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SXSW 2022 is underway, and with dozens of features, shorts, and episodic programs heading to Austin from March 11-20, we're bringing you three dispatches highlighting some of the festival's best work. 5. Very good…

The John Giorno Foundation is pleased to announce its inaugural season of programming at The Bunker located at 222 Bowery. The Bunker's program continues the John Giorno Foundation's mission to support living artists and the history…

The Watsonville Film Festival (WFF) will come full circle as it celebrates its 10th anniversary with a special in-person event at the Mello Center for the Performing Arts, where it all began in 2012. The Festival will also feature a program…

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The story of one of the greatest debuts in pop music history gets the concert-documentary film treatment as Disney+ plans to exclusively feature Olivia Rodrigo Drive home 2 U. The film, which will chronicle the creation of…

Believe Media, led by CEO and Executive Producer Liz Silver, announces festival premieres for the documentary short, above the boy. The film follows the Chipps family, members of the Oglala Lakota Nation on the Pine Ridge Indian…

If you had to choose one song as proof of the superiority of the late Lee "Scratch" Perry, the antiquated but futuristic 1976 production beast called "Disco Devil" immediately comes to mind. With sounds of an airy bang, treble and bass…

By Mark Gray 5:23 a.m. PST, February 9, 2022 _ On February 13, 2022, Super Bowl LVI will kick off at SoFi Stadium in…

When one of the most anticipated Super Bowl halftime shows kicks off on Feb. 13, there won't be the only piece of Detroit hitting the stage. Detroit Rapper Sean Forbes will be up there alongside Eminem with Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick…

Victoria Campbell has always been a storyteller, and The Vineyard provided some of her early inspirations. "It was a great place to fire up the imagination," the actress-turned-filmmaker said last week over the phone from her parents' home…

Last August, the Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat managed to escape from Kabul with part of his family as Taliban fighters took control of the city as American forces retreated. Now his “Weekend with…Shahrbanoo Sadat event” at…

On January 25, 1992, the Sundance Film Festival convened a panel on contemporary gay and lesbian cinema and "the importance of this movement", according to the program. It was a bold statement that drew nine speakers to a podium at noon,…

In 1966, Meat Loaf traveled to Los Angeles, where he established a reputation as a singer with the psychedelic rock band Popcorn Blizzard. Although they never recorded an album, the group supported many top bands, including The Who and…

A recent episode of “And Just Like That…” presented an instantly familiar tableau to “Sex and the City” fans: Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte seated around a coffee table exchanging pithy phrases about their personal lives during a a…

Principal photography is underway on Argentinian Sebastian Schindel's romcom-spy adventure hybrid "Mienteme" ("Lie to Me"). Slightly delayed by the pandemic, filming for the Chilean-Argentine co-production took place in and out of…

IVOX MEDIA today launched its new streaming service, IVOX+. The new destination for independent content, thousands of classic films, documentaries, shorts, music and original series, offers filmmakers a direct line to acquisition and…

Even if The Mitchells vs. the Machines isn't literally "the greatest animated movie of all time," writer-director Mike Rianda's feature debut has absolutely earned its place among the medium's top films since its release last spring. And…

"People are coming back to the theater," says Mary Jo Ziesel, executive director of the Jacob Burns Film Center (right), seen here during a screening (and Q&A) of Spencer, on Princess Diana, with the director from the film Pablo…

Singer and songwriter Billie Eilish arrives at the Variety 2021 Music Hitmakers Brunch presented by Peacock / Girls5Eva at City Market Social in Los Angeles, California on December 4. AFP The Grammy Music Awards and famed Sundance Film…

Accounts of his political transformation often place particular emphasis on “Where I Come From,” his 2003 revisionist meditation on his birthplace and family myths. Writing in The New Republic after his death, Jacob Bacharach described it…

GM continued to trudge ahead with the project using many of the lessons learned from the Impact and in 1996 produced the EV1, a brilliant but still dividing car today. The EV1 had a Delphi lead-fired transmission similar to that of the…

Orpheus Awards welcomes Christos Vasilopoulos and Chryssa Loucas to LAGFF. Credit: LAGFF The 2022 LA Greek Film Festival is officially accepting applications for 2022. LAGFF announced on Tuesday that the next festival will be held May…

