The Kills — the indie rock duo featuring singer Alison Mosshart and guitarist Jamie Hince — have announced the impending arrival of their first new album in seven years, God Games.
Ahead of the LP’s October 27 release, the band has shared the latest single, “103,” a love song set amid the ever-increasing, life-threatening heat waves plaguing the planet.
The visual for “103” was directed by Steven Sebring and makes use of a custom-built 3D film studio as the camera revolves around Mosshart and Hince, who — keeping with the song’s theme — don tanning goggles and solar eclipse glasses.
Ahead of the LP’s October 27 release, the band has shared the latest single, “103,” a love song set amid the ever-increasing, life-threatening heat waves plaguing the planet.
The visual for “103” was directed by Steven Sebring and makes use of a custom-built 3D film studio as the camera revolves around Mosshart and Hince, who — keeping with the song’s theme — don tanning goggles and solar eclipse glasses.
- 8/30/2023
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
The Kills have readied God Games, their first album in seven years. The project is out in full on October 27th via Domino, while the new single “103” is available to stream now.
For God Games, The Kills tried a mix of strategies old and new. Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince composed its 12 tracks primarily on piano, a first for the duo, but recorded the LP with producer Paul Epworth, who the band have known for 20 years. They recorded the album in an old church, which presumably added to their signature sultry, blues-inspired sound.
New track “103” begins with crackling electronic percussion and guitar that rolls in waves as Mosshart sings about the end of the world. The deceptively calming song comes with a 360-degree music video directed by Steven Sebring that follows The Kills as they try not to melt under the sun’s rays. Check it out below.
Pre-orders for God Games are ongoing.
For God Games, The Kills tried a mix of strategies old and new. Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince composed its 12 tracks primarily on piano, a first for the duo, but recorded the LP with producer Paul Epworth, who the band have known for 20 years. They recorded the album in an old church, which presumably added to their signature sultry, blues-inspired sound.
New track “103” begins with crackling electronic percussion and guitar that rolls in waves as Mosshart sings about the end of the world. The deceptively calming song comes with a 360-degree music video directed by Steven Sebring that follows The Kills as they try not to melt under the sun’s rays. Check it out below.
Pre-orders for God Games are ongoing.
- 8/30/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
The Kills are back with “New York” and “LA Hex,” their first new material in five years. Listen to the dual singles below.
Darkly cinematic, “New York” feels like a song that would open an action movie thanks to its dramatic blend of horns and stop-start percussion. “You tase just like New York/ Before a storm takes hold,” Alison Mosshart sings, over Jamie Hince’s classic garage guitar. The duo sit ringside at a boxing match in the track’s music video, directed by Andrew Theodore Balasia.
Balasia also directs the video for “LA Hex,” where the artists harmonize over melancholy trumpets and a rolling electronic beat. “I still got my ways, you know,” Hince and Mosshart sing. As their first release since in several years, the line feels all the more pointed.
“New York” and “LA Hex” are available on 7-inch vinyl here. The Kills will celebrate the release...
Darkly cinematic, “New York” feels like a song that would open an action movie thanks to its dramatic blend of horns and stop-start percussion. “You tase just like New York/ Before a storm takes hold,” Alison Mosshart sings, over Jamie Hince’s classic garage guitar. The duo sit ringside at a boxing match in the track’s music video, directed by Andrew Theodore Balasia.
Balasia also directs the video for “LA Hex,” where the artists harmonize over melancholy trumpets and a rolling electronic beat. “I still got my ways, you know,” Hince and Mosshart sing. As their first release since in several years, the line feels all the more pointed.
“New York” and “LA Hex” are available on 7-inch vinyl here. The Kills will celebrate the release...
- 7/25/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
Every year for the better part of the past two decades, Patti Smith has spent her birthday, December 30th, celebrating with an intimate live show in what has become a rich and joyful tradition for the punk rock progenitor. While the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has upended any chance for a more typical version of such a show to proceed, Smith and her band are keeping the tradition alive as they prepare for a pay-per-view livestream, one of the first Smith has done in her nearly 50-year career.
“I just thought...
“I just thought...
- 12/9/2020
- by Ethan Millman
- Rollingstone.com
Time’s Up to stage inaugural festival event scheduled.
Top brass at the Tribeca Film Festival presented by At&T announced on Thursday (March 29) that Patti Smith and her band will perform after the world premiere screening of Steven Sebring’s documentary, Horses: Patti Smith And Her Band.
The Smith documentary screening is on April 23 and chronicles the final concerts of the 40th anniversary of Smith’s seminal album Horses, performed in full in at the Wiltern in Los Angeles.
Additions to the festival’s film, TV, Tribeca Talks and Tribeca Immersive programmes, as well as the first event by Time’s Up,...
Top brass at the Tribeca Film Festival presented by At&T announced on Thursday (March 29) that Patti Smith and her band will perform after the world premiere screening of Steven Sebring’s documentary, Horses: Patti Smith And Her Band.
