Exclusive: Juno Films will release Glenn Holsten’s documentary Jamie Wyeth and The Unflinching Eye at the Quad Cinema on April 26 followed by additional cities, including the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Mr. Wyeth will host a Q&a the evening of April 27th, along with the director, the acclaimed writer Lea Carpenter. The film will be released on digital platforms in August.
As the heir to a three-generation dynasty in American art, Jamie Wyeth struggles to find his own voice during the colorful turmoil of pop culture and politics from the 1960s to the present. This first feature-length documentary of the artist follows his journey capturing iconic figures like John F. Kennedy, Andy Warhol, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rudolf Nureyev, as well as his unique, sometimes unsettling, views of domestic life, the islands of Maine and his own personal ghosts. The film’s release coincides with a multi-city exhibition of Mr.
As the heir to a three-generation dynasty in American art, Jamie Wyeth struggles to find his own voice during the colorful turmoil of pop culture and politics from the 1960s to the present. This first feature-length documentary of the artist follows his journey capturing iconic figures like John F. Kennedy, Andy Warhol, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rudolf Nureyev, as well as his unique, sometimes unsettling, views of domestic life, the islands of Maine and his own personal ghosts. The film’s release coincides with a multi-city exhibition of Mr.
- 4/4/2024
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Charles Osgood, the witty CBS News journalist who shepherded “CBS Sunday Morning” for more than two decades — a longer tenure than the show’s original host, Charles Kuralt — died Tuesday at 91 years of age after living for a period of time with dementia, according to CBS News.
He also hosted a durable radio-news segment, “The Osgood File,” between 1971 and 2017. The audio vignettes were heard four times each weekday morning on various stations across the U.S., and Osgood would sometimes analyze a news event, and, in other moments, provide rhyming commentary on the latest headlines. He would sometimes bid listeners farewell by telling them: “I’ll see you on the radio.”
“Short words, short sentences, short paragraphs,” Osgood was known to say. “There’s nothing that can’t be improved by making it shorter and better.”
He spent 45 years at CBS News before retiring in 2016. During his tenure, “Sunday Morning...
He also hosted a durable radio-news segment, “The Osgood File,” between 1971 and 2017. The audio vignettes were heard four times each weekday morning on various stations across the U.S., and Osgood would sometimes analyze a news event, and, in other moments, provide rhyming commentary on the latest headlines. He would sometimes bid listeners farewell by telling them: “I’ll see you on the radio.”
“Short words, short sentences, short paragraphs,” Osgood was known to say. “There’s nothing that can’t be improved by making it shorter and better.”
He spent 45 years at CBS News before retiring in 2016. During his tenure, “Sunday Morning...
- 1/23/2024
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
If the fifth season of FX’s “Fargo” looks a little familiar to you, all the creators can say to that is…you betcha. Noah Hawley’s Coen-verse thriller series spinoff has sprouted numerous timelines and tangents (the current season even goes back 500 years at one point), but this year’s tense, fiercely comic installment is not at all coy about wanting to put you right back in the universe of the Oscar-winning 1996 classic, even though this incarnation takes place in 2019, only four years ago.
“Frankly, part of the pitch that I made about myself is that it was really a coming of a full circle,” said production designer Trevor Smith, who is returning to “Fargo” after working as an art director on the first season starring Billy Bob Thornton and Martin Freeman, which is the closest to the vibe of the current season. “This fifth installment, I would argue,...
“Frankly, part of the pitch that I made about myself is that it was really a coming of a full circle,” said production designer Trevor Smith, who is returning to “Fargo” after working as an art director on the first season starring Billy Bob Thornton and Martin Freeman, which is the closest to the vibe of the current season. “This fifth installment, I would argue,...
- 12/19/2023
- by Jason Clark
- The Wrap
To say that family gatherings aren’t always easy feels like a severe understatement. Birthdays, weddings, Christmases, reunions – they may have been organised with the best of intentions but the pressure of ‘the event’ can often lead to the explosion of unspoken, unresolved issues. This is the very subject of Bebé (Baby), Cristina Sánchez Salamanca’s short film about Nina, a young girl who is struggling to see where she fits into her divorced father’s new family. What’s clever about Salamanca’s film is how she takes that concentrated intensity of familial tension and portrays it with a realistic subtly. This isn’t a soap opera and plates don’t go flying when everything erupts. Instead, we see an eruption on a quieter, more intimate level and that makes for much more compelling viewing. Now, as the film begins to charter film festivals worldwide, Dn joined Salamanca for a deep dive on Bebé,...
- 11/9/2023
- by James Maitre
- Directors Notes
We’ve lost another Hollywood legend. The Hollywood Reporter has broken the news that cinematographer Bill Butler, best known for his work on the 1975 Steven Spielberg classic Jaws, has passed away at the age of 101. Butler died on Wednesday evening, according to the American Society of Cinematographers. He would have turned 102 on Friday – today.
Born on April 7, 1921 in Cripple Creek, Colorado, Butler earned his first entertainment industry credit by working as a camera operator on the 1959 film 1001 Arabian Nights. His first cinematographer credit came when his friend, director William Friedkin, hired him to shoot the 1962 TV movie The People vs. Paul Crump. He never attended film school, he just taught himself cinematography by watching movies and referring to the ASC manual. That approach definitely worked out for him. Over the next fifty-four years, he served as the cinematographer on eighty-four more projects, including Jack Nicholson’s Drive, He Said; The Bold Men,...
Born on April 7, 1921 in Cripple Creek, Colorado, Butler earned his first entertainment industry credit by working as a camera operator on the 1959 film 1001 Arabian Nights. His first cinematographer credit came when his friend, director William Friedkin, hired him to shoot the 1962 TV movie The People vs. Paul Crump. He never attended film school, he just taught himself cinematography by watching movies and referring to the ASC manual. That approach definitely worked out for him. Over the next fifty-four years, he served as the cinematographer on eighty-four more projects, including Jack Nicholson’s Drive, He Said; The Bold Men,...
- 4/7/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Bill Butler, the self-taught, Oscar-nominated cinematographer whose work on the landmark 1975 horror film Jaws unleashed a wave of anxiety for beachgoers that lasts to this day, has died. He would have turned 102 on Friday.
Butler died Wednesday evening in Los Angeles, according to the American Society of Cinematographers. He is survived by five daughters and his wife, Iris.
During his five-decade career, Butler also shot Francis Ford Coppola’s The Rain People (1969) and The Conversation (1974); Peter Hyams’ Capricorn One (1977); Randal Kleiser’s hit musical Grease (1978); and Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982) and Rocky IV (1985), all written and directed by and starring Sylvester Stallone.
On another noteworthy 1975 release, Butler replaced the fired Haskell Wexler midway through production on Milos Forman‘s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Both shared an Oscar cinematography nomination for their work.
Butler also had replaced Wexler on The Conversation after creative differences forced Wexler off that production early on.
Butler died Wednesday evening in Los Angeles, according to the American Society of Cinematographers. He is survived by five daughters and his wife, Iris.
During his five-decade career, Butler also shot Francis Ford Coppola’s The Rain People (1969) and The Conversation (1974); Peter Hyams’ Capricorn One (1977); Randal Kleiser’s hit musical Grease (1978); and Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982) and Rocky IV (1985), all written and directed by and starring Sylvester Stallone.
On another noteworthy 1975 release, Butler replaced the fired Haskell Wexler midway through production on Milos Forman‘s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Both shared an Oscar cinematography nomination for their work.
Butler also had replaced Wexler on The Conversation after creative differences forced Wexler off that production early on.
- 4/6/2023
- by Rhett Bartlett
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Elvis” director of photography Mandy Walker won Feature Film at the ASC Awards March 5, when the American Society of Cinematographers handed out its honors at the 37th annual awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Walker’s win in the feature film category could prove prescient; 17 out of the last 36 years found the ASC film winner winning the Academy Award. But it’s worth noting that Oscar nominees “Tár” and “All Quiet on the Western Front” were not among the ASC nominees.
