Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s “There Is No Evil,” a drama about the impact of capital punishment on society and the human condition, won the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival on Saturday.
The seven-person festival jury, headed by Jeremy Irons, spread the prizes far and wide, with no single filmmaker dominating the awards.
American writer-director Eliza Hittman won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize for “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” a drama about teen pregnancy, while the Silver Bear for best director went to South Korea’s Hong Sang Soo for his Seoul-set drama “The Woman Who Ran.”
Rasoulof, who is unable to leave Iran due to a travel ban, faces a one-year prison sentence for “spreading propaganda.” The filmmaker released a statement on Friday expressing his sorrow at missing the premiere of “There Is No Evil”: “I am sorry that I will not be able...
The seven-person festival jury, headed by Jeremy Irons, spread the prizes far and wide, with no single filmmaker dominating the awards.
American writer-director Eliza Hittman won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize for “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” a drama about teen pregnancy, while the Silver Bear for best director went to South Korea’s Hong Sang Soo for his Seoul-set drama “The Woman Who Ran.”
Rasoulof, who is unable to leave Iran due to a travel ban, faces a one-year prison sentence for “spreading propaganda.” The filmmaker released a statement on Friday expressing his sorrow at missing the premiere of “There Is No Evil”: “I am sorry that I will not be able...
- 2/29/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
D.A. Pennebaker, the master documentary filmmaker who died Thursday at the age of 94, specialized in capturing rock & roll moments on film before they slipped away, from Bob Dylan in Dont Look Back to Depeche Mode in Depeche Mode 101. But if there’s one scene that sums up his legendary career, it’s this perfect moment from Monterey Pop — Mama Cass saying “wow” after seeing Janis Joplin sing “Ball and Chain.”
It’s 1967, the Summer of Love, the Monterey Pop Festival. The flower children have gathered in the California sun to...
It’s 1967, the Summer of Love, the Monterey Pop Festival. The flower children have gathered in the California sun to...
- 8/4/2019
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
D.A. Pennebaker, a director and cinematographer known for his documentaries, including the classic “Dont Look Back” (1967), “Monterey Pop” (1968) and “The War Room” (1993) and “Elaine Stritch at Liberty” (2002), died Thursday night of natural causes, Variety has confirmed. He was 94.
Pennebaker’s many other films included the 1973 David Bowie concert film “Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars,” 1989 Depeche Mode road movie “101” and “Down From the Mountain” (2000), about the musicians who performed the songs in the Coen Brothers’ film “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
Pennebaker won an honorary Oscar in 2013.
In a 1997 article the U.K.’s the Independent described Pennebaker as arguably the preeminent chronicler of ’60s counterculture.
Pennebaker did not reserve his camera exclusively for the musical arena, however.
He and his wife, Chris Hegedus, with whom he made most of his films in the past several decades, were Oscar nominated in 1994 for best documentary for “The War Room,” a witty,...
Pennebaker’s many other films included the 1973 David Bowie concert film “Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars,” 1989 Depeche Mode road movie “101” and “Down From the Mountain” (2000), about the musicians who performed the songs in the Coen Brothers’ film “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
Pennebaker won an honorary Oscar in 2013.
In a 1997 article the U.K.’s the Independent described Pennebaker as arguably the preeminent chronicler of ’60s counterculture.
Pennebaker did not reserve his camera exclusively for the musical arena, however.
He and his wife, Chris Hegedus, with whom he made most of his films in the past several decades, were Oscar nominated in 1994 for best documentary for “The War Room,” a witty,...
- 8/3/2019
- by Carmel Dagan
- Variety Film + TV
We love these products, and we hope you do too. E! has affiliate relationships, so we may get a small share of the revenue from your purchases. Items are sold by the retailer, not E!. While Woodstock 50 might not be happening, it's safe to say the Summer of Love is back this year anyway. Exhibit A: The tye-die trend. As What the Fashion hosts Morgan Stewart and Justin Martindale note in the video above, stars are dying over this look. Wondering how to rock this trend yourself without looking like an old-school hippie? Look no further. We've rounded out some fresh takes for you below. Subscribe to What the Fashion on Snapchat!
- 6/12/2019
- E! Online
1967 was the Summer of Love; 2019 might as well be the Summer of Dolls. Of course, we’re not talking about toys or attractive ladies, we’re talking about diminutive devils like Chucky, Annabelle, and Brahms, all of whom have feature films coming this June and July. Child’s Play arrives in theaters first on June 21st […] The post F*** Your Toy Story! Chucky Stomps Woody in Latest Poster for Child’S Play appeared first on Dread Central.
