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Every Sunday, I'll post a quick video -- and podcast -- about an indie film from at least a year ago. Today's film: FORTY SHADES OF BLUE (2005).Director: Ira SachsScreenplay By: Ira Sachs; Michael RohatynCast: Dina Korzun; Rip Torn; Darren BurrowsSYNOPSISAfter moving from Moscow to Memphis, Tenn., Laura (Dina Korzun) feels isolated living a new, privileged life with her boyfriend, Alan James (Rip Torn), a famous music producer. As time passes, Laura becomes increasingly lonely, while James carries on numerous affairs. When James's estranged son, Michael (Darren Burrows), visits for the first time in years, Laura's need for companionship and Michael's strained relationship with his father pull them into a tumultuous affair.Watch The Episode on YouTube.Subscribe to our YouTube channelSupport the Podcast Through MembershipSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/first-time-go/exclusive-content
Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Jenny O'Hara, Renowned Stage, Screen and TV Star About Harvey's guest: Today's guest, Jenny O'Hara, is a renowned and highly popular actress who's brought us many memorable performances on stage, screen and television in a career that spans over 6 decades. On Broadway, she appeared in “Dylan”, “Promises, Promises”, “The Fig Leaves are Falling”, “The Iceman Cometh” and “The Odd Couple”. On the big screen, she's appeared in “Career Opportunities”, “Angie”, “Mystic River”, “Matchstick Men”, “Forty Shades of Blue”, “Two Weeks”, “Extract”, “Killing Eleanor”, “Devil”, “We are Gathered Here Today”, and many more. And on television, she is perhaps best remembered for 5 iconic roles: “Dixie Randazzo” in “My Sister Sam”, “Janet Heffernan” in “The King of Queens”, “Nita” in “Big Love”, “Dot” in “The Mindy Project” and “Bryna” in “Transparent”. But beyond those shows, she has appeared in dozens of classic TV series including “The Rockford Files”, “Barnaby Jones”, “St. Elsewhere”, “The Facts of Life”, “Murphy Brown”, “Beverly Hills 90210”, “Big Love” and many more. She's also starred in some great TV movies including “Good Against Evil”, “Black Beauty”, “Blind Ambition”, “The Women's Room”, “Blinded by the Light”, “Another Woman's Child”, “A Mother's Prayer”, “An Unexpected Life”, and so much more. For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/ To learn more about Jenny O'Hara, go to:https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0641266/ #JennyOHara #harveybrownstoneinterviews
On this episode, I spoke to the writer and director of Passages, IRA SACHS. Passages, one of my favorite films of 2023, stars Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw and Adèle Exarchopoulos It's a movie that I'm relishing as an adult, and yearned for as a kid. I can imagine some queer teenager telling their mom they were seeing the latest latest summer blockbuster, only to actually be sneaking into this hyper-fluid world. At least… that's what I would have done. I got to talk to Sachs about that exact feeling while watching Passages, an honor and privilege I won't soon forget. Other films from Sachs include Frankie, Little Men (Grand Prix, 2016 Deauville American Film Festival), Love is Strange, Keep the Lights On (Teddy Award, 2012 Berlinale), Forty Shades of Blue (Dramatic Grand Jury Prize, 2005 Sundance) and his first feature, The Delta.
In the pilot episode of From the Roots I give an overview of the state of the Irish environment and some of the issues future episodes will address. Find episode text and more: www.fromtherootspod.comTwitter: @fromtherootspodBluesky: @fromtheroots.bsky.socialFrom the Roots podcast is not associated with any groups and any opinion which inevitably shapes the information provided, is entirely my own. It's published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License. Music: Rising Sun by Sascha EndeLicensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
The Letter from Ireland Podcast - with Carina & Mike Collins
You are most likely familiar with the song Danny Boy - Ireland's unofficial anthem. In this episode we first have a listen to Danny Boy and then choose 5 other songs which are also suitable contenders for the title of "Irish Anthem". I define Irish anthems as songs that you are likely to hear both on the sports terraces and anywhere that Irish people gather for a celebration!See if you agree - or maybe suggest one or two alternatives of your own.Music featured in this episode:"Danny Boy" performed by Finbarr Wright."Song for Ireland" performed by Mary Black and Dé Dannan."Galway Bay" performed by Bing Crosby."The Fields of Athenry" performed by Paddy Reilly."Forty Shades of Green" performed by Roseanne Cash and Paul Brady."The West's Asleep" performed by Lumière and Damien Dempsey.Support the Letter from Ireland Show:Thank you for listening to the Letter from Ireland show. To support the podcast, get lots of member-only features and follow Mike and Carina behind the scenes as they travel around Ireland go to ALetterfromIreland.com/plus .
