What Is It: Past-life regression therapy is a form of hypnosis and attendant talk therapy that essentially suggests that we carry evidence — emotional, psychic and occasionally physical — of our past lives into our current one. (You have to accept the idea of pseudo-reincarnation or past lives, period, to get with it.) By accessing those memories and talking through them, past-life regression can help us confront issues in our current life.
Personally, I’m a bit of a pragmatist: I was intrigued by the premise of past-life regression when I got the cold email about it, but I didn’t really put much stock in it.
Personally, I’m a bit of a pragmatist: I was intrigued by the premise of past-life regression when I got the cold email about it, but I didn’t really put much stock in it.
- 9/7/2017
- by Alex Heigl
- PEOPLE.com
Not every actor simply came up through drama school and paid their dues with bit parts here and there. Some of them came from other industries that were similar in a way to acting, but were also a little more demanding due to the nature of the business. At one point it wasn’t that common to see rappers becoming actors, as it seemed more likely to see those individuals as guest stars on TV shows and cameo appearances in films. But as the decades have rolled by more and more musicians have been getting involved in cinema, and for some
Five Actors You Completely Forgot were Rappers in a Past Life...
Five Actors You Completely Forgot were Rappers in a Past Life...
- 6/22/2017
- by Wake
- TVovermind.com
“Wonder Woman” captured the weekend zeitgeist with reviews as good as any new adult-appeal specialized opener — and gobbled up potential audience. But that’s not the sole reason the specialty box office went to hell this weekend.
“Churchill” (Cohen), with the pedigree of an arthouse crossover winner, went nationally in top theaters but failed to capture more than desultory business. A trio of niche releases showed some mid-level interest in New York and Los Angeles — “The Exception”(A24), “Letters from Baghdad” (Vitagraph), and “Band Aid”(IFC) — but none looks likely to cross over beyond the big-city arthouse market.
The scariest weekend news: the total lack of response to Ken Loach’s Cannes 2016 Palme d’Or-winner “I, Daniel Blake.” While it’s been a long wait after a year-end qualifying run, it’s shocking that the well-reviewed BAFTA-winner met with near total disinterest.
Last weekend’s top opener “Long Strange Trip...
“Churchill” (Cohen), with the pedigree of an arthouse crossover winner, went nationally in top theaters but failed to capture more than desultory business. A trio of niche releases showed some mid-level interest in New York and Los Angeles — “The Exception”(A24), “Letters from Baghdad” (Vitagraph), and “Band Aid”(IFC) — but none looks likely to cross over beyond the big-city arthouse market.
The scariest weekend news: the total lack of response to Ken Loach’s Cannes 2016 Palme d’Or-winner “I, Daniel Blake.” While it’s been a long wait after a year-end qualifying run, it’s shocking that the well-reviewed BAFTA-winner met with near total disinterest.
Last weekend’s top opener “Long Strange Trip...
- 6/4/2017
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
Wonder Woman exceeded all expectations this weekend, delivering an impressive $100 million opening, the largest opening for a female-directed feature, vastly out-performing the previous record holder Fifty Shades of Grey, which debuted with $85.1 million back in 2015. Meanwhile, Fox's release of the DreamWorks Animation feature Captain Underpants came up a little short of Mojo's forecast while mildly outperforming the studio's modest expectations. Overall, the weekend dramatically outperformed the post-holiday weekend from 2016 by a massive 38% as the top twelve delivered a combined $176 million. At the top, Wonder Woman, directed by Patty Jenkins and starring Gal Gadot in the title role, went into the weekend boasting the best reviews out of the four films that have been released in the DC Extended Universe so far and the critical opinion definitely aided the film's awareness as the buzz only continued to grow throughout the week. Following an impressive $38.76 million Friday that buzz was no longer...
- 6/4/2017
- by Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
May kicked off the summer movie season, but June brings some studio tentpoles actually worth seeing (yes, we didn’t like that one everyone else did last month). Along with popcorn entertainment, there’s some of the finest independent films of the year, ranging from a long-delayed final feature from a late master to Sundance favorites and more. We should also note that, despite getting a release last year, IFC seems to be putting the Palme d’Or-winning I, Daniel Blake back in theaters this week, and we recommend seeking it out if you missed it.
Matinees to See: Past Life (6/2), Band Aid (6/2), My Cousin Rachel (6/9), Megan Leavey (6/9), Score: A Film Music Documentary (6/16), Maudie (6/16), Harmonium (6/16), The Journey (6/16), All Eyez on Me (6/16), Lost in Paris (6/16), Pop Aye (6/28), The House (6/30), and The Little Hours (6/30).
15. It’s Only the End of the World (Xavier Dolan; June 30)
Synopsis: It would have been a lovely family dinner.
Matinees to See: Past Life (6/2), Band Aid (6/2), My Cousin Rachel (6/9), Megan Leavey (6/9), Score: A Film Music Documentary (6/16), Maudie (6/16), Harmonium (6/16), The Journey (6/16), All Eyez on Me (6/16), Lost in Paris (6/16), Pop Aye (6/28), The House (6/30), and The Little Hours (6/30).
