As the fallout from revelations in the recent Quiet on Set docuseries continues to impact Nickelodeon’s stars and fans, the original host of the Nickelodeon series Blue’s Clues is warming their hearts, over 20 years after he exited the hit show.
Steve Burns, 50, starred alongside an animated dog named Blue as the original host of the popular afternoon Nick show from 1998-2002. The interactive show had the audience follow Blue and her trail of clues that revealed her day. Each episode saw Burns pause for young viewers at home to reply to his questions; eventually nominated for nine Emmy Awards, Blue’s Clues was renowned for emphasizing social and emotional skills and for not talking down to kids.
During the years in which Blue’s Clues ran on Nickelodeon, a different set of shows ran on the network under showrunner and producer Dan Schneider. All That, iCarly, The Amanda Show and many...
Steve Burns, 50, starred alongside an animated dog named Blue as the original host of the popular afternoon Nick show from 1998-2002. The interactive show had the audience follow Blue and her trail of clues that revealed her day. Each episode saw Burns pause for young viewers at home to reply to his questions; eventually nominated for nine Emmy Awards, Blue’s Clues was renowned for emphasizing social and emotional skills and for not talking down to kids.
During the years in which Blue’s Clues ran on Nickelodeon, a different set of shows ran on the network under showrunner and producer Dan Schneider. All That, iCarly, The Amanda Show and many...
- 3/25/2024
- by Kevin Dolak
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Steve Burns shared on video on social media that has gotten Nickelodeon fans emotional.
The post comes amid all the revelations made on ID’s docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, where Drake Bell opened up about being sexually abused by former Nickelodeon dialogue coach Brian Peck.
“Hey, I’m checking in,” the former Blue’s Clues host said in the video shared on TikTok. “Tell me what’s going on.”
Nick Jr. fans who grew up watching Blue’s Clues might remember that in the interactive show, Burns asked questions and stayed silent as if listening to the viewers talking back to him.
After Burns nodded and listened to viewers, he said, “Ok. Alright, well, it’s good to hear from you. You look great, by the way.”
The video has received over 6.3M views, and the post has received more than 41K comments. Burns has shared similar videos in the past,...
The post comes amid all the revelations made on ID’s docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, where Drake Bell opened up about being sexually abused by former Nickelodeon dialogue coach Brian Peck.
“Hey, I’m checking in,” the former Blue’s Clues host said in the video shared on TikTok. “Tell me what’s going on.”
Nick Jr. fans who grew up watching Blue’s Clues might remember that in the interactive show, Burns asked questions and stayed silent as if listening to the viewers talking back to him.
After Burns nodded and listened to viewers, he said, “Ok. Alright, well, it’s good to hear from you. You look great, by the way.”
The video has received over 6.3M views, and the post has received more than 41K comments. Burns has shared similar videos in the past,...
- 3/24/2024
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
Sigur Rós has announced another run of US tour dates slated for fall 2024, in which the Icelandic band will perform alongside a 41-piece orchestra.
The tour follows Sigur Rós’ previous summer 2023 outing with the Wordless Music Orchestra, and they’ll reprise their show for eight dates across the US beginning in Detroit on September 19th. They’ll then continue the tour with dates in Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Durham, Miami, and Nashville, before concluding the trek in Austin on October 4th.
A ticket pre-sale for Sigur Rós’ 2024 tour is set for Thursday, March 7th (use code Key). Tickets will then go on-sale for the general public on Friday, March 8th via Ticketmaster.
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The tour follows Sigur Rós’ previous summer 2023 outing with the Wordless Music Orchestra, and they’ll reprise their show for eight dates across the US beginning in Detroit on September 19th. They’ll then continue the tour with dates in Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Durham, Miami, and Nashville, before concluding the trek in Austin on October 4th.
A ticket pre-sale for Sigur Rós’ 2024 tour is set for Thursday, March 7th (use code Key). Tickets will then go on-sale for the general public on Friday, March 8th via Ticketmaster.
Get Sigur Rós Tickets Here
Once tickets are on-sale, fans can find last minute tickets via Stubhub — where your order is 100% guaranteed through Stubhub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may...
- 2/29/2024
- by Paolo Ragusa
- Consequence - Music
"I wished to show how Sigur Rós is the soundtrack of our lives through happiness, pain, hope, grief, and love. The short documentary, Andrá, celebrates the way in which Sigur Rós captures and channels the humanity that unites us all." The iconic Icelandic band Sigur Ros has announced a new "film experiment" as part of a unique promotion for their latest album called ÁTTA (buy it here via Amazon). The band has asked ten different filmmakers to create music videos / short films / visual interpretations of each of the 10 tracks from the new album (their eighth studio album so far). The first three are out now, with more arriving soon, and they're mostly from Icelandic artists - featuring some very abstract and mesmerizing visuals. As a huge fan of Sigur Ros (I once flew to Stockholm to see them play live) I am very curious to see all of these. These first three are so different,...
- 7/27/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Sigur Rós have unveiled their new album, ÁTTA, which is digitally today. A physical release will follow on September 1st.
ÁTTA marks the Icelandic group’s first album in nearly a decade, as well as their first new music since the return of multi-instrumentalist Kjartan Sveinsson in 2022. Recorded at the band’s Sundlaugin studio in Iceland, the UK’s Abbey Road, and multiple US studios, the LP prominently features the London Contemporary Orchestra conducted by Robert Ames and brass from longtime collaborators Brassgat í bala. Paul Corley, another frequent collaborator, mixed and co-produced the album.
In a statement, frontman Jónsi said they approached the album “wanting to have minimal drums and for the music to be really sparse, floaty and beautiful. We’re getting older and more cynical so I just wanted to move us so that we felt something!”
Sveinsson added, “We wanted to allow ourselves to be a...
ÁTTA marks the Icelandic group’s first album in nearly a decade, as well as their first new music since the return of multi-instrumentalist Kjartan Sveinsson in 2022. Recorded at the band’s Sundlaugin studio in Iceland, the UK’s Abbey Road, and multiple US studios, the LP prominently features the London Contemporary Orchestra conducted by Robert Ames and brass from longtime collaborators Brassgat í bala. Paul Corley, another frequent collaborator, mixed and co-produced the album.
In a statement, frontman Jónsi said they approached the album “wanting to have minimal drums and for the music to be really sparse, floaty and beautiful. We’re getting older and more cynical so I just wanted to move us so that we felt something!”
Sveinsson added, “We wanted to allow ourselves to be a...
- 6/16/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
Iceland’s art-rock heroes Sigur Rós are back with a new song, “Blóðberg,” which marks their first since reuniting with multi-instrumentalist Kjartan Sveinsson.