The Smith documentary screening is on April 23 and chronicles the final concerts of the 40th anniversary of Smith’s seminal album Horses, performed in full in at the Wiltern in Los Angeles.
Additions to the festival’s film, TV, Tribeca Talks and Tribeca Immersive programmes, as well as the first event by Time’s Up,...
- 3/29/2018
- by Jenn Sherman
- ScreenDaily
The Tribeca Film Festival has added a new Patti Smith documentary to its lineup and announced that it will host the inaugural New York event for Time's Up.
Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band is a concert film centered around the final show of Smith's 2015 tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of her debut album, Horses. Steven Sebring directed the movie, which was filmed at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles. Horses will make its world premiere April 23rd at the Beacon Theater, and after the screening Smith and her band will perform a short set.
Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band is a concert film centered around the final show of Smith's 2015 tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of her debut album, Horses. Steven Sebring directed the movie, which was filmed at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles. Horses will make its world premiere April 23rd at the Beacon Theater, and after the screening Smith and her band will perform a short set.
- 3/29/2018
- Rollingstone.com
Time’s Up will host what it’s calling its inaugural New York event during the Tribeca Film Festival, featuring a program of conversations with organization supporters including Ashley Judd, Julianne Moore, Sarah Jessica Parker, Amber Tamblyn, Marisa Tomei, among others.
In addition to the actresses, the April 28 Time’s Up event will include activists and business leaders (see below for complete list).
“In response to the growing national movement, Tribeca Film Festival has partnered with Time’s Up to host a day of conversations with the outspoken women playing a pivotal role in raising awareness about inequality in the workplace,” the fest announced today in a statement. “Activists, storytellers, business leaders, filmmakers, lawyers, media figures, and more share their stories, seek next steps to establish the parameters for lasting change across industries and the pay spectrum.”
The day-long even “will explore how we got here, the women who came...
In addition to the actresses, the April 28 Time’s Up event will include activists and business leaders (see below for complete list).
“In response to the growing national movement, Tribeca Film Festival has partnered with Time’s Up to host a day of conversations with the outspoken women playing a pivotal role in raising awareness about inequality in the workplace,” the fest announced today in a statement. “Activists, storytellers, business leaders, filmmakers, lawyers, media figures, and more share their stories, seek next steps to establish the parameters for lasting change across industries and the pay spectrum.”
The day-long even “will explore how we got here, the women who came...
- 3/29/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Time’s Up, the movement founded to combat sexual harassment in the wake of #MeToo, will hold its inaugural New York event as part of the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, which will showcase conversations with some of the movement’s most prominent filmmakers and activists including Ashley Judd, Julianne Moore and Fatima Goss Graves.
The event is one of a handful of late additions to this year’s edition of Tribeca. Also on the docket is the world premiere screening of “Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band,” Steven Sebring’s documentary about the final concerts of the tour that celebrated the 40th anniversary of Smith’s album “Horses.” After a Tribeca screening at the Beacon Theater, Smith and her band will perform signature tunes.
The festival’s TV lineup has added the premiere of ESPN series “Enhanced,” from exec producers Alex Gibney and Brad Herbert, looking at new developments in sports training,...
The event is one of a handful of late additions to this year’s edition of Tribeca. Also on the docket is the world premiere screening of “Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band,” Steven Sebring’s documentary about the final concerts of the tour that celebrated the 40th anniversary of Smith’s album “Horses.” After a Tribeca screening at the Beacon Theater, Smith and her band will perform signature tunes.
The festival’s TV lineup has added the premiere of ESPN series “Enhanced,” from exec producers Alex Gibney and Brad Herbert, looking at new developments in sports training,...
- 3/29/2018
- by Gordon Cox
- Variety Film + TV
Rita Wilson is taking life as it comes in her new music video for "Along For the Ride." The singer released the promo for her latest song on Thursday and offered People some insight into what inspired the mood for the clip. "'Along for the Ride' is not just that feeling that you get with your top down on a sunny day in L.A., where I was born and raised," Wilson, 59, told People exclusively. "But it is also a metaphorical song in the sense that life is going to give you 'in your journey' a lot of...
- 2/25/2016
- by Naja Rayne, @najarayne
- PEOPLE.com
A&E has rewarded loyal viewers of the unsettling "Bates Motel" with a visually stunning and unnerving trailer for its third season. Based on Hitchcock's timeless "Psycho," the prequel series has firmly established its fan base in the first two seasons, with its contemporary setting adding a new flavor to the Oedipal classic. Photographer and artist Steven Sebring used more than 100 cameras to craft the season three preview that physically blends together mother Norma (Vera Farmiga) and obsessive son Norman (Freddie Highmore), foreshadowing Norman's schizophrenic collapse. Emily Wells' eerie "Mama's Gonna Give You Love" underscores this incestuous dance, adding just the right dose of creepiness. One thing is certain: The next installment of the series promises to satiate fan appetite for a twisted mother-son relationship that knows no bounds. "Bates Motel" will re-open for business on A&E, beginning March 9. Read More:...