15. It’s Only the End of the World (Xavier Dolan; June 30)
Synopsis: It would have been a lovely family dinner.
- 6/1/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Look for reviews of the some of the films playing at this year’s The St. Louis Jewish Film Festival soon here at We Are Movie Geeks
The St. Louis Jewish Film Festival, held annually at the Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema (1701 S Lindbergh Blvd #210, St Louis, Mo 63131), is one of the local Jewish community’s most popular and highly attended events of the year. Each year, the festival presents international Jewish films, both documentaries and features that explore universal issues through traditional Jewish values, opposing viewpoints and new perspectives. And each year, the fest packs ‘em in so get there early – it’s first come first serve for seats and those Frontenac theaters aren’t very big. Attendance is always through the roof for this thing, a testament to the group’s marketing and choice of programming. Guest lecturers are brought to the fest to discuss and illuminate the subjects of these films.
The St. Louis Jewish Film Festival, held annually at the Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema (1701 S Lindbergh Blvd #210, St Louis, Mo 63131), is one of the local Jewish community’s most popular and highly attended events of the year. Each year, the festival presents international Jewish films, both documentaries and features that explore universal issues through traditional Jewish values, opposing viewpoints and new perspectives. And each year, the fest packs ‘em in so get there early – it’s first come first serve for seats and those Frontenac theaters aren’t very big. Attendance is always through the roof for this thing, a testament to the group’s marketing and choice of programming. Guest lecturers are brought to the fest to discuss and illuminate the subjects of these films.
- 5/25/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
History was made in Pittsburgh on Wednesday night.
After nine years in the minors, Mpho’ “Gift” Ngoepe got to play in a major league game. Sports history, yes. World history, too.
There have been major league players from North, South and Central America, Asia and Europe before, but not one from Africa. In effect, Ngoepe is the first man from the continent to reach the majors.
“It’s a dream come true for me because it’s been my dream since I was a 10-year-old boy, but it also means so much to the people of South Africa and baseball in Africa,...
After nine years in the minors, Mpho’ “Gift” Ngoepe got to play in a major league game. Sports history, yes. World history, too.
There have been major league players from North, South and Central America, Asia and Europe before, but not one from Africa. In effect, Ngoepe is the first man from the continent to reach the majors.
“It’s a dream come true for me because it’s been my dream since I was a 10-year-old boy, but it also means so much to the people of South Africa and baseball in Africa,...
- 4/27/2017
- by Peter Mikelbank
- PEOPLE.com
Few artists have entered — and stayed — in the popular imagination over the last few decades like Tupac Shakur, whose 1996 murder only grew his legend further. Two decades later, his story is being told once again in Benny Boom’s “All Eyez on Me,” a biopic starring Demetrius Shipp, Jr. Watch the new trailer below.
Read More: ‘All Eyez on Me’ Trailer: Tupac Shakur Biopic Looks To Be This Year’s ‘Straight Outta Compton’
Shipp, Jr. bears a striking resemblance to the gone-too-soon rapper, poet and actor, whose lyrics expressed a fixation with his own mortality. 2Pac has been the subject of numerous documentaries — including the Academy Award–nominated “Tupac: Resurrection” and Nick Broomfield’s “Biggie & Tupac” — and been portrayed in other biopics, including “Straight Outta Compton.”
Here we see the highs and lows of his life and career, including the lead-up to his murder in Las Vegas after a boxing...
Read More: ‘All Eyez on Me’ Trailer: Tupac Shakur Biopic Looks To Be This Year’s ‘Straight Outta Compton’
Shipp, Jr. bears a striking resemblance to the gone-too-soon rapper, poet and actor, whose lyrics expressed a fixation with his own mortality. 2Pac has been the subject of numerous documentaries — including the Academy Award–nominated “Tupac: Resurrection” and Nick Broomfield’s “Biggie & Tupac” — and been portrayed in other biopics, including “Straight Outta Compton.”
Here we see the highs and lows of his life and career, including the lead-up to his murder in Las Vegas after a boxing...
- 4/9/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Past Life (original title Ha-Khata’im, “The Sin”) Director: Avi Nesher Written by: Avi Nesher Cast: Nelly Tagar, Joy Rieger, Evgenia Dodina, Doron Tavory, Tom Avni, Rafael Stachowiak, Muli Schulman, Katarzyna Gniewkowska That films revolving around the Holocaust continue to be made—good ones at that—is a sign that the tragedy ranks as among the most revealing […]
The post Past Life Movie Review appeared first on Shockya.com.
The post Past Life Movie Review appeared first on Shockya.com.
- 3/29/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Isabelle Huppert has had a stellar year, making a splash in two critically acclaimed films this year: Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Things to Come” and Paul Verhoeven’s “Elle,” which could earn her an Oscar nomination.
