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Tom Hardy’s Taboo goes to the heart of our new imperialist darkness 

2/26/2017

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The nineteenth century organization together of crown and colonialist enterprise uncovered by Hardy's Delaney foretells the evil plans of today's  international capitalists​
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Foo Fighters uncover they ARE featuring Glastonbury 2017 in the coolest conceivable way

2/26/2017

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Glastonbury, get ready to rock​ in light of the fact that Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters are en route to the Pyramid Stage.
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Foo Fighters will rock this year's Glastonbury ​two years after they were compelled to cross out their feature appear at the celebration after frontman Dave Grohl broke his leg. 

Performing at a free show in a little setting in close-by Frome in Somerset on Friday, the band reported they would assume control over Glastonbury's Pyramid arrange on Saturday, June 25.
​The news was later affirmed by the authority Glastonbury Twitter account:

We're delighted to confirm that @foofighters will headline the Saturday night of this year's Glastonbury Festival, on 24 June. pic.twitter.com/KXWfugv29c

— Glastonbury Festival (@GlastoFest) February 24, 2017
​Friday's welcome just gig in Somerset was the Foo's first show in one and a half years. 

In a video, occasion coordinators pulled up to the area of Glastonbury at Worthy Farm just to discover the band sitting prepared to perform, four months early.
The video then slice to the setting, where Glastonbury originator Michael Eavis presented the group the stage and affirmed all doubts. 

The band had kept their fans in tension, with enigmatic pieces of information to the enormous declaration on their site, intended to resemble a flight registration page.
​Grohl, 48, stopped mid-show to ask the group of onlookers how well the band's secretive disclosure had played out.
"So, who knew? How did you know?" he asked, and joked: "You just can't keep a f****** secret any more."
Foo Fighters will join recently announced Brit rockers Radiohead as headliners for the famous festival.
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“Marksmen,” a gritty track on Marciano’s fourth album, Rosebudds Revenge

2/25/2017

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Roc Marciano and Ka are related spirits. The prepared New York rapper-producers share a tranquil certainty; both pick their words so deliberately that each quieted expression appears like an event. Be that as it may, they likewise have particular personas: Marciano lives inside a frigid pimp persona, Ka holds court as a stoic road ethicist. "Marksmen," a coarse track on Marciano's fourth album Rosebudd's Revenge, is the match's most recent joint effort, and it's a blasted of nitty gritty hip-hop  dominance. 

The sultry beat, gave by the Los Angeles producer Animoss, depends on an accelerated drone, unobtrusive soul loop, and calm sprinkling of percussion. Marciano floats through his verse with a whirlwind of mellow gloats, stone-faced even through the goofier lines (“I’m like Barry White/Never carry light”). As far as it matters for him, Ka opens the story with a short history of intense perseverance: “A man with standard flaws/Show ‘em what the damage caused/No Christmas wishlist.” Both rappers have a skilled worker's way to deal with chiseling their verses, and on "Marksmen," they are their most patient and their generally reflective.
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Darren Criss, Lena Hall, and More Earn Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Nominations

2/25/2017

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The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) has announced its nominations and special awards for greatness in Los Angeles, Orange County and Ventura County theatre for the year 2016 (Dec. 1, 2015 - Nov. 30, 2016).
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The 48th annual LADCC awards ceremony will ​occur on Monday, March 20, 2017, at the Colony Theater at Burbank Town Center, 555 North third Street, Burbank. (There is abundant, free, nearby stopping.)

All event tickets are $40 and can be purchased at 2017criticsawards.brownpapertickets.com (a small service fee applies) or at the door if available. (Purchased tickets will be held at Will Call.) Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. for a reception with hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar. The show will commence at 7:30 p.m. Further information will be found at www.ladramacriticscircle.com.

Celebration  Theater's The Boy From Oz  leads the pack with nine nominations,, taking after by the Antaeus Theater Company generation of Cloud 9 with eight assignments, and Pasadena Playhouse's Fly and East West Players' La Cage auz Folles, each with five selections.
​At least one plaques will be exhibited in each of 17 classifications. Tony champ Lena Hall and Darren Criss, both of whom performed in the Broadway recovery of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, earned assignments for their repeated exhibitions at the Hollywood Pantages Theater. A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder authors Steven Lutvak and Robert L. Freedman are likewise assigned in a class with individual Tony victor Jason Robert Brown, who is perceived for his Tony-winning score to The Bridges of Madison County.
The following seven special awards will be presented as well: The Margaret Harford Award for maintained magnificence in theater will be granted to Antaeus Theater Company; the Polly Warfield Award for a fantastic season in a little to average size theater will be granted to Rogue Machine Theater; the Ted Schmitt Award for the world debut of a remarkable new play goes to Aliza Goldstein for A Singular They, initially delivered by the Blank Theater; the Kinetic Lighting Award for exceptional accomplishment in dramatic outline goes to lighting fashioner Jared A. Sayeg; the Joel Hirschhorn Award for extraordinary accomplishment in melodic theater goes to Cabrillo Music Theater; the Milton Katselas Award for vocation or uncommon accomplishment in course goes to Maria Gobetti; and the Gordon Davidson Award, another respect for recognized commitment to the Los Angeles dramatic group, will be exhibited to I Love 99. The honor is built up out of appreciation for the late Gordon Davidson, founding artistic director of the Center Theater Group.
The complete list of nominees, below :
Production
A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder - Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre
Cloud 9 - Antaeus Theatre Company
Disgraced - Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum
Fly - The Pasadena Playhouse
The Boy From Oz - Celebration Theatre
Urinetown the Musical - Coeurage Theatre Company

McCulloh Award for Revival (plays written between 1920 and 1991)
Cloud 9 - Antaeus Theatre Company
Endgame - Center Theatre Group, Kirk Douglas Theatre
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum
West Side Story - Musical Theatre West, Carpenter Performing Arts Center

Lead Performance
Hugo Armstrong - All the Way, South Coast Repertory
Andrew Bongiorno - The Boy From Oz, Celebration Theatre 
Ginna Carter - The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Pacific Resident Theatre
Kate Morgan Chadwick - Bed, Echo Theater Company
Darren Criss - Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Hollywood Pantages Theatre
Hari Dhillon - Disgraced, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum
Rebecca Gray - One of the Nice Ones, Echo Theater Company
Connor Kelly-Eiding - Dry Land, Echo Theater Company
Matt Orduña - Bars and Measures, The Theatre @ Boston Court
Gedde Watanabe - La Cage aux Folles, East West Players
Jacqueline Wright - Blueberry Toast, Echo Theater Company.

Featured Performance
JD Cullum - Cloud 9, Antaeus Theatre Company
Bo Foxworth - Cloud 9, Antaeus Theatre Company
Lena Hall - Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Hollywood Pantages Theatre
Steve Hofvendahl - The Engine of Our Ruin, Victory Theatre
Bess Motta - The Boy From Oz, Celebration Theatre
Jessica Pennington - The Boy From Oz, Celebration Theatre
Victoria Ortiz - The Super Variety Match Bonus Round!, Rogue Machine Theatre

Ensemble Performance
Ameryka - Critical Mass Performance Group, Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles
Casa Valentina - Pasadena Playhouse
Cloud 9 - Antaeus Theatre Company
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum
The Boy from Oz - Celebration Theatre

Solo Performance
Deborah Puette - Captain of the Bible Quiz Team, Rogue Machine Theatre.

