Wilco have revealed the lineup for their 2024 Solid Sound Festival — happening from June 28th to June 30th at Mass MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts.
The festival will feature performances from Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets, Wednesday, Hailu Mergia, Ratboys, Horsegirl, Dry Cleaning, Water From Your Eyes, and more, along with multiple headlining sets from Wilco and its band members’ solo projects.
“Solid Sound continues to offer some of the most unique non-musical programming at any festival,” a press release states — highlighting acts like a live presentation of Hrishikesh Hirway’s Song Exploder podcast, John Hodgman’s Comedy Cabaret, Substack Pop-Up interviews, and more.
Tickets for the festival are on sale now.
All tickets will also grant festival-goers full-day access to Mass MoCA. The museum will feature temporary exhibitions from Laurie Anderson, Osman Khan, Elle Pérez, Amy Yoes, and Jason Moran during the festival — along with...
The festival will feature performances from Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets, Wednesday, Hailu Mergia, Ratboys, Horsegirl, Dry Cleaning, Water From Your Eyes, and more, along with multiple headlining sets from Wilco and its band members’ solo projects.
“Solid Sound continues to offer some of the most unique non-musical programming at any festival,” a press release states — highlighting acts like a live presentation of Hrishikesh Hirway’s Song Exploder podcast, John Hodgman’s Comedy Cabaret, Substack Pop-Up interviews, and more.
Tickets for the festival are on sale now.
All tickets will also grant festival-goers full-day access to Mass MoCA. The museum will feature temporary exhibitions from Laurie Anderson, Osman Khan, Elle Pérez, Amy Yoes, and Jason Moran during the festival — along with...
- 12/18/2023
- by Emma Carey
- Consequence - Music
Famke Janssen could hit you with a car and you’d probably say thank you. Few actors are quite so good at inflicting violence. Think of her squeezing Pierce Brosnan between her thighs as a deadly hitwoman in GoldenEye. Or her threatening to shove her foot so far up Josh Hartnett’s rear end in The Faculty that he’ll be “sucking her toes ’till Christmas”. Or her generating cosmic blasts of telekinetic energy as Jean Grey in X-Men. Today, though, the tables have been turned. Janssen is under siege.
“New York has been taken over by rats,” says the 57-year-old. “They’re not scared of humans any more! And now we have these new things called lantern flies – have you heard of them?” I admit I haven’t. Janssen’s eyes widen. “I must tell you! They’re these moth-like creatures that look very nondescript from afar, but when they open their wings,...
“New York has been taken over by rats,” says the 57-year-old. “They’re not scared of humans any more! And now we have these new things called lantern flies – have you heard of them?” I admit I haven’t. Janssen’s eyes widen. “I must tell you! They’re these moth-like creatures that look very nondescript from afar, but when they open their wings,...
- 9/18/2022
- by Adam White
- The Independent - Film
When Wilco are putting together the lineup for their biannual Solid Sound Festival, they have just one rule: If they love it, it’s in. “Everybody in the band keeps a running dream list of people that we would like to play with or to see,” says Jeff Tweedy, calling from the band’s Chicago recording space, the Loft. “This time, it just happened to work out that we got a lot of all-timers to anchor the whole thing.”
The artists he’s talking about — revered Texas singer-songwriter Terry Allen and his Mystery Panhandle Band,...
The artists he’s talking about — revered Texas singer-songwriter Terry Allen and his Mystery Panhandle Band,...
- 4/14/2022
- by Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
Strand Releasing has acquired North American rights to Catherine Gund’s documentary “Aggie,” about her mother Agnes “Aggie” Gund, the high-profile art collector and philanthropist.
“Aggie,” which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, explores the issues of art, race and justice. The elder Gund sold Roy Lichtenstein’s “Masterpiece” in 2017 to launch the $100 million Art for Justice Fund to end mass incarceration. Strand plans for a fall release starting with a launch at Film Forum in New York, followed by a nationwide opening.
The film features “Aggie” in conversation with artists, family and friends including Glenn Ligon, Darren Walker, Teresita Fernandez, Abigail Disney, Rajendra Roy, John Waters and Thelma Golden surrounded by art in her home by artists such as Jasper Johns, Louise Bourgeois, Julie Mehretu, Mark Rothko, Ellsworth Kelly and Kara Walker. The film attempts to focus on the power of art to transform consciousness and inspire social change.
“Aggie,” which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, explores the issues of art, race and justice. The elder Gund sold Roy Lichtenstein’s “Masterpiece” in 2017 to launch the $100 million Art for Justice Fund to end mass incarceration. Strand plans for a fall release starting with a launch at Film Forum in New York, followed by a nationwide opening.
The film features “Aggie” in conversation with artists, family and friends including Glenn Ligon, Darren Walker, Teresita Fernandez, Abigail Disney, Rajendra Roy, John Waters and Thelma Golden surrounded by art in her home by artists such as Jasper Johns, Louise Bourgeois, Julie Mehretu, Mark Rothko, Ellsworth Kelly and Kara Walker. The film attempts to focus on the power of art to transform consciousness and inspire social change.
- 5/14/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Switzerland’s Rita Productions, producer of Academy Award-nominated “My Life as a Courgette,” is re-teaming with France’s Silex Films, the company behind France Televisions’ Slash hit series “Stalk,” to develop “Witch!” (“Sorciere!”).
Aiming to rehabilitate the figure of the witch in contemporary society, doc-feature “Witch!” is based on the bestselling essay by Mona Chollet, “Witches, the Undefeated Power of Women.” The essay should hit English-language bookstores later this year.
The doc-feature is being written by TV creator Thalia Rebinsky whose “Nina” is now in its sixth season on France 2, and documentarian Eve Minault, director for French-German public broadcaster Arte of the prescient “Crash: Are You Ready for the Next Crisis?”
Pauline Gygax, Judith Nora, Max Karli and Priscilla Bertin will produce. Minault, Rebinsky and Gygax will present the project on Saturday April 25 as part of an Rts Prize: Documentary Perspectives showcase, organized by the French-language broadcaster at Swiss film festival Visions du Réél,...
