Sun Valley Film Festival Announces 2013 Lineup
by BWW News Desk - Feb 11, 2013
A rich collection of independent narrative and documentary films have been selected for screening at the upcoming 2013 Sun Valley Film Festival, March 14-17. The selected 33 feature films were curated from hundreds of submissions by filmmakers throughout the US and 20 foreign countries. (more...)
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Celine Dion Debuts 'Unfinished Songs' in Toronto International Film Festival's SONG FOR MARION
by BWW News Desk - Sep 14, 2012
'Unfinished Songs,' a new song from Celine Dion and songwriter Diane Warren, was written and recorded for the upcoming British film Song For Marion. Written and directed by Paul Andrew Williams, Song For Marion will be closing the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on Saturday, September 15. The song will be included on Celine's upcoming English-language album, Water And A Flame, to be released this coming November. (more...)
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FLASH FRIDAY: WEST SIDE STORY - All The Way
by Pat Cerasaro - Nov 04, 2011
Has Broadway ever had the pleasure to hear a better score than that of WEST SIDE STORY? Furthermore, has a better movie musical ever been made of a Broadway show? Honestly, does musical theatre get any more breathlessly exhilarating and passionately evocative as WEST SIDE STORY unquestionably is? Did Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins somehow actually improve on perfection in the original production of the show with their 1960 film version of the Shakespeare-based, modern Manhattan-set property? Well, I suppose it all depends on your point of view, but for many Broadway babies WEST SIDE STORY is simply as good as it gets as far as musical tragedy or musical comedy is concerned, and, for many film buffs, there are few movie musicals as potent, powerful and prescient as WEST SIDE STORY undoubtedly is in its multi-Oscar-winning film iteration. It is truly the best of both worlds for the duration of its running time, somehow managing to put across the highly theatrical storytelling techniques employed by master-directors Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, and, also, present the realistic, rough and tumble life of Tony and Maria - the doomed lovers at the core of the story. More than anything else, though, it is the impossible-to-beat score for WEST SIDE STORY by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim - along with Arthur Laurents tight and terse book (enhanced for the film by Ernest Lehmann) - that makes it the timeless classic for the ages that it is. Name one other score that boasts as many songs etched into the very culture of America itself as this one - "Tonight", "Maria", "Cool", "A Boy Like That", "I Feel Pretty", "America", "Somewhere"; and, the list goes on. (more...)
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