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Flying Lotus’ ‘Kuso’ Prompts Audience Walkouts at Sundance 2017
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More than a dozen people walked out of a screening of Flying Lotus’ “Kuso” at the Sundance Film Festival, Pitchfork reports. The feature debut for the musician, whose real name is Steve Ellison, “Kuso” is a psychedelic dream movie set in Los Angeles after a devastating earthquake. The film premiered last Saturday in Sundance’s Midnight section.
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“Kuso’s” grotesque humor and trippy animated sequences proved to be too much for certain audience members at Sundance. Still, Lotus tweeted that the amount of people who left the screening was not significant given how many people were in attendance.
It was only like 20 people out of like 400 who walked out. Wasn’t as dramatic as they make it out to be. I tried to warn folks. https://t.co/j3GTtO906o
— Flylo (@flyinglotus) January 26, 2017
“Kuso” stars Anders Holm, Hannibal Buress, Tim Heidecker and George Clinton. »
- Graham Winfrey
Shia Labeouf Arrested Outside of ‘He Will Not Divide Us’ Art Exhibit
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Early Thursday morning, actor Shia Labeouf was arrested outside his “He Will Not Divide Us” art exhibit, located outside the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York.
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Labeouf reportedly “grabbed at the scarf of a 25-year-old man,” which caused a scratch to the man’s face and for him to fall to the ground, according to a New York Police spokesman. The police then arrested Labeouf at around 12:30 a.m. Thursday on suspicion of misdemeanor assault and harassment.
According to the New York Daily News, a shouting match between two separate groups preceded the attack. The unofficial “He Will Not Divide Us” Twitter account claims that Labeouf “was attacked by a Nazi.”
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For those of you who don’t know what happened. Shia was attacked by a nazi. »
- Vikram Murthi
‘Before I Fall’: Why Indie Auteur Ry Russo-Young Embraced the Ya Genre
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Ry Russo-Young was doing breathing exercises with me before we sat down to chat about “Before I Fall,” her third film in a row to bow at the Sundance Film Festival. She was calm enough before she started breathing in and out in big, slow puffs, and she was positively beaming when we were done — with good reason.
Russo-Young may be a Sundance mainstay, but she’s never hit the festival with a film quite like “Before I Fall” – that is to say, a film that already has not only a well-regarded distributor (in this case, Open Road), but a set release date just a few weeks out. That’s one way to take the pressure off of the experience, but it’s understandable that the filmmaker would want to take a moment just to collect herself in the midst of the usual festival madness.
Read More: The 2017 IndieWire Sundance Bible: Every Review, »
- Kate Erbland
Oscars 2017 Animated Shorts: Will ‘Piper’ End Pixar’s 16-Year Drought?
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It’s been 16 years since Pixar won the Oscar for best animated short (Ralph Eggleston’s “For the Birds”). Wouldn’t it be fitting if Alan Barillaro’s fine-feathered “Piper” ended the drought? That would give Pixar four Oscars (alongside Geri’s Game” and “Tin Toy”).
However, “Piper” faces stiff competition, particularly from Theodore Ushev’s much darker “Blind Vaysha” from the National Film Board of Canada, which has earned a dozen Oscars.
The other three contenders range from Robert Valley’s bleak “Pear Cider and Cigarettes” (Vimeo’s first Oscar nom), the melancholy Western, “Borrowed Time” (made independently by Pixar’s Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj), and the introspective “Pearl” from Oscar winner Patrick Osborne (Disney’s “Feast”), the first Vr nominee from Google Spotlight Stories.
“Piper”
The rite of passage for the adorable sand piper continues a long Pixar tradition of incubating innovative tech in its shorts program. »
- Bill Desowitz
‘The Magicians’ Bosses on How Trump Ruined Their ‘Fillory Clinton’ Joke and Inspired Season 2’s Destructive Entity
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The election of Donald Trump had far-reaching repercussions not only for America and the world, but in the imaginary realm of Fillory as well.
On Syfy’s dark and irreverent series “The Magicians,” a handful of students from the magic college Brakebills have discovered that the world of Fillory, the setting of a popular series of fantasy novels, is real. Fillory is like C.S. Lewis’ Narnia on crack… if crack were made from the blood of innocent baby unicorns.