Aiming to rehabilitate the figure of the witch in contemporary society, doc-feature “Witch!” is based on the bestselling essay by Mona Chollet, “Witches, the Undefeated Power of Women.” The essay should hit English-language bookstores later this year.
The doc-feature is being written by TV creator Thalia Rebinsky whose “Nina” is now in its sixth season on France 2, and documentarian Eve Minault, director for French-German public broadcaster Arte of the prescient “Crash: Are You Ready for the Next Crisis?”
Pauline Gygax, Judith Nora, Max Karli and Priscilla Bertin will produce. Minault, Rebinsky and Gygax will present the project on Saturday April 25 as part of an Rts Prize: Documentary Perspectives showcase, organized by the French-language broadcaster at Swiss film festival Visions du Réél,...
- 4/21/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
To begin with, a disclaimer: There are practically no 2019 titles on my Best of the Decade list, not because there weren’t a lot of great films this year, but because I haven’t had the opportunity to live with them for all that long. My Best of 2019 list was its own challenge to write, but this year’s movies are just too new for them to have knocked around in my central nervous system the way these earlier titles have. Film historians can debate the major movie-related events of the decade — the rise of streaming, the dominance of Disney — but these are the films took up residency with me and refuse to move out:
11-30 (alphabetically): “Anomalisa,” “Before Midnight,” “Bernie,” “Bridesmaids,” “Call Me By Your Name,” “Certain Women,” “Clouds of Sils Maria,” “Ex Machina,” “Force Majeure,” “The Great Beauty,” “The Handmaiden,” “Happy Hour,” “Holy Motors,” “Leave No Trace,...
11-30 (alphabetically): “Anomalisa,” “Before Midnight,” “Bernie,” “Bridesmaids,” “Call Me By Your Name,” “Certain Women,” “Clouds of Sils Maria,” “Ex Machina,” “Force Majeure,” “The Great Beauty,” “The Handmaiden,” “Happy Hour,” “Holy Motors,” “Leave No Trace,...
- 12/24/2019
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
This year, we've asked 10 writers to pick some of their favorite TV episodes from 2017 and weigh in on why they were great stand-alone eps and the highlights of our viewing year. Today: Rob Sheffield on I Love Dick's "A Short History of Weird Girls."
Let's hear it for the boy. "Dear Dick: I've been horny since I was six," Kathryn Hahn announces at the beginning of "A Short History of Weird Girls," the standout episode from I Love Dick. The Amazon drama is Jil Soloway's brilliant satire of the masculine mystique,...
Let's hear it for the boy. "Dear Dick: I've been horny since I was six," Kathryn Hahn announces at the beginning of "A Short History of Weird Girls," the standout episode from I Love Dick. The Amazon drama is Jil Soloway's brilliant satire of the masculine mystique,...
- 12/12/2017
- Rollingstone.com
This year, we've asked 10 writers to pick some of their favorite TV episodes from 2017 and weigh in on why they were great stand-alone eps and the highlights of our viewing year. Today: Rob Sheffield on I Love Dick's "A Short History of Weird Girls."
Let's hear it for the boy. "Dear Dick: I've been horny since I was six," Kathryn Hahn announces at the beginning of "A Short History of Weird Girls," the standout episode from I Love Dick. The Amazon drama is Jil Soloway's brilliant satire of the masculine mystique,...
Let's hear it for the boy. "Dear Dick: I've been horny since I was six," Kathryn Hahn announces at the beginning of "A Short History of Weird Girls," the standout episode from I Love Dick. The Amazon drama is Jil Soloway's brilliant satire of the masculine mystique,...
- 12/12/2017
- Rollingstone.com
The celebrated French actor on Leonard Cohen, Louise Bourgeois, Big Little Lies and Bette Midler on Broadway
Born in Paris, Isabelle Huppert made her big-screen debut in 1972. Since then she has starred in films including Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate (1980), Claude Chabrol’s Madame Bovary (1991), Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher (2001) and Amour (2012), and Mia Hansen-Løve’s Things to Come (2016). Huppert has been nominated for 16 César awards, twice winning for best actress, and has won a Bafta and two Cannes best actress awards. Her role in Paul Verhoeven’s controversial Elle (2016) earned Huppert an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe. She stars in Haneke’s latest film, Happy End, a black comedy about a bourgeois family living in Calais, in cinemas from 1 December.
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Born in Paris, Isabelle Huppert made her big-screen debut in 1972. Since then she has starred in films including Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate (1980), Claude Chabrol’s Madame Bovary (1991), Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher (2001) and Amour (2012), and Mia Hansen-Løve’s Things to Come (2016). Huppert has been nominated for 16 César awards, twice winning for best actress, and has won a Bafta and two Cannes best actress awards. Her role in Paul Verhoeven’s controversial Elle (2016) earned Huppert an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe. She stars in Haneke’s latest film, Happy End, a black comedy about a bourgeois family living in Calais, in cinemas from 1 December.
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- 11/26/2017
- by Interview by Kathryn Bromwich
- The Guardian - Film News
Louise Bourgeois influenced Gianfranco Rosi, director of the Oscar and César nominated Fire At Sea
The 89th Academy Awards' five nominees for Best Documentary Feature Film, Ava DuVernay's 13th; Roger Ross Williams's Life, Animated; Ezra Edelman's O.J.: Made In America; Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro; and Gianfranco Rosi's Fire At Sea (Fuocoammare) have in common that they were screened at Doc NYC in 2016.
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The Doc NYC Pro Short List panel discussions, moderated by Thom Powers, included four of the directors and attorney Bryan Stevenson for Ava DuVernay who at the time was working on A Wrinkle In Time, adapted by Jennifer Lee from Madeleine L'Engle's novel and starring Chris Pine, Reese Witherspoon, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Peña, and Oprah Winfrey.
