Copenhagen-based LevelK has pounced on world sales rights to the Swedish suspense drama “Hunters on a White Field,” toplining stellar acting trio Jens Hultén, Magnus Krepper and Ardalan Esmaili.
The pic will bow as an exclusive market screening at Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market, running Jan. 31-Feb 2.
Making her feature debut as writer-director is Sarah Gyllenstierna, a former assistant producer and director to artists including Spike Lee and Matthew Barney.
The suspense drama, based on a novel by Mats Wägeus, follows three men – Alex, Greger and Henrik – who get together a weekend to go hunting in the woods. The novice Alex learns how to hunt from his experienced partners. An initial spell of hunting success sharpens their instincts and stirs a sense of rivalry. One day, all animals vanish and the forest turns eerily quiet, yet for the men-the hunt must go on.
“I started developing this film in 2020 when...
The pic will bow as an exclusive market screening at Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market, running Jan. 31-Feb 2.
Making her feature debut as writer-director is Sarah Gyllenstierna, a former assistant producer and director to artists including Spike Lee and Matthew Barney.
The suspense drama, based on a novel by Mats Wägeus, follows three men – Alex, Greger and Henrik – who get together a weekend to go hunting in the woods. The novice Alex learns how to hunt from his experienced partners. An initial spell of hunting success sharpens their instincts and stirs a sense of rivalry. One day, all animals vanish and the forest turns eerily quiet, yet for the men-the hunt must go on.
“I started developing this film in 2020 when...
- 1/29/2024
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
How To Come Alive With Norman Mailer director Jeff Zimbalist: “Norman Mailer and his work represented artistic courage, that bold willingness to fight for unpopular ideas, no matter the outcome.” Photo: Jeff Zimbalist
In the first instalment with Jeff Zimbalist on How To Come Alive With Norman Mailer (co-written with Victoria Marquette and a highlight of the 14th edition of Doc NYC) we start out by discussing how Jeff became an executive producer of Frédéric Tcheng and Bethann Hardison’s Invisible Beauty (a highlight in the 21st edition of the Tribeca Film Festival) after his film Favela Rising’s premiere at Tribeca in 2005.
Jeff Zimbalist with Anne-Katrin Titze on the Norman Mailer/Matthew Barney connection: “River of Fundament is incredible. Some of the work he did with Mailer, Houdini, is phenomenal stuff. ”
The Norman Mailer/Matthew Barney film connection (River Of Fundament and Houdini); Maidstone and Rip Torn; the...
In the first instalment with Jeff Zimbalist on How To Come Alive With Norman Mailer (co-written with Victoria Marquette and a highlight of the 14th edition of Doc NYC) we start out by discussing how Jeff became an executive producer of Frédéric Tcheng and Bethann Hardison’s Invisible Beauty (a highlight in the 21st edition of the Tribeca Film Festival) after his film Favela Rising’s premiere at Tribeca in 2005.
Jeff Zimbalist with Anne-Katrin Titze on the Norman Mailer/Matthew Barney connection: “River of Fundament is incredible. Some of the work he did with Mailer, Houdini, is phenomenal stuff. ”
The Norman Mailer/Matthew Barney film connection (River Of Fundament and Houdini); Maidstone and Rip Torn; the...
- 11/11/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In a major shift one of the nation’s premier arthouses, Karen Cooper will be exiting as director on June 30 after 50 years running the Film Forum in New York City. Deputy Director Sonya Chung will assume the role.
Cooper has led the nonprofit cinema since its first iteration in 1972 as a 50-seat loft space on the Upper West Side open only weekends, to a multi-million dollar operation with four screens and 500 seats in lower Manhattan. She’ll remain an advisor to Chung with a focus on programming premieres and fundraising
“To say this is a transitional moment would be a vast understatement – for virtually all of its history, Film Forum has been energetically and most ably guided by Karen, not least during the very challenging pandemic period from which we are emerging. My board colleagues and I are extremely grateful for her tenure, and excited that in Sonya we have...
Cooper has led the nonprofit cinema since its first iteration in 1972 as a 50-seat loft space on the Upper West Side open only weekends, to a multi-million dollar operation with four screens and 500 seats in lower Manhattan. She’ll remain an advisor to Chung with a focus on programming premieres and fundraising
“To say this is a transitional moment would be a vast understatement – for virtually all of its history, Film Forum has been energetically and most ably guided by Karen, not least during the very challenging pandemic period from which we are emerging. My board colleagues and I are extremely grateful for her tenure, and excited that in Sonya we have...
- 1/9/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Björk’s Daughter Isadora Bjarkardóttir Barney Stars In New Miu Miu Campaign, Debuts Modelling Career
Miu Miu jewelry debuted a rising fashion industry star in the Italian brand’s new jewellery campaign for its fall/winter 2022 collection. Actress Isadora Bjarkardóttir Barney, who is also the daughter of Icelandic singer-songwriter-actress Björk and artist-director Matthew Barney, made her modelling debut in the new campaign that also features “Euphoria”‘s Sydney Sweeney, Emily Ratajkowski and actress-singer-dancer Demi Singleton. According to...
- 7/30/2022
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
The last time “Atlanta” was on the air — on May 10, 2018 — Donald Trump was still president, no one had heard of Covid and the show’s creator, Donald Glover, debuted as Lando Calrissian in “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” which was released later that month. If you can’t remember such a time, don’t worry: Neither can anyone else.
Season 3 of “Atlanta” — delayed at length by both Glover’s schedule and by the pandemic — is scheduled to premiere on FX on Thursday with two episodes (they’ll stream the next day on Hulu). And luckily, the show, which earned Glover acting and directing Emmy awards for its first season, filmed Seasons 3 and 4 back-to-back. Unluckily, Glover announced last month that the show’s fourth season — premiering in the fall — will be “Atlanta’s” last.
But none of those facts help you remember where the second season of “Atlanta” left off, so...
Season 3 of “Atlanta” — delayed at length by both Glover’s schedule and by the pandemic — is scheduled to premiere on FX on Thursday with two episodes (they’ll stream the next day on Hulu). And luckily, the show, which earned Glover acting and directing Emmy awards for its first season, filmed Seasons 3 and 4 back-to-back. Unluckily, Glover announced last month that the show’s fourth season — premiering in the fall — will be “Atlanta’s” last.
But none of those facts help you remember where the second season of “Atlanta” left off, so...
- 3/21/2022
- by Kate Aurthur
- Variety Film + TV
A general rule films students learn the first few weeks of their intro class is that a film teaches you how to watch it within the first five minutes. Well, most. The latest outing from Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) throws everything it’s got against the wall and, if it doesn’t stick after a minute, turns itself on its head and shoots its characters into the next parallel universe. Marvel opened up this can of worms and if there can be countless Spider-Men, why can’t Evelyn Wang, a Chinese-American laundromat owner and collector of random hobbies, also have a parallel existence she’s just starting to tap into?
That is the entry point of Everything Everywhere All At Once, a sprawling action-comedy that lives up to its name and ambition across three asymmetric chapters that are best left for you to discover—the rabbit hole is deeper,...
That is the entry point of Everything Everywhere All At Once, a sprawling action-comedy that lives up to its name and ambition across three asymmetric chapters that are best left for you to discover—the rabbit hole is deeper,...
