Taking place this week, the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival is one of the greatest musical celebrations known to the world. In a few weeks, one can return to an edition of the annual event from decades prior with the new 4K restoration of Kavery Dutta Kaul’s 1988 documentary One Hand Don’t Clap. The celebration of Calypso and Soca music, following the legendary Lord Kitchener and Calypso Rose, explores the Carnival season, inside the recording booth, and beyond.
The new restoration, carried out by the Academy Film Archive and the Women’s Film Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film and Television, opens in New York City on March 8 at Bam and will expand. Ahead of Kino Lorber’s release, we’re pleased to exclusively debut the new trailer and poster.
Here’s the synopsis: “A musical celebration of Calypso and Soca music, the documentary captures the vibrant story...
The new restoration, carried out by the Academy Film Archive and the Women’s Film Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film and Television, opens in New York City on March 8 at Bam and will expand. Ahead of Kino Lorber’s release, we’re pleased to exclusively debut the new trailer and poster.
Here’s the synopsis: “A musical celebration of Calypso and Soca music, the documentary captures the vibrant story...
- 2/13/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
This article contains spoilers for Daniel Kaluuya’s The Kitchen.
Who’s that knocking at the door?
That’s the question left with viewers when credits roll on the Netflix movie The Kitchen, directed by Kibwe Tavares and actor Daniel Kaluuya. Working with his co-writers Rob Hayes and Joe Murtagh, Kaluuya creates a bleak future for England in which rampant inequality and increased privatization of property has left many homeless. Despite its sci-fi setting, The Kitchen doesn’t concern itself with the usual tropes of the genre, focusing instead on the dramatic tension between loner Izi (Kane Robinson) and an orphan boy called Benji (Jedaiah Bannerman).
At least until the end, that is. The film builds to a thrilling climax, one that might leave some viewers wondering what happened and how it relates to the themes of The Kitchen.
How Does The Kitchen End?
Midway through the film, Izi considers...
Who’s that knocking at the door?
That’s the question left with viewers when credits roll on the Netflix movie The Kitchen, directed by Kibwe Tavares and actor Daniel Kaluuya. Working with his co-writers Rob Hayes and Joe Murtagh, Kaluuya creates a bleak future for England in which rampant inequality and increased privatization of property has left many homeless. Despite its sci-fi setting, The Kitchen doesn’t concern itself with the usual tropes of the genre, focusing instead on the dramatic tension between loner Izi (Kane Robinson) and an orphan boy called Benji (Jedaiah Bannerman).
At least until the end, that is. The film builds to a thrilling climax, one that might leave some viewers wondering what happened and how it relates to the themes of The Kitchen.
How Does The Kitchen End?
Midway through the film, Izi considers...
- 1/19/2024
- by Joe George
- Den of Geek
Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares have tried to make something very special by directing the movie titled The Kitchen. A somber tale of the bond between a boy and a man in a dystopian world adds so many colors to the palette that wouldn’t have been possible in a simpler story. The Kitchen rests on the performances and the mood created by cinematographer Wyatt Garfield. There is a melancholy of the new world that is so palpable that it doesn’t let the story take any ‘thrilling’ turns, and we are made to stew in the emotions that the lead characters are wrestling with. Kane Robinson brings a measured restraint to his performances that creates the required illusion of the weight on his shoulder of dystopian reality, while Jedaiah Bannerman is brilliant at testing his restraint.
Spoilers Ahead
Plot Synopsis: What Happens In The Film?
The story is set...
Spoilers Ahead
Plot Synopsis: What Happens In The Film?
The story is set...
- 1/19/2024
- by Ayush Awasthi
- Film Fugitives
Kino Lorber, at the Lumiére Festival and International Classic Film Market (Mifc) in Lyon with a number of new restorations, including Stanley Kubrick’s “Fear and Desire,” will next release Bridgett M. Davis’ 1996 drama “Naked Acts” and a complete retrospective of Oscar Micheaux, the first black filmmaker.
Also headed for release is “The Dragon Painter,” a rare, 1919 silent film with an all Asian cast, with the feel of an old Japanese film but entirely shot in the San Francisco area. It stars Sessue Hayakawa, who produced it himself, as well as his real-life wife Tsuru Aoki.
Kino Lorber is partnering with Milestone Films to release “The Dragon Painter” in 4K in 2024 with a new score.
Likewise set for a 4K release next year in partnership with Milestone is “Naked Acts,” which follows young Black actress Cicely, who is about to make her acting debut in a low budget film. As...
