Courtney Love and former Hole bassist Melissa Auf der Maur will perform at a Planned Parenthood benefit concert at Town Hall in New York on March 14th.
Titled Bans Off My Body, the event was organized by Planned Parenthood and the Feminist Institute — a nonprofit organization that collects and archives feminist art, humanities, politics, and business. Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell and his wife, Etty Farrell, will also perform, as well as singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata, Joan as Police Woman, and alt-rock band Betty.
Hole has been broken up since...
Titled Bans Off My Body, the event was organized by Planned Parenthood and the Feminist Institute — a nonprofit organization that collects and archives feminist art, humanities, politics, and business. Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell and his wife, Etty Farrell, will also perform, as well as singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata, Joan as Police Woman, and alt-rock band Betty.
Hole has been broken up since...
- 2/19/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Courtney Love reunited with her former band mate Melissa Auf der Maur onstage for the first time in six years Saturday at an all-star tribute to the Hole singer.
Love, who was on hand at the Auf der Maur-co-founded Basilica Hudson as the honored guest of the Pioneering People fundraising concert, performed the Hole songs “Miss World,” “Doll Parts” and “Softer Softest” with her former bassist. The two last played together onstage in 2012 at a documentary after-party in New York.
A backing band featuring members of the Hold Steady and...
Love, who was on hand at the Auf der Maur-co-founded Basilica Hudson as the honored guest of the Pioneering People fundraising concert, performed the Hole songs “Miss World,” “Doll Parts” and “Softer Softest” with her former bassist. The two last played together onstage in 2012 at a documentary after-party in New York.
A backing band featuring members of the Hold Steady and...
- 10/28/2018
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Marissa Nadler has some thoughts on the word “haunting.”
“I think it does a little bit of a disservice to my music to describe it as just haunting, because there’s a lot of substance in the writing and craft,” the 37-year-old musician says over the phone from her home in Boston.
The adjective pops up frequently around Nadler’s work, occasionally substituted out for “haunted,” “macabre,” “spooky” or “ghostly.” It’s easy to see why, considering Nadler’s preference for singing in a soft mezzo-soprano over finger-picked, heavily reverbed minor chords.
“I think it does a little bit of a disservice to my music to describe it as just haunting, because there’s a lot of substance in the writing and craft,” the 37-year-old musician says over the phone from her home in Boston.
The adjective pops up frequently around Nadler’s work, occasionally substituted out for “haunted,” “macabre,” “spooky” or “ghostly.” It’s easy to see why, considering Nadler’s preference for singing in a soft mezzo-soprano over finger-picked, heavily reverbed minor chords.
- 9/25/2018
- by Anna Fitzpatrick
- Rollingstone.com
By the time Hole‘s third album Celebrity Skin had been released in the fall of 1998, the world had already met two different Courtney Loves. The first was a vitriolic weapon of self-destruction: a brash bottle blonde with smeared red lipstick, ripped tights and coquettish babydoll dresses, who growled and sneered with the best of them. The word “troubled” became synonymous with her name and bled into her music: the Pacific Northwest-bred alt-rock band married riot grrrl ethos with the heaviness of the grunge scene her husband Kurt Cobain became the wearied face of.
- 9/8/2018
- by Brittany Spanos
- Rollingstone.com
Ripple Entertainment, the Los Angeles-based production outfit behind digital brands like Hissyfit and Snarled, has inked development deals with author Abdi Nazemian, actress Busy Philipps, and former Hole drummer Patty Schemel.
The Gen Z-leaning studio, which is part of the ProSiebenSat.1-owned Red Arrow Entertainment Group, will develop a half-hour dramedy called The Walk-In Closet based on Nazemian’s award-winning novel of the same name. Produced by Philipps, it will explore the rocky road to living an honest life, and the deep bonds of friendship and community within Los Angeles’ Persian community.
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The Gen Z-leaning studio, which is part of the ProSiebenSat.1-owned Red Arrow Entertainment Group, will develop a half-hour dramedy called The Walk-In Closet based on Nazemian’s award-winning novel of the same name. Produced by Philipps, it will explore the rocky road to living an honest life, and the deep bonds of friendship and community within Los Angeles’ Persian community.
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- 12/5/2017
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
What goes on tour stays on tour – unless it's caught on camera. With classic Beatles comedy A Hard Day's Night returning to UK cinemas on July 4, and Metallica's triumphant set at Glastonbury reminding us how far they've come from darker days, now feels like the time to look back on some of the movies that prove that maxim.
Below, we catalogue the craziest music movies ever made, helpfully divided into four distinct categories of weirdness.
Bad Behaviour
Beginning with its 70-something subject attacking the director with his walking stick, Beware Of Mr Baker (2012) introduces a man – ex-Cream drummer Ginger Baker – so bellicose he's made the whole world his practice kit. Like Brick Top from Snatch with even greater anger-management issues, Baker is a bitter old codger who "communicates more through his drums than his words", according to his long-suffering daughter. He certainly doesn't mince the latter.
Mick Jagger is...
Below, we catalogue the craziest music movies ever made, helpfully divided into four distinct categories of weirdness.
Bad Behaviour
Beginning with its 70-something subject attacking the director with his walking stick, Beware Of Mr Baker (2012) introduces a man – ex-Cream drummer Ginger Baker – so bellicose he's made the whole world his practice kit. Like Brick Top from Snatch with even greater anger-management issues, Baker is a bitter old codger who "communicates more through his drums than his words", according to his long-suffering daughter. He certainly doesn't mince the latter.
Mick Jagger is...
- 7/6/2014
- Digital Spy
Courtney Love is reuniting the mid-1990’s-era iteration of Hole. It’s unclear yet if the intention is to record new material or to tour or to do both, but Love told The Quietus that she, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Eric Erlandson and Patty Schemel have been rehearsing new material. “I started playing with Patty and Melissa and Eric, just to see how that was,” she said. “We already played like three or four times in the last week.” Love plans to release a new single, “Wedding Day,” shortly before her May U.K. tour, but she doesn’t mention if the tune is one of the songs she and her former band mates worked on. Auf Der Maur, Erlandson, and Patty Schemel last recorded with Love on 1998’s “Celebrity Skin” before having various falling outs with the singer and breaking up in 2002. Love formed Hole in 1989 with Erlandson. Auf...
