Kira Kovalenko’s feature Unclenching the Fists was initially inspired by a line in William Faulkner’s novel Intruder in the Dust. Speaking at Deadline’s Contenders Film: International awards-season event, the Russian director said she thought a lot about Faulkner’s line, “While some people can endure slavery, nobody can stand freedom,” when she began co-writing her sophomore film, which is now Russia’s submission into this year’s International Feature Oscar race.
“While I was thinking about this line, I realized that I needed to find the place that I could tell this story about, and this place was a small mining town close to the place I was living,” Kovalenko said via her producer Alexander Rodnyansky, who was interpreting for on the panel.
Veteran producer Rodnyansky, who has long been a champion of unique and new voices hailing from Russia and the Ukraine, said he was compelled...
“While I was thinking about this line, I realized that I needed to find the place that I could tell this story about, and this place was a small mining town close to the place I was living,” Kovalenko said via her producer Alexander Rodnyansky, who was interpreting for on the panel.
Veteran producer Rodnyansky, who has long been a champion of unique and new voices hailing from Russia and the Ukraine, said he was compelled...
- 11/20/2021
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
Black Americans saw very little representation of their lives and culture on TV during the 1950s. The only mainstay was Eddie Anderson, who played Jack Benny’s sardonic valet Rochester on CBS’ “The Jack Benny Program.” In 1937, he’d became the first Black performer to be a regular on the radio version of the beloved comedy series and played Rochester on television from 1950-65. Terry Carter played Pvt. Sugie Sugerman for 98 episodes of CBS’ Emmy Award-winning “The Phil Silvers Show.’ And Black singers and performers would occasionally appear on various musical-variety series.
Pianist Hazel Scott was given her own summer series “The Hazel Scott Show” on DuMont in 1950. But she was soon named as a Communist by “Red Channels”. Though she denied the charges, the series couldn’t attract a sponsor and was history after four episodes. Likewise, NBC’s 1957-58 “The Nat King Cole Show” couldn’t find a...
Pianist Hazel Scott was given her own summer series “The Hazel Scott Show” on DuMont in 1950. But she was soon named as a Communist by “Red Channels”. Though she denied the charges, the series couldn’t attract a sponsor and was history after four episodes. Likewise, NBC’s 1957-58 “The Nat King Cole Show” couldn’t find a...
- 6/25/2020
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Heritage-focused festival could also screen titles from Cannes 2020 selection.
France’s Institut Lumière in Lyon has signalled its intention to push on with the 11th edition of its annual cinema heritage focused Lumière Festival this year in an announcement reconfirming its October 10 to 18 dates.
The festival’s burgeoning International Classic Film Market (Mifc), aimed at cinema heritage industry professionals, will also run from October 13 to 16.
Spearheaded in 2009 by Cannes Film Festival delegate Thierry Frémaux, in his other role of Institut Lumière general director, and the institute’s president, director Bertrand Tavernier, the Lumière Festival has a strong local following but...
France’s Institut Lumière in Lyon has signalled its intention to push on with the 11th edition of its annual cinema heritage focused Lumière Festival this year in an announcement reconfirming its October 10 to 18 dates.
The festival’s burgeoning International Classic Film Market (Mifc), aimed at cinema heritage industry professionals, will also run from October 13 to 16.
Spearheaded in 2009 by Cannes Film Festival delegate Thierry Frémaux, in his other role of Institut Lumière general director, and the institute’s president, director Bertrand Tavernier, the Lumière Festival has a strong local following but...
- 5/28/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
With the work week now winding down, folks are no doubt looking for something to relax with and once again, it seems Netflix has us all covered.
Yes, a new day means more new content and today continues that trend, with the streaming giant bringing us no less than 10 new titles to dig into – including a new Netflix Original. And below, you can check out all 9 movies, and the 1 TV show, that arrived on the platform today, courtesy of the fine folks over at What’s On Netflix.
9 New Movies Added
Dilan 1990 (2018) Dilan 1991 (2019) Fan of Amoory (2018) Fire in the Blood (2013) Match (2017) Rencor tatuado (Tatoo of Revenge) (2018) The Delivery Boy (2018) The Wrong Missy (2020) Netflix Original Wedy Atkalam (2018)
1 New TV Series Added
Riverdale (Season 4)
While it might be a fairly substantial drop, with 10 new titles, there unfortunately isn’t much that stands out. If you’ve been keeping up with Riverdale though,...