With a career spanning over four decades and with over 100 credits to her name, the French actress has earned 15 César nominations, winning the coveted Best Actress award in 1995 for her role in “La cérémonie.” She also has a BAFTA Award, won two Best Actress titles at the Cannes Film Festival and most recently won Best Actress at the 2016 Gotham Awards. To pay tribute to her remarkable career, filmmaker Candice Drouet created the video essay, “Isabelle Huppert: 100 Faces.”
The clip includes scenes from “Every Man for Himself,” “Copacabana,” “Violette Nozière,” “8 Women” and many others. The video looks at Huppert’s previous work and adds tidbits about her roles, like the fact that she portrayed a...
With a career spanning over four decades and with over 100 credits to her name, the French actress has earned 15 César nominations, winning the coveted Best Actress award in 1995 for her role in “La cérémonie.” She also has a BAFTA Award, won two Best Actress titles at the Cannes Film Festival and most recently won Best Actress at the 2016 Gotham Awards. To pay tribute to her remarkable career, filmmaker Candice Drouet created the video essay, “Isabelle Huppert: 100 Faces.”
The clip includes scenes from “Every Man for Himself,” “Copacabana,” “Violette Nozière,” “8 Women” and many others. The video looks at Huppert’s previous work and adds tidbits about her roles, like the fact that she portrayed a...
- 12/10/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
To say “Elle” is dividing critics and audiences would be an understatement. One of the year’s most controversial films, the thriller proves the great Paul Verhoeven is still a master of provocation and that Isabelle Huppert is one of the very best actresses we’ve got.
Huppert plays a rape victim who, instead of reporting the crime, begins a very twisted relationship with her assailant, but the character’s complex history makes her motives ambiguously self-destructive. “Elle” is a conversation starter like no other film this year as it defies description and expectations at every turn.
Read More: ‘Elle’: Why Paul Verhoeven’s Rape Revenge Drama is Essential Viewing, Even for the Squeamish
The thriller is now playing in New York City and Los Angeles, and to celebrate the release IndieWire is giving one reader the chance to win the official film poster signed by none other than Paul Verhoeven and Isabelle Huppert.
Huppert plays a rape victim who, instead of reporting the crime, begins a very twisted relationship with her assailant, but the character’s complex history makes her motives ambiguously self-destructive. “Elle” is a conversation starter like no other film this year as it defies description and expectations at every turn.
Read More: ‘Elle’: Why Paul Verhoeven’s Rape Revenge Drama is Essential Viewing, Even for the Squeamish
The thriller is now playing in New York City and Los Angeles, and to celebrate the release IndieWire is giving one reader the chance to win the official film poster signed by none other than Paul Verhoeven and Isabelle Huppert.
- 11/16/2016
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
As Paul Verhoeven’s controversial Isabelle Huppert-starring “Elle” finally hits theaters this weekend, IndieWire’s Kate Erbland and Anne Thompson traded notes on the bold film and its depiction of rape, female empowerment and the power of humor in the face of unexpected trauma.
Kate Erbland: I confess that I balked a little when I saw our own Eric Kohn’s early review of the film out of Cannes, which calls the film “a lighthearted rape-revenge story,” but having now seen the film at last month’s New York Film Festival, I struggle to find better wording. It’s both of those things, lighthearted and a rape-revenge story, and that’s a nearly impossible combination to make work, no matter who is behind it, and “Elle” has got some serious wattage to recommend it.
The film stars the always-wonderful Isabelle Huppert as the “post-feminist” Michele, a hard-driving career woman...
Kate Erbland: I confess that I balked a little when I saw our own Eric Kohn’s early review of the film out of Cannes, which calls the film “a lighthearted rape-revenge story,” but having now seen the film at last month’s New York Film Festival, I struggle to find better wording. It’s both of those things, lighthearted and a rape-revenge story, and that’s a nearly impossible combination to make work, no matter who is behind it, and “Elle” has got some serious wattage to recommend it.
The film stars the always-wonderful Isabelle Huppert as the “post-feminist” Michele, a hard-driving career woman...
- 11/11/2016
- by Kate Erbland and Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Exclusive: XLrator Media has taken Us rights to the action thriller.
Bleiberg Entertainment has virtually sold out worldwide rights here to the Scott Adkins action thriller Savage Dog led by a Us deal with XLrator Media.
The La-based production and sales company has licensed Germany to Spirit/Koch Media, Latin America to California Filmes, Canada to Vvs Films, the Middle East to Eagle Films and Turkey to Sinema, among others.
Only China and Hong Kong remain available on Savage Dog, which recently wrapped production and centres on a disgraced soldier-turned-prizefighter seeking vengeance in a lawless town in 1950s Indochina.
Joining Adkins on the cast are Marko Zaror, Cung Le and Juju Chan. Jesse V. Johnson directs from his own original screenplay.
Ehud Bleiberg, who produced Adkins’ Close Range, produced alongside Johnson and Charles Arthur Berg, while Adkins and Bleiberg’s Nicholas Donnermeyer are executive producers with Blacklist Digital’s Tims Johnson, Narbeh Tatoussian and [link...