- 4/2/2014
- Hitfix
Courtney Love is reuniting Hole! The 49-year-old singer has reportedly been doing some low-key jam sessions with her original Hole bandmates Eric Erlandson, Melissa Auf Der Maur and Patty Schemel. "I started playing with Patty and Melissa and Eric, just to see how that was," Love recently told The Quietus. "We already played like three or four times in the last week." The rehearsal news is exciting for Hole fans, who have been wanting new music from the group since they broke up back in 2002 (Hole's last album was 1998's Celebrity Skin). After the foursome went their separate ways over a decade ago, they each have worked on their own separate music projects. In...
- 4/2/2014
- E! Online
Linda Perry's recent marriage to actress and The Talk co-host Sara Gilbert had people scrambling to remember where they'd seen her name before. And while most are familiar with Perry for her eternal hit "What's Up?" with 4 Non Blondes, she's had an extensive career as a songwriter and producer for other artists as well. Here are five songs she wrote or co-wrote that you almost certainly know, even if you didn't know Perry was the power behind the throne. 1. Pink, 'Get the Party Started' Perry and Pink's collaborations were all over Pink's 2001 album Missundaztood. Perry wrote two of the...
- 4/2/2014
- by Alex Heigl
- PEOPLE.com
Tags: Morning BrewBlue is the Warmest ColorPatty SchemelMulanDisneyHolly MirandaCarolThe Price of SaltChristine VachonIMDb
Good morning!
I'm super excited that Carol has found a director and it's Todd Haynes, who did Far From Heaven and Mildred Pierce. Out lesbian Christine Vachon, who has made many of my favorite films, will co-produce. Now the adaptation of The Price of Salt can finally get rolling!
Buzzfeed compiled The 10 Queerest Disney Movies and Mulan comes in at number one. I always thought she was hot in drag.
Over at Flavorwire, Michelle Tea named her five favorite books about teen girls in trouble. I have some reading to do!
Holly Miranda lends her voice to this new MMoths song, but she's not in the creepy video.
Patty Schemel is #82 on Spin's 100 Greatest Alternative Drummers. I'd have her much higher on my list.
Mount Moriah recorded a set for NPR's World Cafe.
Great news from Cannes!
Good morning!
I'm super excited that Carol has found a director and it's Todd Haynes, who did Far From Heaven and Mildred Pierce. Out lesbian Christine Vachon, who has made many of my favorite films, will co-produce. Now the adaptation of The Price of Salt can finally get rolling!
Buzzfeed compiled The 10 Queerest Disney Movies and Mulan comes in at number one. I always thought she was hot in drag.
Over at Flavorwire, Michelle Tea named her five favorite books about teen girls in trouble. I have some reading to do!
Holly Miranda lends her voice to this new MMoths song, but she's not in the creepy video.
Patty Schemel is #82 on Spin's 100 Greatest Alternative Drummers. I'd have her much higher on my list.
Mount Moriah recorded a set for NPR's World Cafe.
Great news from Cannes!
- 5/23/2013
- by trishbendix
- AfterEllen.com
P David Ebersole's patchy music documentary benefits from an engaging central subject, grunge survivor Patty Schemel, drummer for Hole (very nearly the sticks woman for Nirvana), who candidly describes her sexuality, her heroin addiction and her relationship with the relentlessly self-promoting Courtney Love, who slurs the film's best lines: “I don't have one rival. Madonna wakes up every day and someone wants to be her. Nobody wants to be me, which is so awesome.”...
- 12/15/2012
- The Independent - Film
Tags: Morning BrewIMDbPortlandiaMartina NavratilovaMaggie GyllenhaalPatty SchemelHit so HardGuinevere TurnerFacing EastDolly PartonThe CorrectionsYour Sister's Sister
Good morning!
What do you call your partner once you get married? I say "my wife," but apparently some lesbians call their partner their husband. Some straight people call their spouses their "partners" and confuse me so it's fine.
Guinevere Turner has adapted a sad but moving stage play into a film that need your help getting funded. Check out Facing East and see if it's something you'd donate a few bucks to.
Every year or so Dolly Parton is asked, yet again, if she's a lesbian. She just loves her Bff Judy!
Judy and I have been best friends since we were like in the third and fourth grade. We still just have a great friendship and relationship and I love her as much as I love anybody in the whole world, but we're not romantically involved.
Good morning!
What do you call your partner once you get married? I say "my wife," but apparently some lesbians call their partner their husband. Some straight people call their spouses their "partners" and confuse me so it's fine.
Guinevere Turner has adapted a sad but moving stage play into a film that need your help getting funded. Check out Facing East and see if it's something you'd donate a few bucks to.
Every year or so Dolly Parton is asked, yet again, if she's a lesbian. She just loves her Bff Judy!
Judy and I have been best friends since we were like in the third and fourth grade. We still just have a great friendship and relationship and I love her as much as I love anybody in the whole world, but we're not romantically involved.
- 11/27/2012
- by trishbendix
- AfterEllen.com
★★★☆☆ One of the most influential acts of the grunge era, second perhaps only to Kurt Cobain and his mighty Nirvana in terms of their capacity to eat up column inches, Hole were a true product of their time - a pro-feminist, angsty collective that gave rise to the über ego that is Courtney Love. One of the band members to live under the shadow of Love was drummer Patty Schemel, whose remarkable rollercoaster ride through fame, drug addiction and sexual reawakening is the subject of P. David Ebersole's crudely made, yet deceptively compelling rockumentary Hit So Hard (2011), released on DVD this week following a limited theatrical run.
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- 11/26/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Tell us about the films you've seen in the past few days – and read what our critics made of them
See any good films over the weekend? Or bad ones for that matter? Whether you went to the cinema, watched movies on TV, or even visited what used to be known as the video shop, we'd like to hear about your recent viewing in the comments thread below.
On last week's thread, the main topic of discussion was Argo:
shonagon said:
A comedy and a thriller (kind of) at the same time. Very enjoyable. Very easy to guess the outcome. Very easy to know who the good guys are, and there are no goody bad guys to play havoc with our emotions.
Alef Ra said:
Despite some historical anachronisms and irregularities, I liked it a lot … Argo is but another indication of Ben Affleck's genius in creating edge-of-the-seat thrillers.
See any good films over the weekend? Or bad ones for that matter? Whether you went to the cinema, watched movies on TV, or even visited what used to be known as the video shop, we'd like to hear about your recent viewing in the comments thread below.
