It was a great night for Xavier Dolan at the Canadian Screen Awards today, where the wunderkind's latest film, "Mommy," won nine awards, nearly sweeping every category. The only fields the film lost in were crafts categories conceded the critically reviled (but it's Canadian!) "Pompeii," which took home five awards. Check out the full list of winners below, the nominees here and everything else you can possibly imagine (more or less) at The Circuit. Best Motion Picture "Mommy" Achievement in Direction Xavier Dolan, "Mommy" Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Antoine Olivier-Pilon, "Mommy" Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Anne Dorval, "Mommy" Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Suzanne Clément, "Mommy" Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role John Cusack, "Maps to the Stars" Adapted Screenplay "Elephant Song" Original Screenplay "Mommy" Achievement in Art Direction "Pompeii" Achievement in Cinematography "Mommy" Achievement in Costume...
- 3/2/2015
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
The 8th annual Sydney Underground Film Festival is a power-packed event featuring outrageous cult films, provocative documentaries and wild short films that will run September 4-7 at its usual haunt, The Factory Theater.
Opening Night: The fest opens with Housebound, a New Zealand horror comedy by Gerard Johnstone about a woman in trouble with the law who comes to believe that her family home is haunted. The film will be preceded by a performance by Renny Kodgers and a free pizza party; and followed by an after party.
Closing Night: The fest will close with the controversial German teen sex comedy Wetlands directed by David Wendt. The film will then be followed by a late-night after party.
Highlights: Usama Alshaibi‘s must see documentary American Arab — an intimate, socially relevatory and essential film — screens at 4 p.m. on Sept. 6. Read the Underground Film Journal review of American Arab.
Jorge Torres-Torres...
Opening Night: The fest opens with Housebound, a New Zealand horror comedy by Gerard Johnstone about a woman in trouble with the law who comes to believe that her family home is haunted. The film will be preceded by a performance by Renny Kodgers and a free pizza party; and followed by an after party.
Closing Night: The fest will close with the controversial German teen sex comedy Wetlands directed by David Wendt. The film will then be followed by a late-night after party.
Highlights: Usama Alshaibi‘s must see documentary American Arab — an intimate, socially relevatory and essential film — screens at 4 p.m. on Sept. 6. Read the Underground Film Journal review of American Arab.
Jorge Torres-Torres...
- 8/7/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Two years ago, legendary manager Shep Gordon was lying in the hospital, recovering from gastrointestinal surgery, when Mike Myers approached him with an idea he'd been obsessing over: a documentary about Gordon's life. Gordon – a Zelig-like figure who'd befriended everyone from Michael Douglas to the Dalai Lama and was best known as Alice Cooper's manager – reluctantly agreed. "I was heavily medicated and must have been feeling sorry for myself," says Gordon.
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- 6/19/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Jose Padilha’s divisive Robocop remake headlines the biggest new releases on DVD and Blu-ray this week along with Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor and Mark Burnett and Roma Downey’s Son of God. Looking beyond that, we also have the sixth season of HBO’s True Blood, Sam Dunn’s latest rock doc Super Duper Alice Cooper, and the [...]...
- 6/3/2014
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
The filmmakers behind Super Duper Alice Cooper dub their work the first "doc opera", and it comes pretty close to living up to that hype. Tracing the remarkable career of the band Alice Cooper (a moniker derived from a drunken Ouija board session), we get a nice overview by directors Reginald Harkema, Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn of the hedonistic rock of the 70s right through to the present day."Alice Cooper" became not just the band's appelation but the legal name of its flamboyant yet macabre lead singer. From "I'm Eighteen" to "School's Out", Cooper's songs continue to be a staple of Classic Rock radio. The story behind this rise, as well as the many slips along the way (be they professional or personal)...
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- 5/1/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Several stories from the Tribeca Film Festival by guest blogger Sharon Abella
Super Duper Alice Cooper: Spotlight at Tribeca Film Festival 2014
In the 80′s, if you wanted to attend a concert, you would either have to dial up on rotary phones to countless busy signals, Or else wait in line Overnight at the ticket outlet for a chance to see U2, Rush, Bruce Springsteen, Van Halen, or Bon Jovi. There was no point and click on ticketmaster or stubhub.com, and show up with a print out from your home computer option.