- 4/30/2019
- by Josh Millican
- DreadCentral.com
Monkees bassist and singer Peter Tork, who played with the group from their earliest days as a made-for-tv band in the Sixites through their recent reunion tours, died Thursday of unknown causes. He was 77. Tork’s sister, Anne Thorkelson confirmed the affable musician’s death to The Washington Post.
“I am told he slipped away peacefully,” his Monkee bandmate Michael Nesmith said in a statement. “Yet, as I write this my tears are awash, and my heart is broken. Even though I am clinging to the idea that we all continue,...
“I am told he slipped away peacefully,” his Monkee bandmate Michael Nesmith said in a statement. “Yet, as I write this my tears are awash, and my heart is broken. Even though I am clinging to the idea that we all continue,...
- 2/21/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Nick Broomfield’s longtime friendship with Marianne Ihlen is the point of entry for “Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love,” which tells the story of the ’60s romance between Norwegian divorcee Ihlen and Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. It was a relationship that cast a long shadow in both their lives, as well as in popular culture, though its sporadic nature also spoke to the era’s Free Love ethos and Cohen’s short-attention-span romanticism in particular. Broomfield, a dogged protagonist in films like “Tales of the Grim Sleeper” and “Tracking Down Maggie,” to name just a couple, pretty much keeps out of the way here, letting plentiful archival footage and a few latter-day interviewees (but neither Ihlen nor Cohen) tell the tale.
Since Cohen’s relentlessly self-reflective life has been amply documented, and Ihlen’s considerably less so, much of this ostensible dual portrait ends up being a recap of Cohen...
Since Cohen’s relentlessly self-reflective life has been amply documented, and Ihlen’s considerably less so, much of this ostensible dual portrait ends up being a recap of Cohen...
- 2/9/2019
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Dan Cooper Feb 7, 2019
Ahead of the much anticipated season 3, Dan looks at what 1960s-set prequel novel Suspicious Minds adds to the Stranger Things universe...
This Stranger Things article contains spoilers.
With Stranger Things 3 hitting screens this July, the third season of Netflix’s ratings juggernaut is ramping up for release with a spate of multimedia tie-ins. Comic books, a new video game, and the show’s first tie-in novel are all set to augment the wider universe beyond the 1980s setting of Hawkins, Indiana. Suspicious Minds, the tie-in novel by Gwenda Bond takes place in 1969, over a decade before the weird happenings in Hawkins, serving as a prequel for several of the show’s characters while also delving into the details of one of the more interesting corners of the Stranger Things universe, namely the dark government experimentation that led to Eleven, Kali, and others developing those strange and awesome powers.
Ahead of the much anticipated season 3, Dan looks at what 1960s-set prequel novel Suspicious Minds adds to the Stranger Things universe...
This Stranger Things article contains spoilers.
With Stranger Things 3 hitting screens this July, the third season of Netflix’s ratings juggernaut is ramping up for release with a spate of multimedia tie-ins. Comic books, a new video game, and the show’s first tie-in novel are all set to augment the wider universe beyond the 1980s setting of Hawkins, Indiana. Suspicious Minds, the tie-in novel by Gwenda Bond takes place in 1969, over a decade before the weird happenings in Hawkins, serving as a prequel for several of the show’s characters while also delving into the details of one of the more interesting corners of the Stranger Things universe, namely the dark government experimentation that led to Eleven, Kali, and others developing those strange and awesome powers.
- 2/7/2019
- Den of Geek
If you didn't watch (and then rewatch) the Netflix original movie To All the Boys I've Loved Before this Summer, it seems you were in the minority. Netflix has just revealed that the rom-com was one of the streaming service's "most viewed original films ever with strong repeat viewing."
It came during a Summer in which Netflix released a number of original movies, particularly romantic comedies, and though it had strong competition from the likes of Set it Up, Sierra Burgess is a Loser, and The Kissing Booth, Talbilb was definitely the runaway hit, mostly due to the adorable chemistry between its young stars Lana Condor and Noah Centineo. Fans soaked up every second of the sweet film, which even boosted sales of a certain probiotic drink.
Though Netflix doesn't release its exact ratings, it had a more fun way of highlighting the success of its original programming: by tracking...
