davidrowencreativeThenew music Youtube series called davidrowencreativewill showcase performances of creative arrangements of Broadway tunes and radio hits and beyond. Each video will feature different artists, who are primarily pulled from the theatre scene. Below, check out the first video in time for Independence Day, featuring a four-part arrangement of 'The Star-Spangled Banner,'sung by Adam Roberts Spider-Man, Pippin, Jake Odmark Spider-Man, Kinky Boots, Kevin Jones Spider-Man, and David Rowen...
- 7/1/2016
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Exclusive: Contemporary Films inks deal with Doc & Film for No Home Movie, the final film of the late director.
UK distributor Contemporary Films, in association with screenings collective A Nos Amours, has acquired rights to Belgian film-maker Chantal Akerman’s final feature, No Home Movie.
The pioneering writer-director died in Paris in October aged 65, just months after the documentary debuted at Locarno and weeks after it played in Toronto.
The film is a portrait of the film-maker’s relationship with her mother Natalia, a Holocaust survivor and familiar presence from many of her daughter’s films.
No Home Movie received its UK premiere at the Regent Street Cinema in October as the concluding film of A Nos Amour’s two year Akerman retrospective and is due to be shown at the Glasgow Film Festival (Feb 17-28), Dublin International Film Festival (Feb 18-28) and Sheffield Doc/Fest (Jun 10-15), among others, before getting...
UK distributor Contemporary Films, in association with screenings collective A Nos Amours, has acquired rights to Belgian film-maker Chantal Akerman’s final feature, No Home Movie.
The pioneering writer-director died in Paris in October aged 65, just months after the documentary debuted at Locarno and weeks after it played in Toronto.
The film is a portrait of the film-maker’s relationship with her mother Natalia, a Holocaust survivor and familiar presence from many of her daughter’s films.
No Home Movie received its UK premiere at the Regent Street Cinema in October as the concluding film of A Nos Amour’s two year Akerman retrospective and is due to be shown at the Glasgow Film Festival (Feb 17-28), Dublin International Film Festival (Feb 18-28) and Sheffield Doc/Fest (Jun 10-15), among others, before getting...
- 12/22/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Contemporary Films inks deal with Doc & Film for the late director’s final film.
UK distributor Contemporary Films, in association with screenings collective A Nos Amours, has acquired rights to Belgian film-maker Chantal Akerman’s final feature No Home Movie.
The pioneering writer-director died in Paris in October aged 65, just months after the documentary debuted at Locarno and weeks after it played in Toronto.
The film is a portrait of the film-maker’s relationship with her mother Natalia, a Holocaust survivor and familiar presence from many of her daughter’s films.
No Home Movie received its UK premiere at the Regent Street Cinema in October as the concluding film of A Nos Amour’s two year Akerman retrospective and is due to be shown at the Glasgow Film Festival (Feb 17-28), Dublin International Film Festival (Feb 18-28) and Sheffield Doc/Fest (Jun 10-15), among others, before getting a UK theatrical run next year. A release...
UK distributor Contemporary Films, in association with screenings collective A Nos Amours, has acquired rights to Belgian film-maker Chantal Akerman’s final feature No Home Movie.
The pioneering writer-director died in Paris in October aged 65, just months after the documentary debuted at Locarno and weeks after it played in Toronto.
The film is a portrait of the film-maker’s relationship with her mother Natalia, a Holocaust survivor and familiar presence from many of her daughter’s films.
No Home Movie received its UK premiere at the Regent Street Cinema in October as the concluding film of A Nos Amour’s two year Akerman retrospective and is due to be shown at the Glasgow Film Festival (Feb 17-28), Dublin International Film Festival (Feb 18-28) and Sheffield Doc/Fest (Jun 10-15), among others, before getting a UK theatrical run next year. A release...
- 12/22/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Chantal Akerman Now, currently on view at Ambika P3 in London through December 6 and jointly curated by Michael Mazière and, for A Nos Amours, Joanna Hogg and Adam Roberts, is "the first large scale exhibition in the English-speaking world of Akerman’s installation work." Seven installations in all, the centerpiece being Now (2015), originally commissioned for this year's Venice Biennale. We're collecting reviews, impressions overshadowed by the late director's suicide, and we've got a bit of video as well. » - David Hudson...
