Los Angeles metal outfit Static-x will reunite for a new album and world tour to mark the 20th anniversary of their debut album, Wisconsin Death Trip. The new record, Project Regeneration, is set to arrive in Spring 2019. The record will feature the original line-up of bassist Tony Campos, guitarist Koichi Fukuda and drummer Ken Jay, as well as the final vocal performances and musical compositions of late singer/guitarist, Wayne Static, who died in 2014.
Project Regeneration marks the first Static-x record since 2009’s Cult of Static. The band shared a trailer for the record,...
Project Regeneration marks the first Static-x record since 2009’s Cult of Static. The band shared a trailer for the record,...
- 10/23/2018
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Films by Bonello, Rivette, Akerman, Carax, and more screen in “The Female Gaze,” a retrospective of female cinematographers. Read our piece on it here.
Metrograph
The rarely screened work of Yoshishige Yoshida gets a three-title outing, while a look at the films of actor and director Gérard Blain is underway.
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Films by Bonello, Rivette, Akerman, Carax, and more screen in “The Female Gaze,” a retrospective of female cinematographers. Read our piece on it here.
Metrograph
The rarely screened work of Yoshishige Yoshida gets a three-title outing, while a look at the films of actor and director Gérard Blain is underway.
- 8/3/2018
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Having been selected to play at at Horror-on-Sea I got a chance to talk with writer and director Thomas Lee Rutter about what we can expect, the inspiration for the look and the style of the film and the alternative version.
In 1943 a group of boys wandering the woodland of Hagley Hall discovered the skeletal remains of a woman stuffed inside a hollowed Wych Elm tree. To this day her identity is still unknown. In 1944 however, mysterious graffiti began to adorn the walls of the neighboring towns; Who Put Bella In The Wych Elm. Somebody knew but who? This curious folk phantasmagoria feverishly displays the known possibilities which take us from the mystical realms of witchcraft, restless ghosts to sinister WW2 espionage. Bella In The Wych Elm will intrigue, and frighten in all it’s quaint yet claustrophobic glory.
What can we expect from the film?
A quaint, feverish and...
In 1943 a group of boys wandering the woodland of Hagley Hall discovered the skeletal remains of a woman stuffed inside a hollowed Wych Elm tree. To this day her identity is still unknown. In 1944 however, mysterious graffiti began to adorn the walls of the neighboring towns; Who Put Bella In The Wych Elm. Somebody knew but who? This curious folk phantasmagoria feverishly displays the known possibilities which take us from the mystical realms of witchcraft, restless ghosts to sinister WW2 espionage. Bella In The Wych Elm will intrigue, and frighten in all it’s quaint yet claustrophobic glory.
What can we expect from the film?
A quaint, feverish and...
- 2/7/2018
- by Philip Rogers
- Nerdly
Former Static-x lead singer and guitarist Wayne Static has died, his rep told Billboard late Saturday night. He was 48. No details as to the cause of the metal legend's death were available, though Static was scheduled to tour with Powerman 5000 and Drowning Pool in the coming months. Static formed his namesake band in 1994 after dissolving his previous group, Deep Blue Dream. Static-x's debut album, Wisconsin Death Trip, went platinum five years later. Static-x went on to release five more albums. The last was 2009's Cult of Static. Static-x disbanded last year and Wayne - whose hair style defied gravity...
- 11/2/2014
- by Stephen M. Silverman, @stephenmsilverm
- PEOPLE.com
Former Static-x lead singer and guitarist Wayne Static has died, his rep told Billboard late Saturday night. He was 48. No details as to the cause of the metal legend's death were available, though Static was scheduled to tour with Powerman 5000 and Drowning Pool in the coming months. Static formed his namesake band in 1994 after dissolving his previous group, Deep Blue Dream. Static-x's debut album, Wisconsin Death Trip, went platinum five years later. Static-x went on to release five more albums. The last was 2009's Cult of Static. Static-x disbanded last year and Wayne - whose hair style defied gravity...
- 11/2/2014
- by Stephen M. Silverman, @stephenmsilverm
- PEOPLE.com
Wayne Static, former frontman of metal band Static-x, has died. He was 48. A representative for the singer announced the death of Static, whose real name was Wayne Richard Wells, on the evening of Nov. 1. No information was provided other than that Static was was due to set out on a co-headlining tour with Powerman 5000 and Drowning Pool over the next several months. A tweet from Static's official handle was posted some six hours before the news was announced. Static formed his namesake band in 1994, releasing debut album Wisconsin Death Trip in 1999; the album
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- 11/2/2014
- by Katie Atkinson, Billboard
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Wayne Static, the solo metal artist and Static-x frontman, died late Saturday night. He was 48.