The “Godfather of Shock Rock,” Alice Cooper, who rumor had it, “bit the heads off of live chickens, cut up plastic baby dolls, and wore boa constrictors around his neck, was a parents worst nightmare.
This documentary breaks down just what was so bad or so good about Alice Cooper. Under all that make up, is a pussy cat. Born in Detroit, Mi, Vincent Damon Furnier (Alice Cooper), nearly died when his appendix burst at age 11. Thankfully, he lived, and he learned that life is a miracle. His family moved to Phoenix, Arizona, as they wanted their children to grow up in a healthier environment.
Later, Alice formed a band called “The Spiders,” and they gave L.A. a try. With all of La’s distractions like “Whiskey a Go-Go,” the bar where “The Doors” used to play, Alice knew the band had to be outrageous. Their music just wasn’t that good, and they needed a gimmick.
With new costumes, and Frank Zappa as a mentor, they kept at it, however, concert promoter, Bill Graham, said they “should either be actors or musicians, but they can’t do both at the same time on stage. This is not theater.”
Alice Cooper left La with his tail between his legs, however, did not give up. He refused to go back to being Vince, so they tried even more wilder gimmicks until it worked. Fire, blood, vaudeville, panties falling from the ceiling on to the crowd, chickens, dolls, boas, gothic appearances. Nothing was too crazy for them.
This documentary did, however, clear up the whole biting the head off of live chickens thing. It turns out, that Alice didn’t really bite the head off of a live chicken. They threw a live chicken into an audience full of hippies, and when they threw it back on stage, it was dead.
Interviewed live at the Tribeca Film Festival,
The Alice Cooper shared with me,
“My whole life has been a doc op. Super Duper Alice Cooper is a very theatrical documentary. It goes just beyond documentary. It’s as theatrical as the character I play. What shocks Me, Alice Cooper? How anemic rock is right now. There needs to be more rock and roll out there.”
“Keep on Keepin’ On” Documentary about Jazz Legend, Clark Terry (Trumpeter)
The jazz performance at the end of the movie and music event exclusive for Amex card members, for the film entitled, Keep on Keepin’ On on Saturday night, April 19, 2014, may have been in the top 10, if not the #1 event, from the highlights of the Tribeca Film Festival since it’s inception. Five beautiful jazz songs were performed by a myriad of artists, one of whom being, a student of Clark Terry’s, Justin Kauflin, on piano.
First time film director from Australia, Alan Hicks, and ‘his mate’ Adam Hart, started documenting “Keep on Keepin’ On” five years go, and the great Quincy Jones came on as a producer.
Clark Terry is a jazz musician (trumpeter) with a career spanning over seventy years. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and wanted to play the trumpet so badly, that he made one himself out of a lead pipe (mouthpiece), and a funnel (bell). His neighbors couldn’t stand the noise that the makeshift horn made, so they collected $12.50 and bought one from the pawn shop. His first big break was when he was hired by Count Basie, and then as the first black staff musician at NBC. He went on to play with and/or teach some of the jazz greats, including Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Dizzie Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, and Quincy Jones. In fact, Quincy Jones was Clark Terry’s first student, and Clark left the Duke Ellington band to join Quincy Jones eleven years later. He has been inducted into the Jazz at Lincoln Center Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame, and rewarded with the 2010 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He has two Grammy certificates, and three Grammy nominations.
Clark or (C.T.), believes in mentoring and giving back to the community. He stated, “my dreams of playing the horn came true, and now it is my turn to make others’ dreams come true.” C.T. has taken countless students under his wing, one of whom, mentioned earlier, is Justin Kauflin.
Justin lost his vision from exudative retinopathy when he was in the sixth grade. Knowing he was unable to play video games or basketball anymore, he sat down at the piano and fell in love with it. While practicing to be a jazz pianist, he said to his mother, ‘I wish something bad would happen to me so I could play the piano like the famous jazz musicians.’ His mom would hesitantly say, ‘Honey, you just lost your sight, isn’t that bad enough.’ and Justin replied, ‘Naw, what these guys went through is much worse.’
C.T. has had diabetes for over 60 years, and as a result, has been losing his vision too. Justin and Clark could relate to one another in that regard.