- 1/15/2015
- by Ana Souza
- Indiewire
A&E has just released a new trailer for Season 3 of “Bates Motel,” which kicks off March 9th, and we have to say they’ve outdone themselves this time! The network partnered with artist and photographer Steven Sebring to develop the art… Continue Reading →
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- 1/15/2015
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
In the modeling world, Coco Rocha is known as the queen of posing. So it was no surprise that she teamed up with photographer Steven Sebring to create the new tome Study of Pose, a book featuring photos of Coco striking over 1,000 positions! After chatting with Coco about the publication and the exciting news she's expecting a baby, we rather unwisely asked Coco to show us how to strike one of her many poses - and hilarity ensued.
- 10/29/2014
- by Allie-Merriam
- Popsugar.com
Supermodel Coco Rocha knows a thing or two about posing. And now she's really showing off her abilities in Study of Pose, a new 2,032-page book showcasing Rocha in 1,000 different poses shot by photographer Steven Sebring. Rocha, 26, appears in nothing but a white leotard. "We thought it would be a lot more historical for the book itself and that you wouldn't know what period it came from, it could have been from the early '20s to now, it really doesn't have a timestamp on it," Rocha said of her minimalist look. "It wasn't about the styling because style goes in and out so when you look at this book I didn't want you to go, 'Oh, that definitely was shot in the...
- 10/28/2014
- E! Online
With online media platforms like Hulu and Netflix delving into original programming (with the latter making an especially big splash in the last year), more platforms were bound to jump on the bandwagon. The latest to make the leap is video site Dailymotion, which has just announced the financing and development of its first original series in partnership with world-class chef and restaurateur Mario Batali, titled "Feedback Kitchen."Set to be directed by photographer and filmmaker Steven Sebring ("Patti Smith: Dream of Life"), "Feedback Kitchen" is a five-episode series that brings Batali together with legendary musicians to unravel the similarities in the creative process that both musicians and chefs share, culminating with a meal featuring a new dish from Batali inspired by the musician and a performance. Guests already confirmed to appear on “Feedback Kitchen” include The Edge, Flea, Patti Smith, Perry and Etty Farrell and Josh Groban.
- 2/28/2014
- by Ziyad Saadi
- Indiewire
Last month we brought you news of legendary makeup artist Rick Baker's collaboration with M-a-c Cosmetics for a limited-edition Halloween collection, available in stores until October 31. The seven-time Oscar-winning effects creator has worked on horror cinema's finest films, including The Exorcist, An American Werewolf in London, and The Howling – and now he's showing you how the magic happens in a new video from New York City-based documentarian and photographer Steven Sebring. In the clip below, Baker creates a Day of the Dead skull makeup look using M-a-c's spooky palette, walking viewers through every step of the process and detailing the product and method of application. It's a nice opportunity to soak up some of the master's mojo. Baker expresses his hopes that people will duplicate the work, or feel inspired to create their own – which is pretty encouraging coming from a guy who has invented some of the greatest creatures in horror movie history.
- 10/8/2013
- by Alison Nastasi
- FEARnet
Bandwdth Publishing, in conjunction with the George Harrison Estate, has announced a a special iPad app that celebrates rock icon George Harrison and his historical guitar collection. The Guitar Collection: George Harrison iPad app is available through iTunes today, two days before Harrison's birthdate. The new app brings George Harrison's private guitar collection to life through photographs, detailed descriptions, audio, and video footage. For the first time, with the help of unique 360° imaging by photographer Steven Sebring, fans can see the scratches, dings, and worn threads on the guitars as if they were themselves holding the instruments. The app features a number of Harrison's best known guitars, including the Gretsch G6128 Duo Jet, the Gibson J-160E, the...
- 2/23/2012
- by Patrick Luce
- Monsters and Critics
A special showing of Steven Sebring's movie Patti Smith: Dream of Life will take place at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, on Sunday, June 27th, in the East Building Concourse Auditorium. The director will be making a personal appearance. Dream of Life, a beautiful documentary, is Sebring's debut full-length feature film. He has also photographed Patti for her albums Gung Ho, Land, and Twelve, and for several books by and about the once and future queen of punk, a title that I believe she will retain in perpetuity. Last month, I reviewed Dream of Life for HuffPost and subsequently had the opportunity to conduct an email interview with Mr. Sebring. I thank him for his thoughtful replies to my questions. His answer to the last one is quite surprising. Why Patti Smith? What brought you to the decision to invest...
