#Wilko johnson documentary

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Wilko johnson documentary

#Wilko johnson documentary series

Johnson stated in early 2013 that he had terminal cancer, and announced he was going on a farewell tour.

#Wilko johnson documentary series

before helping invent punk with Dr Feelgood." The BBC4 three-part documentary series Punk Britannia, first aired in May 2012, also stressed the importance of Dr Feelgood as "pub rockers, a generation of bands sandwiched between 60s hippies and mid-70s punks who will help pave the way towards the short, sharp shock of punk". Wilko recalls his childhood on Canvey Island and how he followed the '60s hippy trail to Goa. Looking Back at Me secures the man born John Wilkinson's reputation as one of British rock's most unique characters. Reviewing Johnson's autobiography, Mark Blake of Q magazine said "In the mid-70s the band's brutish R&B and their guitarist's eye-popping thousand-yard stare inspired a young John Lydon, Paul Weller and Suggs from Madness. That's the connection, the DNA." This influence was explored in the 2009 documentary about Dr Feelgood, Oil City Confidential. That bridge is exclusively the Feelgoods, it allowed us to go from one thing to another. Jean-Jacques Burnel of The Stranglers says "I often say to journalists there is a bridge between the old times and the punk times. A style that has been cited as one of the founding influences of the British punk movement. Johnson's musical style underpinned the early years of Dr Feelgood. The Hope & Anchor Front Row Festival compilation album (March 1978) which reached number 28 in the UK Albums Chart Feelgood" & "Twenty Yards Behind"), on a hit double album of recordings from the festival. This resulted in the inclusion of two tracks by The Wilko Johnson Band ("Dr. The Wilko Johnson Band played at the 'Front Row Festival', a three-week event at the Hope and Anchor, Islington in late November and early December 1977, featuring many early punk rock acts. They signed to Virgin in 1978 and released the album, Solid Senders that year. In 1977, he was a founding member of Solid Senders, with keyboardist John Potter, bassist Steve Lewins, and drummer Alan Platt. Johnson maintains that he was kicked out of the band, while the remaining band members claimed that he had left voluntarily. He left the band in April 1977, following disagreements over the tracks to be included in the Sneakin' Suspicion album. Feelgood's first 5 single releases, including "Roxette" and "Back in the Night", the only single to chart during his membership of the band was "Sneakin' Suspicion". The live album, Stupidity, reached number one in the UK Albums Chart, but although Johnson played on Dr.

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The film-maker Julien Temple described the musician Wilko Johnson, who has died aged 75, as “one of the great English eccentrics, a great national treasure waiting to be discovered”. It was thanks partly to Temple’s 2009 documentary, Oil City Confidential, which traced the history of the Canvey Island band Dr Feelgood and Johnson’s role in it, that he enjoyed renewed acclaim towards the end of his life.

Not that fans of Dr Feelgood in the band’s mid-1970s heyday needed reminding of Johnson’s accomplishments. He was never a guitar virtuoso in the vein of Jeff Beck or Eric Clapton, but he was one of the most distinctive British players in the history of rock’n’roll, having perfected a hair-trigger style that combined stark, percussive chords with pin-sharp riffs. To that, Johnson added an intimidating stage presence. Invariably clad in a black suit, eyes staring out across the audience like searchlights, he roved around the stage with robotic remorselessness.

He developed a tight stage rapport with the Feelgoods’ vocalist Lee Brilleaux, who was helpfully signposted by his contrasting white – or once white, at least – suit. Johnson said he “felt like a lot of the power I had in whatever I was doing was radiating from him”. It was their partnership that drove the band to huge success in Britain just before the arrival of punk.

Dr Feelgood launched themselves on the back of the “pub rock” vogue, a back-to-basics mix of sweaty rock and rhythm & blues typified by the likes of Ducks Deluxe and Ian Dury’s band Kilburn and the High Roads. It was a refreshing antidote to the somnolent progressive rock of the era. Dr Feelgood released their debut album, Down By the Jetty, in 1975, containing nine of Johnson’s songs, including the singles Roxette and She Does It Right, neither of which got into the charts. They followed it later that year with Malpractice, which featured several blues and R&B non-originals alongside another batch of Johnson’s tunes. One of Johnson’s was their third single, Back in the Night, a perennial favourite in live shows. The album gave Dr Feelgood their first chart position (No 17), and proved influential on New York musicians such as Richard Hell, the Ramones and Blondie.

Since the stage was the natural home for the hard-gigging Feelgoods, it made sense for the next album to be a live recording. Stupidity (1976) was a mixture of their own songs and cover versions, not least Leiber & Stoller’s Riot in Cell Block No 9, which had become the vehicle for a trick by Johnson of mock-machine-gunning the audience with his guitar. Johnson was adamant that the recording should sound raw and live and should not be tarted up in post- production, a stance that paid off when it rocketed to No 1. To their own amazement, Dr Feelgood had become one of the biggest bands in Britain.

However, the album Sneakin’ Suspicion (1977) proved to be Johnson’s swansong with the band, following acrimonious arguments during its recording. In particular, Brilleaux objected to Johnson’s song Paradise, in which the songwriter, who had married Irene Knight when they were both teenagers, admitted that “I love two girls, I ain’t ashamed”. Johnson’s erratic and moody behaviour while on tour had already caused friction, and he left Dr Feelgood in April 1977. Sneakin’ Suspicion reached No 10 on the album chart, and in 1979 the group enjoyed a top 10 singles hit with Milk and Alcohol, but the whirlwind arrival of punk had made them look outmoded. “I look back on Dr Feelgood sometimes and I would do a lot of things differently,” Johnson said in 2012. “Oh man, I was intolerable.”

