Indie icon Kim Gordon, whose excellent solo album “The Collective” dropped last week, is this month’s featured film curator for Galerie, the new online film club launched by Indian Paintbrush. Below, Gordon shares a deeply personal curation of eight films that influence and reflect audio, visual art, and personal style. While best known as a musician and cofounding member of Sonic Youth, Gordon’s art has long stretched into multiple other disciplines, with film being just one.
“Morvern Callar,” dir. Lynne Ramsay, 2002
I love the way Lynne Ramsay uses sound dynamics. In this movie the music is like another character. The mixtape that her dead boyfriend made and left for her (saying “Keep the music to yourself”) becomes a thread throughout the film. He is the music — it not only keeps him alive for her but replaces him.
“Clouds of Sils Maria,” dir. Olivier Assayas, 2014
The relationship in this...
“Morvern Callar,” dir. Lynne Ramsay, 2002
I love the way Lynne Ramsay uses sound dynamics. In this movie the music is like another character. The mixtape that her dead boyfriend made and left for her (saying “Keep the music to yourself”) becomes a thread throughout the film. He is the music — it not only keeps him alive for her but replaces him.
“Clouds of Sils Maria,” dir. Olivier Assayas, 2014
The relationship in this...
- 3/13/2024
- by Kim Gordon
- Variety Film + TV
We are still approximately six weeks away from learning the nominees for the 77th Tony Awards, but across the pond the finalists for the 2024 Olivier Awards were just announced. A radical new remounting of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Sunset Boulevard” directed by Jamie Lloyd and starring Nicole Scherzinger is the most nominated show of the year with 11 citations. Another musical revival is nipping at its heels: the immersive “Guys and Dolls” scored 10, as did new play “Dear England,” which centers on England’s national men’s football team and stars Joseph Fiennes as Gareth Southgate. Scroll down to see a complete list of 2024 Olivier Awards nominations.
American audiences will be familiar with many of the plays, musicals and performers nominated this year. The Best New Musical category includes Tony Award-winning shows “Next to Normal” and “A Strange Loop,” while Best Musical Revival boasts productions of “Groundhog Day” and “Hadestown.” Caissie Levy,...
American audiences will be familiar with many of the plays, musicals and performers nominated this year. The Best New Musical category includes Tony Award-winning shows “Next to Normal” and “A Strange Loop,” while Best Musical Revival boasts productions of “Groundhog Day” and “Hadestown.” Caissie Levy,...
- 3/12/2024
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
Sarah Snook, Sarah Jessica Parker, Andrew Scott and David Tennant were among the nominees for the 2024 Olivier Awards, which celebrate achievements in London theater.
Parker was nominated for best actress for her role in Plaza Suite, opposite her husband, Matthew Broderick, while Snook was nominated in the same category for her one-woman take on The Picture of Dorian Gray. Tennant was nominated for best actor for his role in Macbeth, in the same category as Andrew Scott, in a one-man version of Vanya.
Sunset Boulevard, which starred Nicole Scherzinger, who is also nominated, and is set to come to Broadway next year, received 11 nominations, while Dear England, a play by James Graham about an English football manager, received nine nominations. Stranger Things: The First Shadow, a prequel to the television series, which has also hinted at its Broadway ambitions, is up for best new entertainment or comedy play.
The Olivier...
Parker was nominated for best actress for her role in Plaza Suite, opposite her husband, Matthew Broderick, while Snook was nominated in the same category for her one-woman take on The Picture of Dorian Gray. Tennant was nominated for best actor for his role in Macbeth, in the same category as Andrew Scott, in a one-man version of Vanya.
Sunset Boulevard, which starred Nicole Scherzinger, who is also nominated, and is set to come to Broadway next year, received 11 nominations, while Dear England, a play by James Graham about an English football manager, received nine nominations. Stranger Things: The First Shadow, a prequel to the television series, which has also hinted at its Broadway ambitions, is up for best new entertainment or comedy play.
The Olivier...
- 3/12/2024
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There is a sense of a running gag in Hors du Temps (renamed Suspended Time for the English-language market). In his complex, autofictional 2022 TV series Irma Vep, Olivier Assayas cast as the director of a film called Irma Vep — a film he had, in fact, made in real life 20 years earlier — the actor Vincent Macaigne, who cheekily developed a version of Assayas that not only picked up on his distinctively reedy voice, but also nobbled his quirky irritability and sensitivities.
That character was called Rene, but he was not a million miles from Paul, the character Macaigne plays in this account of two brothers confined with their partners for the duration of the Covid lockdown. They have returned to the house where they lived as boys and where they have rarely returned since: a vine-covered cottage in a picturesque hamlet. It is a glorious summer, just like the remembered summers of childhood.