- 6/10/2010
- by Joseph Smigelski
- Huffington Post
Dream of Life, directed by Steven Sebring, is closer to being an art film than a biographical work, and thankfully it is nothing like a standard Hollywood biopic such as Ray or Walk the Line. There's nothing wrong with films like that, but Sebring's tribute to the once and future queen of punk so completely suits Patti Smith's personality and artistic vision, that his stylistic choices are irreproachable. Every frame of this movie reflects Patti's "will to be free." The film is impressionistic and non-linear, kind of like Patti herself and definitely like her songs and poetry, and it begins appropriately with Patti's moving, plaintive voice singing one of her desperate pleas for sanity in our world. Although Patti's life has been fraught with pain and the death of loved ones, she continues to insist that "life is an adventure of...
- 5/18/2010
- by Joseph Smigelski
- Huffington Post
Patti Smith’s move in 1967 from suburban New Jersey to rebellious New York City was one of the seminal migrations in rock ’n’ roll history. Before long, she was living with Robert Mapplethorpe, helping to shape the nascent punk movement, and inspiring a new generation of musicians with her 1975 masterpiece, Horses. In 1980, Smith retreated from the spotlight and moved to Michigan to raise a family with her husband, MC5 guitarist Fred “Sonic” Smith. But after his death, in 1994, she made a comeback, and brought photographer Steven Sebring along for the ride.
- 1/8/2010
- Vanity Fair
Filed under: TV Royalty, Music and Variety, Celebrities, Documentary, TCA Press Tour, Reality-Free
One of the things that never gets old about the press tour is that at any moment, you could be in the middle of a blow-your-mind, surreal pop culture moment. That's exactly what happened to me yesterday evening, as the PBS sessions were wrapping up.
Patti Smith had the last session, to promote her biographical movie on Pov called Patti Smith: Dream of Life. It was fascinating, as she was pretty open with the reporters about why she let filmmaker Steven Sebring into her life for eleven years, what she likes to watch on YouTube (Maria Callas for one) and all sorts of fun stuff. But I had to leave to interview another legend, Norman Lear, who was there with producer Mark Johnson to promote the documentary Playing For Change: Peace Through Music.
When we were done with the interview,...
One of the things that never gets old about the press tour is that at any moment, you could be in the middle of a blow-your-mind, surreal pop culture moment. That's exactly what happened to me yesterday evening, as the PBS sessions were wrapping up.
Patti Smith had the last session, to promote her biographical movie on Pov called Patti Smith: Dream of Life. It was fascinating, as she was pretty open with the reporters about why she let filmmaker Steven Sebring into her life for eleven years, what she likes to watch on YouTube (Maria Callas for one) and all sorts of fun stuff. But I had to leave to interview another legend, Norman Lear, who was there with producer Mark Johnson to promote the documentary Playing For Change: Peace Through Music.
When we were done with the interview,...
- 8/3/2009
- by Joel Keller
- Aol TV.
By Michael Atkinson
The DVD era has been very generous to low-grade biodocs focused on culty, semi-obscure pop wonders -- everyone from the Holy Moly Rounders to Roky Erickson, Benjamin Smoke, Townes Van Zandt, Gary Wilson, Joy Division, They Might Be Giants, Scott Walker, et cetera, have received their official, devotional, feature-length eulogy. Graveside homilies they are, too, there's little point in denying it -- for the aging musicians of the '60s, '70s and '80s as well as for our long-lost younger selves, now only faint traces of remembered élan, hope and indestructibility. Of course, Patti Smith, like Leonard Cohen and the Ramones (so nicely requiem-ed in 2003's "End of the Century"), is far from little known, but she still occupies that musty corner of pop legend-dom: more admired than listened to, known for her history more than her songs, aging into a kind of marginal retro-hipness...
The DVD era has been very generous to low-grade biodocs focused on culty, semi-obscure pop wonders -- everyone from the Holy Moly Rounders to Roky Erickson, Benjamin Smoke, Townes Van Zandt, Gary Wilson, Joy Division, They Might Be Giants, Scott Walker, et cetera, have received their official, devotional, feature-length eulogy. Graveside homilies they are, too, there's little point in denying it -- for the aging musicians of the '60s, '70s and '80s as well as for our long-lost younger selves, now only faint traces of remembered élan, hope and indestructibility. Of course, Patti Smith, like Leonard Cohen and the Ramones (so nicely requiem-ed in 2003's "End of the Century"), is far from little known, but she still occupies that musty corner of pop legend-dom: more admired than listened to, known for her history more than her songs, aging into a kind of marginal retro-hipness...
- 1/27/2009
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Featuring Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, and Sam Shepard
Directed by Steven Sebring
Not Rated
You either get Patti Smith or you don't. There are artists like that in every field - some people never warm to Dali or Joyce Carol Oates and some people swear by the films of Lars von Trier.
