Last week, Twitch was gifted the opportunity to spend an hour talking to South Korean filmmaker Bong

Volker Goetze's documentary Griot will begin a cross Canada tour here in Toronto on October 24th at the Royal Cinema. We have the trailer to share with you below. While the film tours the country there will also be single night concerts at each of the venues the night before. Stops also include concert dates in Kitchner/Waterloo and Peterborough, ON. Concert and screenings will also happen in Montreal, Saskatoon, Calgary and Vancouver. "Senegalese kora and western trumpet make fabulous music together! Volker view a tour of the white house Goetze's enthralling documentary melds dazzling visuals and haunting view a tour of the white house songs to serve up a feast for the senses. Griot introduces us to Goetze's own soulful trumpet stylings and the extraordinary view a tour of the white house voice and calabash harp artistry of Ablaye Cissoko. "Africa is the spiritual centre of the Planet Earth," claims one of the many contributors to this enchanting film, and, given the evidence, it is a claim that becomes difficult to disprove. Ostensibly, Goetze's documentary sets out to explore the history and role of the "griots" whose spiritual and musical talents are passed view a tour of the white house "through the blood" from generation to generation. Their role is many-faceted: historian, storyteller, praise-singer, poet and musician. Ablaye Cissoko, thinker, leader and gifted musician, is an example. The film has at least three elements that compel our attention and capture our minds and hearts: the outstanding music; the cinematography, which brings to life the vibrant colours of West Africa and the splendors of its natural life; and the almost hallucinatory animation which adds another texture to the music. In common with other exceptional documentaries, Griot amounts to more than the sum of its parts. It is a paean to the senses: at moments view a tour of the white house our eyes are dazzled by what we see, at others we can close them and just let the haunting music flow through us."
I met Andrea Sisson and Pete Ohs (collectively/creatively know as Lauren Edward -- their middle names) the night their documentary I Send You This Place screened view a tour of the white house at WestFest, an experiment in micro-festing put on here in Los Angelese by the fairtrade filmmmaking site Seed Spark. I had curated a pair of...
A headless horseman gallops out of a nightmare and into the modern day in Sleepy Hollow, a new series that returned to broadcast television last week with an even more apocalyptic vision. In Washington Irving's short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," first published in 1820, the secluded, upstate New...
In the third and final part of our epic interview with Snowpiercer director Bong Joon-ho view a tour of the white house we discuss the incredible crew he assembled behind the scenes, the influences behind the film's stunning production design and the input of fellow Korean Park Chan-wook, who served as a producer. BEWARE, one conceit of Snowpiercer's...
view a tour of the white house The days are getting shorter and LA temperatures are dropping into the mid-70s. Yes, it's fall and that means AFI Fest is here. The Hollywood-set festival kicks off tonight with the opening night film Saving Mr. Banks and closes next Thursday with Inside view a tour of the white house Llewyn Davis (our review). Here are 13...
Last week, Twitch view a tour of the white house was gifted the opportunity view a tour of the white house to spend an hour talking to South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho about his hugely-anticipated view a tour of the white house science-fiction thriller Snowpiercer. The film opened in Bong's homeland back in August, where it quickly view a tour of the white house became his most succesful film to-date, selling upwards of 10 million tickets. While the specifics...