Yes, a new day means more new content and today continues that trend, with the streaming giant bringing us no less than 10 new titles to dig into – including a new Netflix Original. And below, you can check out all 9 movies, and the 1 TV show, that arrived on the platform today, courtesy of the fine folks over at What’s On Netflix.
9 New Movies Added
Dilan 1990 (2018) Dilan 1991 (2019) Fan of Amoory (2018) Fire in the Blood (2013) Match (2017) Rencor tatuado (Tatoo of Revenge) (2018) The Delivery Boy (2018) The Wrong Missy (2020) Netflix Original Wedy Atkalam (2018)
1 New TV Series Added
Riverdale (Season 4)
While it might be a fairly substantial drop, with 10 new titles, there unfortunately isn’t much that stands out. If you’ve been keeping up with Riverdale though,...
- 5/14/2020
- by Matt Joseph
- We Got This Covered
Ten Things I Learned At Tcmff 2018
Yet another TCM Classic Film Festival is in the bank—the ninth out of nine I’ve been privileged to attend. For those who have a mind to, my extended coverage of the festival—not a blow-by-blow of everything I did, but a look at some of the highlights—is available at Slant magazine’s blog The House Next Door, the venue that has sponsored my Tcmff attendance for all of those nine years. As I have said many times, my classic movie education would be considerably less rich without the support of my editor at Slant, Ed Gonzalez, and I would be remiss if he ever had a moment in which the truth of this statement was not perfectly clear in his mind. And as if by way of proving my gain, every year, in addition to the Slant piece, I like to...
Yet another TCM Classic Film Festival is in the bank—the ninth out of nine I’ve been privileged to attend. For those who have a mind to, my extended coverage of the festival—not a blow-by-blow of everything I did, but a look at some of the highlights—is available at Slant magazine’s blog The House Next Door, the venue that has sponsored my Tcmff attendance for all of those nine years. As I have said many times, my classic movie education would be considerably less rich without the support of my editor at Slant, Ed Gonzalez, and I would be remiss if he ever had a moment in which the truth of this statement was not perfectly clear in his mind. And as if by way of proving my gain, every year, in addition to the Slant piece, I like to...
- 5/7/2018
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
Recently completing one of the longest shoots of his career with The Irishman, most other directors would consider that an accomplishment enough, but in between takes, Martin Scorsese somehow found time to construct a new curriculum as part of his “The Story of Movies” film course, produced with his company Film Foundation. This latest edition is “Portraits of America: Democracy on Film” and is free for students. However, if one would just like to follow along with their own personal screenings, the full list is available.
“We all need to make sense of what we’re seeing. For young people born into this world now, it’s absolutely crucial that they get guided,” Scorsese says (via IndieWire). “They have to learn how to sort the differences between art and pure commerce, between cinema and content, between the secrets of images that are individually crafted and the secrets of images that are mass-produced.
“We all need to make sense of what we’re seeing. For young people born into this world now, it’s absolutely crucial that they get guided,” Scorsese says (via IndieWire). “They have to learn how to sort the differences between art and pure commerce, between cinema and content, between the secrets of images that are individually crafted and the secrets of images that are mass-produced.
- 3/29/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Martin Scorsese and his nonprofit organization The Film Foundation have announced their brand-new film curriculum, “Portraits of America: Democracy on Film.” The curriculum is the latest addition to the group’s ongoing film course “The Story of Movies,” which aims to teach students how to read the language of film and place motion pictures in the context of history, art, and society. Both “Democracy on Film” and the course are completely free for schools and universities.
“Portraits of America: Democracy on Film” is broken down into eight different sections, all of which include in-depth looks at some of the most important American films ever made, from Chaplin to Ford, Coppola, Spielberg, and ultimately Scorsese himself. The program is presented in partnership with Afscme. Scorsese announced the curriculum at a March 27 press conference in New York City.
“We all need to make sense of what we’re seeing,” Scorsese explained. “For...
“Portraits of America: Democracy on Film” is broken down into eight different sections, all of which include in-depth looks at some of the most important American films ever made, from Chaplin to Ford, Coppola, Spielberg, and ultimately Scorsese himself. The program is presented in partnership with Afscme. Scorsese announced the curriculum at a March 27 press conference in New York City.
“We all need to make sense of what we’re seeing,” Scorsese explained. “For...
- 3/27/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
You can tell it’s film noir — even the cabin cruiser has Venetian blinds. Ernest Hemingway’s favorite film adaptation of his work is this uncompromised story of a good man taking a criminal course on the high seas. John Garfield is again ‘one man alone’ against the system, and the moral quicksand all but swallows up Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter and Wallace Ford.
