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THE PIT presents its brand new “in-house” production as “The PIT Original.” After a successful launch with its first season, THE PIT (aka the first ever SVOD platform dedicated to the rock and metal universe) started season two, launching original productions. A couple of weeks after ‘Unscene Casablanca,’ focused on the Moroccan metal […]
‘Where Does a Body End?’ is an intimate portrait of the band SWANS, from their roots as a brutal, confrontational post-punk band that emerged from the same early 1980s era NYC that gave us Sonic Youth (and, somehow, Madonna) through their ill-fated bid at mainstream success in the 90s indie-rock gold rush, […]
“Would you put your life on the line for your music?” As announced a couple of days ago, after the successful launch of THE PIT (aka the first-ever SVOD platform dedicated to the ROCK & METAL universe), the team behind The Pit Edition added massive new content and presents today ‘RocKabul’ available right now on the platform. […]
Based on a non-fiction book by Judith C. Brown, “Benedetta” is the latest motion picture from Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven. It focuses on the years in which Benedetta rose to the summit of the Theatine convent in Tuscany, Italy. In the film, premiering at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, nuns […]
Adapted by François Ozon from Aidan Chambers’s groundbreaking LGBT young adult novel ‘Dance on My Grave’, ‘Summer of 85’ is a sexy, nostalgic reverie of first love and its consequences from one of France’s most versatile filmmakers. ‘Dance on My Grave’ was one of the first few young adult books […]
‘Après’ is a dance film. It tells the story of two women who try to overcome a shock. Their combat tells a timeless and universal story. No matter what the traumatic event, the amount of energy required is as immense as it is beautiful. Directed by Baptiste DebrauxChoreography: Juliette HilaireMusic: […]
After breaking out with his 2016 film ‘Happy Hour’, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi returned in 2018 with what he described as his first “commercial film,” ‘Asako I and II’, as opposed to smaller, independent production. Adapted from a Haruki Murakami short story, ‘Drive My Car’ is Hamaguchi’s current “commercial” project, while the smaller-scale Berlinale 2021 premiere ‘Wheel of Fortune […]
SILO is the product of an extensive collaboration between city-based filmmakers and the rural American community. The entire creative team spent years working with farmers, fire/rescue workers, and trusted agricultural institutions to ensure the authentic portrayal of the all-too-common danger of grain entrapment. SILO is not just a dramatic reminder […]
‘In Search of Tomorrow’ is a documentary film that has just entered pre-production and is somehow packed in that nostalgic retro wave style of the 80s. The documentary follows a year-by-year timeline, where each film segment combine talent from the project and/or experts discussing aspects such as plot, the film’s […]
‘Arvéd’, the movie that Czech producer Vojtěch Mašek has recently started filming, is based on the real-life of controversial occultist Jiří Arvéd Smíchovský. With a script inspired by the book ‘The Devil of Malá Strana’ by Jan Poláček, ‘Arvéd’ is a classic Faustian story of a very ambitious smart man […]