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Get ready to say hello to Yello. The Swiss electronic duo will go from cult classic to cultural marvel in the forthcoming documentary short, Oh Yeah, about their obscure Eighties hit of the same name. The film directed by Nick Canfield has been acquired by Rolling Stone Films and the streaming platform Documentary+. Oh Yeah will premiere on June 7 at Tribeca Film Festival.

“It’s the most iconic two words in pop music history — Oh Yeah!” Justin Lacob, President of Documentary+ and Xtr, said in a statement. “This film is...

Oh Yeah!, a documentary short on the iconic song by Yello and its impact on pop culture, has been acquired by Documentary+ Originals and Rolling Stone Films ahead of its June 7 world premiere at Tribeca Festival.

Directed by Nick Canfield, Oh Yeah! is the story of the electronic music and their 1980’s hit made famous by Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Featuring interviews with actor Alan Ruck, musician/comedian Reggie Watts and Tarquin Gotch (music supervisor to John Hughes), it explores the cultural phenomenon of “Oh Yeah” from movie references to commercials to parodies while introducing the artists behind the music.

Canfield’s music doc The Reverend profiled gospel-rock icon and activist Reverend Vince Anderson, winning the audience award at Doc NYC. My Back Pages covered the world’s foremost collector of Bob Dylan memorabilia.

“I am fascinated...

Maybe just seeing the song title “Oh Yeah” written out plainly on the page like this won’t trigger any immediate memories — but trust us, you know it. Recorded in 1985 by Swiss electronic duo Yello, “Oh Yeah” is the song that blew up thanks to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and The Secret of My Success — the one that goes “doo bow-bow” and then, “chick, chicka chick-ahh” —and has remained an enduring part of the pop soundscape for nearly 40 years.

The song’s story, its singular longevity, and the two...

Novelist/screenwriter, Christian Kracht, gives a Paddington hard stare before his conversation on Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas with Daniel Bowles and Anne-Katrin Titze Photo: David Netto

Douglas Sirk's penultimate film before emigrating from Germany to Hollywood, La Habanera (1937), with Zarah Leander and Ferdinand Marian battling "Puerto Rico fever", fits right in with the mood of Imperium, throwing geography and time frames to the wind. Jan Ole Gerster, the director of A Coffee In Berlin (Oh Boy!) is attached with Tom Schilling (as South Sea savior of a sort, August Engelhardt) to the filming of Christian Kracht's German best-seller.

In 2013, at the Montréal World Film Festival, Frauke Finsterwalder's Finsterworld, co-written by Christian Kracht, had its international premiere. The first-rate ensemble cast includes Ronald Zehrfeld and Michael Maertens (both starring in Christian Petzold's latest, Phoenix), Margit Carstensen (of Rainer Werner Fassbinder fame), Sandra Hüller,...

Rob counts down the top 50 episodes of TV's longest-running animated series, The Simpsons...

Since its debut in 1989, across 552 episodes and 25 seasons, The Simpsons has become one of the most revered and beloved TV programmes of all time. It’s a true cultural phenomenon that’s influenced not just animation, but all areas of TV comedy and sitcom. For so many of us, its quotes and catchphrases have permeated our everyday vernacular, from single words like “crisitunity” and “embiggen” to phrases “you don’t win friends with salad” and “everything’s coming up Milhouse.”

Personal opinions may vary, but for me the show’s peak years were from season 4 through to 10. They’re consistently funny, all killer and no filler runs with barely a dud episode to be found between 1992-1998. Past this point the standard becomes a little more mixed, and recent seasons have been distinctly average at best. The...

Remember the '80s Swiss electronic duo Yello? Nope? Doesn't ring a bell? Okay, let's try this again: remember that awesome "chicka chicka... ohhhh yeahhh" song that plays at the end of Ferris Bueller's Day Off? Yes, of course you do; in fact, you're probably pissing off your loved ones by mimicking that epic, computerized baritone right now. First of all, stop doing that, because it's ridiculously annoying. Second of all, you're not the only one who remembers the song; apparently, Karl Rove remembers it too. His super Pac American Crossroads came under fire this week for featuring what sounds like a sample of the track in an anti-Obama attack ad. And Yello (the aforementioned Swiss electronic duo who authored the tune) is none too pleased about it. The commercial, titled "Cool," paints the president Obama as a bumbling, ineffectual [...]...

Considering it's where most of us (bar the weird home-schooled kids) spend our crucial formative years, where we have our first fights, our first loves, our first tentative steps into adulthood, it's no surprise that high school has long been a popular setting for movies. A range of genres (though generally leaning towards comedy) have taken place in those hallways, particularly from the 1980s onwards, when John Hughes, among others, made an entire career out of the lives and loves of 15-18 year olds.