On last week's thread, the main topic of discussion was Argo:
shonagon said:
A comedy and a thriller (kind of) at the same time. Very enjoyable. Very easy to guess the outcome. Very easy to know who the good guys are, and there are no goody bad guys to play havoc with our emotions.
Alef Ra said:
Despite some historical anachronisms and irregularities, I liked it a lot … Argo is but another indication of Ben Affleck's genius in creating edge-of-the-seat thrillers.
- 11/19/2012
- by Adam Boult
- The Guardian - Film News
These complementary American documentaries centre on west coast rock musicians, a female drummer and a male guitarist, who were expected to go to early graves. By some way the more attractive of the two, the likable, sweet-natured Jason Becker, was a musical prodigy and a guitar virtuoso from the impoverished city of Richmond in the San Francisco Bay area. In 1989, aged 19, he was about to become one of the hottest rock stars of his generation. But having had some trouble with his left leg, he had a medical check up and was diagnosed with Als (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), known in America as Lou Gehrig's disease (after the interwar New York Yankees baseball star) and in Britain as motor neurone disease. He was expected to lose his ability to walk and talk and to be dead within five years. In fact only the first half of this prognosis proved to be the case.
- 11/18/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Amour | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 | Mental | Up There | Hit So Hard | Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet | Happy Happy | The Pool | Son Of Sardar
Amour (12A)
(Michael Haneke, 2012, Aus/Fra/Ger) Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, 127 mins
Most romantic stories are beginnings; this is the endgame – the "till death us do part", as experienced by a cultured, elderly French couple after the wife's stroke. Call it a last slow dance in Paris. Watching body, mind and possibly love slowly diminish in their claustrophobic apartment, Haneke's gaze is stately and unflinching. However, there's also a slight remove, making this less emotional than you'd expect but rich in deeper themes.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (12A)
(Bill Condon, 2012, Us) Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner. 115 mins
The love/hate teenage supernatural saga comes to a spectacular/preposterous climax, for better or worse. Bella's enjoyment of her newfound vampire skills is dented...
Amour (12A)
(Michael Haneke, 2012, Aus/Fra/Ger) Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, 127 mins
Most romantic stories are beginnings; this is the endgame – the "till death us do part", as experienced by a cultured, elderly French couple after the wife's stroke. Call it a last slow dance in Paris. Watching body, mind and possibly love slowly diminish in their claustrophobic apartment, Haneke's gaze is stately and unflinching. However, there's also a slight remove, making this less emotional than you'd expect but rich in deeper themes.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (12A)
(Bill Condon, 2012, Us) Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner. 115 mins
The love/hate teenage supernatural saga comes to a spectacular/preposterous climax, for better or worse. Bella's enjoyment of her newfound vampire skills is dented...
- 11/17/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
By now I imagine we are all a little bored of hearing how brilliantly Skyfall is doing at the box office, so I’ll keep it brief this week and simply say, still making big bucks, 5th highest gross of all time so far, Avatar in its sights. I think that just about covers it.
Last week’s two big releases were Ben Affleck’s Argo and the Kevin James vehicle Here Comes the Boom. Despite a strong showing in the Us and hugely positive reviews over this side of the pond too, the studio may be a little disappointed with Argo’s opening week takings of just £1.2million which wasn’t enough to see it unseat Madagascar 3 which retains its second spot. That being said, with Skyfall still reigning supreme and the subject matter perhaps not being that enticing to UK audiences, it’s still a strong opening for the political thriller.
Last week’s two big releases were Ben Affleck’s Argo and the Kevin James vehicle Here Comes the Boom. Despite a strong showing in the Us and hugely positive reviews over this side of the pond too, the studio may be a little disappointed with Argo’s opening week takings of just £1.2million which wasn’t enough to see it unseat Madagascar 3 which retains its second spot. That being said, with Skyfall still reigning supreme and the subject matter perhaps not being that enticing to UK audiences, it’s still a strong opening for the political thriller.
- 11/16/2012
- by Rob Keeling
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
This week sees P. David Ebersole's grunge rock documentary Hit So Hard: The Life and Near Death Story of Patty Schemel (2011) finally unleashed in cinemas across the UK. Detailing the life of Hole drummer Patty Schemel, the film takes an unflinching look at her time in one of rock's most notorious and controversial bands, placing Schemel's personal archive footage alongside interviews with her former band mates Eric Erlandson, Melissa Auf der Maur and, of course, Courtney Love. Fortunately, CineVue was able to catch up with bass player Auf der Maur to get her personal take on her time with Hole, life on the road and Ebersole's depiction of one of the most turbulent periods in music history.
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- 11/16/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Read between the lines of the empowering story of Hole's drug-addicted drummer Patty Schemel, and an uncompromising picture of Courtney Love is also there
Here is a film that is interesting for what it hints at, and merely says between the lines. On the face of it, this is a positive and empowering story about recovery from addiction: Patty Schemel's, the charismatic drummer with Courtney Love's 90s rock band Hole. She inhaled the fume of rock-celebrity and became addicted to drugs; sidelined by Courtney, she got fired from the band and wound up doing crack and living rough. With her family's help she went into rehab, got clean and sober and now mentors young musicians.
But rewind. Patty's troubled life and career in Hole happened in the aftermath of Kurt Cobain's shocking suicide in 1994, and also the drug-related death of Hole guitarist Kristen Pfaff in the same year.
Here is a film that is interesting for what it hints at, and merely says between the lines. On the face of it, this is a positive and empowering story about recovery from addiction: Patty Schemel's, the charismatic drummer with Courtney Love's 90s rock band Hole. She inhaled the fume of rock-celebrity and became addicted to drugs; sidelined by Courtney, she got fired from the band and wound up doing crack and living rough. With her family's help she went into rehab, got clean and sober and now mentors young musicians.
But rewind. Patty's troubled life and career in Hole happened in the aftermath of Kurt Cobain's shocking suicide in 1994, and also the drug-related death of Hole guitarist Kristen Pfaff in the same year.
- 11/16/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Having spent the best part of a decade as one quarter of iconic Us grunge rock band Hole, the outfit's drummer Patty Schemel has finally emerged from behind the kit and out of the shadows to take the lead role in P. David Ebersole's entertaining rockumentary Hit So Hard: The Life and Near Death Story of Patty Schemel (2011). Detailing her tempestuous time in the Courtney Love-fronted Hole and various issues with substance abuse, the film is comprised of some Schemel's most personal archive footage, along with interviews with the rest of the band and those closes to her. To mark the movie's arrival on UK shores, CineVue was fortunate enough to catch up with the lady herself to chat about its recent release.
