Editor, composer, director and producer John Ottman is teaming with film and music industry executive David Franco to develop a dramatic biopic based on the life of world-renowned Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi.
The project, written by Kevin Lund and Tj Scott, has had been long-gestating, beginning 20 years ago when Ron Howard was set to direct. After many unsuccessful attempts, including with members of the famous Italian filmmaking De Laurentiis family in 2008, the project needed a new vision.
In 2018, Franco, the music producer on previous versions, brought the script to Ottman, who he saw as the man “destined to bring Vivaldi to life.” “There’s simply no talent more suited to craft this remarkable story,” he says.
Ottman immediately got to work re-shaping the story with the writers, before the Covid-19 pandemic stalled the project once again. Now, it’s finally back on track. “After all these years, we’ve never been more confident.
The project, written by Kevin Lund and Tj Scott, has had been long-gestating, beginning 20 years ago when Ron Howard was set to direct. After many unsuccessful attempts, including with members of the famous Italian filmmaking De Laurentiis family in 2008, the project needed a new vision.
In 2018, Franco, the music producer on previous versions, brought the script to Ottman, who he saw as the man “destined to bring Vivaldi to life.” “There’s simply no talent more suited to craft this remarkable story,” he says.
Ottman immediately got to work re-shaping the story with the writers, before the Covid-19 pandemic stalled the project once again. Now, it’s finally back on track. “After all these years, we’ve never been more confident.
- 4/15/2024
- by Katcy Stephan
- Variety Film + TV
German director Volker Schlöndorff, who won the Cannes’ Palme d’Or and an Oscar for his 1979 drama “The Tin Drum,” is set to direct a film about how Antonio Vivaldi — the 18th-century Italian composer of “The Four Seasons” — formed what is touted as the world’s first all-female orchestra.
Schlöndorff’s still-untitled depiction of this lesser-known aspect of Vivaldi’s career is based on a book by German writer Peter Schneider, which has been adapted for the big screen by Italian scribe Francesco Piccolo (“My Brilliant Friend”) along with the director.
The plan is for cameras to start rolling later this year on the film, which will mark the first foray into Italian-language cinema by Schlöndorff, who is a fluent speaker. It will be shot entirely in Italy. Casting is still being decided, and sales are likely to be launched at the Cannes market in May.
Schlöndorff’s new project...
Schlöndorff’s still-untitled depiction of this lesser-known aspect of Vivaldi’s career is based on a book by German writer Peter Schneider, which has been adapted for the big screen by Italian scribe Francesco Piccolo (“My Brilliant Friend”) along with the director.
The plan is for cameras to start rolling later this year on the film, which will mark the first foray into Italian-language cinema by Schlöndorff, who is a fluent speaker. It will be shot entirely in Italy. Casting is still being decided, and sales are likely to be launched at the Cannes market in May.
Schlöndorff’s new project...
- 3/12/2024
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The Beatles‘ “Eleanor Rigby” doesn’t need fixing. When Paul McCartney interviewed Taylor Swift, he said the track could have had a different lyric. He also explained how “Eleanor Rigby” drew from some of his childhood experiences. Interestingly, John Lennon shared some memories about the writing of the song that contradicted Paul’s.
Paul McCartney said a lyric from The Beatles’ ‘Eleanor Rigby’ could’ve been about the Bible
During a 2020 Rolling Stone article where Paul and Swift interviewed each other, Paul revealed that “Eleanor Rigby” was inspired by elderly ladies he knew when he was a kid. He said those women had great stories about World War II. Paul wasn’t sure how he met those women, because they weren’t part of his family, but he became friends with some of them.
“Back to ‘Eleanor Rigby,’ so I would think of her and think of what she’s...
Paul McCartney said a lyric from The Beatles’ ‘Eleanor Rigby’ could’ve been about the Bible
During a 2020 Rolling Stone article where Paul and Swift interviewed each other, Paul revealed that “Eleanor Rigby” was inspired by elderly ladies he knew when he was a kid. He said those women had great stories about World War II. Paul wasn’t sure how he met those women, because they weren’t part of his family, but he became friends with some of them.
“Back to ‘Eleanor Rigby,’ so I would think of her and think of what she’s...
- 2/14/2024
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Exclusive: 30 Rock creator and star Tina Fey is returning to the small screen as a lead of The Four Seasons, based on the 1981 feature film, which she co-created with fellow 30 Rock alums Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield. The high-profile comedy project, which marks Fey’s first TV starring role since 30 Rock, was taken out to the marketplace just before the holidays. In a very competitive situation with multiple bidders, it landed at Netflix with an eight-episode series order.
Production is slated to begin later this year. Universal Television, where Fey is based, is the studio.
The Universal Pictures film The Four Seasons, about three couples who vacation together every season, was written and directed by Alan Alda, produced by Martin Bregman, and starred Alda and Carol Burnett.
The Four Seasons TV series is written by Fey, Fisher and Wigfield who executive produce with David Miner, Eric Gurian and Jeff Richmond.
Production is slated to begin later this year. Universal Television, where Fey is based, is the studio.
The Universal Pictures film The Four Seasons, about three couples who vacation together every season, was written and directed by Alan Alda, produced by Martin Bregman, and starred Alda and Carol Burnett.
The Four Seasons TV series is written by Fey, Fisher and Wigfield who executive produce with David Miner, Eric Gurian and Jeff Richmond.
- 1/9/2024
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Paul McCartney said The Beatles‘ “Eleanor Rigby” has a “madcap connection” to a character from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Despite this, the Psycho character doesn’t actually have much in common with the protagonist of “Eleanor Rigby.” Notably, John Lennon said the hit was inspired by the music of a famous composer.
Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ inspired The Beatles’ ‘Eleanor Rigby’ lyrically and musically
During a 2021 interview with The New Yorker, Paul discussed the origins of The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby.” “It did feel like a breakthrough for me lyrically — more of a serious song,” he recalled. “[Producer] George Martin had introduced me to the string-quartet idea through ‘Yesterday.’ I’d resisted the idea at first, but when it worked I fell in love with it. So I ended up writing ‘Eleanor Rigby’ with a string component in mind. When I took the song to George, I said that, for accompaniment, I...
Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ inspired The Beatles’ ‘Eleanor Rigby’ lyrically and musically
During a 2021 interview with The New Yorker, Paul discussed the origins of The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby.” “It did feel like a breakthrough for me lyrically — more of a serious song,” he recalled. “[Producer] George Martin had introduced me to the string-quartet idea through ‘Yesterday.’ I’d resisted the idea at first, but when it worked I fell in love with it. So I ended up writing ‘Eleanor Rigby’ with a string component in mind. When I took the song to George, I said that, for accompaniment, I...
- 9/2/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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Madonna’s success upset Paul McCartney. He discussed how television defined the perception of the Queen of Pop.Madonna said The Beatles influenced her but she was more interested in other types of music. Paul McCartney and Madonna | Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect
Paul McCartney said he didn’t like when Madonna became a big star. Subsequently, he said she came across as a “goddess” to normal people. Notably, the Queen of Pop explained why she wasn’t too interested in The Beatles when she was young.
Paul McCartney felt Madonna’s success proved how much ‘people are affected by media’
According to the 2015 book Conversations with McCartney, the “Silly Love Songs” singer was upset by Madonna’s success. “It makes me realize how people are affected by media,” he said.
“While you’re looking at her, from your little lowly room, on your little telly, you think she’s a goddess,...
Madonna’s success upset Paul McCartney. He discussed how television defined the perception of the Queen of Pop.Madonna said The Beatles influenced her but she was more interested in other types of music. Paul McCartney and Madonna | Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect
Paul McCartney said he didn’t like when Madonna became a big star. Subsequently, he said she came across as a “goddess” to normal people. Notably, the Queen of Pop explained why she wasn’t too interested in The Beatles when she was young.
Paul McCartney felt Madonna’s success proved how much ‘people are affected by media’
According to the 2015 book Conversations with McCartney, the “Silly Love Songs” singer was upset by Madonna’s success. “It makes me realize how people are affected by media,” he said.
“While you’re looking at her, from your little lowly room, on your little telly, you think she’s a goddess,...
- 1/27/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Composer Chanda Dancy had roughly two months to create more than four hours of orchestra music for The Defeated, the Netflix series about life in Berlin following World War II.
