“Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World,” from Romania’s Radu Jude, added to its ever larger silverware collection, winning the top Albar Award at Spain’s Gijón Festival.
Gijón’s big win join not only a Special Jury Prize at August’s Locarno Film Festival, where the film was the most talked about – one of Jude’s aims– and lauded of competition titles among reviewers, plus a Chicago Silver Hugo best performance nod (Ilinca Manolache) in October and a Lisbon Fest Jury Prize late last month.
Over 61 editions, and most especially when José Luis Cienfuegos, now Valladolid chief, took over its reins in 1995, the Gijón-Xijón Film Festival (Ficx) has carved out an identity as highlighting edgier international auteurs and indie fare, moving into promoting often more singular movies from a burgeoning new generation of Spanish filmmakers, greeted with enthusiasm by discerning and predominantly YA audiences...
Gijón’s big win join not only a Special Jury Prize at August’s Locarno Film Festival, where the film was the most talked about – one of Jude’s aims– and lauded of competition titles among reviewers, plus a Chicago Silver Hugo best performance nod (Ilinca Manolache) in October and a Lisbon Fest Jury Prize late last month.
Over 61 editions, and most especially when José Luis Cienfuegos, now Valladolid chief, took over its reins in 1995, the Gijón-Xijón Film Festival (Ficx) has carved out an identity as highlighting edgier international auteurs and indie fare, moving into promoting often more singular movies from a burgeoning new generation of Spanish filmmakers, greeted with enthusiasm by discerning and predominantly YA audiences...
- 11/27/2023
- by Pablo Sandoval
- Variety Film + TV
In conjunction with the premiere of Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone’s latest collaboration, Milan Records will release the “Poor Things” soundtrack by multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Jerskin Fendrix on December 8. But beginning November 15, you can get a taste of the film’s gnarled steampunk setting by listening to two singles off the album: “Bella” and “Lisbon.” Listen to an exclusive preview of the latter below.
“Poor Things” is both Fendrix’s first film score and Lanthimos’ first collaboration with a dedicated composer for a feature film. “I just listened to Jerskin’s first album and I can’t even describe what it is,” Lanthimos said in a statement. “But there was something in it that just felt so right about it.”
Fendrix’s music wasn’t necessarily an intuitive choice for a film score, and that’s part of what excited Lanthimos. Fendrix’s solo work mixes the flourishes of classical piano with cutting,...
“Poor Things” is both Fendrix’s first film score and Lanthimos’ first collaboration with a dedicated composer for a feature film. “I just listened to Jerskin’s first album and I can’t even describe what it is,” Lanthimos said in a statement. “But there was something in it that just felt so right about it.”
Fendrix’s music wasn’t necessarily an intuitive choice for a film score, and that’s part of what excited Lanthimos. Fendrix’s solo work mixes the flourishes of classical piano with cutting,...
- 11/14/2023
- by Sarah Shachat
- Indiewire
Adele adorably sang the wrong words to her own song during a concert in Lisbon, Portugal last week. “S—, wrong words,” the singer said after realizing her mistake while performing her song “Million Years Ago.” The crowd didn’t seem to mind, and actually got a good laugh out of it as Adele apologized. “I started singing the verse! Sorry.” See Video: Adele Drops Psychedelic Video for 'Send My Love (To Your New Lover)' This isn’t the first time the “25” singer has forgotten the words to her songs. In March, during a gig in Manchester, she asked to...
- 5/27/2016
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
She has the voice of an angel and the grace of a queen, yet even Adele manages to make mistakes from time to time.
During her performance in Lisbon, Portugal, the “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” lady flubbed the lyrics to her lovely ditty “Million Years Ago,” and instead of glossing over it, she called herself out.
Adele snapped out of singing mode and bluntly declared, “Sh*t! Wrong words! Sh*t! Sh*t! Sh*t! I started singing the chorus. Sorry!” Check the clip!
Adele forgot the lyrics to her song and this was her reaction. pic.twitter.com/n1EyHwXM56
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) May 25, 2016...
During her performance in Lisbon, Portugal, the “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” lady flubbed the lyrics to her lovely ditty “Million Years Ago,” and instead of glossing over it, she called herself out.
Adele snapped out of singing mode and bluntly declared, “Sh*t! Wrong words! Sh*t! Sh*t! Sh*t! I started singing the chorus. Sorry!” Check the clip!
Adele forgot the lyrics to her song and this was her reaction. pic.twitter.com/n1EyHwXM56
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) May 25, 2016...
- 5/26/2016
- GossipCenter
Last night (May 22), she introduced her brand new video for “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards, and now Adele's clip is all over the internet.
The lovely English songbird wasn’t actually in the house for the big premiere, as she had a gig in Lisbon, Portugal as part of her current sold-out world tour.
“Send My Love” is the third single from Adele’s multi-platinum album 25, following the uber-successful ditties “Hello” and “When We Were Young.” Check the clip!
The lovely English songbird wasn’t actually in the house for the big premiere, as she had a gig in Lisbon, Portugal as part of her current sold-out world tour.
“Send My Love” is the third single from Adele’s multi-platinum album 25, following the uber-successful ditties “Hello” and “When We Were Young.” Check the clip!
- 5/23/2016
- GossipCenter
João Bénard da Costa—Others will Love the Things I Loved
Directed by Manuel Mozos
Portugal, 2014
João Bénard da Costa (1935-2009) was the director of the Portuguese Film Museum in Lisbon for 18 years, and he is responsible for what it is today. He was also a writer, poet, critic and actor. The biographical documentary about his life and work made by his fellow countryman Manuel Mozos is one of those films that defies film criticism in its conventional form. If film criticism is deficient in general for trying to speak about a medium that entails several tracks—image, dialogue, music and so on—by using a single-track medium, i.e., words, then the conventional form of film criticism can be deficient, as it is in this specific case. The history of da Costa’s life work is what it is, however poetically presented it may be—it is literally a...