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- 11/15/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
★★★☆☆ It's hardly surprising that anyone performing alongside Courtney Love for the best part of a decade should become accustomed to taking a back-seat when it comes to stealing the headlines. Yet it's (finally) Hole drummer Patty Schemel that takes centre stage in P. David Ebersole's Hit So Hard: The Life and Near Death Story of Patty Schemel (2011). Part character study of the film's titular star, part documentary on Us grunge outfit Hole, Hit So Hard offers a fascinating insight into the many trials and tribulations of being one quarter of one of rock's most notoriously excessive, on-the-nose bands.
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- 11/14/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Argo | Alps | My Brother The Devil | East End Babylon | Aurora | Grassroots | Here Comes The Boom | Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan | The Sapphires | People Like Us | Love Bite
Argo (15)
(Ben Affleck, 2012, Us) Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, 120 mins
Affleck's rehabilitation is complete thanks to this unlikely-but-true collision of Hollywood sci-fi and Iranian politics. It looks and feels like a lost 1970s thriller, with perfect retro styling and slow-burning tension, all nicely undercut by a CIA agent's crazy plan to use a Star Wars knock-off to spirit Americans out of revolutionary Tehran. A fake 70s thriller about a fake 70s sci-fi, based on a real story – what's not to like?
Alps (15)
(Giorgos Lanthimos, 2011, Gre) Stavros Psyllakis, Aris Servetalis, 93 mins
More audacious but coolly deadpan oddness from the Dogtooth director, this time following a secretive group who provide a surreal service for grieving relatives. The world's a stage, Lanthimos hints,...
Argo (15)
(Ben Affleck, 2012, Us) Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, 120 mins
Affleck's rehabilitation is complete thanks to this unlikely-but-true collision of Hollywood sci-fi and Iranian politics. It looks and feels like a lost 1970s thriller, with perfect retro styling and slow-burning tension, all nicely undercut by a CIA agent's crazy plan to use a Star Wars knock-off to spirit Americans out of revolutionary Tehran. A fake 70s thriller about a fake 70s sci-fi, based on a real story – what's not to like?
Alps (15)
(Giorgos Lanthimos, 2011, Gre) Stavros Psyllakis, Aris Servetalis, 93 mins
More audacious but coolly deadpan oddness from the Dogtooth director, this time following a secretive group who provide a surreal service for grieving relatives. The world's a stage, Lanthimos hints,...
- 11/10/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Hit So Hard documents the Hole drummer's descent into drugs hell, with plenty of footage of Courtney Love being equally naughty
The first thing to say about the rock doc Hit So Hard is that, really, you've heard this story a million times. The second is, so what? It's a great story. Tell it again.
Nothing's more toothsome than a narcotic-assisted rock'n'roll swan dive from the top of the pops to the bottom of the barrel. Sometimes, as here, there's a late bounce back towards recovery and sanity; but too often, all you're left with is a cadaver choked on its own vomit with a needle still in its arm. The survivor's tale has the compensatory afterglow of optimism, all horrors viewed through the retrospective scrim of rehab and hard-won sobriety. This way you get no corpse, no legendary status, no crowd of ghouls around the grafitti-covered gravestone, but you...
The first thing to say about the rock doc Hit So Hard is that, really, you've heard this story a million times. The second is, so what? It's a great story. Tell it again.
Nothing's more toothsome than a narcotic-assisted rock'n'roll swan dive from the top of the pops to the bottom of the barrel. Sometimes, as here, there's a late bounce back towards recovery and sanity; but too often, all you're left with is a cadaver choked on its own vomit with a needle still in its arm. The survivor's tale has the compensatory afterglow of optimism, all horrors viewed through the retrospective scrim of rehab and hard-won sobriety. This way you get no corpse, no legendary status, no crowd of ghouls around the grafitti-covered gravestone, but you...
- 11/10/2012
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
In 1992, while thousands of musicians threw on their flannel, strapped on a motorcycle wallet and converged on Seattle in hopes of becoming the next Nirvana, I was one of the few people moving away from the hottest city in the country. I'd been writing for the local music monthly The Rocket since 1988 and by 1991, I was (sad to say) more than a little burned out on the scene. So when Cameron Crowe began filming "Singles," his follow-up to "Say Anything," I wasn't one of those flocking to become an extra or trying to get a glimpse of oft-sighted star Matt Dillon, who was playing the lead singer of faux grunge band Citizen Dick. When the movie finally opened in September 1992, I caught a screening in San Francisco. I expected to see some faces I knew, but I was not expecting to see my own name on the big screen, even...
- 9/19/2012
- by Sharon Knolle
- Moviefone
The 6th annual Sydney Underground Film Festival is taking over all three screens of the Factory Theatre for a blow-out four-day event on Sept. 6-9.
Making it’s World Premiere at the fest on the 8th is the highly anticipated President Wolfman, the latest “green movie” by director Mike Davis that he’s cobbled together from public domain footage and feature films and set to an outrageous new soundtrack. The film looks like it promises to be a rollicking good time.
Other highlights of the fest include Guy Maddin‘s latest trippy film noir, Keyhole, about a mobster revisiting his homestead’s old memories; Bob Ray‘s documentary about Austin, Texas’ homegrown Total Badass; Bobcat Goldthwait’s media takedown God Bless America; Michal Kosakowski’s underground murder fantasy documentary hit Zero Killed; Richard Griffin’s funky The Disco Exorcist; and more.
Some of the extra special events of the fest...
Making it’s World Premiere at the fest on the 8th is the highly anticipated President Wolfman, the latest “green movie” by director Mike Davis that he’s cobbled together from public domain footage and feature films and set to an outrageous new soundtrack. The film looks like it promises to be a rollicking good time.
Other highlights of the fest include Guy Maddin‘s latest trippy film noir, Keyhole, about a mobster revisiting his homestead’s old memories; Bob Ray‘s documentary about Austin, Texas’ homegrown Total Badass; Bobcat Goldthwait’s media takedown God Bless America; Michal Kosakowski’s underground murder fantasy documentary hit Zero Killed; Richard Griffin’s funky The Disco Exorcist; and more.
Some of the extra special events of the fest...