Wayne Static Dies
Static’s untimely death was announced on his Facebook page. “Platinum selling musician Wayne Richard Wells, better known as Wayne Static, passed away at the age of 48,” the statement read. “Wayne Static was the enigmatic former frontman and namesake of Static-x, who later forged a successful solo career. Wayne was scheduled to co-headline tours with Powerman 5000 and Drowning Pool over the next several months.
It added, “No additional information is available at this time.”
While no official cause of death has been released, Papa Roach frontman Jacoby Shaddix suggested that Static had died of a drug overdose in a tribute to the late musician on Instagram.
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Nov 11, 2014 at 9:07pm Pdt
“Rip Wayne.... This Is So Sad. Too Many Musicians Are Dying From Overdoses. Im...
Wayne Static Dies
Static’s untimely death was announced on his Facebook page. “Platinum selling musician Wayne Richard Wells, better known as Wayne Static, passed away at the age of 48,” the statement read. “Wayne Static was the enigmatic former frontman and namesake of Static-x, who later forged a successful solo career. Wayne was scheduled to co-headline tours with Powerman 5000 and Drowning Pool over the next several months.
It added, “No additional information is available at this time.”
While no official cause of death has been released, Papa Roach frontman Jacoby Shaddix suggested that Static had died of a drug overdose in a tribute to the late musician on Instagram.
A photo posted by @jacobydakotashaddix on
Nov 11, 2014 at 9:07pm Pdt
“Rip Wayne.... This Is So Sad. Too Many Musicians Are Dying From Overdoses. Im...
- 11/2/2014
- Uinterview
This Week’s Must Read: Filmmaker Jesse Malmed has a wonderful in-depth article with fellow filmmaker Julie Perrini up at the art blog Bad At Sports. Yes, you’ll want to read all about Perrini’s work processes and her evolution as a filmmaker, but you’ll really be fascinated to hear why she had to — as the interview’s title says — explain what state smashers are to a grand jury.The Broward Palm Beach New Times ran a good interview with John Waters, not so much about his movies but about his general interests. Best part of the article: He says he loved J.J. Murphy’s recent book on the films of Andy Warhol, The Black Hole of the Camera. Just like us! Seriously, if you haven’t read that book yet, you’re really missing out on something wonderful.Name that Fleshapoid! (Ok, I know technically that’s not a Fleshapoid,...
- 7/22/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
James Marsh is a heralded documentary filmmaker with Wisconsin Death Trip, Man on Wire, and Project Nim to his credit. He’s also an apt dramatist with the underrated The King and Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980, the best film of that trilogy. His new Belfast-set Ira thriller Shadow Dancer is effective, especially since Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy just proved that slow-burning story mechanics are better than chases, explosions, and shouted exposition. Andrea Riseborough stars as Collette McVeigh, a single mother and active member of the Ira who turns informant for MI5 after an aborted bombing attempt in the London subway system. She falls into the noble hands of Clive Owen‘s mid-level agent, who lays out her ultimatum. Despite bouts of unoriginal dialogue and overt symbolism (Riseborough wears a red trench in almost every scene after she turns mole), traces of familiarity end...
- 1/27/2012
- by arno
- IMDb Blog - All the Latest
James Marsh first became a household name in the States after winning the 2009 Oscar for Best Documentary for his film Man on Wire, a “heist” picture about the French tightrope walker, Philippe Petit, who traversed a line between the twin towers in 1974. That film’s use of genre, its stylistic flair, and its fusion of fiction and documentary elements can be witnessed as early as Marsh’s 1999 film Wisconsin Death Trip, about the tragedies that befell a small town of Wisconsin at the turn of the 20th century.
Marsh stays true to form in his latest documentary Project Nim (coming to theaters in New York on July 8th), winner of Best World Documentary at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. This time around, Marsh applies his sensibilities to murkier terrain. At his film’s center lies not an affable, performative protagonist like Man on Wire’s Philippe Petit, but rather a chimpanzee...
Marsh stays true to form in his latest documentary Project Nim (coming to theaters in New York on July 8th), winner of Best World Documentary at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. This time around, Marsh applies his sensibilities to murkier terrain. At his film’s center lies not an affable, performative protagonist like Man on Wire’s Philippe Petit, but rather a chimpanzee...
