![]() In addition, on January 19, the Institute will host the inaugural Opening Night: A Taste of Sundance presented by IMDbPro. ![]() Day One Features are birth/rebirth, L’Immensit à, It’s Only Life After All, Kim’s Video, Little Richard: I Am Everything, The Longest Goodbye, The Pod Generation, Radical, Shayda, Sometimes I Think About Dying, and Run Rabbit Run. Setting the scene, Day One Features will open the Festival in Park City: 11 features, plus a Shorts program, will illustrate the scope of Festival work across genre and form. MT, and single film tickets go on sale January 12 at 10 a.m. ![]() In-Person T icket Packages are currently on sale through December 16, Online Ticket Packages go on sale December 13 at 10 a.m. ![]() Festivalgoers will once again return to theaters to discover this upcoming year’s most impactful independent stories. The 2023 Festival will take place January 19–29, 2023, in person in Park City, Salt Lake City, and the Sundance Resort, along with a selection of films available online across the country January 24–29, 2023. PARK CITY, UTAH, December 7, 2022 - Today the nonprofit Sundance Institute announced the comprehensive slate of independent films selected across the feature film categories for the 2023 Sundance Film Festiva l. ![]()
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7/4/2023 0 Comments John szwed billie holiday![]() ![]() Though Szwed says there are plenty of incidents that the book skips over or changes, Blues emerged at a time of popular interest in stories of artists who overcame obstacles “In our time we’ve drifted back toward that,” he adds, “what Joyce Carol Oates called ‘pathographies,’ instead of biographies, long books with every illness and every failure in them.” By using her autobiography to tell the world what she wanted to the world to know, she was able to respond to the prevailing idea that her story was one of sadness alone. Holiday was working with a myth that already existed when in 1956 she released her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. ![]() Still, the idea of Holiday defined by suffering was already beginning to take hold. That avoidance was made easier by the fact that, even when she was at her most productive, her music didn’t fit in with the popular styles of the time. During the height of her career, only the most scandalous tabloids were covered Holiday’s backstory more legitimate publications often stayed away from her. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Setting off on their trail, with Sue the dingo riding shotgun, they find themselves in a stark, strange world in which the animal apocalypse has only further isolated people from other species. When he takes off with Kimberly, heading south, Jean feels the pull to follow her kin. As the flu progresses, the unstoppable voices become overwhelming, and many people begin to lose their minds, including Jean’s infected son, Lee. As disturbing news arrives of a pandemic sweeping the country, Jean realises this is no ordinary flu: its chief symptom is that its victims begin to understand the language of animals - first mammals, then birds and insects, too. And although Jean talks to all her charges, she has a particular soft spot for a young dingo called Sue. Instead, she surrounds herself with animals, working as a guide in an outback wildlife park. ![]() She’s never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her beloved granddaughter, Kimberly. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to bullshit, Jean is not your usual grandma. ![]() Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. ![]() ![]() Erikson weaves his way between all the perspectives in a way that enhances the story. “Gardens of the Moon” itself has 33 separate points-of-view. There is no clear protagonist of the series. ![]() There are not just side characters to keep track of, but dozens of perspective characters that switch from book to book. They are complex, morally gray and numerous. One of the biggest make-or-break aspects of Malazan are the characters. I was hesitant to read it at first, having heard that it was difficult, but “Gardens of the Moon” hooked me in and got me yearning to dive into the rest of the amazing world that Malazan had to offer. “Gardens of the Moon” is the first book in a series of ten, though the saga itself is not contained to just that initial series. ![]() With the next Malazan book, “Forge of the High Mage,” coming out in early April 2023, it seems timely to revisit the first book, “Malazan Book of the Fallen: Gardens of the Moon.” The “Malazan” series is known as an important landmark in the fantasy genre, expanding the conception of what fantasy could be. ![]() ![]() “Malazan,” written by Steven Erikson, is an epic fantasy saga spanning multiple series. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments The john waters collection![]() ![]() 8 (2016) Photo: Jen Berg/John Waters Studio It’s only fitting that the fruits of my 60-year search for new art that could startle, antagonize, and infuriate even me, ends up where it all began-in my hometown museum.” “After taking it home and hanging it on my bedroom wall at my parents’ house, I realized from the hostile reaction of my neighborhood playmates that art could provoke, shock, and cause trouble. “The first art I ever bought was a two-dollar Miró poster at The Baltimore Museum of Art gift shop back in the 50s when I was a child,” Waters says in a statement. ![]() To honour his generosity, the museum will rename a rotunda in its European art galleries after the film-maker-as well as a pair of restrooms in the East Lobby, “per his request”, the institution notes. ![]() The gift includes photographs and works on paper by artists such as Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, Lee Lozano, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, and Christopher Wool, as well as 90 works by Waters himself, making the museum the largest archive of his art. Today, the