Bob Geldof has revealed plans for a fourth version of the U.K. charity single Do They Know It's Christmas, designed to fight the Ebola epidemic, featuring several big stars in the latest version of Band Aid. Bono, Ellie Goulding, One Direction, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Underworld, Sinead O'Connor, Bastille and Elbow will all lend their voices to the charity single, with more acts to be announced before the recording session in London on Saturday. Paul Epworth, who has worked with Adele and One Direction, will produce. "We called up some of the giants of the past and our own
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- 11/10/2014
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Iggy Azalea has tumbled off the stage during an MTV Video Music Awards benefit concert. There is no immediate word if the Australian rapper was injured. Azalea fell off the stage Friday night while performing her hit "Fancy" at The Avalon in Los Angeles. Security guards quickly pulled Azalea back onto the stage, and she barely missed a beat as Charli Xcx joined her for the chart-topping single. Afterward Azalea told the crowd she felt "very blessed" that she did not break her legs. She appeared unharmed and in good spirits, even posting a video of the fall on Instagram.
- 8/23/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
Iggy Azalea has tumbled off the stage during an MTV Video Music Awards benefit concert. There is no immediate word if the Australian rapper was injured. Azalea fell off the stage Friday night while performing her hit "Fancy" at The Avalon in Los Angeles. Security guards quickly pulled Azalea back onto the stage, and she barely missed a beat as Charli Xcx joined her for the chart-topping single. Afterward Azalea told the crowd she felt "very blessed" that she did not break her legs. She appeared unharmed and in good spirits, even posting a video of the fall on Instagram.
- 8/23/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
Surprise! It is already time for another MTV Video Music Awards. (Yes, it has been a year since the Great Miley Incident.) The 2014 festivities begin this Sunday — August 24 — at 9 p.m. Et, and MTV has promised us performances from Ariana Grande, Iggy Azalea, Maroon 5, Nicki Minaj, Sam Smith, Usher, 5 Seconds of Summer, and Beyoncé. Naturally, here at Vulture, we're gearing up to play along. Join us Sunday night for a red-carpet slideshow; live-tweeting from Vulture's Lindsey Weber and Jesse David Fox over @Vulture; a live-blog from Vulture music critic Lindsay Zoladz; and the most crucial GIFs, videos, and audience reaction shots as they happen. Afterwards, we'll be back with our postshow thoughts, the best frozen moments, and a slew of photos from the after-parties. We'll be busy. Join us!
- 8/22/2014
- by Vulture Editors
- Vulture
The MTV Video Music Awards are back on the West Coast this Sunday following 2013's quick visit to Brooklyn. No matter: The lineup promises performances from Maroon 5, Sam Smith, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj, Taylor Swift, and Iggy Azalea. It's a 2013–14 time capsule, which is what the VMAs do best. Just look at past award shows: Each contained at least one moment that could serve as a microcosm for what was "cool” in that particular year. Don’t believe us? We'll prove it. Proceed.
- 8/21/2014
- by Lindsey Weber,Maya Robinson,Jed Egan
- Vulture
Our predictions for Sunday's winners at the MTV Video Music Awards are based upon a combination of three sets of forecasts at Gold Derby: Editors, Top 24 Users (highest scorers predicting last year's awards) and All Users. Our forecasted champs are in gold while potential spoilers are in italics. Click on each category title to be taken to an overview of that race. -Break- Miley Cyrus will finally win at MTV VMAs, and it'll be Video of the Year Video Of The Year "Wrecking Ball," Miley Cyrus Spoiler: "Drunk in Love," Beyonce feat. Jay-z Best Male Video "Happy," Pharrell Williams Spoiler: "The Monster," Eminem feat. Rihanna Best Female Video "Fancy," Iggy Azalea feat. Charli Xcx Spoiler: "Partition," Beyonce Artist To Watch "She Looks So Perfect," 5 Seconds of Summer Spoiler: "Stay with Me," Sam Smith Best Pop Video ...'...
- 8/21/2014
- Gold Derby
Miley Cyrus is returning to the scene of the crime. I can exclusively reveal that the "We Can't Stop" singer will be attending the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday in L.A. If for some reason you forgot, it was at last year's show that Cyrus and Robin Thicke shocked the world with their controversial twerk-filled duet. A rep for MTV confirms that Cyrus will be in attendance at this year's Moonman awards. The show will open with a performance of "Bang, Bang" with Jessie J, Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande. Taylor Swift is also on the roster as is Beyoncé, who is receiving the Video Vanguard Award. Sam Smith will make his U.S. award show debut with "Stay...
- 8/21/2014
- E! Online
The 31st annual MTV Video Music Awards airs live on Sunday, August 24 at 9 p.m. Et.
If you don't have access to a television, no worries. You can catch the live stream here on MTV's website from your computer or tablet.
Beyoncé and breakout star Iggy Azalea lead the way with eight nominations a piece, including a Video of the Year nod for both the American singer and the Australian rapper. In addition to performing, Beyoncé will also be taking home this year's Video Vanguard Award, which honors musicians who have made a lasting impact on pop culture.
Other artists performing include Ariana Grande, Maroon 5, Usher, Taylor Swift, Sam Smith, Nicki Minaj, and more. If you recall, when Minaj won Best Female Hip-Hop Artist at the Bet Awards over Azalea earlier this year, she threw major shade the Australian's way. Considering the artists aren't going head to head at the VMAs,...
If you don't have access to a television, no worries. You can catch the live stream here on MTV's website from your computer or tablet.
Beyoncé and breakout star Iggy Azalea lead the way with eight nominations a piece, including a Video of the Year nod for both the American singer and the Australian rapper. In addition to performing, Beyoncé will also be taking home this year's Video Vanguard Award, which honors musicians who have made a lasting impact on pop culture.
Other artists performing include Ariana Grande, Maroon 5, Usher, Taylor Swift, Sam Smith, Nicki Minaj, and more. If you recall, when Minaj won Best Female Hip-Hop Artist at the Bet Awards over Azalea earlier this year, she threw major shade the Australian's way. Considering the artists aren't going head to head at the VMAs,...
- 8/20/2014
- by Moviefone Staff
- Moviefone
Everyone in Warsaw stops and stands still on Aug. 1 to remember the Warsaw Uprising. This is what happened on that day this year. Stephen Colbert weighs in on the Orlando Bloom-Justin Bieber fight in Ibiza, Spain. Yes, he thinks it's as silly as you do. Speaking of Stephen, he also shared some heartwarming advice to young women in Rookie Mag's ongoing "Ask a Grown Man" series. He weighs in on boys, sexual harassment, and how to not ask your father for permission to sleep with your boyfriend. This spoiled little deer wants to stay in this guy's arms forever. Listen to the most creative cover of Aladdin's "Prince Ali" ever made. Chris Messina and Dianna Agron star in the new music video for Sam Smith's "I'm Not the Only One." Warning: it's pretty heartbreaking. Jimmy Fallon threw a bunch of giant balls at Julia Roberts's face.