- 7/8/2011
- by Daniel James Scott
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
[With Project Nim entering into limited Us theatrical release tomorrow we revisit Kurt Halfyard's previous review.]Meet Nim Chimpsky, the irrepressibly cute chimpanzee snatched from his mother at birth from the Oklahoma Institute by Primate Studies by Columbia professor Herbert Terrace for a radical experiment in language and cognition: Could a chimp learn sign language and have a cross-species conversation with human beings? The superlative new documentary from James Marsh (Man On Wire, Wisconsin Death Trip) is an animal activist film, an epic custody battle drama, and more than anything a look at the many post-hippie social experiments going on in the United States during the 1970s. While animal lovers will get their fill of cute anthropomorphic snaps of Nim as he grows up with a variety of human...
- 7/7/2011
- Screen Anarchy
[Hotdocs may have wrapped up last week, but there are a few more reviews and interviews in the queue, and James Marsh's Project Nim may have been the best film at this years festival.]Meet Nim Chimpsky, the irrepressibly cute chimpanzee snatched from his mother at birth from the Oklahoma Institute by Primate Studies by Columbia professor Herbert Terrace for a radical experiment in language and cognition: Could a chimp learn sign language and have a cross-species conversation with human beings? The superlative new documentary from James Marsh (Man On Wire, Wisconsin Death Trip) is an animal activist film, an epic custody battle drama, and more than anything a look at the many post-hippie social experiments going on in the United States during the 1970s. While animal lovers will get...
- 5/13/2011
- Screen Anarchy
0:00 - Intro / Doc Talk 12:45 - Headlines: Will Smith to Star in Tarantino’s Django Unchained?, Catfish Directors Hired for Paranormal Activity 3, Gary Busey Signs on for Piranha 3Dd 33:10 - Review: Thor 59:15 - Trailer Trash: Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Conan the Barbarian 1:11:00 - Other Stuff We Watched: Fast Five, Blow Out, No Entry, No Exit, Beats, Rhymes & Life, Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop, Magic Trip, Position Among the Stars, Wisconsin Death Trip, Project Nim, Eco Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson, Fightville, Hell and Back Again, Abendland, The Interrupters, Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey, Superheroes, 127 Hours, Due Date, Parenthood, Game of Thrones 2:21:40 - Junk Mail: Episodes 78 and 79 in 4 minutes, Netflix Canada, Walking Out of Movies, David Blaine, Best Film Restorations 2:47:00 - This Week's DVD Releases 2:52:15 - Outro » Download the MP3 (80 Mb) [1] » View the show notes...
- 5/12/2011
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Can a place be evil? Can it's bad mojo be transferred upon an unsuspecting settler or to a wide population of lifetime residents? This question is asked in a baroque and highly unconventional manner in Wisconsin Death Trip. The film is getting the retrospective treatment here at the HotDocs Film Festival in Toronto and midnight is definitely the fuzzy witching hour to best experience it.Before James Marsh (justly) won the Oscar for 2009's Man on Wire, or in the same year, directed the stand-out chapter in the excellent Red Riding Trilogy, he made this Maddin-esque, Lynch-ian (this is film-nerd shorthand for poetic, feverish, surreal and weird, for those keeping score at home) documentary on the madness in the air of the midwest. Filming stylized re-creations...
- 5/2/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Leaping from fiction to nonfiction and back again may be an astonishing directorial feat, but those who have followed British filmmaker James Marsh ("Wisconsin Death Trip," "The King") before he won his best documentary Oscar for "Man on Wire" last year know he's long led such a high-wire career.
For "The Red Riding Trilogy," screenwriter Tony Grisoni's thrilling three-film adaptation of David Peace's crime novels, Marsh directs the middle feature ("In the Year of Our Lord 1980," colloquially called "Red Riding: 1980"), as flanked by Julian Jarrold's "1974" and Anand Tucker's "1983." All set in provincial Northern England against a backdrop of serial killings, the films follow a thorny throughline of high-level corruption and the impunity that grossly keeps the wicked in power.
Marsh's mercilessly grim segment stars Paddy Considine as an unpopular by-the-book detective who, while investigating the real-life Yorkshire Ripper case, stumbles upon a cover-up conspiracy that...
For "The Red Riding Trilogy," screenwriter Tony Grisoni's thrilling three-film adaptation of David Peace's crime novels, Marsh directs the middle feature ("In the Year of Our Lord 1980," colloquially called "Red Riding: 1980"), as flanked by Julian Jarrold's "1974" and Anand Tucker's "1983." All set in provincial Northern England against a backdrop of serial killings, the films follow a thorny throughline of high-level corruption and the impunity that grossly keeps the wicked in power.
Marsh's mercilessly grim segment stars Paddy Considine as an unpopular by-the-book detective who, while investigating the real-life Yorkshire Ripper case, stumbles upon a cover-up conspiracy that...
