lifestyle TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Music & Movies

Francesca Felgar from Heritage Auctions holds up a postcard, sent by Beatles drummer Ringo Starr to his grandmother from Hamburg in 1960. Ringo Starr auction in December to feature over 800 items ver 800 items owned by Ringo Starr and his wife, The unprecedented number of Beatles-owned objects will Barbara Bach, including a three-piece drum kit he used be offered Dec. 4-5 at Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills, Oin over 200 performances and recordings, will be auc- California. Highlights will be displayed for a week at The Hard tioned later this year. Ringo’s first 1963 Ludwig Oyster black Rock New York in Times Square starting Nov 16. The auction is pearl that he played between May 1963 and February 1964 is expected to bring in $5 million to $10 million. — AP expected to sell for $300,000 to $500,000. The auction also will British musician Ringo Starr of legendary band The Beatles poses in front of an exhibition of photographs feature a Rickenbacker guitar known as the “Beatle-Backer” he took during his life during a photo call to promote his new book entitled ‘photograph’ at the National that John Lennon owned and later gave to Ringo. It’s estimat- Portrait Gallery in London. — AFP photos ed to bring in $600,000 to $800,000. Toronto: Array of Arab co-productions at Festival Toronto film festival number of film projects from the Arab world, into feature filmmaking. Also wading into feature Revolution. The film, a Tunisia/France/Belgium/UAE including those from Morocco, Tunisia, filmmaking for the first time is fellow documentari- co-production, was made with the support of a APalestine and Lebanon, will unspool at this an Mai Masri, a Palestinian helmer whose “3000 SANAD grant from the Abu Dhabi Film Fest. year’s Toronto Intl. Film Festival. Palestinian helmer Nights” will also make its world debut at TIFF. A Gaza brothers Arab and Tarzan Nasser, who targets drones Hany Abu-Assad, fresh off of his Oscar-nominated Palestine/France/Jordan/Lebanon/UAE/Qatar co- burst onto the scene in 2013 with “Condom Lead,” love story “Omar,” will present the world premiere of production, pic follows a group of Israeli and will present “Degrade,” about 12 women trapped in oronto film festival movies on Sunday mistaken for a militant training camp. his latest feature, “The Idol.” Pic is inspired by the Palestinian female prisoners inside an Israeli jail. a hair salon in Gaza; Ethiopian helmer Yared Zeleke delved into the ethical and legal “All my films are about alienation and story of Mohammed Assaf, the Gaza-based teen Other world premieres from Arab directors will unspool his debut feature “Lamb,” French- Tquagmire created using drones to kill about virtuality, and they always ask the crooner who catapulted to fame across the region include Moroccan helmer Hicham Lasri’s “Starve Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch will present “Much US enemies overseas from a base in the question whether people are still in touch last year when he defied odds to be crowned win- Your Dog,” about a desperate journalist’s struggles Loved,” which zooms into the prostitution scene in Nevada desert. “Eye in the Sky,” stars with a sense of reality,” Verbeek told AFP. ner of the Arab world’s version of “Idol.” “The Idol” is to interview a former despot and, in turn, secure a Marrakesh; Herman Hailey will also represent Academy Award Winner Helen Mirren as a Verbeek met with former US Air Force pilot a co-production from Palestine, Qatar, the major comeback; and Lebanese helmer Mir-Jean Ethiopia with her “Price of Love,” a tale of romance colonel who hunts the world’s most want- Brandon Bryant, who said he is tormented Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United Bou Chaaya’s “Very Big Shot,” a wacky, comical between a cabbie and a hooker. And Algerian ed terror suspects from an underground by his killing of hundreds of people as a Arab Emirates. Lebanese-Qatari co-production about three broth- Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche will be on hand with the bunker in London, and Aaron Paul sensor operator for the Predator program Not to be outdone, Algerian helmer Salem ers attempting to run a cocaine-smuggling ring out French production “Story of Judas.” — Reuters (“Breaking Bad”) as a drone pilot based at from 2007 to 2011. The film, he explained, Brahimi will debut his Algerian-French co-produc- of their family’s Beirut pizzeria. Tunisia-born, Paris- Creech Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada. was not intended to be anti-drone. “War is tion, “Let Them Come” (pictured), a fictionalized based Leyla Bouzid will present the North American The tense action thriller shows how a always ugly.” take on life in late-1980s Algeria under the power of premiere of “As I Open My Eyes,” which follows an drone strike risks becoming a flashpoint Rather, the filmmaker said he hoped to Islamists. Pic marks the documentarian’s first foray underground band on the eve of Tunisia’s Jasmine when a civilian wanders into the kill zone. highlight peoples growing physical discon- The film by “Tsotsi” director Gavin Hood fol- nect from one another, as we rely increas- lows British