I, like most women, lug around a lot of stuff.
And on a daily basis, I have a tendency to shove said stuff into large bags. We’re talking big totes — roomy enough to fit my essentials (wallet, keys, phone), a change of clothes if I’m heading to the gym, a lunch container, Advil, lotion, a package I’m bringing home from the office — the list goes on.
So when I suggested another Princess Kate-inspired experiment, this time where I’d do best my to embrace my minimalist side and try out Princess Kate‘s favored way of carrying...
And on a daily basis, I have a tendency to shove said stuff into large bags. We’re talking big totes — roomy enough to fit my essentials (wallet, keys, phone), a change of clothes if I’m heading to the gym, a lunch container, Advil, lotion, a package I’m bringing home from the office — the list goes on.
So when I suggested another Princess Kate-inspired experiment, this time where I’d do best my to embrace my minimalist side and try out Princess Kate‘s favored way of carrying...
- 4/20/2017
- by Diana Pearl
- PEOPLE.com
To celebrate the forthcoming release of David Tennant’s new heart-warming comedy What We Did On Our Holiday, in cinemas 26th September 2014, HeyUGuys is giving 10 readers the chance to win tickets to the World Premiere of the film in London, Monday 22nd September 2014.
From the creators of the hit BBC comedy series Outnumbered – What We Did On Our Holiday is a heart-warming, uplifting comedy for all the family.
A hilarious journey through an unforgettable family holiday as a couple attempts to keep their impending divorce secret from their extended family.
Doug (David Tennant) and Abi (Rosamund Pike) and their three children travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug’s father Gordie’s (Billy Connolly) birthday party, where it’s soon clear that when it comes to keeping their secret under wraps their children are their biggest liability.
From nine year old Lottie’s notebook to keep track of the lies...
From the creators of the hit BBC comedy series Outnumbered – What We Did On Our Holiday is a heart-warming, uplifting comedy for all the family.
A hilarious journey through an unforgettable family holiday as a couple attempts to keep their impending divorce secret from their extended family.
Doug (David Tennant) and Abi (Rosamund Pike) and their three children travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug’s father Gordie’s (Billy Connolly) birthday party, where it’s soon clear that when it comes to keeping their secret under wraps their children are their biggest liability.
From nine year old Lottie’s notebook to keep track of the lies...
- 9/15/2014
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The director of Only God Forgives believes all men are chained to their mother's womb and that when art connects with an audience, it is a sexual experience
Hey Nicolas, how are you?
I feel weak and my body's aching. (1)
Maybe a whisky?
I don't drink alcohol. I would like it too much. And I don't like the taste.
So, you're in London shooting a clothing advert with David Beckham. I won't do commercials for anything involving or marketed to children. I will not do soft drinks, fast food, cigarettes, chemicals, washing powder. Anything that's harmful to animals or any form of religious belief.
How do you feel about meat?
I love a steak. I think we were made to eat meat; that is why we have teeth and claws.
Have you ever killed an animal?
Are you kidding? I don't do anything dangerous.
But you have teeth and claws.
Hey Nicolas, how are you?
I feel weak and my body's aching. (1)
Maybe a whisky?
I don't drink alcohol. I would like it too much. And I don't like the taste.
So, you're in London shooting a clothing advert with David Beckham. I won't do commercials for anything involving or marketed to children. I will not do soft drinks, fast food, cigarettes, chemicals, washing powder. Anything that's harmful to animals or any form of religious belief.
How do you feel about meat?
I love a steak. I think we were made to eat meat; that is why we have teeth and claws.
Have you ever killed an animal?
Are you kidding? I don't do anything dangerous.
But you have teeth and claws.
- 12/6/2013
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Maven Pictures' Object of Beauty starring Amy Adams has picked up a writer in Ned Benson who will adapt the novel written by Steve Martin, reports Variety. Adams is starring in the film, as well as producing alongside and Maven’s Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray. The story tells of an entrepreneur who ruses from being an assistant in a gallery to a gallery owner in a time spanning over fifteen years. Benson who is busy working on the adaptation of the adaptation of the novel Charlotte Street for Working Title, also helmed James McAvoy and Jessica Chastain starrer The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby.
