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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood's soundtrack authentically captures 1969 with top hits and historic radio clips from Khj. The iconic music in the film complements scenes, enhancing the mood and energy of key moments throughout the movie. Quentin Tarantino's attention to detail in selecting songs and incorporating them into scenes transports audiences back to 1969 Hollywood.

The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood soundtrack tracklist is a great collection of music from the era that director Quentin Tarantino uses to transport audiences to 1969 Hollywood. As an ode to that bygone era, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood impeccably recreates its setting with costumes, styling, and set dressing that accurately captures Los Angeles in the late 1960s. The music is similarly on point, reflecting the tastes of the time and infusing each moment with an energy to match any given scene's mood.

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Rufus Wainwright has announced his upcoming album Folkocracy will arrive June 2 and released its lead single “Down in the Willow Garden” on Monday. The track features Brandi Carlile, and is described by Wainwright as a “blatantly brutal and masochistic” folk ballad.

“I chose us a cheery little number — not! The song is so blatantly brutal and masochistic that I had to sing it with a woman. Sadly, we still live in a violent world,” Wainwright said in a statement. “The amazing thing about so many folk songs is that, content wise,...

In 1976, on Jeffrey Foskett’s 20th birthday, he and a fellow Beach Boys fan drove up and down Bellagio Road in Los Angeles looking for Brian Wilson’s home. After about an hour, they found it, decorated with a psychedelic stained-glass window depicting honeybees and flowers (seen on the cover of 1967’s Wild Honey) and guarded by a white picket fence.

“Brian opened the front door and said, ‘Come on in,'” Foskett recalls. “He had no idea who we were and I was in awe. There was a bass guitar laying around,...

Exclusive: Veteran indie executive Jeff Lipsky, who launched distribution consulting firm Glass Half Full Media in 2017, returns to theaters as director/writer this spring with The Last, and we have the first clip (check it out above).

The Last is Lipsky’s 7th feature and is a Holocaust-themed family drama. It tells the story of a modern Orthodox Jewish family whose sense of identity is shattered when its beloved matriarch, played by Rebecca Schull, reveals her true lineage, and what she did during the war. The film co-stars Jill Durso, Aj Cedeño, Julie Fain Lawrence and Tony Award-winner and frequent Lipsky collaborator, Reed Birney.

Produced by Michael Goitanich, and executive produced by Nick Athas. The Last will be released by Glass Half Full Media in domestic theaters on March 29.

Lipsky is the respected co-founder of October Films who later segued to a dual career as a filmmaker and distributor,...

Great news for fans of filmmaker Jeff Lipsky, her controversial and critically acclaimed sixth feature “Mad Women” is now available digitally, for rent or download, on Amazon and Vimeo-on-Demand.

The official synopsis reads: "'Mad Women' is a dark satire about Harper Smith, a middle-aged mom who, following a one-year prison sentence for having committed an act of conscience, becomes a local hero and folk legend in her small community of Iris Glen, NY. She runs for local office but has much grander aspirations up her sleeve. She is a woman accustomed to personal challenges: She lost her third child at the age of three to cancer, her first-born daughter, a pediatrician, is in Ukraine having joined Doctors Without Borders, her own mother lost an eye in her youth in an archery mishap, and her husband, a successful and beloved dentist, commits statutory rape under the influence of LSD at a rock concert. It’s up to Harper and her middle daughter, Nevada, to persevere, and they do, as a most unlikely mother/daughter bond emerges."

About the genesis of “Mad Women” Lipsky explains: “I began writing 'Mad Women' in early 2013, just after President Obama’s second inaugural, moments after a season of political drivel came to an end, and seemingly seconds before cable outlets began their non-stop palaver about the 2016 election. So I set out to conjure up my personal candidate, one whose idealism can’t be blunted, even as the world would be playing whack-a-mole with her. When I finished the script I knew there could never be a ‘Harper Smith.’ But now that Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are front-runners, well, now I’m not so sure anymore!”