- 3/14/2022
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
The stories we tell our children help them see the scale of their potential. The most heartbreaking scenes from the final installment of the Netflix documentary jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy illuminate the fact. Kanye’s mother, the late scholar and activist Donda West, believed in her son’s dreams with no reservation. She encouraged him to reach as high as his imagination would allow. The footage of them together from decades ago offers a glimpse of a young Ye at peace with himself. Rigidity makes way for warmth and Kanye...
- 3/3/2022
- by Jeff Ihaza
- Rollingstone.com
Matthew Barney's Redoubt is playing exclusively on Mubi in the UK starting on May 20, 2021. It is also being presented alongside the exhibition "Matthew Barney: Redoubt" at the Hayward Gallery in London.As much as anything, Redoubt was an opportunity to think more about some of the mythologies I inherited growing up in the West. I wanted to make a portrait of central Idaho that would capture the complexity of that region, both the beautiful and the darker aspects of its landscape and culture. The debate over the reintroduction of the gray wolf into the wilderness of Idaho gave me a narrative structure to explore these themes on a mythic scale.Central and southern Idaho are geographically isolated by the Rocky Mountains to the northeast, and the high desert to the southwest, and there are strong isolationist tendencies culturally as well. One extremist movement in parts of Idaho, eastern Oregon and Washington,...
- 5/20/2021
- MUBI
The artist casts himself alongside a real-life NRA sharpshooter in this wordless exploration of wilderness
Redoubt is a wordless outdoor movie-ballet inspired by the huntress myth of Diana, set in the forested wilderness of Idaho’s Sawtooth mountains and brought to us by artist and film-maker Matthew Barney, whose most famous work is probably his colossal five-film sequence, the Cremaster Cycle.
Cremaster was a headspinningly gigantic folie de grandeur spanning six hours in total, inspired by the interrelation of biology and creativity. Redoubt is a more modest two-and-a-quarter hours, part of an art installation including sculptures and engravings, originally commissioned by Yale University. Barney plays a hardy outdoorsman, an engraver who hikes around the wilderness, making etchings on an engraving plate; his redoubt appears to be a modest trailer which he shares with a woman (Kj Holmes), perhaps his wife or partner, who electroplates the resulting work in a chemical bath.
Redoubt is a wordless outdoor movie-ballet inspired by the huntress myth of Diana, set in the forested wilderness of Idaho’s Sawtooth mountains and brought to us by artist and film-maker Matthew Barney, whose most famous work is probably his colossal five-film sequence, the Cremaster Cycle.
Cremaster was a headspinningly gigantic folie de grandeur spanning six hours in total, inspired by the interrelation of biology and creativity. Redoubt is a more modest two-and-a-quarter hours, part of an art installation including sculptures and engravings, originally commissioned by Yale University. Barney plays a hardy outdoorsman, an engraver who hikes around the wilderness, making etchings on an engraving plate; his redoubt appears to be a modest trailer which he shares with a woman (Kj Holmes), perhaps his wife or partner, who electroplates the resulting work in a chemical bath.
- 5/18/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Amalia Ulman’s El Planeta, starring the director/screenwriter and her mother, Ale Ulman, is the perfect opening night selection for the 50th anniversary of New Directors/New Films, hosted by Film at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art. Shot by Carlos Rigo in beautiful black and white, co-edited smartly by Katie Mcquerrey and Anthony Valdez, El Planeta takes us back to the filmmaker’s former hometown, Gijon, Spain.
Cleverly used references to Martin Scorsese, Ernst Lubitsch, Milos Forman's Amadeus, David and Albert Maysles’ Grey Gardens, Katsuhito Ishii’s The Taste Of Tea, and Jean Renoir’s Rules Of The Game enter the picture.
Leo (Amalia Ulman) and her...
Cleverly used references to Martin Scorsese, Ernst Lubitsch, Milos Forman's Amadeus, David and Albert Maysles’ Grey Gardens, Katsuhito Ishii’s The Taste Of Tea, and Jean Renoir’s Rules Of The Game enter the picture.
Leo (Amalia Ulman) and her...
- 4/27/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Amalia Ulman on the opening scene in El Planeta with Maria (Ale Ulman) in Gijon, Spain: “I really wanted to set the tone of the city. That’s the city where I grew up and one of the biggest challenges is the weather.
Amalia Ulman’s El Planeta, starring the director/screenwriter and her mother, Ale Ulman, is the perfect opening night selection for the 50th anniversary of New Directors/New Films, hosted by Film at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art. Shot by Carlos Rigo in beautiful black and white, co-edited smartly by Katie Mcquerrey and Anthony Valdez, El Planeta takes us back to the filmmaker’s former hometown, Gijon, Spain.
Amalia Ulman on New Directors/New Films: “I was very excited and happy to be opening this festival. Because of the great reputation it has for showing new works.”
Cleverly used references to Martin Scorsese, Ernst Lubitsch,...
Amalia Ulman’s El Planeta, starring the director/screenwriter and her mother, Ale Ulman, is the perfect opening night selection for the 50th anniversary of New Directors/New Films, hosted by Film at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art. Shot by Carlos Rigo in beautiful black and white, co-edited smartly by Katie Mcquerrey and Anthony Valdez, El Planeta takes us back to the filmmaker’s former hometown, Gijon, Spain.
Amalia Ulman on New Directors/New Films: “I was very excited and happy to be opening this festival. Because of the great reputation it has for showing new works.”
Cleverly used references to Martin Scorsese, Ernst Lubitsch,...
- 4/20/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In the Russian artist Uldus Bakhtiozina’s retro-futurist, feminist spoof on costume dramas, Tzarevna Scaling (Doch Rybaka), a young woman, Polina (Alina Korol), who works at a fried-fish food truck, is offered a mysterious herbal tea to assuage her insomnia. Upon drinking it, Polina wakes up the next day, only to be transported to a bizarro parallel universe. In it, an outlandishly dressed royal—a kind of pissy, mean-spirited fairy-godmother—leads Polina through a test, to prove if she has what it takes to become a tzarevna. Since Polina learns about her unique chance through an old, clunky television set, it’s possible that the entire dreamworld is a trap inside the television set, and Polina’s ordeal is nothing more than a cynical beauty contest.In Bakhtiozina’s Alice-in-Wonderland meets Cinderella quest, the final showdown gets solved quickly when Polina’s asked, rather predictably, what makes her think that she’s so special,...
- 3/5/2021
- MUBI
Exclusive: Paris-based sales outfit Reel Suspects has taken world sales, excluding Russia, on Uldus Bakhtiozina’s debut feature film Tzarevna Scaling, which has been selected for this year’s Berlinale Forum program.
Bakhtiozina is an internationally renowned artist who in 2015 became the first Russian speaker to deliver a Ted talk. She has exhibited work around the world.
This is her first feature. It follows a fishmonger who, after being given a tea by a strange old woman, finds her sleep turns into a fairy tale, during which she must compete to become a tsar’s daughter.
“I am immensely proud to work on Uldus’ first feature. I felt in love with the film at the first sight. It’s a powerful cinematographic work that reminds me of Ron Fricke’s Baraka or Matthew Barney’s works, with a more social and political background,” said Reel Suspects CEO Matteo Lovadina. “We...
