News

A 4K remaster of Pink Floyd’s legendary 1972 concert film, Live At Pompeii, will be released in theaters and IMAX this spring.

The film has been meticulously hand restored, frame-by-frame, from its original 35mm cut negative after being discovered in “five dubiously labelled cans within Pink Floyd’s own archives,” according to a press release.

“The newly restored version presents the first full 90-minute cut, combining the 60-minute source edit of the performance with the additional Abbey Road Studios documentary segments filmed shortly after,” explained Lana Topham, Director of Restoration for Pink Floyd.

The film’s audio has also been newly mixed in 5.1 and Dolby Atmos by Steven Wilson.

Pink Floyd at Pompeii – McMlxxii will be released in theaters and IMAX worldwide beginning April 24th, with tickets going on sale starting March 5th. Additionally, a companion live album featuring the newly mixed audio will be released digitally, on CD and vinyl,...

Exclusive: Focus Features, Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment and Mario Kassar Productions are nearing a deal to produce a feature take of Ryū Murakami’s cult 1997 Japanese horror thriller novel, Audition.

The novel was previously adapted into a 1999 Japanese film of the same name, directed by 2x Cannes Palme D’Or nominee Takashi Miike.

The latest take on Audition is being written and directed by Danish multi-hyphenate Christian Tafdrup who is co-writing with his brother and frequent collaborator, Mads Tafdrup.

Focus is producing alongside Hyde Park’s Ashok and Priya Amritraj and Mario Kassar for Mkp. EPs include multi-media, technology company Cineverse’s Chris McGurk and Yolanda Macias, author Murakami, and Joyce Jun.

L to R: Christian Tafdrup and Mads Tafdrup.

Before being remade in English by Blumhouse and Universal, Tafdrup’s original Speak No Evil earned 11 nominations at the 2023 Danish Film Awards, with Christian Tafdrup himself nominated for Best Film,...

David Gilmour’s new album, Luck and Strange, has officially been released and is streaming below. It’s also available to purchase on limited-edition colored vinyl, as well as in a deluxe box set.

First announced this past April, Luck and Strange includes nine new tracks from the Pink Floyd guitarist, including eight originals — many of which were co-written with his wife, Polly Samson — and a cover of The Montgolfier Brothers’ 1999 song, “Between Two Points.”

Get David Gilmour Tickets Here

Throughout Luck and Strange, Gilmour is joined by a number of guest musicians, including Steve Gadd, Roger Eno, and more. The title track even features late Pink Floyd keyboard player Richard Wright, who’s part was recorded during a 2007 jam session at Gilmour’s house.

Luck and Strange arrives via Sony Music, and is the new first studio release from Gilmour since 2015’s Rattle That Lock. Speaking about the record last month,...

In 1926, Langston Hughes wrote an essay about his disappointment in a young writer who expressed, “I want to be a poet — not a Negro poet.” Hughes used that lamentation to argue that this writer — of Black middle-class upbringing — wanted to be white. More interesting than Hughes’ pathologizing in “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” was his distillation of the time-worn tension among the Black artist, his work and his audience in a country founded on white supremacist ideals.

Black artists with mainstream aspirations in the United States indeed always come up against this nightmare scenario, rife with ignorance, projection, guilt and a dissatisfying seesaw of overhype and chronic underestimation. In 1955, James Baldwin penned an essay criticizing American protest fiction, a genre that he saw as over-sentimentalizing stories about Black people for the market. He accused his former mentor Richard Wright of peddling stereotypes in his novel Native Son instead of creating lived-in,...

Richard Wright’s seminal novel “Native Son,” first published in 1940, is one of the most important books ever written about racism and the black experience in America. That can’t be argued. However, it has had the sad misfortune of also… Continue Reading →...

Richard Wright’s classic novel “Native Son” is coming to the big screen, with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks signed on to adapt the book for a feature film. Photographer Rashid Johnson will direct the film in his feature debut. Last year, Johnson became the first artist in nearly four decades to be named to the Board of Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum. The film will be produced by Bow and Arrow Entertainment, which acquired the rights to the 1940 classic. “Native Son,” which elevated Wright to national prominence, follows a 20-year-old African-American man named Bigger Thomas from impoverished.

Richard Wright’s classic novel Native Son will be adapted into a film directed by artist and photographer Rashid Johnson in his directorial debut

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Suzan-Lori Parks will adapt Wright's book for the Bow and Arrow project.

The novel, while first published in 1940, remains timely as it could easily be considered a forerunner to the Black Lives Matter movement. It tells the story of Bigger Thomas, a 20-year-old African-American man growing up in poverty on the South Side of Chicago and the series of events and decisions that will forever alter his life.

