Camila Cabello copped to being a proponent of getting back with your ex and discussed her own brief but public reconciliation with longtime boyfriend Shawn Mendes during an appearance on Call Her Daddy.
Host Alex Cooper not-so-subtly broached the subject by first asking Cabello if she approved of getting back with an ex, to which the singer quipped: “I, personally, I think it’s known, I’m a fan.” She went on to call it “helpful because, I am not a person — you can’t forbid things with me.”
With the groundwork laid,...
Host Alex Cooper not-so-subtly broached the subject by first asking Cabello if she approved of getting back with an ex, to which the singer quipped: “I, personally, I think it’s known, I’m a fan.” She went on to call it “helpful because, I am not a person — you can’t forbid things with me.”
With the groundwork laid,...
- 3/6/2024
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Decadent, hermetic, and gleefully hostile to realism, French writer-director Bertrand Mandico’s She Is Conann is the cinematic equivalent of a French Symbolist poem. Throughout, the oneiric imagery seeping from every frame takes precedence over narrative linearity. And yet, even as the film embodies the self-indulgent ideal of art for art’s sake, it devours itself from within and drops the viewer back into the arena of politics.
Lest we forget even for moment that we’re watching a film, She Is Conann is shot in black and white, aside from the sporadic flash of violence and one framing sequence set in hell’s antechamber, where a dead Conann (Françoise Brion) takes stock of her life of barbarism. For her guide, there’s the dog-headed punk clairvoyant Rainer (Elina Löwensohn), whose name could be an allusion to Rainer Maria Rilke or Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Their dialogue at any given moment...
Lest we forget even for moment that we’re watching a film, She Is Conann is shot in black and white, aside from the sporadic flash of violence and one framing sequence set in hell’s antechamber, where a dead Conann (Françoise Brion) takes stock of her life of barbarism. For her guide, there’s the dog-headed punk clairvoyant Rainer (Elina Löwensohn), whose name could be an allusion to Rainer Maria Rilke or Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Their dialogue at any given moment...
- 1/28/2024
- by William Repass
- Slant Magazine
Image Source: YouTube user Hybe Labels
After a year-long wait, BTS's Jimin has finally debuted as a solo artist with his prerelease single, "Set Me Free Pt. 2," off his upcoming album, "Face," which comes out March 24.
Jimin teased a first look at his prerelease single and music video on March 14 and 15 in two 30-second clips. They showed him staring down the camera in a black leather jacket as his backup dancers, all dressed in black, danced in formation behind and around him. While Jimin doesn't dance a single move in either clip, the fact that his backup dancers are going hard to the haunting music filled fans with anticipation over the epic choreography that was sure to come. And boy, does the final product deliver!
Jimin's "Set Me Free Pt. 2" Song Meaning
"Set Me Free Pt. 2" is a hip-hop-tinged track with powerful horns and a choir delivering haunting backing vocals.
After a year-long wait, BTS's Jimin has finally debuted as a solo artist with his prerelease single, "Set Me Free Pt. 2," off his upcoming album, "Face," which comes out March 24.
Jimin teased a first look at his prerelease single and music video on March 14 and 15 in two 30-second clips. They showed him staring down the camera in a black leather jacket as his backup dancers, all dressed in black, danced in formation behind and around him. While Jimin doesn't dance a single move in either clip, the fact that his backup dancers are going hard to the haunting music filled fans with anticipation over the epic choreography that was sure to come. And boy, does the final product deliver!
Jimin's "Set Me Free Pt. 2" Song Meaning
"Set Me Free Pt. 2" is a hip-hop-tinged track with powerful horns and a choir delivering haunting backing vocals.
- 3/17/2023
- by Noelle Devoe
- Popsugar.com
Yesterday, /Film attended a press event wherein the co-chairs and co-CEOs of DC Studios, James Gunn and Peter Safran, were expected to announce a full lineup of films and TV shows based on DC Comics. What was known going in was that Gunn and Safran have openly intended to wipe the slate clean and start fresh. That means audiences will be seeing the final few films in the decade-old Snyderverse in 2023, and prepare for a proper reboot. Also, the Arrowverse -- a collection of DC Comics-based TV shows centered on "Arrow" -- will also be swept off the slate. Gunn and Safran, it seems, want no confusion. Cleanliness and clarity appear to be key.
As reported on by multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ben Mekler on his Twitter thread, Gunn took to his podium on January 30, 2023 to announce the future plans for the DC Universe, or Dcu ... and made the most exciting announcement possible.
As reported on by multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ben Mekler on his Twitter thread, Gunn took to his podium on January 30, 2023 to announce the future plans for the DC Universe, or Dcu ... and made the most exciting announcement possible.
- 1/31/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
After the news broke on Sunday morning that longtime “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek had died, Hollywood and former “Jeopardy!” contestants alike took to social media to honor him.
