This week's Music Weekly has something of a retro feel. Our first guest is Holly Johnson, the Frankie Goes to Hollywood singer, who met with Paul MacInnes ahead of the release of the band's greatest hits package. They discuss gay rights, being propositioned by Andy Warhol (Holly's claim, not Paul's) and being controversialists (ownership of that one is debatable). Now, we may be back to our normal...
News: Palisades Tartan have announced the UK DVD release of Fanny and Alexander on 16th November 2009 priced at £19.99 RRP. This release features the theatrical version of Ingmar Bergman's 1982 film and boasts “a brand new presentation digitally restored f...
Hey guys, I’m back for one last post – links to 101 of my best articles! Who needs film school? -MM ----------------------------------------------- Cinematic Storytelling I read Cinematic Storytelling , which was written by the great Jennifer Van Sijll, and I just LOVED IT. This should be in the library of every aspiring screenwriter on the planet and every single technique should be memorized...
OSLO - The National Theatre in Oslo is proud to present the very first stage version of Ingmar Bergman’s “Fanny and Alexander”. The production has its world premiere on Saturday 7th November. Ingmar Bergman’s most popular work had its cinema
OSLO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The National Theatre in Oslo is proud to present the very first stage version of Ingmar Bergman’s “Fanny and Alexander”. The production has its world premiere on Saturday 7th November. Ingmar Bergman’s most popular work had its cinema premiere in 1982 and is one of the great classics of Scandinavian cinema. People all over the world have been captivated...
The music of Ron and Russell Mael has often had a clever,camp, melodramatic edge that suggests music theatre but this 65-minute mini-opera still comes as a surprise.
I have spent the better part of the morning here reading about Ingmar Bergman. When I was a kid, you were more likely here in Hoots to see a variety of exploitation films, Burt Reynolds was huge or the occasional bad horror movie at one of the local drive-ins. (Yes, I hate that those have [...]
NOTE: As always, please see A Serious Man before proceeding. "As long as I learn I will make mistakes What do I want? What do I need? Why do I want it? What's in it for me? It's the imagery of technology Is what you get is what you see Don't worry your mind When you give it your best One two one two this is just a test" - Beastie Boys, "Just a Test" A barrage of questions, then:...
Here’s what caught my attention on Twitter this past week and some stuff left over from the week before: Quote of the Week: Ingmar Bergman likened aging to hiking up a mountain, “The longer one walks the more winded one becomes, but the view!” via @marciamarcia Food Sustainable Food Lab: accelerate the shift of sustainable food from niche [...]
Commissioned by Swedish National Public Radio to devise an original radio musical with Swedish language content, Sparks siblings Ron and Russell Mael have significantly transcended their brief with The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman, which has a resonance that goes some way beyond its parochial origins.
By Edward Copeland Something happens to the best filmmakers. Even when they are good, once they delve into their own ethnic or societal upbringing, they achieve a deeper greatness, whether the film in question is explicitly autobiographical or not. Steven Spielberg finally seemed to grow up once he made Schindler's List , even though he'd made great films before that. Martin Scorsese and Ingmar Bergman...
"The rustic properties on the Baltic island of Fårö - where the director Ingmar Bergman lived and worked, produced several of his films and died - will become a nonprofit retreat for artists and scholars."...
The author of more than 70 books, including four different detective series, Stuart Kaminsky, who has died aged 75, wrote in the tradition of the pulp wordsmiths. His first series, featuring the shabby private eye Toby Peters, was set in 1940s Hollywood and reflected that era's light-hearted, fast-paced crime stories. Kaminsky came to detective fiction from academia, but the ease of his prose was...
-- Wishful: The Dayton International Peace Museum hopes that President Obama will donate some or all of his $1.4-million Nobel Peace Prize money. (Associated Press) -- Good use: Ingmar Bergman's former properties will become a nonprofit center for artists and...
STOCKHOLM – A writing desk, film cameras and Golden Globe awards belonging to Swedish film legend Ingmar Bergman are attracting a huge interest from collectors as they go up for auction in Stockholm. Auction house Bukowskis says the 337 Bergman items for sale include the chess pieces most probably used in the director's 1957 film "The Seventh Seal" and a 1960s portrait of Bergman by Irving Penn. Bukowskis...
STOCKHOLM – A writing desk, film cameras and Golden Globe awards belonging to Swedish film legend Ingmar Bergman are attracting a huge interest from collectors as they go up for auction in Stockholm. Auction house Bukowskis says the 337 Bergman items for sale include the chess pieces most probably used in the director's 1957 film "The Seventh Seal" and a 1960s portrait of Bergman by Irving Penn. Bukowskis...
The Synth Show with Mark O'Leary on guitar/sound, Jamie Saft on Synths and Kenny Wollesen on drums has just been released on Leo Records. Recorded in Brooklyn New York, it features synth based improv/synthscapes/synthpop. Harking back to the 70's Synth glory days of Zawinul, Jarre, Wakeman, Tangerine Dream, early Kraftwerk and Hamer. It has all of that and a little vaudeville meets BBC radiophonic...
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