Saturday, June 1, 2013
Comment on First Wave of ‘Teen Choice 2013 Awards’ Nominees by nomnomnom_rob
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart split!
Source: http://mrpattinson.com/2013/05/19/robert-pattinson-and-kristen-stewart-split.html
This week's new film events
The Fog | Seasons In The Sun: The Heyday Of Nikkatsu Studios | UK green film festival | Terracotta Far East Film festival
The Fog, London
As if a screening of a seminal horror movie in a spooky location wasn't enough, this event is also a format-junkie's wet-dream. Cigarette Burns presents a rare chance to watch a 16mm full-Cinemascope print, with mood-enhancing music from "KAB Radio" (it makes sense if you've seen the movie). What's more, punters will be first in line to buy Death Waltz records' new super collectable reissue of Carpenter's own splendidly doomful synth soundtrack, with original cover artwork by Dinos Chapman.
The Nave, N1, Fri
Seasons In The Sun: The Heyday Of Nikkatsu Studios, London
Think of postwar Japanese cinema and you think of Kurosawa, Ozu, and other greats. What you don't think of is girl gangs, go-go dancers and fetishistic hitmen. The west got the arthouse movies, but in the 50s and 60s Japanese audiences were getting their own brand of popular cinema, influenced by American youth movies, gangster flicks, the French New Wave, you name it. Spearheaded by the Nikkatsu studio, it was a time of unbridled experimentation, and this is just about your first chance to see it. Seijun Suzuki's surreal gangster thriller Branded To Kill is probably the best known film here, but there's the girl-gang flick Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter, Godardian call-girl drama Monday Girl (pictured); and Pigs And Battleships, Shohei Imamura's drama set on a US naval base.
BFI Southbank, SE1, Sat to 30 Jun
UK Green film festival, Nationwide
Sponsored by Friends Of The Earth, and taking place in 17 venues around the UK, this festival brings a clutch of environmentally themed documentaries to public attention, split between problems and solutions. On the problem side, Swiss director Markus Imhoof accompanies his authoritative, up-close documentary More Than Honey, on the dwindling global bee population, Jeremy Irons wages war on waste in Trashed, and there's free speech vs corporate might in Big Boys Gone Bananas. More heartening are Valley Of Saints (pictured), a docudrama highlighting the natural beauty and political volatility of Kashmir, eco-road trip Solar Taxi and lyrical futurology doc Future My Love. Each feature is preceded by a short.
Various venues, Sat to 8 Jun
Terracotta Far East Film festival, London
As a sampler for current trends in east Asian cinema, this festival is almost spoilt for choice; hence the 13 UK premieres from Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, China and South Korea. Indonesia comes under special focus in the second half of this festival, led by top director Garin Nugroho presenting his latest, The Blindfold (pictured), a study of radical Islam. Elsewhere, there's a horror all-nighter, Cold War is a Hong Kong crime thriller in an Infernal Affairs vein, from Korea come domestic teen smashes A Werewolf Boy and Young Gun In The Time, and Japan's Sion Sono brings Fukushima-influenced nuclear drama The Land Of Hope.
Prince Charles Cinema, WC2 & ICA, SW1, Thu to 15 Jun
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jun/01/this-weeks-new-film-events
Watch Macklemore Send A Heartfelt Message To Ellen DeGeneres HERE!
Ch-ch-check out the video (above) to see the duo thank Ellen DeGeneres for letting them perform on her show so early! And often!
Isn't it great to see a rising star grounded enough [...]
Source: http://perezhilton.com/2013-06-01-macklemore-ellen-degeneres-thank-you-message
Red Hot Chili Peppers To Make NEW Music Real Soon! Back To The Studio This Fall!
We think it’s time they head back to the studio. Lucky for us, so do they!!
Drummer Chad Smith revealed that plans of starting on some new choons are in the works:
“We’re probably looking at getting together in September and [...]
Source: http://perezhilton.com/2013-05-31-red-hot-chili-peppers-recording-new-album-this-fall