TV / Film News

Chet Baker's "Let's Get Lost

Source: Michael Ricci
March 19, 2010

Lined and ravaged as it is, the face is ageless: as sunken as a dead man's, as softly bewildered as a child's. Chet Baker's face, and the extraordinary ways in which Bruce Weber has photographed it, encapsulate the story of Baker's life in a succession of ghostly, indelible images that are at once hauntingly beautiful and desperately sad. Applied to a different subject, Mr. Weber's methods might seem disturbingly superficial, but they suit this portrait perfectly. The man, his music ...

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Lucasfilms the Clone Wars: Best Political Cartoon Ever?

Source: All About Jazz
March 19, 2010

Political murder, mercenary violence, military occupations and callous terrorists dont just kill as newspaper headlines. They've also made excellent thematic fodder for Star Wars: The Clone Wars, whose dark second season wraps with a three-week stand starting Friday night. The procedural and corporate intrigue has also solidified Lucasfilm's CGI tween fever dream as one of Earths coolest political cartoons. But is it the best? The three-part conclusion of The Clone Wars second season begins with Fridays episode Senate Murders, which ...

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Stewart, Fanning Glam It up in Runaways

Source: All About Jazz
March 19, 2010

Film is a smart showcase to help stars break out as they take on adult roles. Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning star as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie in the tumultuous story of the 1970's all girl rock band, The Runaways. “The Runaways," chronicling the rise and fall of Joan Jett's first band, easily could have degenerated into a movie-length music video, with Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning merely glam-rock poseurs. Yet music-video veteran Floria Sigismondi makes an impressive feature-film ...

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Neil Young Trunk Show

Source: Michael Ricci
March 19, 2010

Virtually from the beginning of a career that's closing in on the half-century mark, Neil Young has been both an obsessive archivist and a passionate believer in the nexus of rock music and film. That combination goes a long way toward explaining why he's made considerably more films than your average rock star and why he has returned time and again to the concert film genre attempting to find fresh approaches. It also explains his friendships and collaborations with the ...

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Chess Records Biopic Robert Randolph, Keb' MO'

Source: JamBase
March 19, 2010

OPENS APRIL 9 IN NEW YORK CITY

Who Do You Love is the new film about Leonard and Phil Chess, legendary founders of Chess Records. The film opens in theaters beginning April 9 in NYC and stars Robert Randolph (as Bo Diddley), Keb' Mo', Raheem DeVaughn, Ryan Shaw and Alessandro Nivola (as Leonard Chess). Who Do You Love features authentic musical performances (all of the music was recorded and performed by the artists themselves) and a score full of Chess ...

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Breathtaking 'Hubble 3D' IMAX Film Opens Friday

Source: PC Magazine
March 19, 2010

Take a number of the Hubble Space Telescope's most stunning images, give them a 3D look, and display them on an IMAX screen--what's not to love? Yet Hubble 3D, an IMAX and Warner Brothers film made in cooperation with NASA, manages to go far beyond that. Much of the film focuses on last May's mission of the Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-125) to repair the Hubble. The astronauts brought an IMAX 3D camera with which they were able to capture spectacular ...

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MTV Networks Executives Wanted to Buy Youtube

Source: Michael Ricci
March 18, 2010

There is much to behold in the 300-plus pages released Thursday morning in the $1-billion copyright infringement lawsuit that Viacom has lobbed against YouTube and its parent company, Google. Among the more juicy tidbits is a set of internal Viacom documents from July 2006 showing that the New York media conglomerate had explored buying YouTube for as little as $1 million. The talks foundered, and YouTube was subsequently acquired by Google in October 2006 for $1.8 billion. In one e-mail ...

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Doors Documentary Opens April 9

Source: JamBase
March 18, 2010

Doors Documentary When You're Strange Begins In Select Markets April 9

The Doors When You're Strange first played at Sundance in 2009. Producers include Dick Wolf, Rhino's John Beug and Jeff Jampol, the band's manager. Wolf Films' Peter Jankowski, also a producer, guided the project for Wolf's company. It was made with support of band members Ray Manzarek, John Densmore and Robby Krieger, as well as the estate of Jim Morrison. Manzarek has said in interviews that the doc is ...

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