Coinciding with Refugee Week, and
her film Hear Her Singing screening at the Southbank Centre, the artist shares some influential images
Coinciding with Refugee Week, and
her film Hear Her Singing screening at the Southbank Centre, Charwei Tsai shares some influential images with Frieze.
Not exact matches
And while the plot can become convoluted, the
film is not really about the narrative but about the joy of self expression and, when we
hear Miguel
singing «Un Poco Loco» with the bone rattling Héctor, it is a moment of rare exuberance.
It is not until well into the third act that the medley «One More Day» properly electrifies the
film, followed swiftly by the show - stopping «Do You
Hear the People
Sing»; but it's too little too late.
I
hear some of you asking, «Well, does he
sing in it like all of his other
films of late?»
Thus far we've only
heard an incredibly brief snippet of the actor
singing, so everyone's eager to see Crowe in action once the
film hits theaters.
Countering the standard practice of having the actors in a
film musical lip - synch their songs to prerecorded tracks (a / k / a «playback»), director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech) insisted that all of the
singing in his Les Mis happen live on the set, in the moment, with hidden earpieces allowing the actors to
hear the orchestrations.
A new featurette for Into the Woods gives us a look at the characters and storylines in the
film — and a chance to
hear cast members, from James Corden to Meryl Streep,
sing.
Undoubtedly an undersung highlight of the festival this year, and at the very least one has to love a
film that can transform a song (a Spanish - language version of «Gloria,»
sung by Umberto Tozzi) into a glorious ode so magnificent it's like you're
hearing it for the very first time.
I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful
film from the South Korean auteur Hong
Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night
film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire
film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've
heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the
film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little
film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.
Aside from finally
hearing Watson's
singing voice, audiences now have a good idea of just how lush the
film is going to look.
Considering the backdrop of Brooklyn's music scene (music for the
film was written by former Rilo Kiley frontwoman Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice, who are known together as the duo Jenny and Johnny) we can expect to
hear Hathaway
sing again, as she did in her Oscar - winning turn in 2012's «Les Misérables» — and considering that she «faces the reality of her life,» we can probably expect that self - expression through music reunites her with her estranged family and enables her to move past her arrested development.
Alternating between somber and chimerical makes for an erratic and often heavy - handed ordeal in Canadian filmmaker Patricia Rozema's (I've
Heard the Mermaids
Singing) latest
film, the dystopian drama, Into The Forest.
«I've
heard better, but you
sing like you do it for a living», notes Robert Mitchum — and the
film, alas, treats her with a similar lack of gallantry, even locking her in a closet, out of harm's way, when the shooting starts.
In the
film she plays Cinderella (you can
hear her
sing «On the Steps of the Palace» here).
In the first teaser of this
film, the
singing was left to the other beautiful star of this movie aka Ryan Gosling and he blew me away with the tidbit of the song «City of Stars», but now we get to
hear Emma Stone show off her beautiful
singing voice as well.
But the
film belongs to Streep, who makes Florence a sweetly feathery dreamer —
singing like an angel, in a voice that only she can
hear.
Offering more material than what's
heard in the
film (which could have used just a bit more musical goosing), the only truly crazy thing on the album is having a trumpet introduce an Opera Man
singing the movie's events for a catchy WTF title tune if there ever was one..
My take: Hong
Sang - soo's HaHaHa was one of my favorite
films of last year's AFI Fest, so I was excited about this as soon as I
heard about it a few months ago and was really hoping AFI would program it.
She doesn't have much to do throughout the length of the
film, but the single reaction on Shug's face after she
hears her own voice
singing the hook on DJay's track is priceless.
The emphasis here is on
singing and we not only
hear Depp and Carter discuss the challenges they faced in having to
sing on
film for the first time but we even see them at work in the studio.
Additional works on view will include Glorioso (from Nenuphar), a silent digital video featuring stereoscopic images of memorial wreaths, bouquets, and markers, the aforementioned Synapse (from Black Beethoven), and Mute, a silent video featuring three views of Bessie Smith captured from a
film including a tightly - cropped image of the groundbreaking «Empress of the Blues» rolling her head as she
sings a heartfelt song we can not
hear.