Cannes claim will screen in Toronto on Friday
NEW YORK -- Regent Releasing has nabbed North American rights to Brillante Mendoza's Toronto fest entry "Serbis."
The 2008 Festival de Cannes official choice centers on a Filipino family forced to turn their tumble-down movie house into a hustler-filled smut venue. They grapple with bigamy, unwanted pregnancy, incest and early issues against a harsh landscape.
The Philippine/French production has its North American premiere in Toronto on Friday, followed by a U.S. premiere Oct. 12 at the New York Film Festival. Regent plans a theatrical rollout for the foreign-language film in select U.S. cities in the winter.
Regent's Mark Reinhart negotiated the deal with Fortissimo Films' Michael J. Werner.
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Saturday 6 September 2008
Sunday 17 August 2008
Nico Muhly looks for that radical sound
THE FIRST vocal lines of brigham Young composer Nico Muhly�s fresh album, "Mothertongue," consist of a apparently arbitrary list of book of Numbers and addresses. Sung by mezzo-soprano Abigail Fischer over aching strings and a distorted sub-bass synthesizer, the arrangement feels like a Stockhausen choke; a misdirection that subverts your expectations about how the work might move you. For Muhly, however, there's poetry in all that data.
"If you ask someone to name all the headphone numbers you can off the top of your head, it's going to be pretty interesting," the Manhattanite said. "When I asked the singer to name all of the phone numbers racket she knew, it was fascinating; it was her dad's office staff from 20 years ago, or a friend's number in Florence. You can tease tale out of anything. . . . On Wikipedia there are these lists of things like 'list of horrible ethnical slurs' or 'list of famous Canadian homosexuals'. That's such a poignant manner to direct the world."
Muhly is something of an aesthetic and emotional magpie. His consistency of work in his mid-20s -- a least sandpiper as Philip Glass' apprentice, composing debuts at Carnegie Hall and the Royal Academy of Music in London and collaborations with avant-garde pop singers Bj�rk and Antony Hegarty -- resists classification even according to postmodern ideas close to popular or classical music.
Tipped as i of the most relevant and promising new composers in formal classical circles, Muhly has assembled a tour for "Mothertongue," which stops at Hotel Caf� on Tuesday, that's a different brute entirely. The lineup, which includes members of experimental outfits Doveman and Stars Like Fleas, is essentially a genuinely imaginative john Rock band.
"We've got sampling keyboards and a lot of screaming. I'll be brush my friend's hair onstage -- it all plant out," Muhly said. "We've all known each other since the dawn of time, and we all have a very conciliatory musical intelligence service. It's like cooking at your mom's house, you know where everything is."
The advent of minimalism and the New York business district composing scene around artists such as Arthur Russell and Steve Reich long ago exploded established ideas about what music bathroom be. Muhly's career has been a pursuit to figure out what comes after every rule has already been broken.
The latter movements of "Mothertongue," a collaboration with folk singer Sam Amidon, pair Sigur R�s soundscapes and ambient noise with pastoral banjo plucking and cut-and-paste outspoken edits of lyrics from a traditional English murder ballad.
It's a fitting example of today's free-associative attitudes toward gustatory modality and influence. But even Muhly admits some anxiety about what's left to say musically and if it tin can do any real good in the world.
"I think the do of choosing to write music now is a political statement. The idea of doing it is so chemical group and risky," Muhly said. "You take the newspaper and think that 'What I actually should be doing, instead of piece of writing this laughable piece for a viola, is join the
"If you ask someone to name all the headphone numbers you can off the top of your head, it's going to be pretty interesting," the Manhattanite said. "When I asked the singer to name all of the phone numbers racket she knew, it was fascinating; it was her dad's office staff from 20 years ago, or a friend's number in Florence. You can tease tale out of anything. . . . On Wikipedia there are these lists of things like 'list of horrible ethnical slurs' or 'list of famous Canadian homosexuals'. That's such a poignant manner to direct the world."
Muhly is something of an aesthetic and emotional magpie. His consistency of work in his mid-20s -- a least sandpiper as Philip Glass' apprentice, composing debuts at Carnegie Hall and the Royal Academy of Music in London and collaborations with avant-garde pop singers Bj�rk and Antony Hegarty -- resists classification even according to postmodern ideas close to popular or classical music.
Tipped as i of the most relevant and promising new composers in formal classical circles, Muhly has assembled a tour for "Mothertongue," which stops at Hotel Caf� on Tuesday, that's a different brute entirely. The lineup, which includes members of experimental outfits Doveman and Stars Like Fleas, is essentially a genuinely imaginative john Rock band.
"We've got sampling keyboards and a lot of screaming. I'll be brush my friend's hair onstage -- it all plant out," Muhly said. "We've all known each other since the dawn of time, and we all have a very conciliatory musical intelligence service. It's like cooking at your mom's house, you know where everything is."
The advent of minimalism and the New York business district composing scene around artists such as Arthur Russell and Steve Reich long ago exploded established ideas about what music bathroom be. Muhly's career has been a pursuit to figure out what comes after every rule has already been broken.
