PROUD CHELSEA PRESENTS: Fifty years of the Ballet by Colin Jones Running: 13th January to 6th March 2011 This January, Proud Galleries is pleased to announce the launch of its first ever dedicated Ballet exhibition – Fifty Years of the Ballet, photographs by Colin Jones. Born in 1936 as the son of an East London [ Read More ]
The Simpsons creator Matt Groening and Mr. Tom Waits have just given tribute to Captain Beefheart (real name Don Van Vliet), who passed away last week. Waits hailed his memory comparing him to Miles Davis and both Sun Ra, as he told to LA Times. “He was like the scout on a wagon train,” Waits [ Read More ]
KABOOM Gregg Araki Written by Gregg Araki Starring: Roxane Mesquida Thomas Dekker Juno Temple Rooney Mara Haley Bennett James Duval “Ho diciannove anni e sono sempre arrapato”, così si presenta al pubblico il giovane Smith. Smith è al primo anno di college. E’ bisessuale con un forte orientamento verso il proprio sesso, ha un’amica del [ Read More ]
JOE R. LANSDALE – interview – TFF 30.11.2010 Recently member of the Jury at the last Torino Film festival 2010, Joe Lansdale explains easily about his connection with cinema and artists, about his latest books and that kind of inspiration coming from his loved homeland Texas. – Different themes in books and comic books: what [ Read More ]
The French electro-duo best known all around the world, as we all know, have released the OST for the new upcoming Disney’s masterpiece, “Tron: Legacy”, sequel of ‘80s “Tron”, and directed by Joseph Kosinski starring Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Michael Sheen and Bruce Boxleitner. But there’s a huge music inspiration behind the collaboration [ Read More ]
After releasing “Rain” (1998), “The Cathedral” (2002), “Undo” (2002) and “Fallen Art” (2004), Polish art animator Tomek Baginski, Academy Award nominated in 2002, presents his new short-animation-movie “The Kinematograph”, adaptation of a comic with the same title created with a pen and crayon by Mateusz Skutnik and included in the album “Rewolucje: Monochrom”. The projects [ Read More ]
11/12/2010 @ New Age Club (TV) “Ciao! Vieni questa sera al concerto?” “Chi suona?” “Melissa Auf Der Maur” “E chi è?” “La ex bassista degli Smashing Pumpkins!” “Figo, allora vengo!” Chissà quanti, tra quelli che hanno riempito il New Age in questo sabato invernale, avranno avuto una conversazione simile. Nonostante due album ben accolti [ Read More ]
“Fourteen Actors Acting” is a project created by New York Times to celebrate the skills of 14 from the most important, influent and able actors of the last generations. Only the actors and their face&eye expressiveness, with movements accmpained and emphasised by the music made by Owen Pallett (perfromed by FILMharmonic Orchestra, Prague), under the [ Read More ]
“Mick Jagger. The photobook” Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia, Milan (Italy). After Rencontres d’Arles, for the first time in Italy, a retrospective will be held devoted to a man who not only made the history of rock but is also recognised as an icon of style and lifestyle. A face that has changed, like his [ Read More ]
Divine Comedy Hiroshima 9 dicembre 2010 Neil Hannon entra sul palco elegante, bombetta e valigetta da dove tirerà fuori dei non precisati fogli che metterà sul leggio del pianoforte. Neil Hannon è un po’ Sherlock Holmes un po’ gentleman della city. Neil Hannon dice “stasera facciamo una cosa diversa, non seguo una scaletta [ Read More ]
Directed by Kenneth Branagh (and featuring Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins, Chris Hemsworth & more), the epic adventure “Thor” spans the Marvel Universe from present day Earth to the realm of Asgard. At the center of the story is The Mighty Thor, a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war. Thor is [ Read More ]
VENEREA – interview – Started out as Venereal Disease back in 1991, when four guys from school decided to form a band to have something to do in the small westcoastal town of Falkenberg, Sweden. The Venerea music project now has arrived at their latest “Leon Back In Anger”. A little chat with them reveals [ Read More ]
JK POTTER – interview – Mutations from contemporary reality figures into the world of fantasy and nightmares, like a God in creation of creatures full of darkness and arised from passion, JK Potter is the link between literature, imagination and art, an art, his one, where passion is the engine, and people, transfigured, half [ Read More ]
06/12 @ New Age Club (Treviso) Affermare che i Ministri sono la più grande speranza del rock alternativo italiano può sembrare una forzatura. E in effetti lo è, ma è una forzatura nella quale voglio credere. Quando mi capitò fra le mani “I Soldi Sono Finiti” capii subito che non si trattava di una band [ Read More ]
