Ian Bairnson, the Scottish guitarist best known for his work with The Alan Parsons Project, has died after a “long battle with dementia.” He was 69.
“It is with deep sadness and regret that I let you know that my loving husband Ian Bairnson has passed away on Friday 7 April,” Bairnson’s wife Leila shared in a statement (via The Guardian). “Ian was the sweetest, kindest, loving husband I could ever have wished for and I take comfort that he is resting now up there in his very own piece of ‘Blue Blue Sky’. Although Ian has left us, his musical legacy stays with us and will continue to delight and brighten our lives, as it did his, forever.”
Her statement went on: “I would like to thank the doctors and nurses at Frimley Park hospital, the managers and carers at Lynwood care home and our families and close friends for...
“It is with deep sadness and regret that I let you know that my loving husband Ian Bairnson has passed away on Friday 7 April,” Bairnson’s wife Leila shared in a statement (via The Guardian). “Ian was the sweetest, kindest, loving husband I could ever have wished for and I take comfort that he is resting now up there in his very own piece of ‘Blue Blue Sky’. Although Ian has left us, his musical legacy stays with us and will continue to delight and brighten our lives, as it did his, forever.”
Her statement went on: “I would like to thank the doctors and nurses at Frimley Park hospital, the managers and carers at Lynwood care home and our families and close friends for...
- 4/10/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Ian Bairnson, longtime guitarist for the Alan Parsons Project who also featured on Kate Bush’s first two albums, has died at the age of 69.
The Scottish-born musician’s wife Leila Bairnson revealed on social media that her husband died following a “long battle with dementia.”
“It is with deep sadness and regret that I let you know that my loving husband Ian Bairnson has passed away on Friday 7 April,” Leila wrote (via The Guardian). “Ian was the sweetest, kindest, loving husband I could ever have wished for and I...
The Scottish-born musician’s wife Leila Bairnson revealed on social media that her husband died following a “long battle with dementia.”
“It is with deep sadness and regret that I let you know that my loving husband Ian Bairnson has passed away on Friday 7 April,” Leila wrote (via The Guardian). “Ian was the sweetest, kindest, loving husband I could ever have wished for and I...
- 4/9/2023
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Key festival programmers quit last month over the succession issue.
South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival (Jiff) organizing committee and its chairman Kim Seung-su have appointed producer Lee Joondong the new festival director today (December 11).
Lee’s appointment will last for three editions starting with next year’s event, which runs April 30-May 9.
The country’s film industry was shaken last month when executive programmer Kim Young-jin, who had previously been the successor apparent to former festival director Lee Choong-jik, walked out with his two other core programming colleagues Lee Sangyong and Jang Byungwon over the issue of who would take the director role.
South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival (Jiff) organizing committee and its chairman Kim Seung-su have appointed producer Lee Joondong the new festival director today (December 11).
Lee’s appointment will last for three editions starting with next year’s event, which runs April 30-May 9.
The country’s film industry was shaken last month when executive programmer Kim Young-jin, who had previously been the successor apparent to former festival director Lee Choong-jik, walked out with his two other core programming colleagues Lee Sangyong and Jang Byungwon over the issue of who would take the director role.
- 12/11/2019
- by 134¦Jean Noh¦516¦
- ScreenDaily
Nabbing Best Vr Story at Venice, Bloodless is veteran filmmaker Gina Kim’s (perhaps best known for 2007’s Vera Farmiga-starring Never Forever) 12-minute immersive stunner. The Us-South Korea coproduction was also selected as part of this year’s Idfa DocLab Digital Storytelling program, which is where I experienced it, having gone into the Vr Cinema without even bothering to read the synopsis. And because of my cluelessness, the story’s climax packed a punch I never saw coming — one that shook me to the core. This is another way of saying that if you plan on experiencing the project on a future […]...
- 12/22/2017
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Korea’s Cj Entertainment has announced a raft of deals on Final Recipe, starring Henry Lau from the Asian pop group Super Junior – M and Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon).
