Author of the article: Fish Griwkowsky
Publishing date: Mar 04, 2021 • March 4, 2021 • 1 minute read • Samantha Schultz, who now lives in L.A., has a new video. Photo by supplied
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The Quiet: In the 18 years Edmonton expat Samantha Schultz has been making music, this ghostly, isolated little film is her first video.
The Canadian-Filipina singer-songwriter played a main stage tweener set at the 2011 folk fest and now lives in L.A., and her pretty, bittersweet new dark jazz song is informed by the fact that, like all musicians, her career had been all but entirely knocked over like a bowling pin without apology by the pandemic.
Cold Water, five-hour-long Carlos the Jackal biopic
Carlos, and his recent supernatural drama
Personal Shopper construct cinematic experiments on top of traditional premises that still grab the most mainstream moviegoer. Most people will go see “the Kristen Stewart ghost movie,” but in Assayas’ hands, the plots, emotions, and critical observations always swerve into unexpected places.
The French director’s 2002
demonlover might take his sharpest turns. Often described as a postmodern neo-noir, the film stars Connie Nielsen (
Gladiator,
Wonder Woman) as Diane de Monx, a corporate spy hoping to swing control of the global adult animation market to her employer, Mangatronics. To do so, she infiltrates the executive levels of the Volf Corporation, drugs her boss, assumes control of the company’s major clients, and brokers a deal to license a Japanese animation studio’s 3D CG hentai. With the assets secured, negotiations begin with the equally shady Demonlover, an A