According to Sony, Trebek died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer surrounded by family and friends. He taped “Jeopardy!” up until Oct. 29, meaning that episodes Trebek hosted will continue to air through Dec. 25 of this year. During his 36 years as host, Trebek made an immeasurable impact on both people he met and those who watched him through a television screen.
Musician John Legend honored Trebek, writing: “I was obsessed with Jeopardy as a nerdy kid growing up in Ohio. I’ve loved and revered Alex Trebek since I can remember. What an iconic career.”
I was obsessed with Jeopardy as a nerdy kid growing up in Ohio. I’ve loved and revered Alex Trebek since I can remember. What an iconic career.
According to Sony, Trebek died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer surrounded by family and friends. He taped “Jeopardy!” up until Oct. 29, meaning that episodes Trebek hosted will continue to air through Dec. 25 of this year. During his 36 years as host, Trebek made an immeasurable impact on both people he met and those who watched him through a television screen.
Musician John Legend honored Trebek, writing: “I was obsessed with Jeopardy as a nerdy kid growing up in Ohio. I’ve loved and revered Alex Trebek since I can remember. What an iconic career.”
I was obsessed with Jeopardy as a nerdy kid growing up in Ohio. I’ve loved and revered Alex Trebek since I can remember. What an iconic career.
- 11/8/2020
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
A “Jeopardy!” contestant who broke hearts on an episode just this week with his story of how the show changed his life is understandably broken up about the passing of Alex Trebek.
On Thursday’s episode, Navy veteran Burt Thakur won a tight game, taking home $20,400. After the episode finished taping, Thakur tearfully told Trebek how he watched “Jeopardy!” with his grandfather when he was a child, and in doing so learned how to speak English.
“My grandfather who raised me … I’m gonna get tears right now … I used to sit on his lap and watch you every day.” Thakur said. “It’s a pretty special moment. Thank you very much.”
After learning about the death of Trebek, Thakur tweeted a passage from the Rainer Maria Rilke poem “Death” and added, “I am overwhelmed with emotion right now and my heart goes out to the Trebek family.”
Since Thursday’s airing,...
On Thursday’s episode, Navy veteran Burt Thakur won a tight game, taking home $20,400. After the episode finished taping, Thakur tearfully told Trebek how he watched “Jeopardy!” with his grandfather when he was a child, and in doing so learned how to speak English.
“My grandfather who raised me … I’m gonna get tears right now … I used to sit on his lap and watch you every day.” Thakur said. “It’s a pretty special moment. Thank you very much.”
After learning about the death of Trebek, Thakur tweeted a passage from the Rainer Maria Rilke poem “Death” and added, “I am overwhelmed with emotion right now and my heart goes out to the Trebek family.”
Since Thursday’s airing,...
- 11/8/2020
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan’s epic drama “The Death and Life of John F. Donovan” has been sitting on the shelf, at least stateside, since its world premiere at the 2018 Toronto Film Festival. Boasting Dolan’s most ambitious cast to date — including Kit Harrington, Jacob Tremblay, Natalie Portman, Kathy Bates, Thandie Newton, and Susan Sarandon — “Donovan” was met with jeers at the festival, including by IndieWire’s critic Eric Kohn. In a new interview with the Globe and Mail, Dolan now says that the film originally ran a lengthy four hours long. As it stands, the film currently runs a cool two hours.
“I shot the film that I wrote, but the film that I wrote was a 160-page script that made no choices,” Dolan said. “You now want to focus on something [the editing] that I’ve been focusing on for two years and I don’t know how inspired I...
“I shot the film that I wrote, but the film that I wrote was a 160-page script that made no choices,” Dolan said. “You now want to focus on something [the editing] that I’ve been focusing on for two years and I don’t know how inspired I...
- 8/17/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
As showrunner of Syfy’s “The Magicians” and Netflix’s “You,” Sera Gamble has two writers’ rooms, right across the street from each other in Hollywood. But, because she has been in her space for “The Magicians” longer, she says that office feels like her “home base.” Gamble says every writers’ room has its own personality, and the one for “The Magicians” is “a nice mix of horror and fairytale whimsy,” which has “always been my aesthetic.”
Woman’s Best Friend
A common fixture at Gamble’s side is her dog Franklin, whom she adopted about a year and a half ago. Although she never brought her previous pooch to the office, “everyone knew that he was my heart and soul” so after he passed away and she got Franklin, everyone wanted to meet him. “Part of climbing the ladder as a TV writer is that you are subject to...
Woman’s Best Friend
A common fixture at Gamble’s side is her dog Franklin, whom she adopted about a year and a half ago. Although she never brought her previous pooch to the office, “everyone knew that he was my heart and soul” so after he passed away and she got Franklin, everyone wanted to meet him. “Part of climbing the ladder as a TV writer is that you are subject to...