The sprawling orchestral piece was crafted with the London Contemporary Orchestra and conductor Robert Ames, with Paul Corley co-producing “Blóðberg” with Sigur Rós. “Blóðberg” also arrives with a music video directed by Johan Renck that pairs the unsettling, ethereal aura of the song with an eerie visual that appears to show piles of bodies strewn across an endless desert.
“I feel as nihilistic as one could regarding the future,...
The sprawling orchestral piece was crafted with the London Contemporary Orchestra and conductor Robert Ames, with Paul Corley co-producing “Blóðberg” with Sigur Rós. “Blóðberg” also arrives with a music video directed by Johan Renck that pairs the unsettling, ethereal aura of the song with an eerie visual that appears to show piles of bodies strewn across an endless desert.
“I feel as nihilistic as one could regarding the future,...
- 6/12/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
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Fresh off their first North American tour in five years, Icelandic art-rockers Sigur Ros will return stateside this August for eight shows accompanied by a 41-piece orchestra.
Sigur Ros and the Wordless Music Orchestra’s trek will feature songs off the band’s upcoming studio album — their first proper LP since 2013’s Kveikur and their first with returning member Kjartan Sveinsson since 2012’s Valtari — as well as select...
Fresh off their first North American tour in five years, Icelandic art-rockers Sigur Ros will return stateside this August for eight shows accompanied by a 41-piece orchestra.
Sigur Ros and the Wordless Music Orchestra’s trek will feature songs off the band’s upcoming studio album — their first proper LP since 2013’s Kveikur and their first with returning member Kjartan Sveinsson since 2012’s Valtari — as well as select...
- 3/16/2023
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Sigur Rós are heading out on a Summer 2023 tour across Europe and North America with a 41-piece orchestra in support of their first studio album in 10 years.
Kicking off on June 16th with an appearance at UK’s Meltdown Festival, the trek will also hit cities including Paris, Toronto, New York City, and more before wrapping in Los Angeles on August 27th. In the UK/Europe, they’ll be accompanied by the London Contemporary Orchestra, while in North America, they’ll perform with the Wordless Music Orchestra.
Tickets go on sale Friday, March 24th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster, with a Live Nation pre-sale occurring on Thursday, March 23rd (use access code Opener).
In addition to these orchestral shows, Sigur Rós will play a number of European festivals. Find the band’s full schedule below, and grab tickets to all of their upcoming shows here.
Sigur Rós’ as-yet-untitled new album,...
Kicking off on June 16th with an appearance at UK’s Meltdown Festival, the trek will also hit cities including Paris, Toronto, New York City, and more before wrapping in Los Angeles on August 27th. In the UK/Europe, they’ll be accompanied by the London Contemporary Orchestra, while in North America, they’ll perform with the Wordless Music Orchestra.
Tickets go on sale Friday, March 24th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster, with a Live Nation pre-sale occurring on Thursday, March 23rd (use access code Opener).
In addition to these orchestral shows, Sigur Rós will play a number of European festivals. Find the band’s full schedule below, and grab tickets to all of their upcoming shows here.
Sigur Rós’ as-yet-untitled new album,...
- 3/16/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
Icelandic art-rockers Sigur Rós will celebrate the 20th anniversary of ( ) — a.k.a. Untitled, Parenthesis, The Bracket Album or however you referred to it the past two decades — with a reissue of the 2002 LP complete with b-sides and unreleased demos from the recording sessions.
Due out digitally on Oct. 27 and physically on Nov. 25, the ( ) reissue features the album’s original eight untitled tracks — all remastered — along with demos of tracks #6, #7, and #8 — affectionately know as “E-bow,” “Dauðalagið” (The Death Song),” and “Popplagið” (The Pop Song), respectively — plus the three songs that...
Due out digitally on Oct. 27 and physically on Nov. 25, the ( ) reissue features the album’s original eight untitled tracks — all remastered — along with demos of tracks #6, #7, and #8 — affectionately know as “E-bow,” “Dauðalagið” (The Death Song),” and “Popplagið” (The Pop Song), respectively — plus the three songs that...
- 10/7/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
About 15 years ago, after he’d worked on the story for Disney’s animated “Mulan” and co-directed “Lilo & Stitch” but before he took on the “How to Train Your Dragon” trilogy, Canadian filmmaker Dean DeBlois took a detour from animation into documentary film. His 2007 doc “Heima” followed the Icelandic band Sigur Rós as they toured their home country, performing huge outdoor shows and smaller concerts, interspersing interview footage in which the normally mysterious band talked about their work and their lives.
DeBlois spends most of his time working in animation to this day, but he still has a taste for Icelandic music and a knack for knowing how to put it on film. “Tíu,” which premiered at the Tribeca Festival, takes a different Icelandic band, Of Monsters and Men, and follows them on a trip around the country where they play music in a variety of locations that have...
DeBlois spends most of his time working in animation to this day, but he still has a taste for Icelandic music and a knack for knowing how to put it on film. “Tíu,” which premiered at the Tribeca Festival, takes a different Icelandic band, Of Monsters and Men, and follows them on a trip around the country where they play music in a variety of locations that have...
- 6/16/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium is famously also known as the Mother Church of Country Music and one-time home of the Grand Ole Opry, but it has played a crucial role in Rock & Roll history as well. On Thursday, the 130-year-old venue was designated an official landmark by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, making it one of only 12 such locations in the United States.
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame President and CEO Greg Harris was joined by Nashville Mayor John Cooper and country band Old Dominion for the announcement, which...
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame President and CEO Greg Harris was joined by Nashville Mayor John Cooper and country band Old Dominion for the announcement, which...
- 5/27/2022
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Mount Meru, one of the tallest mountains in the world, is surrounded by eight seas and eight mountains. It is considered by many to be the center of the universe — physically, metaphysically, and spiritually. But it is probably the hardest mountain to get to, and even harder to stay on. Would you make the trip? Or would you see more by exploring its eight satellite peaks and waters? What if once you get up there, you still don’t feel complete? What will give your life meaning instead?
Pietro (Luca Marinelli at his strongest physically and most complex and tender emotionally) never stops thinking about these questions. It’s all he asks himself as he yearns for the mountains until the summer comes and he can climb the Italian Alps again, with his father – trying desperately to understand a son he can’t see himself in – and best friend, Bruno...
Pietro (Luca Marinelli at his strongest physically and most complex and tender emotionally) never stops thinking about these questions. It’s all he asks himself as he yearns for the mountains until the summer comes and he can climb the Italian Alps again, with his father – trying desperately to understand a son he can’t see himself in – and best friend, Bruno...
- 5/21/2022
- by Ella Kemp
- Indiewire
Sigur Rós will hit the road this summer for their first world tour in nearly five years, with shows currently slated for the United States, Canada and Mexico. The influential Icelandic band also announced that they’ve returned to the studio to record a new full-length album — and both the album and tour will feature the Kjartan Sveinsson, who recently rejoined Sigur Rós after leaving the group nearly a decade ago.