Also headed for release is “The Dragon Painter,” a rare, 1919 silent film with an all Asian cast, with the feel of an old Japanese film but entirely shot in the San Francisco area. It stars Sessue Hayakawa, who produced it himself, as well as his real-life wife Tsuru Aoki.
Kino Lorber is partnering with Milestone Films to release “The Dragon Painter” in 4K in 2024 with a new score.
Likewise set for a 4K release next year in partnership with Milestone is “Naked Acts,” which follows young Black actress Cicely, who is about to make her acting debut in a low budget film. As...
- 10/18/2023
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Arriving just as Britain’s dire housing crisis is set to be a key campaign issue in next year’s long-awaited general election, “The Kitchen” offers a solemnly affecting look at what might happen if it’s left to fester. Zooming through a dystopian London in what seems the too-near future, this sharply accomplished feature directing debut from Kibwe Tavares and actor Daniel Kaluuya surprisingly eschews high-concept genre plotting to go with its elaborate sci-fi scene-setting, instead narrowing to an intimate, humane study of Black male bonding in a time of systemic social oppression. If the lean screenplay (by Kaluuya alongside “Calm With Horses” writer Joe Murtagh) somewhat runs out of gas by the finale, the film’s persuasive world-building and fiery political ire keep it compelling. Netflix will release “The Kitchen” — a fitting, resonant closer to this year’s London Film Festival — in early 2024.
Call it the exasperated payoff from 13 years of Conservative austerity,...
Call it the exasperated payoff from 13 years of Conservative austerity,...
- 10/15/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2023 London Film Festival. Netflix releases the film on its streaming platform on Friday, January 19.
At an edition of the London Film Festival where themes spilled off the screens and onto the streets, “The Kitchen” was a prescient Closing Night choice. The directorial debut for both Daniel Kaluuya and architect-turned-filmmaker Kibwe Tavares screened to press on Sunday morning, meters away from Piccadilly Circus where, hours previously, the famous Eros statue was draped in Palestine flags during a peaceful demonstration in solidarity with people in danger of being wiped off the face of the earth.
The threat of an already dispossessed community losing their homes and lives undergirds the near-future North London-set dystopia of “The Kitchen.” If the relationship drama at its core doesn’t fully connect with the elegant brutalism of its visual language, there is, nevertheless, a lot to admire in both aspects.
At an edition of the London Film Festival where themes spilled off the screens and onto the streets, “The Kitchen” was a prescient Closing Night choice. The directorial debut for both Daniel Kaluuya and architect-turned-filmmaker Kibwe Tavares screened to press on Sunday morning, meters away from Piccadilly Circus where, hours previously, the famous Eros statue was draped in Palestine flags during a peaceful demonstration in solidarity with people in danger of being wiped off the face of the earth.
The threat of an already dispossessed community losing their homes and lives undergirds the near-future North London-set dystopia of “The Kitchen.” If the relationship drama at its core doesn’t fully connect with the elegant brutalism of its visual language, there is, nevertheless, a lot to admire in both aspects.
- 10/15/2023
- by Sophie Monks Kaufman
- Indiewire
This article contains The Strays spoilers.
Netflix is dishing out another horror original, and this time it’s the directorial debut of Nathaniel Martello-White’s The Strays. Feeling like a mix between Parasite and Get Out, the story follows one woman’s picture-perfect life in the suburbs that’s torn apart by the ghosts of her past and her own internalized prejudices.
Ashley Madekwe stars as Cheryl, a Black woman who begins the movie by seemingly escaping an abusive relationship while being on the bottom rung of the housing ladder. It’s a generally miserable existence that’s all-too-common in the United Kingdom. After an opening sequence where she leaves a note about “stepping out,” the story picks up some “years later,” and Cheryl (now going by the name of Neve) has found the grass is greener on the other side. She’s settled into family life and holds down...
Netflix is dishing out another horror original, and this time it’s the directorial debut of Nathaniel Martello-White’s The Strays. Feeling like a mix between Parasite and Get Out, the story follows one woman’s picture-perfect life in the suburbs that’s torn apart by the ghosts of her past and her own internalized prejudices.
Ashley Madekwe stars as Cheryl, a Black woman who begins the movie by seemingly escaping an abusive relationship while being on the bottom rung of the housing ladder. It’s a generally miserable existence that’s all-too-common in the United Kingdom. After an opening sequence where she leaves a note about “stepping out,” the story picks up some “years later,” and Cheryl (now going by the name of Neve) has found the grass is greener on the other side. She’s settled into family life and holds down...