In the TV categories, “The Old Man” took awards for Motion Picture, Limited Series, or Pilot Made for Television and Episode of a One-Hour Television Series – Commercial, while “Barry” won Episode of a Half-Hour Television Series for its Season 3 finale and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” won Episode of a One-Hour Television Series – Non-Commercial for its Season 4 finale.
In addition, several honorary awards were handed out. Egot winner Viola Davis...
Walker’s win in the feature film category could prove prescient; 17 out of the last 36 years found the ASC film winner winning the Academy Award. But it’s worth noting that Oscar nominees “Tár” and “All Quiet on the Western Front” were not among the ASC nominees.
In the TV categories, “The Old Man” took awards for Motion Picture, Limited Series, or Pilot Made for Television and Episode of a One-Hour Television Series – Commercial, while “Barry” won Episode of a Half-Hour Television Series for its Season 3 finale and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” won Episode of a One-Hour Television Series – Non-Commercial for its Season 4 finale.
In addition, several honorary awards were handed out. Egot winner Viola Davis...
- 3/6/2023
- by Mark Peikert
- Indiewire
Mandy Walker has won the American Society of Cinematographers feature-film award for “Elvis,” making her the first woman ever to win that award. She is only the third female nominee in the category, after Rachel Morrison for “Mudbound” in 2018 and Ari Wegner for “The Power of the Dog” last year.
Walker now has the chance to become the first woman to win the Oscar for cinematography, where she is also the third female nominee in the gender-neutral Oscars category that took the longest to nominate a woman. Her competitors at the Oscars include two who were also nominated by the ASC, Roger Deakins for “Empire of Light” and Darius Khondji for “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truth,” along with James Friend for “All Quiet on the Western Front” and Florian Hoffmeister for “Tar.”
“This is for all the women who will win the award after me, and for...
Walker now has the chance to become the first woman to win the Oscar for cinematography, where she is also the third female nominee in the gender-neutral Oscars category that took the longest to nominate a woman. Her competitors at the Oscars include two who were also nominated by the ASC, Roger Deakins for “Empire of Light” and Darius Khondji for “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truth,” along with James Friend for “All Quiet on the Western Front” and Florian Hoffmeister for “Tar.”
“This is for all the women who will win the award after me, and for...
- 3/6/2023
- by Steve Pond and Jason Clark
- The Wrap
The American Cinema Editors group has revealed the nominees for the 2023 Eddie Awards, which will be handed out March 5 at UCLA’s Royce Hall.
The live-action theatrical feature competition has two categories, drama and comedy. The nominees in the category of best edited dramatic feature are Sven Budelmann for All Quiet on the Western Front, Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond for Elvis, Monika Willi for Tár, Eddie Hamilton for Top Gun: Maverick and Terilyn A. Shropshire for The Woman King. Nominees for best edited comedic feature are Mikkel E.G. Nielsen for The Banshees of Inisherin, Paul Rogers for Everything Everywhere All at Once, Bob Ducsay for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Christopher Tellefsen for The Menu and Ruben Östlund and Mikel Cee Karlsson for Triangle of Sadness.
With her nomination for The Woman King, Shropshire becomes the second Black woman to be nominated for an Eddie in the dramatic feature category.
The live-action theatrical feature competition has two categories, drama and comedy. The nominees in the category of best edited dramatic feature are Sven Budelmann for All Quiet on the Western Front, Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond for Elvis, Monika Willi for Tár, Eddie Hamilton for Top Gun: Maverick and Terilyn A. Shropshire for The Woman King. Nominees for best edited comedic feature are Mikkel E.G. Nielsen for The Banshees of Inisherin, Paul Rogers for Everything Everywhere All at Once, Bob Ducsay for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Christopher Tellefsen for The Menu and Ruben Östlund and Mikel Cee Karlsson for Triangle of Sadness.
With her nomination for The Woman King, Shropshire becomes the second Black woman to be nominated for an Eddie in the dramatic feature category.
- 2/1/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
American Cinemas Editors has cut together the nominees for its 73rd annual Ace Eddie Awards, which will be handed out next month. See the list for all 14 categories below.
Vying for the marquee prize of Best Edited Feature Film prize are the editors behind All Quiet on the Western Front, Elvis, Tár, Top Gun: Maverick and The Woman King. The Comedy Theatrical race will be among The Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, The Menu and Triangle of Sadness.
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Since the turn of the 21st century, the Eddie...
Vying for the marquee prize of Best Edited Feature Film prize are the editors behind All Quiet on the Western Front, Elvis, Tár, Top Gun: Maverick and The Woman King. The Comedy Theatrical race will be among The Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, The Menu and Triangle of Sadness.
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Since the turn of the 21st century, the Eddie...
- 2/1/2023
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Atlanta is a series created by Donald Glover starring Donald Glover, Brian Tyree Henry and Lakeith Stanfield.
The show has been praised for its authentic storylines and representation of African American characters and culture. Atlanta has become one of the most successful series on television, and its popularity has only grown since its debut in 2016. This FX series focuses on the lives of Earn, a Princeton dropout, and his rapper cousin Alfred, who goes by the stage name Paper Boi. This show offers a unique perspective on the city of Atlanta, exploring the culture, music, and people of the city.
Atlanta is a comedy-drama series created by Donald Glover that follows the lives of two cousins navigating the rap scene in Atlanta, Georgia. The series follows Earn, played by Glover, and his cousin Paper Boi, played by Brian Tyree Henry, as they try to make their way in the city.
The show has been praised for its authentic storylines and representation of African American characters and culture. Atlanta has become one of the most successful series on television, and its popularity has only grown since its debut in 2016. This FX series focuses on the lives of Earn, a Princeton dropout, and his rapper cousin Alfred, who goes by the stage name Paper Boi. This show offers a unique perspective on the city of Atlanta, exploring the culture, music, and people of the city.
Atlanta is a comedy-drama series created by Donald Glover that follows the lives of two cousins navigating the rap scene in Atlanta, Georgia. The series follows Earn, played by Glover, and his cousin Paper Boi, played by Brian Tyree Henry, as they try to make their way in the city.
- 1/18/2023
- by TV Shows Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid - TV
Mandy Walker’s bold lensing of Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis made her the third woman to ever be nominated in the feature category of the American Society of Cinematographers’ ASC Awards, which announced it nominations on Monday.
The feature nominees in the competitive 37th ASC Awards race are Walker; Roger Deakins for Empire of Light; Greig Fraser for The Batman; Darius Khondji for Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths; and Claudio Miranda for Top Gun: Maverick.
Walker is now in a select group of just three women who have been nominated in the ASC feature competition. Rachel Morrison was nominated in 2018 for Mudbound, followed by Ari Wegner, who was nominated in 2022 for The Power of the Dog. Morrison and Wegner both went on to earn historic Oscar nominations.
With his work on Sam Mendes’ drama Empire of Light, Deakins extends his record number of ASC feature nominations to a remarkable 17 noms.
The feature nominees in the competitive 37th ASC Awards race are Walker; Roger Deakins for Empire of Light; Greig Fraser for The Batman; Darius Khondji for Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths; and Claudio Miranda for Top Gun: Maverick.
Walker is now in a select group of just three women who have been nominated in the ASC feature competition. Rachel Morrison was nominated in 2018 for Mudbound, followed by Ari Wegner, who was nominated in 2022 for The Power of the Dog. Morrison and Wegner both went on to earn historic Oscar nominations.
With his work on Sam Mendes’ drama Empire of Light, Deakins extends his record number of ASC feature nominations to a remarkable 17 noms.