- 8/30/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
By Allen Gardner
Harold And Maude (Criterion) Hal Ashby’s masterpiece of black humor centers on a wealthy young man (Bud Cort) who’s obsessed with death and the septuagenarian (Ruth Gordon) with whom he finds true love. As unabashedly romantic as it is quirky, with Cat Stevens supplying one of the great film scores of all-time. Fine support from Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner, and Ellen Geer. Fine screenplay by Colin Higgins. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Commentary by Hal Ashby biographer Nick Dawson, producer Charles Mulvehill; Illustrated audio excerpts from seminars by Ashby and Higgins; Interview with Cat Stevens. Widescreen. Dolby 2.0 stereo.
In Darkness (Sony) Agnieszka Holland’s Ww II epic tells the true story of a sewer worker and petty thief in Nazi-occupied Poland who single-handedly helped hide a group of Jews in the city’s labyrinthine sewer system for the duration of the war.
Harold And Maude (Criterion) Hal Ashby’s masterpiece of black humor centers on a wealthy young man (Bud Cort) who’s obsessed with death and the septuagenarian (Ruth Gordon) with whom he finds true love. As unabashedly romantic as it is quirky, with Cat Stevens supplying one of the great film scores of all-time. Fine support from Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner, and Ellen Geer. Fine screenplay by Colin Higgins. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Commentary by Hal Ashby biographer Nick Dawson, producer Charles Mulvehill; Illustrated audio excerpts from seminars by Ashby and Higgins; Interview with Cat Stevens. Widescreen. Dolby 2.0 stereo.
In Darkness (Sony) Agnieszka Holland’s Ww II epic tells the true story of a sewer worker and petty thief in Nazi-occupied Poland who single-handedly helped hide a group of Jews in the city’s labyrinthine sewer system for the duration of the war.
- 6/5/2012
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
This week on DVD/Blu-ray: A tender coming-of-age tale; a documentary on the life of late photographer Francesca Woodman; a peek into the life of Hole ex-drummer Patty Schemel; an expose on the gay bear subculture; and the latest film from "Monster's Ball" director Marc Forster. #1. "Tomboy" Filmmaker Céline Sciamma ("Water Lillies") is back with her sophomore feature "Tomboy," another coming-of-age tale, this one concerning a 10-year-old girl who assumes the identity of a boy after moving to a new town in the heat of the summer. An award-winner on the festival circuit, "Tomboy" is a tender and warm tale of early sexual awakening, with an amazing performance by Zoe Heran as the conflicted child. "There's not a whole lot beyond the basic premise of 'Tomboy,' and anyone familiar with the trailer or even the self-explanatory poster can probably get the gist of this light, touching portrait of.
- 6/5/2012
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
Hit So Hard
Directed by P. David Ebersole
USA, 2011
Among the many accreditations that Courtney Love and her rock band Hole have garnered, the one she’s most proud of is the recognition for having a female drummer – a lesbian drummer, to be pedantic. A rarity in the music industry heretofore, Patty Schemel is a no nonsense drummer who, despite her gender, has weathered the ethereal highs and chthonic lows of being a rock star.
In P. David Ebersole’s documentary, Hit So Hard, we follow the life of Schemel, from her turbulent upbringing in a parochial small town, to her crucial role in shaping grunge music, her eventual fall from grace, and her cesspool existence of drugs, alcohol, and misfortune.
For long stretches of the beginning, the film, which is purportedly about Schemel, has an identity crisis. While discussing her experiences with Hole, Schemel will go on lengthy tangents about other music artists,...
Directed by P. David Ebersole
USA, 2011
Among the many accreditations that Courtney Love and her rock band Hole have garnered, the one she’s most proud of is the recognition for having a female drummer – a lesbian drummer, to be pedantic. A rarity in the music industry heretofore, Patty Schemel is a no nonsense drummer who, despite her gender, has weathered the ethereal highs and chthonic lows of being a rock star.
In P. David Ebersole’s documentary, Hit So Hard, we follow the life of Schemel, from her turbulent upbringing in a parochial small town, to her crucial role in shaping grunge music, her eventual fall from grace, and her cesspool existence of drugs, alcohol, and misfortune.
For long stretches of the beginning, the film, which is purportedly about Schemel, has an identity crisis. While discussing her experiences with Hole, Schemel will go on lengthy tangents about other music artists,...
- 5/19/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson recently told Fuse TV that in the months leading up to his death in April 1994, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain had been working on a solo album.
"[Kurt] was headed in a direction that was really cool. It would have been his White Album," says Erlandson, referring to the famous Beatles record. "That's really what he was going towards, a solo album but working with different people ... I was really excited about some of the stuff he was working on. I got to see him play it in front of me. That's why I was really sad when he died. He was cut short. Who knows where this music would have gone?"
One of the songs was called "Stinking of You" and was a duet between Cobain and his wife Courtney Love, which can be heard in footage in the documentary "Hit So Hard," which is a film...
"[Kurt] was headed in a direction that was really cool. It would have been his White Album," says Erlandson, referring to the famous Beatles record. "That's really what he was going towards, a solo album but working with different people ... I was really excited about some of the stuff he was working on. I got to see him play it in front of me. That's why I was really sad when he died. He was cut short. Who knows where this music would have gone?"
One of the songs was called "Stinking of You" and was a duet between Cobain and his wife Courtney Love, which can be heard in footage in the documentary "Hit So Hard," which is a film...
- 4/25/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
YouTube Scene from “Hit So Hard” with Kurt Cobain
Music performed by Kurt Cobain and wife Courtney Love reportedly has surfaced in a new documentary about former Hole drummer Patty Schemel. The song, titled “Stinking of You,” can be heard in the coming documentary “Hit So Hard.” The clip, which runs more than a minute in length, shows footage of Cobain and Love with daughter Frances Bean Cobain. Cobain died in 1994. The director of the film, P. David Ebersole, didn...
Music performed by Kurt Cobain and wife Courtney Love reportedly has surfaced in a new documentary about former Hole drummer Patty Schemel. The song, titled “Stinking of You,” can be heard in the coming documentary “Hit So Hard.” The clip, which runs more than a minute in length, shows footage of Cobain and Love with daughter Frances Bean Cobain. Cobain died in 1994. The director of the film, P. David Ebersole, didn...
- 4/25/2012
- by Lyneka Little
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Rare home video of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, his then-wife Courtney Love and their infant daughter Frances Bean Cobain has surfaced online. In the footage,Cobain and Love sing "Stinking of You," an unreleased track.
The footage was originally part of the widely anticipated Patty Schemel documentary, "Hit So Hard," which has been showing at film festivals around the country.