Directed by Manuel Mozos
Portugal, 2014
João Bénard da Costa (1935-2009) was the director of the Portuguese Film Museum in Lisbon for 18 years, and he is responsible for what it is today. He was also a writer, poet, critic and actor. The biographical documentary about his life and work made by his fellow countryman Manuel Mozos is one of those films that defies film criticism in its conventional form. If film criticism is deficient in general for trying to speak about a medium that entails several tracks—image, dialogue, music and so on—by using a single-track medium, i.e., words, then the conventional form of film criticism can be deficient, as it is in this specific case. The history of da Costa’s life work is what it is, however poetically presented it may be—it is literally a...
- 2/25/2015
- by Tina Poglajen
- SoundOnSight
There is no need for you to leave the house. Stay at your table and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't even wait, be completely quiet and alone. The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked; it can't do otherwise; in raptures it will writhe before you."
—Franz Kafka, "Reflections on Sin, Suffering, Hope, and the True Way."
Above: Director Vítor Gonçalves
Behold the Palace Square in Lisbon—or rather, Praça do Comércio, where the Royal Ribeira Palace stood for nearly two hundred years. In the 18th century, the palace was destroyed by the Great Lisbon Earthquake, never to be restored (instead was built a new one, though, not for the King to live) hence the new name—The Square of Commerce. Here, in the seat of Fascist power, tens of thousands people would gather to listen to Salazar's orations (see Brandos Costumes by Alberto Seixas Santos); then came the Carnation Revolution.
—Franz Kafka, "Reflections on Sin, Suffering, Hope, and the True Way."
Above: Director Vítor Gonçalves
Behold the Palace Square in Lisbon—or rather, Praça do Comércio, where the Royal Ribeira Palace stood for nearly two hundred years. In the 18th century, the palace was destroyed by the Great Lisbon Earthquake, never to be restored (instead was built a new one, though, not for the King to live) hence the new name—The Square of Commerce. Here, in the seat of Fascist power, tens of thousands people would gather to listen to Salazar's orations (see Brandos Costumes by Alberto Seixas Santos); then came the Carnation Revolution.
- 2/24/2014
- by Boris Nelepo
- MUBI
Paul Henreid in ‘Casablanca’: Freedom Fighter on screen, Blacklisted ‘Subversive’ off screen Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of July 2013, Paul Henreid, bids you farewell this evening. TCM left the most popular, if not exactly the best, for last: Casablanca, Michael Curtiz’s 1943 Best Picture Oscar-winning drama, is showing at 7 p.m. Pt tonight. (Photo: Paul Henreid sings "La Marseillaise" in Casablanca.) One of the best-remembered movies of the studio era, Casablanca — not set in a Spanish or Mexican White House — features Paul Henreid as Czechoslovakian underground leader Victor Laszlo, Ingrid Bergman’s husband but not her True Love. That’s Humphrey Bogart, owner of a cafe in the titular Moroccan city. Henreid’s anti-Nazi hero is generally considered one of least interesting elements in Casablanca, but Alt Film Guide contributor Dan Schneider thinks otherwise. In any case, Victor Laszlo feels like a character made to order for Paul Henreid,...
- 7/31/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber shouldn't be ashamed. There's plenty of other singers who've unexpectedly gotten sick and thrown up smack dab in the middle of shows (watch out in the front row!). Gaga's and Bieber's recent vomiting incidences aside, check out these five other singers who've also puked from performing. 1. Rihanna: While performing her hit "What's My Name" during a December 2011 concert in Lisbon, Portugal, Ri-Ri was forced to run off stage before getting sick. She later tweeted about the incident, writing, "yep, i ran off stage to throw up, halfway thru What's My Name ... made it back juuuust in time for RudeBoy." 2. Adele: You'd never...
- 10/8/2012
- E! Online
Chicago – In many ways, 2011 was the year of startlingly successful throwbacks. Who could’ve guessed that Woody Allen, Tom Cruise and The Muppets would revive their crowd-pleasing appeal? How many moviegoing soothsayers predicted that Michel Hazanavicius’ melodrama, “The Artist,” would become an Oscar front-runner that proves the silent art form is far from dead?
And who could’ve possibly dreamed that veteran Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz would end his extraordinary 48-year-long career with a staggering epic that revitalized the storytelling techniques of a nineteenth century Portuguese novelist? “Mysteries of Lisbon” is a direct rebuke to the conventional narratives that follow uncluttered three-act structures. At four-and-a-half hours, this film preserves the scope and density of its source material, while utilizing modern technology to make every frame thrillingly cinematic.
Blu-ray Rating: 5.0/5.0
Author Camilo Castelo Branco’s illegitimate birth and upbringing as an orphan are clearly reflected in the young character placed at the center of his 1852 novel.
And who could’ve possibly dreamed that veteran Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz would end his extraordinary 48-year-long career with a staggering epic that revitalized the storytelling techniques of a nineteenth century Portuguese novelist? “Mysteries of Lisbon” is a direct rebuke to the conventional narratives that follow uncluttered three-act structures. At four-and-a-half hours, this film preserves the scope and density of its source material, while utilizing modern technology to make every frame thrillingly cinematic.
Blu-ray Rating: 5.0/5.0
Author Camilo Castelo Branco’s illegitimate birth and upbringing as an orphan are clearly reflected in the young character placed at the center of his 1852 novel.
- 1/24/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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