Updated: German film master Wim Wenders was greeted like a rock star in Lyon, France, where he received an honorary tribute on Friday evening (Oct. 21) at the Lumiere Festival, a week-long celebration of classic cinema headed by Cannes festival boss Thierry Fremaux.
“I’ve received prizes in my life but this time it’s different, it’s the the prize of cinema!” said Wenders after stepping on stage to the beat of Texas’ “I Don’t Want a Lover.” Glancing at Fremaux who was standing nearby, Wenders added, with a cheeky smile, “I don’t want to say that a Palme d’Or is nothing. But the Lumiere Prize is unique and I’m proud of it!” Wenders, who won the Palme d’Or with “Paris, Texas,” is considered a Cannes regular. He’s presented his most iconic films there, including “Wings of Desire” which won best director. This year,...
“I’ve received prizes in my life but this time it’s different, it’s the the prize of cinema!” said Wenders after stepping on stage to the beat of Texas’ “I Don’t Want a Lover.” Glancing at Fremaux who was standing nearby, Wenders added, with a cheeky smile, “I don’t want to say that a Palme d’Or is nothing. But the Lumiere Prize is unique and I’m proud of it!” Wenders, who won the Palme d’Or with “Paris, Texas,” is considered a Cannes regular. He’s presented his most iconic films there, including “Wings of Desire” which won best director. This year,...
- 10/20/2023
- by Lise Pedersen and Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
“Vive la paix, vive le cinéma!”
Irène Jacob, the president of Lyon’s Lumière Institute which runs the Lumière Film Festival, chose to mark the opening of the event on Saturday night with a solemn message of peace, a week to the day after the outbreak of renewed conflict in the Middle East.
“Tonight, we are really looking forward to this festival as a gesture of peace, because we do not forget what is going on in the world, the tragedies that move us, the wars all around us, the children and civilians in danger, the madness and the sadness of our divided world. Vive la paix, vive le cinéma!”
The message was in line with the spirit of Europe’s leading classic film festival, which has always made a point of being a window to the world past and present ever since its first edition back in 2009.
A host...
Irène Jacob, the president of Lyon’s Lumière Institute which runs the Lumière Film Festival, chose to mark the opening of the event on Saturday night with a solemn message of peace, a week to the day after the outbreak of renewed conflict in the Middle East.
“Tonight, we are really looking forward to this festival as a gesture of peace, because we do not forget what is going on in the world, the tragedies that move us, the wars all around us, the children and civilians in danger, the madness and the sadness of our divided world. Vive la paix, vive le cinéma!”
The message was in line with the spirit of Europe’s leading classic film festival, which has always made a point of being a window to the world past and present ever since its first edition back in 2009.
A host...
- 10/15/2023
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
When Bob Dylan’s Time Out of Mind hit shelves on Sept. 30, 1997, it was hailed by fans and critics as his best work in decades. The Daniel Lanois-produced LP won a Grammy for Album of the Year, kickstarted an incredible period of renewed vitality for Dylan, and forever silenced any doubters who felt he’d never recapture the magic of his early years. Just about the only person unhappy with the album was Bob Dylan himself.
“I felt extremely frustrated, because I couldn’t get any of the up-tempo songs that I wanted,...
“I felt extremely frustrated, because I couldn’t get any of the up-tempo songs that I wanted,...
- 1/23/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Bob Dylan recently wrapped up a stretch of North American tour dates that centered heavily on southern states like Texas, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. Now, he’s heading to the west coast for another set of shows on the extensive Rough and Rowdy Ways world tour expected to last through 2024, with more dates to be announced along the way.
The tour picks back up on May 28 with a show at Spokane, Washington’s First Interstate Center for the Arts. The 14-date set spreads across multiple cities in Washington, Oregon,...
The tour picks back up on May 28 with a show at Spokane, Washington’s First Interstate Center for the Arts. The 14-date set spreads across multiple cities in Washington, Oregon,...
- 4/18/2022
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
After beating the odds last year by hosting a physical edition in the midst of the pandemic, Cannes chief Thierry Fremaux’s Lumière Festival kicked off in Lyon with great fanfare and prestigious guests including Paolo Sorrentino, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Netflix’s co-ceo Ted Sarandos, Valeria Golino, Joachim Trier, Rossy de Palma, Melanie Laurent and Edouard Baer.
The festival, which unfolds in the birthplace of the Cinematograph and its creators, the Lumière brothers, is dedicating its 13th edition to its long-time president Bertrand Tavernier, the beloved filmmaker who recently died.