The Breaking Point
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 889
1950 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 97 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date August 8, 2017 / 39.95
Starring: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Juano Hernandez, Wallace Ford, Edmon Ryan, Ralph Dumke, Guy Thomajan, William Campbell, Sherry Jackson, Donna Jo Boyce, Victor Sen Yung, Peter Brocco, John Doucette.
Cinematography: Ted D. McCord
Film Editor: Alan Crosland Jr.
Original Music: Howard Jackson, Max Steiner
Written by Ranald MacDougall from a novel by Ernest Hemingway
Produced by Jerry Wald
Directed by Michael Curtiz
After...
The Breaking Point
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 889
1950 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 97 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date August 8, 2017 / 39.95
Starring: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Juano Hernandez, Wallace Ford, Edmon Ryan, Ralph Dumke, Guy Thomajan, William Campbell, Sherry Jackson, Donna Jo Boyce, Victor Sen Yung, Peter Brocco, John Doucette.
Cinematography: Ted D. McCord
Film Editor: Alan Crosland Jr.
Original Music: Howard Jackson, Max Steiner
Written by Ranald MacDougall from a novel by Ernest Hemingway
Produced by Jerry Wald
Directed by Michael Curtiz
After...
- 7/22/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Olive's new branded line reissues the Nicholas Ray classic with a full set of authoritative extras -- plus a never-before-seen widescreen transfer, in all of its Trucolor glory. Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden never looked better -- we can all compare theories about la Crawford's color-coded costumes. Just how masculine is Vienna supposed to be? Johnny Guitar (Olive Signature widescreen edition) Blu-ray Olive Films 1954 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 110 min. / Street Date September 20, 2016 / available through the Olive Films website / 39.95 but heavily discounted Starring Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady, Ward Bond, Ben Cooper, Ernest Borgnine, John Carradine, Royal Dano, Frank Ferguson, Paul Fix, Rhys Williams. Cinematography Harry Stradling Film Editor Richard Van Enger Original Music Victor Young Written by Philip Yordan from the novel by Roy Chanslor Produced by Herbert J. Yates Directed by Nicholas Ray
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Wow, it's already been four years since Olive released a...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Wow, it's already been four years since Olive released a...
- 9/20/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Woo hoo! The pre-Code marvels return for one last go-round -- tales of sin and moral turpitude but also serious pictures about social issues that the Production Code effectively swept from Hollywood screens -- financial crimes and ethnic bigotry. Forbidden Hollywood Volume 10 Guilty Hands, The Mouthpiece, Secrets of the French Police, The Match King, Ever in My Heart DVD-r The Warner Archive Collection 1932-1934 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 63, 62, 78, 85, 70 min. / Street Date October 27, 2015 / available through the WBshop / 40.99 Starring Lionel Barrymore, Kay Francis, Madge Evans; Warren William, Sidney Fox, Aline McMahon; Frank Morgan, Gwili Andre, Gregory Ratoff Rochelle Hudson; Warren William, Lili Damita, Glenda Farrell, Claire Dodd; Barbara Stanwyck, Otto Kruger, Ralph Bellamy, Ruth Donnelly. Cinematography Merritt B. Gerstad, Barney McGill; Alfred Gilks; Robert Kurrie; Written by Bayard Veiller; Joseph Jackson, Earl Baldwin, Frank J. Collins; Samuel Ornitz, Robert Tasker; Houston Branch, Sidney Sutherland, Einar Thorvaldson; Bertram Millhauser, Beulah Marie Dix.
- 6/26/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
By Todd Garbarini
The Royale Laemmle Theater in Los Angeles will be presenting a 65th anniversary screening of John Ford’s 1950 film Rio Grande. The film, which stars John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Ben Johnson, and Harry Carey, Jr., will be screened on Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 7:00 pm.
Actor Claude Jarman, Jr., who appears in the film as Trooper Jefferson “Jeff” York, is scheduled to appear at a Q&A session after the film to discuss his role and career.
From the press release:
65Th Anniversary Screening Of Rio Grande, And Tribute To Maureen O’Hara
Tuesday, January 12, at 7:00 Pm at the Royal Theatre
As a tribute to Maureen O’Hara, we present the final chapter in director John Ford’s Cavalry trilogy (following Fort Apache and She Wore A Yellow Ribbon). Rio Grande works affecting variations on some of the director’s favorite themes. While there is an...