But the Godmother of Punk is one of those "twain shall never meet" artists whose fans revel in the fact that she is theirs while her detractors feel that her lack of mainstream success over the past 30 years means that they're right about it. Still, the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame inductee has plenty of rabid fans who connect to her music, message, and methods.
What a shame it is then that the documentary Patti Smith: Dream of Life is not more inclusive. It's a labor of love, without a doubt; photographer...
Featuring Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, and Sam Shepard
Directed by Steven Sebring
Not Rated
You either get Patti Smith or you don't. There are artists like that in every field - some people never warm to Dali or Joyce Carol Oates and some people swear by the films of Lars von Trier.
But the Godmother of Punk is one of those "twain shall never meet" artists whose fans revel in the fact that she is theirs while her detractors feel that her lack of mainstream success over the past 30 years means that they're right about it. Still, the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame inductee has plenty of rabid fans who connect to her music, message, and methods.
What a shame it is then that the documentary Patti Smith: Dream of Life is not more inclusive. It's a labor of love, without a doubt; photographer...
- 10/24/2008
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Wild crow she’s a rabbit
She tells you she’s a crow
She smiles her sea-shell smile on you
Like she was your very own
She ain’t no Picasso
She ain’t no Bill Monroe
She plays lead guitar with history
But she looks like rock & roll!
—Eric Anderson, “Wild Crow Blues” (For Patti Smith)
In 1975, I arrived in San Francisco with one suitcase in hand, $20 in my pocket and a heart full of dreams. I found a job as a busboy at Fanny’s Cabaret in the Castro, rented a room from an acquaintance for $100 a month, and used one of my first paychecks to buy Patti Smith’s Horses, which was all the rage at that time. At parties in the Haight people were smoking marijuana, hazing out on angel dust and Lsd, and Patti’s voice was the raw serenade ubiquitously pulsing through it all.
She tells you she’s a crow
She smiles her sea-shell smile on you
Like she was your very own
She ain’t no Picasso
She ain’t no Bill Monroe
She plays lead guitar with history
But she looks like rock & roll!
—Eric Anderson, “Wild Crow Blues” (For Patti Smith)
In 1975, I arrived in San Francisco with one suitcase in hand, $20 in my pocket and a heart full of dreams. I found a job as a busboy at Fanny’s Cabaret in the Castro, rented a room from an acquaintance for $100 a month, and used one of my first paychecks to buy Patti Smith’s Horses, which was all the rage at that time. At parties in the Haight people were smoking marijuana, hazing out on angel dust and Lsd, and Patti’s voice was the raw serenade ubiquitously pulsing through it all.
- 10/23/2008
- by Michael Guillen
- Screen Anarchy
In the '70s, Patti Smith was part of a fledging New York punk scene that leaned as hard on the artsy side of music-making as the visceral and noisy. Smith was a rock critic before she took to the stage, and her 1975 debut album, Horses, was her most sublime piece of rock criticism, as energetic and self-aware as a work from French cinema's New Wave (a movement itself advanced by critics). Smith quoted Van Morrison and Wilson Pickett while getting under the skin of their songs, explicating the deeper meanings without losing the sexual thrust. Photographer Steven Sebring is a longtime friend of Smith's, and he spent 10 years piecing together Patti Smith: Dream Of Life, a fans-only document of rock's premier poet. But while Sebring gained amazing access to Smith's world tours and family life, very little about the finished product suggests it should've taken a decade...
- 8/7/2008
- by Noel Murray
- avclub.com
By Neil Pedley
This week's delectable delights include, amongst other things, such highbrow morsels as a gallery retrospective on D.I.Y. art and a crash course in the history of the California vineyards. If that's not your cup of proverbial tea, there's always psychotic bikers and the ballad of two stoned losers on the run from gangsters and the police.
"Beautiful Losers"
More than 15 years after founding the hugely influential Alleged Gallery in New York, the freelance curator Aaron Rose continues to serve as a cornerstone of the now-global D.I.Y. art scene. Here he teams with "Blair Witch" actor-turned-director Joshua Leonard to chart the evolution and subsequent commercialization of a movement whose genesis was found in a group of outcasts, slackers and misfits from the fringes of subculture. Emerging from the dirty little worlds of surfing, skateboarding and street graffiti, a group of artists including the likes of Harmony Korine,...
This week's delectable delights include, amongst other things, such highbrow morsels as a gallery retrospective on D.I.Y. art and a crash course in the history of the California vineyards. If that's not your cup of proverbial tea, there's always psychotic bikers and the ballad of two stoned losers on the run from gangsters and the police.
"Beautiful Losers"
More than 15 years after founding the hugely influential Alleged Gallery in New York, the freelance curator Aaron Rose continues to serve as a cornerstone of the now-global D.I.Y. art scene. Here he teams with "Blair Witch" actor-turned-director Joshua Leonard to chart the evolution and subsequent commercialization of a movement whose genesis was found in a group of outcasts, slackers and misfits from the fringes of subculture. Emerging from the dirty little worlds of surfing, skateboarding and street graffiti, a group of artists including the likes of Harmony Korine,...