- 2/4/2010
- by Aaron Hillis
- ifc.com
After reading Tim Curran's Resurrection, I simply had to interview him. I Really loved his book, even at 666 pages (yep, you read that right – 666). Curran is a wonderful storyteller who really should be unleashed upon the general horror reading public sooner rather than later.
Read on for an in-depth look into the beautifully twisted mind of Tim Curran.
El: First off, Wow!! You put everything And the kitchen sink into Resurrection (review here). Best zombie novel I've read in quite a while! How did the book come into being?
Tc: I read somewhere about a mudslide in California. It washed out a cemetery and the coffins and corpses, skeletons and tombstones ended up in the town itself. Coffins came crashing through picture windows. Cadavers were deposited on porches and in trees, tombstones ended up in front yards. Some woman suffered a fatal heart attack when a casket came through...
Read on for an in-depth look into the beautifully twisted mind of Tim Curran.
El: First off, Wow!! You put everything And the kitchen sink into Resurrection (review here). Best zombie novel I've read in quite a while! How did the book come into being?
Tc: I read somewhere about a mudslide in California. It washed out a cemetery and the coffins and corpses, skeletons and tombstones ended up in the town itself. Coffins came crashing through picture windows. Cadavers were deposited on porches and in trees, tombstones ended up in front yards. Some woman suffered a fatal heart attack when a casket came through...
- 1/13/2010
- by thebellefromhell
- DreadCentral.com
Tina Mabry's "Mississippi Damned," an independent American production, won the Gold Hugo as the best film in the 2009 Chicago International Film Festival, and added Gold Plaques for best supporting actress (Jossie Thacker) and best screenplay (Mabry). It tells the harrowing story of three black children growing up in rural Mississippi in circumstances of violence and addiction. The film's trailer and an interview with Mabry are linked at the bottom.
Kylee Russell in "Mississippi Damned"
The win came over a crowed field of competitors from all over the world, many of them with much larger budgets. The other big winner at the Pump Room of the Ambassador East awards ceremony Saturday evening was by veteran master Marco Bellocchio of Italy, who won the Silver Hugo as best director for "Vincere," the story of Mussolini's younger brother. Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Filippo Timi won Silver Hugos as best actress and actor,...
Kylee Russell in "Mississippi Damned"
The win came over a crowed field of competitors from all over the world, many of them with much larger budgets. The other big winner at the Pump Room of the Ambassador East awards ceremony Saturday evening was by veteran master Marco Bellocchio of Italy, who won the Silver Hugo as best director for "Vincere," the story of Mussolini's younger brother. Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Filippo Timi won Silver Hugos as best actress and actor,...
- 10/23/2009
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Horror fans love this time of the year. For those of us not living in La, there's the chill in the air, the colorful leaves, pumpkins everywhere, dead cornfields to explore … if you dare. So, in honor of Our official holiday, I have come up with a list of books and some movies every horror fan should at least take a look at, if not outright add to your book or DVD library.
Without further ado (and in no particular order):
Creepy Places to Visit:
Creepy Crawls: A Horror Fiend’s Travel Guide by Leon Marcelo, Santa Monica Press, 380 pages
I Love this book!! Leon Marcelo travels the world, literally, to find places of horror both real and fictional. Rome to visit the Dario Argento Profondo Rosso Shop then to George Romero’s Pennsylvania and H.P. Lovecraft’s New England. Marcelo also covers Stephen King country, Poe’s Baltimore,...
Without further ado (and in no particular order):
Creepy Places to Visit:
Creepy Crawls: A Horror Fiend’s Travel Guide by Leon Marcelo, Santa Monica Press, 380 pages
I Love this book!! Leon Marcelo travels the world, literally, to find places of horror both real and fictional. Rome to visit the Dario Argento Profondo Rosso Shop then to George Romero’s Pennsylvania and H.P. Lovecraft’s New England. Marcelo also covers Stephen King country, Poe’s Baltimore,...
- 10/18/2009
- by thebellefromhell
- DreadCentral.com
Yesterday came the yearly announcement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as it extended 134 invitations to several artists and executives "who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures" read the press release. Of course all of them can decline, but I wouldn't necessarily expect that to happen as all who accept the invitation will be the only additions in 2009 to the Academy's roster of voting members. "These filmmakers have, over the course of their careers, captured the imagination of audiences around the world," said Academy President Sid Ganis. "It's this kind of talent and creativity that make up the Academy, and I welcome each of them to our ranks." The list follows below and reading around the best analysis I saw of it came from Nathaniel Rogers at The Film Experience who, among other things, pointed out the addition of longtime Darren Aronofsky's...
