New York-based director/producer Katy Scoggin has worked with high-profile U.S. documentary filmmaker/journalist Laura Poitras on two shorts and three features, notably as co-producer and Dp on Poitras’ Oscar-winner “Citizenfour” and Cannes Directors’ Fortnight’s “Risk.”
Poitras now serves as executive producer on Scoggin’s feature debut “Flood,” one of six creative documentaries to be pitched as works in progress April 16, at the Visions du Réel festival in Nyon, Switzerland.
“Flood” centers on Scoggin’s journey to repair her relationship with her former missionary father, with whom she has become estranged. As the story unfolds, she relies on evolution to try to grasp change over time: in the fossil record, in American evangelicalism and in her own shift away from her parents’ religion and back home to reconnect.
The documentary was produced by Scoggin and Will Lennon for Archelon Films, and executive produced by Poitras, Nico Opper and Adam Blackman.
Poitras now serves as executive producer on Scoggin’s feature debut “Flood,” one of six creative documentaries to be pitched as works in progress April 16, at the Visions du Réel festival in Nyon, Switzerland.
“Flood” centers on Scoggin’s journey to repair her relationship with her former missionary father, with whom she has become estranged. As the story unfolds, she relies on evolution to try to grasp change over time: in the fossil record, in American evangelicalism and in her own shift away from her parents’ religion and back home to reconnect.
The documentary was produced by Scoggin and Will Lennon for Archelon Films, and executive produced by Poitras, Nico Opper and Adam Blackman.
- 4/15/2024
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
The Bold and the Beautiful spoilers for the week of April 1 are in! Deacon Sharpe (Sean Kanan) could get a distraction from his grief.
Coming Up On The Bold and The Beautiful
This could come from Hope Logan (Annika Noelle), who will be looking for someone to be on her side. Meanwhile, Zende Forrester Dominguez (Delon de Metz) approaches Luna Nozawa (Lisa Yamada) with another ill-timed request.
Plus, Bill Spencer (Don Diamont) is slated to take a big risk. Also, what’s up with Sheila Carter’s (Kimberlin Brown) death investigation?
Deacon Sharpe’s Distraction
B&b spoilers for the week of April 1 reveal that Deacon will still be grieving Sheila. Deacon might also still blame Steffy Forrester Finnegan (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) for taking Sheila away from him.
Even though Sheila did a lot, Deacon might think that Steffy didn’t have to kill the villain. So, as Deacon tries...
Coming Up On The Bold and The Beautiful
This could come from Hope Logan (Annika Noelle), who will be looking for someone to be on her side. Meanwhile, Zende Forrester Dominguez (Delon de Metz) approaches Luna Nozawa (Lisa Yamada) with another ill-timed request.
Plus, Bill Spencer (Don Diamont) is slated to take a big risk. Also, what’s up with Sheila Carter’s (Kimberlin Brown) death investigation?
Deacon Sharpe’s Distraction
B&b spoilers for the week of April 1 reveal that Deacon will still be grieving Sheila. Deacon might also still blame Steffy Forrester Finnegan (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) for taking Sheila away from him.
Even though Sheila did a lot, Deacon might think that Steffy didn’t have to kill the villain. So, as Deacon tries...
- 3/28/2024
- by Taylor Hancen Rios
- Celebrating The Soaps
For director Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed represents a departure of sorts. After centering films around people ranging from a former bodyguard for Osama bin Laden in The Oath to Edward Snowden in Citizenfour and Julian Assange in Risk, her latest documentary focuses on an artist: legendary photographer Nan Goldin. But there’s still a strong political dimension to the film, since Goldin was a major force in bringing down the Sackler family, the owners of Purdue Pharma, one of the global pharmaceutical companies largely responsible for the opioid epidemic in the United States.
It’s a deeply personal mission for Goldin, as someone who found herself addicted to OxyContin for a period of time until she nearly died from an overdose. Goldin’s activism, though, is, the documentary suggests, born out of not just her brush with the opioid crisis, but from a lifetime of dealing with mental illness,...
It’s a deeply personal mission for Goldin, as someone who found herself addicted to OxyContin for a period of time until she nearly died from an overdose. Goldin’s activism, though, is, the documentary suggests, born out of not just her brush with the opioid crisis, but from a lifetime of dealing with mental illness,...
- 3/11/2024
- by Kenji Fujishima
- Slant Magazine
Jason Isbell turned actual Fox News headlines into a tender country ballad Thursday during a return appearance on The Daily Show.
The Weathervanes singer teamed with the late-night sorta-news program to highlight just how ridiculous Fox News’ real, Biden-obsessed headlines actually are, especially when backed by an acoustic guitar.
“Blue Collar Joe Appears With Backwards Hat / Biden Appears to Call Iowa Voter ‘Fat,'” Isbell sang, with the actual chyron showcased next to each “lyric.” “Biden Refers to Trump as a Sitting President / Biden Collides With Flagpole at U.N.
The Weathervanes singer teamed with the late-night sorta-news program to highlight just how ridiculous Fox News’ real, Biden-obsessed headlines actually are, especially when backed by an acoustic guitar.
“Blue Collar Joe Appears With Backwards Hat / Biden Appears to Call Iowa Voter ‘Fat,'” Isbell sang, with the actual chyron showcased next to each “lyric.” “Biden Refers to Trump as a Sitting President / Biden Collides With Flagpole at U.N.
- 3/1/2024
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Mumbai, Feb 23 (Ians) The posters of Bollywood stars Tabu, Kareena Kapoor Khan, and Kriti Sanon from their upcoming film ‘The Crew’ were unveiled on Friday.
The three leading ladies can be seen decked in the uniform of cabin crew as they play air hostesses in the film. The posters show them donning their crimson outfits as they stand against the backdrop of an aeroplane cabin.