“Mad Women” marks the third consecutive collaboration between Lipsky and co-star Reed Birney (“House of Cards,” 2014 Tony Award nominee “Casa Valentina”). It also spotlights three extraordinary actresses – Kelsey Lynn Stokes, Christina Starbuck, and Sharon Van Ivan (John Cassavetes’ “Opening Night”) and marks a reunion for Lipsky with Jamie Harrold who co-starred in “Flannel Pajamas.” Lipsky’s previous films include “Twelve Thirty,” “Molly’s Theory of Relativity,” and “Once More With Feeling,” which along with “Flannel Pajamas,” have starred Justin Kirk, Julianne Nicholson, Jonathan Groff, Mamie Gummer, Chazz Palminteri, Drea deMatteo, Linda Fiorentino, Cady Huffman, Rebecca Schull, Halley Feiffer and Barbara Barrie.

Not many actors can say that they’ve voiced a character in the most successful animated Disney film of all time and then had sex against a tree on TV. But for Jonathan Groff that’s exactly where his career has gone, from voicing Kristoff in 2013’s Frozen to the gay world of San Francisco on HBO’s Looking.

News: Jonathan Groff Takes the Lead

The show, currently three episodes into a sex-filled second season, follows three gay men as they navigate friendships, love and lust. As Patrick, Groff acts as the show’s center, trying to keep his love life in order while supporting his friends, Agustin and Dom, along the way.

In an interview with ETonline, Groff looks back on his early days on Broadway, reflects on the controversy surrounding his guest role on Glee, and chats candidly about Looking’s sex scenes.

ETonline: It’s been six years since you appeared in Spring Awakening...

Disney has released the first teaser trailer for November’s animated Frozen. The film features the usual impressive vocal cast and comes well pedigreed. Frozen (In 3D) Genre: Animated Comedy/Adventure Rating: Tbd U.S. Release Date: November 27, 2013 Voice Cast: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff Directors: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee Producer: Peter Del Vecho Screenplay by: Tba

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Walt Disney Animation Studios, the studio behind Tangled and Wreck-It Ralph, presents Frozen, a stunning big-screen comedy adventure. Fearless optimist Anna (voice of Kristen Bell) sets off on an epic journey—teaming up with rugged mountain man Kristoff (voice of Jonathan Groff) and his loyal reindeer Sven—to find her sister Elsa (voice of Idina Menzel), whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter. Encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls and a hilarious snowman named Olaf, Anna and Kristoff battle the elements...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 14, 2013

Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $26.99

Studio: Shout! Factory

The 1985 low-budget comedy crime film Crimewave is an early effort by director Sam Raimi (Spider-Man) and screenwriters Joel and Ethan Coen (A Serious Man), all of whom have gone on to decidedly bigger things in their careers.

In the film, the head of a security systems company is bumped off by two gonzo exterminators (Brion James and Paul Smith) who have gone from stomping out pesky varmints to stomping out human targets. The exterminators go after the partner (Edward R. Pressman) who hired them and his blatantly obnoxious wife (Louise Lasser, TV’s Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman) and, in the meantime, frame a poor security guard (Reed Birney, Twelve Thirty) for the murder of the company boss.

Making its Blu-ray debut in the U.S., the cartoonish and irreverent film, a cult favorite that Raimi directed after 1983′s The Evil Dead,...

When AfterElton asked me if I'd be interested in doing a story on full-frontal male nudity in the movies, I said, “Interested? I've been researching it since I was 12!” What prompted the idea is of course the film Shame, which stars Michael Fassbender as a man addicted to sex. When the film debuted at the Venice Film Festival earlier this year it set off a shockwave because of its sexual explicitness, including a much-discussed full-frontal reveal by Fassbender. Add to that the recent flurry of attention that stills of Jonathan Groff's nude scene in Twelve Thirty hitting the Internet generated, and it seems like these days cinema penises are a trending topic.

