From the archives of NY-based filmmaker Ed DuRante whose work has been highlighted on this site in the past - most recently, Tambay's enthusiastic write-up of Ed's last feature film, Jake Gets Paid a couple of years ago. A 2001 thought-provoking short film Ed recently uploaded to YouTube and shared on Twitter, titled America. Description: A glimpse at the New York City art scene, where sex and money are more important than a Black painter's talent. Watch the 8 1/2-minute short film below:...
- 1/13/2013
- by Courtney
- ShadowAndAct
Previously unheard showtunes composed by author Anthony Burgess are said to recall West Side Story
Songs from a musical adaptation of A Clockwork Orange are to be performed for the first time next year. Written by author Anthony Burgess, the ultraviolent showtunes will premiere in Manchester next summer.
Burgess, who died in 1993, started working on a stage version of A Clockwork Orange a decade after Stanley Kubrick's controversial 1971 film adaptation. "The reason why Burgess wanted to make his own stage adaptation, quite a long time after Kubrick made the film, was to assert his ownership of the story," Dr Andrew Biswell, director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, told BBC News. Although the Royal Shakespeare Company premiered a production based on Burgess's script in 1990, his songs were replaced with compositions by U2's Bono and The Edge.
Despite his dark tale of delinquency, Burgess's songs aren't so grim. "It's...
Songs from a musical adaptation of A Clockwork Orange are to be performed for the first time next year. Written by author Anthony Burgess, the ultraviolent showtunes will premiere in Manchester next summer.
Burgess, who died in 1993, started working on a stage version of A Clockwork Orange a decade after Stanley Kubrick's controversial 1971 film adaptation. "The reason why Burgess wanted to make his own stage adaptation, quite a long time after Kubrick made the film, was to assert his ownership of the story," Dr Andrew Biswell, director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, told BBC News. Although the Royal Shakespeare Company premiered a production based on Burgess's script in 1990, his songs were replaced with compositions by U2's Bono and The Edge.
Despite his dark tale of delinquency, Burgess's songs aren't so grim. "It's...
- 7/20/2011
- by Sean Michaels
- The Guardian - Film News
I’ve been wanting to do this for some time – a periodically (maybe annually) updated list of up-and-coming black filmmakers, especially those working mostly outside the mainstream; something we could call “black filmmakers to watch,” preceded by a year, not-so unlike Filmmaker magazine’s annual “25 New Faces of Independent Film” list.
As I’ve already made known on this blog, I’m not necessarily a fan of lists, especially ranked lists where the arts are concerned.
However, I do see Some value in providing black cinema enthusiasts like yourselves (or cinema enthusiasts regardless of race) with the names of noteworthy black filmmakers who may otherwise go unnoticed by the the mainstream press, and even indie film publications like Filmmaker magazine. We’re celebrating those black filmmakers… propping them up, you could say. If a site like ours doesn’t do that, we certainly can’t complain when more prominent media outlets don’t.
As I’ve already made known on this blog, I’m not necessarily a fan of lists, especially ranked lists where the arts are concerned.
However, I do see Some value in providing black cinema enthusiasts like yourselves (or cinema enthusiasts regardless of race) with the names of noteworthy black filmmakers who may otherwise go unnoticed by the the mainstream press, and even indie film publications like Filmmaker magazine. We’re celebrating those black filmmakers… propping them up, you could say. If a site like ours doesn’t do that, we certainly can’t complain when more prominent media outlets don’t.
- 7/9/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
This is a follow-up to my post a little bit ago urging black filmmakers with mostly unseen feature films to contact me, so that we can profile their films here…
One of the films I received is called Jake Gets Paid, a 2009 film written and directed by Ed DuRante of The Leagues – the group of Nyu Mfa grads who brought you the feature film, 6 Things I Never Told You, which we’ve talked about previously on this blog, and which we screened here in New York City to packed houses. I actually profiled Jake Gets Paid on Shadow And Act last year, but the film disappeared soon thereafter, and I’d forgotten about it… until recently, with Ed telling me a week or so ago that he’s planning on self-releasing the film some time soon, hopefully; although it’ll be an extremely limited release, possibly followed by an online presence.
One of the films I received is called Jake Gets Paid, a 2009 film written and directed by Ed DuRante of The Leagues – the group of Nyu Mfa grads who brought you the feature film, 6 Things I Never Told You, which we’ve talked about previously on this blog, and which we screened here in New York City to packed houses. I actually profiled Jake Gets Paid on Shadow And Act last year, but the film disappeared soon thereafter, and I’d forgotten about it… until recently, with Ed telling me a week or so ago that he’s planning on self-releasing the film some time soon, hopefully; although it’ll be an extremely limited release, possibly followed by an online presence.
- 6/29/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Ed DuRanté is member of The Leagues, the team of filmmakers who brought you 6 Things I Never Told You, a film I previously plugged on this blog, and which many of you saw when we screened it at Bam theatres here in New York!
Now, Ed needs your help in voting him into one of 5 slots who will be flown to New Zealand to produce their submission idea with a given budget of Nz$100,000 (or about $75,000), with the help of a small crew and Peter Jackson’s post-production facilities in Wellington. The five completed three-minute films will then be viewed and judged by Peter Jackson, and the winning film will run on Us television in 2010.
What do you have to do to help? Follow the link below, read Ed’s short script submission, watch his video introduction, and, if you like it (or even if you don’t), vote for Ed!
Now, Ed needs your help in voting him into one of 5 slots who will be flown to New Zealand to produce their submission idea with a given budget of Nz$100,000 (or about $75,000), with the help of a small crew and Peter Jackson’s post-production facilities in Wellington. The five completed three-minute films will then be viewed and judged by Peter Jackson, and the winning film will run on Us television in 2010.
What do you have to do to help? Follow the link below, read Ed’s short script submission, watch his video introduction, and, if you like it (or even if you don’t), vote for Ed!
- 1/12/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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