New Delhi, Nov 8 (Ians) Certain compounds found in beer hops, the source of bitterness, aroma, and flavour in beer, can even help protect against Alzheimer’s disease (Ad), researchers have revealed.
Research published in the journal Acs Chemical Neuroscience reports that chemicals extracted from hop flowers can, in lab dishes, inhibit the clumping of amyloid beta proteins, which is associated with Alzheimer’s.
‘Nutraceuticals’ or foods that have some type of medicinal or nutritional function are the key.
The hop flowers used to flavour beers have been explored as one of these potential nutraceuticals, with previous studies suggesting that the plant could interfere with the accumulation of amyloid beta proteins associated with Alzheimer’s.
To identify these compounds, Cristina Airoldi Alessandro Palmioli and team created characterised extracts of four common varieties of hops using a method similar to that used in the brewing process.
In tests, they found that the...
Research published in the journal Acs Chemical Neuroscience reports that chemicals extracted from hop flowers can, in lab dishes, inhibit the clumping of amyloid beta proteins, which is associated with Alzheimer’s.
‘Nutraceuticals’ or foods that have some type of medicinal or nutritional function are the key.
The hop flowers used to flavour beers have been explored as one of these potential nutraceuticals, with previous studies suggesting that the plant could interfere with the accumulation of amyloid beta proteins associated with Alzheimer’s.
To identify these compounds, Cristina Airoldi Alessandro Palmioli and team created characterised extracts of four common varieties of hops using a method similar to that used in the brewing process.
In tests, they found that the...
- 11/8/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
The Rome-set thriller is Italian genre maestro Dario Argento’s first feature in a decade.
AMC Network’s premium genre streamer Shudder has snapped up Italian filmmaker Dario Argento’s thriller Dark Glasses for release in North America, the UK & Ireland, and Australia & New Zealand ahead of its Special Gala premiere at the Berlinale today (Friday February 11).
The feature, sold internationally by Paris-based Wild Bunch International (Wbi), will stream exclusively on Shudder in these territories this autumn. The Rome-set thriller starring Ilenia Pastorelli, Andrea Zhang and daughter Asia Argento is the first feature from genre maestro Argento in a decade.
AMC Network’s premium genre streamer Shudder has snapped up Italian filmmaker Dario Argento’s thriller Dark Glasses for release in North America, the UK & Ireland, and Australia & New Zealand ahead of its Special Gala premiere at the Berlinale today (Friday February 11).
The feature, sold internationally by Paris-based Wild Bunch International (Wbi), will stream exclusively on Shudder in these territories this autumn. The Rome-set thriller starring Ilenia Pastorelli, Andrea Zhang and daughter Asia Argento is the first feature from genre maestro Argento in a decade.
- 2/11/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The Rome-set thriller is Italian genre maestro Dario Argento’s first feature in a decade.
AMC Network’s premium genre streamer Shudder has snapped up Italian filmmaker Dario Argento’s thriller Dark Glasses for release in North America, the UK & Ireland, and Australia & New Zealand ahead of its Special Gala premiere at the Berlinale today (Friday February 11).
The feature, sold internationally by Paris-based Wild Bunch International (Wbi), will stream exclusively on Shudder in these territories this autumn. The Rome-set thriller starring Ilenia Pastorelli, Andrea Zhang and daughter Asia Argento is the first feature from genre maestro Argento in a decade.
AMC Network’s premium genre streamer Shudder has snapped up Italian filmmaker Dario Argento’s thriller Dark Glasses for release in North America, the UK & Ireland, and Australia & New Zealand ahead of its Special Gala premiere at the Berlinale today (Friday February 11).
The feature, sold internationally by Paris-based Wild Bunch International (Wbi), will stream exclusively on Shudder in these territories this autumn. The Rome-set thriller starring Ilenia Pastorelli, Andrea Zhang and daughter Asia Argento is the first feature from genre maestro Argento in a decade.
- 2/11/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
At 81, Italian horror maestro Dario Argento is busier than ever.
The director of a string of cult chiller classics starting in the 1970s, including “The Bird With the Crystal Plumage,” “Suspiria” and “Deep Red,” was at Cannes last July with his acting debut in Gaspar Noe’s “Vortex,” about a pair of old lovers. Argento was also celebrated last year with a new book by Italian critic Steve Della Casa and a retro at New York’s Lincoln Center. This spring he’s set to be honored with a big show at Italy’s National Museum of Cinema in Turin.
More significantly, having returned to the director’s chair after a decade, Argento is back with “Dark Glasses,” which he describes as a classic thriller, or giallo, as the violent crime genre is known in Italy.
