As the entertainment space evolves and pushes further into the technology world, including virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and other experimental works, the Sundance Film Festival is continuing to debut some of the best examples of such crossovers as part of its New Frontier section. Every year, the section aims to “offer some of the most innovative independent production and experimentation at the crossroads of film, art and technology that is being created today.” For the 2018 edition of the festival, that will include an international slate of VR, Mr, and AI.
This year, New Frontier programming will encompass three venues, including the New Frontier Exhibition at Kimball Art Center (which will host immersive dance and cutting edge VR & Mr works as well as works involving Artificial Intelligence), along with New Frontier at The Ray, which will also include The Box at New Frontier at The Ray (a 40-seat mobile VR theater...
This year, New Frontier programming will encompass three venues, including the New Frontier Exhibition at Kimball Art Center (which will host immersive dance and cutting edge VR & Mr works as well as works involving Artificial Intelligence), along with New Frontier at The Ray, which will also include The Box at New Frontier at The Ray (a 40-seat mobile VR theater...
- 12/6/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The San Francisco International Film Festival had a pretty ambitious idea for its 60th anniversary: commission filmmaker Guy Maddin to construct a new cinematic love letter to San Francisco using movies and television shows set around the city. To hear Maddin tell it though, that idea quickly evolved into something more focused on a single film, Alfred Hitchock‘s seminal classic “Vertigo.” The resulting feature is titled “The Green Fog — A San Francisco Fantasia” and it closed the San Francisco Film Festival with live musical accompaniment from the Kronos Quartet.
Continue reading Guy Maddin Made A Cinematic Love Letter To San Francisco And Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’ at The Playlist.
Continue reading Guy Maddin Made A Cinematic Love Letter To San Francisco And Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’ at The Playlist.
- 4/17/2017
- by Matthew Monagle
- The Playlist
Last fall, Universal Studios Home Entertainment gave horror fans an early Halloween treat with their Complete Legacy Collection Blu-ray box sets for Frankenstein's monster and The Wolf Man. This spring, two more Universal Monsters will get their due, as Dracula and The Mummy are also getting the Complete Legacy Collection Blu-ray treatment.
The respective Complete Legacy Collection Blu-ray box sets for Dracula and The Mummy are scheduled for a May 16th release. Although the full list of films for each collection have not been announced, it's likely that they will contain the same films featured on the DVD versions:
Dracula Complete Legacy Collection:
Dracula (1931) Dracula's Daughter Son of Dracula House of Frankenstein House of Dracula Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein Dracula (1931) - Spanish version
The Mummy Complete Legacy Collection:
The Mummy (1932) The Mummy's Hand The Mummy's Tomb The Mummy's Ghost The Mummy's Curse Abbott and Costello Meet The Mummy
And for additional details,...
The respective Complete Legacy Collection Blu-ray box sets for Dracula and The Mummy are scheduled for a May 16th release. Although the full list of films for each collection have not been announced, it's likely that they will contain the same films featured on the DVD versions:
Dracula Complete Legacy Collection:
Dracula (1931) Dracula's Daughter Son of Dracula House of Frankenstein House of Dracula Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein Dracula (1931) - Spanish version
The Mummy Complete Legacy Collection:
The Mummy (1932) The Mummy's Hand The Mummy's Tomb The Mummy's Ghost The Mummy's Curse Abbott and Costello Meet The Mummy
And for additional details,...
- 2/23/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
The Sundance hit acquired by Amazon Studios will open in limited release on June 23 ahead of wide roll-out on July 14.
The Big Sick co-writer Kumail Nanjiani – one half of the real-life love affair that inspired the story – stars alongside Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter and Ray Romano.
Michael Showalter directed The Big Sick, which premiered in Sundance. FilmNation represents international sales.
The 60th San Francisco International Film Festival will close with The Green Fog – A San Francisco Fantasia. The project is a new commission by the Film Society and Stanford Live in which the Kronos Quartet will perform a new score by Jacob Garchik to accompany a visual collage by Guy Maddin.South African drama Colors Of Heaven, the winner of two South African ‘Oscars’ at the Safta awards, premieres on Netflix on Wednesday [15]. The story of the fall and rise of South Africa black film star Muntu Ndebele stars Wandile Molebatsi, Jason Hartman...
The Big Sick co-writer Kumail Nanjiani – one half of the real-life love affair that inspired the story – stars alongside Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter and Ray Romano.
Michael Showalter directed The Big Sick, which premiered in Sundance. FilmNation represents international sales.
The 60th San Francisco International Film Festival will close with The Green Fog – A San Francisco Fantasia. The project is a new commission by the Film Society and Stanford Live in which the Kronos Quartet will perform a new score by Jacob Garchik to accompany a visual collage by Guy Maddin.South African drama Colors Of Heaven, the winner of two South African ‘Oscars’ at the Safta awards, premieres on Netflix on Wednesday [15]. The story of the fall and rise of South Africa black film star Muntu Ndebele stars Wandile Molebatsi, Jason Hartman...
