Perhaps the only genre ever to be named after its fans’ level of educational attainment, “college rock” was exactly what the name implied: smart, fun music perfect for hanging out and drinking beer, ideally on a Friday afternoon in fall just after your last class was over. College rock got its start at the close of the Seventies in Athens, Georgia, with the insanely original dance-punk band Pylon; soon it came to be defined by the sweet, cryptic guitar jangle of R.E.M., who went on to help define Nineties alt-rock as well.
- 11/19/2020
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
There may be no toilet paper available and a general sense of doom prevailing across the planet, but at least music fans will go out singing.
Athens, Ga. band R.E.M.’s 1987 song It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) has reentered the iTunes charts this week, reaching No. 72 as of today. Perhaps the catchiest tune from the band, the song became a staple of its shows in the days before its 2011 split after 30 years of music-making.
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R.E.M. released 15 albums during its reign, including the critically praised Murmur, Reckoning, Document, Out of Time, and Automatic For the People.
There...
Athens, Ga. band R.E.M.’s 1987 song It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) has reentered the iTunes charts this week, reaching No. 72 as of today. Perhaps the catchiest tune from the band, the song became a staple of its shows in the days before its 2011 split after 30 years of music-making.
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R.E.M. released 15 albums during its reign, including the critically praised Murmur, Reckoning, Document, Out of Time, and Automatic For the People.
There...
- 3/14/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Heather Young’s debut feature film Murmur won the Narrative Feature Grand Jury Prize at the Slamdance Film Festival, which announced winners at the end of its 26th edition Thursday. Merawi Gerima’s Residue was named honorable mention and won the fest’s audience award.
The jury called Murmur a “richly detailed and deeply humane drama” that “offers an insightful and sympathetic portrait of a lonely woman … who goes to self-destructive extremes while attempting to fill the gaping void in her life.”
Residue, awarded for its “at once inventive, poetic and angry about issues of identity, gentrification and the difficulty of returning home,” according to the jury, also won star Obinna Nwachukwu the Slamdance Acting Award.
The Documentary Feature Grand Jury Prize went to Higher Love, directed by Hasan Oswald.
Other audience winners included Brian Morrison’s Bastards’ Road, which won for Documentary Feature. Shoot to Marry, directed by Steve Markle,...
The jury called Murmur a “richly detailed and deeply humane drama” that “offers an insightful and sympathetic portrait of a lonely woman … who goes to self-destructive extremes while attempting to fill the gaping void in her life.”
Residue, awarded for its “at once inventive, poetic and angry about issues of identity, gentrification and the difficulty of returning home,” according to the jury, also won star Obinna Nwachukwu the Slamdance Acting Award.
The Documentary Feature Grand Jury Prize went to Higher Love, directed by Hasan Oswald.
Other audience winners included Brian Morrison’s Bastards’ Road, which won for Documentary Feature. Shoot to Marry, directed by Steve Markle,...
- 1/31/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Heather Young’s drama “Murmur” has been selected as the winner of the narrative feature grand jury prize at the Slamdance Film festival.
The movie, which won the Fipresci Discovery Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival, stars Shan MacDonald as an older woman who, while performing community service at an animal shelter, begins compulsively adopting pets to ease her loneliness. Merawi Gerima’s first feature, “Residue,” won an Honorable mention from the jury and the Audience Award for Narrative Feature.
“The Grand Jury Award for Narrative Feature goes to Murmur, the quietly devastating debut feature from Canadian filmmaker Heather Young,” the jury said. “This richly detailed and deeply humane drama offers an insightful and sympathetic portrait of a lonely woman — affectingly portrayed by newcomer Shan McDonald — who goes to self-destructive extremes while attempting to fill the gaping void in her life. An Honorable Mention goes to Merawi Gerima’s mesmerizing first feature,...
The movie, which won the Fipresci Discovery Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival, stars Shan MacDonald as an older woman who, while performing community service at an animal shelter, begins compulsively adopting pets to ease her loneliness. Merawi Gerima’s first feature, “Residue,” won an Honorable mention from the jury and the Audience Award for Narrative Feature.
“The Grand Jury Award for Narrative Feature goes to Murmur, the quietly devastating debut feature from Canadian filmmaker Heather Young,” the jury said. “This richly detailed and deeply humane drama offers an insightful and sympathetic portrait of a lonely woman — affectingly portrayed by newcomer Shan McDonald — who goes to self-destructive extremes while attempting to fill the gaping void in her life. An Honorable Mention goes to Merawi Gerima’s mesmerizing first feature,...
- 1/31/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
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- 9/18/2019
- MUBI
Three audience winners over last decade went on to win best picture Oscar.
Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit has won the Toronto International Film Festival’s (Tiff) Grolsch Global People’s Choice Award, a key bellwether in the Oscars race.