He was born John Wilkinson on Canvey Island, Essex. One of his earliest memories was of the 1953 floods, which hit low-lying Canvey badly and caused many deaths. His father, a gas-fitter, was “a stupid and uneducated and violent person”, according to his son, and died when Wilko was a teenager. Canvey became a romantic place in Johnson’s mind, with its lonely views of the Thames estuary overshadowed by the towers and blazing fires of the nearby Shell Haven oil refinery. Johnson and his contemporaries dubbed the area the Thames Delta, in homage to the Mississippi Delta, which spawned the blues musicians they admired.

He first began playing the guitar after watching the Shadows on television, then later was inspired by Mick Green, guitarist with Johnny Kidd & the Pirates. Green’s knack for mixing up lead and rhythm guitar parts had a clear influence on Johnson’s technique. Wilko instinctively began to play left-handed, but forced himself to switch to right-handed. When he found that playing right-handed meant he could not hold a plectrum, he perfected a way of flicking his fingernails across the strings, which helped him to play the speedy, slashing rhythms that became his stock-in-trade.

Wilko nurtured academic ambitions alongside musical ones. He attended Westcliff high school for boys (his mother “used to scrub floors at the gas company to pay for our grammar school uniforms”) and went to Newcastle University to study English. He wrote his own poetry and aimed to write novels, though he observed that his appreciation of great literature meant that “the presumption of trying it myself is inhibiting”. His conversation, which involved much gesticulation and dramatic facial expressions, would often be punctuated by quotes from Blake or Langland’s Piers Plowman, and he taught himself Old Icelandic in order to read the Icelandic Sagas. He spent some months teaching English at a secondary school around the time Dr Feelgood formed, but fell foul of the headteacher because of his long-haired, student-like appearance. Later in life, he developed a keen interest in astronomy and built an observatory on the roof of his home in Westcliff-on-Sea.

After university he travelled overland to India (partly inspired by hearing about his father’s experiences in the army on the north-west frontier), and soaked up his fair share of opium and eastern mysticism. Returning to Canvey, he played in a jug band with his brother, and met Brilleaux (then using his real surname, Collinson), future Feelgoods bassist John “Sparko” Sparks and the group’s manager-to-be, Chris Fenwick, who had formed a jug band of their own. Brilleaux’s outfit evolved into an electric R&B band, and they asked Wilko to join them on guitar. In 1971, Dr Feelgood was born.

In his post-Feelgood career, Johnson formed a new band, the Solid Senders, which played at the Front Row festival at the Hope & Anchor pub in Islington, London, alongside many of the new punk acts. Johnson was surprised and gratified to discover that many punk luminaries, including Joe Strummer and John Lydon, were Feelgood fans who had seen them as an influence.

The Solid Senders released an album on Virgin in 1978, but by 1980 Johnson had taken a job with Ian Dury’s Blockheads, and then formed the Wilko Johnson Band. Over the next 25 years the unit would release eight albums and an EP, mostly on minor European labels, though their main focus was playing live shows in Europe, Britain and Japan.

Temple’s documentary in 2009 had a galvanising effect on Johnson’s profile. He toured supporting the Stranglers in 2011, and played some sellout gigs at the Rhythm and Roots festival in Kilkenny. In 2012 he published an autobiography, Looking Back on Me, co-authored with Zoe Howe. He was also recruited for the HBO TV show Game of Thrones, appearing in four episodes as the royal executioner Ser Ilyn Payne. This called upon Johnson merely to look sinister and kill people, since Payne had had his tongue cut out and had no dialogue.

After being rushed to hospital in Southend for an unknown condition, Johnson was diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer in January 2013. He reacted with remarkable stoicism. Given 10 months to live, but having declined chemotherapy which might have given him a few more weeks, he talked frankly about his condition on Radio 4’s Front Row and arranged a string of farewell gigs that March. His philosophical attitude was perhaps shaped by the fact that Irene had died of cancer in 2004, and Johnson had never reconciled himself to her loss (“the only time I don’t feel heartbroken is when I’m playing,” he admitted).

Following the tour dates, he teamed up with the Who’s Roger Daltrey to make the album Going Back Home (2014), which included favourite Johnson songs from Dr Feelgood and his solo career. Both artists seemed to be goading each other on, since Johnson’s guitar work was as clipped and fiery as it had ever been, while Daltrey hurled himself into the songs with abandon. Daltrey commented that Johnson is “one of those British guitarists that only the Brits make. Wilko is a one-off, he really is.” The album reached No 3 in the UK, making it Johnson’s highest charting release outside Dr Feelgood.

He confessed that he thought it would be “the last thing I ever did”, but then later that year his story took a dramatic twist. Further tests revealed that he was suffering from a less virulent form of cancer than previously believed, and doctors were confident it could be operated on successfully. He underwent a complex nine-hour procedure that included the removal of a tumour weighing 3kg, and after a long convalescence was declared cancer-free.

“It’s so weird and so strange that it’s kind of hard to come to terms with in my mind,” he said. “Now, I’m spending my time gradually coming to terms with the idea that my death is not imminent, that I am going to live on.”

Paradoxically, the depression that he had suffered from since childhood had abated after his cancer diagnosis. When he got the all-clear, the depression returned. “I knew I was really getting better from the cancer when I started getting depressed again,” he said.

In 2015 Johnson made another film with Temple, The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson, focusing on his unexpected survival. In 2016 he published the memoir Don’t You Leave Me Here, and in 2018 he released the solo album Blow Your Mind. He was still performing regularly with his band until September this year.

He is survived by his sons, Matthew and Simon.