Bleiberg Entertainment has virtually sold out worldwide rights here to the Scott Adkins action thriller Savage Dog led by a Us deal with XLrator Media.
The La-based production and sales company has licensed Germany to Spirit/Koch Media, Latin America to California Filmes, Canada to Vvs Films, the Middle East to Eagle Films and Turkey to Sinema, among others.
Only China and Hong Kong remain available on Savage Dog, which recently wrapped production and centres on a disgraced soldier-turned-prizefighter seeking vengeance in a lawless town in 1950s Indochina.
Joining Adkins on the cast are Marko Zaror, Cung Le and Juju Chan. Jesse V. Johnson directs from his own original screenplay.
Ehud Bleiberg, who produced Adkins’ Close Range, produced alongside Johnson and Charles Arthur Berg, while Adkins and Bleiberg’s Nicholas Donnermeyer are executive producers with Blacklist Digital’s Tims Johnson, Narbeh Tatoussian and [link...
- 11/5/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Are the sins of the father destined to always be laid upon the children, as the Bible-inspired William Shakespeare quote reminds us, or is it possible for an individual to sack the negative aspects of their culture and lineage in order begin anew, unburdened by the hatred and mistrust the earlier generations had for each other? “Past Life” is a somewhat awkwardly written yet emotionally resonant drama that effectively asks that question via two Israeli sisters who struggle to find a way to live with themselves after finding out that their father might have done something unforgivable during World War II.
Continue reading ‘Past Life’ Is An Emotionally Resonant Exploration Of The Legacy Of Sin [Tiff Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Past Life’ Is An Emotionally Resonant Exploration Of The Legacy Of Sin [Tiff Review] at The Playlist.
- 9/17/2016
- by Oktay Ege Kozak
- The Playlist
2015 was a successful year regarding the quantity and quality of foreign productions shot in Poland. At the beginning of the year, Anne Fontaine (“Coco Before Chanel,” “Perfect Mothers”) filmed a French-Polish co-production “Agnus Dei” in Warmia, which premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival. The film features Polish and French actresses among others Lou de Laage, Agata Kulesza, Agata Buzek and Joanna Kulig.
In the spring, the crew of a Polish-German-French-Belgian co-production about the life of Maria Sklodowska-Curie (dir. Marie Noelle) spent 20 days on the set in among others Lodz, Leba and Krakow. The cast is international, and the film is made in French. The Polish Nobelist is portrayed by Karolina Gruszka (“Oxygen”).
The summer brought about increased activity of German producers. A Zdf TV show, “Ein Sommer in…” was filmed in two resort towns in the north-eastern Poland – Mikolajki and Mragowo. Ard and Tvp collaborated on the set of "Polizeiruf 110" ("Police Call 110"), which was filmed in July and August among others in a Polish border-town – Swiecko. Also in July began the shooting of a new part of detective TV series "Der Usedom-Krimi" filmed on both the Polish and German side of the Usedom island.
However, a true influx of foreign productions took place in the autumn. American-Polish thriller “Chronology” was filmed in Poznan. The cast includes William Baldwin (TV series "Gossip Girl," "Adrift in Manhattan") and Danny Trejo (“Machete,” “From Dusk till Dawn”).
The Goetz Palace in Brzesk, in Malopolska hosted filmmakers from India who for six days were shooting “Fitoor,” an Indian adaptation of Dickens's “Great Expectations.” The crew consisted of over 40 Indians and almost 80 Poles. Another crew from India – this time from the so-called Kollywood in the south of the country – spent twenty days on the set in various Polish locations (among others Zakopane, Walbrzych, Krakow, Leba). The film titled “24” features Surya, a Tamil superstar, in the main role.
The autumn months were also very intensive in Lodz with three simultaneous big film sets. Andrzej Wajda (“The Promised Land,” “Walesa. Man of Hope”) worked on his new film “Powidoki”; Opus Film, the producer of “Ida”, organized for an Israeli partner eleven-day shoot to a film set in 1970s – “Past Life,” directed by Avi Nesher; and American director Martha Coolidge (“The Prince and Me,” TV shows “Sex and the City,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Weeds”) filmed her project “Music, War and Love,” whose producer is among others Fred Roos known from such films as “Apocalypse Now,” “The Godfather” or “Lost in Translation.” The picture features Adelaide Clemens (“The Great Gatsby”), Connie Nielsen (“Gladiator”), Toby Sebastian (“Game of Thrones”) and Stellan Skarsgård (“Nymphomaniac”).