In the clip, viewers get an intimate look at the tumultuous couple and their young daughter, as Cobain plays with young Frances throughout the video. It's a rare, happy look at the tormented artist and his family.
Sadly, Cobain would take his own life on April 5, 1994. Released in 1991, Nirvana's seminal album Nevermind has since sold over 10 million copies, and Cobain has been hailed as one of the pioneering voices of the '90s.
The relationship between Love and Frances Bean has been fraught, to say the least. Recently, Love...
The footage was originally part of the widely anticipated Patty Schemel documentary, "Hit So Hard," which has been showing at film festivals around the country.
In the clip, viewers get an intimate look at the tumultuous couple and their young daughter, as Cobain plays with young Frances throughout the video. It's a rare, happy look at the tormented artist and his family.
Sadly, Cobain would take his own life on April 5, 1994. Released in 1991, Nirvana's seminal album Nevermind has since sold over 10 million copies, and Cobain has been hailed as one of the pioneering voices of the '90s.
The relationship between Love and Frances Bean has been fraught, to say the least. Recently, Love...
- 4/23/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: June 5, 2012
Price: DVD $24.98, Blu-ray $29.98
Studio: Well Go USA
Patty Schemel shares a moment with Kurt Cobain (l.) and his daughter Frances Bean in Hit So Hard.
Hit So Hard: The Life & Near Death Story of Drummer Patty Schemel is a 2011 biographical documentary film that chronicles the to-hell-and-back journey of Patty Schemel, drummer for Courtney Love’s band Hole.
Directed and co-written by P. David Ebersole, the movie offers audiences a chronicle of life as a rock star in the 1990s from Schemel’s point of view – at band practice, on the road, backstage, performing in front of millions of people and partying after the gig is through. It also reveals the story of the drug addiction and other problems that consumed Schemel and almost took her life.
The film includes a slew of personal home video footage revealing Schemel’s life offstage with Courtney Love,...
Price: DVD $24.98, Blu-ray $29.98
Studio: Well Go USA
Patty Schemel shares a moment with Kurt Cobain (l.) and his daughter Frances Bean in Hit So Hard.
Hit So Hard: The Life & Near Death Story of Drummer Patty Schemel is a 2011 biographical documentary film that chronicles the to-hell-and-back journey of Patty Schemel, drummer for Courtney Love’s band Hole.
Directed and co-written by P. David Ebersole, the movie offers audiences a chronicle of life as a rock star in the 1990s from Schemel’s point of view – at band practice, on the road, backstage, performing in front of millions of people and partying after the gig is through. It also reveals the story of the drug addiction and other problems that consumed Schemel and almost took her life.
The film includes a slew of personal home video footage revealing Schemel’s life offstage with Courtney Love,...
- 4/19/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Courtney Love has performed on stage with the classic Hole lineup for the first time in nearly 15 years. Love joined guitarist Eric Erlandson, bassist Melissa Auf der Maur and drummer Patty Schemel at Public Assembly in Brooklyn on Friday evening, Fuse reports. Erlandson, Auf der Maur and Schemel had been performing as Trinity Jam at the gig as an afterparty for the Schemel documentary Hit So Hard Auf der Maur said: "Is there a lady still in the house that wants to join us for a song? "Is there a lovely lady named Miss World anywhere? There might be, we never know. We never know, you never know..." > Melissa Auf der Maur slams Courtney Love's Hole
> Courtney Love: 'Hole (more)...
> Courtney Love: 'Hole (more)...
- 4/16/2012
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Days after Courtney Love's gross private tweets about her and Kurt Cobain's daughter Frances Bean supposedly hooking up with Dave Grohl went public, Love took to Williamsburg's Public Assembly for an impromptu reunion with the mid-nineties Hole lineup of Patty Schemel, Melissa Auf der Maur, and Eric Erlandson. It was the group's first time together since 1999, and there's a clip documenting it all. Love shows up around 1:27. That long scream is definitely her. Then they play two solid songs — 1994's “Miss World” and their take on the Wipers's "Over The Edge" — starting at the four-minute mark. If you had any inkling that being with her original bandmates would make Love any less a diva-slash-crazy-person, now you don't have to think that anymore.
- 4/16/2012
- by Zach Dionne
- Vulture
As summer inches closer, the weekends are getting ever more crowded with new releases and this week is no exception. Big news this week is that the Joss Whedon produced horror movie "The Cabin in the Woods" is finally hitting theaters after years of delay. Also opening this week: "The Three Stooges," the Farrelly brothers reboot of the classic comedy trio; "Monsieur Lazhar," which was one this year's Best Foreign Language Film nominees at the Oscars; and "Hit So Hard," the rock-doc on former Hole drummer Patty Schemel. Click through below for all the reviews from the Indiewire network for this week's new releases. "Blue Like Jazz" The Playlist: B "Blue Like Jazz," based on a book of autobiographical essays from Christian writer Donald Miller, likely gives pause to those on the fence about religion-based material. "Cabin in the Woods" Indiewire: B+ Relentlessly...
- 4/13/2012
- by Aaron Bogert
- Indiewire
"Hit So Hard: The Life and Near Death Story of Patty Schemel," P. David Ebersole's documentary about the life of Patty Schemel, the drummer of Courtney Love's seminal rock band Hole, opens in New York today after playing at festivals worldwide, including SXSW and Sheffield Doc/Fest. The film expands to Los Angeles on April 20. To mark the occasion, Indiewire asked Ebersole and producing partner Todd Hughes to share with us their top ten music documentaries of all time. Check out their picks below: "The Decline of Western Civilization" (1981 Dir: Penelope Spheris) The ultimate Diy punk rock documentary. From the stark black-and-white interviews with teenage punkers against a bare light bulb to the gritty and hilarious “at home” interviews with superstars of the then exploding Los Angeles music scene (like Exene of X and Darby Crash of The Germs), Penelope Spheris’ effortless filmmaking wove together a vivid portrait.
- 4/13/2012
- by P. David Ebersole and Todd Hughes
- Indiewire
There's a flood of new movies hitting theatres this weekend, but with The Hunger Games showing no sign of weakness, it's questionable whether any of them will be able to dethrone it. Perhaps the biggest challenger is The Farrelly Brothers' The Three Stooges, which could have some serious mainstream appeal but only if it manages to connect with younger audiences. A couple of genre flicks are also in the running including Drew Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods and the sci-fi action flick Lockout starring Guy Pearce. The former has been getting fantastic reviews, the latter not so much. Also this weekend The Raid: Redemption is finally playing nationwide and The Weinsteins caved and released a PG-13 cut of Bully in over 100 theatres. Other movies in select theatres include Touchback starring Kurt Russell, Badass starring Danny Trejo, and the grunge documentary Hit So Hard featuring former Hole drummer Patty Schemel.