She recorded with an 85-piece orchestra in Prague as well as solo elements in her studio in Pasadena. She crafted music of that time but added modern sensibilities. She mixed the sound of a grand, sweeping orchestra with synthesizers and elements of Edm.
And she met that incredibly short deadline.
“This was essentially like being asked to swim from Los Angeles to Japan,” Dancy tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Me not knowing how long that distance is — I was like, ‘I can do that in a couple hours. I’m a good swimmer.’ It really didn’t sink in until I was done, honestly.”
“It was wild. I didn’t see my son for a month. I had my parents drive...
She recorded with an 85-piece orchestra in Prague as well as solo elements in her studio in Pasadena. She crafted music of that time but added modern sensibilities. She mixed the sound of a grand, sweeping orchestra with synthesizers and elements of Edm.
And she met that incredibly short deadline.
“This was essentially like being asked to swim from Los Angeles to Japan,” Dancy tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Me not knowing how long that distance is — I was like, ‘I can do that in a couple hours. I’m a good swimmer.’ It really didn’t sink in until I was done, honestly.”
“It was wild. I didn’t see my son for a month. I had my parents drive...
- 1/13/2023
- by Mesfin Fekadu
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar with episodes directed by Tim Burton, James Marshall and Gandja Morteiro, “Wednesday” on Netflix contains all kinds of creepy and not so creepy music, with contributions by Chris Bacon and themes by Danny Elfman. But it’s also packed with popular songs.
From classic guitar-shred anthems like The Rolling Stones’ “Paint It, Black” to Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters,” to more modern pop songs like Dua Lipa’s “Physical,” the “Wednesday” soundtrack is eclectic to say the least. Certain sonic touches take place with the help of Wednesday’s cello, which she plays fiercely. She also has a phonograph in her room on which she plays scratchy and staticky records.
Wednesday’s latina roots are also honored with songs like “La Llorona,” “Tierra Rica” and more, with some haunting operas sprinkled throughout.
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From classic guitar-shred anthems like The Rolling Stones’ “Paint It, Black” to Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters,” to more modern pop songs like Dua Lipa’s “Physical,” the “Wednesday” soundtrack is eclectic to say the least. Certain sonic touches take place with the help of Wednesday’s cello, which she plays fiercely. She also has a phonograph in her room on which she plays scratchy and staticky records.
Wednesday’s latina roots are also honored with songs like “La Llorona,” “Tierra Rica” and more, with some haunting operas sprinkled throughout.
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Joe Jonas on Writing the Song ‘Not Alone’ for ‘Devotion': ‘It Was Exciting,...
- 11/24/2022
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
Apax Capital Group, a new film fund backed by the Italian government, an Italian insurer and a consortium of other investors, says it plans to spend €1.5 billion (about $1.7 billion) over 10 years on films shot and/or completed in Europe, primarily Italy.
The venture is led by producer Yona Wiesenthal, former CEO of the Israel Broadcast Authority and content chief at Israeli Dbs platform Yes; and by Augusto Pelliccia, Italian film financier and CEO of Augustus Group. They are investors in the fund along with studios, production facilities and film commissions in Italy, Spain and Morocco.
The group has tapped New York real estate entrepreneur Noam Baram as an equity partner in North America to scout for projects by U.S. producers that can be shot in Europe and Italy. He’s currently setting up Apax Capital’s presence Stateside with a few staff between New York and Los Angeles.
The venture is led by producer Yona Wiesenthal, former CEO of the Israel Broadcast Authority and content chief at Israeli Dbs platform Yes; and by Augusto Pelliccia, Italian film financier and CEO of Augustus Group. They are investors in the fund along with studios, production facilities and film commissions in Italy, Spain and Morocco.
The group has tapped New York real estate entrepreneur Noam Baram as an equity partner in North America to scout for projects by U.S. producers that can be shot in Europe and Italy. He’s currently setting up Apax Capital’s presence Stateside with a few staff between New York and Los Angeles.
- 12/23/2021
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Racing
Sky and Channel 4 in the U.K. are partnering to bring Sky Sports’ coverage of this season’s F1 final to the entirety of the territory on both networks simultaneously. It looks to be an historic night for F1 and the U.K.’s highest-profile racer Lewis Hamilton, who could clinch his eighth world title cementing his place at the top of the sport’s all-time winningest drivers. At present, the seven-time world chimp is tied on points with Belgian driver Max Verstappen, meaning that whoever finishes higher at Yas Marina will walk away with this year’s title. The historic race is being billed as Lewis v Max: Decider in the Desert.
“Sunday’s Grand Prix is one of the biggest sporting events in the last decade, and could be an historic moment for British sport,” said Sky executive VP and CEO for Europe and the U.
Sky and Channel 4 in the U.K. are partnering to bring Sky Sports’ coverage of this season’s F1 final to the entirety of the territory on both networks simultaneously. It looks to be an historic night for F1 and the U.K.’s highest-profile racer Lewis Hamilton, who could clinch his eighth world title cementing his place at the top of the sport’s all-time winningest drivers. At present, the seven-time world chimp is tied on points with Belgian driver Max Verstappen, meaning that whoever finishes higher at Yas Marina will walk away with this year’s title. The historic race is being billed as Lewis v Max: Decider in the Desert.
“Sunday’s Grand Prix is one of the biggest sporting events in the last decade, and could be an historic moment for British sport,” said Sky executive VP and CEO for Europe and the U.
- 12/9/2021
- by Jamie Lang and Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
A group of composers from seven leading shows on Netflix debated the challenges of mapping a musical score to the tone and narrative of shows from “Bridgerton” to “The Crown” to “David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet,” in a discussion led by TheWrap.
Aside from the steamy romance at the heart of Netflix’s Shonda Rhimes-produced Regency-era drama, “Bridgerton” is probably best known for its music, a very distinct mesh of classical songs by famous composers like Johann Sebastian Bach and Antonio Vivaldi and instrumental covers of modern-day pop tracks by the likes of Ariana Grande and Billie Eilish.
The man in charge of bridging the gap between these very different styles, and coming up with the original score that would bind them, was “Bridgerton” composer Kris Bowers. However, Bowers gives a lot of the credit to showrunner Chris Van Dusen for having a “clear” vision for the sound of the period piece,...
Aside from the steamy romance at the heart of Netflix’s Shonda Rhimes-produced Regency-era drama, “Bridgerton” is probably best known for its music, a very distinct mesh of classical songs by famous composers like Johann Sebastian Bach and Antonio Vivaldi and instrumental covers of modern-day pop tracks by the likes of Ariana Grande and Billie Eilish.
The man in charge of bridging the gap between these very different styles, and coming up with the original score that would bind them, was “Bridgerton” composer Kris Bowers. However, Bowers gives a lot of the credit to showrunner Chris Van Dusen for having a “clear” vision for the sound of the period piece,...
- 6/10/2021
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Beginning with what would be the climax of a standard action film, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum runs like a well-oiled machine, delivering exactly what you want in ways you didn’t know you wanted. Picking up mere moments after chapter two’s finale, there’s only a few minutes on the clock before John Wick (Keanu Reeves) becomes “excommunicado” with a $14 million price tag on his head, and all of the world’s assassins on his tail. Blood is on his hands after a verboten killing on the Continental Hotel grounds so he’s on the run, and his options are running short.
What follows in this first act is a balletic, radiant, and relentless feat of action filmmaking, captured with the kind of clear-eyed, pleasure-filled elegance reminiscent of Jacques Demy–just imagine a bit more gunplay, knife throwing, dog chomping, horse kicking, and samurai swordplay on motorcycles. It’s a total blast,...
What follows in this first act is a balletic, radiant, and relentless feat of action filmmaking, captured with the kind of clear-eyed, pleasure-filled elegance reminiscent of Jacques Demy–just imagine a bit more gunplay, knife throwing, dog chomping, horse kicking, and samurai swordplay on motorcycles. It’s a total blast,...
- 5/10/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
If you’re a lover of classical music then Vivaldi is definitely a must for your listening list. The Four Seasons that he made so famous was written in 1721 and released in 1725 and still stands as one of his greatest works. The style of music is easily recognized and the mastery of it is something that many people would agree is something that is hard to resist. Even those that aren’t so into classical music could possibly agree that it’s moving in many ways and is pleasing to the ear. If not, then perhaps adding it into TV and
The Top Uses of Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons in Movies or TV...
