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- 3/24/2024
- by Slant Staff
- Slant Magazine
The Beatles gave us cult classic movies like Yellow Submarine and Help! It’s only fitting that John Lennon’s favorite movie was a cult classic Western. The movie in question is one of the most bizarre Westerns ever made. Fascinatingly, the director of the film said multiple rock stars connected with his work.
John Lennon loved a cult classic Western movie with a heavy dose of mysticism
Alejandro Jodorowsky is a surrealist filmmaker whose movies are like Salvador Dalí paintings come to life. According to Wired, John’s favorite movie was Jodorowsky’s mystical Western El Topo. The film is about an outlaw called El Topo (Spanish for “The Mole”) who becomes a holy man in a landscape filled with Judeo-Christian and occult imagery.
During a 2011 interview with Interviews with Icons, Jodorowsky discussed John’s relationship with the film. “I was lucky because of rock ‘n’ roll,” explained Jodorowsky.
John Lennon loved a cult classic Western movie with a heavy dose of mysticism
Alejandro Jodorowsky is a surrealist filmmaker whose movies are like Salvador Dalí paintings come to life. According to Wired, John’s favorite movie was Jodorowsky’s mystical Western El Topo. The film is about an outlaw called El Topo (Spanish for “The Mole”) who becomes a holy man in a landscape filled with Judeo-Christian and occult imagery.
During a 2011 interview with Interviews with Icons, Jodorowsky discussed John’s relationship with the film. “I was lucky because of rock ‘n’ roll,” explained Jodorowsky.
- 12/9/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Invocation of My Demon Brother. “The key of joy is disobedience.”—Aleister CrowleyLucifer has risen. Kenneth Anger is, terrestrially at least, no more. Of the Hollywood that once was, Kenneth Anger was one of the few unsentimental remnants—never nostalgic and always captivated by the present. He leaves behind an aura of gothic glam and a string of sacrilegious, unselfconscious films. In the Bible, Lucifer—etymologically, “the light bearer”—was cast out of heaven for plotting against the supreme creator, that divine auteur. In Hollywood, Anger shed light on the ambrosial decadence that accompanied the rise of the film industry, whose mythological dimension he both captured and incarnated. To Anger, Hollywood was a sort of maternal womb, the amniotic element whose sinister luminescence he chiseled like a baroque sculptor. In his cinema, there is a visible adherence to the superficial gloss that made commercial films so profound. He was able...
- 7/19/2023
- MUBI
Stars: Dan Zapata, Enrique Diaz Duran, Jacqueline Blanca Bribiesca, Marisela Plaza | Written by Alex Hernández, Juan Manuel Martinez | Directed by Alex Hernández
Written in 1791 Justine or The Misfortunes of Virtue by Donatien-Alphonse-François de Sade, better known as the Marquis de Sade, is one of the more infamous novels in the history of literature. But what else would you expect from the man whose name inspired the words sadism and sadistic?
Rather than filming it as a period piece director Alex Hernández and co-writer Juan Manuel Martinez have taken the same approach to Justine that Pasolini took when adapted De Sade’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom. They’ve updated it and used it to look at more contemporary society. In doing so they’ve deviated from the source material much further than Pasolini did. They’ve basically taken one segment of the book and expanded it out to feature length,...
Written in 1791 Justine or The Misfortunes of Virtue by Donatien-Alphonse-François de Sade, better known as the Marquis de Sade, is one of the more infamous novels in the history of literature. But what else would you expect from the man whose name inspired the words sadism and sadistic?
Rather than filming it as a period piece director Alex Hernández and co-writer Juan Manuel Martinez have taken the same approach to Justine that Pasolini took when adapted De Sade’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom. They’ve updated it and used it to look at more contemporary society. In doing so they’ve deviated from the source material much further than Pasolini did. They’ve basically taken one segment of the book and expanded it out to feature length,...
- 3/6/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Who is Emmanuelle? In the 1970s, the name was synonymous with sophisticated sensuality. French director Just Jaeckin’s 1974 film, based on a 1959 erotic novel and starring Sylvia Kristel as the sexually adventurous title character, launched a soft focus empire leading to two more canonical installments, the fabulously titled Emmanuelle II: The Joys of a Woman and Goodbye Emmanuelle. Emmanuelle is playing in a sparkling new restoration at New York's Quad Cinema, alongside the other films in the trilogy and a handful of the more dubious spinoffs. The Quad is also showing six other films by Jaeckin, among them his similarly porno-chic The Story of O (1975) and the wild Indiana Jones rip-off-meets-S&M-cartoon The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak (1984), starring none other than video vixen Tawny Kitaen. Emmanuelle was Jaeckin’s first film and remains his best known—and while it may not be great cinema,...
- 1/25/2019
- MUBI
Damn. it was a good year for music.
It didn’t always feel that way, though. While Kendrick Lamar’s aforementioned fourth studio album -- which hit like a meteor on the Friday before the rapper’s monster set to close out Coachella -- much of 2017 was defined by growers rather than out of the gate jams and much of the summer passed without a bona fide “Song of” said season. (Barely. More on that in a second.)