The end of the year was also very successful for Malopolska and Krakow. Two movies were filmed in the region – an American-British biography of Martin Luther commissioned by PBS with Padraic Delaney (“The Wind that Shakes the Barley,” “The Tudors”) in the main role; and a feature titled “True Crimes” starring two-time winner of a Golden Globe – Jim Carrey (“The Truman Show,” “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “The Mask”) as the protagonist. The crew spent 32 days on the set in Krakow. The picture was directed by Greek Alexandros Avranas (“Miss Violence”), written by Jeremy Brock (“Brideshead Revisited,” “The Last King of Scotland”), and produced by Brett Ratner (“X-Men 3: the Last Stand,” TV series “Rush Hour”). Accompanying Jim Carrey were Charlotte Gainsbourg (“Nymphomaniac,” “Antichrist”); Marton Csokas (“The Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King,” “The Amazing Spider-Man 2”) and Polish actors Agata Kulesza (“Ida”) and Robert Wieckiewicz (“Walesa. Man of Hope”).
The first information about productions planned for 2016 has already been released. In January, Krakow will host the crew of French black comedy “Grand Froid,” Gérard Pautonnier's debut featuring Jean-Pierre Bacri (“The Taste of Others,” “Let It Rain”), Olivier Gourmet (“Rosetta,” “The Son”) and Arthur Dupond (“Bus Palladium”). The project won the first edition of the Krakow International Film Fund.
In the spring, the crew of a Polish-German-French-Belgian co-production about the life of Maria Sklodowska-Curie (dir. Marie Noelle) spent 20 days on the set in among others Lodz, Leba and Krakow. The cast is international, and the film is made in French. The Polish Nobelist is portrayed by Karolina Gruszka (“Oxygen”).
The summer brought about increased activity of German producers. A Zdf TV show, “Ein Sommer in…” was filmed in two resort towns in the north-eastern Poland – Mikolajki and Mragowo. Ard and Tvp collaborated on the set of "Polizeiruf 110" ("Police Call 110"), which was filmed in July and August among others in a Polish border-town – Swiecko. Also in July began the shooting of a new part of detective TV series "Der Usedom-Krimi" filmed on both the Polish and German side of the Usedom island.
However, a true influx of foreign productions took place in the autumn. American-Polish thriller “Chronology” was filmed in Poznan. The cast includes William Baldwin (TV series "Gossip Girl," "Adrift in Manhattan") and Danny Trejo (“Machete,” “From Dusk till Dawn”).
The Goetz Palace in Brzesk, in Malopolska hosted filmmakers from India who for six days were shooting “Fitoor,” an Indian adaptation of Dickens's “Great Expectations.” The crew consisted of over 40 Indians and almost 80 Poles. Another crew from India – this time from the so-called Kollywood in the south of the country – spent twenty days on the set in various Polish locations (among others Zakopane, Walbrzych, Krakow, Leba). The film titled “24” features Surya, a Tamil superstar, in the main role.
The autumn months were also very intensive in Lodz with three simultaneous big film sets. Andrzej Wajda (“The Promised Land,” “Walesa. Man of Hope”) worked on his new film “Powidoki”; Opus Film, the producer of “Ida”, organized for an Israeli partner eleven-day shoot to a film set in 1970s – “Past Life,” directed by Avi Nesher; and American director Martha Coolidge (“The Prince and Me,” TV shows “Sex and the City,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Weeds”) filmed her project “Music, War and Love,” whose producer is among others Fred Roos known from such films as “Apocalypse Now,” “The Godfather” or “Lost in Translation.” The picture features Adelaide Clemens (“The Great Gatsby”), Connie Nielsen (“Gladiator”), Toby Sebastian (“Game of Thrones”) and Stellan Skarsgård (“Nymphomaniac”).
The end of the year was also very successful for Malopolska and Krakow. Two movies were filmed in the region – an American-British biography of Martin Luther commissioned by PBS with Padraic Delaney (“The Wind that Shakes the Barley,” “The Tudors”) in the main role; and a feature titled “True Crimes” starring two-time winner of a Golden Globe – Jim Carrey (“The Truman Show,” “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “The Mask”) as the protagonist. The crew spent 32 days on the set in Krakow. The picture was directed by Greek Alexandros Avranas (“Miss Violence”), written by Jeremy Brock (“Brideshead Revisited,” “The Last King of Scotland”), and produced by Brett Ratner (“X-Men 3: the Last Stand,” TV series “Rush Hour”). Accompanying Jim Carrey were Charlotte Gainsbourg (“Nymphomaniac,” “Antichrist”); Marton Csokas (“The Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King,” “The Amazing Spider-Man 2”) and Polish actors Agata Kulesza (“Ida”) and Robert Wieckiewicz (“Walesa. Man of Hope”).
The first information about productions planned for 2016 has already been released. In January, Krakow will host the crew of French black comedy “Grand Froid,” Gérard Pautonnier's debut featuring Jean-Pierre Bacri (“The Taste of Others,” “Let It Rain”), Olivier Gourmet (“Rosetta,” “The Son”) and Arthur Dupond (“Bus Palladium”). The project won the first edition of the Krakow International Film Fund.
- 2/4/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Exclusive: Trio of films to explore theme of the “the past”.
Israeli film-maker Avi Nesher is due to start shooting the first film in a trilogy of works devoted to the theme of ‘the past’ this autumn.
“They’re all based on really strange true stories,” Nesher told ScreenDaily.