- 5/30/2019
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Born in 1987 in Hirakata (Osaka Prefecture) Kaori Oda had to abandon her dream of becoming a basketball player at an early age. Eventually she decided to study abroad in the United States where she took her first classes in filmmaking. Upon her return to Japan she directed her feature debut, the self-documentary “Thus a Noise Speaks” (2010), a film about her family’s dealing with her coming out as homosexual. In the aftermath she applied for the film.factory program of the Sarajevo Film Academy, a program co-founded by director Bela Tarr.
Her newest documentary titled “Toward a Common Tenderness” deals with the repercussions of her debut feature, but also delves into themes such as the power of the camera as a constructor of reality and the process of re-defining herself as a director. The film premiered at the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animation Film 2017 and will be screened...
Her newest documentary titled “Toward a Common Tenderness” deals with the repercussions of her debut feature, but also delves into themes such as the power of the camera as a constructor of reality and the process of re-defining herself as a director. The film premiered at the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animation Film 2017 and will be screened...
- 7/25/2018
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
“Some things I cannot resist filming, they demand it.”
Ever since the arrival of film as a medium and as an art, the possibilities of it have been endless. In the influential documentary “Man with a Movie Camera” ,P olish filmmaker Dziga Vertov experimented not only with the medium in terms of form, but also aimed to define the relationship of the director, the camera and the subject which is to be filmed. Considering the medium has made many technical advances over the years since the release of Vertov’s there have been quite a few attempts to re-define this relationship. The most noteworthy examples in this field may be Jean-Luc Godard’s “Adieu au Langage” (2014) and the films by Chris Marker.
Generally speaking, the nature of film theory touches upon that exact link to the audience as well as the authenticity of the picture itself. In the end, one of the most interesting aspects,...
Ever since the arrival of film as a medium and as an art, the possibilities of it have been endless. In the influential documentary “Man with a Movie Camera” ,P olish filmmaker Dziga Vertov experimented not only with the medium in terms of form, but also aimed to define the relationship of the director, the camera and the subject which is to be filmed. Considering the medium has made many technical advances over the years since the release of Vertov’s there have been quite a few attempts to re-define this relationship. The most noteworthy examples in this field may be Jean-Luc Godard’s “Adieu au Langage” (2014) and the films by Chris Marker.
Generally speaking, the nature of film theory touches upon that exact link to the audience as well as the authenticity of the picture itself. In the end, one of the most interesting aspects,...
- 7/23/2018
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Eager to see ‘Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free’ which just opened in NYC (at the Village East) on April 20th and is opening in La on April 27th (at Laemmle Royal), I wanted to learn how this forgotten woman of the late 19th century and early 20th century thought and interacted as an equal to with the likes of Friedrich Nietzsche, the poet Rainer Marie Rilke and Sigmund Freud.
Directed by a woman, Cordula Kablitz-Post, the historical feature reveals the nonconforming life choices of Lou Andreas-Salomé, an intellectual and the first female psychoanalyst. Born 1861, Lou Andreas Salomé was a radical for her time who shunned tradition in pursuit of intellectual perfection, inflaming the hearts and inspiring the minds of the early 19th Century’s greatest thinkers. Even after her death, Lou has remained a controversial figure who was considered a groundbreaking philosopher and author by her famous male peers Nietzsche and Freud,...
Directed by a woman, Cordula Kablitz-Post, the historical feature reveals the nonconforming life choices of Lou Andreas-Salomé, an intellectual and the first female psychoanalyst. Born 1861, Lou Andreas Salomé was a radical for her time who shunned tradition in pursuit of intellectual perfection, inflaming the hearts and inspiring the minds of the early 19th Century’s greatest thinkers. Even after her death, Lou has remained a controversial figure who was considered a groundbreaking philosopher and author by her famous male peers Nietzsche and Freud,...
- 4/22/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
She may be all but unknown to Americans, but Russian-born thinker Lou Andreas-Salome, reportedly the first female psychoanalyst, was viewed as a peer by such boldface names as Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud and Rainer Maria Rilke. She was the object of both romantic love and intense intellectual admiration — usually at the same time, even though she was famous for refusing amorous affairs and the shackles they came with. Though Cordula Kablitz-Post's feature debut Lou Andreas-Salome, The Audacity to be Free views this very unconventional woman through the conventions of the biopic, its drama benefits from a viewer's ignorance of her...
- 4/18/2018
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There’s a great line spoken by an aged Lou Andreas-Salomé (Nicole Heesters) to new friend and potential biographer Ernst Pfeiffer (Matthias Lier) upon his praise-fueled declaration that the way she lived her life — her freedom — was a touchstone for modern feminism. Her reply is, “Nonsense. What’s changed for us women since then?” It’s not presented as a jaded reaction or one specifically attached to the era in which she spoke it (the 1930s), though, because you could say the same today and not be wrong. Yes, women do have it better, but the world has still not found its way towards true equality. See #GamerGate, the Wahlberg/Williams pay disparity on All the Money in the World, and the struggles endured by the women in your life.
