A bright and bouncy primer on the short, chaotic life of ill-fated sex-bomb Jayne Mansfield, P David Ebersole and Todd Hughes' Mansfield 66/67 seeks to channel the effervescent fizz of its subject with entertaining but haphazard results. Featuring predictably incisive contributions from John Waters, Mary Woronov, Kenneth Anger (who famously stuck Mansfield on the cover of his best-selling gossip-tome Holllywood Babylon) among a slew of talking heads, the UK/Us co-production is a natural for camp-friendly festivals and certainly won't be diminished by small-screen exposure.
It's the first feature to be co-directed by marrieds Ebersole and Hughes, who co-wrote 2011's well-received Hit So Hard, profiling Hole drummer...
It's the first feature to be co-directed by marrieds Ebersole and Hughes, who co-wrote 2011's well-received Hit So Hard, profiling Hole drummer...
- 2/8/2017
- by Neil Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Long considered one of the greatest shows ever to grace television, David Lynch's Twin Peaks is often approached and understood in a sort of bubble, a vacuum. Which is appropriate, on a certain level, given that it was totally unlike anything that had ever come before and exists without obvious, conventional frames of reference but it overlooks the impact that the show had on the actual, flesh and blood people who found this dark, strange, wonderful world deeply personal. People such as Travis Blue, an outcast growing up in the actual town where Twin Peaks was shot. Northwest Passage is a unique, visually-stunning documentary from director Adam Baran (Jackpot), executive producers P. David Ebersole & Todd Hughes (Room 237, Hit So Hard) and executive producer...
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- 5/6/2015
- Screen Anarchy
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
The 2013 GLAAD Media Awards were given out in Los Angeles Saturday night (April 20), with former President Bill Clinton being awarded the Advocate for Change Award. Watch his acceptance speech above.
"The whole history of our country has been sometimes racing, but usually stumbling in the right direction. All of you have helped us to be more worthy of what we said we were about in the beginning," says Clinton.
The full list of winners below, some of which were announced at the New York event March 16:
Outstanding Film - Wide Release
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Cloud Atlas (Warner Bros. Pictures)
ParaNorman (Focus Features)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Summit Entertainment)
Your Sister's Sister (IFC Films)
Outstanding Drama Series
Degrassi (TeenNick)
Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
The L.A. Complex (The CW)
Smash (NBC)
True Blood (HBO)
Outstanding Comedy Series
Glee (Fox)
Go On (NBC)
Happy Endings (ABC...
"The whole history of our country has been sometimes racing, but usually stumbling in the right direction. All of you have helped us to be more worthy of what we said we were about in the beginning," says Clinton.
The full list of winners below, some of which were announced at the New York event March 16:
Outstanding Film - Wide Release
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Cloud Atlas (Warner Bros. Pictures)
ParaNorman (Focus Features)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Summit Entertainment)
Your Sister's Sister (IFC Films)
Outstanding Drama Series
Degrassi (TeenNick)
Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
The L.A. Complex (The CW)
Smash (NBC)
True Blood (HBO)
Outstanding Comedy Series
Glee (Fox)
Go On (NBC)
Happy Endings (ABC...
- 4/21/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
"Dear Mom, Love Cher," an hour-long documentary produced by Todd Hughes ("The New Women") and written and directed by P. David Ebersole ("Hit So Hard"), will premiere on Lifetime on Monday, May 6, in honor of Mother's Day. The special, which Cher executive produced, will focus on the actress and singer's mother Georgia Holt, who was born in rural Arkansas and headed to Los Angeles to pursue a career in show business. She weathered six marriages and through difficult times raised her two daughters, one of whom "would live out the dream Holt could never fulfill for herself and go on to become one of the world's biggest stars." (Take that, mom.) "Dear Mom, Love Cher" will feature interviews with Holt, her daughters Cher and Georganne Lapiere Bartylak, and her grandchildren Chaz Bono and Elijah Blue Allman, as well as a never-before-heard duet performance with Holt and Cher. "This project started...
- 4/2/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
Tags: MadonnaGLAAD Media AwardsGLAADDegrassiFimogenMilla JovovichIMDb
The 24th Annual GLAAD Awards was held at the Marriott Marquis in New York City this past Saturday. This year, considerable buzz led up to the event, as the Queen of Pop herself, Madonna, was scheduled to make an appearance. She greeted the crowd with her trademark brashness and saucy humor.