and US drone authorities and ingly on virtual tools like social media. “The political leaders as they urgently debate act of killing has become something that For Hank Williams, Hiddleston the legal, moral and military merits and has a screen in between, and the killer is consequences of a strike on terror suspects actually removed from danger and makes in a friendly nation. The attack would elimi- life and death decisions with a joystick, had to exorcise his Englishman nate three of the allies’ most wanted, without even being in the same time zone est assured, in the course of playing including an American and a Brit who trav- as his victims,” he said. “It’s just something I country music legend Hank Williams in elled abroad to join the terror group, and want people to think about.” — AFP Rthe biopic “I Saw the Light,” it was would almost certainly kill an innocent brought to Tom Hiddleston’s attention that he child selling bread at a market near their is British. The 34-year-old actor has taken on compound. plenty of roles with weighty expectations, But not launching the American MQ-9 from his Marvel Comics villain Loki to Reaper Drone’s Hellfire missiles and Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus” on the London destroying the safe house in a Shebab mili- stage to F. Scott Fitzgerald in Woody Allen’s tia controlled neighborhood in Eastleigh, File photo, writer Frank Gilroy attends the 2011 Writers Guild “Midnight in Paris.” But for many music afi- Nairobi risks allowing the targets to escape Awards at the AXA Equitable Center in New York. — AP cionados, it doesn’t get more intrinsically to carry out imminent deadly attacks with American than the twangy purity of Williams’ upwards of 80 civilian deaths. Hood said Pulitzer Prize-winning profoundly simple honky-tonk, and his mete- the film raises “timely and complex ques- oric rise and fall - he died at 29 in 1953. That tions about the role of armed drones as made the role, Hiddleston says, “uniquely tools for the extra judicial execution of any- playwright Frank D daunting.” one suspected of terrorism or extremism. “I understand that there are things about “The propaganda cost to Western moral Gilroy dies at 89 Hank that I wasn’t born with. I knew that. I credibility as a result of drone attacks-given knew that before everybody else pointed it the inevitable deaths of innocent civilians- is already the subject of heated debate,” he rank D Gilroy, whose play about a veteran’s fraught return out,” Hiddleston said in an interview. “I hope it said. home, “The Subject Was Roses,” won him a Pulitzer Prize, just gave me more compassion and more The remotely targeted killings also take died Saturday in Monroe, New York. He was 89. He passed commitment and a keener desire to get it F a psychological toll on young pilots, sensor away of natural causes, his family announced through a state- right because some of these things weren’t Tom Hiddleston poses for a portrait in pro- operators and image analysts, he said. In ment. Gilroy, who served in the Army from 1943 to 1946 in the second nature. So I worked probably harder motion of his upcoming role in ‘I Saw the the film, the drone pilot balks at the order European Theatre, also won a Tony Award for “The Subject Was than I’ve ever worked on anything to be faith- Light’ at the 2015 Toronto International to shoot that he knows will result in the lit- Roses.” It premiered on Broadway in May of 1964. He then wrote ful to him.” Writer-director Marc Abraham’s “I Film Festival on Saturday in Toronto.— AP tle girl’s death. The loss of innocent lives or a screenplay for a 1968 film adaptation starring Jack Albertson Saw the Light” premiered over the weekend collateral damage, Hood said, is “unspeak- and Patricia Neal, which would earn both supporting Oscar at the Toronto International Film Festival, but informed his lyrics and music. ably tragic, and arguably illegal under inter- nominations and a win for Albertson. it’s likely to face both its most eager and After seeing the film for the first time, national law. “Indeed, those involved in tar- The Bronx native attended Dartmouth and the Yale Drama skeptical audiences in Nashville or Williams’ Hiddleston says he saw his performance as geted killings may even be guilty of war School after serving in the Army and went on to work as a home state of Alabama. not exactly himself or Williams, but a melding crimes,” he opined. screenwriter for live television and film for years. Credits include Sony Pictures Classics will release the of the two: “It’s who I would have been if I had shows “Studio One in Hollywood,” and “Playhouse 90,” and films independent film November 27, hoping to had Hank’s life,” he says. The country musician ‘Full Contact’ “The Gallant Hours,” and “The Fastest Gun Alive.” Gilroy also draw awards attention. Critical reaction was Rodney Crowell tutored Hiddleston for the Effectively picking up where the first left directed movies for television and the big screen, including the mixed in Toronto, though most praised music scenes in the movie. The actor smiles as off, Dutch director David Verbeek’s psycho- 1971 Shirley MacLaine drama “Desperate Characters.” His three Hiddleston’s performance - which features his he recalls