- 8/1/2014
- by Maria-Mercedes-Lara
- Popsugar.com
Sam Smith is bringing on the heartache in the video for the sultry “I’m Not The Only One,” the British crooner’s follow-up to top 10 hit, “Stay With Me.” The Luke Monaghan-directed clip inly features Smith briefly; otherwise keeping the focus on the drama that unfolds between a wife, played by “Glee’s” Dianna Agron, and her cheating husband, portrayed by “The Mindy Project’s” Chris Messina. Agron seems perfectly oblivious at first, but as we quickly see, she just has a good game face and is keeping up appearances. However, in private, she crumbles. After guzzling a bottle of wine, she continues to trail her husband, eager to catch him in the act. And he’s in the act, all right. Things get pretty steamy between Messina and her lover. And they’re heating up for Agron as well, as she burns his clothes right there on the lawn.
- 8/1/2014
- by Melinda Newman
- Hitfix
Infidelity is an ugly, wretched subject, but at least Sam Smith has given it a beautiful soundtrack. The 22-year-old British singer-songwriter released a video for his new single “I'm Not the Only One” Friday, which features “Glee's” Dianna Agron as a scorned bride and “The Mindy Project's” Chris Messina as the cause of and cure for her heartache. See video: Peyton Manning Dances, We Think, to ‘Rocky Top’ at a Denver Broncos Practice “You say I'm crazy,” Smith sings while Agron's character pieces together her husband's indiscretions. “‘Cause you don't think I know what you've done. But when you call me baby,...
- 8/1/2014
- by Travis Reilly
- The Wrap
Prepare for cuteness overload!
Hilary Duff is opening up about her son Luca—and ETonline has your exclusive insight!
The former Disney starlet is returning to her root at Radio Disney Friday afternoon, to discuss her brand new single, "Chasing the Sun," and what it's like stepping back into the singing spotlight. The 26-year-old also dished on the biggest change in her life since last visiting the hit Disney station: her son Luca!
Radio Disney is giving ETonline viewers an exclusive sneak peek of Duff's refreshingly candid August 1interview, and you had all better brace yourselves because you're about to be hit with an excess of adorable. So what does little Luca think of his momma's catchy summer single, and is he on the track to follow in Duff's singing footsteps?
Read on for the all the darling details…
Related: Hilary Duff Opens Up About 'Difficult' Mike Comrie Split
Duff revealed that lately, her two-year-old...
Hilary Duff is opening up about her son Luca—and ETonline has your exclusive insight!
The former Disney starlet is returning to her root at Radio Disney Friday afternoon, to discuss her brand new single, "Chasing the Sun," and what it's like stepping back into the singing spotlight. The 26-year-old also dished on the biggest change in her life since last visiting the hit Disney station: her son Luca!
Radio Disney is giving ETonline viewers an exclusive sneak peek of Duff's refreshingly candid August 1interview, and you had all better brace yourselves because you're about to be hit with an excess of adorable. So what does little Luca think of his momma's catchy summer single, and is he on the track to follow in Duff's singing footsteps?
Read on for the all the darling details…
Related: Hilary Duff Opens Up About 'Difficult' Mike Comrie Split
Duff revealed that lately, her two-year-old...
- 8/1/2014
- Entertainment Tonight
Evil husband Chris Messina, the alter-ego to The Mindy Project's Danny, stars in Sam Smith's new video for "I'm Not the Only One" — cheating on Glee's Dianna Agron, who wears runny mascara and drinks white wine from the bottle. Oof. A bit heavy-handed in its interpretation of adultery, but it's hard to fight with the best song on Sam Smith's debut, In the Lonely Hour. Can Agron go all Beyoncé next time, please?...
- 8/1/2014
- by Lindsey Weber
- Vulture
1. Nebraska
It’s simplicity itself, but it’s also perfection. A vertical portrait in rich black and bright white, the poster complements Alexander Payne’s widescreen, greyscale road trip rather than trying to emulate it. Bruce Dern’s Woody Grant—whose grizzled outline, with its shock of white hair like a wheat field on fire, is all we see—is a man in his twilight years, a man fading away. An enigma even to his family, his silhouette looks like a question mark. The poster comes from Blt Communications, the studio responsible for the American Hustle campaign and numerous multi-character big budget assaults on America’s billboards. When I first saw it I assumed it was a teaser that would eventually be superseded by something more conventional, but I’m impressed that Paramount Vantage kept it as their chief campaign. You only have to see the Japanese poster to see...
It’s simplicity itself, but it’s also perfection. A vertical portrait in rich black and bright white, the poster complements Alexander Payne’s widescreen, greyscale road trip rather than trying to emulate it. Bruce Dern’s Woody Grant—whose grizzled outline, with its shock of white hair like a wheat field on fire, is all we see—is a man in his twilight years, a man fading away. An enigma even to his family, his silhouette looks like a question mark. The poster comes from Blt Communications, the studio responsible for the American Hustle campaign and numerous multi-character big budget assaults on America’s billboards. When I first saw it I assumed it was a teaser that would eventually be superseded by something more conventional, but I’m impressed that Paramount Vantage kept it as their chief campaign. You only have to see the Japanese poster to see...
- 12/14/2013
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
Little Mix and James Arthur are among the artists confirmed for the 2013 festive editions of Top of the Pops.
Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates will present the two hour-long shows, which will be recorded at Riverside Studios.
Top of the Pops Christmas screens on December 25 at 2pm and features John Newman, One Republic, Ellie Goulding, Tom Odell, Jessie J, Chase & Status feat Moko, Rizzle Kicks, Rudimental, James Blunt, Naughty Boy feat Sam Smith and The Saturdays, together with special guests Boyzone.
Top of the Pops New Year screens on December 31 at 5.30pm and features Little Mix, The 1975, The Vamps, Tinie Tempah feat John Martin, James Arthur, Ellie Goulding, Jessie J, John Newman, Chase & Status feat Jacob Banks and London Grammar.
"Rather like Christmas dinner, falling asleep in front of the telly and celebrating with family, hosting Top of the Pops is fast becoming a yearly tradition for me and one...
Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates will present the two hour-long shows, which will be recorded at Riverside Studios.