Bakhtiozina is an internationally renowned artist who in 2015 became the first Russian speaker to deliver a Ted talk. She has exhibited work around the world.
This is her first feature. It follows a fishmonger who, after being given a tea by a strange old woman, finds her sleep turns into a fairy tale, during which she must compete to become a tsar’s daughter.
“I am immensely proud to work on Uldus’ first feature. I felt in love with the film at the first sight. It’s a powerful cinematographic work that reminds me of Ron Fricke’s Baraka or Matthew Barney’s works, with a more social and political background,” said Reel Suspects CEO Matteo Lovadina. “We...
- 2/24/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Frieze has big plans for February.
The international art organization has set Anniversary Sessions, a three-day digital festival scheduled for Feb. 17-19, to mark its 30th anniversary. Also, Frieze is introducing a membership program designed to provide access to digital content, the print publication, and priority access to Frieze fairs and special events. Anniversary Sessions content will include conversations between artists, writers and thought-leaders who have helped shape the industry and culture over the past three decades.
Frieze has confirmed such participants as Matthew Barney, Jeremy Deller, Lubaina Himid, Philippe Parreno, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Kara Walker. To set the table ...
The international art organization has set Anniversary Sessions, a three-day digital festival scheduled for Feb. 17-19, to mark its 30th anniversary. Also, Frieze is introducing a membership program designed to provide access to digital content, the print publication, and priority access to Frieze fairs and special events. Anniversary Sessions content will include conversations between artists, writers and thought-leaders who have helped shape the industry and culture over the past three decades.
Frieze has confirmed such participants as Matthew Barney, Jeremy Deller, Lubaina Himid, Philippe Parreno, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Kara Walker. To set the table ...
Frieze has big plans for February.
The international art organization has set Anniversary Sessions, a three-day digital festival scheduled for Feb. 17-19, to mark its 30th anniversary. Also, Frieze is introducing a membership program designed to provide access to digital content, the print publication, and priority access to Frieze fairs and special events. Anniversary Sessions content will include conversations between artists, writers and thought-leaders who have helped shape the industry and culture over the past three decades.
Frieze has confirmed such participants as Matthew Barney, Jeremy Deller, Lubaina Himid, Philippe Parreno, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Kara Walker. To set the table ...
The international art organization has set Anniversary Sessions, a three-day digital festival scheduled for Feb. 17-19, to mark its 30th anniversary. Also, Frieze is introducing a membership program designed to provide access to digital content, the print publication, and priority access to Frieze fairs and special events. Anniversary Sessions content will include conversations between artists, writers and thought-leaders who have helped shape the industry and culture over the past three decades.
Frieze has confirmed such participants as Matthew Barney, Jeremy Deller, Lubaina Himid, Philippe Parreno, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Kara Walker. To set the table ...
Marking his follow-up to The Witch and The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers was just one week from beginning production on his most ambitious movie yet, The Northman, before Covid-19 hit. The Viking drama is set to star both Alexander and Bill Skarsgård, as well as Nicole Kidman and Claes Bang, and there’s also two reunions for Eggers: The Witch star Anya Taylor-Joy along with The Lighthouse‘s Willem Dafoe. Now that production is gearing back up, we’ve got a few more additions to the cast.
As revealed in a social media post from a trainer working on the film (sorry buddy––hope you still have the gig), none other the otherworldly Björk herself will be playing a character named The Slav Witch. If that wasn’t enough to get excited about, Björk and Matthew Barney’s daughter Ísadóra Bjarkardóttir Barney will also be part of the ensemble along with The Witch star Kate Dickie.
As revealed in a social media post from a trainer working on the film (sorry buddy––hope you still have the gig), none other the otherworldly Björk herself will be playing a character named The Slav Witch. If that wasn’t enough to get excited about, Björk and Matthew Barney’s daughter Ísadóra Bjarkardóttir Barney will also be part of the ensemble along with The Witch star Kate Dickie.
- 8/20/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Grasshopper Film has acquired U.S. rights to Camilo Restrepo’s critically acclaimed feature debut, “Los Conductos,” which won the best first film award at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
“Los Conductos” — represented in international markets by Brussels-based Best Friend Forever — was expected to have its North American premiere at New Directors/New Films but the festival was canceled due to the coronavirus crisis. The movie world-premiered as part of the Berlinale’s new competitive section Encounters.
Exploring the shattered psyche of a man on the run, “Los Conductos” is a Spanish-language film set in Medellin, Colombia, and loosely based on the true story of Pinky, who freed himself from the grip of a religious sect and gets a job in a T-shirt factory. Misled by his own faith, he tries to to get his life back on track, but is haunted by the violent memories of his past.
“Los Conductos” — represented in international markets by Brussels-based Best Friend Forever — was expected to have its North American premiere at New Directors/New Films but the festival was canceled due to the coronavirus crisis. The movie world-premiered as part of the Berlinale’s new competitive section Encounters.
Exploring the shattered psyche of a man on the run, “Los Conductos” is a Spanish-language film set in Medellin, Colombia, and loosely based on the true story of Pinky, who freed himself from the grip of a religious sect and gets a job in a T-shirt factory. Misled by his own faith, he tries to to get his life back on track, but is haunted by the violent memories of his past.
- 6/23/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.Recommended VIEWINGJonathan Glazer's The FallA surprise new short from Jonathan Glazer, entitled The Fall, dropped on BBC Two with little introduction on Sunday night, exposing viewers to 7 minutes of mob violence. “The day I saw a picture of the Trump sons grinning with a dead leopard,” Glazer says, was the inspiration for the harrowing visual centerpiece of the film. The official U.S. trailer for Ken Loach's drama Sorry We Missed You, about a man who decides to be his own boss, only to fall into a harsh and unrelenting gig economy. Diao Yinan returns with The Wild Goose Lake, which follows a gangster and a call-girl on the run from the police. Read our review of the film here. Recommended READINGDennis Hopper, "Peter Fonda (With Tripod)" (1966)On The Guardian, an exclusive look...
- 10/31/2019
- MUBI
We might as well call it “Dances With Wolves”: Compared to the nightmarish vision multimedia id-tickler Matthew Barney created his epic, five-film “Cremaster Cycle” (which suggested Hieronymus Bosch by way of Busby Berkeley) and his shocking six-hour followup, “River of Fundament”, the art-world adulte terrible’s wilderness-set new feature feels downright conventional.
“Redoubt” runs a relatively bladder-friendly two hours and 15 minutes. It contains none of the upsetting bodily fluids or functions that have repulsed his past audiences. The film features Barney himself as a grizzled mountain-man artist identified only as the “Engraver,” and it follows a linear plot loosely inspired by the myth of Diana, goddess of the hunt (professional sharpshooter and self-described “30 Cal Gal” Anette Wachter), and Actaeon, the mortal trespasser whom she turned into a stag (that would be Barney’s character).
— and even they should be mollified by the end-credits claim that “Hunting scenes … were staged using special effects.
