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The ‘Art’ of Protest in Tibet
29 March 2012 8:36 PM, PDT | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
Still from 'Cry of the Snow Lion'
About thirty men and women have set themselves on fire protesting against the Chinese rule in Tibet, over the last few years. But for some, protest has a different face. They shoot to tell the story of Tibet to the world, hoping their voices of dissent proliferate through the screen. For a long time now, Tibetans living in Tibet and in exile in other countries have been using cinema as a tool for advancing their freedom movement.
“Today, the visual medium, particularly films and video clips have become the most powerful tool for disseminating the Tibetan cause, say Tenzing Sonam and Ritu Sarin who made the documentary ‘The Sun Behind the Clouds’ in 2010. The documentary takes a look at the Tibetan movement for independence 50 years after the fall of Tibet.
Dhondup Wangchen who made ‘Leaving Fear Behind’ thought long and hard before deciding »
- Nandita Dutta
Why ‘Rude Buddha’ Wasn’t Funny
11 March 2012 10:00 AM, PDT | Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal | See recent Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal news »
Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Actor Richard Gere (left) and Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar (center) receive the Dalai Lama’s new book, ‘Beyond Religion,’ at the Kalachakra Festival in India on Jan. 10, 2012.
Speakeasy reporter Barbara Chai is traveling to Dharamsala, India, this week for a private audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
In the U.S. and Western countries in general, Buddhism seems largely misunderstood.
Don’t believe me? Okay, ask any non-Buddhist to name a single Buddhist festival or holiday. »
- Barbara Chai
Tech Support Interview: Howard Shore lends aural depth to the visual palette of ‘Hugo’
9 February 2012 5:23 PM, PST | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
It’s a rare thing for Martin Scorsese to use a score as expansive and elaborate as Howard Shore’s Oscar-nominated one for “Hugo.” Indeed, Philip Glass's booming and full composition for “Kundun” 14 years ago represents the last score from one of Scorsese’s films to be nominated for an Academy Award. “We worked very differently on this film than we had previously,” Shore says, calling from his studio in New Zealand where he is currently writing the “brand new and shiny” compositions for Peter Jackson's “The Hobbit.” Shore won two Academy Awards for his scores on Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings" »
- Roth Cornet
Scorsese on Scorsese
2 February 2012 12:59 PM, PST | TheInsider.com | See recent The Insider news »
"I am the films that I make. If it's not personal, I can't get out of bed in the morning."
Martin Scorsese is riding high on the success of Hugo, with his first 3D family film effort leading the Academy Awards pack on a wave of 11 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. In addition to the abundance of accolades, the commercial success of the project is its own reward for an arguably risky endeavor by the Departed Oscar winner.
Once associated primarily with depicting the seedier side of society and its fundamentally flawed characters (from Mean Streets and Taxi Driver to Raging Bull and Goodfellas), Scorsese has proved to be an incredibly versatile director, trying his hand at the musical genre (New York, New York) and documentaries (The Last Waltz, Shine a Light, No Direction Home), period romance (The Age of Innocence), historical figures (The Last Temptation of Christ, Kundun and [link »
Philip Glass @ 75
1 February 2012 9:16 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Besides the two dozen operas, the symphonies, concertos and solo works, Philip Glass, who turns 75 today, has composed literally scores of scores for films, beginning most famously with Koyaanisqatsi (1982), an essay film as dependent on its music as any other. Glass and Godfrey Reggio would complete the trilogy with Powaqqatsi (1988) and Naqoyqatsi (2002). Another crucial cinematic collaboration has been with Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line (1988), The Fog of War (2003)), and other notable scores would be, for example, those for Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985; sample it here) and Martin Scorsese's Kundun (1997). And whatever you think of Stephen Daldry's The Hours (2002) — and chances are, if you're reading this, you may not think much of it at all — that soundtrack, aimed straight at the mainstream and nominated for an Oscar, holds up better than you might remember.
"Glass is the only living classical composer with anything »
Scorsese & Tarantino: Whose Streets Are Meaner?
28 January 2012 11:56 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
I’ve got Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino on my mind these days. It’s a product of the end-of-year hurrahs for Scorsese’s Hugo. The film goes into the Academy Award ceremonies with 11 Oscar nominations – the most of any film this year – including a Best Director nod for Scorsese. Win or lose, Marty’s on a roll having already taken a Golden Globe for his work on the film, and selection as Best Director by the National Board of Review (the Board also named Hugo Best Picture). And that doesn’t include the film’s placing on any number of critic’s Year’s Best lists.
What does all this have to do with Tarantino? It brings to mind a statement the younger filmmaker had made about Scorsese some years ago.
They’ve always been linked, these two. Tarantino had been anointed by more than a few as “the »
- Bill Mesce
Hugo Movie Review
3 January 2012 12:14 PM, PST | AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news »
I'm sure they exist, but it's almost unfathomable to imagine a cinephile who does not count themselves as a fan of the work of Martin Scorsese. Out of the group of directors who came into their own in the 1970's, the decade that revolutionized the art of filmmaking, Scorsese is perhaps the most influential of them all (with the possible exception of Steven Spielberg). Scorsese's films, from Taxi Driver to Goodfellas to The Departed, have made an indelible mark on the consciousness of moviegoers the world over, leading to countless imitators and knock-offs trying to capture some of the essence of a "Scorsese film".
Your everyday, average citizen who doesn't have the slightest clue what auteur theory is would still likely recognize Scorsese's face and be able to name at least one of his movies, and that's no small feat for a man working behind the camera.
Part of the »
- Christopher Lominac
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