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Friendly Fire (2006 Film)
''Friendly Fire'' is a 2006 film written and directed by Sean Lennon and Michele Civetta. It accompanies Sean Lennon's 2006 album of the same name (as a DVD). The film comprises 10 music videos, one for each song on the album (with non-album tracks and dialog used during intermission scenes). ''Friendly Fire'' stars Lennon himself, playing a wide range of roles along with various friends and actors such as Bijou Phillips, Lindsay Lohan, Carrie Fisher and Jordan Galland Jordan Galland (born 1980) is an American filmmaker and musician based in New York City, and operates Slush Puppy Music, a record label, as well as his own film production company, Ravenous Films. Early life Born in Farmington, Connecticut, Ga .... The project is dedicated to Lennon's late friend, Max Leroy (1975–2005). ''Friendly Fire'' was shown publicly during the album's release in the United States at various independent screenings. Occasionally screened with Beck's album-film, '' The Information'' (w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Civetta
Michele Civetta (born 1976) is an Italian American film director and multi-media artist and founder of Quintessence Films. Career Michele Civetta is an Emmy-nominated director. He has directed videos for Lou Reed, Sparklehorse, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Curtis Harding, Ladytron, and Yoko Ono, as well as commercials for Coca-Cola, Martini & Rossi, Cingular wireless, and Badoit mineral water. In 2006 Civetta wrote and directed a musical feature for Sean Lennon's Capitol Records release ''Friendly Fire''. The 50-minute film debuted January 2008 on Mark Cuban's HDNet channel. Civetta was preparing a film based on the international bestseller ''Coin Locker Babies'' that was scheduled to shoot in the summer of 2010 in Thailand and Japan, a co-production with Don Murphy's Angry Films. Production was delayed to 2013; by May of that year, the project had been renamed ''Regular Boy'', and it was listed on IMDb as being in "pre-production". In 2015 it was reported to be in de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capitol Records
Capitol Records, LLC (known legally as Capitol Records, Inc. until 2007) is an American record label distributed by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint. It was founded as the first West Coast-based record label of note in the United States in 1942 by Johnny Mercer, Buddy DeSylva, and Glenn E. Wallichs. Capitol was acquired by British music conglomerate EMI as its North American subsidiary in 1955. EMI was acquired by Universal Music Group in 2012, and was merged with the company a year later, making Capitol and the Capitol Music Group both distributed by UMG. The label's circular headquarters building is a recognized landmark of Hollywood, California. Both the label itself and its famous building are sometimes referred to as "The House That Nat Built." This refers to one of Capitol's most famous artists, Nat King Cole. Capitol is also well known as the U.S. record label of the Beatles, especially during the years of Beatlemania in America from 1964 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Musical Films
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2006 Films
The following is an overview of events in 2006, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Evaluation of the year Legendary film critic Philip French of ''The Guardian'' described 2006 as "an outstanding year for British cinema". He went on to emphasize, "Six of our well-established directors have made highly individual films of real distinction: Michael Winterbottom's ''A Cock and Bull Story'', Ken Loach's Palme d'Or winner '' The Wind That Shakes the Barley'', Christopher Nolan's ''The Prestige'', Stephen Frears's ''The Queen'', Paul Greengrass's '' United 93'' and Nicholas Hytner's ''The History Boys''. Two young directors made confident debuts, both offering a jaundiced view of contemporary Britain: Andrea Arnold's Red Road and Paul Andrew Williams's London to Brighton. In addition the gifted Mexican Alfonso Cuaron came here to make the dystopian thriller '' Children of Men''." He also stated, "In the (Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Direct-to-video Films
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second smallest composite number, behind 4; its proper divisors are , and . Since 6 equals the sum of its proper divisors, it is a perfect number; 6 is the smallest of the perfect numbers. It is also the smallest Granville number, or \mathcal-perfect number. As a perfect number: *6 is related to the Mersenne prime 3, since . (The next perfect number is 28.) *6 is the only even perfect number that is not the sum of successive odd cubes. *6 is the root of the 6-aliquot tree, and is itself the aliquot sum of only one other number; the square number, . Six is the only number that is both the sum and the product of three consecutive positive numbers. Unrelated to 6's being a perfect number, a Golomb ruler of length 6 is a "perfect ruler". Six is a con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Information (Beck Album)
''The Information'' is the tenth studio album by American musician Beck, released on October 3, 2006 by Interscope Records. It was produced and mixed by Nigel Godrich, with whom Beck recorded ''Mutations'' (1998) and '' Sea Change'' (2002). Recording took place from 2003 to 2006, with Beck concurrently working on 2005's ''Guero'' with the Dust Brothers. The album received positive reviews from critics and made several publications' year-end lists. Recording Before its release, Beck said the album was not a "stripped down" record, in contrast with his previous Godrich collaborations, ''Mutations'' and ''Sea Change''. According to Beck, "Nigel odrichsaid he wanted to do a hip-hop record" before they began work on the album. "And in a way it is, and in a way it isn't. It has hip-hop songs, and my previous work with him was ''Mutations'' and ''Sea Change'', these sort of introspective records, and so this new one is sort of bringing those two worlds together." In an interview with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beck
