Chicago – Like improvisational jazz, the performance career of Don Cheadle has many moods, directions and shadings. For his latest film, he takes on the titles of co-writer and director, along with the lead role of music legend Miles Davis. This all comes together is the aptly titled “Miles Ahead.”
Cheadle applies a different kind of music biography spin, with a centerpiece story about Davis that operates as a mythical framework for the musician’s life story, told in a loose flashback format. The cinematic structure is jazzy and kinetic, and it moves forward with an energy all of its own, driven by the frenetic soundtrack of the man himself. As a director, Cheadle has crafted something outside the norm, a visual blend that could be at home within the florid sweep of a Miles Davis composition.
Don Cheadle as Miles Davis in ‘Miles Ahead’
Photo credit: Sony Pictures Classics
Don Cheadle...
Cheadle applies a different kind of music biography spin, with a centerpiece story about Davis that operates as a mythical framework for the musician’s life story, told in a loose flashback format. The cinematic structure is jazzy and kinetic, and it moves forward with an energy all of its own, driven by the frenetic soundtrack of the man himself. As a director, Cheadle has crafted something outside the norm, a visual blend that could be at home within the florid sweep of a Miles Davis composition.
Don Cheadle as Miles Davis in ‘Miles Ahead’
Photo credit: Sony Pictures Classics
Don Cheadle...
- 4/7/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
From the Nutcracker to American Psycho, from Mary Poppins to Kurt Vile, our critics pick their must-sees of the festive season
If you wish it could be Christmas every day
Nutcrackers, various
You know it's Christmas in the ballet world by the number of Nutcrackers touring the world's stages. In the UK alone, there are close to a dozen doing the rounds, but the top three remain the Royal Ballet's exquisitely traditional version, the sparky family friendly production by Birmingham Royal Ballet, and English National Ballet's – with the best snow scene of them all. Royal Opera House, London (020-7304 4000), 4 December to 16 January; Birmingham Hippodrome (0844 338 5000), to 12 December; London Coliseum (020-7845 9300), 11 December to 5 January.
Father Christmas
Does Father Christmas use the loo? Does he secretly long for summer? Does he have strong views on the size of chimneys? You bet he does. Raymond Briggs's gorgeous picture book gets a heartwarming makeover for under-sixes.
If you wish it could be Christmas every day
Nutcrackers, various
You know it's Christmas in the ballet world by the number of Nutcrackers touring the world's stages. In the UK alone, there are close to a dozen doing the rounds, but the top three remain the Royal Ballet's exquisitely traditional version, the sparky family friendly production by Birmingham Royal Ballet, and English National Ballet's – with the best snow scene of them all. Royal Opera House, London (020-7304 4000), 4 December to 16 January; Birmingham Hippodrome (0844 338 5000), to 12 December; London Coliseum (020-7845 9300), 11 December to 5 January.
Father Christmas
Does Father Christmas use the loo? Does he secretly long for summer? Does he have strong views on the size of chimneys? You bet he does. Raymond Briggs's gorgeous picture book gets a heartwarming makeover for under-sixes.
- 11/25/2013
- by Lyn Gardner, Michael Billington, Andrew Clements, Alexis Petridis, Judith Mackrell, John Fordham, Brian Logan, Stuart Heritage, Mark Lawson, Jonathan Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
Birthday shoutouts go to Christopher Rice (above), who is 35, and the Queen of New Wave Nina Hagen is 58. In ratings news, Revenge was up in its return, and hopefully regaining momentum. Warehouse 13 has released a new promo for the return on April 29th, and it features Steve running from some kind of weird bat thing. And poor Artie Are Gay Men A Gay Man's Worst Enemy?Anderson Cooper Talks coming out as gay, brother's suicide and GLAAD Awards with Madonna Big congrats to Ellen, whose talk show has been renewed for four more seasons.Below you can see the first couple of minutes of Bates Motel, which premieres March 18th on A&E.
How's this for a pairing!