Really, it's only on looking back at the cavalcade of "Best Of" lists that footnote every year that you realize how full of noteworthy sounds 2017 in particular was. And now, with the nearly ubiquitous acceptance of streaming as the primary method of song consumption, not only is the roster of artists who find both large audiences and critical acclaim more diverse and democratized than ever, but the entire idea of a publication-determined "Best Music of the Year" feels almost silly. After...
It didn’t always feel that way, though. While Kendrick Lamar’s aforementioned fourth studio album -- which hit like a meteor on the Friday before the rapper’s monster set to close out Coachella -- much of 2017 was defined by growers rather than out of the gate jams and much of the summer passed without a bona fide “Song of” said season. (Barely. More on that in a second.)
Really, it's only on looking back at the cavalcade of "Best Of" lists that footnote every year that you realize how full of noteworthy sounds 2017 in particular was. And now, with the nearly ubiquitous acceptance of streaming as the primary method of song consumption, not only is the roster of artists who find both large audiences and critical acclaim more diverse and democratized than ever, but the entire idea of a publication-determined "Best Music of the Year" feels almost silly. After...
- 12/18/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Andrzej Żuławski's The Most Important Thing: Love (1975) is showing November 22 - December 22, 2017 in the United States.The DevilKiedy wszedłeś między wrony, musisz krakać jak i one.
(‘When among the crows, caw as they do.’)—Polish sayingAndrzej Żuławski’s That Most Important Thing: Love (1975) is unlike any film he ever made, and was certainly a departure in his visual sensibility relative to the feature films he had made previously in his native Poland: The Third Part of the Night (1971) and The Devil (1972). Narratively and visually, the film is at once an oddity and a turning point in Żuławski’s oeuvre, and in viewing it, it would benefit the viewer to understand the director’s experience with the French cinematic tradition and its effect on his own cinema.Żuławski was born into a well-known family of artists that spanned several generations in Poland,...
(‘When among the crows, caw as they do.’)—Polish sayingAndrzej Żuławski’s That Most Important Thing: Love (1975) is unlike any film he ever made, and was certainly a departure in his visual sensibility relative to the feature films he had made previously in his native Poland: The Third Part of the Night (1971) and The Devil (1972). Narratively and visually, the film is at once an oddity and a turning point in Żuławski’s oeuvre, and in viewing it, it would benefit the viewer to understand the director’s experience with the French cinematic tradition and its effect on his own cinema.Żuławski was born into a well-known family of artists that spanned several generations in Poland,...
- 12/1/2017
- MUBI
Jay-Z is opening up about dealing with deeply personal issues.
In an intimate Q&A with New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet for a T, The New York Times Style magazine cover story, the 47-year-old rapper opens up about therapy, and the issues that led to him to being unfaithful in his marriage to Beyonce. Jay-Z reveals that he was able to find a good therapist through friends of his.
"I grew so much from the experience," he shares. "But I think the most important thing I got is that everything is connected. Every emotion is connected and it comes from somewhere. And just being aware of it. Being aware of it in everyday life puts you at such a ... you're at such an advantage. You know, you realize that if someone's racist toward you, it ain't about you. It's about their upbringing and what happened to them, and how that led them to this point. You...
In an intimate Q&A with New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet for a T, The New York Times Style magazine cover story, the 47-year-old rapper opens up about therapy, and the issues that led to him to being unfaithful in his marriage to Beyonce. Jay-Z reveals that he was able to find a good therapist through friends of his.
"I grew so much from the experience," he shares. "But I think the most important thing I got is that everything is connected. Every emotion is connected and it comes from somewhere. And just being aware of it. Being aware of it in everyday life puts you at such a ... you're at such an advantage. You know, you realize that if someone's racist toward you, it ain't about you. It's about their upbringing and what happened to them, and how that led them to this point. You...
- 11/29/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
The nominees are in for the 60th Annual Grammy Awards, and music's biggest night will feature some of your favorite artists ...though some were snubbed.
Singer-songwriter Andra Day announced the four major categories -- Best New Artist, Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, and Album Of The Year -- on Tuesday's CBS This Morning.
As far as snubs go, Ed Sheeran was only nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance for his track, "Shape of You," to the shock of many of his fans. Lady Gaga and Kesha also received minimal nominations, despite the popularity of their albums.
However, Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar earned quite a few Grammy nods, as well as Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's "Despacito" song that features Justin Bieber.
Singer-songwriter Andra Day announced the four major categories -- Best New Artist, Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, and Album Of The Year -- on Tuesday's CBS This Morning.
As far as snubs go, Ed Sheeran was only nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance for his track, "Shape of You," to the shock of many of his fans. Lady Gaga and Kesha also received minimal nominations, despite the popularity of their albums.
However, Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar earned quite a few Grammy nods, as well as Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's "Despacito" song that features Justin Bieber.
- 11/28/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Ryan Gosling can't escape security protocol at 30 Rockefeller Center in the season premiere promo for Saturday Night Live. The Blade Runner 2049 star will host the Season 43 open with musical guest Jay-z on September 30th.
Jay-z's 4:44 track "The Story of O.J." plays while Gosling teases his triumphant return to SNL. "This time, I'm going to give the world my soul," the actor says in a husky whisper while his face appears superimposed alongside footage of New York City at night.