During his opening speech, the usually voluble Frémaux had to take a moment to regain his composure as he paid an emotional tribute to Tavernier, his friend and close collaborator, with whom he worked side by side for nearly four decades at the Lumière Institute.
“Bertrand has left us with a heritage that is so major and so immense, and your...
The festival, which unfolds in the birthplace of the Cinematograph and its creators, the Lumière brothers, is dedicating its 13th edition to its long-time president Bertrand Tavernier, the beloved filmmaker who recently died.
During his opening speech, the usually voluble Frémaux had to take a moment to regain his composure as he paid an emotional tribute to Tavernier, his friend and close collaborator, with whom he worked side by side for nearly four decades at the Lumière Institute.
“Bertrand has left us with a heritage that is so major and so immense, and your...
- 10/10/2021
- by Lise Pedersen and Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Bob Dylan’s streaming concert Shadow Kingdom was released on Sunday, and it was cooler and weirder than anything we dared to imagine. Instead of a traditional Never Ending Tour show with his longtime road band, Dylan took a group of new players to the nonexistent Bon Bon Club in Marseille, France, and created a black-and-white dreamscape that wandered between a smoke-filled bar straight out of a 1940s film noir and a classic Hollywood Western saloon, complete with actors in period costumes.
Backed by a group of crack players that...
Backed by a group of crack players that...
- 7/19/2021
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Bob Dylan played over 3,000 shows on the Never Ending Tour and it’s gone through countless iterations since beginning in 1988, but when Rolling Stone asked author and longtime scholar Clinton Heylin to name his favorite period, he instantly went with 1995. “That year was amazing, absolutely amazing,” he said. “The whole year was fascinating in terms of the shifts and changes that he went through.”
Some fans may be surprised to hear this opinion, as it was a somewhat of a lost era for Dylan. In 1995, it had been five years...
Some fans may be surprised to hear this opinion, as it was a somewhat of a lost era for Dylan. In 1995, it had been five years...
- 6/11/2021
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Last month, bassist Tony Garnier was worried — and not just because there were still no 2021 tour dates on the books with Bob Dylan, his boss of more than 30 years. Garnier, who’s been a member of the American Federation of Musicians since 1973, had heard — correctly — that the union’s pension fund would be drained by 2035. “Musicians have been out of work for a year and the ones who contributed to a pension are looking at [one] that is possibly insolvent,” he said at the time. “Musicians are so screwed.”
What a...
What a...
- 3/29/2021
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
“Ouf!” – “Phew!” in French: the sigh of relief was the first word to appear in the inaugural clip at the opening ceremony of Lyon’s Lumière Festival, which kicked off on Saturday night as the city was put on maximum alert amid the coronavirus pandemic.
While attendance numbers are limited, cinemas remain open in France and the festival will be able to go ahead as planned.
Led by Thierry Frémaux, who is also head of the Cannes Festival, it is one of the world’s leading classic film events, which celebrates both heritage cinema and more contemporary works. Among those, audiences will be able to discover no less than 23 premieres originally meant to be screened in Cannes before the festival was cancelled in the wake of the global lockdown.
This year’s opening ceremony, which normally takes places before a full house of more than 5,000 people in Lyon’s abattoir-turned-concert hall Tony Garnier,...
While attendance numbers are limited, cinemas remain open in France and the festival will be able to go ahead as planned.
Led by Thierry Frémaux, who is also head of the Cannes Festival, it is one of the world’s leading classic film events, which celebrates both heritage cinema and more contemporary works. Among those, audiences will be able to discover no less than 23 premieres originally meant to be screened in Cannes before the festival was cancelled in the wake of the global lockdown.
This year’s opening ceremony, which normally takes places before a full house of more than 5,000 people in Lyon’s abattoir-turned-concert hall Tony Garnier,...
- 10/11/2020
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
“I know he doesn’t like this version,” Patti Smith said, with a grin, of Van Morrison before launching into her iconic transformation of “Gloria” for the finale of Thursday’s Carnegie Hall tribute to the Belfast singer. “But I’m thanking him anyway.”
The same could probably be said of many of the standout performances at this year’s edition of promoter Michael Dorf’s annual benefit tribute concert, which raised money to provide music education to underprivileged youth and gathered a wide, multi-generational group of artists — lifelong soul men,...
