Lessons in Chemistry is a drama miniseries developed for television by Lee Eisenberg. Based on a novel of the same name by Bonnie Garmus, the Apple TV+ series is set in 1960s America and it revolves around Elizabeth Zott, who has always dreamed of being a scientist but because of the patriarchal society she is denied her dream. That’s when he accepts a job on a TV cooking show and teaches the housewives of the nation way more than recipes.
Lessons in Chemistry – Episode Guide (When are the Episodes Coming Out?)
Lessons in Chemistry consists of eight episodes in total. The first two episodes are released on the same day October 13, with the rest of the episodes coming out weekly. Check out episode release date and titles below:
Credit – Apple TV+ Episode 1 “Little Miss Hastings” – October 13 Episode 2 “Her and Him” – October 13 Episode 3 “Living Dead Things” – October 20 Episode 4 “Primitive Instinct...
Lessons in Chemistry – Episode Guide (When are the Episodes Coming Out?)
Lessons in Chemistry consists of eight episodes in total. The first two episodes are released on the same day October 13, with the rest of the episodes coming out weekly. Check out episode release date and titles below:
Credit – Apple TV+ Episode 1 “Little Miss Hastings” – October 13 Episode 2 “Her and Him” – October 13 Episode 3 “Living Dead Things” – October 20 Episode 4 “Primitive Instinct...
- 10/15/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Sometimes chemistry takes a little cooking. In the trailer for Apple TV+'s upcoming series "Lessons in Chemistry" - based on the novel of the same name that became an instant bestseller in 2022 - Brie Larson stars as Elizabeth Zott, a brilliant scientist in the 1950s whose career is derailed because of her sexist colleagues. When she's fired from her lab, she takes a job as a host of a TV cooking show, which gives her a voice in the homes of women - and their husbands - everywhere. The full trailer, released on Sept. 14, also features actor Lewis Pullman, who you might recognize from "Top Gun: Maverick" (or from being Bill Pullman's son). Apple released the first preview on April 20.
"Lessons in Chemistry" was filmed last year and is one of many book-to-tv adaptations on Apple TV+'s 2023 roster. It released "The Last Thing He Told Me" in...
"Lessons in Chemistry" was filmed last year and is one of many book-to-tv adaptations on Apple TV+'s 2023 roster. It released "The Last Thing He Told Me" in...
- 9/14/2023
- by Victoria Edel
- Popsugar.com
The deadline for applications to take over from Tuttle is today (January 16).
Outgoing director of festivals at the British Film Institute (BFI) Tricia Tuttle has revealed she is taking on the role of acting head of department, directing fiction, at the UK’s National Film and Television School (Nfts), while the deadline for applications to take over her role at the BFI is today (January 16).
Tuttle has already taken up the Nfts role and will be in the position until September. It is an interim post, in which Tuttle reports directly into Nfts director Jon Wardle, with the Nfts advertising...
Outgoing director of festivals at the British Film Institute (BFI) Tricia Tuttle has revealed she is taking on the role of acting head of department, directing fiction, at the UK’s National Film and Television School (Nfts), while the deadline for applications to take over her role at the BFI is today (January 16).
Tuttle has already taken up the Nfts role and will be in the position until September. It is an interim post, in which Tuttle reports directly into Nfts director Jon Wardle, with the Nfts advertising...
- 1/16/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The deadline for applications to take over from Tuttle is today (January 16).
Outgoing director of festivals at the British Film Institute (BFI) Tricia Tuttle has revealed she is taking on the role of acting head of department, directing fiction, at the UK’s National Film and Television School (Nfts), while the deadline for applications to take over her role at the BFI hits today (November 16).
It is understood that Tuttle has already taken up the Nfts role and will be in the position until September. The directing fiction Ma at Nfts is a two-year course, that costs £14,800 per year.
Tuttle,...
Outgoing director of festivals at the British Film Institute (BFI) Tricia Tuttle has revealed she is taking on the role of acting head of department, directing fiction, at the UK’s National Film and Television School (Nfts), while the deadline for applications to take over her role at the BFI hits today (November 16).
It is understood that Tuttle has already taken up the Nfts role and will be in the position until September. The directing fiction Ma at Nfts is a two-year course, that costs £14,800 per year.
Tuttle,...
- 1/16/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Who does the industry believe would be a good fit to take over from Tricia Tuttle?
The British Film Institute (BFI) has formally begun its search for a new festivals director to take over from Tricia Tuttle.
Tuttle is moving on after officially taking on the role in 2018, having previously held the post of interim festival director for a year and deputy head of festivals for five years.
The role, which comes with an annual salary of £85,000, will include festival director of the flagship BFI London Film Festival (BFI Lff) and also Lgbtqia+ festival BFI Flare, which next takes place...
The British Film Institute (BFI) has formally begun its search for a new festivals director to take over from Tricia Tuttle.
Tuttle is moving on after officially taking on the role in 2018, having previously held the post of interim festival director for a year and deputy head of festivals for five years.