I kept returning to this line as Cordula Kablitz-Post’s film Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free advanced because...
I kept returning to this line as Cordula Kablitz-Post’s film Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free advanced because...
- 4/17/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
A boldly unconventional woman gets a crushingly conventional biopic with “Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to Be Free.” Such a heavy-handed title fits the film perfectly, far more than the original English-language handle, “In Love With Lou,” which confusingly made the movie sound like a sitcom. In her feature debut, director and co-writer Cordula Kablitz-Post clearly decided that Andreas-Salomé, famed author, philosopher and psychoanalyst, needed to be treated not just with kid gloves, but with pristine laminated mitts, robbing her subject of humor, let alone the charm that bewitched the likes of Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke and Sigmund Freud. This one’s strictly for audiences who love historical name-dropping; German box office following its June 2016 opening was negligible.
Kablitz-Post set herself the admirable task of rescuing Andreas-Salomé from being relegated to the role of muse, recognizing that her name is more often featured as an adjunct to famous men rather...
Kablitz-Post set herself the admirable task of rescuing Andreas-Salomé from being relegated to the role of muse, recognizing that her name is more often featured as an adjunct to famous men rather...
- 4/13/2018
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
Lady Gaga has been living it up on vacation, leaving her worries – and clothes – behind.
The pop star, 31, has not been shy in sharing some daring snaps of her holiday and, on Friday, she once again posed up a storm in a revealing white thong bikini.
“Vacation Station ,” she wrote in the caption on Instagram.
Gaga has been enjoying her vacation in Costa Rica with boyfriend and CAA agent, Christian Carino, who shared a video of the her ziplining upside down on Thursday.
Carino wrote in the caption, “The Super Bowl jump was only a warmup. Simply fearless.”
On Wednesday,...
The pop star, 31, has not been shy in sharing some daring snaps of her holiday and, on Friday, she once again posed up a storm in a revealing white thong bikini.
“Vacation Station ,” she wrote in the caption on Instagram.
Gaga has been enjoying her vacation in Costa Rica with boyfriend and CAA agent, Christian Carino, who shared a video of the her ziplining upside down on Thursday.
Carino wrote in the caption, “The Super Bowl jump was only a warmup. Simply fearless.”
On Wednesday,...
- 1/6/2018
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
Arnaud Desplechin on Rainer Maria Rilke, Jacques Lacan, Alfred Hitchcock, and Philip Roth: "What I love is to mix popular culture and what is called classic culture." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In our conversation Arnaud Desplechin discusses the character of his protagonist in Ismael’s Ghosts: Director’s Cut (Les Fantômes D'Ismaël), starring Mathieu Amalric, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Marion Cotillard with Louis Garrel, László Szabó, Alba Rohrwacher, and Hippolyte Girardot. The director reveals the scenes included in the upcoming Magnolia Pictures release for the Us that were not shown at the Cannes Film Festival last year.
We speak about de-whispering with Rilke, suffering with Philip Roth, Jacques Lacan's Seminar VIII in Tel Aviv, loving someone like an apple, the presence of Hitchcock, and a touch of Claude Lanzmann. In dreams the dead return casually, without warning and little fanfare. An old stained looking glass can make you lose an eye and give you freckles.
In our conversation Arnaud Desplechin discusses the character of his protagonist in Ismael’s Ghosts: Director’s Cut (Les Fantômes D'Ismaël), starring Mathieu Amalric, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Marion Cotillard with Louis Garrel, László Szabó, Alba Rohrwacher, and Hippolyte Girardot. The director reveals the scenes included in the upcoming Magnolia Pictures release for the Us that were not shown at the Cannes Film Festival last year.
We speak about de-whispering with Rilke, suffering with Philip Roth, Jacques Lacan's Seminar VIII in Tel Aviv, loving someone like an apple, the presence of Hitchcock, and a touch of Claude Lanzmann. In dreams the dead return casually, without warning and little fanfare. An old stained looking glass can make you lose an eye and give you freckles.
- 1/3/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Foreplays is a column that explores under-known short films by renowned directors. Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville's Liberté et Patrie (2002) is free to watch below. Mubi's retrospective For Ever Godard is showing from November 12, 2017 - January 16, 2018 in the United States.I. One of the most beautiful essay films ever made, Liberté et Patrie (2002) turns out to also be one of the most accessible collaborations of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville. The deeply moving lyricism of this short may astonish even those spectators who arrive to it casually, without any prior knowledge of the filmmakers’s oeuvre. Contrary to other works by the couple, Liberté et Patrie is built on a recognizable narrative strong enough to easily accommodate all the unconventionalities of the piece: a digressive structure full of bursts of undefined emotion; an unpredictable rhythm punctuated by sudden pauses, swift accelerations, intermittent blackouts and staccatos; a mélange of materials where...