- 8/4/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
- After a hugely successful Sundance film festival, it is to Cannes that the Paris-based Celluloid Dreams is looking towards with the hopes of finding a three peat victory with the Dardenne's latest. The Dardenne film is what we are most looking forward to seeing, the same goes for the Sundance winner, the IFC film Ballast and Director Fortnight's Better things. Ballast by Lance Hammer - Completed Better Things by Duane Hopkins - Completed Bob Marley: Exodus 77 by Anthony Wall - Completed Dog Eat Dog (Perro Come Perro) by Carlos Moreno - Completed Flow : For Love Of Water by Irena Salina - Completed Le Voyage Aux PYRÉNÉES by Arnaud Larrieu,... - Completed Lorna's Silence (Le Silence De Lorna) by Jean-Pierre Dardenne,... - Completed Mark Of An Angel (L'empreinte De L'ange) by Safy Nebbou - Completed Mia And The Migoo by Jacques-Rémy Girerd - Completed Patti Smith: Dream Of Life
- 5/17/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
- Icon is perhaps too small a word to encompass Patti Smith. Considered the godmother of punk, her beat poet cum rock goddess persona is the thing of legend. Given the subject, you can understand why photographer Steven Sebring would spend 11 years following her as she toured the world; capturing both the performer and the person in the raw -- in her own words. The result? The Sundance award winning documentary Patti Smith: Dream of Life which has just been picked up by Palm Pictures for theatrical and home release. An amalgamation of Smith’s works as a musician, painter, poet, and photographer; the film is as much about her art as is it about her ruminations on life and death. Narrated by Smith herself, she folds in her poetry and lyrics along with performance in a delirious stream-of-conscious style bracketed between the standard bio-doc fare. While far from a comprehensive examination of the artist,
- 5/9/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
LONDON -- There will be a strong U.S. presence at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival lineup, with 30 titles from across the pond due to unspool during the event.
Highlights from the U.S. traveling to the Scottish capital include the animation "Wall-E" from Pixar and Disney, which will have a gala screening.
There also are several U.S.-birthed documentaries to look forward to, including Margaret Brown's "The Order of Myths", Steven Sebring's "Patti Smith: Dream of Life" and "Standard Operating Procedure" from Errol Morris.
This year's festival opens with the world premiere of John Maybury's "The Edge of Love" and will close with another world first, Vito Rocco's "Faintheart".
Rocco's movie stars Eddie Marsan, Jessica Hynes and Ewan Bremner and is billed as a comedic romp revolving around battle re-enactment hobbyists.
Artistic director Hannah McGill said this year's festival, which runs June 18-29, will host 15 world bows and plans to showcase 142 features from 29 countries.
Other gala screenings include the world bow for Mark Doherty's "A Film With Me In It", while Duane Hopkins' "Better Things", Brad Anderson's "Transsiberian" and Isabel Coixet's "Elegy" will receive the gala treatment.
Highlights from the U.S. traveling to the Scottish capital include the animation "Wall-E" from Pixar and Disney, which will have a gala screening.
There also are several U.S.-birthed documentaries to look forward to, including Margaret Brown's "The Order of Myths", Steven Sebring's "Patti Smith: Dream of Life" and "Standard Operating Procedure" from Errol Morris.
This year's festival opens with the world premiere of John Maybury's "The Edge of Love" and will close with another world first, Vito Rocco's "Faintheart".
Rocco's movie stars Eddie Marsan, Jessica Hynes and Ewan Bremner and is billed as a comedic romp revolving around battle re-enactment hobbyists.
Artistic director Hannah McGill said this year's festival, which runs June 18-29, will host 15 world bows and plans to showcase 142 features from 29 countries.
Other gala screenings include the world bow for Mark Doherty's "A Film With Me In It", while Duane Hopkins' "Better Things", Brad Anderson's "Transsiberian" and Isabel Coixet's "Elegy" will receive the gala treatment.
COLOGNE, Germany -- Sex, politics and rock 'n' roll are the themes running through this year's Panorama, the Berlin International Film Festival's main sidebar.
Parvez Sharma's A Jihad For Love, which will open Panorama's documentary section, Dokumente, looks at the conflict between sexuality and religion by examining the lives of devout Muslims who are homosexual. The film was produced by Sandi Dubowski, who looked at similar issues among gay orthodox Jews in Trembling Before G-d. That film debuted in Panorama in 2001 and won Berlin's Teddy award for the best film with a homosexual theme.
Sexual politics are at the core of several Dokumente entries including Dondu Kilic's The Other Istanbul, Suddenly, Last Winter from Italian directors Gustav Hofer and Luca Ragazzi, Jochen Hick's East/West and "Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians" by Berlin's own Rosa von Praunheim.