The Top Uses of Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons in Movies or TV...
- 1/31/2018
- by Wake
- TVovermind.com
The footage is spectacular in this Willem Dafoe-narrated documentary about what mountains mean to us and why we climb them
There are some truly amazing images in this spectacular feature documentary about mountains from Australian film-maker Jennifer Peedom. Her camera miraculously soars and swoops as the film shows extraordinary planes and peaks. I sometimes wished that, like David Attenborough with his nature documentaries, she could put a 10-minute making-of segment at the end, showing how she got these staggering shots. A helicopter? A drone? They are so incredible that you are willing to overlook some slightly unimaginative choices for musical accompaniment. Vivaldi’s Four Seasons was a bit off-the-peg.
Willem Dafoe is the narrator, reading a text co-written by Peedom and the British writer Robert Macfarlane. The film traces the early days of mountaineering, a new passion marked by humanity’s quest for the sublime, succeeded by the new craze for extreme high-altitude sports,...
There are some truly amazing images in this spectacular feature documentary about mountains from Australian film-maker Jennifer Peedom. Her camera miraculously soars and swoops as the film shows extraordinary planes and peaks. I sometimes wished that, like David Attenborough with his nature documentaries, she could put a 10-minute making-of segment at the end, showing how she got these staggering shots. A helicopter? A drone? They are so incredible that you are willing to overlook some slightly unimaginative choices for musical accompaniment. Vivaldi’s Four Seasons was a bit off-the-peg.
Willem Dafoe is the narrator, reading a text co-written by Peedom and the British writer Robert Macfarlane. The film traces the early days of mountaineering, a new passion marked by humanity’s quest for the sublime, succeeded by the new craze for extreme high-altitude sports,...
- 12/14/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
“For an intellectual product of any value to exert an immediate influence which shall also be deep and lasting, it must rest on an inner harmony, yes, an affinity, between the personal destiny of its author and that of his contemporaries in general.”—Thomas Mann, Death in Venice Barry Lyndon. I can’t believe there was a time when I didn’t know that name. Barry Lyndon means an artwork both grand and glum. Sadness inconsolable. A cello bends out a lurid sound, staining the air before a piano droopingly follows in the third movement of Vivaldi's “Cello Concerto in E Minor.” This piece, which dominates the second half of the film, steers the hallowed half of my head to bask in the film’s high melancholic temperature. Why should I so often remember it? What did I have to do with this film? I only received it with...
- 10/15/2017
- MUBI
Cinema Retro has received the following press release:
Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon Live In Concert, A One Night Only Special Event:
Film Screening with Live Score Performed by Wordless Music Orchestra
on Saturday, April 8, 2017 at Kings Theatre, Brooklyn
Producers Joseph A. Berger and Michael Sayers, in association with Wordless Music and Warner Bros. Pictures, are pleased to announce Barry Lyndon Live In Concert at Brooklyn’s extraordinary Kings Theatre on Saturday, April 8, 2017, at 8pm. Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece will be projected in a new 2K Dcp restoration, with live musical accompaniment by Wordless Music Orchestra, led by renowned conductor Ryan McAdams.
Redmond Barry (Ryan O’Neal), is a young, roguish Irishman who’s determined, in any way, to make a life for himself as a wealthy nobleman. Enlisting in the British Army and fighting in Europe’s Seven Years War, Barry deserts, then joins the Prussian army, gets promoted...
Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon Live In Concert, A One Night Only Special Event:
Film Screening with Live Score Performed by Wordless Music Orchestra
on Saturday, April 8, 2017 at Kings Theatre, Brooklyn
Producers Joseph A. Berger and Michael Sayers, in association with Wordless Music and Warner Bros. Pictures, are pleased to announce Barry Lyndon Live In Concert at Brooklyn’s extraordinary Kings Theatre on Saturday, April 8, 2017, at 8pm. Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece will be projected in a new 2K Dcp restoration, with live musical accompaniment by Wordless Music Orchestra, led by renowned conductor Ryan McAdams.
Redmond Barry (Ryan O’Neal), is a young, roguish Irishman who’s determined, in any way, to make a life for himself as a wealthy nobleman. Enlisting in the British Army and fighting in Europe’s Seven Years War, Barry deserts, then joins the Prussian army, gets promoted...
- 4/6/2017
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Getting to experience a Stanley Kubrick movie on the big screen is always a treat, especially in 2017. But when you throw in a 50-peice orchestra performing a live score, that experience suddenly becomes even more jaw-dropping.
Such will be the case on April 8 when the musicians of the Wordless Music Orchestra take the stage at the Kings Theater in Brooklyn to accompany “Barry Lyndon.” The original score, which has been newly transcribed by composer Frank Cogliano, will be performed in its entirety and synced live to the film.
Read More: How Live Film Scores Are Finding New Life in the Age of Netflix
Last Tuesday night, members of the Wordless Music Orchestra performed a preview concert of selections from the one-night-only event, and you can check out a first look at their arrangements in the video below.
Songs performed include Handel’s Sarabande, the third movement of Vivaldi’s Cello Concerto in E Minor,...
Such will be the case on April 8 when the musicians of the Wordless Music Orchestra take the stage at the Kings Theater in Brooklyn to accompany “Barry Lyndon.” The original score, which has been newly transcribed by composer Frank Cogliano, will be performed in its entirety and synced live to the film.
Read More: How Live Film Scores Are Finding New Life in the Age of Netflix
Last Tuesday night, members of the Wordless Music Orchestra performed a preview concert of selections from the one-night-only event, and you can check out a first look at their arrangements in the video below.
Songs performed include Handel’s Sarabande, the third movement of Vivaldi’s Cello Concerto in E Minor,...
- 3/13/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Author: Scott Davis
This weekend sees the long-awaited release of action sequel John Wick 2, which sees Keanu Reeves reprise his role as the legendary hitman who is forced out of retirement for good. You can see our chat with the man himself here but we also spoke to the film’s director Chad Stahelski which you can view in the player below.
A co-director with David Leitch on the first film, Stahelski makes his solo directorial debut with the sequel, and speaking to Scott Davis about the film, he said that he was well aware of the reviews the film is getting and that he feels such things are healthy for filmmakers:
“Shocked – we tried to read everyone, I think it’s healthy as a director. You try not to take it to heart when they say good or bad but you want to know if you’re being interpreted right.
This weekend sees the long-awaited release of action sequel John Wick 2, which sees Keanu Reeves reprise his role as the legendary hitman who is forced out of retirement for good. You can see our chat with the man himself here but we also spoke to the film’s director Chad Stahelski which you can view in the player below.
A co-director with David Leitch on the first film, Stahelski makes his solo directorial debut with the sequel, and speaking to Scott Davis about the film, he said that he was well aware of the reviews the film is getting and that he feels such things are healthy for filmmakers:
“Shocked – we tried to read everyone, I think it’s healthy as a director. You try not to take it to heart when they say good or bad but you want to know if you’re being interpreted right.
- 2/14/2017
- by Scott Davis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Cinema Retro has received the following press release:
Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon Live In Concert, A One Night Only Special Event:
Film Screening with Live Score Performed by Wordless Music Orchestra
on Saturday, April 8, 2017 at Kings Theatre, Brooklyn
Producers Joseph A. Berger and Michael Sayers, in association with Wordless Music and Warner Bros. Pictures, are pleased to announce Barry Lyndon Live In Concert at Brooklyn’s extraordinary Kings Theatre on Saturday, April 8, 2017, at 8pm. Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece will be projected in a new 2K Dcp restoration, with live musical accompaniment by Wordless Music Orchestra, led by renowned conductor Ryan McAdams.
Redmond Barry (Ryan O’Neal), is a young, roguish Irishman who’s determined, in any way, to make a life for himself as a wealthy nobleman. Enlisting in the British Army and fighting in Europe’s Seven Years War, Barry deserts, then joins the Prussian army, gets promoted...
Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon Live In Concert, A One Night Only Special Event:
Film Screening with Live Score Performed by Wordless Music Orchestra
on Saturday, April 8, 2017 at Kings Theatre, Brooklyn
Producers Joseph A. Berger and Michael Sayers, in association with Wordless Music and Warner Bros. Pictures, are pleased to announce Barry Lyndon Live In Concert at Brooklyn’s extraordinary Kings Theatre on Saturday, April 8, 2017, at 8pm. Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece will be projected in a new 2K Dcp restoration, with live musical accompaniment by Wordless Music Orchestra, led by renowned conductor Ryan McAdams.
Redmond Barry (Ryan O’Neal), is a young, roguish Irishman who’s determined, in any way, to make a life for himself as a wealthy nobleman. Enlisting in the British Army and fighting in Europe’s Seven Years War, Barry deserts, then joins the Prussian army, gets promoted...
- 11/22/2016
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Updated Exclusive: The leading prime time director has partnered with renowned stills photographer on a film, TV, music and publishing venture.
Hollywood-based Cinematic Pictures Group kicks off with the TV pilot Purgatory, which Scott will direct from a story he conceived with Victoria Pratt.
Purgatory takes place in the fabled netherworld between heaven and hell and centres on Cyn, a ‘switch’ who can jump between our world and purgatory and inherited the ability from her mother, a split soul.
Scott (main picture), currently in Vancouver shooting Ice for Antoine Fuqua, is developing the project with Ilic, creature and concept designer Neville Page and artist Rob Prior. Pratt will play Cyn’s mother, Gemini / Jezebel.
Cinematic Pictures Group’s slate includes Vivaldi, which Scott wrote and is in development with producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, as well as The Secret Lives Of Road Crews, which is in development at Paramount with Christopher Columbus attached to produce but not...
Hollywood-based Cinematic Pictures Group kicks off with the TV pilot Purgatory, which Scott will direct from a story he conceived with Victoria Pratt.
Purgatory takes place in the fabled netherworld between heaven and hell and centres on Cyn, a ‘switch’ who can jump between our world and purgatory and inherited the ability from her mother, a split soul.
Scott (main picture), currently in Vancouver shooting Ice for Antoine Fuqua, is developing the project with Ilic, creature and concept designer Neville Page and artist Rob Prior. Pratt will play Cyn’s mother, Gemini / Jezebel.
Cinematic Pictures Group’s slate includes Vivaldi, which Scott wrote and is in development with producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, as well as The Secret Lives Of Road Crews, which is in development at Paramount with Christopher Columbus attached to produce but not...
- 11/17/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
There’s never been a better time to be a fan of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. For those who have never had the chance to give it a spin, the Game of the Year edition is set to launch tomorrow, which includes both the Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine expansions, along with all of the game’s free pieces of downloadable content.
These expansions are some of the best we’ve played in recent memory, but The Witcher 3 itself was one of the best game’s of last year. You can check out our original review, in which I gave the game 5 stars out of 5, which we only hand out to a handful of games each year.
If you’re still playing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, or are planning to jump into it soon, you’ll be glad to know that developer CD Projekt Red has...
These expansions are some of the best we’ve played in recent memory, but The Witcher 3 itself was one of the best game’s of last year. You can check out our original review, in which I gave the game 5 stars out of 5, which we only hand out to a handful of games each year.
If you’re still playing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, or are planning to jump into it soon, you’ll be glad to know that developer CD Projekt Red has...
- 8/29/2016
- by Shaan Joshi
- We Got This Covered
In 1962, two filmmakers met in a room at Universal Studios to discuss (what else?) cinema. Those directors were François Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock. (Providing assistance was French-language translator Helen Scott.) Together, they talked for over 50 hours, poring over every film the old master ever made. In 1967, Truffaut published what has universally come to be known as an essential text, titled Hitchcock/Truffaut, which contains rich and detailed transcripts of the extraordinary conversation.
Filmmaker Kent Jones‘ documentary about this historic meeting of the minds is now out, which inspired The Film Stage to look back at some of the forgotten, overlooked, and underrated films from these two beloved directors. The following ten titles contain all of the nuance, mystery and joy that we’ve come to expect from Hitchcock and Truffaut, with many overlapping themes and stylistic sensibilities.
Please enjoy the list, and don’t forget to suggest your own favorites in the comments.
Filmmaker Kent Jones‘ documentary about this historic meeting of the minds is now out, which inspired The Film Stage to look back at some of the forgotten, overlooked, and underrated films from these two beloved directors. The following ten titles contain all of the nuance, mystery and joy that we’ve come to expect from Hitchcock and Truffaut, with many overlapping themes and stylistic sensibilities.
Please enjoy the list, and don’t forget to suggest your own favorites in the comments.
- 12/7/2015
- by Tony Hinds
- The Film Stage
Grr, argh. Sit, Ubu, sit. I made this! What’s the story behind the production company tags added onto our favourite TV shows?
Closing logos have evolved into a TV production company’s tiny stamp of individuality. They’re a single snippet of screen time not at the mercy of network notes, audience feedback or sponsorship concerns.
A closing tag doesn’t need to sell a show, tell a story, or lasso an audience back for the next episode. It’s simply a signature, a few seconds entirely belonging to the creatives, to do with what they will.
As such, closing logos are as self-indulgent or esoteric as the production company wills them. They’re perhaps the only place in television production where in-jokes, family photos, personal homages (or extended rants in the case of one comedy producer) and kid-drawn scribbles usually found taped to the fridge door are entirely welcome.
Closing logos have evolved into a TV production company’s tiny stamp of individuality. They’re a single snippet of screen time not at the mercy of network notes, audience feedback or sponsorship concerns.
A closing tag doesn’t need to sell a show, tell a story, or lasso an audience back for the next episode. It’s simply a signature, a few seconds entirely belonging to the creatives, to do with what they will.
As such, closing logos are as self-indulgent or esoteric as the production company wills them. They’re perhaps the only place in television production where in-jokes, family photos, personal homages (or extended rants in the case of one comedy producer) and kid-drawn scribbles usually found taped to the fridge door are entirely welcome.
- 8/10/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
This is either the best news in a very long time for TV fans...Or the cruelest trick that has ever been played on anyone ever. The Happy Endings writers/producers just tweeted out a link to a You Tube video of this... Yup. Vivaldi's "Four Seasons." Get it? Four seasons? Fourth season? This after a few other cryptic tweets counting down to April 1, and promising that #wintercomestwice. Here's precisely what we know about what's happening with this hit-canceled ABC series, which was produced by Sony. • Netflix isn't doing anything with Happy Endings, per the reps. • Amazon isn't doing...
- 2/9/2015
- E! Online
British director will premiere Eisenstein in Guanajuato at the Berlinale next month.
Prolific British auteur Peter Greenaway, whose new film Eisenstein in Guanajuato is set to premiere in competition at the Berlinale next month, is about to start work on new feature Walking To Paris.
The biopic of sculptor Constantin Brancusi is being made with Dutch producer and former Rotterdam festival stalwart Kees Kasander.
The film will focus on the 18 months when a 27-year-old Brancusi walked through Romania, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and France.
Speaking to Screen about the feature, Greenaway said: “Along the way, living off the land as his years of being a shepherd boy had taught him, he had adventures - comic, violent, sexual and romantic - and certainly formative of his future sculpture, constantly building sculptures out of found materials – wood, stone, sand, snow and ice - leaving a trail of abandoned experimental temporary sculptures across the landscapes of Europe.”
The film is...
Prolific British auteur Peter Greenaway, whose new film Eisenstein in Guanajuato is set to premiere in competition at the Berlinale next month, is about to start work on new feature Walking To Paris.
The biopic of sculptor Constantin Brancusi is being made with Dutch producer and former Rotterdam festival stalwart Kees Kasander.
The film will focus on the 18 months when a 27-year-old Brancusi walked through Romania, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and France.
Speaking to Screen about the feature, Greenaway said: “Along the way, living off the land as his years of being a shepherd boy had taught him, he had adventures - comic, violent, sexual and romantic - and certainly formative of his future sculpture, constantly building sculptures out of found materials – wood, stone, sand, snow and ice - leaving a trail of abandoned experimental temporary sculptures across the landscapes of Europe.”
The film is...