- 12/11/2017
- MUBI
“When a child was a child…”A man’s voice is heard, reading out words as they are written in thick ink on paper.…it didn’t know it was a child”He continues, some of the words delivered in sing-song, joyfully, as if they were a children’s nursery song:“Everything was full of life/And all life was one...”His voice is friendly voice; a comforting voice; a voice that we will soon learn belongs to Damiel (Bruno Ganz), an angel who watches over the city of Berlin and its inhabitants with the curiosity and reverence of a child. Damiel has such deep affection for human life that he is willing to eschew immortality for earthly pleasures and the most intoxicating human experience of all: love. Both Damiel’s voice and those of the humans he consoles and studies feature prominently on the film’s soundtrack, sometimes in isolation,...
- 7/31/2017
- MUBI
Lou Written by Haley Rice Directed by Kate Moore Heaney Presented by Theatre 4the People at The Paradise Factory, NYC May 19-June 3, 2017
Quickly: how many of you have heard of Sigmund Freud? Now, how many of you have heard of Lou Salomé? It might surprise many audience members to see Salomé using Freud’s own psychoanalytic techniques on him late in Haley Rice’s new play Lou, but that is part of the point. Directed with an all-female cast by Kate Moore Heaney, Lou operates, to a large degree, in the genre of feminist reclamation, bringing attention to significant women unfairly elided by history. Much like The Other Mozart, which stopped in New York last fall to shine its spotlight on Wolfgang’s talented sister, Maria Anna, Rice’s play focuses on an exceptional woman lost over time in the shadows of the famous men with whom she lived and worked.
Quickly: how many of you have heard of Sigmund Freud? Now, how many of you have heard of Lou Salomé? It might surprise many audience members to see Salomé using Freud’s own psychoanalytic techniques on him late in Haley Rice’s new play Lou, but that is part of the point. Directed with an all-female cast by Kate Moore Heaney, Lou operates, to a large degree, in the genre of feminist reclamation, bringing attention to significant women unfairly elided by history. Much like The Other Mozart, which stopped in New York last fall to shine its spotlight on Wolfgang’s talented sister, Maria Anna, Rice’s play focuses on an exceptional woman lost over time in the shadows of the famous men with whom she lived and worked.
- 5/31/2017
- by Leah Richards
- www.culturecatch.com
Maren Ade with Peter Simonischek and Sandra Hüller of Toni Erdmann win five European Film Awards Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Toni Erdmann, Germany's Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film swept the European Film Awards last night, winning Best Film, Best Director and Screenwriter - Maren Ade, Best Actor - Peter Simonischek, and Best Actress - Sandra Hüller.
Maren Ade : "There's really a different dress code for a German business woman than for others." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Maren Ade teamed up again with costume designer Gitti Fuchs and editor Heike Parplies of her The Forest For The Trees (Der Wald Vor Lauter Bäumen) and Everyone Else (Alle Anderen). Sandra Hüller, Maren Ade and I spoke about the costume choices, hierarchies and Rainer Maria Rilke's novel Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge.
Toni Erdmann had its world premiere at Cannes, winning the Fipresci Prize and it received the Fipresci Film...
Toni Erdmann, Germany's Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film swept the European Film Awards last night, winning Best Film, Best Director and Screenwriter - Maren Ade, Best Actor - Peter Simonischek, and Best Actress - Sandra Hüller.
Maren Ade : "There's really a different dress code for a German business woman than for others." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Maren Ade teamed up again with costume designer Gitti Fuchs and editor Heike Parplies of her The Forest For The Trees (Der Wald Vor Lauter Bäumen) and Everyone Else (Alle Anderen). Sandra Hüller, Maren Ade and I spoke about the costume choices, hierarchies and Rainer Maria Rilke's novel Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge.
Toni Erdmann had its world premiere at Cannes, winning the Fipresci Prize and it received the Fipresci Film...
- 12/11/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Sandra Hüller with Toni Erdmann director/writer Maren Ade Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Maren Ade has teamed up again with costume designer Gitti Fuchs and editor Heike Parplies of her The Forest For The Trees (Der Wald Vor Lauter Bäumen) and Everyone Else (Alle Anderen) to bring us Germany's Oscar submission Toni Erdmann, starring Sandra Hüller and Peter Simonischek.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Andy Kaufman's Tony Clifton, meerkats (not from Ang Lee's Life Of Pi), Frauke Finsterwalder's Finsterworld, vintage Yves Saint Laurent, and corporate madness came up in my conversation with Maren Ade and Sandra Hüller.
Kent Jones with Maren Ade, Peter Simonischek and Sandra Hüller Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
With a supporting cast including Viktorija Malektorovych, Hadewych Minis, Lucy Russell, Michael Wittenborn, Ingrid Bisu, Thomas Loibl, and Trystan Pütter, Ade gives her characters a chance to rediscover themselves in song and skin-deep encounters of the third or fourth or fifth kind.