The film sold to Spain (Kiss), Italy (Officine), Middle East (Gulf Film), Switzerland (Praesens Film), German-speaking Europe excluding Switzerland (Viz Media), and ex-Yugo (Discovery).
Directed by Gina Kim (Never Forever), the family drama is a Korea-Singapore-Thailand co-production about a young man who gets into an international cooking competition.
The film made its world premiere in San Sebastian’s Culinary Zinema section and played in the Berlinale’s Kulinarisches Kino program.
Fortissimo handles European sales while Cj handles the rest of the world.
The film sold to Spain (Kiss), Italy (Officine), Middle East (Gulf Film), Switzerland (Praesens Film), German-speaking Europe excluding Switzerland (Viz Media), and ex-Yugo (Discovery).
Directed by Gina Kim (Never Forever), the family drama is a Korea-Singapore-Thailand co-production about a young man who gets into an international cooking competition.
The film made its world premiere in San Sebastian’s Culinary Zinema section and played in the Berlinale’s Kulinarisches Kino program.
Fortissimo handles European sales while Cj handles the rest of the world.
- 3/25/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
You see some odd things looking at web-stats for a site, but there's usually a reason if you dig in a little. The other day I was curious why one of John Bensalhia's excellent thrice-weekly Doctor Who reviews had a peculiar hit-spike. Looking into how it was listed at Google News provides the likeliest answer...
All I can say is that it ought to be true, at least at some or other 'geek' site. The eccentric singer-songwriter was a very public TV and movies geek decades before the term 'geek chic' was invented. A huge swathe of Kate Bush's work is either based directly on movies, TV or books, includes references to such things or actually has a strong cinematic ambition.
The 1978 No.1 'Wuthering Heights' was inspired by the last ten minutes of Robert Fuest's 1970 adaptation of the Emily Bronte classic; the 1979 single 'Hammer Horror' is...
All I can say is that it ought to be true, at least at some or other 'geek' site. The eccentric singer-songwriter was a very public TV and movies geek decades before the term 'geek chic' was invented. A huge swathe of Kate Bush's work is either based directly on movies, TV or books, includes references to such things or actually has a strong cinematic ambition.
The 1978 No.1 'Wuthering Heights' was inspired by the last ten minutes of Robert Fuest's 1970 adaptation of the Emily Bronte classic; the 1979 single 'Hammer Horror' is...
- 12/24/2010
- Shadowlocked
This week's new release "The Freebie" looks at a couple who try to spice up their marriage by allowing themselves one night to sleep with other people. Obviously, it doesn't work out as well as planned -- but really, they're lucky it didn't result in murder. Infidelity in movies tends to have notably dire consequences, acting as a gateway misdeed that leads to worse things, or resulting in stalking, or despair, or a disproportionate amount of death. This week on the IFC News podcast, we talk about films about cheating.
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- 9/13/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
It’s interesting to see Vera Farmiga’s career blossom in Hollywood. I first saw her on the crime TV show “Uc: Undercover” co-starring alongside Jon Seda, who has since gone to star in HBO’s “The Pacific”. She parlayed that into another fantastic TV crime show, the American remake of “Touching Evil” with current “Burn Notice” star Jeffrey Donovan. But like “Undercover”, the American public didn’t appreciate “Evil”, and it was canceled after only one year. Since then, Farmiga has carved out a fantastic career on the big screen in big-budget Hollywood actioners like “The Departed” and “Running Scared”, as well as low-budget indies you’ve never heard of like “Never Forever” and “Quid Pro Quo”. Her latest is the indie Western “A Thousand Guns”, where she’ll play the wife of a preacher who goes on a journey of revenge. The movie will be directed by Spaniard...
- 4/15/2010
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
I recently saw Up in the Air because everybody was saying how great of a movie it was. I’m more of horror fan but I still dug the movie, however, it wasn’t the brilliant acting, Clooney’s unending charisma or fabo-story that appealed to me.
