Kanye West has had his Twitter account reactivated, following a ban of almost eight months for offensive content.
The US artist – more recently known as Ye – had his account suspended in December 2022, when he was accused of violating the platform’s rules which prohibit incitement to violence.
Ye had posted a series of tweets, including one appearing to show a swastika and the Star of David.
His account, which has 31.5million followers, will be ineligible for monetization and no ads will appear next to his posts, according to New York Times tech reporter Ryan Mac. He also explains the “gold tick” next to Ye’s name – one of site owner Elon Musk’s innovations for official business accounts (which can usually run ads and enjoy increased distribution).
Ye was previously suspended from Instagram for a 24-hour period in March 2022 for using a racial slur in reference to comedian Trevor Noah.
The US artist – more recently known as Ye – had his account suspended in December 2022, when he was accused of violating the platform’s rules which prohibit incitement to violence.
Ye had posted a series of tweets, including one appearing to show a swastika and the Star of David.
His account, which has 31.5million followers, will be ineligible for monetization and no ads will appear next to his posts, according to New York Times tech reporter Ryan Mac. He also explains the “gold tick” next to Ye’s name – one of site owner Elon Musk’s innovations for official business accounts (which can usually run ads and enjoy increased distribution).
Ye was previously suspended from Instagram for a 24-hour period in March 2022 for using a racial slur in reference to comedian Trevor Noah.
- 7/30/2023
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s 1930s America as seen in the movies, through music, and the evasions of newsreels. Franklin Delano Roosevelt preaches prosperity while James Cagney slugs out the decade as a smart-tongued everyman — in a dozen different roles. Director Philippe Mora investigates what was then a new kind of revisionist info-tainment formula: applying old film footage to new purposes.
Brother Can You Spare a Dime
DVD
The Sprocket Vault
1975 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 106 min. / Street Date ?, 2017 / available through The Sprocket Vault / 14.99 (also available in Blu-ray)
Film Editor: Jeremy Thomas
Research by Michael Barlow, Jennifer E. Ryan, Susan Winslow
Produced by Sanford Lieberson, David Puttnam
Directed by Philippe Mora
Years before he was briefly sidetracked into sequels for The Howling, Philippe Mora was an accomplished artist and documentary filmmaker. Backed by producers Sanford Lieberson and David Puttnam, his 1974 documentary Swastika pulled a controversial switch on the usual historical fare about...
Brother Can You Spare a Dime
DVD
The Sprocket Vault
1975 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 106 min. / Street Date ?, 2017 / available through The Sprocket Vault / 14.99 (also available in Blu-ray)
Film Editor: Jeremy Thomas
Research by Michael Barlow, Jennifer E. Ryan, Susan Winslow
Produced by Sanford Lieberson, David Puttnam
Directed by Philippe Mora
Years before he was briefly sidetracked into sequels for The Howling, Philippe Mora was an accomplished artist and documentary filmmaker. Backed by producers Sanford Lieberson and David Puttnam, his 1974 documentary Swastika pulled a controversial switch on the usual historical fare about...
- 6/19/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Film is considered one of the most important in Israel’s cinematic history.
Following last year’s festival screening of Uri Zohar’s restored Three Days And A Child, Jerusalem Cinematheque and Tel Aviv-based technical facility Realworks Studios have collaborated on Israeli war classic Avanti Popolo (1986), from late director Rafi Bukai.
Marking 30 years since the film’s original release, the digital restoration will be screened for the first time at the Jerusalem Film Festival on July 12, with cast and crew in attendance including the film’s lead actor Salim Dau and Bukai’s widow Mayan.
The dark comedy follows two Egyptian soldiers stranded in the Sinai desert after the Six-Day War — now caught inside the new borders of Israel — who are desperate to return home.
Originally Bukai’s graduate film from Tel Aviv University, the feature version went on to be widely acclaimed, and is still studied in the country’s film schools.
“It is a very...