- 7/10/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Ned Benson has been tapped to adapt Steve Martin's book Object of Beauty, Maven Pictures announced Tuesday. Photos: 11 Buzzy Summer Books Amy Adams is attached to star as a young art entrepreneur who climbs from assistant to gallery owner, from a tiny downtown studio to a posh uptown one bedroom. The story traces her life over 15 years as she travels the world and falls in and out of relationships. Benson recently wrote and directed his first film, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, which stars James McAvoy and Jessica Chastain. Benson is also adapting the novel Charlotte Street for Working
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- 7/9/2013
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Stepping out for a promotional appearance, James Franco attended a special screening of his new flick “This Is The End” in London, England last night (June 25).
The “Oz: The Great and Powerful” hunk looked to be in good spirits as he strolled into the Charlotte Street Hotel sporting a black leather jacket and black trousers.
James has set up a fundraiser on Indiegogo to bankroll a new independent film trilogy by Nyu students based on his 2011 “Palo Alto” short story collection.
He explained, "Because of who I am, people often believe that it is easy to find investors and distributors for my films. Unfortunately, things aren't that easy. More times than not, I have put in my own money to produce my films and my student's films. However, this time it's different. We need more funding, I will still fund part of it but I need your help, filming three...
The “Oz: The Great and Powerful” hunk looked to be in good spirits as he strolled into the Charlotte Street Hotel sporting a black leather jacket and black trousers.
James has set up a fundraiser on Indiegogo to bankroll a new independent film trilogy by Nyu students based on his 2011 “Palo Alto” short story collection.
He explained, "Because of who I am, people often believe that it is easy to find investors and distributors for my films. Unfortunately, things aren't that easy. More times than not, I have put in my own money to produce my films and my student's films. However, this time it's different. We need more funding, I will still fund part of it but I need your help, filming three...
- 6/26/2013
- GossipCenter
Valentine's Day, Nationwide
It's the date date-movies were made for – but your choice could be the difference between heart-make or heartbreak. The safest option, therefore, is an old classic in a new setting, and luckily, there are plenty of those around this year. Like Brief Encounter, as unimpeachably swooning yet hilariously stiff a romance as you could desire. The Secret Cinema team are mounting simultaneous showings of the film in various cities around the country on Tuesday to launch their pop-up Other Cinema initiative, spearheaded by four 1940s-themed nights at London's Troxy, with usherettes and a live organist (dress code: black tie, with a flower). In a similar vein, dead certainties such as Casablanca and Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet play in Hackney's Round Chapel (Tue to Fri). Or for a cheap date, there's a free outdoor screening of It Happened One Night, outside the National Theatre; snuggle under a...
It's the date date-movies were made for – but your choice could be the difference between heart-make or heartbreak. The safest option, therefore, is an old classic in a new setting, and luckily, there are plenty of those around this year. Like Brief Encounter, as unimpeachably swooning yet hilariously stiff a romance as you could desire. The Secret Cinema team are mounting simultaneous showings of the film in various cities around the country on Tuesday to launch their pop-up Other Cinema initiative, spearheaded by four 1940s-themed nights at London's Troxy, with usherettes and a live organist (dress code: black tie, with a flower). In a similar vein, dead certainties such as Casablanca and Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet play in Hackney's Round Chapel (Tue to Fri). Or for a cheap date, there's a free outdoor screening of It Happened One Night, outside the National Theatre; snuggle under a...
- 2/11/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
[brightcove]1341474661001[/brightcove] Thank you to those of you who came to our exclusive screening of Goon last night! Held at the Charlotte Street Hotel in London, we put on the film for the lucky winners of our competition earlier this week. The lavish location and free-flowing booze certainly proved to be an effective counter to the post-Christmas blues. After our guests had taken their seats in the screening room, Total Film’s Jamie Graham introduced the evening’s special guest: Goon star Seann William Scott! After an...
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- 1/6/2012
- by Matt Maytum
- TotalFilm
We’ve teamed up with Entertainment One to give you the chance to attend an early screening of Goon, the foul-mouthed ice-hockey comedy starring Seann William Scott, in London on 5 January 2012. And it’s not just any screening… Winners will be getting exclusive VIP treatment, including drinks, at this special event at the Charlotte Street Hotel, London. The screening kicks off at 8pm on 5 January 2012, so the lucky ones who get tickets should get there between 7 – 7.30pm. The film stars Seann William Scott as a dumb...