When Season 1 left off, the gang made a deal: In exchange for a blade that would kill an antagonist known as the Beast, Eliot (Hale Appleman) as the future High King of Fillory married the blade-maker’s daughter. For what was possibly the worst honeymoon ever, they confronted the Beast, who made quick work of everyone including Penny (Arjun Gupta), whose hands are sliced off with magic. Just when all seemed lost, »
- Hanh Nguyen
‘Donnie Darko’ Sequel: Richard Kelly Says He Has Something ‘Bigger and More Ambitious’ in Mind
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Richard Kelly isn’t done with “Donnie Darko.” 15 years after his cult classic first arrived in theaters, the writer/director says he thinks there’s “something much bigger and more ambitious to do in that universe” — not that anything is official at this point. His comments, which come from an interview with HMV, are occasioned by a 4K restoration of the film that was just released on Blu-ray by Arrow Video.
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“It’s big and expensive and I think there’s time to get to that,” Kelly says of what he has in mind. “I want to make sure we’ve got the budget to do it justice and not to compromise anything. Another story in this world needs resources and we need to have that in place. I need to get »
- Michael Nordine
‘Marjorie Prime’ Review: Jon Hamm as a Hologram Can’t Save This Lifeless Adaptation — Sundance 2017
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“I will remember that now.” Such is the repeated reply from the various “primes” — holograms, and damn fine ones — who populate Michael Almereyda’s “Marjorie Prime,” a big-screen adaptation of Jordan Harrison’s Pulitzer-nominated play about artificial intelligence and the 85-year-old Marjorie, whose handsome companion is programmed to feed the story of her life back to her. Starring acting legend and multiple Tony nominee Lois Smith (reprising the role she originated on stage in 2014) with Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, and Tim Robbins, Almereyda’s feature is rich in acting talent, but this stagey, flat drama can’t match the wattage of its leads.
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Awkward pacing and questionable narrative choices pepper the feature, which starts strong and raises bigger questions to which it will return during its otherwise lumpy run. Now in her twilight years, »
- Kate Erbland
How ‘Land of Mine’ Dug Into a Dark Corner of Danish History and Landed an Oscar Nomination
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World War II is a well-trod genre. Finding a new way in was the challenge for Danish writer-director Martin Zandvliet (“Applause”). The result was “Land of Mine,” a well-reviewed but controversial box office hit in Scandinavia and Europe that scored three European Film Awards on the way to a coveted Oscar nomination for best foreign-language film.
“It’s an amazing year for world cinema,” said Zandvliet, who also edits documentaries. “And you never know what to expect in terms of awards … Unfortunately this small, local story feels more global and more relevant than ever.”
At the end of the war in 1945, more than 2,000 German POWs were forced to remove over 1.5 million land mines from the west coast of Denmark. “Land of Mine” follows a hard-nosed Sergeant (Roland Møller), who after five years of brutal occupation by Germany, commands a troop of German POWs, some as young as 13, to use their »
- Anne Thompson
Sundance Live: Watch Rory Kennedy Discuss ‘Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton’
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What drives a man to surf down an avalanche of 100 feet of water? It’s a question Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning director/producer Rory Kennedy explores in her portrait of legendary surfer Laird Hamilton, which will premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
“Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton” includes incredible cinematography of Hamilton’s death-defying surfing, but the film is also an intimate look at the life of the man who became the legend. It’s a film that forced Kennedy into a wide array of shooting circumstances, requiring different techniques and equipment to capture the surfer’s story.
Kennedy is at Sundance for the film’s premiere and will be stopping by the Canon Creative Studio on Main Street in Park City to talk with IndieWire about shooting her latest film, which you can watch on Facebook Live.
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- Chris O'Falt
Mary Tyler Moore: Watch Her Best Moments from ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show,’ ‘Ordinary People,’ ‘SNL’ and More
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With today’s sad news that Mary Tyler Moore has passed, many are looking to remind themselves of her numerous iconic roles and performances. Here’s a brief primer on where to start the search.
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“The Mary Tyler Moore Show” is an obvious starting point, of course, and the first three seasons (which, combined, account for 72 of 168 total episodes) are on Hulu; so are all five seasons of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” (158 episodes) and the first season of “Rhoda,” a spinoff of “Tmtms.” For anyone who doesn’t have Hulu (or simply can’t deal with the ads), “Dick Van Dyke” is also available to stream on Netflix. Those more amenable to Hulu can also listen to her voice the character of Marjorie on the “Frasier Crane’s Day Off” episode of “Frasier” or the 1982 movie “Six Weeks.”