Clark Terry’s advise,
“You have to have a desire to excel.”
“You have to want to play better than everybody else.”
“Other students don’t study themselves. You have to know your shortcomings and work on them.”
“Whatever you are doing, do it well.”
“Find your own voice.”
“Don’t copy.”
“If someone believes in you, it makes you believe in yourself more.”
The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq a film by Guillaume Nicloux (France)
Special Jury Mention: The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq (L’enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq) directed by Guillaume Nicloux (France). The announcement was made by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal
Best Screenplay –The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, written and directed by Guillaume Nicloux (France). Winner receives $5,000 sponsored by DreamWorks Animation. The award was given by Bart Freundlich.
Jury Comments: “This screenwriter put a bodybuilder, a gypsy, a prostitute, and a world renowned poet in handcuffs at a dinner table and made it feel right. When a film’s language feels so natural as to make the viewer completely forget that a screenplay was written, the writer deserves special acknowledgement.”
Award winning author, filmmaker, and poet, Michel Houllebecq, went missing on September 16, 2011. So began the controversy about this controversial writer. Was it a kidnapping, was he delusional, or was it planned? You may ask, ‘how can this be a comedy?’
This comedy/drama begins with Michel (played by himself), as an older, mellow writer walking around town, running errands and nonchalantly chatting with his neighbors. As he gets back home, and off the elevator to open his apartment door, three large men follow him inside, put tape over his mouth, ask him to hold the front page of the newspaper, take a polaroid photo of him, and transport him about an hour away to a French suburb.
When he gets to their house, he finds himself handcuffed to a bed, and hesitant to call for help to tend to his basic needs, for example, to smoke, use the bathroom and read. Flabbergasted, he quickly learns that the kidnappers are extremely nice to him. Catering to his every need, they invite him to eat with them at the dinner table, they smoke cigarettes and held conversations together, and even held birthday parties wearing fun party masks. Showing their faces, they admitted to Michel who they were and why they did what they did. One admitted to being a gypsy, another, a body builder, another, a call girl, and an older married Polish couple whose house it is. Patiently awaiting ransom money from the President of France, Francois Hollande, they sit and shoot the breeze.
Do they get the ransom money? Do they let Michel go?
Article by Sharon Abella
http://1worldcinema.com
One World Cinema...
Super Duper Alice Cooper: Spotlight at Tribeca Film Festival 2014
In the 80′s, if you wanted to attend a concert, you would either have to dial up on rotary phones to countless busy signals, Or else wait in line Overnight at the ticket outlet for a chance to see U2, Rush, Bruce Springsteen, Van Halen, or Bon Jovi. There was no point and click on ticketmaster or stubhub.com, and show up with a print out from your home computer option.
The “Godfather of Shock Rock,” Alice Cooper, who rumor had it, “bit the heads off of live chickens, cut up plastic baby dolls, and wore boa constrictors around his neck, was a parents worst nightmare.
This documentary breaks down just what was so bad or so good about Alice Cooper. Under all that make up, is a pussy cat. Born in Detroit, Mi, Vincent Damon Furnier (Alice Cooper), nearly died when his appendix burst at age 11. Thankfully, he lived, and he learned that life is a miracle. His family moved to Phoenix, Arizona, as they wanted their children to grow up in a healthier environment.
Later, Alice formed a band called “The Spiders,” and they gave L.A. a try. With all of La’s distractions like “Whiskey a Go-Go,” the bar where “The Doors” used to play, Alice knew the band had to be outrageous. Their music just wasn’t that good, and they needed a gimmick.
With new costumes, and Frank Zappa as a mentor, they kept at it, however, concert promoter, Bill Graham, said they “should either be actors or musicians, but they can’t do both at the same time on stage. This is not theater.”
Alice Cooper left La with his tail between his legs, however, did not give up. He refused to go back to being Vince, so they tried even more wilder gimmicks until it worked. Fire, blood, vaudeville, panties falling from the ceiling on to the crowd, chickens, dolls, boas, gothic appearances. Nothing was too crazy for them.
This documentary did, however, clear up the whole biting the head off of live chickens thing. It turns out, that Alice didn’t really bite the head off of a live chicken. They threw a live chicken into an audience full of hippies, and when they threw it back on stage, it was dead.