Maren Ade has teamed up again with costume designer Gitti Fuchs and editor Heike Parplies of her The Forest For The Trees (Der Wald Vor Lauter Bäumen) and Everyone Else (Alle Anderen) to bring us Germany's Oscar submission Toni Erdmann, starring Sandra Hüller and Peter Simonischek.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Andy Kaufman's Tony Clifton, meerkats (not from Ang Lee's Life Of Pi), Frauke Finsterwalder's Finsterworld, vintage Yves Saint Laurent, and corporate madness came up in my conversation with Maren Ade and Sandra Hüller.
Kent Jones with Maren Ade, Peter Simonischek and Sandra Hüller Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
With a supporting cast including Viktorija Malektorovych, Hadewych Minis, Lucy Russell, Michael Wittenborn, Ingrid Bisu, Thomas Loibl, and Trystan Pütter, Ade gives her characters a chance to rediscover themselves in song and skin-deep encounters of the third or fourth or fifth kind.
- 10/26/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Exclusive: Paula Modersohn-Becker biopic to star Carla Juri.
The Match Factory has bolstered its Cannes slate with director Christian Schwochow‘s (Novemberkind, The Tower) drama Paula, about German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker.
Despite dying aged 31, Modersohn-Becker is considered one of the pioneers of German Expressionism.
Stefan Kolditz and Stephan Suschke’s script weaves together episodes from the final years of the acclaimed painter’s life, including her breaks with social convention and artistic radicalism.
Wetlands actress Carla Juri is set to star in the title role with Roxane Duran (The White Ribbon) on board to play sculptor Clara Rilke-Westhoff, the wife of poet Rainer Maria Rilke.
The German-French production is produced by Pandora Film Produktion, Grown Up Films and Alcatraz Films in co-production with Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Degeto Film, Radio Bremen.
Producers are Ingelore König, Christoph Friedel, Claudia Steffen. Pandora will also distribute in Germany in 2016.
Shoot is due to get underway in mid-September 2015 in Germany and France...
The Match Factory has bolstered its Cannes slate with director Christian Schwochow‘s (Novemberkind, The Tower) drama Paula, about German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker.
Despite dying aged 31, Modersohn-Becker is considered one of the pioneers of German Expressionism.
Stefan Kolditz and Stephan Suschke’s script weaves together episodes from the final years of the acclaimed painter’s life, including her breaks with social convention and artistic radicalism.
Wetlands actress Carla Juri is set to star in the title role with Roxane Duran (The White Ribbon) on board to play sculptor Clara Rilke-Westhoff, the wife of poet Rainer Maria Rilke.
The German-French production is produced by Pandora Film Produktion, Grown Up Films and Alcatraz Films in co-production with Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Degeto Film, Radio Bremen.
Producers are Ingelore König, Christoph Friedel, Claudia Steffen. Pandora will also distribute in Germany in 2016.
Shoot is due to get underway in mid-September 2015 in Germany and France...
- 5/8/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Magnolia Pictures announced today that the critically acclaimed We Are The Best! will debut on iTunes and On Demand tomorrow, Friday, June 20th, as it continues its expansion to select theaters across the country.
From director Lukas Moodysson (Together, Lilya 4-Ever), We Are The Best! is one of the best reviewed films of the year, and has been opening in cities across the country to near universal acclaim:
“There is hardly a shortage of movies about rock ‘n’ roll, but there are few as perfect as We Are The Best!.” – A.O. Scott, NY Times
“A blissfully funny film. Director Moodysson is masterly and there’s a magical sense of life caught on the fly. When measured by the pleasure it confers, We Are The Best! is a big deal that will be winning hearts—and even grownup minds—for a long time to come.”– Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
“If...
From director Lukas Moodysson (Together, Lilya 4-Ever), We Are The Best! is one of the best reviewed films of the year, and has been opening in cities across the country to near universal acclaim:
“There is hardly a shortage of movies about rock ‘n’ roll, but there are few as perfect as We Are The Best!.” – A.O. Scott, NY Times
“A blissfully funny film. Director Moodysson is masterly and there’s a magical sense of life caught on the fly. When measured by the pleasure it confers, We Are The Best! is a big deal that will be winning hearts—and even grownup minds—for a long time to come.”– Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
“If...
- 6/19/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Rachel Kneebone: Regarding Rodin Brooklyn Museum Through August 12, 2012
Vitruvius, in The Ten Books on Architecture, proposed that the perfected form of the human body could be diagrammed by being placed inside both a circle and a square. Though he himself did not provide illustrations, Leonardo da Vinci made a drawing demonstrating this proposition to illustrate Paciolio's On Divine Proportion (1509). This was more than a geometric exercise, as Vitruvius imbued the square and the circle with divine attributes: the circle represented the cosmos and the square, those things secular. In the Middle Ages, artists painted the crucifixion both as a representation of Christ's divinity as well as his incarnation as an earthly being. Five hundred years later, August Rodin upended many of these concepts regarding the proportion and deportment of the figure in sculpture with his monumental The Gates of Hell and Monument to Balzac.
