This week on The Anime Effect: Singer/songwriter d4vd, known for viral TikTok hits like "Here With Me", joins the podcast to talk about how anime and manga has inspired his work, plus even More updates about Dragon Ball Daima and reactions to the Devil May Cry animated series featuring Johnny Yong Bosch. Episode 33 of The Anime Effect is now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you listen to your podcasts! If you're waiting to watch the video episode, it'll be live on Crunchyroll and YouTube at 7 p.m. Et. Listen or Watch on: Episode 33 Summary In this week's episode, LeAlec, Leah and Nick discuss the latest One Piece live-action casting announcements, news of a Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid movie, and more! Then, d4vd joins the hosts in the studio at Crunchyroll HQ to chat about his favorite anime OPs, having to sneakily watch Dragon Ball...
- 9/27/2024
- by Carla Solórzano
- Crunchyroll
“Los caminantes de la calle,” directed by Argentina’s Juan Martín Hsu, Chilean Ignacio Pávez’s docu-fiction drama “An Amputee” and Uruguayan Lorenzo Tocco’s “For God’s Sake” proved the biggest winners at the Malaga Festival’s Mafiz industry area awards, announced at a ceremony on Friday night.
Covering Malaga’s Work in Progress showcase, its Málaga Festival Fund Co-Production forum (Maff) and the Spanish Screenings Content – Málaga Short Corner, prizes were divvied up among a slew of titles, with ‘Sometimes,’ by Sara Fantova and Enrique Buleo’s ‘Still Life With Ghosts,’ both scoring multiple awards.
From his first feature, 2015’s “La Salada,” a patchwork narrative tale of immigrants’ lives, dreams and suffering in Argentina, to 2021’s “La Luna Reprenta Mi Corazon,” a docu feature record of the rencounter with his mother in Taiwan, Hsu has carved out a niche depicting the immigrant experience in Argentina. In “Los caminantes de la calle,...
Covering Malaga’s Work in Progress showcase, its Málaga Festival Fund Co-Production forum (Maff) and the Spanish Screenings Content – Málaga Short Corner, prizes were divvied up among a slew of titles, with ‘Sometimes,’ by Sara Fantova and Enrique Buleo’s ‘Still Life With Ghosts,’ both scoring multiple awards.
From his first feature, 2015’s “La Salada,” a patchwork narrative tale of immigrants’ lives, dreams and suffering in Argentina, to 2021’s “La Luna Reprenta Mi Corazon,” a docu feature record of the rencounter with his mother in Taiwan, Hsu has carved out a niche depicting the immigrant experience in Argentina. In “Los caminantes de la calle,...
- 3/8/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Sunny Day Real Estate are continuing to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their landmark debut album, Diary, with a vinyl reissue.
Slated to ship on April 26th, the 2xLP will be pressed on a new pearlescent vinyl limited to 1,500 copies. The remastered and expanded edition contains all 11 songs from the original version of Diary, along with two bonus tracks — “8” and “9” — and newly written liner notes. Pre-orders are ongoing.
Besides the Diary reissue, Sdre have mapped out a 30th anniversary tour kicking off later this month. It includes stops in Austin, Washington, DC, New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and you can get your tickets here.
Sunny Day Real Estate have also laid down a live, track-by-track re-recording of Diary dropping on May 3rd, which features “Novum Vetus,” their first new single in 10 years. Pre-orders for that are also ongoing.
Get Sunny Day Real Estate Tickets Here
Diary: Remastered and...
Slated to ship on April 26th, the 2xLP will be pressed on a new pearlescent vinyl limited to 1,500 copies. The remastered and expanded edition contains all 11 songs from the original version of Diary, along with two bonus tracks — “8” and “9” — and newly written liner notes. Pre-orders are ongoing.
Besides the Diary reissue, Sdre have mapped out a 30th anniversary tour kicking off later this month. It includes stops in Austin, Washington, DC, New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and you can get your tickets here.
Sunny Day Real Estate have also laid down a live, track-by-track re-recording of Diary dropping on May 3rd, which features “Novum Vetus,” their first new single in 10 years. Pre-orders for that are also ongoing.
