Details & Release Date For Sonic Youth’s Score For French Thriller ‘Simon Werner A Disparu’
Details & Release Date For Sonic Youth's Score For French Thriller 'Simon Werner A Disparu'
William S. Burroughs Doc Soundtracked By Sonic Youth & Patti Smith, Gets Fall Release
Beastie Boy Adam Yauch's Oscilloscope Laboratories has picked up first time filmmaker Yony Leyser's documentary "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within" for distribution, indieWIRE reports.The documentary, which fo...
Cannes 2010 Review: ‘Lights Out’ Is A Gripping Gallic High School Drama
"I went away to see an old friend of mine/his sister came over/she was out of her mind" -- Sonic Youth, "Schizophrenia"Coming in at a crisp ninety-three minutes with not a single wasted shot or extraneous momen...
Sonic Youth To Provide Soundtrack For French Cannes Entry ‘Simon Werner a Disparu’
To a long-time reader, it might be no surprise that we here at The Playlist love Sonic Youth. The rockers, whose last (and 15th!) album was The Eternal, an excellent reminder of the legacy of noise rock's key f...
Todd Haynes To Direct 5-Hour ‘Mildred Pierce’ Mini-Series Starring Kate Winslet For HBO
While this has been in the works for months now, it's finally official.HBO has gone ahead and brought another excellent filmmaker into the fold. Todd Haynes has signed on to write and direct the five-hour mini-...
Leona Lewis Sings ‘Avatar’; ‘Young@Heart’ Gets Remake; Friedkin An ‘Excorcist’ Again?
-We've said it before and we'll say it again: we're profoundly indifferent to James Cameron's forthcoming "Avatar." The trailers, plot and weird blue aliens haven't done it for us and with today's announcement ...
Sonic Youth Rock Criterion; Schwartzman Hearts ‘Pilgrim’; Levi Turns Down ‘Thor’; Gilliam Has Rules
Aging New York noiseniks Sonic Youth have given Criterion a list of their favorite Criterion DVDs. Their top 12 list is pretty damn good and includes, Fassbinder’s excellent Douglas Sirk homage, "Ali: Fear Eats...
Jonathan Demme Parts Ways With Bob Marley Doco, Sonic Youth To Perform On ‘Gossip Girl,’ Preview Entire ‘Jennifer’s Body’ Soundtrack
First Martin Scorsese dropped out, now Jonathan Demme has followed suit and parted ways with the now ill-fated Bob Marley documentary. Demme's exit may have a little bite though with the exit reportedly relatin...
Mike Mills Finally Making A Follow-Up To ‘Thumbsucker’ With Ewan McGregor
We're fans of director/artist/graphic designer Mike Mills.In 2005 his underrated indie flick "Thumbsucker" achieved two important things (one of them almost unfathomable): it introduced most of us to the excell...
Nirvana’s Famous ‘Live At Reading’ Concert Finally Coming To DVD Properly
'90s grunge rockers Nirvana played a rather famous show at the Reading Festival in the U.K. on August 30, 1992. The band played Boston's "More Than A Feeling," in cheeky response to many claims that "Smells Lik...