Everyone from film critics to Freudian analysts to gender theorists has written about male nudity in film. And sorting through the pronouncements on the male gaze and Lacanian mirrors and power inequities between the sexes in Hollywood...

Glee star Jonathan Groff has shrugged off the fan frenzy generated by his first full-frontal nude scene, insisting he never meant to cause a commotion by stripping off.

The Broadway star revealed all in a brief scene for Twelve Thirty, a drama he shot a few years ago but which was only released on DVD earlier this month.

Fans were quick to post stills from the film online and the images then spread to dozens of blogs, but Groff admits he's not too bothered by the images.

He explains, "I did that movie a couple years ago. I really loved doing that movie, and Jeff Lipsky, our director, had done this thing, Flannel Pajamas, which had some nudity in it as well, and the thing about the nudity in that movie that he was trying to capture in our movie was the reality of it, and not trying to hide it or cut away when people would normally be naked, so, I don't know, it's just a movie I did!

"I don't think about how it'll end up on the Internet. I just do my work and whatever happens, happens. I love that you're so concerned about me... I appreciate your concern."...

Jonathan Groff is such a polite young man. When asked about the screencaps of him going full frontal in the movie Twelve Thirty making the rounds, "I don't think about how it'll end up on the Internet. I just do my work and whatever happens, happens" Grinning, Groff added, "I love that you're so concerned about me. People, you know, people do what they do on the Internet. But I appreciate your concern."

The Penn State Board of Trustees didn't wait for college football legend Joe Paterno to retire at the end of the season and severed ties with both Paterno and university president Graham Spanier last night, effective immediately. Not a surprise since, shockingly, both appear to have failed to notify police of assistant coach Jerry Sandusky's alleged sexual assault of a child.

TV Guide takes advocacy groups like the Parents Television Council to task for their opposition to...

Jeff Lipsky struggles to find a tricky balance in “Twelve Thirty,” a supremely dense coming-of-age drama steeped in weighty blather at the expense of emotional validity. Physically graphic and verbally frank, Lipsky’s talky portrait follows a virginal twenty-two year-old and the promiscuous family that draws him into their twisted dynamic. Almost entirely composed of exposition, Lipsky’s screenplay is heavy with astute monologues and hip to life experience. But it sports ...

As a followup to the new movie trailer, Echo Lake Productions and North by Northwest Entertainment just released the official movie poster for the upcoming horror film “John Carpenter’s The Ward” by director John Carpenter (Escape from L.A., Vampires, They Live) and starring Amber Heard (The Rum Diary, Drive Angry 3D, Pineapple Express, Zombie Land), Lyndsy Fonseca (Nikita, Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall, Hot Tub Time Machine), Danielle Panabaker (The Crazies, Friday the 13th), Jared Harris (Sherlock Holmes 2, Mad Men), Mika Boorem (Ghost Whisperer, House M.D.) and Mamie Gummer (Twelve Thirty, The Good Wife). Synopsis: A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost. Stay [...]...

In an interview with Gay City News, Jeff Lipsky, the straight writer and director of the new drama Twelve Thirty, says out Broadway star Jonathan Groff is completely believable as a straight man. Says Lipsky:

"I'd not heard of Groff before casting," he said. "I saw 'Spring Awakening' after he left the cast. 'Taking Woodstock' was released after we cast 'Twelve Thirty.' Then 'Glee' came along. I didn't know of his fandom gathering critical mass. When I met and auditioned him, called him back, cast the film, and directed him, I had no idea he was gay. If he came out before the movie, I can't say if I would cast him or not. But I can't imagine another actor, straight or gay, who could be more believable or plausible."

The movie opens in New York next Friday and even though The Hollywood Reporter didn't particularly care for it,...

Echo Lake Productions and North by Northwest Entertainment just released the first official movie trailer for the upcoming horror film “John Carpenter’s The Ward” by director John Carpenter (Escape from L.A., Vampires, They Live) and starring Amber Heard (The Rum Diary, Drive Angry 3D, Pineapple Express, Zombie Land), Lyndsy Fonseca (Nikita, Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall, Hot Tub Time Machine), Danielle Panabaker (The Crazies, Friday the 13th), Jared Harris (Sherlock Holmes 2, Mad Men), Mika Boorem (Ghost Whisperer, House M.D.) and Mamie Gummer (Twelve Thirty, The Good Wife). Synopsis: A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest movie [...]...