- 2/24/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Matthew Vaughn turns his reckless dad-humour energy to the first world war for a tongue-in-cheek history lesson with some surprising twists
Like a great big playful un-neutered pitbull, Matthew Vaughn’s new Kingsman movie comes crashing into our cinematic lives this Christmas, overturning the furniture and frantically humping everyone’s leg before rolling over on the carpet for you to tickle its tummy or anything else that comes to hand.
The third film in the Ott British spy romp franchise now gives us an epic origin myth, explaining how the Kingsman society came to be located in a posh tailor’s shop in London’s Savile Row, and how it was born in the first world war to battle a certain evil genius whom Vaughn cheerfully makes Scottish. This megalomaniac’s hidden hand is behind historical events you thought you knew all about – such as the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand...
Like a great big playful un-neutered pitbull, Matthew Vaughn’s new Kingsman movie comes crashing into our cinematic lives this Christmas, overturning the furniture and frantically humping everyone’s leg before rolling over on the carpet for you to tickle its tummy or anything else that comes to hand.
The third film in the Ott British spy romp franchise now gives us an epic origin myth, explaining how the Kingsman society came to be located in a posh tailor’s shop in London’s Savile Row, and how it was born in the first world war to battle a certain evil genius whom Vaughn cheerfully makes Scottish. This megalomaniac’s hidden hand is behind historical events you thought you knew all about – such as the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand...
- 12/14/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
When Foxtel executives first saw Deadline Gallipoli, they were so impressed with the performance of Joel Jackson they made a highly unusual deal with the young actor and his agent.
A 2013 Nida graduate, Jackson makes his screen debut as Charles Bean, one of the three war correspondents at the centre of the miniseries.
Foxtel executive director of television Brian Walsh and head of drama Penny Win wanted to ensure Deadline Gallipoli will be the first time Australians see the 24-year-old Jackson on screen.
So they made a financial arrangement with the actor.s agent Mark Morrissey of Morrissey Management that if he took jobs in other shows, none would go to air before Deadline Gallipoli premieres on showcase in April.
.It.s very unusual to do that kind of holding deal, especially for a young man who was straight out of Nida,. Morrissey tells If.
Morrissey signed Jackson after admiring his work at Nida,...
A 2013 Nida graduate, Jackson makes his screen debut as Charles Bean, one of the three war correspondents at the centre of the miniseries.
Foxtel executive director of television Brian Walsh and head of drama Penny Win wanted to ensure Deadline Gallipoli will be the first time Australians see the 24-year-old Jackson on screen.
So they made a financial arrangement with the actor.s agent Mark Morrissey of Morrissey Management that if he took jobs in other shows, none would go to air before Deadline Gallipoli premieres on showcase in April.
.It.s very unusual to do that kind of holding deal, especially for a young man who was straight out of Nida,. Morrissey tells If.
Morrissey signed Jackson after admiring his work at Nida,...
- 1/20/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
From Guardians Of The Galaxy to Godzilla, and Noah to Paddington, our pick of 2014's finest film soundtracks and scores.
After Gravity blew your eardrums out of the airlock in 2013 with its seamless mix of sound effects and music, it was hard to imagine a film wowing just as much the year after, but 2014 was a year in which movie soundtracks became, if anything, even more intricate, from films about the nature of being a musician to those that replicated the noise of human existence for alien senses.
Before 2014 becomes a distant ringing in the ears, here are the top 14 movie soundtracks of the year.
1. Under the Skin (Mica Levi)
Once you've heard Mica Levi's soundtrack to Under the Skin, everything else sounds both disappointing and even more exciting. I say 'soundtrack' because, like the best movies, Jonathan Glazer's sci-fi understands that sound and music are two halves of the same hastily-conceived metaphor.
After Gravity blew your eardrums out of the airlock in 2013 with its seamless mix of sound effects and music, it was hard to imagine a film wowing just as much the year after, but 2014 was a year in which movie soundtracks became, if anything, even more intricate, from films about the nature of being a musician to those that replicated the noise of human existence for alien senses.
Before 2014 becomes a distant ringing in the ears, here are the top 14 movie soundtracks of the year.
1. Under the Skin (Mica Levi)
Once you've heard Mica Levi's soundtrack to Under the Skin, everything else sounds both disappointing and even more exciting. I say 'soundtrack' because, like the best movies, Jonathan Glazer's sci-fi understands that sound and music are two halves of the same hastily-conceived metaphor.