- 2/14/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Amazon Studios has appointed Lionsgate as its theatrical distributor on the Sundance hit.
The Big Sick will open in limited release on June 23 ahead of wide roll-out on July 14.
Co-writer Kumail Nanjiani – one half of the real-life love affair that inspired the story – stars alongside Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter and Ray Romano.
Michael Showalter directed The Big Sick, which premiered in Sundance. FilmNation represents international sales.
The 60th San Francisco International Film Festival will close with The Green Fog – A San Francisco Fantasia. The project is a new commission by the Film Society and Stanford Live in which the Kronos Quartet will perform a new score by Jacob Garchik to accompany a visual collage by Guy Maddin.South African drama Colors Of Heaven, the winner of two South African ‘Oscars’ at the Safta awards, premieres on Netflix on Wednesday [15]. The story of the fall and rise of South Africa black film star Muntu Ndebele stars Wandile Molebatsi, Jason...
The Big Sick will open in limited release on June 23 ahead of wide roll-out on July 14.
Co-writer Kumail Nanjiani – one half of the real-life love affair that inspired the story – stars alongside Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter and Ray Romano.
Michael Showalter directed The Big Sick, which premiered in Sundance. FilmNation represents international sales.
The 60th San Francisco International Film Festival will close with The Green Fog – A San Francisco Fantasia. The project is a new commission by the Film Society and Stanford Live in which the Kronos Quartet will perform a new score by Jacob Garchik to accompany a visual collage by Guy Maddin.South African drama Colors Of Heaven, the winner of two South African ‘Oscars’ at the Safta awards, premieres on Netflix on Wednesday [15]. The story of the fall and rise of South Africa black film star Muntu Ndebele stars Wandile Molebatsi, Jason...
- 2/14/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio has announced its 2016-17 Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipients in performing arts and film/video. The recipients are Faye Driscoll (Performing Arts), John Canemaker (Film/Video), Kevin Jerome Everson (Film/Video), and Sam Green and Kronos Quartet (Film/Video). Selected by the center’s curators and director to fulfill the center’s role as a creative research laboratory for artists, the residency awards provide significant sums of money (from $25,000 to $100,000) and space — along with technical, intellectual and professional support — to develop new works on-site. Kelly Reichardt was the recipient of last year’s residency award, which she used […]...
- 10/3/2016
- by Paula Bernstein
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Chile is a long country. It takes 12 hours of bus travel from its capital, Santiago, to the city of Valdivia, where one of the most important festivals of the continent happens every October. It’s a two-hour trip by plane, and even that’s surprising considering that the average plane trip from Santiago to Mendoza, the nearest city in Argentina, is only 45 minutes long. So, Chile is also a narrow country, and when you live your entire life in it, one gets used to understand this complex piece of land in terms of dualities or pairs: contradicting forces that give this country its unique identity. For example, you have the dry and hot North (with the second most arid desert in the world), and the rainy cold South (where this festival takes place).To better understand the complex panorama and program that this year’s Valdivia festival had to offer,...
- 11/30/2015
- by Jaime Grijalba Gómez
- MUBI
While the visual aesthetic of Alejandro G. Inarritu's "The Revenant" will be steeped in the past, sonically the director going with a modern touch. We've already learned that experimental/minimalist composer Ryuichi Sakamoto will contributing music to the movie, and now a couple more names have been revealed. Read More: 'The Revenant' Author Michael Punke Is Not Allowed To Do Press For The Movie Bryce Dessner of indie titans The National and Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto are also working on music for the movie. The former, when he's not making everyone feel totally fucking bummed out, is an accomplished modern composer, and has released albums alongside Kronos Quartet and Jonny Greenwood. As for the latter, he's an electronic artist. All told, I'm really eager to hear the aural landscape of this movie and see show it works up against the gritty realism. "The Revenant" opens in limited release on Christmas Day.
- 10/21/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Controversial composer Alfred Schnittke was born November 24, 1934 in the Soviet Union's Volga Republic, an ethnic German enclave. In his mid-thirties he pioneered a broadly eclectic style of composing that drew on many classical styles (even sometimes quoting familiar Beethoven or Bach works, among others) as well as the occasional foray into jazz and pop. By 1972 his experimentalism had earned the disapproval of the Soviet Composers Union (the Soviets also weren't enamored of his occasional expressions of religion, for that matter), but a number of esteemed musicians who had left Russia to live in the West supported his work and brought him an international reputation. His work was basically pessimistic in outlook, but its emotional impact, and the accessibility of some of the styles he drew on, nonetheless seduced many listeners.
The contradictions in Schnittke's style are laid out in his liner notes to the Bis recording of his Symphony No.
The contradictions in Schnittke's style are laid out in his liner notes to the Bis recording of his Symphony No.