Interviewed live at the Tribeca Film Festival,
The Alice Cooper shared with me,
“My whole life has been a doc op. Super Duper Alice Cooper is a very theatrical documentary. It goes just beyond documentary. It’s as theatrical as the character I play. What shocks Me, Alice Cooper? How anemic rock is right now. There needs to be more rock and roll out there.”
“Keep on Keepin’ On” Documentary about Jazz Legend, Clark Terry (Trumpeter)
The jazz performance at the end of the movie and music event exclusive for Amex card members, for the film entitled, Keep on Keepin’ On on Saturday night, April 19, 2014, may have been in the top 10, if not the #1 event, from the highlights of the Tribeca Film Festival since it’s inception. Five beautiful jazz songs were performed by a myriad of artists, one of whom being, a student of Clark Terry’s, Justin Kauflin, on piano.
First time film director from Australia, Alan Hicks, and ‘his mate’ Adam Hart, started documenting “Keep on Keepin’ On” five years go, and the great Quincy Jones came on as a producer.
Clark Terry is a jazz musician (trumpeter) with a career spanning over seventy years. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and wanted to play the trumpet so badly, that he made one himself out of a lead pipe (mouthpiece), and a funnel (bell). His neighbors couldn’t stand the noise that the makeshift horn made, so they collected $12.50 and bought one from the pawn shop. His first big break was when he was hired by Count Basie, and then as the first black staff musician at NBC. He went on to play with and/or teach some of the jazz greats, including Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Dizzie Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, and Quincy Jones. In fact, Quincy Jones was Clark Terry’s first student, and Clark left the Duke Ellington band to join Quincy Jones eleven years later. He has been inducted into the Jazz at Lincoln Center Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame, and rewarded with the 2010 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He has two Grammy certificates, and three Grammy nominations.
Clark or (C.T.), believes in mentoring and giving back to the community. He stated, “my dreams of playing the horn came true, and now it is my turn to make others’ dreams come true.” C.T. has taken countless students under his wing, one of whom, mentioned earlier, is Justin Kauflin.
Justin lost his vision from exudative retinopathy when he was in the sixth grade. Knowing he was unable to play video games or basketball anymore, he sat down at the piano and fell in love with it. While practicing to be a jazz pianist, he said to his mother, ‘I wish something bad would happen to me so I could play the piano like the famous jazz musicians.’ His mom would hesitantly say, ‘Honey, you just lost your sight, isn’t that bad enough.’ and Justin replied, ‘Naw, what these guys went through is much worse.’
C.T. has had diabetes for over 60 years, and as a result, has been losing his vision too. Justin and Clark could relate to one another in that regard.
Clark Terry’s advise,
“You have to have a desire to excel.”
“You have to want to play better than everybody else.”
“Other students don’t study themselves. You have to know your shortcomings and work on them.”
“Whatever you are doing, do it well.”
“Find your own voice.”
“Don’t copy.”
“If someone believes in you, it makes you believe in yourself more.”
The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq a film by Guillaume Nicloux (France)
Special Jury Mention: The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq (L’enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq) directed by Guillaume Nicloux (France). The announcement was made by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal
Best Screenplay –The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, written and directed by Guillaume Nicloux (France). Winner receives $5,000 sponsored by DreamWorks Animation. The award was given by Bart Freundlich.
Jury Comments: “This screenwriter put a bodybuilder, a gypsy, a prostitute, and a world renowned poet in handcuffs at a dinner table and made it feel right. When a film’s language feels so natural as to make the viewer completely forget that a screenplay was written, the writer deserves special acknowledgement.”
Award winning author, filmmaker, and poet, Michel Houllebecq, went missing on September 16, 2011. So began the controversy about this controversial writer. Was it a kidnapping, was he delusional, or was it planned? You may ask, ‘how can this be a comedy?’
This comedy/drama begins with Michel (played by himself), as an older, mellow writer walking around town, running errands and nonchalantly chatting with his neighbors. As he gets back home, and off the elevator to open his apartment door, three large men follow him inside, put tape over his mouth, ask him to hold the front page of the newspaper, take a polaroid photo of him, and transport him about an hour away to a French suburb.