13th and Fire At Sea were in the Main Slate and I Am Not Your Negro in the Spotlight on Documentary program...
The 89th Academy Awards' five nominees for Best Documentary Feature Film, Ava DuVernay's 13th; Roger Ross Williams's Life, Animated; Ezra Edelman's O.J.: Made In America; Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro; and Gianfranco Rosi's Fire At Sea (Fuocoammare) have in common that they were screened at Doc NYC in 2016.
13th
The Doc NYC Pro Short List panel discussions, moderated by Thom Powers, included four of the directors and attorney Bryan Stevenson for Ava DuVernay who at the time was working on A Wrinkle In Time, adapted by Jennifer Lee from Madeleine L'Engle's novel and starring Chris Pine, Reese Witherspoon, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Peña, and Oprah Winfrey.
13th and Fire At Sea were in the Main Slate and I Am Not Your Negro in the Spotlight on Documentary program...
- 1/26/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
A retrospective celebrating the Thai director at Tate Modern, London, opened with a 14-hour screening of his films. It revealed him as a tireless creator like no other
A few years ago, a career retrospective of Louise Bourgeois displayed her enormous statues of spiders alongside smaller artefacts such as her woven figures. Her parents were weavers by trade and the spider is a weaver of webs: the whole exhibition uncovered fascinating connections in her work but also showed her constantly busying herself with the act of creation. The Apichatpong Weerasethakul all-nighter did this, too: presenting him as a true artist with a rich and varied body of work, whose short films and experimental commissions return to and refine the same themes as in his feature films. The event reinforced a sense of him as a tireless creator.
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A few years ago, a career retrospective of Louise Bourgeois displayed her enormous statues of spiders alongside smaller artefacts such as her woven figures. Her parents were weavers by trade and the spider is a weaver of webs: the whole exhibition uncovered fascinating connections in her work but also showed her constantly busying herself with the act of creation. The Apichatpong Weerasethakul all-nighter did this, too: presenting him as a true artist with a rich and varied body of work, whose short films and experimental commissions return to and refine the same themes as in his feature films. The event reinforced a sense of him as a tireless creator.
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- 4/11/2016
- by Caspar Salmon
- The Guardian - Film News
After a summer season of blockbusters that gave the cinematic landscape of jewels and gems worthy of inspection a shake, “awards season,” from which some worthy contenders showed themselves, came roaring. Likewise, a backlog of more movies in the thick of this holiday season growing, certain timely realities proved elusive, in terms of getting to see everything 2014 — a year with more discoveries on my part than planned anticipation — had to offer. For that reason, potential favorites may turn up by the time some people, including myself, get to see those.
Yet, among the larger blockbusters (Interstellar, Godzilla, Guardians of the Galaxy) and widely lauded releases (Gone Girl, Boyhood, Whiplash, Birdman), surveying every crevice of that landscape, there were a lot of movies that were released, watched, podcasted about and reviewed here on Sound on Sight.
(Look for Sound on Sight’s finalized, staff-wide list of this year’s best on December 28.)
In fact,...
Yet, among the larger blockbusters (Interstellar, Godzilla, Guardians of the Galaxy) and widely lauded releases (Gone Girl, Boyhood, Whiplash, Birdman), surveying every crevice of that landscape, there were a lot of movies that were released, watched, podcasted about and reviewed here on Sound on Sight.
(Look for Sound on Sight’s finalized, staff-wide list of this year’s best on December 28.)
In fact,...
- 12/26/2014
- by Fiman Jafari
- SoundOnSight
Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) was inarguably one of the most important artists of the 20th century, but the trajectory of her career was an extremely unusual one, with most of her successes coming only when she was already into her 70s. One of the most comprehensive exhibitions of her work was at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2008, when she was 97. Much of her artwork, specifically the work that won her so much attention later in life, was about male and female sexuality and her contentious relationship with her father. In 1980, she met Jerry Gorovoy, who would later become her assistant for 30 years. They met when he included one of her works in a group exhibition, and the two ended up working together until the artist’s death in 2010 at the age of 98. On the occasion of the exhibition "Louise Bourgeois: Suspension" at Cheim &...
- 12/18/2014
- by Katy Diamond Hamer
- Vulture
Domenique Lévy and Emmanuel Perrotin have collaborated on presenting a survey of figurative sculptures by Germaine Richier, who Lévy, -- in perhaps, overly bold rhetoric -- claims to have been “the mother of post war sculpture in Europe.” It has been fifty seven years since her first one person show in New York at the Martha Jackson Gallery. Hardly a forgotten figure in France and Europe, during her lifetime she was in five consecutive Venice Biennales, and in recent decades her work has been seen in major surveys of the period: Paris-Paris (1981) at the Centre Pompidou, Aftermath (1982) at the Barbican Art Gallery, Paris Post War (1993) at the Tate Gallery and a retrospective at the Foundation Maeght, Saint-Paul (1996), followed by another at the Academie der Kunst in Berlin (1997). In America, she fell from sight after her untimely death in 1959. The exhibition is on three floors of the two galleries 73th street townhouse.
- 6/6/2014
- by David Carbone
- www.culturecatch.com
The same year that a giant spider went on a rampage in the film Wild Wild West, late artist Louise Bourgeois gave birth to a mega-sized arachnid of her own, with the incredible sculpture you see above. So prominent were spiders in Bourgeois' art that she was nicknamed 'Spiderwoman,' and it was in 1999 that she created her piece-de-spider-resistance, titled 'Maman' (the French word for Mother).
Primarily made out of steel, the sculpture was created for London's Tate Modern gallery, and it measures a towering 30-feet high, and over 33-feet wide. The abdomen and thorax were crafted out of ribbed bronze, and so detailed is the mega-spider that it even includes an egg sac with 26 marble eggs inside of it.
In addition to the original piece, which still stands in London, a small handful of bronze castings were also made by Bourgeois, and they've each found permanent residence in countries like Canada,...