“Dark Glasses,” which is set in present-day Rome, screens on Feb. 11 as a Berlinale Special Gala,...
The director of a string of cult chiller classics starting in the 1970s, including “The Bird With the Crystal Plumage,” “Suspiria” and “Deep Red,” was at Cannes last July with his acting debut in Gaspar Noe’s “Vortex,” about a pair of old lovers. Argento was also celebrated last year with a new book by Italian critic Steve Della Casa and a retro at New York’s Lincoln Center. This spring he’s set to be honored with a big show at Italy’s National Museum of Cinema in Turin.
More significantly, having returned to the director’s chair after a decade, Argento is back with “Dark Glasses,” which he describes as a classic thriller, or giallo, as the violent crime genre is known in Italy.
“Dark Glasses,” which is set in present-day Rome, screens on Feb. 11 as a Berlinale Special Gala,...
- 2/11/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Dark Glasses is 80-year-old Italian director Dario Argento’s first film in eight years.
The producers of Dario Argento’s upcoming feature Dark Glasses (Occhiali Neri) have issued a statement denying reports that French electronic music duo Daft Punk have signed or even entered discussions to produce a score for the production.
The statement was in response to a slew of stories overnight reporting that Argento had told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that Daft Punk were on board to score his new film.
“They know all my films,” he was quoted as saying in the La Repubblica article. “They learned...
The producers of Dario Argento’s upcoming feature Dark Glasses (Occhiali Neri) have issued a statement denying reports that French electronic music duo Daft Punk have signed or even entered discussions to produce a score for the production.
The statement was in response to a slew of stories overnight reporting that Argento had told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that Daft Punk were on board to score his new film.
“They know all my films,” he was quoted as saying in the La Repubblica article. “They learned...
- 4/28/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
- 5/6/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Laurent Herbiet's Vatican, Christ Lives with the Borgias casts Kristin Scott Thomas The film is set to delve within the hidden world of the Vatican, and also includes Andre Dussollier and Sergi Lopez in the cast. Variety reports that the $11.3 million-budgeted film is a political thriller produced by Xavier Castano's Loull Productions in collaboration with Conchita Airoldi of Italy-based Urania Pictures. Michel Desprats, Nathalie Hertzberg, Herbiet and Christian Roux wrote the script with Gianluigi Nuzzi. Vatican, Christ Lives with the Borgias is fact-based and looks at Pope Benedict's relationship with his personal secretary as well as the power struggle and alleged money laundering within the Holy See.
- 6/11/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Laurent Herbiet's Vatican, Christ Lives with the Borgias casts Kristin Scott Thomas The film is set to delve within the hidden world of the Vatican, and also includes Andre Dussollier and Sergi Lopez in the cast. Variety reports that the $11.3 million-budgeted film is a political thriller produced by Xavier Castano's Loull Productions in collaboration with Conchita Airoldi of Italy-based Urania Pictures. Michel Desprats, Nathalie Hertzberg, Herbiet and Christian Roux wrote the script with Gianluigi Nuzzi. Vatican, Christ Lives with the Borgias is fact-based and looks at Pope Benedict's relationship with his personal secretary as well as the power struggle and alleged money laundering within the Holy See.
- 6/11/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Venue: Venice Film Festival
Venice -- In 2004 of a 23-member Sri Lankan handball team suddenly showed up in Bavaria. The team had fooled the German Embassy in Colombo, got itself an invite for a tournament, then boarded the plane with the sole idea of never returning home. When the bluff became apparent, with even the audiences wondering why a national team did not have a clue of the game's rules, the entire team vanished, probably into Italy. Not one of them has been traced.
Director Uberto Pasolini, a producer on "The Full Monty," uses this incident to dramatize what he feels is a flawed immigration policy in the West. He -- and his film -- argues there must be a free movement of human capital as there is of financial capital. He collaboarted with renowned Sri Lankan playwright Ruwanthie de Chickera to script the story of the 23 men, who had...
Venice -- In 2004 of a 23-member Sri Lankan handball team suddenly showed up in Bavaria. The team had fooled the German Embassy in Colombo, got itself an invite for a tournament, then boarded the plane with the sole idea of never returning home. When the bluff became apparent, with even the audiences wondering why a national team did not have a clue of the game's rules, the entire team vanished, probably into Italy. Not one of them has been traced.
Director Uberto Pasolini, a producer on "The Full Monty," uses this incident to dramatize what he feels is a flawed immigration policy in the West. He -- and his film -- argues there must be a free movement of human capital as there is of financial capital. He collaboarted with renowned Sri Lankan playwright Ruwanthie de Chickera to script the story of the 23 men, who had...