Source: Grace Chu’s Instagram
Taking the stage in a Boy Scout uniform, pop icon Madonna called for the Boy Scouts to lift its ban on gays. “I think [the Boy Scouts] should change their stupid rules,” she said. She also called for an end to Lgbt bullying, spoke out in defense of imprisoned band Pussy Riot, and called for open dialogue between ideological opposites to end discrimination. Finally, she presented the Vito Russo award to Anderson Cooper. Calling him a “freedom fighter” and “a bad ass motherfucker,” she invited Cooper onstage so she could “grab [his] ass.
The 24th Annual GLAAD Awards was held at the Marriott Marquis in New York City this past Saturday. This year, considerable buzz led up to the event, as the Queen of Pop herself, Madonna, was scheduled to make an appearance. She greeted the crowd with her trademark brashness and saucy humor.
Source: Grace Chu’s Instagram
Taking the stage in a Boy Scout uniform, pop icon Madonna called for the Boy Scouts to lift its ban on gays. “I think [the Boy Scouts] should change their stupid rules,” she said. She also called for an end to Lgbt bullying, spoke out in defense of imprisoned band Pussy Riot, and called for open dialogue between ideological opposites to end discrimination. Finally, she presented the Vito Russo award to Anderson Cooper. Calling him a “freedom fighter” and “a bad ass motherfucker,” she invited Cooper onstage so she could “grab [his] ass.
- 3/18/2013
- by gracechu
- AfterEllen.com
GLAAD this morning announced 153 nominees in 33 categories for the group’s 24th annual GLAAD Media Awards, which recognize media for outstanding images of the Lgbt community. Winners will be unveiled in ceremonies March 16 in New York and April 20 in San Francisco. Here’s the full list: Outstanding Film – Wide Release The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Fox Searchlight Pictures) Cloud Atlas (Warner Bros. Pictures) ParaNorman (Focus Features) The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Summit Entertainment) Your Sister’s Sister (IFC Films) Outstanding Film – Limited Release Any Day Now (Music Box Films) Keep the Lights On (Music Box Films) Mosquita y Mari (Wolfe Releasing) Musical Chairs (Paladin) North Sea Texas (Strand Releasing) Outstanding Drama Series Degrassi (TeenNick) Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) The L.A. Complex (The CW) Smash (NBC) True Blood (HBO) Outstanding Comedy Series Glee (Fox) Go On (NBC) Happy Endings (ABC) Modern Family (ABC) The New Normal (NBC) Outstanding Individual Episode...
- 1/16/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
GLAAD (the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) has announced its annual Media Awards nominations, which recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives.
The full list of nominees:
Outstanding Film - Wide Release
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Cloud Atlas (Warner Bros. Pictures)
ParaNorman (Focus Features)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Summit Entertainment)
Your Sister's Sister (IFC Films)
Outstanding Film - Limited Release
Any Day Now (Music Box Films)
Keep the Lights On (Music Box Films)
Mosquita y Mari (Wolfe Releasing)
Musical Chairs (Paladin)
North Sea Texas (Strand Releasing)
Outstanding Drama Series
Degrassi (TeenNick)
Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
The L.A. Complex (The CW)
Smash (NBC)
True Blood (HBO)
Outstanding Comedy Series
Glee (Fox)
Go On (NBC)
Happy Endings (ABC)
Modern Family (ABC)
The New Normal (NBC)
Outstanding Individual...
The full list of nominees:
Outstanding Film - Wide Release
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Cloud Atlas (Warner Bros. Pictures)
ParaNorman (Focus Features)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Summit Entertainment)
Your Sister's Sister (IFC Films)
Outstanding Film - Limited Release
Any Day Now (Music Box Films)
Keep the Lights On (Music Box Films)
Mosquita y Mari (Wolfe Releasing)
Musical Chairs (Paladin)
North Sea Texas (Strand Releasing)
Outstanding Drama Series
Degrassi (TeenNick)
Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
The L.A. Complex (The CW)
Smash (NBC)
True Blood (HBO)
Outstanding Comedy Series
Glee (Fox)
Go On (NBC)
Happy Endings (ABC)
Modern Family (ABC)
The New Normal (NBC)
Outstanding Individual...
