Jim Carroll - poet & punk icon - died on Friday, leaving behind classic songs ("People Who Died", "Catholic Boy") and a rich written legacy, including the classic novel "The Basketball Diaries".
This year’s Toronto International Film Festival (Sept. 10-19) will show 271 feature films and 64 short subjects, most of them premieres, at more than a dozen theaters and multiplexes all over the city.
One Program in Yonge and Dundas Square is the free TIFF Live in Concert series, featuring a terrific batch of music-related films including “The Harder They Come,” “Don’t Look Back,” “The Last Waltz,” “Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man,” “Monterey Pop,” “Woodstock,” “Stop Making Sense,” and more...
The Museum of Modern Art has announced the first-ever exhibition to focus on Spike Jonze, "celebrating his work as a director, producer, cinematographer, writer, actor, choreographer, and sometime stuntman." I love the title of the exhibition, Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years. Apparently Jonze came up with the wry title for the early mid-career retrospective title himself. The exhibition runs October 8th through 18th, 2009, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters. The exhibition covers Jonze's entire filmmaking and television career. Included are Jonze's first two feature films, Being John Malkovich (1999), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director, and Adaptation (2002), as well as two films that he co-produced: Jackass: The Movie (2002), based on the popular MTV show he helped create, and the documentary Heavy Metal in Baghdad (2008). source: Brooklyn Vegan
Jim Carroll - poet & punk icon - died on Friday, leaving behind classic songs ("People Who Died", "Catholic Boy") and a rich written legacy, including the classic novel "The Basketball Diaries".
The Museum of Modern Art has announced the first-ever exhibition to focus on Spike Jonze, "celebrating his work as a director, producer, cinematographer, writer, actor, choreographer, and sometime stuntman." I love the title of the exhibition, Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years. Apparently Jonze came up with the wry title for the early mid-career retrospective title himself. The exhibition runs October 8th through 18th, 2009, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters. The exhibition covers Jonze's entire filmmaking and television career. Included are Jonze's first two feature films, Being John Malkovich (1999), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director, and Adaptation (2002), as well as two films that he co-produced: Jackass: The Movie (2002), based on the popular MTV show he helped create, and the documentary Heavy Metal in Baghdad (2008). 