Direction
Tim Dang - La Cage aux Folles, East West Players
Kari Hayter - Urinetown the Musical, Coeurage Theatre Company
Ricardo Khan - Fly, Pasadena Playhouse
Michael A. Shepperd - The Boy from Oz, Celebration Theatre
Casey Stangl - Cloud 9, Antaeus Theatre Company
Darko Tresnjak - A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre

Writing
Ayad Akhtar - Disgraced, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum
Idris Goodwin - Bars and Measures, The Theatre @ Boston Court
Erik Patterson - One of the Nice Ones, Echo Theater Company
Jason Wells - The Engine of Our Ruin, Victory Theatre

Musical Score
Noah Agruss - Bars and Measures, The Theatre @ Boston Court
Steven Lutvak and Robert L. Freedman - A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre
Jason Robert Brown - The Bridges of Madison County, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre

Music Direction Bryan Blaskie - The Boy from Oz, Celebration Theatre
Paul Litteral - Louis & Keely: ‘Live' at the Sahara, Geffen Playhouse
Marc Macalintal - La Cage aux Folles, East West Players
Gregory Nabours - Urinetown the Musical, Coeurage Theatre Company

Choreography
Hope Clarke - Fly, Pasadena Playhouse
Reggie Lee - La Cage aux Folles, East West Players
Janet Roston - The Boy from Oz, Celebration Theatre
Leslie Stevens - The Full Monty, 3-D Theatricals

Set Design
Tom Buderwitz - Casa Valentina, Pasadena Playhouse
Alexander Dodge - A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre
David Gallo - Empire the Musical, La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts
Michael Navarro - My Mañana Comes, Fountain Theatre

Lighting Design
Brandon Baruch - Urinetown the Musical, Coeurage Theatre Company
Ken Billington - Dreamgirls, La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts
Rui Rita and Jake DeGroot - Fly, Pasadena Playhouse
Tim Swiss - Dream Boy, Celebration Theatre

Costume Design
Kate Bergh - Casa Valentina, Pasadena Playhouse
Amy Clark and Mark Koss - The Little Mermaid, La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts
A. Jeffrey Schoenberg - Cloud 9, Antaeus Theatre Company
Anthony Tran - La Cage aux Folles, East West Players

Sound Design
John Farmanesh-Bocca and Adam Phalen - Tempest Redux, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble and New American
Theatre
John Gromada - Fly, Pasadena Playhouse
Rebecca Kessin - Dream Boy, Celebration Theatre
Eric Snodgrass - The Boy from Oz, Celebration Theatre

Specialty: Fight Choreography
Jen Albert - Punch and Judy, School of Night, Ruby Theater at the Complex

Specialty: Wigs, Hair and Makeup
Rick Geyer - Casa Valentina, Pasadena Playhouse
Jessica Mills - Cloud 9, Antaeus Theatre Company
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Everyday Cinema: The Films of Marc Lafia

2/24/2017

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The Extraordinary Event of Everyday Cinema: On the Films by Marc Lafia 
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​Everyday Cinema presents the films (eight components and various shorts, computational, and installation movies)  of Marc Lafia. In his many movies (counting Exploding Oedipus; Love and Art; Confessions of an Image; Revolution of Everyday Life; Paradise; Hi, How Are You Guest 10497; and 27) Lafia tests what it is to develop a picture, to fashion frameworks of portrayal, to see and speak to ourselves. His work has been characterized as a film of rise, a silver screen of the occasion, in which the very demonstration of universal recording makes something new.

Everyday Cinema is comprised of two parts, the initial an inside and out take a gander at his movies and establishments, extend by venture, giving foundation on how they came to fruition, Lafia's procedure and thoughts. The second part highlights chose interviews and more than two hundred film stills wherein Lafia advances another feeling of the likelihood of the silver screen. As we as a whole steadily record ourselves and are recorded, we turn out to be a piece of the artistic texture of life, some portion of a scene of which we are both constituent and constitutive. This is the thing that Lafia embarks to catch and look at.

With a Preface by Daniel Coffeen.

Cinema is no longer  gigantic. In spite of the best endeavors of Hollywood, making a film no longer requests a huge number of dollars, blasts, grasps, lights, and cameras. We needn't bother with theaters. We needn't bother with studios. All we need is a cell phone. Cinema has become everyday.
Marc Lafia has taken to making movies that grasp the everyday cinema machine. He has a thought; assembles a cast (he has begun working with similar on-screen characters); and movies in the city of New York with computerized cameras. In his most recent, The Revolution of Everyday Life, he gives HD Flip camcorders to the cast and has them film themselves alone. 

For Lafia, this procedure is not an economical approach to make ta so-called indie film with its idiosyncratic characters and accounts of reclamation. This is not mumblecore. Nor is it The Blair Witch Project or Mean Streets For Lafia, the ordinary apparatuses of silver screen breed a rising film, a film of the occasion, in which the very demonstration of recording makes something new.
The most obvious and fascinating thing about viewing a Marc Lafia film is that it's plainly up to something. This is an alternate sort of cinema. Indeed, even the routes in which it difficulties are not well known. Without a doubt, the movies are liberal, abundant, and delightful—however in the meantime, they solicit odd things from us.

​But then what makes them so odd is definitely their everydayness, their careful engagement with the devices and means we as a whole know so well—just we don't expect them in our "films." There's something uncanny going ahead here.
We watch videos throughout the day on YouTube, Facebook, Vine, Vimeo. The recorded moving picture has moved from over yonder, up on the extra large screen, to ideal here, before me, at all circumstances. Recording has turned out to be universal, organized, and computational. But then our cinema stays, generally, univocal and grand. Movies today may incorporate pervasive recording as something to speak to—think about the Jason Bourne movies or Catfish—yet those movies themselves stay amazing instead of computational and arranged.
​The dependably on recording of the social Web is generally changing our method for remaining toward the picture, toward ourselves, toward each other. But with regards to watching "motion pictures," we have altogether different desires—not simply as far as art or quality but rather as far as what considers genuine, as scene, as screen, as filmic occasion. 

As a prepared producer who once made component movies, Lafia has most likely been managed new strategies and obvious flexibilities by new media. He needn't bother with six truckloads of blasts, links, and grasps—also a truckload of cash. He has a thought; assembles a cast; and movies wherever he is—generally the boulevards of New York. Regularly, he has performing artists film themselves all alone, outfitted with some sort of directions and a little HD camera. His procedure is open yet correct, to some degree "scripted," continually creating, conforming to situation.
​Be that as it may, this is not an economical approach to make a supposed outside the box film with peculiar characters and recovery accounts. This is not an approach to make a film for next to nothing and maintain a strategic distance from the Hollywood scramble for cash. For Lafia, new media implies better approaches for going. In the expressions of Deleuze and Guattari, new media offer a line of flight from the state device of the film business. The ordinary devices of film breed an alternate sort of silver screen, with various account methodologies, distinctive thoughts of character, an alternate transaction of thoughts, scene, and even screen. Lafia's movies don't as much utilize or hold onto new media as they are of this everyday cinema. This is not just another method for recording: it is a recoding—of cinema, of story, of self, of life.
In the event that we live in a general public of the scene, this everyday cinema motor decenters picture generation, multiplies focuses, smashs the authority of the partnership's will to amount and consistency. This inescapability of cinema — this capacity to make, convey, and screen on request — in a general sense shifts streams of correspondence, presenting radical new potential outcomes of constituting the social. Pictures no longer exclusively stream downhill or in a straight direct line. They are no longer exclusively made by immense companies and gushed into our homes. Pictures now stream each which path — up, down, sideways, corner to corner — disturbing the excruciating platitude of account, character and buzzword.
As cinema takes up the everyday, ​it imbues life and is thus implanted. Drawing in this regular film motor, Lafia gives us a living cinema, a live cinema, a film that is dependably (and right now) during the time spent making itself, a cinema loaded with influence, with the incomprehensible many-sided quality of the human: a cinema that is progressive.
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Jake Gyllenhaal on His Musical Debut and That Viral Singing Video: ‘My Heart Has Always Been in Singing’

2/24/2017

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Jake Gyllenhaal has always had a song in his heart, we're just barely now getting an opportunity to hear it. 