“Redoubt” runs a relatively bladder-friendly two hours and 15 minutes. It contains none of the upsetting bodily fluids or functions that have repulsed his past audiences. The film features Barney himself as a grizzled mountain-man artist identified only as the “Engraver,” and it follows a linear plot loosely inspired by the myth of Diana, goddess of the hunt (professional sharpshooter and self-described “30 Cal Gal” Anette Wachter), and Actaeon, the mortal trespasser whom she turned into a stag (that would be Barney’s character).
— and even they should be mollified by the end-credits claim that “Hunting scenes … were staged using special effects.
- 10/31/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
I was recently at the Haus der Kunst, the hulkingly beautiful Nazi-era museum that sits on the edge of Munich’s largest park, the Englischer Garten. My companion and I arrived late in the day and had neither the time nor the wherewithal to stick around for long. After some dithering over our options, we decided to check out a video exhibition in its basement.We descended into the depths of the museum on the suggestion of the kind woman working the reception desk—the basement is an unreconstructed horror of a bomb shelter, designed for the Nsdap top brass to use in the event of a mid-exhibition air raid. Quite the experience, she assured us. Sure enough, it was hard not to hyperventilate while slinking past the enormous steel doors with their femur-sized bolts and latches that punctuated each turn of the basement complex. Yet the video art...
- 10/26/2019
- MUBI
Comedy Dynamics has acquired Laura Madalinksi’s 2 In The Bush: A Love Story. The feature is slated for release through the Comedy Dynamics network in Fall 2019.
Written by Madalinski and Kelly Haas, the film follows Emily who, after losing her job, arrives home early from work to find her girlfriend in the throes of passion with someone else. In an instant, her entire life is turned upside down. Moving in with her best friend, Emily lands a new gig working for a dominatrix. When she falls for her new boss, and then her boss’s boyfriend, Emily must decide what risks are worth taking for love.
2 In The Bush: A Love Story was an official selection of the 2018 OutFest La, and played at numerous festivals including BFI Flare London Lgbtq+ Film Festival as well as NewFests, New York’s Lgbtq Film Festival.
The acquisition deal for 2 In The Bush was...
Written by Madalinski and Kelly Haas, the film follows Emily who, after losing her job, arrives home early from work to find her girlfriend in the throes of passion with someone else. In an instant, her entire life is turned upside down. Moving in with her best friend, Emily lands a new gig working for a dominatrix. When she falls for her new boss, and then her boss’s boyfriend, Emily must decide what risks are worth taking for love.
2 In The Bush: A Love Story was an official selection of the 2018 OutFest La, and played at numerous festivals including BFI Flare London Lgbtq+ Film Festival as well as NewFests, New York’s Lgbtq Film Festival.
The acquisition deal for 2 In The Bush was...
- 8/28/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Warwick Davis (Leprechaun) features in the hallucinatory new horror epic Saint Bernard, from legendary FX Master Gabe Bartalos which premieres on Blu-ray, DVD and digital platforms May 14th from Severin Films.
Gabe Bartalos, the film’s director, writer and special effects artist pulls heavily from his ripe imagination, creating extraordinary characters, bizarre set designs, and incredibly inspired prosthetic effects. Amid a palette of dark themes, the film takes its audience on a turbulent ride through Bernard’s surreal adventures as he spirals into madness. Shot on Super 16mm and 35mm film, the highly-anticipated horror jaunt fixes on a classical musical conductor who unravels into the abyss of insanity. Jason Dugre (Bosch), Katy Sullivan (Last Man Standing), Peter Iasillo Jr. (HellBilly 58), Bob Zmuda (Man on the Moon) and Warwick Davis star.
Saint Bernard’s marvelously hypnotic tone displays influences characteristic of prior collaborations with art world icon Matthew Barney, horror aficionado Frank Henenlotter,...
Gabe Bartalos, the film’s director, writer and special effects artist pulls heavily from his ripe imagination, creating extraordinary characters, bizarre set designs, and incredibly inspired prosthetic effects. Amid a palette of dark themes, the film takes its audience on a turbulent ride through Bernard’s surreal adventures as he spirals into madness. Shot on Super 16mm and 35mm film, the highly-anticipated horror jaunt fixes on a classical musical conductor who unravels into the abyss of insanity. Jason Dugre (Bosch), Katy Sullivan (Last Man Standing), Peter Iasillo Jr. (HellBilly 58), Bob Zmuda (Man on the Moon) and Warwick Davis star.
Saint Bernard’s marvelously hypnotic tone displays influences characteristic of prior collaborations with art world icon Matthew Barney, horror aficionado Frank Henenlotter,...
- 5/2/2019
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Looking to add some scares to your viewing slate this summer? Severin Films has you covered (in blood) with their upcoming May Blu-ray releases that include The Uncanny, the wrestling horror movie Masked Mutilator, and Saint Bernard from writer, director, and makeup effects master Gabe Bartalos:
"This May, Severin Films is unleashing three visionary films that only the strongest viewers will be able to witness without losing their sanity. May 28th brings the long- awaited disc debut of the classic anthology horror The Uncanny, starring Peter Cushing & Ray Milland. May 14th sees the arrival of two brand-new, very different, outsider visions: FX guru Gabe Bartalos’ unhinged St. Bernard breaks down the barriers of good taste and Masked Mutilator splatters the blood of the wrestling ring all over Severin’s sub-label Intervision Picture Corp.
The Uncanny:
In 1977, legendary Amicus co-founder Milton Subotsky teamed with Canadian producer Claude Héroux for the anthology shocker CelluloidDiaries.
"This May, Severin Films is unleashing three visionary films that only the strongest viewers will be able to witness without losing their sanity. May 28th brings the long- awaited disc debut of the classic anthology horror The Uncanny, starring Peter Cushing & Ray Milland. May 14th sees the arrival of two brand-new, very different, outsider visions: FX guru Gabe Bartalos’ unhinged St. Bernard breaks down the barriers of good taste and Masked Mutilator splatters the blood of the wrestling ring all over Severin’s sub-label Intervision Picture Corp.
The Uncanny:
In 1977, legendary Amicus co-founder Milton Subotsky teamed with Canadian producer Claude Héroux for the anthology shocker CelluloidDiaries.
- 4/16/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
The Wind Blew On
Iceland’s Katrín Ólafsdóttir should be set with her extremely promising debut, a dystopic sci-fi Western The Wind Blew On. Producing alongside Eva Sigurdardóttir for International Incoherence and co-produced by Gudrun Edda Thorhanesdottir, her cast includes a triumvirate of notable actresses, including Geraldine Chaplin, Elina Lowensohn and Angela Molina. Director Matthew Barney (The Cremaster Cycle) is also amongst the cast. Mauro Herce and Arnar Thor Thorisson serve as the project’s cinematographers.…...
Iceland’s Katrín Ólafsdóttir should be set with her extremely promising debut, a dystopic sci-fi Western The Wind Blew On. Producing alongside Eva Sigurdardóttir for International Incoherence and co-produced by Gudrun Edda Thorhanesdottir, her cast includes a triumvirate of notable actresses, including Geraldine Chaplin, Elina Lowensohn and Angela Molina. Director Matthew Barney (The Cremaster Cycle) is also amongst the cast. Mauro Herce and Arnar Thor Thorisson serve as the project’s cinematographers.…...
- 1/2/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Jennifer Lawrence is tying the knot with New York City gallery director Cooke Maroney.