Following last year’s festival screening of Uri Zohar’s restored Three Days And A Child, Jerusalem Cinematheque and Tel Aviv-based technical facility Realworks Studios have collaborated on Israeli war classic Avanti Popolo (1986), from late director Rafi Bukai.
Marking 30 years since the film’s original release, the digital restoration will be screened for the first time at the Jerusalem Film Festival on July 12, with cast and crew in attendance including the film’s lead actor Salim Dau and Bukai’s widow Mayan.
The dark comedy follows two Egyptian soldiers stranded in the Sinai desert after the Six-Day War — now caught inside the new borders of Israel — who are desperate to return home.
Originally Bukai’s graduate film from Tel Aviv University, the feature version went on to be widely acclaimed, and is still studied in the country’s film schools.
“It is a very...
- 7/10/2016
- ScreenDaily
Philippe Mora has made so many films, from historical to hysterical. The first time I heard of him was with his film “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” in 1975, which he wrote and directed. Produced by Sandy Lieberman and David Puttnam and edited by Jeremy Thomas, it was already his eighth film. His life story and his family’s life stories are so incredible that they are hard to believe, but you know they are true. Even his great aunt Charlotte Morawski, one of the few women ever to attend university at the time, wrote a dissertation in 1915 in Breslau, Germany on Nietzsche and his relationship with a Jewish woman named Rees. This dissertation was recently brought to Philippe by the widow of the director Sam Fuller…(!)
Philippe is one of the most consistently eclectic directors of the '70s and ‘80s. His work has ranged from the controversial Nazi documentary “Swastika" — banned in Israel and Germany for its use of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun's home movies — to the outlaw biopic "Mad Dog Morgan " starring Dennis Hopper, to superhero spoof "The Return of Captain Invincible" featuring Alan Arkin.
And now, ‘Three Days in Auschwitz -The Film” is a couple days from finishing the campaign on Indiegogo. He says, " We are looking great on the Indiedgogo Flexible Funding option. We are deeply grateful to all who have funded. Those who have not please have a look at this, and if you can, please kick us up a notch!"
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/three-days-in-auschwitz-a-film
Philippe explains the origin of this film:
"My mother Mirka Mora was scheduled to be transported from Paris to Auschwitz via Pithiviers in 1942. She escaped by one day. Many in my family did not escape. I've spent decades wondering why did this catastrophe happen? There are still no definitive answers. In the light of all current knowledge this film asks why once more. This current examination started in Poland in 2010.
The barbaric events in Paris last week underline that violent depravity is still with us. The medieval notions that fuelled Auschwitz are sadly and dangerously still present. Please be kind enough to continue to support the completion of this artistic but factual film, by spreading the link amongst contacts you feel may be sympathetic, and/or interested in the history of racism and bigotry. To those of you who have already contributed, again my heartfelt thanks. Rest assured the film will be completed."
To support the film visit Here...
Philippe is one of the most consistently eclectic directors of the '70s and ‘80s. His work has ranged from the controversial Nazi documentary “Swastika" — banned in Israel and Germany for its use of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun's home movies — to the outlaw biopic "Mad Dog Morgan " starring Dennis Hopper, to superhero spoof "The Return of Captain Invincible" featuring Alan Arkin.
And now, ‘Three Days in Auschwitz -The Film” is a couple days from finishing the campaign on Indiegogo. He says, " We are looking great on the Indiedgogo Flexible Funding option. We are deeply grateful to all who have funded. Those who have not please have a look at this, and if you can, please kick us up a notch!"
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/three-days-in-auschwitz-a-film
Philippe explains the origin of this film:
"My mother Mirka Mora was scheduled to be transported from Paris to Auschwitz via Pithiviers in 1942. She escaped by one day. Many in my family did not escape. I've spent decades wondering why did this catastrophe happen? There are still no definitive answers. In the light of all current knowledge this film asks why once more. This current examination started in Poland in 2010.
The barbaric events in Paris last week underline that violent depravity is still with us. The medieval notions that fuelled Auschwitz are sadly and dangerously still present. Please be kind enough to continue to support the completion of this artistic but factual film, by spreading the link amongst contacts you feel may be sympathetic, and/or interested in the history of racism and bigotry. To those of you who have already contributed, again my heartfelt thanks. Rest assured the film will be completed."