That character was called Rene, but he was not a million miles from Paul, the character Macaigne plays in this account of two brothers confined with their partners for the duration of the Covid lockdown. They have returned to the house where they lived as boys and where they have rarely returned since: a vine-covered cottage in a picturesque hamlet. It is a glorious summer, just like the remembered summers of childhood.
- 2/18/2024
- by Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
Olivier Martinez has filed a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles.
The 57-year-old Unfaithful actor claims that the city is at fault for his March 2023 motorcycle crash, which happened on Fairfax Avenue near 5th Street.
Olivier is suing the city for $2 million in damages and said he was severely injured during the crash, including an injury to the brain.
Keep reading to find out more…
“Mr. Martinez was injured due to a dangerous condition of public property when the front tire of his motorcycle hit a large crack (about 6″ deep and 9″ wide) in the middle of the Roadway, causing the motorcycle to overturn, slide along the road, and throw Mr. Martinez onto the asphalt, in the middle of the roadway,” the filing reads (via The Blast).
Olivier says the road was “dangerous due to damaged, deteriorated, worn out and crumbling asphalt, with multiple potholes, large/deep cracks” and that...
The 57-year-old Unfaithful actor claims that the city is at fault for his March 2023 motorcycle crash, which happened on Fairfax Avenue near 5th Street.
Olivier is suing the city for $2 million in damages and said he was severely injured during the crash, including an injury to the brain.
Keep reading to find out more…
“Mr. Martinez was injured due to a dangerous condition of public property when the front tire of his motorcycle hit a large crack (about 6″ deep and 9″ wide) in the middle of the Roadway, causing the motorcycle to overturn, slide along the road, and throw Mr. Martinez onto the asphalt, in the middle of the roadway,” the filing reads (via The Blast).
Olivier says the road was “dangerous due to damaged, deteriorated, worn out and crumbling asphalt, with multiple potholes, large/deep cracks” and that...
- 12/29/2023
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Barry Keoghan has played a superhero and a supervillain, worked with Academy Award-nominated filmmakers like Christopher Nolan and Yorgos Lanthimos, and won global acclaim for his Oscar-nominated role in last year’s “The Banshees of Inishirin.” But none of his previous films presented Keoghan with the challenge and opportunity of leading “Saltburn.” The new film from Oscar winner Emerald Fennell stars Keoghan as Oliver Quick, an Oxford student whose obsession with an excessively wealthy classmate (Jacob Elordi) and the boy’s family has dire consequences.
“When I first read the script, I was amazed at just the different ranges and different layers of Oliver and how much I had to play with,” Keoghan tells Gold Derby in an exclusive video interview. “That really excited me the most, how much I could dig my teeth into him. I was like, ‘This is a once-in-a-lifetime kind of role.’”
SEEVictoria Boydell interview: ‘Saltburn...
“When I first read the script, I was amazed at just the different ranges and different layers of Oliver and how much I had to play with,” Keoghan tells Gold Derby in an exclusive video interview. “That really excited me the most, how much I could dig my teeth into him. I was like, ‘This is a once-in-a-lifetime kind of role.’”
SEEVictoria Boydell interview: ‘Saltburn...
- 12/5/2023
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
The Israeli-Gaza morass this week seemed to defy coherent media coverage, reminding me of critic David Thomson’s conclusion about Hollywood war movies and how they “used to celebrate courage, not confusion.”
Thomson’s new book, The Fatal Alliance, deals with the history of the war movie from Gallipoli to Saving Private Ryan, guiding readers from “war is hell” to “war is a blur.”
The war movie once constituted a reliable genre product for Hollywood, along with the Western and the musical. To be sure, Israel-Gaza is a tragedy of enormous and dramatic proportions, as symbolized by its chaotic cross-cutting from drones to tunnels.
From Paths of Glory to Dunkirk, war movies once set forth a structure and pathos to guide audiences through the nihilism of combat.
Thomson reminds us of the pageantry of the knights on horseback in Olivier’s Henry V, the churning helicopters in Apocalypse Now or...
Thomson’s new book, The Fatal Alliance, deals with the history of the war movie from Gallipoli to Saving Private Ryan, guiding readers from “war is hell” to “war is a blur.”
The war movie once constituted a reliable genre product for Hollywood, along with the Western and the musical. To be sure, Israel-Gaza is a tragedy of enormous and dramatic proportions, as symbolized by its chaotic cross-cutting from drones to tunnels.
From Paths of Glory to Dunkirk, war movies once set forth a structure and pathos to guide audiences through the nihilism of combat.
Thomson reminds us of the pageantry of the knights on horseback in Olivier’s Henry V, the churning helicopters in Apocalypse Now or...
- 11/2/2023
- by Peter Bart
- Deadline Film + TV
Vivien Leigh was the two-time Oscar winner who made only a handful of films before her untimely death in 1967 at the age of 53. Yet several of those titles remain classics. Let’s take a look back at 10 of her greatest films, ranked worst to best.