Primarily made out of steel, the sculpture was created for London's Tate Modern gallery, and it measures a towering 30-feet high, and over 33-feet wide. The abdomen and thorax were crafted out of ribbed bronze, and so detailed is the mega-spider that it even includes an egg sac with 26 marble eggs inside of it.
In addition to the original piece, which still stands in London, a small handful of bronze castings were also made by Bourgeois, and they've each found permanent residence in countries like Canada,...
- 3/26/2014
- by John Squires
- FEARnet
The film industry lives to surprise us, but if I were to compile a list right now of Directors Least Likely To Direct A Romantic Comedy In The Near Or Distant Future, I'd feel comfortable placing Québécois atmosphere merchant Denis Villeneuve in the top five. For better or worse, Villeneuve's cinema thrives on a kind of precision-cut, cultivatedly fetid dourness. At its worst, it produces damp, philosophically aspirational melodrama like the abhorrent, Oscar-nominated "Incendies"; last year's gorgeous, luxuriantly trashy thriller "Prisoners" suggested he's better suited to material that knows its own daftness, even if Villeneuve himself doesn't. Or perhaps not. Shot back-to-back with "Prisoners," the equally sombre but very differently scaled "Enemy" practically begs for charges of pretension from its opening onscreen epigraph: "Chaos is order yet undeciphered." It's a red flag signalling that we may be back in lugubrious "Incendies" territory -- certainly, José Saramago's thoughtful source novel...
- 3/13/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
Ukrainian-born artist Ilya Kabakov's 2008 multi-site Moscow retrospective is the departure point of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here, itself a look back at the husband-and-wife team whose surreal, mimetic installations reinvented the landscape of Soviet and post-Soviet art.
Director Amei Wallach re-teamed with editor-cinematographer Ken Kobland (the pair's last collaboration was Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress, and the Tangerine, 2008) to follow the Kabakovs, who fled the Soviet Union in 1987, back to Russia.
The couple has lived in the United States for the last 25 years, though Ilya appears most comfortable speaking German — anything, it seems, but Russian. Kabakov, now 80, plans, paints, and oversees the reconstruction of his 1992 i...
Director Amei Wallach re-teamed with editor-cinematographer Ken Kobland (the pair's last collaboration was Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress, and the Tangerine, 2008) to follow the Kabakovs, who fled the Soviet Union in 1987, back to Russia.
The couple has lived in the United States for the last 25 years, though Ilya appears most comfortable speaking German — anything, it seems, but Russian. Kabakov, now 80, plans, paints, and oversees the reconstruction of his 1992 i...
- 11/12/2013
- Village Voice
On International Women’s Day, Grabigouji: Life of Disappearance, Brigitte Cornand's intimate and haunting portrait of artist and sculptor Louise Bourgeois had its Us premiere on Friday, March 8, at New York's French Institute Alliance Française. It was presented as part of her My Beautiful Women series, which celebrates female artists through film. I met up with her in the theatre before the sneak preview screening for a conversation during the opening reception for Manifesto, featuring artists Ellen Berkenblit, Haley Mellin, Olympia Scarry, Lola Montes Schnabel, & Ena Swansea, co-curated by Vogue Style Editor-at-Large Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis & Tony Guerrero, Director of Visual Arts at Fiaf.
Following our conversation, Robert Storr, Dean of the Yale University School of Art and a former Senior Curator at the Museum of Modern Art introduced the film to a sold-out audience.
Anne-Katrin Titze: Is there a kernel for your film? I was...
Following our conversation, Robert Storr, Dean of the Yale University School of Art and a former Senior Curator at the Museum of Modern Art introduced the film to a sold-out audience.
Anne-Katrin Titze: Is there a kernel for your film? I was...
- 3/11/2013
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Observer's critics pick the season's highlights, from the Misanthrope to Johnny Marr, Lulu to Lichtenstein, H7steria to Hitchcock. What are you most looking forward to? Add your comments below and download a pdf of the calendar here
December | January | FebruaryDecember
1 Film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (3D)
Well, not so very unexpected. Every move has been tracked by fanboys, from the casting of Martin Freeman as Bilbo and Benedict Cumberbatch as the dragon Smaug to the return of the king, Peter Jackson, to take over directing from Guillermo del Toro. But Middle-earth (or, as it's sometimes known, New Zealand) is back for the next three Christmases.
3 Pop Scott Walker
The avant-garde Walker Brother returns with his first album since 2006's The Drift. Not for the faint-hearted, Bish Bosch finds the former romantic hero deep in dystopian territory, at once sonorous and rigorous.
3 Classical H7steria
World premiere of...
December | January | FebruaryDecember
1 Film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (3D)
Well, not so very unexpected. Every move has been tracked by fanboys, from the casting of Martin Freeman as Bilbo and Benedict Cumberbatch as the dragon Smaug to the return of the king, Peter Jackson, to take over directing from Guillermo del Toro. But Middle-earth (or, as it's sometimes known, New Zealand) is back for the next three Christmases.
3 Pop Scott Walker
The avant-garde Walker Brother returns with his first album since 2006's The Drift. Not for the faint-hearted, Bish Bosch finds the former romantic hero deep in dystopian territory, at once sonorous and rigorous.
3 Classical H7steria
World premiere of...
- 12/2/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Jonas Mekas, 'the godfather of avant-garde cinema', talks to Sean O'Hagan about working with Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali and Jackie Kennedy
Jonas Mekas, who will be 90 on Christmas Eve, has an intense memory of sitting on his father's bed, aged six, singing a strange little song about daily life in the village in which he grew up in Lithuania.
"It was late in the evening and suddenly I was recounting everything I had seen on the farm that day. It was a very simple, very realistic recitation of small, everyday events. Nothing was invented. I remember the reception from my mother and father, which was very good. But I also remember the feeling of intensity I experienced just from describing the actual details of what my father did every day. I have been trying to find that intensity in my work ever since."
We are sitting at a table in...
Jonas Mekas, who will be 90 on Christmas Eve, has an intense memory of sitting on his father's bed, aged six, singing a strange little song about daily life in the village in which he grew up in Lithuania.