- 11/8/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Chantal Akerman Now, currently on view at Ambika P3 in London through December 6 and jointly curated by Michael Mazière and, for A Nos Amours, Joanna Hogg and Adam Roberts, is "the first large scale exhibition in the English-speaking world of Akerman’s installation work." Seven installations in all, the centerpiece being Now (2015), originally commissioned for this year's Venice Biennale. We're collecting reviews, impressions overshadowed by the late director's suicide, and we've got a bit of video as well. » - David Hudson...
- 11/8/2015
- Keyframe
Natalia Akerman in Chantal Akerman's No Home Movie
Chantal Akerman, who died on October 5, 2015, will have UK premières of her 8 channel video installation Now and her last film No Home Movie on October 30. Now, commissioned for the 2015 Venice Biennale, is in surround sound with collected images by Akerman from "desert regions, specifically violently contested regions in the Middle East, her aim to present the current condition of violence and conflict as lived experience." Chantal Akerman: Now is curated by Michael Mazière of Ambika P3, Joanna Hogg and Adam Roberts of A Nos Amours, presented in association with Marian Goodman Gallery.
Chantal Akerman: Now at Ambika P3, University of Westminster
Atom Egoyan's remembrance of Chantal Akerman after having returned from the world premiere of his film Remember at the Venice International Film Festival: "What a terrible shock. I will never forget the experience of watching Jeanne Dielman...
Chantal Akerman, who died on October 5, 2015, will have UK premières of her 8 channel video installation Now and her last film No Home Movie on October 30. Now, commissioned for the 2015 Venice Biennale, is in surround sound with collected images by Akerman from "desert regions, specifically violently contested regions in the Middle East, her aim to present the current condition of violence and conflict as lived experience." Chantal Akerman: Now is curated by Michael Mazière of Ambika P3, Joanna Hogg and Adam Roberts of A Nos Amours, presented in association with Marian Goodman Gallery.
Chantal Akerman: Now at Ambika P3, University of Westminster
Atom Egoyan's remembrance of Chantal Akerman after having returned from the world premiere of his film Remember at the Venice International Film Festival: "What a terrible shock. I will never forget the experience of watching Jeanne Dielman...
- 10/28/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The pioneering feminist film director died suddenly this week, aged 65. Joanna Hogg and Adam Roberts, who have been curating a complete retrospective of her work, remember an extraordinary talent and friend
With heavy hearts we have tried to gather our thoughts. Our perspective is hard to describe; in curating Chantal’s work, we came to know her personally. And in doing so we discovered that Chantal’s films and Chantal herself are, in so many ways, the same thing. She eschewed categorisation – as an artist, as a female film-maker. She was simply Chantal Akerman.
Some people will be wondering who Chantal Akerman was. She ought not need an introduction – she is a film-maker who changed what cinema is or could be or ought to be. She strode effortlessly into the roll-call of great auteurs, her work into the lists of best films ever made.
Continue reading...
With heavy hearts we have tried to gather our thoughts. Our perspective is hard to describe; in curating Chantal’s work, we came to know her personally. And in doing so we discovered that Chantal’s films and Chantal herself are, in so many ways, the same thing. She eschewed categorisation – as an artist, as a female film-maker. She was simply Chantal Akerman.
Some people will be wondering who Chantal Akerman was. She ought not need an introduction – she is a film-maker who changed what cinema is or could be or ought to be. She strode effortlessly into the roll-call of great auteurs, her work into the lists of best films ever made.
Continue reading...
- 10/8/2015
- by Joanna Hogg and Adam Roberts
- The Guardian - Film News
A thriller based on a failed attempt to overthrow the government of East African nation Equatorial Guinea, which bizarrely involved Margaret Thatcher.s son, is in the works.
Producer Jeremy Thomas is developing the feature based on Adam Roberts. book The Wonga Coup for Phillip Noyce to direct.
The protagonist is Simon Mann, a mercenary and a former officer in the British Army who was the alleged mastermind of the planned coup to depose President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and replace him with the exiled opposition leader Severo Moto.
The plot was exposed in March 2004 when a plane carrying more than 60 alleged mercenaries including Mann was seized by police in Harare, Zimbabwe, and they were arrested for attempting to send weapons into Equatorial Guinea.
Mann was extradited to Equatorial Guinea where he confessed to his involvement and served 15 months of a 34-year sentence. In 2009 he was pardoned by President Obiang,...
Producer Jeremy Thomas is developing the feature based on Adam Roberts. book The Wonga Coup for Phillip Noyce to direct.