- 1/7/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
San Francisco Silent Film Festival – Silent Autumn 2014: From The Great War to Charles Chaplin and Pearl White (image: Charles Chaplin in 'A Film Johnnie') Imagine, if you will, that you can go back one hundred years in time, when people were enjoying a new and pervasive art form: motion pictures. In 1914, the movies had already been around for a while, in peep shows, nickelodeons, and small screening rooms. But now movie theaters were springing up in every community large and small, where families could flock together and watch flickering images in comfort, with live musical accompaniment. On September 20, such was the experience provided by the 2014 San Francisco Silent Film Festival – Silent Autumn: "A Night at the Cinema in 1914." For a history buff like me, this was second best to getting into a time machine. True, the programs consisted mostly of films from the British Film Institute, but the variety content of newsreels,...
- 10/10/2014
- by Danny Fortune
- Alt Film Guide
Sam Worthington, Hugh Dancy, Rachel Griffiths, Bryan Brown and Ewen Leslie are just some of the names that make up the impressive Deadline Gallipoli cast.
Foxtel made the casting announcement this morning as the mini-series starts production in South Australia.
Other cast members are Jessica De Gouw, Anna Torv, James Fraser, Charles Dance and newcomer 2013 Nida graduate Joel Jackson.
John Bell of Bell Shakespeare will also be returning to television for the first time in more than 20 years.
The mini-series, directed by Michael Rymer (Hannibal), looks at the Gallipoli legend from the point of view of four war correspondents Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, Phillip Schuler and Keith Murdoch.
Joel Jackson stars as Bean, Hugh Dancy as Bartlett, Ewen Leslie as Murdoch, and Sam Worthington as Schuler. Charles Dance plays Hamilton, the Commander of the Gallipoli campaign, Bryan Brown plays General Bridges and John Bell plays Lord Kitchener.
"This is a...
Foxtel made the casting announcement this morning as the mini-series starts production in South Australia.
Other cast members are Jessica De Gouw, Anna Torv, James Fraser, Charles Dance and newcomer 2013 Nida graduate Joel Jackson.
John Bell of Bell Shakespeare will also be returning to television for the first time in more than 20 years.
The mini-series, directed by Michael Rymer (Hannibal), looks at the Gallipoli legend from the point of view of four war correspondents Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, Phillip Schuler and Keith Murdoch.
Joel Jackson stars as Bean, Hugh Dancy as Bartlett, Ewen Leslie as Murdoch, and Sam Worthington as Schuler. Charles Dance plays Hamilton, the Commander of the Gallipoli campaign, Bryan Brown plays General Bridges and John Bell plays Lord Kitchener.
"This is a...
- 6/16/2014
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Sam Worthington, Hugh Dancy, Rachel Griffiths, Bryan Brown and Ewen Leslie are just some of the names that make up the impressive Deadline Gallipoli cast.
Foxtel made the casting announcement this morning as the mini-series starts production in South Australia.
Other cast members are Jessica De Gouw, Anna Torv, James Fraser, Charles Dance and newcomer 2013 Nida graduate Joel Jackson.
John Bell of Bell Shakespeare will also be returning to television for the first time in more than 20 years.
The mini-series, directed by Michael Rymer (Hannibal), looks at the Gallipoli legend from the point of view of four war correspondents Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, Phillip Schuler and Keith Murdoch.
Joel Jackson stars as Bean, Hugh Dancy as Bartlett, Ewen Leslie as Murdoch, and Sam Worthington as Schuler. Charles Dance plays Hamilton, the Commander of the Gallipoli campaign, Bryan Brown plays General Bridges and John Bell plays Lord Kitchener.
"This is a...
Foxtel made the casting announcement this morning as the mini-series starts production in South Australia.
Other cast members are Jessica De Gouw, Anna Torv, James Fraser, Charles Dance and newcomer 2013 Nida graduate Joel Jackson.
John Bell of Bell Shakespeare will also be returning to television for the first time in more than 20 years.
The mini-series, directed by Michael Rymer (Hannibal), looks at the Gallipoli legend from the point of view of four war correspondents Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, Phillip Schuler and Keith Murdoch.
Joel Jackson stars as Bean, Hugh Dancy as Bartlett, Ewen Leslie as Murdoch, and Sam Worthington as Schuler. Charles Dance plays Hamilton, the Commander of the Gallipoli campaign, Bryan Brown plays General Bridges and John Bell plays Lord Kitchener.
"This is a...
- 6/16/2014
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Oh, you know what, we're feeling all twitchy. The Voice comes to an end tonight and we can't wait for all the action and the emotional crowning - who will it be?
Christina Marie, Jamie Johnson, Jermain Jackman and Sally Barker are still in the running, but first they just have to pull off three final performances. So no pressure, then.
Join Digital Spy as we bring you all the action - the show starts at 7pm, so get your pizza order in now...