"It was late in the evening and suddenly I was recounting everything I had seen on the farm that day. It was a very simple, very realistic recitation of small, everyday events. Nothing was invented. I remember the reception from my mother and father, which was very good. But I also remember the feeling of intensity I experienced just from describing the actual details of what my father did every day. I have been trying to find that intensity in my work ever since."
We are sitting at a table in...
- 12/2/2012
- by Sean O'Hagan
- The Guardian - Film News
Louise Bourgeois in Sleepless Night Stories
"Jonas Mekas," begins Nick Pinkerton in the Voice, "88-year-old Lithuanian-American poet, filmmaker, co-founder of Anthology Film Archives, and all-around proselytizer for the avant-garde, has spent the last half century or so with a motion picture recording device of some sort running at his side — who could better relate to Christopher Isherwood's I Am a Camera? What Mekas sees (and narrates) is periodically fashioned into a movie, Sleepless Night Stories being the latest."
"Mr Mekas has said the idea for the movie came from his reading of One Thousand and One Nights," notes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times. "The connections between that collection of Arabic-language stories and folk tales and Mr Mekas’s movie — which consists of some two dozen intimate vignettes — are not immediately apparent, despite a sporadic 'praise Allah' in the movie’s handwritten intertitles…. The camerawork and the editing in this introductory scene,...
"Jonas Mekas," begins Nick Pinkerton in the Voice, "88-year-old Lithuanian-American poet, filmmaker, co-founder of Anthology Film Archives, and all-around proselytizer for the avant-garde, has spent the last half century or so with a motion picture recording device of some sort running at his side — who could better relate to Christopher Isherwood's I Am a Camera? What Mekas sees (and narrates) is periodically fashioned into a movie, Sleepless Night Stories being the latest."
"Mr Mekas has said the idea for the movie came from his reading of One Thousand and One Nights," notes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times. "The connections between that collection of Arabic-language stories and folk tales and Mr Mekas’s movie — which consists of some two dozen intimate vignettes — are not immediately apparent, despite a sporadic 'praise Allah' in the movie’s handwritten intertitles…. The camerawork and the editing in this introductory scene,...
- 12/16/2011
- MUBI
"The old men I film," Tacita Dean tells Simon Schama in the Financial Times, "with witchily dark merriment," he notes, "as we sit on the terrace of her Berlin studio, 'seem to die just afterwards.' And indeed they do depart: the poet Michael Hamburger; the artists Mario Merz and Cy Twombly; the choreographer Merce Cunningham. But they will never be granted more subtly revelatory obituaries. Now Dean is facing an extinction against which she is fighting with everything she has: the death of film – real film, that is; 16mm celluloid, the indispensable medium of her work, the material that gives her art its uncanny presence. The laws of the marketplace have decreed that digital rules supreme; that film is no more than a quaint relic, and the champions of its immeasurable distinctiveness are deluded romantics. Dean grieves and rages against this smug indifference…. It strikes her as an appalling irony that Edwin Parker,...
- 10/12/2011
- MUBI
Pedro Almodóvar's film about a ruthless plastic surgeon is a moving exploration of the nature of human identity
Shortly to celebrate his 62nd birthday, Pedro Almodóvar is at his daring, provocative and allusive best with the scintillating The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito). A combination of dark thriller, gothic horror story and poetic myth, it visits most of the preoccupations of his work over the past 30-odd years from maternal devotion through sexual identity to obsessional activity.
It's based on a 120-page French novel, Mygale, by the late Thierry Jonquet (published in Britain as Tarantula), in which an eminent French plastic surgeon has a practice at a public hospital in Paris, a private clinic in Boulogne, a secret operating theatre in the basement of his suburban mansion, a beautiful, submissive partner called Eve whom he keeps under lock and key, and a teenage daughter in an asylum.
Shortly to celebrate his 62nd birthday, Pedro Almodóvar is at his daring, provocative and allusive best with the scintillating The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito). A combination of dark thriller, gothic horror story and poetic myth, it visits most of the preoccupations of his work over the past 30-odd years from maternal devotion through sexual identity to obsessional activity.
It's based on a 120-page French novel, Mygale, by the late Thierry Jonquet (published in Britain as Tarantula), in which an eminent French plastic surgeon has a practice at a public hospital in Paris, a private clinic in Boulogne, a secret operating theatre in the basement of his suburban mansion, a beautiful, submissive partner called Eve whom he keeps under lock and key, and a teenage daughter in an asylum.
- 8/27/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
The Skin I Live In star on the 'terrifying responsibility' of working with Spain's great director, Pedro Almodóvar
Ten years ago, the Spanish film-maker Pedro Almodóvar called Elena Anaya and asked to meet. She went to Madrid and immediately the director started to apologise profusely; he had a tiny role in his new project, he explained, but he couldn't imagine anyone else playing it. The young actor told him to stop: "I said to him I would be a vase or a lampshade if he wanted – facing a wall or whatever," she remembers now. The film was Talk to Her and Almodóvar was not exaggerating; Anaya's part is so small that when her father went to the premiere, he didn't even notice she was in it.
A decade on, Almodóvar called again. The intervening years had been good to both of them: Almodóvar had evolved his lurid, exuberant early films...
Ten years ago, the Spanish film-maker Pedro Almodóvar called Elena Anaya and asked to meet. She went to Madrid and immediately the director started to apologise profusely; he had a tiny role in his new project, he explained, but he couldn't imagine anyone else playing it. The young actor told him to stop: "I said to him I would be a vase or a lampshade if he wanted – facing a wall or whatever," she remembers now. The film was Talk to Her and Almodóvar was not exaggerating; Anaya's part is so small that when her father went to the premiere, he didn't even notice she was in it.
A decade on, Almodóvar called again. The intervening years had been good to both of them: Almodóvar had evolved his lurid, exuberant early films...