The British sculptor Rachel Kneebone, making...
Vitruvius, in The Ten Books on Architecture, proposed that the perfected form of the human body could be diagrammed by being placed inside both a circle and a square. Though he himself did not provide illustrations, Leonardo da Vinci made a drawing demonstrating this proposition to illustrate Paciolio's On Divine Proportion (1509). This was more than a geometric exercise, as Vitruvius imbued the square and the circle with divine attributes: the circle represented the cosmos and the square, those things secular. In the Middle Ages, artists painted the crucifixion both as a representation of Christ's divinity as well as his incarnation as an earthly being. Five hundred years later, August Rodin upended many of these concepts regarding the proportion and deportment of the figure in sculpture with his monumental The Gates of Hell and Monument to Balzac.
The British sculptor Rachel Kneebone, making...
- 2/15/2012
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
There is no such thing as the greatest anything. Greatness is subjective. But if, for the sake of argument, or fun, or obsession, or whatever, we choose to at least toy with the concept of greatest modern novel, James Joyce's Ulysses is considered by many to be the frontrunner. And were one to attempt the hopeless task of choosing the greatest book of modern poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus would be a strong contender.
Well, 90 years ago, on February 2, 1922, Sylvia Beach of Shakespeare and Company published the first edition -- one thousand copies -- of Ulysses in Paris, France, and Rilke began writing Sonnets to Orpheus at the Château de Muzot in Switzerland. These works are linked by more than a date; both draw heavily on Greek myth/legend, and both were written by self-exiled authors.
Joyce -- whose birthday was February 2, and who had a...
Well, 90 years ago, on February 2, 1922, Sylvia Beach of Shakespeare and Company published the first edition -- one thousand copies -- of Ulysses in Paris, France, and Rilke began writing Sonnets to Orpheus at the Château de Muzot in Switzerland. These works are linked by more than a date; both draw heavily on Greek myth/legend, and both were written by self-exiled authors.
Joyce -- whose birthday was February 2, and who had a...
- 2/2/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Originally published in the Spring 2011 issue. Beginners is nominated for Best Feature and Best Ensemble.
“There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.”–Rainer Maria Rilke
About the three characters in Mike Mills’s altogether winning second feature — Oliver, a sensitive yet romantically challenged graphic designer in his mid-30s (Ewan McGregor); Anna, a beautiful, single French actress (Melanie Laurent); and the designer’s father, Hal, a retired museum director and widower in his 70s, who has just come out of the closet (Christopher Plummer) — the film’s title, Beginners, says it all. These are not young people or people inexperienced with relationships, but they are novices — people learning to live, and to love, in new ways.
The film is also a tale of reinvention — a theme, of course, that is a staple of not only American...
“There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.”–Rainer Maria Rilke
About the three characters in Mike Mills’s altogether winning second feature — Oliver, a sensitive yet romantically challenged graphic designer in his mid-30s (Ewan McGregor); Anna, a beautiful, single French actress (Melanie Laurent); and the designer’s father, Hal, a retired museum director and widower in his 70s, who has just come out of the closet (Christopher Plummer) — the film’s title, Beginners, says it all. These are not young people or people inexperienced with relationships, but they are novices — people learning to live, and to love, in new ways.
The film is also a tale of reinvention — a theme, of course, that is a staple of not only American...
- 11/22/2011
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Back Bay Books
I interviewed David Foster Wallace not long before he committed suicide and a few months ago an editor called to talk to me about my final encounter with the author.
Like most people, I count Wallace’s “Infinite Jest” as one of the best novels I’ve ever read.
Actually, let me be a bit more precise.
Like a certain set of (arguably) semi-pretentious folks, many of whom have been educated at leading universities or who have jobs in the major media,...
I interviewed David Foster Wallace not long before he committed suicide and a few months ago an editor called to talk to me about my final encounter with the author.
Like most people, I count Wallace’s “Infinite Jest” as one of the best novels I’ve ever read.
Actually, let me be a bit more precise.
Like a certain set of (arguably) semi-pretentious folks, many of whom have been educated at leading universities or who have jobs in the major media,...
- 4/2/2011
- by Christopher John Farley
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Lady GaGa only has tattoos on the left side of her body to please her father. The "Born This Way" hitmaker made the decision to only be inked on one side so she can look "slightly normal" from certain angles to please her dad Joseph Germanotta.
In a Google Moderator interview which saw her answer question submitted by fans, she revealed, "All of my tattoos are on one side, per my father's request. He asked that I remain, on one side, slightly normal, so I only have my tattoos on my left side. I think he sees the right as like my Marilyn Monroe side and the left as my Iggy Pop side."
