“I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he’s a victim of the times.
I wear the black for those who never read”….Johnny cash
Head down to Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood Thursday June 3rd where My Father And The Man In Black screens at at 7pm.
The 2012 documentary My Father And The Man In Black is the story of Saul Holiff, the manager of Johnny Cash from 1960 to 1973, told from the personal perspective of Holiff’s son, Jonathan. After Saul Holiff’s suicide, his estranged son, Jonathon, returns home. There, Jonathon learns from his mother that his father’s personal records exist in storage. As Jonathon searches through them, he discovers much about his father’s life of deferred dreams in London,...
Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he’s a victim of the times.
I wear the black for those who never read”….Johnny cash
Head down to Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood Thursday June 3rd where My Father And The Man In Black screens at at 7pm.
The 2012 documentary My Father And The Man In Black is the story of Saul Holiff, the manager of Johnny Cash from 1960 to 1973, told from the personal perspective of Holiff’s son, Jonathan. After Saul Holiff’s suicide, his estranged son, Jonathon, returns home. There, Jonathon learns from his mother that his father’s personal records exist in storage. As Jonathon searches through them, he discovers much about his father’s life of deferred dreams in London,...
- 6/26/2014
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
UK documentary set to premiere at Cambridge Film Festival.
Ballpark Film Distributors has secured an agreement to distribute documentary Folie à Deux - A Madness Made of Two in the UK from Oct 4, 2013.
Produced by Labor of Love Films and shot over five years, it follows a self-made, single mother of seven, who risks everything to turn the oldest house in England into an exclusive hotel. But when the credit crunch hits the gamble fails and the family find themselves on benefits.
The film will receive its UK premiere at the Cambridge Film Festival tomorrow [Sept 20], where directors Kim Hopkins, subject Helen Heraty and executive producer Simon Beaufoy, the screenwriter behind The Full Monty, Slumdog Millionaire and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, will attend the screening and talk about the film.
Kim Hopkins, who directed the film, said: “I started filming in late 2007 when everyone was ‘up-sizing’ and house prices were going through the roof. I set out...
Ballpark Film Distributors has secured an agreement to distribute documentary Folie à Deux - A Madness Made of Two in the UK from Oct 4, 2013.
Produced by Labor of Love Films and shot over five years, it follows a self-made, single mother of seven, who risks everything to turn the oldest house in England into an exclusive hotel. But when the credit crunch hits the gamble fails and the family find themselves on benefits.
The film will receive its UK premiere at the Cambridge Film Festival tomorrow [Sept 20], where directors Kim Hopkins, subject Helen Heraty and executive producer Simon Beaufoy, the screenwriter behind The Full Monty, Slumdog Millionaire and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, will attend the screening and talk about the film.
Kim Hopkins, who directed the film, said: “I started filming in late 2007 when everyone was ‘up-sizing’ and house prices were going through the roof. I set out...
- 9/19/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Within minutes of it's 88-minute running time, it becomes apparent that My Father and the Man in Black inherently runs the risk of coming across as self-indulgent storytelling. The writer and narrator is Jonathan Holiff, a former Los Angeles talent agent, but his main claim to fame (and reason for the documentary) is that his father was Saul Holiff. That name probably means nothing to you unless you're a big fan of Johnny Cash, in which case you might realize he was Cash's longtime manager from about 1960 until resigning the role in 1973. The film starts with a reenactment of the senior Holiff committing suicide in 2005 at the age of 80, followed by the younger Holiff's voiced-over narration explaining that the two had been estranged for twenty years and that Saul had never been much of a father at all. Jonathan also reveals that he was quite the Hollywood hotshot himself...
- 9/5/2013
- by Linc Leifeste
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
It's a weird miracle that Johnny Cash and his primitive twosome banged out music that still feels so full and vital today. And it's a weird miracle that My Father and the Man in Black is itself full and vital, despite throwing off all sorts of vanity-project warning signs: It's directed by a first-timer with a personal stake in the story. It tells much of that story through green-screened reenactments in which actors play the father of that director and no one less a personage than Cash himself, that hopped-up oak of a man. It even opens with a conversation between the director at age seven and his father. But it has the heart, and it has the blood, and by the time childhood chatter is played back again, feeling is soaked through it like the sweat in Cash's guitar strap. Writer-...
- 9/4/2013
- Village Voice
Ballpark Film Distributors takes all UK rights to British crime thriller; sets release date.
