No one has cooler side projects than Paul Thomas Anderson. Last November, shortly before starting production on his still untitled London fashion drama with Daniel Day-Lewis, Anderson directed the short film “Valentine,” a behind-the-scenes look at the pop rock band Haim recording three songs for their recent album “Something to Tell You.” Anderson also collaborated with Radiohead on three videos last year for songs off their acclaimed album “A Moon Shaped Pool.”
Read MorePaul Thomas Anderson Directs Haim in One Intimate Long Take in ‘Right Now’ Music Video
Haim released the first four and a half minutes of the short film as a music video for their song “Right Now” in April, though “video” is a bit of a misnomer, as Anderson shot “Valentine” on beautiful 35mm.
“This short plays well with concert films, musicals, late night shows, sing-a-longs and a glass of beer,” reads a description on the 35mm print canister.
Read MorePaul Thomas Anderson Directs Haim in One Intimate Long Take in ‘Right Now’ Music Video
Haim released the first four and a half minutes of the short film as a music video for their song “Right Now” in April, though “video” is a bit of a misnomer, as Anderson shot “Valentine” on beautiful 35mm.
“This short plays well with concert films, musicals, late night shows, sing-a-longs and a glass of beer,” reads a description on the 35mm print canister.
- 7/18/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
It’s been quite a while since I’ve plopped my butt down on an airline seat. There are several reasons for this, the primary one being I loathe being treated like shit.
As we have seen from all too many recent incidents, once onboard airplane employees have complete control over your fate. If you do not promptly obey their every command or, say, object to their anti-peanut policy, they can and will have you arrested. If somebody on the plane thinks you look weird, or you look like a Muslim or some other type of person they find noxious, they will complain to a flight attendant. If you have yet to take-off, the airplane Nazis will call the goon squad and have you taken off the plane, sometimes by force. If you’re in the air, you likely will be arrested when the plane lands. Paranoid Fox News watchers,...
As we have seen from all too many recent incidents, once onboard airplane employees have complete control over your fate. If you do not promptly obey their every command or, say, object to their anti-peanut policy, they can and will have you arrested. If somebody on the plane thinks you look weird, or you look like a Muslim or some other type of person they find noxious, they will complain to a flight attendant. If you have yet to take-off, the airplane Nazis will call the goon squad and have you taken off the plane, sometimes by force. If you’re in the air, you likely will be arrested when the plane lands. Paranoid Fox News watchers,...
- 7/5/2017
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
The children of deceased music legend Frank Zappa definitely aren’t playing in harmony these days. Tensions between Ahmet, Diva and Dweezil Zappa have reached such a heated point that Ahmet and Diva are now seeking relief in the legal arena. In a petition filed in Los Angeles Superior Court last week, Ahmet and Diva are asking permission to establish a website to counter “false and negative publicity and allegations that have been made in the media by third parties, including beneficiaries of the Trust, without causing suspension or removal.” Also Read: Frank Zappa Documentary 'Eat That Question' Acquired by Sony.
- 3/14/2017
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
Dweezil Zappa's brother and sister are going after him, claiming he's ruining the Zappa name by spreading lies that tarnish their father's legacy. Ahmet and Diva Zappa just filed legal docs asking a judge to let them start a website to counter Dweezil's claim they are trying to ruin his career by denying him the right to perform his Zappa Plays Zappa tour. Dweezil has gone on a rant claiming Ahmet and Diva...
- 3/13/2017
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Leonard Cohen's career was on the verge of complete disaster in late 1971. Songs of Love and Hate, his most recent record, peaked at #145 on the American charts – this despite containing future classics like "Famous Blue Raincoat" and "Joan of Arc." CBS was ready to cut their losses and drop him from the label. A tour would give him the chance to regain some momentum, though Cohen hated performing live; he only reluctantly agreed to a one-month run in Europe because Songs of Love and Hate found a much bigger...
- 1/19/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Happy New Year! It's been a tumultuous year for me and for many of us of a certain age. I lost a brother. The world lost a slew of pop culture -- Carrie Fisher, Alan Richman, Craig Sager, John Glenn -- and music icons -- Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, George Michael, et al. One comfort for me was music and my rediscovery of vinyl. The warm, comforting sound of analog became my daily meditative fix. Quite literarily. Seeking out vinyl "nuggets" became a quest to help me deal with my own pain and depression. Chasing down albums that I owned thirty years, abadonded at the advent of those shiny new things called compact discs. Restorative analog power reigned o'er me. One of my chief caveats: I would not purchase anything on vinyl that I already owned on compact disc. Well, that rule didn't last long as I found comfort in...
- 12/31/2016
- by Dusty Wright
- www.culturecatch.com
Keep up with the always-hopping film festival world with our weekly Film Festival Roundup column. Check out last week’s Roundup right here.