Taking to their social media, the makers shared the first-look posters of Tabu, Kareena Kapoor Khan, and Kriti Sanon. While Tabu’s poster reads: “Risk It”, Kareena’s poster reads: “Steal It,” and Kriti’s poster reads: “Fake It.”
‘The Crew’, produced by Balaji Telefilms and Anil Kapoor Film & Communications Network, is directed by Rajesh A. Krishnan.
The film will debut in theatres in March 29, 2024.
–Ians
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The three leading ladies can be seen decked in the uniform of cabin crew as they play air hostesses in the film. The posters show them donning their crimson outfits as they stand against the backdrop of an aeroplane cabin.
Taking to their social media, the makers shared the first-look posters of Tabu, Kareena Kapoor Khan, and Kriti Sanon. While Tabu’s poster reads: “Risk It”, Kareena’s poster reads: “Steal It,” and Kriti’s poster reads: “Fake It.”
‘The Crew’, produced by Balaji Telefilms and Anil Kapoor Film & Communications Network, is directed by Rajesh A. Krishnan.
The film will debut in theatres in March 29, 2024.
–Ians
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- 2/23/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Speculation surrounding Prince Harry‘s return to the royal family continues. Harry met with King Charles after learning of his cancer diagnosis. While rumors continue to circle regarding a part-time supporting role for Harry within the House of Windsor, a royal author believes the situation is a recipe for an “absolute disaster.”
The possibility of Prince Harry’s return to House of Windsor troubles royal author
Author Angela Levin accompanied Prince Harry on many engagements and had exclusive access to him at Kensington Palace. She wrote Harry: A Biography of a Prince in 2018.
Levin spoke with GBNews to discuss Harry and King Charles’ face-to-face meeting, among other royal news. She believes many factors are at play regarding reports the Duke of Sussex wants to support the monarchy part-time.
“This is something Harry wants to do, to enable himself to run us for money after a little while because their (Harry...
The possibility of Prince Harry’s return to House of Windsor troubles royal author
Author Angela Levin accompanied Prince Harry on many engagements and had exclusive access to him at Kensington Palace. She wrote Harry: A Biography of a Prince in 2018.
Levin spoke with GBNews to discuss Harry and King Charles’ face-to-face meeting, among other royal news. She believes many factors are at play regarding reports the Duke of Sussex wants to support the monarchy part-time.
“This is something Harry wants to do, to enable himself to run us for money after a little while because their (Harry...
- 2/20/2024
- by Lucille Barilla
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
More often than not, an internationally known freedom fighter will have a personality and temperament as heroic as the actions that made him famous. Just look at Nelson Mandela, Alexei Navalny, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, or — as controversial a figure as he remains — Edward Snowden, who for 10 years has conducted himself as a profile in courage. But there are times when the personal and the political don’t sit so easily in the same person.
Julian Assange is one of those people. From the moment he launched WikiLeaks, the renegade website that provided an anonymous home for journalists and whistleblowers to spill the secrets and dump the documents of global power, there was an air of absolutism about him, a bombs-away belief in the rightness of his actions that teetered, at times, into anarchistic recklessness. Assange, like Snowden, exposed important revelations about how governments, in particular the government of the United States,...
Julian Assange is one of those people. From the moment he launched WikiLeaks, the renegade website that provided an anonymous home for journalists and whistleblowers to spill the secrets and dump the documents of global power, there was an air of absolutism about him, a bombs-away belief in the rightness of his actions that teetered, at times, into anarchistic recklessness. Assange, like Snowden, exposed important revelations about how governments, in particular the government of the United States,...
- 3/4/2023
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Megadeth were joined onstage by former lead guitarist Marty Friedman for the first time in 23 years during the band’s February 27th concert at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo.
Tens songs into the set, a video montage played showing footage of Friedman, before frontman Dave Mustaine introduced his former bandmate to the stage during the opening to “Countdown to Extinction”: “Ladies and gentleman, please welcome my good friend and lead guitar player, Marty Friedman.”
Mustaine, Friedman, and current lead player Kiko Loureiro then formed a triple-axe attack, barreling through Friedman-era staples “Countdown to Extinction,” “Tornado of Souls,” and “Symphony of Destruction.” As if no time had passed, Friedman was a seamless fit in Megadeth’s current lineup, unleashing the many riffs and solos he originally wrote for those songs.
A particularly poignant moment occurred during the extended instrumental section of “Tornado of Souls” — often considered Friedman’s finest achievement with Megadeth.
Tens songs into the set, a video montage played showing footage of Friedman, before frontman Dave Mustaine introduced his former bandmate to the stage during the opening to “Countdown to Extinction”: “Ladies and gentleman, please welcome my good friend and lead guitar player, Marty Friedman.”
Mustaine, Friedman, and current lead player Kiko Loureiro then formed a triple-axe attack, barreling through Friedman-era staples “Countdown to Extinction,” “Tornado of Souls,” and “Symphony of Destruction.” As if no time had passed, Friedman was a seamless fit in Megadeth’s current lineup, unleashing the many riffs and solos he originally wrote for those songs.
A particularly poignant moment occurred during the extended instrumental section of “Tornado of Souls” — often considered Friedman’s finest achievement with Megadeth.
- 2/27/2023
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
Case-cracking becomes a fractious father-son affair in NCIS’s milestone episode after team leader Parker (Gary Cole) takes in his feisty retired Navy dad Roman (Francis Xavier McCarthy), introduced in the Season 19 finale. Seems Pops was kicked out of his assisted living facility for rambunctious behavior. “It’s a worst-case scenario,” says executive producer Steven D. Binder. Then Roman offers to help the team investigate a different nursing home that’s up to shady business! “We’re going to get insight on how [Parker] became the man that he is today,” Binder says. “It’s about heart.” The hour also has its wackiness, with an “eyebrow-raising” love triangle and a ride-share driver who moon-lights as a grandkid-for-hire dying in a car crash. As for what’s coming up after the milestone, expect some high-stakes cases, according to the EP, ...