Top of the Pops Christmas screens on December 25 at 2pm and features John Newman, One Republic, Ellie Goulding, Tom Odell, Jessie J, Chase & Status feat Moko, Rizzle Kicks, Rudimental, James Blunt, Naughty Boy feat Sam Smith and The Saturdays, together with special guests Boyzone.
Top of the Pops New Year screens on December 31 at 5.30pm and features Little Mix, The 1975, The Vamps, Tinie Tempah feat John Martin, James Arthur, Ellie Goulding, Jessie J, John Newman, Chase & Status feat Jacob Banks and London Grammar.
"Rather like Christmas dinner, falling asleep in front of the telly and celebrating with family, hosting Top of the Pops is fast becoming a yearly tradition for me and one...
- 12/4/2013
- Digital Spy
Disclosure headlined a swell show at New York's Central Park yesterday as part of SummerStage, offering attendees a one-two punch of dance music that's about as diverse as possible. If both acts hadn't performed so commendably, the combination of Tnght's hard-driving, hip-hop inspired trap ("Blood on the Leaves," a track on Kanye West's "Yeezus," is actually just the entirety of Tnght's "R U Ready" with a Nina Simone sample laid over it) and Disclosure's airy, easy listening party would have been a jarring mix.
Tnght, who took over the decks from British opener Julio Bashmore, are Hudson Mohawke and Lunice, two of the most highly regarded producers on edge between Southern-inspired hip-hop elements and dance music's hardest genres. While there are plenty of electronic dance music acts currently brick-walling their way through uninspired but "face-melting" drops, HudMo and Lunice impress because their productions have a high level of musicality to them.
Tnght, who took over the decks from British opener Julio Bashmore, are Hudson Mohawke and Lunice, two of the most highly regarded producers on edge between Southern-inspired hip-hop elements and dance music's hardest genres. While there are plenty of electronic dance music acts currently brick-walling their way through uninspired but "face-melting" drops, HudMo and Lunice impress because their productions have a high level of musicality to them.
- 8/7/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Anne Keothavong has announced her retirement from tennis and move to broadcasting with BT Sport.
The 29-year-old former British number one joins Lynsey Hipgrave, Sam Smith and Martina Navratilova to cover the 21 Women's Tennis Association (Wta) tournaments for BT Sport.
This includes the five Premier Wta tournaments in Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid, Beijing and Istanbul.
"I have given my decision a lot of thought and I believe this is the right time to move on to the next stage of my career," said Keothavong.
"I think I am leaving tennis in excellent shape, with both Laura Robson and Heather Watson leading the way for Britain in the women's game.
"I am now focussing on my exciting new challenge with BT Sport where I hope I can provide insight and analysis for tennis fans."
Director of BT Sport Simon Green said: "We are particularly pleased to have signed up Anne for our tennis team.
The 29-year-old former British number one joins Lynsey Hipgrave, Sam Smith and Martina Navratilova to cover the 21 Women's Tennis Association (Wta) tournaments for BT Sport.
This includes the five Premier Wta tournaments in Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid, Beijing and Istanbul.
"I have given my decision a lot of thought and I believe this is the right time to move on to the next stage of my career," said Keothavong.
"I think I am leaving tennis in excellent shape, with both Laura Robson and Heather Watson leading the way for Britain in the women's game.
"I am now focussing on my exciting new challenge with BT Sport where I hope I can provide insight and analysis for tennis fans."
Director of BT Sport Simon Green said: "We are particularly pleased to have signed up Anne for our tennis team.
- 7/24/2013
- Digital Spy
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Disclosure are an English duo specialising in Deep House and Electro. The group is made up of two brothers; Guy and Howard Lawrence. Their latest album “Settle” has been no.1 in the UK album charts and their biggest hit so far has been ‘White Noise’ which made it to no.2 in the UK top 40, and no.1 in the UK Dance chart. So let’s have a look at what the deluxe edition has to offer…
The album starts off with a track which is titled ‘Intro’. This acts as a prequel to ‘When a Fire Starts to Burn’. After the initial vocals the song drops into a funky electro beat. It falls quite nicely into the new Deep House movement which seems to be spreading around the bars and clubs. ‘Latch’ was the first single released off this album and features vocals from Sam Smith. It managed to achieve no.
Disclosure are an English duo specialising in Deep House and Electro. The group is made up of two brothers; Guy and Howard Lawrence. Their latest album “Settle” has been no.1 in the UK album charts and their biggest hit so far has been ‘White Noise’ which made it to no.2 in the UK top 40, and no.1 in the UK Dance chart. So let’s have a look at what the deluxe edition has to offer…
The album starts off with a track which is titled ‘Intro’. This acts as a prequel to ‘When a Fire Starts to Burn’. After the initial vocals the song drops into a funky electro beat. It falls quite nicely into the new Deep House movement which seems to be spreading around the bars and clubs. ‘Latch’ was the first single released off this album and features vocals from Sam Smith. It managed to achieve no.
- 6/25/2013
- by James Bale
- Obsessed with Film
By Costas Pitas
London, June 16 (Reuters) - The British rock band Black Sabbath's album "13!" has given them a first British Number One album in nearly 43 years, a record interval between chart-toppers, the Official Charts Company said on Sunday.
Black Sabbath were last at the top of the UK chart with their second album, "Paranoid".
"I'm in shock!" Black Sabbath front man Ozzy Osbourne told the Official Charts Company. "The success of this album has blown me off my feet. We've never had a record climb the charts so fast."
The band saw off competition from Liam Gallagher's band Beady Eye, in second place with "Be".
In the singles chart, American R&B singer Robin Thicke made it three weeks on top with "Blurred Lines".
The song, featuring rapper Ti and Pharrell Williams, has sold over 580,000 copies, making it the fifth-best selling single of 2013.
"La La La" by the British rapper Naughty Boy,...
London, June 16 (Reuters) - The British rock band Black Sabbath's album "13!" has given them a first British Number One album in nearly 43 years, a record interval between chart-toppers, the Official Charts Company said on Sunday.
Black Sabbath were last at the top of the UK chart with their second album, "Paranoid".
"I'm in shock!" Black Sabbath front man Ozzy Osbourne told the Official Charts Company. "The success of this album has blown me off my feet. We've never had a record climb the charts so fast."
The band saw off competition from Liam Gallagher's band Beady Eye, in second place with "Be".
In the singles chart, American R&B singer Robin Thicke made it three weeks on top with "Blurred Lines".
The song, featuring rapper Ti and Pharrell Williams, has sold over 580,000 copies, making it the fifth-best selling single of 2013.
