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First Look: The Last Exorcism Part 2 Trailer

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Rebecca Murray
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The sequel to The Last Exorcism (which proves the ‘last’ part of the title was a bit misleading) has a new trailer to show off. Hitting theaters in March 2013, The Last Exorcism Part 2 was directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly and features Ashley Bell back in the lead role.
 
The Plot:
 
Continuing where the first film left off, Nell Sweetzer (Ashley Bell) is found terrified and alone in rural Louisiana. Back in the relative safety of New Orleans, Nell realizes that she can’t remember entire portions of the previous months only that she is the last surviving member of her family. Just as Nell begins the difficult process of starting a new life, the evil force that once possessed her is back with other, unimaginably horrific plans that mean her last exorcism was just the beginning.
 
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Fox Renews ‘Bones’

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Rebecca Murray
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TJ Thyne, Michaela Conlin, David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel, John Francis Daley and Tamara Taylor - Photo ©2012 Fox Broadcasting Co.

Fox will be bringing Bones back for a ninth season, Chairman of Entertainment at Fox Kevin Reilly officially announced today. “After more than 150 episodes, Bones continues to be one of television’s most dynamic and consistent dramas,” said Reilly. “We at FOX, along with millions of zealous fans, look forward to seeing where the incredible creative team takes the series next season.”

The series will return for a special two-hour winter premiere on January 14, 2013 at 8pm, kicking off all-new episodes of the popular series, which centers on a forensic anthropologist and an FBI agent. The show stars David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel, TJ Thyne, Michaela Conlin, Tamara Taylor, and John Francis Daley.

Details on the January 14th Episode: In the episode, “The Diamond in the Rough/The Archeologist in the Cocoon,” the Jeffersonian team investigates the death of a professional ballroom dancer who was murdered three days before her audition on a popular dancing competition show. In order to solve the case, Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and Booth (David Boreanaz) go undercover as dance competitors to see if they can find potential suspects. Then, the team investigates the murder of a well-known archeologist with a questionable reputation, who came upon a career-defining discovery right before his death.




Spotlight On: Harlan County Line from ‘Justified’

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Rebecca Murray
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Are you anxious for the return of Justified? If so, this music video should help ease your pain between episodes of the popular FX series. Performed by Dave Alvin, “Harlan County Line” is off of the new soundtrack album – Justified: Music From the Original Television Series.

The Plot:

The Emmy Award-winning Justified returns for its fourth season with U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) picking at the thread of a cold case over 30 years in the making and unraveling a riddle that echoes all the way back to his boyhood and his criminal father’s bad dealings. Meanwhile, Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) finds his own criminal grip on Harlan County loosening due to a Pentecostal preacher with a penchant for theatrics and a knack for manipulation.

George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez Will Present at the Golden Globes

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Rebecca Murray
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2013 Golden Globes LogoThe first presenters for the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards have been announced, with 11-time Golden Globe nominee (and 3-time winner) George Clooney topping the list. Additional confirmed presenters include Will Ferrell, Nathan Fillion, Jennifer Garner, Jennifer Lopez, Debra Messing, Jeremy Renner, Amanda Seyfried, Jason Statham, Meryl Streep, Kerry Washington and Kristen Wiig.
 
This year’s show will be hosted by friends and former Saturday Night Live co-stars Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. NBC’s broadcasting the show on January 13, 2013 at 5pm PT/8pm ET.
 
More: The 2013 Golden Globe Nominees
 
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Jason Aldean Rides His Night Train

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Jason Aldean
Jason Aldean performs at the 2012 CMA Awards - Photo credit: Donn Jones/CMA

Jason Aldean’s My Kinda Party won CMA’s Album of the Year Award in 2011, amassing more sales than any other Country album in that calendar year. And if anyone still harbored doubts about his stature, the 2012 nominations list pretty much put them to rest. Aldean nabbed three nominations, including his second straight for Entertainer of the Year. But he also had a hand in the successes of some other acts that populated the finalists list.