- 2/23/2023
- TV Insider
Megadeth will welcome back a long-estranged figure from their past at their upcoming, first-ever gig at Tokyo’s famed Budokan: Marty Friedman. The guitarist played on some of the band’s best-selling albums, including 1990’s Rust in Peace and 1992’s Countdown to Extinction. The Budokan concert, which will be livestreamed on Feb. 27 and available on demand for a couple of days after, marks the first time in more than two decades Friedman has shared a stage with the group.
“When Marty said, ‘Hey, I can play at this gig,’ I thought,...
“When Marty said, ‘Hey, I can play at this gig,’ I thought,...
- 2/13/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
U.S. director-producer Laura Poitras, who won an Oscar and an Emmy with Edward Snowden film “Citizenfour,” and recently took the Golden Lion at Venice with opioid epidemic pic “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” will be the Guest of Honor at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. The 35th edition of the festival takes place from Nov. 9 to 20.
Poitras will be honored at IDFA with the Retrospective and Top 10 programs, in which she curates 10 films. The Top 10 program includes reflections on political imprisonment (“Hunger” by Steve McQueen; “This Is Not a Film” by Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb), incarceration and psychiatry (Frederick Wiseman’s “Titicut Follies”), and genocide (Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah”). As part of the Top 10, Poitras will be in conversation with several of her selected filmmakers during the festival’s public talks program.
In the Retrospective section, IDFA presents all seven films directed by Poitras from 2003 to today.
Poitras will be honored at IDFA with the Retrospective and Top 10 programs, in which she curates 10 films. The Top 10 program includes reflections on political imprisonment (“Hunger” by Steve McQueen; “This Is Not a Film” by Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb), incarceration and psychiatry (Frederick Wiseman’s “Titicut Follies”), and genocide (Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah”). As part of the Top 10, Poitras will be in conversation with several of her selected filmmakers during the festival’s public talks program.
In the Retrospective section, IDFA presents all seven films directed by Poitras from 2003 to today.
- 9/20/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Oscar-winning director Laura Poitras will be guest of honor at the 35th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), running from November 9 to 20.
Poitras is currently on a packed festival tour with All The Beauty And The Bloodshed, which won the Golden Lion in Venice and is now an awards season contender. After Venice, the title screened in Toronto and has dates set for New York and the BFI London Film Festival.
As guest of honor at IDFA, Poitras will be feted with a retrospective and has also been given carte blanche to curate 10 films that have influenced her work and shaped her view of the world.
Her Top 10 selections include Steve McQueen’s Hunger, Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb’s This is Not A Film, Frederick Wiseman’s Titicut Follies and Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah.
As part of the sidebar, Poitras will also conduct on-stage conversations with a number of the selected filmmakers.
Poitras is currently on a packed festival tour with All The Beauty And The Bloodshed, which won the Golden Lion in Venice and is now an awards season contender. After Venice, the title screened in Toronto and has dates set for New York and the BFI London Film Festival.
As guest of honor at IDFA, Poitras will be feted with a retrospective and has also been given carte blanche to curate 10 films that have influenced her work and shaped her view of the world.
Her Top 10 selections include Steve McQueen’s Hunger, Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb’s This is Not A Film, Frederick Wiseman’s Titicut Follies and Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah.
As part of the sidebar, Poitras will also conduct on-stage conversations with a number of the selected filmmakers.
- 9/20/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Click here to read the full article.
Laura Poitras, the Oscar-winning director of Citizenfour, whose latest doc, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, won the Golden Lion at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, will be this year’s guest of honor at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).
IDFA will host a retrospective of Poitras’ work, screening all 7 documentaries she has directed, from her 2003 feature debut Flag Wars, made in collaboration with artist Linda Goode Bryant, a cinéma vérité film on the gentrification of a working-class African American neighborhood by white gays and lesbians, to All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, which follows the career of photographer and artist Nan Goldin and her campaign to hold Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family responsible for the opioid addiction crisis. Poitras is perhaps best known for her portraits of Edward Snowden (the Oscar-winning Citizenfour) and Julian Assange (2016’s Risk).
Poitras will also curate...
Laura Poitras, the Oscar-winning director of Citizenfour, whose latest doc, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, won the Golden Lion at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, will be this year’s guest of honor at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).
IDFA will host a retrospective of Poitras’ work, screening all 7 documentaries she has directed, from her 2003 feature debut Flag Wars, made in collaboration with artist Linda Goode Bryant, a cinéma vérité film on the gentrification of a working-class African American neighborhood by white gays and lesbians, to All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, which follows the career of photographer and artist Nan Goldin and her campaign to hold Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family responsible for the opioid addiction crisis. Poitras is perhaps best known for her portraits of Edward Snowden (the Oscar-winning Citizenfour) and Julian Assange (2016’s Risk).
Poitras will also curate...
- 9/20/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Should you have wondered whether the Toronto International Film Festival was indeed “back” in full force — in its 47th edition, and its second since Virtual TIFF Year Zero — you simply had to look outside. Folks milled in front the Bell Lightbox when they weren’t packed into screenings, chatting away in small groups, comparing notes and looking for recommendations and comparing lookie-loo celebrity stories. Lines once again snaked around the Scotiabank multiplex. On King Street, home to the neighboring Princess of Wales and the Royal Alexandra theaters — the latter only...
- 9/17/2022
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
On the afternoon of March 10th, 2018, Nan Goldin walked into the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The award-winning photographer is no stranger to these institutions; prints of her groundbreaking work documenting everything from gay subcultures to the stifling legacy of suburbia to her own domestic abuse have graced their walls and entered their permanent collections. Soon, friends and colleagues begin to join her in milling about what was once known as the Sackler Wing, home to the Temple of Dendur and a large pool. A flash mob quickly made itself known,...
- 9/14/2022
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Oscar-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras sharply criticized the Toronto and Venice film festivals Tuesday for programming documentaries connected with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, suggesting the decision bordered on a “whitewashing” of history.
