About 15 years ago, after he’d worked on the story for Disney’s animated “Mulan” and co-directed “Lilo & Stitch” but before he took on the “How to Train Your Dragon” trilogy, Canadian filmmaker Dean DeBlois took a detour from animation into documentary film. His 2007 doc “Heima” followed the Icelandic band Sigur Rós as they toured their home country, performing huge outdoor shows and smaller concerts, interspersing interview footage in which the normally mysterious band talked about their work and their lives.
DeBlois spends most of his time working in animation to this day, but he still has a taste for Icelandic music and a knack for knowing how to put it on film. “Tíu,” which premiered at the Tribeca Festival, takes a different Icelandic band, Of Monsters and Men, and follows them on a trip around the country where they play music in a variety of locations that have...
DeBlois spends most of his time working in animation to this day, but he still has a taste for Icelandic music and a knack for knowing how to put it on film. “Tíu,” which premiered at the Tribeca Festival, takes a different Icelandic band, Of Monsters and Men, and follows them on a trip around the country where they play music in a variety of locations that have...
- 6/16/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
As previously reported last September, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, Glen Hansard and Cat Power’s Chan Marshall have all contributed original music for the soundtrack to Sean Penn’s new film “Flag Day,” which will be released Aug. 20 via Republic Records and Vedder’s Seattle Surf imprint. The first single, “My Father’s Daughter,” features the vocal debut of Vedder’s 17-year-old daughter Olivia, who also sings lead on the song “There’s a Girl.” A video for “My Father’s Daughter” is online now and features footage from the film (watch it below).
“Flag Day” is based on Jennifer Vogel’s book “Flim-Flam Man: The True Story Of My Father’s Counterfeit Life” and stars Penn alongside his children Dylan and Hopper. Vedder previously wrote an entire album of original music for the soundtrack to Penn’s 2007 film adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s book “Into the Wild,” winning...
“Flag Day” is based on Jennifer Vogel’s book “Flim-Flam Man: The True Story Of My Father’s Counterfeit Life” and stars Penn alongside his children Dylan and Hopper. Vedder previously wrote an entire album of original music for the soundtrack to Penn’s 2007 film adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s book “Into the Wild,” winning...
- 8/16/2021
- by Jonathan Cohen
- Variety Film + TV
Four episodes were provided prior to broadcast.
There’s a very particular wavelength that some TV shows function on, and that are subsequently far more rewarding and entertaining when you’re clicking and riding along that same emotional swath of storytelling. Most recently, a show like This Is Us debuted to massive, gushing fandom, perhaps due to everyone’s sudden need to have something fictional to cry over every week, but also thanks to the fact that it was just consistently, impressively great at earning those tears.
I won’t go so far as to say Sense8 is your next great weepfest, but I will say that the under-appreciated little sci-fi gem more than deserves to be a widely beloved obsession at any scale. The show works – more than ever in season 2 I’m happy to say – because its loftiest science fiction parables never once obfuscate the crackling emotional core of its vibrant,...
There’s a very particular wavelength that some TV shows function on, and that are subsequently far more rewarding and entertaining when you’re clicking and riding along that same emotional swath of storytelling. Most recently, a show like This Is Us debuted to massive, gushing fandom, perhaps due to everyone’s sudden need to have something fictional to cry over every week, but also thanks to the fact that it was just consistently, impressively great at earning those tears.
I won’t go so far as to say Sense8 is your next great weepfest, but I will say that the under-appreciated little sci-fi gem more than deserves to be a widely beloved obsession at any scale. The show works – more than ever in season 2 I’m happy to say – because its loftiest science fiction parables never once obfuscate the crackling emotional core of its vibrant,...
- 4/26/2017
- by Mitchel Broussard
- We Got This Covered
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