In the last decade every winner has gone on to earn a best picture nod except Nadine Labaki’s Where Do We Go Now? from 2011. Last year’s winner Green Book won the best picture Oscar, and the other Tiff audience award winners from the last 10 years to do that were 12 Years A Slave (Tiff 2013), and The King’s Speech...
Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit has won the Toronto International Film Festival’s (Tiff) Grolsch Global People’s Choice Award, a key bellwether in the Oscars race.
In the last decade every winner has gone on to earn a best picture nod except Nadine Labaki’s Where Do We Go Now? from 2011. Last year’s winner Green Book won the best picture Oscar, and the other Tiff audience award winners from the last 10 years to do that were 12 Years A Slave (Tiff 2013), and The King’s Speech...
- 9/15/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Three audience winners over last decade went on to win best picture Oscar.
Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit has won the Toronto International Film Festival’s (Tiff) Grolsch Global People’s Choice Award, a key bellwether in the Oscars race.
In the last decade every winner has gone on to earn a best picture nod except Nadine Labaki’s Where Do We Go Now? from 2011. Last year’s winner Green Book won the best picture Oscar, and the other Tiff audience award winners from the last 10 years to do that were 12 Years A Slave (Tiff 2013), and The King’s Speech...
Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit has won the Toronto International Film Festival’s (Tiff) Grolsch Global People’s Choice Award, a key bellwether in the Oscars race.
In the last decade every winner has gone on to earn a best picture nod except Nadine Labaki’s Where Do We Go Now? from 2011. Last year’s winner Green Book won the best picture Oscar, and the other Tiff audience award winners from the last 10 years to do that were 12 Years A Slave (Tiff 2013), and The King’s Speech...
- 9/15/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Streamer enters fray after quiet start at festival.
Amazon Studios has swooped on Us rights to Tiff Platform selection Sound Of Metal starring Riz Ahmed and also picked up Midnight Madness entryThe Vast Of Night.
Amazon Studios is looking at a 2020 theatrical release on both titles. At time of writing it had not confirmed what type of theatrical release the films will get in the Us – whether they be the two-week run before a launch on Prime Video in the vein of The Report and The Aeronauts, or a longer run.
The streamer did the deal on Sound Of Metal with CAA Media Finance.
Amazon Studios has swooped on Us rights to Tiff Platform selection Sound Of Metal starring Riz Ahmed and also picked up Midnight Madness entryThe Vast Of Night.
Amazon Studios is looking at a 2020 theatrical release on both titles. At time of writing it had not confirmed what type of theatrical release the films will get in the Us – whether they be the two-week run before a launch on Prime Video in the vein of The Report and The Aeronauts, or a longer run.
The streamer did the deal on Sound Of Metal with CAA Media Finance.
- 9/13/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The conversation about gender disparity in film—which tends to crescendo around big festivals and awards season—got some fresh intel last year when a University of Southern California study, looking at the 100 top films of each year from 2007 to 2017, revealed that only 16 women worked as composers in those films (43 women worked as directors).
Scan the credits of the 245 features screening in Toronto this year and you will find slightly over a dozen women composers. It may be a small ensemble for now, but these artists are making the kind of ear-catching music and smart career moves that are changing the mix.
The most talked about Toronto title, “The Joker,” is scored by Icelandic composer Hildur Guonadottir. Senegal-born, Kuwait-raised composer Fatima Al Qadiri scored Mati Diop’s Cannes Grand Prix-winning “Atlantics.” Heather Young’s “Murmur”— winner of the Fipresci Prize in Toronto’s Discovery strand—is scored by Brit composer Sarah DeCourcy.
Scan the credits of the 245 features screening in Toronto this year and you will find slightly over a dozen women composers. It may be a small ensemble for now, but these artists are making the kind of ear-catching music and smart career moves that are changing the mix.
The most talked about Toronto title, “The Joker,” is scored by Icelandic composer Hildur Guonadottir. Senegal-born, Kuwait-raised composer Fatima Al Qadiri scored Mati Diop’s Cannes Grand Prix-winning “Atlantics.” Heather Young’s “Murmur”— winner of the Fipresci Prize in Toronto’s Discovery strand—is scored by Brit composer Sarah DeCourcy.
- 9/13/2019
- by Jennie Punter
- Variety Film + TV
Protagonist Pictures represents international rights.
Amazon Studios has swooped on Us rights to Tiff Platform selection Sound Of Metal starring Riz Ahmed and is looking at a 2020 theatrical release on the drama about a heavy metal drummer who loses his hearing.
Amazon Studios did not confirm what type of theatrical release the film will get in the Us – be it the two-week launch before it goes on to Prime Video in the vein of The Report and The Aeronauts, or a longer run.
Ahmed stars alongside Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci, Lauren Ridloff and Mathieu Amalric as a musician who must...