- 1/9/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Writer/Director Lucky McKee discusses a few of his favorite movies with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Tár (2022)
Speed Racer (2008)
The Matrix (1999)
Gloria (1980) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
The Howling (1981) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairings
Old Man (2022)
Don’t Breathe (2016)
Avatar (2009)
Band of the Hand (1986)
May (2002)
The Piano (1993)
The Crying Game (1992)
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars: Episode VI – Return Of The Jedi (1983)
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack Of The Clones (2002)
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge Of The Sith (2005)
The Dark Crystal (1982) – Bernard Rose’s trailer commentary
Cockfighter (1974) – Jon Davison’s trailer commentary
Days of Heaven (1978)
Sweetie (1989)
The Power of the Dog (2021)
Do The Right Thing (1989) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
A History Of Violence (2005)
Se7en (1995)
Straw Dogs (1971) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary,...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Tár (2022)
Speed Racer (2008)
The Matrix (1999)
Gloria (1980) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
The Howling (1981) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairings
Old Man (2022)
Don’t Breathe (2016)
Avatar (2009)
Band of the Hand (1986)
May (2002)
The Piano (1993)
The Crying Game (1992)
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars: Episode VI – Return Of The Jedi (1983)
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack Of The Clones (2002)
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge Of The Sith (2005)
The Dark Crystal (1982) – Bernard Rose’s trailer commentary
Cockfighter (1974) – Jon Davison’s trailer commentary
Days of Heaven (1978)
Sweetie (1989)
The Power of the Dog (2021)
Do The Right Thing (1989) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
A History Of Violence (2005)
Se7en (1995)
Straw Dogs (1971) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary,...
- 11/1/2022
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Fresh off screenings at Toronto and San Sebastian, U.S. director Marian Mathias is still surprised her feature debut “Runner” connected with audiences and programmers alike.
Produced by Joy Jorgensen, the intimate drama is a Killjoy Films production made in association with Pigasus Pictures. Easy Riders Films and Man Alive co-produce. Heretic, which is handling international sales, shared the films trailer in exclusivity with Variety.
“I was thinking about it the other night. As a young filmmaker – and I am very fresh-faced to the scene – how do I navigate these waters? Do I stay true to my voice or shift to satisfy others?” wonders the director.
“I decided to be more authentic to what I find interesting. I am so happy there is a space for it at these festivals.”
Following a girl named Haas (German-born Hannah Schiller), raised by a single father somewhere in Missouri and burdened by his manic behavior,...
Produced by Joy Jorgensen, the intimate drama is a Killjoy Films production made in association with Pigasus Pictures. Easy Riders Films and Man Alive co-produce. Heretic, which is handling international sales, shared the films trailer in exclusivity with Variety.
“I was thinking about it the other night. As a young filmmaker – and I am very fresh-faced to the scene – how do I navigate these waters? Do I stay true to my voice or shift to satisfy others?” wonders the director.
“I decided to be more authentic to what I find interesting. I am so happy there is a space for it at these festivals.”
Following a girl named Haas (German-born Hannah Schiller), raised by a single father somewhere in Missouri and burdened by his manic behavior,...
- 9/19/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Considering that Sebastián Lelio’s “The Wonder” is a religious mystery (of sorts) set in the Irish Midlands circa 1862, the first shot of the film is so wildly unexpected that audiences might fear that the projectionist has played the wrong file. We open, not on the foggy moors of a country still reeling from the Great Famine that had starved it to death some 13 years earlier, but rather in the cavernous space of a modern soundstage — the kind of facility that might house the sets for a period drama like this one. It looks more like a logo of a production company than it does the opening image of a movie. Only when a disembodied Florence Pugh starts talking to us over the soundtrack are we able to make sense of what we’re watching.
“Hello,” she says with a comforting softness, “This is the beginning of a film called ‘The Wonder.’” At this point,...
“Hello,” she says with a comforting softness, “This is the beginning of a film called ‘The Wonder.’” At this point,...
- 9/3/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
One of the most bizarre and original crime movies of its era is director Michael Ritchie's "Prime Cut", released in 1972. Gene Hackman plays a magnate who presides over a mid-western beef manufacturing empire that serves as a cover for his real purpose: kidnapping and trafficking teenage girls into the sex trade. Things heat up when Chicago gangster Lee Marvin and his team are sent by the mob to collect an overdue debt from Hackman. In the process, he encounters a young victim of Hackman's sex slave business, played by Sissy Spacek. The mayhem that follows is violent and brutal and Ritchie places it all in the sun-drenched cornfields that look like the benign setting of an Andrew Wyeth painting. People are beaten, gored, shot, stabbed and occasionally ground into sausages. It's pretty rough going but it's also quite witty and humorous and Marvin and Hackman make terrific antagonists. If you haven't seen it,...
- 3/13/2022
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Guillermo del Toro’s visually striking “Nightmare Alley” straddles two worlds, the grit and grime of a post-World War II carnival that has suffered wear and tear traveling from city to city, before jumping a few years ahead to a lush and sleek world.
Connecting the two is Bradley Cooper’s Stanton Carlisle, a down on his luck guy who uses the carnival as his ticket out. As Stanton plots a new con, he encounters Cate Blanchett’s Dr. Lilith Ritter, a mysterious psychiatrist, in whom he might have met his match.
Renowned for his lavish world-building, del Toro called on production designer Tamara Deverell to build the look of the film. Deverell has yet to land an Adg or Academy Award nomination, but things could change for her as she gains praise for her work. Deverell says she and del Toro didn’t talk about film noir, but rather...
Connecting the two is Bradley Cooper’s Stanton Carlisle, a down on his luck guy who uses the carnival as his ticket out. As Stanton plots a new con, he encounters Cate Blanchett’s Dr. Lilith Ritter, a mysterious psychiatrist, in whom he might have met his match.
Renowned for his lavish world-building, del Toro called on production designer Tamara Deverell to build the look of the film. Deverell has yet to land an Adg or Academy Award nomination, but things could change for her as she gains praise for her work. Deverell says she and del Toro didn’t talk about film noir, but rather...
- 1/13/2022
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
The world is one big carnival, and we’re all just suckers — or “marks,” in the parlance of the traveling grifters so effective at fleecing those poor rubes who are not with it — in Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley.” A perfect match of material to auteur, William Lindsay Gresham’s pulpy 1946 novel and the shockingly dark studio picture it inspired give the helmer, hot off his Oscar win for “The Shape of Water,” a chance to go full-film noir, resulting in a gorgeous, fantastically sinister moral fable about the cruel predictability of human nature and the way entire systems — from carnies and con men to shrinks and Sunday preachers — are engineered to exploit it.
Building on the rise-and-crash arc of his “A Star Is Born” has-been, Bradley Cooper delivers another terrific tragic turn as ambitious huckster Stanton Carlisle, proving an even better match for the picaresque protagonist than Tyrone Power...
Building on the rise-and-crash arc of his “A Star Is Born” has-been, Bradley Cooper delivers another terrific tragic turn as ambitious huckster Stanton Carlisle, proving an even better match for the picaresque protagonist than Tyrone Power...
- 12/2/2021
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
For the longest time, cinematographers have referenced paintings and still photography, whether recreating those images or riffing on them to create the moving images in films. It was no different for Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland,” which captured the beauty of America, and Regina King’s “One Night in Miami,” which was influenced by historical events. Even more impressive is the fact that some of the lensers behind this year’s top films are somewhat new to the circuit.
For his fourth feature film, “Nomadland” cinematographer Joshua James Richards traveled across the Badlands of South Dakota; Empire, Nev.; and western Nebraska, venturing into real-life nomad territory to tell the story of Fern (Frances McDormand), who lives on the road in her van.
The main visual reference, he says, was Andrew Wyeth’s Miss Olson. That painting served as the “texture and palette of the interior of Fern’s van.”
It wasn...
For his fourth feature film, “Nomadland” cinematographer Joshua James Richards traveled across the Badlands of South Dakota; Empire, Nev.; and western Nebraska, venturing into real-life nomad territory to tell the story of Fern (Frances McDormand), who lives on the road in her van.