"La La La" by the British rapper Naughty Boy,...
- 6/16/2013
- by Reuters
- Huffington Post
London, June 2 (Reuters) - American R&B singer Robin Thicke has scored his first number one in the British singles charts with "Blurred Lines", which became the fastest selling single of 2013, the Official Charts Company said on Sunday.
The song, which features hip hop artists T.I. and Pharrell Williams, sold 190,000 copies during its first week on sale, knocking British rapper Naughty Boy's dance track "La La La", featuring London singer Sam Smith, into number two.
"It is an honour and a pleasure to be number one in the UK. It's something I've always dreamed of," Thicke told the Official Charts Company.
In the albums chart, French electronic music duo Daft Punk retained the top spot with "Random Access Memories", which had shot straight to number one last week, while veteran Rod Stewart held on at number two with "Time".
The duo in the shiny helmets, who were at the...
The song, which features hip hop artists T.I. and Pharrell Williams, sold 190,000 copies during its first week on sale, knocking British rapper Naughty Boy's dance track "La La La", featuring London singer Sam Smith, into number two.
"It is an honour and a pleasure to be number one in the UK. It's something I've always dreamed of," Thicke told the Official Charts Company.
In the albums chart, French electronic music duo Daft Punk retained the top spot with "Random Access Memories", which had shot straight to number one last week, while veteran Rod Stewart held on at number two with "Time".
The duo in the shiny helmets, who were at the...
- 6/2/2013
- by Reuters
- Huffington Post
Almost a year ago, we dubbed Carlos Reygadas’ “Post Tenebras Lux” one of the most anticipated films of the Cannes Film Festival and we were proven right when Reygadas won Best Director for the film at the festival. Although the picture did not please all, our critic at Cannes was not especially impressed. Such varying opinions only make the film more intriguing, especially given the Mexican filmmaker’s reputation for using non-professional actors and shooting very raw, explicit sex scenes.Anyway, if you're been waiting for it, the U.S. poster and a newly surfaced clip have arrived for the film. The poster is graphically stunning, being the work of Nashville-based graphic artist and musician Sam Smith, whose designs have included posters for Janus Films, IFC Films, Kino and Zeitgeist Films. The clip of two very small children at twilight is visually breathtaking, although not entirely indicative of a film that features.
- 4/12/2013
- by Diana Drumm
- The Playlist
Almost a year after it won best director at the Cannes Film Festival, Strand Releasing is giving Carlos Reygadas' "Post Tenebras Lux" a Stateside release on May 1st (read Indiewire's review here). And -- thanks to Nashville-based graphic artist and musician Sam Smith -- they have a beautiful one sheet to accompany it. Smith has created numerous theatrical posters for companies including Janus Films, IFC Films, Kino and Zeitgeist Films, commemorative screenprints for the Belcourt Theatre and the Castro Theatre, and multiple package designs for The Criterion Collection. His work for "Lux" definitely can stand proudly alongside it:...
- 4/12/2013
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
It was hard to whittle down my favorite movie posters to a straight top ten this year. There was no absolute stand-out like Chris Ware’s Uncle Boonmee last year, and the majority of film posters continue to be depressingly rote and uninspired, even though the explosion of Diy illustration has started to make inroads into the world of commercial film promotion. As a symptom of my indecision I have tended to group posters together more than usual; laid out like this the year doesn’t look half bad.
1. Wreck-it Ralph (with The Lorax and Life Of Pi)
On its own the Wreck-It Ralph teaser would still have been one of the best posters of the year—a wittily simple 8-bit pixellated key-stroke of genius that compresses a blockbuster 3D extravaganza into a flat, three-color arrangement of squares and tells everyone walking by exactly what they need to know (except...
1. Wreck-it Ralph (with The Lorax and Life Of Pi)
On its own the Wreck-It Ralph teaser would still have been one of the best posters of the year—a wittily simple 8-bit pixellated key-stroke of genius that compresses a blockbuster 3D extravaganza into a flat, three-color arrangement of squares and tells everyone walking by exactly what they need to know (except...
- 1/5/2013
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
★★★☆☆ Considering the press attention director Simon Aboud's feature debut Comes a Bright Day (2011) so far has enjoyed, expectations are understandably high. Submarine (2011) star Craig Roberts plays Sam Smith, a Camden council estate escapee who winds up as a bellboy in a swanky hotel. He's a magpie, in that he gravitates towards shiny, pretty things, but the closest he gets to them is transporting expensive watches for adjustment on behalf of the hotel manager, Mr Morgan (Geoff Bell).
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- 7/11/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
Craig Roberts led one of my favorite movies from last year (Submarine), so the guy’s got my trust for another couple of movies. Up next is Comes a Bright Day, a romantic drama of sorts seemingly wrapped around a heist movie; Imogen Poots (Fright Night), Timothy Spall (Harry Potter), and Kevin McKidd (Brave) also star for debut writer-director Simon Aboud.
The thing’s been getting a couple of positive notes right before it hits the U.K, and I can see why; what’s here looks good. A (possibly) smaller-than-necessary appearance and a terrible final line notwithstanding, I can go with the flow of Day‘s directorial style, performances, and general atmosphere. (It’s also fun to pretend Oliver Tate traveled to the present day and is working in a hotel.) No stateside release has been set right now but, in good time, I’m sure us Americans will...
The thing’s been getting a couple of positive notes right before it hits the U.K, and I can see why; what’s here looks good. A (possibly) smaller-than-necessary appearance and a terrible final line notwithstanding, I can go with the flow of Day‘s directorial style, performances, and general atmosphere. (It’s also fun to pretend Oliver Tate traveled to the present day and is working in a hotel.) No stateside release has been set right now but, in good time, I’m sure us Americans will...
- 7/9/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Comes a Bright Day Trailer. Simon Aboud‘s Comes a Bright Day (2012) movie trailer stars Craig Roberts, Imogen Poots, Kevin McKidd, Timothy Spall, and Geoff Bell. Comes a Bright Day‘s plots synopsis: “Sam Smith (Craig Roberts) is twenty, bright, ambitious and not unattractive; so earning minimum wage as a bellboy at a 5* luxury hotel [...]
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- 7/7/2012
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
I recently watched a short documentary by Andrea Marks called Freedom on the Fence. Made in 2009, and only 40 minutes long, it is a nice introduction to the world of Polish movie posters which concisely explains the particular set of circumstances that gave rise to the incredible flowering of creativity that was the Polish poster of the 1950s and 60s. An audio interview with Henryk Tomaszewski, the father of the modern Polish poster, explains how the systematic destruction of Warsaw by the retreating Nazis in 1945, which left 80% of the city in ruins, gave rise to a landscape of rubble and fences which basically created an open-air art gallery for posters.