Eric Church, whose five nominations led the field, is one of Aldean’s former opening acts. Double-nominee Luke Bryan, who announced 2012’s nominees with Aldean on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” is one of Aldean’s best friends as well as an opener at his shows. Double-nominee Thompson Square claims several of Aldean’s band members among its production team. Kelly Clarkson shared the 2011 Vocal Event Award with Aldean for “Don’t You Wanna Stay.” New Artist nominee Brantley Gilbert wrote two Aldean hits, “My Kinda Party” and “Dirt Road Anthem,” before he started scaling the singles charts as an artist in 2011.

Aldean downplays his role in their careers. “I’m not going to sit there and take credit for those things,” he said. “I think those guys were great artists before.”

Even so, these artists and many others as well have benefited from Aldean’s efforts. He helped to change the sound of Country Music by opening a stylistic door. When “Hicktown” (written by Big Kenny, Vicky McGehee and John Rich) debuted on the national charts in April 2005, Toby Keith and Montgomery Gentry arguably led the Country pack with edgy, testosterone-driven energy. But “Hicktown” took it further by melding a decidedly Country, small-town theme with the crunchy guitar chords and sonic assault of hard rock.

“When we shipped that first single,” remembered Jon Loba, EVP, Broken Bow Music Group, “the initial resistance out there was that ‘this isn’t Country, this is rock,’ ‘this is too hard,’ ‘this is not something that P1s (core Country listeners) can relate to.’ It was a daily battle. I can’t remember how many times we almost lost that record, so to go from that to mass acceptance and influence is definitely very gratifying to see.”

In the process, Aldean became a central figure in the “baseball cap Country crowd,” as described by Don Gosselin, Operations Manager, Clear Channel/New Orleans and Program Director, WNOE-FM/New Orleans.

Gosselin singles out Aldean, Eric Church and Brantley Gilbert, all of whom employ baseball caps extensively in their imaging, as acts that draw large numbers of 20-something male fans to their concerts. It’s similar to the impact of the Outlaw movement in the late 1970s, when a core Country audience found commonality with non-Country fans who related to the blue-collar rebellion signified by those artists’ music.

“Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson were the outlaws of the day,” Hart observed. “They had a similar image and drew those (mixed) crowds. Jason Aldean has appeal to a lot of people outside of our format, particularly males, because of the attitude he brings to his music. People want to raise hell, drink or whatever.”

“There’s more of a harder edge, more attitude-driven sort of stuff,” Aldean agreed, comparing his music, and that of Church and Gilbert, with Country’s mainstream. “If you listen to all of our records, they sound completely different. But I think it’s pretty obvious that we grew up probably listening to a lot of the same music.”

While that grittier side of Aldean’s art played a big role in carving a space for him in Country’s sonic landscape, a key to his rise lies in his insistence on counter-balancing his rock edge. He followed “Hicktown” with “Why” (Rodney Clawson, McGehee and Rich), a power ballad that appealed to female fans. Over time, he’s widened his creative circle by trying other types of material that defied his history, particularly by rapping in “Dirt Road Anthem” (Colt Ford and Gilbert) and with the power ballad “Don’t You Wanna Stay” (Andy Gibson, Paul Jenkins and Jason Sellers), which crossed onto the Adult Contemporary charts and attracted a whole new segment of non-Country female fans.

“As an artist, that’s what you want,” Aldean reflected. “You don’t want to back yourself up into a corner and play to one demographic or the other. We want everybody listening. We can go out and do one of those big tempos, but if you start putting four or five of those on every record, that’ll get boring. Just be able to change it up with a ballad here or there, or something off the wall now and then. That’s really the thing that makes it work.”

“We hear that all the time from the female consumers and core fans. They love Jason because he rocks but he also sings songs that a lot of rockers resist,” said Rick Shedd, Senior VP/GM, Broken Bow Label Group. “He allows himself to be vulnerable.”