The main visual reference, he says, was Andrew Wyeth’s Miss Olson. That painting served as the “texture and palette of the interior of Fern’s van.”
It wasn...
- 12/24/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Probably the most prolific director of the contemporary Kazhak cinema, Adilkhan Yerzhanov is in Tallinn with two films. “Ulbolsyn” (What My Sister Is Up Against) runs in the main competition of PÖFF – where it has its world premiere, while the insanely bonkers dramedy “Yellow Cat” screens in the ‘Current Waves’ program. Two months after Venice Iff where it competed in the Orizzonti selection, densely followed by San Sebastian, “Yellow Cat” is in Tallinn to conquer the audience, and it will probably continue to travel the world in tow with its younger sibling.
“Yellow Cat” is screening at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Yerzanov loves to compare his characters to heroes of ancient folklore and he has a special place in the Kazhak pantheon for his screen hero Kermek who is a modern version of Er-tostik, a paladin from the ancient popular fairtytale. Kermek (Azamat Nigmanov) doesn’t wear a shiny...
“Yellow Cat” is screening at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Yerzanov loves to compare his characters to heroes of ancient folklore and he has a special place in the Kazhak pantheon for his screen hero Kermek who is a modern version of Er-tostik, a paladin from the ancient popular fairtytale. Kermek (Azamat Nigmanov) doesn’t wear a shiny...
- 11/24/2020
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
To deliver director Antonio Campos’ “The Devil All the Time,” based on Donald Ray Pollock’s acclaimed 2011 novel set against a rural backdrop during the period between World War II and the Vietnam War, cinematographer Lol Crawley aimed to show a town out of step with the times.
“We had this idea that the rural environment of the film was slower to catch up [with modern advancements] and should feel like an Andrew Wyeth painting,” Crawley says.
The film, which premieres Sept. 16 on Netflix, revolves around Arvin (Tom Holland), a young man who runs a gantlet of corrupt clergy, husband-and-wife serial killers (Jason Clarke and Riley Keough) and a crooked sheriff (Sebastian Stan) in the tiny town of Knockemstiff, Ohio.
Crawley and Campos infused the scene that introduces the church — a location that serves as a focal point of the story — with a dark and moody feel filled with earth tones, one that matches the period aesthetic.
“We had this idea that the rural environment of the film was slower to catch up [with modern advancements] and should feel like an Andrew Wyeth painting,” Crawley says.
The film, which premieres Sept. 16 on Netflix, revolves around Arvin (Tom Holland), a young man who runs a gantlet of corrupt clergy, husband-and-wife serial killers (Jason Clarke and Riley Keough) and a crooked sheriff (Sebastian Stan) in the tiny town of Knockemstiff, Ohio.
Crawley and Campos infused the scene that introduces the church — a location that serves as a focal point of the story — with a dark and moody feel filled with earth tones, one that matches the period aesthetic.
- 9/18/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
After producing Charlie Kaufman’s stop-motion “Anomalisa” feature, Rosa Tran couldn’t resist overseeing the brief, hand-drawn excursions for his surreal road trip movie, “I’m Thinking of Ending Things.” They consisted of the creepy black-and-white Tulsey Town ice cream commercial and the painterly-looking, glowing pig (voiced by Oliver Platt) that follows a naked high school janitor (Guy Boyd) during a live-action sequence.
Good thing Tran had plenty of context and reference material to draw on: she didn’t have time to read Kaufman’s mind-bending script (freely adapted from Iain Reid’s provocative 2016 novel). Tran was glad she had a baseline for how to work with Kaufman. “He talked about this naked janitor and what he was going through as he was hallucinating,” said Tran, who is currently working on Season 3 of the 2D-animated “Final Space” series for TBS and prepping Seth Rogen’s stop-motion “Santa Inc.” for HBO Max.
Good thing Tran had plenty of context and reference material to draw on: she didn’t have time to read Kaufman’s mind-bending script (freely adapted from Iain Reid’s provocative 2016 novel). Tran was glad she had a baseline for how to work with Kaufman. “He talked about this naked janitor and what he was going through as he was hallucinating,” said Tran, who is currently working on Season 3 of the 2D-animated “Final Space” series for TBS and prepping Seth Rogen’s stop-motion “Santa Inc.” for HBO Max.
- 9/9/2020
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
As Disney quietly disappears huge swathes of film history into its vaults, I'm going to spend 2020 celebrating Twentieth Century Fox and the Fox Film Corporation's films, what one might call their output if only someone were putting it out.And now they've quietly disappeared William Fox's name from the company: guilty by association with Rupert Murdoch, even though he never associated with him.***The coming of sound cost the American film industry plenty: it forced them to soundproof their stages, refit their theaters, and it rendered a fair few actors unemployable, by reason of heavy accents or lack of facility with the English language. In fact, one of the founders of 20th Century Fox was the comedy star Raymond Griffith, whose damaged vocal cords prevented him speaking above a croak, and who made the transition to writing and producing when he saw the writing on the wall. But on the other hand,...
- 3/18/2020
- MUBI
Kai Sayaka attended Joshibi University of Art and Design and worked as an art creator before she started working as assistant at independent films. She directed several short films that where screened at national and international film festivals. “Ondine’s Curse”, which was awarded at Skip City International D-Cinema Festival, was shown, and was met with acclaim at a screening at Paris’s Maison de la Culture du Japon, leading to “Red Snow“, her feature debut.
We speak with her about her inspiration for the film, the impressive visuals, the concept of memory, the atmosphere, and other topics.
What was the inspiration behind “Red Snow”?
I wanted to draw humans and to focus on memory. I started by exploring my own memories and some unforgettable realities, I unraveled each and every one of the shocking events where my memories, especially of my relatives, were lost. And I thought that memory is really ambiguous,...
We speak with her about her inspiration for the film, the impressive visuals, the concept of memory, the atmosphere, and other topics.
What was the inspiration behind “Red Snow”?
I wanted to draw humans and to focus on memory. I started by exploring my own memories and some unforgettable realities, I unraveled each and every one of the shocking events where my memories, especially of my relatives, were lost. And I thought that memory is really ambiguous,...
- 1/8/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
When Ane Crabree had a difficult time coming up with the costumes for the Unwomen toiling in the radioactive Colonies in Season 2 of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” she once again relied on a musical mashup for inspiration: “This Bitter Earth,” a combination of the melancholy Dinah Washington ballad and Max Richter’s sublime “Nature of Daylight.” In fact, “This Bitter Earth” served as her personal anthem for a season devoted to loneliness, isolation, and motherhood.
“I had a hard time starting,” said Crabtree. “How do we top that beautiful visual that we created in Season 1? The first thing I could think of was Russian propaganda posters in a kind of ‘work makes life free.’ I applied the paintings that Van Gogh did of the farmers late in his career. There is a promise of utopia in that. Another influence was the desaturation of Andrew Wyeth, which fit perfectly with the Colonies.
“I had a hard time starting,” said Crabtree. “How do we top that beautiful visual that we created in Season 1? The first thing I could think of was Russian propaganda posters in a kind of ‘work makes life free.’ I applied the paintings that Van Gogh did of the farmers late in his career. There is a promise of utopia in that. Another influence was the desaturation of Andrew Wyeth, which fit perfectly with the Colonies.
- 8/7/2018
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Colin Watkinson won a Best Cinematography Emmy last year for the distinct, unnervingly beautiful look he created for “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and as the saying goes, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” “We looked at changing color palettes [for Season 2] and once we tried it, it didn’t really work, and it looked like it was a different show, so we had to revert back,” Watkinson revealed at Gold Derby’s Meet the Experts: Cinematography panel, moderated by this author (watch above).