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- 1/1/2012
- by Total Film
- TotalFilm
In the 50th and final instalment of our writers' favourite films series, Jason Deans plumps for a prohibition-era mob drama from the Coen brothers
Smart guy, huh? Ya think ya can do better, shoot your mouth off here – or save those wisecracks for the comments below
My all-time top celebrity spot? Gabriel Byrne, no question. On a Saturday in July 2003, the morning after two of my best friends marry, I'm in the bar of the Charlotte Street Hotel saying a final farewell before they fly off on honeymoon (also, the newly minted husband needs to borrow cash for the cab to Heathrow). As we swap war stories from the night before, I become aware of a familiar yet unplaceable Irish voice drifting over the conversation from behind me. After a few seconds, it comes to me – "What's the rumpus?" – so I sneak a crafty glance over my shoulder and there...
Smart guy, huh? Ya think ya can do better, shoot your mouth off here – or save those wisecracks for the comments below
My all-time top celebrity spot? Gabriel Byrne, no question. On a Saturday in July 2003, the morning after two of my best friends marry, I'm in the bar of the Charlotte Street Hotel saying a final farewell before they fly off on honeymoon (also, the newly minted husband needs to borrow cash for the cab to Heathrow). As we swap war stories from the night before, I become aware of a familiar yet unplaceable Irish voice drifting over the conversation from behind me. After a few seconds, it comes to me – "What's the rumpus?" – so I sneak a crafty glance over my shoulder and there...
- 12/30/2011
- by Jason Deans
- The Guardian - Film News
Anna Chancellor has rarely been cast in lead roles. That hasn't stopped her starring in the current BBC drama The Hour and a double bill of Rattigan and David Hare at Chichester. But life didn't always run this smoothly...
A couple of weeks ago, Anna Chancellor was watching daytime television when her Poirot episode came on ("Every actor's been on Poirot," she says). She had recorded it in 1993 but had not seen it since and now she was quite taken aback. She plays Virginie Mesnard, a raven-haired Belgian who asks the great detective to investigate the death of a young politician (the case turns, national stereotypes be damned, on a tainted box of chocolates) and in the process becomes the unrequited love of his life. Poirot takes to wearing a lavender brooch that Virginie gave him in her memory.
"I never played the romantic lead ever," she says. "I knew...
A couple of weeks ago, Anna Chancellor was watching daytime television when her Poirot episode came on ("Every actor's been on Poirot," she says). She had recorded it in 1993 but had not seen it since and now she was quite taken aback. She plays Virginie Mesnard, a raven-haired Belgian who asks the great detective to investigate the death of a young politician (the case turns, national stereotypes be damned, on a tainted box of chocolates) and in the process becomes the unrequited love of his life. Poirot takes to wearing a lavender brooch that Virginie gave him in her memory.
"I never played the romantic lead ever," she says. "I knew...
- 8/20/2011
- by Tim Lewis
- The Guardian - Film News
The antics were X-rated – on screen and in the audience. Tony Paley remembers the sleazy heyday of London's Scala cinema
The Scala cinema is dead: long live the Scala. The last ticket stub at London's legendary picture house was torn 18 years ago, but like the zombies that often haunted its screen, its influence on movie culture refuses to die.
A seven-week celebration of the cinema, reliving its famous all-nighters and trash/horror/arthouse double and triple bills, begins later this month. The Scala Forever season will feature 111 films screened at 26 London venues, some of them selected and introduced by the film industry people who frequented what became known as the Sodom Odeon in the 80s and early 90s. (Highlights include Tilda Swinton introducing The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, which she first saw at the Scala.)
As well as celebrating the King's Cross venue, organisers hope to draw attention to some of the cinemas,...
The Scala cinema is dead: long live the Scala. The last ticket stub at London's legendary picture house was torn 18 years ago, but like the zombies that often haunted its screen, its influence on movie culture refuses to die.
A seven-week celebration of the cinema, reliving its famous all-nighters and trash/horror/arthouse double and triple bills, begins later this month. The Scala Forever season will feature 111 films screened at 26 London venues, some of them selected and introduced by the film industry people who frequented what became known as the Sodom Odeon in the 80s and early 90s. (Highlights include Tilda Swinton introducing The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, which she first saw at the Scala.)