Their romance has evolved over the last several months, with a source confirming to People in June that the Oscar winner, 28, was dating the art dealer, 34.
Since then, the two haven’t shied away from going on dates in public together. The couple has recently been out and about several times in New York City for intimate dinner dates while bundling up in the cold.
The two also enjoyed a trip to Paris and later Rome in August. A source told People the couple “seemed happy,...
Their romance has evolved over the last several months, with a source confirming to People in June that the Oscar winner, 28, was dating the art dealer, 34.
Since then, the two haven’t shied away from going on dates in public together. The couple has recently been out and about several times in New York City for intimate dinner dates while bundling up in the cold.
The two also enjoyed a trip to Paris and later Rome in August. A source told People the couple “seemed happy,...
- 6/6/2018
- by Mike Miller, Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
Documentarian Alison Chernick has made a career of profiling artists from Jeff Koons and Matthew Barney in features to Roy Lichtenstein and Rick Rubin in shorts. Her latest subject is renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman — a victim of polio as a child in Israel who found himself at Julliard before earning Grammys, Emmys, and countless international awards. He overcame a disability (walking on crutches when not in his wheelchair) that never impaired his playing, but constantly hung over his head as a psychological hindrance in the minds of those with the opportunity to help his education. It took Ed Sullivan and an assumed desire to showcase a teenaged Itzhak’s skill despite his handicap rather than removed from it to bring him to New York and carve his path forward.
Itzhak is a hybrid of sorts that doesn’t merely draw his linear trajectory from birth to the present or focus...
Itzhak is a hybrid of sorts that doesn’t merely draw his linear trajectory from birth to the present or focus...
- 4/18/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Zhao Liang's Behemoth (2015) is showing April 17 - May 17, 2018 in the United States as part of the retrospective Chinese Independents, Part 1.Over the past few years, a wealth of filmmakers have embraced creative techniques while representing the toil and toll of manual labor across the broad spectrum of modern non-fiction cinema. There have been strict ethnographic chronicles, formally and visually dexterous meditations, sensory explorations as well as political histories. Chinese documentarian Zhao Liang adopts a poetic approach to the subject matter in his extraordinary Behemoth, taking Dante’s Divine Comedy as inspiration for an image-led descent into a hellish underworld (and out the other side) to lay bare the human cost of rampant industrialization in his homeland.Inferno“And of course it is doomed. The mountains, the moors; for a time, for a few decades, they will shelter the wilderness still.
- 4/4/2018
- MUBI
As artificial intelligence expands from sci-fi conceit to everyday reality, its implications inspire both horror and awe. Few recent movies have explored that divide better than writer-director Alex Garland’s robot rebellion thriller “Ex Machina,” and now it has some company with his stunning followup, which expands his thematic focus: Where “Ex Machina” argued that the machines are a few steps ahead of us, “Annihilation” suggests that the universe is even further along. At once a gripping jungle survival thriller and an alluring sci-fi puzzle, Garland’s heady gambit confirms he’s one of the genre’s best working filmmakers.
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Based on Jeff VanderMeer’s first novel in his Southern Reach Trilogy, “Annihilation” finds biologist Lena (Natalie Portman, stern and focused, which also describes the movie’s tone) enlisting herself to follow...
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Based on Jeff VanderMeer’s first novel in his Southern Reach Trilogy, “Annihilation” finds biologist Lena (Natalie Portman, stern and focused, which also describes the movie’s tone) enlisting herself to follow...
- 2/21/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Back from either the dead or a seven-year sabbatical when he last appeared in the now-misleading Saw 3D: The Final Chapter in 2010, the latest reincarnation of Jigsaw is largely more of the same, with a little less gore. Jigsaw’s “healing” games — a cross between Tony Robbins making his audience walk on hot stones and Dr. Phil yelling at “patients” — is just as cutthroat as The Food Network’s Guy’s Grocery Games, and then some.
What might make for a fun movie is a straight-forward drama from the point of view of John Kramer (Tobin Bell) about what the Jigsaw killer does to fabricate these devices and what he does with the rest of his time carrying out the kinds of things Matthew Barney can only dream about. We’ve gotten bits and pieces of that over the years, but never the kind of artist biopic that Jigsaw truly deserves,...
What might make for a fun movie is a straight-forward drama from the point of view of John Kramer (Tobin Bell) about what the Jigsaw killer does to fabricate these devices and what he does with the rest of his time carrying out the kinds of things Matthew Barney can only dream about. We’ve gotten bits and pieces of that over the years, but never the kind of artist biopic that Jigsaw truly deserves,...
- 10/28/2017
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
By Nathaniel R
Catherine Deneuve, Björk, and Von Trier at Cannes (2000)
The floodgates have opened post Weinstein and now everyone wants to speak out. This morning Björk issued a statement about her experience working with "a Danish director," a hilariously coy non-naming of names since she's only starred in one movie, Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark (2000) after which she never appeared in a movie again, unless you count her performance art collaboration with her then-boyfriend Matthew Barney on Drawing Restraint (2009). Which, well, the sexual violence was onscreen in that one with Barney and Björk carving each other up while naked underwater and turning into whales or some such. You know how that happens.
Here is her statement which is worth parsing due to its unexpected Dogville allusion...
Catherine Deneuve, Björk, and Von Trier at Cannes (2000)
The floodgates have opened post Weinstein and now everyone wants to speak out. This morning Björk issued a statement about her experience working with "a Danish director," a hilariously coy non-naming of names since she's only starred in one movie, Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark (2000) after which she never appeared in a movie again, unless you count her performance art collaboration with her then-boyfriend Matthew Barney on Drawing Restraint (2009). Which, well, the sexual violence was onscreen in that one with Barney and Björk carving each other up while naked underwater and turning into whales or some such. You know how that happens.
Here is her statement which is worth parsing due to its unexpected Dogville allusion...
- 10/15/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
From her upcoming album “Utopia” comes Björk’s new music video “The Gate,” which is the album’s first single. The video, released on Sunday, is yet another collaboration with experimental filmmaker Andrew Thomas Huang.
As we venture into the oneiric world of “The Gate,” we initially see Björk playing the flute in a land that is so heavenly that it resembles Planet Mül from Luc Besson’s “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.” While she sings “I care for you,” the visually stunning music video then proceeds to show the Icelandic artist create and control the most ensnaring light orb you’ve ever seen, which she uses to animate other beings to make them whole.
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Björk’s latest album “Vulnicura” was, according to Pitchfork, about the conclusion of her long-term relationship with Matthew Barney.
As we venture into the oneiric world of “The Gate,” we initially see Björk playing the flute in a land that is so heavenly that it resembles Planet Mül from Luc Besson’s “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.” While she sings “I care for you,” the visually stunning music video then proceeds to show the Icelandic artist create and control the most ensnaring light orb you’ve ever seen, which she uses to animate other beings to make them whole.
Read More:Björk Becomes a Spectral Being in Beautiful New Vr Video ‘Notget’ — Watch
Björk’s latest album “Vulnicura” was, according to Pitchfork, about the conclusion of her long-term relationship with Matthew Barney.