The protagonist is Simon Mann, a mercenary and a former officer in the British Army who was the alleged mastermind of the planned coup to depose President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and replace him with the exiled opposition leader Severo Moto.
The plot was exposed in March 2004 when a plane carrying more than 60 alleged mercenaries including Mann was seized by police in Harare, Zimbabwe, and they were arrested for attempting to send weapons into Equatorial Guinea.
Mann was extradited to Equatorial Guinea where he confessed to his involvement and served 15 months of a 34-year sentence. In 2009 he was pardoned by President Obiang,...
- 11/26/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
There are few things in pop culture that have a softer spot in ’90s kids hearts than Toy Story and its subsequent sequels. And after the reaction to the two-Oscar winning, Best Picture nominated Toy Story 3 was essentially, “Oh my God, that was a million times better than I would’ve ever expected and now I’m super sad, I mean didn’t you think the toys were going to get incinerated? How effed up would that have been?!?”, you can bet the Internet would just about explode if a fourth Toy Story were to be announced.
Well according to Deadline, Toy Story 4 is officially in the works at Disney and Pixar, with John Lasseter (director of Toy Story 1 and 2, but not 3) set to direct. The film is set for a June 16, 2017 release date, and Rashida Jones and Will McCormack (Jones of Parks and Recreation, and the writing pair...
Well according to Deadline, Toy Story 4 is officially in the works at Disney and Pixar, with John Lasseter (director of Toy Story 1 and 2, but not 3) set to direct. The film is set for a June 16, 2017 release date, and Rashida Jones and Will McCormack (Jones of Parks and Recreation, and the writing pair...
- 11/7/2014
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Initiative aims to expand film culture in the capital as part of the BFI Film Audience Network.
Film London officially launched Film Hub London at an event at the Ica last night. London’s Hub, receiving £800,000 ($1.3m) lottery funding from the BFI over four years, has already attracted more than 100 members representing 30 of London’s 33 boroughs.
Details of its first initiatives were announced including funding awards and a brand new programme of archive film, curated by London’s Screen Archives.
London Film Hub forms part of the BFI Film Audience Network, and its membership of commercial and independent cinemas, film clubs and smaller community groups, aims to expand the film culture offer across the whole of London in a bid to boost film audiences.
Adrian Wootton, CEO of Film London and the British Film Commission said: “Officially launching the Hub with over 100 members demonstrates the sheer ambition of organisations to broaden the film offer for Londoners, which...
Film London officially launched Film Hub London at an event at the Ica last night. London’s Hub, receiving £800,000 ($1.3m) lottery funding from the BFI over four years, has already attracted more than 100 members representing 30 of London’s 33 boroughs.
Details of its first initiatives were announced including funding awards and a brand new programme of archive film, curated by London’s Screen Archives.
London Film Hub forms part of the BFI Film Audience Network, and its membership of commercial and independent cinemas, film clubs and smaller community groups, aims to expand the film culture offer across the whole of London in a bid to boost film audiences.
Adrian Wootton, CEO of Film London and the British Film Commission said: “Officially launching the Hub with over 100 members demonstrates the sheer ambition of organisations to broaden the film offer for Londoners, which...
- 3/18/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Sheffield Doc/Fest | Dunoon film festival | A Nos Amours | Seret – The London Israeli film and television festival
Sheffield Doc/Fest
Sheffield doesn't quite have the same ring as Cannes or Venice, but in documentary terms it's a fair comparison. This is a market and a meeting place for professionals, and guests this year include Walter Murch, Jonathan Franzen, Trevor McDonald and Captain Sensible, as well as just about every British documentarian you can think of. But this is also the place to see the latest in non-fiction film: 120 films, many of them premieres, on topics ranging from Pussy Riot to Uri Geller's CIA missions, Indonesian genocide, and Bradley Wiggins.
Various venues, Wed to 16 Jun
Dunoon film festival
Edinburgh and Glasgow festivals bring world cinema to Scotland, but this inaugural festival brings Scottish cinema to Scotland, and helps put a seaside town on the cultural map. There are some recent international releases,...
Sheffield Doc/Fest
Sheffield doesn't quite have the same ring as Cannes or Venice, but in documentary terms it's a fair comparison. This is a market and a meeting place for professionals, and guests this year include Walter Murch, Jonathan Franzen, Trevor McDonald and Captain Sensible, as well as just about every British documentarian you can think of. But this is also the place to see the latest in non-fiction film: 120 films, many of them premieres, on topics ranging from Pussy Riot to Uri Geller's CIA missions, Indonesian genocide, and Bradley Wiggins.