It came during a Summer in which Netflix released a number of original movies, particularly romantic comedies, and though it had strong competition from the likes of Set it Up, Sierra Burgess is a Loser, and The Kissing Booth, Talbilb was definitely the runaway hit, mostly due to the adorable chemistry between its young stars Lana Condor and Noah Centineo. Fans soaked up every second of the sweet film, which even boosted sales of a certain probiotic drink.
Though Netflix doesn't release its exact ratings, it had a more fun way of highlighting the success of its original programming: by tracking...
- 10/17/2018
- by Gemma Cartwright
- Popsugar.com
Company to stop reporting free trial membership numbers by 2020.
Netflix bounced back in the third quarter to add 6.96m million global subscribers as revenue grew 36% to $4bn on earnings of 89 cents per share, ahead of what Wall Street expected.
Worldwide membership grew to 137m as the streaming service reported 5.87m new international and 1.1m Us subscribers for 78.6m and 58.4m, respectively. The report contrasted with a subdued second quarter when the company dipped well below expectations.
Shares rose more than 13% during after-hours trading following the report. Netflix brass attributed the growth to a popular original film To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before,...
Netflix bounced back in the third quarter to add 6.96m million global subscribers as revenue grew 36% to $4bn on earnings of 89 cents per share, ahead of what Wall Street expected.
Worldwide membership grew to 137m as the streaming service reported 5.87m new international and 1.1m Us subscribers for 78.6m and 58.4m, respectively. The report contrasted with a subdued second quarter when the company dipped well below expectations.
Shares rose more than 13% during after-hours trading following the report. Netflix brass attributed the growth to a popular original film To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before,...
- 10/17/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Netflix seems to have found its long-form goldmine: The streaming service disclosed as part of its Q3 earnings report Tuesday that more than 80 million of its subscribers from around the world watched one of its “Summer of Love” rom-coms over the past few months.
The company also singled out “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” as one of its “most viewed original films ever with strong repeat viewing.”
Netflix released a series original movies as part of its “Summer of Love” over the past few months, including “Set It Up,” “The Kissing Booth,” “Like Father,” “Sierra Burgess Is a Loser” and the aforementioned “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.” The company said Tuesday that it was already in production of “the next set of original rom-coms” for its members.
Netflix never shares any actual viewing metrics for single titles, but the company gave us another indicator...
The company also singled out “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” as one of its “most viewed original films ever with strong repeat viewing.”
Netflix released a series original movies as part of its “Summer of Love” over the past few months, including “Set It Up,” “The Kissing Booth,” “Like Father,” “Sierra Burgess Is a Loser” and the aforementioned “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.” The company said Tuesday that it was already in production of “the next set of original rom-coms” for its members.
Netflix never shares any actual viewing metrics for single titles, but the company gave us another indicator...
- 10/16/2018
- by Janko Roettgers
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix demonstrated that its second-quarter miss was an anomaly, reporting record third quarter subscriber growth.
The company added 7 million subscribers in the September, exceeding its conservative forecast for 5 million net additions to the service in the third quarter. Netflix added 1.09 million subscribers in the U.S., and 5.87 million internationally, bringing the total number of subscribers to 137 million.
Netflix reported earnings of 89 cents a share, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of 68 cents a share. Streaming revenue surged 36%, reaching nearly $4 billion in the quarter — a performance that matched Wall Street’s forecasts of $4 billion.
Investors reacted strongly to Netflix’s results, driving the stock up nearly 12% to $388.49 in after-hours trading.
Wall Street’s confidence took a hit after Netflix reported disappointing subscriber gains this spring, with the stock falling sharply in the next day’s trading. At the time, one analyst called the miss a “gut punch.”
“After handily blowing away Street expectations...
The company added 7 million subscribers in the September, exceeding its conservative forecast for 5 million net additions to the service in the third quarter. Netflix added 1.09 million subscribers in the U.S., and 5.87 million internationally, bringing the total number of subscribers to 137 million.
Netflix reported earnings of 89 cents a share, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of 68 cents a share. Streaming revenue surged 36%, reaching nearly $4 billion in the quarter — a performance that matched Wall Street’s forecasts of $4 billion.
Investors reacted strongly to Netflix’s results, driving the stock up nearly 12% to $388.49 in after-hours trading.
Wall Street’s confidence took a hit after Netflix reported disappointing subscriber gains this spring, with the stock falling sharply in the next day’s trading. At the time, one analyst called the miss a “gut punch.”
“After handily blowing away Street expectations...