The role, which comes with an annual salary of £85,000, will include festival director of the flagship BFI London Film Festival (BFI Lff) and also Lgbtqia+ festival BFI Flare, which next takes place...
- 12/14/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Who does the industry believe would be a good fit to take over from Tricia Tuttle?
The British Film Institute (BFI) has formally begun its search for a new festivals director to take over from Tricia Tuttle.
Tuttle is moving on after officially taking on the role in 2018, having previously held the post of interim festival director for a year and deputy head of festivals for five years.
The role, which comes with an annual salary of £85,000, will include festival director of the flagship BFI London Film Festival (BFI Lff) and also Lgbtqia+ festival BFI Flare, which next takes place...
The British Film Institute (BFI) has formally begun its search for a new festivals director to take over from Tricia Tuttle.
Tuttle is moving on after officially taking on the role in 2018, having previously held the post of interim festival director for a year and deputy head of festivals for five years.
The role, which comes with an annual salary of £85,000, will include festival director of the flagship BFI London Film Festival (BFI Lff) and also Lgbtqia+ festival BFI Flare, which next takes place...
- 12/14/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Actor Philip Baker Hall is being remembered by Hollywood as one of the great character actors and a “lovely man” who was “never not good” whenever he appeared on screen.
Baker Hall, who died Sunday night at age 90, was honored by his “Magnolia” co-star Patton Oswalt, as well as stars such as Michael McKean, Bradley Whitford and director Greg Mottola, among others in Hollywood.
“I hope he’s in heaven having a sandwich, drinking a glass of milk, doing some f—in’ thing,” Patton Oswalt tweeted, making a reference to a classic scene featuring Baker Hall from “Midnight Run.”
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“A fantastic actor, a lovely man, and nobody made Larry David break on camera as much as Phil,” Mottola said in reference to Baker Hall’s two “Curb Your Enthusiasm” appearances.
Fans and cinephiles online shared clips...
Baker Hall, who died Sunday night at age 90, was honored by his “Magnolia” co-star Patton Oswalt, as well as stars such as Michael McKean, Bradley Whitford and director Greg Mottola, among others in Hollywood.
“I hope he’s in heaven having a sandwich, drinking a glass of milk, doing some f—in’ thing,” Patton Oswalt tweeted, making a reference to a classic scene featuring Baker Hall from “Midnight Run.”
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Julee Cruise, ‘Twin Peaks’ Theme Singer and David Lynch Regular, Dies at 65
“A fantastic actor, a lovely man, and nobody made Larry David break on camera as much as Phil,” Mottola said in reference to Baker Hall’s two “Curb Your Enthusiasm” appearances.
Fans and cinephiles online shared clips...
- 6/13/2022
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
This is film as revolutionary act. Sembène was not coy about his intentions. This is a story of a black woman. It’s a story of neocolonial slavery. It’s a story of racism. It’s also a story of spirituality. Of modernity versus tradition. It’s an act of courage, and an attempt to speak to a specific, and largely non-commercial, group of people. This is an attempt to change the world. It’s also trying to just be a good film. It’s a heady mix.
The film is based on a true story that its director, Ousmane Sembène, saw in a newspaper while living in France. An unidentified African woman had been found dead of suicide, in the apartment of her employers. Sembène was disturbed by the story for a decade, and eventually he wrote a short story, attempting to tell the tale of this unknown woman.
The film is based on a true story that its director, Ousmane Sembène, saw in a newspaper while living in France. An unidentified African woman had been found dead of suicide, in the apartment of her employers. Sembène was disturbed by the story for a decade, and eventually he wrote a short story, attempting to tell the tale of this unknown woman.
- 1/30/2017
- by Arik Devens
- CriterionCast
Force Awakens fever is still gripping the film industry two months after the release of the seventh Star Wars entry, and the world of cinema-centric books is just as Snoke-obsessed. But there’s plenty more worth snagging, including in-depth analyses of Pixar and Spike Lee’s Bamboozled, a lavish study of musicals, and a graphic stunner called Filmish.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Visual Dictionary by Pablo Hidalgo (Dk Publishing)
Dk’s Star Wars visual dictionaries are, quite simply, must-owns. (Even the three prequel editions are fascinating.) And the Force Awakens Visual Dictionary might be the best yet. Author Pablo Hidalgo goes deep, providing everything you wanted to know about Jakku (but were afraid to ask), offering insight on briefly seen characters like Max Von Sydow’s Lor San Tekka, and breaking down exactly why the “crossguard blades” of Kylo Ren’s lightsaber are a necessity. Plus, the film stills...
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Visual Dictionary by Pablo Hidalgo (Dk Publishing)
Dk’s Star Wars visual dictionaries are, quite simply, must-owns. (Even the three prequel editions are fascinating.) And the Force Awakens Visual Dictionary might be the best yet. Author Pablo Hidalgo goes deep, providing everything you wanted to know about Jakku (but were afraid to ask), offering insight on briefly seen characters like Max Von Sydow’s Lor San Tekka, and breaking down exactly why the “crossguard blades” of Kylo Ren’s lightsaber are a necessity. Plus, the film stills...