- 1/22/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
40. Night Moves
Since 2006, Kelly Reichardt has found a way to reach inside of the hearts of her audiences, plucking out strings one by one with desolate re-imaginations of the American Pacific Northwest, seen through the eyes of people not so different than ourselves. With Meek’s Cutoff, she departed from her typical genre and moved in to the Old West, but you could still see her stark realism, perfectly imagined on-screen. Now, Reichardt has shifted gears again, this time to present day (still in the Pacific Northwest), following three environmental activists as they plan to blow up a dam. But this time Reichardt has eschewed all sense of dry, dirty characterization for a much more flowing story where the characters emerge from their settings more fully. It’s still methodical, but somewhere in between the planning and heist itself, Reichardt’s star Jesse Eisenberg finds notes we haven’t seen...
Since 2006, Kelly Reichardt has found a way to reach inside of the hearts of her audiences, plucking out strings one by one with desolate re-imaginations of the American Pacific Northwest, seen through the eyes of people not so different than ourselves. With Meek’s Cutoff, she departed from her typical genre and moved in to the Old West, but you could still see her stark realism, perfectly imagined on-screen. Now, Reichardt has shifted gears again, this time to present day (still in the Pacific Northwest), following three environmental activists as they plan to blow up a dam. But this time Reichardt has eschewed all sense of dry, dirty characterization for a much more flowing story where the characters emerge from their settings more fully. It’s still methodical, but somewhere in between the planning and heist itself, Reichardt’s star Jesse Eisenberg finds notes we haven’t seen...
- 12/28/2014
- by Staff
- SoundOnSight
Disney’s Princesses are some of the most beloved cartoon figures in history, but even they have come under scrutiny as Hollywood pushes for more diversity in their films. Disney’s latest princess will be the first of Pacific Islander descent (unless you count Lilo of Lilo & Stitch as a princess). The CG-animated film is Moana, the story of a born navigator who travels through ancient Oceania along with a demi-God pal named Maui in order to find a secret island.
Deadline reported Monday that the film would be aiming for a November 2016 release date and would be directed by Ron Clements and John Musker (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Princess and the Frog). In the meantime, we’ll be awaiting Pixar’s Inside Out and Finding Dory, both anticipated for 2015. And Deadline reported back in 2013 several other slots for two other Disney and Pixar films in both March and...
Deadline reported Monday that the film would be aiming for a November 2016 release date and would be directed by Ron Clements and John Musker (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Princess and the Frog). In the meantime, we’ll be awaiting Pixar’s Inside Out and Finding Dory, both anticipated for 2015. And Deadline reported back in 2013 several other slots for two other Disney and Pixar films in both March and...
- 10/24/2014
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Florence Foster Jenkins was the William Hung of the early 1900s. An objectively awful opera singer convinced of her own melodious quality, Jenkins concertized across New York City at her wealthy family’s expense. People couldn’t look away. Staging elaborate shows in opulent costumes, Jenkins sang Vivaldi and Strauss for audiences keeling over from disbelief. Her earnest brand of cacophony became so revered, she was invited to perform at Carnegie Hall in 1944, at the age of 76. Sound like the makings for a biopic? Well, get ready for Meryl Streep as Florence Foster Jenkins. Deadline reports that the “Iron Lady” Best Actress-winner will star alongside Hugh Grant in “Florence,” a dramatization of the New York heiress’ odd musical career. Though its high art trashiness sounds like the makings of a John Waters film, “Philomena” director Stephen Frears will helm the feature. Nicholas Martin (BBC's "The Indian Doctor”) wrote the script.
- 10/21/2014
- by Matt Patches
- Hitfix
Editor’S Note: This is a capsule review. The full review will be released once the film hits theatres.
Two hours with Force Majeure is like playing tagalong with a deeply dysfunctional rich family on vacation: the friction and awkwardness is often unbearably painful, but, boy, is there going to be some very nice scenery to distract yourself with. The family in this case is a Swiss foursome spending five days in a palatial ski resort high up in the French Alps. With an ominous title card signaling the start of each day, accompanied by Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, the trip is marked for disaster.
All it takes is one small, split-second action, and an unspoken lynchpin holding the whole family together gets pulled. And like any family, the real stress comes not from addressing the incident, but by trying to work around it. Rationalizations and denial are used to...
Two hours with Force Majeure is like playing tagalong with a deeply dysfunctional rich family on vacation: the friction and awkwardness is often unbearably painful, but, boy, is there going to be some very nice scenery to distract yourself with. The family in this case is a Swiss foursome spending five days in a palatial ski resort high up in the French Alps. With an ominous title card signaling the start of each day, accompanied by Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, the trip is marked for disaster.
All it takes is one small, split-second action, and an unspoken lynchpin holding the whole family together gets pulled. And like any family, the real stress comes not from addressing the incident, but by trying to work around it. Rationalizations and denial are used to...
- 9/8/2014
- by Sam Woolf
- We Got This Covered
With the release date of Fantasia: Music Evolved a little under two months away, Harmonix has finally revealed the full tracklist for their colorful rhythm game. Published by Disney Interactive, Fantasia will launch exclusively on the Xbox One and Xbox 360 on October 20.
Speaking at Pax Prime this weekend, the team at Harmonix announced that tracks from Lady Gaga, Jimi Hendrix, The Flaming Lips and more will round out the final setlist. As one of the more musically-inclined developers in the business today, it makes sense that Harmonix would build a tracklist as eclectic as the one included here.
You can check out the entire tracklist for the title below, with the new additions bolded.
Dvořák – “Symphony No.9 from the New World” Vivaldi – “The Four Seasons: Winter, 1st Movement” Avicii – “Levels” J.S. Bach – “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor” Bruno Mars – “Locked Out of Heaven” Cee Lo Green – “Forget...
Speaking at Pax Prime this weekend, the team at Harmonix announced that tracks from Lady Gaga, Jimi Hendrix, The Flaming Lips and more will round out the final setlist. As one of the more musically-inclined developers in the business today, it makes sense that Harmonix would build a tracklist as eclectic as the one included here.
You can check out the entire tracklist for the title below, with the new additions bolded.
Dvořák – “Symphony No.9 from the New World” Vivaldi – “The Four Seasons: Winter, 1st Movement” Avicii – “Levels” J.S. Bach – “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor” Bruno Mars – “Locked Out of Heaven” Cee Lo Green – “Forget...
- 8/31/2014
- by Eric Hall
- We Got This Covered
The clear difficulty of identifying the definitive movie musicals is separating the musical itself from the film version. The Phantom of the Opera is, without a doubt, a top ten definitive stage musical. Movie musical? Not so much. Drawing a clear line between the two is what makes this list a little trickier. For this segment of the list, we have musicals that have no stage version, two Best Picture winners, a Palme d’Or winner, and a few musicals that may stretch the term a bit.
courtesy of writeonnewjersey.com
20. Jailhouse Rock (1957)
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Signature Song: “Jailhouse Rock” (http://youtu.be/HZJTgYzf9FE)
It brought “The King” to the big screen for the first time in a film about a man in prison who learns to express himself through music, rather than violence (he’s in prison for manslaughter). Vince (Elvis Presley) accidentally kills a drunk in...
courtesy of writeonnewjersey.com
20. Jailhouse Rock (1957)
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Signature Song: “Jailhouse Rock” (http://youtu.be/HZJTgYzf9FE)
It brought “The King” to the big screen for the first time in a film about a man in prison who learns to express himself through music, rather than violence (he’s in prison for manslaughter). Vince (Elvis Presley) accidentally kills a drunk in...
- 5/19/2014
- by Joshua Gaul
- SoundOnSight
Composer Max Richter on Zadie Smith, the Edinburgh festival and why he has a soft spot for James Joyce's Ulysses
Composer Max Richter was born in Germany, and moved to the UK as a child. As a founding member of the contemporary classical group Piano Circus, he commissioned and performed music by composers including Brian Eno, Philip Glass and Julia Wolfe. On the solo albums that followed, he collaborated with the likes of actress Tilda Swinton, musician Robert Wyatt and DJ/ producer Roni Size. In 2008, the Royal Ballet commissioned him to compose the music for Infra, choreographed by Wayne McGregor, with whom he later worked on the chamber opera, Sum (2012). Richter's work has featured in films such as Shutter Island (2010), and he penned the original soundtrack to Waltz with Bashir (2008). He has also provided music for several art installations, including rAndom International's Rain Room at the Barbican. In 2012, Richter...