The same could probably be said of many of the standout performances at this year’s edition of promoter Michael Dorf’s annual benefit tribute concert, which raised money to provide music education to underprivileged youth and gathered a wide, multi-generational group of artists — lifelong soul men,...
- 3/22/2019
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
In the spring of 2003, Steve Gunn spent two months drawing lines on a wall in Beacon, New York. He was in his twenties at the time, not long out of college and still years away from his current life as a highly respected singer-guitarist. The lines were part of a long-term installation by conceptual pioneer Sol LeWitt at Dia:Beacon, the airy temple of modern art that would open later that year in a former Nabisco factory overlooking the Hudson River.
“It was an amazing time,” Gunn says on a recent Saturday afternoon at Dia:Beacon,...
“It was an amazing time,” Gunn says on a recent Saturday afternoon at Dia:Beacon,...
- 1/14/2019
- by Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
Singer-guitarist Steve Gunn has been making refined, laidback folk-rock for over a decade, music that fits squarely alongside Stephen Malkmus and Kurt Vile in the “beardly guitar jams by guys who don’t actually have beards” section of your local record shop. He’s versed in Grateful Dead-style cosmic country, English traditionalism a la Jackson C. Frank and Richard Thompson and jazz-influenced improv (“Seagull For Chuck Berry,” from last year’s Bay Head, a collaboration with drummer John Truscinski, was like a Sonny Sharrock vision of “Havana Moon.”
Gunn has...
Gunn has...
- 10/29/2018
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
If Ray Benson isn’t onstage, he can likely be found on his bus, talking music with one of his bandmates in Asleep at the Wheel, big fat joint in hand. Tonight, he’s sharing that joint with singer and fiddler Katie Shore, a prominent part of the Western-swing group’s latest LP, New Routes, which came out earlier this month. With his guitar resting on his knee, Benson has somehow folded his six-foot-seven-inch frame into a bench seat on the bus, which is parked behind the Longhorn Ballroom, an old dancehall in Dallas,...
- 9/26/2018
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
In the last few years, Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour has featured plenty of thrilling moments with one major setback: little set list variation. While fans in the mid-2000s never knew what Dylan was going to play when he took the stage, since 2013 they have been all but guaranteed to hear “Things Have Changed” as the first song, followed mostly by other well-rehearsed moments. One fan noted that Dylan has performed “Pay in Blood” more than 400 times since the song was released in 2012. He’s played “Early Roman Kings,...
- 8/28/2018
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
Woman World Tour September 29th 2017 – London – O2 Academy Brixton October 09th 2017 – Lyon – Halle Tony Garnier October 14th 2017 – Paris – AccorHotels Arena October 20th 2017 – Berlin – Columbiahalle October 21st 2017 – Köln – Palladium Tickets on sale – December 12th 10Am : www.justice.church/tour more dates to be announced…
A photo posted by Justice (@etjusticepourtous) on Dec 9, 2016 at 5:15am Pst
Hot off the heels of their newly released third studio album, Justice have announced that they’ll be embarking on a world tour in support of Woman in 2017. To make matters more exciting, the French duo will be eschewing DJ’ing in favor of a more live approach to performance.
While news of a Justice world tour is obviously reason to celebrate, fans shouldn’t get too amped up just yet, as the tour isn’t scheduled to kick off until next fall. So far, a total of five dates have been announced, with stops in London,...
A photo posted by Justice (@etjusticepourtous) on Dec 9, 2016 at 5:15am Pst
Hot off the heels of their newly released third studio album, Justice have announced that they’ll be embarking on a world tour in support of Woman in 2017. To make matters more exciting, the French duo will be eschewing DJ’ing in favor of a more live approach to performance.
While news of a Justice world tour is obviously reason to celebrate, fans shouldn’t get too amped up just yet, as the tour isn’t scheduled to kick off until next fall. So far, a total of five dates have been announced, with stops in London,...
- 12/9/2016
- by Connor Jones
- We Got This Covered
She’s had a banner year in 2013 and Miley Cyrus is gearing up to take over Europe with her Bangerz Tour this spring.
The “Party in the USA” will visit fans in the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France beginning May 2nd and wrapping up on June 7th.
Cyrus posted her Bangerz European Tour Dates on her official webpage today (December 13) along with the sale date for tickets.