- 2/11/2016
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
On the 15th anniversary of the film’s release, critic Ashley Clark argues in an excerpt from his forthcoming book that the satire is frighteningly prescient, with its impact being seen from reality show Real Housewives to the Fox hit Empire
I first saw Bamboozled as a 15-year-old, in April 2001, at the Ritzy Cinema in Brixton, south-west London, and it threw me for a loop. Written and directed by Spike Lee, the film is an intense satire about a frustrated African American TV executive, Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans), who creates a contemporary version of a minstrel show in order to purposefully get himself fired, and expose the commissioning network as a racist and retrograde outfit. However, the show, which features its black stars wearing blackface, becomes a huge hit, prompting Delacroix’s mental collapse, and an explosion of catastrophic violence, the effects of which are felt far and wide.
Related:...
I first saw Bamboozled as a 15-year-old, in April 2001, at the Ritzy Cinema in Brixton, south-west London, and it threw me for a loop. Written and directed by Spike Lee, the film is an intense satire about a frustrated African American TV executive, Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans), who creates a contemporary version of a minstrel show in order to purposefully get himself fired, and expose the commissioning network as a racist and retrograde outfit. However, the show, which features its black stars wearing blackface, becomes a huge hit, prompting Delacroix’s mental collapse, and an explosion of catastrophic violence, the effects of which are felt far and wide.
Related:...
- 10/6/2015
- by Ashley Clark
- The Guardian - Film News
Fraud. Corruption. Bribery. Money laundering. Racketeering. These are just a few of the accusations being levelled at FIFA as the FBI investigates football's governing body.
The arrests and accusations are stacking up, and with president Sepp Blatter resigning just days after his re-election, now seems like curious timing to release a feature film painting FIFA as squeaky-clean saints of football.
United Passions, starring Tim Roth as Sepp Blatter, Gérard Depardieu as Jules Rimet and Sam Neill as João Havelange, has opened in Us cinemas today (June 5) to the kind of critical drubbing that makes Adam Sandler look like Martin Scorsese. What did FIFA expect from a film they funded 90% themselves?
We round up five of the most scathing critical appraisals below:
The Guardian (Jordan Hoffman)
"Even without the current headlines, United Passions is a disgrace. It's less a movie than preposterous self-hagiography, more appropriate for Scientology or the Rev Sun Myung Moon.
The arrests and accusations are stacking up, and with president Sepp Blatter resigning just days after his re-election, now seems like curious timing to release a feature film painting FIFA as squeaky-clean saints of football.
United Passions, starring Tim Roth as Sepp Blatter, Gérard Depardieu as Jules Rimet and Sam Neill as João Havelange, has opened in Us cinemas today (June 5) to the kind of critical drubbing that makes Adam Sandler look like Martin Scorsese. What did FIFA expect from a film they funded 90% themselves?
We round up five of the most scathing critical appraisals below:
The Guardian (Jordan Hoffman)
"Even without the current headlines, United Passions is a disgrace. It's less a movie than preposterous self-hagiography, more appropriate for Scientology or the Rev Sun Myung Moon.
- 6/5/2015
- Digital Spy
Ashley Clark, who's curated Space Is the Place: Afrofuturism on Film, the series that opened at New York's BAMcinématek yesterday and runs through April 15, picks out a few highlights for the Guardian, including John Coney's Space Is the Place with Sun Ra, Ngozi Onwurah's Welcome II the Terrordome, John Akomfrah's The Last Angel of History and Terence Nance's An Oversimplification of Her Beauty. Also, more on Walerian Borowczyk, an overview of the career of producer and director James B. Harris, a major Frederick Wiseman retrospective in Chicago, noir westerns such as Robert Wise's Blood on the Moon and Budd Boetticher's The Tall T in San Francisco and films by Gregory J. Markopoulos in Los Angeles. » - David Hudson...
- 4/4/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Ashley Clark, who's curated Space Is the Place: Afrofuturism on Film, the series that opened at New York's BAMcinématek yesterday and runs through April 15, picks out a few highlights for the Guardian, including John Coney's Space Is the Place with Sun Ra, Ngozi Onwurah's Welcome II the Terrordome, John Akomfrah's The Last Angel of History and Terence Nance's An Oversimplification of Her Beauty. Also, more on Walerian Borowczyk, an overview of the career of producer and director James B. Harris, a major Frederick Wiseman retrospective in Chicago, noir westerns such as Robert Wise's Blood on the Moon and Budd Boetticher's The Tall T in San Francisco and films by Gregory J. Markopoulos in Los Angeles. » - David Hudson...
