Dave B and Sango share many common threads – including their Seattle roots, strong musical influences from family members, and, most importantly, their mutual admiration for each other’s work that led to their collaboration. What started with a few Dm’s and a handful of shared beats evolved into the two of them in Dave B’s mom’s house carving out their niche in Seattle rap. This episode of Visit Seattle’s Music Genesis series explores the individual musical styles of Dave B and Sango, their collaboration, and their...
- 10/2/2023
- by Lauren Ballantyne
- Rollingstone.com
In his second full-length feature, "Birth," director Jonathan Glazer employed a subdued, formalist visual language to convey its emotionally messy central themes. However, aesthetics and form are secondary to Glazer, as he seems to be more concerned with the emotional language of a film, which steers visual language, and not the other way around. This is also the case with Glazer's "Under the Skin" — an unconventional, trailblazing entry in the sci-fi genre — which roots the central character in focus and builds a world around her. To call "Under the Skin" an alien invasion film would indeed be a disservice to its carefully-crafted themes, which encapsulate Glazer's notion about the "other" and what it means to feel alienated, either by circumstance or choice. Diverging from the norm by reveling in guerilla-style filmmaking and carving space for non-actors, "Under the Skin" unfurls a singular perspective with abstract mastery.
Glazer's film, loosely based...
Glazer's film, loosely based...
- 1/10/2023
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" is not only one of the greatest science-fiction films of all time (or is it science-fact?), it's one of the most varied. Beginning at "The Dawn of Man" and stretching all the way to "Beyond the Infinite," the film spans a number of locations, years, and stylistic approaches that range from playfully satirical to psychedelically surreal.
With so much to choose from, selecting a favorite sequence would be difficult for any fan of the film. Turns out it's not so tricky for one of the movie's stars, Keir Dullea. Playing Dr. David Bowman, one of the two astronauts sent on...
The post This Was Keir Dullea's Favorite Sequence In 2001: A Space Odyssey appeared first on /Film.
With so much to choose from, selecting a favorite sequence would be difficult for any fan of the film. Turns out it's not so tricky for one of the movie's stars, Keir Dullea. Playing Dr. David Bowman, one of the two astronauts sent on...
The post This Was Keir Dullea's Favorite Sequence In 2001: A Space Odyssey appeared first on /Film.
- 4/13/2022
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
This The Expanse article contains spoilers.
As the coalition forces prepare to storm the ring station in The Expanse series finale, the Rocinante crew is running through its systems check, and voices are heard in the background signaling their readiness. “Thrace ready!” we hear, and our ears perk up. How unusual to share the name of one of the most badass space dogfighters ever, Kara “Starbuck” Thrace of Battlestar Galactica. When that’s followed by “Ripley ready!” all doubt is removed. Naming yet another famous spacefarer, Ellen Ripley of Alien, can’t be a coincidence.
Fortunately, fans of Easter eggs like this are provided with a quick glimpse of the roster on Naomi’s screen, and it’s filled with the great heroes of space science fiction in movies and television. It’s fitting that, as The Expanse makes its final bow, the “Great Hunt” of sci-fi culture appears to...
As the coalition forces prepare to storm the ring station in The Expanse series finale, the Rocinante crew is running through its systems check, and voices are heard in the background signaling their readiness. “Thrace ready!” we hear, and our ears perk up. How unusual to share the name of one of the most badass space dogfighters ever, Kara “Starbuck” Thrace of Battlestar Galactica. When that’s followed by “Ripley ready!” all doubt is removed. Naming yet another famous spacefarer, Ellen Ripley of Alien, can’t be a coincidence.
Fortunately, fans of Easter eggs like this are provided with a quick glimpse of the roster on Naomi’s screen, and it’s filled with the great heroes of space science fiction in movies and television. It’s fitting that, as The Expanse makes its final bow, the “Great Hunt” of sci-fi culture appears to...
- 1/14/2022
- by Michael Ahr
- Den of Geek
When 2001: A Space Odyssey premiered in theaters in 1968, it had just two actors’ names displayed on its marquees and posters: Gary Lockwood and Keir Dullea. That made sense, of course, since they played the two astronauts — Frank Poole and David Bowman — who are responsible for carrying the lion’s share of the […]
The post What The Hal? Keir Dullea On The History Of ‘2001’s’ Famous Computer appeared first on Hollywood Outbreak.
The post What The Hal? Keir Dullea On The History Of ‘2001’s’ Famous Computer appeared first on Hollywood Outbreak.
- 1/4/2022
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
From the early days of animation with films such as Lotte Reiniger’s “The Adventures of Prince Achmed” and Walt Disney’s “Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs” fairy tales, legends and fables have inspired many of the stories and films we love. And this has not changed much in recent years with films such as Tomm Moore’s Irish Folklore trilogy, Hayao Miyazaki’s “Ponyo” and even Pixar’s “Brave” having at least their roots in folklore and old stories. For his A Viddsee Original Production “Fantastic Fables: The Southern Seas” director Chong Wu Koh also took inspiration from well-know tales from Singapore’s history and gave them in a modern update.