- 8/13/2011
- by Tim Lewis
- The Guardian - Film News
www.hollywoodnews.com: MTV video music Aid Japan brought music, fans and philanthropy together in an energetic, colourful and upbeat live two-hour music television event to benefit the Japanese Red Cross tonight. Hosted by AKB48 and featuring live performances from Lady Gaga, Tokio Hotel, Girls’ Generation, Monkey Majik, Kana Nishino, SHINee, One Night Only, Namie Amuro, Anna Tsuchiya, AI and Exile.
MTV Video Music Aid Japan was broadcast live from Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture to more than 30 million households on MTV Japan, MTV Korea, MTV Sea and MTV China. A special one-hour version of MTV Video Music Aid Japan will air on MTV channels worldwide to over a half-billion homes on July 29 as special instalment of MTV’s weekly global live music series, MTV World Stage.
MTV Video Music Aid Japan opened with Lady Gaga trapped in a giant spiderweb for her performance of “The Edge of Glory,” the...
MTV Video Music Aid Japan was broadcast live from Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture to more than 30 million households on MTV Japan, MTV Korea, MTV Sea and MTV China. A special one-hour version of MTV Video Music Aid Japan will air on MTV channels worldwide to over a half-billion homes on July 29 as special instalment of MTV’s weekly global live music series, MTV World Stage.
MTV Video Music Aid Japan opened with Lady Gaga trapped in a giant spiderweb for her performance of “The Edge of Glory,” the...
- 6/25/2011
- by Josh Abraham
- Hollywoodnews.com
Mark Bradford's Things Fall Apart, 2010. Courtesy of White Cube. Art Decorative gourds, candy corn, the departure of Mad Men, and the return of the pumpkin latte—signs of the season abound. In London, Regent’s Park gives autumn the nod with the eighth annual Frieze Art Fair, October 14–17. Stop by this weekend for top-to-toe art immersion, starting at the ticket booth, which appears to be a T Mobile showroom but is, in fact, an installation by the artist Matthew Darbyshire. Among 173 exhibitors, the venerable White Cube opens a major show by buzzy L.A.-based artist Mark Bradford and premieres visual and sound artist Christian Marclay’s 24-hour film The Clock. (The gallery also sold a £3.5 million Damien Hirst fish-in-Lucite installation within the first hour of the fair’s October 13 preview.) Hauser & Wirth camps out at stand C12, while also warming its new home on Savile Row with a solo exhibition of Louise Bourgeois’ lesser-known,...
- 10/15/2010
- Vanity Fair
[Our sincere thanks to the Fantasia Festival and Kier-La Janisse for offering up some of the excellent, exclusive materials from the festival blog for wider consumption here at Twitch.]
Fantasia is extremely proud to be hosting the North American premiere of Philip Ridley's Heartless, his first return to the big screen since The Passion of Darkly Noon in 1996. Genre fans know Ridley primarily for The Reflecting Skin - an unsettling and unconventional horror film that was universally praised as one of the best films of the 1990s - and with Heartless, he returns to the folklore-infused psychological terrain of The Reflecting Skin, and the murky physical terrain of The Krays, which he wrote in 1990. He was kind enough to offer his thoughts on some of the recurring themes in his work.
You've been hailed as a cinematic visionary by countless film critics and yet film is a medium you turn to infrequently. Why is that?
Well, the kind of films I've been interested in making are not very easy to get off the ground. They don't fit into a neat box or category.
Fantasia is extremely proud to be hosting the North American premiere of Philip Ridley's Heartless, his first return to the big screen since The Passion of Darkly Noon in 1996. Genre fans know Ridley primarily for The Reflecting Skin - an unsettling and unconventional horror film that was universally praised as one of the best films of the 1990s - and with Heartless, he returns to the folklore-infused psychological terrain of The Reflecting Skin, and the murky physical terrain of The Krays, which he wrote in 1990. He was kind enough to offer his thoughts on some of the recurring themes in his work.
You've been hailed as a cinematic visionary by countless film critics and yet film is a medium you turn to infrequently. Why is that?
Well, the kind of films I've been interested in making are not very easy to get off the ground. They don't fit into a neat box or category.
- 7/18/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Donna Karan and Ross Bleckner. From PatrickMcMullan.com. Olivia Chantecaille and B. J. Topol.Saturday evening in Southampton, more than 500 movers and shakers turned out in their summer’s finest for the 16th annual Parrish Art Museum Midsummer Party, an event that this year honored philanthropist and mega art collector Beth Rudin DeWoody and celebrated artist Ross Bleckner. Powerhouse artists such as Chuck Close, Eric Fischl, April Gornick, David Salle, Hunt Slonem, Michele Oka-Doner, Dennis Oppenheim, and Keith Sonnier mingled with big-time collectors including Adam Sender, Christoph DeMenil, Jane Holzer, and Jonathan Sobel, while writer Jay McInerney chatted with New York first lady Michelle Paterson. The dinner and after-party raise more than $700,000 for the museum. Sitting at Parrish Art Museum trustee Philip Isles’s table ensured interesting dinner partners. Isles owns one of the most prestigious art collections in New York, so collecting was a popular topic of conversation. Fashion...
- 7/12/2010
- Vanity Fair
Sausage tycoon Jimmy Dean died Sunday at the age of 81, making the Texan meat magnate one of a rising number of notable figures who have perished during summer 2010. The recent departures of Lynn Redgrave (May 2), Lena Horne (May 9), Black Sabbath’s Ronnie Dio (May 16), Simon Monjack (May 23), Slipknot’s Paul Gray (May 24), Art Linkletter (May 26), Gary Coleman (May 28), Dennis Hopper (May 29), artist Louise Bourgeois (May 31), Rue McClanahan (June 3), Marvin Isley (June 6), and artist Sigmar Polke (June 10) suggest that this season could be even more fatal than last year’s ur-Summer of Death (© Alex Balk). (N.B.: Widely accepted S.o.D. metrics call for the inclusion of May deaths in cumulative tabulation.)...