Get Sunny Day Real Estate Tickets Here
Diary: Remastered and...
- 3/4/2024
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
It’s been five years since Mannequin Pussy released their critically-acclaimed album Patience, which proved just how versatile and unapologetically intense these Philly punk rockers could be. From perfect break-up anthems like “Drunk II” to screaming ragers like “Cream,” the band ventured beyond the noise rock heard in Fishtown dive bars to write stunning songs with tons of emotional power. Since then, Mannequin Pussy — which is comprised of singer Marisa “Missy” Dabice, drummer Kaleen Reading, bassist Colins “Bear” Regisford, and newly added guitarist and keyboardist Maxine Steen — scratched the pandemic...
- 2/27/2024
- by Maya Georgi
- Rollingstone.com
Mannequin Pussy’s I Got Heaven represents a number of notable firsts for the Philly band: It’s their first studio album in five years, their first with guitarist Maxine Steen, and the first they’ve written together as a unit in the studio. But I Got Heaven isn’t so much a reinvention as it is a reinvigoration—a doubling down on all of the things that make Mannequin Pussy one of the most electrifying rock bands working right now.
I Got Heaven feels at once spontaneous and meticulous, no doubt owing to the collaborative writing process and the steady hand of producer John Congleton. For the way they mix elements of hardcore, shoegaze, and power pop across their music, Mannequin Pussy have long defied strict categorization. And reflective of the band’s penchant for blurring genres, the new album remains fiercely focused on its singular theme of freedom.
I Got Heaven feels at once spontaneous and meticulous, no doubt owing to the collaborative writing process and the steady hand of producer John Congleton. For the way they mix elements of hardcore, shoegaze, and power pop across their music, Mannequin Pussy have long defied strict categorization. And reflective of the band’s penchant for blurring genres, the new album remains fiercely focused on its singular theme of freedom.
- 2/26/2024
- by Nick Seip
- Slant Magazine
It’s a good time to be a Sofia Coppola fan. Alongside last fall’s release of one of her finest films, Priscilla, we got an expansive book detailing her career. Now we have two new updates related to other peaks of the director’s career.
First up, a New Yorker profile has revealed that a documentary on the making of her 2006 feature Marie Antoinette is in the works. Sofia Coppola’s mother Eleanor Coppola shot behind-the-scenes footage from the production, as she did for her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s films, most notably resulting in the documentary feature Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse. For Marie Antoinette, she captured around 80 hours, and both mother and daughter are now in the editing process. Here’s hoping it arrives by the film’s 20th anniversary.
For something that will arrive a bit sooner, a deluxe double vinyl LP of the Lost in Translation...
First up, a New Yorker profile has revealed that a documentary on the making of her 2006 feature Marie Antoinette is in the works. Sofia Coppola’s mother Eleanor Coppola shot behind-the-scenes footage from the production, as she did for her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s films, most notably resulting in the documentary feature Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse. For Marie Antoinette, she captured around 80 hours, and both mother and daughter are now in the editing process. Here’s hoping it arrives by the film’s 20th anniversary.
For something that will arrive a bit sooner, a deluxe double vinyl LP of the Lost in Translation...
- 2/19/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Faye Webster and Lil Yachty have teamed up for “Lego Ring,” a whimsical new track from Webster’s upcoming album Underdressed at the Symphony.
The video below features the Atlanta musicians — who have been friends since middle school — sitting on a couch and debating which of Webster’s songs to play à la Guitar Hero. Yachty passes on the Atlanta Millionaires Club track “Jonny,” as well as songs from 2021’s I Know I’m Funny haha: “Sometimes,” “In a Good Way,” and “Kind Of.”
Finally, the duo settled on “Lego Ring,...
The video below features the Atlanta musicians — who have been friends since middle school — sitting on a couch and debating which of Webster’s songs to play à la Guitar Hero. Yachty passes on the Atlanta Millionaires Club track “Jonny,” as well as songs from 2021’s I Know I’m Funny haha: “Sometimes,” “In a Good Way,” and “Kind Of.”
