Yinka Shonibare MBE @ Brand New Gallery Milano, Italy March 26, 2014 - May 10, 2014 Brand New Gallery will host the first solo exhibition in an Italian gallery of British-born Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE, opening on the 26th of March and running through May 10th. In this multi-part exhibition of sculptures, photography, and film, Shonibare…
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From scintillating stories of 1970s con artists to cruel tales of pre-Civil War slavery, the past year proved to be a wonderful year for film lovers. Ticket holders were treated to Martin Scorsese's corporate greed-driven The Wolf of Wall Street, David O. Russell's star-studded crime flick American Hustle, Steve McQueen's epic historical drama 12 Years a Slave, and many…
Warner Bros. Records will release the original motion picture soundtrack to Endless Love on February 11th, 2014. The romantic drama will hit theaters nationwide on Valentine's Day. The movie stars Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde in the story of a privileged girl and a charismatic boy whose instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying…
Vampire Academy, based on the worldwide bestselling series, tells the legend of Rose Hathaway and Lissa Dragomir, two 17-year-old girls who attend a hidden boarding school for vamires. Rose, a rebellious Guardian-in-training and her best friend, Lissa – a royal vampire Princess - have been on the run when they are captured and returned to St.Vladamirs…
Auteur director Wes Anderson has joined forces with Prada to produce Castello Cavalcanti. The eight minute short film features Wes Anderson regular Jason Schwartzman (Moonrise Kingdom, I Heart Huckabees) in the starring role, and is set to simultaneously premiere at today's Rome Film Festival and Prada's website. Anderson is on writing and directing duties, with Alessandro Casella…
Few sentences inspire less confidence than “based on real events.” The second these four words crawl across a title card it becomes clear that the film has something to defend. In Philomena’s case it’s a shield for craftless, naked, emotional manipulation. Philomena is the herald of Oscar season, when the pretense of heart and wit…
Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Simon LeBon and Roger Taylor of Duran Duran at the premiere of 'Duran Duran: Unstaged' during the 6th Annual MoMA Contenders Series at MoMA, NYC. Boasting a formidable jukebox of Top 10 singles including ‘Hungry like the Wolf’, ‘A View to a Kill’ and ‘Ordinary World’, Birmingham's legendary rock foursome Duran Duran teamed…
It’s fairly common for industry-thrived stars to include several titles towards their already extensive IMDB profile these days. Amanda Peet is no different. New York native, Peet has been polishing her expertise on “The Good Wife” since 2012 and fine-tuning her much anticipated play, “The Commons of Pensacola”. The forty-one-year old actress is no new…
"Words are life." Filming a novel whose sole purpose is to defy the death of books and liberate actual reading, The Book Thief is a rarity in the neverending book-to-movie influx. Armed with a whole off and onscreen team of Oscar-winners, calculated cinematography, Schindler's List composer and costume designer and a genuinely wholehearted cast, Downton Abbey director…
With the advancement of film technology, movies became an untapped resource, from which designers could not only market and sell their fashions, but also from which they could attach a certain cache and iconography from the film to their clothing. The costumes these designers made for the blockbuster films of their day have gone on…
ASVOFF 6 Centre Pompidou 19 Rue Beaubourg, 75004 Paris, France October 11 - October 13 In the sixth edition of her landmark fashion film festival, ASVOFF founder Diane Pernet has cast her net wider than ever before to capture the most globally diverse, panoramic and intercontinental programme to date at the Centre Pompidou. Once again,…
Perez Hilton talks about The Untitled Magazine's Vanessa Hudgen's cover shoot on Coco Perez: "Untitled is great way to describe this HAWTNESS…we're almost SPEECHLESS! Vanessa Hudgens smolders on the cover of Untitled's Cinema issue and there were any shreds of innocence left on her, they have surely evaporated by now! Inside, the Spring Breaker shows…
Long before she was the Baywatch vixen and MTV personality that we know today, Carmen Electra was Tara Leigh Patrick, the small-town girl from Ohio whose singing chops caught the ear of rock demigod Prince, who, incidentally, was the one who suggested she change her name. “We decided Carmen Electra was gonna be it. I…
In its seventeenth year, the New York International Fringe Festival will take place August 9 - August 25 in venues across Manhattan. FringeNYC is the largest multi-arts festival in North America, with more than 200 companies from all over the world performing for 16 days in more than 20 venues. A production of The Present…
Allan Dwan and the Rise and Decline of the Hollywood Studios @ MOMA The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters MOMA 11 W 53rd St New York, NY 10019 June 5 - July 8, 2013 Allan Dwan (1885–1981), dubbed “the last pioneer” by Peter Bogdanovich, had a 50-year career as a director (from 1911 to 1961)…
RENATA POLJAK: Uncertain Memories January 13 - February 24, 2013 STEPHAN STOYANOV GALLERY 29 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002 Stephan Stoyanov Gallery is pleased to announce that due to the success and critical acclaim of Uncertain Memories the exhibition will extend until February 24th, 2013. Uncertain Memories is the first solo exhibition at the…
A COLLECTION OF WORKS BY FRANCIS BACON EXHIBITION RUNS MARCH 9 THROUGH APRIL 6 Taka Ishii Gallery Photography/Film 1-3-2 5F Kiyosumi Koto-ku Tokyo #135-0024 Japan www.TakaishiiGallery.com Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film will present an exhibition of works by Francis Bacon from March 9 to April 6. The exhibition will include 11 contact sheets, which…
In Silver Linings Playbook, impossibly good-looking people are damaged and dysfunction, and they speak a specific language that only those occupied with equal types of delusion can understand. Directed by David O. Russell (I Heart Huckabees; last year’s The Fighter), Silver Linings Playbook stars Bradley Cooper (the disheveled heartthrob from The Hangover) as Pat Solatano,…
Cloud Atlas tells many tales; quantity is the only thing guaranteed. In an age where Hasbro toys serve the kind of cinematic inspiration that great writers once did, what to make of ambition? Of wanting more out of the movie-going experience, not as a viewer but as a filmmaker? I often find myself forgiving a…
Out of all the boroughs of New York City, only the Bronx can lay claim as the birthplace of one of the greatest directors in history. Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) is regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers of the twentieth century. More than a decade since his passing in 1999, he continues to cast…