Fantastic Fables: The Southern Seas is streaming at Viddsee
“Fantastic Fables: The Southern Seas” is a series of four short animated films, three of which are based on Singaporean folk tales and one is an original story...
Fantastic Fables: The Southern Seas is streaming at Viddsee
“Fantastic Fables: The Southern Seas” is a series of four short animated films, three of which are based on Singaporean folk tales and one is an original story...
- 3/4/2021
- by Nancy Fornoville
- AsianMoviePulse
Stanley Kubrick is one of the most written-about, discussed, dissected, pored-over filmmakers in history. He’s been an irresistible subject for critics, journalists, film scholars, documentarians, conspiracy theorists – in short, for everybody except maybe Kubrick himself.
The director, who was born in the Bronx but spent most of his adult life living in England, was famously reluctant to talk about himself. Other people may have wanted his thoughts on movies like “Paths of Glory,” “Spartacus,” “Lolita,” “Dr. Strangelove,” “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “A Clockwork Orange,” “Barry Lyndon,” “The Shining,” “Full Metal Jacket” and “Eyes Wide Shut,” but Kubrick wasn’t interested in explaining anything.
“I’ve never found it meaningful or even possible to talk about film,” said the director who to many might have been like that big black monolith in “2001”: an inscrutable blank with enormous powers, but who knows what’s lurking in the depths?
Also Read: Sue Lyon,...
The director, who was born in the Bronx but spent most of his adult life living in England, was famously reluctant to talk about himself. Other people may have wanted his thoughts on movies like “Paths of Glory,” “Spartacus,” “Lolita,” “Dr. Strangelove,” “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “A Clockwork Orange,” “Barry Lyndon,” “The Shining,” “Full Metal Jacket” and “Eyes Wide Shut,” but Kubrick wasn’t interested in explaining anything.
“I’ve never found it meaningful or even possible to talk about film,” said the director who to many might have been like that big black monolith in “2001”: an inscrutable blank with enormous powers, but who knows what’s lurking in the depths?
Also Read: Sue Lyon,...
- 4/22/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
I was ten when I was taken to see 2001: A Space Odyssey for a friend’s birthday. I was coming to love all things science fiction by this point, but the film both dazzled and baffled me. I got most of it up until the final twenty minutes or so and was left utterly confused. I next encountered it at college and appreciate it, as a filmmaking milestone but still didn’t love it, largely because I realize how cold and sterile the future was when I wanted something to look forward to. The star child ending was, thankfully, less a conundrum.
I haven’t seen it all the way through since then, but Warner Home Entertainment changed that with the gorgeous new release, lovingly restored and available in a deluxe 4K, Blu-ray, and Digital HD boxset. There are two Blu-ray discs, one for the film and one for...
I haven’t seen it all the way through since then, but Warner Home Entertainment changed that with the gorgeous new release, lovingly restored and available in a deluxe 4K, Blu-ray, and Digital HD boxset. There are two Blu-ray discs, one for the film and one for...
- 12/18/2018
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
Douglas Rain, the Canadian actor who provided the voice to the Hal 9000 computer in Stanley Kubrick’s classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, died Sunday at the age of 90.
The Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada, which Rain co-founded in 1952, announced the actor’s death Sunday, adding that Rain died of natural causes, CTV News reports.
“Canadian theatre has lost one of its greatest talents and a guiding light in its development,” Stratford Festival’s artistic director Antoni Cimolino said in a statement. “Douglas Rain was that rare artist: an actor deeply admired by other actors.
The Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada, which Rain co-founded in 1952, announced the actor’s death Sunday, adding that Rain died of natural causes, CTV News reports.
“Canadian theatre has lost one of its greatest talents and a guiding light in its development,” Stratford Festival’s artistic director Antoni Cimolino said in a statement. “Douglas Rain was that rare artist: an actor deeply admired by other actors.
- 11/12/2018
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Blu ray – Region Code: B
Arrow Video
1957 / 1.85:1 / Street Date November 13, 2017
Starring Grant Williams, Randy Stuart
Cinematography by Ellis W. Carter
Directed by Jack Arnold
Richard Matheson’s The Shrinking Man debuted in 1956, published by Gold Medal Books in an economical paperback edition with electrifying cover art by Mitchell Hooks.
Disguised as a modest science-fiction potboiler, Matheson’s brainy thriller appeared the same year Look Back in Anger opened at the Royal Court, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit arrived at New York’s Roxy and Howl was unleashed via City Lights in San Francisco. Existential angst was all the rage and The Shrinking Man was its poster boy.