The Royale Laemmle Theater in Los Angeles will be presenting a 65th anniversary screening of John Ford’s 1950 film Rio Grande. The film, which stars John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Ben Johnson, and Harry Carey, Jr., will be screened on Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 7:00 pm.
Actor Claude Jarman, Jr., who appears in the film as Trooper Jefferson “Jeff” York, is scheduled to appear at a Q&A session after the film to discuss his role and career.
From the press release:
65Th Anniversary Screening Of Rio Grande, And Tribute To Maureen O’Hara
Tuesday, January 12, at 7:00 Pm at the Royal Theatre
As a tribute to Maureen O’Hara, we present the final chapter in director John Ford’s Cavalry trilogy (following Fort Apache and She Wore A Yellow Ribbon). Rio Grande works affecting variations on some of the director’s favorite themes. While there is an...
- 1/5/2016
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Steve McQueen spent most of the 1960s avoiding lightweight movie roles -- only to do well with his winning comedy-drama performance in William Faulkner's most cheerful tale of old Mississippi. Get set for music by John Williams and an exciting climactic horse race. In storytelling terms this show would seem to have given Steven Spielberg a few ideas. The Reivers Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1969 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 106 min. / Street Date August 25, 2015 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Steve McQueen, Rupert Crosse, Mitch Vogel, Sharon Farrell, Will Geer, Ruth White, Michael Constantine, Clifton James, Juano Hernandez, Lonny Chapman, Diane Ladd, Ellen Geer, Dub Taylor, Allyn Ann McLerie, Charles Tyner, Burgess Meredith. Cinematography Richard Moore Film Editor Thomas Stanford Original Music John Williams Written by Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr. from the book by William Faulkner Produced by Irving Ravetch, Robert Relyea Directed by Mark Rydell
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
What? This...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
What? This...
- 9/15/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
I interviewed model/actress Lauren Hutton in late 2007 at her home in Venice, CA. Hutton greeted me wearing a gingham workshirt, battered jeans and no make-up, hair pulled back. She was and is one of the most beautiful humans I've ever had the pleasure of laying eyes on. A sharp mind and tough core resided within, which I quickly found out as our conversation flowed and the hours passed. As she bid me good-night, she handed me a manila envelope. I opened it when I arrived home. Inside, the recent issue of Big Magazine that was done as a tribute to her remarkable career. That magazine, and her inscription, remains one of my most treasured mementos.
Lauren Hutton
No Nip/Tuck Required
By
Alex Simon
Lauren Hutton was the face of American fashion in the 1960s and ‘70s. Having appeared on every major magazine cover multiple times (a record 27 times...
Lauren Hutton
No Nip/Tuck Required
By
Alex Simon
Lauren Hutton was the face of American fashion in the 1960s and ‘70s. Having appeared on every major magazine cover multiple times (a record 27 times...
- 7/12/2015
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
The Violet Crown Cinema has an encore screening of its Arthouse Monthly series Sunday night with the acclaimed new documentary I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story. In her review, Jette says it's a "pleasant and sometimes touching profile of Caroll Spinney, who has spent decades portraying both Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street and elsewhere." Tickets are on the verge of selling out, but if you miss out on this one-time local screening, the film is available now on cable and digital VOD from Tribeca Film. In addition, Violet Crown is holding over Austin-shot indie Arlo and Julie (Elizabeth's review) for another week, with daily screenings.
The Austin Film Society kicks off the weekend with Jess Franco's 1971 avant-garde horror film Vampyros Lesbos, which screens tonight at the Marchesa. On Sunday afternoon, Afs is teaming up with the Austin chapter of the National Alliance on...
- 5/15/2015
- by Matt Shiverdecker
- Slackerwood
The Goose Woman (1925), directed by Clarence Brown, just screened at the Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema, accompanied by one of the finest and most remarkable live scores it's ever been my privilege to experience. Jane Gardner's soundtrack, incorporating piano, violin and drums, but also baby cries and a musical saw, was so good I wondered if it might be causing me to overrate the movie, in essence a moderately soapy melodrama, but the fact that no less a figure than Kevin Brownlow, who rediscovered and restored the lost film and supplied the print for the screening, considers it one of his very favorites, reassures me that I haven't taken leave of my critical faculties in a musical rapture.
The plot derives from a true-life murder case, still unsolved, but such open-ended stories have never been Hollywood's bag so this Universal production wraps things up neatly by the end. Part...
The plot derives from a true-life murder case, still unsolved, but such open-ended stories have never been Hollywood's bag so this Universal production wraps things up neatly by the end. Part...