Thursday denoted the premiere night of Gyllenhaal's Broadway musical debut  in another recovery of Stephen Sondheim's hit 1984 show  Sunday in the Park with George. 

 “It’s so nice to get to express myself through music, I always have in my family and I did growing up as a child throughout school,” Gyllenhaal said. “I had so much wonderful luck as an actor in films that how can you not move in that direction when the opportunities are there? But truly my love, my heart has always been in singing, particularly in the musical space.” - said  Gyllenhaal for People
Gyllenhaal says the thought for the one-shot video — which tails him down a couple flights of theater stairs until he winds up in front of an audience, singing the melody “Finishing the Hat” ​ as he goes — came to fruition naturally and rapidly.
He explains, “I called Cary [Fukunaga, Beasts of No Nation director and cinematographer] and I was like, ‘Yo, wanna do a video maybe for this thing?’ And he was like, ‘I’m in, yeah.’ It was totally organic. Literally a day and a half later we were in the theater and he said, ‘Oh it’d be really cool if you walked down the stairs.'”
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R&B songwriter and producer Leon Ware dead at 77

2/24/2017

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​The vocalist musician and maker worked with Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Tyler the Creator, and the sky is the limit from there.

​He was a soul music Renaissance Man. An artist, musician, and maker who was adored by his peers and who unobtrusively made a portion of the best soul music ever for incalculable craftsmen from Marvin Gaye to Maxwell. We are to a great degree pitiful to report that Leon Ware, a past SoulTracks Lifetime Achievement Award victor, has passed on at age 77.
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​Brought up in Detroit, Ware joined Motown in the late 60s and by the mid 70s was one of that name's key scholars - regularly to the detriment of his own singing profession.
Ware was a Detroit native and was at the front line of soul and R&B for quite a long time. He picked up notoriety first in 1967. It was then that he worked with the Isley Brothers and co-composed the tune "Got the chance to Have You Back." He soon turned into a looked for after artist and worked with Ike and Tina Turner, co-composing six tunes on their 1971 collection, Nuff Said. That collection achieved the Top 40 R&B outlines and traversed into the pop diagrams. He soon ended up working together with Michael Jackson, composing the hit "I Wanna be Where You Are" on Jackson's original early collection Got to be There.
By the late 70s, artists outside of Motown were clamoring for Ware's help, and throughout the following 20 years he composed many brilliant cuts that got to be hits for craftsmen, for example, the Average White Band ("If I Ever Lose This Heaven"), Peabo Bryson ("Lovers After All" with Melissa Manchester), the Main Ingredient ("Rolling Down a Mountainside"), Jeffrey Osborne ("Forever Mine") and Maxwell ("Sumthin' Sumthin'"). His work as a maker and sponsorship vocalist additionally proceeded with craftsmen, for example, Bobby Womack, El DeBarge, Teena Marie, Billy Griffin, the Isley Brothers, Omar, and Michael McDonald.
Sadly, while he was making hits for others, Ware's own particular singing vocation frequently endured. Regardless of recording a modest bunch of widely praised collections for Motown and Elektra amid the 80s, he remained criminally overlooked by numerous outside the music business. 

Ware kept on recording sporadically in the 90s, yet toward the finish of that decade started another time of profitability and a more focused push to build up his performance performing profession. He discharged Candlelight to great reaction and tailed it with Love's Drippin' and Deeper throughout the following couple of years. In 2005 he discharged A Kiss In The Sand all alone Kitchen Records and he tailed it three years after the fact with Moon Ride on Stax Records. Most as of late he issued the album Sigh abroad in 2015.
Ware released several solo albums ​that did not achieve an indistinguishable level of progress from his songwriting work with different specialists. Unafraid, he kept on composing for exemplary R&B specialists that included Teena Marie, Jeffrey Osborne, Loose Ends, James Ingram, Melissa Manchester, Krystol, Bobby Womack and Lulu. Product additionally worked with artist Maxwell and created his 1996 presentation collection, Urban Hang Suite. This collection introduced the neo-soul classification, which keeps on being mainstream with today's specialists and groups of onlookers, and in addition being intensely examined by rap craftsmen. His music was inspected by 2Pac ("How Do U Want It"), Das EFX ("They Want EFX"), Curren$y ("Crawfish") and De La Soul ("Foolin'") and numerous others. 

Ware passed on Feb. 23, 2017, at 77 years old. The correct reason for death has not been released; be that as it may, it is realized that he had been engaging prostate malignancy since 2009.
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Album Premiere: SUNDAYS and CYBELE - CHAOS and SYSTEMS 

2/23/2017

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The bewildering, yet cutting hints of Japanese psychedelic/prog-rock  band Sundays and Cybele, are in full constrain for their new full-length album Chaos and Systems due out on February 24th. This is the first album they will releasing through the Brooklyn-based label,  Beyond Beyond is Beyond.  Their past material was released  under Japanese label Gurguru Brai. Members from the band include: Kazuo Tsubouchi, Yoshinao Uchida, Shota Mizuno, and Shotaro Aoki, all initially from Japan.
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Not out of void, but rather out of Tokyo, Sundays and Cybele have made “Chaos and Systems,”  the hugely overpowering new album  that could well fill in as the band's statement of purpose.
After (boisterously)  announcing their aims on 2015's ear-popping “Heaven,” the underlying impression of “Chaos and Systems” persuades that the frameworks have territory over the chaos. The basic title track starts the album as a bit of post-motorik flawlessness, so unpretentious and symmetrical as to sound injury by ace clockmakers. In any case, Sundays and Cybele, similar to all great lysergic psychedelicists, exist to a great extent outside of the limits of time, and it doesn't take much sooner than the tumult rises, an opened up cure to what the frameworks set out form. 
​In the hands of Sundays and Cybele, the mayhem is no danger, yet rather a fundamental partner to the band's monstrous sonic structures. One without the other could be dull and unsuitable; all through "Chaos and Systems," Sundays and Cybele reject being characterized by either. 
When the vocal cover breaks and the band flies over the top into the about ten-minute time-twist of "Butterfly's Dream," plainly the band's creation is moving and breathing all alone terms. Undermining? Just in the way that the melody toys with being assembled totally on a solitary string-bowing impact, a clarion call from a crypto-"Caravanserai"- esque animal – yet one that contains apparently unlimited measurements of decibels and profundity. Illuminating?  Just in the way that Sundays and Cybele can be.
“Tell Me the Name of that Flower” presents itself as to a greater extent a grand demand than an overbearing interest, additional proof of  an album in full blossom, here with a practically psychotic Donovan bid to the transaction of bedlam (the never-as well far away electric guitar mantras) and frameworks (flawlessly perfumed peaceful psych from Japan, anybody?). "Brujo" is the cheery interest bouche of the collection, captivating in its reverberating request, while filling in as a commendable prelude to the collection's end contention, "Heaven Come," thirteen-minutes in addition to of idyllically masterminded corrosive shake that undermines to flabbergast audience members, headbands doused in sweat, mumbling, “Milton never sounded quite like this.”
“Chaos and Systems” ​offers not a decision, but rather a presentation: you can't have one without the other. Enriched with both, the infinite animal made by Sundays and Cybele has become animated.
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“Twin Peaks” is coming to SXSW

2/23/2017

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Showtime reported today that it will have a two-day immersive experience with the Showtime House at Clive Bar on Rainey Street in Austin, Texas. The occasion (which happens Thursday, March 16 and Friday the seventeenth) incorporates a two-day musical part. Among the performers are Neko Case, Real Estate, Julie Byrne, Tame Impala's Cameron Avery, M. Ward, Ought's Tim Darcy, and Let's Eat Grandma. Locate the full lineup  here.
Notwithstanding to the musical lineup, showtime's "Twin Peaks" encounter incorporates a Double R Diner pop-up shop, a "Twin Peaks"- propelled doughnut (by Voodoo Doughnuts), mixed drinks, coffee,  and of course, cherry pie. Kyle MacLachlan (otherwise known as Special Agent Dale Cooper) will show up on the primary night.
“Twin Peaks”  returns for a third season  on May 21. In addition a few key members of the series unique thrown (counting David Lynch himself), the show will purportedly include Trent Reznor, Sky Ferreira, Eddie Vedder, and different performers. The original composer  Angelo Badalamenti is apparently on board, too. Watch a mystery for the show beneath.
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SWANS have announced a remastered reissue of their ninth studio album, The Great Annihilator