- 4/4/2015
- Keyframe
Dw Griffith’s landmark film was one of the most influential in early cinema, but as well as sophisticated cinematic techniques it was also drenched in racism. In the week of its centenary screening, Ashley Clark reassesses its standing
Dw Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation – which premiered in New York 100 years ago this week – has a just reputation as one of cinema’s greatest problem pictures. Based on Thomas Dixon’s novel The Clansman, it chronicles the relationship of two families in Civil War- and Reconstruction-era America over several years. It is undeniably a technically astounding achievement: critics have long praised its editing techniques, shot composition and epic sense of scale, while its pioneering aesthetic qualities are taught in schools and universities worldwide.
But – and it is a big but – The Birth of a Nation also happens to be an egregiously racist piece of work. It is the...
Dw Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation – which premiered in New York 100 years ago this week – has a just reputation as one of cinema’s greatest problem pictures. Based on Thomas Dixon’s novel The Clansman, it chronicles the relationship of two families in Civil War- and Reconstruction-era America over several years. It is undeniably a technically astounding achievement: critics have long praised its editing techniques, shot composition and epic sense of scale, while its pioneering aesthetic qualities are taught in schools and universities worldwide.
But – and it is a big but – The Birth of a Nation also happens to be an egregiously racist piece of work. It is the...
- 3/5/2015
- by Ashley Clark
- The Guardian - Film News
An early announcement for a series coming to BAMcinématek (in Brooklyn, NYC) in April - 15 films screened over 8 days, spread out between April 3 and 15. Titled "Space is the Place: Afrofuturism on Film," and curated by Ashley Clark, you'll recognize most, if not all the films listed below. We've written about them on this blog - some more extensively than others. I'm sure Ashley will have much to say about the series as its dates approach (it comes immediately after the festival that I co-curate that also happens at BAMcinématek); in the meantime, details, released today, follow below: Named for the one and only film starring legendary mystic...
- 2/26/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
The film starring Denzel Washington almost didn’t happen over opposition from the Nation of Islam and a lack of financial backing. It overcame to become the most vital civil rights biopic, argues Ashley Clark
In 1992, 22 years before Ava DuVernay’s Selma – which is, amazingly, the first major cinema release to feature Dr Martin Luther King Jr as a central character – came another Hollywood study of a key 1960s African American political figure. Malcolm X was Spike Lee’s sixth movie. Based on the 1965 autobiography co-written by Malcolm and future Roots creator Alex Haley, it’s a 202-minute, continent-hopping epic boasting a superbly charismatic, Oscar-nominated performance by Denzel Washington as the eponymous activist and orator.
Divided into three parts, it charts the early days of X (then Malcolm Little) as a zoot-suited ne’er-do-well marauding in Boston and Harlem; the transformative jail years when he converted to Islam; and, finally,...
In 1992, 22 years before Ava DuVernay’s Selma – which is, amazingly, the first major cinema release to feature Dr Martin Luther King Jr as a central character – came another Hollywood study of a key 1960s African American political figure. Malcolm X was Spike Lee’s sixth movie. Based on the 1965 autobiography co-written by Malcolm and future Roots creator Alex Haley, it’s a 202-minute, continent-hopping epic boasting a superbly charismatic, Oscar-nominated performance by Denzel Washington as the eponymous activist and orator.
Divided into three parts, it charts the early days of X (then Malcolm Little) as a zoot-suited ne’er-do-well marauding in Boston and Harlem; the transformative jail years when he converted to Islam; and, finally,...
- 2/19/2015
- by Ashley Clark
- The Guardian - Film News
David Cronenberg "isn't moonlighting; he's a real novelist," write Chuck Bowen, reviewing Consumed at the House Next Door. Also in today's roundup of news and views: Blaise Cendrars's foray into cinema, Ashley Clark on Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, Grady Hendrix on the most obscure works in Takashi Miike's oeuvre, Godfrey Cheshire's "Movie Love Questionnaire," Michael Sicinski on Terry Gilliam, Terrence Rafferty on Roman Polanski's Macbeth, DC's on Patrice Énard and a theory as to what's made this current moment a "Second Golden Age of Television." » - David Hudson...
- 9/25/2014
- Keyframe
David Cronenberg "isn't moonlighting; he's a real novelist," write Chuck Bowen, reviewing Consumed at the House Next Door. Also in today's roundup of news and views: Blaise Cendrars's foray into cinema, Ashley Clark on Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, Grady Hendrix on the most obscure works in Takashi Miike's oeuvre, Godfrey Cheshire's "Movie Love Questionnaire," Michael Sicinski on Terry Gilliam, Terrence Rafferty on Roman Polanski's Macbeth, DC's on Patrice Énard and a theory as to what's made this current moment a "Second Golden Age of Television." » - David Hudson...
- 9/25/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Nymphomaniac and the infinite loneliness of Lars von Trier by David Ehrlich
“Early in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac, Young Joe (Stacy Martin) coos these words to one of the countless men she has sex with during the two part, 241-minute opus of depravity. While what she’s saying carries a clear erotic charge, her bluntly literal instructions aren’t a come-on so much as a desperate plea for fulfillment. As Joe relates her life story to the overeager stranger Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård), who found her lying in an alley near his home, what was first intended as a simple request for comprehensive penetration evolves into a tragic refrain, with the unsubtle subtext that might be expected from a filmmaker who has the word “fuck” tattooed across his right-hand knuckles. Joe is suffering from an incurable sense of incompletion. Loneliness, she tells Seligman, has been her constant companion. That simple...