Her remarks came at the Toronto Film Festival’s Doc Conference, a day after Poitras’s new documentary, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, made its North American premiere in Toronto. The film about artist Nan Goldin and her crusade against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, won the Golden Lion at Venice.
Poitras attended Venice, as did Clinton, the latter in support of her Apple TV+ docuseries Gutsy. Clinton and daughter Chelsea Clinton then headed to TIFF, where they unveiled In Her Hands, a documentary executive produced by the Clintons that focuses on one of Afghanistan’s few female mayors.
“It’s alarming to see some of the most powerful people in the world,...
Her remarks came at the Toronto Film Festival’s Doc Conference, a day after Poitras’s new documentary, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, made its North American premiere in Toronto. The film about artist Nan Goldin and her crusade against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, won the Golden Lion at Venice.
Poitras attended Venice, as did Clinton, the latter in support of her Apple TV+ docuseries Gutsy. Clinton and daughter Chelsea Clinton then headed to TIFF, where they unveiled In Her Hands, a documentary executive produced by the Clintons that focuses on one of Afghanistan’s few female mayors.
“It’s alarming to see some of the most powerful people in the world,...
- 9/13/2022
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Click here to read the full article.
Hillary Clinton’s fall festival tour generated plenty of bemusement and column inches, and those appearances have now come under fire from Venice’s latest Golden Lion winner.
Speaking at the Toronto Film Festival, Laura Poitras — whose new doc, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, took home Venice’s top prize — said it was “alarming to see some of the most powerful people in the world, such as Hillary Clinton, walking the red carpet at Venice and at TIFF, and saying nothing about journalism,” a statement that prompted applause from the audience.
Poitras argued that Clinton was “engaging in a form of whitewashing,” accusing the former secretary of state — who was at TIFF to promote the upcoming Netflix doc In Her Hands, about one of Afghanistan’s first female mayors and the first doc from her own production company — of being actively involved...
Hillary Clinton’s fall festival tour generated plenty of bemusement and column inches, and those appearances have now come under fire from Venice’s latest Golden Lion winner.
Speaking at the Toronto Film Festival, Laura Poitras — whose new doc, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, took home Venice’s top prize — said it was “alarming to see some of the most powerful people in the world, such as Hillary Clinton, walking the red carpet at Venice and at TIFF, and saying nothing about journalism,” a statement that prompted applause from the audience.
Poitras argued that Clinton was “engaging in a form of whitewashing,” accusing the former secretary of state — who was at TIFF to promote the upcoming Netflix doc In Her Hands, about one of Afghanistan’s first female mayors and the first doc from her own production company — of being actively involved...
- 9/13/2022
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Eight years ago, Edward Snowden became the centerpiece of the Oscar race for Best Documentary as the subject of director Laura Poitras’ eventual winner “Citizenfour.” This time, that centerpiece slot goes to Nan Goldin, the photographer and activist hero of Poitras’ “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.”
The movie launched to rave reviews at Venice over the weekend and sneaked into a morning Tba slot on the last day of the Telluride Film Festival, where many audience members emerged in tears. That response is likely to continue as the movie travels to the Toronto International Film Festival and later New York, where it will be — appropriately enough — the festival’s centerpiece selection.
“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” is in good hands. Participant Media produced the project and will release it October 7 with Neon, which previously distributed her Julian Assange documentary “Risk.” Neon CEO Tom Quinn also spearheaded the successful “Citizenfour” campaign at Radius-twc.
The movie launched to rave reviews at Venice over the weekend and sneaked into a morning Tba slot on the last day of the Telluride Film Festival, where many audience members emerged in tears. That response is likely to continue as the movie travels to the Toronto International Film Festival and later New York, where it will be — appropriately enough — the festival’s centerpiece selection.
“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” is in good hands. Participant Media produced the project and will release it October 7 with Neon, which previously distributed her Julian Assange documentary “Risk.” Neon CEO Tom Quinn also spearheaded the successful “Citizenfour” campaign at Radius-twc.
- 9/5/2022
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
In “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” the photographer Nan Goldin tells a woeful, revealing, and in its way rather funny anecdote about how in the 1980s, when she first gathered up her photographs — casually transgressive images of her and her friends, who were often drag queens and addicts, along with shots of the assorted other people and situations she experienced as part of the hummingly squalid East Village New York subculture — and tried to shop them around to galleries and museums, they were roundly rejected, because the arbiters of taste, who were inevitably men, favored photographs that were black-and-white and composed in elegant meticulous ways. Goldin’s photographs were in garish verité color, set in environments that were so scruffy that it looked, to the gallery mavens, like there was no visual organization to them, no art.
This, with 40 years’ hindsight, is telling, because what you see now is...
This, with 40 years’ hindsight, is telling, because what you see now is...
- 9/3/2022
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
It’s a big month for Prime Video and Amazon Freevee which are both gearing up for an exciting September of releases. The biggest premiere is the long-awaited The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power debut which kicks off an unseen chapter in Tolkien’s Middle-earth. And if horror is your thing, don’t miss Naomi Watts in the buzzy film Goodnight Mommy in which she stars alongside The Boys‘ Cameron Crovetti and his real-life twin brother and former Big Little Lies costar Nicholas Crovetti. Other titles to look out for include Jungle, Flight/Risk, and more. Below, see the full list of offerings heading to Prime Video and Amazon Freevee. Available for Streaming on Prime Video: September 1 American Ninja Warrior S12-S13 Friday Night Lights S1-S5 Texicanas Wags Miami S1-S2 21 Grams 23:59 A Family Thing The Adjustment Bureau The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The...
- 8/29/2022
- TV Insider
Neon announced on Thursday that it has acquired the rights to the Laura Poitras documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” which will premiere at the Venice Film Festival next month.