It was Vera Farmiga.
In one scene in the film, Farmiga strolls across a hotel room wearing basically nothing while exposing a taut ass. Then I found out it was a butt double.
Dreams shattered.
From an interview with Moviefone:
You gave birth not too long before filming began, and there’s a scene where your character walks across the bedroom and you’re not exactly wearing any clothes — were you nervous about filming that?
In all honesty, we ended up using a butt double. It could have been the breast milk running down my thighs [laughs]. From ‘Running Scared’ to ‘Never Forever’ to ‘Departed,...
It was Vera Farmiga.
In one scene in the film, Farmiga strolls across a hotel room wearing basically nothing while exposing a taut ass. Then I found out it was a butt double.
Dreams shattered.
From an interview with Moviefone:
You gave birth not too long before filming began, and there’s a scene where your character walks across the bedroom and you’re not exactly wearing any clothes — were you nervous about filming that?
In all honesty, we ended up using a butt double. It could have been the breast milk running down my thighs [laughs]. From ‘Running Scared’ to ‘Never Forever’ to ‘Departed,...
- 2/15/2010
- by Diego Mondesi
- ReelLoop.com
You won't find many remakes on this 100 list, but take an original idea and re-configure the role assignments and you've got my approval. I've sort of lost track of the South Korean helmer since his most hyped film, 2005's The President's Last Bang, who stylistically speaking doesn't shy away from getting his actors to take up the whole frame. Jeon will absolutely shine in this role. - #61. The Housemaid Director: Im Sang-sooWriter(s): Gina Kim (Never Forever)Producers: Not AvailableDistributor: Rights Available. The Gist: This is a remake of Kim Ki-young's 1960 film about a maid who ruins a family. Cast: Do-yeon Jeon and Seo Woo (awaiting male lead). Why is it on the list?: You won't find many remakes on this 100 list, but take an original idea and re-configure the role assignments and you've got my approval. I've sort of lost track of the South...
- 1/14/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
(Vera Farmiga, right, and George Clooney in Up In The Air.)
by Terry Keefe
(Currently appearing in this month's Venice Magazine.)
The first time we interviewed actress Vera Farmiga was in early 2001, at Swingers Diner on Beverly, over French fries. It was around 8 in the evening, as she had to spend the day auditioning for a network pilot. She was promoting a supporting role in a relatively forgettable Robert De Niro-Ed Burns cop thriller called Fifteen Minutes, where she played a Eastern European hairdresser who witnesses a murder. Parking was scarce in the neighborhood, to the point that we first met that night while angling for the same spot. Today, things have changed somewhat. We’re meeting at a ridiculously large and posh board room at the Beverly Hilton, which reminds of the one in Network where uber-exec Ned Beatty chews out Peter Finch’s Howard Beale. Valets take care of the cars.
by Terry Keefe
(Currently appearing in this month's Venice Magazine.)
The first time we interviewed actress Vera Farmiga was in early 2001, at Swingers Diner on Beverly, over French fries. It was around 8 in the evening, as she had to spend the day auditioning for a network pilot. She was promoting a supporting role in a relatively forgettable Robert De Niro-Ed Burns cop thriller called Fifteen Minutes, where she played a Eastern European hairdresser who witnesses a murder. Parking was scarce in the neighborhood, to the point that we first met that night while angling for the same spot. Today, things have changed somewhat. We’re meeting at a ridiculously large and posh board room at the Beverly Hilton, which reminds of the one in Network where uber-exec Ned Beatty chews out Peter Finch’s Howard Beale. Valets take care of the cars.
- 12/21/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Seoul -- South Korean production company Mirovision is teaming up with Production M writer-director Lee Myung-se's company, to bring his samurai action movie "Youth Is Reckless" to the big screen.
Jason Chae, president of Mirovision, made the announcement Wednesday at the American Film Market in Santa Monica, where he is looking for financial partners for what he hopes will be the company's first high-profile international co-production.