Finally, the duo settled on “Lego Ring,...
- 1/11/2024
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
It’s been eight years since fans last got a new Britney Spears album, and it’s looking like “Glory” may have been a send-off, as the pop star announced she is done with the industry that drove her craaaazy.
Britney Spears took to social media to address rumors that she had new music coming out via collaborations with Charlie Xcx and Julia Michaels (who we guess are big names on the scene?), doubling down that you shouldn’t be getting your hopes up. “Just so we’re clear most of the news is trash!!! They keep saying I’m turning to random people to do a new album…I will never return to the music industry!!!” Curiously, the post has since been deleted…
This is actually pretty unfortunate news, although not entirely unexpected, as she has spoken of retirement before. While Britney Spears is well out of her peak...
Britney Spears took to social media to address rumors that she had new music coming out via collaborations with Charlie Xcx and Julia Michaels (who we guess are big names on the scene?), doubling down that you shouldn’t be getting your hopes up. “Just so we’re clear most of the news is trash!!! They keep saying I’m turning to random people to do a new album…I will never return to the music industry!!!” Curiously, the post has since been deleted…
This is actually pretty unfortunate news, although not entirely unexpected, as she has spoken of retirement before. While Britney Spears is well out of her peak...
- 1/5/2024
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
Pearl Jam returned to the road on Thursday for their first concert in 2023. Taking the stage at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, the band tour through a 24-song set that included a few surprise performances.
Notably, the band dusted off “Insignificance” from Binaural for the first time since 2016. They also performed “Love Boat Captain” from Riot Act for only the second time in the last five years.
Other notable song selections included the Vs. track “Indifference,” which opened a Pearl Jam concert for the first time since 1994. They also played No Code deep cuts “I’m Open” and “Sometimes.”
To close the show, Eddie Vedder covered Tom Petty’s “Wildflowers” before the rest of the band joined him for “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town,” “Go,” “Crazy Mary,” “Alive,” and “Yellow Ledbetter.”
Check out the full setlist and watch fan-captured footage below.
Pearl Jam...
Notably, the band dusted off “Insignificance” from Binaural for the first time since 2016. They also performed “Love Boat Captain” from Riot Act for only the second time in the last five years.
Other notable song selections included the Vs. track “Indifference,” which opened a Pearl Jam concert for the first time since 1994. They also played No Code deep cuts “I’m Open” and “Sometimes.”
To close the show, Eddie Vedder covered Tom Petty’s “Wildflowers” before the rest of the band joined him for “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town,” “Go,” “Crazy Mary,” “Alive,” and “Yellow Ledbetter.”
Check out the full setlist and watch fan-captured footage below.
Pearl Jam...
- 9/1/2023
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music
The 1975 has announced a fall tour of North America. The band began their series of concerts last year in support of their 2022 album, Being Funny in a Foreign Language.
This is the group’s second time going on tour with the album, having previously embarked on their first At Their Very Best tour in October 2022 in the U.S. They then moved around the U.K., Latin America, Asia, Australia and Europe.
The tour transformed throughout its initial run in the U.S., featuring evolving setlists and surprise guest appearances from Phoebe Bridgers and Bleachers.
It remains to be seen what the band will do for their performances this time around.
>Get The 1975 Concert Tickets Now!
The 1975 Tour Setlist
The below setlist comes from the 1975’s July 12 performance in Paris, France.
Looking for Somebody (to Love)
Happiness
Oh Caroline
I’m in Love With You
Me & You Together Song
A Change of Heart...
This is the group’s second time going on tour with the album, having previously embarked on their first At Their Very Best tour in October 2022 in the U.S. They then moved around the U.K., Latin America, Asia, Australia and Europe.
The tour transformed throughout its initial run in the U.S., featuring evolving setlists and surprise guest appearances from Phoebe Bridgers and Bleachers.
It remains to be seen what the band will do for their performances this time around.
>Get The 1975 Concert Tickets Now!
The 1975 Tour Setlist
The below setlist comes from the 1975’s July 12 performance in Paris, France.