As well as celebrating the King's Cross venue, organisers hope to draw attention to some of the cinemas,...
- 8/1/2011
- by Tony Paley
- The Guardian - Film News
It has been a busy day for authors with three of them finding the film rights to their work being picked up.
Gerald Browne
Amber Entertainment has picked up the rights to three of Browne's heist novels - "19 Purchase Street," "West 47th" and "Stone 588" reports Variety.
"West 47th," set in New York's Diamond District, focuses on a professional recoverer of stolen jewelry and his efforts to regain $6 million in gems taken from an Iranian couple. "Stone 588" is centered a stolen crystal with healing power.
"19 Purchase Street" is set at a New York money-laundering operation as a pair of lovers plot a heist in a tale of greed, murder and revenge. Browne is producing on all three and has penned the screenplays for "19 Purchase Street" and "West 47th."
Danny Wallace
Working Title Films has optioned the film rights to "Yes Man" author Wallace's debut novel "Charlotte Street" says The Hollywood Reporter.
Gerald Browne
Amber Entertainment has picked up the rights to three of Browne's heist novels - "19 Purchase Street," "West 47th" and "Stone 588" reports Variety.
"West 47th," set in New York's Diamond District, focuses on a professional recoverer of stolen jewelry and his efforts to regain $6 million in gems taken from an Iranian couple. "Stone 588" is centered a stolen crystal with healing power.
"19 Purchase Street" is set at a New York money-laundering operation as a pair of lovers plot a heist in a tale of greed, murder and revenge. Browne is producing on all three and has penned the screenplays for "19 Purchase Street" and "West 47th."
Danny Wallace
Working Title Films has optioned the film rights to "Yes Man" author Wallace's debut novel "Charlotte Street" says The Hollywood Reporter.
- 6/23/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Following last week’s press screening of Drive Angry 3D at London’s swanky Charlotte Street Hotel, William Fichtner joined the crowd of competition winners and critics for a Q&A about not only the film, but his career so far, his love for cars, the differences between TV and film (having worked extensively in both) and any future work in the pipeline. While a February 21st embargo means we can’t talk about the film just yet, here is a summary of Fichtner’s discussion with the crowd.
Fichtner began by saying he had not actually seen the finished film yet; he had a chance to recently but decided to go the gym instead!
On Drive Angry
Fichtner was eager to praise screenwriters Todd Farmer and Patrick Lussier for a script that he pretty much fell in love with; he admired their invention and also their refusal to change...
Fichtner began by saying he had not actually seen the finished film yet; he had a chance to recently but decided to go the gym instead!
On Drive Angry
Fichtner was eager to praise screenwriters Todd Farmer and Patrick Lussier for a script that he pretty much fell in love with; he admired their invention and also their refusal to change...
- 2/6/2011
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
It's a winter's evening at London's Charlotte Street Hotel. The bar is buzzing, though chances are most patrons have failed to notice Jesse Eisenberg. Never mind that his face has been on posters everywhere for David Fincher's The Social Network (currently at $209m in global box-office and, following its Best Picture win at the Golden Globes, a hot favourite this awards season).
- 2/4/2011
- The Independent - Film
As Hereafter prepares to haunt UK cinemas, we met with its writer, Peter Morgan, to discuss his involvement in the film, and working with Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg…
Cast your mind back to Thursday December 2nd. The UK is gripped by two momentous events. It's snowing, something which never happens, ever, around these parts, so everything grinds to a halt. But, more importantly, it's the day of the World Cup bid announcement.
It's 3:30 in the afternoon, and I'm sat in the Charlotte Street Hotel. It's a nice place, but the staff don't seem with it. When I say I'm here for Peter Morgan, they look at me with a blankness that wouldn't look out of place on Steven Seagal if he worked in Woolworths. It's then that the news comes trickling in. The dream is over. England's bid has failed.
It's a crushing blow, but I'm buoyed by...
Cast your mind back to Thursday December 2nd. The UK is gripped by two momentous events. It's snowing, something which never happens, ever, around these parts, so everything grinds to a halt. But, more importantly, it's the day of the World Cup bid announcement.