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF), presented annually by Visual Communications (VC), announced this week as the first series of films to be screened as part of the 37th annual Festival, which will be a…

Author Joan Didion sits in front of a photo of herself holding her daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne, and another photo from her daughter's wedding. Didion wrote about her daughter's death at 39 in Blue Nights.Kathy Willens/APAmerican novelist,…

It takes guts to push the boundaries of reggaeton, a street sound a little over three decades old powered by its signature dembow beat, a two bar loop from Jamaican dancehall. Maybe a dizzying breakbeat is coming from the drums and bass,…

Earlier in October, a 15-member jury led by filmmaker Shaji N Karun reviewed a few Indian films before limiting themselves to the Tamil film Koozhangal (Pebbles) as India's official entry to the 94th Academy Awards. While PS…

Lightyear Entertainment CEO Arnie Holland has announced the acquisition of A-ha: The Movie and We Were Once Kids, two films that debuted with great success earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival.Both films are about established…

Javier Velez, professionally known as Versal, is releasing an orchestral-influenced multi-genre album, "Versal Volume 2". LOS…

HamletHub is proud to partner with the Fairfield County Cultural Alliance and FCBuzz to elevate the arts and culture in Fairfield County! Each week, find a list of weekend events and activities! The Fairfield County Cultural Alliance…

ASO has called 2022 a "season of perpetual emotion", with general manager Vincent Ciccarello promising a diverse program that "will excite, delight and excite, but also give pause to reflect, meditate and pass out." “We…

Monkees star Michael Nesmith died of heart failure at his home in Carmel Valley, Calif. He was 78 years old. "With infinite love, we announce that Michael Nesmith passed away this morning in his home surrounded by family, peacefully and…

AUSTIN, Texas, December 8, 2021 / PRNewswire-PRWeb / - "There are directors and then there are moment…

Filmocracy festival logo “We hope that our passion for making impact films will show up in our programming,” said co-founder Paul Jun, who developed Filmocracy…

“Enchanted” was a critical and financial success for Disney, as he poked fun at the studio's outdated princess animated fairytale flick while still making a bottom line and ushering in a new era of Disney movies. In the mid-2000s, things…

by netflix The mountaineer follows mountaineer Marc-André Leclerc as he tries to climb a mountain on his own. Without a crew and without a means of support, the climber documents himself as he climbs to dizzying heights with no one to…

Amin Nawabi sits in front of the camera and closes his eyes in Danish hybrid documentary 'Flee' - an intimate portrayal of the enduring traumas of displacement and one of the most human films of the year. He takes a deep breath and distant…

The proliferation of documentaries on streaming services makes it difficult to choose what to watch. Each month, we'll pick three non-fiction movies - classics, overlooked recent documentaries, and more - that will reward your…

Thursday November 11 Courtesy Foo fighters ARTS: THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS: THE THIRTIES As the rest of the country mired in the Great Depression, Las Vegas was making its way. A documentary funded by the Las Vegas Centennial Commission…

The Whistler Film Festival is back with a hybrid offering that includes online and indoor screenings, as well as various talent programs, masterclasses, workshops and its Content Summit. The festival kicks off opening night with the…

SHOWTIME (R) WILL HAVE TO SUPER PUMPED: THE BATTLE FOR UBER ON SUNDAY FEBRUARY 27 The stars of the anthology series Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kyle Chandler and Uma Thurman BILLIONS (R) Showrunners Brian Koppelman and David Levien executive!-- Tue>…

You could say that the ska music scene in Southern California was born in part because the long-haired dude behind the soundboard at Whiskey a Go Go on the Sunset Strip was playing too much classic rock. “It was a great club, don't get me…

The Australian International Documentary Conference will once again welcome in-person participation while keeping materials online for next year's event, which will focus on the theme of Testimony. Details of the hybrid program were…

American Horror Story loves using urban legends. Its latest is a long-standing myth about Stanley Kubrick and the lunar landing in Double Feature.…

Some of the reproduced images that you will find in the book "ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Line" are out of focus and low resolution, and that is by design. “When you are dealing with historical…

TO HIDE announced on February 21 that it will begin broadcasting the Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn and Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight animated films Friday, February 28 at 1 p.m. EST. The service will broadcast the films in the United…