Bow and Arrow partners Matthew...

Richard Wright's seminal novel "Native Son," first published in 1940, is one of the most important books ever written about racism and the black experience in America. That can’t be argued. However, it has had the sad misfortune of also being extremely unlucky at the movies. There have been 2 film versions, and both of them were pretty lousy. There was the 1986 version made for PBS, which did get a brief theatrical run, with Victor Love as the lead troubled character, Bigger Thomas, and Oprah Winfrey, in one of her first film roles, as his downtrodden suffering mother ("My baby! My baby! Please suh my baby ain't meant no harm!"... or lines to that...

Richard Wright's seminal novel "Native Son," first published in 1940, is one of the most important books ever written about racism and the black experience in America. That can’t be argued. However, it has had the sad misfortunate of also being extremely unlucky at the movies. There have been 2 film versions, and both of them were pretty lousy. There was the 1986 version made for PBS, which did get a brief theatrical run, with Victor Love as the lead troubled character, Bigger Thomas, and Oprah Winfrey, in one of her first film roles, as his downtrodden suffering mother ("My baby! My baby! Please suh my baby ain't meant no harm!"... or lines to...

Richard Wright's seminal novel "Native Son," first published in 1940, is one of the most important books ever written about racism and the black experience in America. That can’t be argued. However, it has had the sad misfortunate of also being extremely unlucky at the movies. There have been 2 film versions, and both of them were pretty lousy. There was the 1986 version made for PBS, which did get a brief theatrical run, with Victor Love as the lead troubled character, Bigger Thomas, and Oprah Winfrey, in one of her first film roles, as his downtrodden suffering mother ("My baby! My baby! Please suh my baby ain't meant no harm!"... or lines to...

I last wrote about this amazing film over a year ago, but now that it’s available to be seen on YouTube, I thought it’s time for another revisit. Not that it’s some undiscovered or overlooked classic. Just the opposite. It’s a genuine disaster, but a fascinating one. Richard Wright's seminal novel Native Son, first published in 1940, is one of the most important books ever written about racism and the black experience in America. That can’t be argued. However, it has had the sad misfortunate of also being extremely unlucky at the movies. There have been two film versions, and both of them were pretty lousy. There was the 1986 version made for PBS which did get a brief theatrical...

Let’s go beyond the candelabra: Name 5 Best Actor Oscar winners and the gay biopic roles you want them to play.

Well, I’ll be the millionth to say it: Behind the Candelabra was a worthy two hours of television! It was an appropriately decadent affair with eye-popping star turns and sweet production value. That line about Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte? So funny and fantastic.

To celebrate the movie’s goodness, let’s play a parlor game: Pick a Best Actor Oscar winner (like Michael Douglas) and pick the a great gay biopic role for him to play (like Liberace). I’ve come up with five options, and I’m psyched to hear yours. I threw in a bonus Best Actress scenario for the hell of it.

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Merv Griffin

(Source, Source)

Yes, I’m requesting that the man who perfectly portrayed Truman Capote revive his penchant...

I first wrote about this 1951 film version of Richard Wright's classic and incendiary novel Native Son, with Wright himself as the lead, over a year and half ago, thinking that I would never have to write about it again. Well, I was wrong; and especially for those of you who live in the Chicagoland area. That's because, next month, on Saturday Feb. 2 at 3Pm, at The Block Cinema repertory movie theater, which is located on the Northwestern University campus in Evanston, there will be a rare screening of a 35Mm print of the film. But like I said last time, Wright's seminal novel Native Son, first published in 1940, is one of the most important...

How would I feel if I were a brown student at Miller Valley Elementary School in Prescott, Arizona? A mural was created to depict some of the actual students in the school.

Let's say I was one of the lucky ones. The mural took shape, and as my face became recognizable, I took some kidding from my classmates and a smile from a pretty girl I liked.

My parents even came over one day to have a look and take some photos to e-mail to the family. The mural was shown on TV, and everybody could see that it was me.

Then a City Councilman named Steve Blair went on his local radio talk show and made some comments about the mural. I didn't hear him, but I can guess what he said. My dad says it's open season on brown people in this state. Anyway, for two months white...

Novelist Richard Wright's searing novel Native Son aroused violent controversy from the moment it was published. The saga of a young American black man who becomes an unrepentant killer, the book was hailed as an uncompromising indictment of the nation's racial divisions and social injustice, and condemned as feeding white bigotry while excusing crime. Naturally, Orson Welles, then the most dynamic force in American theater, thought it was just the kind of story his Mercury Theater needed to tackle.