Taylor Swift did more than win Video of the Year at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards. She also used the platform to announce that she has a new album coming out October 21. A few hours later she confirmed that it would be an entirely new collection called “Midnights” and not the next re-recording of her earlier work. But what will it sound like? Our forums posters have been speculating ever since the announcement. Join their discussion here.
Swift has changed her sound multiple times in her career thus far. She started in a country-pop style when she was a teenager. Then she pivoted away from Nashville and transitioned successfully into pure pop. And most recently she surprised listeners with an indie rock/folk pivot on her albums “Folklore” and “Evermore.” So what’s next?
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On Twitter she described “Midnights” as “the...
Swift has changed her sound multiple times in her career thus far. She started in a country-pop style when she was a teenager. Then she pivoted away from Nashville and transitioned successfully into pure pop. And most recently she surprised listeners with an indie rock/folk pivot on her albums “Folklore” and “Evermore.” So what’s next?
SEE3 ways Taylor Swift made history at the VMAs
On Twitter she described “Midnights” as “the...
- 8/29/2022
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Filmmakers Charlie Shackleton, Wu Tsang also to present works.
The world premiere of Guy Maddin’s Haunted Hotel – A Melodrama In Augmented Reality will headline the programme of BFI London Film Festival 2022’s Lff Expanded strand, for immersive art and extended realities.
A 20-minute immersive experience commissioned by the festival, German production Haunted Hotel will play at the BFI Southbank throughout the festival, and until October 30. It will use clippings from Maddin’s personal archive in “a surreal paper world”; viewers will look through virtual peep holes and “rooms filled with longing, hysteria and madness”, in what the festival describes...
The world premiere of Guy Maddin’s Haunted Hotel – A Melodrama In Augmented Reality will headline the programme of BFI London Film Festival 2022’s Lff Expanded strand, for immersive art and extended realities.
A 20-minute immersive experience commissioned by the festival, German production Haunted Hotel will play at the BFI Southbank throughout the festival, and until October 30. It will use clippings from Maddin’s personal archive in “a surreal paper world”; viewers will look through virtual peep holes and “rooms filled with longing, hysteria and madness”, in what the festival describes...
- 8/24/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Nashville — “This is crazy for me — I haven’t been just somewhere else doing this,” Lorde told the audience at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry House midway through opening night of her 2022 Solar Power tour.
She wasn’t kidding: Though she’s had one-off appearances here and there, the New Zealand singer-songwriter’s last full concert took place in Mexico City in 2018, when she was touring behind her second album, Melodrama. Her sun-kissed 2021 album Solar Power was released into an entirely different world, one that was reeling from pandemic isolation...
She wasn’t kidding: Though she’s had one-off appearances here and there, the New Zealand singer-songwriter’s last full concert took place in Mexico City in 2018, when she was touring behind her second album, Melodrama. Her sun-kissed 2021 album Solar Power was released into an entirely different world, one that was reeling from pandemic isolation...
- 4/4/2022
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Over the years, we’ve seen a very odd trend at the Grammys: albums missing their respective genre categories, yet still getting into Album of the Year. This seemed to be a case mostly for critically acclaimed albums that might not have been the biggest sellers — see Lana Del Rey’s “Norman F*cking Rockwell,” Haim’s “Women In Music Pt. III,” Janelle Monáe’s “Dirty Computer,” and Lorde’s “Melodrama.” Still, this trend wasn’t only reserved to critical darlings, as Post Malone’s “Hollywood’s Bleeding,” Jacob Collier’s “Djesse Vol. 3,” Sara Barellies’s “The Blessed Unrest,” and H.E.R.‘s “I Used to Know Her” all followed the trend. But those anomalies occurred when nomination review committees could pick and choose the final contenders from among the top 20 vote-getters regardless of how the genre categories shook out. Now without the committees, the question is whether all...
- 8/30/2021
- by Jaime Rodriguez
- Gold Derby
Will “Solar Power” be Lorde‘s second number-one album on the Billboard 200? It drops August 20, more than four years after her last album, the critically hailed “Melodrama,” topped the chart in 2017. Our users have been predicting what will happen during the tracking week of August 20 through August 26, but they’re not so sure that Lorde will come out on top this time.
Lorde broke out with her 2013 album “Pure Heroine” when she was just 16-years-old. The New Zealander peaked at number-three on the Billboard 200, but it was eventually certified triple-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Then “Melodrama” debuted at number-one four years later with 109,000 equivalent album units based on combined sales and streams. But despite remarkable critical acclaim and an eventual Grammy nomination for Album of the Year, it didn’t match the commercial success of “Pure Heroine,” though it was nevertheless certified gold in the US.
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Lorde broke out with her 2013 album “Pure Heroine” when she was just 16-years-old. The New Zealander peaked at number-three on the Billboard 200, but it was eventually certified triple-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Then “Melodrama” debuted at number-one four years later with 109,000 equivalent album units based on combined sales and streams. But despite remarkable critical acclaim and an eventual Grammy nomination for Album of the Year, it didn’t match the commercial success of “Pure Heroine,” though it was nevertheless certified gold in the US.