- 6/14/2010
- Vanity Fair
Chicks On Speed, Dundee
Chicks On Speed are less a rock group than a fulfilment of every person's presumption that all art students are cuckoo. Emerging from Munich Academy Of Arts in the mid-90s, Melissa Logan, Kiki Moorse and Alex Murray-Leslie have gone on to eradicate the boundaries between fine art and trashy entertainment, punk performance and electroclash pop, historically informed painting and flashy graffiti, spirited commitment and an irreverent disregard for considerations of good taste. Their take on street fashion includes dresses made from plastic bags and gaffa tape. This, their first solo UK show, resembles more the aftermath of an art college end-of-term party than an exhibition, and will include the construction of the world's first wireless guitar stilettos.
Dundee Contemporary Arts, to 8 Aug
Robert Clark
Picasso, London
While Tate Liverpool is currently showing the iconic cubist's anti-war paintings and exploring his commitment to communism, the Gagosian...
Chicks On Speed are less a rock group than a fulfilment of every person's presumption that all art students are cuckoo. Emerging from Munich Academy Of Arts in the mid-90s, Melissa Logan, Kiki Moorse and Alex Murray-Leslie have gone on to eradicate the boundaries between fine art and trashy entertainment, punk performance and electroclash pop, historically informed painting and flashy graffiti, spirited commitment and an irreverent disregard for considerations of good taste. Their take on street fashion includes dresses made from plastic bags and gaffa tape. This, their first solo UK show, resembles more the aftermath of an art college end-of-term party than an exhibition, and will include the construction of the world's first wireless guitar stilettos.
Dundee Contemporary Arts, to 8 Aug
Robert Clark
Picasso, London
While Tate Liverpool is currently showing the iconic cubist's anti-war paintings and exploring his commitment to communism, the Gagosian...
- 6/4/2010
- by Robert Clark, Skye Sherwin
- The Guardian - Film News
French-born American artist Louise Bourgeois died Tuesday, June 1 2010 in New York City at the amazing age of 98 from a heart attack.
This influential artist didn't get her first gallery retrospective until 1982 (she was born in 1911) and was best known for her spider sculptures, sexual imagery, strange creatures, violence, fear, and immense emotion.
"My memories are moth-eaten", she wrote recently, in a crabby hand, next to one of her last drawings.
This influential artist didn't get her first gallery retrospective until 1982 (she was born in 1911) and was best known for her spider sculptures, sexual imagery, strange creatures, violence, fear, and immense emotion.
"My memories are moth-eaten", she wrote recently, in a crabby hand, next to one of her last drawings.
- 6/2/2010
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
• The United Nations has condemned the Israeli military’s raid of an aid flotilla carrying Gaza-bound supplies and activists and has asked that the country release the ships’ passengers from its custody. [CNN] • B.P.’s new plan to contain the spill involves funneling gushing oil from the underwater well to a sea-level tanker. This method, an iteration of which has previously failed, would not actually plug the well or stop the leaking oil—those could take months. [The New York Times] • Sculptor Louise Bourgeois, 98, has died of a heart attack. For those unfamiliar with her work, the trailer for Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine, a documentary about the artist, is available here. [ABC News] • Authorities believe a drone strike in Pakistan has killed Sheik Sa’id al-Masri, a founding member of al-Qaeda and its ranking number three. [The Wall Street Journal] • The 40 year-old son of Ted Koppel was found dead in an apartment in New...
- 6/1/2010
- Vanity Fair
French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois has died at the age of 98.
The famed artist, best known for her giant spider sculptures, passed away in New York on Monday after suffering a heart attack on Saturday night.
Her works were exhibited all over the world and her achievements were honoured when she was presented with America's National Medal of Arts in 1997. In 2008, French President Nicolas Sarkozy handed Bourgeois the French Legion of Honor medal.
The politician has paid tribute to Bourgeois following the sad news of her death, calling her "a very great artist" who "never stopped creating and renewing herself in her art."...
The famed artist, best known for her giant spider sculptures, passed away in New York on Monday after suffering a heart attack on Saturday night.
Her works were exhibited all over the world and her achievements were honoured when she was presented with America's National Medal of Arts in 1997. In 2008, French President Nicolas Sarkozy handed Bourgeois the French Legion of Honor medal.
The politician has paid tribute to Bourgeois following the sad news of her death, calling her "a very great artist" who "never stopped creating and renewing herself in her art."...
- 6/1/2010
- WENN
French-American contemporary artist Louise Bourgeois, known for her series of giant metal spiders, died Monday in New York at the age of 98, a spokeswoman said."I am very sad to confirm that Louise passed away this morning at Beth Israel Hospital after suffering a heart attack on Saturday night," said Wendy Williams, managing director of the Louise Bourgeois Studio.Among her most famous pieces are a series of giant spiders presented as symbols of the mother, entitled "Maman," with one standing more than 30 feet (nine meters) high outside the National Gallery of Canada."The Destruction of the father," a 1974 installation, depicts her traumatic relationship with her father.Bourgeois, inspired at the beginning of her career by Max Ernst and Constantin Brancusi, had never classed herself into a particular artistic grouping, preferring instead to pursue her own personal brand of art."All my inspiration comes from my childhood,...
- 5/31/2010
- Filmicafe
Louise Bourgeois died on Monday at the age of 98. The artist, whose work was largely unknown until a 1982 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, was admitted to Beth Israel Medical Centre on Saturday after suffering a heart attack, reports The AP. Wendy Williams of Louise Bourgeois Studio said that Bourgeois finished creating her latest pieces just last week, and that she continued to work steadily even (more)...
- 5/31/2010
- by By Jennifer Still
- Digital Spy
The Infernal Comedy, based on true story of Austrian serial killer, among highlights of Barbican's plans for coming year
It might not be the cheeriest night out, watching John Malkovich as a resurrected Austrian serial killer on stage with a baroque orchestra and two sopranos singing arias about murder and abandonment, but it will, the Barbican's artistic director cheerfully suggests, be one of his personal highlights.