- 3/21/2013
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
Back during the early days of S & A I wrote about legendary photographer, author, composer filmmaking pioneer and all around Renaissance Man Gordon Parks’ truly wonderful and beautiful 1969 film The Learning Tree. (Here)
The film based on Parks autobiographical novel about growing up in rural Kansas during the 1920′s starred Kyle Johnson (Lt. Uhura Nichelle Nichols’ real life son) and was the first film to be directed by a black director for a major Hollywood film studio, Warner Bros and I lamented that this wonderful film was not available on DVD. However that has been, at last, finally corrected. Today the film was released and is now available on DVD on the Warner Archive label (Here).
Unfortunately, as with all Warner Archive releases and other DVD-on demand from other companies, there are no special extras (a commentary by Johnson would have been great) but at least we finally now have...
The film based on Parks autobiographical novel about growing up in rural Kansas during the 1920′s starred Kyle Johnson (Lt. Uhura Nichelle Nichols’ real life son) and was the first film to be directed by a black director for a major Hollywood film studio, Warner Bros and I lamented that this wonderful film was not available on DVD. However that has been, at last, finally corrected. Today the film was released and is now available on DVD on the Warner Archive label (Here).
Unfortunately, as with all Warner Archive releases and other DVD-on demand from other companies, there are no special extras (a commentary by Johnson would have been great) but at least we finally now have...
- 2/2/2011
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
Clarence Brown made a long and successful career, after getting his start taking over The Last of the Mohicans from Maurice Touneur in 1920 (see last Thursday's article), as a director of MGM romantic melodrama, scoring several notable successes with Garbo and Crawford. 1931's Possessed, with Joan C., is particularly impressive, a fluid early talkie with pre-code sass, class consciousness, glitz and glamour, and a famous shot where a train slowly glides past a yearning Joan, each compartment featuring illuminated scenes of the urban sophistication she craves. It's like a beautiful tracking shot, only Joan and the camera stand still and the world tracks past.
As excellent as Brown's glossy studio artistry was, it pales somewhat compared to the surprising masterpiece that appears out of left field in 1949. Intruder in the Dust was made as part of MGM's anniversary output, which also included Siodmak's The Great Sinner, a movie which exemplifies the MGM approach to art,...
As excellent as Brown's glossy studio artistry was, it pales somewhat compared to the surprising masterpiece that appears out of left field in 1949. Intruder in the Dust was made as part of MGM's anniversary output, which also included Siodmak's The Great Sinner, a movie which exemplifies the MGM approach to art,...
- 10/10/2009
- MUBI
NEW YORK -- William Faulkner's 1948 suspense novel Intruder in the Dust is returning to the big screen from Picture Entertainment and Plum Pictures.
The Nobel Prize-winning author's novel focuses on a black man in rural Mississippi falsely accused of shooting a white neighbor in the back. The imprisoned man must stave off a lynch mob with the help of an unlikely band of locals who search for the evidence that will prove his innocence.
Dust was first adapted to film by director Clarence Brown for MGM in 1949. Production on the new project is expected to begin in 2009.
Plum partners Celine Rattray, Galt Niederhoffer and Daniela Taplin will produce Dust with Picture chairman Lee Caplin. Carl Colpaert will executive produce, and Joy Goodwin will co-produce.
Other film adaptations of Faulkner's works include 1958's The Long, Hot Summer, 1959's The Sound and the Fury and the upcoming short Red Leaves from actor-director James Franco.
Picture executive produced "Ali" for Sony. Plum is developing several projects, including The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt with Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese attached at Paramount, and another literary adaptation, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, starring Julia Stiles.
The Nobel Prize-winning author's novel focuses on a black man in rural Mississippi falsely accused of shooting a white neighbor in the back. The imprisoned man must stave off a lynch mob with the help of an unlikely band of locals who search for the evidence that will prove his innocence.
Dust was first adapted to film by director Clarence Brown for MGM in 1949. Production on the new project is expected to begin in 2009.
Plum partners Celine Rattray, Galt Niederhoffer and Daniela Taplin will produce Dust with Picture chairman Lee Caplin. Carl Colpaert will executive produce, and Joy Goodwin will co-produce.
Other film adaptations of Faulkner's works include 1958's The Long, Hot Summer, 1959's The Sound and the Fury and the upcoming short Red Leaves from actor-director James Franco.
Picture executive produced "Ali" for Sony. Plum is developing several projects, including The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt with Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese attached at Paramount, and another literary adaptation, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, starring Julia Stiles.
- 2/14/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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