Aldean does all of those things on his current album, Night Train. “Take a Little Ride” (Dylan Altman, Clawson and Jim McCormick), “Wheels Rollin’” (Neil Thrasher, Wendell Mobley and Hillary Lindsey) and “This Nothin’ Town” (Thrasher, Mobley and busbee) embrace his energetic, rockin’ edge. “Talk” (Thrasher and Mobley), “Walking Away” (David Lee Murphy and Clawson) and “Black Tears” (Canaan Smith and Tyler Hubbard) employ sounds and storylines that show a balladeer’s sensitivity.

Then there’s “1994” (Thomas Rhett, Luke Laird and Barry Dean), the album’s off-the-wall entry that picks through hit titles from Joe Diffie’s singles discography while holding Diffie up in a rapping, nostalgic ride down memory lane.

Night Train was clearly made with an eye toward reaching out to the disparate demographics of Aldean’s audience. Still, his strategy didn’t involve cloning his previous work. The sales and CMA Album of the Year recognition for My Kinda Party created a new and somewhat unfamiliar context for Night Train, so Aldean did his best to forget about past successes as he rolled up his sleeves to tackle the present.

“I knew there were going to be a lot of people that have high expectations of this album and that there would probably be a lot of people that want to compare records,” he said. “But it’s a completely different album. I’m a couple of years older now, so it’s going to reflect a different point of view of where you are. I don’t think it’s fair to compare them. But I will say this: I think Night Train is an unbelievable record. I’m very proud of it. Do I hope Night Train tops Party? Of course I do! Was that the mindset when I went in and cut it? No, not at all.”

One aspect that’s consistent on all of Aldean’s albums is the makeup of the studio team. Each one was recorded under the guidance of producer Michael Knox and the aid of the singer’s road band, including guitarist Kurt Allison, bass player Tully Kennedy and drummer Rich Redmond. Using the touring band was a bit unusual when Aldean did it on his debut album, though it’s since become more commonplace. In fact, three of the five finalists for CMA’s Single of the Year in 2012 — Aldean’s “Dirt Road Anthem,” Church’s “Springsteen” and Little Big Town’s “Pontoon” — featured at least two members of the artist’s road band.

Historically, Nashville has used a handful of musicians to handle much of Country’s session work, believing that the skills required to get a good sound in the technical confines of a studio are different than those required to support an artist onstage. Jennings and Nelson got much of their outlaw reputations by fighting that assumption. Aldean, by contrast, faced little resistance at Broken Bow when he decided to use his own players.

As Aldean remembered it, “I went in and basically said, ‘This is what you guys signed me for. You signed me because you liked these demos that I cut and you liked the way that my record sounds. So if that’s what you like, then let me keep doing it the way I’ve done it. If you don’t, it’s not going to sound like that.’ It was actually never a really big deal.”

Maybe not. But by building an audience that blends core Country fans with new, young and non-traditional converts, Aldean has become a bona fide big deal. All of his shows in 2012 were sellouts, many within minutes or hours of tickets going on sale. He headlined a stadium for the first time in August and, in true Country fashion, was determined to make hay while the sun shines. Aldean packed his schedule so tight that in one stretch he was at home in Tennessee for only a couple of nights over a couple of months.

This hard-driving pace echoes the relentless “full-throttle, wide-open” theme of Aldean’s single, “The Only Way I Know” (Murphy and Ben Hayslip), which teams him with two of his former opening acts, Luke Bryan and Eric Church. Its energetic stance certainly connects to the 20-something guys who are a key part of his audience.

“The bottom line is I love what I do,” Aldean insisted. “I’m living out a dream that most people would never get to experience. That would be crazy not to want to take advantage of that and take it in as much as I could while it’s here. At some point, you know it’s going to kind of level off. Every artist’s career does at some point. And I figure I can rest when that happens.”