The Participant-produced documentary follows artist and activist Nan Goldin told through the slideshows, intimate interviews, photography and rare footage of her fight to hold Purdue Pharma’s Sackler family accountable for the opioid overdose crisis. It will premiere in competition for the Golden Lion at Venice as a rare nonfiction contender and also screen at the Toronto International Film Festival and as the Centerpiece presentation at the New York Film Festival.
“Nan’s art and vision has inspired my work for years, and has influenced generations of filmmakers,” Poitras said. “When we began working together, it was essential to us that the film see a theatrical release. There are no better partners than Neon and Participant and I am...
The Participant-produced documentary follows artist and activist Nan Goldin told through the slideshows, intimate interviews, photography and rare footage of her fight to hold Purdue Pharma’s Sackler family accountable for the opioid overdose crisis. It will premiere in competition for the Golden Lion at Venice as a rare nonfiction contender and also screen at the Toronto International Film Festival and as the Centerpiece presentation at the New York Film Festival.
“Nan’s art and vision has inspired my work for years, and has influenced generations of filmmakers,” Poitras said. “When we began working together, it was essential to us that the film see a theatrical release. There are no better partners than Neon and Participant and I am...
- 8/18/2022
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Laura Poitras’ “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” has been announced as the Centerpiece selection for the 60th New York Film Festival in October.
The “Citizenfour” director’s new documentary centers around famed New York photographer Nan Goldin, who became the public face of opposition to the Sackler family and their phamaceutical dynasty. After battling her own opioid addiction, Goldin took art institutions bearing the Sackler name to task, and fought for the destigmatization of drug addiction. With Goldin as narrator, the film dives into her difficult upbringing and her community’s fight against AIDS in the 1980s, among other aspects of her life story.
Film at Lincoln Center also announced today that Goldin will design the festival’s official poster, to be revealed at a later date.
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The “Citizenfour” director’s new documentary centers around famed New York photographer Nan Goldin, who became the public face of opposition to the Sackler family and their phamaceutical dynasty. After battling her own opioid addiction, Goldin took art institutions bearing the Sackler name to task, and fought for the destigmatization of drug addiction. With Goldin as narrator, the film dives into her difficult upbringing and her community’s fight against AIDS in the 1980s, among other aspects of her life story.
Film at Lincoln Center also announced today that Goldin will design the festival’s official poster, to be revealed at a later date.
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TIFF 2022 Platform Lineup to Open With Frances O’Connor’s Bronte Biopic ‘Emily’
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- 8/4/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
Chris Cummins Dec 2, 2019
There's enough The Walking Dead gift options to impress the living and undead alike!
The world of The Walking Dead may be full of zombies, but the franchise itself still has plenty of life left in it. With viewers still reeling from the 10th season midseason finale of AMC's shows, the Walking Dead worldbuilding continues to grow (most recently with the announcement of the upcoming The Walking Dead: World Beyond spin-off). This human drama has captivated genre fans across the globe...and inspired plenty of hot holiday gifts. Here's a rundown of the best The Walking Dead items now available!
The Walking Dead: The Complete Ninth Season Blu-ray
Bid a fond farewell (for now) to Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead's ninth season, in which he departs in the fifth episode, leaving the show to leap forward in time towards its next evolution.
Buy The...
There's enough The Walking Dead gift options to impress the living and undead alike!
The world of The Walking Dead may be full of zombies, but the franchise itself still has plenty of life left in it. With viewers still reeling from the 10th season midseason finale of AMC's shows, the Walking Dead worldbuilding continues to grow (most recently with the announcement of the upcoming The Walking Dead: World Beyond spin-off). This human drama has captivated genre fans across the globe...and inspired plenty of hot holiday gifts. Here's a rundown of the best The Walking Dead items now available!
The Walking Dead: The Complete Ninth Season Blu-ray
Bid a fond farewell (for now) to Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead's ninth season, in which he departs in the fifth episode, leaving the show to leap forward in time towards its next evolution.
Buy The...
- 11/26/2019
- Den of Geek
Laura Poitras became a rock star of the documentary world with 2014’s Oscar-winning “Citizenfour,” an explosive and definitive account of the Edward Snowden story that brought Poitras’ investigative filmmaking to a global audience. Since then, she has completed just one feature, the Julian Assange portrait “Risk,” but supported countless others as the co-creator and executive producer behind Field of Vision, the documentary film unit designed to support investigative filmmaking on a wavelength similar to her own.
Now, she’s ready to return to her filmmaking full time. Poitras is stepping down from her leadership position at Field of Vision to focus on her next feature, though will remain onboard at parent company First Look Media. Charlotte Cook, who co-founded the project with Poitras and filmmaker A.J. Schnack in 2015, will continue to lead the organization.
“In the last year, I felt like that Field of Vision established itself in the documentary field,...
Now, she’s ready to return to her filmmaking full time. Poitras is stepping down from her leadership position at Field of Vision to focus on her next feature, though will remain onboard at parent company First Look Media. Charlotte Cook, who co-founded the project with Poitras and filmmaker A.J. Schnack in 2015, will continue to lead the organization.
“In the last year, I felt like that Field of Vision established itself in the documentary field,...
- 10/9/2019
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Everything money can buy — including the vocal talents of Beyoncé and Donald Glover and the latest in digital pizazz — has been poured into Jon Favreau’s photo-realistic retake on The Lion King, the 1994 Disney animated classic. What’s missing? Let’s start with intangibles such as heart, soul and the faintest hint of originality. Favreau offers up a shot-by-shot remake of the movie that grossed nearly $1 billion. But unlike his playful approach to 2016’s The Jungle Book — a far lesser example of Disney artistry that served to free him up...
- 7/17/2019
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
With the imprecisely assembled “Xy Chelsea,” multimedia artist-cum-filmmaker Tim Travers Hawkins makes a bold yet mostly fruitless attempt to tell the infamous whistleblower Chelsea Manning’s remarkable story. While it’s hardly Hawkins’ error that his documentary feels unfinished — the self-defined activist’s dramatic saga is still unfolding as we speak — you can’t help but feel his unprecedented access to Manning should have emanated a portrait a lot more enlightening.