It's 3:30 in the afternoon, and I'm sat in the Charlotte Street Hotel. It's a nice place, but the staff don't seem with it. When I say I'm here for Peter Morgan, they look at me with a blankness that wouldn't look out of place on Steven Seagal if he worked in Woolworths. It's then that the news comes trickling in. The dream is over. England's bid has failed.
It's a crushing blow, but I'm buoyed by...
- 1/25/2011
- Den of Geek
The chestnuts won't just be roasting on an open fire at this time of year; they'll also be coming to a screen near you. Christmas movies are a time-honoured tradition of saccharine family values and simulated bonhomie but, having realised that most people get enough of this at home, the smarter cinemas are at last offering alternatives.
The chestnut of choice this year is Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life, which, despite its icing sugar of schmaltz, could strike a chord with its themes of relinquished ambitions and financial hardship. The film is the centrepiece of the BFI Southbank's Rediscovering Frank Capra season (SE1, to 30 Dec, bfi.org.uk), and joining it in many places is another Jimmy Stewart festive classic, Lubitsch's The Shop Around The Corner.
In a similar vein, the Christmas seasons at the Glasgow Film Theatre (to 24 Dec, gft.org.uk) and Edinburgh Filmhouse (Sat to 24 Dec,...
The chestnut of choice this year is Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life, which, despite its icing sugar of schmaltz, could strike a chord with its themes of relinquished ambitions and financial hardship. The film is the centrepiece of the BFI Southbank's Rediscovering Frank Capra season (SE1, to 30 Dec, bfi.org.uk), and joining it in many places is another Jimmy Stewart festive classic, Lubitsch's The Shop Around The Corner.
In a similar vein, the Christmas seasons at the Glasgow Film Theatre (to 24 Dec, gft.org.uk) and Edinburgh Filmhouse (Sat to 24 Dec,...
- 12/11/2010
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
This year's "FanExpo Canada", presented by Rogers, runs August 27, 28 and 29 @ the Metro Toronto Convention Centre .
The history of the event started with the launch of the 'Canadian National Comic Book Expo' in 1995. In 1998 the 'Canadian National Anime Expo' joined the Comic Book Expo to provide fans with a diverse range of entertainment, followed by the 'Science Fiction Expo' in 1999.
Rue Morgue, who sponsors the 'Festival of Fear', aka 'Horror Expo', joined in 2004, followed by the 'Gaming Expo' in 2005.
The five genres (Comic, Anime, Science Fiction, Horror and Gaming) were re-branded and merged to become Fan Expo Canada, now entering its 16th year.
This year's event will showcase 600 exhibits covering 250,000 square feet.
Each year the Expo has a celebrity guest list who sign autographs, host presentations and conduct question/answer sessions with their fans.
This year's celebrity attendees include Marvel Comics creator Stan "The Man" Lee, artists Andy Kubert, Adam Kubert,...
The history of the event started with the launch of the 'Canadian National Comic Book Expo' in 1995. In 1998 the 'Canadian National Anime Expo' joined the Comic Book Expo to provide fans with a diverse range of entertainment, followed by the 'Science Fiction Expo' in 1999.
Rue Morgue, who sponsors the 'Festival of Fear', aka 'Horror Expo', joined in 2004, followed by the 'Gaming Expo' in 2005.
The five genres (Comic, Anime, Science Fiction, Horror and Gaming) were re-branded and merged to become Fan Expo Canada, now entering its 16th year.
This year's event will showcase 600 exhibits covering 250,000 square feet.
Each year the Expo has a celebrity guest list who sign autographs, host presentations and conduct question/answer sessions with their fans.
This year's celebrity attendees include Marvel Comics creator Stan "The Man" Lee, artists Andy Kubert, Adam Kubert,...
- 8/24/2010
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
London's Scala was once the king of repertory cinemas, showing everything from high art to the lowest trash. Stephen Woolley talks about its festival-based return
In June 1979, I was 22 years old, and I published my first programme for the Scala cinema in London. Having served a baptism of fire at the Screen on the Green in Islington, and at the political film collective The Other Cinema, I had fire in my belly and wanted to create an alternative Nft, where you could laugh at Buñuel, weep at Sirk and scream at George Romero. In that first month we showed all-night Judy Garland classics and a celebration of Gay Pride Week shoulder to shoulder with macho men such as Toshiro Mifune, Robert Mitchum and John Wayne.