- 10/16/2018
- by Dawn C. Chmielewski
- Deadline Film + TV
When Legends of Tomorrow season 4 debuts later this month, it’ll star a very different Waverider crew from this time last year. Even some of the familiar faces won’t be that familiar anymore. I mean, just check out the poster below and you’ll see what we mean.
With team captain Sara Lance at the head, the one-sheet also features returning characters like Atom, Heatwave, Zari and Steel. It reminds us that a few who recurred in season 3 have now been bumped up to regular status, too. Namely, Ava Sharpe, Nora Darhk and, best of all, the one and only John Constantine.
Last but not least, we have the interesting case of the character Maisie Richardson-Sellers is playing. Ever since season 2, the actress has been a fixture on Legends as Amaya Jiwe Aka Vixen. After the animal-summoning heroine left the time machine in season 3, though, Richardson-Sellers will be back as an all-new character.
With team captain Sara Lance at the head, the one-sheet also features returning characters like Atom, Heatwave, Zari and Steel. It reminds us that a few who recurred in season 3 have now been bumped up to regular status, too. Namely, Ava Sharpe, Nora Darhk and, best of all, the one and only John Constantine.
Last but not least, we have the interesting case of the character Maisie Richardson-Sellers is playing. Ever since season 2, the actress has been a fixture on Legends as Amaya Jiwe Aka Vixen. After the animal-summoning heroine left the time machine in season 3, though, Richardson-Sellers will be back as an all-new character.
- 10/1/2018
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
Louis Forster of the excellent Australian indie-pop band the Goon Sax started writing songs when he was seven years old, right after he got his grade-school-aged mind blown by Green Day’s American Idiot. He kept at it for years, but he never really felt comfortable sharing his work with anyone else — even his uniquely musical parents. His father, Robert Forster, was co-frontman of the Go-Betweens, one of the Eighties’ most acclaimed indie-pop bands; his mother, Karin Bäumler, was in the German group Baby You Know. “Songwriting is such a personal thing,...
- 9/20/2018
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
Famed street artist and graphic designer Shepard Fairey has unveiled a 15-story mural featuring the stoic image of Johnny Cash. Painted on the side of the Residence Inn by Marriott in downtown Sacramento, it is Fairey’s largest on display in the state of California. The image, interpreted from photographer Jim Marshall’s 1968 photo of Cash at the site of his famed performance at Folsom Prison ,commemorates the 50th anniversary of the release of that landmark live album, which was recorded during two shows Cash played there. The mural sets...
- 8/30/2018
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Fifty-one years ago this month, Capitol Records released the debut single by Mississippi-born singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry. Now, for the first time, all seven of Gentry’s studio albums will be re-mastered from the original tapes and available in a massive eight-disc collection. The Girl From Chickasaw County, out September 21st on Capitol/UMe, also features more than 75 previously unreleased recordings including Gentry’s “lost” jazz album, along with outtakes, demos and other rarities.
Amid the Summer of Love’s psychedelic hits (“San Francisco,” “White Rabbit.” “Light My Fire” and the like,...
Amid the Summer of Love’s psychedelic hits (“San Francisco,” “White Rabbit.” “Light My Fire” and the like,...
- 7/30/2018
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Following Demi Lovato’s apparent overdose, it’s difficult to imagine what it will take for her to get back on track again. However, veteran actor and fellow addict Kelsey Grammer has some thoughts. The leading man and his co-star in the upcoming Netflix film “Like Father”, Kristen Bell, sat down with Et’s Courtney Tezeno at the streaming service’s “Summer of Love” press...
- 7/30/2018
- by Shakiel Mahjouri
- ET Canada
They aren’t sprinting through a narrow street, laughing and tumbling over one another as they’re trailed by what appear to be hundreds of rabid teenyboppers. Nor are they charming Ed Sullivan and the American press corps, or comically falling down together in the snow while locked arm in arm, or walking to the armored car that will take them out of Candlestick Park after their last public performance – we’re way past all of that now. And they aren’t bickering in a studio or playing the single...
- 7/17/2018
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
“Summer of Love,” a new original musical from sibling producer duo Robyn and Donald Rosenfeld, has found its writer. Ben Fong-Torres, known for his journalistic work at Rolling Stone magazine, has signed on to pen the book for the show, which is partly inspired by his time living in 1960s San Francisco.
“I was surprised, to put it mildly, but also thrilled to hear from the Rosenfelds, and surprised to be asked to write a musical,” Fong-Torres said. “I thought they must’ve been high.”