Looking for Somebody (to Love)
Happiness
Oh Caroline
I’m in Love With You
Me & You Together Song
A Change of Heart...
- 8/26/2023
- by Alex Nguyen
- Uinterview
Rhino Records is celebrating Candlebox with a new box set titled The Maverick Years, set to arrive on September 22nd. The 7-lp vinyl collection features expanded editions of the band’s first three albums, as well as a compilation of previously unreleased tracks.
As previously reported, Candlebox will unveil their final LP, The Long Goodbye, on August 25th. They are currently in the midst of an extensive farewell tour supporting 3 Doors Down (tickets available here). The outing launched in June and runs through a September 23rd show in Houston, Texas. The two bands will then join up again on October 21st for 3 Doors Down’s “The Better Life Foundation Concert” in Cherokee, North Carolina.
With Candlebox set to call it a day with their final tour and album, the band is looking back to its past. The Maverick Years features remastered and expanded 2-lp vinyl versions of Candlebox (1993), Lucy (1995), and...
As previously reported, Candlebox will unveil their final LP, The Long Goodbye, on August 25th. They are currently in the midst of an extensive farewell tour supporting 3 Doors Down (tickets available here). The outing launched in June and runs through a September 23rd show in Houston, Texas. The two bands will then join up again on October 21st for 3 Doors Down’s “The Better Life Foundation Concert” in Cherokee, North Carolina.
With Candlebox set to call it a day with their final tour and album, the band is looking back to its past. The Maverick Years features remastered and expanded 2-lp vinyl versions of Candlebox (1993), Lucy (1995), and...
- 8/8/2023
- by Spencer Kaufman
- Consequence - Music
The Amazon Prime Video series “The Summer I Turned Pretty” has made a splash with its loaded soundtrack. By now it is safe to say that “The Summer I Turned Pretty” and Taylor Swift go hand in hand because author and show creator Jenny Han has made it so.
The first season had five Swift songs ranging from her “Lover” album to “Fearless (Taylor’s Version),” and the Season 1 trailer debuted “This Love (Taylor’s Version)” from the yet-to-be-released re-recorded “1989.” Season 2’s teaser was set to “August,” and then the official trailer debuted “Back to December (Taylor’s Version)” shortly before “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)” was released July 7. Only time will tell if Season 2 ties Season 1 for how many Taylor Swift songs it contains.
The sequel season’s summer-y soundtrack also contains hits from repeat artists Olivia Rodrigo, Tyler the Creator, Caroline Polachek and more. A Fleetwood Mac ballad punctuates a particularly emotional scene,...
The first season had five Swift songs ranging from her “Lover” album to “Fearless (Taylor’s Version),” and the Season 1 trailer debuted “This Love (Taylor’s Version)” from the yet-to-be-released re-recorded “1989.” Season 2’s teaser was set to “August,” and then the official trailer debuted “Back to December (Taylor’s Version)” shortly before “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)” was released July 7. Only time will tell if Season 2 ties Season 1 for how many Taylor Swift songs it contains.
The sequel season’s summer-y soundtrack also contains hits from repeat artists Olivia Rodrigo, Tyler the Creator, Caroline Polachek and more. A Fleetwood Mac ballad punctuates a particularly emotional scene,...
- 7/14/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
Amazon Prime Video India has set its first Tamil-language long-form scripted original series, “Suzhal – The Vortex,” written and created by Pushkar and Gayatri (“Vikram Vedha”).
The eight-part crime thriller revolves around the investigation of a missing girl that wreaks havoc and disrupts the fabric of a small town in South India. It is produced by Wallwatcher Films and directed by Bramma and Anucharan M. The cast includes Kathir (“Pariyerum Perumal”), Aishwarya Rajesh (“Kanaa”) and Sriya Reddy (“Sometimes”) alongside veteran Radhakrishnan Parthiban (“Single Slipper Size – 7”).
Amazon had debuted in Tamil-language original commissions with anthology “Putham Pudhu Kaalai” (2020).