2/22/2017

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​It's out on April 28 by means of Young God Records/Mute. It will be released on two fold vinyl and as a 2xCD set with a friend CD highlighting Michael Gira's performance make a big appearance, Drainland. The Great Annihilator was remastered by Doug Henderson after Bill Rieflin as of late found DATs and tapes containing unmastered blends from the first sessions. In an official statement, Gira depicts the disclosure as a revelation of great sonic effect.”
The Great Annihilator, initially released in 1995 and portrayed at the time as "… “…a majestic symphony of haunting melodies and shifting moods” [SF Bay Guardian], will be released on double vinyl – the album’s first release on vinyl for decades – and as a 2CD set. Both the vinyl (as a download code) and CD will highlight Drainland, Michael Gira's presentation solo album recorded in the meantime as The Great Annihilator.
The album was totally remastered by Doug Henderson, however simply after Bill Rieflin (“honorary Swan forever”) as of late found DATs and tapes containing unmastered blends from the sessions. Michael Gira portrays the disclosure as  “a revelation of great sonic effect”.  Discussing the recording, Gira said “I lived in a tent in a mosquito infested studio right next to Cabrini Green in Chicago for what (?) something like 3 months, rarely leaving. Band members and Jarboe and Bill Rieflin etc came and went, and somehow we crafted this thing into what it became.”

The Great Annihilator line up elements: Michael Gira, Jarboe, Bill Rieflin, Algis Kizys, Norman Westberg, Clinton Steele and Ted Parsons. 

Swans come back to Europe one month from now with dates beginning in Greece before coming back to the UK on 18 May with a show at Glasgow's Oran Mor. The visit proceeds through the UK finishing with their last London execution in the band's present incarnation, at London's Roundhouse with exceptionally uncommon visitor Thurston Moore on 27 May, and in Manchester the next night for Transformer celebration on a bill that incorporates The Fall, Royal Trux's first UK appear in more than 15 years, This Is Not This Heat, Sex Swing, Little Annie and Loop.
​European tour dates for 2017
March
3 March – GR Athens, Gagarin 205
4 March – GR Thessaloniki, Block 33
6 March – FI Helsinki, Tavastia
8 March – NO Oslo, Rockefeller *
9 March – SE Stockholm, Kraken Sthlm*
10 March – NO Trondheim, Byscenen*
11 March – DK Copenhagen, Grey Hall*
12 March – DK Aarhus, VoxHall*
14 March – CZ Brno, Fleda Club*
15 March – SK Kosice, Taba Ka Kulturfabrik*
17 March – LT Vilnius, Legendos Klubas*
19 March – UA Kiev, Sentrum*
22 March – RO Cluj-Napoca, FORM Space Club*
23 March – RO Bucharest, Control Club*
24 March – MK Skopje, MKC*
25 March – RS Belgrade, Dom Omladine*
27 March – HR Rijeka, Pogon Kulture*
28 March – CH Zürich, Rote Fabrik Ziegel oh Lac*
29 March – DE Dortmund, FZW*
30 March – BE Ghent, Kompass Klub*
31 March – NL Amsterdam, Paradiso Music Hall*
April
1 April – NL The Hague Rewire Festival
May
16 May – TR Istanbul, Zorlu Performing Arts Center
18 May – UK Glasgow, Oran Mor*
19 May – UK Aberdeen, The Lemon Tree*
20 May – UK Leeds, Stylus – Leeds University Union*
21 May – UK Sheffield – The Plug*
24 May – UK Birmingham – The Asylum*
26 May – UK Bristol – Trinity Community Arts*
27 May – UK London, Roundhouse* – http://bit.ly/2enJyG1
28 May – UK Manchester, Victoria Warehouse* – http://bit.ly/2dSv18R
30 May – RU St Petersburg – Kosmonavt*
June
1 June – RU Moscow – Red Club*
2 June – ES Barcelona – Primavera Sound Festival
4 June – FR Biarritz, Atabal*
6 June – FR Angoulême, La Nef*
7 June – FR Rouen, Le 106*
9 June – PT Porto – NOS Primavera Sound Festival
Aug
2 Aug – IT Milan, Magnolia Club Outside Summer stage
18 Aug – US Las Vegas, Psycho Festival
20 Aug – US Las Vegas, Psycho Festival
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Bowie Fans Plot Huge Lightning Bolt Sculpture in London

2/21/2017

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​An amazing, three-story mold in view of David Bowie's notable Aladdin Sane lightning jolt will show up in his origin of Brixton, London if an eager new crowdfunding effort succeeds. The financing page, advanced by Bowie's legitimate site, attests that the changeless remembrance has nearby chamber support with collaboration from a few neighborhood craftsmen. Coordinators are looking for about £1 million (~$1.2 million) in subsidizing for the figure. It will be made of red-and-blue-splashed stainless steel and, coordinators demand, impenetrable to twist notwithstanding its apparently unstable size and shape. See taunt ups for the model beneath.
​An arranged Bowie statue in Aylesbury, England achieved its crowdfunding target toward the end of last year. Different tributes incorporate a plaque in Berlin.

With your help, https://t.co/WdNVxS1Rk3, Brixton will be the site of a true landmark of a Bowie memorial. More here: https://t.co/ntwMEIP10D pic.twitter.com/pdihTRBZm0

— David Bowie Official (@DavidBowieReal) February 21, 2017
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Keanu Reeves open to The Matrix 4

2/21/2017

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Following a couple of years went through with his vocation on a doubtful descending slide, the apparently endlessly youthful Keanu Reeves figured out how to kick his profession again into high apparatus with 2014's John Wick, a make no detainees move flick that rapidly got to be distinctly one of the sleeper hits of that year. Having recently lined that up with the – as indicated by some – surprisingly better continuation John Wick: Chapter 2, Reeves is currently solidly planted back close to the highest point of Hollywood, and can likely do whatever venture he needs now.
Obviously, at whatever point the possibility of Reeves doing another film comes up, the on-screen character is definitely dependably gotten some information about coming back to his two most well known establishments: Bill and Ted, and The Matrix. Amid a current syndicated program appearance, Reeves uncovered his story pitch for a potential Bill and Ted 3, yet that film still doesn't appear to have made it past the thought organize. On the Matrix front, bits of gossip have twirled a couple times as of late about perhaps proceeding with the arrangement, however none have ended up having any solid establishment.
All things considered, there might be some expectation for Matrix fans yet. Amid a current meeting with Yahoo! Motion pictures, Reeves was at the end of the day got some information about repeating the part of Neo, and uncovered that he's interested in returning for a fourth Matrix film. In any case, he has a few conditions that must be met before he'll make all necessary endorsements. Initially, the Wachowskis would need to return as scholars/executives. Second, the story must be advantageous. Here’s Reeves’ full quote: 
“The Wachowskis would have to be involved. They would have to write it and direct it. And then we’d see what the story is, but yeah, I dunno, that’d be weird, but why not? People die, stories don’t, people in stories don’t.”
Talking about the plot of the mooted third motion picture, Reeves stated: “Basically, they’re supposed to write a song to save the world and they haven’t done that. The pressure of having to save the world, their marriages are falling apart, their kids are kind of mad at them, and then someone comes from the future and tells them if they don’t write the song it’s just not the world, it’s the universe. So they have to save the universe because time is breaking apart.”

