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Donna Summer is to this day considered the Queen of Disco thanks to her chart-topping hits throughout the 1970s, famous for her commanding stage presence, dramatic makeup and voluptuous curls. But a new documentary “Love to Love You, Donna Summer,” released on HBO Max on May 22, pulls back the glamorous mask that the singer hid behind throughout her fame to reveal her most intimate moments.
The film, co-directed by filmmaker Roger Ross Williams and Brooklyn Sudano (Summer’s daughter), pulls together home movies and archival footage from Summer’s life in order to tell a captivating story about her rise to fame and the internal troubles she consistently went back to when she left the stage. Clips from her performances — in which she effortlessly shimmies to songs like “On...
Donna Summer is to this day considered the Queen of Disco thanks to her chart-topping hits throughout the 1970s, famous for her commanding stage presence, dramatic makeup and voluptuous curls. But a new documentary “Love to Love You, Donna Summer,” released on HBO Max on May 22, pulls back the glamorous mask that the singer hid behind throughout her fame to reveal her most intimate moments.
The film, co-directed by filmmaker Roger Ross Williams and Brooklyn Sudano (Summer’s daughter), pulls together home movies and archival footage from Summer’s life in order to tell a captivating story about her rise to fame and the internal troubles she consistently went back to when she left the stage. Clips from her performances — in which she effortlessly shimmies to songs like “On...
- 5/22/2023
- by Anna Tingley
- Variety Film + TV
Sometimes, when a documentary has a great subject, it can explore that subject with an intimacy that’s arresting, only to treat other aspects of the story with a kind of cavalier casualness. “Love to Love You Donna Summer” is that kind of documentary. Co-directed by Roger Ross Williams and Brooklyn Sudano (who is Summer’s daughter), it’s full of home movies and photographs and archival footage of Donna Summer, and it creates an eye-opening portrait of the ambitious yet deeply disconsolate woman she was. We see her when she was growing up in Boston, where she sang gospel in church and felt a gift passing through her, knowing that she was going to be famous, or when she moved to Munich in 1968, at 19, to be in the German production of “Hair”, or later on, after she’d become a pop star, at home with her daughters, lost in the empty mirror of fame.
- 3/15/2023
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
When Prince Royce arrived at the Forum in L.A. on March 12th, 2020, he had already learned that the growing coronavirus pandemic had wiped out the remainder of his world tour, costing him untold amounts of money. But he had a more immediate concern: that night’s show, and the agonizing decision whether to cancel it or forge ahead.
“I’m very stressed,” Royce remembers of the uncertain hours before his headlining gig at the Forum, which ended up taking place. “There are lines of fans out in the rain...
“I’m very stressed,” Royce remembers of the uncertain hours before his headlining gig at the Forum, which ended up taking place. “There are lines of fans out in the rain...
- 3/12/2021
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
Brand Storytelling is returning to Park City this year to host its fifth annual media and marketing event at the Sundance Film Festival, with a lineup of keynotes, panels, screenings, music performances and more.
Launched in 2016, the company’s “festival within a festival” at Sundance will again bring together execs from major brands with media and production companies, platforms, talent, advertising, content and PR agencies at a series of events from Jan. 22-25, 2020, in Park City, Utah.
Brand Storytelling, a media company focused on brand-funded content, expects over 250 attendees for the invitation-only event. Its basecamp is at The Lodges at Deer Valley with special events to be held at the Stein Eriksen Lodge.
Highlights of the week include the first-ever Clio “Storytelling for Good Award,” to be presented Thursday (Jan. 23), which will recognize branded entertainment and content that creates or promotes awareness for a cause, foundation, organization and/or political or social issue.
Launched in 2016, the company’s “festival within a festival” at Sundance will again bring together execs from major brands with media and production companies, platforms, talent, advertising, content and PR agencies at a series of events from Jan. 22-25, 2020, in Park City, Utah.
Brand Storytelling, a media company focused on brand-funded content, expects over 250 attendees for the invitation-only event. Its basecamp is at The Lodges at Deer Valley with special events to be held at the Stein Eriksen Lodge.
Highlights of the week include the first-ever Clio “Storytelling for Good Award,” to be presented Thursday (Jan. 23), which will recognize branded entertainment and content that creates or promotes awareness for a cause, foundation, organization and/or political or social issue.
- 1/22/2020
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
There are no shortage of top-notch vocalists in the collaboration between Johnnyswim and Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors, and Wednesday night on Jimmy Kimmel Live the two acts showed just how dynamic their collaboration is with two stirring performances from the new Goodbye Road Ep.
The first to be played was the rousing “Ring the Bells,” a spitfire political commentary that asks, “If all is fair in love and war then what the hell is loving even for?” That particular line get delivered by Amanda Sudano, daughter of Donna Summer and...
The first to be played was the rousing “Ring the Bells,” a spitfire political commentary that asks, “If all is fair in love and war then what the hell is loving even for?” That particular line get delivered by Amanda Sudano, daughter of Donna Summer and...
- 8/2/2018
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
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