Composer Max Richter was born in Germany, and moved to the UK as a child. As a founding member of the contemporary classical group Piano Circus, he commissioned and performed music by composers including Brian Eno, Philip Glass and Julia Wolfe. On the solo albums that followed, he collaborated with the likes of actress Tilda Swinton, musician Robert Wyatt and DJ/ producer Roni Size. In 2008, the Royal Ballet commissioned him to compose the music for Infra, choreographed by Wayne McGregor, with whom he later worked on the chamber opera, Sum (2012). Richter's work has featured in films such as Shutter Island (2010), and he penned the original soundtrack to Waltz with Bashir (2008). He has also provided music for several art installations, including rAndom International's Rain Room at the Barbican. In 2012, Richter...
- 1/26/2014
- by Leah Harper
- The Guardian - Film News
As always, there are biases at play here; my greatest interests are symphonic music, choral music, and piano music, so that's what comes my way most often. There are some paired reviews; the ranking of the second of each pair might not be the true, exact ranking, but it works better from a writing standpoint this way.
1. Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4; Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 Tragic Overture, Op. 81; Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a; 3 Hungarian Dances; 9 Liebeslieder Waltzes; Intermezzi, Op. 116 No. 4 & Op. 117 No. 1 Gewandhausorchester/Riccardo Chailly (Decca)
It is not easy, at this point in recording history, to match the giants of the baton in a Brahms cycle, but Chailly has done it (this is my fiftieth Brahms cycle, and I have more than another fifty Brahms Firsts, and upwards of thirty each of the other symphonies outside those cycles, so I've got some basis for comparison...
1. Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4; Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 Tragic Overture, Op. 81; Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a; 3 Hungarian Dances; 9 Liebeslieder Waltzes; Intermezzi, Op. 116 No. 4 & Op. 117 No. 1 Gewandhausorchester/Riccardo Chailly (Decca)
It is not easy, at this point in recording history, to match the giants of the baton in a Brahms cycle, but Chailly has done it (this is my fiftieth Brahms cycle, and I have more than another fifty Brahms Firsts, and upwards of thirty each of the other symphonies outside those cycles, so I've got some basis for comparison...
- 1/6/2014
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Fantasia: Music Evolved, the upcoming Kinect-centric rhythm game from Disney and Dance Central developer Harmonix, has a new level ready for announcement known as The Haven. In it, players will be able to explore a wintry forest, and as with other levels in the game, interact with the setting via Kinect gestures and end up affecting the environment.
The songs that will be featured in The Haven include: “Four Seasons: Winter: 1st Movement” by Antonio Vivaldi, “Some Nights” by Fun., and “Settle Down” by Kimbra.
A preview trailer for The Haven can be viewed below:
Fantasia: Music Evolved is scheduled for a 2014 release on both the Xbox 360 and the Xbox One. We will keep you updated as more news regarding the title develops.
Thanks for reading We Got This Covered...
The songs that will be featured in The Haven include: “Four Seasons: Winter: 1st Movement” by Antonio Vivaldi, “Some Nights” by Fun., and “Settle Down” by Kimbra.
A preview trailer for The Haven can be viewed below:
Fantasia: Music Evolved is scheduled for a 2014 release on both the Xbox 360 and the Xbox One. We will keep you updated as more news regarding the title develops.
Thanks for reading We Got This Covered...
- 9/3/2013
- by John Fleury
- We Got This Covered
Tattooed thugs in vests using lasers that look like kids' water guns … Why can't sci-fi films get to grips with what the future might actually be like?
• Elysium: interviews with Matt Damon and director Neill Blomkamp, plus Peter Bradshaw gives his verdict
Immediately after executing yet another monstrous act of unspeakable violence, Sharlto Copley, who plays the villain in the new sci-fi thriller Elysium, says: "That's what I'm talking about." It is the year 2154, yet the sadistic mercenary makes use of an expression that first appeared in a Depression era Fats Waller ditty, and enjoyed a certain vogue in the United States at the dawn of the present millennium, but is now, in 2013, no longer heard that often.
Is this a deliberately "ironic" use of a retro, anachronistic Americanism by a snarky South African scumbag, tantamount to some wiseacre in 2013 reaching back more than a century and exhuming the expression,...
• Elysium: interviews with Matt Damon and director Neill Blomkamp, plus Peter Bradshaw gives his verdict
Immediately after executing yet another monstrous act of unspeakable violence, Sharlto Copley, who plays the villain in the new sci-fi thriller Elysium, says: "That's what I'm talking about." It is the year 2154, yet the sadistic mercenary makes use of an expression that first appeared in a Depression era Fats Waller ditty, and enjoyed a certain vogue in the United States at the dawn of the present millennium, but is now, in 2013, no longer heard that often.
Is this a deliberately "ironic" use of a retro, anachronistic Americanism by a snarky South African scumbag, tantamount to some wiseacre in 2013 reaching back more than a century and exhuming the expression,...
- 8/22/2013
- by Joe Queenan
- The Guardian - Film News
Today is the birthday of Italian baroque composer, Antonio Vivaldi. The master of concertos, famous for creating the violin masterpiece, "The Four Seasons," would turn 335 years old if he were miraculously alive today.
Vivaldi was born in Venice in 1678, and became maestro di violino (master of the violin) at the age of 25 while working at the Pio Ospedale della Pietà orphanage. The institute provided musical education for abandoned or orphaned children, but was also known for its acclaimed orchestra and choir. There Vivaldi began composing, writing concerto and cantatas for his talented students, paving the way for his eventual ascension to the royal orchestras and opera houses of Europe.
Vivaldi was a celebrated musical figure during his lifetime, but his fame has only risen since his death in 1741. To celebrate the beloved classical composer, we've put together a slideshow of 10 facts about his life. Scroll through the slides below and...
Vivaldi was born in Venice in 1678, and became maestro di violino (master of the violin) at the age of 25 while working at the Pio Ospedale della Pietà orphanage. The institute provided musical education for abandoned or orphaned children, but was also known for its acclaimed orchestra and choir. There Vivaldi began composing, writing concerto and cantatas for his talented students, paving the way for his eventual ascension to the royal orchestras and opera houses of Europe.
Vivaldi was a celebrated musical figure during his lifetime, but his fame has only risen since his death in 1741. To celebrate the beloved classical composer, we've put together a slideshow of 10 facts about his life. Scroll through the slides below and...
- 3/4/2013
- by Katherine Brooks
- Huffington Post
The 55th Grammy Awards have arrived, and music's biggest night promises a ton of trophies, and hopefully some great live performances by today's hottest acts. Who has the best record of 2012? How about the year's best new artist? Stick with Zap2it throughout the night, as we continue updating the list of this year's winners!
All of the award categories are below, with the winners in bold.
Record of the Year"Lonely Boy" by The Black Keys"Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" by Kelly Clarkson"We Are Young" by Fun., featuring Janelle Monáe"Somebody That I Used To Know" by Gotye, featuring Kimbra"Thinkin Bout You" by Frank Ocean"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" by Taylor Swift
Album of the Year"El Camino" by The Black Keys"Some Nights" by Fun."Babel" by Mumford & Sons"Channel Orange" by Frank Ocean"Blunderbuss" by Jack White
Song of the Year...
All of the award categories are below, with the winners in bold.
Record of the Year"Lonely Boy" by The Black Keys"Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" by Kelly Clarkson"We Are Young" by Fun., featuring Janelle Monáe"Somebody That I Used To Know" by Gotye, featuring Kimbra"Thinkin Bout You" by Frank Ocean"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" by Taylor Swift
Album of the Year"El Camino" by The Black Keys"Some Nights" by Fun."Babel" by Mumford & Sons"Channel Orange" by Frank Ocean"Blunderbuss" by Jack White
Song of the Year...
- 2/11/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Janice Watson/Dagmar Pecková/Peter Auty/Peter Rose/London Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra/Neeme Järvi Antonin Dvořák: Stabat Mater, Op. 58 (Lpo) Dvořák’s Stabat Mater was born out of personal tragedy; its inspiration, if that is really the right word in the circumstances, was the death of all three of the composer’s children. This beautiful, heartfelt masterpiece is not heard as frequently in concert as it should be, but has been very well served on recordings.