“In Past Life, the past is a villain, in Past Tense it is a mystery and in the final film it will be a lover.
“I was a film critic before I became a director. I figure that if I invent anything I’m probably ripping off old movies I once saw which is why I like to work with real-life flights of fantasy,” continued Nesher, whose credits include The Wonders(2013), The Matchmaker (2010) and The Secrets (2007).
“The past is a complicated issue in Israel. We deal with a Jewish past and an Israeli past. Sometimes they’re parallel, sometimes they’re the same, sometimes they’re...
Israeli film-maker Avi Nesher is due to start shooting the first film in a trilogy of works devoted to the theme of ‘the past’ this autumn.
“They’re all based on really strange true stories,” Nesher told ScreenDaily.
“In Past Life, the past is a villain, in Past Tense it is a mystery and in the final film it will be a lover.
“I was a film critic before I became a director. I figure that if I invent anything I’m probably ripping off old movies I once saw which is why I like to work with real-life flights of fantasy,” continued Nesher, whose credits include The Wonders(2013), The Matchmaker (2010) and The Secrets (2007).
“The past is a complicated issue in Israel. We deal with a Jewish past and an Israeli past. Sometimes they’re parallel, sometimes they’re the same, sometimes they’re...
- 9/13/2015
- ScreenDaily
A family moves into a beautiful, if eerie, new home, only to realize that it’s haunted by restless ghosts. It happens all the time in horror movies, but realtor Cindi Hagley does her best to make sure that scenario doesn’t play out in real life. A division of her San Francisco–based firm, the Hagley Group, called Past Life Homes, deals properties that have been burdened with “stigmatized pasts.” For Hagley, who lived in “several haunted houses” as a child, the business is a labor of love; she’ll consult for free with realtors and sellers anywhere in the United States who want advice on how to offload properties reputed to be haunted or that have been the location of crimes. “I’m always looking for ways to debunk anything I see because I’m very skeptical,” Hagley says. “But unfortunately, there’s a lot of evil energy out there,...
- 10/22/2014
- by Gwynne Watkins
- Vulture
Haunted houses used to be a matter of legend. You'd hear from someone who knew someone whose brother's sister's cousin's former roommate once walked past a house and got the willies. Okay, maybe the tales were a little more solid, but you get the idea.
Back then you'd hear second-, third-, or fourth-hand about a house being wrong, off, spooky, or troubled. Now, however, we live in the information age. News doesn't just travel fast, it's instantaneous.
We hear about events like revolutions and disasters as they're happening, in real time, and have stacks of evidence readily available soon after; and the same goes for haunted houses. The modern haunted house doesn't require the time needed to become a legend. One stop on any number of social media sites will allow a hauntee to throw up their tale for mass consumption. You would think this increased speed and detail would...
Back then you'd hear second-, third-, or fourth-hand about a house being wrong, off, spooky, or troubled. Now, however, we live in the information age. News doesn't just travel fast, it's instantaneous.
We hear about events like revolutions and disasters as they're happening, in real time, and have stacks of evidence readily available soon after; and the same goes for haunted houses. The modern haunted house doesn't require the time needed to become a legend. One stop on any number of social media sites will allow a hauntee to throw up their tale for mass consumption. You would think this increased speed and detail would...
- 7/22/2014
- by Mr. Dark
- DreadCentral.com
The nightmare-inducing series based on the hit video game series Silent Hill by Konami Digital Entertainment returns to Idw this summer with a brand new chapter, Silent Hill Downpour: Anne’s Story.
Featuring the dark origins of Downpour’s enigmatic antagonist, this new comic book series will delve deeper into the history of prison guard Anne Marie Cunningham as well as further explore the fog-shrouded haunted town that is caught between realities.
Introduced in Silent Hill Downpour, officer Anne Cunningham set out on a bloody quest for revenge. The mystery surrounding her journey to Silent Hill and the terrors she faced upon her arrival will finally be revealed, giving readers an entirely new perspective on the acclaimed video game.
Having written both previous Silent Hill series at Idw, Sinner’s Reward and Past Life, as well as co-written the video game Silent Hill Downpour, Tom Waltz returns to the foggy town that bleeds horror.
Featuring the dark origins of Downpour’s enigmatic antagonist, this new comic book series will delve deeper into the history of prison guard Anne Marie Cunningham as well as further explore the fog-shrouded haunted town that is caught between realities.
Introduced in Silent Hill Downpour, officer Anne Cunningham set out on a bloody quest for revenge. The mystery surrounding her journey to Silent Hill and the terrors she faced upon her arrival will finally be revealed, giving readers an entirely new perspective on the acclaimed video game.
Having written both previous Silent Hill series at Idw, Sinner’s Reward and Past Life, as well as co-written the video game Silent Hill Downpour, Tom Waltz returns to the foggy town that bleeds horror.
- 7/2/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
Silent Hill is a tourist trap: anyone who enters is lucky to get out alive without getting snatched up in the fog. But Idw is stepping back onto the haunted streets of the cursed town with Silent Hill Downpour: Anne’s Story, an origin tale set to hit shelves by summer’s end.