- 4/13/2012
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Patty Schemel is best remembered as the drummer of the alternative rock group Hole, fronted by erstwhile alt-queen rocker, now-notorious loudmouth Courtney Love. For top level context, Schemel laid the thunderous beat on both of Hole’s most popular and well-known records, including 1994’s Live Through This, which was released just four days after frontwoman Courtney Love's husband, Kurt Cobain, was found dead in their home. This is all well-documented. What only the most hardcore of rock aficionados will remember was that Schemel’s drum parts on 1997’s follow-up record Celebrity Skin were replaced by a session drummer at the behest of producer Michael Beinhorn (knob-twiddler for records like Soundgarden's Superunknown, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Mother's Milk and Grave Dancers Union by Soul Asylum).
What isn’t well-documented in the career and life of Hole and Schemel -- and this is what “Hit So Hard: The Life...
What isn’t well-documented in the career and life of Hole and Schemel -- and this is what “Hit So Hard: The Life...
- 4/10/2012
- by The Playlist
- The Playlist
A new clip for the upcoming biographical music documentary ‘Hit So Hard’ features a new clip of Kurt Cobain and his daughter Frances. The clip also features Patty Schemel, the acclaimed drummer of Courtney Love’s rock band Hole, who the documentary is based on, discussing how considerate Cobain was. ‘Hit So Hard’ follows Schemel as she filmed everything during Hole’s infamous Live Through This world tour, including the shows, parties and the relationship between Cobain and Love. The never-before-seen footage also shows overnight success, what it was like touring with a multi-platinum band and losing everything to drug addiction. Written and directed by P. David Ebersole, ‘Hit So Hard’ will [ Read More ]...
- 4/6/2012
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
18 years ago today, on April 5, 1994, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain passed away. You all know the story, voice of a generation, grunge icon, inadvertent music game-changer, Cobain committed suicide after grappling with depression and heroin addiction in the midst of a maelstrom of fame, there's not a lot more we can add.
Cobain’s long gone, but his memory obviously lives on. And you actually get to see some previously-unseen and very intimate footage of him, Courtney Love and Francis Bean Cobain in the upcoming documentary “Hit So Hard.”
“Hit So Hard: The Life & Near Death Story of Patty Schemel” focuses on ex-Hole drummer Patty Schemel who, as the title suggests, nearly died of her own addictions to booze, heroin and crack after she was kicked out of Hole in the late 90s. Why Cobain? Well, Schemel was as much a friend of Cobain’s as she was Courtney Love’s,...
Cobain’s long gone, but his memory obviously lives on. And you actually get to see some previously-unseen and very intimate footage of him, Courtney Love and Francis Bean Cobain in the upcoming documentary “Hit So Hard.”
“Hit So Hard: The Life & Near Death Story of Patty Schemel” focuses on ex-Hole drummer Patty Schemel who, as the title suggests, nearly died of her own addictions to booze, heroin and crack after she was kicked out of Hole in the late 90s. Why Cobain? Well, Schemel was as much a friend of Cobain’s as she was Courtney Love’s,...
- 4/5/2012
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Images, trailer and the poster for the Hit So Hard Documentary directed by P. David Ebersole. The Variance Films release opens in New York City on APril 13th, followed by a Los Angeles release on April 20th. The documentary features Patty Schemel, Courtney Love Cobain, Melissa Auf Der Mar and Eric Erlandson. When Nirvana burst onto the scene in 1991, the music they played spoke directly to an angry and disenfranchised generation. Grunge took over MTV and radio overnight… but just three years later, the drug-related deaths of several musicians and the suicide of Kurt Cobain closed the books on an all too brief era. Patty Schemel, the acclaimed drummer for Courtney Love's seminal rock band Hole, was in the middle of all of it. The openly gay woman who always felt different never dreamed she would be in a multi-platinum...
- 3/21/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Images, trailer and the poster for the Hit So Hard Documentary directed by P. David Ebersole. The Variance Films release opens in New York City on APril 13th, followed by a Los Angeles release on April 20th. The documentary features Patty Schemel, Courtney Love Cobain, Melissa Auf Der Mar and Eric Erlandson. When Nirvana burst onto the scene in 1991, the music they played spoke directly to an angry and disenfranchised generation. Grunge took over MTV and radio overnight… but just three years later, the drug-related deaths of several musicians and the suicide of Kurt Cobain closed the books on an all too brief era. Patty Schemel, the acclaimed drummer for Courtney Love's seminal rock band Hole, was in the middle of all of it. The openly gay woman who always felt different never dreamed she would be in a multi-platinum...
- 3/21/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Images, trailer and the poster for the Hit So Hard Documentary directed by P. David Ebersole. The Variance Films release opens in New York City on APril 13th, followed by a Los Angeles release on April 20th. The documentary features Patty Schemel, Courtney Love Cobain, Melissa Auf Der Mar and Eric Erlandson. When Nirvana burst onto the scene in 1991, the music they played spoke directly to an angry and disenfranchised generation. Grunge took over MTV and radio overnight… but just three years later, the drug-related deaths of several musicians and the suicide of Kurt Cobain closed the books on an all too brief era. Patty Schemel, the acclaimed drummer for Courtney Love's seminal rock band Hole, was in the middle of all of it. The openly gay woman who always felt different never dreamed she would be in a multi-platinum...
- 3/21/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Hit So Hard
Opening in New York City on April 13th and in Los Angeles on April 20th
When Nirvana burst onto the scene in 1991, the music they played spoke directly to an angry and disenfranchised generation. Grunge took over MTV and radio overnight. but just three years later, the drug-related deaths of several musicians and the suicide of Kurt Cobain closed the books on an all too brief era.
Patty Schemel, the acclaimed drummer for Courtney Love’s seminal rock band Hole, was in the middle of all of it. The openly gay woman who always felt different never dreamed she would be in a multi-platinum band, touring with legends. or that, thanks to drug addiction, she could lose it all.
Given a video camera just before Hole’s infamous Live Through This world tour, Patty filmed everything the shows, the parties, and startlingly intimate footage of Kurt and Courtney.