Moore made many, »
- Indiewire Staff
‘Marjorie Prime’ Wins Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival
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Yesterday at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, Michael Almereyda’s new film “Marjorie Prime” won the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Feature Film Prize. The Prize is selected by a jury of film and science professionals and presented to outstanding feature films focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character. The jury presented the award to “Marjorie Prime” for its “imaginative and nuanced depiction of the evolving relationship between humans and technology, and its moving dramatization of how intelligent machines can challenge our notions of identity, memory and mortality.” As a result, the film will receive a $20,000 cash award from the foundation.
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“We are thrilled to partner with Sundance for the 14th year in a row and award the 2017 Sloan »
- Vikram Murthi
‘God’s Own Country’ Review: A British ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ But Better — Sundance 2017
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A rugged young Englishman and a gentle Romanian migrant worker find intimacy atop the lonesome hills of Northern Yorkshire in “God’s Own Country,” Francis Lee’s quietly remarkable debut feature. Embittered by his isolated existence, Johnny (Josh O’Connor) softens upon meeting Gheorghe (Alec Secareanu), who has much to teach him, and not just how to delicately breathe life into a newborn lamb. Such explicit scenes of daily farm life give the film documentary-like potency, elevating it far beyond conventional romantic drama.
The sole able-bodied man of the family after his father, Martin (Ian Hart), has a stroke, Johnny Saxby spends his days mucking stalls, pissing on walls, and ducking into cattle trailers for the occasional kiss-free grunting session, a glob of spit rolling down a lily-white bottom. When one such escapade delays his return, Johnny’s beloved cow has delivered a stillborn calf. A disapproving Martin hands him a rifle, »
- Jude Dry
Mary Tyler Moore: Robert Redford, Viola Davis and More Grieve Over the TV Icon’s Death
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Six-time Emmy Award winner Mary Tyler Moore passed away on Wednesday afternoon at the age of 80. The television icon, who paved the way for many women, was best known for “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and her “Mary Tyler Moore Show.”
Upon hearing the sad news, Hollywood paid tribute to the actress, sending their thoughts and prayers to her family, tweeting quotes and sharing videos and photos of her incredible career.
Ed Asner, the actor who portrayed Moore’s boss in the “Mary Tyler Moore Show” tweeted that “his heart goes out” to her family.
#marytylermoore my heart goes out to you and your family. Know that I love you and believe in your strength.
— Ed Asner (@TheOnlyEdAsner) January 25, 2017
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Robert Redford said in a statement via Variety: “Mary’s energy, spirit and talent created a new bright spot in the television »
- Liz Calvario
Make Sundance Great Again: Why Festival Disasters Couldn’t Sink A Slate Filled With Politically Woke Cinema
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From a practical standpoint, the 2017 Sundance Film Festival was a pileup of headaches: The box office got hacked, a power outage forced the cancellation of several screenings, and a massive blizzard wouldn’t stop dumping snow on Main Street. It all took place under the menacing shadow of the presidential inauguration, which no amount of valiant marching could undo.
However, an assessment of the U.S. Sundance narratives throughout this year’s program reveal one of its best in years. Many of the highlights from the 2017 lineup set the stage for a set of new American movies focused on the challenges of unification — and, more specifically, how they stem from family bonds tested by clashing values. Some of the more prominent titles provide a barometer for American society’s greatest anxieties, as well as what it might take chart a path forward.
Sundance’s biggest sale struck a particularly topical note. »
- Eric Kohn
Chrysta Bell’s ‘Beat the Beat’ Video: David Lynch’s Muse and ‘Twin Peaks’ Star Shares Grimy VHS-Inspired Clip – Watch
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Chanteuse and actress Chrysta Bell has been a longtime musical partner of David Lynch since they first created music back in 1999. Now, the ethereal singer has released her third and final video off of her “Somewhere in the Nowhere” Ep, written and produced by Lynch.
Directed by Sharif Nakhleh, “Beat the Beat” is a look into the cyclical nature of modern life and a “subdued anthem for Kafkaesque and mundane human existence.” The video is described as “a dirty dub VHS tape featuring a slice of Americana with Italian subtitles suggesting it could have been discovered in a second hand shop in Bologna.” The clip shows a grimy bar run by a bored looking bartender until Bell, wearing a black slip dress designed by Nima Shiraz, arrives and gets everyone moving with her hypnotizing voice.