The Letter from Ireland Podcast - with Carina & Mike Collins
You are most likely familiar with the song Danny Boy - Ireland's unofficial anthem. In this episode we first have a listen to Danny Boy and then choose 5 other songs which are also suitable contenders for the title of "Irish Anthem". I define Irish anthems as songs that you are likely to hear both on the sports terraces and anywhere that Irish people gather for a celebration!See if you agree - or maybe suggest one or two alternatives of your own.Music featured in this episode:"Danny Boy" performed by Finbarr Wright."Song for Ireland" performed by Mary Black and Dé Dannan."Galway Bay" performed by Bing Crosby."The Fields of Athenry" performed by Paddy Reilly."Forty Shades of Green" performed by Roseanne Cash and Paul Brady."The West's Asleep" performed by Lumière and Damien Dempsey.Support the Letter from Ireland Show:Thank you for listening to the Letter from Ireland show. To support the podcast, get lots of member-only features and follow Mike and Carina behind the scenes as they travel around Ireland go to ALetterfromIreland.com/plus .
The Letter from Ireland Podcast - with Carina & Mike Collins
In this episode we explore not just the world of Irish music - but 10 tracks from the extended Celtic family. We use music featured on the TV programme - "The Transatlantic Sessions" - to bring you music and song from Ireland, Scotland, the USA and much more. With lots of chat between each song.MUSICAL TRACKS FEATURED IN THIS EPISODE:"Magic Foot" - Performed by Sharon Shannon and the Transatlantic Sessions house band."My heart's tonight in Ireland - in the west County Clare" - Performed by Andy Irvine and the Transatlantic Sessions house band."Aragon Mill" - Performed by Karen Matheson and the Transatlantic Sessions house band."Leezie Lindsay" - Performed by Eddie Reader and the Transatlantic Sessions house band."Let the mystery be" - Performed by Iris De Ment and the Transatlantic Sessions house band."Forty Shades of Green" - Performed by Roseanne Cash, Paul Brady and the Transatlantic Sessions house band."Letter in the mail" - Performed by Tim O'Brien and the Transatlantic Sessions house band."Muireann's jig" - Performed by Mike McGoldrick and the Transatlantic Sessions house band."Road to Aberdeen" - Performed by Nancy Griffith."Caledonia" - Performed by Dougie MacLean.You can find out more about The Transatlantic Sessions here: https://www.transatlanticsessions.com/the-sessions/
The Letter from Ireland Podcast - with Carina & Mike Collins
In this episode we explore not just the world of Irish music - but 10 tracks from the extended Celtic family. We use music featured on the TV programme - "The Transatlantic Sessions" - to bring you music and song from Ireland, Scotland, the USA and much more. With lots of chat between each song.MUSICAL TRACKS FEATURED IN THIS EPISODE:"Magic Foot" - Performed by Sharon Shannon and the Transatlantic Sessions house band."My heart's tonight in Ireland - in the west County Clare" - Performed by Andy Irvine and the Transatlantic Sessions house band."Aragon Mill" - Performed by Karen Matheson and the Transatlantic Sessions house band."Leezie Lindsay" - Performed by Eddie Reader and the Transatlantic Sessions house band."Let the mystery be" - Performed by Iris De Ment and the Transatlantic Sessions house band."Forty Shades of Green" - Performed by Roseanne Cash, Paul Brady and the Transatlantic Sessions house band."Letter in the mail" - Performed by Tim O'Brien and the Transatlantic Sessions house band."Muireann's jig" - Performed by Mike McGoldrick and the Transatlantic Sessions house band."Road to Aberdeen" - Performed by Nancy Griffith."Caledonia" - Performed by Dougie MacLean.You can find out more about The Transatlantic Sessions here: https://www.transatlanticsessions.com/the-sessions/
My guest today is Konstantin Richter, CEO and Founder of Blockdaemon. Blockdaemon is a provider of a node management platform designed to empower businesses to simply and efficiently manage blockchain applications. The company's platform offers a multi-chain multi-cloud network management tool that can deploy nodes and connect them to blockchains within minutes and also offers its own infrastructure for select projects to offer faster deploy times and lower costs, enabling businesses to quickly deploy and iterate blockchain applications and simplify peer-to-peer network management. Konstantin is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He has led several SaaS B2B companies towards meaningful exits in the media/advertising space, including Audiotube, Lookbooks and Wiredrive. He also is an advisor to blockchain company Gem, and serves on the board of MadHive, a media/advertising blockchain business, Genymobile, the android dev tool and DNAstack.com, the genomic search-engine. He currently serves as the CEO and founder of Blockdaemon, a hybrid cloud middleware platform for major blockchain protocols. Konstantin delivers a masterclass in blockchain infrastructure and node operation. We discuss the importance and role that nodes play in the ecosystem, the process of decentralization, and how projects work with node providers to build towards decentralization. We also talk about the Bitcoin Scaling Wars and Ethereum migrating to Eth 2.0. This is an amazing conversation, it's a must listen for anyone interested in understanding how blockchains work. Please enjoy my conversation with Konstantin Richter. --- Bitcasino: This episode was brought to you by Bitcasino. The world's leading Bitcoin-led online casino and crypto-centric gaming destination. Wager your way into a world of opportunity, with the ultimate Fun, Fast and Fair crypto-casino experience. Deposit, wager, and withdraw in real-time with a host of top cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), LiteCoin (LTC), Tether (USDT), TRON (TRX), Ripple (XRP), and more! Use the promo link https://untoldstories.link/bitcasino, to unlock your 200 FREE SPINS in the Legacy of Dead Promotion. --- This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co
