Intermission The Cinegogue

ALEC ROTH is a writer/director/producer. His feature writing/directorial debut film “Billy Knight” (starring Charlie Heaton, Diana Silvers, and Al Pacino) is currently in post production.

After graduating from College, Roth went to work for his father, helping him on many feature film scripts, that include. A Star is Born, Dune, and Killers of the Flower Moon. He then went to work for a number of directors and helped with their own productions. He worked for director Agnieszka Holland on 2 episodes of House of Cards. He then went to work for James Grey on the feature film Ad Astra starring Brad Pitt. Then, he worked for Darren Aronofsky on a PSA commercial for the Health and Drug Administration.

He produced the 2024 SXSW smash hit “Desert Road,” through his production company Firebrand Media Group, and partners Josh Clayton and Kirk Martin and is set to start pre-production on his next directorial follow up,

“The Mystery of Francis Reynolds,” in the upcoming months. He is also the co-founder of the IP development and entertainment studio Iconic Arts, focusing on gaming, merchandise, and Film/TV IP.





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TANGK is the righteous and vibrant fifth album from madcap truth-seekers, IDLES. Pronounced“tank” with a whiff of the “g”-an onomatopoeic reference to the lashing way the band imagined their guitars sounding that has since grown into a sigil for living in love-the record is the band’s most ambitious and striking work yet. Where IDLES were once set on taking the world’s piss, squaring off with strong jaws against the perennially entitled, and exercising personal trauma in real time, they have arrived in this new act to offer the fruits of such perseverance: love, joy, and indeed gratitude for the mere opportunity of existence.

A radical sense of defiant empowerment radiates from TANGK, co-produced by Nigel Godrich, IDLES guitarist Mark Bowen, and Kenny Beats. Despite his reputation as an incendiary post-punk spark plug, frontman Joe Talbot sings almost all the feelings inside these 10 songs with hard-earned soul, offering each lusty vow or solidarity plea as a bona fide pop song—that is, a thing for everyone to pass around and share, communal anthems intended for overcoming our grievance. Lead single “Dancer” stands as the throbbing and scuzzy highlight at the album’s center-rattling bass and ricocheting guitar giving Talbot space to talk about sweat and sex on the dance floor. (You will spy LCD Sound system’s James Murphy and Nancy Whang here, too, singing.) It is lascivious and playful and positive, the ecstatic sound of at least a temporary fix. In the improvised hook, Talbot offers IDLES’ essential new mantra: “I give myself to you/As long as you move on the floor.”

He is singing about the rapture of a new relationship, but he is also singing about the special dynamic between IDLES and their fans, or IDLES and the world at large. This is a band’s vow to keep lifting and fighting for themselves and their listeners, to keep offering the grim persistence of joy and hope and love and wonder as long as that’s what anyone needs to survive. It is a love song the same way that TANGK is a love album—open to anyone who requires something to shout out loud in order to fend off any encroaching sense of the void, now or forever.



Check out Lee's production company Holding Hands with Horses.



New Album TANGK out now on Partisan Records. IDLES are touring throughout 2024.



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Gianfranco Fernández-Ruiz is an award winning, Los Angeles-based writer and director. His coming of age short film JEROME, a recipient of the inaugural Flip the Script Short Film Fund for emerging BIPOC filmmakers qualified for the Oscars and was a finalist for the HBO Short Film Award. More recently, his work was selected by the Latino Film Institute for their Inclusion Fellowship for his short film GRANADA (fka CACAO). Keep up with his work on Instagram & Vimeo.



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Glüme was born and raised in Los Angeles underneath the Hollywood sign. As a child actor, dancer, and singer, she got her start early on Broadway at the age of 6 as Shirley Temple. She grew up leading a life fit for a film; full of magic and tragedy. After being diagnosed with Prinzmetal Angina and Lupus, she began recording music at home until she was able to perform again. As a an artist, she is happy to be here telling her stories. She has released sophomore album featuring collaborations with Rufus Wainwright, Sean Ono Lennon, STRFKR, and Of Montreal. She will be filming three movie musicals this summer of 2024 with her production company Utopia Pictures. She intends to bring back the Great American Musical.

She will be performing songs, dances and scenes from her favorite films this Saturday April 27 at theEastwood Performing Arts Center in Hollywood.

Follow her on Instagram & her production company @utopiapictures



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Today on Intermission, Megan breaks down her honest thoughts on A24's newest film, Civil War directed by Alex Garland and starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Jessee Plemmons, Nick Offerman, and Stephen McKinley.



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