J.I.D is sitting in the green room of the Universal Music Group’s offices watching a replay of a football game. He had just finished eating some takeout when I walked in. The Atlanta Mc has had hundreds of performances in his career, but he’s never quite had a set like the one he performed for a small, invite-only crowd in Manhattan, where he performed a song that will never be formally released to the public.
He partnered with 5 Gum to put together a custom track for their Hip-Hop 50 celebration.
He partnered with 5 Gum to put together a custom track for their Hip-Hop 50 celebration.
- 10/13/2023
- by Andre Gee
- Rollingstone.com
After 2017’s Loving Vincent and Toronto International Film Festival world premiere The Peasants, it is clear that Dk Welchman and Hugh Welchman have developed a gorgeously distinct, personal, ludicrously involved style of filmmaking. Loving Vincent, a clever biography of Vincent Van Gogh, was sold as “the world’s first fully painted feature film,” and indeed it was. The painting process returns in The Peasants, an adaptation of Władysław Reymont’s early 1900s, Nobel Prize–winning novel. A staggering 40,000 frames of film were painted to bring The Peasants to life.
That is an incredible achievement, one that should give the filmmakers and all involved in the production a sense of pride. Unfortunately, watching the finished product inspires difficult questions. Was it worth it? Does the final product warrant the years of painstaking labor involved? Both questions must be answered with a firm no. The Peasants is a visually breathtaking, dramatically inert misfire.
That is an incredible achievement, one that should give the filmmakers and all involved in the production a sense of pride. Unfortunately, watching the finished product inspires difficult questions. Was it worth it? Does the final product warrant the years of painstaking labor involved? Both questions must be answered with a firm no. The Peasants is a visually breathtaking, dramatically inert misfire.
- 9/10/2023
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
In general, I’m a fan of van Gogh movies—a pretty nifty micro-genre because those films examine our ingrained notions about the intrinsic relationship between artistic genius on the one hand and mental illness, poverty, and ostracism on the other.There are two major aesthetic choices that any director making a van Gogh movie must make: (1) how your own cinematic style will comment on or parallel van Gogh’s painterly aesthetics, and (2) how the main actor will portray van Gogh’s madness. Given the subject matter, the director’s own style in these movies takes on a more significant role than in your average film. The most respected movies on the subject remain Vincente Minnelli’s Lust for Life (1956), with Kirk Douglas bellowing melodramatically as a tortured soul, and Maurice Pialat’s Van Gogh (1991), with Jacques Dutronc almost sleepwalking through the picture like an apathetic desk clerk. Robert Altman...
- 10/16/2018
- MUBI
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