02.12.24 Extatic Spasmatix (Eugene Hutz of Gogol Bordello, Ashley Tobias of Gogol Bordello, Brian Chase of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kay BonTempo of Puzzled Panther and Alap Momin) made their debut performance at the Abasement night at Artists Space in Tribeca.
Everything Is Illuminated: Jonathan Safran Foer reluctantly travels to the Ukraine in search of the woman that saved his family during the Holocaust. Alex & his ornery grandfather act as official tour guides along the eye-opening journey into their shared past!
In the early aughts, Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated was an inescapable book, launching the young author’s career (and more than a few skeptics). Naturally, the film adaptation came along, though with the unexpected pedigree of cherished actor Liev Schreiber making his director debut. Starring Elijah Wood as a fictionalized version of Foer traveling to Ukraine to discover family truths buried by the Holocaust, the novel and film are a reflection on the lost history of shetls in Eastern Europe. But when the film arrived on the fall festival scene, underwhelming reviews
This episode, we talk about Elijah Wood’s post-Lord of the Rings career and the other films that have come from Foer’s writing. We also discuss the film arriving in the year of Schreiber’s Tony win, distributor Warner Independent’s successful 2005, and the National Board of Review’s 2005 picks for Special Recognition for Excellence in Filmmaking.
Topics also include emailing Natalie Portman, trailer voiceover, and the Blockbuster vs. Netflix discs era.
"“A lot of the things that were branded by Moscow as supposedly Russian are not Russian at all, but usually a cultural theft from a more culturally developed neighbouring country, like Georgia, or Poland, or Finland.” Even Russian dolls, he says, were repurposed from Japan."
Singer & frontman, Eugene Hütz, of gypsy punk band, Gogol Bordello, joins us on this episode of The Adamantium Podcast. We discuss their latest album, Solidaritine, and it’s support of the Ukrainian people. We also talk about the band’s origins and journey, his father’s influence, his acting career and connection to Madonna.
Eugene Hutz, Elijah Wood and Liev Schreiber pose promoting Everything is Illuminated (2005). This is Liev's second honorable mention, after Buffalo Girls.
Cast: Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin, Jana Hrabětova, Jonathan Safran Foer, Stephen Samudovsky, Oleksandr Choroshko, Gil Kazimirov, Zuzana Hodková, Ljubomir Dezera, Laryssa Lauret, Tereza Veselkova, Lukáš Král, Vera Sindelarova
Release year: 2005
Genres: history, drama, comedy
Blurb: With the help of his eccentric distant relatives, a young Jewish-American man searches for the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village ultimately razed by the Nazis.
Cat Power, Glen Hansard & more covered Sinéad O'Connor & Shane MacGowan at rehearsal for Carnegie Hall benefit (pics, video)
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Cat Power, Glen Hansard & more covered Sinéad O'Connor & Shane MacGowan at rehearsal for Carnegie Hall benefit (pics, video)
A star-studded benefit show honoring the late Sinéad O���Connor and Shane MacGowan happens at Carnegie Hall tonight (3/20), and ahead of that, many of the participating artists played a rehearsal show at City Winery on Tuesday (3/19). The loose, casual rehearsal was led by Tony Shanahan (who played in the house band), and included Billy […]