TV / Film News

Secrecy Cloaked 'Dark Knight'

Source: Michael Ricci
July 28, 2008

Warner Bros. took painstaking care to thwart pirates ahead of the film's premier, and the effort paid off. The mission was to keep The Dark Knight from seeing the light of day.

In an era of instantaneous digital copying and widely available high-speed Internet access, the premature and unauthorized release of a movie to the public -- especially a coveted summer blockbuster -- can spell disaster. If the movie's a stinker, the word will travel at the speed of a ...

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India's New Partnership: Bollywood and Hip-Hop

Source: Michael Ricci
July 28, 2008

NEW DELHI -- Is Bollywood ready for Snoop Dogg?

The rapper once dubbed “America's Most Loveable Pimp" by Rolling Stone makes his debut in India this summer, with a guest appearance on the title track of a highly anticipated Bollywood movie, Singh Is Kinng. The movie is set to open in August, but the title song is already in heavy rotation on some radio stations in India. A fusion of hip-hop and bhangra with a simple chorus ("Singh is Kinng, ...

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Happy Birthday Stanley Kubrick

Source: All About Jazz
July 28, 2008

Stanley Kubrick Transformed Music in Pictures

Yes, he is a shining light of cinema, but he fits Listening Post like a virtual glove. He would have celebrated his 80th birthday on Sunday, if he had lived to witness the musical evolution of the form he fast-forwarded. His films irrevocably changed the relationship between film and music, from the juxtaposition of spaceship ballets and “The Blue Danube" to the destabilizing pairing of rape and “Singin' in the Rain." Sometimes it hurt ...

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Jack Sheldon's " Trying to Get Good" at the Rhode Island International Film Festival

Source: All About Jazz
July 27, 2008

Trying To Get Good: the Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon Plays the Rhode Island International Film Festival

The documentary on the jazz life of the great trumpet player will be showcased August 7th in Providence RI Film Fest.

Compelling and Highly Entertaining of the Consummate Musician, Irrepressible Comedian, and Ultimate Jazz Survivor, Jack Sheldon. Leonard Maltin-Entertainment Tonight

Despite -- or, perhaps, because of -- his cult status, Sheldon makes a compelling centerpiece for the lively, nostalgic documentary....The film ...

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Two Amateurs, Reinventing the Wheel

Source: Michael Ricci
July 27, 2008

Patti Smith in Steven Sebring's movie about her, subtitled “Dream of Life." He began filming her 12 years ago WHEN Steven Sebring began filming Patti Smith, 12 years ago, he was, by his own admission, pretty much an amateur. He made his living as a fashion photographer, as he still does. He didn't own a movie camera. (He now does.) He had been hired by Spin magazine to shoot some pictures for a story on Ms. Smith, and although his ...

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Could 'Dark Knight' Make Imax Mainstream?

Source: PC Magazine
July 23, 2008

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Imax has been “this close" to breaking big on the film exhibition scene, well, seemingly forever. So it might ring a bit hollow when executives predict that favorable publicity from Imax's role in the record success of “The Dark Knight" will prove to be a watershed for the giant-screen vendor. “This is a game-changer for us," Imax Filmed Entertainment president Greg Foster said. The claimmade in the heady afterglow of Warner Bros.' record bow of ...

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Latin Music USA - A Multi-Media Event Premieres on PBS

Source: All About Jazz
July 17, 2008

From Latin Jazz and Mambo to Salsa, Tejano, Chicano Rock, Latin pop, and Reggaeton, Latin Music USA tells the story of the rise of new American music forged from powerful Latin roots and reveals the often overlooked influence of Latin music on Jazz, Hip Hop, Rhythm and Blues and Rock and Roll - and on all of American culture. It's a fresh take on our musical history, reaching across time and across musical genres to embrace the exciting hybrid sounds ...

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New from Jazz Video Guy: John Stubblefield, Larry Willis, Bob Cranshaw, Freedom Suite

Source: All About Jazz
July 17, 2008

Jazz Videos: John Stubblefield Tribute, Uncle Sonny Rollins, Larry Willis and Bob Cranshaw

Check out the brand new featurettes from Bret Primack, a.k.a. Jazz Video Guy.

Stubbs Clifton Anderson's upcoming Doxy Records release includes “Stubbs," which he dedicates to his dearly departed friend John Stubblefield.

Uncle Sonny The latest edition of the Sonny Rollins Podcast features a comprehensive interview with Sonny's nephew, the trombonist Clifton Anderson. Meet Larry Willis A portrait of the one ...

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