“Suzhal – The Vortex” was launched at the ongoing International Indian Film Academy Awards (Iifa) Weekend at Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, by Aparna Purohit, head of India originals, Amazon Prime Video, the creators, directors and lead cast. It will be available for streaming from June 17.
Purohit said: “When you have a nuanced, suspenseful thriller with a strong emotional core,...
The eight-part crime thriller revolves around the investigation of a missing girl that wreaks havoc and disrupts the fabric of a small town in South India. It is produced by Wallwatcher Films and directed by Bramma and Anucharan M. The cast includes Kathir (“Pariyerum Perumal”), Aishwarya Rajesh (“Kanaa”) and Sriya Reddy (“Sometimes”) alongside veteran Radhakrishnan Parthiban (“Single Slipper Size – 7”).
Amazon had debuted in Tamil-language original commissions with anthology “Putham Pudhu Kaalai” (2020).
“Suzhal – The Vortex” was launched at the ongoing International Indian Film Academy Awards (Iifa) Weekend at Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, by Aparna Purohit, head of India originals, Amazon Prime Video, the creators, directors and lead cast. It will be available for streaming from June 17.
Purohit said: “When you have a nuanced, suspenseful thriller with a strong emotional core,...
- 6/3/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The more emotion-driven a TV series or movie, the more important the soundtrack. And boy is Normal People, the Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney’s wildly popular novel of the same name, driven by the emotion of its characters and world.
Normal People follows Marianne and Connell’s complicated relationship as they move from being teenagers at a small town in western Ireland into young adulthood at Dublin’s Trinity College, and showrunner Ed Guiney, directors Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald, music supervisors Juliet Martin and Maggie Phillips, and editor Nathan Nugent have done an impressive job crafting the music landscape for this world.
“We were trying all sorts of tracks ourselves,” said Abrahamson, who mentioned Martin, Phillips, Nugent, and himself as the chief collaborators in the process. “So, as well as the work that Stephen Rennicks, the composer, was doing, it was just, again, a very organic kind of collaboration.
Normal People follows Marianne and Connell’s complicated relationship as they move from being teenagers at a small town in western Ireland into young adulthood at Dublin’s Trinity College, and showrunner Ed Guiney, directors Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald, music supervisors Juliet Martin and Maggie Phillips, and editor Nathan Nugent have done an impressive job crafting the music landscape for this world.
“We were trying all sorts of tracks ourselves,” said Abrahamson, who mentioned Martin, Phillips, Nugent, and himself as the chief collaborators in the process. “So, as well as the work that Stephen Rennicks, the composer, was doing, it was just, again, a very organic kind of collaboration.
- 4/29/2020
- by Kayti Burt
- Den of Geek
Eliza Hittman’s Berlin and Sundance prize-winner was due to receive a theatrical release in the UK.
Eliza Hittman’s Berlin and Sundance award-winner Never Rarely Sometimes Always is to bypass a UK theatrical release and go straight to digital, due to cinema closures as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Universal Pictures and Focus Features were planning to release the acclaimed drama in UK theatres on the back of winning a special jury award at Sundance and the Berlinale’s Silver Bear grand jury prize.
But nationwide cinema closures, imposed in a bid to stem the spread of coronavirus,...
Eliza Hittman’s Berlin and Sundance award-winner Never Rarely Sometimes Always is to bypass a UK theatrical release and go straight to digital, due to cinema closures as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Universal Pictures and Focus Features were planning to release the acclaimed drama in UK theatres on the back of winning a special jury award at Sundance and the Berlinale’s Silver Bear grand jury prize.
But nationwide cinema closures, imposed in a bid to stem the spread of coronavirus,...
- 4/17/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
A woman's right to choose if and when to become a mother is once again under serious attack, this time using the fig leaf of Covid-19 regulations to shut down clinics, intimidate providers and punish women. The attorney general of Texas has ruled that abortions, unless there is an immediate medical emergency, are "elective procedures" and therefore banned. Just this past weekend, the ruling was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. If the ruling stands, women in Texas who are seeking abortions will have to travel long distances out of state, risk more interactions, possible infections and ...
