Category Archives: Film Features
Film documentary: “Freaks In Love”: A Quarter Century in Underground Rock with Alice Donut!!!
Text by Martin Bisi (producer of Alice Donut’s Pure Acid Park)
Martin Bisi intrviewed in Brooklyn (photo by Shirle Hale)
Alice Donut is a band that always brings together people who enjoyed a common, punk do-it-yourself outsider ethic – with a big emphasis on “freak” and “weird” psychology – people who enjoy a humorous take on an anti-corporate and anti-mainstream attitude, almost turning the tables – that the really funny freaks are corporate and mainstream. Alice Donut shows always seem like a celebration of this shared secret knowledge. And of course Alice Donut (notice the phonetic wordplay on L-S-D ) is a hard driving band – hard driving groves. Some of the best energy in Indie rock history.
Short movie: “Feminin, Masculin” directed by Sadaf Foroughi (Iran).
Sima Bina is a great Iranian singer who can’t sing in her own country because of being a woman!
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Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
VISION: Margarethe von Trotta’s lush portrait of renowned 12th century nun Hildegard von Bingen, stars Barbara Sukowa!
Movie Has U.S. Theatrical Premiere Wednesday, October 13 at Film Forum (NY)!!!
About VISION: (2010, 111 mins.) Directed and Written by Margarethe von Trotta. Produced by Markus Zimmer. Cinematography: Axel Block. Music: Chris Heyne. With original compositions by Hildegard von Bingen. Cast: Barbara Sukowa (Hildegard von Bingen), Heino Ferch (Brother Volmar), Hannah Herzsprung (Richardis von Stade), Lena Stolze (Jutta), Alexander Held (Abbot Kuno). France / Germany. In German with English subtitles. A Zeitgeist Films release.
Ngawang Choephel’s “Tibet in Song” – a documentary film about: Never forget the music in your heart!
Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevari
Yesterday… I went to work out at my gym. Found a New York Times issue from last Thursday next to my leg press machine.
(photo from Ngawang Choephel's Facebook profile pictures)
Today… went through the paper on the D train bound to Brooklyn this morning, and my eyes were attracted by the title (p A32) ” Tibetan Ex-Prisoner Evokes His Homeland’s Struggle in a Movie”, written by Kirk Semple. The article is about the Tibetan movie director and music scholar Ngawang Choephel (pronounced cheu-FELL), 44, who was in a Chinese prison for six and a half years, lives now in Queens and his movie Tibet in Song which made its theatrical release in New York City at the Cinema Village Theatre last Friday September 24. It premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2009 where it won the Special Jury Award in the World Documentary Competition. Since then, Tibet in Song has won numerous awards and screened worldwide.