their sessions together, with logical thriller “Full Contact” explores the sons all currently work in the film industry. Both Tony Gilroy and own singing and guitar playing. “I’m drawn to Crowell trying to keep Hiddleston’s “English aftermath of an air strike gone wrong, and Dan Gilroy followed directly in their father’s footsteps as writer- foreign territory,” says Hiddleston. “I get most choir boy” from sneaking into the likes of a pilot’s post-traumatic stress. Whereas “Eye directors. Tony Gilroy wrote the first three “Bourne” films and co- excited by, as it were, being a foreign corre- “Lovesick Blues.” Slipping immediately into in the Sky” showcases the latest awesome wrote (with Dan Gilroy) and directed “The Bourne Legacy,” spondent and going somewhere new and Crowell’s Southern accent, Hiddleston quotes remote surveillance technologies that which starred Jeremy Renner. Dan Gilroy, meanwhile, gained being rigorous in my excavation of that char- his instruction: “You got to shake out that allow for precision strikes from thousands attention in the industry for the Los Angeles noir “Nightcrawler,” acter.” With Elizabeth Olsen co-starring as Englishman in you. Because you’re singing of kilometres (miles) away, Verbeek focuses starring Jake Gyllenhaal and his own wife, actress Rene Russo. Williams’ first wife, Audrey Mae Sheppard, “I the blues now.” — AP on the guilt of a drone navigator (Gregoire Helen Mirren arrives for the film ‘Eye In The John Gilroy, a seasoned film editor, also worked on Saw the Light” dramatizes the songwriter’s Colin) who conducted a surgical strike on a Sky’ at the 2015 Toronto International Film “Nightcrawler.” In addition to his sons, he is survived by Ruth, his short life by focusing on how his domestic life Muslim boarding school for boys that was Festival in Toronto. — AP wife of 62 years, and five grandchildren. — AP and turbulent relationship with Sheppard Oscar winners a year ago, Moore and Redmayne back in Toronto year ago at the Toronto International Film Festival, Julianne the painful onset of cancer and the civil rights fight at the heart of Moore and Eddie Redmayne debuted the films - “Still Alice” the movie. The film, directed by Peter Sollett, was to make its pre- Aand “The Theory of Everything” - that would go on to land miere Sunday night, with Andree in attendance. them Oscars. This year, they’re both back in Toronto with the “It’s so personal. It’s so, so incredibly personal,” said Moore. “We movies they were making in between award-show speeches. go to the movies all the time and see all these stories, and then Their heads have stopped spinning, but their disbelief hasn’t. “I you think: Wait a minute. This happened. This happened not so don’t know if I ever let it even get close enough to me that I long ago. This is somebody’s life. This is their legacy.” The perform- thought it was a possibility,” says Moore. “Now I look at it like: Did ance in “Freeheld” (out Oct 2) could return Moore to awards sea- that happen? What?” son, which Toronto unofficially kicks off. Ditto for Redmayne, who She breaks into a hearty laugh. “I mean, my gosh. It was such a stars in Tom Hooper’s “The Danish Girl,” a drama inspired by 1920s lovely experience and kind of hard to believe.” Two days after win- transgender pioneer Lili Elbe. The performance is Redmayne’s sec- ning the Academy Award for best actress, Moore was on an ice- ond straight ambitious transformation, following his portrayal of skating rink in Brooklyn, shooting the Rebecca Miller comedy Stephen Hawking. Shooting, though, began amid the late-night “Maggie’s Plan” along with another veteran of the season, Ethan celebrations of “The Theory of Everything.” “Our first day filming Hawke of “Boyhood.” While “Maggie’s Plan” is looking for distribu- was the morning after the BAFTAs,” recalled Redmayne. “And tion after its Toronto premiere, Moore also stars in one of the festi- there is a scene in which I’m in bed and she takes the cover off. val’s most anticipated debuts: “Freeheld.” In it, she stars as New And whenever I see the film and she whips over the blanket, I just Jersey police detective Laurel Hester, who, after being diagnosed think: Hangover. You can see the lines scored into my face.” But with terminal cancer, sought to have her pension go to her like Moore, Redmayne was relieved to step out of the delirious domestic partner Stacie Andree (Ellen Page), an inheritance that frenzy of the Oscars and back into work. “What was wonderful Actors Julianne Moore, left, and Ethan Hawke pose for photo- Alicia Vikander, left, and Eddie Redmayne attend a would have been automatic for a married couple. The case within that year was knowing that this was coming,” says graphs on the red carpet for the film ‘Maggie’s Plan’ at the Toronto premiere for ‘The Danish Girl’ on day 3 of the became a cause celebre, spawning an Oscar-winning short docu- Redmayne of “The Danish Girl,” which opens Nov 27. “So whenev- International Film Festival.—AP Photos Toronto International Film Festival. mentary. Moore’s performance captures the many stories within er I was in LA promoting, I’d be rehearsing this and meeting trans the moving “Freeheld”: the love story between Laurel and Stacie, people all over the world.” — AP