Billed as equal parts "Easy Rider" and "Seven Samurai," "Youth" is set to be finished in late 2009. The screenplay is inspired by "A Book of Five Rings," the 17th century swordfighting manual by Miyamoto Musashi.
Lee was given the book 20 years ago by a Korean member of one of Japan's yakuza crime families and knew he would someday make a film about the author, Mirovision said in a statement.
Lee's atmospheric thrillers include "M" (2007), "Nowhere to Hide" (1999) and "Duelist" (2005), his first foray into the swordplay genre,...
Jason Chae, president of Mirovision, made the announcement Wednesday at the American Film Market in Santa Monica, where he is looking for financial partners for what he hopes will be the company's first high-profile international co-production.
Billed as equal parts "Easy Rider" and "Seven Samurai," "Youth" is set to be finished in late 2009. The screenplay is inspired by "A Book of Five Rings," the 17th century swordfighting manual by Miyamoto Musashi.
Lee was given the book 20 years ago by a Korean member of one of Japan's yakuza crime families and knew he would someday make a film about the author, Mirovision said in a statement.
Lee's atmospheric thrillers include "M" (2007), "Nowhere to Hide" (1999) and "Duelist" (2005), his first foray into the swordplay genre,...
- 11/5/2008
- by By Nigel D'Sa
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Film download site Jaman.com has signed a deal with Arts Alliance America to bring Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me, among other films, to the platform.
In addition to Super Size Me, the partnership will bring films from the Arts Alliance's Morgan Spurlock Presents ... line of programming to Jaman. These are films with a socially conscious bent picked by the documentarian and Arts Alliance America president Joe Amodei and include Class Act, Future of Food and Confessions of a Superhero.
Other films included in the deal are Conversations With Other Women, starring Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter, Never Forever, starring Vera Farmiga, and Tully.
Jaman, based in San Mateo, Calif., focuses on the digital distribution of independent and foreign films. In January, it announced a deal with TiVo that will bring its library to DVRs.
Jaman also has signed distribution deals with Fortissimo Films, Trust Film, Fortune Star and Dreamachine. Earlier this month, it acquired several titles from BBC Worldwide America.
In addition to Super Size Me, the partnership will bring films from the Arts Alliance's Morgan Spurlock Presents ... line of programming to Jaman. These are films with a socially conscious bent picked by the documentarian and Arts Alliance America president Joe Amodei and include Class Act, Future of Food and Confessions of a Superhero.
Other films included in the deal are Conversations With Other Women, starring Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter, Never Forever, starring Vera Farmiga, and Tully.
Jaman, based in San Mateo, Calif., focuses on the digital distribution of independent and foreign films. In January, it announced a deal with TiVo that will bring its library to DVRs.
Jaman also has signed distribution deals with Fortissimo Films, Trust Film, Fortune Star and Dreamachine. Earlier this month, it acquired several titles from BBC Worldwide America.
- 4/24/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Toronto fest reviews
TORONTO -- Festivalgoers awoke Sunday to a cold and rainy Toronto, which seemed to mirror the initial mood of buyers looking for available film titles.
In a festival typically front-loaded with acquirable goods, there was no buying frenzy on the order of this year's Sundance fest or Festival de Cannes.
The biggest sale was Helen Hunt's directorial debut, "Then She Found Me". The romantic comedy/drama about a besieged woman whose adoptive mother finds her sported an all-star cast that helped it earn under $2 million from ThinkFilm for U.S. rights and under $1 million from TVA Films for Canadian rights. Negotiations stretched into early Saturday as competition from the Weinstein Co. and Roadside Attractions late Friday morphed into the Canadian co-deal.
In two smaller overseas sales, the Weinstein Co. picked up virtually all worldwide rights to the British child murderer drama "Boy A", and IFC Entertainment purchased North American rights to the Icelandic thriller "Jar City". Myriad Pictures picked up international sales rights to the ex-con tale "All Hat", premiering Tuesday at the festival and set for Canadian distribution by Alliance Films early next year.