Full Lineup Announcements
– The Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) and The India Center Foundation are launching India Kaleidoscope, an exciting new festival that will present film lovers with a chance to immerse themselves in the unique sights and sounds that make up the Indian regional, independent film landscape. These films, which delve into the most relevant and pressing topics facing India, are being made by today’s most progressive filmmakers working in regional languages such as Marathi, Kannada, Tamil, and Bengali. Their films are insightful, topical, and provocative, bringing to light the dynamism and the challenges that face modern India and her many diverse communities.
The inaugural festival, taking place December 8 – 11 at the Museum, will feature eight films, including seven new titles that will be making their U.
Full Lineup Announcements
– The Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) and The India Center Foundation are launching India Kaleidoscope, an exciting new festival that will present film lovers with a chance to immerse themselves in the unique sights and sounds that make up the Indian regional, independent film landscape. These films, which delve into the most relevant and pressing topics facing India, are being made by today’s most progressive filmmakers working in regional languages such as Marathi, Kannada, Tamil, and Bengali. Their films are insightful, topical, and provocative, bringing to light the dynamism and the challenges that face modern India and her many diverse communities.
The inaugural festival, taking place December 8 – 11 at the Museum, will feature eight films, including seven new titles that will be making their U.
- 11/3/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
When Paul McCartney shocked the world in April 1970 with his announcement of the Beatles' break-up, drummer Ringo Starr added a surprise of his own by becoming (initially, at least) the most musically active member of the former Fab Four.
As he would later recount in the lyrics of "Early 1970," the deceptively jaunty b-side of his 1971 hit "It Don't Come Easy," Starr was the only Beatle who didn't have any serious beef with any other member of the band at the time. Feeling lost without the family dynamic of the musical...
As he would later recount in the lyrics of "Early 1970," the deceptively jaunty b-side of his 1971 hit "It Don't Come Easy," Starr was the only Beatle who didn't have any serious beef with any other member of the band at the time. Feeling lost without the family dynamic of the musical...
- 11/2/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Massachusetts grindcore band Trap Them is getting their largest bump in visibility this week thanks to the fact that lead vocalist Ryan McKenney apparently broke both feet in a leap from a speaker cabinet Saturday night and finished the band’s set. (The next evening, he performed â. with two black eyes and casts on both feet â. from an office chair, possibly because a wheelchair was deemed not metal enough.)
If McKenney can take any solace in his injuries, though, it’s in the fact that he’s hardly alone. Many musicians have been injured falling from the stage,...
If McKenney can take any solace in his injuries, though, it’s in the fact that he’s hardly alone. Many musicians have been injured falling from the stage,...
- 10/19/2016
- by alexheigl
- PEOPLE.com
Frank Zappa was an open book and an enigma; he was a public figure with no qualms expressing his outright opinions, yet one that always left an air of mystery. Where some saw someone who was strange, off-putting and perhaps even dangerous, others saw someone was forthright, relatable and righteous. Zappa was both an outsider and one of the most personable, down-to-earth people on the planet, celebrity or otherwise. A
ll of this is brought to a head in Thosten Schutte’s Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words, a new documentary that — as the subtitle suggests — lets the avant-garde musician, filmmaker and activist speak for himself via long-lost interviews, archive footage and wild-and-loose concert venues. As enlightening as it is question-raising, it does the elusively empathetic personality right.
Unconventional in its dissection, Schutte’s latest opts not to intersect narration or talking head segments from any of his living friends,...
ll of this is brought to a head in Thosten Schutte’s Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words, a new documentary that — as the subtitle suggests — lets the avant-garde musician, filmmaker and activist speak for himself via long-lost interviews, archive footage and wild-and-loose concert venues. As enlightening as it is question-raising, it does the elusively empathetic personality right.
Unconventional in its dissection, Schutte’s latest opts not to intersect narration or talking head segments from any of his living friends,...
- 8/6/2016
- by Will Ashton
- We Got This Covered
A24 is having a strong 2016. They started out winning Oscars for three films (“Room,” “Ex Machina” and “Amy”), took smart horror flick “The Witch” wide to great success, and now with “The Lobster ” and “Swiss Army Man,” can claim the two highest per theater average limited openings of the year. And they’ve done what other companies seem not to be able to do: reached a younger audience quite different from those that have elevated such adult hits as “Eye in the Sky” and “Hello, My Name Is Doris.”
Among the elevated number of prime openings fleshing out the summer specialized release schedule, the surprise second best was “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” (The Orchard), a New Zealand countryside story that could become a sleeper success with wider audiences.
The other shocker: the complete failure of Nicolas Winding Refn’s “The Neon Demon” (Amazon Studios/Broad Green), which despite major advance...