Born in British India, Leigh appeared in a number of roles on both the stage and screen in England, including a production of “Hamlet” opposite her husband, Laurence Olivier.
She came to international attention after landing the coveted role of Scarlet O’Hara in David O. Selznick’s massive adaptation of Margaret Mitchell‘s bestseller “Gone with the Wind” (1939). Leigh was far from the first choice to embody the headstrong Southern belle who pines after a married man (Leslie Howard) while wedding another (Clark Gable) against the backdrop of the Civil War. Yet the relatively unknown thespian beat out the likes of Bette Davis, Claudette Colbert,...
Born in British India, Leigh appeared in a number of roles on both the stage and screen in England, including a production of “Hamlet” opposite her husband, Laurence Olivier.
She came to international attention after landing the coveted role of Scarlet O’Hara in David O. Selznick’s massive adaptation of Margaret Mitchell‘s bestseller “Gone with the Wind” (1939). Leigh was far from the first choice to embody the headstrong Southern belle who pines after a married man (Leslie Howard) while wedding another (Clark Gable) against the backdrop of the Civil War. Yet the relatively unknown thespian beat out the likes of Bette Davis, Claudette Colbert,...
- 10/28/2023
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
The 32-year-old Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence was out on the campaign trail for her upcoming comedy “No Hard Feelings” this week. One stop along the way was the online chat-and-chew show “Hot Ones,” where, in-between bites of spicy chicken wings, she talked a bit about the acting biz.
Early during her showdown with The Scoville Meter, host Sean Evans asked about working with actors with “a different process than your own” and wondered if “there was a kind of acting prep she’s most intrigued by.”
“No,” Lawrence responded, adding, “I would be nervous to work with someone who is ‘method’ because I would have no idea how to talk to them. Do I have to be in character? That would just make me nervous.”
One thinks back to the story that’s repeated so often it might even be true from the set of “Marathon Man,” in which Dustin Hoffman...
Early during her showdown with The Scoville Meter, host Sean Evans asked about working with actors with “a different process than your own” and wondered if “there was a kind of acting prep she’s most intrigued by.”
“No,” Lawrence responded, adding, “I would be nervous to work with someone who is ‘method’ because I would have no idea how to talk to them. Do I have to be in character? That would just make me nervous.”
One thinks back to the story that’s repeated so often it might even be true from the set of “Marathon Man,” in which Dustin Hoffman...
- 6/23/2023
- by Jordan Hoffman
- Gold Derby
Stage, television and film star Anjana Vasan’s latest role is the lead in the “Demon 79” episode in Season 6 of Charlie Brooker’s hit Netflix series “Black Mirror.”
Set in northern England, 1979, Vasan plays a meek sales assistant who is told she must commit terrible acts to prevent disaster in the episode written by Brooker and Bisha K. Ali (“Ms. Marvel”) and directed by Toby Haynes (“Andor”). Paapa Essiedu (“Gangs of London”) has a pivotal role in the episode.
“Every episode of ‘Black Mirror’ is different but this one felt just distinctly like trying to do something different,” Vasan told Variety. “And when I read it, I was genuinely surprised. I didn’t know where the story was going to go. And I thought the dynamic between Paapa’s character and myself was so interesting and so surprising. I just wanted to be a part of that world, I wanted...
Set in northern England, 1979, Vasan plays a meek sales assistant who is told she must commit terrible acts to prevent disaster in the episode written by Brooker and Bisha K. Ali (“Ms. Marvel”) and directed by Toby Haynes (“Andor”). Paapa Essiedu (“Gangs of London”) has a pivotal role in the episode.
“Every episode of ‘Black Mirror’ is different but this one felt just distinctly like trying to do something different,” Vasan told Variety. “And when I read it, I was genuinely surprised. I didn’t know where the story was going to go. And I thought the dynamic between Paapa’s character and myself was so interesting and so surprising. I just wanted to be a part of that world, I wanted...
- 6/16/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
In college one night, I got very stoned and read T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland.” I was gripped by it, and felt I understood it — a feat I’ve never come close to accomplishing since. Yet I don’t think I was under some delusion about having glimpsed the poem’s essence. Eliot was a mystic doomsayer whose verse was torn, as if by shrapnel, with fragments of misanthropy and heartbreak. He channeled the despair of the 20th century but did it with a glint of rapture (to contemplate it was to be alive). To connect with his poetry, you almost need to leave rationality behind, to give yourself over to the experiential quality of Eliot’s words. I think the reason I could grasp Eliot while stoned is that I forgot I was reading “poetry,” forgot that I was facing stanzas arranged in elegant pieces on a page. Instead I was living each word,...
- 4/26/2023
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
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