At the same time, at the end of the war, there was a six year backlog of American and other foreign cinema that was waiting to be seen in Poland. Tomaszewski remembers being told by the woman in charge of film...
At the same time, at the end of the war, there was a six year backlog of American and other foreign cinema that was waiting to be seen in Poland. Tomaszewski remembers being told by the woman in charge of film...
- 7/5/2012
- MUBI
News.
The second issue of Adrian Martin and Girish Shambu's film journal Lola has arrived—or has begun to, rather—with a new staggered distribution of content. Shambu dishes some exposition on the changes and details the content at his blog, which include contributions from Nicole Brenez and Chantal Akerman. From horror to hockey? In one of the stranger director + project announcements of late, the underrated Rob Zombie is going to be making Broad Street Bullies, a sports movie about the notoriously tough 1970s Philadelphia Flyers. A hometown plug from me for the Pacific Cinémathèque here in Vancouver, which is currently raising money by selling limited edition postcards featuring designs from the great Steve Chow, who was featured in Adrian Curry's Movie Poster of the Week column last fall. Donate $10 and you'll receive 6 of Chow's program guide designs. Along with the gorgeous posters detailed in Curry's article, Chow is also...
The second issue of Adrian Martin and Girish Shambu's film journal Lola has arrived—or has begun to, rather—with a new staggered distribution of content. Shambu dishes some exposition on the changes and details the content at his blog, which include contributions from Nicole Brenez and Chantal Akerman. From horror to hockey? In one of the stranger director + project announcements of late, the underrated Rob Zombie is going to be making Broad Street Bullies, a sports movie about the notoriously tough 1970s Philadelphia Flyers. A hometown plug from me for the Pacific Cinémathèque here in Vancouver, which is currently raising money by selling limited edition postcards featuring designs from the great Steve Chow, who was featured in Adrian Curry's Movie Poster of the Week column last fall. Donate $10 and you'll receive 6 of Chow's program guide designs. Along with the gorgeous posters detailed in Curry's article, Chow is also...
- 6/20/2012
- MUBI
Kaneto Shindo, who died this week at the grand age of 100, made almost 50 films over the course of his career (and scripted over a hundred). Best known in the West for his gorgeously stylized horror films Onibaba (1964) and Black Cat (1968), Shindo had continued to work until 2010 when he released his final film, Postcard, which made him the 2nd oldest working director in the world after Manoel de Oliveira.
Born in Hiroshima, Shindo’s work was haunted by the atomic bombing of his city as well as by his own wartime experience in which he was one of only six of his 100-man naval unit to survive. One of his very earliest films, the 1952 Children of Hiroshima (seen above in an East German handbill designed by Siegfried Ebert) was the first Japanese film to address the devastation of Hiroshima and its after-effects. (It received a Us release only last year.)
Despite...
Born in Hiroshima, Shindo’s work was haunted by the atomic bombing of his city as well as by his own wartime experience in which he was one of only six of his 100-man naval unit to survive. One of his very earliest films, the 1952 Children of Hiroshima (seen above in an East German handbill designed by Siegfried Ebert) was the first Japanese film to address the devastation of Hiroshima and its after-effects. (It received a Us release only last year.)
Despite...
- 6/2/2012
- MUBI
Ever since I first wrote about the work of Sam Smith, back in 2009, I have been wanting to work with him in my capacity (in my other life) as the design director for Zeitgeist Films. In the two and a half years since then, Sam Smith has become one of the most sought-after designers on the independent film circuit with his refreshingly simple, witty and indelibly striking hand-drawn designs (it doesn’t hurt that he also has a great knowledge of both film history and the history of movie poster design). A few months ago I finally got the chance when we decided that we wanted something out of the ordinary to promote our new release of Andrey Zvyagintsev's Elena.
Zvyagintsev’s dark and beautiful film premiered at Cannes last year where it won the Special Jury Prize. For our release this May (it opens next week in the U.
Zvyagintsev’s dark and beautiful film premiered at Cannes last year where it won the Special Jury Prize. For our release this May (it opens next week in the U.
- 5/11/2012
- MUBI
The Sarasota Film Festival, wrapping today, has announced this year's round of awards and SarasotaPatch has the full list. We especially want to congratulate Dan Sallitt, whose The Unspeakable Act has won Best Film in the Independent Visions competition. As Dan tells the Ditmas Park Corner, the film centers on a girl who "has her own vision, which is totally at odds with society's vision of what she's supposed to do with her romantic and sexual urges." And, as we noted last month, The Unspeakable Act will screen in June at New York's BAMcinemaFest.
The Nashville Film Festival is on through Thursday and Sam Smith's designed not only the poster but also the cover of the current Nashville Scene, wherein you'll find a robust collection of capsule reviews.
Nadav Lapid's Policeman won Best Film and Best Director at the Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente yesterday. Diego...
The Nashville Film Festival is on through Thursday and Sam Smith's designed not only the poster but also the cover of the current Nashville Scene, wherein you'll find a robust collection of capsule reviews.
Nadav Lapid's Policeman won Best Film and Best Director at the Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente yesterday. Diego...
- 4/22/2012
- MUBI
Andrei Tarkovsky, who would have been 80 today — he died too young, 54, at the end of 1986 — has been brought back to many minds lately. One prompt would be the passing just last month of screenwriter Tonino Guerra, with whom Tarkovsky wrote Nostalghia (1983). The two documented the long gestation of Tarkovsky's first film made outside of the Soviet Union in Voyage in Time (shot in 1979 but only officially released in 1983). In this entry, you'll find not only a clip from Voyage but also an excerpt from Pj Letofsky's forthcoming documentary Tarkovsky: His God, His Devil in which Guerra, filmed in 2009, looks back on his collaboration with Tarkovsky.
For a few months now, Geoff Dyer has been sparking conversations about Tarkovsky with Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room, which, as Ethan Nosowsky puts it in the Believer, "Dyer dons a metaphorical head-lamp to mine the ore" of...
For a few months now, Geoff Dyer has been sparking conversations about Tarkovsky with Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room, which, as Ethan Nosowsky puts it in the Believer, "Dyer dons a metaphorical head-lamp to mine the ore" of...
