Whenever Bachata king Romeo Santos steps foot in a NYC stadium, the turnout is no joke. He has sold out shows at both Yankee Stadium and Met Life Stadium, and his performance on Friday, June 9, at Citi Field was no different. The sold-out, three-hour performance, which is part of the Grammy-nominated singer's "Fórmula, Vol. 3" tour, was accompanied by a packed crowd of 40,000 fans. Based on the countless Latin American flags that waved that night, it's fair to assume that a large majority of the audience were Latines. Dominican DJ Mad opened the show, playing everything from merengue to reggaeton and even Central American cumbia; in other words, he made sure to please the diverse Latine communities that showed up. Santos, who is a native New Yorker himself, remains significant for Latines from New York, particularly those who grew up listening to him back in his Aventura days. There was a...
- 6/12/2023
- by Johanna Ferreira
- Popsugar.com
On Friday night, 40,000 fans poured into Citi Field, eager to hear Romeo Santos’ silky falsetto. The sold-out stadium was calm as fans grabbed drinks and made their way to their seats until DJ Mad lit the stage up at about 9 p.m. He opened the night with a medley of classic reggaeton and merengue hits — and even pleasantly surprised the crowd with some Central American cumbia, no doubt inspired by the travels that he’s carefully documented on Instagram while touring with Santos. As DJ Mad finished his set, he...
- 6/11/2023
- by Rosy Alvarez
- Rollingstone.com
Adeel Akhtar and Claire Rushbrook embark on a forbidden affair in this charming and heartfelt drama from Clio Barnard
There’s a tremendous human warmth to this love story from writer-director Clio Barnard, a social-realist tale that you might compare to Ken Loach’s Ae Fond Kiss (though Loach might not have made the landlord the good guy). It’s a drama of autumnal love conquering the divisions of race, the disillusionments of middle age, the discomfort of parenthood and grandparenthood, and the tensions of class.
Adeel Akhtar is Ali, a likable, happy-go-lucky British Asian in Bradford whose family is well-off. They own properties and insofar as Ali has a job, it is going around collecting rent, and he is a genial friend to the tenants and their families. Ali sees himself as a frustrated DJ and a musician: his house has a converted basement “mancave” where he keeps his extensive vinyl collection.
There’s a tremendous human warmth to this love story from writer-director Clio Barnard, a social-realist tale that you might compare to Ken Loach’s Ae Fond Kiss (though Loach might not have made the landlord the good guy). It’s a drama of autumnal love conquering the divisions of race, the disillusionments of middle age, the discomfort of parenthood and grandparenthood, and the tensions of class.
Adeel Akhtar is Ali, a likable, happy-go-lucky British Asian in Bradford whose family is well-off. They own properties and insofar as Ali has a job, it is going around collecting rent, and he is a genial friend to the tenants and their families. Ali sees himself as a frustrated DJ and a musician: his house has a converted basement “mancave” where he keeps his extensive vinyl collection.
- 7/11/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
For Kahleen Crawford, casting director for BBC and HBO series “His Dark Materials,” being successful at her job requires a gut instinct mixed with a bit of magic. “A lot of it is psychology,” she says. “You have to apply different parts of your skill set to different people in different projects.”
Crawford has often applied that skill set in the service of director Ken Loach, who gave the now 41-year-old her first job heading a department 17 years ago in 2004’s “Ae Fond Kiss,” and whose latest film, “Sorry We Missed You,” bowed in the U.S. on March 6. It’s her ninth feature with the director — and first since 2016’s Palme d’Or-winning “I, Daniel Blake.”
Loach is renowned for finding and casting unknown or non-actors, and Crawford’s goal was to find people the audience could relate to.
“Paul [Laverty, Loach’s writer for the bulk of his films] and Ken will know where they’re thinking of...
Crawford has often applied that skill set in the service of director Ken Loach, who gave the now 41-year-old her first job heading a department 17 years ago in 2004’s “Ae Fond Kiss,” and whose latest film, “Sorry We Missed You,” bowed in the U.S. on March 6. It’s her ninth feature with the director — and first since 2016’s Palme d’Or-winning “I, Daniel Blake.”
Loach is renowned for finding and casting unknown or non-actors, and Crawford’s goal was to find people the audience could relate to.
“Paul [Laverty, Loach’s writer for the bulk of his films] and Ken will know where they’re thinking of...
- 3/12/2020
- by Valentina I. Valentini
- Variety Film + TV
Not heard of Wake Wood? Well, put it this way: it's a Hammer Horror film, and it features buckets of blood, crazed dogs, and arcane rituals - and we've got exclusive stills and a trailer for it. Luverly jubbly.Starring Aidan Gillen (still best known for being The Mayor from The Wire), Eva Birtwhistle (Ae Fond Kiss...) and Timothy Spall (you know, Timothy Spall), it's the story of a young couple who make a Faustian pact (of sorts) to see their deceased child Alice for three days.Cue hands reaching out from the ground to pull them in, snapping, snarling, deranged dogs, and Timothy Spall doing a mean line in being a creepy evil bastard.And though it's always lovely to have an exclusive trailer from a resurgent classic British horror studio to show off, couldn't you have done something about the titles, guys?A minor quibble, admittedly, and hardly...