Amazon Studios has swooped on Us rights to Tiff Platform selection Sound Of Metal starring Riz Ahmed and is looking at a 2020 theatrical release on the drama about a heavy metal drummer who loses his hearing.
Amazon Studios did not confirm what type of theatrical release the film will get in the Us – be it the two-week launch before it goes on to Prime Video in the vein of The Report and The Aeronauts, or a longer run.
Ahmed stars alongside Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci, Lauren Ridloff and Mathieu Amalric as a musician who must...
- 9/12/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The Toronto Film Festival has awarded Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden with its Platform Prize as the festival winds down its 2019 edition. Several winners were announced Thursday during a ceremony at the Bisha Hotel including the Fipresci Prize for the Discovery program, awarded to Heather Young for Murmur, and the Fipresci Prize for the Special Presentations program won by Coky Giedroyc’s How to Build a Girl starring Beanie Feldstein.
Martin Eden, which Kino Lorber acquired for North America last week after its Venice Film Festival world premiere, is an adaptation of the 1909 Jack London novel about a young man (Luca Marinelli) trying to rise above his circumstances and become a member of the literary elite.
The pic was selected to receive the $20,000 Cad prize by a jury comprised of filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari, Berlinale artistic director Carlo Chatrian and film critic Jessica Kiang.
“A politically and philosophically provocative story...
Martin Eden, which Kino Lorber acquired for North America last week after its Venice Film Festival world premiere, is an adaptation of the 1909 Jack London novel about a young man (Luca Marinelli) trying to rise above his circumstances and become a member of the literary elite.
The pic was selected to receive the $20,000 Cad prize by a jury comprised of filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari, Berlinale artistic director Carlo Chatrian and film critic Jessica Kiang.
“A politically and philosophically provocative story...
- 9/12/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Fipresci honours for Murmur, How To Build A Girl.
Tiff on Thursday announced that Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden has won the 2019 Toronto Platform Prize and named two Fipresci winners as it cancelled Sunday’s upcoming awards ceremony in favour of announcing winners via social media and a press release.
A statement released on Thursday afternoon read, ”By the 10th and final day of the festival, many filmmakers have left the city, and Tiff made the decision to announce the remaining awards via press release and on social media channels on Sunday, September 15th. Capturing them on social media allows...
Tiff on Thursday announced that Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden has won the 2019 Toronto Platform Prize and named two Fipresci winners as it cancelled Sunday’s upcoming awards ceremony in favour of announcing winners via social media and a press release.
A statement released on Thursday afternoon read, ”By the 10th and final day of the festival, many filmmakers have left the city, and Tiff made the decision to announce the remaining awards via press release and on social media channels on Sunday, September 15th. Capturing them on social media allows...
- 9/12/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Fipresci honours for Murmur, How To Build A Girl.
Tiff on Thursday announced that Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden has won the 2019 Toronto Platform Prize and named two Fipresci winners as it cancelled Sunday’s upcoming awards ceremony in favour of announcing winners via social media and a press release.
A statement released on Thursday afternoon read, ”By the 10th and final day of the festival, many filmmakers have left the city, and Tiff made the decision to announce the remaining awards via press release and on social media channels on Sunday, September 15th. Capturing them on social media allows...
Tiff on Thursday announced that Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden has won the 2019 Toronto Platform Prize and named two Fipresci winners as it cancelled Sunday’s upcoming awards ceremony in favour of announcing winners via social media and a press release.
A statement released on Thursday afternoon read, ”By the 10th and final day of the festival, many filmmakers have left the city, and Tiff made the decision to announce the remaining awards via press release and on social media channels on Sunday, September 15th. Capturing them on social media allows...
- 9/12/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Fipresci honours for Murmur, How To Build A Girl.
The 2019 Toronto Platform Prize has gone to Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden, while honourable mentions went to Kazik Radwanski’s Anne At 13,000 Ft and Alice Winocour’s Proxima.
Martin Eden won the Cad $20,000 prize and was described by the jury of filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari, Berlinale artistic director Carlo Chatrian, and international critic Jessica Kiang as a ”politically and philosophically provocative story told with extraordinary cinematic invention and grace… [T]his film reaffirms a faith that is easy to lose in 2019: that the cinema we know is an iceberg with nine-tenths still remaining to be discovered.
The 2019 Toronto Platform Prize has gone to Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden, while honourable mentions went to Kazik Radwanski’s Anne At 13,000 Ft and Alice Winocour’s Proxima.
Martin Eden won the Cad $20,000 prize and was described by the jury of filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari, Berlinale artistic director Carlo Chatrian, and international critic Jessica Kiang as a ”politically and philosophically provocative story told with extraordinary cinematic invention and grace… [T]his film reaffirms a faith that is easy to lose in 2019: that the cinema we know is an iceberg with nine-tenths still remaining to be discovered.
- 9/12/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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