director of Pink Flamingos and Hairspray cemented his artistic legacy there by donating around 375 works from his fine art collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA). John Waters has long made his love of Baltimore known, setting many of his cult classic films in his native city. ![]() ![]() The audience sat on overturned crates and between worn carts, checking the heavens every few minutes for Bahia’s Comet, even though its arrival and the start of the festival of Solstasia were still hours away. It was the perfect time for a story too-that hour when dusk met night and the little sunlight that remained left the sky bright but the world below dark. The steady rhythm of a djembe drum now accompanied the griot’s call, and within minutes a sizable crowd had formed beneath the baobab tree where she stood. ![]() Bone-white tattoos composed of symbols Malik could not understand swirled on every inch of her dark brown skin. The griot was a stout woman nearly a head shorter than Malik, with a face stretched wide in a tooth-baring grin. ![]() On instinct, Malik angled his body toward the storyteller’s call, his grip tightening around the satchel strap slung across his chest. The griot’s voice warbled through the scorching desert air, cutting through the donkey pens and jeweled caravans that populated the tent settlement outside the city-state of Ziran’s Western Gate. “Abraa! Abraa! Come and gather-a story is about to begin!” I have done my best to approach these topics with sensitivity, but if you feel this kind of content may be triggering, please be aware. Please note this book depicts issues of mild self-harm ideation, fantasy violence, emotional and physical abuse, anxiety and panic attacks, parent death, and animal death. ![]() ![]() And for every Black child that’s wondered ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments That's Amore by Elisa Formenti![]() The problem with movies like this is that they try turn a perfectly fine new casual relationship into an epic romance between soulmates without making that believable. I just wanted to grab a pair of scissors and cut off his long bangs. Matias was a nice enough character, but I didn't see him as anything other than a convenient and pleasant rebound guy that could help boost Sofia's shattered self esteem. So one would expect a character arc where she eventually takes control of her life and ends up making a big life decision based only on what was objectively best for her (and realistic). Her boyfriend was obviously a piece of crap, but Sofia was, as her friend Olivia pointedly told her, letting others make decisions for her- the uncaring boss, the cheating boyfriend, and even her well intentioned mother. ![]() I loved watching her and she delivered some snappy lines with style. I don't remember seeing Riley Dandy in anything before but she was the best part of this movie. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s wonderful how what we think we know without any type of doubt is completely challenged in his books. How our little world is completely changed in just one moment. Everything is full of fantasy and sometimes even some kind of “magic”. But I was so wrong! Surrealism is what I love in his work. When I heard about his style and subjects of writing, I never thought I would love his books so much. Dali and Buñuel never had a great impact in me so I couldn’t see how Murakami would. There’s also a lot of constant elements throughout his books like cats and a jazz bar, with an owner always willing to have philosophical conversations. He has a very specific style, full of surrealist and melancholic moments. ![]() For several years now, his work has put him in the spotlight for the Nobel Prize for Literature, even though he hasn’t won it yet (which is utterly unfair, in my opinion). Haruki Murakami is a japanese writer, born in 1949. At the time, I had no idea who Murakami was and how much he would eventually change my life. ![]() Kafka À Beira-Mar) by Haruki Murakami.Ī few years ago, during my first big depression, a friend of mine recommended me this book. I recently finished re-reading one of my favourite books of all time and I thought it was a fitting time to return with another review for my segment of Favourite Books. ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments Reign of Wrath by Eva Ashwood![]() When she grew tired of searching, she thought why not write it herself and she has not stopped to this day. She wrote her debut inspired by the fact that she just could not get any romance novel that had a particular trope she loved. She particularly loved reading romance and from the moment she discovered them in young adulthood, she was hooked and has never looked back. Growing up, Eva Ashwood was a huge reader and she would voraciously devour all manner of books. Eva now has more than twenty novels across more than seven series. ![]() She published “Lost Boys,” the debut novel of the “SlateView High” series of novels in 2019 and has never looked back since. She is also a sucker for heroes that redeem themselves, reverse harem, enemies to lovers, bully romance, and the passion and drama of new adult love. ![]() ![]() She has said that reading is something that she has been doing her whole life, even though she only got into writing several years ago.Īshwood has become known for writing intriguing tales of handsome alpha men and the feisty women that bring them to their knees. Eva Ashwood is a bestselling paranormal romance and new adult romance novelist. ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments She hulk by peter david![]() The waiting period until the complaint may not be longer than 5 days after receipt in the case of transport damage and the like ("externally visible damage") in the case of production issues ("internal damage") no longer than 30 days. Please keep our original packing box until the damage claim has been cleared. 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