🔔 Wilko Johnson (John Peter Wilkinson), guitarist and songwriter, born 12 July 1947; died 21 November 2022

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Rules Free Radio Nov 29

Tuesdays 2pm - 5pm  EST Rules Free Radio With Steve  Caplan bombshellradio.com On the next Rules Free Radio with Steve Caplan, we’ll check out new music from The Penetrators, Jim Basnight, Uni Boys, Field School, and a just-released live album from 1969 by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. The band Archers of Loaf have a new album for the first time in more than 20 years. Boston’s Karate has a new collection of some of their 90s music, singer-songwriter Karoleena, guitarist Hedvig Mollestad, new Jazz and Funk from Jazz Is Dead, Nils Landgren Funk Unit, and New Freedom Sound. We’ll hear orchestral performances from the soundtrack to the new David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream and one by composer Steve Reich. In the not-so-new category, we’ll hear Frank Zappa, Material Issue, Queen, Deerhunter, In Deed, and the Midnight Callers. We’ll start by paying tribute to someone we just lost. His name is Wilko Johnson, and if the name isn’t familiar, I can pretty much guarantee that you know music by artists he influenced. He’s perhaps most associated with a British pub rock group from the 70s, Dr. Feelgood. They did a lot of covers of American Blues and R&B, kind of like groups like The Stones and The Pretty Things did about a decade before. Wilko Johnson played with folks like Ian Dury and had he had a prolific solo career. Guitarists were inspired and admired his unique style and showmanship. So if he’s new to you, he was a great rocker! All this and more on Tuesday afternoon starting at 2 on Bombshellradio.com! Wilko Johnson - Barbed Wire Blues Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey - Ice On The Motorway The Solid Senders - All Aboard Dr. Feelgood - Going Back Home - Stupidity (1976) Dr. Feelgood - Checkin' Up On My Baby Dr. Feelgood - All My Love Wilko Johnson - Slamming Wilko Johnson - Marijuana Roy Loney and the Longshots - Move It, Baby Toiling Midgets - She's Fun Material Issue - Diane Field School - Jennifer Valentine Jim Basnight - Leave The Past Behind The Penetrators - Time is Mine Tape Toy - The One Who Got Away Archers of Loaf - In the Surface Noise The Midnight Callers - State Of Me In Deed - Don't Need, Don't Care Uni Boys - Long Time No See - Atomic Tide - Phonebox Queen - Now I'm Here Creem Circus - Automatic Style Marc Bolan & T. Rex - Get It On Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention - Hungry Freaks, Daddy Deerhunter - Basement Scene Craig Leon - The Respondent In Dispute Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen and Trondheim Jazz Orchestra - All Flights Cancelled Jimi Hendrix Experience - I Don't Live Today Nils Landgren Funk Unit - Don't Stop (live) New Freedom Sound - Fourth Freedom Damian O'Neill - La Tengo Karate - Small Fires Karolina - All Rivers Black Tape for a Blue Girl - Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book Weyes Blood - It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - The Light Garrett Saracho, Adrian Younge, and Ali Shaheed Muhammad - The Gardens Steve Reich/Los Angeles Philharmonic - I. Sixteenths Read the full article

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Wilko johnson tour cancelled

The iconic guitarist was recently diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer at the beginning of the year, but rather than retire from music, Johnson decided he’d line-up a farewell tour of the UK, vowing to play until the very end. Special guest 'Rock and Roll's Greatest Failure John Otway. Dr Feelgood legend Wilko Johnson has been forced to cancel his last two remaining farewell gigs, due to being too physically unwell. Featuring former Blockhead Dylan Howe on drums, the trio is known as one of the most exciting r’n’b bands in the world today. CANCELLED : SAT : DARE: Road To Eden Tour 2022: The Garage, Glasgow: Doors. He, alongside his original Feelgood bandmates, is also widely acknowledged as a forefather of punk on both sides of the Atlantic, fans ranging from Joe Strummer to Blondie.įollowing a stint with Ian Dury & The Blockheads in the 1980s, he formed the Wilko Johnson Band, with Blockheads bassist Norman Watt-Roy. For the moment - all Wilko Johnsons scheduled Shows have been cancelled including the appearance during Rory Gallagher Festival on 1st June 2014 at the Big. Wilko Johnson at The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh on the Saturday 8th October 2016. A spokesperson for the venue said: 'Due to illness, tonight's show with. The show was due to take place on Saturday night. He was a member of the pub rock/rhythm and blues band Dr. The Wilko Johnson performance at Lighthouse Poole is cancelled tonight. Unlike many music films, there are only two voices in The Ecstasy Of Wilko. With this electrifying sound, his trademark black-suited, scowling look and his characteristic strut, Wilko became one of the guitar heroes of the 1970s and beyond, not to mention on of rock ’n’ roll’s most extraordinary characters. Wilko Johnson is an English guitarist, singer, songwriter and occasional actor. A still from the 2015 music documentary 'The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson' from Julien Temple. Wilko is famed for his blistering chop-chord strumming action (the ‘stab’, as he describes it), a technique inspired by his admiration of the late Pirates guitarist Mick Green. PLEASE NOTE this show has been rescheduled from the 10 February 2021, and will now take place on FRIDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2022, all original tickets are valid and all other details remain the sameįollowing a remarkable recovery from a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Wilko Johnson the original Dr Feelgood guitarist, actor (Game of Thrones character Ser ilyn Payne) and all round national treasure has enjoyed a rousing return to the live arena, including a number 1 album with Roger Daltrey (Going Back Home), a sold out show at The Royal Albert Hall to mark his 70th birthday and, most recently, the release of Blow Your Mind, his first album of new material in decades. After taking inspiration from many great guitarists such as Wilko Johnson, Brian Setzer, Jim Heath and Jimmie Vaughan, Ruzz has developed what he has learnt.