Matrix fans will recall that the final film in the initial trilogy – The Matrix Revolutions – ​ finished with Neo giving up his life to put no less than a brief end to the war amongst machines and people. In science fiction however, passing is regularly not a changeless condition, and The Oracle indicated that she speculated Neo may return sometime in the future. With Reeves conceivably on-board, it appears like that some time or another may be soon.
​There is obviously the topic of regardless of whether the Wachowskis are up for doing another Matrix film, albeit one accept they may say something soon, now that Reeves has voiced his readiness to return. The Wachowskis haven't coordinated a film since 2015's film industry bomb Jupiter Ascending, despite the fact that their progressing Netflix arrangement Sense8 has accumulated some positive audits.
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BBC 6 Music Festival 2017

2/21/2017

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The BBC have announced a  during the current year's 6 Music Festival – featuring the likes of Depeche Mode, Father John Misty, Goldfrapp, Warpaint ​and numerous, some more. 
The acclaimed festival returns for its fourth year, ​yet this Spring sees its area being moved to Glasgow after the wandering occasion was beforehand held in Manchester, Tyneside and Bristol. 
Their end feature set sees stadium veterans Depeche Mode play in the moderately insinuate setting, making that big appearance at the 2000-limit Glasgow Barrowlands interestingly since 1984 as they get ready to release  their new album  'Soul'. 
Likewise on the bill are Goldfrapp, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Belle and Sebastian, Anna Meredith, Bonobo, Ride, Cate Le Bon, The Shins, Future Islands, Sparks, Sleaford Mods, Songhoy Blues, Car Seat Headrest, Warpaint, Loyle Carner, Grandaddy, The Lemon Twigs, Honeyblood, DUDS, Dutch Uncles, Forest Swords, Gaika, Girl Ray, Haley Bonar, Julia Jacklin, Kadhja Bonet, Sacred Paws, Thundercat, and Whitney; with a DJ set from James Lavelle (UNKLE) and some more. 
The week will likewise observe 6 Music Festival By Day – "a festival of live music music, discussion, drama and talked word" with appearances from Father John Misty, Edwyn Collins, Sinkane, Temples, Emma Pollock and The Wedding Present, in addition to appearances from John Lydon, Anna Meredith and Ian Rankin. 
​BBC 6 Music Festival takes place at multiple scenes across Glasgow from 24-26 March 2017. 
Tickets are on sale from 10am on Friday 24 February and​ available here.

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No Home of the Mind - Bing and Ruth

2/21/2017

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David Moore’s electroacoustic minimalism conveys its most grounded  emotional pull. It's his earthiest and most unmistakable record yet. Third genuine Bing & Ruth album, and first for 4AD.
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Bing & Ruth is the ever-evolving project of David Moore, a Kansas resident heavily involved in jazz and contemporary music academia a fine-tuned ear for minimalism. Moore is the one constant member ​ – his records have installed gatherings going from eleven to seven pieces, with his third collection No Home in the Mind, his first for 4AD, being the most streamlined of them all, including a firmly twisted five-piece assemble.
Moore is a staggeringly capable musician, and the streamlined backing band of chattering tape delay, windy woodwinds and rigid percussion lift the sytheses to a practically ethereal level. The entire is best experienced free-streaming all in all, so it is uncalled for to single out a specific tracks, yet the minutes that emerge are those that are wonderfully daze like – 'Shape Takes' sounds like a scene actually framing in slow-motion, while the elegiac 'The How of it Sped' is Moore getting it done – totally hypnotic and captivating.
On City Lake and 2014's Tomorrow Was the Golden Age, Moore's music evoked the best of what had preceded him—Philip Glass' redundancy, the passionate shading of Max Richter, Eluvium's solace with shake elements—however he's relentlessly developed into a sound that feels all his own. No Home of the Mind, his third appropriate collection and first for 4AD, is his most unmistakable record yet. His working gathering is still here, yet the courses of action on No Home element Moore's piano a great deal more conspicuously, and it's a more engaged record. In the event that City Lake and Tomorrow once in a while discovered him moving between set up styles, showing far reaching authority since he can, the new collection remains concentrated on wringing however much feeling as could be expected out of smaller landscape. Also, No Home of the Mind is the earthiest Bing and Ruth record yet. You can notice the sweat that went into it.
One of Moore’s composition signatures is to transform the piano into a drone instrument. ​Utilizing quick bunches of rehashing notes, Moore makes piano assumes that hang in space like billows of gradually moving sound, similar to entries of La Monte Young's The Well-Tuned Piano or the work of Young acolytes like Michael Harrison. Where the last two craftsmen are referred to for utilizing the piano as an instrument for suggestions by means of particular tuning, Moore makes piano-based automatons that fill in as the reason for his outfit pieces. The other instruments' parts exist in relationship to what he's doing at the console, offering differentiating surfaces and driving through changing movements in state of mind and tone. It's nearly as though all the different parts meet up into a solitary instrument, one that is "played" by and large by the Bing and Ruth troupe.
“Starwood Choker” starts the album sounding like  a continuation of the last Bing and Ruth record's befuddling embroidered works of art of sound. Be that as it may, the record truly starts to uncover itself on “As Much as Possible,” which discovers Moore in the domain of “solo piano with ambient treatments”  à la Brian Eno and Harold Budd's The Pearl. Moore's harmony voicings recommend both gospel music and the extra "furniture music" of Satie. As he moves between modes, amazingly inconspicuous bits of strain are presented, fabricated, and afterward discharged, while yawning gaps of automaton from the group float in and out underneath. “As Much as Possible”  is Moore's most delicate and influencing piece yet, a filmic work that inspires frequenting pictures all alone.
Throughout the rest of No Home, the piano moves between heavy drone  ("Form Takes"), painfully extra and reflective ditties ("To All It"), and pieces that investigate  how much can be done with simple repetition (“The How of It Sped”). ​The tracks stream one into the following, which emphasizes the associations amongst them and makes No Home feel like a solitary monstrous piece, painstakingly mapping every last bit of its characterized landscape. Moore is so talented at coaxing out feeling, it appears to be inescapable that there will be many film and TV scores in his future, in the event that he goes that course. On the off chance that that happens, No Home of the Mind will be recognized as his leap forward, where every one of the pieces from prior records fit properly.
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A Love Story Longer than Life. An Evening to Commemorate 20th Anniversary of Writer’s Death

2/21/2017

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“Together with Sinyavsky  we had a working romance. And the working romance is the most robust type of relationship”.
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​Andrei Sinyavsky (1925-97), one of the immense essayists in Russian writing of  the last half  of the twentieth century, was captured and attempted together with Yuly Daniel for distributing "against Soviet" works abroad. The trial turned into a development in the Russian nonconformist development. Sinyavsky and his family moved to Paris in 1973, where he addressed at the Sorbonne until his retirement in 1994. A dubious figure in the Russian resettlement in Paris and additionally back home in Russia, Sinyavsky conveyed a progression of three addresses, which were in this manner distributed by Columbia University Press as "The Russian Intelligentsia" (1997).