The latest film to head back to class is "21 Jump Street" (review here) the big-screen reboot of the '80s TV show, which stars Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum as youthful-looking cops who are sent back to high school in order to bust a drug-running ring. While you might assume this to be another lazy remake, you'd be very wrong, as Tatum, Hill, co-writer Michael Bacall,...

Life comes at you fast.

With a brilliant ad that appealed to the kid in all of us, Honda enlisted Matthew Broderick himself to revive the iconic character of Ferris Bueller for their Super Bowl ad. In the commercial, Broderick fakes sick for a day of shooting, and hits the town.

With his trusty Cr-v and Yello's 1985 song "Oh Yeah" from the "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" soundtrack playing in the background, Broderick hit up horse races, performed in a parade (though he didn't sing "Danke Schoen") and managed to avoid being spotted by his studio boss at a red light.

Honda says that true Bueller fans should be able to spot over two dozen references to the film in the 2.5 minute ad -- how many did you find?...

We take a closer look at the many references to 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' in Honda's commercial.

By Eric Ditzian

Matthew Broderick in his Honda Cr-v commercial

Photo: Honda

Did you catch everything there was to see in the "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"-inspired Super Bowl ad? Perhaps there were some references you didn't pick up, some callbacks that went unnoticed. Maybe you just want to go back and watch, again and again, what is sure to be one of the night's most talked-about Super Bowl commercials.

So go right ahead with the help of MTV News' pop-culture cheat sheet:

Sick phone call: In the movie, it was Ferris' buddy, Cameron Frye (Alan Ruck), who picked up Ferris' call to plead that he was too sick to leave his bed. In the ad, Ferris receives the call.

Walter Linder: His agent's name in the commercial is the name...

We take a closer look at the many references to 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' in Honda's commercial.

By Eric Ditzian

Matthew Broderick in his Honda Cr-v commercial

Photo: Honda

Did you catch everything there was to see in the "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"-inspired Super Bowl ad? Perhaps there were some references you didn't pick up, some callbacks that went unnoticed. Maybe you just want to go back and watch, again and again, what is sure to be one of the night's most talked-about Super Bowl commercials.

So go right ahead with the help of MTV News' pop-culture cheat sheet:

Sick phone call: In the movie, it was Ferris' buddy, Cameron Frye (Alan Ruck), who picked up Ferris' call to plead that he was too sick to leave his bed. In the ad, Ferris receives the call.

Walter Linder: His agent's name in the commercial is the name...

[flv custom_thumbnail="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhkDdayA4iA" width="600" height="350"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhkDdayA4iA/flv] In a new commercial for Honda, Matthew steps back into the shoes of the character that made him famous. It's not quite the sequel we've all been waiting for, but Ferris Bueller is back -- in a manner of speaking, that is. In a commercial for the Honda Crv slated to air during Super Bowl Xlvi on Feb. 5, Matthew Broderick channels Ferris when he fakes sick to get out of work. "I've got a lot to do today," he says, with Yello's "Oh Yeah" playing in the background. "Life is packed with things you have to do, but sometimes you gotta live a little," he continues, while driving around in his Crv. On his joy ride, Broderick makes pit stops at a carnival, the beach, a museum, and even the racetrack, where the unsuspecting star gets smooched by an enthusiastic spectator. Later on, in a throwback to the...

Matthew Broderick gets another day off in the Honda commercial.

By Eric Ditzian

Matthew Broderick in his Honda Cr-v commercial

Photo: Honda

In retrospect, perhaps it would have been better for Ferris Bueller to stay hidden away in Hollywood retirement. Perhaps when the classic '80s troublemaker reappeared in a viral video last week — a teaser spot leading up to a Super Bowl ad for Honda — we should have realized no good could come of hauling out a movie icon to shill for the auto industry.

And now, as depressing as an early-bird special, the commercial has arrived long ahead of primetime. Inspired by but not reprising his Ferris role, Matthew Broderick shuffles through the commercial, halfheartedly repeating lines from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and finding himself in situations ripped from the 1986 John Hughes comedy. Once again, Broderick doesn't want to work, so he fakes an illness and heads off on an adventure.

Matthew Broderick gets another day off in the Honda commercial.

By Eric Ditzian

Matthew Broderick in his Honda Cr-v commercial

Photo: Honda

In retrospect, perhaps it would have been better for Ferris Bueller to stay hidden away in Hollywood retirement. Perhaps when the classic '80s troublemaker reappeared in a viral video last week — a teaser spot leading up to a Super Bowl ad for Honda — we should have realized no good could come of hauling out a movie icon to shill for the auto industry.