- 9/4/2008
- by By Gautaman Bhaskaran
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Film review: 'Titus'
"Titus", based on William Shakespeare's blood-drenched "Titus Andronicus", has never looked better. Director Julie Taymor, making her film debut following her lionization by Broadway for her stage version of Disney's "The Lion King", plays the action not on a soundstage but amid crumbling Roman ruins. This lends a ghostly air to the story's monstrous events, making "Titus" the kind of movie that wins awards for costumes and production design even as audiences stream toward the exit.
While "Titus" is a showy calling card for the theater director who here lays legitimate claim to a Hollywood career, the film will interest few beyond the art house crowd.
During the early 1590s, before Shakespeare was in love, he was a hungry, young playwright eager for a hit. So he ground out "Titus Andronicus", a tragedy of blood geared to please the groundlings. His career-minded calculations proved correct because the play was a smash with Elizabethan audiences. However, it became one of his least-produced works in subsequent centuries.
The general assumption has been that later audiences recoiled at the onslaught of human sacrifices, rape, beheadings, mutilations and cannibalism. In truth, savagery runs rampant throughout Shakespeare's glorious tragedies. More to the point, the plot of "Titus" contains no credibility, the hero and villain are equally unsympathetic, much of the villainy lacks clear motivation and the magnificent language one associates with the Bard is seldom in evidence.
So why this film version of a Shakespeare play that cannot hold its own on a theatrical stage? Why indeed.
Taymor (who also adapted the play) outfits "Titus" with time-warping devices such as tanks, motorcycles, video games and swing music. But these gimmicks and its surreal settings and costumes appear designed to distract viewers from the basic banality of the story. If the play weren't such a mess, she might have gotten away with it.
Most of the play is predicated on the monumental stupidity of the title character and his tragic misreading of the political climate in his beloved Rome. This great general (Anthony Hopkins) returns home victorious after a long campaign against the Goths. After casually sacrificing the eldest son of Tamora (Jessica Lange), Queen of the Goths, whom he has brought back as a prisoner along with her three sons, he loyally supports the new emperor, the decadent and corrupt Saturninus (Alan Cumming).
When Saturninus selects Titus' daughter Lavinia (Laura Fraser) for his bride, Bassianus (James Frain), the emperor's brother, swiftly steals Lavinia for himself. Titus unaccountably slays one of his own sons in the ensuing scramble. Saturninus, now free to choose anew, selects none other than Tamora to be his wife.
This leaves Tamora and her treacherous slave and sometimes lover Aaron Harry Lennix) to plot revenge against Titus and his family. There follows the murder of Bassianus, the arrest of two of Titus' sons and the rape of Lavinia by Tamora's remaining sons, who then cut off her hands and tongue so Lavinia will tell no tales.
Eventually, Titus cuts off a hand to ransom his sons, for which he receives in return not his sons but their severed heads. (Are we having fun yet?) Titus vows revenge, sends his remaining son to raise an army among the Goths -- though why the Goths would aid their conqueror is unfathomable -- then captures Tamora's two sons, whom he slays and turns into savory meat pies for her to feast upon at a banquet.
The actors are over the top, but how else to play this nonsense? Hopkins is at his scenery-chewing best while Lange, decked out in awesome tattoos, freezes her face in a permanent snarl. Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Matthew Rhys play her sons as goofy punks, and Cumming turns Saturninus into a glam rocker.
To the modern-day audience, Lennix's evil slave -- providing something of a blueprint for Iago's later villainy -- is the most interesting personality, a black man dedicated to Machiavellian treachery in whom a glimmer of humanity finally flickers with the birth of a son.
Technical credits -- Luciano Tovoli's darkly brooding cinematography, Milena Canonero's wild costumes and designer Dante Ferretti's forbidding and eerie landscapes -- dominate the movie. "Titus" is an epic production of a woefully malnourished tragedy.
TITUS
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Clear Blue Sky Prods.
in association with Overseas Filmgroup
an Urania Pictures
and NDF International production
Producers Jody Patton,
Conchita Airoldi, Julie Taymor
Director-screenwriter Julie Taymor
Based on the play by William Shakespeare
Executive producer Paul G. Allen
Co-executive producers Ellen Little,
Robbie Little, Stephen K. Bannon
Director of photography Luciano Tovoli
Production designer Dante Ferretti
Music Elliot Goldenthal
Costume designer Milena Canonero
Editor Francoise Bonnot
Color/stereo
Cast:
Titus Anthony Hopkins
Tamora Jessica Lange
Saturninus Alan Cumming
Marcus Colm Feore
Bassianus James Frain
Lavinia Laura Fraser
Aaron Harry Lennix
Lucius Angus Macfadyen
Demetrius Matthew Rhys
Chiron Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Running time -- 160 minutes
MPAA rating: R0...