Middle East politics is the focus of Eran Riklis' Lemon Tree, the drama that opens the Panorama Special section. The film looks at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the eyes of a Palestinian woman who inherits a lemon grove bordering on Israeli territory.
Other high-profile Panorama Special screenings include Brad Anderson's Transsiberian, featuring Woody Harrelson, Thomas Kretschmann and Ben Kingsley, and the world premiere of Madonna's directorial debut, Filth & Wisdom starring Richard E. Grant.
Madonna won't be the only pop star featured on this year's Panorama. Legendary punk princess Patti Smith will give a concert in the German capital to support the Panorama debut of Steven Sebring's documentary Patti Smith: Dream of Life. Ceri Levy's Bananaz follows Britpop regulars Damon Alban and Jamie Hewlett, creators of the virtual band Gorillaz.
Parvez Sharma's A Jihad For Love, which will open Panorama's documentary section, Dokumente, looks at the conflict between sexuality and religion by examining the lives of devout Muslims who are homosexual. The film was produced by Sandi Dubowski, who looked at similar issues among gay orthodox Jews in Trembling Before G-d. That film debuted in Panorama in 2001 and won Berlin's Teddy award for the best film with a homosexual theme.
Sexual politics are at the core of several Dokumente entries including Dondu Kilic's The Other Istanbul, Suddenly, Last Winter from Italian directors Gustav Hofer and Luca Ragazzi, Jochen Hick's East/West and "Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians" by Berlin's own Rosa von Praunheim.
Middle East politics is the focus of Eran Riklis' Lemon Tree, the drama that opens the Panorama Special section. The film looks at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the eyes of a Palestinian woman who inherits a lemon grove bordering on Israeli territory.
Other high-profile Panorama Special screenings include Brad Anderson's Transsiberian, featuring Woody Harrelson, Thomas Kretschmann and Ben Kingsley, and the world premiere of Madonna's directorial debut, Filth & Wisdom starring Richard E. Grant.
Madonna won't be the only pop star featured on this year's Panorama. Legendary punk princess Patti Smith will give a concert in the German capital to support the Panorama debut of Steven Sebring's documentary Patti Smith: Dream of Life. Ceri Levy's Bananaz follows Britpop regulars Damon Alban and Jamie Hewlett, creators of the virtual band Gorillaz.
- 1/24/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sundance Film Festival
PARK CITY -- Twelve years in the making, Patti Smith: Dream of Life is a unique record of an artist's journey.
The first film by fashion photographer Steven Sebring, it stitches together layer upon layer of human experience to paint a portrait of the artist as a tireless and dynamic worker for music, poetry, peace, family and friends.
A knowledge of Smith's landmark contribution as a rock 'n' roll pioneer is not essential, and the film should be a joy for anyone interested in pop culture of the past 40 years.
Sebring does not take a conventional route here, which is fitting for his subject. The long gestation period for the film has afforded an intimacy and ease that allows him to penetrate Smith's inner and outer worlds, weaving back and forth in time from her arrival in New York in the late 1960s to raising her two children in Detroit with husband Fred Sonic Smith to her triumphant return to performing in the mid-'90s. Structure is anchored in the bedroom of Smith's cluttered New York apartment and jumps around from there as she reflects on her life and art.
First stop is a poignant visit to the lived-in house she shared with her husband and kids in Detroit until his death in 1994. In fact, much of the film deals with friends who are no longer alive, but the tone is elegiac, not morbid. So when she pulls out a vial of Robert Mapplethorpe's ashes or talks about William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, she is just honoring their influence. When she visits the graves of her mentors, William Blake and Arthur Rimbaud, she sees herself as part of a living tradition of poetry.
"We all have a voice", she says, "and the responsibility to use it."
New York is central to her life and the film, and there is some wonderful archival footage from the early '70s, where she talks about how she had to leave her childhood home, across from a square dance hall in South Jersey, and venture to the big city to discover her voice. Later she reads her poem, Prayer for New York.
Although there are some classic scenes of her onstage in the heyday of the Manhattan punk club CBGB, this is not a performance film; it's more meditative and musing than about her music. There are no big, show-stopping moments, but there are some lovely, smaller ones.
In one scene, she and her old friend and lover Sam Shepard sit in the corner of her apartment playing vintage guitars, singing the blues tune Sitting on Top of the World as Sebring focuses on their feet tapping time in unison. Later, when Smith visits her elderly and entertaining parents in New Jersey, there is a shot held for several seconds of the couple holding hands, and in the background we hear the sound of a ticking clock as if it's counting off their time together.
Sebring follows Smith around the world as she visits the Middle East and listens to the music of Muslims and Jews praying, Buddhist monks chanting in Japan and speeches at a peace rally in Washington. He shot most of the footage himself in 16 millimeter, some in color, some in black and white, and the varied looks and textures help give the film character. Skillful editing by Angelo Corrao and Lin Polito pull the divergent threads together from what was obviously a massive amount of material.