No stranger to writing, Fong-Torres made a name for himself covering high-profile music events, including controversial concerts at the Fillmore and various rock festivals during a decade marked by conflict and activism. He was also a senior editor at the magazine for years, and his no-nonsense style is famously depicted in Cameron Crowe’s loosely autobiographical 2000 film “Almost Famous” (Fong-Torres edited many of Crowe’s...
“I was surprised, to put it mildly, but also thrilled to hear from the Rosenfelds, and surprised to be asked to write a musical,” Fong-Torres said. “I thought they must’ve been high.”
No stranger to writing, Fong-Torres made a name for himself covering high-profile music events, including controversial concerts at the Fillmore and various rock festivals during a decade marked by conflict and activism. He was also a senior editor at the magazine for years, and his no-nonsense style is famously depicted in Cameron Crowe’s loosely autobiographical 2000 film “Almost Famous” (Fong-Torres edited many of Crowe’s...
- 6/9/2018
- by Christi Carras
- Variety Film + TV
Even though we just heard about some new casting announcements from Quentin Tarantino‘s latest film just yesterday, it seems that the ever-growing cast of ‘Once Upon A Time in Hollywood‘ has recruited another legendary actor–Al Pacino. That’s right, Pacino is set to play Martin Shwarz, the agent of Leonardo DiCaprio’s washed-up TV actor Rick Dalton who used to star in westerns. Although the report (via Variety) doesn’t say how big Pacino’s role would be in the film, it’s easy to assume that it’s more of a bit part and less of a leading role.
Regardless of how big the role is, the Prospect of Tarantino working with Pacino is supremely promising to say the least. At the same time, it’s hard to predict what the role might incur since we don’t reallyy know much about the project. The film, which Tarantino is writing,...
Regardless of how big the role is, the Prospect of Tarantino working with Pacino is supremely promising to say the least. At the same time, it’s hard to predict what the role might incur since we don’t reallyy know much about the project. The film, which Tarantino is writing,...
- 6/7/2018
- by Taylor Salan
- Age of the Nerd
With a June 1 date at Philadelphia’s Sugar House Casino, The B-52s – the toast of Athens, Ga and avatars of the dance-punk movement – officially kicked off its 40th anniversary summer tour. That The Bs founding brain trust of Kate Pierson, Fred Schneider and Cindy Wilson was, and is, still intact, energetically performing their fun, frantic classics, drove the Philly audience to zealously enthusiastic and participatory action.
Forty years after they dropped their first single – “Rock Lobster,” recorded for Db Records – Schneider’s fiercely playful call to action to go “Down, down… Let’s rock” still inspired a sold-out roomful of fans to snorkel and crumble in place.
“We all still laugh at the same things and have a sense of each other — and the absurd — that influences each other,” said Schneider just before the Sugar House show. “I would never dream of doing it this long if I didn...
Forty years after they dropped their first single – “Rock Lobster,” recorded for Db Records – Schneider’s fiercely playful call to action to go “Down, down… Let’s rock” still inspired a sold-out roomful of fans to snorkel and crumble in place.
“We all still laugh at the same things and have a sense of each other — and the absurd — that influences each other,” said Schneider just before the Sugar House show. “I would never dream of doing it this long if I didn...
- 6/4/2018
- by A.D. Amorosi
- Variety Film + TV
Milos Forman celebrated the non-conformist, lionizing the likes of Randle McMurphy, Larry Flynt, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and others who just couldn’t be bothered to give a damn about convention. But what made the director’s films great was that he also showed the toll that kind of iconoclasm takes on revolutionaries.
It was something that he knew firsthand. Forman, who died Saturday at the age of 86, spent his formative years in Communist-dominated Czechoslovakia. He made a name for himself with 1967’s “The Fireman’s Ball,” a satire of small-town grift that also, by proxy, lampooned the corruption of the East European Communist system. Forman would go into exile a year later after the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the period of political liberalization known as the Prague Spring.
That sense of the power of institutions to crush radicals and truth-tellers permeated the rest of Forman’s work and may be the reason that,...
It was something that he knew firsthand. Forman, who died Saturday at the age of 86, spent his formative years in Communist-dominated Czechoslovakia. He made a name for himself with 1967’s “The Fireman’s Ball,” a satire of small-town grift that also, by proxy, lampooned the corruption of the East European Communist system. Forman would go into exile a year later after the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the period of political liberalization known as the Prague Spring.
That sense of the power of institutions to crush radicals and truth-tellers permeated the rest of Forman’s work and may be the reason that,...
- 4/15/2018
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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