The clip cuts to Gosling getting stopped...
Jay-z's 4:44 track "The Story of O.J." plays while Gosling teases his triumphant return to SNL. "This time, I'm going to give the world my soul," the actor says in a husky whisper while his face appears superimposed alongside footage of New York City at night.
The clip cuts to Gosling getting stopped...
- 9/28/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Colin Kaepernick's plight in the NFL has seeped into the upper echelons of hip-hop ... 'cause Jay-z dedicated 1 of his most racially charged songs to the Qb during a live show. Jay Z Dedicates “The Story Of O.J.” To Colin Kaepernick And Dick Gregory During @themeadowsnyc Performance...
- 9/16/2017
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Jay-z is defending his use of allegedly anti-Semitic lyrics on his new album 4:44. The lyrics in question come from the track “The Story of O.J.”, where Jay-z raps: “You wanna know what’s more important than throwin’ away money at a strip club? Credit / You ever wonder why Jewish people own all the property […]...
- 8/22/2017
- by Shakiel Mahjouri
- ET Canada
Now that he’s won an Academy Award and been confirmed as the star of “True Detective” season three, it only makes sense that Mahershala Ali would appear in a Jay-z video. The “Moonlight” star can be seen shadowboxing in a preview version for the “Adnis” video, which, like all great things, is only available in its entirety on Tidal. Watch the version available to the rest of us below.
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Danny Glover also appears in the video, though he isn’t anywhere to be seen in the truncated version. A tribute to Jay-z’s father, “Adnis” features highly personal lyrics: “Who would’ve thought I’d be the dad I never had / Be the husband I’ve become, usually nothing come from that / I forgive you as I live through the beautiful present of the...
Read More‘True Detective’ Season 3 Might Star Mahershala Ali — Here’s Who Should Join Him
Danny Glover also appears in the video, though he isn’t anywhere to be seen in the truncated version. A tribute to Jay-z’s father, “Adnis” features highly personal lyrics: “Who would’ve thought I’d be the dad I never had / Be the husband I’ve become, usually nothing come from that / I forgive you as I live through the beautiful present of the...
- 7/29/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Jay-Z has released another mini-documentary for his new album, 4:44, and the latest clip is very much a confessional about rumored infidelity his wife Beyoncé first laid bare on Lemonade.
Called “Footnotes for ‘4:44,'” the 11-minute video features deep conversations about relationships with women and interviews with celebrities like Chris Rock, Will Smith, Kendrick Lamar, Chris Paul, Jesse Williams, Aziz Ansari, Mahershala Ali and Meek Mill.
“This is my real life. I just ran into this place and we built this big, beautiful mansion of a relationship that wasn’t totally built on the 100 percent truth and it starts cracking. Things start happening that the public can see,” Jay-Z explained about his marriage.
“Then we had to get to a point of, ‘Okay, tear this down and let’s start from the beginning … It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” he continued.
Called “Footnotes for ‘4:44,'” the 11-minute video features deep conversations about relationships with women and interviews with celebrities like Chris Rock, Will Smith, Kendrick Lamar, Chris Paul, Jesse Williams, Aziz Ansari, Mahershala Ali and Meek Mill.
“This is my real life. I just ran into this place and we built this big, beautiful mansion of a relationship that wasn’t totally built on the 100 percent truth and it starts cracking. Things start happening that the public can see,” Jay-Z explained about his marriage.
“Then we had to get to a point of, ‘Okay, tear this down and let’s start from the beginning … It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” he continued.
- 7/11/2017
- by Karen Mizoguchi
- PEOPLE.com
Jay-z’s new album “4:44” might have enjoyed massive sales since its release last week, but the music icon hasn’t exactly earned raves from the Anti-Defamation League. The Adl issued a statement calling out Jay-z’s lyrics for the song “The Story of O.J.,” suggesting that the rapper is trading in anti-Semitic stereotypes. In the song, Jay-z raps, “You wanna know what’s more important than throwin’ away money at a strip club? Credit / You ever wonder why Jewish people own all the property in America? This how they did it.” Also Read: 50 Cent Takes a 9-Iron to...
- 7/6/2017
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
The Story of O.J. is here. Jay-z dropped his new music video, The Story of O.J., on Tidal earlier today. The 4 minute and 16-second piece is the latest "visual" to come out from the rapper's 4:44 album, which has already gone platinum in less than one week out, according to Tidal. The music video is animated and takes on racist cartoons from Fleischer Studios, Warner Bros., Disney, and others. "'The Story of Oj' is really a song about we as a culture, having a plan, how we're gonna push this forward," said Hova to iHeartRadio after his new album's premiere. "We all make money, and then we all lose money, as artists especially. But how, when you have some type of...
- 7/5/2017
- E! Online
Listen up, America. To promote his newly released album, Jay-z, Sprint and Tidal released a mini documentary Monday at 4:44 p.m. focused on the black experience in America. Titled Footnotes for "The Story of O.J.," it included interviews with Hov and other prominent stars, like Mahershala Ali, Michael B. Jordan, Van Jones, Kendrick Lamar, Trevor Noah, Chris Rock and Will Smith. Each interview was set to "The Story of O.J.," one of 10 new songs included on Jay-z's album, 4:44. "Being black in America is like being in a tiny, compressed box anchored at the bottom of the ocean with like 10,000 lbs. of pressure on you at all times, you know?" Jordan said in the video. "And not really...