The first hand account of Scott Carey, a well-heeled suburbanite who suddenly finds himself growing smaller and smaller, Matheson’s briskly paced novella charts Carey’s literal and figurative descent as the tokens of his success – home,...
Blu ray – Region Code: B
Arrow Video
1957 / 1.85:1 / Street Date November 13, 2017
Starring Grant Williams, Randy Stuart
Cinematography by Ellis W. Carter
Directed by Jack Arnold
Richard Matheson’s The Shrinking Man debuted in 1956, published by Gold Medal Books in an economical paperback edition with electrifying cover art by Mitchell Hooks.
Disguised as a modest science-fiction potboiler, Matheson’s brainy thriller appeared the same year Look Back in Anger opened at the Royal Court, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit arrived at New York’s Roxy and Howl was unleashed via City Lights in San Francisco. Existential angst was all the rage and The Shrinking Man was its poster boy.
The first hand account of Scott Carey, a well-heeled suburbanite who suddenly finds himself growing smaller and smaller, Matheson’s briskly paced novella charts Carey’s literal and figurative descent as the tokens of his success – home,...
- 7/14/2018
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Movie endings don’t get any more iconic or enigmatic than the final 15 minutes of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Dr. David Bowman’s journey into the vortex has spawned countless fan theories and discussions about what exactly happens to the character, but it now appears the most important voice of all has weighed in on the ending. That’s right, Stanley Kubrick himself allegedly explains the ending of “2001” in a resurfaced interview that’s going viral on the internet.
The footage is from a 1980 documentary from filmmaker Jun’ichi Yaoi (via io9). The director was making a behind-the-scenes look at the reported paranormal occurrences that happened during the making of “The Shining.” The documentary was never released, which is why the footage has not been seen until now. At one point in the documentary, Yaoi called Kubrick and the director’s voice is heard over the phone...
The footage is from a 1980 documentary from filmmaker Jun’ichi Yaoi (via io9). The director was making a behind-the-scenes look at the reported paranormal occurrences that happened during the making of “The Shining.” The documentary was never released, which is why the footage has not been seen until now. At one point in the documentary, Yaoi called Kubrick and the director’s voice is heard over the phone...
- 7/5/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Chicago – It is the 50th Anniversary of director Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and the film has lost none of its power, freshness and thought process, in a journey of truth that ponders existence. The film has been recently restored in 70mm (overseen by director Christopher Nolan) and now is on a roadshow tour, including Chicago’s historic Music Box Theatre.
Rating: 5.0/5.0
The scope of the project, which used the cutting-edge special effects of 1968, is like a fine art painting in the 70mm film format, filling the edges of the widescreen with pure and rich cinema. In that undertaking, Stanley Kubrick not only evolved his reputation as a filmmaker, but advanced the filmmaking in a way equivalent of the transition from silent film to sound. The influence of “2001” can be seen in all science fiction films afterward, including and especially “Star Wars,” and has generally inspired a generation of movie creators.
Rating: 5.0/5.0
The scope of the project, which used the cutting-edge special effects of 1968, is like a fine art painting in the 70mm film format, filling the edges of the widescreen with pure and rich cinema. In that undertaking, Stanley Kubrick not only evolved his reputation as a filmmaker, but advanced the filmmaking in a way equivalent of the transition from silent film to sound. The influence of “2001” can be seen in all science fiction films afterward, including and especially “Star Wars,” and has generally inspired a generation of movie creators.
- 5/19/2018
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
In the spring of 1968, film critic Roger Ebert reviewed Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. The critic couldn't fathom everything he'd just seen: What were those monoliths? What was that final sequence in that creepy hotel about? Who or what, exactly, was the "Star Child?" Ebert didn't care; he knew he'd just seen a masterpiece. Still stunned and overwhelmed, he leaned on a line from e.e. cummings to articulate his disoriented state: "listen – there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go."
That's an inexact but...
That's an inexact but...
- 2/27/2018
- Rollingstone.com
In the midst of our excitement for this week’s release of Alex Garland’s “Ex Machina” (which is fantastic and reviewed here), it hit us: 2015 is teeming with artificial intelligence movies. The Singularity is not far off and this swell has practically come out of nowhere, with last year’s awesome Disney hit “Big Hero 6,” the disastrous Johnny Depp vehicle "Transcendence," and 2013’s British indie-sleeper “The Machine” amounting to most of what the subgenre has had to offer in the decade so far. As a way to compensate for this human error, 2015 is going to be much more artificially and intelligently inclined, with the theme replete in a variety of mainstream and indie sci-fi films.
We’ve already seen “Chappie”. This week comes the aforementioned Garland movie, and coming soon is Joss Whedon’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” Don’t forget that “Terminator” is back this year, with...
We’ve already seen “Chappie”. This week comes the aforementioned Garland movie, and coming soon is Joss Whedon’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” Don’t forget that “Terminator” is back this year, with...
- 4/9/2015
- by The Playlist Staff
- Indiewire
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