Below you can see the debut episode of web series (which is a potential TV pilot) Just Us Guys, about a gay father and his straight son.
Below you can see the IndieGoGo campaign for G.
How's this for a pairing!
Below you can see the debut episode of web series (which is a potential TV pilot) Just Us Guys, about a gay father and his straight son.
Below you can see the IndieGoGo campaign for G.
- 3/11/2013
- by snicks
- The Backlot
Here at Whatculture, we’re always on the lookout for the hottest new bands, and following our review of their debut album earlier this year, we caught up with the guys in Antlered Man a few hours before they took to the stage for the first night of their Villains and Vigilantes tour in the intimate setting of Southampton’s Joiners.
Wc – Hi guys, cheers for coming, can I just get a quick band introduction before we get going?
Sam – I’m Sam, I play bass.
Danny – Danny, I play guitar.
Ollie – Ollie, drums.
Damo – Damo, I’m on vocals. Old dirty Damo, they call me.
Wc – Hahaha, first things first then, the name Antlered Man, where does it come from?
Danny – Well, we wanted something that sounded really formidable and cool. There’s too many clichéd names out there, so we just thought we’d go for something different,...
Wc – Hi guys, cheers for coming, can I just get a quick band introduction before we get going?
Sam – I’m Sam, I play bass.
Danny – Danny, I play guitar.
Ollie – Ollie, drums.
Damo – Damo, I’m on vocals. Old dirty Damo, they call me.
Wc – Hahaha, first things first then, the name Antlered Man, where does it come from?
Danny – Well, we wanted something that sounded really formidable and cool. There’s too many clichéd names out there, so we just thought we’d go for something different,...
- 9/28/2012
- by Dan Donnelly
- Obsessed with Film
Five years ago, Dirty Projectors were playing some of the few shows I’ve ever seen in which audiences were confused when it came to issues of basic musical process. The band was performing songs from Rise Above, on which leader Dave Longstreth had tried to rewrite a Black Flag album from memory, with results that sounded more like a perplexed reggae act, or maybe early Scritti Politti, than anything Black Flag ever recorded. At times, the music coming from the stage had a chaotic looseness to it, as if the band members might be improvising aimlessly around one another; parts of the audience would hear it as a formless wreck. At other times, it’d snap into a tricky focus, underlining something a little breathtaking: Underpinning the whole thing was some incredibly rigorous logic and symmetry, with parts so complexly knotted together that passing listeners might not even notice...
- 7/10/2012
- by Nitsuh Abebe
- Vulture
Diana Vickers has posted a snippet of a new song online. The singer-songwriter has uploaded a 1.32-minute teaser of 'Boy In Paris', which she co-wrote with David Gamson from Scritti Politti. The new track preview showcases a heavier electro pop sound that has similarities to material by Eurythmics. However, the current clip is just a demo and not the final song. Lyrics in 'Boy In Paris' include: "Dancing in the dark with the boy I met in Paris/ Sitting in the front row of my radio show/ Underneath the stars, stole my heart with his rhythm/ We were dancing in the dark, dancing in the dark." Vickers will perform 'Boy In Paris' during her upcoming UK tour dates, which take place at (more)...
- 1/24/2012
- by By Lewis Corner
- Digital Spy
The Hot Tub Time Machine soundtrack. That mere title alone is so communicative of both the tone and ambition of this new John Cusack-toplined comedy that the simple sight of those four little words is all you need in order to make the call as to whether you want to see the movie or whether you think it likely to be as seismic a catastrophe for modern cinema as Michael Haneke slipping while getting out of the shower and fatally cracking his skull on the Palme d’Or he keeps on the shelf behind the toilet. Essentially it would appear that Steve Pink’s film is the episode of Family Guy where Peter and Brian journey back to the ‘80s and piss off the chicken while simultaneously inventing Rick Astley, only elongated to feature length and with Chevy Chase’s hot tub repairman supplanting the Grim Reaper as gatekeeper...
- 3/27/2010
- by Paul Martin
- Movie-moron.com
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