A new work of art titled End of the World and starring Donald Trump is set to be unveiled tomorrow, created by controversy-stirring New York painter Robert Cenedella — known as the “Art Bastard”. The painting is set to be put on display in the window of Central Park Fine Arts in New York City, a mid-town Manhattan art gallery, just a week before the election. The 5 x 9 foot triptych (a nod to The Garden of Earthly Delights, a surreal three-panel painting by Flemish Renaissance master Hieronymous Bosch whose style has influenced Cenedella) sets the orange-haired Republican Presidential...read more...
- 11/1/2016
- by Jack Egan
- Monsters and Critics
Remember when Leonardo DiCaprio met with Pope Francis? The two public figures had a highly publicized sit-down in January to discuss climate change, and the conversation was captured on video to be included in DiCaprio’s upcoming documentary Before the Flood.
People has a first look at the footage from this memorable meeting, which includes like minds connecting over concern for the environment and DiCaprio’s charmingly rehearsed Italian greeting to the pontiff: “Your Holiness, thank you for granting me this private audience with you,” the actor, 41, says in Italian.
“One of the most important spiritual leaders on the planet...
People has a first look at the footage from this memorable meeting, which includes like minds connecting over concern for the environment and DiCaprio’s charmingly rehearsed Italian greeting to the pontiff: “Your Holiness, thank you for granting me this private audience with you,” the actor, 41, says in Italian.
“One of the most important spiritual leaders on the planet...
- 10/27/2016
- by Kara Warner
- PEOPLE.com
With his string of celebrated performances over the past decade-plus, it’s safe to say that Leonardo DiCaprio is part of an elite group of Hollywood actors, balancing respect and influence within the industry with widespread popularity among moviegoers. Take, for instance, the rapturous response online from the actor’s long-awaited Oscar victory earlier this year for his fiercely committed performance inAlejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant. That film’s period setting took a stark look at mankind’s relationship with nature, an appropriate subtext given DiCaprio’s devotion to the environment. The now-Oscar-winning actor takes a far more direct approach to his passion for Earth’s future with Before the Flood, a brand-new documentary that fervently tackles the battle against climate change.
The film follows DiCaprio’s two-year journey of discovery as he travels the world as a United Nations Messenger of Peace to examine the far-reaching effects that...
The film follows DiCaprio’s two-year journey of discovery as he travels the world as a United Nations Messenger of Peace to examine the far-reaching effects that...
- 10/27/2016
- by Robert Yaniz Jr.
- We Got This Covered
Mubi is exclusively showing two new, brilliant and unconventional films from Spain: Luis López Carrasco's El Futuro (April 11 - May 10) and Ion de Sosa's Androids Dream (April 12 - May 11). We asked the two filmmakers—friends and collaborators—a few questions about their work. For an in-depth exploration of the two films, we recommend Michael Pattison's article, Back to the Future: Androids Dream and El Futuro.Spanish directors Ion de Sosa (front left) and Luis López Carrasco (back right).Notebook: How did you each manage to bring your projects to life?Luis LÓPEZ Carrasco: After living in Berlin for a few months through a scholarship program, I came back to Spain in 2010 fully energized with the aim to set up a production company, finance my own projects and support friends whose work I deeply admire. The international success of Los Hijos Collective led me to believe...
- 4/22/2016
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Leonardo DiCaprio's meeting with the Pope must have gone well! "It was great," DiCaprio, 41, told E! host Brad Goreski at the Screen Actors Guild Awards Saturday in Los Angeles. The actor - who is nominated for best performance by a male actor in a leading role for his turn in The Revenant - had a private meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Thursday morning, and a source told People, "Leo explained that he wanted to discuss a subject they both have very much at heart: protecting the environment and climate change." During the 15-minute meeting, DiCaprio presented...
- 1/31/2016
- by Aurelie Corinthios
- PEOPLE.com
The Bradford International Film Festival is typically an underground-friendly fest. This year appears to be no exception with two very special experimental film retrospectives, as well as a few modern underground-type flicks.
The 19th annual Biff will roll on April 11-21 at several locations around Bradford and Leeds in England, including the National Media Museum, Hebden Bridge Picture House, Hyde Park Picture House and other venues.
Biff is hosting a tribute to Stan Brakhage this year by screening the prolific filmmaker’s magnum opus, Dog Star Man, as well as a selection of his short films, from 1963′s legendary Mothlight to 1994′s Black Ice. There’s also going to be an epic-sized tribute/retrospective of experimental films from Austria, a country with a proud avant-garde filmmaking tradition that’s typically overlooked.
From Austria, Biff is, of course, screening two works from one of the experimental film world’s biggest masters,...
The 19th annual Biff will roll on April 11-21 at several locations around Bradford and Leeds in England, including the National Media Museum, Hebden Bridge Picture House, Hyde Park Picture House and other venues.
Biff is hosting a tribute to Stan Brakhage this year by screening the prolific filmmaker’s magnum opus, Dog Star Man, as well as a selection of his short films, from 1963′s legendary Mothlight to 1994′s Black Ice. There’s also going to be an epic-sized tribute/retrospective of experimental films from Austria, a country with a proud avant-garde filmmaking tradition that’s typically overlooked.
From Austria, Biff is, of course, screening two works from one of the experimental film world’s biggest masters,...
- 3/11/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Is Somebody Looking For His Stuffed Toy Octopus? Does Anybody Know A Man Missing A Plushy Darling?
We found this poor creature in the men's room of Rotterdam's Cinerama right after a screening of some serious Brazilian smut-fest, Jean Garret's Fuk Fuk à Brasileira (1986). It was lying around there looking lost. There was nobody else at the pissoirs. The stalls proved empty. Someone was obviously so lost in his own sweet or sour self that he forgot his stuffed toy octopus! What could he have been thinking about for this to happen?
Could he have contemplated the programmers' collective nastiness which made them select a film in which, as we were told, a donkey gets slaughtered en detail and for an extended period of running time? And no, we won't mention the title here knowing only too well that this might encourage some sickos to search out this...this.
We found this poor creature in the men's room of Rotterdam's Cinerama right after a screening of some serious Brazilian smut-fest, Jean Garret's Fuk Fuk à Brasileira (1986). It was lying around there looking lost. There was nobody else at the pissoirs. The stalls proved empty. Someone was obviously so lost in his own sweet or sour self that he forgot his stuffed toy octopus! What could he have been thinking about for this to happen?
Could he have contemplated the programmers' collective nastiness which made them select a film in which, as we were told, a donkey gets slaughtered en detail and for an extended period of running time? And no, we won't mention the title here knowing only too well that this might encourage some sickos to search out this...this.
- 8/27/2012
- MUBI
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