The post-rock outfit promises to debut some new material during the upcoming tour, which kicks off April 30 at Festival Vaivén in Morelos,...
The post-rock outfit promises to debut some new material during the upcoming tour, which kicks off April 30 at Festival Vaivén in Morelos,...
- 2/22/2022
- by Kat Bouza
- Rollingstone.com
Netflix has released the first official trailer for “The Mitchells vs. The Machines,” the animated comedy from executive producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the hitmaker duo behind “The Lego Movie” and Oscar winner “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” Written and directed by Michael Rianda and Jeff Rowe, “The Mitchells vs. The Machines” is a star-studded family comedy about an everyday family’s struggle to relate while technology rises up around the world.
When Katie Mitchell (Abbi Jacobson), a creative outsider, is accepted into the film school of her dreams, her plans to meet “her people” at college are upended when her nature-loving dad Rick (Danny McBride) determines the whole family should drive Katie to school together and bond as a family one last time. On the drive to campus they come across a tech uprising, leaving them to figure out how to save the world from a technological singularity.
In addition to Jacobson and McBride,...
When Katie Mitchell (Abbi Jacobson), a creative outsider, is accepted into the film school of her dreams, her plans to meet “her people” at college are upended when her nature-loving dad Rick (Danny McBride) determines the whole family should drive Katie to school together and bond as a family one last time. On the drive to campus they come across a tech uprising, leaving them to figure out how to save the world from a technological singularity.
In addition to Jacobson and McBride,...
- 3/31/2021
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Sigur Rós have released a new song, “Stendur æva,” from their upcoming orchestral album, Odin’s Raven Magic, which was made with fellow Icelandic artists Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, and Steindór Andersen.
“Stendur æva” (which translates to “stands alive”) is a sprawling cut that opens with a section centered around a hypnotic loop played on a unique five-octave marimba built from roughly hewn pieces of stone. Andersen guides the song through this first section before the song gives way to a glitchy breakdown that ushers in a...
“Stendur æva” (which translates to “stands alive”) is a sprawling cut that opens with a section centered around a hypnotic loop played on a unique five-octave marimba built from roughly hewn pieces of stone. Andersen guides the song through this first section before the song gives way to a glitchy breakdown that ushers in a...
- 11/13/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Sigur Rós have announced the release of their orchestral album, Odin’s Raven Magic. The 70-minute piece is a collaboration with fellow Icelandic artists Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and Steindór Andersen. Featuring Schola Cantorum of Reykjavík and L’Orchestre des Laureats du Conservatoire National de Paris, it arrives on December 4th on Krunk via Warner Classics and is available for preorder.
In conjunction with the album announcement, the band previewed Odin’s Raven Magic with lead single “Dvergmál.” Featuring choral arrangements helmed by former Sigur Rós member and arranger Kjartan Sveinsson...
In conjunction with the album announcement, the band previewed Odin’s Raven Magic with lead single “Dvergmál.” Featuring choral arrangements helmed by former Sigur Rós member and arranger Kjartan Sveinsson...
- 10/23/2020
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Jónsi and Robyn have shared a dizzying blast of future pop, “Salt Licorice,” set to appear on the Sigur Rós frontman’s next solo album, Shiver, out October 2nd on Krunk.
“Salt Licorice” was produced by Avant-pop favorite A.G. Cook, who takes a grinding industrial intro and shapes it into a jagged, propulsive but always engrossing pop stomp. Robyn and Jónsi split vocal duties, coming together on the track’s hook, “You spread your wings, T-shirt, shoulder blades/Your skinny waist is making me throw up/Ooh my Scandinavian pain.
“Salt Licorice” was produced by Avant-pop favorite A.G. Cook, who takes a grinding industrial intro and shapes it into a jagged, propulsive but always engrossing pop stomp. Robyn and Jónsi split vocal duties, coming together on the track’s hook, “You spread your wings, T-shirt, shoulder blades/Your skinny waist is making me throw up/Ooh my Scandinavian pain.
- 9/30/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
If Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber’s “Pieces of a Woman” seems to rearrange the fragments of a typical melodrama into something unusually jagged and incomplete, perhaps that’s because there aren’t many films about miscarriages or stillbirths. Movies often introduce such tragedies as plot twists — cruel yet narratively convenient ways of bridging the gap between one part of a story and another — but few dare to make them the crux of the story itself.
There are several reasons for that. For one thing, movies about dead babies don’t typically pull Marvel-like numbers at the box office. For another, the pain of losing a pregnancy or newborn child is unfathomable in a way that can be hard to communicate to people who haven’t suffered a similar loss. What does it feel like to mourn something that was never alive? And if someone is lucky enough not to...
There are several reasons for that. For one thing, movies about dead babies don’t typically pull Marvel-like numbers at the box office. For another, the pain of losing a pregnancy or newborn child is unfathomable in a way that can be hard to communicate to people who haven’t suffered a similar loss. What does it feel like to mourn something that was never alive? And if someone is lucky enough not to...
- 9/5/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Jónsi has recruited Cocteau Twins’ Liz Fraser for “Cannibal,” his latest offering from his upcoming solo album Shiver, out October 2nd via Krunk.
The song is accompanied by a video directed by the Sigur Rós frontman and Giovanni Ribisi; it features a figure in a hazy, heavenly abyss dancing as Jónsi and Fraser’s vocals begin. Just beyond the three-minute mark, the song increases in tempo and erupts into new sonic territory. “You know it’s only out of love,” Jónsi sings, Fraser echoing him.
“When Sigur Rós was starting,...
The song is accompanied by a video directed by the Sigur Rós frontman and Giovanni Ribisi; it features a figure in a hazy, heavenly abyss dancing as Jónsi and Fraser’s vocals begin. Just beyond the three-minute mark, the song increases in tempo and erupts into new sonic territory. “You know it’s only out of love,” Jónsi sings, Fraser echoing him.
“When Sigur Rós was starting,...
- 8/14/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Jónsi has returned with the meditative new song “Exhale,” the Sigur Rós frontman’s first new solo music in 10 years.
The Icelandic singer teamed up with Giovanni Ribisi to direct the video, which features a dancer in a polyethylene tarp surrounded by fleeting, dark fabric that fills the air. “It’s just the way it is/It isn’t your fault,” Jónsi sings against scattered synths. “It isn’t your fault/Just let it go.”
Jónsi teamed up with A.G. Cook to produce the track, known for his collaborations with Charli Xcx.
The Icelandic singer teamed up with Giovanni Ribisi to direct the video, which features a dancer in a polyethylene tarp surrounded by fleeting, dark fabric that fills the air. “It’s just the way it is/It isn’t your fault,” Jónsi sings against scattered synths. “It isn’t your fault/Just let it go.”