When he gets to their house, he finds himself handcuffed to a bed, and hesitant to call for help to tend to his basic needs, for example, to smoke, use the bathroom and read. Flabbergasted, he quickly learns that the kidnappers are extremely nice to him. Catering to his every need, they invite him to eat with them at the dinner table, they smoke cigarettes and held conversations together, and even held birthday parties wearing fun party masks. Showing their faces, they admitted to Michel who they were and why they did what they did. One admitted to being a gypsy, another, a body builder, another, a call girl, and an older married Polish couple whose house it is. Patiently awaiting ransom money from the President of France, Francois Hollande, they sit and shoot the breeze.
Do they get the ransom money? Do they let Michel go?
Article by Sharon Abella
http://1worldcinema.com
One World Cinema...
- 4/28/2014
- by Sharon Abella
- Sydney's Buzz
Music fans rejoice! Two of Canada's greatest documentarians have returned to Hot Docs in 2014 to examine one of the most enduring stories in rock 'n roll: Alice Cooper, in "Super Duper Alice Cooper." Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen are a pair of super-duper filmmakers that have so far given us "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey," "Global Metal," "Iron Maiden: Flight 666," and "Rush: Behind the Lighted Stage."
This production super duo have a real knack at getting you to care about bands you may have never wanted to know anything about. Alice Cooper has legions of fans around the world, and they will love this film, but for many, he's just the guy in the scary make-up. If that describes you, prepare for a highly enjoyable Alice Cooper education.
The real heavy lifting in "Super Duper Alice Cooper" is carried by the story itself. It's unreal. Born in Detroit, raised...
This production super duo have a real knack at getting you to care about bands you may have never wanted to know anything about. Alice Cooper has legions of fans around the world, and they will love this film, but for many, he's just the guy in the scary make-up. If that describes you, prepare for a highly enjoyable Alice Cooper education.
The real heavy lifting in "Super Duper Alice Cooper" is carried by the story itself. It's unreal. Born in Detroit, raised...
- 4/27/2014
- by Mark Wigmore
- Moviefone
The 2014 Tribeca Film Festival is winding down, and it's time for Part 1 of our wrap-up of the horror films we took in this year with a look at Summer of Blood, Super Duper Alice Cooper, In Order of Disappearance, and The Canal.
Are we knee deep in film festival season or at the tail end, transitioning from film geekery to... well, just plain geekery with a comic-con every weekend til August? It's hard to keep track these days. Lucky for you, Dread Central sends henchmen to every event worth talking about.
Today I fill those shoes as we run the streets of New York City to catch the freakier films of the Tribeca Film Festival alongside Heather Buckley (on interview duty) and Drew Tinnin (backing us up on all points). As we head toward the close of the event, we thought we'd give you a taste of what we've been taking in.
Are we knee deep in film festival season or at the tail end, transitioning from film geekery to... well, just plain geekery with a comic-con every weekend til August? It's hard to keep track these days. Lucky for you, Dread Central sends henchmen to every event worth talking about.
Today I fill those shoes as we run the streets of New York City to catch the freakier films of the Tribeca Film Festival alongside Heather Buckley (on interview duty) and Drew Tinnin (backing us up on all points). As we head toward the close of the event, we thought we'd give you a taste of what we've been taking in.
- 4/25/2014
- by Nomad
- DreadCentral.com
As directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn proved with 2010's "Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage," they can take even the nerdiest, most seemingly inoffensive band, and turn out something fascinating, amusing, insightful and even at times moving. And on paper, tackling shock rocker Alice Cooper—whose onstage persona inspired decades of artists to actively piss off parents—should be an obvious next step. Yet surprisingly, and disappointingly, the filmmakers—along with third co-director Reginald Harkema—miss the mark with the mostly dull and uninvolving "Super Duper Alice Cooper," a portrait of the rock star that lacks the very edge and sense of danger that the artist himself exuded in his prime. And given the access the team behind the movie had not only to Cooper himself, but many key players around him, frustration mounts as one realizes that this could've been so much more. Famed promoter and manager Shep Gordon,...
