rosinski, Bryan Konefsky, Sara Koppel, Zachary Epcar and loads more.
The Opening Night festivities at the historic Hollywood Theatre features a massive lineup of short films, including Kent Lambert‘s award-winning Reckoning 3 and films by Clint Enns, Stephen Broomer, Jb Mabe, Cornelia Abrecht and Michelle Mellor.
Some special events to keep an eye out for throughout the fest include the EFFPortland Throwdown, a series of showcases where local Portland filmmakers battle it out for bragging rights and supreme galactic superiority. The first event is on May 29 featuring work by Bob Moricz, Julie Perini, Karl Lind and more.
In addition to the Throwdowns, there are just an absolute ton of short experimental films, including work by Christine Lucy Latimer, Andrew Rosinski, Bryan Konefsky, Sara Koppel, Zachary Epcar and loads more.
- 5/28/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Later this month knights will do battle with the undead, and we can guarantee you that more than mere flesh wounds will be handed out on their quest to protect the Holy Grail. Knight of the Dead is the name of this latest zombie flick, and you'll find full release details right here!
Knight of the Dead is directed by Mark Atkins and co-written by Atkins and Jeffrey Giles. It stars Dylan Jones, Lee Bennett, Jason Beeston, and Vivien Vilela.
From the Press Release
Hunted by raiders, a band of crusading knights must escort a sacred artifact through a zombie-infested valley in Knight of the Dead, coming to DVD and VOD January 21, 2014, from Inception Media Group.
A band of crusading knights is charged with escorting the Holy Grail to safety through a plague-ridden countryside. Hunted by assassins, the knights venture into the forbidden Valley of Black Death, where they discover...
Knight of the Dead is directed by Mark Atkins and co-written by Atkins and Jeffrey Giles. It stars Dylan Jones, Lee Bennett, Jason Beeston, and Vivien Vilela.
From the Press Release
Hunted by raiders, a band of crusading knights must escort a sacred artifact through a zombie-infested valley in Knight of the Dead, coming to DVD and VOD January 21, 2014, from Inception Media Group.
A band of crusading knights is charged with escorting the Holy Grail to safety through a plague-ridden countryside. Hunted by assassins, the knights venture into the forbidden Valley of Black Death, where they discover...
- 1/3/2014
- by John Squires
- DreadCentral.com
When GQ invited Russell Brand to the 2013 GQ Men of the Year Awards to accept the Oracle Award, the magazine likely didn't expect the comedian to start making jibes at one of the event's sponsors, Hugo Boss. But that's exactly what he did, bringing up Hugo Boss' connection to the Nazi party and getting kicked out in the process.
"If anyone knows a bit about history and fashion, you know it was Hugo Boss who made uniforms for the Nazis," Brand quips in the above video from the event. "But they looked f***ing fantastic, let's face it, while they were killing people on the basis of their religion and sexuality."
While Brand's statements are factually true, Hugo Boss' connection to the Nazis wasn't exactly what GQ wanted brought up at the annual awards show. Not long after Brand made his comments and got off the stage, GQ...
"If anyone knows a bit about history and fashion, you know it was Hugo Boss who made uniforms for the Nazis," Brand quips in the above video from the event. "But they looked f***ing fantastic, let's face it, while they were killing people on the basis of their religion and sexuality."
While Brand's statements are factually true, Hugo Boss' connection to the Nazis wasn't exactly what GQ wanted brought up at the annual awards show. Not long after Brand made his comments and got off the stage, GQ...
- 9/10/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
The following is an excerpt from Dylan Jones's The Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music [Picador, $25.00]:
They are often redundant, frequently pointless, and rarely remembered. Some are little more than cheap photocopies, with someone hitherto unknown (or, increasingly, far too well known) colouring in the original and trying not to go outside the lines. Some can be transformative, but often they are nothing but corruptions of your favourite memories (I feel ambiguous towards it, but I would imagine if you had formative experiences with, or fond memories of, New Order's “True Faith”, you would probably think George Michael's cover is rather redundant; ditto Robbie Williams' live version of Blur's “Song 2”, or Simple Minds' frankly confusing version of Prince's “Sign O’ The Times”). Others are just plain perverse: does anyone really want to hear William Shatner cover Pulp's “Common People”? Maybe Shatner’s agent and Jarvis Cocker's publishers,...
They are often redundant, frequently pointless, and rarely remembered. Some are little more than cheap photocopies, with someone hitherto unknown (or, increasingly, far too well known) colouring in the original and trying not to go outside the lines. Some can be transformative, but often they are nothing but corruptions of your favourite memories (I feel ambiguous towards it, but I would imagine if you had formative experiences with, or fond memories of, New Order's “True Faith”, you would probably think George Michael's cover is rather redundant; ditto Robbie Williams' live version of Blur's “Song 2”, or Simple Minds' frankly confusing version of Prince's “Sign O’ The Times”). Others are just plain perverse: does anyone really want to hear William Shatner cover Pulp's “Common People”? Maybe Shatner’s agent and Jarvis Cocker's publishers,...