- 9/18/2017
- by Alberto Achar
- Indiewire
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
Kirsten Johnson brings us her memoirs by way of a videographic scrapbook. Bits and pieces of the numerous documentaries she’s shot in her years as a Dp have been woven together into a travelogue / ethnographic study / commentary on the nature of cinematic framing. What was an establishing shot in one doc becomes, here, a study of the vagaries of a camera operator’s job. Documentary...
Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
Kirsten Johnson brings us her memoirs by way of a videographic scrapbook. Bits and pieces of the numerous documentaries she’s shot in her years as a Dp have been woven together into a travelogue / ethnographic study / commentary on the nature of cinematic framing. What was an establishing shot in one doc becomes, here, a study of the vagaries of a camera operator’s job. Documentary...
- 7/21/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
While some have lamented that Sundance Film Festival has skewed more celebrity-focused in recent years, giving credence to star wattage over quality, those people often don’t explore the sidebars, and they certainly didn’t go see Lemon and Kuso. The two most peculiar films of the festival — and amongst the year, so far — will arrive this summer and new trailers have landed for both.
First up, Lemon comes from Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman, following the latter as his life unravels in the strangest of ways. Also starring Judy Greer, Michael Cera, Fred Melamed, Rhea Perlman, Gillian Jacobs, Jon Daly, Martin Starr, Megan Mullally, Jeff Garlin, and Nia Long, it was actually one of the few films at the festival I didn’t review because I was left dumbfounded at what I just saw, for better or worse.
The next film, which hits theaters and Shudder shortly, is Kuso,...
First up, Lemon comes from Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman, following the latter as his life unravels in the strangest of ways. Also starring Judy Greer, Michael Cera, Fred Melamed, Rhea Perlman, Gillian Jacobs, Jon Daly, Martin Starr, Megan Mullally, Jeff Garlin, and Nia Long, it was actually one of the few films at the festival I didn’t review because I was left dumbfounded at what I just saw, for better or worse.
The next film, which hits theaters and Shudder shortly, is Kuso,...
- 7/11/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Counterpoints to the Narrative Lichtundfire Gallery, NYC May 31 - June 30, 2017 The exhibition is jointly organized through Lichtundfire and Katharine Carter & Associates, D. Dominick Lombardi, Curator.
The concept of walls and borders has been tossed around with such frequency of late, and with such politically charged implications, it seems almost anticlimactic that artists would address this notion within a primarily aesthetic context. Counterpoints to the Narrative curated by D. Dominick Lombardi, features a group of artists exploring ideas that are simple, yet provocative, visuals of this complex subject matter. Sparky Campanella, Mark Sharp, and Martin Weinstein, two painters, one photographer, whose work, seen in combination is much more than a contrast in method and style; rather, it is a meditation on visuality and viewership. These artists are creating work that explores some of the ideas Rudolf Arnheim has put forth regarding the contrast between "seeing into" a work of art, and "seeing as.
The concept of walls and borders has been tossed around with such frequency of late, and with such politically charged implications, it seems almost anticlimactic that artists would address this notion within a primarily aesthetic context. Counterpoints to the Narrative curated by D. Dominick Lombardi, features a group of artists exploring ideas that are simple, yet provocative, visuals of this complex subject matter. Sparky Campanella, Mark Sharp, and Martin Weinstein, two painters, one photographer, whose work, seen in combination is much more than a contrast in method and style; rather, it is a meditation on visuality and viewership. These artists are creating work that explores some of the ideas Rudolf Arnheim has put forth regarding the contrast between "seeing into" a work of art, and "seeing as.
- 6/6/2017
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Hokey aliens invade the seventies British punk scene in John Cameron Mitchell’s “How to Talk to Girls at Parties,” and the results are not nearly as ridiculous as that sounds — for a while, at least. Channeling the communal intimacy of “Shortbus” and the riotous musicality of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” Mitchell transforms Neil Gaiman’s sci-fi short story into a vibrant, edgy and at times outright goofy statement on tough antiestablishment rebels and freewheeling hippy vibes, suggesting that they’re not really all that that different.
At its center, scrawny, leather-clad punk teen Enn (Alex Sharp) veers across the grimy London suburb of Croydon alongside equally rambunctious pals John (Ethan Lawrence) and Vic (Abraham Lewis), heckling at passersby en route to a noisy concert. As English rockers The Damned blast on the soundtrack, the frame rate gets jagged and the kids seem to content to run wild in...
At its center, scrawny, leather-clad punk teen Enn (Alex Sharp) veers across the grimy London suburb of Croydon alongside equally rambunctious pals John (Ethan Lawrence) and Vic (Abraham Lewis), heckling at passersby en route to a noisy concert. As English rockers The Damned blast on the soundtrack, the frame rate gets jagged and the kids seem to content to run wild in...
- 5/21/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
John Giorno's God Is Manmade for the Albert Maysles New Documentary Director honoree Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The roster of nine contemporary artists participating in the Tribeca Film Festival Artists Awards program, sponsored by Chanel, are Walton Ford, John Giorno seen in Aaron Brookner's Uncle Howard, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Jorge Pardo, Rh Quaytman, Sterling Ruby (Frédéric Tcheng's Dior And I), Aurel Schmidt, Ryan Sullivan, Stephen Hannock and Tara Subkoff's #Horror executive producer Urs Fischer.
Matthew Barney, Francesco Clemente, Julian Schnabel (seen in Pappi Corsicato’s Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait at the festival) Chuck Close, Eric Fischl, Nan Goldin, April Gornik, Jeff Koons, David Salle, Cindy Sherman and Kiki Smith were some of the past contributors to Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal's Artists Awards initiative.
Urs Fischer's boomboomboom, 2016, The Transit of Venus (Melanie) for the Audience Award: Documentary Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
This year's artworks for...
The roster of nine contemporary artists participating in the Tribeca Film Festival Artists Awards program, sponsored by Chanel, are Walton Ford, John Giorno seen in Aaron Brookner's Uncle Howard, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Jorge Pardo, Rh Quaytman, Sterling Ruby (Frédéric Tcheng's Dior And I), Aurel Schmidt, Ryan Sullivan, Stephen Hannock and Tara Subkoff's #Horror executive producer Urs Fischer.
Matthew Barney, Francesco Clemente, Julian Schnabel (seen in Pappi Corsicato’s Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait at the festival) Chuck Close, Eric Fischl, Nan Goldin, April Gornik, Jeff Koons, David Salle, Cindy Sherman and Kiki Smith were some of the past contributors to Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal's Artists Awards initiative.
Urs Fischer's boomboomboom, 2016, The Transit of Venus (Melanie) for the Audience Award: Documentary Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
This year's artworks for...
- 4/21/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
There may be no idea more contemporary than a demented character using the internet in the reckless pursuit of fame. Writer-director Rob Mockler’s debut, “Like Me,” distills that motif to a ferocious young woman so compelled to create online sensations that they drive her insane. It’s an obvious conceit and doesn’t offer new insights, but Mockler transforms the material into a solid thriller with an edgy vision of millennial lunacy, sketching out a psychopath unique to the viral video age.
That would be Kiya (Addison Timlin), a mysterious prankster first seen recording a convenience store clerk late at night as she puts a gun to his head and he begs for his life. The video instantly takes off, generating heated debates across the web and Mockler’s stylish montage captures the overlapping conversations with a knack for featuring the disorienting chaos of modern discourse.