We put on double bills, triple bills, all nighters on Friday and Saturday, and had a fully licensed bar with the best jukebox in London...
In June 1979, I was 22 years old, and I published my first programme for the Scala cinema in London. Having served a baptism of fire at the Screen on the Green in Islington, and at the political film collective The Other Cinema, I had fire in my belly and wanted to create an alternative Nft, where you could laugh at Buñuel, weep at Sirk and scream at George Romero. In that first month we showed all-night Judy Garland classics and a celebration of Gay Pride Week shoulder to shoulder with macho men such as Toshiro Mifune, Robert Mitchum and John Wayne.
We put on double bills, triple bills, all nighters on Friday and Saturday, and had a fully licensed bar with the best jukebox in London...
- 8/5/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Pete Doherty's apparent decision to unveil a new Babyshambles lineup has allegedly drawn protests from fans. The singer, originally billed to play a solo show at London's Charlotte Street Blues bar, arrived at the venue with Babyshambles guitarist Mik Whitnall and a new, unnamed drummer in tow. According to NME, Doherty later announced during the performance that this was the band's latest lineup. Fans on the group's forum French Dog Writtles also claimed that neither original bassist Drew McConnell nor drummer Adam Ficek were present at the event. However, (more)...
- 4/21/2010
- by By Oli Simpson
- Digital Spy
A couple of movie bloggers, myself included, are currently in London today and are hosting another meet-up tonight similar to our meet-up late last year. We'll be meeting at Fitzroy Tavern located at 16A Charlotte Street (Google Maps link) at 19:30 (7:30Pm) tonight and will be there for most of the night. I will be joined by Peter Sciretta of SlashFilm and Frosty of Collider as well, so stop by to meet any/all of us and chat about movies and catch some drinks. We're only in town tonight (we all fly home tomorrow morning) so this will be our last chance to meet up with London readers until we're back here again sometime in the near future!
- 3/23/2010
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Attention /Film London readers: we're doing a last-minute meetup tonight (March 23rd) at Fitzroy Tavern (16A Charlotte Street) at 7:30pm (or as you guys put it, 19:30). I'll be there along with /Film's own Brendon Connelly, Collider's Frosty, FirstShowing's Alex Billington, and possibly other special guests. Please come join us and have a drink. As this is a last minute thing, we don't expect a ton of people to show up -- so please help spread the word: all UK film/tv/comic geeks welcome!
- 3/23/2010
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Launched in 2003 as an initiative of the Charlotte Street Foundation, Urban Culture Project creates new opportunities for artists of all disciplines and contributes to urban revitalization by transforming spaces in downtown Kansas City into new venues for multi-disciplinary, artist-driven contemporary arts programming. Over this time, Ucp has transformed nearly a dozen spaces in the downtown area into new exhibition, performance, and studio spaces, creating a cross-disciplinary platform and hub for the generation and presentation of original work, projects, and ideas, and encouraging creative collaboration and exchange among artists and audiences from various disciplines and backgrounds.
- 12/3/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Charlotte Street Foundation's Urban Culture Project is thrilled to host Let's Paint TV, a live internet television show starring Los Angeles-based artist and cult phenomenon John Kilduff, aka Mr. Let's Paint TV. Let's Paint TV-Kansas City will be taped and broadcast live from Urban Culture Project Space, 21 East 12th Street Kc Mo, daily for one week, 6 to 7pm, November 17-24, 2009.
- 11/24/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Charlotte Street Foundation’s Urban Culture Project is thrilled to present Installation Operettas: Moon Bears and Sister Wives, a series of two unique performances conceived and curated by composer, musician, performer, and sculptor Mark Southerland, a 2008 Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Award Fellow. Performances take place October 23 and November 6, 2009, 8pm, at Urban Culture Project’s la Esquina, 1000 West 25th Street, Kcmo.
- 11/6/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Charlotte Street Foundation’s Urban Culture Project is thrilled to present Installation Operettas: Moon Bears and Sister Wives, a series of two unique performances conceived and curated by composer, musician, performer, and sculptor Mark Southerland, a 2008 Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Award Fellow. Performances take place October 23 and November 6, 2009, 8pm, at Urban Culture Project’s la Esquina, 1000 West 25th Street, Kcmo.
