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| US prosecutors 'to seek indictment of Jackson doctor' US prosecutors will seek an involuntary manslaughter indictment against Michael Jackson’s doctor for the pop star’s death, it was reported today. breakingnews.ie |
New Bond to use 3-D technology The new James Bond film will be in 3-D. breakingnews.ie |
Wyclef helps out in Haiti, Hoult's Progress and a glass of sunshine with Scott Hicks | Trailer Trash | Haiti music doc haltedFormer Fugee Wyclef Jean (right) was filming a documentary about Haiti's musicians when the earthquake struck so devastatingly last week. Jean had only left Port-au-Prince a few days before, having spent months on his native island setting up the film. The pop star of course returned, via the Dominican Republic, to pull bodies from the rubble, and his blogs and tweets have raised millions of dollars in aid pledges, but he has not used the opportunity to mention the film project he had been undertaking. Jean was working with New York film-maker Joe Berlinger on the documentary (Berlinger's latest, campaigning film Crude is released in the UK this weekend) which was to have explored the island's musical culture, history and legacy, in a manner similar to what Wim Wenders's Buena Vista Social Club did in Cuba. As he was leaving for Haiti last week, Berlinger told me: "We haven't heard from any of the musicians we were in contact with. At times like this you forget about such projects, yet, as a documentary-maker, you have to go in and chronicle what you see. Wyclef wants us to be there. The hotel we were basing our production in has been flattened. What I do know is, the island has a defiant spirit in its soul and in its music, so there is always hope."Blushing rising starBafta nominee Nicholas Hoult has grown into a strapping six-footer, and he was looking dapper in his new Tom Ford suit at the nominations launch at Bafta last week. However, drawing himself up to his full height looked a bit painful and had him wincing. "I've pulled something," he said. "It's a bit embarrassing as I did it rowing, but not in a boat or anything, in the gym. How vain is that?" Nicholas can soon be seen opposite Colin Firth in Tom Ford's A Single Man and in the new epic version of Clash of the Titans. "I wear a skirt in that one," he told me, "and I'm covered in fake tan. My nan didn't recognise me in the trailer."Hicks's hiccupsYou could easily hate Scott Hicks. When I call him, he's at his South Australian beach house watching the sun fade around a headland at the end of a "blazingly perfect summer's day". This is, in fact, also the view that features in the Shine director's new film The Boys Are Back which stars Clive Owen in perhaps the best performance of his career. "We shot the film here on the Fleurieu Peninsula," says Hicks, "and we all lived here on the location, too, so it became an extremely pleasant experience. I didn't have to struggle to make things feel credible." Hicks also owns a vineyard nearby, where he grows award-winning Shiraz and farms sought-after Tempranillo grapes. The winery also features in the film. "It's a world away from film-making, a slow, patient process and I love it," he says. Does he get high on his own supply, I wonder? "I do exercise strict quality control, shall we say." So I leave him to a glass of home-grown Shiraz and the last rays of that sunset. Annoyingly, his film's pretty good, too.Jason Solomonsguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
Banksy film set for Sundance premiere Banksy describes his first film Exit Through the Gift Shop as 'the story of how one man set out to film the unfilmable - and failed'He is better known for his work on brick, plasterwork, portable toilets and even, on one memorable occasion, an elephant. But until now the artist known as Banksy, in creating his satirical artworks, has largely stuck to the old-fashioned mediums of painting and sculpture.Today, however, it emerged that the graffiti artist and cultural bête noire has branched into filmmaking, with the release of what is described as "the worlds first street art disaster movie".Exit Through the Gift Shop, which will have its international premiere on Sunday at the Sundance film festival, is described by its creator as "the story of how one man set out to film the unfilmable - and failed", and by the festival's organisers as "an amazing ride, a cautionary modern fairy tale ... with bolt cutters".Banksy's spokeswoman, Jo Brooks, declined to elaborate much further on the plot of the 89-minute feature film, though the festival's website helpfully provides some details, describing it as the account of what happened when a French filmmaker, Terry Guetta, set out to record the "secretive world" of street art, only to meet Banksy, at which point "things took a bizarre turn".Pressed for more detail, the artist himself offered the following, hardly illuminating, elaboration through his publicist: "It's a film about a man who tried to make a film about me. Everything in it is true, especially the bits where we all lie."The film's trailer shows footage of a number of street artists, their identities not always clear, captured in the rather shambolic act of creating graffiti artworks ‑ slipping off platforms, spilling paint and being intercepted by police and security guards."In a world without rules," reads the tagline, "one man broke them all." Though the artist, who scrupulously guards his anonymity, does appear in the film, his identity, despite rumours to the contrary, is not revealed, said Brooks.It is a departure for the artist, who has come some way from his beginnings as an underground rebel in Bristol in the early 1990s to a position dangerously approaching that of establishment darling. A major show in that city's museum last summer attracted 350,000 visitors in nine weeks and is thought to have contributed £10m to Bristol's economy, while 93% of local residents voted in favour of the city council preserving rather than removing a Banksy artwork of a naked man dangling from a window.The artist, many of whose works are comical spoofs of other works, these days even attracts his own unscrupulous imitators ‑ an exhibition on fakes and forgeries curated by the Metropolitan police and opening on Saturday at the Victoria and Albert includes a number of fake Banksy artworks.John Cooper, director of the Sundance festival, described Exit Through the Gift Shop as "one of those films that comes along once in a great while, a warped hybrid of reality and self-induced fiction, while at the same time a totally entertaining experience. The story is so bizarre I began to question if it could even be real ... but in the end I didn't care."I feel bad I won't be able to shake the filmmaker's hand and tell him how much I love this film. I think I will shake everyone's hand that day and hope I hit on Banksy somewhere. I love his work in all forms."BanksySundance film festivalEsther Addleyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
'Jeremy Kyle Show' to go stateside Controversial daytime TV host Jeremy Kyle is to take his show to the US, it was announced today. breakingnews.ie |