The latter movements of "Mothertongue," a collaboration with folk singer Sam Amidon, pair Sigur R�s soundscapes and ambient noise with pastoral banjo plucking and cut-and-paste outspoken edits of lyrics from a traditional English murder ballad.
It's a fitting example of today's free-associative attitudes toward gustatory modality and influence. But even Muhly admits some anxiety about what's left to say musically and if it tin can do any real good in the world.
"I think the do of choosing to write music now is a political statement. The idea of doing it is so chemical group and risky," Muhly said. "You take the newspaper and think that 'What I actually should be doing, instead of piece of writing this laughable piece for a viola, is join the
Thursday 7 August 2008
On Thorns I Lay
Artist: On Thorns I Lay
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Metal: Gothic
Metal: Doom
Discography:
Egocentric
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
Angeldust
Year: 2001
Tracks: 8
Future Narcotic
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Crystal Tears
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Orama
Year: 1997
Tracks: 10
Sounds Of Beautiful Experience
Year: 1995
Tracks: 9
Originally named Phlebotomy, Greece's On Thorns I Lay started out in 1992, recording a demonstration and a 7" EP under that identify ahead
Bonecrusher vs Sizzla
Tuesday 1 July 2008
Bjork drums for Sigur Ros at Icelandic homecoming
Bjork and Sigur Ros thrilled a woolly jumper-clad crowd in Reykjavik on Saturday night (June 28) in a free concert to celebrate nature.
The open-air Nattira festival was stage to raise awareness about the impact of Aluminium smelting activity on Iceland's landscape.
The increasingly chilly temperatures did not dampen the spirits of the good-natured crowd, who basked in the super-bright nocturnal sunlight as Radium � a soundscape project featuring members of Ghostigital and Bjork's ex-Sugarcubes bandmate Einar Orn - and folk warbler Olof Arnalds warmed up the audience.
Sigur Ros, sporting elaborate headgear, the played a set largely drawn from their new album 'Me� Su� � Eyrum Vi� Spilum Endalaust'.
They were joined by Bjork, who drummed on the band's track 'Gobbledigook'.
The singer then took to the stage for her own spell-binding set, despite suffering from a bad cold, which featured Eiar Orn on trumpet for 'I Miss You'.
Bjork played:
'Brenni� �i� vitar'
'Earth Intruders'
'Hunter'
'Unravel'
'Pagan Poetry'
'The Pleasure Is All Mine'
'Joga'
'Army Of Me'
'Triumph Of The Heart'
'I Miss You'
'Bachelorette'
'Wanderlust'
'Hyperballad'
'Triumph of the Heart'
'Declare Independence'
The open-air Nattira festival was stage to raise awareness about the impact of Aluminium smelting activity on Iceland's landscape.
The increasingly chilly temperatures did not dampen the spirits of the good-natured crowd, who basked in the super-bright nocturnal sunlight as Radium � a soundscape project featuring members of Ghostigital and Bjork's ex-Sugarcubes bandmate Einar Orn - and folk warbler Olof Arnalds warmed up the audience.
Sigur Ros, sporting elaborate headgear, the played a set largely drawn from their new album 'Me� Su� � Eyrum Vi� Spilum Endalaust'.
They were joined by Bjork, who drummed on the band's track 'Gobbledigook'.
The singer then took to the stage for her own spell-binding set, despite suffering from a bad cold, which featured Eiar Orn on trumpet for 'I Miss You'.
Bjork played:
'Brenni� �i� vitar'
'Earth Intruders'
'Hunter'
'Unravel'
'Pagan Poetry'
'The Pleasure Is All Mine'
'Joga'
'Army Of Me'
'Triumph Of The Heart'
'I Miss You'
'Bachelorette'
'Wanderlust'
'Hyperballad'
'Triumph of the Heart'
'Declare Independence'
Wednesday 25 June 2008
Britney and Maloof in Cahoots for New Album!
TMZ has learned that Britney Spears is working on a new album -- and Vegas kingpin George Maloof is behind it!Our sources say the album is being recorded at Maloof's Palms Casino in Las Vegas.
We hear former manager Larry Rudolph is back in the picture -- and producing the album.
Maloof is trying to extend his long arm into the music biz -- and is also behind Ali Lohan's upcoming album.
A call to Maloof was not immediately returned.
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Saturday 21 June 2008
Hong Kong Syndicate
Artist: Hong Kong Syndicate
Genre(s):
Pop
Discography:
No More Sorry
Year: 1992
Tracks: 9
Never Too Much
Year: 1985
Tracks: 8
Denise Richards Up For New Reality TV Season
Fiorello and Baldini
Artist: Fiorello and Baldini
Genre(s):
Other
Pop
Discography:
Chi Siamo Noi CD2
Year: 2007
Tracks: 33
Chi Siamo Noi CD1
Year: 2007
Tracks: 34
Chi Siamo Noi
Year: 2007
Tracks: 67
Viva Radio 2 2005
Year: 2005
Tracks: 24
Viva Radio 2 2004
Year: 2003
Tracks: 1
Viva Radio 2 2003
Year: 2003
Tracks: 37
Viva Radio Dee Jay '92
Year: 1992
Tracks: 29
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