Abram Tertz was a troublesome author, requiring his perusers to attempt constant endeavors so as to understandf and welcome him. Tertz-Sinyavsky collection of memoirs, demonstrated to counter any Soviet scholarly ordinances, was exceptionally unpredictable and included: act as essayist and his court hearings, war and imprisonment, emigration and lonely opposition to general cliched opinions of the public.
Maria Rozanova, his better half, partner, guide, co-creator and co-manager of his magazine "Syntaksis" (Syntax), now lives in a Parisian banlieu; she has distributed and republished every single real title by Sinyavsky and three additional volumes of his letters from work camps also. She jumps at the chance to state: “Together with Sinyavsky  we had a working romance. And the working romance is the most robust type of relationship”.
You can debate over this romance, which turned into so many novels, along with Natalia Rubinstein on February 28, 2017 at the rendezvous of the English-Russian Cultural Club (ARCC) in the Pushkin House in London.
Natalia Rubinstein – is a freelance journalist and literary critic.  Qualified as philologist, previous to her leaving the Soviet Union in 1974, she worked as Researcher for the Pushkin Museum at 12, Moika St.,  in Leningrad.  She contributed to many, mostly Russian, periodicals in different countries. For about 25 years she worked for the BBC Russian Service in London.
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The first European retrospective of Marina Abramovic opened in Stockholm

2/21/2017

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The Museum of Contemporary Art of spectators are expected not before exhibited early works of the artist, as well as a new, grandiose performance.
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Марина Абрамович, Stromboli III Volcano (Стромболи III Вулкан), 2002. Courtesy of Marina Abramović Archives and Lia Rumma Gallery, Milan.
The exhibition, entitled "Cleaning" shows more than 120 works by the famous artist: documentation of performances, videos, photos and blogs since 1960. The retrospective includes not exhibited paintings before audioraboty and personal belongings, as well as the documentation of projects implemented together with former partner Ula, which a year ago for violation of the cooperation agreement Abramovich was forced to pay compensation of € 250 thousand. The exhibition specially trained performers repeat three performance artist: "Cleaning the mirror" (1995), "Art must be beautiful" (1975) and a series of "Liberation" (1975).
​From February 27 to March 5, not far from the museum, in the center of the choir Erik Erikson, will host an exhibition titled performance "Cleaning" on the theme of vulnerability. Conceived in collaboration with choreographer Abramovich Linsey Peysinger action promises to be spectacular, it involves 30 actors, 15 singers and 40 choirs. On the representation of persons allowed to 12 years old.
At a press conference on the new project, performance artist admitted that relive the past "was depressing," but added that "it is thanks to his childhood memories have a lot of material to work with." A year ago, for his 70th anniversary of the artist he has released a memoir, "Going through walls" for details about his life story. The first generalizing work of Marina Abramovic exhibition was held in 2010 in New York's Museum of Modern Art. In 2011, at the Museum "Garage" in Moscow held its major retrospective in which she gathered personal training for Russian performance artists.
Расписание  of performances in Stockholm. The exhibition runs until 21 May.​
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Terrence Malick’s Song to Song gets a mesmerize first trailer

2/18/2017

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Terrence Malick's follow-up to Knight of Cups has been being developed for quite a while (truth be told, it was shot path in 2011) yet we've at long last got a thought of what's in store graciousness of this unimaginable first trailer.
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Beforehand titled Weightless, Song to Song fixates on two converging love triangles backdropped by Austin's beautiful music scene. Lensed by Emmanuel Lubezki (The Revenant, Gravity), it looks, as you would expect, totally beautiful – an inebriating twirl of pixie lights, smoke flares and rock ‘n’ roll  overabundance.
The film stars Rooney Mara, Ryan Gosling, Michael Fassbender, Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman, Val Kilmer, Haley Bennett and Holly Hunter (gracious, and pay special mind to a fast look at Iggy Pop). It's set to get its reality debut one month from now at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, TX. Here's  the official rundown:
"In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples – struggling songwriters Faye (Rooney Mara) and BV (Ryan Gosling), and music mogul Cook (Michael Fassbender) and the waitress whom he ensnares (Natalie Portman) – chase success through a rock ‘n’ roll landscape of seduction and betrayal."
​Soundtracked by Del Shannon's "Runaway," the trailer sets up the film's plot – despite the fact that "plot" is a free develop in Malick's current movies – as Ryan Gosling and Rooney Mara depict a couple of indie rockers  that fall in love  in the Texas capital. Entangling matters is Michael Fassbender's smooth-talking music magnate and a server played by Natalie Portman, with adoration triangles creating between the characters.
"We thought we could just roll and tumble. Live from song to song, kiss to kiss," Mara's character says in voiceover.
​Following its SXSW debut on March 10th, Song to Song pervades into New York and Los Angeles theaters on March 17th.
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Berlinale  2017: On Body and Soul Wins Golden Bear for Best Film

2/18/2017

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Ildikó Enyedi’s Hungarian drama “On Body and Soul” won the Golden Bear for best film at the Berlin Film Festival on Saturday
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​Set in a Budapest slaughterhouse, the delicate romantic tale takes after the blossoming sentiment between a timid young ladies and her comparably calm more seasoned supervisor as the two find that they have similar dreams during the evening.
The international jury, headed by Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven, handed out ​prizes far and wide, granting an expansive scope of universal works.
Acting awards went to Georg Frederich for “Bright Nights” and Kim Minhee for “On the Beach at Night Alone,” while the prize for the festival’s best director went to Aki Kaurismaki for “The Other Side of Hope.”
The awards were announced at a ceremony in Berlin on Saturday night, at the completion of a festival that began on February 9.
The winners were chosen by a jury chaired by director Paul Verhoeven, and also involving actors Maggie Gyllenhaal, Julia Jentsch and Diego Luna, director Wang Quan’an, producer Dora Bouchoucha Fourati and artist Olafur Eliasson.
The full list of awards:
GOLDEN BEAR FOR BEST FILM: “On Body and Soul,” Ildikó Enyedi
SILVER BEAR GRAND JURY PRIZE: “Félicité,” Alain Gomis
ALFRED BAUER PRIZE: “Pokot” (“Spoor”) by Agnieszka Holland
BEST DIRECTOR: Aki Kaurismaki, “The Other Side of Hope”
BEST ACTOR: Georg Friedrich, “Bright Nights”
BEST ACTRESS: Kim Minhee, “On the Beach at Night Alone”
BEST SCREENPLAY: Sebastian Lelio and Gonzalo Maza, “A Fantastic Woman”
OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION: Dana Bunescu, editor, “Ana, Mon Amour”
GLASHUTTE DOCUMENTARY AWARD: “Ghost Hunting,” Raed Andoni
BEST FIRST FEATURE: “Summer 1993,” Carla Simon
GOLDEN BEAR FOR BEST SHORT FILM: “Small Town,” Diogo Costa Amarante
SILVER BEAR JURY PRIZE FOR SHORT FILM: “Reverie in the Meadow,” Esteban Arrangoiz Julien
AUDI SHORT FILM AWARD: “Street of Death,” Karam Ghossein
SPECIAL MENTION: “Centaur,” Nicolas Suarez
PANORAMA SECTION
PANORAMA AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER FICTION FILM: “Insyriated,” Philipp VanLeeuw
2ND PLACE: “Karera ga Honki de Amu toki wa” (“Close-Knit”), Naoko Ogigami
3RD PLACE: “1945”
PANORAMA AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER DOCUMENTARY: “I Am Not Your Negro,” Raoul Peck
2ND PLACE DOCUMENTARY: “Chavela,” Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi
3RD PLACE DOCUMENTARY: “Istiyad Ashbah” (“Ghost Hunting”), Raed Andoni
GENERATION KPLUS
CRYSTAL BEAR FOR BEST FILM: “Piata lod'” (“Little Harbour”), Iveta Grofova
SPECIAL MENTION: “Amelie rennt” (“Mountain Miracle – An Unexpected Friendship”), Tobias Wiemann
CRYSTAL BEAR FOR BEST SHORT FILM: “Promise,” Xie Tian
SPECIAL MENTION SHORT FILM: “Hedgehog’s Home,” Eva Cvijanovic
GRAND PRIZE OF THE GENERATION KPLUS INTERNATIONAL JURY: TIE “Becoming Who I Was,” Chang-Yong Moon and Jim Jeon; and “Estiu 1993” (“Summer 1993”), Carla Simon
SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE GENERATION KPLUS INTERNATIONAL JURY FOR SHORT FILM: “Aaba” (“Grandfather”), Amar Kaushik
SPECIAL MENTION: “Sabaku,” Marlies van der Wel
GENERATION 14PLUS
CRYSTAL BEAR FOR BEST FILM: “Butterfly Kisses,” Rafael Kapelinski
SPECIAL MENTION: “Ceux qui font les révolutions à moitié n’ont fait que se creuser un tombeau” (“Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves”), Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie
CRYSTAL BEAR FOR BEST SHORT FILM: “Wolfe,” Claire Randall
SPECIAL MENTION SHORT FILM: “Snip,” Terril Calder
GRAND PRIZE OF THE GENERATION 14PLUS INTERNATIONAL JURY FOR BEST FILM: “Shkola nomer 3” (“School Number 3”), Yelizaveta Smith and Georg Genoux
SPECIAL MENTION: “Ben Niao” (“The Foolish Bird”), Huang Ji and Ruiji Otsuka
SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE GENERATION 14PLUS INTERNATIONAL JURY FOR SHORT FILM: “The Jungle Knows You Better Than You Do,” Juanita Onzaga
SPECIAL MENTION: “U Plavetnilo” (“Into the Blue”), Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic
PRIZES OF THE INDEPENDENT JURIES
PRIZES OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY:
COMPETITION FILM: “Testr?’l és lélekr?’l” (“On Body and Soul”), Ildikó Enyedi
SPECIAL MENTION: “Una mujer fantástica” (“A Fantastic Woman”), Sebastián Lelio
PANORAMA FILM: “Tahqiq fel djenna” (“Investigating Paradise”), Merzak Allouache
SPECIAL MENTION: “I Am Not Your Negro,” Raoul Peck
FORUM FILM: “Maman Colonelle” (“Mama Colonel”), Dieudo Hamadi
SPECIAL MENTION: “El mar la mar,” Joshua Bonnetta and J.P. Sniadecki
PRIZES OF THE FIPRESCI JURY:
COMPETITION: “Testr?’l és lélekr?’l” (“On Body and Soul”), Ildikó Enyedi
PANORAMA: “Pendular Pendular,” Julia Murat
FORUM:  “Shu’our akbar min el hob” (“A Feeling Greater Than Love”), Mary Jirmanus Saba
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FILM PRIZE: “La libertad del Diablo” (“Devil’s Freedom”), Everardo González
GUILD FILM PRIZE: “The Party,” Sally Potter
CICAE ART CINEMA AWARD: “Centaur,” Aktan Arym Kubat
CICAE ART CINEMA AWARD FOR THE FORUM: “Newton,” Amit V Masurkar
LABEL EUROPA CINEMAS: “Insyriated,” Philippe Van Leeuw
BERLINER MORGENPOST READERS’ JURY AWARD: “Testr?’l és lélekr?’l” (“On Body and Soul”), Ildikó Enyedi
TAGESSPIEGEL READERS’ JURY AWARD: “Maman Colonelle” (“Mama Colonel”), Dieudo Hamadi
PRIZE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM JURY: “Os Humores Artificiais” (” The Artificial Humors”), Gabriel Abrantes
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John Cleese: how to write the perfect farce