This is not to say Hawkins doesn’t give a sincere shot to understanding his complex subject. Born in Oklahoma in 1987 and raised by heavy-drinking parents, the former U.S. Army soldier and intelligence analyst Manning was arrested in 2010 for leaking thousands of sensitive documents, a decision she made after witnessing a series of war crimes in Iraq. During her jail time of seven years, she came out as a trans woman and was released in 2017 upon a Presidential pardon...
This is not to say Hawkins doesn’t give a sincere shot to understanding his complex subject. Born in Oklahoma in 1987 and raised by heavy-drinking parents, the former U.S. Army soldier and intelligence analyst Manning was arrested in 2010 for leaking thousands of sensitive documents, a decision she made after witnessing a series of war crimes in Iraq. During her jail time of seven years, she came out as a trans woman and was released in 2017 upon a Presidential pardon...
- 5/5/2019
- by Tomris Laffly
- Variety Film + TV
Risk Legacy isn’t the somewhat boring and long-winded Risk game you’re familiar with. No, it’s a game with real stakes and consequences: You’ll draw on the board, rip up cards, and make decisions that can’t be undone over the course of your playing sessions. The man in black on Westworld should have just played this…...
- 5/2/2019
- by Shep McAllister on Kinja Deals, shared by Tercius to The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
Penny Marshall, who went from starring on the smash Happy Days spinoff Laverne & Shirley to helming such features including Big and A League of Their Own, died Monday night of diabetes complications at her home in the Hollywood Hills. She was 75.
Marshall also directed films including Riding in Cars with Boys, The Preacher’s Wife, Jumpin’ Jack Flash and Renaissance Man, which she also produced along with League of Their Own. She was in postproduction on a feature about basketball Hall of Famer and Kim Jong-un pal Dennis Rodman.
Laverne & Shirley was an out-of-the-box smash after premiere in January 1976 on ABC. The characters appeared on briefly on Happy Days — which was created by her brother Garry Marshall — but made enough of an impression to lead their own series. Also starring Cindy Williams, the midcentury-set sitcom about a pair of lower-class workers at Shotz Brewery in Milwaukee would finish as the No.
Marshall also directed films including Riding in Cars with Boys, The Preacher’s Wife, Jumpin’ Jack Flash and Renaissance Man, which she also produced along with League of Their Own. She was in postproduction on a feature about basketball Hall of Famer and Kim Jong-un pal Dennis Rodman.
Laverne & Shirley was an out-of-the-box smash after premiere in January 1976 on ABC. The characters appeared on briefly on Happy Days — which was created by her brother Garry Marshall — but made enough of an impression to lead their own series. Also starring Cindy Williams, the midcentury-set sitcom about a pair of lower-class workers at Shotz Brewery in Milwaukee would finish as the No.
- 12/18/2018
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
I’m a long time fan of EA Sports’ NBA Live franchise. In terms of historical significance, NBA Live 95 remains, to this day, the greatest basketball game I’ve ever played. Not because the controls were the best or the graphics were visually stunning; it’s because my friends and I got together almost every day and played it, and played it, and played it again. So my basis of fandom for the franchise is simply tied up into nostalgia for the fun times we had playing together. When EA brought NBA Live back in 2014, it was an abomination and a far cry from those halcyon days in the mid-90s. Now, so far into the shadow of Take-Two’s NBA 2K franchise that it needs to wear a jacket for warmth, NBA Live is desperately trying to reestablish an inside presence in the paint, and with NBA Live 19, they may have succeeded.
- 9/16/2018
- by Jon Hueber
- We Got This Covered
Canadian performer Tristan Risk has been steadily building a name for herself in our horror and cult film community as an actress over the years. Our own Izzy Lee directed Risk in her 2015 short film Innsmouth and she has worked with other female directors, specifcally other Vancouver area locals the Soska Sisters (American Mary) and Gigi Saul Guerrero (Madre de Dios). Well now it is Risk's turn to get behind the camera. She has just completed post on her first short film, a horror comedy Parlour Tricks. Fittingly to Risk's penchant for dark and twisted things, including her dancing with snakes, Parlour Tricks is a short film about a seance with an unexpected guest. The film will be looking to get into...
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- 7/14/2018
- Screen Anarchy
NEWSThe great cinematographer Robby Müller has died at the age of 78. His contributions to films by Wim Wenders, William Friedkin (To Live and Die in L.A.), and Jim Jarmusch (Dead Man), among many others, mark him as one of the most important artists in cinema history.Recommended VIEWINGJean-Luc Godard's trailer, which doubles as a charming self-portrait, for the Ji.hlava Film Festival is sublime in ways similar to his latest feature, The Image Book:On the other side of the spectrum of "old man movies," there is Robert Zemeckis' Welcome to Marwen, as glimpsed by this tonally manic and strangely beguiling trailer—a companion piece to Joe Dante's Small Soldiers, perhaps?A rousing trailer for what looks to be an incendiary political film from the American non-fiction filmmaker Robert Greene, Bisbee '17.Museum of Modern Art curator La Frances Hui takes an insightful jaunt through the films...
- 7/4/2018
- MUBI
R. Kelly’s alleged sexual abuse of women and girls is the focus of a new documentary feature film BuzzFeed News is developing for Hulu.
The film will feature BuzzFeed News reporting by Jim DeRogatis — the veteran music critic and radio host who broke the explosive story on Kelly’s alleged sex cult for the site last year — along with deputy national editor Marisa Carroll, who has overseen BuzzFeed News’ coverage of the ongoing story.
Kelly has been accused of sexually abusive and inappropriate behavior toward numerous women and girls over the past two decades, including allegations from at least five women this month. In 2002 he was indicted on multiple counts of child pornography (before he was later acquitted). The R&B artist has never been convicted of a crime.