Tracing the backstory of officer Anne Cunningham, one of the antagonists of Idw’s Silent Hill Downpour, this next chapter in the Silent Hill comic book series will be released in August and is written by Silent Hill scribe Tom Waltz, featuring illustrations by artist Tristan Jones:
San Diego, CA (July 01, 2014) – The nightmare-inducing series based on the hit video game series Silent Hill by Konami Digital Entertainment (“Konami”) returns to Idw this summer with a brand new chapter, Silent Hill Downpour: Anne’s Story. Featuring the dark origins of Downpour’s enigmatic antagonist, this new comic book...
Tracing the backstory of officer Anne Cunningham, one of the antagonists of Idw’s Silent Hill Downpour, this next chapter in the Silent Hill comic book series will be released in August and is written by Silent Hill scribe Tom Waltz, featuring illustrations by artist Tristan Jones:
San Diego, CA (July 01, 2014) – The nightmare-inducing series based on the hit video game series Silent Hill by Konami Digital Entertainment (“Konami”) returns to Idw this summer with a brand new chapter, Silent Hill Downpour: Anne’s Story. Featuring the dark origins of Downpour’s enigmatic antagonist, this new comic book...
- 7/1/2014
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Rapper Lil' Kim is pregnant! "I'm so excited! I'm a few months along, I can't wait to be a mom!" Lil' Kim exclusively tells Us Weekly. Miley Cyrus on Lil Kim: "In My Past Life, I Feel Like That Was Me" Lil' Kim took to the stage at The Blonds Fashion Week after party in New York City on Wednesday night, Feb. 12 to announce her pregnancy, "I'm a mom, but I can turn it up a little!" she said as she rubbed her belly. The 39-year-old rapper doesn't [...]...
- 2/13/2014
- Us Weekly
BAFTA will host a Tom Hanks Life In Pictures event on Oct 19.
The event will kick off the second year of Deutsche Bank’s sponsorship of the ‘BAFTA A Life In Pictures’ series.
Hanks has a busy awards season this year, starring as the lead in Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips and playing Walt Disney in Saving Mr Banks. The films bookend this year’s BFI London Film Festival.
Past Life in Pictures honorees include Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Helen Mirren and Quentin Tarantino.
The event will kick off the second year of Deutsche Bank’s sponsorship of the ‘BAFTA A Life In Pictures’ series.
Hanks has a busy awards season this year, starring as the lead in Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips and playing Walt Disney in Saving Mr Banks. The films bookend this year’s BFI London Film Festival.
Past Life in Pictures honorees include Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Helen Mirren and Quentin Tarantino.
- 10/2/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
I've already gone over the best of 2011, and periodically rounded up rock and pop releases as the year went along, yet there were many more albums that came out last year that I also meant to review but didn't get around to then, for one reason or another. Here are a few of them.
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here Experience edition (Capitol)
Last time I did a review roundup, I dissed the Dark Side of the Moon two-cd remaster's second disc. I'm happy to report that this one's a lot more interesting.
Three extended tracks from a 1974 Wembley concert open it. The concert version of "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" predates the studio version and is significantly different from it in both arrangement and improvisation. It's Parts 1-6, so that's a good 20 minutes right off the bat. "Raving and Drooling" and "You've Got to Be Crazy" are very...
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here Experience edition (Capitol)
Last time I did a review roundup, I dissed the Dark Side of the Moon two-cd remaster's second disc. I'm happy to report that this one's a lot more interesting.
Three extended tracks from a 1974 Wembley concert open it. The concert version of "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" predates the studio version and is significantly different from it in both arrangement and improvisation. It's Parts 1-6, so that's a good 20 minutes right off the bat. "Raving and Drooling" and "You've Got to Be Crazy" are very...
- 1/29/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
It’s that time of the year when we honor the best of 2011's movies, TV shows, books, and music so of course that also means comics, and ComicMonsters.com has kicked off its third annual Horror Comic Awards.
Voting is open via the ComicMonsters.com website from today, December 21st, through Saturday, December 31st. May the most brutal comic prevail!
The categories and nominees for 2011 are:
Writer of the Year
Mike Mignola on Hellboy
Joe Hill on Locke and Key
Joshua Fialkov on I, Vampire and Echoes
Robert Kirkman on The Walking Dead
Peter Milligan on Hellblazer/Justice League Dark
Scott Snyder on American Vampire
Clive Barker and Christopher Monfette on Hellraiser
Jeff Lemire on Animal Man/Sweet Tooth
Artist of the Year
Gabriel Rodriguez on Locke and Key
Menton 3 on Monocyte
Andrea Sorrentino on I, Vampire
Charlie Adlard on The Walking Dead<
Nat Jones on 68
Giuseppe Camuncoli on...
Voting is open via the ComicMonsters.com website from today, December 21st, through Saturday, December 31st. May the most brutal comic prevail!