Instead, Watkinson’s goal was to maintain the washed-out palette he’d perfected and “transfer” it to the new locations of Season 2 — namely the Colonies. Only referenced in Margaret Atwood’s book, the Colonies is a toxic wasteland where “unwomen” — disobedient, lesbian and low-class infertile handmaids discarded by Gilead — are forced into slave labor. It’s where Emily/Ofglen (Alexis Bledel) was sent after she was expelled from Gilead,...
Instead, Watkinson’s goal was to maintain the washed-out palette he’d perfected and “transfer” it to the new locations of Season 2 — namely the Colonies. Only referenced in Margaret Atwood’s book, the Colonies is a toxic wasteland where “unwomen” — disobedient, lesbian and low-class infertile handmaids discarded by Gilead — are forced into slave labor. It’s where Emily/Ofglen (Alexis Bledel) was sent after she was expelled from Gilead,...
- 6/20/2018
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
“Blessed be the fruit,” a greeting of the handmaidens in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” might also apply to the abundance of below-the-line contributions to the second season of Hulu’s dystopian story, based on Margaret Atwood’s novel, of a patriarchal society in which women are forced into sexual servitude.
In Season 1, crew members built the world around the characters. Now, they’ve moved on to new locations with new challenges as they craft a sophomore session, debuting April 25, that leans even further on color, texture and depth.
Cinematography
The episode workload was split between DPs Colin Watkinson and Zoe White, the latter of whom infused her own style to complement the visual language established in Season 1, which earned Watkinson an Emmy for the pilot.
This year, the show expands its landscape to the Colonies, a barren, radioactive wasteland that the Gilead — the authoritarian and theocratic regime that has taken over the U.
In Season 1, crew members built the world around the characters. Now, they’ve moved on to new locations with new challenges as they craft a sophomore session, debuting April 25, that leans even further on color, texture and depth.
Cinematography
The episode workload was split between DPs Colin Watkinson and Zoe White, the latter of whom infused her own style to complement the visual language established in Season 1, which earned Watkinson an Emmy for the pilot.
This year, the show expands its landscape to the Colonies, a barren, radioactive wasteland that the Gilead — the authoritarian and theocratic regime that has taken over the U.
- 4/25/2018
- by Daron James
- Variety Film + TV
In this edition of Canon Of Film, we look back at ‘Days of Heaven‘, writer/director Terrence Malick‘s sophomore masterpiece. For the story behind the genesis of the Canon, you can click here.
Days Of Heaven (1979)
Director/Screenplay: Terrence Malick
It’s not just that Terrence Malick only works when he’s inspired. He also only works when he gets the money, and even then, if he can’t do exactly what he wants to do–instead of compromising–he abandons the project entirely, deciding it better to get only what he wants than to get a compromised version, and often what he wants is some of the most amazingly difficult and nearly impossible-to-shoot scenes. In Days of Heaven, arguably his best film, all the scenes outdoors and in the daytime were shot during the “magic hour” (Film Dictionary: Magic Hour- The time during the day, about an hour...
Days Of Heaven (1979)
Director/Screenplay: Terrence Malick
It’s not just that Terrence Malick only works when he’s inspired. He also only works when he gets the money, and even then, if he can’t do exactly what he wants to do–instead of compromising–he abandons the project entirely, deciding it better to get only what he wants than to get a compromised version, and often what he wants is some of the most amazingly difficult and nearly impossible-to-shoot scenes. In Days of Heaven, arguably his best film, all the scenes outdoors and in the daytime were shot during the “magic hour” (Film Dictionary: Magic Hour- The time during the day, about an hour...
- 2/1/2018
- by David Baruffi
- Age of the Nerd
Blake Eckard’s Coyotes Kill For Fun screens Saturday, November 4th at 7:00pm at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar Blvd, St. Louis) as part of this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival. Ticket information can be found Here.
In “Coyotes Kill for Fun,” the latest from Northwest Missouri indie filmmaker and Sliff favorite Blake Eckard, a backwoods babysitter agrees to help an abused mother of two escape her lunatic boyfriend, but his psychotic brother is headed back to the area, and he has a fraught history with everyone involved. Filmed over three years in Missouri, Montana, and La, “Coyotes” had a long gestation: Two-thirds was first shot back in March 2014, and a trio of cinematographers — Eckard, St. Louisan Cody Stokes, and American-indie legend Jon Jost — passed the baton behind the camera. Despite the prolonged production, “Coyotes” maintains a totally consistent — and utterly original — vision. The film features such Eckard regulars as Tyler Messner,...
In “Coyotes Kill for Fun,” the latest from Northwest Missouri indie filmmaker and Sliff favorite Blake Eckard, a backwoods babysitter agrees to help an abused mother of two escape her lunatic boyfriend, but his psychotic brother is headed back to the area, and he has a fraught history with everyone involved. Filmed over three years in Missouri, Montana, and La, “Coyotes” had a long gestation: Two-thirds was first shot back in March 2014, and a trio of cinematographers — Eckard, St. Louisan Cody Stokes, and American-indie legend Jon Jost — passed the baton behind the camera. Despite the prolonged production, “Coyotes” maintains a totally consistent — and utterly original — vision. The film features such Eckard regulars as Tyler Messner,...
- 11/2/2017
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
One of Andrew Wyeth’s most famous paintings is “Christina’s World.” It depicts a woman immobilized, lying on a grassy hill, reaching out towards a farmhouse that sits isolated in the distance. There was a young girl in Wyeth’s town who suffered from Polio, which forced her to crawl about. Emotions of loneliness, desperation, and fear are expressed even though the subject’s face is turned away from the viewer. This famous painting that has now traveled the world in exhibitions and as a postage stamp served as inspiration for Tobe Hooper’s 1974 cinematic masterpiece, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Director David F. Sandberg (last year’s Lights Out) seems to have also been influenced by this striking and haunting painting. Annabelle: Creation feels like a southern-gothic folktale, not unlike Pumpkinhead. And like the aforementioned painting, the main lead girl also suffers from Polio, causing her to walk slowly in a leg brace.
Director David F. Sandberg (last year’s Lights Out) seems to have also been influenced by this striking and haunting painting. Annabelle: Creation feels like a southern-gothic folktale, not unlike Pumpkinhead. And like the aforementioned painting, the main lead girl also suffers from Polio, causing her to walk slowly in a leg brace.
- 8/11/2017
- by Michael Haffner
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Having worked as a producer in Pema Tseden’s (who is among the producers of this film) “Tharlo”, Wang Xuebo seems to have picked quite a lot from the Tibetan master, in a movie that moves along the same, utterly art-house, but incredibly beautiful and meaningful lines.
In the remote steppe of Ningxia, in western China, lies a community of Muslim Hui people, who live of their land in extreme poorness. In this setting, old Ma Zishan has just lost his wife, one of the most beloved people in the village. As he and his son are about to host a number of relatives for the 40-day ceremony of her death, his son, who had his mother in very high regard, insists that they should sacrifice their bull, in order to honor her properly, and make a big ceremony, to satisfy their many guests. The old bull however, is the...
In the remote steppe of Ningxia, in western China, lies a community of Muslim Hui people, who live of their land in extreme poorness. In this setting, old Ma Zishan has just lost his wife, one of the most beloved people in the village. As he and his son are about to host a number of relatives for the 40-day ceremony of her death, his son, who had his mother in very high regard, insists that they should sacrifice their bull, in order to honor her properly, and make a big ceremony, to satisfy their many guests. The old bull however, is the...
- 6/28/2017
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Last year, Vimeo user Vugar Efendi published a side-by-side supercut entitled “Film Meets Art.” The goal was simple – to show how great paintings inspired some of the best shots in cinema – and the result was a rather beautiful side-by-side study of just how painterly filmmaking can be.
The first installment put Thomas Gainsborough’s “Boy in Blue” next to Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained,” and it showed how the works of American artist Andrew Wyeth rubbed off on Terrence Malick for “Days of Heaven.” The video proved popular enough that Efendi turned it into a series, which was just completed this month with the release of a third installment (via No Film School).