Jónsi teamed up with A.G. Cook to produce the track, known for his collaborations with Charli Xcx.
- 4/23/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
I’m not going to mince words here: Lucy in the Sky is a terrible film. It’s a disaster, a fiasco, a complete tragedy. It’s the kind of film that will have people clamoring for the thesaurus because one word cannot summarize just how bad it is. This is the first film by Noah Hawley, the man responsible for the TV series Fargo and Legion, and his jump from TV to the big screen feels like he’s leaping into an industrial shredder. This film is so bad it made me wish director jail was a real place, where Hawley could be locked inside, and the key flown thousands of miles away so it could be cast into an ocean on the other side of the world. The fact that someone like Hawley has been able to attain this much power, money, and artistic freedom to make something...
- 9/17/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Troye Sivan performed his tender Boy Erased ballad “Revelation” on Thursday’s Tonight Show.
The singer stood stoic on a fog-lined stage, crooning softly over piano, organ, cymbal swells and the strains of a string quartet. He utilized a minimal stage presentation, clasping the microphone with his face obscured in shadow.
Sivan co-wrote “Revelation” with Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi, which he told Rolling Stone was a “dream collaboration.” The song appears on the soundtrack to Joel Edgerton’s recently released film drama Boy Erased, in which Sivan co-stars alongside Lucas Hedges,...
The singer stood stoic on a fog-lined stage, crooning softly over piano, organ, cymbal swells and the strains of a string quartet. He utilized a minimal stage presentation, clasping the microphone with his face obscured in shadow.
Sivan co-wrote “Revelation” with Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi, which he told Rolling Stone was a “dream collaboration.” The song appears on the soundtrack to Joel Edgerton’s recently released film drama Boy Erased, in which Sivan co-stars alongside Lucas Hedges,...
- 11/16/2018
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
In the midst of a pivotal career moment, Troye Sivan is trying to get at the truth. A supporting player in Boy Erased—Joel Edgerton’s adaptation of a memoir by Garrard Conley—the Australian singer-songwriter earnestly admits to the learning curve involved with his first prominent onscreen role. “I just haven’t done as much [acting] as I have music. So, I was really, really nervous,” he tells Deadline. “I just wanted to make sure that we were telling the story in the right way.”
The artist’s anxiety makes sense. “The script was great, and it meant something,” Sivan says. Loosely adapted from Conley’s own story, Boy Erased follows Jared (Lucas Hedges), a closeted young man torn between his sexual identity and his faith, instilled in him by his southern family. Outed to his parents, Jared is forced to participate in gay conversion therapy along with other adolescents—suffering deeply,...
The artist’s anxiety makes sense. “The script was great, and it meant something,” Sivan says. Loosely adapted from Conley’s own story, Boy Erased follows Jared (Lucas Hedges), a closeted young man torn between his sexual identity and his faith, instilled in him by his southern family. Outed to his parents, Jared is forced to participate in gay conversion therapy along with other adolescents—suffering deeply,...
- 11/12/2018
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Sigur Rós announced Monday that the band “accepted the resignation” of drummer Orri Páll Dýrason following accusations of rape against Dýrason that surfaced in the past week.
“In the wake of the extremely serious and personal allegations made against him in recent days, we have today accepted the resignation of our bandmate Orri Páll Dyrason to allow him to deal with this privately,” Sigur Rós’ Jónsi and Goggi wrote in a statement on Facebook.
Dýrason joined the Icelandic band in 1999 prior to the recording of Sigur Rós’ ( ). A representative for...
“In the wake of the extremely serious and personal allegations made against him in recent days, we have today accepted the resignation of our bandmate Orri Páll Dyrason to allow him to deal with this privately,” Sigur Rós’ Jónsi and Goggi wrote in a statement on Facebook.
Dýrason joined the Icelandic band in 1999 prior to the recording of Sigur Rós’ ( ). A representative for...
- 10/1/2018
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Magic Leap One Creator Edition starts shipping today to six major areas in the United States for $2,295 through Magic Leap’s own website, the Florida-based company behind the mixed reality headset and gear announced Wednesday. More cities will be added this fall.
The Magic Leap Creator Edition, which is available in two sizes, comes with the Lightwear headset, Lightpack computing pack, Control handheld input device, a Fit Kit to ensure a perfectly calibrated fit, chargers, and a Quick Start Guide. You can also add an optional fabric strap for the Lightpack. Prescription insert lenses will be made available soon, according to Magic Leap. The device comes with a one-year limited warranty.
You can read our earlier hands-on impressions of the tech and in-depth interviews with the folks behind it, here.
Alongside news of the release date and price for the device, Magic Leap also further detailed the specifications for the system,...
The Magic Leap Creator Edition, which is available in two sizes, comes with the Lightwear headset, Lightpack computing pack, Control handheld input device, a Fit Kit to ensure a perfectly calibrated fit, chargers, and a Quick Start Guide. You can also add an optional fabric strap for the Lightpack. Prescription insert lenses will be made available soon, according to Magic Leap. The device comes with a one-year limited warranty.
You can read our earlier hands-on impressions of the tech and in-depth interviews with the folks behind it, here.
Alongside news of the release date and price for the device, Magic Leap also further detailed the specifications for the system,...
- 8/8/2018
- by Brian Crecente
- Variety Film + TV
The first trailer for Boy Erased, a film about a teenager who’s sent to a conversion therapy program after his parents discover that he’s gay, just debuted, giving us a peek at Troye Sivan’s role in the upcoming film.
Boy Erased stars Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe as the protagonist’s religious parents. In the trailer, the central character Jared—played by Lucas Hedges of Lady Bird—is heard getting advice on how to deal with his situation from Sivan’s character.
“Tell them whatever they want to hear,” says Sivan’s character. “Play the part, unless you really think you can change—or even want to.”
Sivan makes an additional appearance in the trailer—or rather, his music does. The soundtrack for the roughly 2.5-minute trailer is Sivan’s new original song, Revelation, which he made with Jónsi of Icelandic group Sigur Rós. Sivan posted about...
Boy Erased stars Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe as the protagonist’s religious parents. In the trailer, the central character Jared—played by Lucas Hedges of Lady Bird—is heard getting advice on how to deal with his situation from Sivan’s character.
“Tell them whatever they want to hear,” says Sivan’s character. “Play the part, unless you really think you can change—or even want to.”
Sivan makes an additional appearance in the trailer—or rather, his music does. The soundtrack for the roughly 2.5-minute trailer is Sivan’s new original song, Revelation, which he made with Jónsi of Icelandic group Sigur Rós. Sivan posted about...
- 7/17/2018
- by Jessica Klein
- Tubefilter.com
Hodor might have been a man of few words, but his offscreen counterpart, Game of Thrones actor and DJ Kristian Nairn, apparently knows exactly what to say to make us laugh embarrassingly loud at our desks in the middle of a very quiet office.
