Snakes on a Plane is an action/horror film to be released on August 18, 2006. by New Line Cinema. Written by David D’Alessandro, John Heffernan, Sheldon Turner, directed by David R. Ellis and starring Samuel L. Jackson. The film finished filming principal photography in September of 2005 including five days of additional re-shooting to raise [...]
Cinema | Director | Film | Hollywood | Horror | Lover | Magic | Movie | Performance | Photography | PoetryIt’s one of those injustices we see too often in the world of art and history… An integral monument to the cultural structure of a society being sacrificed in the name of some unfulfilling, commercial purpose. The EMD Cinema in Walthamstow was a celebrated building. It is acknowledged as one of London’s finest art deco [...]
Architecture | Art | Cinema | Designer | Director | East London | Film | History | Movie | PerformanceLoin du Vietnam (Far From Vietnam) is made up of seven short films made in the ‘60s at the time of the occupation of Vietnam by celebrated political directors including Jean-luc Godard and Alain Resnais. Paulo Gerbaudo looks at the parralels between film and war then and now Loin du Vietnam is both a failure [...]
Cinema | Director | Elusive | Events | Film | Horror | Inspiration | Modern | Movie | Political | Radical | Social | Theatre | WarCast: Tobey Mcguire as Peter Parker/Spiderman, Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson, Daniel Gillies as John Jameson, J.K Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson, Thomas Haden Church as Sandman/Flint Marko, Topher Grace as Venom, Dylan Baker as Dr. Curt Conners, Adrian Lester as a Research Scientist, Bryce Dallas Howard as Gwen Stacey, Theresa Russell as Mrs. [...]
Director | Film | Hollywood | MovieFriday May 19th Meeting at the UK Pavilion. Dealing with passes and accreditations. Sorting out the usual mumbo-jumbo required to cruise through the festival. ‘Volver’ from eternal ‘enfant-terrible’ Pedro Almodovar is on show and has the usual red-carpet treatment. Penelope Cruz – gorgeous in a white Balanciagga dress, or is it? – and Carmen Maura, [...]
Actor | Art | Artist | Cinema | Director | Drama | Events | Festival | Film | Filmmaker | Modern | Movie | Museum | Music | Performance | Political | Social | Theatre | WarThe film is a compelling compilation of testimonies, voices and opinions gathered around five continents. The Live8 concert in July this year, in London’s Hyde Park was set up to raise awareness about the Black continent issues, but before the first guitar riffs, the gig highlighted one single home truth: Africans should do it for [...]
Art | Awareness | Communities | Concert | Culture | Director | East London | Festival | Film | Human rights | Performer | Photography | War | WriterCurrently playing at the Arcola Theatre as part of the Africa ’05 celebrations this is the second time the UK has seen this remarkable performance. Previously staged at Riverside Studios in 1978 to exceptional reviews, it is now restaged by Tiata Fahodzi ( Theatre of the Emancipated ), Britains’ leading African theatre company, under the [...]
Director | Drama | Horror | Performance | Theatre | WarJohn Sayles’ work tends to act as a social, political and emotional travelogue rather than a straight-line narrative. The films are all about the compromises that exist between individuals and the society in which they live. Roger Corman’s B-movie factory of the sixties and seventies produced a number of leading film talents like Francis Ford [...]
Actor | Director | Editor | Film | Filmmaker | Gallery | Hollywood | Humanist | Iconic | Modern | Movie | Nature | Performance | Political | Psychology | Social | War | WriterChina’s city of Cinema is being celebrated in the Shanghai on Screen film festival screening at venues including the Museum in Docklands as part of the 2006 China in London event. Of special note are three documentaries screening at City Hall telling the migrant stories of the first Chinese settlers in east Londons Limehouse Basin [...]
Actor | Art | Cinema | Director | East London | Festival | Film | Filmmaker | Gallery | Museum | Social | Theatre | WarFeaturing sculptures, photographs, illustrations by Cat Miranda, Jennifer Hale, Sami Hammoudan, Hugo Sterk; live performance dance and music, DJ’s, poets, visuals; and Illustrations by Jennifer Hale, Contemporary Dance by Briar Adams, live music from Danbob Clarke with vocals from Shannon McNab, Poetry by Tim Wells, Cat Catalyst, David J, Funlola, Ramshackle Event, Salina Saliva, Baden, [...]
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