- 11/24/2014
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
A rescoring of Drive has caused online outrage, but Mark's keeping an open mind about musical reinterpretations
Movie music matters. It's tough to wax lyrical about why it matters without sounding like one of those autocue scripts that we'll be hearing all throughout the coming awards season, probably read out by unlikely pairs of presenters, (“Now, to present the award for Best Sound Editing, Justin Bieber and Angela Lansbury!”) so let's just say that it does.
Whether it's an original score from Hans Zimmer or a jukebox tour of Quentin Tarantino's record collection, a movie's soundtrack informs the tone and timbre of the movie itself. So when we get into the question of movie rescores, we're really getting back into that thorny issue of asking whether the director's original intentions are sacrosanct to any subsequent versions of a film. As some of you may already have guessed, we bring...
Movie music matters. It's tough to wax lyrical about why it matters without sounding like one of those autocue scripts that we'll be hearing all throughout the coming awards season, probably read out by unlikely pairs of presenters, (“Now, to present the award for Best Sound Editing, Justin Bieber and Angela Lansbury!”) so let's just say that it does.
Whether it's an original score from Hans Zimmer or a jukebox tour of Quentin Tarantino's record collection, a movie's soundtrack informs the tone and timbre of the movie itself. So when we get into the question of movie rescores, we're really getting back into that thorny issue of asking whether the director's original intentions are sacrosanct to any subsequent versions of a film. As some of you may already have guessed, we bring...
- 11/10/2014
- by sarahd
- Den of Geek
Trimpin (l.) and company prepare to unleash their inimatable music in The Sound of Invention.
Microcinema will release the 2009 music-themed documentary film Trimpin: The Sound of Invention, an exploration of the sonic world of the artist/inventor/engineer/composer Trimpin, on DVD on Aug. 30 for the list price of $29.95.
Regarded as an “outsider artist” eccentric who shuns the hype and hyperbole of the commercial art world, the German-born Trimpin has for the past three decades created a collection of freewheeling sculptures and outrageous musical experiments that have been exhibited in museums all over the world.
The first feature film produced and directed by Peter Esmonde, Trimpin was shot over a two-year period beginning in 2005 or so. The movie follows its subject as he designs a 60-foot tower of more than 500 automatic electric guitars, builds an ensemble of huge marimbas that converts real-time earthquake data into music and collaborates with the...
Microcinema will release the 2009 music-themed documentary film Trimpin: The Sound of Invention, an exploration of the sonic world of the artist/inventor/engineer/composer Trimpin, on DVD on Aug. 30 for the list price of $29.95.
Regarded as an “outsider artist” eccentric who shuns the hype and hyperbole of the commercial art world, the German-born Trimpin has for the past three decades created a collection of freewheeling sculptures and outrageous musical experiments that have been exhibited in museums all over the world.
The first feature film produced and directed by Peter Esmonde, Trimpin was shot over a two-year period beginning in 2005 or so. The movie follows its subject as he designs a 60-foot tower of more than 500 automatic electric guitars, builds an ensemble of huge marimbas that converts real-time earthquake data into music and collaborates with the...
- 7/21/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
I made a film called Trimpin: the sound of invention out of purely selfish concerns: I needed to document the most creative person I could find, to discover how they'd managed to survive in this society. And I was lucky enough to find Trimpin. Trimpin is a 50-something artist/inventor/engineer/composer who's built a tower of 700+ electric guitars; constructed a huge marimba ensemble, triggered by real-time seismic data; created an orbiting, silent musical instrument to perform perpetual motion experiments; collaborated and collided with the Kronos Quartet on a performance for toy instruments; etc. etc. Imagine: a genius German cuckoo-clock maker who's let his mainspring go wild. Imagine: Rube Goldberg dreaming Dadaist dreams of automated orchestras. Imagine: Dr. Funkenstein running amok through your local Home Depot. Just by the nature of who he is and what he hears, Trimpin (he uses only one name) cuts a wide...
- 5/15/2009
- by Peter Esmonde
- Huffington Post
Editor’s Note: This one of a series of interviews, conducted via email, with directors whose films will be screening at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival. “Trimpin: The Sound of Invention” Director: Peter Esmonde Enter the amusing, enthralling world of the eccentric sonic alchemist Trimpin as he explores the mysteries, pitfalls, and unexpected joys of musical experiment, with the assistance of the Kronos Quartet. [Courtesy of SXSW] “Trimpin: The Sound of Invention” …...
- 3/14/2009
- indieWIRE - People
To make Trimpin: The Sound of Invention, Peter Esmond followed the titular composer and sound/sculpture artist for two years, capturing his day-to-day process from scavenging at a junk yard to trying to convince the Kronos Quartet to smash their instruments. A clip of the latter scene is embedded below the jump, where Esmonde also talks about escaping corporate America, stalking Janet Pierson and how Trimpin might keep busy whilst in Austin. <param name=" ...
- 3/11/2009
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
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