Various venues, Wed to 16 Jun
Dunoon film festival
Edinburgh and Glasgow festivals bring world cinema to Scotland, but this inaugural festival brings Scottish cinema to Scotland, and helps put a seaside town on the cultural map. There are some recent international releases,...
- 6/8/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
It’s the 50th anniversary of the Ann Arbor Film Festival and they’re preparing an all-out blowout on March 27 to April 1 to celebrate! The fest is crammed to the gills with the latest and greatest in experimental and avant-garde film, in addition to a celebration of classic work from Ann Arbors past.
Filmmaker Bruce Baillie was there at the first Aaff — and numerous times since. He’s back this year with a major retrospective of his entire career that spans three separate programs. Baillie, who’ll be in attendance of course, will present a brand-new restored version of his epic pseudo-Western Quick Billy, plus screenings of his classic short movies such as Castro Street, Yellow Horse, Quixote, To Parsifal and more.
There’s also a program dedicated to the films of the late Robert Nelson, including Bleu Shut and Special Warning, as well as sprinklings of underground classics throughout...
Filmmaker Bruce Baillie was there at the first Aaff — and numerous times since. He’s back this year with a major retrospective of his entire career that spans three separate programs. Baillie, who’ll be in attendance of course, will present a brand-new restored version of his epic pseudo-Western Quick Billy, plus screenings of his classic short movies such as Castro Street, Yellow Horse, Quixote, To Parsifal and more.
There’s also a program dedicated to the films of the late Robert Nelson, including Bleu Shut and Special Warning, as well as sprinklings of underground classics throughout...
- 3/7/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Join Ricky Gervais, Florence Henderson, Julia Barr, Linda Dano and other Stars to Help Keep Wildlife in the Wild
Born Free USA’s Keep Wildlife in the Wild Week June 20 to 24 Encourages Action to Help Protect Wild Animals and the Planet
Washington D.C., June 9, 2011 - - Born Free USA’s third annual Keep Wildlife in the Wild Week June 20 to 24 was designed to encourage people to protect wild animals in their own backyards and around the globe. The official week-long “call to action” supported by celebrities including Ricky Gervais, includes advice, educational tools and online activities to engage adults and children to become more aware and protective of animals in the wild. Keep Wildlife in the Wild week focuses on creating a national movement to stop the exploitation of wildlife and protect our planet.
According to Adam Roberts, Executive Vice President of Born Free USA, “Lions, tigers, bears and...
Born Free USA’s Keep Wildlife in the Wild Week June 20 to 24 Encourages Action to Help Protect Wild Animals and the Planet
Washington D.C., June 9, 2011 - - Born Free USA’s third annual Keep Wildlife in the Wild Week June 20 to 24 was designed to encourage people to protect wild animals in their own backyards and around the globe. The official week-long “call to action” supported by celebrities including Ricky Gervais, includes advice, educational tools and online activities to engage adults and children to become more aware and protective of animals in the wild. Keep Wildlife in the Wild week focuses on creating a national movement to stop the exploitation of wildlife and protect our planet.
According to Adam Roberts, Executive Vice President of Born Free USA, “Lions, tigers, bears and...
- 6/13/2011
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
Independent fashion designers are invited to enter their fur free fashions in the Born Free USA fffashion Competition for a chance to win prizes; significantly boost their fashion career; be featured in a leading magazine; and help promote the ethical and environmental benefits of fur free fashion.
Entrants will also have the chance to have their submissions judged by a panel including two-time Emmy Award winning actress and animal supporter Julia Barr (All My Children), and international design and couture legend Elizabeth Emanuel, perhaps best-known for creating Princess Diana’s wedding gown.
Winners will also be selected by Rachelle Carson-Begley (Living with Ed on Discovery's Planet Green); Kristin Bauer (Pam on HBO's True Blood); Brita Belli (editor of E/The Environmental Magazine); and Summer Rayne Oakes (eco-model, activist and green living expert).
According to Monica Engebretson, Senior Program Associate at Born Free USA, who oversees the competition, “This is an...
Entrants will also have the chance to have their submissions judged by a panel including two-time Emmy Award winning actress and animal supporter Julia Barr (All My Children), and international design and couture legend Elizabeth Emanuel, perhaps best-known for creating Princess Diana’s wedding gown.