During a very candid interview with HuffPost, Nairn was happy to voice his opinions about the HBO series' predilection for cameos from famous musicians, especially Ed Sheeran's surprise appearance in season seven. In short: it was the worst.
"I'm not a fan of the cameos in Game of Thrones. I don't like them. I think it's stupid," he said. "I don't mind going on the record on that. I just think it takes you right out of the world . . . Especially Ed Sheeran. I was like, 'Why is Ed Sheeran here?' I mean, Ed Sheeran's great. He's a great guy, great musician, but why is he in Game of Thrones?...
During a very candid interview with HuffPost, Nairn was happy to voice his opinions about the HBO series' predilection for cameos from famous musicians, especially Ed Sheeran's surprise appearance in season seven. In short: it was the worst.
"I'm not a fan of the cameos in Game of Thrones. I don't like them. I think it's stupid," he said. "I don't mind going on the record on that. I just think it takes you right out of the world . . . Especially Ed Sheeran. I was like, 'Why is Ed Sheeran here?' I mean, Ed Sheeran's great. He's a great guy, great musician, but why is he in Game of Thrones?...
- 6/29/2018
- by Quinn Keaney
- Popsugar.com
Make no mistake, filmmaker Bill Morrison is not a man trapped in the past. Though he deals in celluloid from another time, his work bridges the gap between then and now. Dawson City: Frozen Time, Morrison’s critically-acclaimed documentary, tells the story of a treasure trove of lost silent cinema discovered in Dawson City, Canada under a swimming pool. From these slivers of nitrate film comes something grand. Aided by a remarkable score from Alex Somers of Sigur Rós, Morrison connects the history of film with the history of life in North America. Political movements, sports scandals, heinous fires (some caused by the flammable celluloid itself), and countless other moments captured in time. It appeared on multiple Top 10 of 2017 lists for us here at The Film Stage, sitting atop my own. Compelled to have a conversation with Morrison, the filmmaker was kind enough to chat with us for a good...
- 1/30/2018
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
Björk’s interests have always extended beyond music, whether it be the fact that you shouldn’t let poets lie to you or appearing in Lars von Trier movies. For her latest venture, Iceland’s greatest musical export (you heard me, Sigur Rós) has appeared in the virtual reality music video for Vulnicura’s song “Notget.” Watch the teaser for it below, as we’ve apparently reached the point in our society where teasers for music videos are a thing.
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Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones directed the video, which features Björk as a kind of spectral being with angel-like wings and flaming extremities; we truly live in the future now, friends. “Notget” is preceded by Vr videos for both “Stonemilker” and “Black Lake,” both of which can be seen at Montreal’s Björk Digital exhibit.
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Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones directed the video, which features Björk as a kind of spectral being with angel-like wings and flaming extremities; we truly live in the future now, friends. “Notget” is preceded by Vr videos for both “Stonemilker” and “Black Lake,” both of which can be seen at Montreal’s Björk Digital exhibit.
- 11/2/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
The cartoonist makes his big screen debut with the ambitious high school disaster comedy My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, featuring the voices of Jason Schwartzman and Lena Dunham
At 33, the cartoonist and film director Dash Shaw is well ahead of the game. A regular feature on best-of-the-year lists with his graphic novels Bottomless Belly Button and Bodyworld, Shaw’s sideline in animation – which includes an especially beautiful Sigur Rós video – has given birth to a full-blown feature-length cartoon, screened during this year’s New York film festival.
Related: My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea review – animated disaster movie smartly captures teenage life
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At 33, the cartoonist and film director Dash Shaw is well ahead of the game. A regular feature on best-of-the-year lists with his graphic novels Bottomless Belly Button and Bodyworld, Shaw’s sideline in animation – which includes an especially beautiful Sigur Rós video – has given birth to a full-blown feature-length cartoon, screened during this year’s New York film festival.
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- 10/18/2016
- by Sam Thielman in New York
- The Guardian - Film News
Benedikt Erlingsson: "Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, they were circus artists doing their stuff live." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Sigur Rós composers Georg Hólm and Orri Páll Dýrason (who worked with Björk), Andrei Tarkovsky, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant, teaming with Lars von Trier's producer Marianne Slot (Melancholia, Antichrist, Breaking The Waves, Dancer In The Dark, Dogville, Nymphomaniac) came up, as Benedikt Erlingsson, director Of Horses And Men (Hross I Oss), spilled the beans on The Show Of Shows: 100 Years Of Vaudeville, Circuses And Carnivals (Storyville).
Frédéric Boyer with Anne-Katrin Titze: "It's what cinema did in the beginning - King Vidor and the Russians - it's exactly editing." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Robert Bresson's Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne, Christopher Walken on theatre and Michelangelo Frammartino's Alberi, Celia Rowlson-Hall's Ma, and Journey To The West by Tsai Ming-liang during earlier Tribeca Film Festivals inside PS1 MoMA's Vw Dome,...
Sigur Rós composers Georg Hólm and Orri Páll Dýrason (who worked with Björk), Andrei Tarkovsky, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant, teaming with Lars von Trier's producer Marianne Slot (Melancholia, Antichrist, Breaking The Waves, Dancer In The Dark, Dogville, Nymphomaniac) came up, as Benedikt Erlingsson, director Of Horses And Men (Hross I Oss), spilled the beans on The Show Of Shows: 100 Years Of Vaudeville, Circuses And Carnivals (Storyville).
Frédéric Boyer with Anne-Katrin Titze: "It's what cinema did in the beginning - King Vidor and the Russians - it's exactly editing." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Robert Bresson's Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne, Christopher Walken on theatre and Michelangelo Frammartino's Alberi, Celia Rowlson-Hall's Ma, and Journey To The West by Tsai Ming-liang during earlier Tribeca Film Festivals inside PS1 MoMA's Vw Dome,...
- 8/21/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Benedikt Erlingsson shoots Anne-Katrin Titze: "I am very grateful to Frédéric Boyer and the festival to come up with this idea." Photo: Benedikt Erlingsson
In Of Horses And Men director Benedikt Erlingsson's The Show Of Shows: 100 Years Of Vaudeville, Circuses And Carnivals (Storyville), the tents go up, as he follows in the footprints of Michelangelo Frammartino's Alberi, Tsai Ming-liang's Journey To The West and Celia Rowlson-Hall's Ma into the MoMA PS1 Vw Dome.
Producers Margrét Jónasdóttir and Mark Atkins Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Björk collaborators Georg Hólm and Orri Páll Dýrason of Sigur Rós, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Vincent Lindon in Stéphane Brizé's The Measure Of A Man, Leonardo DiCaprio in Alejandro González Iñárritu's The Revenant and Andrei Tarkovsky, Robert Bresson's Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne, Christopher Walken on theatre, A Woman At War with Lars von Trier's Melancholia producer Marianne Slot, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd,...