- 4/5/2012
- MUBI
The centerpiece of the new issue of the multi-lingual film journal La Furia Umana is a walloping dossier on Jerry Lewis. Of the 24 pieces on Lewis, ten are in English: B Kite on the Little Clown in The Errand Boy (1961), Zach Campbell on Lewis's relation to his own image on screen, Murray Pomerance on that face, Peter Nellhaus on the extension of Lewis's auteurship into the films he didn't direct, David Phelps on Lewis's "Janus-faced comedy," R Emmet Sweeney on the September 18, 1955 broadcast of the Colgate Comedy Hour, Sudarshan Ramani on Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1982), John J Kern on The Day the Clown Cried (1972), Steven Shaviro on Smorgasbord (aka Cracking Up, 1983) — and Gina Telaroli's remarkable, extra-textual piece on Hardly Working (1979).
Also in this issue: Luc Moullet's "Le Spleen de Rockefeller" in the original French; Ted Fendt's translation into English was presented here yesterday; Lilly Papagianni on Sara Driver...
Also in this issue: Luc Moullet's "Le Spleen de Rockefeller" in the original French; Ted Fendt's translation into English was presented here yesterday; Lilly Papagianni on Sara Driver...
- 4/3/2012
- MUBI
The 2011 RopeofSilicon Movie Awards I know the Oscars are still a little over a month away, but for me the RopeofSilicon Awards are the moment I begin putting the old year behind me and truly begin focusing on the new one. This is the fourth year I've done this and to celebrate the year's films I gained inspiration from one of the movie posters I declared one of the best of the year and put together my own poster for just this occasion, taking images from several of 2011's films and creating the collage you see below. The poster is made up of films and performances I enjoyed on one level or another, and while you'll find a couple of duplicates here and there, all-in-all there are 61 films represented and I've included a high resolution version should you want to give it a closer look. How many of the films can you name?...
- 1/18/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
If the Costa Concordia, which ran aground off the west coast of Italy last night, looks familiar to you, it's likely that it's because it's the cruise ship that's the setting for the first movement of Jean-Luc Godard's Film socialisme ("It's less a tourist cruise than an international summit of bastards," wrote David Phelps in June). The accident, which cost the lives of three people and injured many more (and around 40 of the 4000 passengers are still missing), occurred on the same evening that a rogue vigilante group going by the name of Standard and Poor's downgraded the credit ratings of nine eurozone countries.
Which brings us to our first set of DVDs. A Forum topic on Artificial Eye's release of its Theo Angelopoulos Collection has been rumbling along for half a year now and, with the third volume coming out next month, David Jenkins has a good long...
Which brings us to our first set of DVDs. A Forum topic on Artificial Eye's release of its Theo Angelopoulos Collection has been rumbling along for half a year now and, with the third volume coming out next month, David Jenkins has a good long...
- 1/14/2012
- MUBI
Marthe Keller in Black Sunday (1977)
Catherine Grant's post-holiday return to blogging and tweeting has reminded me that some of her invaluable pointers to online resources over the past couple of weeks slipped right on past me during the year-end crunch. High time to catch up:
The new World Picture, #6, bears the ominous title "Wrong."
"The Disgust Issue" of Film-Philosophy. In her introduction, guest editor Tina Kendall notes an increasing interdisciplinary "concern with thinking through the relations between bodily sensation, emotion, and cognition (especially as these are mediated by films and other cultural forms), and with probing the political, moral, and ethical implications that arise from those particular conditions of embodiment."
The second issue of Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image.
Stoffel Debuysere has collected and posted hours of video from Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia, an event that took place in October in Brussels. The talks and discussions are led by Adrian Martin,...
Catherine Grant's post-holiday return to blogging and tweeting has reminded me that some of her invaluable pointers to online resources over the past couple of weeks slipped right on past me during the year-end crunch. High time to catch up:
The new World Picture, #6, bears the ominous title "Wrong."
"The Disgust Issue" of Film-Philosophy. In her introduction, guest editor Tina Kendall notes an increasing interdisciplinary "concern with thinking through the relations between bodily sensation, emotion, and cognition (especially as these are mediated by films and other cultural forms), and with probing the political, moral, and ethical implications that arise from those particular conditions of embodiment."
The second issue of Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image.
Stoffel Debuysere has collected and posted hours of video from Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia, an event that took place in October in Brussels. The talks and discussions are led by Adrian Martin,...
- 1/3/2012
- MUBI
"In his mid-50s and a festival favorite since the 80s, [Aki] Kaurismäki has joined the ranks of the master auteurs," writes Dennis Lim in the Los Angeles Times, "but in the Us at least, he has remained somewhat overlooked. Le Havre is being released by Janus Films, the sister company of the Criterion Collection, and for those looking to catch up, a pair of DVD boxed sets are available on Criterion's midprice line Eclipse. Compassionate chronicles of the romantic, economic and existential plights of blue-collar outsiders, the films in the Proletariat Trilogy set [Shadows in Paradise, Ariel and The Match Factory Girl], made between 1986 and 1990, put Kaurismäki on the international map. The Leningrad Cowboys set (out this week) shows off his goofier side, not to mention his taste for Soviet kitsch and American rockabilly."
This second trilogy — Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989), Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses (1994) and Total Balalaika Show (1994) — "chronicles eight years in the group's history, from their ramshackle...
This second trilogy — Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989), Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses (1994) and Total Balalaika Show (1994) — "chronicles eight years in the group's history, from their ramshackle...
- 10/19/2011
- MUBI
I want to bang the drum a bit for Far From Afghanistan, a project inspired by the 1967 omnibus film, Far From Vietnam. The roster of contributing filmmakers is impressive to say the least: John Gianvito (Profit motive and the whispering wind), Jon Jost (All The Vermeers in New York), Minda Martin (Free Land), Travis Wilkerson (Distinguished Flying Cross) and Soon-Mi Yoo (Dangerous Supplement). You can read about each of their new films here, but overall, the goal is "to contribute to the international effort to redirect Us policy away from military and political intervention toward true humanitarian and developmental care-giving." If that strikes a chord, you might consider chipping in to the Kickstarter campaign. For one week, starting on October 6, you can watch the works-in-progress.
Isabelle Marinoni's essay "Surrealism in the Service of the Fantastic: Jean Rollin, a 'Parallel' Director in Libertarian French Cinema" makes for a nifty supplement to Arena,...
Isabelle Marinoni's essay "Surrealism in the Service of the Fantastic: Jean Rollin, a 'Parallel' Director in Libertarian French Cinema" makes for a nifty supplement to Arena,...
- 9/23/2011
- MUBI
Australia has the potential for creating effective branded content but first brands need to step away from the comforts of traditional media and creatives need to realise it’s not ‘selling out’. Alice Terlikowski writes.
