Not one but two Hugo Weaving movies are being screened at the Newport Beach Film Festival today. You can check out ‘Everything Goes’, a short film about a young couple who end up with more than they bargained for when they offer to buy a middle-aged man’s furniture.
You can also check out ‘Peaches’, a full length feature being shown today. Take a look at the Newport Beach Film Festival website today! [More]
Month: April 2005
Lyn writes: From the new Entertainment Weekly Elijah Wood is one of the narraraters of ‘I’m still here: Real diaries of young people who lived during the holocaust’. It’s something different from MTV 8pm Wednesday May 4.
Those stars may loll about in the limelight, but it is the men and women behind the camera that really matter. Barking orders into an oversized megaphone, attired in the latest in checked shirts, baseball caps and natty beards (and that’s just the ladies) they’re hardly the most glamorous workers in the business, but theirs is the god-given talent to create magic. [More]
Adele sends this in: On Bank Holiday Monday 30 May, Simon Bates will be counting down the Top 40 Movie Soundtracks, as voted for by you! And if you vote today, you’ll go into the draw for a massive box of 41 CDs of the greatest movie music collections, courtesy of Silva Screen Records. The box will include boxed-sets of CDs featuring the essential music of John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, John Barry, Howard Shore, Max Steiner, Maurice Jarre, Star Wars and Stanley Kubrick films and much more. All you have to do is vote for your favourite movie music of all time. [More]
Turgon writes: Verlyn Flieger’s new book on Tolkien, Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien’s Mythology, is just out from Kent State University Press ($18.00, trade paperback ISBN 0873388240). Here’s the publisher’s blurb from the back of the book: The content of Tolkien’s mythology, the Silmarillion, has been the subject of considerable exploration and analysis for many years, but the logistics of its development have been mostly ignored and deserve closer investigation. [More]
Viggo Mortensen is featured in this documentry about the band ‘One Ring Zero’. Tickets are still available for the screening today. [More]
If you’re in the area be sure to try to catch ‘Ringers: Lord of the Fans’!