Miley Cyrus’ 2014 Bangerz European Tour schedule is:
May 2 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Ziggo Dome*
May 4 - Antwerp, Belgium - Sportpaleis*
May 6 - Lodon, UK - O2 Arena*
May 10 - Leeds, UK - First Direct Arena*
May 12 - Glasgow, UK - Hydro*
May 14 - Manchester, UK - Phones4u Arena*
May 16 - Birmingham, UK - Nia Birmingham*
May 19 - Belfast, UK - Odyssey Arena*
May 20 - Dublin, Ireland - O2 Arena*
May 23 - Montpellier, France - Parks & Suites Arena*
May 24 - Lyon, France...
The “Party in the USA” will visit fans in the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France beginning May 2nd and wrapping up on June 7th.
Cyrus posted her Bangerz European Tour Dates on her official webpage today (December 13) along with the sale date for tickets.
Miley Cyrus’ 2014 Bangerz European Tour schedule is:
May 2 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Ziggo Dome*
May 4 - Antwerp, Belgium - Sportpaleis*
May 6 - Lodon, UK - O2 Arena*
May 10 - Leeds, UK - First Direct Arena*
May 12 - Glasgow, UK - Hydro*
May 14 - Manchester, UK - Phones4u Arena*
May 16 - Birmingham, UK - Nia Birmingham*
May 19 - Belfast, UK - Odyssey Arena*
May 20 - Dublin, Ireland - O2 Arena*
May 23 - Montpellier, France - Parks & Suites Arena*
May 24 - Lyon, France...
- 12/13/2013
- GossipCenter
Bob Dylan/Mark Knopfler Barclays Center November 21, 2012
I'd heard for years what a crapshoot Dylan concerts were, how he may render classic songs "unrecognizable." Given the cost of his shows, I never took the chance before.
But my wife wanted to see him, and made my ticket my early Christmas present. The show was only two blocks from our place, after all, and for as much as I hate the Barclays center both for what it represents and for the myriad inconveniences it foists on us, I figure we're due a benefit from it. It turned out to be worth the price of admission, though that determination was in doubt for a while.
First came a 100-minute set from the opening act, Mark Knopfler. Apparently he is distancing himself from his Dire Straits work; as a result, I was unfamiliar with everything before the encore, which was his old band's "So Far Away,...
I'd heard for years what a crapshoot Dylan concerts were, how he may render classic songs "unrecognizable." Given the cost of his shows, I never took the chance before.
But my wife wanted to see him, and made my ticket my early Christmas present. The show was only two blocks from our place, after all, and for as much as I hate the Barclays center both for what it represents and for the myriad inconveniences it foists on us, I figure we're due a benefit from it. It turned out to be worth the price of admission, though that determination was in doubt for a while.
First came a 100-minute set from the opening act, Mark Knopfler. Apparently he is distancing himself from his Dire Straits work; as a result, I was unfamiliar with everything before the encore, which was his old band's "So Far Away,...
- 11/23/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
British funk stars Jamiroquai have confirmed plans to press ahead with their European tour following the tragic death of a crew member at a gig venue in France on Thursday, March 24. The band canceled a show at Lyon's Halle Tony Garnier Arena after the unnamed 26-year-old technician slipped as he constructed the group's stage set and plunged 50 feet (15 meters) to his death.
The musicians released a statement voicing their sadness about the tragedy and called off the show as a mark of respect. They have now confirmed they are heading to Germany to continue with their Rock Dust Light Star tour and press on with a planned show at the Olympiahalle in Munich on Saturday, March 26.
A message posted on the band's Facebook page reads, "Things feel a little strange today but (we're) gonna focus 100 per cent on the next show at Olympiahalle. Thanks to everyone - you're amazing!"...
The musicians released a statement voicing their sadness about the tragedy and called off the show as a mark of respect. They have now confirmed they are heading to Germany to continue with their Rock Dust Light Star tour and press on with a planned show at the Olympiahalle in Munich on Saturday, March 26.
A message posted on the band's Facebook page reads, "Things feel a little strange today but (we're) gonna focus 100 per cent on the next show at Olympiahalle. Thanks to everyone - you're amazing!"...
- 3/26/2011
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Jamiroquai cancelled their show in Lyon, France following the tragic death of one of their stagehands. The 'Canned Heat' band were due to perform at the La Halle Tony Garnier venue last night, but cancelled the show at the last minute after one of the stagehands lost his balance and fell 50ft from a gantry. "The band was shocked and saddened when told the news, and out of respect immediately felt the (more)...
- 3/25/2011
- by By Lewis Corner
- Digital Spy
Squeezing in a little tennis action, Shakira was spotted out at the All England Club in London on Monday afternoon (June 28).