Outside the fest but during the thick of it, Miramax plunked down just less than $5 million for U.S. rights to Fernando Meirelles' dramatic plague thriller "Blindness", starring Mark Ruffalo and Julianne Moore, which is now shooting in Toronto. Another out-of-fest buy was the cross-cultural relationship drama "Never Forever", starring Vera Farmiga. Arts Alliance America (formerly Hart Sharp Video) and Prime Entertainment picked up North American rights and is planning an early 2008 theatrical release.
Buyers fled the school shooting drama "In Bloom" before the end, but it wasn't necessarily a reflection on the film: They were running off to catch the other big title of the night and one of the most anticipated of the fest, Alan Ball's "Nothing Is Private". The shocking drama about a 13-year-old sexually abused Arab-American girl, starring Aaron Eckhart and Toni Collette, provoked wildly mixed, passionate and hesitant reactions along with talk that some scenes could garner it an NC-17 rating.
Toronto fest reviews
TORONTO -- Festivalgoers awoke Sunday to a cold and rainy Toronto, which seemed to mirror the initial mood of buyers looking for available film titles.
In a festival typically front-loaded with acquirable goods, there was no buying frenzy on the order of this year's Sundance fest or Festival de Cannes.
The biggest sale was Helen Hunt's directorial debut, "Then She Found Me". The romantic comedy/drama about a besieged woman whose adoptive mother finds her sported an all-star cast that helped it earn under $2 million from ThinkFilm for U.S. rights and under $1 million from TVA Films for Canadian rights. Negotiations stretched into early Saturday as competition from the Weinstein Co. and Roadside Attractions late Friday morphed into the Canadian co-deal.
In two smaller overseas sales, the Weinstein Co. picked up virtually all worldwide rights to the British child murderer drama "Boy A", and IFC Entertainment purchased North American rights to the Icelandic thriller "Jar City". Myriad Pictures picked up international sales rights to the ex-con tale "All Hat", premiering Tuesday at the festival and set for Canadian distribution by Alliance Films early next year.
Outside the fest but during the thick of it, Miramax plunked down just less than $5 million for U.S. rights to Fernando Meirelles' dramatic plague thriller "Blindness", starring Mark Ruffalo and Julianne Moore, which is now shooting in Toronto. Another out-of-fest buy was the cross-cultural relationship drama "Never Forever", starring Vera Farmiga. Arts Alliance America (formerly Hart Sharp Video) and Prime Entertainment picked up North American rights and is planning an early 2008 theatrical release.
Buyers fled the school shooting drama "In Bloom" before the end, but it wasn't necessarily a reflection on the film: They were running off to catch the other big title of the night and one of the most anticipated of the fest, Alan Ball's "Nothing Is Private". The shocking drama about a 13-year-old sexually abused Arab-American girl, starring Aaron Eckhart and Toni Collette, provoked wildly mixed, passionate and hesitant reactions along with talk that some scenes could garner it an NC-17 rating.
- 9/10/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
DEAUVILLE, France -- Andre Techine and his jury breathed life into Karen Moncrieff's "The Dead Girl", awarding it the 33rd Deauville American Film Festival's grand prize as the 10-day celebration of trans-Atlantic cinema wrapped Sunday night.
The discovery of the mysterious dead girl shatters the lives of complete strangers tied together by her brutal murder in this picture. The film was written and directed by Moncrieff and produced by First Look Studios and Lakeshore Entertainment. It features Toni Collette, Rose Byrne, Brittany Murphy, Mary Beth Hurt, Nick Searcy, Marcia Gay Harden, Kerry Washington, Giovanni Ribisi, James Franco, Josh Brolin, Piper Laurie and Mary Steenburgen.
The movie has yet to set a release date in France, but will be distributed in the territory by Sonatine Films.
