Vaclav Marhoul’s adaptation of Jerzy Kosinsky’s novel The Painted Bird has been on quite a journey. The film took more than a decade to be made and it premiered at the 2019 Venice Film Festival where it was honored with the Cinema for Unicef Award before debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival. The pic was also Czech Republic’s international Oscar entry for 2019. Now, the black and white drama starring Stella Skarsgard, Harvey Keitel, Julian Sands and Udo Kier hits VOD today.
Shot on 35mm in CinemaScope, The Painted Bird is set in Eastern Europe towards the end of World War II. The story follows the journey of a character referred to as “The Boy,” who is entrusted by his persecuted parents to an elderly foster mother. When the old woman dies, The Boy ventures off on his own, wandering through the countryside. As he struggles for survival,...
Shot on 35mm in CinemaScope, The Painted Bird is set in Eastern Europe towards the end of World War II. The story follows the journey of a character referred to as “The Boy,” who is entrusted by his persecuted parents to an elderly foster mother. When the old woman dies, The Boy ventures off on his own, wandering through the countryside. As he struggles for survival,...
- 7/17/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Rodney Crowell could have spent a lifetime writing an album about Texas. In a way, he has. Though the Grammy-winning Americana storyteller left the Lone Star State for Music City in 1972, he’s returned to it time and again for inspiration in the decades since, from his 2001 LP The Houston Kid to his 2011 memoir Chinaberry Sidewalks. But Crowell owes his latest album, Texas, to a song called “Brown & Root, Brown & Root,” and a conversation it started between him and Steve Earle.
“I wrote that back in the Seventies and Steve learned it.
“I wrote that back in the Seventies and Steve learned it.
- 8/24/2019
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
Texas natives Rodney Crowell and Randy Rogers go full Lone Star on the new collaboration “Flatland Hillbillies,” which will appear on Crowell’s upcoming album Texas. The video for the tune, which Crowell wrote with author Mary Karr, is out now.
Over a muscular, country-rock groove, Crowell describes a kind of hardscrabble existence for people from where he grew up, affectionately referring to them an “Irish-Cajun-Creole-Mix.” In true Texas fashion, they’re making it work by whatever means necessary: “getting by on what we can,” sings Crowell, with some vocal...
Over a muscular, country-rock groove, Crowell describes a kind of hardscrabble existence for people from where he grew up, affectionately referring to them an “Irish-Cajun-Creole-Mix.” In true Texas fashion, they’re making it work by whatever means necessary: “getting by on what we can,” sings Crowell, with some vocal...
- 6/24/2019
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
In the first episode of its new series Unearthed, instrument company Ernie Ball visits Americana songwriter Rodney Crowell at his Nashville home to discuss the Texas-born Grammy winner’s success in his adopted hometown and capture him in intimate performance.
The 15-minute documentary opens with footage of Crowell performing his Close Ties track “I Don’t Care Anymore,” with glimpses of the art and music memorabilia peppered throughout his home. Crowell then shares how he first got a record deal and moved to Nashville as a young artist.
“A friend...
The 15-minute documentary opens with footage of Crowell performing his Close Ties track “I Don’t Care Anymore,” with glimpses of the art and music memorabilia peppered throughout his home. Crowell then shares how he first got a record deal and moved to Nashville as a young artist.
“A friend...
- 12/3/2018
- by Brittney McKenna
- Rollingstone.com
For the past 41 years, Rodney Crowell’s holiday traditions have included reading Clement C. Moore’s iconic 19th century poem, “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (or “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”), to his children and grandchildren on Christmas Eve. This year the singer-songwriter adds a soundtrack to that tradition in the form of his first-ever holiday-themed LP, Christmas Everywhere, out November 2nd on New West Records.
Featuring a dozen original tunes by the Texas-born tunesmith, the album, produced by Dan Knobler, features guest appearances from Vince Gill, Lera Lynn, Brennen Leigh,...
Featuring a dozen original tunes by the Texas-born tunesmith, the album, produced by Dan Knobler, features guest appearances from Vince Gill, Lera Lynn, Brennen Leigh,...
- 9/6/2018
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Each month, the fine folks at FilmStruck and the Criterion Collection spend countless hours crafting their channels to highlight the many different types of films that they have in their streaming library. This December will feature an exciting assortment of films, as noted below.
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Monday, January 1
Anatomy of a Murder*: Edition #600
A virtuoso James Stewart plays a small-town Michigan lawyer who takes on a difficult case: the defense of a young army lieutenant (Ben Gazzara) accused of murdering a local tavern owner who he believes raped his wife (Lee Remick). Featuring an outstanding supporting cast-with a young George C. Scott as a fiery prosecutor and the legendary attorney Joseph N. Welch as the judge – and an influential score by Duke Ellington, this gripping envelope-pusher was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex. But more than anything else, it...
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Monday, January 1
Anatomy of a Murder*: Edition #600
A virtuoso James Stewart plays a small-town Michigan lawyer who takes on a difficult case: the defense of a young army lieutenant (Ben Gazzara) accused of murdering a local tavern owner who he believes raped his wife (Lee Remick). Featuring an outstanding supporting cast-with a young George C. Scott as a fiery prosecutor and the legendary attorney Joseph N. Welch as the judge – and an influential score by Duke Ellington, this gripping envelope-pusher was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex. But more than anything else, it...
- 1/5/2018
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
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