The new film from Guillermo Arriaga (“Amores Perros,” “21 Grams,” and “Babel,”) stares Charlize Theron and music by Rodriguez-Lopez. The film received an 11-minute, 36-second standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival last year.
Arriaga has referred to Rodriguez-Lopez like, “something between Chopin and Jimi Hendrix,”
Sure to be loved by Fantômas and Melvins fan alike, this concert DVD features a “big band” setup of both groups sharing the stage and performing each other’s songs in wild arrangements. (more…)
Renowned singing teacher Susan M. Carr’s technique for The Art of Screaming! was first developed in 1978 and has since been refined during the grunge music scene. Since then, Carr has worked with bands such as Minus the Bear, Mastodon, and Sunny Day Real Estate. (more…)
In anticipation of the latest installment of a bad-ass movie series (and in honor of Edward Furlong’s Public Enemy shirt in T2), here is the trailer for Terminator Salvation, out on May 22.
A long line of Justice fans, and those “just there for the DJs,” braved the freezing-cold weather during the delayed entry into the Metro to attend the Chicago premiere of Justice’s documentary, A Cross the Universe, at a special midnight screening on Friday, November 14. (more…)
Cinephiles of the world rejoice! The second annual Serbian Film Festival kicks off this week in Chicago, featuring fifteen features, shorts, and documentaries from legendary and up-and-coming Serbian talent. Over the last two decades, Serbia has built a name for itself in world cinema, proving to be a fertile and fearless region for uncompromising and guerilla filmmaking. (more…)
Exploring the music and musicians of American underground hard rock from 1970 to 2007, Such Hawks, Such Sounds focuses on and charts the evolution of psychedelic and ‘70s proto-metal-derived styles (doom metal, stoner rock, desert rock, and space rock). Bands featured in the film include Pentagram, Black Sabbath, Dead Meadow, Earthless, Fu Manchu, Sleep, Comets on Fire, Kyuss and Nebula. A Q&A session with filmmakers John Srebalus and Jessica Hundley will follow the screening, as well as a live performance by San Diego-based Earthless and a DJ set by Tony Presedo. The trailer for the film as well as address and ticket prices are listed below: (more…)
Heavy Metal In Baghdad (Vice Films) documents Acrassicauda – the first and possibly only Metal band in Iraq. Director Eddy Moretti and interviewer Suroosh Alvi of Vice magazine travel through the Middle East, tracking the band they’ve become infatuated with. They risk danger, donning flak jackets and are even escorted by armed guards just to tell the band’s story of woe. (more…)
Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo wrote and directed the 74 minute robot epic, Electroma, as a conceptual complement to the duo’s 2005 album Human After All (Virgin). Composed of five set-pieces and shot on 35 mm film stock in the California deserts, the film follows the leather clad avatars of Daft Punk, Hero Robots #1 and #2, down perpetual highways and endless deserts in the pursuit of humanity. Devoid of dialogue and anything from the Daft Punk catalogue, the film floats on the potency of lingering camera sequences and stark cinematography. (more…)
Rock the Bells is a funny and quite often frightening account of concert promoter Chang Weisberg’s attempt to reunite all nine original members of the Wu-Tang Clan for the 2005 “Rock the Bells” hip hop festival—a show that would be Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s last before his death less than six months later. It’s a skillfully paced doc that slowly builds to an almost-harrowing conclusion as the promoters and fans wait for the group’s troubled wildcard, ODB, to complete the reunion. “It’s planning a wedding, and you hope the groom shows up,” Weisberg comments, but he is seriously understating the situation. (more…)
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With over four hours of Ramones concert footage and television appearances along with an array of interviews and bonus features, The Ramones: It’s Alive 1974-1996 DVD set is a Ramones fanatic’s dream come true. Music supervisor Tommy Ramone provides a personal touch in compiling the band’s best moments on stage into a comprehensive anthology. From their earliest shows at CBGB to final concert footage at the River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, it is apparent how the Ramones grew from a New York bar band into beloved legends, and to many, the face of punk rock itself. (more…)
Now in its third incarnation, the re-releasing of $100 and a T-shirt is timely. Clocking in at just under an hour, the documentary acts as a “Zines For Dummies,” discussing the methods and ethics behind a handful of Northwest US zines. It gives a first-hand look into the people that give these tiny booklets life. The zine creators pay for each page out of their own pockets, print endless copies at Kinko’s, drink tons of coffee and smoke cigarettes, and celebrate their unique voices. The film’s soundtrack includes Defiance, Ohio and the late Lance Hann and J Church, suiting the rebellious nature of the content. (more…)
On February 12, Stones Throw Records will release In Living the True Gods, its second DVD collection of music videos. Its first such disc, Stones Throw 101, served as a visual primer for those unfamiliar with the label. (more…)
