[Editor’s note: “Le Choc du Futur” is one of more than 100 movies originally scheduled to screen at the SXSW Film Festival in March. After the coronavirus outbreak forced the festival to cancel, event organizers partnered with Amazon Prime to make seven of those features available to stream for free through Weds., May 6.]
Turn on just about any pop radio station at any point over the last quarter century, and chances are good that the vast majority of the sounds you’ll be hearing were created on machines. Yet on film, representations of musicmaking are still largely stuck in a more analog era. Maybe that’s due to a lingering generational bias, or maybe watching a girl strap on a Les Paul or sit down at a piano is just inherently more cinematic than watching her tapping away at an 808. Whatever the case, French musician Marc Collin’s debut feature “Le Choc du Futur...
Turn on just about any pop radio station at any point over the last quarter century, and chances are good that the vast majority of the sounds you’ll be hearing were created on machines. Yet on film, representations of musicmaking are still largely stuck in a more analog era. Maybe that’s due to a lingering generational bias, or maybe watching a girl strap on a Les Paul or sit down at a piano is just inherently more cinematic than watching her tapping away at an 808. Whatever the case, French musician Marc Collin’s debut feature “Le Choc du Futur...
- 5/1/2020
- by Andrew Barker
- Variety Film + TV
In his latest podcast/interview, host Stuart Wright talks with writer and director Marc Collin about his debut feature The Shock of the Future, which stars Alma Jodorowsky, Philippe Rebbot and Geoffrey Carey. The film is out now from 606 Distribution.
About 606 Distribution:
Our plan is to distribute films with potential that have been successful at the major film festivals, but have somehow fallen through the gaps, and deserve to be seen by the enthusiastic Arthouse film audience in the UK and Ireland.
About 606 Distribution:
Our plan is to distribute films with potential that have been successful at the major film festivals, but have somehow fallen through the gaps, and deserve to be seen by the enthusiastic Arthouse film audience in the UK and Ireland.
- 9/30/2019
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
The 59Th BFI London Film Festival Announces Full 2015 Programme
You can peruse the programme at your leisure here.
The programme for the 59th BFI London Film Festival in partnership launched today, with Festival Director Clare Stewart presenting this year’s rich and diverse selection of films and events. BFI London Film Festival is Britain’s leading film event and one of the world’s oldest film festivals. It introduces the finest new British and international films to an expanding London and UK-wide audience. The Festival provides an essential platform for films seeking global success; and promotes the careers of British and international filmmakers through its industry and awards programmes. With this year’s industry programme stronger than ever, offering international filmmakers and leaders a programme of insightful events covering every area of the film industry Lff positions London as the world’s leading creative city.
The Festival will screen a...
You can peruse the programme at your leisure here.
The programme for the 59th BFI London Film Festival in partnership launched today, with Festival Director Clare Stewart presenting this year’s rich and diverse selection of films and events. BFI London Film Festival is Britain’s leading film event and one of the world’s oldest film festivals. It introduces the finest new British and international films to an expanding London and UK-wide audience. The Festival provides an essential platform for films seeking global success; and promotes the careers of British and international filmmakers through its industry and awards programmes. With this year’s industry programme stronger than ever, offering international filmmakers and leaders a programme of insightful events covering every area of the film industry Lff positions London as the world’s leading creative city.
The Festival will screen a...
- 9/1/2015
- by John
- SoundOnSight
The French New Wave, that cinematic movement from the 1960s that essentially defined iconoclasm for film, has undoubtedly had its impact on nearly everything, from film to music to style. And given its indelible impact on cultural history, it’s one of the easiest artistic movements to pull from, as demonstrated from three key music videos inspired by, ripped off from, and celebrating the auteurs from Godard to Truffaut.
“Dancing with Myself” – Nouvelle Vague
There’s a bit of irony and wordplay going on here. First, the band’s name is Nouvelle Vague, nodding to both the French New Wave and the New Wave in music during the 1980s. Then there’s the name of the album that the French cover band chose to use: Bande à Part, from the Jean-Luc Godard film of the same name. Then there’s the actual music video. Rather than go about “creating” a music video for their single,...
“Dancing with Myself” – Nouvelle Vague
There’s a bit of irony and wordplay going on here. First, the band’s name is Nouvelle Vague, nodding to both the French New Wave and the New Wave in music during the 1980s. Then there’s the name of the album that the French cover band chose to use: Bande à Part, from the Jean-Luc Godard film of the same name. Then there’s the actual music video. Rather than go about “creating” a music video for their single,...