“Early in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac, Young Joe (Stacy Martin) coos these words to one of the countless men she has sex with during the two part, 241-minute opus of depravity. While what she’s saying carries a clear erotic charge, her bluntly literal instructions aren’t a come-on so much as a desperate plea for fulfillment. As Joe relates her life story to the overeager stranger Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård), who found her lying in an alley near his home, what was first intended as a simple request for comprehensive penetration evolves into a tragic refrain, with the unsubtle subtext that might be expected from a filmmaker who has the word “fuck” tattooed across his right-hand knuckles. Joe is suffering from an incurable sense of incompletion. Loneliness, she tells Seligman, has been her constant companion. That simple...
- 5/6/2014
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
As unclassifiable and startlingly original as promised, Jonathan Glazer’s Under The Skin has an obvious experiential agenda. Scarlett Johansson’s unnamed alien rides around Glasgow, picking up men, bringing them back to her pad for sex, then harvesting them for meat. As sound designer Johnnie Burn told Ashley Clark in an interview Filmmaker published earlier this month, the intensely fussed-over sound mix literally took years. In the mall, at the club or on the street, different snatches of ambient sound compete for attention, with normally unexamined noises briefly coming to the fore. The movie is totally successful at defamiliarizing ordinary actions […]...
- 4/28/2014
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
As unclassifiable and startlingly original as promised, Jonathan Glazer’s Under The Skin has an obvious experiential agenda. Scarlett Johansson’s unnamed alien rides around Glasgow, picking up men, bringing them back to her pad for sex, then harvesting them for meat. As sound designer Johnnie Burn told Ashley Clark in an interview Filmmaker published earlier this month, the intensely fussed-over sound mix literally took years. In the mall, at the club or on the street, different snatches of ambient sound compete for attention, with normally unexamined noises briefly coming to the fore. The movie is totally successful at defamiliarizing ordinary actions […]...
- 4/28/2014
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Here, via Google Analytics, are Filmmaker‘s top ten posts of November, 2013. 1. Number one, by a long shot, is a post that both fascinated and struck fear in filmmakers everywhere: Kaleem Aftab’s “Introducing 8K: The Final Frontier?” Reporting from the Tokyo International Film Festival, where Japanese broadcaster Nhk commissioned filmmakers to make shorts in 8K, Aftab sat down with the channel’s engineers to hear plans for introducing the high-resolution images to sporting events as well as cinema. 2. Reporting from Poland’s American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Ashley Clark wrote our second highest-trafficked post of the month, an account of […]...
- 11/30/2013
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Here, via Google Analytics, are Filmmaker‘s top ten posts of November, 2013. 1. Number one, by a long shot, is a post that both fascinated and struck fear in filmmakers everywhere: Kaleem Aftab’s “Introducing 8K: The Final Frontier?” Reporting from the Tokyo International Film Festival, where Japanese broadcaster Nhk commissioned filmmakers to make shorts in 8K, Aftab sat down with the channel’s engineers to hear plans for introducing the high-resolution images to sporting events as well as cinema. 2. Reporting from Poland’s American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Ashley Clark wrote our second highest-trafficked post of the month, an account of […]...
- 11/30/2013
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Talk about having school spirit! Atlanta high school cheerleader Mikayla Clark broke the Guinness World Record for most consecutive back handsprings on Friday when she completed 44 in a row at Westlake High School's homecoming game. Clark, 16, has been cheering since age 4, and has been practicing since the beginning of the football season to beat the record, Wsb-tv reports. She also cheers with the Georgia All Stars Competition Squad. "I'm very proud of her," said her coach, Ashley Clark. Mikayla, a junior, expects to receive her official Guinness World Records certificate this week for breaking the previous record of 36 back handsprings.
- 10/22/2013
- by Sheila Cosgrove Baylis
- PEOPLE.com
An old-fashioned and ornate cinema in San Francisco's famous Castro District
Ashley Clark is a freelance writer and film programmer. He is a regular contributor to Sight & Sound and Little White Lies, and runs a series of events under the banner of his blog Permanent Plastic Helmet. His next event is a screening of The Warriors at Clapham Picturehouse on July 15, 2013. If there's a cinema you'd like to tell us about for a future Cine-files, drop an email to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk.
Location
This single-screen cinema is located at 429 Castro Street, near the intersection of Market and 17th Streets, at the northern entrance of San Francisco's famous Castro District. Once a regular old working-class area, Castro transformed throughout the 1960s and 70s into one of the very first gay neighbourhoods in the Us, as immortalised in Gus van Sant's Milk.
Building
Surely one of the most beautiful,...