- 11/1/2012
- by Madeleine Crum
- Huffington Post
Photographer Terry O’Neill has been snapping shots of James Bond behind the scenes since his arrival in 1962. This book, tied together with essays written by journalists, cultural historians and interviews with Bond girls is a collection of O’Neill’s finest and most revealing work. Though many of the images have not been widely published, O’Neill’s work is easily recognisable by his eavesdropping, yet highly artistic style. Surely you have seen that classic shot of Bond creator Ian Fleming close-up in dotted silk cravat smoking a cigarette? O’Neill took it.
Despite some perfunctory text, All About Bond wisely focuses on O’Neill’s photographs. The best feature Sean Connery goofing about on set, primarily on Diamonds Are Forever (a film he reputedly hated shooting). See the man widely regarded as the best dressed James Bond of all time in two-button Savile Row suit and Turnbull & Asser shirt,...
Despite some perfunctory text, All About Bond wisely focuses on O’Neill’s photographs. The best feature Sean Connery goofing about on set, primarily on Diamonds Are Forever (a film he reputedly hated shooting). See the man widely regarded as the best dressed James Bond of all time in two-button Savile Row suit and Turnbull & Asser shirt,...
- 10/8/2012
- by Chris Laverty
- Clothes on Film
British culture is going through a blue period, with actors, musicians and artists all happily admitting that they're privately educated Conservative toffs. What happened?
You may have missed it, but early last month, a very telling photograph appeared in the newspapers. Snapped on New Year's Day by a couple out for a walk on Coombe Hill in the Chilterns, it featured a party of eight – including David and Samantha Cameron, education secretary Michael Gove, film director Tim Burton, and the latter's extremely posh other half Helena Bonham Carter. According to subsequent gossip, the latter couple had been introduced to the Camerons by Bonham Carter's one-time Westminster school contemporary Nick Clegg. Others suggest that the two couples have been friends for years.
The group had reportedly stayed at Chequers, the prime minister's country retreat, on New Year's Eve – where the conversation doubtless turned to Bonham Carter's role in The King's Speech,...
You may have missed it, but early last month, a very telling photograph appeared in the newspapers. Snapped on New Year's Day by a couple out for a walk on Coombe Hill in the Chilterns, it featured a party of eight – including David and Samantha Cameron, education secretary Michael Gove, film director Tim Burton, and the latter's extremely posh other half Helena Bonham Carter. According to subsequent gossip, the latter couple had been introduced to the Camerons by Bonham Carter's one-time Westminster school contemporary Nick Clegg. Others suggest that the two couples have been friends for years.
The group had reportedly stayed at Chequers, the prime minister's country retreat, on New Year's Eve – where the conversation doubtless turned to Bonham Carter's role in The King's Speech,...
- 2/4/2011
- by John Harris
- The Guardian - Film News
Nostalgia tinged with deference is reaching a peak, to coincide again with a sense of society coming apart at the seams
For those of us with even the haziest memories of the Britain of 1981, the deja vu will lately have been coming thick and fast. We have, of course, the stringent tightening of the purse strings handed down by a government telling us it's all for our own good; the resulting simmering disquiet, with occasional bursts of proper aggro; a big-league royal wedding ahead to keep the commemorative plate industry afloat. And at the cinema, critics and audiences rush to embrace a handsome, comforting slice of thoroughly decent period drama. In 2011, there's The King's Speech; 30 years ago, we had Chariots of Fire.
I think it would be a mistake to dismiss the skill with which Hugh Hudson crafted his portrait of Olympic sprinters Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell, and dishonest...
For those of us with even the haziest memories of the Britain of 1981, the deja vu will lately have been coming thick and fast. We have, of course, the stringent tightening of the purse strings handed down by a government telling us it's all for our own good; the resulting simmering disquiet, with occasional bursts of proper aggro; a big-league royal wedding ahead to keep the commemorative plate industry afloat. And at the cinema, critics and audiences rush to embrace a handsome, comforting slice of thoroughly decent period drama. In 2011, there's The King's Speech; 30 years ago, we had Chariots of Fire.
I think it would be a mistake to dismiss the skill with which Hugh Hudson crafted his portrait of Olympic sprinters Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell, and dishonest...
- 1/21/2011
- by Danny Leigh
- The Guardian - Film News
London, Oct 08 – Kate Moss looked stunning as she attended a Help For Heroes charity auction.
The supermodel was the belle of the ball at Harry’s Bar in Mayfair, London, looking demure and ladylike, reports the Daily Express.
A host of celebrities put themselves in the frame as they attended an auction of photos for the charity, which raises money for wounded service personnel and their families.
Dozens of wealthy stars turned up to bid for 10 images of soldiers in Afghanistan by David Bailey, raising 295,000 pounds.
The famous photographer hosted the event with GQ editor Dylan Jones and Topshop.
The supermodel was the belle of the ball at Harry’s Bar in Mayfair, London, looking demure and ladylike, reports the Daily Express.
A host of celebrities put themselves in the frame as they attended an auction of photos for the charity, which raises money for wounded service personnel and their families.
Dozens of wealthy stars turned up to bid for 10 images of soldiers in Afghanistan by David Bailey, raising 295,000 pounds.
The famous photographer hosted the event with GQ editor Dylan Jones and Topshop.
- 10/8/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
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