My guest today is Konstantin Richter, CEO and Founder of Blockdaemon. Blockdaemon is a provider of a node management platform designed to empower businesses to simply and efficiently manage blockchain applications. The company's platform offers a multi-chain multi-cloud network management tool that can deploy nodes and connect them to blockchains within minutes and also offers its own infrastructure for select projects to offer faster deploy times and lower costs, enabling businesses to quickly deploy and iterate blockchain applications and simplify peer-to-peer network management. Konstantin is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He has led several SaaS B2B companies towards meaningful exits in the media/advertising space, including Audiotube, Lookbooks and Wiredrive. He also is an advisor to blockchain company Gem, and serves on the board of MadHive, a media/advertising blockchain business, Genymobile, the android dev tool and DNAstack.com, the genomic search-engine. He currently serves as the CEO and founder of Blockdaemon, a hybrid cloud middleware platform for major blockchain protocols. Konstantin delivers a masterclass in blockchain infrastructure and node operation. We discuss the importance and role that nodes play in the ecosystem, the process of decentralization, and how projects work with node providers to build towards decentralization. We also talk about the Bitcoin Scaling Wars and Ethereum migrating to Eth 2.0. This is an amazing conversation, it's a must listen for anyone interested in understanding how blockchains work. Please enjoy my conversation with Konstantin Richter. --- Bitcasino: This episode was brought to you by Bitcasino. The world's leading Bitcoin-led online casino and crypto-centric gaming destination. Wager your way into a world of opportunity, with the ultimate Fun, Fast and Fair crypto-casino experience. Deposit, wager, and withdraw in real-time with a host of top cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), LiteCoin (LTC), Tether (USDT), TRON (TRX), Ripple (XRP), and more! Use the promo link https://untoldstories.link/bitcasino, to unlock your 200 FREE SPINS in the Legacy of Dead Promotion. --- This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co
Darach chats with musician and writer Thom Dunn about how perceptions of Irish America have evolved rapidly in his and his father’s lifetimes, and what he hopes Irish America will be like when his newborn is old enough to understand it.
We chat with Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer and Re-recording Mixer Damian Volpe to discuss his recent collaboration with visionary Director Robert Eggers and explore his new film, The Lighthouse. Shot in black-and-white, the film follows two lighthouse keepers (portrayed by Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson) as they are faced with solitude, but start to lose their sanity and become threatened by their worst nightmares. Damian Volpe is a Brooklyn based sound designer, supervisor, and mixer. He is a founding member of Harbor Sound, and a working partner of ((Audience)), a non- profit group dedicated to presenting music and sound art in new contexts, including specifically the use of movie theaters as concert halls. He has had the good fortune to collaborate over several decades with an amazing cast of directors including Ira Sachs, Debra Granik, Robert Eggers, Dee Rees, Marielle Heller, Ted Melfi, Mira Nair, Peter Hedges, Jim Jarmusch, and Matthew Barney. Damian’s work can be heard in a wide variety of feature films (The Lighthouse, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Leave No Trace, St. Vincent, Mudbound, Drive, Winter’s Bone, Margin Call, Forty Shades of Blue, Happiness), documentaries (Billy the Kid, Trouble the Waters) and art pieces (Drawing Restraint 9, States of Unbelonging, Last Address). His work can also be heard at the award-winning Gear Platte River Road Archway Monument and at The George Washington Museum and Education Center in Mount Vernon. His sonic interests include susurration, hypnogogia, tintinnabulation, buzz, bottomlessness, and decay.
The month's episode focuses on greenwashing: greenwash noun The practice of promoting environmentally friendly programs to deflect attention from an organization's environmentally unfriendly or less savory activities: Interview with Pauric Fogarty of the Irish Wildlife Trust, discussing Bord Bia's Origin Green campaign. We also discuss the citizens assembly, NGO and public pushback against foolish government policy, alternatives to mass dairy farming and much more.