- 4/15/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
When Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington was 18, he wrote the lyrics to “Sometimes,” a soulful, song about longing for better days, for his grungy first band Grey Daze.
A new video for the tune starts with a recording of a woman calling Bennington, saying she’s going through a hard time. The clip proceeds to show Bennington’s lyrics comforting her. “Maybe things will get better, maybe things will look brighter,” he screams in the chorus. And over moody strumming, he offers, “Sometimes people surprise you.”
Before the singer’s...
A new video for the tune starts with a recording of a woman calling Bennington, saying she’s going through a hard time. The clip proceeds to show Bennington’s lyrics comforting her. “Maybe things will get better, maybe things will look brighter,” he screams in the chorus. And over moody strumming, he offers, “Sometimes people surprise you.”
Before the singer’s...
- 4/3/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Barry Jenkins and Adele Romanski know more than most about getting difficult stories to large audiences. Jenkins’ “Moonlight,” which he and Romanski produced through their production company Pastel, came together on a $1.5 million budget and ultimately grossed over $65 million in addition to winning Best Picture. Since then, the company — co-founded by Sara Murphy and Mark Ceryak — has supported a handful of other filmmakers, including Aaron Katz’s L.A. neo-noir “Gemini.” Their most recent credit comes out this week on VOD, but it wasn’t supposed to work out that way.
Eliza Hittman’s “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” won prizes in Sundance and Berlin before Focus Features released it in early March — days before theaters closed nationwide. The Universal subsidiary is now following a strategy it applied to movies like “The Invisible Man” and “The Hunt” by pushing “Never Rarely” into VOD on Friday.
More from IndieWireFocus Features Sends 'Never...
Eliza Hittman’s “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” won prizes in Sundance and Berlin before Focus Features released it in early March — days before theaters closed nationwide. The Universal subsidiary is now following a strategy it applied to movies like “The Invisible Man” and “The Hunt” by pushing “Never Rarely” into VOD on Friday.
More from IndieWireFocus Features Sends 'Never...
- 4/1/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Since launching in November, Apple TV+ has staked a claim in the great streaming wars, with series across multiple genres. With its topical subject matter and A-list stars, “The Morning Show” landed with Golden Globes voters, nabbing three nominations but failing to secure a win. M. Night Shyamalan’s “Servant” was a finely crafted experiment in serving a half-hour horror series, proving Apple had enough sense to give auteurs free reign. “Dickinson” was one of the best new queer shows of the year, already leading to a Season 2 for creator Alena Smith.
Now, Apple is enlisting another name director, “Crazy Rich Asians” helmer Jon M. Chu, to bring his vision to the growing platform. Chu is executive producer on “Home Before Dark,” a tense mystery created by showrunners Dana Fox and Dara Resnik (“Daredevil”). The series stars “The Florida Project” breakout talent Brooklynn Prince as a young girl following a...
Now, Apple is enlisting another name director, “Crazy Rich Asians” helmer Jon M. Chu, to bring his vision to the growing platform. Chu is executive producer on “Home Before Dark,” a tense mystery created by showrunners Dana Fox and Dara Resnik (“Daredevil”). The series stars “The Florida Project” breakout talent Brooklynn Prince as a young girl following a...
- 3/6/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ still leads.
Burhan Qurbani’s Berlin Alexanderplatz and Sally Potter’s The Roads Not Taken scored low on Screen’s Berlin 2020 Competition jury grid, as controversial Russian title Dau. Natasha split opinion for a joint-third place spot.
Qurbani’s adaptation of Alfred Döblin’s 1929 novel scored three ones (poor) from Segnocinema’s Paolo Bertolin, Meduza’s Anton Dolin, and The Morning Star’s Rita Di Santo, as well as three twos (average), with only one positive score of three (good) from Dagens Nyheter’s Helena Lindblad. This brought it an average of 1.7, the fourth-lowest score on the grid.
Burhan Qurbani’s Berlin Alexanderplatz and Sally Potter’s The Roads Not Taken scored low on Screen’s Berlin 2020 Competition jury grid, as controversial Russian title Dau. Natasha split opinion for a joint-third place spot.