- 4/24/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Super Duper Alice Cooper
Directed by Reginald Harkema, Scot McFayden, and Sam Dunn
Canada, 2014
If your knowledge of pop music is of a certain type, then you’ve heard of glam-rocker Alice Cooper but know almost nothing about him. In fact, the Tribeca 2014 documentary Super Duper Alice Cooper reveals the factoid that Vincent Furnier was originally the singer of a band called Alice Cooper, and that he changed his name to Alice Cooper to make the band (and, later, his solo act) easier to promote. That action says a lot about Cooper – his act, his ambitions, the sort of place that he has in music history – but Super Duper Alice Cooper isn’t quite interested in that. It’s not unlike one of Cooper’s many imitators, presenting the traditional information with flashy visuals.
The material is certainly nothing new: open on Vincent Furnier’s childhood and follow his life...
Directed by Reginald Harkema, Scot McFayden, and Sam Dunn
Canada, 2014
If your knowledge of pop music is of a certain type, then you’ve heard of glam-rocker Alice Cooper but know almost nothing about him. In fact, the Tribeca 2014 documentary Super Duper Alice Cooper reveals the factoid that Vincent Furnier was originally the singer of a band called Alice Cooper, and that he changed his name to Alice Cooper to make the band (and, later, his solo act) easier to promote. That action says a lot about Cooper – his act, his ambitions, the sort of place that he has in music history – but Super Duper Alice Cooper isn’t quite interested in that. It’s not unlike one of Cooper’s many imitators, presenting the traditional information with flashy visuals.
The material is certainly nothing new: open on Vincent Furnier’s childhood and follow his life...
- 4/18/2014
- by Mark Young
- SoundOnSight
Before Alice Cooper the shock-rocker of the 1970s, there was Alice Cooper the band. And before Alice Cooper the band, there was Vincent Furnier. The son and grandson of Christian ministers, Furnier was an aspiring artist who idolized Salvador Dalí. But once the Beatles showed him that rock and roll was an even greater canvas, he embarked on a long, strange trip of a career that would make him loved and loathed, but impossible to ignore. “We were all art majors, and the Beatles came along and gave us a vehicle, and the vehicle was rock and roll,” says Cooper,...
- 4/18/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
New York (AP) — The raw New York lyricism of Nas kicked off the 13th annual Tribeca Film Festival with an exuberant hip-hop beat. Tribeca opened Wednesday night with the premiere of "Time Is Illmatic," a documentary about the creation of Nas' landmark 1994 debut album, "Illmatic." The Queens native Nas followed the screening at Manhattan's Beacon Theatre with a performance of the nine-track album, widely considered a rap classic for its angry but earnest street poetry. Tribeca co-founder Robert De Niro introduced the film as not just about the making of an album, but "about the making of an artist here in our hometown." Whereas many films about an album have stuck largely to the song-writing process and track recording, "Time Is Illmatic," directed by the filmmaker One9, summons the Queensbridge housing projects upbringing of Nas and the forces — his parents, 1980s Queens, early hip-hop — that shaped his music. The...
- 4/17/2014
- by Jake Coyle, AP
- Hitfix
We're back with another installment of Radio 66.6! This week features the latest news, music, videos and tour dates from the likes of Alice Cooper, Linkin Park, The Mars Volta, Aerosmith, Opeth, The Black Dahlia Murder, Unearth, Whitechapel, In Flames, Hawthorne Heights, Misfits, Gwar and more. Don't touch that dial.
News
In honor of their late singer Dave "Oderus Urungus" Brockie, the members of Gwar have created The Dave Brockie Foundation, a charity to promote the advancement of the arts.
Alice Cooper's "doc opera," Super Duper Alice Cooper, will hit theaters nationwide beginning April 30th. Find a theater near you and watch the trailer here.
Linkin Park will release their new album, The Hunting Party, on June 17.
Opeth have announced their eleventh studio album, Pale Communion. It will be released on June 17 via Roadrunner Records.
The remaining members of As I Lay Dying have teamed up with vocalist Shane Blay (formerly of Oh,...
News
In honor of their late singer Dave "Oderus Urungus" Brockie, the members of Gwar have created The Dave Brockie Foundation, a charity to promote the advancement of the arts.