Read More: ‘Arrival’ Video Essay Examines How the Script Helps Us Further Understand Ourselves — Watch
“Film Meets Art III” features 16 more shots and their painterly origins (via No Film School). Movies included in this final go-around are “Moonrise Kingdom,...
The first installment put Thomas Gainsborough’s “Boy in Blue” next to Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained,” and it showed how the works of American artist Andrew Wyeth rubbed off on Terrence Malick for “Days of Heaven.” The video proved popular enough that Efendi turned it into a series, which was just completed this month with the release of a third installment (via No Film School).
Read More: ‘Arrival’ Video Essay Examines How the Script Helps Us Further Understand Ourselves — Watch
“Film Meets Art III” features 16 more shots and their painterly origins (via No Film School). Movies included in this final go-around are “Moonrise Kingdom,...
- 5/31/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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As his new film, Joy, lands in UK cinemas, we chat to writer/director David O Russell about the movie, geeky stuff, and Three Kings.
There's a marked bit in this interview which has spoilers for the film Joy.
David O Russell's latest film, Joy, lands in UK cinemas on New Year's Day. Ahead of its release, he spared us some time for this chat about the film...
So how’s the day been? How have all the interviews been?
It’s actually been – I always have a little bit of trouble adjusting to the sleep when I get here, but – it’s actually been, I don’t know why – there’s been something very alive and stimulating about it. I’ve enjoyed the conversations. And half of that, I think, is because when you make a film that you like to talk about, or there’s...
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As his new film, Joy, lands in UK cinemas, we chat to writer/director David O Russell about the movie, geeky stuff, and Three Kings.
There's a marked bit in this interview which has spoilers for the film Joy.
David O Russell's latest film, Joy, lands in UK cinemas on New Year's Day. Ahead of its release, he spared us some time for this chat about the film...
So how’s the day been? How have all the interviews been?
It’s actually been – I always have a little bit of trouble adjusting to the sleep when I get here, but – it’s actually been, I don’t know why – there’s been something very alive and stimulating about it. I’ve enjoyed the conversations. And half of that, I think, is because when you make a film that you like to talk about, or there’s...
- 12/30/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Special Mention: Shock Corridor
Written and directed by Samuel Fuller
USA, 1963
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Shock Corridor stars Peter Breck as Johnny Barrett, an ambitious reporter who wants to expose a killer hiding out at the local insane asylum. In order to solve the case, he must pretend to be insane so they have him committed. Once in the asylum, Barrett sets to work, interrogating the other patients and keeping a close eye on the staff. But it’s difficult to remain a sane man living in an insane place, and the closer Barrett gets to the truth, the closer he gets to insanity.
Shock Corridor is best described as an anti-establishment drama that at times is surprisingly quite funny despite the dark material. The film deals with some timely issues of the era, specifically the atom bomb, anti-communism, and racism. It features everything from a raving female love-crazed nympho ward,...
Written and directed by Samuel Fuller
USA, 1963
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Shock Corridor stars Peter Breck as Johnny Barrett, an ambitious reporter who wants to expose a killer hiding out at the local insane asylum. In order to solve the case, he must pretend to be insane so they have him committed. Once in the asylum, Barrett sets to work, interrogating the other patients and keeping a close eye on the staff. But it’s difficult to remain a sane man living in an insane place, and the closer Barrett gets to the truth, the closer he gets to insanity.
Shock Corridor is best described as an anti-establishment drama that at times is surprisingly quite funny despite the dark material. The film deals with some timely issues of the era, specifically the atom bomb, anti-communism, and racism. It features everything from a raving female love-crazed nympho ward,...
- 10/9/2015
- by Ricky Fernandes
- SoundOnSight
Following its Venice premiere last year, “Goodnight Mommy” has gained some well-deserved kudos on the festival circuit (we praised it in our review from Karlovy Vary) and we can finally see why in this new trailer. Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala take us to a sequestered home in the woods — an Andrew Wyeth painting gone astray — where two young brothers question the authenticity of the woman (their mother, or is she?) in their home. Her entire face bandaged from serious reconstructive surgery, this pulsating clip delves into the minds of confused youths yearning for a sense of normalcy. Read More: Karlovy Vary Review: Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala's Stylishly Sick 'Goodnight Mommy' The film will be in theaters on September 11th, so check it out, if this trailer isn't terrifying enough to deter you from seeing the whole thing. We hope it doesn’t, because this is sure...
- 7/31/2015
- by Samantha Vacca
- The Playlist
The Reflecting Skin
Directed by Philip Ridley
Written by Philip Ridley
1990, USA
The Reflecting Skin is not your average vampire movie. I’m not even sure if it is a vampire movie, nor am I sure the movie knows what it wants to be. Although, most people easily label it a psychological horror film, The Reflecting Skin is not a film that is easily pigeonholed. It appears to be a film about the trauma of growing up and more importantly, growing up with a dysfunctional family that is haunted by their past. And it’s all told in a series of twisted events.
This independent feature was the directorial debut of Philip Ridley, a British painter-illustrator-novelist who had supplied the script to Peter Medek’s mesmerizing 1990 gangster film The Krays. The Reflecting Skin was celebrated as one of the unique films of its year and received a good deal of favorable reviews.
Directed by Philip Ridley
Written by Philip Ridley
1990, USA
The Reflecting Skin is not your average vampire movie. I’m not even sure if it is a vampire movie, nor am I sure the movie knows what it wants to be. Although, most people easily label it a psychological horror film, The Reflecting Skin is not a film that is easily pigeonholed. It appears to be a film about the trauma of growing up and more importantly, growing up with a dysfunctional family that is haunted by their past. And it’s all told in a series of twisted events.
This independent feature was the directorial debut of Philip Ridley, a British painter-illustrator-novelist who had supplied the script to Peter Medek’s mesmerizing 1990 gangster film The Krays. The Reflecting Skin was celebrated as one of the unique films of its year and received a good deal of favorable reviews.
- 7/25/2015
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2014 discoveries” …
Karrie Cox: 1. Red House Painters, “Cruiser”. 2. Andrew Wyeth, “Christina’s World” @ Moma NYC 3. East Village, Manhattan.
Lavallee: You come from a background in acting, so I’d like to have your perspective on Sean’s working process with actors and non-actors alike….how would you describe the synergy that he creates?
K. Cox: Sean has a talent and sensitivity in creating a space for humanity and inspired moments in a story to pour through. So whether he is working with a seasoned actor or not there is a safe place that he creates for one to feel they are protected while being vulnerable.
Lavallee: After Tiff (Ross Katz’s Adult Beginners) and now Sundance, this is back to back major film festivals for your Through Films venture. How do both features fit into your philosophy/mandate?
K. Cox: Our company...
Karrie Cox: 1. Red House Painters, “Cruiser”. 2. Andrew Wyeth, “Christina’s World” @ Moma NYC 3. East Village, Manhattan.
Lavallee: You come from a background in acting, so I’d like to have your perspective on Sean’s working process with actors and non-actors alike….how would you describe the synergy that he creates?
K. Cox: Sean has a talent and sensitivity in creating a space for humanity and inspired moments in a story to pour through. So whether he is working with a seasoned actor or not there is a safe place that he creates for one to feel they are protected while being vulnerable.
Lavallee: After Tiff (Ross Katz’s Adult Beginners) and now Sundance, this is back to back major film festivals for your Through Films venture. How do both features fit into your philosophy/mandate?