"The fact that you, with your culture and your film culture, are here honoring American movies is really astounding to me," Moncrieff said in her acceptance of the honor. Techine's jury awarded the runner-up Jury Prize to "Never Forever", Gina Kim's moving portrait of a woman who embarks on a series of sexual encounters with a Korean immigrant worker as she struggles to save her marriage.
The discovery of the mysterious dead girl shatters the lives of complete strangers tied together by her brutal murder in this picture. The film was written and directed by Moncrieff and produced by First Look Studios and Lakeshore Entertainment. It features Toni Collette, Rose Byrne, Brittany Murphy, Mary Beth Hurt, Nick Searcy, Marcia Gay Harden, Kerry Washington, Giovanni Ribisi, James Franco, Josh Brolin, Piper Laurie and Mary Steenburgen.
The movie has yet to set a release date in France, but will be distributed in the territory by Sonatine Films.
"The fact that you, with your culture and your film culture, are here honoring American movies is really astounding to me," Moncrieff said in her acceptance of the honor. Techine's jury awarded the runner-up Jury Prize to "Never Forever", Gina Kim's moving portrait of a woman who embarks on a series of sexual encounters with a Korean immigrant worker as she struggles to save her marriage.
- 9/10/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- For the most part, many of the films I caught at this year's Sundance film fest will find their way at your local art house theatre. Here is the complete sampling of how I spent my time in Park City.Top 5:Son of Rambow was Park City’s biggest buy and if marketed well enough - this could delight the mass audiences thanks to its generous dose of good natured humor and its sincere Pov of what it is to be a boy! Garth Jennings beautifully displays the imaginative world of youth, the meaningful attributes of a true friendship with a template that brings viewers back to the decade of the VHS tape and camcorder. In the vein of Danny Boyle’s Millions, I hope that us older kids give it the chance that it deserves. Despite this being his most accessible work, as I write this entry, I
- 1/31/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
- Quick Links Complete Film Listing: Premiere's section lineup: Dramatic Competition: Documentary Competition: World Dramatic Competition: World Documentary Competition: Spectrum: Park City at Midnight: Frontier (New Directions in Filmmaking): Short Film Programs January 18 to 28, 2007 Counting Down: updateCountdownClock('January 18, 2007'); At least a good half of the films represented in the U.S Dramatic comp this year are by first time filmmakers. Headed by veteran filmmaker (and yet relatively new) David Gordon Green and his Stewart O'Nan novel adaptation of Snow Angels but perhaps the most loudest (in term of controversy and spotlight shall go to) the rough Deborah Kampmeier portrait Hounddog - starring a Dakota Fanning in what shall become a transition role for her from Hollywood to Indie, but from child actor to adult-material. And an indie festival wouldnâ.t be a festival without the presence of the Posey name. Zoe Cassavetes will introduce our friend Parker in
- 1/18/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
- Here is the complete listing for this year's Sundance film festival which kicks off tomorrow!January 18 to 28, 2007 Counting Down: updateCountdownClock('January 18, 2007'); Premiere's section lineup:An American Crime - Tommy O'Haver Away From Her - Sarah Polley Black Snake Moan - Craig BrewerChapter 27 - Jarrett Schaefer Chicago 10 - Brett Morgen Clubland - Cherie Nowlan The Good Night - Jake Paltrow King of California - Mike Cahill Life Support - Nelson George Longford - Tom Hooper The Nines - John August Resurrecting the Champ - Rod Lurie The Savages - Tamara Jenkins Son of Rambow - Garth Jennings Summer Rain - Antonio Banderas Trade - Marco Kreuzpaintner Year of the Dog - Mike White Dramatic Competition:Adrift in Manhattan - Alfredo de Villa Broken English - Zoe CassavetesFour Sheets to the Wind - Sterlin HarjoThe Good Life - Steve BerraGrace Is Gone - James C. StrouseHounddog - Deborah Kampmeier Joshua
- 1/17/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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