Ashley Clark is a freelance writer and film programmer. He is a regular contributor to Sight & Sound and Little White Lies, and runs a series of events under the banner of his blog Permanent Plastic Helmet. His next event is a screening of The Warriors at Clapham Picturehouse on July 15, 2013. If there's a cinema you'd like to tell us about for a future Cine-files, drop an email to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk.
Location
This single-screen cinema is located at 429 Castro Street, near the intersection of Market and 17th Streets, at the northern entrance of San Francisco's famous Castro District. Once a regular old working-class area, Castro transformed throughout the 1960s and 70s into one of the very first gay neighbourhoods in the Us, as immortalised in Gus van Sant's Milk.
Building
Surely one of the most beautiful,...
- 6/4/2013
- by Guardian readers
- The Guardian - Film News
So you still haven't seen Wendell B. Harris' Chameleon Street, despite all the yapping we've done about it on this blog over the last 3 years? No? Why not? It's on DVD. It should also be on iTunes. Oh, I see... you're one of those purists, and you refuse to see it if it's not in a theatrical setting, on a nice large screen, and won't see it in any other format? Well, alright. I've got some great news for you then... if you live in London anyway. I know... there always has to be a catch! Brit film critic Ashley Clark is presenting a special screening of Chameleon Street at the BFI Southbank in London, on February 16. But...
- 2/1/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
This week's clip joint rifles through the record collection to find the best scenes with characters forced to face the music
This week's Clip joint is by James Kipping, a freelance floor runner for film and television. Think you can do better? Email your idea for a future Clip joint to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk
Diegetic music in film is often heard in clubs scenes or car radios, creating atmosphere but rarely having the power to affect characters. So going for the most despondent Clip joint award, here are a selection of films that feature recurring songs that haunt our characters, songs that bring either painful memories or strike fear in others that hear them. The positive note being that I like to think these characters enjoyed the songs at some point in their lives…
1. Three Colours: Blue (Song for the Unification of Europe)
After Juliette Binoche's composer...
This week's Clip joint is by James Kipping, a freelance floor runner for film and television. Think you can do better? Email your idea for a future Clip joint to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk
Diegetic music in film is often heard in clubs scenes or car radios, creating atmosphere but rarely having the power to affect characters. So going for the most despondent Clip joint award, here are a selection of films that feature recurring songs that haunt our characters, songs that bring either painful memories or strike fear in others that hear them. The positive note being that I like to think these characters enjoyed the songs at some point in their lives…
1. Three Colours: Blue (Song for the Unification of Europe)
After Juliette Binoche's composer...
- 7/11/2012
- by Guardian readers
- The Guardian - Film News
Suffering withdrawal symptoms after Euro 2012? This week's clip joint tackles the best football scenes in cinema
This week's Clip joint is by Ashley Clark, who also wrote Clip joints on breaking the fourth wall, mirrors and arguments. He runs the film blog Permanent Plastic Helmet. You can follow it on Twitter at @PPlasticHelmet, and/or him @_ash_clark.
Think you can do better than Ashley? If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, pop an email over to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk
As the dust settles on tiki-taka titans Spain's soaraway success at the Euro 2012, our thoughts have turned to football's ever-complex relationship with film. Blessed with a fast pace and unpredictable rhythms, the action of the game is rather difficult to capture authentically without looking fake or telegraphed, but that hasn't stopped a number of film-makers trying their luck. Others, meanwhile, have simply used the raw...
This week's Clip joint is by Ashley Clark, who also wrote Clip joints on breaking the fourth wall, mirrors and arguments. He runs the film blog Permanent Plastic Helmet. You can follow it on Twitter at @PPlasticHelmet, and/or him @_ash_clark.
Think you can do better than Ashley? If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, pop an email over to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk
As the dust settles on tiki-taka titans Spain's soaraway success at the Euro 2012, our thoughts have turned to football's ever-complex relationship with film. Blessed with a fast pace and unpredictable rhythms, the action of the game is rather difficult to capture authentically without looking fake or telegraphed, but that hasn't stopped a number of film-makers trying their luck. Others, meanwhile, have simply used the raw...
- 7/4/2012
- by Guardian readers
- The Guardian - Film News
Who you gonna call? Help us find cinemas best spooks
This week's Clip joint is by Emily Cleaver. Think you can do better? If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, send a message to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk
More than any other medium, film has the power to scare us silly. In the dark of the cinema, the suspense of a slow pan, that shadowy figure at the edge of frame – the shock of a sudden sound-effect, or jittery jump-cut – all come together in delicious, breath-stopping, heartbeat-skipping moments of pure cinematic fear. But forget chainsaws, zombies or psychos. The best scares in cinema are the ghosts that don't rely on gore to frighten. Subtly terrifying, flesh-creepingly sinister or horribly uncanny, here's a roll-call of the most memorable, best-realised apparitions on film.
1. Whistle and I'll Come to You
Pompous Professor Parkin doesn't believe in ghosts, but when...