K. Cox: Our company...
- 1/30/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
#5. Love Is Strange
Big-screen romance has moved far beyond cigar smoking gentlemen with obscenely chiseled jaw lines holding doors for iconic beauties that don’t mind being called “darling”. Slowly but surely, cinema has come to honor the wonderfully varied ways in which we connect. Yet there remains an obsession with aggressively youthful lovers (critically acclaimed Blue is the Warmest Color being a recent example). Ira Sach’s Love Is Strange portrays lifetime lovers Ben and George, beautifully performed by John Lithgow and Alfred Molina respectively, who finally tie the knot in a quaint lower Manhattan ceremony. The heartfelt portrait does not earn its praise simply because older gay couples have been underrepresented, but for capturing, with honesty, the tender intimacies shared by people that have spent 39 years in love. With the warmth of its domestic settings and slice-of-life sensibility, Love is Strange maintains its subtlety while delivering an emotional wallop.
Big-screen romance has moved far beyond cigar smoking gentlemen with obscenely chiseled jaw lines holding doors for iconic beauties that don’t mind being called “darling”. Slowly but surely, cinema has come to honor the wonderfully varied ways in which we connect. Yet there remains an obsession with aggressively youthful lovers (critically acclaimed Blue is the Warmest Color being a recent example). Ira Sach’s Love Is Strange portrays lifetime lovers Ben and George, beautifully performed by John Lithgow and Alfred Molina respectively, who finally tie the knot in a quaint lower Manhattan ceremony. The heartfelt portrait does not earn its praise simply because older gay couples have been underrepresented, but for capturing, with honesty, the tender intimacies shared by people that have spent 39 years in love. With the warmth of its domestic settings and slice-of-life sensibility, Love is Strange maintains its subtlety while delivering an emotional wallop.
- 2/12/2014
- by Caitlin Coder
- IONCINEMA.com
With Ray Winstone, I just can't suspend memories of previous performances. But Moonfleet was good fun all the same
"It's all about the inplay, Raimondo. The next musket, the next heaving bosom, the next yokel with blackened teeth. Bet in play. The latest odds. 4/1 The squire to get it in the head." "Thanks bruv. You're the daddy." I can't watch Ray Winstone these days without seeing Ray Winstone. In particular the Bet365 adverts that bookend almost every break in live football on TV. Winstone started out as a geezer tough guy character actor and he's now morphed into a geezer tough-guy character actor playing himself. It's all quite unsettling – not least when I'm trying to immerse myself in some escapist hokum.
Moonfleet (Sky1) was adapted from the 19th-century children's classic by J Meade Falkner and though the screenwriter took a few liberties with the original by merging two baddies into...
"It's all about the inplay, Raimondo. The next musket, the next heaving bosom, the next yokel with blackened teeth. Bet in play. The latest odds. 4/1 The squire to get it in the head." "Thanks bruv. You're the daddy." I can't watch Ray Winstone these days without seeing Ray Winstone. In particular the Bet365 adverts that bookend almost every break in live football on TV. Winstone started out as a geezer tough guy character actor and he's now morphed into a geezer tough-guy character actor playing himself. It's all quite unsettling – not least when I'm trying to immerse myself in some escapist hokum.
Moonfleet (Sky1) was adapted from the 19th-century children's classic by J Meade Falkner and though the screenwriter took a few liberties with the original by merging two baddies into...
- 12/30/2013
- by John Crace
- The Guardian - Film News
Ioncinema.com’s Ioncinephile of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. This February, we feature Matt Boyd, an independent filmmaker whose debut docu feature, A Rubberband Is an Unlikely Instrument premiered at such fests as Hot Docs in Toronto and Raindance Film Festival in London, and is now set to be released theatrically (with a one week run starting February 8th at ReRun Theater in Dumbo Brooklyn) via Factory 25 folks. We’ve charted the filmmaker’s journey into film and how he found the subject for his documentary and as added bonus material: you can plunge into Matt Boyd’s personal Top Ten films of all time.
Eric Lavallee: During your childhood…what films were important to you? How did your love affair with film began?
Matt Boyd: I can’t say any films were necessarily very important to me as a child.
Eric Lavallee: During your childhood…what films were important to you? How did your love affair with film began?
Matt Boyd: I can’t say any films were necessarily very important to me as a child.
- 2/6/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
By Lee Pfeiffer
Years before Michael Cimino released his Socialist-themed Western Heaven's Gate, director Stanely Kramer took a less heavy-handed approach with his 1973 film Oklahoma Crude. Unlike Cimino's dark and message-laden epic, however, Kramer made the political aspects of his film secondary to the lighthearted tone of the story. Faye Dunaway, seen here in the least glamorous role of her career, plays Lena Doyle, a bitter, man-hating independent woman who is determined to make a success of her wildcat oil drilling venture on the plains of Oklahoma during the early 1900s. Beset by the frustration of consistently having her rig dig up dirt instead of oil, she also has to contend with a bigger threat: a major oil company is determined to seize her land by hook or by crook. When she turns down the offer of a buyout from their cut throat representative (Jack Palance), the oil company moves...
Years before Michael Cimino released his Socialist-themed Western Heaven's Gate, director Stanely Kramer took a less heavy-handed approach with his 1973 film Oklahoma Crude. Unlike Cimino's dark and message-laden epic, however, Kramer made the political aspects of his film secondary to the lighthearted tone of the story. Faye Dunaway, seen here in the least glamorous role of her career, plays Lena Doyle, a bitter, man-hating independent woman who is determined to make a success of her wildcat oil drilling venture on the plains of Oklahoma during the early 1900s. Beset by the frustration of consistently having her rig dig up dirt instead of oil, she also has to contend with a bigger threat: a major oil company is determined to seize her land by hook or by crook. When she turns down the offer of a buyout from their cut throat representative (Jack Palance), the oil company moves...
- 12/18/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Disagree with the Guardian's top 10 films of the year? Let us know what you thought ought to have come top
What was your film of the year? For the Guardian film team, it was Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, of which Peter Bradshaw says:
Unconvinced audiences have praised the performances but complained about the lack of "story". It's an understandable reservation, but I think Anderson is offering something closer to a colossally ambitious portrait, or dual portrait, perhaps comparable to Don DeLillo's depiction of Lee Harvey Oswald in his novel Libra, or the woman with polio lying in the tawny grass in Andrew Wyeth's painting Christina's World. And Joaquin Phoenix's agonisingly intense and blazingly committed performance makes this our film of the year.
The Guardian's top 10 films of the year were as follows:
10 – The Queen of Versailles
9 – Alps
8 – Beasts of the Southern Wild
7 – Once Upon...
What was your film of the year? For the Guardian film team, it was Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, of which Peter Bradshaw says:
Unconvinced audiences have praised the performances but complained about the lack of "story". It's an understandable reservation, but I think Anderson is offering something closer to a colossally ambitious portrait, or dual portrait, perhaps comparable to Don DeLillo's depiction of Lee Harvey Oswald in his novel Libra, or the woman with polio lying in the tawny grass in Andrew Wyeth's painting Christina's World. And Joaquin Phoenix's agonisingly intense and blazingly committed performance makes this our film of the year.
The Guardian's top 10 films of the year were as follows:
10 – The Queen of Versailles
9 – Alps
8 – Beasts of the Southern Wild
7 – Once Upon...
- 12/14/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Paul Thomas Anderson's challenging epic on postwar America completes our roundup of the movies of the year
There are few Hollywood directors from whom "event cinema" is personally expected, but Paul Thomas Anderson is one. This year, he brought his reputation and prestige closer to Kubrick levels with this film, an epic based loosely on the early life of the Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard. Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Lancaster Dodd, a homespun philosopher and cult leader in postwar America. He is a bullish and conceited actor-manager figure who one evening chances upon a semi-homeless alcoholic called Freddie Quell who was invalided out of the Us Navy with a nervous breakdown after VJ Day. Quell is played, unforgettably, by Joaquin Phoenix.
Dodd decides to make poor, muddled Freddie a special project of his, but his failure to indoctrinate his new disciple, to exert his mastery over this troubled man's...