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Music Documentaries

Пару лет назад составлял для дружественного телеграм-канала список любимых музыкальных документалок, за это время он едва ли претерпел изменения и, в общем, почему бы его не продублировать со ссылками на трейлеры. Большинство из этих фильмов новые, и это неслучайно: за последние лет деть жанр правда шагнул далеко вперед. Не только в смысле статуса (хотя за последние десять лет “Оскар” за лучшую полнометражную документалку трижды доставался фильмам о музыкантах — два из трех лауреатов в списке ниже), но, прежде всего, в смысле понимания очень простой истины: лучшие музыкальные документалки — всегда о чем угодно, только не о музыке. О личной драме, о семье, среде и обществе, о цене славы и цене бесславия, о болезни и исцелении, о поиске идентичности и восстании против безнадеги. 

20 Feet from Stardom

Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets

One More Time With Feeling

Amy

The Decline of Western Civilisation 

The Great Hip Hop Hoax

The Possibilites Are Endless

Shut Up and Play the Hits

The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson

Northern Disco Lights

Кроме того я успел побеседовать с режиссерами-документалистами, в том числе с Джини Финлей, чье умение выбирать героев и энтузиазм не перестает удивлять меня (выбрать один ее фильма для личного топа было трудно, они все хорошие).

2013. Джини Финлей:

Когда я начала снимать "Sound It Out”, магазин был в очень плохом состоянии. Дневная выручка могла составить 5 фунтов. Или вообще ничего. Единственное, что удерживало магазин на плаву, — онлайн-продажи. После того, как фильм вышел на Record Store Day, дела у магазина пошли в гору. Множество туристов приезжает посмотреть на магазин. Один американец проделал путь в 40 тысяч миль, просто потому, что узнал про магазин из фильма.

2017. Даг Прэй:

Концертный фильм я точно делать не хотел. Меня интересовало, что происходит с сиэттлской сценой, что меняется. Она умирает? Ее убивают понаехавшие? Было очевидно, что случился еще один поп-цикл из числа тех, которые происходят всегда и по всему миру: появляется что-то очень аутентичное, настоящее, на него навешивают ярлык, его замечают, о нем говорят, она становится феноменом — и это его убивает. Оно становится игрушкой на час. И быть частью игрушки на час очень печально.

2017. Роан Томас:

Для австралийских групп, в том числе не очень популярных, возможность поиграть за пределами страны выпадает нечасто. И когда тебя зовут куда-то, где можно поиграть не для австралийцев, ты над таким предложением долго не раздумываешь. Ну и да, туда просто добраться, рейсы дешевые. И еще с 1990-х, когда австралийские панки только начали ездить в Азию, сохранилось множество рассказов о ярых азиатских панках, которым не важно, что ты играешь, которые готовы обсуждать с тобой общество и политику и которые устраивают концерты на совершенно сумасшедших площадках. Все эти рассказы тоже произвели на меня впечатление. Кто же откажется от таких приключений.

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STONER - Ultra-Lite Midlife Paradise

Don’t let the name fool you. Stoner is a project that explores our fears around and relationship with death and the dying. Borrowing its name from the John Williams’ lost classic, Stoner, which tells the story of William Stoner - a farm hand who dedicates himself in blind pursuit to literature, the world collapsing around him as he does - the project makes its home in our everyday interactions with mortality. Debut single ‘Ultra-Lite Midlife Paradise’ introduces the project, balancing elements of blues, Bowie-esque balladry and gentle psychedelia. “’Ultra-Lite Midlife Paradise’ is about returning home and dealing with a parent who was very fearful of death,” says Stoner. Written after watching a documentary about proto-punk icon Wilko Johnson and his battle with terminal cancer, the track proceeds like a funeral march, opening with simple guitar and vocals and building to dramatic moments of catharsis as it reaches its closing minute. Lyrics such as ‘now I’ve come back home/ the prodigal is stoned’ not only channel the guilt surrounding death but also hint at emotional conflict, Stoner’s wordplay reflecting the complexity and ambiguity of death. With a strange incongruence of Richard Thompson and Prince, Stoner somehow keeps a pure and lean intent. Giving way to a Robert Wyatt styled- cheap-keyboard magnificence in the track's build up and release. (press release)

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The 20th Annual Bryan Awards - More Categories (Part III)

Winners in these categories will be announced on Friday September 18.

Guest Actor, Comedy: Jason Alexander - The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime) Larry David - Saturday Night Live (NBC) Luke Kirby - The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime) Eddie Murphy - Saturday Night Live (NBC) Brad Pitt - Saturday Night Live (NBC) Fred Willard - Space Force (Netflix) 

Guest Actress, Comedy: Carol Burnett - Mad About You (Spectrum) Allison Janney - The Kominsky Method (Netflix) Cloris Leachman - Mad About You (Spectrum) Maya Rudolph - The Good Place (NBC) Wanda Sykes - The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime) Phoebe Waller-Bridge - Saturday Night Live (NBC) 

Guest Actor, Drama: James Cromwell - Succession (HBO) Charles Dance - The Crown (Netflix) Ron Cephas Jones - This Is Us (NBC) Gerald McRaney - This Is Us (NBC) Christopher Meloni - The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu) Martin Short - The Morning Show (Apple TV+)

Guest Actress, Drama: Alexis Bledel - The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu) Jane Lapotaire - The Crown (Netflix) Julianna Margulies - Billions (Showtime) Jennifer Morrison - This Is Us (NBC) Phylicia Rashad - This Is Us (NBC) Cicely Tyson - How To Get Away With Murder (ABC) 