- 8/10/2014
- by Kyle Turner
- SoundOnSight
Death Proof
Written by Quentin Tarantino
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
2007, USA
**Contains Spoilers***
Tarantino’s many skills set him apart from other auteurs working in the film industry today, but none of them dominate in his work as much as his ability to seamlessly weave his narratives through genre/sub-genre mash-ups. The Nouvelle Vague coolness and lurid noir of Pulp Fiction, the samurai western Kill Bill, and the World War II spaghetti western Inglourious Basterds illustrate just how well he can work combining two genres, but his most successful blending of genres comes from his second-billed Grindhouse flick: Death Proof.
Death Proof encompasses more genres in its one hundred minutes than any other film can possibly contain. As a homage to the double-billed b-movies of the ’60s and ’70s, Death Proof is structured like many films produced by American International Pictures and New World Pictures – a big hook early on and a strong climax.
Written by Quentin Tarantino
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
2007, USA
**Contains Spoilers***
Tarantino’s many skills set him apart from other auteurs working in the film industry today, but none of them dominate in his work as much as his ability to seamlessly weave his narratives through genre/sub-genre mash-ups. The Nouvelle Vague coolness and lurid noir of Pulp Fiction, the samurai western Kill Bill, and the World War II spaghetti western Inglourious Basterds illustrate just how well he can work combining two genres, but his most successful blending of genres comes from his second-billed Grindhouse flick: Death Proof.
Death Proof encompasses more genres in its one hundred minutes than any other film can possibly contain. As a homage to the double-billed b-movies of the ’60s and ’70s, Death Proof is structured like many films produced by American International Pictures and New World Pictures – a big hook early on and a strong climax.
- 1/2/2013
- by Gregory Day
- SoundOnSight
Berlin -- Fifty years after he won the Berlin International Film Festival's Golden Bear for his directorial debut "Bitter Reunion," French director and Nouvelle Vague pioneer Claude Chabrol will receive the fest's Berlinale Camera lifetime achievement award.
Chabrol will be honored Feb. 8 at a ceremony at Berlin's Cinema Paris, which will be followed by the screening of his latest film, "Bellamy."
Gunter Rohrbach, producer of such classics as Wolfgang Petersen's "Das Boot" and R. W. Fassbinder's "Berlin Alexanderplatz," also will receive a Berlinale Camera this year. The ceremony is set to take place Feb. 9 at the Friedrichstadtpalast ahead of the gala premiere of Hermine Huntgeburth's "Effi Briest," which Rohrbach produced.
Chabrol will be honored Feb. 8 at a ceremony at Berlin's Cinema Paris, which will be followed by the screening of his latest film, "Bellamy."
Gunter Rohrbach, producer of such classics as Wolfgang Petersen's "Das Boot" and R. W. Fassbinder's "Berlin Alexanderplatz," also will receive a Berlinale Camera this year. The ceremony is set to take place Feb. 9 at the Friedrichstadtpalast ahead of the gala premiere of Hermine Huntgeburth's "Effi Briest," which Rohrbach produced.
- 1/27/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As Piers Handling characterized Agnès Varda for her most recent film Les Plages d’Agnès (The Beaches of Agnès), which premiered at the 65th Venice International Film Festival and then continued to the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival, Varda is irrepressible, enquiring, and an evident force of nature who even at the age of 80 shows no signs of slowing down. In her essayistic self-portrait documentary, Varda commences with the poetic assertion: ”Si on ouvrait les gens, on trouverait des paysages. Moi, si on m’ouvrait, on trouverait des plages. [If you opened people up, you would find landscapes. If you opened me up, you would find beaches.]”
One day while on the beach in Noirmoutier, Varda realized how many other beaches had influenced her life and how these beaches could be used as the thread to connect her descriptions of family, friends, and career. Staging herself among excerpts of her films, images and reportages, profiling her beginnings as a stage photographer working under Vilar at the Festival d...
One day while on the beach in Noirmoutier, Varda realized how many other beaches had influenced her life and how these beaches could be used as the thread to connect her descriptions of family, friends, and career. Staging herself among excerpts of her films, images and reportages, profiling her beginnings as a stage photographer working under Vilar at the Festival d...
- 9/19/2008
- by Michael Guillen
- Screen Anarchy
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