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- 8/20/2021
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
If you’re a Grammy follower, then you might’ve heard of the panels that are involved in the nominations process. Every year people often blame big snubs on Grammy voters as a whole, despite most of these coming from said panels. But what exactly are they?
SEE2022 Grammy predictions: Album of the Year
Grammy panels serve different purposes. There’s the screening panel that reviews the work submitted and places it in the correct genre. A few artists have had their material disqualified by the screening panel, like Beyoncé’s “Daddy Lessons,” which was thrown out of competition after the screening panel for country decided that was a wrongful submission. Similarly, Post Malone’s “Beerbongs and Bentleys” was ruled not rap enough by the rap screening panel; it was moved to pop categories instead.
Then there are nomination review committees. Their process is simple: the general membership votes in first-round,...
SEE2022 Grammy predictions: Album of the Year
Grammy panels serve different purposes. There’s the screening panel that reviews the work submitted and places it in the correct genre. A few artists have had their material disqualified by the screening panel, like Beyoncé’s “Daddy Lessons,” which was thrown out of competition after the screening panel for country decided that was a wrongful submission. Similarly, Post Malone’s “Beerbongs and Bentleys” was ruled not rap enough by the rap screening panel; it was moved to pop categories instead.
Then there are nomination review committees. Their process is simple: the general membership votes in first-round,...
- 3/7/2021
- by Jaime Rodriguez
- Gold Derby
In its first season, “Euphoria” was a lightning bolt.
The HBO series, crackling with oddity and possibility, generated noise and light in a manner that felt new, and overdue. The show told stories about the TikTok generation with all the emotional excess that comes with actually being a teen. And in Zendaya and Hunter Schafer, it put forward two massively charismatic and gifted performers — the first a familiar face allowed to graduate to a new level of acting achievement, the second a brand-new star. The TV landscape has been a little dimmer without them since “Euphoria’s” first season ended in August 2019.
Evidently, show creator Sam Levinson missed these actors and their characters too. This weekend sees the launch of the second of two off-season specials on HBO after a preview on HBO Max. The first of these dealt with Rue (Zendaya), an addict in tentative recovery, meeting with her...
The HBO series, crackling with oddity and possibility, generated noise and light in a manner that felt new, and overdue. The show told stories about the TikTok generation with all the emotional excess that comes with actually being a teen. And in Zendaya and Hunter Schafer, it put forward two massively charismatic and gifted performers — the first a familiar face allowed to graduate to a new level of acting achievement, the second a brand-new star. The TV landscape has been a little dimmer without them since “Euphoria’s” first season ended in August 2019.
Evidently, show creator Sam Levinson missed these actors and their characters too. This weekend sees the launch of the second of two off-season specials on HBO after a preview on HBO Max. The first of these dealt with Rue (Zendaya), an addict in tentative recovery, meeting with her...
- 1/23/2021
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
For the second-to-last feature Alain Resnais made in the 1980s, Mélo (1986) is arguably his most accessible, set in 1920s Paris and based on a play by Henri Bernstein (which was originally adapted as a 1932 German film). The idiosyncrasies of titles like My American Uncle (1980) and Love Unto Death (1984) are nowhere to be seen in this cramped chamber piece, which would mimic the vibes of his late period adaptations of playwright Alan Ayckbourn. Love as an unpredictable force of nature, however, remains a central favored motif, as acted upon by his usual cast of actors, wife Sabiné Azema and his onscreen stand-in André Dussollier.…...
- 6/6/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Yousry Nasrallah, Sabine Azéma also set for festival jury duty.
Personal Shopper director Olivier Assayas will preside over this year’s International Competition jury at the Locarno Film Festival.
Assayas’s 2014 feature Clouds Of Sils Maria, which saw star Kristen Stewart become the first Us actress to win a Cesar Award in France, played in Locarno after its Cannes premiere. His most recent credit is as a screenwriter on Roman Polanski’s Based On A True Story, which premiered Out Of Competition at this year’s Cannes.
Locarno’s Filmmakers of the Present jury will be overseen by Yousry Nasrallah, who has been nominated for the festival’s Golden Leopard on three occasions, for Mercedes in 1993, El Medina in 1999, and for Brooks, Meadows And Lovely Faces in 2016.
The president of the Pardi di domani Competition jury will be French actress Sabine Azéma, whose has won two Best Actress Cesar Awards, for A Sunday...
Personal Shopper director Olivier Assayas will preside over this year’s International Competition jury at the Locarno Film Festival.
Assayas’s 2014 feature Clouds Of Sils Maria, which saw star Kristen Stewart become the first Us actress to win a Cesar Award in France, played in Locarno after its Cannes premiere. His most recent credit is as a screenwriter on Roman Polanski’s Based On A True Story, which premiered Out Of Competition at this year’s Cannes.
Locarno’s Filmmakers of the Present jury will be overseen by Yousry Nasrallah, who has been nominated for the festival’s Golden Leopard on three occasions, for Mercedes in 1993, El Medina in 1999, and for Brooks, Meadows And Lovely Faces in 2016.