Guest Performer, Daytime: Nicolas Bechdel - General Hospital (ABC) Brook Kerr - General Hospital (ABC) Eva LaRue - The Young and the Restless (CBS) Jeffrey Vincent Parise - The Young and the Restless (CBS) Marie Wilson - Days of Our Lives (NBC)

Guest Performer, New Series: Noah Emmerich - Space Force (Netflix) Tina Fey - Modern Love (Amazon Prime) Judd Hirsch - Hunters (Amazon Prime) Martin Short - The Morning Show (Apple TV+) Phoebe Waller-Bridge - Run (HBO) Fred Willard - Space Force (Netflix) 

Lead Actor, New Series: Steve Carell - The Morning Show (Apple TV+) Steve Carell - Space Force (Netflix) Domhnall Gleeson - Run (HBO) Hugh Laurie - Avenue 5 (HBO) Logan Lerman - Hunters (Amazon Prime) Al Pacino - Hunters (Amazon Prime) 

Lead Actress, New Series: Jennifer Aniston - The Morning Show (Apple TV+) Kirsten Dunst - On Becoming A God In Central Florida (Showtime)  Jane Levy - Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist (NBC) Cobie Smulders - Stumptown (ABC) Merritt Wever - Run (HBO) Reese Witherspoon - The Morning Show (Apple TV+)

Supporting Actor, New Series: Billy Crudup - The Morning Show (Apple TV+) Josh Gad - Avenue 5 (HBO) Jake Johnson - Stumptown (ABC) John Malkovich - Space Force (Netflix) Lin-Manuel Miranda - His Dark Materials (HBO) Saul Rubinek - Hunters (Amazon Prime)

Supporting Actress, New Series: Lauren Graham - Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist (NBC) Marcia Gay Harden - The Morning Show (Apple TV+) Anne Hathaway - Modern Love (Amazon Prime) Carol Kane - Hunters (Amazon Prime) Mary Steenburgen - Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist (NBC) Ruth Wilson - His Dark Materials (HBO) 

Animated Program: Bob’s Burgers (Fox) Ducktales (Disney XD) Our Cartoon President (Showtime)  The Simpsons (Fox) South Park (Comedy Central)

Live Special: The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards (CBS) Live In Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s All in the Family and Good Times (ABC) The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (NBC) The Oscars (ABC) The 2020 Tournament of Roses Parade (ABC/NBC)

Pre-Recorded Special: Homefest: James Corden’s Late Late Show Special (CBS) iHeart Radio Presents The Living Room Concert for America (Fox) Let’s Go Crazy: A Grammy Salute to Prince (CBS) One World: Together At Home (Various) A Parks and Recreation Special (NBC)

Game Show: Family Feud (Syndicated) Hollywood Game Night (NBC) Jeopardy (Syndicated) The Price is Right (CBS) Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? (ABC)

Daytime Talk Show: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Syndicated) The Kelly Clarkson Show (Syndicated) The Steve Wilkos Show (Syndicated) The Talk (CBS) Tamron Hall (Syndicated) The View (ABC)

Documentary or Non-Fiction Program: The Last Dance (ESPN) A Modern Farewell (ABC) Sesame Street: 50th Anniversary Special (HBO) The Story of Soaps (ABC) Tiger King (Netflix)

Traditional Reality Program: Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Bar Rescue (Paramount Network) Deadliest Catch (Discovery) Naked and Afraid (Discovery) Queer Eye (Bravo) A Very Brady Renovation (HGTV) Studio Sports Program: The Big Noon Kickoff Show (Fox) College Football GameDay (ESPN) Inside the NFL (Showtime) The NFL Today (CBS)

Morning or News Program: CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell (CBS) CBS Sunday Morning (CBS) Good Morning America (ABC) 60 Minutes (CBS) Today (NBC)

Reality Host: RuPaul Charles - RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1) James Corden - The World’s Best (CBS) Heidi Klum & Tim Gunn - Making The Cut (Netflix) Nick Offerman & Amy Poehler - Making It (NBC) Jeff Probst - Survivor (CBS)

Daytime Talk Show Host: Kelly Clarkson - The Kelly Clarkson Show (Syndicated) Tamron Hall - Tamron Hall (Syndicated) Maury Povich - Maury (Syndicated) Kelly Ripa & Ryan Seacrest - Live with Kelly and Ryan (Syndicated) The Hosts of The View - The View (ABC) Steve Wilkos - The Steve Wilkos Show (Syndicated)

Late Night Host: Samantha Bee - Full Frontal With Samantha Bee (TBS) Stephen Colbert - The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS) John Krasinski - Some Good News (YouTube) Trevor Noah - The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (Comedy Central) John Oliver - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) 

Game Show Host: Wayne Brady - Let’s Make a Deal (CBS) Ellen DeGeneres - Ellen’s Game of Games (NBC) Steve Harvey - Celebrity Family Feud (ABC) & Family Feud (Syndicated) Jimmy Kimmel - Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? (ABC) Jane Lynch - Hollywood Game Night (NBC) Alex Trebek - Jeopardy (Syndicated) 

Children’s Program: Fuller House (Netflix) Ghostwriter (Netflix) Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Netflix) Muppet Babies (Disney) Sesame Street (HBO) 

And The Screen Couple/Duo Categories:

(Comedy) Anthony Anderson & Tracee Ellis Ross (black-ish, ABC) Rachel Brosnahan & Alex Borstein (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Amazon Prime) Julie Bowen & Ty Burrell (Modern Family, ABC) Merritt Wever & Domhnall Gleeson (Run, HBO) Any TWO or MORE Political Candidates (Saturday Night Live, NBC) (Drama) Olivia Colman & Tobias Menzies (The Crown, Netflix) Freddie Highmore & Paige Spara (The Good Doctor, ABC) Caitriona Balfe & Sam Heughan (Outlander, Starz) Jason Bateman & Laura Linney (Ozark, Netflix) Milo Ventimiglia & Mandy Moore (This is Us, NBC) (Daytime) Annika Noelle and either Scott Clifton or Matthew Atkinson (The Bold and the Beautiful, CBS) Chandler Massey and Freddie Smith (Days of Our Lives, NBC) Maurice Benard and Max Gail (General Hospital, ABC) James Holzhauser and Brad Rutter or Ken Jennings (Jeopardy: The GOAT Challenge, ABC) Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie (Today, NBC) (Limited Series/Movie) Kerry Washington & Steven Pasquale (American Son, Netflix) Jake Picking and either Jim Parsons or Jeremy Pope (Hollywood, Netflix) Mark Ruffalo & Mark Ruffalo (I Know This Much Is True, HBO) Reese Witherspoon & Kerry Washington (Little Fires Everywhere, Hulu) Megan Hilty & Jessie Mueller (Patsy and Loretta, Lifetime) 

[williambenton]

Next Monday, 9/4/17, we will be watching what is- hands down- one of the most wonderfully turbulent and entertaining music documentaries of the past number of years: THE ECSTASY OF WILKO JOHNSON. The legendary Dr. Feelgood and Blockheads guitarist's life story is intertwined with his diagnosis of terminal cancer and reveals his lovable, Joycian wit, humor, and heart as he makes the decision to play music until he can no longer. Best enjoyed if you have no idea who he is or his story. 915p, free, $1 off wells and drafts. Seidenfadens. #seidenfadens #mondovideonight #howwelou #do502 #divebar #mondays (at Seidenfaden's)

[positive-magazine]

La 33° Edizione del Torino Film Festival si svolgerà nel capoluogo piemontese dal 20 al 28 novembre: un appuntamento da non perdere. Quest’anno (l’abbiamo già visto a Venezia 72) è l’anno di Orson Welles, ed è a questo straordinario personaggio che è dedicato il manifesto, immagine simbolo del Torino Film Festival.

“Nel centenario della nascita di Orson Welles, il 6 maggio 1915, e nel trentennale della sua morte,il 10 ottobre del 1985, il Torino Film Festival non poteva non rendere omaggio al più grande di tutti gli esordienti (diresse Quarto Potere quando aveva 25 anni). Perciò gli dedichiamo la 33esima edizione del festival, con l’immagine del TFF 2015 e con la presentazione di tre dei suoi capolavori in versione restaurata, Quarto potere (Citizen Kane, 1941), Rapporto Confidenziale (Mr. Arkadin, 1955) e L’infernale Quinlan (Touch of Evil, 1958). Un regalo che speriamo sia gradito al pubblico del festival”, annuncia la direttrice Emanuela Martini.

Proprio a Torino, città esoterica per antonomasia, la retrospettiva del Festival sarà dedicata a “Cose che verranno. Cinema e mondi futuri” , agli scenari futuri come sono stati immaginati dal cinema di fantascienza e dagli autori che hanno descritto il mondo dei decenni a loro successivi: dagli anni Trenta alle soglie del Duemila grandi autori come Kubrick, Godard, Truffaut, Resnais, Ferreri, Scott, Gilliam, Cronenberg, Kathryn Bigelow e altri. Come Things To Come (in italiano La vita futura, 1936) di William Cameron Menzies o Metropolis di Lang, due caposaldi dai quali partire per un viaggio nelle utopie (e soprattutto nelle distopie) messe in scena dal cinema: come abbiamo immaginato il nostro mondo futuro? E quanto, nel suo continuo interscambio immaginario con la realtà, il cinema ha inciso sulla “creazione” della fisionomia del mondo attuale? Quanto c’è oggi, ovunque, della Los Angeles di Blade Runner o della Londra di Arancia meccanica? E delle cataste di rottami di Week- end di Godard e di Crash di Cronenberg?

Adelante Petroleros, Maurizio Zaccaro, 2013

Il film d’apertura del Festival sarà Suffragette di Sarah Gavron (UK, 2015). In Italia il film, distribuito da Bim, uscirà a marzo 2016. Ambientato nel 1912, Suffragette descrive le condizioni di vita e di lavoro, le lotte e le persecuzioni delle donne londinesi agli inizi del Novecento. Meryl Streep, in una partecipazione speciale, interpreta Emmeline Pankhurst, l’attivista britannica che nel 1903 fondò l’Unione sociale e politica delle donne (Women’s Social and Political Union) dando così una spinta fondamentale al diritto delle donne al voto politico, concesso fino ad allora solo agli uomini. “Pochi ricordano quello che successe realmente in quegli anni. Le suffragette appiccavano incendi, bombardavano edifici e non avevano paura di niente. Voglio dire, oggi quante persone conoscete pronte ad affrontare uno sciopero della fame per una causa e, per la stessa causa, essere poi sottoposte alla nutrizione forzata?” si domanda la regista Sarah Gavron.

AMatterOfLife, Michael Powell-pressburger, 1946

Il Gran Premio Torino della 33esima del TFF è assegnato ad uno degli autori europei più originali e sensibili emersi negli anni Ottanta: Terence Davies. Capace di mescolare malinconia e ferocia, ironia e disperazione, con la Trilogia (1983), Voci lontane…sempre presenti (1988), Il lungo giorno finisce (1992) e, recentemente, Of Time and the City (2008) e The Deep Blue Sea (2011), ha raccontato la sua gente e la cultura tradizionale della middle-class britannica tra realismo ed evocazione poetica. In occasione della consegna del premio sarà presentato il suo nuovo film, Sunset Song, interpretato da Agyness Deyn (la super- modella star nascente del cinema britannico) e da Peter Mullan nella parte di suo padre.