Before Järvi’s arrived, I had three: the classic 1976 Deutsche Grammophon recording by Rafael Kubelik, Giuseppe Sinopoli’s lush 2000 concert recording (also on Dg), and Telarc’s last recording of the choral conductor par excellence, Robert Shaw. All are superb, but Järvi offers such a different yet compelling take on the piece that this recording, from an October 9, 2010 concert at London’s Royal Festival Hall, can also be highly recommended.
One thing that sets it apart is that,...
Before Järvi’s arrived, I had three: the classic 1976 Deutsche Grammophon recording by Rafael Kubelik, Giuseppe Sinopoli’s lush 2000 concert recording (also on Dg), and Telarc’s last recording of the choral conductor par excellence, Robert Shaw. All are superb, but Järvi offers such a different yet compelling take on the piece that this recording, from an October 9, 2010 concert at London’s Royal Festival Hall, can also be highly recommended.
One thing that sets it apart is that,...
- 8/1/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
This Wednesday the Northern hemisphere celebrated the best of the solstices. Why best? Because unlike the winter solstice, when the sun's low position on the celestial sphere results in a day with less light than any other all year, the summer version is gloriously, wisely inverted, responsible for making the day it falls on last longer than any other all year. Light stretches on, free spirits hold hands over at old Stonehenge (and umbrellas, this year), and every single person in the 'sphere starts to think of dance parties and popsicles.
This year HuffPost Culture thought we'd address your dance-and-popsicle-party-throwing needs with a playlist. This is not just any playlist. Every single tune on it is classical. That means violins and pianos and to our knowledge, not a single instance of auto-tuning.
In attendance are Maurice Ravel's "Jeux D'Eau," or "Fountains," for cooling purposes, the dirty sounding but musically literal "He's Mounting Up,...
This year HuffPost Culture thought we'd address your dance-and-popsicle-party-throwing needs with a playlist. This is not just any playlist. Every single tune on it is classical. That means violins and pianos and to our knowledge, not a single instance of auto-tuning.
In attendance are Maurice Ravel's "Jeux D'Eau," or "Fountains," for cooling purposes, the dirty sounding but musically literal "He's Mounting Up,...
- 6/22/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
In 2006, before I started The Playlist film blog, out of boredom I began what I called the The Playlist Soundtrack Series. A sort of "If I Were _______ (insert filmmaker's name here)" type thing. The concept was naive and simple: choose a handful of music-savvy filmmakers whose work I admired and create imaginary soundtracks for movies they hadn't made, based on their taste and music they might conceivably use one day. It began as nothing more than a fun exercise for me, as I had time on my hands back then.
Eventually, I had amassed a half a dozen of these soundtracks in various states of completion, and to host them somewhere I started The Playlist blog in 2007. It then became a place to discuss music in film, soundtracks, etc., and when that topic was outgrown slightly (after a while you tend to hit all the classic film and soundtrack bases...
Eventually, I had amassed a half a dozen of these soundtracks in various states of completion, and to host them somewhere I started The Playlist blog in 2007. It then became a place to discuss music in film, soundtracks, etc., and when that topic was outgrown slightly (after a while you tend to hit all the classic film and soundtrack bases...
- 5/25/2012
- by The Playlist
- The Playlist
By Andrea Swalec, DNAinfo Reporter/Produce
Manhattan -- Patrons at Caffe Vivaldi were treated to a surprise star-studded performance last weekend when actor Ethan Hawke and his 14-year-old daughter performed as her mom, Uma Thurman, looked on.
A video posted to the venue's YouTube page shows 14-year-old Maya Thurman Hawke singing at the Jones Street club and restaurant on Saturday while her father played guitar, Jeremiah's Vanishing New York first reported.
Maya Thurman Hawke sang the Townes Van Zandt song "No Place to Fall" in her performance, which Caffe Vivaldi advertised online as a performance by "Maya" -- excluding the singer's famous last name.
Ethan Hawke, 41, and Thurman, 42, married in 1998 and divorced in 2004 after having two children -- Maya and younger brother, Levon.
It's not the first time the "Before Sunrise" and "Reality Bites" star has taken to the stage with a guitar. Hawke played a bitter song about his...
Manhattan -- Patrons at Caffe Vivaldi were treated to a surprise star-studded performance last weekend when actor Ethan Hawke and his 14-year-old daughter performed as her mom, Uma Thurman, looked on.
A video posted to the venue's YouTube page shows 14-year-old Maya Thurman Hawke singing at the Jones Street club and restaurant on Saturday while her father played guitar, Jeremiah's Vanishing New York first reported.
Maya Thurman Hawke sang the Townes Van Zandt song "No Place to Fall" in her performance, which Caffe Vivaldi advertised online as a performance by "Maya" -- excluding the singer's famous last name.
Ethan Hawke, 41, and Thurman, 42, married in 1998 and divorced in 2004 after having two children -- Maya and younger brother, Levon.
It's not the first time the "Before Sunrise" and "Reality Bites" star has taken to the stage with a guitar. Hawke played a bitter song about his...
- 5/23/2012
- Huffington Post
It truly is the Year of Adele, as the British singer took home every Grammy she was for which she was nominated, totaling six wins altogether, including Album, Record and Song of the Year. Foo Fighters were second for total wins, with five, followed by the absent Kanye West with four wins.
The complete list of winners:
Album Of The Year:
21 -- Adele
Wasting Light -- Foo Fighters
Born This Way -- Lady Gaga
Doo-Wops & Hooligans -- Bruno Mars
Loud -- Rihanna
Record Of The Year:
"Rolling In The Deep" -- Adele
"Holocene" -- Bon Iver
"Grenade" -- Bruno Mars
"The Cave" -- Mumford & Sons
"Firework" -- Katy Perry
Best New Artist: (artist/producer)
The Band Perry
Bon Iver
J. Cole
Nicki Minaj
Skrillex
Song Of The Year: (songwriter)
"All Of The Lights" -- Jeff Bhasker, Malik Jones, Warren Trotter and Kanye West, songwriters
(Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi and...
The complete list of winners:
Album Of The Year:
21 -- Adele
Wasting Light -- Foo Fighters
Born This Way -- Lady Gaga
Doo-Wops & Hooligans -- Bruno Mars
Loud -- Rihanna
Record Of The Year:
"Rolling In The Deep" -- Adele
"Holocene" -- Bon Iver
"Grenade" -- Bruno Mars
"The Cave" -- Mumford & Sons
"Firework" -- Katy Perry
Best New Artist: (artist/producer)
The Band Perry
Bon Iver
J. Cole
Nicki Minaj
Skrillex
Song Of The Year: (songwriter)
"All Of The Lights" -- Jeff Bhasker, Malik Jones, Warren Trotter and Kanye West, songwriters
(Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi and...
- 2/13/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
The nominees have been announced for the 54th annual Grammy Awards. Kanye West leads the nominations with seven; Adele, Foo Fighters and Bruno Mars each garner six nods; and Lil Wayne and Skrillex each are up for five awards. The Grammys air live on CBS Feb. 12, 2012.
Album Of The Year:
21 -- Adele
Wasting Light -- Foo Fighters
Born This Way -- Lady Gaga
Doo-Wops & Hooligans -- Bruno Mars
Loud -- Rihanna
Record Of The Year:
"Rolling In The Deep" -- Adele
"Holocene" -- Bon Iver
"Grenade" -- Bruno Mars
"The Cave" -- Mumford & Sons
"Firework" -- Katy Perry
Best New Artist: (artist/producer)
The Band Perry
Bon Iver
J. Cole
Nicki Minaj
Skrillex
Song Of The Year: (songwriter)
"All Of The Lights" -- Jeff Bhasker, Malik Jones, Warren Trotter and Kanye West, songwriters
(Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi and Fergie)
"The Cave" -- Ted Dwane, Ben Lovett, Marcus Mumford and Country Winston,...
