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Royal Film Performance to Have ‘Lovely’ Showing

15 October 2009 2:58 PM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

Two months before its January 2010 UK release date, Peter Jackson’s new film The Lovely Bones will be shown at the 2009 Royal Film Performance in November.

The annual Royal Film Performance is the biggest fundraising event for Britain’s Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund, which aims to provide financial and practical assistance to anyone who has had at least two years in a paid position within the film or television industry.

The fund was first started in the 1920s, and added its first royal to the Ctbf’s list of patrons in the 1930s. England’s royal family already had a long history of supporting the arts, with several ‘Royal Command Performances’ taking place each year. These were (and continue to be) occasions where the royal family has the privilege of private screenings of films or theatre performances they wish to see.

In 1946, the Royal Command Performance joined with the »

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It Might Get Loud Cranks It Up on DVD and Blu-ray on December 22nd

13 October 2009 9:42 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

You can bring home a documentary featuring three amazing guitarists on DVD and Blu-ray this December. It Might Get Loud will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 22. The standard DVD will be priced at $27.96 Srp while the Bd will go for $37.95 Srp. We don't have cover art images yet, but we'll update this story as soon as we have the artwork. The film stars Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, U2's The Edge and The White Stripes' Jack White.

The electric guitar has dominated popular music for the last half century. Anyone who has ever plugged into an amp understands its power. So does the average stadium crowd. But if you have too much exposure to amateurs, you might forget the incredible range of expression that the creation pioneered by Les Paul can achieve in the hands of masters.

Director Davis Guggenheim, well-known for his Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, »

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Step Out Into The Light: Fourteen Covers Of Daniel Johnston's "True Love Will Find You In The End"

10 October 2009 4:00 AM, PDT | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »

What is it about this song? Like almost all the music of Daniel Johnston (whose first album in six years, Is And Always Was, came out last week), it's so much more massive than the sum of its parts—just this man and his springy guitar and wavery, unsteady voice. But the words are so reassuring, so deeply comforting, promising us something that we all really want to be true, that it's really hard not to love it. And that, paired with its astounding simplicity (it ain't no "Stairway to Heaven," that's for sure), makes it ripe for the covering. Here are fourteen of the best covers among the slew we could find online, by both some longtime Paste favorites, some newer names and some we'd actually never heard of before this (and for which we can't comment on quality of their catalog otherwise). Listen to the original, check out the covers, »

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Review: It Might Get Loud

1 September 2009 1:14 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Editor's Note: This review comes to us from guest writer Aaron Turney who has written for several other publications and formed just as many bands. By: Aaron Turney Segovia famously denounced the idea of an electric guitar by likening it to a toaster. He despised the idea that such a beautiful instrument would be plugged in like a household appliance. But not many kids have posters of Segovia hung above their beds. They want to be Hendrix or Page with a wall of Marshall stacks flanking them on all sides. A Fender or a Gibson harnessed around their neck, slung low while tossing off musical acrobatics like "Stairway to Heaven," a riff so famous many English music shops banned kids from playing it. It Might Get Loud is a film for the bedroom dreamers and weekend warriors, a chance to see three of guitar rock's finest players (by way of U2's The Edge, Jimmy Page »

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The Films Of Michael Powell

13 January 2009 10:05 PM, PST | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

Michael Powell's 1946 afterlife melodrama A Matter Of Life And Death has been firmly established in the pantheon of great British films, and boasts a sterling reputation as a puckish, astonishingly stylish contemplation of U.S./UK relations over the centuries. Powell's 1969 erotic travelogue Age Of Consent, on the other hand, has been little-seen and is indifferently regarded. It's Powell's final feature film, about an Australian artist mentoring his muse, and it's knocked askew by broad comedy and awkward stabs at anti-establishment snark. So while both films are distinctly Powell, in that they're »

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The Films Of Michael Powell

13 January 2009 10:05 PM, PST | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

Michael Powell's 1946 afterlife melodrama A Matter Of Life And Death has been firmly established in the pantheon of great British films, and boasts a sterling reputation as a puckish, astonishingly stylish contemplation of U.S./UK relations over the centuries. Powell's 1969 erotic travelogue Age Of Consent, on the other hand, has been little-seen and is indifferently regarded. It's Powell's final feature film, about an Australian artist mentoring his muse, and it's knocked askew by broad comedy and awkward stabs at anti-establishment snark. So while both films are distinctly Powell, in that they're »

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DVD Set Restores Heavenly Drama

6 January 2009 12:16 AM, PST | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »

Besides being a legendary Led Zeppelin recording, "Stairway to Heaven" is the more upbeat Us release title of a 1946 romantic fantasy known in Britain as "A Matter of Life and Death."

The singular writing-directing-producing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger - who called themselves The Archers and are best known for "The Red Shoes" (1948) - cast David Niven as an Raf squadron leader who bails out of his burning plane without a functioning parachute.

Miraculously, the »

- By LOU LUMENICK

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2009 | 2004 | 2001 | 1999

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