Will Oldham

Will Oldham

Nacimiento : 1970-01-15, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

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Will Oldham (born December 24, 1970), better known by the stage name Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, is an American singer-songwriter and actor. From 1993 to 1997, he performed and recorded under variations of the Palace name, including the Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, and Palace Music. After releasing material under his own name, he adopted the "Bonnie 'Prince' Billy" moniker for the majority of his output since 1998. Description above from the Wikipedia article Will Oldham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Will Oldham

Películas

Hands That Bind
Barkeep
A hired hand's plans to take over his boss farm are shattered when the landowner's son returns to claim his birthright.
A Wilderness of Mirrors
Migrating Musician
A motion picture soundtrack based on the life of Lexington, Kentucky songwriter and musician Paul K.
The Difficulties of Being an Interpretive Dancer in the Year of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 2020 AD
A captivating dance performance catches the attention of one of the audience members.
Daniel London and Will Oldham on Old Joy
Self
In this conversation, shot by the Criterion Collection in 2019, actors Daniel London and Will Oldham reunite for the first time since the release of Old Joy and discuss their memories of making the film.
Them That Work
Self
Documentary about the impact left by John Sayles’ 1987 film Matewan, about a shooting between company gun thugs and union organizers in Southern West Virginia. Along with a lasting legacy of support for union rights, the film inspired many West Virginians to become filmmakers and introduced the world to many great actors.
A ghost story
Prognosticator
Un hombre recientemente fallecido regresa a su casa como un fantasma vestido con una sábana blanca para consolar a su esposa. En su nuevo estado espectral, invisible para los mortales, ya no pertenece a ningún tiempo concreto y solo le queda observar con total pasividad cómo continúa la vida de la mujer que ama. Cada vez más perdido, el fantasma se embarca en un viaje cósmico a través de los recuerdos y la historia, enfrentándose a las eternas preguntas de la vida y a la inmensidad de la existencia
Sailing a Sinking Sea
Executive Producer
Sailing a Sinking Sea is a feature-length experimental documentary exploring the culture of the Moken people of Burma and Thailand. The Moken are seafaring people and one of the smallest ethnic minority groups in Asia. Wholly reliant upon the sea, their entire belief system, education, and economic and physical development revolve around water. Sailing a Sinking Sea illuminates the Moken lifestyle through recorded traditional music, folklore and conversations with the Moken people. Through intimate and dynamic cinematography and audio recordings, Sailing a Sinking Sea weaves a visual and aural tapestry of Moken mythologies and present-day practices.
Breadcrumb Trail
Himself [archival]
“My new feature length documentary Breadcrumb Trail is about Slint and the Louisville music culture they emerged from. It includes footage going back to the early 1990s that I shot when repeatedly driving up from Athens, GA to Louisville to try to chase rumors of what they guys were up to. Over the years I tracked down more stories about them, then began filming interviews with each of the band members and their contemporaries. We also unearthed some unseen/uncirculated footage from their few live performances as well as the writing and arranging of Spiderland.”
Edén
John Malenoir
Alma returns to Mexico seeking the man who caused the loss of her childhood home. He is not easily found, but the road to him brings her closer to her late father, and the secrets he took with him to his grave.
Revenge of the Mekons
Himself
Documentary about the Mekons.
Magnetic Reconnection
Narrator (voice)
A short documentary film contrasting the Northern Lights with decaying man-made debris littered throughout the landscape surrounding the town of Churchill, Manitoba in Canada's Arctic. The film touches on the regenerative power of nature and the futility of mankind's struggle against natural processes of decay.
New Jerusalem
Ike Evans
Returning from Afghanistan, Sean is befriended by lke, a strong willed evangelical who endeavors to ensure the fragile Sean's salvation.
Un lugar donde quedarse
Original Music Composer
Cheyenne es una antigua estrella de rock. A pesar de sus cincuenta, conserva una imagen gótica y vive en Dublín de los derechos de autor. La muerte de su padre, con quien no tenía relación alguna, le lleva a Nueva York, donde descubre que su progenitor vivía con una obsesión: vengarse de una humillación de la que había sido víctima. Cheyenne decide hacer realidad ese deseo de venganza, pero, para ello tendrá que emprender un viaje a través de América.
Pioneer
Father
A father tells his little boy the most epic bedtime story ever.
Jackass 3D
Gorilla Trainer
El formato Jackass, donde Johnny Knoxville y sus amigos se someten al peligro de forma voluntaria, se adapta al cine 3D. En su primera semana en USA ha obtenido un enorme éxito de taquilla: nada menos que 50 millones de dólares, la película con mejor entrada del otoño 2010.
Music Makes a City: A Louisville Orchestra Story
Narrator
In 1948, a small, struggling, semi-professional orchestra in Louisville, Kentucky began a novel project to commission new works from contemporary composers around the world.
Wendy and Lucy
Icky