- 1/16/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Directed by documentary filmmaker P. David Ebersole, Hit So Hard (2011) is a harrowing tale of overnight success, the cost of addiction, and ultimately, recovery and redemption. Featuring live and recorded music from Hole, Hit So Hard is an all-access backstage pass to the music that shaped a generation. To celebrate the release of Ebersole's grunge rockumentary on DVD, we've kindly been provided with Three copies of the film to give away to our music-loving readers, courtesy of Peccadillo Pictures. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook and Twitter fans, so if you haven't already, 'Like' us at facebook.com/CineVueUK or follow us @CineVue before answering the question below.
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- 11/30/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
★★★☆☆ 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
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
Catch up with the last seven days in the world of film
The big story
The film world is still cowering under the twin assault of Skyfall and Star Wars, but for the first time for weeks there's time to pause, take a breath, and realise there might - just might – be other forms of cinema available. Sticking its head above the parapet last Friday was The Master, the heavily adored (well, by Peter Bradshaw at least) new film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix – and, tangentially, inspired by the doings of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard. J Hoberman's masterly essay in the Guardian's Review section on the weekend put the case rather brilliantly that director Paul Thomas Anderson was comparable to the greatest of Hollywood's golden-age legends; but it hasn't all been sobbing acclaim. The Observer's Rachel Cooke found The Master a tricky blighter, while opinion on the...
The big story
The film world is still cowering under the twin assault of Skyfall and Star Wars, but for the first time for weeks there's time to pause, take a breath, and realise there might - just might – be other forms of cinema available. Sticking its head above the parapet last Friday was The Master, the heavily adored (well, by Peter Bradshaw at least) new film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix – and, tangentially, inspired by the doings of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard. J Hoberman's masterly essay in the Guardian's Review section on the weekend put the case rather brilliantly that director Paul Thomas Anderson was comparable to the greatest of Hollywood's golden-age legends; but it hasn't all been sobbing acclaim. The Observer's Rachel Cooke found The Master a tricky blighter, while opinion on the...
- 11/8/2012
- 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
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
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
"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
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
Honest, delicate portrayals of family and twisted, explicit sexual obsessions will pepper the 29th annual Outfest film festival, opening Thursday night at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles. The oldest continuously running film festival in Los Angeles, the 11-day Outfest 2011 will kick off with director Rashaad Ernesto Green’s first feature film, “Gun Hill Road” (pictured right) and feature 164 films, 67 of which are feature-length. New this year, Outfest will incorporate more music into its programming. The July 14 Documentary Centerpiece screening of “Hit So Hard,” which chronicles the rock life of Patty Schemel...
- 7/7/2011
- by Jake Weinraub
- The Wrap
The Provincetown International Film Festival hosted a little bash at an art gallery in town amidst a rain storm which played a little havoc with people's hair Friday night - but who cares! It's P-Town. Among the people hanging out were producer Christine Vachon, John Waters, Hole doc ("Hit So Hard") producer Todd Hughes and director P. David Ebersole and Provincetown fest Director of Programming Andrew Peterson.
- 6/18/2011
- Indiewire
Devid Striesow, Sebastian Schipper in Tom Tykwer's 3 Outfest 2011: Patty Schemel Documentary Hit So Hard, Andrew Haigh's Weekend Schedule and film information from the Outfest 2011 press release. U.S. Dramatic Centerpiece – Circumstance (July 12 at 8:00pm – DGA 1) In a vibrant contemporary Tehran, two beautiful teenage girls struggle for their personal freedom. Atafeh and her best friend Shireen are full of youthful exuberance and a healthy streak of rebellion as they drink, smoke and go dancing at underground parties. When Atafeh’s brother Mehran returns from drug rehab, he embraces a new way of life and joins the Morality Police – much [...]...
- 5/24/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Chris New, Tom Cullen in Andrew Haigh's Weekend Kathleen Turner, Richard Chamberlain, Esai Morales: Outfest 2011 Outfest 2011's four centerpieces are Maryam Keshavarz's Teheran-set drama Circumstance (U.S. Dramatic), winner of the Dramatic Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year; Andrew Haigh's Weekend (International), a sleeper hit at SXSW 2011 and the winner of the festival's Emerging Visions Audience Award; P. David Ebersole's Patty Schemel documentary Hit So Hard (Documentary); and Tom Tykwer's ménage à trois drama 3 (Broad Stage Gala). [Schedule/detailed film information.] In Circumstance, an addict (Reza Sixo Safai) replaces drugs with Allah, joins Iran's Moral Police, and starts meddling [...]...