"It's a kind of 21st-century version of an 18th-century melodrama," said Graham Sheffield. "Absolutely brilliant and completely unique."
The Malkovich piece, The Infernal Comedy – part drama, part concert – is based on the true story of Jack Unterweger, who killed at least 11 prostitutes. "Probably not a thing to take a person on a first date," Sheffield conceded.
The show was announced today as part of the Barbican's plans for the coming year, along with the return of big-name regulars such as Peter Brook, with The Magic Flute; Michael Clark,...
It might not be the cheeriest night out, watching John Malkovich as a resurrected Austrian serial killer on stage with a baroque orchestra and two sopranos singing arias about murder and abandonment, but it will, the Barbican's artistic director cheerfully suggests, be one of his personal highlights.
"It's a kind of 21st-century version of an 18th-century melodrama," said Graham Sheffield. "Absolutely brilliant and completely unique."
The Malkovich piece, The Infernal Comedy – part drama, part concert – is based on the true story of Jack Unterweger, who killed at least 11 prostitutes. "Probably not a thing to take a person on a first date," Sheffield conceded.
The show was announced today as part of the Barbican's plans for the coming year, along with the return of big-name regulars such as Peter Brook, with The Magic Flute; Michael Clark,...
- 3/12/2010
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
This looks set to be an exciting year for feminism. Here Viv Groskop rounds up the books, films, theatre and marches that will inspire us all in the coming months
This is a big year for feminist anniversaries. It was 40 years ago that the first ever National Women's Liberation conference was held in the UK, that Germaine Greer published her groundbreaking book The Female Eunuch and Kate Millett published the life-changing work Sexual Politics. The year looks set to include a whole host of celebrations then, one of which is already underway – the Ms Understood exhibition at the Women's Library in London, which traces "the sisterhood and spirit of 1970s feminism" and runs until the end of March.
But this year's feminist calendar isn't solely historical. Three major new feminist books are to be published in Britain, the TV series Mad Men continues to explore the sexual politics of the 1960s,...
This is a big year for feminist anniversaries. It was 40 years ago that the first ever National Women's Liberation conference was held in the UK, that Germaine Greer published her groundbreaking book The Female Eunuch and Kate Millett published the life-changing work Sexual Politics. The year looks set to include a whole host of celebrations then, one of which is already underway – the Ms Understood exhibition at the Women's Library in London, which traces "the sisterhood and spirit of 1970s feminism" and runs until the end of March.
But this year's feminist calendar isn't solely historical. Three major new feminist books are to be published in Britain, the TV series Mad Men continues to explore the sexual politics of the 1960s,...
- 1/8/2010
- by Viv Groskop
- The Guardian - Film News
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26 Films licensed "Keep It Together" to Splendid for German speaking territories.
Absurda - A David Lynch Company has licensed "My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done?" to Kinowelt for German speaking territories. Unified has U.S. and Ws has Canada.
Alliance licensed its entire library to Talat Captaan for the Middle East including Iran. It will serve as the basis for Captaan's reentering the sales business.
American World Pictures licensed "Parasomnia" to KMY Films for Cambodia.
Bavaria’s "Van Dieman’s Land" went to U.K. (High Fliers). "Bad Day To Go Fishing" went to Greece (Pcv). "Everyone Else" aka "Alle Anderen" went to Cis (Russian Report). "Let The Right One In" went to Turkey(Bir), Hong Kong (Edko), Colombia (Cinecolombia). "Troubled Water" went to Taiwan (Khan).
Beta licensed "North Face" to Music Box Films for U.S.
26 Films licensed "Keep It Together" to Splendid for German speaking territories.
Absurda - A David Lynch Company has licensed "My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done?" to Kinowelt for German speaking territories. Unified has U.S. and Ws has Canada.
Alliance licensed its entire library to Talat Captaan for the Middle East including Iran. It will serve as the basis for Captaan's reentering the sales business.
American World Pictures licensed "Parasomnia" to KMY Films for Cambodia.
Bavaria’s "Van Dieman’s Land" went to U.K. (High Fliers). "Bad Day To Go Fishing" went to Greece (Pcv). "Everyone Else" aka "Alle Anderen" went to Cis (Russian Report). "Let The Right One In" went to Turkey(Bir), Hong Kong (Edko), Colombia (Cinecolombia). "Troubled Water" went to Taiwan (Khan).
Beta licensed "North Face" to Music Box Films for U.S.
- 5/16/2009
- by sydneyjlevine@gmail.com (Sydney)
- Sydney's Buzz
It is an idealistic situation to be at a documentary festival: one has the impression of being among a noble group of people actively reflecting on the world (and what makes it better, a world not their own: English filmmakers documenting Afghanistan, Swedes documenting Thailand etc). Indeed Thessaloniki director Dimitri Eipedes once imparted to me that the reason he started this festival thirteen years ago, one of the most significant in Europe, was his attempt to make the world a more connected place: "People live in their own isolated worlds, and yet it is a shame, as the world is so small now. It is the time to communicate. When people see documentaries, they have a chance to care about other people and see opportunities to make a difference." Idealism aside, it is also...
- 3/25/2009
- by Karin Badt
- Huffington Post
Throughout her interviews in Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress And The Tangerine, iconic 96-year-old Paris-born artist Louise Bourgeois repeatedly struggles for the right words to explain her relationship to art. Her English is impeccable; her second language isn't a barrier, except to the degree that language itself is at fault. "You are to read between the lines when I talk," she eventually grouses, over one request for clarification. Given her beliefs about the relationship between art and the unconscious, forcing her ideas into mere clumsy words is a burden. Nonetheless, Louise Bourgeois is absorbing, largely because of Bourgeois' striking art, prickly personality, and assured intensity. When she describes sculpture as "a fight with your notion of what you need," or announces that the government shouldn't support art because art is about facing unconscious connections, she seems to be talking around ideas rather than pinpointing them, but her passion.
- 6/26/2008
- by Tasha Robinson
- avclub.com
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