Opening in New York City on April 13th and in Los Angeles on April 20th
When Nirvana burst onto the scene in 1991, the music they played spoke directly to an angry and disenfranchised generation. Grunge took over MTV and radio overnight. but just three years later, the drug-related deaths of several musicians and the suicide of Kurt Cobain closed the books on an all too brief era.
Patty Schemel, the acclaimed drummer for Courtney Love’s seminal rock band Hole, was in the middle of all of it. The openly gay woman who always felt different never dreamed she would be in a multi-platinum band, touring with legends. or that, thanks to drug addiction, she could lose it all.
Given a video camera just before Hole’s infamous Live Through This world tour, Patty filmed everything the shows, the parties, and startlingly intimate footage of Kurt and Courtney.
- 3/21/2012
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
If there’s a theme to 2011’s crop of films featuring lesbian/bi women, it’s that this was a very good year for emerging voices. First time and younger filmmakers made a mark in huge ways this year, providing everything from spellbinding documentaries (No Look Pass), heart-wrenching drama (Pariah, Break My Fall, Circumstance), and fresh comedy (Jamie and Jessie are Not Together, Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same). Pair that with the quality coming from established filmmakers like Celine Sciamma (Tomboy), and you have a year marked by the presence of strong, unique voices.
Hard Hitters
Nowhere is that strength of vision more prominent than in the year’s dramas. Well-meaning (but tired) melodramas were drowned out by clear-eyed, nuanced filmmaking, most evident in Pariah, the story of a young African-American woman struggling with her identity, and Circumstance, which features the romance between two teenaged girls in Iran.
As AfterEllen.
Hard Hitters
Nowhere is that strength of vision more prominent than in the year’s dramas. Well-meaning (but tired) melodramas were drowned out by clear-eyed, nuanced filmmaking, most evident in Pariah, the story of a young African-American woman struggling with her identity, and Circumstance, which features the romance between two teenaged girls in Iran.
As AfterEllen.
- 12/27/2011
- by Danielle Riendeau
- AfterEllen.com
Good morning!
Did you miss Sue Sylvester on last week's Glee? Don't worry — she's back, and just in time for Christmas.
Several lesbian artists in the UK have contributed to an It Gets Better charity single for something called The L Project. Here's a behind-the-scenes look, led by Horse.
Have you seen the Indigo Girls video for "Making Promises"? Well just in case you haven't.
The day after Christmas you can tune into E! and watch E! Entertainment's Celebrity Wedding Primetime Special for a glimpse of Chely Wright and Lauren Blitzer's nuptials.
Bitch put The Watermelon Woman through their Bechdel Test Canon. Do you think it passed?
Rebecca Walker is behind a new collection of essays called Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness. Staceyann Chin is one of her contributors.
I'm still upset about Chicago Code being cancelled but at least Jennifer Beals is able to move on. The...
Did you miss Sue Sylvester on last week's Glee? Don't worry — she's back, and just in time for Christmas.
Several lesbian artists in the UK have contributed to an It Gets Better charity single for something called The L Project. Here's a behind-the-scenes look, led by Horse.
Have you seen the Indigo Girls video for "Making Promises"? Well just in case you haven't.
The day after Christmas you can tune into E! and watch E! Entertainment's Celebrity Wedding Primetime Special for a glimpse of Chely Wright and Lauren Blitzer's nuptials.
Bitch put The Watermelon Woman through their Bechdel Test Canon. Do you think it passed?
Rebecca Walker is behind a new collection of essays called Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness. Staceyann Chin is one of her contributors.
I'm still upset about Chicago Code being cancelled but at least Jennifer Beals is able to move on. The...
- 12/13/2011
- by Trish Bendix
- AfterEllen.com
Oscar-nominated actress Juliette Lewis quickly became one of the most recognizable names of the '90s, breaking out with "Cape Fear" and subsequently headlining films like Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers," Kathryn Bigelow's "Strange Days" and Robert Rodriguez's "From Dusk Till Dawn." But in the new millennium, Hollywood often played second fiddle to a new side project, a rock band titled Juliette and the Licks. Now, according to Variety, Lewis is looking to complete a documentary about her life on the road, with an eye towards debuting at the Sundance Film Festival this coming January.
While not particularly well-known by the masses, the Licks had a small but dedicated international fanbase over their six years, producing a number of albums and playing hundreds of shows. The band was created by Lewis and Hole drummer Patty Schemel (herself the subject of a recent documentary), and along the way...
While not particularly well-known by the masses, the Licks had a small but dedicated international fanbase over their six years, producing a number of albums and playing hundreds of shows. The band was created by Lewis and Hole drummer Patty Schemel (herself the subject of a recent documentary), and along the way...
- 9/13/2011
- by Brian Jacks
- ifc.com
"Hit So Hard" producer Todd Hughes (left) and director P. David Ebersole (right) hit up the NewFest closing night screening of "Gun Hill Road" with NewFest's director of programming (and indieWIRE contributor) Bryce J. Renninger last night at the Walter Reade Theater. Ebersole's documentary takes an in-depth look at the life of Patty Schemel, the drummer of the band Hole. The film screened at the festival. [Photo by Brian Brooks]...
- 7/29/2011
- Indiewire
While former Hole frontwoman Courtney Love's disintegration has been incredibly public, the former drummer for the (other) iconic Seattle grunge band, Patty Schemel, has had her own wild ride through drugs and fame. She's just a little quieter about it.
Burning in Courtney Love's vagina, I mean townhouse
And: Courtney Love's former lawyers sue her for libel
And: Quote This: Anna Sui on Courtney Love
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Burning in Courtney Love's vagina, I mean townhouse
And: Courtney Love's former lawyers sue her for libel
And: Quote This: Anna Sui on Courtney Love
read more...
- 7/14/2011
- by Anna Breslaw
- Filmology
Well Go USA has teamed with Variance Films on "Hit So Hard," a documentary about Patty Schemel, who played drums in Courtney Love's band Hole, Well Go USA said Wednesday. Well Go USA acquired North American rights to the movie. Variance plans to release it in early 2012. P. David Ebersole directed the movie, which includes footage of Love and her late husband, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. Over the years, Schemel took film of herself living the rock star life. The movie screens July 14 at Outfest 2011: The Los Angeles Gay &...
- 7/14/2011
- by Joshua L. Weinstein
- The Wrap
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