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Film Fight Club S3E32: Queer Screen, SF3 & Sydney Underground 2019
Where we chat all things Queer Screen with #QSFF19 Director Lisa Rose (Sep 18-22!), cross the galaxy with the SF3 2019 Gala & Smartphone Feature debut ‘Blue Moon’ and emerge from the Underground Film Festival to shed some light on our favourites – Wednesdays 7:30PM on 2SER and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes & Spotify!
See here for Blue Moon & SF3 coverage, reviews of Portrait of a Lady on Fire & Pain and Glory (both screening at Queer Screen) and reviews of SUFF flicks Tone-Deaf, The Art of Self-Defense, Greener Grass, Dreamland & Braid
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Un documental sobre Aretha Franklin se estrenará 46 años después
Nueva York, 6 nov (EFE).- El documental "Amazing Grace", grabado durante un concierto gospel de la legendaria cantante estadounidense Aretha Franklin, se estrenará el próxima semana en Nueva York, 46 años después de su rodaje, informaron medios de EEUU. El estreno, que pone fin a una larga disputa legal y a numerosos problemas técnicos, tendrá lugar el próximo lunes, en el festival DOC NYC y después comenzará su carrera para poder optar a los Oscar. La cinta fue filmada en su mayoría por el cineasta Sydeny Pollack durante dos días en la Iglesia baptista de New Temple Missionary, en Los Angeles, donde Franklin grabó en enero de 1972 un disco con el mismo nombre que el film. "Los seguidores de Aretha estarán cautivados por cada momento de la cinta mientras su genio, su devoción a Dios y su espíritu están presentes en cada secuencia", dijo el productor Alan Elliot en un comunicado divulgado por medios locales. Pollack cometió el error de no sincronizar el sonido durante la grabación de la película, lo que generó graves problemas técnicos que no fueron solucionados hasta 2011 y a ellos se sumaron después los generados entre la cantante y los productores por los derechos del film. Tras alcanzar un acuerdo para su distribución con los familiares de Arteha, la película verá la luz sólo unos meses después de la muerte de Franklin, fallecida en agosto pasado de cáncer a los 76 años. "Amazing Grace es el corazón y el alma de Aretha Franklin", dijo el lunes a la prensa la sobrina de la cantante, Sabrina Owens, antes de añadir: "Sus fans necesitan ver esta película tan pura y alegre". Nacida en 1942 en Memphis (Tennessee), la artista se ganó el título de "Reina del Soul" tras la aparición en 1967 de "Respect", que se convirtió en un himno de la lucha por la igualdad de la población negra y, en particular, de las mujeres. EFE
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The Final Land
Two men, at odds, facing their ends aboard a spacecraft know that they might each be the last person they ever see. Unable to trust the other and faced with few choices, where they’re hurtling toward is fairly at the forefront of their increasingly troubled minds.
A German-language sci-fi drama/thriller pitting us and our leads against the vast isolation of space much like the opening of Ridley Scott’s Alien (and each sequel to boot), The Final Land too takes inspiration from the flagship saga and it’s like given the vessel’s ramshackle corridors and apparently none too high-end navigational gear.
With shades of Battlestar and indeed ‘Utopia,’ one of the very best modern Doctor Who episodes, we are well situated within an unenviable, unnerving conundrum facing both figures as they deliberate quite literally which direction they should go to find harbour and if either can at all trust their prospective final companion.
A computer screen and some future version of Word is consistently well utilised to build tension, even if it is a blatant conduit for some story/character motivation explanation. The deployment of dust and harsh lighting in an extended, involving sequence rendered this tranche, quite late in the film’s runtime, it’s most memorable.
Otherwise visually darker than the majority of sci-fi fare, there’s very little to illuminate proceedings in any sense as we are proffered precious few details about the duo and key aspects of their circumstance. Confined within such small, dimly lit spaces, that akin to Wolfgang Petersen’s own Das Boot won’t likely go unnoticed, though that classic accentuated the characters’ constraints, idiosyncrasies and indeed the plot’s evolution through a more significant emphasis on the passengers’ movements and physical dynamics.
With The Final Land being dialogue or otherwise emotively driven in segments via a glance or sturdy stare, the lighting choices, lack of interaction and blocking often obscure rather than further or underline what is overwhelmingly intended to be conveyed subtly.
The Final Land screens as part of the SciFi Film Festival on Friday September 6 at 8:30PM
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