It Might Get Loud by Davis Guggenheim Interview and archival clips are interspersed with a summit meeting, half jam session, half graduate seminar in guitar metaphysics, on a soundstage loaded with all kinds of cool equipment. The guitarists trade riffs and thoughts and at the end make their way through an acoustic rendition of “The…
Category: Movies
John Cazale Film Retrospective at BAM
Rediscovering John Cazale, the John Cazale film retrospective continues now through August 2 at BAM. The seventies-era golden age of American film has been so exhaustively romanticized that it’s hard to believe anything, or anyone, has been overlooked””until you consider the actor John Cazale. You likely recognize his face, but if his name proves elusive,…
Casting Calls: Get Him To The Greek, Sex and The City 2
Get Him To The Greek (First Footage) Grant Wilfley Casting is seeking a band of drummers (to play) for the feature film, Get Him to the Greek starring Jonah Hill and Russell Brand. Shoot date is end of July in New York, NY. If interested and available, please email picture, and contact information to glory@gwcnyc.com….
Patton Oswalt’s Big Fan
I just got some press information about a new film starring Patton Oswalt called Big Fan. In the movie, Oswalt plays a rabid New York Giant’s fan whose world comes crashing down around him after a chance encounter with the team’s star quarterback. Big Fan was directed by Robert Siegel, who wrote The Wrestler, and…
Bruno GQ Cover Too Hot For Some Retailers
“Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.” Sacha Baron Cohen on the cover of GQ Magazine In northwest Washington, D.C., Luqman Kolade, a 27-year-old teacher, saw that the magazines had been turned around at his local Safeway. The manager of the Safeway, who declined to give his name because he was not authorized to speak to…
B&N June Events (Spike Lee, Ben Greenman)
I already missed a few big ones, but here’s a list of some of the remaining June NYC Barnes & Noble events that I found interesting for one reason or another. Barnes & Noble June 2009 Events 06/15/09 – Joe Scarborough (Union Square) 06/16/09 – Monica Ali (Lincoln Triangle) 06/16/09 – Carlos Ruiz Zafon…