There was once a time when creatives worked on films, TV shows and the occasional 30-second TV ad. These days the advertising and film worlds are swifty colliding to make way for a new opportunity for creativity – branded entertainment.
Branded content/entertainment is best described as an extension of a brand’s marketing activity. Turning the clock back, radio soap operas were so called because the content was produced specifically to be sold around soap brands, targeting the mother of the house.
More recently, but still a decade ago in 2001-02, BMW’s then high concept form of advertising was via the online short film series called The Hire. Employing Hollywood directors Tony Scott, Guy Ritchie...
There was once a time when creatives worked on films, TV shows and the occasional 30-second TV ad. These days the advertising and film worlds are swifty colliding to make way for a new opportunity for creativity – branded entertainment.
Branded content/entertainment is best described as an extension of a brand’s marketing activity. Turning the clock back, radio soap operas were so called because the content was produced specifically to be sold around soap brands, targeting the mother of the house.
More recently, but still a decade ago in 2001-02, BMW’s then high concept form of advertising was via the online short film series called The Hire. Employing Hollywood directors Tony Scott, Guy Ritchie...
- 8/18/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
When I came up with the idea to start aggregating the various Criterion Collection related blogs that I read on a somewhat regular basis into a weekly column, I had grand plans to set up reminders for myself, bookmark posts into folders, and produce a compelling weekly blog post for all of you. Unfortunately, the birth of my daughter, and all of the other responsibilities of my life have managed to position themselves between me and that goal. I thought maybe if I switched to a monthly format, that would make things easier, but in reality it just gave me less of an excuse to work on the post. I’ve decided to reboot the column and produce it on a weekly basis. We’ll see if I can keep it going this time. As much as I pretend to be organized and productive, I am really a lazy, lazy guy.
- 8/15/2011
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
THR are reporting that Jeremy Renner, two-time Academy Award nominee, has pitched a film called Slingshot, a real-life story about a Diy racecar driver, Bill Caswell, and Paramount have picked it up.
Renner will both star and produce, and he will be joined by his producing partner, Don Handfield, under their new production company, The Combine, which they announced back in April this year.
The story has all the great elements you want from this kind of film. It’s about an unemployed racing fan who buys a 1991 BMW 318i off Craigslist, fixes it all up himself, and then starts racing down in Mexico, beating cars worth about a thousand times the price he paid for his.
As an unemployed driver, Caswell didn’t even have a team with him when he was racing down in Mexico. Everything he did, he did himself, stopping at every service station along the...
Renner will both star and produce, and he will be joined by his producing partner, Don Handfield, under their new production company, The Combine, which they announced back in April this year.
The story has all the great elements you want from this kind of film. It’s about an unemployed racing fan who buys a 1991 BMW 318i off Craigslist, fixes it all up himself, and then starts racing down in Mexico, beating cars worth about a thousand times the price he paid for his.
As an unemployed driver, Caswell didn’t even have a team with him when he was racing down in Mexico. Everything he did, he did himself, stopping at every service station along the...
- 6/13/2011
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Shooting is about to wrap on Brit indie love story/thriller Comes a Bright Day, written and directed by Simon Aboud, which has been filming on location in Mayfair and at Elstree Studios.
Craig Roberts (represented by Curtis Brown), the young star of Submarine, Becoming Human, and Young Dracula, stars in the lead role of 20 year old Sam Smith.
And Imogen Poots (represented by Independent Talent) plays Mary, "as radiantly beautiful as the jewellery she sells".
Against the backdrop of an armed robbery that goes badly wrong in one of London’s most exclusive jewellers, hostages Sam and Mary, flung together by deadly circumstance, discover their true feelings for each other.
The cast also features Kevin McKidd as Cameron, the psychotic armed robber and Timothy Spall as the cantankerous shop owner Charlie.
For the latest updates visit the Comes a Bright Day website.
Craig Roberts (represented by Curtis Brown), the young star of Submarine, Becoming Human, and Young Dracula, stars in the lead role of 20 year old Sam Smith.
And Imogen Poots (represented by Independent Talent) plays Mary, "as radiantly beautiful as the jewellery she sells".
Against the backdrop of an armed robbery that goes badly wrong in one of London’s most exclusive jewellers, hostages Sam and Mary, flung together by deadly circumstance, discover their true feelings for each other.
The cast also features Kevin McKidd as Cameron, the psychotic armed robber and Timothy Spall as the cantankerous shop owner Charlie.
For the latest updates visit the Comes a Bright Day website.
- 6/9/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
A whole boatload of posters has arrived on internet shores in the past few days, so lets start with today's big one: the uncensored, definitely not safe for work version of the one-sheet for David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. This one is pretty much internet link-bait and not much more, because it will likely never go up in any Us movie theater. And, truth be told, while I admire the boldness of the poster, I like the slightly censored versions [1] much more. Decide for yourself after the break, where we'll also present Conan the Barbarian character posters and one-sheets for Don't Be Afraid of the Dark and the reissue of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's World on a Wire. Update: Just as this went live, a new one-sheet for The Three Musketeers arrived via Yahoo [2]. That's been added to the gallery below. [gallery columns="2"] The five new character posters...
- 6/8/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
It’s been about a month since my last look at what has been going on in the world of Criterion Collection blogs, and I thought it’d be appropriate to finally just change the column to be “this month in…” instead of “this week in…” As most of you know, this past month has seen the birth of my daughter, which has led to a steady decrease in my output of blog posts, but a dramatic increase in my posting of adorable pictures. So, we all win in this situation.
Let’s take a look at what May has seen from the internet’s best and brightest, when it comes to the Criterion Collection.
First up, let’s take a look at our own Joshua Brunsting, who started writing the news here on the blog last May. Josh managed to make it to the Cannes film festival this past year,...
Let’s take a look at what May has seen from the internet’s best and brightest, when it comes to the Criterion Collection.
First up, let’s take a look at our own Joshua Brunsting, who started writing the news here on the blog last May. Josh managed to make it to the Cannes film festival this past year,...
- 5/31/2011
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
There's an upcoming cinema tour of a new digitally restored print of Germam filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1973 made-for-tv sci-fi movie World on a Wire, that I hadn't heard much about before until I caught a glimpse of this gorgeous poster. The Daily Mubi (via The Playlist) debuted the official poster for the re-release and it's quite stunning - thanks to designer Sam Smith. I don't mind if we've seen things like this before, I always love seeing incredibly well-designed posters like this, especially surrounding classic rarely-seen films that are getting a second life and second theatrical run. More info on the re-release below! Made in 1973 for German television, World on a Wire is a "three-and-a-half-hour, two-part, sci-fi head-trip of a movie about government conspiracies and parallel realities set in a world of gleaming '70s corporate minimalism." Has anyone seen it? I think I'm planning on checking it out.
