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P&P URUVATTI HONORS
The Uruvatti International Film Festival gives “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” awards for Best Horror Short Film and Best Original Score / Short Film
Posted in Cinema Scope, Musicabilia, Notes in the News
Tagged 2022, best, festival, film, horror, International, May, musicabre, Original Score, short film, The Pit and the Pendulum, Uruvatti, winner
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3 GOLDEN HORSE AWARDS FOR P&P
Golden Horse International Film Festival gives three awards to “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” Best Experimental Short Film Best Actor Best Original Score
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Tagged Awards, best, Best Actor, Experimental, festival, film, Golden Horse, International, musicabre, original, score, short film, The Pit and the Pendulum
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P&P LUIS BUNUEL AWARDS
“The Pit and and Pendulum – a musicabre” received 2 Luis Bunuel Memorial Awards from L’Age d’Or International Arthouse Film Festival (LIAFF). CRITICS’ CHOICE AWARD The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabreDirected by Danny Ashkenasi United States Best Film … Continue reading
P&P NEW YORK MOVIE AWARD
“The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” won the Silver Award for Horror from the New York Movie Awards
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Tagged Award, Awards, horror, movie, musicabre, New York, NYMA, Silver, The Pit and the Pendulum
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P&P KING’S CROSS AWARD
HI Danny, I am pleased to inform you that “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” was voted Best Horror Short in our May Competition. It has also been nominated for Best Horror Short in our main awards ceremony … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Musicabilia, Notes in the News
Tagged 2022, Awards, Ben Etchells, best, Edgar Allan Poe, film, horror, King's Cross, May, musicabre, musical, short, short film, The Pit and the Pendulum
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P&P – Day 4 (& 5) – On the Rack
I already shared the above picture in a previous blog post about the colors of “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre”, my short film adaptation of the classic Edgar Allan Poe short story. You probably guessed then (and … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Musicabilia
Tagged adaptation, Assistant Director, Charlotte Purser, continuity, Director of Photography, Edgar Allan Poe, Han Jang Houston, Inquisition, Jason Chua, Jennifer Liu, Keisuke Nojima, Mariana Soares da Silva, monitor, musicabre, musical, on set, Pendulum, Production Design, rack, Sami Eddy, short film, The Pit and the Pendulum
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P&P – Day 4 – The Pit Beckons
I stared into the abyss, and the abyss stared back That is a paraphrase of a famous quote from Nietzsche, but doesn’t it read like something Poe might have written? Actually I hear this line in the voice of Werner … Continue reading
TELL-TALE HEARTBEATS
In all this time writing about my first short film musical Edgar Allan Poe adaptation “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” I have kept one crucial secret: how are the famous tell-tale heartbeats rendered in this version? It must be … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Cinema Scope, Musicabilia
Tagged adaptation, cello, Edgar Allan Poe, heart, heartbeat, horror, murder, musicabre, musical, narrator, nervous, short film, short story, The Tell-Tale Heart, very dreadfully nervous
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P&P – Day 3 – Adventures with a Porta-Jib
While watching the trailer for “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre“, my musical short film adaptation of the classic Edgar Allan Poe story, you will see me as the protagonist in a dark space, viewed from above. While … Continue reading
TELL-TALE MURDER IN RUSSIAN
Tell-Tale Subtitles #3 Welcome to the third and (so far) final installment of Tell-Tale Subtitles, where I share screenshots of my first short film musical Edgar Allan Poe adaptation “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” with subtitles added. The first … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Cinema Scope, Literary Lyricism, Musicabilia
Tagged Award, cello, Covid 19, Cyrillic alphabet, Edgar Allan Poe, heartbeat, horror, Moscow, murder, musicabre, musical, Russian, Russian International Horror Film Festival, subtitles, The Tell-Tale Heart, travel restrictions
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Pit and Pendulum TRAILER
Hot off the editing bay: The Trailer for “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre”! “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre“, my second short film musical adaptation of an Edgar Allan Poe classic (say that clause three … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Musicabilia, Notes in the News
Tagged adaptation, classic, Covid, Edgar Allan Poe, horror, musicabre, musical, P&P, short film, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, trailer, YouTube
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Mainstreet Musicals touts FEEDSTORE QUARTET
“Feedstore Quartet”, a musical created by Jack Hilton Cunningham and myself, has been selected by Mainstreet Musicals, a non-profit that “promotes development opportunities for new musicals throughout regional America”, as a Director’s Choice Award Winner. Jack and I met at … Continue reading
P&P – Day 2 – The Destruction of the Cello
That’s a beautiful cello, don’t you think? A little worn at the edges perhaps, but to the composer who plays it, a poor fellow who lives in a garret in 17th century Spain, this instrument is his most prized possession, … Continue reading
P&P – Day 2 – The Merchant’s House
In “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre”, my second short film musical adaptation of a classic gothic tale by Edgar Allan Poe, the protagonist is seen working at his desk in a garret apartment, while soldiers of the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Musicabilia, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged 19th Century, camera, East Village, Edgar Allan Poe, Film Festival, film set, film shoot, garret, go-pro, location scout, Merchant's House, museum, musicabre, New York City, staircase, The Pit and the Pendulum, Theater for the New City, townhouse
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TELL-TALE SUBTITLES 2 – Spanish
It’s time for another episode of Fun with Tell-Tale Subtitles! The first time I shared screenshots of my musical Edgar Allan Poe adaptation “The Tell-Tale Heart – a musicabre” with Portuguese subtitles. Today Spanish gets its turn. These screenshots are … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Literary Lyricism, Musicabilia
Tagged cabeza, Edgar Allan Poe, horror, murder, musicabre, musical, poco a poco, puerta, screenshot, short film, Spanish, subtitles, The Tell-Tale Heart
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