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Clint Eastwood's Grand Torino
At 78, perhaps the only actor in the history of American cinema to convincingly kick the butt of a guy 60 years his junior, the hard-headed, snarly mouthed Clint Eastwood of the 1970s comes growling back to life in Gran Torino. Centered on a cantankerous curmudgeon who can fairly be described as Archie Bunker fully loaded ...
Sundance 2009: Films in Competition
Sundance Film Festival in Park City Utah is reeving up. Here is a list of this years films in competition. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION This year's 16 films were selected from 879 submissions. Each film is a world premiere. The films screening in Documentary Competition are: Art & Copy (Director: Doug Pray; Screenwriter: Timothy ...
Fantasia: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
If it wasn't for “The Sorcerer's Apprentice", the feature Fantasia would never have been made. The fairy tale was made into a poem by Goethe and into a concert piece by Paul Dukas. Fantasia is a 1940 animated film produced by Walt Disney, an experiment in animation and music, consisting of classical music presented against the ...
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
The short speaks volumes on the nature of jazz. “The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics" was awarded the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 1965. It is based on the book by Norton Juster published two years earlier, a budding romance between a dot and an initially unyieldingly straight ...
Prop 8: The Musicial
Prop 8: The Musical All-Star Hollywood Cast Makes Video Mocking Gay Marriage Opponents Playbill News: Conceived and written by Hairspray Tony winner Marc Shaiman, the three-minute video was directed and staged by Adam Shankman, who helmed the “Hairspray" movie musical. The video also boasts an array of theatre and stage stars: The “California Gays and The ...
Costellos Spectacle a Different Look at Music
Singers experience, insights make music-talk show great viewing Elvis Costello's new original series Spectacle will premiere on the Sundance Channel on Dec. 3 at 9 p.m. ET. During an interview with Elton John for the debut of his new Sundance Channel show Spectacle, Elvis Costello didn't ask about stage costumes, boyfriends or “Island Girl." Instead, the ...
What's Opera, Doc?
We here at All About Jazz, in our effort to include those of the finer music crowd, and to show that we Improvisers got good taste too. We like to share for your holiday pleasure our series following on High Note, the Chuck Jones cartoon with today's selection, What's Opera, Doc. Sit back and enjoy a ...
There's No Jazz Fueling This 'Cadillac'
Jazz is at the roots of the Chess Records story, a legacy that's silent in “Cadillac Records." Leonard Chess broke into the local music scene in 1949 by opening the Macomba Lounge at 47th and South Karlov. The late-night club attracted jazz legends Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington, who were headlining earlier in the evening at ...
Trouble in 'Oz': The Munchkins' Dirty Secret
Snubbed at a Hollywood event, women hold own reunion to share memories of film shoot. If you thought you knew everything there was to know about the iconic film classic The Wizard of Oz, then here's a twister for you. Everyone knows about the Munchkins, portrayed by 124 pituitary midgets in the 1939 motion picture starring ...