- 10/23/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Britain's Princess Anne officially opened the new headquarters of the British Olympic Association yesterday (20.10.09). The 59-year-old royal - who is president of the association - was thrilled to open the offices in London's Charlotte Street, declaring them to be an important step in the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics. Anne said: "We have been given the opportunity to have the Olympic Games and the levels of expectation rise. "We really needed somewhere appropriate to function from, together with the Bpa, and this does seem like a dream come true. "It has given us the opportunity to work together and to get more people here in the run-up to 2012." British Olympic Association chairman Lord Moynihan added: "The association...
- 10/21/2009
- Monsters and Critics
Charlotte Street Foundation is pleased to present a slide talk by Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artist Award Fellow Anne Lindberg on Friday, October 16, 5pm at its Urban Culture Project Paragraph gallery, 23 East 12th Street. A nationally acclaimed Kansas City-based artist whose work has been featured in recent exhibitions at The Drawing Center, New York, NY, and The Mill, Newport, Nh, and who will have a solo exhibition in 2010 at Cynthia Reeves Gallery, New York, NY, Lindberg will speak about her experience as an artist in residence at Art Omi International Artists Residency program in Upstate New York this past summer.
At Art Omi, Lindberg had the opportunity to work alongside other serious artists from around the world and to gain feedback from a renowned group of visiting artists, critics and curators who visit the program each year. She was among 30 visual artists from some 20 different countries who participated in the program this summer,...
At Art Omi, Lindberg had the opportunity to work alongside other serious artists from around the world and to gain feedback from a renowned group of visiting artists, critics and curators who visit the program each year. She was among 30 visual artists from some 20 different countries who participated in the program this summer,...
- 10/16/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Renowned experimental filmmaker Roger Beebe takes to the Heartland this fall to present a program of his recent multi-projector films as part of a 6-week Us tour. Csf's Urban Culture Project is pleased to host Beebe's Films for One to Eight Projectors program at la Esquina, Thursday September 24 at 8pm in partnership with Film and Media Arts, University of Missouri Kansas City.
- 8/27/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
PARK CITY -- The term "military-industrial complex" was coined by Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address to the nation at the end of his second term as president in 1961. In ensuing years the phrase has become so commonplace, it has ceased to have any meaning. Now Eugene Jarecki's shattering documentary Why We Fight examines the extent to which the military-industrial complex not only profits from war, but also becomes a force that makes war happen. Winner of the best American documentary prize at Sundance, the thoughtful and extremely well-made film could find a sizable audience of concerned citizens in theaters and later on video.
Before the credits are over, the film jumps to life with the surprising presence of the grandfatherly Eisenhower, the five-star general who led allied forces in Europe during World War II, warning the nation of "the grave consequences" of creating a permanent arms industry. Using that as a starting point, Jarecki argues that the wars of the last 50 years -- Korea, Vietnam and now Iraq -- have been motivated more by profits than policy. Interviews with Eisenhower's son John and granddaughter Susan highlight the president's growing concern that the military build-up following World War II was a dangerous precedent for the country. Weighing in from two sides of the political spectrum are Sen. John McCain, who notes that "the complex is so pervasive, it's become invisible," to William Kristol, head of the neo-con think tank the Project for the New American Century, an architect of American foreign policy. Chalmers Johnson, an ex-CIA operative and critic of current developments, and Richard Perle, former adviser to the Bush administration, square off for and against.
Jarecki, who directed the revealing The Trials of Henry Kissinger, has learned to allow the material to speak for itself, so when Perle simplistically argues that pre-emptive strikes are akin to defending yourself against personal attack, he seems merely foolish. Summing up American foreign policy of the last 50 years, author Gore Vidal says this is "the United States of Amnesia," where everything is forgotten by Monday morning.
But the impact of Why We Fight, a title taken from the name of Frank Capra's WWII propaganda films for the State Department, goes well beyond a collection of talking heads. Jarecki personalizes the effects of war by including individual stories. One of them is Wilton Sekzer, a retired New York City cop who lost a son on Sept. 11 and petitioned the government to put his son's name on a bomb destined to be dropped on Iraq. When President Bush finally admits that Iraq had no hand in the terrorist attacks, Sekzer is disillusioned and feels that the government "exploited my feelings of patriotism for the death of my son."