Ballpark Film Distributors has taken all rights in the UK and Eire to Who Needs Enemies, the debut feature from writer/director Peter Stylianou of Red Guerrilla Films.
The British crime thriller tells the story of strip club owner Tom Sheridan (Ian Pirie) who takes revenge on an old friend Ian Levine (Michael McKell) when he discovers he’s using his club is to entertain wealthy paedophiles.
Writer/director Peter Stylianou said: “‘Who Needs Enemies’ is an intelligent gangster drama that focuses on storytelling rather than thrills. We are excited to be working with Ballpark Film Distributors in releasing this film and many more to come.”
Ballpark will release Who Needs Enemies on Nov 15.
Sheffield-based Ballpark are currently distributing Jonathan Holiff’s Johnny Cash documentary My Father and The Man In Black and will release four more films this autumn including No Fixed...
Ballpark Film Distributors has taken all rights in the UK and Eire to Who Needs Enemies, the debut feature from writer/director Peter Stylianou of Red Guerrilla Films.
The British crime thriller tells the story of strip club owner Tom Sheridan (Ian Pirie) who takes revenge on an old friend Ian Levine (Michael McKell) when he discovers he’s using his club is to entertain wealthy paedophiles.
Writer/director Peter Stylianou said: “‘Who Needs Enemies’ is an intelligent gangster drama that focuses on storytelling rather than thrills. We are excited to be working with Ballpark Film Distributors in releasing this film and many more to come.”
Ballpark will release Who Needs Enemies on Nov 15.
Sheffield-based Ballpark are currently distributing Jonathan Holiff’s Johnny Cash documentary My Father and The Man In Black and will release four more films this autumn including No Fixed...
- 8/30/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
French sales outfit Wide Management has added a slew of titles in recent months.
Tiff contemporary world cinema premiere Ningen, about a Japanese CEO under pressure to save his company, is the second feature from Noor directors Cagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti.
Portuguese drama Bobo, by Ines Oliveira, plays in the Tiff discovery programme. The feature follows two women who unite over their mutual desire to protect a child.
Vinko Bresan’s Karlovy Vary competition comedy The Priest’s Children has sold to a number of European territories while Jean-Louis Daniel’s Paris-set Shanghai Belle, also in-demand, tells the story of young models discovering a life of drugs, sex and prostitution.
Also on the slate are Snails in the Rain by Yariv Mozer, Letters of a Portuguese Nun, Rene Feret’s The Film to Come, and Us comedy Only in New York, in which a stand-up has a novel take on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Wide has also...
Tiff contemporary world cinema premiere Ningen, about a Japanese CEO under pressure to save his company, is the second feature from Noor directors Cagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti.
Portuguese drama Bobo, by Ines Oliveira, plays in the Tiff discovery programme. The feature follows two women who unite over their mutual desire to protect a child.
Vinko Bresan’s Karlovy Vary competition comedy The Priest’s Children has sold to a number of European territories while Jean-Louis Daniel’s Paris-set Shanghai Belle, also in-demand, tells the story of young models discovering a life of drugs, sex and prostitution.
Also on the slate are Snails in the Rain by Yariv Mozer, Letters of a Portuguese Nun, Rene Feret’s The Film to Come, and Us comedy Only in New York, in which a stand-up has a novel take on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Wide has also...
- 8/30/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
After his father committed suicide, Jonathan Holiff discovered an incredible secret in a storage locker: recordings of the elder Holiff's audio diary from his days as Johnny Cash's manager from 1960 to 1973. In his new film, "My Father and the Man in Black," Holiff combines found footage, re-enactments and his own voice-over narration to craft a story about the father he hadn't spoken to for two decades--and about the often-troubled music legend who turned to religion for solace. In the clip below, provided exclusively to Toh!, Jonathan listens to his father Saul's diary recording of one remarkable morning in Toronto, when he and others found Cash passed out on the floor of his Rv from an overdose. "For all intents and purposes, he was dead," says Saul. A few hours later, Cash performed two sold-out shows in Rochester, New York, as if nothing had happened. "My Father and the Man in Black...
- 8/27/2013
- by Jacob Combs
- Thompson on Hollywood
At a time of year usually dominated by family titles, James Wan's horror film temporarily left the Smurfs feeling blue last weekend
The magnificent seven
Throughout early summer, we tend to see one or two big blockbusters dominate the market each weekend, with the rest of the films on release competing for scraps. As we move into August, the field typically becomes more even, with several mid-size pictures jostling for position. That was certainly the case last weekend, when no fewer than seven films achieved grosses in excess of £1m – the first time this has happened since February 2011, when Paul, Gnomeo and Juliet, The King's Speech, True Grit, Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, Yogi Bear and Tangled all delivered seven-figure sums in the same frame.