Fresh off of a weekend performance at the Glastonbury Festival, the "She Wolf" singer looked in her usual high spirits as she roamed the grounds of the annual Wimbledon tennis tournament.
And while she's set to tour throughout North America from September 17 through October 29, Shakira just announced her plans for a fall tour in Europe.
The complete list of Shakira's European tour dates is as follows:
November
16: Lyon - Halle Tony Garnier
17: Zurich - Hallenstadion
19: Madrid - Palacio de Deportes
21: Lisbon - Pavilao Atlantico
23: Bilbao - Bec Arena
24: Barcelona - Palau Sant Jordi
26: Montpellier - Montpellier Arena
27: Turin - Palaolimpico
29: Geneva - Arena
December
1: Rotterdam - Ahoyhalle
3: Munich - Olympiahalle
6: Paris - Bercy
8: Frankfurt - Festhalle...
Fresh off of a weekend performance at the Glastonbury Festival, the "She Wolf" singer looked in her usual high spirits as she roamed the grounds of the annual Wimbledon tennis tournament.
And while she's set to tour throughout North America from September 17 through October 29, Shakira just announced her plans for a fall tour in Europe.
The complete list of Shakira's European tour dates is as follows:
November
16: Lyon - Halle Tony Garnier
17: Zurich - Hallenstadion
19: Madrid - Palacio de Deportes
21: Lisbon - Pavilao Atlantico
23: Bilbao - Bec Arena
24: Barcelona - Palau Sant Jordi
26: Montpellier - Montpellier Arena
27: Turin - Palaolimpico
29: Geneva - Arena
December
1: Rotterdam - Ahoyhalle
3: Munich - Olympiahalle
6: Paris - Bercy
8: Frankfurt - Festhalle...
- 6/28/2010
- GossipCenter
Without her tourmate Robin Thicke, Alicia Keys rocked the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 6. She performed songs from her latest installment "The Element of Freedom" and old materials from her previous records.
Robin was forced to pull out his performance at the gig to stay by his wife Paula Patton's side following the birth of their baby boy. Alicia announced the happy news during the concert and congratulated him in front of cheering fans.
Dubbed Freedom Tour, the gig is aimed to promote Alicia's 2009 studio album. After performing at Staples Center, she will sing at Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay on April 9. There is no word whether or not Robin will be back to support her at the next stop.
Alicia Keys will stay on the road for a series of dates and will not end it until June 4 at Halle Tony Garnier in Lyon, Fr. Previous...
Robin was forced to pull out his performance at the gig to stay by his wife Paula Patton's side following the birth of their baby boy. Alicia announced the happy news during the concert and congratulated him in front of cheering fans.
Dubbed Freedom Tour, the gig is aimed to promote Alicia's 2009 studio album. After performing at Staples Center, she will sing at Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay on April 9. There is no word whether or not Robin will be back to support her at the next stop.
Alicia Keys will stay on the road for a series of dates and will not end it until June 4 at Halle Tony Garnier in Lyon, Fr. Previous...
- 4/7/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Alicia Keys' concert at Madison Square Garden had more than one surprise guest. Crowd attending the March 17 gig went wild when the "No One" singer was joined by Beyonce Knowles during her "Put It in a Love Song" performance.
Alicia also welcomed another guest when singing "Empire State of Mind" and the mystery guest is none other than Beyonce's husband Jay-z. Moreover, her producer/singer boyfriend Swizz Beatz also briefly came onto the stage to support her.
Before Alicia Keys kicked off her set, Jermaine Paul, Melanie Fiona and Robin Thicke appeared one by one, serving as her opening acts. "I'm a renegade. I'm a truth seeker. They told me I would never make it and I did. They told me I wasn't strong enough but I am mighty. The element of freedom is tattooed on my heart," so Alicia said before starting the main show.
Dubbed Freedom Tour,...
Alicia also welcomed another guest when singing "Empire State of Mind" and the mystery guest is none other than Beyonce's husband Jay-z. Moreover, her producer/singer boyfriend Swizz Beatz also briefly came onto the stage to support her.
Before Alicia Keys kicked off her set, Jermaine Paul, Melanie Fiona and Robin Thicke appeared one by one, serving as her opening acts. "I'm a renegade. I'm a truth seeker. They told me I would never make it and I did. They told me I wasn't strong enough but I am mighty. The element of freedom is tattooed on my heart," so Alicia said before starting the main show.
Dubbed Freedom Tour,...
- 3/19/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
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