Forty shades of Fenty - Rihanna's new makeup launch Fenty Beauty and the Fenty x Puma collection. Pushing and shoving at #WANGFEST. Print magazine editors near extinction and the new guard of multi-platform editrixes. #NYFW
When 13-year-old Jake's (Theo Taplitz) grandfather dies, his family moves from Manhattan back into his father's old Brooklyn home. There, Jake befriends the charismatic Tony (Michael Barbieri), whose single mother Leonor (Paulina Garcia, Gloria), a dressmaker from Chile, runs the shop downstairs. Soon, Jake's parents Brian (Greg Kinnear) and Kathy (Jennifer Ehle) -- one, a struggling actor, the other, a psychotherapist -- ask Leonor to sign a new, steeper lease on her store. For Leonor, the proposed new rent is untenable, and a feud ignites between the adults. At first, Jake and Tony don't seem to notice; the two boys, so different on the surface, begin to develop a formative kinship as they discover the pleasures of being young in Brooklyn. Jake aspires to be an artist, while Tony wants to be an actor, and they have dreams of going to the same prestigious arts high school together. But the children can't avoid the problems of their parents forever, and soon enough, the adult conflict intrudes upon the borders of their friendship. Director and co-writer Ira Sachs (Love is Strange, Keep the Lights On, Forty Shades of Blue) with his trademark humanism and insight, Little Men highlights the New York City landscape with a story of life-defining friendships in the midst of familial turmoil. He joins us for a conversation on his latest cinematic gem. For news and updates go to:littlemenfilm.com
Steve Davern from the band, Pin Drop Theatre, joins Mike and Tim at the Windy City Irish Radio studios for a night paying tribute to country legend, Johnny Cash. Johnny Cash had a strong connection with the Irish penning his 1961 hit,"Forty Shades of Green". Irish bands such as U2, in turn, have had a strong connection with Johnny Cash performing not only with Cash but performing his songs. Join us to pay tribute to the Man in Black and listen to other great Irish and Irish American music here on Windy City Irish Radio. You can listen live each Wednesday evening on WSBC 1470AM Chicago and WCFJ 1240AM Chicago Heights from 8pm to 9pm CST or listen to our podcasts at www.windycityirishradio.com or find us on Facebook. Send all requests to Tim Taylor at tim.taylor@windycityirishradio.com
Our guest, Robert L. Seigel, is a NYC entertainment attorney who specializes in the representation of clients in the entertainment and media industries with an emphasis on fiction and non-fiction projects. Bob has over twenty years experience as an attorney in these areas and has represented such projects as "Trembling Before G-d," "Which Way Home," "Forty Shades of Blue," "Planet B-Boy," "Entre Nos," and "Interview." He is a donor to the Roy Dean Film Grant and has written business and legal articles for The Independent Feature Project blog, Indie Slate and Filmmaker magazines. Visit his website at http://www.rlsentlaw.com
Dickon is a founding member of Tindersticks, the seminal UK band for which he composed music, played violin, guitar and keyboards. His orchestral arrangements were one of Tindersticks' most distinctive features. From 1993 to 2005, Dickon was involved in ten of their releases including their self-titled debut which was Melody Maker's album of the year. Dickon began scoring films when French director Claire Denis approached Tindersticks to write the score to her films like Trouble Every Day, starring Vincent Gallo, and the film Friday Night. Dickon has scored several other films including Forty Shades of Blue, directed by Ira Sachs, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2005. Dickon has composed music for a range of films from Married Life, Last Chance Harvey, Cold Souls, and Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980 for James Marsh.More recently, Dickon scored Debra Granik's multiple award winning feature film Winter's Bone, Passion Play for Mitch Glazer and the award winning documentary, Project Nim, again for James Marsh.
Ira Sachs was born in Memphis, TN and moved to New York after graduating from Yale University with a BA in Literature and Film Theory. Ira was a recipient of a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1999, Sachs has been an Adjunct Professor in the MFA Program at the Columbia University School of Film, a creative advisor at the Sundance Director’s Lab, and a fellow at both the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. His films include the features Married Life, Forty Shades of Blue which won a Sundance Grand Jury Prize, and The Delta. They have been screened at the Berlin, Toronto, New York, Rotterdam, and London Film Festivals. Ira is presently working on a new feature, The Goodbye People, co-written with Oren Moverman, and adapted from the fiction of screenwriter and novelist Gavin Lambert.
Listen Up! Our first show of the New Year includes:Rich's list of crap...um...topicsVin: Nicolas Catena, 2002 Malbec Mendoza (Argentina)BTW, visit our Wine List to see all of the bottles consumed on the showMusic: Mind's Eye by Root ValdezPrivacy and wiretapping - it's a cliche, but Orwell was onto something Phil Zimmerman The Truthout article we talked about on the show Film: Forty Shades of BlueNote: Jack Klugman played Ross in the Twilight Zone episode titled "Death Ship" (1963)