This week's Clip joint is by Emily Cleaver. Think you can do better? If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, send a message to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk
More than any other medium, film has the power to scare us silly. In the dark of the cinema, the suspense of a slow pan, that shadowy figure at the edge of frame – the shock of a sudden sound-effect, or jittery jump-cut – all come together in delicious, breath-stopping, heartbeat-skipping moments of pure cinematic fear. But forget chainsaws, zombies or psychos. The best scares in cinema are the ghosts that don't rely on gore to frighten. Subtly terrifying, flesh-creepingly sinister or horribly uncanny, here's a roll-call of the most memorable, best-realised apparitions on film.
1. Whistle and I'll Come to You
Pompous Professor Parkin doesn't believe in ghosts, but when...
- 5/16/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
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With its explosive mix of comedy, drama and racial politics, Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing (1989) remains one of the most controversial and powerful films of the 80′s. Much of its enduring popularity can be attributed to an iconic aesthetic achieved through a combination of the writer-director-star’s expansive yet intimate vision, Ernest Dickerson’s glowing cinematography and – journalist Ashley Clark argues – Ruth E. Carter’s vibrant, expressive costume work. Carter’s contribution is vital in three key areas: establishing a sense of place and adding depth to the characters, supporting the film’s themes, and contributing to a bold onscreen representation of blackness which, as suggested by Ed Guerrero, “challenges and erodes the skin-colour hierarchy of Hollywood’s classic optical hegemony” (Guerrero 2001, p. 62).
In...
With its explosive mix of comedy, drama and racial politics, Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing (1989) remains one of the most controversial and powerful films of the 80′s. Much of its enduring popularity can be attributed to an iconic aesthetic achieved through a combination of the writer-director-star’s expansive yet intimate vision, Ernest Dickerson’s glowing cinematography and – journalist Ashley Clark argues – Ruth E. Carter’s vibrant, expressive costume work. Carter’s contribution is vital in three key areas: establishing a sense of place and adding depth to the characters, supporting the film’s themes, and contributing to a bold onscreen representation of blackness which, as suggested by Ed Guerrero, “challenges and erodes the skin-colour hierarchy of Hollywood’s classic optical hegemony” (Guerrero 2001, p. 62).
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- 2/17/2012
- by Contributor
- Clothes on Film
Clip joint comes right back at you with a snappy selection of cinema's wittiest ripostes and most scathing putdowns
Like a slam dunk smash in tennis, or a sudden knockout in boxing, the ability to come up with a scathingly witty riposte to a rhetorical attack – to conjure a killer comeback – results in an instant win. The old saying about sticks and stones is all wrong: an acerbic remark can do more damage than a right hook, and the sting from an incisive jibe can last a lifetime.
The French use the term 'L'esprit de l'escalier' ('staircase wit') to describe the agony of coming up with a comeback when it's just too late. Of course, ever since the dawn of the 'talkies', movie stars have relied on screenwriters to supply them with urbane repartee, and a film without snappy dialogue would be about as much fun as an alcohol-free martini.
Like a slam dunk smash in tennis, or a sudden knockout in boxing, the ability to come up with a scathingly witty riposte to a rhetorical attack – to conjure a killer comeback – results in an instant win. The old saying about sticks and stones is all wrong: an acerbic remark can do more damage than a right hook, and the sting from an incisive jibe can last a lifetime.
The French use the term 'L'esprit de l'escalier' ('staircase wit') to describe the agony of coming up with a comeback when it's just too late. Of course, ever since the dawn of the 'talkies', movie stars have relied on screenwriters to supply them with urbane repartee, and a film without snappy dialogue would be about as much fun as an alcohol-free martini.
- 12/14/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Carrie Underwood is a household name, and she’s aiding in making Sons of Sylvia one too! The band, who appeared on American Idol the same night as her a few weeks ago, have been touring with the former Idol since March, and are continuing on throughout the rest of the year! Carrie Underwood & Taylor Swift are Neck and Neck Sons of Sylvia is a country band made up of three brothers—Adam Clark, Ashley Clark, and Austin Clark. They appeared on the song "What Can I Say" on Underwood's third album, Play On. Check out their numerous tour...
- 5/13/2010
- Hollyscoop.com
Following Wednesday night's episode of "American Idol," Sons of Sylvia frontman Ashley Clark is in a self-described "whirlwind." Sandwiched in between performances by country superstars Rascal Flatts and Lady Antebellum, the newcomers, which also include brothers Adam and Austin Clark, are experiencing the after effects of being exposed to millions of viewers. Their debut album, "Revelation," became the #1 pop album on iTunes and #3 on the overall chart. The single has also shot up into the Top 30 singles.
"It's a very surreal day," Clark said following their primetime performance, their second following a brief appearance on Carrie Underwood's holiday special late last year. They're currently on tour with the country super star, opening up for her through December. "I feel so humble, so thankful at how well everything is going."
"I'm glad we didn't mess up or go flat," he said. "I don't try to think how many people are watching.
"It's a very surreal day," Clark said following their primetime performance, their second following a brief appearance on Carrie Underwood's holiday special late last year. They're currently on tour with the country super star, opening up for her through December. "I feel so humble, so thankful at how well everything is going."