The winner #1
Topping the official Rentrak chart with £3.22m, The Smurfs 2 leads a crowded field of family titles including a still-potent Monsters University and Despicable Me 2.
The magnificent seven
Throughout early summer, we tend to see one or two big blockbusters dominate the market each weekend, with the rest of the films on release competing for scraps. As we move into August, the field typically becomes more even, with several mid-size pictures jostling for position. That was certainly the case last weekend, when no fewer than seven films achieved grosses in excess of £1m – the first time this has happened since February 2011, when Paul, Gnomeo and Juliet, The King's Speech, True Grit, Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, Yogi Bear and Tangled all delivered seven-figure sums in the same frame.
The winner #1
Topping the official Rentrak chart with £3.22m, The Smurfs 2 leads a crowded field of family titles including a still-potent Monsters University and Despicable Me 2.
- 8/7/2013
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
Only God Forgives | The Heat | Paradise: Hope | The Conjuring | Red 2 | My Father And The Man In Black | From Up On Poppy Hill | The Smurfs 2 | Heaven's Gate
Only God Forgives (18)
(Nicolas Winding Refn, 2013, Fra/Thai/Us/Swe) Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vithaya Pansringarm, Tom Burke. 90 mins
The Drive dream team are back together in Bangkok, but those hoping for a cute Gosling droolathon will be disappointed. This is more a cinematic slab of red meat: lean, raw, bloody and blunt, but with much to savour. Executed with great formal rigour, it's a stylised revenge story centred on Gosling's almost mute gangster, his terrifying mother (Scott Thomas) and an even more terrifying Thai cop (Pansringarm).
The Heat (15)
(Paul Feig, 2013, Us) Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy, Demián Bichir. 117 mins
Buddy sparks inevitably fly when Bullock's uptight FBI agent is partnered with McCarthy's foul-mouthed Boston cop, in a comedy that serves up plenty of female-oriented crudity,...
Only God Forgives (18)
(Nicolas Winding Refn, 2013, Fra/Thai/Us/Swe) Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vithaya Pansringarm, Tom Burke. 90 mins
The Drive dream team are back together in Bangkok, but those hoping for a cute Gosling droolathon will be disappointed. This is more a cinematic slab of red meat: lean, raw, bloody and blunt, but with much to savour. Executed with great formal rigour, it's a stylised revenge story centred on Gosling's almost mute gangster, his terrifying mother (Scott Thomas) and an even more terrifying Thai cop (Pansringarm).
The Heat (15)
(Paul Feig, 2013, Us) Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy, Demián Bichir. 117 mins
Buddy sparks inevitably fly when Bullock's uptight FBI agent is partnered with McCarthy's foul-mouthed Boston cop, in a comedy that serves up plenty of female-oriented crudity,...
- 8/3/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★☆☆ Jonathan Holiff's engaging debut, My Father and the Man in Black (2012), benefits greatly from its third party storytelling, as he strives to discover what drove his father, Saul - the former manager of country legend Johnny Cash - to suicide. Holiff instantly sets a bleak tone by depicting a man chasing handfuls of pills with vodka and taping a plastic bag around his head before lying down to die. This acts as an invite into the point of Holiff's quest, as it is soon revealed that a recent discovery of a significant amount of recordings, clippings and photographs had inspired Holiff's decision to re-connect with his late father.
We're informed early on of the two types of father, both arguably equal in bad parenting terms, that Jonathan grew up with - one a distant, neglectful man who was barely home (Jonathan thought his father was Cash when he was...
We're informed early on of the two types of father, both arguably equal in bad parenting terms, that Jonathan grew up with - one a distant, neglectful man who was barely home (Jonathan thought his father was Cash when he was...
- 8/1/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Johnny Cash's story is an iconic fable of a troubled and talented storyteller, who found surprising, eventual redemption through faith.
Less explored is the relationship between Cash and his former manager, Saul Holiff.
While Holiff was central to some of Cash's most defining performances, and even responsible for bringing June Carter to his side for one of country music's most celebrated partnerships, and love stories, he had his own demons.
Johnny Cash and Saul Holiff's partnership was very close, but also much troubled
He sacrificed his own family life to tend to the career of his talented client, and later to deal with the fall-out as Cash succumbed to temptations and failed to honour performances and recording contracts.