- 7/4/2017
- E! Online
Jay-Z’s first album in four years, “4:44”, has been widely acclaimed by fans and critics, but one lyric has earned the rapper charges of anti-Semitism in the song “The Story of O.J.”. “You wanna know what’s more important than throwin’ away money at a strip club? Credit,” Jay-Z raps. “You ever wonder why Jewish people […]...
- 7/3/2017
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
Jay-z is back in the music spotlight with the release of “4:44,” his thirteenth studio album that finds him more vulnerable than he’s ever been. Amongst tracks in which he talks about his martial strife with Beyonce and admits to womanizing, the Brooklyn rapper builds an entire song around the infamous “La La Land”/”Moonlight” Best Picture screw up that was the talk of the Oscars this year.
Read More: Jay-z and Mark Romanek Unveil ‘4:44’ Animated Video for ‘The Story of O.J.’
The eighth song on the 10-track album is called “Moonlight,” and it includes the hook: “We stuck in La La Land/ Even when we win, we gon’ lose/ We got the same fuckin’ flows/ I don’t know who is who.” Speaking with iHeart Radio following the album’s release, the rapper confirmed both the title and the hook was a reference to the infamous Best Picture gaffe.
Read More: Jay-z and Mark Romanek Unveil ‘4:44’ Animated Video for ‘The Story of O.J.’
The eighth song on the 10-track album is called “Moonlight,” and it includes the hook: “We stuck in La La Land/ Even when we win, we gon’ lose/ We got the same fuckin’ flows/ I don’t know who is who.” Speaking with iHeart Radio following the album’s release, the rapper confirmed both the title and the hook was a reference to the infamous Best Picture gaffe.
- 6/30/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Jay-Z dropped his new album “4:44” Thursday at midnight, and with it an incredible animated music video for the track “The Story of O.J.” Unlike his wife, Beyoncé, whose last two albums were released alongside full-length visual albums, Jay-Z has opted for something simpler: a single, straightforward, but brilliant music video. Related: Jay-Z Seemingly Addresses Beyonce’s […]...
- 6/30/2017
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
After weeks of hints, teases, trailers, and promos, Jay-z has dropped his latest album “4:44” — available only on streaming service Tidal — along with a much-hyped visual accompaniment in the form of an animated music video directed by the rapper and Mark Romanek.
While expectations long held that Jay-z would deliver a full visual album to match the new album, likely drawing inspiration from his own wife Beyonce’s work on her lauded “Lemonade,” a lush and compelling visual album that accompanied her latest album while standing magnificently on its own, the result appears to be something much slimmer and more traditional.
Read More: ‘4:44’ With Mahershala Ali and Lupita Nyong’o Is Jay-z’s Nc-17 Mystery Film — Watch New Trailer
In the first clip from the video, Jay-z and Romanek appear to be hard at work twisting and taking back African-American stereotypes, and as Rolling Stone notes, the rapper’s own animated character,...
While expectations long held that Jay-z would deliver a full visual album to match the new album, likely drawing inspiration from his own wife Beyonce’s work on her lauded “Lemonade,” a lush and compelling visual album that accompanied her latest album while standing magnificently on its own, the result appears to be something much slimmer and more traditional.
Read More: ‘4:44’ With Mahershala Ali and Lupita Nyong’o Is Jay-z’s Nc-17 Mystery Film — Watch New Trailer
In the first clip from the video, Jay-z and Romanek appear to be hard at work twisting and taking back African-American stereotypes, and as Rolling Stone notes, the rapper’s own animated character,...
- 6/30/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Attention all you Jay-z fans out there, his highly anticipated 4:44 album is finally here. The 13th solo studio album from the Grammy winner was just dropped and it's jam-packed with references to his career, his comrades in the industry and, of course, Beyoncé and their children. The new body of work was exclusively released through Tidal's partnership with Sprint which is also the same collab that's been teasing commercials for the album. It features 10 songs: "Kill Jay Z," "The Story of O.J.," "Smile," "Caught Their Eyes," "4:44," "Family Feud," "Bam," "Moonlight," "Marcy Me" and "Legacy." Several clips...
- 6/30/2017
- E! Online
“Younger” gets attention for its look into the New York social circles and its attention-grabbing fashions, and that’s as it should be. After all, this is a series by Darren Star, who also brought us the delights of “Sex and the City.”
Sutton Foster stars as Liza Miller, a 40-year-old woman who’s just emerged from a failed marriage and must re-enter the work force. The only problem is that no one will even glance at her resume since she became a full-time mother nearly two decades ago. But after she’s mistaken for a 26-year-old at a bar, she decides to pass for much younger and lands a job at publishing firm Empirical Press.
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This job provides some of the best under-the-radar laughs throughout the series. Not only do the episode titles provide some plum opportunities for...
Sutton Foster stars as Liza Miller, a 40-year-old woman who’s just emerged from a failed marriage and must re-enter the work force. The only problem is that no one will even glance at her resume since she became a full-time mother nearly two decades ago. But after she’s mistaken for a 26-year-old at a bar, she decides to pass for much younger and lands a job at publishing firm Empirical Press.