Among the elevated number of prime openings fleshing out the summer specialized release schedule, the surprise second best was “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” (The Orchard), a New Zealand countryside story that could become a sleeper success with wider audiences.
The other shocker: the complete failure of Nicolas Winding Refn’s “The Neon Demon” (Amazon Studios/Broad Green), which despite major advance...
- 6/26/2016
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
In 1963, a young Frank Zappa appeared on “The Steve Allen Show,” where he used drumsticks and a bicycle to create a vibrant cacophony of sounds that must have been equally aggravating and fascinating to the generally square viewers of the program. After listening to Zappa’s bicycle-based orchestra, Allen gave a short speech defending artists […]
The post ‘Eat That Question: Frank Zappa In His Own Words’ Is A Doc For Fans & Newcomers Alike [Review] appeared first on The Playlist.
The post ‘Eat That Question: Frank Zappa In His Own Words’ Is A Doc For Fans & Newcomers Alike [Review] appeared first on The Playlist.
- 6/24/2016
- by Oktay Ege Kozak
- The Playlist
To help sift through the increasing number of new releases (independent or otherwise), the Weekly Film Guide is here! Below you’ll find basic plot, personnel and cinema information for all of this week’s fresh offerings.
Starting this month, we’ve also put together a list for the entire month. We’ve included this week’s list here, complete with information on screening locations for films in limited release.
See More: Here Are All the Upcoming Movies in Theaters for June 2016
Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. the week of Friday, June 24. All synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise.
Wide
Free State of Jones
Director: Gary Ross
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Keri Russell, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali, Jacob Lofland
Synopsis: “In Jones County, Miss., Newt Knight joins forces with other farmers and a group of slaves to lead a rebellion against the Confederacy.”
Independence Day: Resurgence...
Starting this month, we’ve also put together a list for the entire month. We’ve included this week’s list here, complete with information on screening locations for films in limited release.
See More: Here Are All the Upcoming Movies in Theaters for June 2016
Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. the week of Friday, June 24. All synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise.
Wide
Free State of Jones
Director: Gary Ross
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Keri Russell, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali, Jacob Lofland
Synopsis: “In Jones County, Miss., Newt Knight joins forces with other farmers and a group of slaves to lead a rebellion against the Confederacy.”
Independence Day: Resurgence...
- 6/24/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Appearing on an Australian chat show in 1973, Frank Zappa likened the groupie "phenomenon" to human sacrifice. Footage of the interview appears in a new documentary about the iconoclastic artist called Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words, which opens in theaters tomorrow.
The clip shows Monday Conference host Robert Moore reading a list of pejorative descriptions that critics have used to describe Zappa (ending with some by the artist himself), before cutting to a section of the interview in which Zappa calls the advent of groupies a "sociological...
The clip shows Monday Conference host Robert Moore reading a list of pejorative descriptions that critics have used to describe Zappa (ending with some by the artist himself), before cutting to a section of the interview in which Zappa calls the advent of groupies a "sociological...
- 6/23/2016
- Rollingstone.com
During more than two decades in the spotlight, Selma Blair has seen her share of ups and downs. On Monday, the actress was removed from an international flight as it landed in Los Angeles following her return from Cancun, Mexico, after taking what appeared to be "a combination of prescription medication with alcohol," a source told People. This latest incident is just one of many triumphs and setbacks Blair, 43, has experienced both in her multifaceted career and her complicated personal life. Finding StardomBlair's on-screen credits go back to 1995, but her career really started to take off thanks to a breakthrough role in 1998's Cruel Intentions.
- 6/22/2016
- by Brittany King, @brrriitttnnii
- PEOPLE.com
During more than two decades in the spotlight, Selma Blair has seen her share of ups and downs.
On Monday, the actress was removed from an international flight as it landed in Los Angeles following her return from Cancun, Mexico, after taking what appeared to be "a combination of prescription medication with alcohol," a source told People.
This latest incident is just one of many triumphs and setbacks Blair, 43, has experienced both in her multifaceted career and her complicated personal life.
Finding StardomBlair's on-screen credits go back to 1995, but her career really started to take off thanks to a breakthrough role in 1998's Cruel Intentions.
On Monday, the actress was removed from an international flight as it landed in Los Angeles following her return from Cancun, Mexico, after taking what appeared to be "a combination of prescription medication with alcohol," a source told People.
This latest incident is just one of many triumphs and setbacks Blair, 43, has experienced both in her multifaceted career and her complicated personal life.
Finding StardomBlair's on-screen credits go back to 1995, but her career really started to take off thanks to a breakthrough role in 1998's Cruel Intentions.
- 6/22/2016
- by Brittany King, @brrriitttnnii
- People.com - TV Watch
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