Never close to his father, Jonathan Holiff was nonetheless shocked by Saul's suicide in 2005. And he was even more stunned to discover a storage locker full of Saul's letters...
Less explored is the relationship between Cash and his former manager, Saul Holiff.
While Holiff was central to some of Cash's most defining performances, and even responsible for bringing June Carter to his side for one of country music's most celebrated partnerships, and love stories, he had his own demons.
Johnny Cash and Saul Holiff's partnership was very close, but also much troubled
He sacrificed his own family life to tend to the career of his talented client, and later to deal with the fall-out as Cash succumbed to temptations and failed to honour performances and recording contracts.
Never close to his father, Jonathan Holiff was nonetheless shocked by Saul's suicide in 2005. And he was even more stunned to discover a storage locker full of Saul's letters...
- 7/30/2013
- by The Huffington Post UK
- Huffington Post
Frances Ha | The Wolverine | Blackfish | Days Of Grace | Springsteen & I | Viramundo | Dial M For Murder | Best Of Luck | Bajatey Raho
Frances Ha (15)
(Noah Baumbach, 2012, Us) Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Michael Esper. 86 mins
Gerwig does a winning line in klutzy/ditzy in what's essentially a tailor-made showcase for her natural comic talents. An aspiring dancer whose sense of fun is starting to look a lot like immaturity, Frances is having trouble negotiating that tricky stage between studenthood and adulthood. A very minor crisis, admittedly, but this is more about character and tone, and Gerwig's New York misadventures are rendered with a casual verve that brings to mind the French New Wave or Manhattan-era Woody Allen.
The Wolverine (12A)
(James Mangold, 2013, Us) Hugh Jackman, Rila Fukushima. 126 mins
The X-badass rips into Japan in this solo adventure, but while Jackman's as mean and buff as ever, the story feels a little long in the claw,...
Frances Ha (15)
(Noah Baumbach, 2012, Us) Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Michael Esper. 86 mins
Gerwig does a winning line in klutzy/ditzy in what's essentially a tailor-made showcase for her natural comic talents. An aspiring dancer whose sense of fun is starting to look a lot like immaturity, Frances is having trouble negotiating that tricky stage between studenthood and adulthood. A very minor crisis, admittedly, but this is more about character and tone, and Gerwig's New York misadventures are rendered with a casual verve that brings to mind the French New Wave or Manhattan-era Woody Allen.
The Wolverine (12A)
(James Mangold, 2013, Us) Hugh Jackman, Rila Fukushima. 126 mins
The X-badass rips into Japan in this solo adventure, but while Jackman's as mean and buff as ever, the story feels a little long in the claw,...
- 7/27/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
The Act Of Killing: Directors Tour | East End film festival | All The Right Notes 2 | Avengers marathon
The Act Of Killing: Directors Tour, Nationwide
Co-produced by Werner Herzog and Errol Morris, no less, The Act Of Killing establishes Joshua Oppenheimer as a significant force in documentary, if that's what you can call it. Oppenheimer's movie tracks down the perpetrators of Indonesia's state-sanctioned 60s genocide and encourages them to recreate their crimes as scenarios from Hollywood movies, a project they embrace all too readily. By turns, shocking, surreal and revelatory, this innovative film blurs fact and fiction and leaves you with many questions. To answer some of those, the UK-based American director talks to John Pilger at Brixton's Ritzy on Friday, and Q&As at 10 other venues.
Various venues, Fri to 7 Jul
East End film festival London
Making the colloquialisms of Albert Square look like a far-off universe, or at least a far-off postcode,...
The Act Of Killing: Directors Tour, Nationwide
Co-produced by Werner Herzog and Errol Morris, no less, The Act Of Killing establishes Joshua Oppenheimer as a significant force in documentary, if that's what you can call it. Oppenheimer's movie tracks down the perpetrators of Indonesia's state-sanctioned 60s genocide and encourages them to recreate their crimes as scenarios from Hollywood movies, a project they embrace all too readily. By turns, shocking, surreal and revelatory, this innovative film blurs fact and fiction and leaves you with many questions. To answer some of those, the UK-based American director talks to John Pilger at Brixton's Ritzy on Friday, and Q&As at 10 other venues.
Various venues, Fri to 7 Jul
East End film festival London
Making the colloquialisms of Albert Square look like a far-off universe, or at least a far-off postcode,...
- 6/22/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
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