21:05So that's it! We have a winner! Make sure you let us know what you think of all that in the comments... and we'll see you back here next year...
The winner of The Voice series 3, it's… @JermainJackman! #thevoiceukFINAL pic.twitter.com/eqMcNInYze
— BBC The Voice UK (@BBCTheVoiceUK) April 5, 2014
21:04So that's it! Jermain is crying his way through 'And I Am Telling You'.
Christina Marie, Jamie Johnson, Jermain Jackman and Sally Barker are still in the running, but first they just have to pull off three final performances. So no pressure, then.
Join Digital Spy as we bring you all the action - the show starts at 7pm, so get your pizza order in now...
21:05So that's it! We have a winner! Make sure you let us know what you think of all that in the comments... and we'll see you back here next year...
The winner of The Voice series 3, it's… @JermainJackman! #thevoiceukFINAL pic.twitter.com/eqMcNInYze
— BBC The Voice UK (@BBCTheVoiceUK) April 5, 2014
21:04So that's it! Jermain is crying his way through 'And I Am Telling You'.
- 4/5/2014
- Digital Spy
Oh, you know what, we're feeling all twitchy. The Voice comes to an end tonight and we can't wait for all the action and the emotional crowning - who will it be?
Christina Marie, Jamie Johnson, Jermain Jackman and Sally Barker are still in the running, but first they just have to pull off three final performances. So no pressure, then.
Join Digital Spy as we bring you all the action - the show starts at 7pm, so get your pizza order in now...
21:05So that's it! We have a winner! Make sure you let us know what you think of all that in the comments... and we'll see you back here next year...
The winner of The Voice series 3, it's… @JermainJackman! #thevoiceukFINAL pic.twitter.com/eqMcNInYze
— BBC The Voice UK (@BBCTheVoiceUK) April 5, 2014
21:04So that's it! Jermain is crying his way through 'And I Am Telling You'.
Christina Marie, Jamie Johnson, Jermain Jackman and Sally Barker are still in the running, but first they just have to pull off three final performances. So no pressure, then.
Join Digital Spy as we bring you all the action - the show starts at 7pm, so get your pizza order in now...
21:05So that's it! We have a winner! Make sure you let us know what you think of all that in the comments... and we'll see you back here next year...
The winner of The Voice series 3, it's… @JermainJackman! #thevoiceukFINAL pic.twitter.com/eqMcNInYze
— BBC The Voice UK (@BBCTheVoiceUK) April 5, 2014
21:04So that's it! Jermain is crying his way through 'And I Am Telling You'.
- 4/5/2014
- Digital Spy
Kodi Smit-McPhee, Harry Greenwood, Tom Budge, Lincoln Lewis, Matt Nable, Anthony Hayes, Lachy Hulme and Ashleigh Cummings are among the big ensemble cast announced today for the Endemol Australia/Nine Network miniseries Gallipoli.
A three-month shoot starts in and around Melbourne on March 17 with Glendyn Ivin (Beaconsfield, Puberty Blues) directing. The screenplay by Christopher Lee (Howzat! Kerry Packer.s War, Paper Giants, Rush, Police Rescue) is adapted from the best-selling book by Les Carlyon.
The producers are John Edwards (Howzat! Kerry Packer.s War, Beaconsfield, Paper Giants, and Offspring), Imogen Banks (Puberty Blues, Offspring) and Robert Connolly (producer of Balibo and The Boys, director of Underground: The Julian Assange Story, The Slap). Nine.s co-Heads of Drama Jo Rooney and Andy Ryan and Endemol Australia CEO Janeen Faithfull are executive producers. .Smit-McPhee plays 17-year-old Thomas .Tolly. Johnson, who lies about his age to enlist with his brother Bevan in the...
A three-month shoot starts in and around Melbourne on March 17 with Glendyn Ivin (Beaconsfield, Puberty Blues) directing. The screenplay by Christopher Lee (Howzat! Kerry Packer.s War, Paper Giants, Rush, Police Rescue) is adapted from the best-selling book by Les Carlyon.
The producers are John Edwards (Howzat! Kerry Packer.s War, Beaconsfield, Paper Giants, and Offspring), Imogen Banks (Puberty Blues, Offspring) and Robert Connolly (producer of Balibo and The Boys, director of Underground: The Julian Assange Story, The Slap). Nine.s co-Heads of Drama Jo Rooney and Andy Ryan and Endemol Australia CEO Janeen Faithfull are executive producers. .Smit-McPhee plays 17-year-old Thomas .Tolly. Johnson, who lies about his age to enlist with his brother Bevan in the...
- 3/3/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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