- 7/1/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
On Tuesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences issued invitations to 134 members of the film community to join the group. There were a maximum of 166 open slots to fill this year, but the various branch committees endorsed fewer candidates than were proposed to them.
Hugh Jackman, who hosted the most recent Oscar show, has been invited to join. So have Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, James Franco and Michelle Williams. The list even includes a number of comic performers like Michael Cera, Seth Rogan and Paul Rudd.
Voting membership in the organization has held steady at just under 6,000 members since 2003.
New members will be welcomed into the Academy at an invitation-only reception at the Academy's Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study in Beverly Hills in September.
"These filmmakers have, over the course of their careers, captured the imagination of audiences around the world," Academy president Sid Ganis. Said. "It's...
Hugh Jackman, who hosted the most recent Oscar show, has been invited to join. So have Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, James Franco and Michelle Williams. The list even includes a number of comic performers like Michael Cera, Seth Rogan and Paul Rudd.
Voting membership in the organization has held steady at just under 6,000 members since 2003.
New members will be welcomed into the Academy at an invitation-only reception at the Academy's Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study in Beverly Hills in September.
"These filmmakers have, over the course of their careers, captured the imagination of audiences around the world," Academy president Sid Ganis. Said. "It's...
- 6/30/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Let me begin by saying that Best Buy is the surest proof of Satan’s existence I can think of, next to that charming synonym for cancer known as “Walmart.” Buying music there is like having sex with a plastic partner; you get off but don’t have any of the fun visceral stuff. Music stores should smell a little musty, be full of new and odd music you’ve never heard before but might gamble on, and have esoteric posters on the walls. The guys behind the counter… well, they should all be James Zahn. Best Buy is none of those things, but they do get a lot of special edition albums, and today I was after one with a vengeance. So, I jumped into my car, careful not to bump the peak of my Buck Satan on the sunroof, and braved their clear, clean aisles and brilliant florescent...
- 3/23/2009
- Fangoria
For the past fifteen years, Static-x has been delivering their crushing brand of industrial metal (self-dubbed "evil disco") to the masses. On March 17th, the band will release Cult Of Static, their sixth studio album, coming on the eve of the tenth anniversary of their platinum-selling debut, Wisconsin Death Trip. Last night, Fango caught up with bassist Tony Campos, who along with frontman Wayne Static, has been in the band since the beginning. What followed was a conversation about the band, their new album, and their long-running connections to the horror genre.
James Zahn: So you've got Cult Of Static being released almost 10 years to the date that Wisconsin Death Trip (released March 23, 1999) came out. How do you feel Static-x has evolved over the course of the past decade?
Tony Campos: It's weird, ya know? We did some experimenting on the third and fourth albums, and then went...
James Zahn: So you've got Cult Of Static being released almost 10 years to the date that Wisconsin Death Trip (released March 23, 1999) came out. How do you feel Static-x has evolved over the course of the past decade?
Tony Campos: It's weird, ya know? We did some experimenting on the third and fourth albums, and then went...
- 3/13/2009
- Fangoria
Leading up to the Oscars on Feb. 22, we will be highlighting the nominated films that have appeared in the magazine or on the Website in the last year. Damon Smith interviewed Man on Wire director James Marsh for our Summer '08 issue. Man on Wire is nominated for Best Documentary. James Marsh has wrestled before with subjects — both fictional and real life — whose obsessions have fueled eccentric and, at times, even extreme behavior. In The Burger and the King (1996), based on David Adler‘s book, he chronicled Elvis Presley‘s lifelong habit of compulsive eating. Wisconsin Death Trip (2000), based on the nonfiction book by Michael Lesy, traced the origins of a bizarre strain of murders, suicides and odd happenstances in a small...
- 2/10/2009
- by Jason Guerrasio
- Filmmaker Magazine_Web Exclusives
- Jack the Ripper, eat your heart out. The Yorkshire Ripper, aka Peter William Sutcliffe, terrorized West Yorkshire, England from 1975 to 1980, killing a total of 13 known women and assaulting many others. While Sutcliffe may have called upon Jack for inspiration, this serial killer is still kicking it in the mental ward of Broadmoor Hospital. And now according to Variety, Channel 4 will be calling upon Sutcliffe for inspiration, as the British public-service broadcaster preps for a trilogy of films based on the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper. The three pics are based off of the books by David Peace, three-fourths of his "Red Riding Quartet" series (the fourth of which will be worked into each). With Sutcliffe's crimes as a backdrop, Peace turns attention to the corruption of the police force. The West Yorkshire police fell under the fire for being inadequately prepared such an investigation, when Sutcliffe was arrested in
- 7/8/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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