Quest’anno il Guest Director del Festival sarà Julien Temple, regista britannico, classe 1953. La scoperta dei film del regista francese Jean Vigo e l’incontro con i Sex Pistols e con la musica punk determinarono l’inizio della carriera del giovane regista londinese, oggi pioniere del video musicale come forma artistica e autore di numerosi film documentari e di finzione: London,The Modern Babylon, Oil City Confidential, dei film sui Sex Pistols e su Joe Strummer, di Absolut e Beginners e The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle. Il regista sarà presente a Torino per presentare la sua selezione di film della sezione “Questioni di vita e di morte”, ispirati al suo nuovo lavoro: The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson, il frontman della rock band britannica Dr. Feelgood.

la-danza-della-realtà, 2013, alejandro-jodorowsky

Il film narra la storia del cantante Wilko Johnson: la diagnosi mortale, la resistenza, il “farewell tour”, e la salvezza, attraverso le parole del protagonista e un montaggio di immagini tratte da film, concerti, cinegiornali. Per la sezione “Questioni di vita e di morte”, Julien Temple ha pensato di mescolare, alle riprese con Wilko, brani di film classici che raccontano le sensazioni e le emozioni di persone che si trovano ad affrontare il pensiero della morte.“Ho visto molti di questi film” racconta Temple, “nel vecchio Electric Cinema di Portobello Road, negli anni in cui era un fantastico cineclub che proiettava di tutto, dai classici hollywoodiani degli anni ’30 alle avanguardie europee e americane degli anni ’70.”

TORINO FILM FESTIVAL 33 La 33° Edizione del Torino Film Festival si svolgerà nel capoluogo piemontese dal 20 al 28 novembre: un appuntamento da non perdere.

[thebryanandsilvergarbage]

Comedy & Variety Main Races for 2017 - The Bryan Awards

 BEST COMEDY SERIES:

Atlanta (F/X)

Black-ish (ABC)

Master of None (Netflix)

Modern Family (ABC)

Silicon Valley (HBO)

Transparent (Amazon)

Veep (HBO)

Lead Actor in a Comedy Series:

ATLANTA - Donald Glover as Earn Marks (F/X)

BLACK-ISH - Anthony Anderson as Dre Johnson (ABC)

LAST MAN ON EARTH - Will Forte as Phil Miller (Fox)

MASTER OF NONE - Aziz Ansari as Dev (Netflix)

SILICON VALLEY - Thomas Middleditch as Richard Hendricks (HBO)

TRANSPARENT - Jeffrey Tambor as Maura Pfefferman (Amazon Prime)

Lead Actress in a Comedy Series:

BLACK-ISH - Tracee Ellis Ross as Rainbow Johnson (ABC)

CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND - Rachel Bloom as Rebecca Bunch (The CW)

DIVORCE - Sarah Jessica Parker as Frances (HBO)

INSECURE - Issa Rae as Issa (HBO)

MOM - Allison Janney as Bonnie Plunkett (CBS)

VEEP - Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer (HBO)

Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series:

BASKETS - Louie Anderson as Christine Baskets (FXX)

BLACK-ISH - Laurence Fishburne as Pops Johnson (ABC)

MODERN FAMILY - Ty Burrell as Phil Dunphy (ABC)

UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT - Titus Burgess as Titus Andromedon (Netflix)

VEEP - Tony Hale as Gary Walsh (HBO)

VEEP - Matt Walsh as Mike McLintock (HBO)

Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series:

BLACK-ISH - Jenifer Lewis as Ruby Johnson (ABC)

MODERN FAMILY - Julie Bowen as Claire Dunphy (ABC)

ONE DAY AT A TIME - Rita Moreno as Lydia Riera (Netflix)

TRANSPARENT - Kathryn Hahn as Raquel Fein (Amazon Prime)

TRANSPARENT - Judith Light as Shelley Pfefferman (Amazon Prime)

VEEP - Anna Chlumsky as Amy Brookheimer (HBO)

Younger Actor in a Comedy Series:

BLACK-ISH - Marcus Scribner as Andre Johnson Jr. (ABC)

FRESH OFF THE BOAT - Hudson Yang as Eddie Huang (ABC)

MODERN FAMILY - Nolan Gould as Luke Dunphy (ABC)

MODERN FAMILY - Rico Rodriguez as Manny Delgado (ABC)

SHAMELESS - Cameron Monaghan as Ian Gallagher (Showtime)

SHAMELESS - Jeremy Allen White as Lip Gallagher (Showtime)

Younger Actress in a Comedy Series:

BLACK-ISH - Yara Shahidi as Zoey Johnson (ABC)

CASUAL - Tara Lynne Barr as Laura Meyers (Hulu)

ONE DAY AT A TIME - Isabella Gomez as Elena Alvarez (Netflix)

SHAMELESS - Emma Kenney as Debbie Gallagher (Showtime)

SCREAM QUEENS - Abigail Breslin as Chanel No. 5 (Fox)

SCREAM QUEENS - Emma Roberts as Chanel Oberlin (Fox)

Guest Actor in a Comedy Series:

GIRLS - Matthew Rhys as Chuck Palmer (HBO)

GIRLS - Peter Scolari as Tad Horvath (HBO)

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE - Dave Chappelle as Host/Various Characters (NBC)

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE - Tom Hanks as Host/Various Characters (NBC)

VEEP - Hugh Laurie as Tom James (HBO)

VEEP - Peter MacNicol as Jeff Kane (HBO)

Guest Actress in a Comedy Series:

THE BIG BANG THEORY - Laurie Metcalf as Mary Cooper (CBS)