The president of the Pardi di domani Competition jury will be French actress Sabine Azéma, whose has won two Best Actress Cesar Awards, for A Sunday...
- 6/29/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
French actress and long-time Alain Resnais collaborator to preside over jury to select the best first film presented at the 68th Cannes Film Festival.
Sabine Azema has been named president of the Caméra d’or Jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24).
The jury selects the best directorial debut presented in Official Selection (In Competition, Out of Competition and Un Certain Regard), Critics’ Week or Directors’ Fortnight, which this year represents 26 films.
French actress Azema, who won her first César in 1985 for Bertrand Tavernier’s Cannes Competition title A Sunday in the Country, follows in the footsteps of Bong Joon-Ho, Gael García Bernal, Carlos Diegues and Nicole Garcia.
Azema is known for her nearly three-decade collaboration with director Alain Resnais for whom she has performed as the tragic heroine in Love Unto Death (1984), then in Mélo (1986) for which she was awarded her second César.
Other Resnais films in which she has performed include Smoking...
Sabine Azema has been named president of the Caméra d’or Jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24).
The jury selects the best directorial debut presented in Official Selection (In Competition, Out of Competition and Un Certain Regard), Critics’ Week or Directors’ Fortnight, which this year represents 26 films.
French actress Azema, who won her first César in 1985 for Bertrand Tavernier’s Cannes Competition title A Sunday in the Country, follows in the footsteps of Bong Joon-Ho, Gael García Bernal, Carlos Diegues and Nicole Garcia.
Azema is known for her nearly three-decade collaboration with director Alain Resnais for whom she has performed as the tragic heroine in Love Unto Death (1984), then in Mélo (1986) for which she was awarded her second César.
Other Resnais films in which she has performed include Smoking...
- 5/5/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Complex and avant-garde French film director best known for Night and Fog and Last Year in Marienbad
Alain Resnais, who has died aged 91, was a director of elegance and distinction who, despite generally working from the screenplays of other writers, established an auteurist reputation. His films were singular, instantly recognisable by their style as well as through recurring themes and preoccupations. Primary concerns were war, sexual relationships and the more abstract notions of memory and time. His characters were invariably adult (children were excluded as having no detailed past) middle-class professionals. His style was complex, notably in the editing and often – though not always – dominated by tracking shots and multilayered sound.
He surrounded himself with actors, musicians and writers of enormous talent and the result was a somewhat elitist body of work with little concern for realism or the socially or intellectually deprived. Even overtly political works, Night and Fog,...
Alain Resnais, who has died aged 91, was a director of elegance and distinction who, despite generally working from the screenplays of other writers, established an auteurist reputation. His films were singular, instantly recognisable by their style as well as through recurring themes and preoccupations. Primary concerns were war, sexual relationships and the more abstract notions of memory and time. His characters were invariably adult (children were excluded as having no detailed past) middle-class professionals. His style was complex, notably in the editing and often – though not always – dominated by tracking shots and multilayered sound.
He surrounded himself with actors, musicians and writers of enormous talent and the result was a somewhat elitist body of work with little concern for realism or the socially or intellectually deprived. Even overtly political works, Night and Fog,...
- 3/3/2014
- by Brian Baxter
- The Guardian - Film News
By Michael Atkinson
On its surface, Ang Lee's career has been distinguished by a seemingly aimless ricochet between nations and milieus (Taiwan, New York, Wyoming, Devon, Shanghai, Connecticut, etc.), and between adapted disparate source materials (Jane Austen, Rick Moody, Annie Proulx, Wang Du Lu, Stan Lee) . and from both perspectives, you can find something to carp about. Indeed, Lee is rarely considered in serious debates about contemporary heavyweights, and his cultural rootlessness (read: opportunism) and dependence on literature may well be the reasons. We commonly like our auteurs to come packaged as purebred cultural expressors, and as artists largely independent of old narrative voices. But Lee's case can also demonstrate, movie by movie, the irrelevance of location, and the depth-finding force of deft adaptation.
"The Ice Storm" (1997), newly Criterionized, makes the point with a cudgel: Lee may have been Taiwanese, but his first all-American movie couldn't have been more American.
On its surface, Ang Lee's career has been distinguished by a seemingly aimless ricochet between nations and milieus (Taiwan, New York, Wyoming, Devon, Shanghai, Connecticut, etc.), and between adapted disparate source materials (Jane Austen, Rick Moody, Annie Proulx, Wang Du Lu, Stan Lee) . and from both perspectives, you can find something to carp about. Indeed, Lee is rarely considered in serious debates about contemporary heavyweights, and his cultural rootlessness (read: opportunism) and dependence on literature may well be the reasons. We commonly like our auteurs to come packaged as purebred cultural expressors, and as artists largely independent of old narrative voices. But Lee's case can also demonstrate, movie by movie, the irrelevance of location, and the depth-finding force of deft adaptation.
"The Ice Storm" (1997), newly Criterionized, makes the point with a cudgel: Lee may have been Taiwanese, but his first all-American movie couldn't have been more American.
- 4/1/2008
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
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