And now, as depressing as an early-bird special, the commercial has arrived long ahead of primetime. Inspired by but not reprising his Ferris role, Matthew Broderick shuffles through the commercial, halfheartedly repeating lines from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and finding himself in situations ripped from the 1986 John Hughes comedy. Once again, Broderick doesn't want to work, so he fakes an illness and heads off on an adventure.

How's your '80s nostalgia level today? If it is feeling a little low, take a look at the ten-second preview clip for a Honda ad that will run during the Super Bowl. In the clip, Matthew Broderick teases a reprise of one of his most-loved roles: Ferris Bueller, complete with a bit of Yello's signature song 'Oh Yeah.' The clip showed up yesterday with this explanation: "We hate to be such a tease, but on a day like today, we just have to. Stick it out until the Super Bowl, or take a "day off" on Monday and catch the big reveal." It caused a lot of speculation: what is Ferris doing? Or, more to the point, what is he selling? Turns out that he's selling a car made by Honda. That's the report from Gawker's auto blog Jalopnik [1]. The site also reports that Todd Phillips (The Hangover,...

Glen highlights the tracks that tend to get aired just a little too often in modern day movies...

There are quite literally millions of songs available on this planet called Earth, catering to all ages and tastes. But in spite of the vastness of this musical back catalogue, there seems to be a small percentage that crop up time and time again in films, depriving other songs of much deserved royalties.

In an attempt to encourage the movers and shakers of the movie industry (like they actually read this) to spread the love, I thought I’d highlight a few songs that have been over-used in the movies.

Just to clarify, I don’t necessarily hate the songs included (except Who Let The Dogs Out, but that’s not really a song). It’s just that I’ve heard enough of them in the movies, and think they should be...

John Hughes, probably one of the most recognized and regarded filmmakers to represent my generation, died of a heart attack at age 59 in New York this morning.

In case you aren't familiar with his work, Hughes was responsible for writing and directing some of the greatest staple teen dramedy films of the 1980's including "Sixteen Candles", "The Breakfast Club", and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". He also wrote and directed several cinematic classics like "Trains, Planes, and Automobiles", "Uncle Buck", and "Weird Science".

Hughes' films often contained eclectic scores by Ira Newborn mixed with excellent while obscure source material, the most memorable probably being the synth-poppy "Bueller", which combined Newborn's synth prowess with the then unknown German punk-electro band "Yello" and emerging talents like "Dream Academy", "The Flowerpot Men", and "The English Beat".

It sucks to say goodbye to a talent that will be sorely missed in my own home to a pretty great extent.

"Dandy'' is a poseur, a dim and grungy piece of experimental exhibitionism from Germany. Technically amateurish and philosophically blowsy, "Dandy'' kicks off the venerable Vagabond Theatre's new direction.

The Wilshire Boulevard revival house will now screen art-house fare, hopefully better than this filmic flotsam.

A shrill barrage of non-linear images and abstract acts punctuated by the musical-dance morass of Nick Cave, Nina Hagen, Yoshito Ohno, among equally untalented others, "Dandy'' is bargain-basement underground filmmaking -- low on ideas, style and backbone.

Kindergarten counterculture, "Dandy'' is an unimaginative, monotonic grind revved up only intermittently by its sophomoric shock shots and its wide-ranging geographical images.

Times Square, Marrakech, Cairo, Himalaya, Tokyo are among the disparate settings for this dark hodgepodge of philosophical mumblings and guitar strummings. While it has minor appeal as a travelogue, this techno-jumbo struts as bigger stuff, repeatedly pontificating about the nature of death.

Example: A female punker is asked the burning question, "What would you do if you had only 10 days left to live?'' She replies, "I'd like to be stoned.''

The camera then lingers over a stone desert, blearily focusing on a running coyote. Such is the thematic and visual level of this punk gunk.

Peter Sempel's directorial style, and we use the term loosely, is characterized only by its grim, in-your-face tonality. The sloppy transitions, the underlit images, the off-kilter framings are not so much a marriage of style with substance but seem rather a cop-out to have neither.

DANDY

Pandora, Peter Sempel

Producers Niko Brucher, Pandora-film, Peter Sempel

Director Peter Sempel

Directors of photography Frank Blasberg, Jonas Scholz, Norimichi Kasamatsu, Peter Sempel

Editor Wolf Ingo Romer

Sound Drago Hari, Takashi Endo, Kai Wessel, Susanne Greuner, Stefanie Hesse, Roxana Herbst

Color/Stereo

Cast: Blixa Bargeld, Nick Cave, Dieter Meier, Yoshito Ohno, Nina Hagen, Lene Lovich, Rattenjenny, Imke Lagemann

Running time -- 89 minutes

No MPAA rating

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