The silences are what you dread in Annabelle: Creation. Whenever there is a lull in the storytelling, you always know that the next jolt is about to be felt. The film is very effective in giving its audience the collywobbles, which is precisely what they want from a story like this. They know that they’re being strung along and grossly manipulated but that is part of the pleasure. This is the prequel to 2014’s Annabelle. It deliberately takes its time in cranking up. The early scenes portray a family living an idyllic life in dusty, Midwestern 1940s America. Doll maker Samuel Mullins…
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SUFF is a Sydney gem. The annual weekend of warped, outré and extreme cinema at the Factory Theatre goes to places the other festivals rarely do, exploring the outer limits of what it means to be human, zombie or mutant excrement demon. The festival features films interrogating democracy, the media, the history of experimental film and the odd beliefs of people on the fringes of society. There are sessions of short films grouped around the themes of weird sex, psychedelia, documentary, Australian and just plain What-The-Fuck. Last year they introduced a Saturday Morning All You Can Eat Cartoon Cereal Party,…
On Saturday, September 16 artist, poet, and performer IN-Q will give his latest thought-provoking performance in “The Echo Chamber,” a witty and engaging perspective on the state of our society. IN-Q will headline a night that will open with special musical performance SYML and a special guest star. Location: The Theatre at Ace Hotel 929 South Broadway Los Angeles, CA 90015 (213) 623-3233 https://youtu.be/Rw7deJK__xs ABOUT IN-Q: Writer, poet, multiplatinum songwriter and lyricist IN-Q has wowed audiences with his breakthrough spoken word performances. From his award-winning appearances at the National Slam Poetry Championships to being featured on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, Cirque Du Soleil,…
John Bailey, an American cinematographer and film director that celebrated his 75th birthday yesterday, August 10th, has been elected as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for a four-year term. Born in Moberly, Missouri, Bailey attended Santa Clara University and Loyola University Chicago. During his junior year he studied German language and culture at the University of Vienna, where he developed an appreciation for the French New Wave.[2] He earned a graduate degree from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts in 1968.[3] He spent eleven years apprenticing as a crew member under the…
If there is one movie we all looked forward watching, it was The Wedding Party. If our anxiety was at 70 Kemi’s own was certainly at 150…I say so because even though the movie had premiered outside Nigeria, Kemi knew that it was the reception her movie received at home in Nigeria that truly mattered to her. How do I know this? She expressed herself at the premier of the movie at Eko Hotels in 2016 and everyone was in awe of her mastery. The Wedding party follows the shenanigans that go on during the planning of a wedding in…
The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill is celebrating three West African countries tomorrow night with live performances and the screening of two 30-minute documentaries. West Africa’s vibrant and diverse contemporary culture is the subject of Ismael Kouyate’s 45-minute set of African music, to be performed outdoors on the museum’s terrace at 7:30 p.m. with his eight-piece band, the Radiant Select. Mr. Kouyate, a renowned Guinean singer, choreographer, and dancer whose vocals can be heard on Beyonce’s song “Grown Woman,” leads the band, which merges West African roots music with funk, soul, and international rhythms. Its members are Electra Weston…
The Swiss director Dominik Locher is competing for the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Festival with his new film, Goliath [+]. Full of references to his own experience as a father, Locher lays himself bare as he explains to us just how much protagonist David mirrors his own troubles as a father. Cineuropa: Where did the idea of the film originate? Dominik Locher: I’ve been thinking about the theme of masculinity for a while now, about the desire to be stronger than we are. The idea was going through my mind for about six months I think, and then my partner got pregnant and I had a…
COLUMBUS is a beautiful film, directed by Written and Directed by Kogonada. We will have a review of COLUMBUS very soon, but to introduce this great work of art, we share an interview that has been done with the director. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9N2kCHp_HE When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin (John Cho) finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana – a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey (Haley Lu Richardson), a young architecture enthusiast who works at the local library. As their intimacy develops,…
EFFORTS towards achieving a global status for the Nigerian film industry has been given a huge boost with the recent unveiling of the Africa Cinematography Festival in Lagos. The festival, the first of its kind in the industry is designed to bridge the knowledge gap which has negatively affected all aspects of the film making and entertainment industry through training, production enhancement workshop, networking, film market, film and technology expo. Nigerian entrepreneur and founding Grand Matron, Africa Cinematography Festival, Mrs. Folorunsho Alakija led other notable personalities including Frank Adekunle Edwards, CEO of FMA Productions; Henry Emenike, CEO of Germany-based Legacy…
Iran’s pavilion at the 24th Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF, August 23-27) will screen Iranian movies. Selected as the guest of honor, Iran will attend the upcoming edition of BIBF with the motto ‘Iran, the Colorful Dream of Silk Road,’ according to icfi.ir, the website of Iran Cultural Fairs Institute (ICFI). In its role as honorary guest, Iran is preparing special programs for the important cultural event. A delegation of 100 people, including the Minister of Culture Reza Salehi Amiri, publishers, writers, illustrators and artists will be present at the fair. A series of publishing seminars, book promotion events, discourse…