Read More: Summer TV Preview: 20 New and Returning Comedies Worth Watching
This job provides some of the best under-the-radar laughs throughout the series. Not only do the episode titles provide some plum opportunities for...
- 6/28/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Raro Video resurrects an exploitation goodie masquerading as another bit of cheap Eurosleaze, Hitch Hike (aka Autostop Rosso Sangue) a 1977 thriller from Italian director Pasquale Festa Campanile. Like a tawdry version of an early Polanski effort, it’s a significant anomaly of its ilk for several reasons, the most notable being its director, usually known as a fixture of 1970’s Italian-style comedy (aka commedia all’italiana). Adapted from the novel The Violence and the Fury by Peter Kern, it’s headlined by Franco Nero, French actress Corinne Clery (the title character from infamous The Story of O, 1975) and grindhouse staple David Hess (The Last House on the Left, 1972), while predictable story elements spiked with moments of brutal violence should be enough to rejuvenate interest in a title not often screened in the Us (despite its initial box office success in Europe).
Walter Mancini (Franco Nero), a bitter, alcoholic journalist, is...
Walter Mancini (Franco Nero), a bitter, alcoholic journalist, is...
- 3/15/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
If you're into spanking and slapping and ball gag and butt plugs, Get A Room. But not a room at the Roissy Castle in Vilafranca, Spain, because your inner-goddess screaming with pleasure might distract people saying "Hail Mary" at the church a few door down. An unnamed businessman rented out the L'Om del Llosar hotel and renamed it after a chateau in the 1954 erotic novel, The Story of O. But his true inspiration for the S&M-themed hotel was another erotic novel: Fifty Shades of Grey. "With the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon in full swing, I saw a business opportunity that hadn't been exploited yet in Spain," he explained to Spain's The Local. The hotel features 20...
- 8/5/2014
- E! Online
Lars von Trier's controversial sex epic veers wildly between the profound and the ridiculous
Watching Nymphomaniac raises several thorny questions. How seriously should we take Lars von Trier? Is there a difference between art and porn? Does it need to be this long? Do we really have to use that brackety/vulva (Nymph( )maniac) title gag? And, most pressingly, what the hell is up with Shia Labeouf's accent? With his ear-scraping mockerney shtick, Labeouf sounds like he's auditioning for a twisted biopic of Dick Van Dyke. Those seeking something genuinely shocking need look no further; if movies were rated for scenes of gratuitous violence against vowels, Nymphomaniac would never have made it past the censors.
Redacted from a reportedly more explicit and even more unwieldy director's cut, Von Trier's latest arrives in UK cinemas in two volumes, divided into five and three chapters respectively, mirroring the number of...
Watching Nymphomaniac raises several thorny questions. How seriously should we take Lars von Trier? Is there a difference between art and porn? Does it need to be this long? Do we really have to use that brackety/vulva (Nymph( )maniac) title gag? And, most pressingly, what the hell is up with Shia Labeouf's accent? With his ear-scraping mockerney shtick, Labeouf sounds like he's auditioning for a twisted biopic of Dick Van Dyke. Those seeking something genuinely shocking need look no further; if movies were rated for scenes of gratuitous violence against vowels, Nymphomaniac would never have made it past the censors.
Redacted from a reportedly more explicit and even more unwieldy director's cut, Von Trier's latest arrives in UK cinemas in two volumes, divided into five and three chapters respectively, mirroring the number of...
- 2/23/2014
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Brian Brown returns to Russia, New Jersey prepares to welcome marriage equality, Doctor Who teases “The Day of the Doctor”
The next time someone says “Hey, Daddy!” to Stephen Amell, it might now be creepy, as he and his wife have welcomed a daughter into their lives.
Noel Gallagher has a very well formed opinion on One Direction. F***ing idiots. Bless ’em. Bless ’em, but f*** ’em at the same time. Everybody’s winning out of it. One Direction aren’t working in the local f***ing Costcutter, so they’re winning. The geezer who’s writing the f***ing sh*t tunes — he’s winning. He doesn’t even have to leave the studio. He’s got f***ing new houses coming out of his ear holes. The record company are winning — [because] they’re all getting their f***ing bonuses at Christmas. The young 12-year-old girls are winning...
The next time someone says “Hey, Daddy!” to Stephen Amell, it might now be creepy, as he and his wife have welcomed a daughter into their lives.
Noel Gallagher has a very well formed opinion on One Direction. F***ing idiots. Bless ’em. Bless ’em, but f*** ’em at the same time. Everybody’s winning out of it. One Direction aren’t working in the local f***ing Costcutter, so they’re winning. The geezer who’s writing the f***ing sh*t tunes — he’s winning. He doesn’t even have to leave the studio. He’s got f***ing new houses coming out of his ear holes. The record company are winning — [because] they’re all getting their f***ing bonuses at Christmas. The young 12-year-old girls are winning...
