ASCAP’s Virtual Sundance Cafe to Host Sparks/Edgar Wright Discussion, Sets by Mikel Jollette and Darlingside, and More

Also Read: A24 Picks Up Ninja Thyberg's 'Pleasure' About Los Angeles Porn IndustryThe remaining number came from the festival’s talks and other sections. Using the same estimate of two views per household, the festival projects that 66,000 people watched from 33,267 views.

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As you’ve probably heard, English filmmaker Edgar Wright—in the hope of backing the entire film industry and film publications—has curated the new issue of Empire magazine. The idea is celebrating movies in every aspect, theatergoing, etc., and Wright has really been leading the charge over in the U.K.

In a tale as old as time… the second that the nominations for a prominent awards ceremony are announced, there is immediate chatter about who or what were snubbed!

Edgar Wright‘s upcoming Sparks documentary The Sparks Brothers has been given a first proper look in a new two-minute-long clip.The film, which has just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, takes a look at the 50-year career of the Los Angeles-based group, formed by brothers Ron and Russell Mael.The clip was shared by Wright on his Twitter page, the Hot Fuzz director writing: “I’m so excited for those attending to see my three-years-in-the-making doc on legendary band @sparksofficial.

To call a portrait documentary an “affectionate tribute” to its lesser-known subject, is usually redundant. That’s the whole point of adoring acknowledgment docs of this ilk— “shining a brighter spotlight” on [insert criminally undervalued subject here].

After a renowned career of nearly four decades in both film and TV, actor Robin Wright makes a confident feature directorial debut with “Land,” screening this year as part of Sundance Film Festival’s Premieres line-up.

Edgar Wright has spent a lot of his time (and other people's) talking about beloved cult pop duo Sparks. "If you talked to any of my friends they’d say that if I’d got onto Sparks they’d be there for the next hour while I was trying to explain to them how amazing Sparks was," he says.

evolution in talking about Sparks’ early music, we’ll see one or two seconds of a butterfly coming out of a cocoon, and if we’re told that their second album was more experimental than their first, here’s a shot of a car driving off a cliff.The obvious questions aren’t addressed in the slightest.

Jessica Kiang How to introduce an entity as mercurial as Sparks, the band that forms the subject of Edgar Wright’s fantastic, fond, fizzy documentary portrait, to those who don’t know them? With over five decades and 25 albums’ worth of music, sibling frontmen Ron and Russell Mael have been virtually the only constant in a group whose lineup has changed with roughly the frequency of iPhone updates, and whose sound pinballs around the pop-musical map, from glam-rock to prog-rock to electro to

The 2021 Sundance Film Festival is happening virtually this year, but Zoe Lister-Jones and husband Daryl Wein came up with a fun way of celebrating their film!

Edgar Wright, the British director behind Shaun of the Dead and Baby Driver, is a big fan of Sparks, the enigmatic pop band known for hits such as This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us and When Do I Get To Sing ‘My Way’.

Ever heard of the band Sparks? If you haven’t, you’re not alone. If you have, it’s not unlikely that they’re one of your favorite bands.The pop rock duo formed by brothers Ron and Russell Mael has in their five-decade run gained a cult following of some seriously creative people, from Beck and Weird Al to Mike Myers and Amy Sherman-Palladino.

Baby Driver 2 is now complete.Speaking to Variety ahead of the release of his new documentary, The Sparks Brothers, Wright revealed that the follow up to the 2017 action-comedy was written and complete.Wright said: “It’s written.

Also Read: 'How It Ends' Film Review: It's the End of the World as We Know It, and You'll Feel FineA certain filmmaker friend of Wright’s suggested he should be the one to direct the documentary, which will be screening Saturday and Monday in the Sundance Film Festival.“The question started to answer itself as I thought the reason that they’re not as big as they should be is because they don’t have a documentary saying how influential they are and at certain point, I think my friend Phil Lord

Sundance Film Festival as snow drifts and thin air. The mountaintop gathering highlights the best of indie film and shines a light on the next generation of Tarantinos and Soderberghs.

Chris Willman Music WriterWhen did I get on board?” filmmaker Edgar Wright asks himself, repeating the question about when, over Sparks’ five-decade career, he first took a liking to the band. “I saw Sparks for the first time on TV when I was 5.