Alice Cooper's "doc opera," Super Duper Alice Cooper, will hit theaters nationwide beginning April 30th. Find a theater near you and watch the trailer here.
Linkin Park will release their new album, The Hunting Party, on June 17.
Opeth have announced their eleventh studio album, Pale Communion. It will be released on June 17 via Roadrunner Records.
The remaining members of As I Lay Dying have teamed up with vocalist Shane Blay (formerly of Oh,...
- 4/15/2014
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- DreadCentral.com
Forthcoming Alice Cooper Doc Opera “Super Duper Alice Cooper” –
Premiering at Tribeca Film Festival on April 17, 2014
250+ Theatrical Screenings to Follow, Beginning April 30, 2014 in the United States
As announced earlier this month, the upcoming official Alice Cooper documentary, Super Duper Alice Cooper, will premiere at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival and will hit theaters nationwide beginning April 30, 2014. Super Duper Alice Cooper will officially premiere on … Continue reading →
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Premiering at Tribeca Film Festival on April 17, 2014
250+ Theatrical Screenings to Follow, Beginning April 30, 2014 in the United States
As announced earlier this month, the upcoming official Alice Cooper documentary, Super Duper Alice Cooper, will premiere at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival and will hit theaters nationwide beginning April 30, 2014. Super Duper Alice Cooper will officially premiere on … Continue reading →
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- 3/20/2014
- by Mike Joy
- Horror News
It's always a pleasure to report Alice Cooper news, and it looks like we've got quite a landmark event headed our way: declaring itself the first “doc opera,” the upcoming feature film Super Super Alice Cooper combines concert footage, candid interviews, archival clips, animation and more to chronicle the life and art of the world's most legendary shock-rocker. Mapping the long and twisted path of one Vincent Furnier from preacher's son to the world's most feared musician, Super Duper is presented as “the twisted tale of a teenage Dr Jekyll whose rock 'n' roll Mr. Hyde almost kills him.” To further enhance the experience, Alice will soon be recording a “Keep Calm & Go Ask Alice” Q&A that will follow theatrical screenings of the film. You can contribute your own questions using a form posted on the movie's official Facebook page... but think fast, because the deadline is March 15th.
- 3/13/2014
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
The second half of the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival's features slate is here, and with films like Zombeavers, Extraterrestrial, Preservation, and Indigenous included in the Midnight section, there's a lot for horror fans to love.
In the Spotlight section there are a few thriller/horror-ish sounding films, plus a documentary on Alice Cooper that should be of interest to genre fans, so we're including them here as well.
From the Press Release:
The Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), presented by At&T, today announced its feature film selections in the Spotlight, Midnight, and Special Screenings sections as well as the selections for the Storyscapes program.
The Midnight section will open with the feature film Preservation and includes a lineup of genre-bending titles from fresh voices around the world that run the gamut from tongue-in-cheek comedy to chilling horror films. "Whether they made us laugh, squirm, or plain scared the heck out of us,...
In the Spotlight section there are a few thriller/horror-ish sounding films, plus a documentary on Alice Cooper that should be of interest to genre fans, so we're including them here as well.
From the Press Release:
The Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), presented by At&T, today announced its feature film selections in the Spotlight, Midnight, and Special Screenings sections as well as the selections for the Storyscapes program.
The Midnight section will open with the feature film Preservation and includes a lineup of genre-bending titles from fresh voices around the world that run the gamut from tongue-in-cheek comedy to chilling horror films. "Whether they made us laugh, squirm, or plain scared the heck out of us,...
- 3/6/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
The 13th Tribeca Film Festival has announced its complete lineup for next month’s New York celebration, which runs April 16-27. Culled from more than 6,000 submissions, Tribeca 2014 includes 55 world premieres, 37 first-time filmmakers, and 22 female directors. Half the slate had been announced on Tuesday, with Spotlight, Midnight, and Storyscapes films unveiled today, as well as special screenings. “Spotlight and special screenings are an especially dynamic aspect of this year’s program, both in range of styles and stories,” said Genna Terranova, Tribeca’s director of programming. “Many films feature real-life personalities who’ve accomplished extraordinary feats, while in other films we...
- 3/6/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Tribeca Film Festival 2014 world premieres include Every Secret Thing, Miss Meadows and Zombeavers.