Next Monday in New York, the Film Society of Lincoln Center is screening a film by Jeff Lipsky called Twelve Thirty, "a drama about a family with adult children that is broken, and a self-centered young man who, in the span of a week, becomes entangled in each of their lives, wreaking havoc in the process."

The young man creating all this havoc is played by actor Jonathan Groff, best known as "Jesse" on Glee and also for his starring role in the Broadway musical Spring Awakenings.

Groff's character is described as a 21st-century version of Dustin Hoffman's character in The Graduate, " whose lusty affection for his former high-school crush Mel (terrific newcomer Portia Reiners) brings him a bit too closely into Mel’s dysfunctional Cedar Rapids family, comprised of her virginal older sister Maura (Mamie Gummer), agoraphobic mother (Karen Young) and estranged bisexual father (Reed Birney)."

This one sounds pretty interesting,...

Portia Reiners, Jonathan Groff, Twelve Thirty Jeff Lipsky's Twelve Thirty opens at New York’s Angelika Film Center on Friday, Jan. 14, 2011. In the cast: Jonathan Groff, Mamie Gummer, Karen Young, Reed Birney, Portia Reiners, Halley Feiffer, Rebecca Schull, and veteran Barbara Barrie (Oscar nominee for Breaking Away in 1979). A sneak preview of Twelve Thirty will take place on Jan. 10, 2011, at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, which will also screen Lipsky's Flannel Pajamas (2006), starring Justin Kirk (Weeds) and Julianne Nicholson (Law & Order: Criminal Intent). Members of the cast and crew of both films will be on hand at the event for Q&A sessions. (See trailer at www.twelvethirtymovie.com.) The Twelve Thirty synopsis below is from the film's press release: Twelve Thirty is the story of three women and the two men in their lives. In the Langley’s Cedar Rapids household, the mother, Vivien (Karen Young), is...

Updated Sept. 7 at 10:03 pm Beijing time

Toronto -- The audience award at the Montreal World Film Festival was shared by Spanish director Emilio Aragon's "Paper Birds" and "The Day I Was Not Born," by German director Florian Cossen.

Cossen's debut feature about a young German woman who comes upon a painful family secret while passing through Argentina also earned the Fipresci critics prize and shared the Ecumenical Prize with the juried Grand Prix of the Americas winner, Hans Van Nuffel's "Oxygen."

It's been a busy 10 days for Van Nuffel. The Belgian director was in Montreal last week to debut his first-feature in Montreal, before jumping a plane to open the Film Festival of Ostend back home on Sept. 3 with "Oxygen."

Then Monday night, Van Nuffel was expected back in Montreal to receive the festival's top jury prize ahead of a Belgian theatrical release on Sept. 8 for his...

Toronto -- Jeff Lipsky's family drama "Twelve Thirty" and Carl Colpaert's "The Land of the Astronauts," starring David Arquette as a once-hot composer driving a limo to make ends meet, have joined the official competition at the upcoming Montreal World Film Festival, organizers said Tuesday.

The American films will compete against 20 features and 16 shorts from 24 countries in the World Competition in Montreal, including two Canadian entries: Louis Belanger's "Route 132," which will open the festival on Aug. 26, and "Silence Lies," directed by Julie Hivon.

France is sending four competition titles to Montreal, including Jacques Doillon's "Three-Way Wedding," with three film from Japan, two from Germany, and Gianfrancesco Lazotti's "From the Waist On by" flying the flag for Italy.

In all, Montreal booked 430 films from 80 countries for its 34th edition, of which 113 features will be world or international premieres.

The festival has also scheduled tributes for actresses Nathalie Baye and Stefania Sandrelli,...