The documentary for Hulu also will feature interviews with key figures involved in Kelly’s past, including several survivors and the singer’s associates.
The film will feature BuzzFeed News reporting by Jim DeRogatis — the veteran music critic and radio host who broke the explosive story on Kelly’s alleged sex cult for the site last year — along with deputy national editor Marisa Carroll, who has overseen BuzzFeed News’ coverage of the ongoing story.
Kelly has been accused of sexually abusive and inappropriate behavior toward numerous women and girls over the past two decades, including allegations from at least five women this month. In 2002 he was indicted on multiple counts of child pornography (before he was later acquitted). The R&B artist has never been convicted of a crime.
The documentary for Hulu also will feature interviews with key figures involved in Kelly’s past, including several survivors and the singer’s associates.
- 5/24/2018
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
Blizzard Entertainment’s popular online hero shooter “Overwatch” is getting its own line of Lego sets.
The Legos are part of a wider effort from publisher Activision Blizzard to significantly expand its “Overwatch” merchandising program. There will be multiple Lego building sets across various price points. The publisher also recently awarded Hasbro the master toy license for the franchise and it’s planning a wide range of products, including a Nerf line, Halloween costumes, bags, and even a cookbook. There’s also an exclusive Uniqlo apparel line that launched globally on May 18.
Activision Blizzard’s merchandising program also includes a line of esports apparel for the Call of Duty World League, Mlg Network, and Overwatch League, which is the first major global esports organization with city-based teams. The publisher said it’s currently looking for partners across all product categories to develop merchandise for a new era of esports fans.
The Legos are part of a wider effort from publisher Activision Blizzard to significantly expand its “Overwatch” merchandising program. There will be multiple Lego building sets across various price points. The publisher also recently awarded Hasbro the master toy license for the franchise and it’s planning a wide range of products, including a Nerf line, Halloween costumes, bags, and even a cookbook. There’s also an exclusive Uniqlo apparel line that launched globally on May 18.
Activision Blizzard’s merchandising program also includes a line of esports apparel for the Call of Duty World League, Mlg Network, and Overwatch League, which is the first major global esports organization with city-based teams. The publisher said it’s currently looking for partners across all product categories to develop merchandise for a new era of esports fans.
- 5/22/2018
- by Stefanie Fogel
- Variety Film + TV
“Border” (“Gräns”), a troll love story based on a novel by the writer of “Let the Right One In,” has sold to Neon, Variety has learned. The deal is for North American rights.
“Border” is the second feature from Iranian-born Danish director Ali Abbasi. The film deals with issues of identity through a folkloric perspective. It premiered in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section. The screenplay is based on a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, whose vampire tale “Let the Right One In” inspired two hit films, one Swedish and the other a U.S. adaptation.
“Border” tells the story of a border guard (Eva Melander) who has the ability to smell human emotions and catch smugglers. When she comes across a mysterious man with a smell that confounds her detection, she is forced to confront hugely disturbing insights about herself and humankind.
Indie label Neon is barely a year old,...
“Border” is the second feature from Iranian-born Danish director Ali Abbasi. The film deals with issues of identity through a folkloric perspective. It premiered in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section. The screenplay is based on a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, whose vampire tale “Let the Right One In” inspired two hit films, one Swedish and the other a U.S. adaptation.
“Border” tells the story of a border guard (Eva Melander) who has the ability to smell human emotions and catch smugglers. When she comes across a mysterious man with a smell that confounds her detection, she is forced to confront hugely disturbing insights about herself and humankind.
Indie label Neon is barely a year old,...
- 5/11/2018
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Rising Sun, just in case you’ve missed it, is the latest big-money Kickstarter from Eric Lang and Cmon Games. Where Blood Rage was inspired by Risk, Rising Sun allegedly draws its inspiration from Diplomacy, the classic game of empire building and well timed betrayal.
Like all of Cmon’s headline games, Rising Sun features incredible components and offers a table presence that is just jaw dropping. The base game features five different coloured clans, each with ten miniatures in four different sculpts, whilst a sixth clan was available via the Kickstarter. There are also eight oversized monster figures that are incredibly detailed and in most cases, absolutely grotesque.
Aside from the figures, the game features a plethora of exceptional components elsewhere. The board is huge and simply stunningly beautiful, whilst other components like the Kami tokens, the season cards and all of the other pieces are fantastic. The game even comes with plastic coins,...
Like all of Cmon’s headline games, Rising Sun features incredible components and offers a table presence that is just jaw dropping. The base game features five different coloured clans, each with ten miniatures in four different sculpts, whilst a sixth clan was available via the Kickstarter. There are also eight oversized monster figures that are incredibly detailed and in most cases, absolutely grotesque.
Aside from the figures, the game features a plethora of exceptional components elsewhere. The board is huge and simply stunningly beautiful, whilst other components like the Kami tokens, the season cards and all of the other pieces are fantastic. The game even comes with plastic coins,...
- 5/9/2018
- by Matthew Smail
- Nerdly
Tristan Risk is a burlesque dancer, fire-eater, actress, writer and now director. For twelve years, she toured North America and Europe as a dancer. More recently, she has appeared in the Soska sister's American Mary (2012) as Beatress Johnson. In 2014, she was again cast by the Soska sisters to perform in "T is for Torture Porn," in the ABCs of Death 2. Born in Vancouver, B.C., she has continued her acting career in other horror titles, including Scott Schirmer's Harvest Lake (2016) and Elias' Ayla (2017), which was just released. In this interview, Risk talks about starring in some of these roles and some of her upcoming roles. She also opens up about directing her first short feature, "Parlour Tricks." Find out the latest on Tristan Risk and her upcoming projects in this one-of-a-kind interview. (Michael Allen) So, let us just jump into the first question, here. How hard was it to sit in a make-up chair,...
- 4/26/2018
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
13 members join advisory body.