In Of Horses And Men director Benedikt Erlingsson's The Show Of Shows: 100 Years Of Vaudeville, Circuses And Carnivals (Storyville), the tents go up, as he follows in the footprints of Michelangelo Frammartino's Alberi, Tsai Ming-liang's Journey To The West and Celia Rowlson-Hall's Ma into the MoMA PS1 Vw Dome.
Producers Margrét Jónasdóttir and Mark Atkins Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Björk collaborators Georg Hólm and Orri Páll Dýrason of Sigur Rós, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Vincent Lindon in Stéphane Brizé's The Measure Of A Man, Leonardo DiCaprio in Alejandro González Iñárritu's The Revenant and Andrei Tarkovsky, Robert Bresson's Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne, Christopher Walken on theatre, A Woman At War with Lars von Trier's Melancholia producer Marianne Slot, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd,...
- 5/2/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
★★★☆☆ In an act of alchemy thoroughly appropriate to his subject matter, Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson manages to be both clear and misty-eyed about the traditions of the circus and vaudeville in new archive documentary The Show of Shows. After the interlocking segments of his wonderful feature debut Of Horses and Men, Erlingsson crafts a paean to a dying form of entertainment, fusing together carefully gathered footage of a variety of performances into several themed sections. Despite avoiding narration, the film captures a sense of heart-swelling wonder in one instant and reminds us of the darker aspects in the next. This is brilliantly assisted by an original score from Georg Holm and Orri Páll Dýrason of Sigur Rós, in collaboration with Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and Kjartan Dagur Holm.
- 2/8/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Earlier this year, former Pitchfork editor Jessica Hopper asked women and other marginalized people in music to share the first time they were made to feel that they didn’t “count.” Here’s mine: Hearing my college boyfriend declare, “Wow, you actually know this band, I’m impressed,” every time I talked about the kind of music he didn’t think someone like me — black, female, SoCal-raised — would know about. The first time it happened was at a Sigur Rós concert. I started humming and air-drumming my fingers to the beat of a song — "Olsen Olsen" — he assumed I didn’t know, so he “complimented” me on it. I nodded and grinned awkwardly, but inside I felt like shit because the subtext of his voice was: (a) You’re a poseur, (b) this is my music, (c) you need my approval to validate your opinion. You may think I was...
- 12/30/2015
- by Lauretta Charlton
- Vulture
Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson binds archive footage together with a stunning Sigur Rós soundtrack to evoke all the fun of the fair
Created in collaboration with the National Fairground Archive, Benedikt Erlingsson’s vibrant, arresting and often disturbing documentary draws together a wealth of footage from a century of vaudeville, circuses and carnivals. From joyous clowning and spectacular stunts (high wires and human cannonballs) through the jaw-dropping exploitation of animals and children (babies being juggled, lions and tigers tormented) to interludes of delirious dance, The Show of Shows offers a kaleidoscopic history of three-ring revelry in all its many hues. Explanatory narration is eschewed in favour of an affecting score by Sigur Rós’s Georg Hólm and Orri Páll Dýrason in collaboration with Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and Kjartan Dagur Hólm, which offers a clear and compelling wordless commentary.
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Created in collaboration with the National Fairground Archive, Benedikt Erlingsson’s vibrant, arresting and often disturbing documentary draws together a wealth of footage from a century of vaudeville, circuses and carnivals. From joyous clowning and spectacular stunts (high wires and human cannonballs) through the jaw-dropping exploitation of animals and children (babies being juggled, lions and tigers tormented) to interludes of delirious dance, The Show of Shows offers a kaleidoscopic history of three-ring revelry in all its many hues. Explanatory narration is eschewed in favour of an affecting score by Sigur Rós’s Georg Hólm and Orri Páll Dýrason in collaboration with Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and Kjartan Dagur Hólm, which offers a clear and compelling wordless commentary.
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- 12/6/2015
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Benedikt Erlingsson’s strange, woozy documentary ranges across half a century of circus and fairground entertainment
The Icelandic actor and director Benedikt Erlingsson has followed his fascinating drama Of Horses and Men by curating this weird documentary clip-montage. It’s a surreal tapestry of home-movie and newsreel fragments about the secret life of circus folk and itinerant fairground entertainers in various European countries from the 20s to the 60s, accompanied by the woozily ambient music of Georg Holm and Orri Páll Dýrason from Sigur Rós.
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The Icelandic actor and director Benedikt Erlingsson has followed his fascinating drama Of Horses and Men by curating this weird documentary clip-montage. It’s a surreal tapestry of home-movie and newsreel fragments about the secret life of circus folk and itinerant fairground entertainers in various European countries from the 20s to the 60s, accompanied by the woozily ambient music of Georg Holm and Orri Páll Dýrason from Sigur Rós.
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- 12/3/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Alma Har’el broke out big in 2011 when Bombay Beach hit the Berlin Film Festival. Winner of the Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival and nominated for the Independent Spirit “Truer than Fiction” award and Cinema Eye Honors “Best Film Debut” and “Best Cinematography” awards we’ve been patiently waiting for a follow up since. A good morsel of LoveTrue was divulged (this snip-it is pure beauty) this past April at Tribeca as a work-in-progress and naturally Berlin and Tribeca are both lieus where this could shore up, but Sundance could be a good fit as well. Shia Labeouf who performed for her in the music video for Sigur Rós, supported this project.
Gist: This offers a unique exploration of the challenges that love can present and how our past and present experiences shape the decisions we make when the fantasy of True Love dissipates. Using cinematic expressions of past memories and possible futures,...
Gist: This offers a unique exploration of the challenges that love can present and how our past and present experiences shape the decisions we make when the fantasy of True Love dissipates. Using cinematic expressions of past memories and possible futures,...
- 11/25/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Things are getting musical in Westeros. Game of Thrones has booked Icelandic band Of Monsters and Men for an appearance in the upcoming sixth season, E! News has confirmed. Word of the casting originally leaked by way of Twitter, as most things do, where fan photos of the band on the show's Girona, Spain set were posted. They were subsequently published on the Watchers of the Wall fan site. And now, here we are. The band's appearance marks the latest in a line of musical cameos from the show's famous fans. Coldplay's Will Champion, Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody, Mastodon, and Icelandic trio Sigur Rós have all been drafted by GoT producers in the...
- 9/18/2015
- E! Online
Trainspotting director Danny Boyle has confirmed that all four leads are keen to return for the sequel.
Boyle suggested to Deadline that the main obstacle now is accommodating everyone's busy schedules.
"All the four main actors want to come back and do it," Boyle said. "Now it is only a matter of getting all their schedules together, which is complicated by two of them doing American TV series."