- 5/30/2011
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Movie Poster of the Week is excited to be unveiling the exclusive world premiere of the newest poster from the man who may be the hottest designer in the independent film world right now: Sam Smith. I first wrote about Sam a couple of years ago when his poster for House, which he had done on spec for his local theater, was picked up by Janus Films for their national re-release. (I have since written about his design for Black Cat, while his Carlos poster for IFC made my best of 2010.) Now he is back working with Janus again on their much anticipated restoration of R.W. Fassbinder’s World on a Wire.
Made in 1973 for German television and rarely seen until it resurfaced at MoMA last year, World on a Wire is a three-and-a-half-hour, two-part, sci-fi head-trip of a movie about government conspiracies and parallel realities set in a world of gleaming ’70s corporate minimalism.
Made in 1973 for German television and rarely seen until it resurfaced at MoMA last year, World on a Wire is a three-and-a-half-hour, two-part, sci-fi head-trip of a movie about government conspiracies and parallel realities set in a world of gleaming ’70s corporate minimalism.
- 5/27/2011
- MUBI
This Sunday, David Phelps and John MacKay, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Chair of Film Studies at Yale, will be presenting a double feature followed by a discussion at UnionDocs in Brooklyn. I cede the floor to David:
Two unsung masterworks: Jean-Luc Godard's Kids Play Russia (1993) is a personal history of Soviet montage, and Vsevolod Pudovkin's Storm Over Asia (1927) is one of its great exemplars. In both, against the voice of a lone renegade, the West invades the East to capture it — that is, in images of its stereotypes. Sight makes might? In these spectacular assaults on spectacle, Pudovkin stresses the imperialists' lives led "for appearance sake," and Godard argues that Western cinema will only see things by its code. And yet both, shooting documentaries in "the land of fiction" and editing them as dramas, redeem fiction as a possible, documentary reality; Godard starts seeing echoes...
Two unsung masterworks: Jean-Luc Godard's Kids Play Russia (1993) is a personal history of Soviet montage, and Vsevolod Pudovkin's Storm Over Asia (1927) is one of its great exemplars. In both, against the voice of a lone renegade, the West invades the East to capture it — that is, in images of its stereotypes. Sight makes might? In these spectacular assaults on spectacle, Pudovkin stresses the imperialists' lives led "for appearance sake," and Godard argues that Western cinema will only see things by its code. And yet both, shooting documentaries in "the land of fiction" and editing them as dramas, redeem fiction as a possible, documentary reality; Godard starts seeing echoes...
- 5/10/2011
- MUBI
What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 35 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If you have any interesting items that we might've missed that you think should go in /Film's Page 2 - email us [1]! [2] Sam Smith [3] designed posters for his ten favorite movies of 2010. Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has been delayed once again, from the original date of January 7th to the delay opening of February 7th to a new date of March 15th 2011. [thr [4]] Daniele Rizzo poses as superhero The Yellow Bee to interview Seth Rogen and Cameron Diaz as Green Hornet characters as Britt Reid and Lenore Case. Avatar/Star Trek star Zoe Saldana talks to Rotten...
- 1/14/2011
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Filed under: Cinematical
Last week we premiered the poster for a funky little Korean film called 'The Housemaid,' courtesy of IFC Films. What we didn't know at the time was that the poster was designed by Sam Smith, a graphic designer who also plays drums for Ben Folds, The Comfies and My So-Called Band. Smith has designed a number of posters for clients like IFC Films, Janis Films and The Belcourt Theatre, but he also designs his own posters for fun.
For example, over on his site Smith has posted reimagined movie posters for his favorite films of 2010. There's 10 in total (with an honorary 11th spot reserved for the Cannes winner 'Uncle Boonmee'), including very cool posters for films like 'The Social Network,' 'Toy Story 3,' 'Never Let Me Go,' 'The Illusionist,' 'Dogtooth,' 'Bluebeard,' 'True Grit,' 'Winter's Bone,...
Last week we premiered the poster for a funky little Korean film called 'The Housemaid,' courtesy of IFC Films. What we didn't know at the time was that the poster was designed by Sam Smith, a graphic designer who also plays drums for Ben Folds, The Comfies and My So-Called Band. Smith has designed a number of posters for clients like IFC Films, Janis Films and The Belcourt Theatre, but he also designs his own posters for fun.
For example, over on his site Smith has posted reimagined movie posters for his favorite films of 2010. There's 10 in total (with an honorary 11th spot reserved for the Cannes winner 'Uncle Boonmee'), including very cool posters for films like 'The Social Network,' 'Toy Story 3,' 'Never Let Me Go,' 'The Illusionist,' 'Dogtooth,' 'Bluebeard,' 'True Grit,' 'Winter's Bone,...
- 1/10/2011
- by Erik Davis
- Moviefone
Filed under: Cinematical
Last week we premiered the poster for a funky little Korean film called 'The Housemaid,' courtesy of IFC Films. What we didn't know at the time was that the poster was designed by Sam Smith, a graphic designer who also plays drums for Ben Folds, The Comfies and My So-Called Band. Smith has designed a number of posters for clients like IFC Films, Janis Films and The Belcourt Theatre, but he also designs his own posters for fun.
For example, over on his site Smith has posted reimagined movie posters for his favorite films of 2010. There's 10 in total (with an honorary 11th spot reserved for the Cannes winner 'Uncle Boonmee'), including very cool posters for films like 'The Social Network,' 'Toy Story 3,' 'Never Let Me Go,' 'The Illusionist,' 'Dogtooth,' 'Bluebeard,' 'True Grit,' 'Winter's Bone,...
Last week we premiered the poster for a funky little Korean film called 'The Housemaid,' courtesy of IFC Films. What we didn't know at the time was that the poster was designed by Sam Smith, a graphic designer who also plays drums for Ben Folds, The Comfies and My So-Called Band. Smith has designed a number of posters for clients like IFC Films, Janis Films and The Belcourt Theatre, but he also designs his own posters for fun.
For example, over on his site Smith has posted reimagined movie posters for his favorite films of 2010. There's 10 in total (with an honorary 11th spot reserved for the Cannes winner 'Uncle Boonmee'), including very cool posters for films like 'The Social Network,' 'Toy Story 3,' 'Never Let Me Go,' 'The Illusionist,' 'Dogtooth,' 'Bluebeard,' 'True Grit,' 'Winter's Bone,...
- 1/10/2011
- by Erik Davis
- Cinematical
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