Qurbani’s adaptation of Alfred Döblin’s 1929 novel scored three ones (poor) from Segnocinema’s Paolo Bertolin, Meduza’s Anton Dolin, and The Morning Star’s Rita Di Santo, as well as three twos (average), with only one positive score of three (good) from Dagens Nyheter’s Helena Lindblad. This brought it an average of 1.7, the fourth-lowest score on the grid.
- 2/27/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
"We all think about dying," says Stefanie Abel Horowitz, director and co-writer of the short Sometimes, I Think About Dying. Indeed, this universal truth is at the center of her introspective film, which focuses on a few days in the life of young office worker Fran (played by Katy Wright-Mead), who is overcome with debilitating loneliness.
"Fran has closed herself off to the world in so many ways, and death is just more of a chance to be unmoved, to be someone who can't be in pain. She just wants to experience a nowhere, nothing place,"...
"Fran has closed herself off to the world in so many ways, and death is just more of a chance to be unmoved, to be someone who can't be in pain. She just wants to experience a nowhere, nothing place,"...
It’s over but it opened L.A.’s newest spring season of unlimited international film screenings all over the city throughout the month of April and into Cannes.
The 15th annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) opened with “Lipstick Under My Burkha” and its impressive ensemble cast of Konkona Sen Sharma, Ratna Pathak, Aahana Kumra and Plabita Borthakur in a dramatic, but irreverent and vibrant film about women and faith. The film premiered at the Tokyo Film Festival 2016 and has been lighting up the festival circuit, including just winning the Audience Award at the Glasgow Film Festival. Director Alankrita Shrivastava is confirmed to attend and additional talent to be confirmed.
“Lipstick Under My Burkha”
Iffla concluded on April 9 with a red carpet and gala that featured the Los Angeles premiere of Shubhashish Bhutiani’s “Hotel Salvation” starring Adil Hussain who was in attendance, as well as the...
The 15th annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) opened with “Lipstick Under My Burkha” and its impressive ensemble cast of Konkona Sen Sharma, Ratna Pathak, Aahana Kumra and Plabita Borthakur in a dramatic, but irreverent and vibrant film about women and faith. The film premiered at the Tokyo Film Festival 2016 and has been lighting up the festival circuit, including just winning the Audience Award at the Glasgow Film Festival. Director Alankrita Shrivastava is confirmed to attend and additional talent to be confirmed.
“Lipstick Under My Burkha”
Iffla concluded on April 9 with a red carpet and gala that featured the Los Angeles premiere of Shubhashish Bhutiani’s “Hotel Salvation” starring Adil Hussain who was in attendance, as well as the...
- 4/21/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Sila Samayangalil screens Sunday, Nov. 6 at 8:00pm at The Hi-Pointe Backlot as part of this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival. Producers Radhika Chaudhari and Rajan Kanul will be in attendance. Ticket information can be found Here
A dramedy with a strong message of social awareness, Sila Samayangalil focuses on eight characters from different walks of life who provide their blood samples for an AIDS test. In the pathology lab where the screening occurs, those tested are forced to cool their heels as the blood is processed. To avoid the tension of waiting, they collectively decide to bribe the technician, who provides partial results: Only one among the group has AIDS. Far from relieving their worries, this frustratingly incomplete information only ratchets up the anxiety. When the individual results finally become available, each of the eight is called in to receive the news and, one by one, walks out with relief,...
A dramedy with a strong message of social awareness, Sila Samayangalil focuses on eight characters from different walks of life who provide their blood samples for an AIDS test. In the pathology lab where the screening occurs, those tested are forced to cool their heels as the blood is processed. To avoid the tension of waiting, they collectively decide to bribe the technician, who provides partial results: Only one among the group has AIDS. Far from relieving their worries, this frustratingly incomplete information only ratchets up the anxiety. When the individual results finally become available, each of the eight is called in to receive the news and, one by one, walks out with relief,...
- 11/6/2016
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.