“To Lee, With Love, Nick” is the brave new short-movie by director/photographer Nick Knight, tribute to the great fashion designer Alexander McQueen, dead in february 2010. Bjork has written a song featuring that movie as soundtrack, to remember and dictate the artist who worked with her form many kaleidoscopic works, as long as with other [ Read More ]
PLAN DE FUGA – interview – The new great music reality mixing rock with grunge and pop, has a name tipically spanish and lyrics in english, despite they’re coming from the north of Italy. Plan De Fuga, from the words of Filippo de Paoli, voice-guitar and main author of the band, chatting with me about [ Read More ]
The last Batman for Christian Bale, as he’s recently told after his performance in “The Fighter”. The english actor, orphan of his anti-hero Heath Ledger and of Two-Face / Aaron Eckhart, fot Christopher Nolan’s sequel of “The Dark Knight”, “The Dark Knight Rises”, has commented the rumours about the upcoming movie (ready to be filmed in [ Read More ]
CLINIC – interview – Liverpool based post-punk band Clinic, combining acid punk-rock influences and electron ics and organs, have created, since 1997 an unique sound that has made them remarkable and noticed at John Peel to Radiohead’s attentions. Now they’re arrived at their 6th studio-album, and Ade Blackburn, voice and founder of the band, reveals [ Read More ]
To be released in March 2011, the appassionate poetry by Mr.Tom Waits will accompany a selection of striking images by the award winning photo-journalist Michael O’Brien (who’s worked with Waits for his “Glitter And Doom” album cover). “Hard Ground” is a sensational and exciting book/portrait about, and dedicated to, homeless, a special gift by the [ Read More ]
The short animated cartoon released by Disney in 2003, is an amazing production originally creaed in 1945, after a private meeting between Salvador Dalì and Walt Disney, about a short-movie project inspired by the combinazione mixing the Surrealism and imagination of the two genius of art. The movie was completed only in 2003, when Roy [ Read More ]
ALTER BRIDGE live @ Padova, 4.12.2010 Il tour che ha portato gli Alter Bridge in Italia quest’anno è stato a dir poco trionfale. Milano, Roma e Moderna sono andati sold out, e pure il nuovo Gran Teatro di Padova è arrivato molto vicino all’esaurimento dei posti disponibili ante tempo. Riesco ad arrivare facilmente al [ Read More ]
KLAXONS live @ Magazzini Generali (MI) 02/12/2010 Il primo decennio degli anni 2000 va concludendosi. Ci lasciamo alle spalle dieci anni di musica i cui dettami stilistici verranno compresi appieno e catalogati, come spesso accade, solo in futuro. Ciò nonostante, sono già visibili alcuni degli elementi che più ne hanno caratterizzato e influenzato l’evoluzione e, [ Read More ]
28° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL – I PREMI TORINO 28 La Giuria di Torino 28 – Concorso Internazionale Lungometraggi, composta da Marco Bellocchio (Presidente, Italia), Barbora Bobulova (Italia), Michel Ciment (Francia), Helmut Grasser (Austria), Joe R. Lansdale (Stati Uniti) assegna i premi Miglior Film (euro 25.000) a: WINTER’S BONE di Debra Granik (USA, 2010, 35mm, 100′) [ Read More ]
JIMMY GNECCO – interview – From the Ours band to solo-performances, Jimmy Gnecco spreads out his new album, “The Heart”, where passionate songwriting deals with his strong voice full of pathos, remembering Jeff Buckley and not forgetting his rock roots. Some other good reasons to celebrate him as one of the most important underground songwriters [ Read More ]
JULIEN TEMPLE – interview – Turin Film festival 2010 Amazingly connected with Detroit’s reality, fascinated by that city, once upon a time the cradle of the American Dream, collapsed and destroyed from a post-industrial city into a location where unhabited palaces, burnt factories and violence are the kings of that kingdom of disillusion, Julien Temple, the [ Read More ]
“London Calling: THE CLASH by Adrian Boot” – London From 9th December 2010 to 23rd January 2011, at Proud Galleries Camden, will take palce the photo exhibition “London Calling: The CLASH by Adrian Boot”, showing pitures taken by the photographer of the band rehearsing at their studio in the Gin House at the Stables Market [ Read More ]
FUCKED UP + EVERGREEN TERRACE – 29/11 Mac2, Schio (VI) E’ una fredda giornata di fine novembre. Ai lati della strada la neve caduta qualche giorno prima è ingrigita dallo smog e a cadere dal cielo non è né pioggia né neve, bensì uno strano nevischio invadente come la prima e pungente come la seconda. [ Read More ]