Jarecki captures the price of the military-industrial complex in human terms, but sometimes the film's focus seems to wander to presenting arguments against the war. It is necessary to accept Jarecki's premise that the Iraq war is the result of America's imperialistic agenda in order to see corporate greed as the underlying cause.
But he makes his case convincingly, pointing out that we spend more on defense than all other parts of our budget combined. When war becomes that profitable, we have seen and will continue to see more of it. Jarecki uses graphic war footage, a visit to a weapons trade show and interviews with retired military officers -- stitched together seamlessly by editor Nancy Kennedy -- to dispel the notion advanced by presidents Johnson, Reagan and Bush, that America has been a force for peace in the world. Instead, what we see is a militaristic nation in which capitalism is at war with democracy -- and capitalism is winning.
WHY WE FIGHT
A BBC Storyville presentation of a Charlotte Street film in association with BBC and Arte
Credits:
Director: Eugene Jarecki
Writer: Jarecki
Producer: Susannah Shipman, Jarecki
Executive producers: Roy Ackerman, Nick Fraser, Hans Robert Eisenhauer
Directors of photography: Etienne Sauret, May-Ying Welch, Brett Wiley, Foster Wiley, Chris Li, Sam Cullman
Music: Robert Miller
Editor: Nancy Kennedy
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 90 minutes...
Before the credits are over, the film jumps to life with the surprising presence of the grandfatherly Eisenhower, the five-star general who led allied forces in Europe during World War II, warning the nation of "the grave consequences" of creating a permanent arms industry. Using that as a starting point, Jarecki argues that the wars of the last 50 years -- Korea, Vietnam and now Iraq -- have been motivated more by profits than policy. Interviews with Eisenhower's son John and granddaughter Susan highlight the president's growing concern that the military build-up following World War II was a dangerous precedent for the country. Weighing in from two sides of the political spectrum are Sen. John McCain, who notes that "the complex is so pervasive, it's become invisible," to William Kristol, head of the neo-con think tank the Project for the New American Century, an architect of American foreign policy. Chalmers Johnson, an ex-CIA operative and critic of current developments, and Richard Perle, former adviser to the Bush administration, square off for and against.
Jarecki, who directed the revealing The Trials of Henry Kissinger, has learned to allow the material to speak for itself, so when Perle simplistically argues that pre-emptive strikes are akin to defending yourself against personal attack, he seems merely foolish. Summing up American foreign policy of the last 50 years, author Gore Vidal says this is "the United States of Amnesia," where everything is forgotten by Monday morning.
But the impact of Why We Fight, a title taken from the name of Frank Capra's WWII propaganda films for the State Department, goes well beyond a collection of talking heads. Jarecki personalizes the effects of war by including individual stories. One of them is Wilton Sekzer, a retired New York City cop who lost a son on Sept. 11 and petitioned the government to put his son's name on a bomb destined to be dropped on Iraq. When President Bush finally admits that Iraq had no hand in the terrorist attacks, Sekzer is disillusioned and feels that the government "exploited my feelings of patriotism for the death of my son."
Jarecki captures the price of the military-industrial complex in human terms, but sometimes the film's focus seems to wander to presenting arguments against the war. It is necessary to accept Jarecki's premise that the Iraq war is the result of America's imperialistic agenda in order to see corporate greed as the underlying cause.
But he makes his case convincingly, pointing out that we spend more on defense than all other parts of our budget combined. When war becomes that profitable, we have seen and will continue to see more of it. Jarecki uses graphic war footage, a visit to a weapons trade show and interviews with retired military officers -- stitched together seamlessly by editor Nancy Kennedy -- to dispel the notion advanced by presidents Johnson, Reagan and Bush, that America has been a force for peace in the world. Instead, what we see is a militaristic nation in which capitalism is at war with democracy -- and capitalism is winning.
WHY WE FIGHT
A BBC Storyville presentation of a Charlotte Street film in association with BBC and Arte
Credits:
Director: Eugene Jarecki
Writer: Jarecki
Producer: Susannah Shipman, Jarecki
Executive producers: Roy Ackerman, Nick Fraser, Hans Robert Eisenhauer
Directors of photography: Etienne Sauret, May-Ying Welch, Brett Wiley, Foster Wiley, Chris Li, Sam Cullman
Music: Robert Miller
Editor: Nancy Kennedy
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 90 minutes...
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