Month: November 2015

Cassper Nyovest on music, love and feuding with AKA

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Cassper Nyovest and Sizwe Dhlomo

Tune into MTV Base (DStv channel 322) on Friday, November 13 at 5 pm CAT to watch Behind The Story – Cassper Nyovest. Sizwe Dhlomo sits down with the most talked-about man in South African hip hop, Cassper Nyovest, who shares his struggles and triumphs with the veteran MTV Base DJ. Continue reading →

South Africa’s Rob Murray to lead Amsterdam Fringe

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Director Rob Murray waits outside the NG Kerk Hall before the dress rehearsal of his new mask work Waterline, in Grahamstown on 1 July 2015, at the National Arts Festival. Rob Murray - known for Crazy in Love, Benchmarks and Pictures of You – presents a satirical look at Grahamstown’s water crisis. (Photo: CuePix/Mia van der Merwe)

Director Rob Murray waits outside the NG Kerk Hall before the dress rehearsal of his new mask work Waterline, in Grahamstown on 1 July 2015, at the National Arts Festival. Photo: CuePix/Mia van der Merwe

THE National Arts Festival Grahamstown joins fellow members of the World Fringe Alliance (WFA) in congratulating South African director, writer, educator, producer and arts leader Rob Murray on his appointment as Artistic Director of the Amsterdam Fringe. Murray will be replacing Anneke Jansen, who has held the position since the launch of the Amsterdam Fringe ten years ago, and was until recently Chairperson of the Alliance. Continue reading →

Jean-Jacques Annaud’s stunning film, Wolf Totem, comes to SA cinemas

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Wolf Totem

Wolf Totem

Wolf Totem: the IMAX 3D Experience releases in Ster-Kinekor’s IMAX theatres at Ster-Kinekor Gateway in Durban, The Grove in Pretoria, Cape Gate in Cape Town, Baywest Mall in Port Elizabeth and Cradlestone Mall in Krugersdorp on Thursday, November 12, one week before its national release on November 20.

The film tells the story of a student from 1960s Beijing, who discovers common ground between himself and the animals he lives beside in this period drama from award-winning director, Jean-Jacques Annaud. The film was adapted from the best-selling novel by Jiang Rong, and contains English sub-titles. Continue reading →

MTV’s ‘White People’ asks tough questions about race in the USA

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A scene from the doccie, White People, which will air on MTV next week.

A scene from the doccie, White People, which will air on MTV next week.

HEADLINES about what it’s like to be black in the United States right now are rarely out of the news, but what if you asked the question, ‘What does it mean to be young and white in the USA today?”

MTV’s White People is a ground-breaking documentary on race that aims to answer that question from the viewpoint of young white people living in America. The film follows Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas as he travels across the country to get this complicated conversation started. Continue reading →

Catch the Met Opera’s production of Verdi’s Otello at Cinema Nouveau

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Otello

Otello

The 2015/16 Live in HD season from The Metropolitan Opera in New York returned to South African screens in October. The second opera in the season is a new production of Verdi’s Otello.

It releases at Cinema Nouveau and select Ster-Kinekor cinemas on Saturday, November 14 for a limited season. Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, this is a new staging by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher of the Verdi masterpiece based on Shakespeare’s tragic drama of jealousy and deceit. Continue reading →