Robert Carlyle currently stars in Once Upon a Time, while Jonny Lee Miller stars in Elementary. Ewan McGregor and Ewen Bremner also featured in the original film, alongside Kevin McKidd and Kelly Macdonald.
The script, written by John Hodge, is based on author Irvine Welsh novel Porno - the sequel to the Trainspotting book release.
Interestingly, Carlyle recently suggested that any movie version of Porno would need a rewrite given the changes in internet pornography since the novel was written.
Trainspotting's...
Boyle suggested to Deadline that the main obstacle now is accommodating everyone's busy schedules.
"All the four main actors want to come back and do it," Boyle said. "Now it is only a matter of getting all their schedules together, which is complicated by two of them doing American TV series."
Robert Carlyle currently stars in Once Upon a Time, while Jonny Lee Miller stars in Elementary. Ewan McGregor and Ewen Bremner also featured in the original film, alongside Kevin McKidd and Kelly Macdonald.
The script, written by John Hodge, is based on author Irvine Welsh novel Porno - the sequel to the Trainspotting book release.
Interestingly, Carlyle recently suggested that any movie version of Porno would need a rewrite given the changes in internet pornography since the novel was written.
Trainspotting's...
- 9/7/2015
- Digital Spy
Zabaltegi strand of the festival will feature 24 titles.Scroll down for full list
The 63rd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 18-26) has unveiled the features that will comprise its Zabaltegi programme, including Spanish premieres of new films from Laurie Anderson, Eric Khoo, Corneliu Porumboiu, Walter Salles and Alexander Sokurov.
The non-competitive strand includes features, documentaries, animation and shorts, and the first screening of all films in the section will run at the Tabakalera centre for contemporary culture and creation, the hub of Zabaltegi activities from this year.
Titles in the section that played at this year’s Cannes include Porumboiu’s black comedy The Treasure, which won the Un Certain Regard Talent Prize; Tambutti documentary Beyond My Grandfather Allende, winner of the L’Oeil d’Or award for best documentary; and Magnus Von Horn’s debut The Here After, which played in Directors’ Fornight.
Films that will first be seen at Venice (Sept 2-12) include Francofonia, from Russian...
The 63rd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 18-26) has unveiled the features that will comprise its Zabaltegi programme, including Spanish premieres of new films from Laurie Anderson, Eric Khoo, Corneliu Porumboiu, Walter Salles and Alexander Sokurov.
The non-competitive strand includes features, documentaries, animation and shorts, and the first screening of all films in the section will run at the Tabakalera centre for contemporary culture and creation, the hub of Zabaltegi activities from this year.
Titles in the section that played at this year’s Cannes include Porumboiu’s black comedy The Treasure, which won the Un Certain Regard Talent Prize; Tambutti documentary Beyond My Grandfather Allende, winner of the L’Oeil d’Or award for best documentary; and Magnus Von Horn’s debut The Here After, which played in Directors’ Fornight.
Films that will first be seen at Venice (Sept 2-12) include Francofonia, from Russian...
- 8/10/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Rumours of a Trainspotting movie sequel have been getting louder in recent years, but Robert Carlyle has predicted big differences from Irvine Welsh's 2002 follow-up novel Porno.
The actor played Francis Begbie in Danny Boyle's 1996 adaptation of Welsh's bestselling 1993 novel and would return if the long-awaited sequel happens.
"One of the difficulties of just adapting Porno is that so much of it is to do with internet porn, which has moved on a lot since the book was written - or so I understand - so it would require a hefty rewrite," Carlyle told ShortList.
"It's also difficult getting all our ships aligned at the same time. What I would say is that it's closer than it's ever been."
Asked where Begbie would be today if the film doesn't directly follow the plot of Porno, Carlyle added: "Oh jail. Jail or dead. That's what's interesting. Where are these guys 20 years later?...
The actor played Francis Begbie in Danny Boyle's 1996 adaptation of Welsh's bestselling 1993 novel and would return if the long-awaited sequel happens.
"One of the difficulties of just adapting Porno is that so much of it is to do with internet porn, which has moved on a lot since the book was written - or so I understand - so it would require a hefty rewrite," Carlyle told ShortList.
"It's also difficult getting all our ships aligned at the same time. What I would say is that it's closer than it's ever been."
Asked where Begbie would be today if the film doesn't directly follow the plot of Porno, Carlyle added: "Oh jail. Jail or dead. That's what's interesting. Where are these guys 20 years later?...
- 7/16/2015
- Digital Spy
One of the annual highlights of the documentary calender, Sheffield Doc/Fest returns today (5-10 June) with another reassuringly full programme that's true testament to the current health of factual filmmaking. Opening this year's festival is the UK premiere of The Look of Silence, director Joshua Oppenheimer's acclaimed companion piece to the Bafta-winning The Act of Killing (2012). Also screening for the first time on opening night is Benedikt Erlingsson's The Greatest Shows on Earth: A Century of Vaudeville, Circuses and Carnivals, a BFI-produced, Sigur Rós-scored archival piece with a title that speaks for itself. In total the festival will include 150 short and feature docs from 35 countries including 31 world, 13 international, 19 European and 41 UK premières.
- 6/8/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Alright, you’ve had your 100% outrage about Emma Stone’s character’s ¼ Hawaiian lineage, you haven’t accepted Cameron Crowe’s mostly apology, and you’re still heated over how bad his latest movie “Aloha” is. The film and its “racial weirdness” may be ill-advised, but we can probably all agree that Cameron Crowe, at the very least, knows how to put together a decent mixtape. While the “Aloha” soundtrack features 19 songs, including a new track written by Sigur Rós' Jónsi and Alex Somers, the full movie contains nearly 60 songs. So on top of cuts by Fleetwood Mac, Beck, Kurt Vile, David Crosby, and more, “Aloha” the movie also features songs by The Who, The Rolling Stones, Mogwai, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, The Gap Band, Tears For Fears, and Daryl Hall & John Oates — Emma Stone and Bill Murray dancing to the last cut might just be the best moment in the film.
- 6/5/2015
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Well folks, after a rather long and brutal winter (at least for me here in Buffalo), we are finally heading into the wonderful warmth of summer, but with that blast of sunshine and steamy humidity comes the mid-year drought of major film fests. After the Sheffield Doc/Fest concludes on June 10th and AFI Docs wraps on June 21st, we likely won’t see any major influx in our charts until Locarno, Venice, Telluride and Tiff announce their line-ups in rapid succession. In the meantime, we can look forward to the intriguing onslaught of films making their debut in Sheffield, including Brian Hill’s intriguing examination of Sweden’s most notorious serial killer, The Confessions of Thomas Quick, and Sean McAllister’s film for which he himself was jailed in the process of making, A Syrian Love Story, the only two films world premiering in the festival’s main competition.
