For all you Philip Glass fans out there: there are still a few tickets left for his third full-length opera 'Akhnaten' at Opera Vlaanderen next month in Antwerp and in Ghent this March!
A new capital arose and a fresh wind also blew in politics, art and language. But the pharaoh, his wife Nefertiti and their families became increasingly alienated from the real needs of the population. After a reign of seventeen years, the pharaoh was overthrown by the masses and older, rigid power structures were restored.
Glass does not opt for a continuous storyline, but for an episodic and symbolic portrait of the legendary pharaoh, full of stylized scenes. His mesmerizing score is based on repetitive, rhythmic melody patterns that are gradually interwoven. Following Einstein on the Beach (1976) and Satyagraha (1980), Akhnaten (1984) is Philip Glass’ third full-length opera. The directing and stage set are the work of the imaginative British theatre-maker Nigel Lowery (Candide), and the controversial fashion designer Walter Van Beirendonck is responsible for the costumes.
Tickets for 15th edition of the World Soundtrack Awards now already available
In 2015 Film Fest Gent celebrates the 15th anniversary of the World Soundtrack Awards. As every year one can expect many international guests, film music and of course lots of awards.
This year the World Soundtrack Awards will have its fifteenth edition. What started out as a side event of Film Fest Gent, now has become the musical culmination of the film festival. Worldwide, music lovers look forward to what is called "an annual film music event not to miss". Each year plays Brussels Philharmonic, conducted by Dirk Brosse, performs compositions of central guests accompanied by impressive film fragments.
15th World Soundtrack Awards Ceremony & Concert
24 October 2015 at ' t Kuipke, Ghent
Available from 18th February on Belga Home Video on both DVD and Blu-ray.
SAMBA
Directors:Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
Stars:Omar Sy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tahar Rahim
Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.
Sinds zijn opmerkelijke passage in het hartverwarmende Intouchables is acteur Omar Sy geen nobele onbekende meer in filmland. Ook in Samba laat Sy opnieuw een sterk staaltje acteerwerk zien, geen wonder dat Hollywood nadrukkelijk aan zijn mouw trekt.
De film vertelt het verhaal van een Senegalese immigrant, die een quasi uitzichtloos bestaan leidt. Een ontmoeting met Alice (Charlotte Gainsbourg) brengt daar verandering in, maar ook zij kampt met enkele demonen in haar leven... De regie is ook deze keer in de bekwame handen van Eric Toledano en Olivier Nakache, het duo dat met Intouchables een van de meest succesvolle Franse films aller tijden op hun palmares mocht schrijven.
Samba is vanaf 18 februari beschikbaar op Blu-ray™, DVD, en Video on Demand. De film is vanaf dan ook verkrijgbaar als digital download.
SYNOPSIS
Samba (Sy) kwam tien jaar geleden vanuit Senegal naar Frankrijk, waar het ene
na het andere rotbaantje hem opwachtte. Alice (Gainsbourg) is een manager uit het bedrijfsleven die net een burn-out heeft gehad. Samba doet er alles aan om een werkvergunning te krijgen, terwijl Alice haar best doet haar leven weer op de rails te krijgen als medewerkster bij een vrijwilligersorganisatie. Beiden hebben moeite om los te komen uit hun dagelijkse sleur, totdat het lot hen samenbrengt. Vol humor en emotie slaat hun leven een nieuwe weg in naar geluk. Maar wat als het leven meer fantasie bevat dan zij in huis hebben?
BONUSMATERIALEN
Making Of
Deleted Scenes
Featurette: Take The Lead
Featurette: Behind The Music
Trailer
DETAILS
Genre: Komedie/Drama
Audio: Frans
Ondertiteling: Nederlands
Speelduur: 118 minuten
A compendium of artistic differences offering a distinct sound that testifies the beauty behind love and demise. An intense desire to deliver a rage of indulgence towards the pursuit of unlocking contempt for one's self and failure to covet what is duly worth. Each piece is performed with undying adoration that vows to display purity and ingenuity.
A band produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Joelen Mingi of the legendary German Goth-Rock band “The Angina Pectoris”, who also contributed and wrote the songs "Even If I'm Broken" (both versions) and "Forces Within", rearranging George Harrison's classic "Something", adding backing vocals and went further even contributing additional instruments such as keyboards, drums, acoustic guitars, samples, piano and violins on aforementioned songs.
Cheatahs have gifted us another track from their forthcoming Sunne EP, and the title track is every bit as optimistic as you were last week about your New Year resolutions. Luckily, Cheatahs bright new outlook is going to last a hell of a lot longer.
Title track ‘Sunne’ drives forward, littered with whirring tones and tape-worn melodies while popping in all the right places. “Sunne is partly an attempt to encapsulate the feelings I had when I read (Hemingway's) The Sun Also Rises, a book that had quite a profound effect on me.” says James Wignall. “We ran the guitars through a very cheap (and slightly broken) recorder onto old cassette tape, which evokes a bittersweet end-of-day feeling, as if the sun were setting.”
The Sunne EP is the band's first release since their self-titled debut album in early 2014. The word “sunne” (an old English spelling) is perhaps apt for describing the four new songs, at turns scorching ambient punk and blissed-out anti-rock.
As with all their previous material, the London based four-piece recorded the EP themselves, doing so mostly in their houses, and their friends Part Chimp’s Camberwell studio when their flatmates/neighbours got annoyed. Ever since their early releases, Cheatahs have been evolving and developing their craft, and this EP is the most clearly defined and ambitious set to date, exploring new territory via sketchy back alleys and sunlit, swampy meadows.
The new EP takes a giant step once again, pushing things further along. Cheatahs are burning bright and it’s time you stepped into the light and joined them.
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