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By Tom Roland
Used by Permission © 2013 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc.




Santa Barbara Film Festival Releases Its 2013 Slate of Films

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Rebecca Murray
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Santa Barbara Film Festival LogoThe Santa Barbara International Film Festival previously announced Disconnect as the festival’s opening night screening and Wasteland as the film tapped to close out the 2013 event. Now the festival’s released a list of the slate of films they’ll be screening during the festival’s January 24 – February 3 run.

Among this year’s selections are 13 world premieres and 32 films that will be holding their US premieres at Santa Barbara.

WORLD PREMIERES:

A Year in Burgundy
Directed by David Kennard
Cast: Martine Saunier
This documentary follows half a dozen wine makers in the Burgundy region of France for one full year, where the beautiful and traditional processes are revealed.

Blumenthal
Directed by Seth Fisher
Cast: Seth Fisher, Brian Cox, Fred Melamed, Laila Robins, Mark Blum, Mei Melancon
Celebrated playwright, Harold Blumenthal, has passed away after succumbing to cardiac arrest while laughing at his own joke. Now, Harold’s estranged and jealous brother, Saul, must confront his personal hang-ups in order to deliver himself from an epic bout of constipation.

Crosstown
Directed by Miriam Kruishoop
Cast: Manny Perez, Vivica A. Fox, Will Green, Noel Gugliemi, Paige Hurd
The promise of a better life is shattered when two families are confronted with the brutal reality of raising their children in Los Angeles. An undocumented immigrant family from El Salvador is forced to sign their 17 year-old son’s life away to the U.S. Military with the false promise of naturalization papers. The other family struggles to prevent a forbidden love affair between their Black teenage daughter and a recently initiated member of the local Salvadoran street gang.

Discovering Mavericks
Directed by Joshua Pomer
Director Josh Pomer captures insider interviews and more than three decades of images and footage to tell the true story of California’s most famous, and notorious, big wave.

Driftwood
Directed by Peter Trow, Jim Brewer
Cast: Shaun Tomson, Matt Becker, Genelle Ives, Joe Rowan, Sam George, Noah Yap, Ammy Naff, Jim Brewer
Narrated by surf legend Shaun Tomson, this beautiful and meditative stand-up paddle board excursion takes Sam George, Noah Yap, Ammy Naff and Jim Brewer through locations including Sri Lanka, Iceland, Colombia, USA, and Nova Scotia.

El Milagro
Directed by Salomón Shang
A Spanish film crew attempts to expose Peru’s El Milagro, where many children are forced to work in the local landfill amidst horrible health and environmental conditions.

Isolated
Directed by Justin Le Pera
Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Travis Potter
Five world class surfers travel to the journalist dead zone of New Guinea in search of undiscovered waves and find more than they bargained for.

It’s Better to Jump
Directed by Gina Angelone, Mouna B. Stewart, Patrick A. Stewart
It’s Better to Jump is a feature-length documentary film that gives voice to the people of the ancient walled city of Akka as they and their city face a very uncertain future.

Monster Squid: The Giant Is Real
Discovery Channel and NHK have joined forces to undertake the most ambitious search ever mounted to find the greatest mystery of the deep, the giant squid. With razor-toothed suckers and eyes the size of dinner plates, tales of the creature have been around since ancient times. The Norse legend of the sea monster the Kraken and the Scylla from Greek mythology might have derived from the giant squid. This massive predator has always been shrouded in secrecy, and every attempt to capture a live giant squid on camera in its natural habitat, considered by many to be the Holy Grail of natural history filmmaking, has failed. Until now.

Occupy the Movie
Directed by Corey Ogilvie
Featuring: Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Tim Pool
This film sheds a light on a movement known as Occupy who stands against corporate greed. Beginning in 2011, it has quickly become the largest movement since those of the civil rights protests.