- 10/20/2013
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
Everyone has an opinion about who should replace Charlie Hunnam in the Fifty Shades of Grey adaptation; the always opinionated, always funny director John Waters is no exception. "Jeff Stryker, the male porno star that’s in retirement," he suggested to Vulture last night at the fifth annual Norman Mailer Center Benefit Gala Honoring Maya Angelou. He was probably kidding. But in all seriousness, he thinks the part should go to an unknown actor. "I love the fact that for a total unknown, this will make him a huge star. It’s a great risk to take that role. However, if it’s a flop, he won’t get blamed, because it’s like making The Confederacy of Dunces on a much bigger scale. It's S&M-lite, right? It’s like the Story of O goes to Starbucks. A love book is almost impossible to make into a movie."What about casting a model?...
- 10/18/2013
- by Jamie Sharpe
- Vulture
La course du lièvre à travers les champs (The Race of the Hare Across the Fields a.k.a. ...and Hope to Die, 1972) is an interesting late entry in the career of French crime specialist René Clément, a kind of smorgasbord of his favorite stuff: hardboiled crime, knotty sexual triangles, a hero on the run, convoluted crime schemes, with a harkening back to childhood sins that suggests his classic Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games, 1952). This might suggest desperation to recapture past glories, but the film is also stuffed with experimentation and up-to-the-minute influences (a train station confrontation early on suggests Leone) which confirm the filmmaker as alert to new possibilities.
But the film could just as easily be approached through the sensibility of its writer, Sébastien Japrisot, a key figure in French cinema and crime cinema, or even through that of the author of the source novel, David Goodis.
But the film could just as easily be approached through the sensibility of its writer, Sébastien Japrisot, a key figure in French cinema and crime cinema, or even through that of the author of the source novel, David Goodis.
- 2/21/2013
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
It’s Monday, so we all know what that means! Yes, it’s time for another rundown of DVDs and Blu-ray’s hitting stores online and offline this week. It’s a very light week this week, so let us breakdown the new releases and highlight what you should – and shouldn’t – be buying from today, February 4th 2013.
Pick Of The Week
Death Race 3: Inferno (DVD/Blu-ray)
Repentant convict Carl Lucas (Luke Goss) aka Frankenstein is a legendary driver in the brutal prison blood sport known as Death Race. Only one victory away from winning freedom, Lucas is plunged into his most vicious competition yet: the first-ever desert Death Race. Through South Africa’s infernal Kalahari Desert, Lucas is pitted against ruthless adversaries and powerful forces at work behind the scenes to ensure his defeat. Also starring Danny Trejo and Ving Rhames, Death Race: Inferno is an insane, action-packed thrill ride.
Pick Of The Week
Death Race 3: Inferno (DVD/Blu-ray)
Repentant convict Carl Lucas (Luke Goss) aka Frankenstein is a legendary driver in the brutal prison blood sport known as Death Race. Only one victory away from winning freedom, Lucas is plunged into his most vicious competition yet: the first-ever desert Death Race. Through South Africa’s infernal Kalahari Desert, Lucas is pitted against ruthless adversaries and powerful forces at work behind the scenes to ensure his defeat. Also starring Danny Trejo and Ving Rhames, Death Race: Inferno is an insane, action-packed thrill ride.
- 2/4/2013
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Declaring this their “Tenth Commandment in Metal,” UK legends (and long-time FEARnet faves) Cradle of Filth have diverged from their usual game plan of sweeping concept albums, choosing this time to divide and conquer a wide assortment of sinister subjects – everything from classics of erotic literature to creepy fairy tales, monsters of myth & legend, the timeless horrors of H.P. Lovecraft, and a few beasts of their very own creation. While all of this falls within the band's usual lyrical domain, their songwriting and production approach on The Manticore calls back to their '90s black metal origins, while retaining just enough of the band's well-known cinematic elements to keep their gothic stamp on it. “We have diversified and kept alive the spirit of this band,” says band frontman & founder Dani Filth, “and breathed it into something that I can proudly say, slays like an absolute motherfucker.” Sounds like a fairly confident statement to me.
- 10/25/2012
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
Udo Kier has worked with the likes of Lars Von Trier, Gus Van Sant, and Rob Zombie. He’s portrayed Dracula (and assorted other vamps), Hitler, and Jekyll and is still going strong after over three decades of acting, his latest role being in Nazis-on-the-moon horror-comedy Iron Sky.
Some would say it’s his piercing blue eyes and thick accent that cement Kier’s presence as deliciously memorable regardless of the size of the part. I would also say it's his unique presence, the way he moves with such elegance and a dash of old world, unearthly sexuality and a twinkle of humor.
This time around we find Kier on the dark side of the moon playing Nazi leader Wolfgang Kortzfleisch. The movie takes place in 2018, in a world with a political landscape much like our own, filled with propaganda, global infighting, and a race for new fuel. Little does...
Some would say it’s his piercing blue eyes and thick accent that cement Kier’s presence as deliciously memorable regardless of the size of the part. I would also say it's his unique presence, the way he moves with such elegance and a dash of old world, unearthly sexuality and a twinkle of humor.
This time around we find Kier on the dark side of the moon playing Nazi leader Wolfgang Kortzfleisch. The movie takes place in 2018, in a world with a political landscape much like our own, filled with propaganda, global infighting, and a race for new fuel. Little does...
