Warwick Thornton’s “The New Boy” has been set as the opening title of next month’s Sydney Film Festival, which will celebrate its 70th edition, June 7-18. The film, a tale of sprituality and survival in 1940s Australia, starring Cate Blanchett, Deborah Mailman, Wayne Blair and Aswan Reid, will also play in the festival’s competition section.
Other titles in competition include: the world premiere of Australian documentary feature “The Dark Emu Story,” directed by Allan Clarke; Christian Petzold’s previously announced “Afire”; Charlotte Regan’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner “Scrapper”; Kore-eda Hirokazu’s “Monster”; Aki Kaurismäki’s compassionate comedy “Fallen Leaves”; Kim Jee-woon’s “Cobweb”; Asmae El Moudir’s “The Mother of All Lies”; Alice Englert’s directorial debut “Bad Behaviour”; Celine Song’s Sundance and Berlinale 2023 selected romance “Past Lives”; Liu Jian’s 2023 Berlinale-selected animation “Art College 1994”; Devashish Makhija’s “Joram,” a thriller about an...
Other titles in competition include: the world premiere of Australian documentary feature “The Dark Emu Story,” directed by Allan Clarke; Christian Petzold’s previously announced “Afire”; Charlotte Regan’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner “Scrapper”; Kore-eda Hirokazu’s “Monster”; Aki Kaurismäki’s compassionate comedy “Fallen Leaves”; Kim Jee-woon’s “Cobweb”; Asmae El Moudir’s “The Mother of All Lies”; Alice Englert’s directorial debut “Bad Behaviour”; Celine Song’s Sundance and Berlinale 2023 selected romance “Past Lives”; Liu Jian’s 2023 Berlinale-selected animation “Art College 1994”; Devashish Makhija’s “Joram,” a thriller about an...
- 5/10/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Several titles set to premiere at Cannes among the selection.
Sydney Film Festival (June 7-18) has revealed the 12 titles that will play in competition at its 70th edition, including five that are set to premiere at Cannes this month.
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Monster from Japan and Fallen Leaves from Finnish master Ari Kaurismaki are two that will play in Competition at Cannes before heading to Sydney, alongside Cobweb from Korean director Kim Jee-woon, which will play out of competition in Cannes.
Asmae El Moudir’s The Mother of All Lies will be the first film from Morocco to ever compete...
Sydney Film Festival (June 7-18) has revealed the 12 titles that will play in competition at its 70th edition, including five that are set to premiere at Cannes this month.
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Monster from Japan and Fallen Leaves from Finnish master Ari Kaurismaki are two that will play in Competition at Cannes before heading to Sydney, alongside Cobweb from Korean director Kim Jee-woon, which will play out of competition in Cannes.
Asmae El Moudir’s The Mother of All Lies will be the first film from Morocco to ever compete...
- 5/9/2023
- by Sandy George
- ScreenDaily
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Hours after announcing dates for a North American Summer stadium, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band took the stage at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. Ten songs into the set, Springsteen broke out “If I Was the Priest” for the first time in over 50 years. Check out a stellar fan-shot video of the moment right here.
“I wrote this song,” Springsteen said. “I was 22. Fifty years ago.
Hours after announcing dates for a North American Summer stadium, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band took the stage at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. Ten songs into the set, Springsteen broke out “If I Was the Priest” for the first time in over 50 years. Check out a stellar fan-shot video of the moment right here.
“I wrote this song,” Springsteen said. “I was 22. Fifty years ago.
- 2/15/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
‘Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian’.
The ABC and Screen Australia have announced funding for three original documentary projects: Dark Emu, Gun Ringer, and Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian.
Blackfella Films’ Dark Emu is based the book by the same name from Bruce Pascoe, and will take audiences on a journey across Australia to present a very different history of our nation and the First Australians. The series is financed with Screen Nsw and Film Victoria, and written by Pascoe (Black Chook), and Jacob Hickey (First Contact), directed by Erica Glynn (She Who Must Be Loved) and produced by Darren Dale (First Australians) and Belinda Mravicic (Black Chook).
Screen Australia head of Indigenous Penny Smallacombe said: “Dark Emu promises to be one of the most important documentary series the Indigenous Department has funded. It’s a chance to challenge the myth of pre-colonial Indigenous Australians being just hunter gatherers. We have sophisticated...
The ABC and Screen Australia have announced funding for three original documentary projects: Dark Emu, Gun Ringer, and Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian.
Blackfella Films’ Dark Emu is based the book by the same name from Bruce Pascoe, and will take audiences on a journey across Australia to present a very different history of our nation and the First Australians. The series is financed with Screen Nsw and Film Victoria, and written by Pascoe (Black Chook), and Jacob Hickey (First Contact), directed by Erica Glynn (She Who Must Be Loved) and produced by Darren Dale (First Australians) and Belinda Mravicic (Black Chook).
Screen Australia head of Indigenous Penny Smallacombe said: “Dark Emu promises to be one of the most important documentary series the Indigenous Department has funded. It’s a chance to challenge the myth of pre-colonial Indigenous Australians being just hunter gatherers. We have sophisticated...
- 10/16/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Graham Nash’s new career-spanning compilation album Over the Years … traces his long career as a songwriter, stretching all the way back to his days in the Hollies when he sketching out tunes like “Marrakesh Express” and “Teach Your Children” that would later be recorded by Csn and Csny. Earlier this year, he sat down with Rolling Stone to discuss five key songs that inspired him as a young songwriter.
Gene Vincent, “Be-Bop-a-Lula”
This is the first record I ever owned. I got it by trading two pieces of toast to my friend,...
Gene Vincent, “Be-Bop-a-Lula”
This is the first record I ever owned. I got it by trading two pieces of toast to my friend,...
- 11/19/2018
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Release Date: Oct. 4, 2011
Price: DVD $14.98
Studio: Eagle Rock Entertainment
The Hollies serve up a song via the air that they breathe in Look Through Any Window.
The Hollies: Look Through Any Window, 1963–1975, the first official documentary film on the legendary British group, includes 22 full-length performances sourced from television appearances filmed at the time the songs were initially hitting the charts.
Between performances, original band members Graham Nash, Allan Clarke, Tony Hicks and Bobby Elliott share the history of the beloved 1960s rock outfit, whose hits include “Bus Stop,” “Look Through Any Window,” “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother,” “Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)” and the final Top 10 hit, 1974’s “The Air That I Breathe.”
Also in the feature-length movie are performances by The Hollies, from the post-Graham Nash era, featuring Terry Sylvester, along with never-before-released home movies of the group on tour in the 1960s in America,...
Price: DVD $14.98
Studio: Eagle Rock Entertainment
The Hollies serve up a song via the air that they breathe in Look Through Any Window.
The Hollies: Look Through Any Window, 1963–1975, the first official documentary film on the legendary British group, includes 22 full-length performances sourced from television appearances filmed at the time the songs were initially hitting the charts.
Between performances, original band members Graham Nash, Allan Clarke, Tony Hicks and Bobby Elliott share the history of the beloved 1960s rock outfit, whose hits include “Bus Stop,” “Look Through Any Window,” “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother,” “Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)” and the final Top 10 hit, 1974’s “The Air That I Breathe.”
Also in the feature-length movie are performances by The Hollies, from the post-Graham Nash era, featuring Terry Sylvester, along with never-before-released home movies of the group on tour in the 1960s in America,...
- 8/15/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
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