Sex After Kids
Directed by Jeremy Lalonde
Cast: Paul Amos, Shannon Meckner, Katie Boland, Kristin Booth, Jay Brazeau
An edgy ensemble comedy about the sexual exploits couples share in the aftermath of children.

Stable Life
Directed by Sara MacPherson
A high-stakes documentary about family, immigration and the hardscrabble world of horse racing

The Signal Hill Speed Run
Directed by Jon Carnoy, Michael Horelick
Featuring: Ben Harper (narrator)
Narrator Ben Harper explores the history of the world’s first skateboard contest and the subsequent evolution of the daredevil speed run in the small So Cal burg of Signal Hill.

U.S. PREMIERES

About 111 Girls (Darbare 111 Dokhtar)
Directed by Nahid Ghobadi, Bijan Zamanpira
Cast: Reza Behbudi, Mehdi Saki, Amin Sadeghi
The Iranian president receives a pleading letter from 111 Kurdish women complaining of their inability to find husbands, and says that if the government does nothing, they will commit mass suicide.

Alaska Sessions: Surfing The Last Frontier
Directed by Frederick Dickerson, Matthew McNeill
Featuring: Mike McCune, Scott Dickerson, Ice Man (Don McNamara), Stephanie Dickerson, Donna Rae Faulkner, Wendy Kinnier McCune
A Homer Alaska local sells his house and buys an old fishing boat to embark on an epic surf adventure up the isolated Alaskan coastline — in the dead of winter

Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
Directed by Richard Lowenstein, Lynn-Maree Milburn
Cast: Rowland S. Howard, Genevieve McGuckin, Nick Cave
From myth to legend Rowland Howard appeared on the early Melbourne punk scene like a phantom out of Kafkaesque Prague or Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A beautifully gaunt and gothic aristocrat, the unique distinctive fury of his guitar style shot him directly into the imagination of a generation.

Betrayal (Izmena)
Directed by Kirill Serebrennikov
Cast: Franziska Petri, Dejan Lilic
A man and a woman, two casual acquaintances, learn that their respective spouses are having an affair with each other in this intriguing drama.

Boucherie Halal
Directed by Babek Aliassa
Cast: Abdelghafour Elaaziz, Fariba Bonakdar, Karim Babin, Christine Aubin Khalifah
A Muslim couple opens a butcher shop in Montreal and wishes to successfully integrate into Quebec society. But the butcher’s father is an imam who sets up a little mosque in the back room and uses it to spread his fundamentalist views. When he is arrested by the RCMP on suspicions of past terrorist activities, his son, torn between love for his wife and allegiance to his father, gets involved in a plot to free him. Fed up by her husband’s unwillingness to stand up to his father’s wishes, the butcher’s wife leaves to live a more fulfilling life away from the muslim community.

Broken
Directed by Rufus Norris
Cast: Tim Roth, Cillian Murphy, Rory Kinnear
Skunk is only 11, but after witnessing a brutal beating, her childhood innocence gives way to fear and danger.

Chaika
Directed by Miguel Ángel Jiminez
Cast: Salome Demuria, Gio Gabunia
A love story between a prostitute and a sailor, reconstructed between two long seasons: the eternal winter of Siberia and summer in the dusty steppes of Kazakhstan.

Chocó
Directed by Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza
Cast: Esteban Copete, Karent Hinestroza
A young, displaced black woman tries to maintain her two children and her husband, a musician who only knows how to play marimba, drink, and gamble.

Danube – Europe’s Amazon
Directed by Rita & Michael Schlamberger
Romantic coasts and unspoiled nature: the Danube fascinates. It dominates the landscape wherever it flows. The Danube unites and separates at the same time. In the Roman Empire – from its source to its estuary – it formed the frontier to the peoples of the North. Today the big stream flows through ten countries. 1071 kilometres of the Danube still represent national borders.

Family Meals
Directed by Dana Budisavljevic
Through the ritual of family meals, the film talks about the importance of feeling accepted by the ones we love.