To support the film visit Here...
- 1/19/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The Oldenburg International Film Festival, an indie fest billed as “Germany's Sundance” will honor Australian cult director Philippe Mora this year with a retrospective of his life's work. One of the most consistently eclectic of the 70s and 80s, Mora's work has ranged form controversial Nazi documentary Swastika – banned in Israel and Germany for its use of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun's home movies – to outlaw-biopic Mad Dog Morgan starring Dennis Hopper to superhero spoof The Return of Captain Invincible featuring Alan Arkin. Mora will attend the 21st Oldenburg festival and will receive the fest's German Independence
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- 8/22/2014
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Eva Braun was the most intimate chronicler of the Nazi regime, capturing Hitler's private life with her cine-camera. But it was only the obsession of artist Lutz Becker that brought her films to light. Robert McCrum and Taylor Downing uncover the story of the footage that shocked the world
Lutz Becker was born in Berlin, he says, "during the anno diabolo, 1941. Mine was the generation that was sent into a dark pit." Meeting this survivor of the Third Reich, now in his 70s and living in Bayswater, London, it's hard to suppress the thought that Becker, a distinguished artist and film historian, has conducted most of his life in a circle of hell.
Becker's childhood passed in the fetid, terrifying atmosphere of Berlin's air-raid shelters as the Allied raids intensified and the city was reduced to burning rubble. He recalls the radio announcements – "Achtung, achtung, ende ende, über Deutschland sinfe bender.
Lutz Becker was born in Berlin, he says, "during the anno diabolo, 1941. Mine was the generation that was sent into a dark pit." Meeting this survivor of the Third Reich, now in his 70s and living in Bayswater, London, it's hard to suppress the thought that Becker, a distinguished artist and film historian, has conducted most of his life in a circle of hell.
Becker's childhood passed in the fetid, terrifying atmosphere of Berlin's air-raid shelters as the Allied raids intensified and the city was reduced to burning rubble. He recalls the radio announcements – "Achtung, achtung, ende ende, über Deutschland sinfe bender.
- 1/27/2013
- by Robert McCrum
- The Guardian - Film News
Australian documentary maker Philippe Mora has uncovered two black and white films shot by propagandists for the Third Reich in 3D in Germany back in 1936. 16 years later 3D format first became popular in the Us!
Mora found out the two 30-minute films while searching Berlin’s Federal Archives sources for material for his upcoming documentary film How the Third Reich was Recorded. This one is detailing how the Third Reich used images to build their own reality and control the masses.
The first of the films, entitled So Real You Can Touch It, features close-up shots of sizzling sausages on a barbeque. The second film, entitled Six Girls Roll into Weekend, features what is thought to be two celebrities from the Universum Film Studio, the major German film studio during WW2.
The quality of the films is fantastic. The Nazis were obsessed with recording everything and every single image was...
Mora found out the two 30-minute films while searching Berlin’s Federal Archives sources for material for his upcoming documentary film How the Third Reich was Recorded. This one is detailing how the Third Reich used images to build their own reality and control the masses.
The first of the films, entitled So Real You Can Touch It, features close-up shots of sizzling sausages on a barbeque. The second film, entitled Six Girls Roll into Weekend, features what is thought to be two celebrities from the Universum Film Studio, the major German film studio during WW2.
The quality of the films is fantastic. The Nazis were obsessed with recording everything and every single image was...
- 2/17/2011
- by Nikola Mraovic
- Filmofilia
Films depicting bratwursts on a barbecue and contemporary film stars thought to show Nazis beat Hollywood to 3D by 16 years
James Cameron and his team of minions may have produced the high watermark for 3D technology in the 21st century, but it seems the Nazis got there first. The Australian film-maker Philippe Mora says he has discovered two 30-minute 3D films shot by propagandists for the Third Reich in 1936, a full 16 years before the format first became briefly popular in the Us.