Spotlight features 31 films comprising 22 narratives and nine documentaries, of which 20 receive world premieres. The Midnight section will open with Preservation and includes the Efm buzz title Zombeavers.
Special Screenings include 6, a work-in-progress documentary by The Cove director Louie Psihoyos. The transmedia Storyscapes line-up returns for the second year. As previously announced, the festival will open on April 16 with the Nas documentary Time Is Illmatic and runs through April 27.
“Spotlight and Special screenings are an especially dynamic aspect of this year’s programme, both in range of styles and stories,” said director of programming Genna Terranova, “Many films feature real-life personalities who’ve accomplished extraordinary feats, while in other films we see personal relationships at pivotal moments of transition. We look forward to sharing these engaging stories with audiences.”
“Whether they made us laugh, squirm, or plain scared the heck out of us, each of the...
Spotlight features 31 films comprising 22 narratives and nine documentaries, of which 20 receive world premieres. The Midnight section will open with Preservation and includes the Efm buzz title Zombeavers.
Special Screenings include 6, a work-in-progress documentary by The Cove director Louie Psihoyos. The transmedia Storyscapes line-up returns for the second year. As previously announced, the festival will open on April 16 with the Nas documentary Time Is Illmatic and runs through April 27.
“Spotlight and Special screenings are an especially dynamic aspect of this year’s programme, both in range of styles and stories,” said director of programming Genna Terranova, “Many films feature real-life personalities who’ve accomplished extraordinary feats, while in other films we see personal relationships at pivotal moments of transition. We look forward to sharing these engaging stories with audiences.”
“Whether they made us laugh, squirm, or plain scared the heck out of us, each of the...
- 3/6/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
It was just the other day that we got our first proper look at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival with their Competition and Viewpoints lineups. Today we get to even more fun stuff with the lineups for their Spotlight, Midnight, Storyscapes, and Special Screening programs. Some titles that have piqued the Twitch-o-Meter include the Joss Whedon-penned, Brinn Hill-directed, and Zoe Kazan-starring metaphysical romance In Your Eyes, as well as Irish ghost story The Canal, plus the hilariously titled Zombeavers and Super Duper Alice Cooper (obviously a doc on Alice Cooper). Then we have the North American premiere of Tsai Ming Liang's monk-style performance piece Journey To The West, and Der Samurai, which is, yes, about some kind of East German samurai. Of course, this is...
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- 3/6/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Tribeca Film Festival 2014 world premieres include Every Secret Thing, Miss Meadows and Zombeavers.
Spotlight features 31 films comprising 22 narratives and nine documentaries, of which 20 receive world premieres. The Midnight section will open with Preservation and includes the Efm buzz title Zombeavers.
Special Screenings include 6, a work-in-progress documentary by The Cove director Louie Psihoyos. The transmedia Storyscapes line-up returns for the second year. As previously announced, the festival will open on April 16 with the Nas documentary Time Is Illmatic and runs through April 27.
“Spotlight and Special screenings are an especially dynamic aspect of this year’s programme, both in range of styles and stories,” said director of programming Genna Terranova, “Many films feature real-life personalities who’ve accomplished extraordinary feats, while in other films we see personal relationships at pivotal moments of transition. We look forward to sharing these engaging stories with audiences.”
“Whether they made us laugh, squirm, or plain scared the heck out of us, each of the...
Spotlight features 31 films comprising 22 narratives and nine documentaries, of which 20 receive world premieres. The Midnight section will open with Preservation and includes the Efm buzz title Zombeavers.
Special Screenings include 6, a work-in-progress documentary by The Cove director Louie Psihoyos. The transmedia Storyscapes line-up returns for the second year. As previously announced, the festival will open on April 16 with the Nas documentary Time Is Illmatic and runs through April 27.
“Spotlight and Special screenings are an especially dynamic aspect of this year’s programme, both in range of styles and stories,” said director of programming Genna Terranova, “Many films feature real-life personalities who’ve accomplished extraordinary feats, while in other films we see personal relationships at pivotal moments of transition. We look forward to sharing these engaging stories with audiences.”
“Whether they made us laugh, squirm, or plain scared the heck out of us, each of the...
- 3/6/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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