- 6/1/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
The Greatest Shows on Earth: A Century of Funfairs, Circuses and Carnivals will screen on opening night. Sheffield Doc/Fest has announced the line-up of its 22nd edition with two events on the June 5 night.
Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence will have its UK premiere at one of them. The film - which is a sequel to the award-winning The Act of Killing - sees a family who survived the genocide confront a man who killed one of their clan.
The second opening event is the world premiere of The Greatest Shows on Earth: A Century of Funfairs, Circuses and Carnivals – a music and archive film directed by Icelander Benedikt Erlingsson (Of Horses And Men) which will feature a new score by Georg Hólm and Orri Páll Dýrason from Sigur Rós and the head of the Pagan Church in Iceland, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson. It tells the story of itinerant circus performers,...
Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence will have its UK premiere at one of them. The film - which is a sequel to the award-winning The Act of Killing - sees a family who survived the genocide confront a man who killed one of their clan.
The second opening event is the world premiere of The Greatest Shows on Earth: A Century of Funfairs, Circuses and Carnivals – a music and archive film directed by Icelander Benedikt Erlingsson (Of Horses And Men) which will feature a new score by Georg Hólm and Orri Páll Dýrason from Sigur Rós and the head of the Pagan Church in Iceland, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson. It tells the story of itinerant circus performers,...
- 5/7/2015
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Look of Silence and new music from members of Sigur Ros to open festival; Monty Python documentary to close.
Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 5-10) has revealed the line-up of its 2015 edition, which will open with two events.
The first is the UK premiere of Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence, the follow-up to critically acclaimed The Act of Killing, in which a family that survives the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.
The second is the world premiere of Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson’s The Greatest Shows on Earth: A Century of Funfairs, Circuses and Carnivals – a music and archive film that will feature a new score by Georg Hólm and Orri Páll Dýrason of Sigur Rós and the head of the Pagan Church in Iceland, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson.
The film centres on the lives of travelling showpeople and has been created with exclusive access to the University of Sheffield...
Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 5-10) has revealed the line-up of its 2015 edition, which will open with two events.
The first is the UK premiere of Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence, the follow-up to critically acclaimed The Act of Killing, in which a family that survives the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.
The second is the world premiere of Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson’s The Greatest Shows on Earth: A Century of Funfairs, Circuses and Carnivals – a music and archive film that will feature a new score by Georg Hólm and Orri Páll Dýrason of Sigur Rós and the head of the Pagan Church in Iceland, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson.
The film centres on the lives of travelling showpeople and has been created with exclusive access to the University of Sheffield...
- 5/7/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Earlier this week, the 14th annual Tribeca Film Festival welcomed none other than noted performance artist and rattail enthusiast Shia Labeouf, executive producer for Alma Har'el's new documentary Love True. Labeouf previously worked with Ha'rel on Sigur Rós's video for the song "Fjögur pianó," for which he was completely nude. More recently, he appeared as a mostly-naked, cage-fighting character in Sia's video for "Elastic Heart" — a performance that garnered a hefty amount of controversy. At a Q&A for Love True, Labeouf talked about the differences between his work with Sia and Ha'rel:i think the Sia one is more about aesthetics. It's performance gymnastics, the big crying scene, dance moves. It's cool but it's like Scarface, Al Pacino acting. Nothing against him, but there's a big difference between something that's presentational and representational. I think even Pacino would agree that his work is representational, whereas somebody like Joaquin Phoenix...
- 4/18/2015
- by Brooke Marine
- Vulture
Read More: "Bombay Beach" Director Alma Har'el: "I'm Not a Documentarian, or a Filmmaker, or Anything." Last night at New York's School for Visual Arts, a number of Tribeca Film Festival attendees saw an exclusive preview of scenes from Alma Har'el's new film "LoveTrue." Har'el returned to Tribeca this year after winning the festival's Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary in 2011 with "Bombay Beach," a surreal and beautiful portrait of a small town in the California desert. After directing Shia Labeouf in the music video for Sigur Rós' "Fjögur píanó," Har'el and the actor teamed up for "LoveTrue," which she directed and he produced. The two discussed the project in between three clips from the film. "LoveTrue" is as of yet a work in progress, to be completed next year. The film blurs the line between documentary and fiction, interweaving three distinct (true) love stories of couples living.
- 4/17/2015
- by Anya Jaremko-Greenwold
- Indiewire
Director Alma Har’el, known for blurring lines between documentary and fiction, previously worked with Labeouf on a Sigur Rós music video.
London-based Dogwoof has acquired worldwide sales rights to award-winning director Alma Har’el’s new documentary LoveTrue, currently in post production and executive produced by Us actor Shia LeBeouf.
Dogwoof previously worked with Har’el in 2012 for her debut feature Bombay Beach - which won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at Tribeca Film Festival in 2011 - acting as UK distributor.
This latest feature will see Dogwoof representing the film as worldwide sales agents as well as UK distributor. It will bring LoveTrue to the Cannes Marché next month as part of its sales slate.
LeBeouf, star of Transformers and Fury, was directed by Har’el in her most recent music video for Icelandic band Sigur Rós, Fjögur píanó, in 2013.
Har’el and LeBeouf will present exclusive first clips from LoveTrue at Tribeca on Thursday...
London-based Dogwoof has acquired worldwide sales rights to award-winning director Alma Har’el’s new documentary LoveTrue, currently in post production and executive produced by Us actor Shia LeBeouf.
Dogwoof previously worked with Har’el in 2012 for her debut feature Bombay Beach - which won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at Tribeca Film Festival in 2011 - acting as UK distributor.
This latest feature will see Dogwoof representing the film as worldwide sales agents as well as UK distributor. It will bring LoveTrue to the Cannes Marché next month as part of its sales slate.
LeBeouf, star of Transformers and Fury, was directed by Har’el in her most recent music video for Icelandic band Sigur Rós, Fjögur píanó, in 2013.
Har’el and LeBeouf will present exclusive first clips from LoveTrue at Tribeca on Thursday...
- 4/13/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
When it played last fall at the Toronto International Film Festival, the supernatural love story film “Spring” was described as a supernatural twist on the “Before Sunrise” narrative. Directed by Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson, the film stars Lou Taylor Pucci, Nadia Hilker, and Francesco Carnelutti. The movie follows a troubled American backpacker in Italy, whose romance with a seductive but mysterious local turns into an unexpected nightmare, when her dark, primordial secret threatens to destroy their new-found happiness. In all the Midnight Madness fuss, some may have missed that the score was composed by Jimmy Lavalle aka The Album Leaf — a sonorously beautiful ambient band known for Lavalle’s use of electronics, synthesizer and Rhodes piano, that has toured with Sigur Rós. His Icelandic counterparts often find their music being used for films, so it’s really about time other filmmakers became hip to Lavalle’s cinematic and...
- 3/19/2015
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
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