Meanwhile, Kiya watches...
That would be Kiya (Addison Timlin), a mysterious prankster first seen recording a convenience store clerk late at night as she puts a gun to his head and he begs for his life. The video instantly takes off, generating heated debates across the web and Mockler’s stylish montage captures the overlapping conversations with a knack for featuring the disorienting chaos of modern discourse.
Meanwhile, Kiya watches...
- 3/17/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Sick and twisted for the sake of being sick and twisted, Kuso is a certainly not a film for everyone, or perhaps anybody. I imagine the experience is like being high on something spiked with an agent that can induce awful nightmares. Though I’m not sure being drunk or high will make Kuso a delightful experience. Having seen the film stone-cold sober with an Earl Grey Tea Latte at an afternoon press-and-industry screening, I can confirm that, indeed, many critics and acquisition executives gave up at various points throughout. It’s a film that won’t been seen at a theater near you anytime soon, as it may, in fact, be in violation of many lease agreements, edging towards pornographic. But, if you came for the blood, sweat, tears, semen, and amniotic fluid, then Flying Lotus will give you your money’s worth in a nasty piece of work...
- 1/29/2017
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
What is the longest film you’ve ever seen? How would you describe the film’s effect on your body and on your psyche? Do you shy away from certain films due to their length, or does the prospect of a long movie excite you?In his Notebook feature on Krzysztof Kieślowski’s ten-hour long Dekolag (1988), Forrest Cardamenis points out the essential makeup of our contemporary viewing experience, which looks quite different from the cinematic landscape at the time of Dekolag’s release. Nowadays, the majority of our viewing is done in our homes, streamed rather than caught in a cinema, and the television season rather than film is our motion picture vehicle of choice. Watching lengthy narratives in the on-demand way is designed not to be particularly challenging. Most of it is laid out in an episodic format, the prime example being the television show with its convenient 20, 40, or...
- 1/23/2017
- MUBI
You can try to survive the chaos of Black Friday from your own couch now that Dead Rising 4 is available for the Xbox One and Windows 10 from Capcom, but the crowds Frank West faces are more interested in his flesh than the great deals at the Willamette mall. Injecting holiday cheer and palpable fear into the new Dead Rising game's soundtrack is Oleksa Lozowchuk, and we caught up with the composer and soundtrack producer for our latest Q&A feature.
Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for us, Oleksa. You’ve created music for the Dead Rising franchise in the realms of video games and film. How do you balance bringing something new to the table while building upon the music that you’ve already created for the franchise?
Oleksa Lozowchuk: That’s a great question. A lot of it comes down to instinct. You try...
Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for us, Oleksa. You’ve created music for the Dead Rising franchise in the realms of video games and film. How do you balance bringing something new to the table while building upon the music that you’ve already created for the franchise?
Oleksa Lozowchuk: That’s a great question. A lot of it comes down to instinct. You try...
- 12/22/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Alec Baldwin with director Michael Mailer at the Blind sneak preview hosted by the Lycée Français de New York Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
After our conversation on Matthew Barney's River Of Fundament at Cornelia Parker's Alfred Hitchcock Psycho inspired Transitional Object (PsychoBarn) on The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Roof Garden, John Buffalo Mailer, the screenwriter of Michael Mailer's Blind, starring Alec Baldwin, Demi Moore and Dylan McDermott, met me for lunch at Narcissa and we started with Mike Nichols and a Gay Talese smile.
Blind screenwriter John Buffalo Mailer greets Narcissa the cow Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Suzanne Dutchman (Moore) is trapped in a life of luxury she cannot really appreciate. She refines her style around an emptying soul. Her leather-coat wearing, Queens-born husband Mark (McDermott) adores her and considers her his possession. "Keep that ring on your finger! You hear me?" When he is sent to prison for insider trading,...
After our conversation on Matthew Barney's River Of Fundament at Cornelia Parker's Alfred Hitchcock Psycho inspired Transitional Object (PsychoBarn) on The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Roof Garden, John Buffalo Mailer, the screenwriter of Michael Mailer's Blind, starring Alec Baldwin, Demi Moore and Dylan McDermott, met me for lunch at Narcissa and we started with Mike Nichols and a Gay Talese smile.
Blind screenwriter John Buffalo Mailer greets Narcissa the cow Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Suzanne Dutchman (Moore) is trapped in a life of luxury she cannot really appreciate. She refines her style around an emptying soul. Her leather-coat wearing, Queens-born husband Mark (McDermott) adores her and considers her his possession. "Keep that ring on your finger! You hear me?" When he is sent to prison for insider trading,...
- 12/21/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Editor’s note: On Friday, Kanye West premiered “Famous,” an extended music video for his single in which he portrayed a variety of recognizable faces sleeping in the nude. The 10-minute video has naturally sparked a mixture of outrage and confusion. Here, critics Eric Kohn and David Ehrlich attempt to figure out what the rapper is trying to say.
Eric Kohn: It may have commandeered the cultural dialogue within moments of its release, but Kanye West’s “Famous” video is about as intellectually basic as the celebrity-obsessed terrain it’s designed to deconstruct: Stars — they’re just like us! Whether it’s Chris Brown or Donald Trump, everybody snores. And yet West’s titillating provocation is fundamentally amusing precisely because it’s such a lark. Minutes drag by as grainy digital video of his sleeping subjects slowly reveals more and more participants, setting the stage for an epic zoom that...
Eric Kohn: It may have commandeered the cultural dialogue within moments of its release, but Kanye West’s “Famous” video is about as intellectually basic as the celebrity-obsessed terrain it’s designed to deconstruct: Stars — they’re just like us! Whether it’s Chris Brown or Donald Trump, everybody snores. And yet West’s titillating provocation is fundamentally amusing precisely because it’s such a lark. Minutes drag by as grainy digital video of his sleeping subjects slowly reveals more and more participants, setting the stage for an epic zoom that...
- 6/27/2016
- by Eric Kohn and David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Kanye West’s visual for his track “Famous” has been making headlines, as expected. The Vincent Desiderio-inspired video features 12 detailed sculptures of celebrities and public figures naked and asleep on a bed.
The list includes Kim Kardashian, Taylor Swift, Donald Trump, Rihanna, Vogue Editor in Chief Anna Wintour, Chris Brown, Bill Cosby, Caitlyn Jenner, George Bush, Amber Rose and Ray J. Each one of these people mean something specific to either Kanye or the people surrounding him, from ex-lovers to celebrities he’s criticized in the past and/or worked with.
By now, most of Twitter has critiqued the piece, calling it “art,” “insane,” “controversial” and disrespectful to the women being portrayed. Many are waiting for those celebrities to respond to the way their image being used (Chris Brown thought it was funny, many had “no comment”), including Kanye who tweeted (and then deleted), “Can somebody sue me already #I’llwait.
The list includes Kim Kardashian, Taylor Swift, Donald Trump, Rihanna, Vogue Editor in Chief Anna Wintour, Chris Brown, Bill Cosby, Caitlyn Jenner, George Bush, Amber Rose and Ray J. Each one of these people mean something specific to either Kanye or the people surrounding him, from ex-lovers to celebrities he’s criticized in the past and/or worked with.