Gaga's tattoos include a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament symbol on her left wrist, a unicorn with the song title "Born This Way" wrapped around its horn on her thigh, floral tattoos of roses and daisies on her...
In a Google Moderator interview which saw her answer question submitted by fans, she revealed, "All of my tattoos are on one side, per my father's request. He asked that I remain, on one side, slightly normal, so I only have my tattoos on my left side. I think he sees the right as like my Marilyn Monroe side and the left as my Iggy Pop side."
Gaga's tattoos include a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament symbol on her left wrist, a unicorn with the song title "Born This Way" wrapped around its horn on her thigh, floral tattoos of roses and daisies on her...
- 3/24/2011
- by celebrity-mania.com
- Celebrity Mania
I'm wary of poetry in cinema, the same way I'm wary of it in general. Characters quoting verse at one another make my toes curl
Invictus, Clint Eastwood's new film, is named after a poem by William Ernest Henley, who wrote it in 1875 to lift up his spirits after having a leg amputated. Nelson Mandela (played by Morgan Freeman) quotes the lines, "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul" as a source of uplift and inspiration, and it's just a shame for everyone concerned that the same poem was chosen as a pre-execution statement by Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber.
Henley's not the only Victorian poet whose work has provided memorable but, to the uninitiated, slightly baffling titles. Even if you've never heard of Ernest Dowson, you'll be familiar with at least two of his phrases: Gone with the Wind and Days of Wine and Roses.
Invictus, Clint Eastwood's new film, is named after a poem by William Ernest Henley, who wrote it in 1875 to lift up his spirits after having a leg amputated. Nelson Mandela (played by Morgan Freeman) quotes the lines, "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul" as a source of uplift and inspiration, and it's just a shame for everyone concerned that the same poem was chosen as a pre-execution statement by Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber.
Henley's not the only Victorian poet whose work has provided memorable but, to the uninitiated, slightly baffling titles. Even if you've never heard of Ernest Dowson, you'll be familiar with at least two of his phrases: Gone with the Wind and Days of Wine and Roses.
- 1/28/2010
- by Anne Billson
- The Guardian - Film News
Wings Of Desire is a lot like Where The Wild Things Are. Ok, I know that sounds extremely far-fetched, but stick with me here. I know one film involves invisible angels watching humans, their struggles and suffering and the other involves large hirsute monsters with big heads and even bigger tempers making friends with a runaway boy with anger issues, but there are two major common denominators to both films: 1) They’re rooted and invested in human emotions, and 2) Neither adheres to the standard three-act narrative format, forgoing customary cinematic structure and instead drifting and meandering along an (apparently) uncharted course.
I’ve seen Wings Of Desire and Where The Wild Things twice. And in both cases I enjoyed and appreciated the film more after the second viewing, probably because I wasn’t encumbered by expectations of a traditionally told story. Do I think both movies are perfect? No. They...
I’ve seen Wings Of Desire and Where The Wild Things twice. And in both cases I enjoyed and appreciated the film more after the second viewing, probably because I wasn’t encumbered by expectations of a traditionally told story. Do I think both movies are perfect? No. They...
- 11/27/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (Allan Dart)
- Starlog
Lady GaGa sure knows how to win over an audience. The Poker Face singer was in Germany on Saturday, appearing on the German game/entertainment show Wetten, dass...? ("Wanna Bet...?"), and during her guest spot she showed off a tattoo of a poem my German poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Click through the photo gallery to see more of GaGa's appearance.
- 11/9/2009
- by Celebuzz
- Celebuzz.com
By Cara Alwill
Lady Gaga is known for her wild fashion sense and eccentric outfits — and in the new issue of Interview magazine, we see that her fashion sense doesn't just apply to what she wears over her skin. The singer let the magazine follow her around Tokyo, where she got tattooed not once, but twice.
What's the meaning behind her new ink? The tattoo on her inner arm is a tribute to her favorite writer. "That one commemorates my favorite writer, Rainer Maria Rilke, a poet and romantic philosopher," Gaga told the mag. "In German he writes, 'Confess to yourself in the deepest hour of the night whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write?' "
The other tattoo, on her shoulder, is a bit more risqué.
Lady Gaga is known for her wild fashion sense and eccentric outfits — and in the new issue of Interview magazine, we see that her fashion sense doesn't just apply to what she wears over her skin. The singer let the magazine follow her around Tokyo, where she got tattooed not once, but twice.
What's the meaning behind her new ink? The tattoo on her inner arm is a tribute to her favorite writer. "That one commemorates my favorite writer, Rainer Maria Rilke, a poet and romantic philosopher," Gaga told the mag. "In German he writes, 'Confess to yourself in the deepest hour of the night whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write?' "
The other tattoo, on her shoulder, is a bit more risqué.
- 10/5/2009
- by MTV News
- MTV Newsroom
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