Read More: David Lynch’s ‘Night Ride’ Music Video With Chrysta Bell is Creepy & Sensual »
- Liz Calvario
Seth Meyers Invites Two of His ‘Late Night’ Writers to Help Him with ‘Jokes Seth Can’t Tell’ — Including a ‘Moonlight’ Gag
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Seth Meyers tells a lot of jokes during his “Late Night” monologues, but as a straight white man he doesn’t always feel comfortable delivering the material thought up by his diverse team of writers. As a remedy, he had two of them — Amber Ruffin and Jenny Hagel — appear for a segment called “Jokes Seth Can’t Tell.” Watch below.
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For each, Meyers would deliver the setup and have either Ruffin or Hagel perform the punchline. A sampling: “A Florida theater is set to screen a series of African-American silent films. Said people in the theater: ‘Finally, a movie that won’t interrupt my conversation!'” “The Department of Justice recently found that the Chicago Police use excessive force. Said black people: ‘There’s a Department of Justice?!'”
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- Michael Nordine
‘The Salesman’ Exclusive Clip: Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-Nominated Drama Follows an Iranian Couple’s Souring Relationship
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Asghar Farhadi’s latest film “The Salesman” premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival where it received critical acclaim and won two awards: Best Actor for Shahab Hosseini and Best Screenplay for Farhadi. Yesterday, it was officially nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Now, it will finally hit theaters in New York and Los Angeles this week. Watch an exclusive clip from the film below ahead of its U.S. theatrical release.
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The film follows Emad (Hosseini) and Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti), a young couple living in Tehran who are forced to move out of their old apartment. But once they relocate, a sudden eruption of violence linked to their home’s previous tenant drastically changes the couple’s life, creating powerful tension between the couple.
Farhadi is best known »
- Vikram Murthi
Rachel Weisz is a Saucy Minx in New Trailer for Daphne du Maurier Adaptation ‘My Cousin Rachel’
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Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin court disgrace (and each other) in the first trailer for Roger Michell’s “My Cousin Rachel,” an adaptation of the 1951 novel by Daphne du Maurier, most famous for penning “Rebecca” and “The Birds.” A lesser known work, the last time “My Cousin Rachel” made it to the big screen was in 1952, starring Olivia de Havilland and Richard Burton.
The novel centers around a young man named Philip (Claflin) as he plots against his mysterious and beautiful cousin, Rachel Ashley (Weisz), whom he suspects of poisoning his guardian. Philip falls under the beautiful Rachel’s spell, losing his resolve as his infatuation grows — and maybe even endangering his own life in the process.
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The trailer shows Philip peering at Rachel from around corners and sneaking up on her in a dimly lit manor house, »
- Jude Dry
‘Atlantis Rising’ Exclusive Clip: James Cameron Searches For Evidence of The Lost Civilization
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For thousands of years, the legend of Atlantis has fascinated the public and the historical community alike. There’s plenty of controversy surrounding its existence and whether or not there’s ever any evidence of it to begin with. Now, Oscar-winning director James Cameron executive produces the new series “Atlantis Rising,” which follows himself, Emmy-winning filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici and a group of archaeologists, scientists and historians as they search for evidence of the lost civilization. Watch an exclusive clip from the documentary below.
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“This is the world’s most sophisticated and extensive search ever made,” said team leader Richard Freund, a professor/archeologist from the University of Hartford. Cameron and the team use cutting-edge technology and Plato’s ancient writings as a virtual map to help guide their journey. The series travels from Greece to the Atlantic Ocean, »
- Vikram Murthi
Mary Tyler Moore Dead: Beloved Actress Was 80
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Mary Tyler Moore has died at age 80, multiple outlets confirm. The famed actress, best known for her roles on “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” was briefly hospitalized in Connecticut before her passing.
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“Today, beloved icon, Mary Tyler Moore, passed away at the age of 80 in the company of friends and her loving husband of over 33 years, Dr. S. Robert Levine,” Mara Buxbaum, Moore’s representative, told the Huffington Post in a statement. “A groundbreaking actress, producer, and passionate advocate for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Mary will be remembered as a fearless visionary who turned the world on with her smile.”
2016 didn’t have a monopoly on celebrity deaths, of course, and Moore’s passing marks the first major loss in Hollywood of 2017. Though most associated with her television roles »
- Michael Nordine
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