Beck David Hansen (born Bek David Campbell; July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He rose to fame in the early 1990s with his Experimental music, experimental and Lo-fi music, lo-fi style, and became known for creating musical collages of wide-ranging genres. He has musically encompassed Folk music, folk, funk, Soul music, soul, Hip hop music, hip hop, Electronic music, electronic, alternative rock, Country music, country, and Psychedelic music, psychedelia. He has released 14 studio albums (three of which were released on indie labels), as well as several non-album singles and a book of sheet music. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Beck grew towards hip-hop and folk in his teens and began to perform locally at coffeehouses and clubs. He moved to New York City in 1989 and became involved in the city's anti-folk movement. Returning to Los Angeles in the early 1990s, he cut his breakthrough single "Loser (Beck song), Loser", which became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Videos
A music video is a video of variable duration, that integrates a music song or a music album with imagery that is produced for promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a music marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. Although the origins of music videos date back to musical short films that first appeared, they again came into prominence when Paramount Global's MTV based its format around the medium. These kinds of videos were described by various terms including " illustrated song", "filmed insert", "promotional (promo) film", "promotional clip", "promotional video", "song video", "song clip", "film clip" or simply "video". Music videos use a wide range of styles and contemporary video-making techniques, including animation, live-action, documentary, and non-narrative approaches such as abstract film. Combining these styles and techniques has become more popular due to the variety for the audience ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friendly Fire (Sean Lennon Album)
''Friendly Fire'' is the second studio album by Sean Lennon, released on 2 October 2006 by Capitol Records in the US, and Parlophone in the UK. It reached #152 on the US ''Billboard'' 200 chart and #5 in the Top Heatseekers chart. It stayed on the French album chart for 43 weeks and was certified silver. Background The inspiration behind most of the songs on ''Friendly Fire'' was Lennon's tumultuous relationship with actress Bijou Phillips.''San Francisco Gate'' article:Pop Quiz: Sean Lennon" According to Lennon, Phillips cheated on him with his childhood best friend, Max LeRoy; LeRoy died shortly afterwards in a motorcycle accident, before he and Lennon were able to resolve their differences. Track listing All songs written by Sean Lennon, except where noted. #"Dead Meat" - 3:37 #"Wait for Me" - 2:39 #"Parachute" - 3:19 #"Friendly Fire" - 5:03 #"Spectacle" (Lennon, Jordan Galland) - 5:24 #"Tomorrow" - 2:03 #"On Again Off Again" - 3:18 #"Headlights" - 3:16 #"Would I Be the One ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Film
The following is an overview of events in 2006, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Evaluation of the year Legendary film critic Philip French of ''The Guardian'' described 2006 as "an outstanding year for British cinema". He went on to emphasize, "Six of our well-established directors have made highly individual films of real distinction: Michael Winterbottom's ''A Cock and Bull Story'', Ken Loach's Palme d'Or winner '' The Wind That Shakes the Barley'', Christopher Nolan's ''The Prestige'', Stephen Frears's ''The Queen'', Paul Greengrass's '' United 93'' and Nicholas Hytner's ''The History Boys''. Two young directors made confident debuts, both offering a jaundiced view of contemporary Britain: Andrea Arnold's Red Road and Paul Andrew Williams's London to Brighton. In addition the gifted Mexican Alfonso Cuaron came here to make the dystopian thriller '' Children of Men''." He also stated, "In the (Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Gainer
Steve Gainer, ASC ASK (born October 25, 1962) is an American cinematographer, director, and producer. He is a member and museum curator of the American Society of Cinematographers, a member of the Directors Guild of America, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. His credits include: With Love (TV series), Life By Ella (TV series), On My Block (TV series), Puppy Place (TV series), Schooled (TV series), The Last Laugh (2019 film), Mayhem (film), '' American Girl'', '' Sweet/Vicious'', '' Everly'', ''Awkward'', ''Catch Hell'', '' Super'', '' Punisher: War Zone'', '' Black Cloud'', ''Mysterious Skin'', '' Bully'', '' Dirty Girl'', ''Movie 43'', and ''A Haunted House.'' From 1991 to 1994 he was the manager of the Paramount Pictures Corporation film lab. While at the Paramount lab, Gainer met future director Dave Meyers. With Dave Meyers Gainer shot over thirty music videos and the feature film Foolish. Since 1994, he has been director of photography on dozens of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Griffin Marcus
The griffin, griffon, or gryphon ( Ancient Greek: , ''gryps''; Classical Latin: ''grȳps'' or ''grȳpus''; Late and Medieval Latin: ''gryphes'', ''grypho'' etc.; Old French: ''griffon'') is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle; and sometimes an eagle's talons as its front feet. Because the lion was traditionally considered the king of the beasts, and the eagle the king of the birds, by the Middle Ages, the griffin was thought to be an especially powerful and majestic creature. Since classical antiquity, griffins were known for guarding treasures and priceless possessions. In Greek and Roman texts, griffins and Arimaspians were associated with gold deposits of Central Asia. Indeed, as Pliny the Elder wrote, "griffins were said to lay eggs in burrows on the ground and these nests contained gold nuggets." In medieval heraldry, the griffin became a Christian symbol of divine power and a guardian of the divine. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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