Chicago – Several guests and performances that will appear at the 4th Annual Chicago Movies & Music Festival in April were officially announced today. The festival, which celebrates music in movies in features, documentaries, shorts, concert films, animation, and music videos, will take place from Thursday, April 12 to Sunday, April 15.
CIMMfest will take place at various theaters and venues in the Wicker Park and Logan Square neighborhoods of Chicago, including the newly renovated Logan Theatre. The festival will include appearances by actors and filmmakers, DJ/VJ events, panel discussions and live performances. Some guests that have been confirmed for the festival include actors Horatio Sanz and Joe Lo Truglio and a performance of “Rapper’s Delight” by rappers Wonder Mike and Master Gee (founding members of The Sugarhill Gang).
Josh Chicoine, Director of the 4th Annual CIMMfest Director along with Ilko Davidov, explained his excitement in a press release today: “Now entering...
CIMMfest will take place at various theaters and venues in the Wicker Park and Logan Square neighborhoods of Chicago, including the newly renovated Logan Theatre. The festival will include appearances by actors and filmmakers, DJ/VJ events, panel discussions and live performances. Some guests that have been confirmed for the festival include actors Horatio Sanz and Joe Lo Truglio and a performance of “Rapper’s Delight” by rappers Wonder Mike and Master Gee (founding members of The Sugarhill Gang).
Josh Chicoine, Director of the 4th Annual CIMMfest Director along with Ilko Davidov, explained his excitement in a press release today: “Now entering...
- 3/8/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Director Ilko Davidov's new documentary, "The Story Of Rock 'n' Roll Comics" will be available on DVD, April 24 2012, presenting the strange true-life and mysterious death of comic book creator, Todd Loren.
Mixing animation, home video, investigative footage and interviews/commentaries from artists including Mojo Nixon, Alice Cooper, Gary Groth, Ian Shirley and Cynthia Plaster Caster, the film is an expose about a man, whose life left a cultural impact :
"...Todd Loren, the San Diego-based owner of 'Revolutionary Comics', was famous for publishing the wildly popular 'Rock 'N' Roll Comics' comic book series.
"The unauthorized comics, featured biographies of music groups including 'Kiss', the 'Sex Pistols', Zappa, Bowie and 'Metallica'.
"Loved by some (Gene Simmons, Alice Cooper, Lemmy of 'Metallica') and threatened by others (Axl Rose, 'Skid Row', 'New Kids on the Block'), over 300 issues of "Rock 'N' Roll Comics" were published,...
Mixing animation, home video, investigative footage and interviews/commentaries from artists including Mojo Nixon, Alice Cooper, Gary Groth, Ian Shirley and Cynthia Plaster Caster, the film is an expose about a man, whose life left a cultural impact :
"...Todd Loren, the San Diego-based owner of 'Revolutionary Comics', was famous for publishing the wildly popular 'Rock 'N' Roll Comics' comic book series.
"The unauthorized comics, featured biographies of music groups including 'Kiss', the 'Sex Pistols', Zappa, Bowie and 'Metallica'.
"Loved by some (Gene Simmons, Alice Cooper, Lemmy of 'Metallica') and threatened by others (Axl Rose, 'Skid Row', 'New Kids on the Block'), over 300 issues of "Rock 'N' Roll Comics" were published,...
- 2/16/2012
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
By Christopher Stipp
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Yony Leyser - Interview
Watching a documentary on William S. Burroughs is kind of like opening your mind up like a flower waiting for a bumblebee to come and pollenate it. You know that in order to carry on, you need to have someone assist you in continuing down the path of evolving as a species. Burroughs was that bee. He was slight, unassuming, but wielded such a power as to be completely and totally dangerous.
I hadn’t ever come into contact with his work until having this documentary, crafted together by director Yony Leyser, put in front of me to see exactly what kind man he was. Forget about what the media has built up around the perceived mystique of the man,...
The Archives, Right Here
Check out my other column, This Week In Trailers, at SlashFilm.com and follow me on Twitter under the name: Stipp
Yony Leyser - Interview
Watching a documentary on William S. Burroughs is kind of like opening your mind up like a flower waiting for a bumblebee to come and pollenate it. You know that in order to carry on, you need to have someone assist you in continuing down the path of evolving as a species. Burroughs was that bee. He was slight, unassuming, but wielded such a power as to be completely and totally dangerous.
I hadn’t ever come into contact with his work until having this documentary, crafted together by director Yony Leyser, put in front of me to see exactly what kind man he was. Forget about what the media has built up around the perceived mystique of the man,...
- 12/3/2010
- by Christopher Stipp
Last week at the May Fair Hotel in central London I sat down with documentary filmmaker Yony Leyser to discuss his excellent new feature William S. Burroughs: A Man Within.
My own opinion of the American writer isn’t a comfortable one and Leyer’s movie didn’t change my mind on Burrough’s work or his character, but it did offer a fresh glimpse of the man and his extremely complex personality. Indeed, the film’s subtitle – A Man Within – highlights the drive of the documentary.
It is well made film on an often lurid and strange individual. I had to share my interview time with a journalist from The Independent, and it would have been great to chat with Leyser more in depth about Burroughs and his movie. Alas, it was not to be.
As my friend, the writer Ben Loory told me, Burroughs is a writer who...
My own opinion of the American writer isn’t a comfortable one and Leyer’s movie didn’t change my mind on Burrough’s work or his character, but it did offer a fresh glimpse of the man and his extremely complex personality. Indeed, the film’s subtitle – A Man Within – highlights the drive of the documentary.
It is well made film on an often lurid and strange individual. I had to share my interview time with a journalist from The Independent, and it would have been great to chat with Leyser more in depth about Burroughs and his movie. Alas, it was not to be.
As my friend, the writer Ben Loory told me, Burroughs is a writer who...
- 10/26/2010
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
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