| Eli Roth Interview
We had a chance to sit down with the legendary Eli Roth to talk GrindHouse, The Cell, Hostel 2 and more! Needless to say this interview is for you die hard horror fans! Eli Roth burst onto the film scene at the 2002 Toronto Film Festival with his debut film Cabin Fever, which he produced, directed, and co-wrote. Cabin Fever polarized alot of horror fans. You either loved it, or you down right hated it. Either way I loved it, and it is to this day one of the more fun horror films in my collection. Produced independently on a low budget, Cabin Fever was the highest selling film at the 2002 Toronto Film Festival, after a frenzied bidding war between seven studios. Cabin Fever went on to be Lion's Gate's highest grossing film (no pun intended) of 2003, opening on 2,100 screens, and has to date grossed over $100 million dollars worldwide in theatrical, home video, and DVD sales.
New Spielberg interview in Rolling Stone
Steven Spielberg is featured in a new interview with Rolling Stone on the event of the magazine's 40th anniversary. Founded in 1967, the periodical is celebrating its four decades in rock and pop culture journalism through chats with baby boomer luminaries and notables including Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Jack Nicholson, Jane Fonda, and many more musicians, writers, and artists.The Spielberg interview is a terrific read, as he touches on his life in the late 1960s (making films, avoiding the Vietnam draft), the influence of music and Rolling Stone in his life and work, his generation's influence on cinema (in which Spielberg respectfully puts the late Pauline Kael in her place for accusing Spielberg and George Lucas for infantilizing American film), politics in the 1960s and today, and the future of film production and presentation.The 40th anniversary issue of Rolling Stone is now available at local booksellers everywhere.
Accueil & Actualité > Christian News > Expression of concern by ...
The ethnic conflicts and violence, which have been raging in Sri Lanka, have become a matter of serious concern again in recent weeks. Reports from Sri Lanka continue to reflect the alarming deterioration of the situation in the country. The intensification of killing and violence has turned more and more areas of the country into a battlefield. The escalation of fighting causes the deaths of innocent civilians, military personnel and rebel cadres daily, while the number of abductions, conscription of children, and displacement of people is on the increase. Civilians are caught up in fighting between the Government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE). Aerial bombing, mortar shelling and the use of claymore mines have added to the plight of the already suffering people. The northern and eastern parts of the country remain isolated with access in certain areas severely restricted.
Review: Symphony blends pop, classical styles well (1:02 pm)
Thursday night at Atherton Auditorium, the Stockton Symphony presented the final Classics concert of their 80th anniversary season in celebratory style, with what Christopher Brubeck called a glorious collision of two cultures. Both works on the program the premiere of Brubecks Music Is the Power, and Beethovens Ninth Symphony blend elements of popular culture with established orchestral tradition. Under the baton of Peter Jaffe, the program opened with Brubecks piece, a song suite for chorus, orchestra, jazz combo and vocal soloist. Given its eclectic mix of performing forces and lyrics penned by area high school students, this work had the potential to be either a provocative blend of styles, or an unfortunate mash-up of sound and sentiment. The audience waited expectantly.
Captive on the carousel of time
I'M AN UPPITY female," Joni Mitchell says while sitting in the kitchen of her house in an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angeles. "In the media, there's no one like me. I'm as good as - and better than - most. But I'm not given my fair shake." Mitchell's house is big, warm and rustic, very much the abode of a working artist. A large pot of brushes sits out; a giant painting is propped against a wall. She looks healthy and serene, younger than her years, dressed in a casual smock and no-nonsense boots, and laughs readily and infectiously.
When Mitchell announced her retirement as a recording artist in 2002, she did so spitting bile at what the music business had become. She bowed out with Travelogue, an orchestral revisiting of her earlier work, and quietly set about directing her creativity at her surviving passion: visual art.
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