Winners will also be selected by Rachelle Carson-Begley (Living with Ed on Discovery's Planet Green); Kristin Bauer (Pam on HBO's True Blood); Brita Belli (editor of E/The Environmental Magazine); and Summer Rayne Oakes (eco-model, activist and green living expert).
According to Monica Engebretson, Senior Program Associate at Born Free USA, who oversees the competition, “This is an...
- 3/4/2011
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
Doctor Who has often flirted with politics in its past; during the Barry Letts/Terrance Dicks era of the show a number of stories dealt with political matters in a fantasy environment (for example, the recent DVD release The Curse of Peladon/The Monster of Peladon features stories that explored early 1970s issues), Robert Holmes took umbrage with taxes in The Sunmakers, and even stories from the 'modern' era (World War Three) touched upon hot political topics of the time. However, the latter years of the 1980s produced political satire in the form of stories like Paradise Towers and The Happiness Patrol - something the Sunday Times explored this weekend in an article, "Doctor Who in war with Planet Maggie". Doctor of the time, Sylvester McCoy, commented:
The idea of bringing politics into Doctor Who was deliberate, but we had to do it very quietly and certainly didn’t shout about it.
The idea of bringing politics into Doctor Who was deliberate, but we had to do it very quietly and certainly didn’t shout about it.
- 2/17/2010
- by Chuck Foster
- The Doctor Who News Page
Yellow Blue Tibia joins a distinguished shortlist for the British Science Fiction Association's best novel award
Tipped as the science fiction novel that would finally win a Booker prize for the genre, Adam Roberts's Yellow Blue Tibia failed to even make the longlist for the UK's most prestigious literary award last year, but has just been shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association's best novel prize alongside some of the biggest names in the genre.
Set in Russia in 1946, Roberts's novel sees a group of Soviet Sf authors concocting a story about aliens poised to invade the earth which, post-Chernobyl, starts to come true. Last summer, acclaimed science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson said it ought to have won the Booker. A professor of 19th-century literature at the Royal Holloway as well as an author, Roberts is shortlisted alongside Ursula K LeGuin for her historical fantasy Lavinia, China Miéville's surreal venture into crime fiction,...
Tipped as the science fiction novel that would finally win a Booker prize for the genre, Adam Roberts's Yellow Blue Tibia failed to even make the longlist for the UK's most prestigious literary award last year, but has just been shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association's best novel prize alongside some of the biggest names in the genre.
Set in Russia in 1946, Roberts's novel sees a group of Soviet Sf authors concocting a story about aliens poised to invade the earth which, post-Chernobyl, starts to come true. Last summer, acclaimed science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson said it ought to have won the Booker. A professor of 19th-century literature at the Royal Holloway as well as an author, Roberts is shortlisted alongside Ursula K LeGuin for her historical fantasy Lavinia, China Miéville's surreal venture into crime fiction,...
- 1/26/2010
- by Alison Flood
- The Guardian - Film News
Margarita need more ice or salt? Just chip some off the hotel walls.
You've heard about ice hotels--the one in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden is probably the most famous, re-built every year from 3,300 tons of ice--but what about mud, salt, or mangrove?
Adam Roberts writes in The Economist's Intelligent Life magazine about five of the world's weirdest places to bunk, from the Hotel Djenne Djenno in Mali (like the rest of the town of Djenne, it's made all out of mud) to the Hotel Palacio de Sal on the Bolivian salt flats, advertised as the "best salt hotel in the world." (Don't lick the walls, he says.)
But the list of bizarrely built hotels is long and strange. Name a material, and there's probably a hotel out there that incorporates it. Trees? Check. Opal? Check. Architecture monographs? Check. Why? Maybe it's so we can get as close to camping as possible without...
You've heard about ice hotels--the one in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden is probably the most famous, re-built every year from 3,300 tons of ice--but what about mud, salt, or mangrove?
Adam Roberts writes in The Economist's Intelligent Life magazine about five of the world's weirdest places to bunk, from the Hotel Djenne Djenno in Mali (like the rest of the town of Djenne, it's made all out of mud) to the Hotel Palacio de Sal on the Bolivian salt flats, advertised as the "best salt hotel in the world." (Don't lick the walls, he says.)
But the list of bizarrely built hotels is long and strange. Name a material, and there's probably a hotel out there that incorporates it. Trees? Check. Opal? Check. Architecture monographs? Check. Why? Maybe it's so we can get as close to camping as possible without...
- 1/22/2010
- by William Bostwick
- Fast Company
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