CATASTROPHE - Carrie Fisher as Mia (Hulu)

CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND - Tovah Feldshuh as Naomi Bunch (The CW)

GIRLS - Becky Ann Baker as Loreen Darling (HBO)

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE - Scarlett Johannson as Host/Various Characters (NBC)

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE - Melissa McCarthy as Host, Sean Spicer, and Various Characters (NBC)

Writing in a Comedy Series:

ATLANTA (F/X) - "B.A.N"

ATLANTA (F/X) - "Streets on Lock"

BLACK-ISH (ABC) - "Lemons"

GIRLS (HBO) - "Latching"

MASTER OF NONE (Netflix) - "New York, I Love You"

MASTER OF NONE (Netflix) - "Thanksgiving"

Directing in a Comedy Series:

ATLANTA - "B.A.N." (Donald Glover, Director)

BLACK-ISH - "Lemons" (Kenya Barris, Director)

MASTER OF NONE - "New York, I Love You" (Alan Yang, Director)

SILICON VALLEY - "Server Error" (Mike Judge, Director)

VEEP - "Blurb" (Morgan Sackett, Director)

VEEP - "Groundbreaking" (David Mandel, Director)

Performance by a Cast in a Comedy or Variety Series:

Black-ish (ABC)

Modern Family (ABC)

Saturday Night Live (NBC)

Silicon Valley (HBO)

Transparent (Amazon)

Veep (HBO)

VARIETY

Variety Talk Series: Full Frontal With Samantha Bee (TBS) Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC) Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO) The Late Late Show With James Corden (CBS) The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (CBS) The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC)

Variety Sketch Series: Documentary Now (IFC) Portlandia (IFC) Saturday Night Live (NBC) Tracey Ullman’s Show (HBO)

Variety Special: Carpool Karaoke Primetime Special 2017 (CBS) Dave Chappelle: The Age of Spin/Deep In The Heart of Texas (Netflix) Full Frontal With Samantha Bee Presents The White House Correspondent’s Dinner...NOT (TBS) Kennedy Center Honors (CBS) Stephen Colbert’s Live Election Night Democracy Series Finale: Who’s Going To Clean Up This Shit? (Showtime)

Tony Bennett Celebrates 90: The Best Is Yet To Come (NBC)

Variety Performer - Series: DOCUMENTARY NOW - Bill Hader as Various Characters (IFC) SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE - Alec Baldwin as Donald J. Trump (NBC) SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE - Beck Bennett as Various Characters (NBC) SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE - Leslie Jones as Various Characters (NBC) SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE - Kate McKinnon as Various Characters (NBC) TRACEY ULLMAN’S SHOW - Tracey Ullman as Various Characters (HBO)

Variety Performer - Special: CARPOOL KARAOKE/THE GRAMMYS/THE TONYS - James Corden (All CBS) DAVE CHAPPELLE... - Dave Chappelle (Netflix) FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE PRESENTS… - Samantha Bee (TBS) LOUIS C.K. 2017 - Louis C.K. (Netflix) THE OSCARS - Jimmy Kimmel (ABC) STEPHEN COLBERT’S LIVE ELECTION NIGHT… - Stephen Colbert (Showtime)

Late Night Talk Host: CHELSEA - Chelsea Handler (Netflix) FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE - Samantha Bee (TBS) LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER - John Oliver (HBO) THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN - James Corden (CBS) THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT - Stephen Colbert (CBS) THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON - Jimmy Fallon (NBC)

Daytime Talk Show: The Chew (ABC) The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Syndicated) Harry (Syndicated) Live With Kelly (Syndicated) Steve Harvey (Syndicated) The Steve Wilkos Show (Syndicated) The Talk (CBS)

Daytime Talk Show Host: THE CHEW - Mario Batali, Carla Hall, Clinton Kelly, Michael Symon, and Daphne Oz (ABC) HARRY - Harry Connick Jr. (Syndicated) LIVE WITH KELLY - Kelly Ripa (Syndicated) STEVE HARVEY - Steve Harvey (Syndicated) THE TALK - Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Aisha Tyler, and Sheryl Underwood (CBS)

Writing in a Variety or Talk Series: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Syndicated) Full Frontal With Samantha Bee (TBS) Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO) The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (CBS) Real Time With Bill Maher (HBO) Saturday Night Live (NBC)

Directing in a Variety or Talk Series: Drunk History (Comedy Central) Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO) The Late Late Show With James Corden (CBS) The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (CBS) Saturday Night Live (NBC) The Talk (CBS)

Writing in a Variety Special: Dave Chappelle: The Age of Spin/Deep In The Heart of Texas (Netflix) Full Frontal With Samantha Bee Presents The White House Correspondent’s Dinner...NOT (TBS) The Golden Globes (NBC) Louis C.K. 2017 (Netflix) The Oscars (ABC) Stephen Colbert’s Live Election Night Democracy Series Finale: Who’s Going To Clean Up This Shit? (Showtime)

Directing in a Variety Special: Kennedy Center Honors (CBS) The Oscars (ABC) The 2017 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (HBO) Stephen Colbert’s Live Election Night Democracy Series Finale: Who’s Going To Clean Up This Shit? (Showtime) The 2016 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony (NBC) The Tony Awards (CBS)

Tony Bennett Celebrates 90: The Best Is Yet To Come (NBC)

[williambenton]

Tonight at 9pm: THE ECSTASY OF WILKO JOHNSON. One of my favorite music documentaries of recent years. Hope you will join in. 915p. Free. $1 off drafts/wells. Seidenfadens. #mondovideonight #seidenfadens #louisville #mondays #howwelou #do502 (at Seidenfaden's)