Fly With The Crane, China
Directed by Li Ruijun
Cast: Xingchun Ma, Long Tang, Siyi Wang
Serenely resigned to his impending death but deeply afraid at the prospect of being cremated, an elderly carpenter seeks to have his last wishes carried out in this gentle, beautifully realized drama from director Li Ruijun

Handmade Cinema
Directed by Guido Torlonia
Featuring: Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo, Maurizio Millenotti, Gabriella Pescucci
Turning an actor into a character, sewing a precious dress or an antique pair of shoes as if they were art works, building a set but most of all painting it, aging it and making the stage designer’s sketch a beautiful reconstruction all this is Handmade Cinema.

High Plains Doctor: Healing on the Tibetan Plateau
Directed by Michael Oved Dayan
Featuring: Isaac Sobol
On a doctor’s philanthropic journey to give to the people of Tibet, he receives more than he could ever imagine.

Jackie
Directed by Antoinette Beumer
Cast: Carice van Houten, Jelka van Houten, Holly Hunter
Dutch twin sisters travel to America to help the mother (Holly Hunter) they have never met in this heartwarming, cross-cultural take on the classic American road movie.

Motorway
Directed by Pou-Soi Cheang
Cast: Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Shawn Yue
A young cop on Hong Kong’s top-secret, high-speed pursuit squad must learn the tricks of the trade from a grizzled veteran as he prepares to capture a legendary getaway driver in this high-octane thriller from action auteur Soi Cheang and legendary producer Johnnie To.

My Awkward Sexual Adventure
Directed by Sean Garrity
Cast: Jonas Chernick, Emily Hampshire, Vik Sahay
A sexually inept accountant strikes a deal with a worldly but disorganized stripper: he’ll help her with her crushing debt if she helps him become a better lover.

Old Stock
Directed by James Genn
Cast: Cameron Ansell, Ryan Blakely
Stock Burton (Noah Reid) is a local legend. A monumental event from his past has frozen
him, sent his family into a tailspin and pitted his small town against him. Now he’s simply chosen to drop out of life and ‘retire’, joining his recently separated Grandfather, Harold, (Jack Daniel Wells) at the Golden Seasons senior’s home, where life is safe, comfortable and worry free.

One Mile Above
Directed by Jiayi Du
A young man’s cycle journey to the highest point in Tibet to fulfill his brother’s final wish. Based on a true story.

Perú Sabe: Cuisine as an Agent of Social Change
Directed by Jesús M. Santos
Featuring: Gaston Acurio, Ferran Adriá
Ferran Adrià, one of the world’s most prestigious chefs, and Gastón Acurio, Latin America’s most influential chef, explore the roots of Peruvian cuisine and its potential to change lives.

Queen of Montreuil
Directed by Sólveing Anspach
Cast: Florence Loiret Caille, Eric Caruso
It’s early summer and Agathe is back in France, at home in Montreuil. She has to get over her husband’s death and return to her work as a film director. The unexpected arrival at her house of a couple of Icelanders, a sea lion and a neighbor that she has always desired yet never vanquished will give Agathe the strength to get her life back on track…

Revolution
Directed by Rob Stewart
Featuring: Rob Stewart, David Hannan, Boris Worm, Emily Hunter, Felix Finkbeiner
REVOLUTION is a film about changing the world, going for it, taking a stand, and fighting for something. A true-life adventure following Director, Rob Stewart (SHARKWATER) over four years and 15 countries discovering there is a lot more than sharks at risk of becoming extinct. Climate change, environmental degradation, species loss, ocean acidification, pollution, and food/water scarcity are reducing the earth’s ability to house humans and we need to start doing something about it now!

Storm Surfers 3D
Directed by Justin McMillan, Chris Nelius
Featuring: Tom Carroll, Ben Matson
This 3D cinematic adventure follows two of Australia’s greatest surf legends on their quest to hunt down and ride the Pacific’s biggest and most dangerous waves.