"I'm glad we didn't mess up or go flat," he said. "I don't try to think how many people are watching.
- 4/30/2010
- icelebz.com
'Love Left to Lose' brotherly trio grew up on the road with preacher parents.
By Gil Kaufman
Sons of Sylvia's Ashley Clark performs on "American Idol" Wednesday
Photo: Fox
They've been jamming together their whole lives, though they never really heard secular music until they left home. They grew up on the road with their itinerant preacher parents, playing worship tunes before forming a brotherly trio and switching from the sacred to the (slightly more) profane.
Kings of Leon, right?
No, actually, Sons of Sylvia. The Virginia-bred Clark brothers — lead singer/fiddler Ashley, guitarist/mandolin player Adam and resonator guitarist Austin — had their major coming-out party on Wednesday night's "American Idol" results show, but the trio has been prepping for their turn in the spotlight for more than three years.
Introduced by longtime pal Carrie Underwood, the band performed their country rock anthem "Love Left to Lose," and after a...
By Gil Kaufman
Sons of Sylvia's Ashley Clark performs on "American Idol" Wednesday
Photo: Fox
They've been jamming together their whole lives, though they never really heard secular music until they left home. They grew up on the road with their itinerant preacher parents, playing worship tunes before forming a brotherly trio and switching from the sacred to the (slightly more) profane.
Kings of Leon, right?
No, actually, Sons of Sylvia. The Virginia-bred Clark brothers — lead singer/fiddler Ashley, guitarist/mandolin player Adam and resonator guitarist Austin — had their major coming-out party on Wednesday night's "American Idol" results show, but the trio has been prepping for their turn in the spotlight for more than three years.
Introduced by longtime pal Carrie Underwood, the band performed their country rock anthem "Love Left to Lose," and after a...
- 4/29/2010
- MTV Music News
The trio, previously known as the Clark Brothers, have opened for Carrie Underwood on her current tour.
By Gil Kaufman
Sons of Sylvia's Ashley Clark performs on "American Idol" Wednesday
Photo: Fox
Shakira, Rascal Flatts, Lady Antebellum and Sons of Sylvia — wait, who? Millions of Americans could be forgiven if they weren't familiar with the handsome brotherly trio who performed on Wednesday night's (April 28) "American Idol" elimination show, where Siobhan Magnus got the boot.
But if you've been paying attention for the past three years, you might just recognize brothers Ashley, Austin and Adam Clark. They've been opening for good pal Carrie Underwood — who helicoptered in from her tour just to introduce them on "Idol" — on her current tour, and they played backup in her touring band right after she won season four. They were also the winners of the first and only season of "Idol" spinoff "The Next Great American Band,...
By Gil Kaufman
Sons of Sylvia's Ashley Clark performs on "American Idol" Wednesday
Photo: Fox
Shakira, Rascal Flatts, Lady Antebellum and Sons of Sylvia — wait, who? Millions of Americans could be forgiven if they weren't familiar with the handsome brotherly trio who performed on Wednesday night's (April 28) "American Idol" elimination show, where Siobhan Magnus got the boot.
But if you've been paying attention for the past three years, you might just recognize brothers Ashley, Austin and Adam Clark. They've been opening for good pal Carrie Underwood — who helicoptered in from her tour just to introduce them on "Idol" — on her current tour, and they played backup in her touring band right after she won season four. They were also the winners of the first and only season of "Idol" spinoff "The Next Great American Band,...
- 4/28/2010
- MTV Music News
Sons of Sylvia are keeping their ties to "American Idol" close. Not only did their debut album hit stores today on Simon Fuller-founded 19 Recordings, they're currently on the road with "Idol" winner Carrie Underwood. Now they're set to perform for millions when they hit the "Idol" stage on Wednesday night.
Sons of Sylvia will take the stage during the results show of "Idol" on Wednesday, April 28th to perform their first single, "Love Left To Lose." The song co-written by member Ashley Clark and a cousin to the band of brothers, none other than hitmaker and OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder.
The band's album, "Revelation," also features production work from Tedder, Jack Joseph Puig (John Mayer, Sheryl Crow), Jeff Trott, Brian Howes, Gerald O' Brien, Catt Gavitt and Mike Shimshack.
The brothers, who appeared on Underwood's "What Can I Say" off her "Play On" album, have extended their stay on Underwood's tour.
Sons of Sylvia will take the stage during the results show of "Idol" on Wednesday, April 28th to perform their first single, "Love Left To Lose." The song co-written by member Ashley Clark and a cousin to the band of brothers, none other than hitmaker and OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder.
The band's album, "Revelation," also features production work from Tedder, Jack Joseph Puig (John Mayer, Sheryl Crow), Jeff Trott, Brian Howes, Gerald O' Brien, Catt Gavitt and Mike Shimshack.
The brothers, who appeared on Underwood's "What Can I Say" off her "Play On" album, have extended their stay on Underwood's tour.
- 4/27/2010
- icelebz.com
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