The categories and nominees for 2011 are:
Writer of the Year
Mike Mignola on Hellboy
Joe Hill on Locke and Key
Joshua Fialkov on I, Vampire and Echoes
Robert Kirkman on The Walking Dead
Peter Milligan on Hellblazer/Justice League Dark
Scott Snyder on American Vampire
Clive Barker and Christopher Monfette on Hellraiser
Jeff Lemire on Animal Man/Sweet Tooth
Artist of the Year
Gabriel Rodriguez on Locke and Key
Menton 3 on Monocyte
Andrea Sorrentino on I, Vampire
Charlie Adlard on The Walking Dead<
Nat Jones on 68
Giuseppe Camuncoli on...
- 12/21/2011
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Coldplay, Girls and Lykke Li also among year's best, but Yuck's self-titled debut tops this MTV News writer's list.
By Gil Kaufman
Kanye West and Jay-z
Photo: The Washington Post/Getty Images
Year-end album lists are kind of like going to a high school reunion: You feel obligated to do it, you way overthink things and nobody wants to show up with an unfashionable look that nobody else is rocking.
Some people reach for an obscurity to up their cred or go with the big, dumb, obvious choice to avoid making waves and be down with the cool kids. When asked to only pick one album from 2011, I just prefer to cheat.
That's why I'll mention that I was way into things like Jay-z and Kanye West's Watch the Throne for its brash, bombastic rap supremacy; Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto for its willingness to take chances; and the truly excellent...
By Gil Kaufman
Kanye West and Jay-z
Photo: The Washington Post/Getty Images
Year-end album lists are kind of like going to a high school reunion: You feel obligated to do it, you way overthink things and nobody wants to show up with an unfashionable look that nobody else is rocking.
Some people reach for an obscurity to up their cred or go with the big, dumb, obvious choice to avoid making waves and be down with the cool kids. When asked to only pick one album from 2011, I just prefer to cheat.
That's why I'll mention that I was way into things like Jay-z and Kanye West's Watch the Throne for its brash, bombastic rap supremacy; Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto for its willingness to take chances; and the truly excellent...
- 12/5/2011
- MTV Music News
For Okkervil River's deeply nostalgic song, "Your Past Life as a Blast," director Isaac Ravishankara sought to capture a distant memory on video.
"My initial inspiration came from some of William Faulkner's novels, especially 'The Sound and the Fury,' where the same story is told from four unique perspectives," Ravishankara explains. Also, I had been reading a lot about how the brain processes time, and also thinking a lot about meaning in juxtaposed images."
A boy and a girl share a jaunt to an isolated lake, take off their clothes, swim away, and according to our sources, live out the rest of their lives. Where do these two lovers memories overlap? Where do they part? A simple concept, but the impressions it leaves are as deep as the lake into which they plunge.
"Your Past Life as a Blast" was filmed on an overnight trip with...
"My initial inspiration came from some of William Faulkner's novels, especially 'The Sound and the Fury,' where the same story is told from four unique perspectives," Ravishankara explains. Also, I had been reading a lot about how the brain processes time, and also thinking a lot about meaning in juxtaposed images."
A boy and a girl share a jaunt to an isolated lake, take off their clothes, swim away, and according to our sources, live out the rest of their lives. Where do these two lovers memories overlap? Where do they part? A simple concept, but the impressions it leaves are as deep as the lake into which they plunge.
"Your Past Life as a Blast" was filmed on an overnight trip with...
- 11/10/2011
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
Artist: Menton3.
Creator/Writers: Menton3 and Kasra Ghanbari.
Idw Publishing's "Monocyte" has some interesting material for any horror comic fan to appreciate. This four part series is about an uprising by Monocyte, a one-eyed demon hell bent at causing the destruction of the Conduit, a machine created by the Olignostics. They are a race of immortals borne through the convergence of politics and technology. They emerged from an experiment that a MIT scientist did on Earth, where he harnessed the power of "Absolute Zero." Exactly what that is is not defined in the two text heavy pages that explains who the Olignostics and Antedeluvians are.
The latter race is much more simpler to understand. They have walked the Earth since the dawn of time. They are a secret order bound by the thirst for knowledge passed on generation to generation. They have one type of governing philosophy, where only one...
Creator/Writers: Menton3 and Kasra Ghanbari.
Idw Publishing's "Monocyte" has some interesting material for any horror comic fan to appreciate. This four part series is about an uprising by Monocyte, a one-eyed demon hell bent at causing the destruction of the Conduit, a machine created by the Olignostics. They are a race of immortals borne through the convergence of politics and technology. They emerged from an experiment that a MIT scientist did on Earth, where he harnessed the power of "Absolute Zero." Exactly what that is is not defined in the two text heavy pages that explains who the Olignostics and Antedeluvians are.
The latter race is much more simpler to understand. They have walked the Earth since the dawn of time. They are a secret order bound by the thirst for knowledge passed on generation to generation. They have one type of governing philosophy, where only one...
- 10/30/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Ed Sum)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
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