2/18/2017

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​From the runaway rat in Fawlty Towers to Monty Python's cheddar shop, John Cleese has timed up 50 years of radiant unreasonableness. As his new parody Bang hits the stage, he discusses dread, Feydeau and his love of farce.
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I’ve always treasured farce. Good farce. Bad farce is embarrassing. Worse than that. Excruciating. And there is a lot of it about, because performing farce properly is much harder than acting ordinary comedy. The difficulty is that absurd situations have to be made believable. So, on one hand, the logic of the plot has to be impeccable; on the other, the actors have to find a way of making very eccentric behaviour credible. When a character makes a choice about what they are going to do – where to hide, which lie to tell, whether to brazen it out – the audience must be able to believe that the choice was a reasonable one. In the Fawlty Towers episode about Manuel’s rat, for example, we have to believe the health inspector’s reaction to seeing a live rat presented to him in a biscuit tin: the staff simply carry on as normal, to convince him it didn’t happen.
So, the perfect farce performer is one who can go “over the top” and take the audience with them. The perfect farce script is like clockwork: the writer winds it up by carefully establishing certain credible premises, and then lets the whole thing unwind, with inevitable but startling logic.

Regardless of the colossal shams of Michael Frayn and Alan Ayckbourn and Joe Orton and Alan Bennett, my heart dependably backpedals to the late nineteenth and mid twentieth century and Georges Feydeau, the best of a yield of joke essayists who kept Paris interested amid the debutante époque time. He delivered more than 60 plays, and keeping in mind that he was viewed by peers as a decent famous performer, he is presently perceived as one of France's most prominent dramatists.
This article originally appeared on ​https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/feb/17/john-cleese-farce-bang-bang-fawlty-towers-rat-manuel-feydeau
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Martin Scorsese's long lasting fixation with spirituality surfaces again in Silence

2/17/2017

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​A deep rooted fixation on Catholicism is one of the primary subjects in Martin Scorsese's most recent film, as he proceeds what he calls a look for the spiritual  human condition.
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​​Based on the novel by Japanese author Susak End of 1966, the film is about a young Portuguese Jesuit missionary of the 17th century, the father of Rodriguez, who with the priest Francisco Garpeom travels to Japan where, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism, as almost all contacts with foreign countries. There they witnessed the persecution of Christians in Japan, whose government wants to purge the country of all foreign influences. At the end of the two priests separate and Rodriguez travels the country, wondering why God is silent while His children suffer.
In an interview with The Final Cut, Scorsese said he had been needing to make the film since the late 80s, when he first read the novel of a same name by Shusaki Endo.​
​"I knew immediately that I wanted to make it into a film," he said.
Catholicism has been present  in many of Scorsese's films. He says what he saw in Silence was "the essence of faith, the struggle for faith, to understand what it is — or maybe not understand what it is but just have it".
"I'm not trying to convert anyone or change anybody's minds," he said.

"I just feel that for me, this has been something from when I first remember, at seven or eight years old, searching for a way to come to terms with that part of the human being or the human condition that is spiritual, especially in a material world."

The outcome is a standout amongst the most significant movies of Martin Scorsese's profession. It invokes an inclination that may be natural to the individuals who worship or meditate, since Silence is the kind of film that you go to bed regarding yet wake up cherishing. It mixes inside and permeates a clever inner discussion.
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Tilda Swinton is the new most loved to ride the Tardis next in Doctor Who

2/16/2017

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Tilda Swinton is fervently to venture into the shoes of the Time Lord when Peter Capaldi bows out of Doctor Who for good.
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The Oscar-winning star would assume control over the part from withdrawing on-screen actor Peter Capaldi, who as of late reported he is venturing down from the arrangement this year in the wake of entering the Tardis in 2013. Ladbrokes has said Swinton, 56, has been the concentration of a "tremendous bet" from punters, with her chances now at 7/2 after at first having entered the market at 10/1. Different names in the running incorporate Death In Paradise's Kris Marshall at 4/1, Broadchurch's Olivia Colman at 5/1 and Maxine Peake, best known for Dinnerladies and Shameless, at 8/1. The quantity of wagers being put on female stars highlights the requiring the main female Doctor when the character recovers at the end of the day.
Ladbrokes spokeswoman Jessica Bridge said: “Whovian punters are becoming increasingly convinced the next Doctor will be female, and fingers are currently pointing towards Swinton.”
Michelle Gomez, who plays Missy in the show, Captain America star Hayley Atwell and Sherlock actress Amanda Abbington are other female contenders who fans would like to see in the role.
​The BBC science fiction outspoken executive producer Steven Moffat ​beforehand recommended that the Doctor could, eventually, be a lady.
Steven said: “I think the next time might be a female Doctor. I don’t see why not.”