There are few Hollywood directors from whom "event cinema" is personally expected, but Paul Thomas Anderson is one. This year, he brought his reputation and prestige closer to Kubrick levels with this film, an epic based loosely on the early life of the Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard. Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Lancaster Dodd, a homespun philosopher and cult leader in postwar America. He is a bullish and conceited actor-manager figure who one evening chances upon a semi-homeless alcoholic called Freddie Quell who was invalided out of the Us Navy with a nervous breakdown after VJ Day. Quell is played, unforgettably, by Joaquin Phoenix.
Dodd decides to make poor, muddled Freddie a special project of his, but his failure to indoctrinate his new disciple, to exert his mastery over this troubled man's...
- 12/14/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
If you want someone to make some breaking news, you don’t get the Hollywood trades to do it, you do it yourself. Director M. Night Shyamalan joined Facebook and Twitter, the director and producer has been status updating and tweeting, or visa versa since they are connected. But his newest tweet is movie-related. That sci-fi thriller once titled One Thousand A.E., set to star father/son Will & Jaden Smith, has dropped the One Thousand and will now be simply referred to as After Earth. Writer Gary Whitta confirmed the new title for the movie and added that “it is something that’s set 1000 Years After [We Left] Earth.”
Earlier last month we reported that the film will focus on a father-son space team that crash lands on the planet earth one thousand years after mankind abandoned the planet. With his father badly injured, the son ventures out into the mysterious and dangerous planet.
Earlier last month we reported that the film will focus on a father-son space team that crash lands on the planet earth one thousand years after mankind abandoned the planet. With his father badly injured, the son ventures out into the mysterious and dangerous planet.
- 12/3/2011
- by Mike Lee
- FusedFilm
Now that M. Night Shyamalan has joined Twitter we will hopefully get some nice updates about One Thousand A.E. that stars Will and Jaden Smith. The film focuses on what happens when “a young boy and his father’s spaceship crash lands on Earth one thousand years after humans abandoned it.” Shyamalan twteeted that he is nine weeks away from shooting and announced that the film is now titled After Earth.
Here are some of his tweets: I draw out every shot on my films. Just finished the second pass of them for After Earth. 676 shots! Four months of work.
9 weeks out from shooting After Earth. Looking at paintings/photos to find the tone of the film. Andrew Wyeth paintings always inspire me. His co-writer, Gary Whitta, has also been tweeting about the film: Just had a great chat with @MNightShyamalan about how pre-production is coming along on After Earth.
Here are some of his tweets: I draw out every shot on my films. Just finished the second pass of them for After Earth. 676 shots! Four months of work.
9 weeks out from shooting After Earth. Looking at paintings/photos to find the tone of the film. Andrew Wyeth paintings always inspire me. His co-writer, Gary Whitta, has also been tweeting about the film: Just had a great chat with @MNightShyamalan about how pre-production is coming along on After Earth.
- 12/2/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Polarizing director M. Night Shyamalan recently joined Twitter and revealed a few things about his upcoming collaboration with Will Smith. Back in April, it was announced Shyamalan would direct both Will and his son Jaden Smith in a movie tentatively titled One Thousand A.E. about what happens when a young boy and his father's spaceship crash lands on Earth one thousand years after humans abandoned it. Shyamalan recently tweeted that he's nine weeks away from shooting and that the film is now titled After Earth. Read more after the jump. Since the director of The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Avatar: The Last Airbender joined Twitter, several tweets [3] have been about his upcoming film: I draw out every shot on my films. Just finished the second pass of them for After Earth. 676 shots! Four months of work. 9 weeks out from shooting After Earth. Looking at paintings/photos to find the tone of the film.
- 12/2/2011
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
What would have happened had Nazi Germany succeeded in invading Britain in the Second World War? Debut feature-film writer-director Amit Gupta’s new anti-war drama, Resistance, starring Andrea Riseborough, Michael Sheen and German actor Tom Wlaschiha is about occupation and its effects.
We talk exclusively to Gupta (left, on the left of picture) about adapting the novel into a film, the back-story, casting and shooting experiences, and get an unique piece of advice on how to prepare to make a film, plus an insight into his new film, based on his acclaimed BBC Radio 4 play, Jadoo.
HeyUGuys: What was it about Owen Sheers’s novel that made you want to turn it into a film?
Amit Gupta: I think when I read it the first thing that really stayed with me was the atmosphere of it. I felt there was something about it that felt very filmic to me.
We talk exclusively to Gupta (left, on the left of picture) about adapting the novel into a film, the back-story, casting and shooting experiences, and get an unique piece of advice on how to prepare to make a film, plus an insight into his new film, based on his acclaimed BBC Radio 4 play, Jadoo.
HeyUGuys: What was it about Owen Sheers’s novel that made you want to turn it into a film?
Amit Gupta: I think when I read it the first thing that really stayed with me was the atmosphere of it. I felt there was something about it that felt very filmic to me.
- 11/25/2011
- by Lisa Giles-Keddie
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Sporting red clown noses and an array of quirky hats and eccentric costumes, the nine clowning women who make up Clowns Ex Machina raise lofty questions about art, commerce, and beauty while rendering such a heady discussion absurd. With squeals, grunts, calisthenic moves, and zany audience interaction, the all-distaff troupe employs such iconic images as Andrew Wyeth's "Christina's World" and the drowning scene in "A Place in the Sun" as vehicles for pointed and hilarious comedy about women's sense of self and the society that informs those views. The most brutal and entertaining send-up features ballet dancers in all their daintiness, fluttering and twirling about. But in this wonderfully twisted vision, plastic nipples are prominently displayed at breast level atop the dancers' leotards, with one ballerina's nipples totally asymmetrical, as is her butt. Now celebrating its fifth year on the scene, Clowns Ex Machina is premiering its latest and fourth.
- 11/17/2011
- by help@backstage.com (Simi Horwitz)
- backstage.com
Kendall Cornell Members of Clowns Ex Machina.
Clowns Ex Machina, an all-women clown troupe, nearly bares all in a new show, “Clowns Full-Tilt: A Musing on Aesthetics.”
In the 90-minute performance, the eight women wear a range of costumes, including nude bodysuits. The show explores the pursuit of art and beauty, and refers to paintings such as Pablo Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” and Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World.”
To bring Picasso’s Cubist demoiselles to life, the clowns wear those nude bodysuits,...
Clowns Ex Machina, an all-women clown troupe, nearly bares all in a new show, “Clowns Full-Tilt: A Musing on Aesthetics.”
In the 90-minute performance, the eight women wear a range of costumes, including nude bodysuits. The show explores the pursuit of art and beauty, and refers to paintings such as Pablo Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” and Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World.”
To bring Picasso’s Cubist demoiselles to life, the clowns wear those nude bodysuits,...
- 11/1/2011
- by Barbara Chai
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
I came home from work on Friday to find a package had arrived from Amazon. It was Supergods, by Grant Morrison. I had first heard about the book while reading the Rolling Stone interview with Morrison, which I mentioned last week. Between that interview and all the hoo-hah about Action Comics Vol. 2 #1, both my own reaction and those in the media, I had to read it.
(The debate continues, by the way. Today, Sunday, National Pubic Radio – NPR – devoted a segment of its “Studio 60” program to the reboot, with two interviews: the first with a comic book shop owner in Brooklyn, and the second with Jill Pantozzi, who herself is a redhead and in a wheelchair. Jill wrote an absolutely brilliant and terrific Op-Ed piece for Newsarama about the transformation of Oracle back into Batgirl, entitled Oracle Is Stronger Than Batgirl Will Ever Be. You should check it out.
(The debate continues, by the way. Today, Sunday, National Pubic Radio – NPR – devoted a segment of its “Studio 60” program to the reboot, with two interviews: the first with a comic book shop owner in Brooklyn, and the second with Jill Pantozzi, who herself is a redhead and in a wheelchair. Jill wrote an absolutely brilliant and terrific Op-Ed piece for Newsarama about the transformation of Oracle back into Batgirl, entitled Oracle Is Stronger Than Batgirl Will Ever Be. You should check it out.
- 9/26/2011
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
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