Album Of The Year:
21 -- Adele
Wasting Light -- Foo Fighters
Born This Way -- Lady Gaga
Doo-Wops & Hooligans -- Bruno Mars
Loud -- Rihanna
Record Of The Year:
"Rolling In The Deep" -- Adele
"Holocene" -- Bon Iver
"Grenade" -- Bruno Mars
"The Cave" -- Mumford & Sons
"Firework" -- Katy Perry
Best New Artist: (artist/producer)
The Band Perry
Bon Iver
J. Cole
Nicki Minaj
Skrillex
Song Of The Year: (songwriter)
"All Of The Lights" -- Jeff Bhasker, Malik Jones, Warren Trotter and Kanye West, songwriters
(Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi and Fergie)
"The Cave" -- Ted Dwane, Ben Lovett, Marcus Mumford and Country Winston,...
- 12/1/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
New York — It's hard to believe, but John Malkovich has found a way to appear even creepier.
The intense, reptilian actor is currently starring as a serial killer in a deeply odd show that opened Thursday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music which combines elements of opera, chamber orchestra and theater. How odd is it? At several points Malkovich strangles a soprano with a bra in front of several violinists.
It's based on the real-life story of Austrian serial killer Jack Unerweger, who was released from prison in 1990 after writing a celebrated memoir and claiming he was rehabilitated. He went on to kill about a dozen prostitutes in America and Europe before hanging himself when he was sent back behind bars.
In the show, "The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer," Malkovich plays Unerweger 15 years after his death, as he conducts a ghostly promotional book tour to sell his posthumous story.
The intense, reptilian actor is currently starring as a serial killer in a deeply odd show that opened Thursday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music which combines elements of opera, chamber orchestra and theater. How odd is it? At several points Malkovich strangles a soprano with a bra in front of several violinists.
It's based on the real-life story of Austrian serial killer Jack Unerweger, who was released from prison in 1990 after writing a celebrated memoir and claiming he was rehabilitated. He went on to kill about a dozen prostitutes in America and Europe before hanging himself when he was sent back behind bars.
In the show, "The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer," Malkovich plays Unerweger 15 years after his death, as he conducts a ghostly promotional book tour to sell his posthumous story.
- 11/19/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
The final point of an intergalactic love triangle (or rectangle, rather... we'll get to that later) has been found.
Max Irons will be complicating an already very complicated science fiction romance even more as he's joined the cast of "The Host," according to Inside Movies.
"The Host" is based on Stephanie Meyer's only non-"Twilight" work to date and tells the tale of Melanie Stryder (Saoirse Ronan), a woman who shares her body with an alien force known as Wanderer.
Jake Abel has already been cast as Ian, the young man who's in love with Wanderer, even though the entity is inside Melanie's body. Irons will be playing the role of Jared Howe, with whom Melanie (not Wanderer) is in love.
For those who haven't read the book, this will all probably make more sense once you see it.
Max Irons, who happens to be the son of "Die Hard...
Max Irons will be complicating an already very complicated science fiction romance even more as he's joined the cast of "The Host," according to Inside Movies.
"The Host" is based on Stephanie Meyer's only non-"Twilight" work to date and tells the tale of Melanie Stryder (Saoirse Ronan), a woman who shares her body with an alien force known as Wanderer.
Jake Abel has already been cast as Ian, the young man who's in love with Wanderer, even though the entity is inside Melanie's body. Irons will be playing the role of Jared Howe, with whom Melanie (not Wanderer) is in love.
For those who haven't read the book, this will all probably make more sense once you see it.
Max Irons, who happens to be the son of "Die Hard...
- 11/11/2011
- by Bryan Enk
- NextMovie
You wait for years for a decent biopic about the musical genius Antonio Vivaldi and then two come along at once. Nearly five years after it was first talked about, a cinematic exploration of the secret life and times of the composer living among the unwanted children of the fallen women of 17th century Venice is finally about to begin.
- 5/30/2011
- The Independent - Film
The Red Priest (because of his red hair), was a nickname for Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, who has got two biopics with Boris Damast‘s long in development project set to defeat Patricia Riggen‘s Vivaldi at the very beginning. Damast’s Vivaldi is set to start shooting this September in Venice, [...] Vivaldi Biopics in Direct Competition is a post from: FilmoFilia...
- 5/29/2011
- by Nikola Mraovic
- Filmofilia
Max Irons And Claire Foy Will Star In Vivaldi
Official news regarding Boris Damast's latest project—Vivaldi, the historical epic about one of the greatest Italian composers, is now scheduled for production in September of this year. British actor Max Irons, recent star of Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood, will be playing Antonio Vivaldi himself, while fellow Brit Claire Foy (BBC's Little Dorrit) is also set to star as in another unknown lead role. There are rumors that Neve Campbell, Tom Wilkinson, Alfred Molina, Jacqueline Bisset, and Sebastian Koch may join the cast of Vivaldi, although negotiations are still in process.
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Official news regarding Boris Damast's latest project—Vivaldi, the historical epic about one of the greatest Italian composers, is now scheduled for production in September of this year. British actor Max Irons, recent star of Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood, will be playing Antonio Vivaldi himself, while fellow Brit Claire Foy (BBC's Little Dorrit) is also set to star as in another unknown lead role. There are rumors that Neve Campbell, Tom Wilkinson, Alfred Molina, Jacqueline Bisset, and Sebastian Koch may join the cast of Vivaldi, although negotiations are still in process.
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- 5/28/2011
- by Natalie Gorna
- We Got This Covered
Two biopics about legendary Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi are going head-to-head according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Claire Foy ("Season of the Witch") and Max Irons ("Red Riding Hood") are attached to star in the Boris Damast-helmed version for Celsius Entertainment which is is set to begin shooting this September in Venice, Hungary, Germany and Bruges.
Negotiations are also underway with Neve Campbell, Jacqueline Bisset, Elle Fanning, Tom Wilkinson, Alfred Molina and Sebastian Koch to join the film.
That puts it ahead of the Patricia Riggen-directed "Vivaldi" starring Jessica Biel, Ben Kingsley, Luke Evans and violin supremo David Garrett. Though already having scored $3 million in production subsidies, a production date has yet to be set on that version.
Damast's take tells the true story of how the composer turned a group of women, who were the illegitimate daughters of courtesans, into an orchestra that eventually played for the Pope.
Claire Foy ("Season of the Witch") and Max Irons ("Red Riding Hood") are attached to star in the Boris Damast-helmed version for Celsius Entertainment which is is set to begin shooting this September in Venice, Hungary, Germany and Bruges.
Negotiations are also underway with Neve Campbell, Jacqueline Bisset, Elle Fanning, Tom Wilkinson, Alfred Molina and Sebastian Koch to join the film.
That puts it ahead of the Patricia Riggen-directed "Vivaldi" starring Jessica Biel, Ben Kingsley, Luke Evans and violin supremo David Garrett. Though already having scored $3 million in production subsidies, a production date has yet to be set on that version.
Damast's take tells the true story of how the composer turned a group of women, who were the illegitimate daughters of courtesans, into an orchestra that eventually played for the Pope.
- 5/27/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
UK actors Max Irons and Claire Foy are set to star in director Boris Damast's historical drama Vivaldi which will begin principal photography this September at locations in Venice, Bruges, Hungary and Germany.
The producers are also now in the final stages of negotiations with Elle Fanning, Neve Campbell, Jacqueline Bisset, Tom Wilkinson, Alfred Molina and Sebastian Koch to join the cast.
Max Irons (represented in the UK by Tavistock Wood) was recently seen in Sky's The Runaway and stars as Henry in the fantasy film Red Riding Hood. 25 year old Max is the son of Jeremy Irons and Sinead Cusack, and trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Claire Foy recently starred in the highly-acclaimed Channel 4 drama The Promise.
The Vivaldi screenplay is based on the true story of how the headstrong genius and priest Antonio Vivaldi turned a talented, but traumatised group of girls -...
The producers are also now in the final stages of negotiations with Elle Fanning, Neve Campbell, Jacqueline Bisset, Tom Wilkinson, Alfred Molina and Sebastian Koch to join the cast.
Max Irons (represented in the UK by Tavistock Wood) was recently seen in Sky's The Runaway and stars as Henry in the fantasy film Red Riding Hood. 25 year old Max is the son of Jeremy Irons and Sinead Cusack, and trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Claire Foy recently starred in the highly-acclaimed Channel 4 drama The Promise.
The Vivaldi screenplay is based on the true story of how the headstrong genius and priest Antonio Vivaldi turned a talented, but traumatised group of girls -...
- 5/27/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
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