By now, most of Twitter has critiqued the piece, calling it “art,” “insane,” “controversial” and disrespectful to the women being portrayed. Many are waiting for those celebrities to respond to the way their image being used (Chris Brown thought it was funny, many had “no comment”), including Kanye who tweeted (and then deleted), “Can somebody sue me already #I’llwait.
- 6/25/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
The Jingoist and Blind screenwriter John Buffalo Mailer Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Cremaster and Drawing Restraint 9 (with Björk) mastermind, Matthew Barney, adapted Norman Mailer's Ancient Evenings to create River Of Fundament. Cornelia Parker staged The Maybe with Tilda Swinton at MoMA and now her Alfred Hitchcock Psycho inspired Transitional Object (PsychoBarn) is on The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Roof Garden - the perfect setting for a John Buffalo Mailer on Norman Bates, Houdini, Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes on Gay Talese's The Voyeur's Motel, Michael Mailer, Alec Baldwin, Demi Moore and Dylan McDermott conversation.
Ellen Burstyn, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Paul Giamatti, James Toback, Elaine Stritch, Debbie Harry, James Lee Byars, Lawrence Weiner, Salman Rushdie, Luc Sante, Cinqué Lee, Jonas Mekas, Fran Lebowitz, Dick Cavett, Jeffrey Eugenides, Aimee Mullins and Sam Nivola are among the River Of Fundament dwellers. Buffalo Mailer, Milford Graves and Lakota Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle reincarnate as Norman I, Norman II...
Cremaster and Drawing Restraint 9 (with Björk) mastermind, Matthew Barney, adapted Norman Mailer's Ancient Evenings to create River Of Fundament. Cornelia Parker staged The Maybe with Tilda Swinton at MoMA and now her Alfred Hitchcock Psycho inspired Transitional Object (PsychoBarn) is on The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Roof Garden - the perfect setting for a John Buffalo Mailer on Norman Bates, Houdini, Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes on Gay Talese's The Voyeur's Motel, Michael Mailer, Alec Baldwin, Demi Moore and Dylan McDermott conversation.
Ellen Burstyn, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Paul Giamatti, James Toback, Elaine Stritch, Debbie Harry, James Lee Byars, Lawrence Weiner, Salman Rushdie, Luc Sante, Cinqué Lee, Jonas Mekas, Fran Lebowitz, Dick Cavett, Jeffrey Eugenides, Aimee Mullins and Sam Nivola are among the River Of Fundament dwellers. Buffalo Mailer, Milford Graves and Lakota Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle reincarnate as Norman I, Norman II...
- 6/15/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The problem in trying to critically assess Nicolas Winding Refn’s putrid atrocity of a film The Neon Demon is that regardless how much outrage is thrown at it, Winding Refn invariably wins, since that’s exactly what he’s after. The director has set out to make the most repellently misogynistic film imaginable, yet he’s disguised it as a postmodern feminist satire. By shattering every possible taboo, the film is supposed to be an attack against the very thing it represents. Really, though, any semblance of commentary is simply a posture for Winding Refn to cover his ass. This isn’t a case of épater les bourgeois, nor is The Neon Demon qualitatively comparable to the works of Paul Verhoeven or Harmony Korine – it’s much, much too stupid for that.
Set in Los Angeles, that signifier city for all things superficial, The Neon Demon aspires to be...
Set in Los Angeles, that signifier city for all things superficial, The Neon Demon aspires to be...
- 5/20/2016
- by Giovanni Marchini Camia
- The Film Stage
Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film is a major new open access publication collecting essays and dialogues with contributions from Steven Shaviro, Lev Manovich and dozens of other scholars. Also in today's roundup: Jonathan Rosenbaum and David Cairns on F.W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Kristin Thompson on Marcel L’Herbier’s L’Inhumaine, a letter from Danièle Huillet, Jane Fonda on feminism, essays on Gérard Blain, Matthew Barney's River of Fundament, Transparent, Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak, the All The President’s Men title sequence, a new trailer for Bi Gan's Kaili Blues—and Paul Thomas Anderson has directed a video for Radiohead. » - David Hudson...
- 4/11/2016
- Keyframe
Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film is a major new open access publication collecting essays and dialogues with contributions from Steven Shaviro, Lev Manovich and dozens of other scholars. Also in today's roundup: Jonathan Rosenbaum and David Cairns on F.W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Kristin Thompson on Marcel L’Herbier’s L’Inhumaine, a letter from Danièle Huillet, Jane Fonda on feminism, essays on Gérard Blain, Matthew Barney's River of Fundament, Transparent, Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak, the All The President’s Men title sequence, a new trailer for Bi Gan's Kaili Blues—and Paul Thomas Anderson has directed a video for Radiohead. » - David Hudson...
- 4/11/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Another year, another move further away from caring about pop. Whether that's pop's fault or mine, I'm not sure. But there was still plenty of great new music released in 2015, and here, according to my idiosyncratic tastes, are the best albums, or at least my favorites.
1. Wire: Wire (Pink Flag)
This is said to be the first time that Bruce Gilbert's replacement, guitarist Matthew Simms, was heavily involved in the creation of a Wire album, and the result is...the closest Wire has ever come to sounding like a Colin Newman album. I exaggerate for effect, but only slightly: most everything thrums along smoothly and motorik-ly, he takes all the lead vocals (though Graham Lewis supposedly wrote many of the lyrics), and there are none of the post-punkier outbursts of the group's previous two reunion albums, though near the end of Wire, the one-two punch of "Split Your Ends" and "Octopus" come close.
1. Wire: Wire (Pink Flag)
This is said to be the first time that Bruce Gilbert's replacement, guitarist Matthew Simms, was heavily involved in the creation of a Wire album, and the result is...the closest Wire has ever come to sounding like a Colin Newman album. I exaggerate for effect, but only slightly: most everything thrums along smoothly and motorik-ly, he takes all the lead vocals (though Graham Lewis supposedly wrote many of the lyrics), and there are none of the post-punkier outbursts of the group's previous two reunion albums, though near the end of Wire, the one-two punch of "Split Your Ends" and "Octopus" come close.
- 12/27/2015
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
"Among the slew of great Italian directors of the postwar era—Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Rossellini—it is Luchino Visconti whose posthumous reputation has seemed the most imperiled, perhaps because of his refusal to type himself," suggests Scott Eyman in Film Comment. A new restoration of Rocco and His Brothers is set to tour the country. More goings on: Dustin Guy Defa and Eric Leiser in New York, Matthew Barney and abstract video in Los Angeles, films by Guillermo del Toro reimagined as Victorian book covers in London, the sounds of the silent era in Berlin—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 10/14/2015
- Keyframe
"Among the slew of great Italian directors of the postwar era—Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Rossellini—it is Luchino Visconti whose posthumous reputation has seemed the most imperiled, perhaps because of his refusal to type himself," suggests Scott Eyman in Film Comment. A new restoration of Rocco and His Brothers is set to tour the country. More goings on: Dustin Guy Defa and Eric Leiser in New York, Matthew Barney and abstract video in Los Angeles, films by Guillermo del Toro reimagined as Victorian book covers in London, the sounds of the silent era in Berlin—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 10/14/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
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