Capaldi's last execution as the Doctor will be in the Christmas 2017  special episode.
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Southampton opens first all-laser cinema in U.K.

2/16/2017

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Behind the scenes of the extravagance cinema opening its entryways in Southampton 
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Laser projectors have been introduced in all screens at the new Westquay recreation center in Southampton. ​
The complex, containing  a cinema, bowling alley and  eateries, was partially opened in December ​about two years after development began.
​Europe's first all-laser cinema was opened at Breda in the Netherlands in August.
Business examiners IHS said lasers were turning into a "dominant technology""  in cinemas  far and wide.
And in addition Hollywood's finest,  the cinema will  bring the best of Event Cinema - opera, ballet, theatre, classic films, music and sport - to Southampton from around the globe. Up and coming highlights incorporate a Valentine's Day screening of the great Casablanca, The Royal Ballet's Sleeping Beauty live from the Royal Opera House and Daniel Radcliffe in the National Theater's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
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Mark Barlow, Showcase Cinemas UK general manager, told the Daily Echo: “Every aspect of this cinema is designed to be extraordinary, and to give the people in the region a cinema experience that is unrivalled anywhere else. Southampton is a hub for film activity, so it’s the perfect location to continue our expansion. There will be something for everyone – from film fanatics to families, students and tourists – and we’re certain that no one will have ever visited a cinema quite like Showcase Cinema de Lux Southampton.”
IHS cinema research director David Hancock said: "More expensive Red Green Blue (RGB) lasers have very high light output, make 3D much brighter... although laser phosphor machines for smaller screens are pretty close to a digital cinema projector."
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He said the Southampton theater was accepted to be the primary all-laser multiplex in the UK and just the fourth in Europe.
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Qual's New EP 'Cupio Dissolvi' Is Dark, Morbid, or more All, Danceable

2/16/2017

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Dark, Morbid, and Above All
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William Maybelline, the craftsman behind Qual, is very acquainted with dimness. As one portion of darkwave sovereignty Lebanon Hanover, Maybelline's prosperity with the couple has been central: their tune "Gallowdance" from the 2013 album Tomb for Two has picked up about two million perspectives on Youtube. Sable, Qual's 2015 LP, is an accumulation of tracks that addresses the goth, modern, and even techno scenes. Disastrously dim topics, lavish synthesizer soundscapes and sterile drum machine thumps turned into the pith of Sable, a meeting of types that unusually supplement each other. With certainly danceable tunes like "The Geometry of Wounds" and the club top choice, "Tear Doth Thy Scarlet Claws", Qual got the consideration of dismal goths worldwide and furthermore any semblance of techno craftsman Ancient Methods, who frequently grabs the chance to minister such surprising tracks in his mechanical imbued hard techno DJ sets.
​It's obvious that since Sable, Qual has not discovered trust but rather has sunk into much more prominent sadness on the new twelve-inch EP, Cupio Dissolvi. The term itself is a Latin figure of speech that actually makes an interpretation of to I wish to be broken down, which, in a Christian setting, gets from the yearning to end life on Earth keeping in mind the end goal to be with God. Notwithstanding, the expression additionally connotes an unreasonable craving for self-demolition—the debauched and extreme feeling of masochism. What's more, for Qual, there has dependably been a foul and masochistic demeanor inside his music, one that is additionally emotional and peculiarly extravagant. 

The melody "Cupio Dissolvi" presents the most up to date emphasis of Qual. It is similarly as showy—if not more so—than Sable, but rather accompanies a heavier accentuation on danceability and reiteration. Maybelline's vocals and choir synths add a gothic extravagance to it, marginally dulling the seriousness and instantaneousness of the requesting bass line. The second track, "Wicked Blob", is Qual's verbose admission of self renunciation: "I have a vocation burrowing graves/I burrow my own". The exactness of hardware and the blasting kick summon a sterile void—there is minimal left yet a feeling of fear and confinement.
Each track on the discharge moves assist far from his darkwave synth establishment, impacted more by cruel techno beats and tenacious bass examples. The superbness of the discharge is that nothing feels constrained—it is flawlessly executed with nuances and elegance inside the creation. Such certainty is considered the B-side of the record with the 8-minute long "Assault Me in the Parthenon". It is unrecognizably Qual except for Maybelline's rankling vocals covered in outrage and desire—it is his own skewed understanding of an adoration melody. It's obvious that the music—every melody a stoic passing walk in itself—keeps up the gloomth and despairing of goth belief systems while transitioning towards the grittier range of electronic music. Qual is an icicle knife appropriate to the heart, his words an epitaph to the wantonness of death. 

Because of that, I endeavored to uncover privileged insights from the baffling and agonizing William Maybelline about Qual's new bearing, Cupio Dissolvi, and his undying interest with darkness.
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Carlos Santana Apologizes For Saying Beyonce Is 'Not a Singer'

2/16/2017

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Carlos Santana issued an expression of remorse Tuesday after the guitarist said that Beyoncé is "not a vocalist" explaining in an interview Adele won the Album of the Year Grammy.
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"My intent was to felicitate Adele on her incredible night at the Grammys," Santana wrote on Facebook Tuesday, not long after his distributed comments about the Grammys created kickback.​
​"My comment about Beyonce was regretfully taken out of context. I have the utmost respect for her as an artist and a person. She deserves all the accolades that come her way. I wish Beyonce and her family all the best." - said  Santana
In  an interview with the Australian Associated Press  before Santana's visit in Australia and New Zealand, Santana said that Adele's 25 was deserving of the Album of the Year Grammy. I think that Adele won because she can sing sing," the guitarist said. "With all respect to our sister Beyoncé, Beyoncé is very beautiful to look at and it's more like modeling kind of music – music to model a dress – she's not a singer singer, with all respect to her."
Santana likewise recommended that Beyoncé depends too vigorously on showy behavior for her exhibitions, which maybe punished her according to Grammy voters who decided on 25 over Lemonade. 

"Adele doesn't bring all the dancers and props, she can just stand there and she just stood there and sang the song and that's it, and this is why she wins," Santana said, throwing subtle shade at Beyoncé's epic medley of "Love Drought" and "Sandcastles" from Sunday's ceremony.

The Recording Academy's Neil Portnow likewise safeguarded the Grammy's Album of the Year pick of 25, even as Adele utilized her acknowledgment discourse to announce Lemonade ought to have won.

"I don't think there's a race problem at all. Remember, this is a peer-voted award, it's not a corporate entity – it's the 14,000 members of the Academy," Portnow said. "It's always hard to create objectivity out of something that's inherently subjective, which is what art and music is about. We do the best we can."
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Carlos Santana Apologizes For Saying Beyonce Is 'Not a Singer'
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Diamanda Galas Announces Rare U.S. Tour Dates

2/15/2017

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Avant-garde vocalist Diamanda Galás will bolster her two up and coming LPs – All the Way and At Saint Thomas the Apostle Harlem – with a six-date visit that denote her first U.S. appears outside of New York in years.
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Galás will perform choices from her two new albums, her first since 2008's Guilty Guilty Guilty, amid the trek, which commences March 31st at Seattle's Neptune. The visit will likewise hit Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Orleans and Austin before finishing up April seventeenth at Chicago's Thalia Hall.
All the Way, which features Galás' interpretation of jazz, blues and folk standards, and At Saint Thomas the Apostle Harlem, a live report of her execution of "death tunes" from May 2016 shows in Harlem, are both due out March 24th.  Visit Galás' website for ticket information.
Diamanda Galás Tour Dates

March 31 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune
April 5 – Los Angeles, CA @ Cathedral of St. Vibiana
April 8 – San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic
April 11 – New Orleans, LA @ Joy Theater
April 14 – Austin, TX @ Paramount Theatre
April 17 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
​This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Diamanda Galas Announces Rare U.S. Tour Dates
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