- 9/2/2012
- by Heather Buckley
- DreadCentral.com
I couldn't get away from it. My girlfriends were talking about it; columnists were writing about it; Saturday Night Live was spoofing it. It was all I heard about.
Then I was getting my hair cut in the quiet sanctuary of the salon I go to, but there was an unusual buzz all around me -- and it was unmistakably those same four little words.
"Fifty Shades of Grey..."
What is going on?
Erotica has been alive and throbbing since the days of Ancient Greece and Rome, when someone scrawled those first steamy, toga-ripping words on a piece of papyrus. But in my lifetime, I've never seen a public reaction quiet as breathless (as in panting) as the collective sigh inspired by E.L. James's erotic S&M series. Is it possible for an entire nation to have a simultaneous orgasm? Apparently so: the "Fifty Shades" trilogy now occupies the number one,...
Then I was getting my hair cut in the quiet sanctuary of the salon I go to, but there was an unusual buzz all around me -- and it was unmistakably those same four little words.
"Fifty Shades of Grey..."
What is going on?
Erotica has been alive and throbbing since the days of Ancient Greece and Rome, when someone scrawled those first steamy, toga-ripping words on a piece of papyrus. But in my lifetime, I've never seen a public reaction quiet as breathless (as in panting) as the collective sigh inspired by E.L. James's erotic S&M series. Is it possible for an entire nation to have a simultaneous orgasm? Apparently so: the "Fifty Shades" trilogy now occupies the number one,...
- 5/15/2012
- by Marlo Thomas
- Aol TV.
DVD Release Date: May 8, 2012
Price: DVD $19.98
Studio: Raro Video
Corinne Clery (r.) helps Michele Placido solve the mystery behind a series of grisly murders in Plot of Fear.
Murders begin to plague members of the jet set in the 1976 Italian crime thriller film Plot of Fear.
Told through a series of flashbacks, Plot of Fear spins a story of a group of wealthy men and women who get murdered one by one at a decadent weekend party, the killer leaving behind drawings of a famous children’s book on the victims’ mutilated bodies. In an attempt to find a connection between the victims, Inspector Lomenzo (Michele Placido) encounters a mysterious fashion model (Corinne Clery, The Story of O) who becomes his informant. She reveals that at one of the young female victims was “accidently” killed during a gruesome practical joke at the party. But that would mean that there’s...
Price: DVD $19.98
Studio: Raro Video
Corinne Clery (r.) helps Michele Placido solve the mystery behind a series of grisly murders in Plot of Fear.
Murders begin to plague members of the jet set in the 1976 Italian crime thriller film Plot of Fear.
Told through a series of flashbacks, Plot of Fear spins a story of a group of wealthy men and women who get murdered one by one at a decadent weekend party, the killer leaving behind drawings of a famous children’s book on the victims’ mutilated bodies. In an attempt to find a connection between the victims, Inspector Lomenzo (Michele Placido) encounters a mysterious fashion model (Corinne Clery, The Story of O) who becomes his informant. She reveals that at one of the young female victims was “accidently” killed during a gruesome practical joke at the party. But that would mean that there’s...
- 4/27/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
The erotically charged novel Fifty Shades of Grey has already become a phenomenon among eBook readers, but now it will be titillating on a much larger screen.
Universal Pictures and Focus Features announced this morning they have acquired film rights to the novel authored by TV executive and mother of two, E.L. James, with plans to create a trilogy out of the novel and its two sequels. “At its core, this is a romance of the most emotionally resonant, but delicate, order — and we look forward to working with our colleagues at Universal to transform E.L. James’ vision into a great film,...
Universal Pictures and Focus Features announced this morning they have acquired film rights to the novel authored by TV executive and mother of two, E.L. James, with plans to create a trilogy out of the novel and its two sequels. “At its core, this is a romance of the most emotionally resonant, but delicate, order — and we look forward to working with our colleagues at Universal to transform E.L. James’ vision into a great film,...
- 3/26/2012
- by Anthony Breznican
- EW - Inside Movies
The first film by Australian novelist Julia Leigh, Sleeping Beauty is a curiosity, a combination of Krafft-Ebing, Charles Perrault, the brothers Grimm and some sexual fantasies out of magazines such as Forum and Erotica. It centres on Lucy (Emily Browning), a rather blank Australian student who's paying her way through college as a clerk in an office, a waitress in a cafe and a sex-worker. The most lucrative activity involves being drugged into a coma by a creepy 40-something matron in order to sleep with rich elderly men who are told they can do almost anything (including touching her neck with a burning cigarette) except penetrate her body. The dialogue is mostly laughable and delivered in the stilted manner of up-market softcore porn of the Emmanuelle and The Story of O variety, but it's far from erotic. The name of Jane Campion does not appear in the credits, but Julia Leigh...
- 10/15/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Updated through 5/15.
"'Your vagina will not be penetrated. Your vagina is a temple.' With these words, Sleeping Beauty establishes the ground rules and sets the scene for a bizarre sexual nightmare." The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw: "It is technically elegant, with vehemence and control, though often preposterous, with the imagined classiness of high-end prostitution and art-porn cliches of secret sexiness in grand chateaux: shades of Eyes Wide Shut. Author-turned-director Julia Leigh has certainly made an assured debut, which evidently owes nothing to Jane Campion who has 'presented' this movie in some kind of Executive Mentor capacity. Instead, Leigh aims for the occult ritual of Buñuel and the formal exactitude of Haneke: rigorously framed and composed shots."
