Fan Siu-wong, Kurt Russell, Zoe Bell, Mike Star, Fred Stoller, Johnny Barnes, Keanu Reeves’ fist, and Hugo WeavingScreenshot: YouTube
With the release of Amazon’s Mma-inspired remake of Road House, The A.V. Club is looking at the most brutal, compelling, and consequential punches to the face in cinema. Now,...
With the release of Amazon’s Mma-inspired remake of Road House, The A.V. Club is looking at the most brutal, compelling, and consequential punches to the face in cinema. Now,...
- 3/22/2024
- by Matt Schimkowitz
- avclub.com
In Damien Chazelle's youth, his aspirations flip-flopped from filmmaking to jazz drumming and back again. He combined his two passions for his debut "Whiplash," a short he turned into a feature. Chazelle's story follows Andrew Neimen (Miles Teller), a drumming student determined to be one of the greats. First, Andrew has to survive the tutelage of Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), who's basically Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey) from "Full Metal Jacket" if he taught at a conservatory instead of a boot camp.
One film which Chazelle cited as an influence was Martin Scorsese's "Raging Bull." Scorsese's muse Robert De Niro played Jake La Motta, the real-life "Bronx Bull" and championship boxer. As Jake picks up more and more notches on his boxing record, his personal struggles only grow.
Both films are about a man aiming to be at the top of a performing field: Andrew jazz drumming,...
One film which Chazelle cited as an influence was Martin Scorsese's "Raging Bull." Scorsese's muse Robert De Niro played Jake La Motta, the real-life "Bronx Bull" and championship boxer. As Jake picks up more and more notches on his boxing record, his personal struggles only grow.
Both films are about a man aiming to be at the top of a performing field: Andrew jazz drumming,...
- 11/7/2022
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
By Annlee Ellingson
(from the 2011 Aruba International Film Festival)
Among the highlights of the 2011 Aruba International Film Festival has been its Caribbean Spotlight Series — a collection of contemporary regional cinema showcasing features, documentaries and shorts from Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Curaçao, Montserrat, Bermuda, Jamaica, Cuba and Aruba. Curated by Aruban filmmaker Aaron Hosé, the program provides a rich and varied sampling of Caribbean filmmaking:
“Curaçao” (documentary): In a particularly stunning achievement, Dutch filmmakers Sarah Vos and Sander Snoep expose the culture of indifference and ignorance on the former island colony of Curaçao, where white immigrants from the Netherlands settle in real-estate developments on land they’re told has no history, mingle at private golf resorts and blithely discuss the habits of their neighbors, the black Antilleans descended from African slaves imported during the 17th century. No comment is made on these proceedings, but the simple juxtaposition of historical texts...
(from the 2011 Aruba International Film Festival)
Among the highlights of the 2011 Aruba International Film Festival has been its Caribbean Spotlight Series — a collection of contemporary regional cinema showcasing features, documentaries and shorts from Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Curaçao, Montserrat, Bermuda, Jamaica, Cuba and Aruba. Curated by Aruban filmmaker Aaron Hosé, the program provides a rich and varied sampling of Caribbean filmmaking:
“Curaçao” (documentary): In a particularly stunning achievement, Dutch filmmakers Sarah Vos and Sander Snoep expose the culture of indifference and ignorance on the former island colony of Curaçao, where white immigrants from the Netherlands settle in real-estate developments on land they’re told has no history, mingle at private golf resorts and blithely discuss the habits of their neighbors, the black Antilleans descended from African slaves imported during the 17th century. No comment is made on these proceedings, but the simple juxtaposition of historical texts...
- 6/13/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
By Annlee Ellingson
(from the 2011 Aruba International Film Festival)
Among the highlights of the 2011 Aruba International Film Festival has been its Caribbean Spotlight Series — a collection of contemporary regional cinema showcasing features, documentaries and shorts from Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Curaçao, Montserrat, Bermuda, Jamaica, Cuba and Aruba. Curated by Aruban filmmaker Aaron Hosé, the program provides a rich and varied sampling of Caribbean filmmaking:
“Curaçao” (documentary): In a particularly stunning achievement, Dutch filmmakers Sarah Vos and Sander Snoep expose the culture of indifference and ignorance on the former island colony of Curaçao, where white immigrants from the Netherlands settle in real-estate developments on land they’re told has no history, mingle at private golf resorts and blithely discuss the habits of their neighbors, the black Antilleans descended from African slaves imported during the 17th century. No comment is made on these proceedings, but the simple juxtaposition of historical texts...
(from the 2011 Aruba International Film Festival)
Among the highlights of the 2011 Aruba International Film Festival has been its Caribbean Spotlight Series — a collection of contemporary regional cinema showcasing features, documentaries and shorts from Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Curaçao, Montserrat, Bermuda, Jamaica, Cuba and Aruba. Curated by Aruban filmmaker Aaron Hosé, the program provides a rich and varied sampling of Caribbean filmmaking:
“Curaçao” (documentary): In a particularly stunning achievement, Dutch filmmakers Sarah Vos and Sander Snoep expose the culture of indifference and ignorance on the former island colony of Curaçao, where white immigrants from the Netherlands settle in real-estate developments on land they’re told has no history, mingle at private golf resorts and blithely discuss the habits of their neighbors, the black Antilleans descended from African slaves imported during the 17th century. No comment is made on these proceedings, but the simple juxtaposition of historical texts...
- 6/13/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
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