While "Titus" is a showy calling card for the theater director who here lays legitimate claim to a Hollywood career, the film will interest few beyond the art house crowd.
During the early 1590s, before Shakespeare was in love, he was a hungry, young playwright eager for a hit. So he ground out "Titus Andronicus", a tragedy of blood geared to please the groundlings. His career-minded calculations proved correct because the play was a smash with Elizabethan audiences. However, it became one of his least-produced works in subsequent centuries.
The general assumption has been that later audiences recoiled at the onslaught of human sacrifices, rape, beheadings, mutilations and cannibalism. In truth, savagery runs rampant throughout Shakespeare's glorious tragedies. More to the point, the plot of "Titus" contains no credibility, the hero and villain are equally unsympathetic, much of the villainy lacks clear motivation and the magnificent language one associates with the Bard is seldom in evidence.
So why this film version of a Shakespeare play that cannot hold its own on a theatrical stage? Why indeed.
Taymor (who also adapted the play) outfits "Titus" with time-warping devices such as tanks, motorcycles, video games and swing music. But these gimmicks and its surreal settings and costumes appear designed to distract viewers from the basic banality of the story. If the play weren't such a mess, she might have gotten away with it.
Most of the play is predicated on the monumental stupidity of the title character and his tragic misreading of the political climate in his beloved Rome. This great general (Anthony Hopkins) returns home victorious after a long campaign against the Goths. After casually sacrificing the eldest son of Tamora (Jessica Lange), Queen of the Goths, whom he has brought back as a prisoner along with her three sons, he loyally supports the new emperor, the decadent and corrupt Saturninus (Alan Cumming).
When Saturninus selects Titus' daughter Lavinia (Laura Fraser) for his bride, Bassianus (James Frain), the emperor's brother, swiftly steals Lavinia for himself. Titus unaccountably slays one of his own sons in the ensuing scramble. Saturninus, now free to choose anew, selects none other than Tamora to be his wife.
This leaves Tamora and her treacherous slave and sometimes lover Aaron Harry Lennix) to plot revenge against Titus and his family. There follows the murder of Bassianus, the arrest of two of Titus' sons and the rape of Lavinia by Tamora's remaining sons, who then cut off her hands and tongue so Lavinia will tell no tales.
Eventually, Titus cuts off a hand to ransom his sons, for which he receives in return not his sons but their severed heads. (Are we having fun yet?) Titus vows revenge, sends his remaining son to raise an army among the Goths -- though why the Goths would aid their conqueror is unfathomable -- then captures Tamora's two sons, whom he slays and turns into savory meat pies for her to feast upon at a banquet.
The actors are over the top, but how else to play this nonsense? Hopkins is at his scenery-chewing best while Lange, decked out in awesome tattoos, freezes her face in a permanent snarl. Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Matthew Rhys play her sons as goofy punks, and Cumming turns Saturninus into a glam rocker.
To the modern-day audience, Lennix's evil slave -- providing something of a blueprint for Iago's later villainy -- is the most interesting personality, a black man dedicated to Machiavellian treachery in whom a glimmer of humanity finally flickers with the birth of a son.
Technical credits -- Luciano Tovoli's darkly brooding cinematography, Milena Canonero's wild costumes and designer Dante Ferretti's forbidding and eerie landscapes -- dominate the movie. "Titus" is an epic production of a woefully malnourished tragedy.
TITUS
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Clear Blue Sky Prods.
in association with Overseas Filmgroup
an Urania Pictures
and NDF International production
Producers Jody Patton,
Conchita Airoldi, Julie Taymor
Director-screenwriter Julie Taymor
Based on the play by William Shakespeare
Executive producer Paul G. Allen
Co-executive producers Ellen Little,
Robbie Little, Stephen K. Bannon
Director of photography Luciano Tovoli
Production designer Dante Ferretti
Music Elliot Goldenthal
Costume designer Milena Canonero
Editor Francoise Bonnot
Color/stereo
Cast:
Titus Anthony Hopkins
Tamora Jessica Lange
Saturninus Alan Cumming
Marcus Colm Feore
Bassianus James Frain
Lavinia Laura Fraser
Aaron Harry Lennix
Lucius Angus Macfadyen
Demetrius Matthew Rhys
Chiron Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Running time -- 160 minutes
MPAA rating: R0...
- 12/22/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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