"n telling the story of a girl falling into the most eerily art-directed prostitution ring this side of a Freemason hazing ceremony, Leigh's way revisionist fairytale bluntly points out the ways in which...
"'Your vagina will not be penetrated. Your vagina is a temple.' With these words, Sleeping Beauty establishes the ground rules and sets the scene for a bizarre sexual nightmare." The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw: "It is technically elegant, with vehemence and control, though often preposterous, with the imagined classiness of high-end prostitution and art-porn cliches of secret sexiness in grand chateaux: shades of Eyes Wide Shut. Author-turned-director Julia Leigh has certainly made an assured debut, which evidently owes nothing to Jane Campion who has 'presented' this movie in some kind of Executive Mentor capacity. Instead, Leigh aims for the occult ritual of Buñuel and the formal exactitude of Haneke: rigorously framed and composed shots."
"n telling the story of a girl falling into the most eerily art-directed prostitution ring this side of a Freemason hazing ceremony, Leigh's way revisionist fairytale bluntly points out the ways in which...
- 5/15/2011
- MUBI
The festival has famously neglected the talents of female directors, but this year four are vying for the top prize, including Lynne Ramsay, whose dazzling interpretation of Lionel Shriver's novel We Need to Talk About Kevin is tipped for glory
Oone of the 15 golden rules of Cannes president Gilles Jacob, as set out in his new memoir Citizen Cannes, is: Never forget that a beautiful woman's face is the reason cinema exists.
A reflection of cinema itself, the festival has always been in the thrall of beautiful women: Faye Dunaway adorns this year's striking festival poster, slinked as she is in a mid-length black dress around the digits 64, while Marilyn Monroe in a sparkly playsuit is poster girl for the Un Certain Regard sidebar.
However adoring of on-screen beauty, Cannes has notoriously neglected female talent behind the camera, the Australian Jane Campion being the only Palme d'Or winner, for The Piano,...
Oone of the 15 golden rules of Cannes president Gilles Jacob, as set out in his new memoir Citizen Cannes, is: Never forget that a beautiful woman's face is the reason cinema exists.
A reflection of cinema itself, the festival has always been in the thrall of beautiful women: Faye Dunaway adorns this year's striking festival poster, slinked as she is in a mid-length black dress around the digits 64, while Marilyn Monroe in a sparkly playsuit is poster girl for the Un Certain Regard sidebar.
However adoring of on-screen beauty, Cannes has notoriously neglected female talent behind the camera, the Australian Jane Campion being the only Palme d'Or winner, for The Piano,...
- 5/14/2011
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
It's been a depressing few weeks for sex related news. CBS reporter Lara Logan was beaten and violently sexually assaulted while reporting on the crisis in Egypt and various bloggers and reporters made asses of themselves by focusing on her looks or the (supposed) religion of her attackers. Representative Scott Brown released a memoir in which he describes childhood sexual abuse that he had not previously told anyone, not even those closest to him, about. The House of Representatives voted last Friday to strip federal funding for Planned Parenthood, a nonprofit that provides contraceptives, cancer screening, Sti treatment and basic reproductive health care to disadvantaged people - mostly women. I don't generally shy away from reporting on the heavy stuff, but this column is supposed to be entertaining, not depressing. And anyway, I'm more comfortable in the role of masochist than sadist. So instead of rubbing your noses in one...
- 2/22/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
The El Topo and Holy Mountain director thrilled the 1970s counter-culture. Now his crazed visions are turning on everyone from Santigold to Kasabian
Eyebrows, hopes and ceremonially lit bongs were all raised earlier this year with the news that Alejandro Jodorowsky was finally making another movie. The high priest of head-trip cinema, Jodorowsky blew the collective mind of the counter-culture with a handful of supremely odd movies in the 1970s, such as El Topo and The Holy Mountain, but despite continual promises and rumours, Jodorowsky's long-awaited return never seemed to materialise. In the meantime, his work has been seized upon by a new generation of hipsters desperately seeking out-there inspiration, as we shall see. This year, though, at the Cannes film festival, Jodorowsky announced he had raised the cash for his next movie. It would be called King Shot, and it would be a metaphysical western set in a desert casino,...
Eyebrows, hopes and ceremonially lit bongs were all raised earlier this year with the news that Alejandro Jodorowsky was finally making another movie. The high priest of head-trip cinema, Jodorowsky blew the collective mind of the counter-culture with a handful of supremely odd movies in the 1970s, such as El Topo and The Holy Mountain, but despite continual promises and rumours, Jodorowsky's long-awaited return never seemed to materialise. In the meantime, his work has been seized upon by a new generation of hipsters desperately seeking out-there inspiration, as we shall see. This year, though, at the Cannes film festival, Jodorowsky announced he had raised the cash for his next movie. It would be called King Shot, and it would be a metaphysical western set in a desert casino,...
- 11/14/2009
- The Guardian - Film News
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