- 12/17/2010
- EmpireOnline
MOSCOW -- Audiences across Russia will have a chance to see the pick of the best new British films following the launch in Moscow Tuesday of a non-competitive showcase sponsored by U.K. overseas cultural promotion organization, the British Council. The New British Cinema festival opens at Moscow's 35 MM cinema - one of the city's many recently modernised screens - with Antonia Bird's controversial 2004 drama based on the 911 destruction of New York's Twin Towers, Hamburg Cell, with star Karim Saleh in attendance. Irish actress Eva Birthistle - named last year as one of European Film Promotion's European shooting stars will also be in Moscow for the screening of Ken Loach's Fond Kiss ... Ae (2004) about the emotions stirred on a Glasgow housing estate when a young Asian man falls in love with a white woman.
- 10/3/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- L'Esquive (The Dodging), a small-budget drama about alienated youth in a French suburb, was the surprise winner at France's top honors, the Cesars, on Saturday night, scooping up the coveted award for best French film of 2004, and the best director Cesar for its helmer, Tunisia-born Abdellatif Kechiche. Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation won the Cesar for best foreign film, while Ken Loach's Ae Fond Kiss and Emir Kusturica's Life Is a Miracle tied to share the award for the best film from the European Union. Shot with a largely amateur cast of teenagers, L'Esquive also won the best screenplay award for Kechiche and co-writer Ghalia Lacroix. The $1 million film fended off strong competition from big-budget films including Jean-Pierre Jeunet's World War I drama, A Very Long Engagement, Olivier Marchal's police thriller 36 Quai des Orfevres, starring Daniel Auteuil and Gerard Depardieu, and the small-budget French boxoffice triumph of the year, The Chorus, which will vie for two Oscars Sunday: best foreign language film, and best original song.
- 2/27/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- L'Esquive (The Dodging), a small-budget drama about alienated youth in a French suburb, was the surprise winner at France's top honors, the Cesars, on Saturday night, scooping up the coveted award for best French film of 2004, and the best director Cesar for its helmer, Tunisia-born Abdellatif Kechiche. Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation won the Cesar for best foreign film, while Ken Loach's Ae Fond Kiss and Emir Kusturica's Life Is a Miracle tied to share the award for the best film from the European Union. Shot with a largely amateur cast of teenagers, L'Esquive also won the best screenplay award for Kechiche and co-writer Ghalia Lacroix. The $1 million film fended off strong competition from big-budget films including Jean-Pierre Jeunet's World War I drama, A Very Long Engagement, Olivier Marchal's police thriller 36 Quai des Orfevres, starring Daniel Auteuil and Gerard Depardieu, and the small-budget French boxoffice triumph of the year, The Chorus, which will vie for two Oscars Sunday: best foreign language film, and best original song.
- 2/27/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LONDON -- Actress Scarlett Johansson (Girl With a Pearl Earring) will go up against Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake), Natalie Press (My Summer of Love), Eva Birthistle (Ae Fond Kiss) and Anne Reid (The Mother) for the best actress nod at the seventh annual British Independent Film Awards, organizers said on Tuesday. The prize is one of 17 awards to be presented Nov. 30 in a ceremony at the Hammersmith Palais in London. This year's big nomination winner is Shane Meadows' Dead Man's Shoes, which secured eight nominations across all categories.
- 10/26/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LONDON -- Film and television production spending in Scotland rose during 2003 to £23.5 million ($43.6 million), according to the latest estimate from Scottish Screen published Wednesday. According to the Glasgow-based funding and strategy agency, cash spent on productions rose by £1.5 million ($2.8 million) from the previous year, on the back of several high-profile location shoots, including work on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Other movies shooting in Scotland during 2003 include Ken Loach's Ae Fond Kiss, Shona Auerbach's Dear Frankie and Blue Harvest, a spoof documentary shot on location around Loch Ness by Werner Herzog.
BERLIN -- Patty Jenkins' Monster, Richard Linklater's Before Sunset, Ken Loach's Ae Fond Kiss, Eric Rohmer's Triple Agent, Hans Petter Moland's Beautiful Country and John Boorman's Country of My Skull are among the titles that will compete for the Golden Bear at the 54th annual Berlin International Film Festival, organizers said Thursday. Other titles in competition at the festival, which runs Feb. 5-15, include Daybreak, from Swedish director Bjorn Runge; Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow, by Greek veteran Theo Angelopoulos, and the Italian production Primo Amore from helmer Matteo Garrone.
- 1/16/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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