The first of the films, titled So Real You Can Touch It, features shots of sizzling stereoscopic bratwursts on a barbecue while the second, named Six Girls Roll Into Weekend, features actors Mora believes were probably stars from Germany's top wartime studio, Universum Film.
"The quality of the films is fantastic," Mora told Variety.com. "The Nazis were obsessed with recording everything and every single image was controlled...
James Cameron and his team of minions may have produced the high watermark for 3D technology in the 21st century, but it seems the Nazis got there first. The Australian film-maker Philippe Mora says he has discovered two 30-minute 3D films shot by propagandists for the Third Reich in 1936, a full 16 years before the format first became briefly popular in the Us.
The first of the films, titled So Real You Can Touch It, features shots of sizzling stereoscopic bratwursts on a barbecue while the second, named Six Girls Roll Into Weekend, features actors Mora believes were probably stars from Germany's top wartime studio, Universum Film.
"The quality of the films is fantastic," Mora told Variety.com. "The Nazis were obsessed with recording everything and every single image was controlled...
- 2/17/2011
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Filed under: Hot Topic, Cinematical
Australian filmmaker Philippe Mora is at the Berlin International Film Festival this week to talk about his planned 3D biopic about surrealist artist Salvador Dali. That film sounds quite interesting (Alan Cumming is set to star), but while discussing 3D in general, the director dropped a bigger bombshell: He has discovered two short, 3D propaganda films shot by the Nazis back in 1936 -- putting them way ahead of Hollywood in terms of developing the technology.
This isn't the first time Mora's discovered interesting Nazi film materials. His documentary 'Swastika' was released in 1973 and featured previously unseen color film footage from Hitler's home movies shot by Eva Braun at his Obersalzberg retreat (pictured above). Those scenes now turn up in nearly every documentary about the Third Reich...
The 3D footage was uncovered while Mora was preparing another documentary on the Nazis, this one...
Australian filmmaker Philippe Mora is at the Berlin International Film Festival this week to talk about his planned 3D biopic about surrealist artist Salvador Dali. That film sounds quite interesting (Alan Cumming is set to star), but while discussing 3D in general, the director dropped a bigger bombshell: He has discovered two short, 3D propaganda films shot by the Nazis back in 1936 -- putting them way ahead of Hollywood in terms of developing the technology.
This isn't the first time Mora's discovered interesting Nazi film materials. His documentary 'Swastika' was released in 1973 and featured previously unseen color film footage from Hitler's home movies shot by Eva Braun at his Obersalzberg retreat (pictured above). Those scenes now turn up in nearly every documentary about the Third Reich...
The 3D footage was uncovered while Mora was preparing another documentary on the Nazis, this one...
- 2/15/2011
- by Mike Bracken
- Cinematical
Filed under: Hot Topic, Cinematical
Australian filmmaker Philippe Mora is at the Berlin International Film Festival this week to talk about his planned 3D biopic about surrealist artist Salvador Dali. That film sounds quite interesting (Alan Cumming is set to star), but while discussing 3D in general, the director dropped a bigger bombshell: He has discovered two short, 3D propaganda films shot by the Nazis back in 1936 -- putting them way ahead of Hollywood in terms of developing the technology.
This isn't the first time Mora's discovered interesting Nazi film materials. His documentary 'Swastika' was released in 1973 and featured previously unseen color film footage from Hitler's home movies shot by Eva Braun at his Obersalzberg retreat (pictured above). Those scenes now turn up in nearly every documentary about the Third Reich...
The 3D footage was uncovered while Mora was preparing another documentary on the Nazis, this one...
Australian filmmaker Philippe Mora is at the Berlin International Film Festival this week to talk about his planned 3D biopic about surrealist artist Salvador Dali. That film sounds quite interesting (Alan Cumming is set to star), but while discussing 3D in general, the director dropped a bigger bombshell: He has discovered two short, 3D propaganda films shot by the Nazis back in 1936 -- putting them way ahead of Hollywood in terms of developing the technology.