En compañía de su perra Lucy, Wendy se traslada a Alaska para desempeñar un nuevo y lucrativo trabajo en una fábrica de conservas de pescado. Todo va bien hasta que, al cruzar el estado de Oregón, su modesto Honda Accord de los 80 se avería y tiene que llevarlo a un taller. Sus recursos económicos son tan limitados que acaba robando en un supermercado una lata de comida para perros, pero es descubierta y llevada a comisaría. Cuando, a las pocas horas, es puesta en libertad, resulta que Lucy ha desaparecido. Wendy tendrá entonces que recuperar a su perra y pagar la factura del taller. Así las cosas, tanto su dinero como su autoestima irán disminuyendo cada vez más.
Wendy and Lucy
Original Music Composer
En compañía de su perra Lucy, Wendy se traslada a Alaska para desempeñar un nuevo y lucrativo trabajo en una fábrica de conservas de pescado. Todo va bien hasta que, al cruzar el estado de Oregón, su modesto Honda Accord de los 80 se avería y tiene que llevarlo a un taller. Sus recursos económicos son tan limitados que acaba robando en un supermercado una lata de comida para perros, pero es descubierta y llevada a comisaría. Cuando, a las pocas horas, es puesta en libertad, resulta que Lucy ha desaparecido. Wendy tendrá entonces que recuperar a su perra y pagar la factura del taller. Así las cosas, tanto su dinero como su autoestima irán disminuyendo cada vez más.
Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-22
Sgt. Platoon
Trapped in the Closet is a rap opera by American R&B singer R. Kelly. Written and produced by Kelly, the series tells a story of a one-night stand which sets off a chain of events, gradually revealing a greater web of lies, sex, and deceit.
Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 13-22
Sgt. Platoon
The second half of R. Kelly's unfinished hip hop opera
The Dirty Three
Self
The Dirty Three are the rough and ready jewels in the crown of Australian rock and roll history. Born from the need to put food on the table and spawned from the intensely collaborative local Australian music scene in the 80's and early 90's, the Dirty Three pioneered the instrumental rock and roll music scene in Australia with their cathartic, sometimes violent and always spellbinding brand of music. Within a few short years, they achieved local and international success and left Australian shores to take their Music to the world. To this day the band continues to tour the world and serve the music that they see as a real, living and breathing thing that chooses the Dirty Three's custodianship.
Old Joy
Kurt
Historia de dos viejos amigos que se van durante un fin de semana de aventuras a las montañas de Oregón. Obtuvo buenas críticas.
The Guatemalan Handshake
Donald Turnupseed
A mysterious power failure in a small mountain town coincides with the disappearance of one of its most eccentric young residents. Mystery piles upon mystery as his family and friends search for him, fail, and ultimately try to forget about him, an undertaking that results in many unexpected, and in some cases bizarre, effects on the town's already peculiar community.
Junebug
Bill Mooney, scout
Un vendedor de arte marginal viaja de Chicago a Carolina del Norte para reunirse con su nueva familia política, desafiando así el equilibrio de esta casa de clase media del sur.
Tripping With Caveh
Self
With longtime collaborators Greg Watkins (A Little Stiff) and Thomas Logoreci, the charismatic, experimental filmmaker Caveh Zahedi approaches legendary songwriter Will Oldham (Palace Brothers, Bonnie "Prince" Billy) in an unconventional interview. Caveh offers up a serving of psychedelic mushrooms and a view on the relationship between the musician and his fan.
Slitch
Music
A short comic film about a teenage girl's summertime lust, featuring fantasizing, bubble gum and bicycle riding.
Slitch
The Surfer
A short comic film about a teenage girl's summertime lust, featuring fantasizing, bubble gum and bicycle riding.
Ode
Music
"Tallahatchie Bridge": With those two simple words, the powerful images of a lost innocence, a murky river and a mysterious suicide spring to mind. Scorning the demands of her overbearing family, Bobbie Lee Hartley and Billy Joe McAllister meet at their usual Choctaw Ridge trysting place and attempt to consumate their forbidden love. Ode attempts to reconcile modern moralites with a tradition-bound faith, and asks whether it's possible to commit a sin against a religion that won't even have you as a member.
Mil monedas de oro
Miles
China, 1880. Lalu es vendida en matrimonio por su padre. Pero más que una novia, acaba convirtiéndose en propiedad del regente de una mina de oro, que decide venderla como animadora de salón. Antes que convertirse en prostituta, Lalu decide encontrar su propio camino en la vida.
Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure
Chip
Based on the true story of baby Jessica McClure who fell into a drain pipe in her back yard while playing. She was stuck in the pipe about 20 to 30 feet down and it took rescuers 58 hours to get her out. There was fear that if they shook the earth too much with machinery they could cause Jessica to fall further down and die.
Matewan
Danny Radnor
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.
Dans la chambre du sultan
Wonder: The Lives of Anna and Harlan Hubbard
Harlan Hubbard (voice)
What Henry David Thoreau did for two years Anna and Harlan Hubbard did for forty. Anna and Harlan lived life as few people in modern times have and in doing so inspired thousands. Wonder: The Lives of Anna and Harlan Hubbard , a new documentary by Morgan Atkinson, brings to life their adventures. Harlan was an artist, writer and naturalist born in northern Kentucky. Anna, a scholar and librarian from Grand Rapids, MI. They met in Cincinnati and began their life together in the mid-1940's by building a boat, then floating from Cincinnati to New Orleans. Their voyage lasted five years. They then settled on the banks of the Ohio River in rural Kentucky. In a house they built by hand, sustained by food they raised or caught, aided by no electricity or modern convenience, Anna and Harlan, met the world on their own terms and found deep meaning. Wonder considers their astonishing life of freedom and what it says to Americans today.