The Ballad of The Weeping Springs (Balada le’aviv ha’bohe)
Directed by Benny Toraty
Cast: Yigal Adika, Lirit Balaban, Asher Dagan, Yonatan Dani, Peri Bar Delshdefer
Amram, the son of Avraham Mufredi, turns up at the house of the legendary Persian tar (lute) player, Yosef Tawilla. Amram gives him the score of a work that his father, a member of Tawilla’s ensemble and his partner, wants to see performed before his impending death.

The Body
Directed by Oriol Paulo
Cast: José Coronado, Belén Rueda, Hugo Silva, Aura Garrido
A woman’s body vanishes from the morgue in mysterious circumstances. In the course of a single night, Inspector Jaime Peña investigates the disappearance with the help of her widower.

The Dealers
Directed by Oded Davidoff
Cast: Alon Aboutboul, Moshe Ashkenazi, Rami Davidoff, Abdallah El Akal
The story of Rami and Avishay, 27 years old friends that share an apartment in a small Jerusalem neighborhood. They spend their days smoking and playing in a soccer team with other losers, which its coach Zvika is determined to take the “Jerusalem neighborhood cup” with. In need for money they get entangled in a drug deal with Sagi, a local gangster, which forces them to learn the hard way about taking responsibility, loyalty, and friendship. The movie is a humorous view of the colorful, multi culture, unique and somehow funny Israeli society.

The Deflowering of Eva Von End
Directed by Michiel ten Horn
Cast: Vivian Dierickx, Rafael Gareisen
The outcast in her middle-class family, Eva’s life is turned upside down by the arrival of a handsome German exchange student in this satire of petit-bourgeois family life.

The Invisible String
Directed by Jan Bäss
Featuring: Chipper ‘Bro’ Bell, ‘Crazy’ John Brooks
Focusing on the 1970s and ‘80s, including vintage footage from Santa Barbara, this German documentary traces the rise in popularity of Frisbee contests, games and acrobatic exhibitions.

The Night Parade
Directed by Geraldine Maillet
Cast: Julie Gayet, Raphaël Peronnaz, Brisa Roché, Bakari Sangaré, Françoise Lebrun
Paris – One night. A woman and a man meet in a restaurant. Sheis beautiful. He falls for her. She is shy, he is bewitched. He talks, she is cautious. He tries, she avoids. She hesitates, he insists. An intense relationship starts then. During the night, masks fall off and the seduction game gives in to sincere feelings. Will this love last over a night ?

The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas (La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Rivas)
Directed by Luis Mandoki
Cast: Greisy Mena, Fernando Moreno
Honduran teenager Sabina Rivas intends to get to the United States, harboring dreams of becoming a famous singer and distancing herself from her former lover, Jovany, now a gang member.

The Silent War
Directed by Felix Chong, Alan Mak
Cast: Xun Zhou, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Mavis Fan, Xuebing Wang, Yong Dong, Lap-Man Sin
An espionage thriller set in the 1950s and adapted from the novel “Year Suan/Plot Against” by May Jia. Tony Leung Chiu Wai plays a blind man who works for a piano tuner. He is recruited for a spy mission because of his exceptional hearing.

Wasteland
Directed by Rowan Athale
Cast: Matthew Lewis, Iwan Rheon
In this exhilarating heist thriller, a young ex-con hooks up with his best mates to embark on a wild — and risky — revenge scheme after being framed by a local drug kingpin.

Water
Directed by Mohammad Bakri, Ahmad Bargouthi, Mohammad Fuad, Tal Haring, Yona Rozenkier, Nir Saar, Maya Sarfaty, Pini Tavger
Nine directors, Israeli and Palestinian, embarked on a journey to create short films, fiction or documentary, inspired by Water. Water symbolizes the source of possibilities, the primal core of all things.