Throughout, Smith's approachability keeps it real. When a fan steps onto an elevator with her, she laughs when she's called a rock icon. That's for Mount Rushmore. She's a working artist, and like another one of her heroes, Walt Whitman, she's writing for young poets who years from now may be inspired by this beautiful record of her life's work.
PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE
Clean Socks and Thirteen/WNET New York
Credits:
Director: Steven Sebring
Producers: Steven Sebring, Martha Smilow, Scott Vogel
Director of cinematography: Phillip Hunt, Steven Sebring
Editor: Angelo Corrao, Lin Polito
Running time -- 109 minutes
No MPAA rating...
PARK CITY -- Twelve years in the making, Patti Smith: Dream of Life is a unique record of an artist's journey.
The first film by fashion photographer Steven Sebring, it stitches together layer upon layer of human experience to paint a portrait of the artist as a tireless and dynamic worker for music, poetry, peace, family and friends.
A knowledge of Smith's landmark contribution as a rock 'n' roll pioneer is not essential, and the film should be a joy for anyone interested in pop culture of the past 40 years.
Sebring does not take a conventional route here, which is fitting for his subject. The long gestation period for the film has afforded an intimacy and ease that allows him to penetrate Smith's inner and outer worlds, weaving back and forth in time from her arrival in New York in the late 1960s to raising her two children in Detroit with husband Fred Sonic Smith to her triumphant return to performing in the mid-'90s. Structure is anchored in the bedroom of Smith's cluttered New York apartment and jumps around from there as she reflects on her life and art.
First stop is a poignant visit to the lived-in house she shared with her husband and kids in Detroit until his death in 1994. In fact, much of the film deals with friends who are no longer alive, but the tone is elegiac, not morbid. So when she pulls out a vial of Robert Mapplethorpe's ashes or talks about William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, she is just honoring their influence. When she visits the graves of her mentors, William Blake and Arthur Rimbaud, she sees herself as part of a living tradition of poetry.
"We all have a voice", she says, "and the responsibility to use it."
New York is central to her life and the film, and there is some wonderful archival footage from the early '70s, where she talks about how she had to leave her childhood home, across from a square dance hall in South Jersey, and venture to the big city to discover her voice. Later she reads her poem, Prayer for New York.
Although there are some classic scenes of her onstage in the heyday of the Manhattan punk club CBGB, this is not a performance film; it's more meditative and musing than about her music. There are no big, show-stopping moments, but there are some lovely, smaller ones.
In one scene, she and her old friend and lover Sam Shepard sit in the corner of her apartment playing vintage guitars, singing the blues tune Sitting on Top of the World as Sebring focuses on their feet tapping time in unison. Later, when Smith visits her elderly and entertaining parents in New Jersey, there is a shot held for several seconds of the couple holding hands, and in the background we hear the sound of a ticking clock as if it's counting off their time together.
Sebring follows Smith around the world as she visits the Middle East and listens to the music of Muslims and Jews praying, Buddhist monks chanting in Japan and speeches at a peace rally in Washington. He shot most of the footage himself in 16 millimeter, some in color, some in black and white, and the varied looks and textures help give the film character. Skillful editing by Angelo Corrao and Lin Polito pull the divergent threads together from what was obviously a massive amount of material.
Throughout, Smith's approachability keeps it real. When a fan steps onto an elevator with her, she laughs when she's called a rock icon. That's for Mount Rushmore. She's a working artist, and like another one of her heroes, Walt Whitman, she's writing for young poets who years from now may be inspired by this beautiful record of her life's work.
PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE
Clean Socks and Thirteen/WNET New York
Credits:
Director: Steven Sebring
Producers: Steven Sebring, Martha Smilow, Scott Vogel
Director of cinematography: Phillip Hunt, Steven Sebring
Editor: Angelo Corrao, Lin Polito
Running time -- 109 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 1/23/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- New works from documentary filmmaker faves in Alex Gibney (Gonzo: The Life and Times of Hunter Thompson), Margaret Brown (The Order of Myths) and Patrick Creadon (I.O.U.S.A.) and many first time doc filmmakers make up the section in this year's documentary Comp lineup. I don't count many Iraq-war related items listed below, telling us that the doc vague of such films is officially D.O.A. Click on the individual links below for more info on each film (including official sites and trailers). Documentary COMPETITIONAn American Soldier directed and written by Edet Belzberg ("Children Underground"), a look at one of the U.S. Army's all-time top recruiters, Sgt. 1st Class Clay Usie.American Teen directed and written by Nanette Burstein ("On the Ropes"), an irreverent, frank account of four Indiana high school seniors.Bigger, Faster, Stronger directed by Christopher Bell and written by Bell, Alexander Buono and Tamsin Rawady,
- 11/28/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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