This isn't the first time Mora's discovered interesting Nazi film materials. His documentary 'Swastika' was released in 1973 and featured previously unseen color film footage from Hitler's home movies shot by Eva Braun at his Obersalzberg retreat (pictured above). Those scenes now turn up in nearly every documentary about the Third Reich...
The 3D footage was uncovered while Mora was preparing another documentary on the Nazis, this one...
- 2/15/2011
- by Mike Bracken
- Moviefone
I just finished the book Operation Mincemeat, about one of the best-executed bits of deception ever employed, which was first turned into the book and movie The Man Who Never Was in the 1950s. Long story short: British intelligence - working from an idea pitched by one Ian Fleming - created a phony spy out of a dead man and threw the Nazis off the course of an actual invasion in 1943.
So being in the WWII mindset already, that's probably why this news about Hitler stuck with me. The documentary Swastika was finished by Australian filmmaker Philippe Mora in the 1970s, but thanks to its Cannes premiere - at which a near-riot broke out - the film hasn't been seen much since. But that's about to change.
A remastered and partially redubbed version of Swastika is getting distribution in Germany and the United States, backed by producers Sandy Lieberson and David Puttnam.
So being in the WWII mindset already, that's probably why this news about Hitler stuck with me. The documentary Swastika was finished by Australian filmmaker Philippe Mora in the 1970s, but thanks to its Cannes premiere - at which a near-riot broke out - the film hasn't been seen much since. But that's about to change.
A remastered and partially redubbed version of Swastika is getting distribution in Germany and the United States, backed by producers Sandy Lieberson and David Puttnam.
- 8/2/2010
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Philippe Mora's 1973 "Swastika" documentary, about the home life of Adolf Hitler will be re-released in German and Us theaters, featuring previously unseen color footage from Hitler's own home-movies shot on a 16mm camera by his mistress, Eva Braun. Mora's movie ignited much debate and controversy at the time, and has barely been screened since, mostly because the director chose to depict Hitler's human face, running the footage without commentary. It was a controversial decision, as the images of him playing with children, relaxing with guests at home and eating lunch had never before been seen. When it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973, it caused outrage -- and led to its being banned in Germany. "It is the only film in the history of Cannes where people were fighting and screaming, throwing chairs at each other," said Mora. Despite the hostile Cannes reception, the pic got distribution in France,...
- 7/31/2010
- WorstPreviews.com
"Stand and deliver, sir!" Dennis Hopper in Philippe Mora's Mad Dog Morgan.
Philippe Mora: Ballad Of A Mad Dog
By
Alex Simon
Born in Paris in 1949, Philippe Mora is a member of one of Australia’s best known artistic families. His parents, Georges Mora and Mirka Mora, migrated to Australia from France in 1951 and settled in Melbourne, where they quickly became key figures on the Melbourne cultural scene. Georges, a wartime resistance fighter, became an influential art dealer, and in 1967 he founded one of the first commercial art galleries in Melbourne, Tolarno Galleries. The Mora family home and restaurants were focal points of Melbourne's bohemian subculture. As a result of this, Philippe and his brothers had what he has described as a "culturally privileged childhood."
Philippe moved to London in late 1967 to pursue painting and filmmaking. He was one of many important Australian artists, writers and others who...
Philippe Mora: Ballad Of A Mad Dog
By
Alex Simon
Born in Paris in 1949, Philippe Mora is a member of one of Australia’s best known artistic families. His parents, Georges Mora and Mirka Mora, migrated to Australia from France in 1951 and settled in Melbourne, where they quickly became key figures on the Melbourne cultural scene. Georges, a wartime resistance fighter, became an influential art dealer, and in 1967 he founded one of the first commercial art galleries in Melbourne, Tolarno Galleries. The Mora family home and restaurants were focal points of Melbourne's bohemian subculture. As a result of this, Philippe and his brothers had what he has described as a "culturally privileged childhood."
Philippe moved to London in late 1967 to pursue painting and filmmaking. He was one of many important Australian artists, writers and others who...
- 12/22/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
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