For the complete lineup and details on the festival, visit http://sbiff.org/

Source: Santa Barbara International Film Festival

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‘Beautiful Creatures’ Gets a New Release Date

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Rebecca Murray
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Beautiful Creatures Poster

Warner Bros Pictures has decided the supernatural love story Beautiful Creatures needs a more romantic release date. The studio’s bumped the film’s opening day back one, moving Beautiful Creatures off of February 13th to Valentine’s Day.

The film, based on the bestselling book series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, was directed by Richard LaGravenese, who also adapted the novel for the screen. The cast includes Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis, Emmy Rossum, Thomas Mann, and Emma Thompson.

The Plot:

Beautiful Creatures tells the tale of two star-crossed lovers: Ethan, a young man longing to escape his small town, and Lena, a mysterious new arrival. Together, they uncover dark secrets about their respective families, their history, and their town. But as the tie between Ethan and Lena strengthens, they become tangled in a dangerous web of spells and secrets from which there may be no escape.

David Bowie New Song and Upcoming Album Track List

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Rebecca Murray
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David Bowie’s celebrating his 66th birthday with the release of a new song, “Where Are We Now?”, and music video. The single’s off his upcoming album, The Next Day, set for release in the US on March 12th (March 8th in Australia).

“Where Are We Now? was produced by Bowie’s long-term collaborator Tony Visconti, and the new video was directed by Tony Oursler. Per the press release, the video “harks back to David’s time in Berlin. He is seen looking in on footage of the auto repair shop beneath the apartment he lived in along with stark images of the city at the time and a lyric constantly raising the question Where Are We Now?”

The Next Day Track List:

Standard Version:

01. The Next Day 3:51
02. Dirty Boys 2:58
03. The Stars (Are Out Tonight) 3:56
04. Love Is Lost 3:57
05. Where Are We Now? 4:08
06. Valentine’s Day 3:01
07. If You Can See Me 3:16
08. I’d Rather Be High 3:53
09. Boss Of Me 4:09
10. Dancing Out In Space 3:24
11. How Does The Grass Grow 4:33
12. (You Will) Set The World On Fire 3:30
13. You Feel So Lonely You Could Die 4:41
14. Heat 4:25

Deluxe Version

01. The Next Day 3:51
02. Dirty Boys 2:58
03. The Stars (Are Out Tonight) 3:56
04. Love Is Lost 3:57
05. Where Are We Now? 4:08
06. Valentine’s Day 3:01
07. If You Can See Me 3:16
08. I’d Rather Be High 3:53
09. Boss Of Me 4:09
10. Dancing Out In Space 3:24
11. How Does The Grass Grow 4:33
12. (You Will) Set The World On Fire 3:30
13. You Feel So Lonely You Could Die 4:41
14. Heat 4:25

Bonus tracks:
15. So She 2:31
16. I’ll Take You There 2:44
17. Plan 2:34




Jessica Chastain Talks About ‘Zero Dark Thirty’

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Rebecca Murray
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Jessica Chastain discusses how she got into character and her research process for tackling a lead role in the dramatic film Zero Dark Thirty. Chastain believes the movie is accurate but was never able to speak with the real woman she’s portraying on screen.

The Plot:

For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden. Zero Dark Thirty reunites the Oscar® winning team of director-producer Kathryn Bigelow and writer-producer Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) for the story of history’s greatest manhunt for the world’s most dangerous man.

Spotlight On: Kiss You by One Direction

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Rebecca Murray
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The British boys have finally released a music video for their new single, “Kiss You.” The new video just debuted on January 7th and finds the guys of One Direction paying homage to Elvis. Speaking to MTV, the video’s director Vaughan Arnell explained what he and Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, and Louis Tomlinson were aiming for with the “Kiss You” music video.
 
“The boys have always been themselves and for this one they’re playing characters,” said Arnell. “The idea was it gave them a bit more of an extension to perform in the video.
 
Watch the video:
 

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