- 5/24/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
It’s stories like this that really make my day! As a teen, Hole was one of my favorite bands… Heck, I still break out their CD’s to jam! Now, there is a new documentary that follows Patty Schemel, former drummer of Hole, and her journey between the rock-n-roll world and a much darker side. Well, keep reading son!
The Museum of Modern Art and Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today that the members of Hole will reunite to celebrate the first of two New Directors/New Films screenings of P. David Ebersole.s documentary, Hit So Hard at MoMA on Monday, March 28 at 6:00Pm.
The reunion will mark the first time Love, Erlandson, der Maur and Schemel have been together at a public event in 13 years.
Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson and Melissa auf der Maur will join former bandmate Patty Schemel for the New York debut of Ebersole.s rockumentary.
The Museum of Modern Art and Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today that the members of Hole will reunite to celebrate the first of two New Directors/New Films screenings of P. David Ebersole.s documentary, Hit So Hard at MoMA on Monday, March 28 at 6:00Pm.
The reunion will mark the first time Love, Erlandson, der Maur and Schemel have been together at a public event in 13 years.
Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson and Melissa auf der Maur will join former bandmate Patty Schemel for the New York debut of Ebersole.s rockumentary.
- 3/30/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Updated through 3/29.
The New York Times' Dave Itzkoff reports that not only will former Hole drummer Patty Schemel be attending tonight's New Directors / New Films screening at MoMA of the doc about her, P David Ebersole's Hit So Hard, but so, too, will guitarist Eric Erlandson and bassist Melissa Auf der Maur, "not to mention a certain idiosyncratic front woman and fashion plate named Courtney Love. If we sound a little surprised by the gathering (which the film series organizers say is the first time these four musicians have been together at a public event in 13 years), consider such past events in the history of Hole as: Ms Schemel's departure from the group in 1998 and the band's dissolution in 2002; Ms Love's announcement of a Hole reunion in 2009 that seemed to surprise Ms Auf der Maur; Mr Erlandson's remarks that 'there is no Hole without me' and Ms Love's online reply...
The New York Times' Dave Itzkoff reports that not only will former Hole drummer Patty Schemel be attending tonight's New Directors / New Films screening at MoMA of the doc about her, P David Ebersole's Hit So Hard, but so, too, will guitarist Eric Erlandson and bassist Melissa Auf der Maur, "not to mention a certain idiosyncratic front woman and fashion plate named Courtney Love. If we sound a little surprised by the gathering (which the film series organizers say is the first time these four musicians have been together at a public event in 13 years), consider such past events in the history of Hole as: Ms Schemel's departure from the group in 1998 and the band's dissolution in 2002; Ms Love's announcement of a Hole reunion in 2009 that seemed to surprise Ms Auf der Maur; Mr Erlandson's remarks that 'there is no Hole without me' and Ms Love's online reply...
- 3/29/2011
- MUBI
Courtney Love shrugged. "We've been in lots of rooms together," she said to a packed theater of moviegoers at the Museum of Modern Art, where Hit So Hard, a documentary about her band Hole (and, more specifically, drummer/addict/survivor Patty Schemel) had its New York premiere Monday night. The crowd laughed, steeped in nostalgia and recognition -- not that Love was talking about this room or this crowd.
- 3/29/2011
- Movieline
When most think of rock docs, it’s likely VH1′s award-winning Behind the Music pops into their mind. Blending a featured band’s comprehensive history with a fast-paced narrative and popular music, it was a documentary series that was accessible and entertaining to the ardent fans and newbies alike. P. David Ebersole’s Hit So Hard is not so inclusive, favoring a storytelling method that assumes the film’s audience will be devotees of the bygone grunge age – or at the least deeply fascinated by Kurt and Courtney. Anyone else might struggle to follow the film’s tenuous thread.
Hit So Hard focuses on the roller-coaster-like life story of drummer Patty Schemel, an outcast turned struggling artist turned rock star turned literal crack whore turned mentor. It’s a compelling tale and Schemel is engrossing as she openly reveals her highs and lows with a self-deprecating sense of humor and utter lack of self-pity.
Hit So Hard focuses on the roller-coaster-like life story of drummer Patty Schemel, an outcast turned struggling artist turned rock star turned literal crack whore turned mentor. It’s a compelling tale and Schemel is engrossing as she openly reveals her highs and lows with a self-deprecating sense of humor and utter lack of self-pity.
- 3/28/2011
- by Kristy Puchko
- The Film Stage
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