London’s Institute Of Contemporary Arts (Ica), the organisation dedicated to showcasing indie and artist filmmakers, is forming the Independent Film Council, a body of experienced industry that will advise on the Ica’s activities.
There are 13 members of the inaugural council: Tilda Swinton, producer Stanley Buchtal, filmmakers Gerald Fox, Laura Poitras, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Naeem Mohaeimen, James Richards, Martine Syms, academics Erika Balsom and Laura Mulvey, editor Walter Murch, the Nfts’ head of Screen Arts Sandra Hebron, and Sundance Institute’s documentary programme director Tabitha Jackson.
The council will convene once a year as a think...
London’s Institute Of Contemporary Arts (Ica), the organisation dedicated to showcasing indie and artist filmmakers, is forming the Independent Film Council, a body of experienced industry that will advise on the Ica’s activities.
There are 13 members of the inaugural council: Tilda Swinton, producer Stanley Buchtal, filmmakers Gerald Fox, Laura Poitras, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Naeem Mohaeimen, James Richards, Martine Syms, academics Erika Balsom and Laura Mulvey, editor Walter Murch, the Nfts’ head of Screen Arts Sandra Hebron, and Sundance Institute’s documentary programme director Tabitha Jackson.
The council will convene once a year as a think...
- 4/19/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Jillian Welsh remembers her best worst date well. It climaxed in the middle of the night, with the NYPD searching her bag in a subway, and the officers not sure whether to believe her explanation of what they found inside.
What happened next is the focus of our latest episode of “Shoot This Now” podcast, in which Matt Donnelly and I talk about stories we think should be made into movies. You can listen on Apple or Spotify or right here, right now:
The night had started romantically enough — Welsh, who was 20, performed in Shakespeare’s “A Winter’s Tale” with an actor she had a serious crush on. Things got better from there… then much better… then suddenly not so good. Which brings us to that scene in the New York City subway, and officers who weren’t sure whether to trust her.
Welsh’s story has been the subject of wonderful segments on the Risk! podcast and This American Life. We highly recommend both. It’s a story of cops, romance and a stigma that shouldn’t be a stigma. We’ll leave it at that.
Also this episode: We play a rousing game of “Know Your Hemsworths,” and debate the career of Anne Hathaway.
If you like the “Shoot This Now” podcast, feel free to give us a few stars on iTunes or to share it with your friends. And please listen to the full This American Life episode that included the story, and the Risk! episode where Welsh told it herself.
Read original story A Young Actress Has the Best Worst Date of Her Life (Podcast) At TheWrap...
What happened next is the focus of our latest episode of “Shoot This Now” podcast, in which Matt Donnelly and I talk about stories we think should be made into movies. You can listen on Apple or Spotify or right here, right now:
The night had started romantically enough — Welsh, who was 20, performed in Shakespeare’s “A Winter’s Tale” with an actor she had a serious crush on. Things got better from there… then much better… then suddenly not so good. Which brings us to that scene in the New York City subway, and officers who weren’t sure whether to trust her.
Welsh’s story has been the subject of wonderful segments on the Risk! podcast and This American Life. We highly recommend both. It’s a story of cops, romance and a stigma that shouldn’t be a stigma. We’ll leave it at that.
Also this episode: We play a rousing game of “Know Your Hemsworths,” and debate the career of Anne Hathaway.
If you like the “Shoot This Now” podcast, feel free to give us a few stars on iTunes or to share it with your friends. And please listen to the full This American Life episode that included the story, and the Risk! episode where Welsh told it herself.
Read original story A Young Actress Has the Best Worst Date of Her Life (Podcast) At TheWrap...
- 4/18/2018
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
"Every ship isn't for everyone, she needs a particular type of pilot."
We've got an exciting new extended TV spot for Solo: A Star Wars Story that you've gotta check out. It's called "Risk" and it offers some more fun footage from the movie including a brief shot of Han and Lando fighting alongside each other with blasters. It also features Lando introducing the Millennium Falcon and getting called by his droid friend for flirting.
Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in Solo: A Star Wars Story, an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes.
We've got an exciting new extended TV spot for Solo: A Star Wars Story that you've gotta check out. It's called "Risk" and it offers some more fun footage from the movie including a brief shot of Han and Lando fighting alongside each other with blasters. It also features Lando introducing the Millennium Falcon and getting called by his droid friend for flirting.
Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in Solo: A Star Wars Story, an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes.
- 4/17/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
**Before getting into this week's review, I wanted to mention that this column recently won an Australian Film Critics Association Award! My review of Laura Poitras' Risk was awarded the Award for Best Review of an Individual Non-Australian Film from a panel of judges and I couldn't be more chuffed. This column is a labor of love because I love watching and writing about documentaries so I was so happy to see some love of its own thrown back. Thank you to Nathaniel for having it here and to all the readers who follow along.**
By Glenn Dunks
The cult of Law & Order: Special Victim’s Unit is a peculiar one. For nineteen (19!!) seasons, we tune in to new instalments, binge old episodes while sick and in need of comfort television or catch the climax of an episode we've somehow seen several times before. "Oh, I love this one.
By Glenn Dunks
The cult of Law & Order: Special Victim’s Unit is a peculiar one. For nineteen (19!!) seasons, we tune in to new instalments, binge old episodes while sick and in need of comfort television or catch the climax of an episode we've somehow seen several times before. "Oh, I love this one.
- 4/10/2018
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
Although I am fortunate enough to have hundreds of childhood memories that I think of with incredible fondness, some have certainly stayed with me more than others. When it came to television in the early 1990’s, access to Sky was very limited and no one had hard drive based Freeview boxes for catch up TV – we had to use video cassette tapes or simply watch live TV.
In my house, this simply meant that I was able to stay up for certain programs as long as I remained quiet and calm whilst making occasional (but not too frequent) observations about the subject matter at hand. Among the programs I was allowed to stay up for were Chris Eubank boxing matches, Fred Dibnah’s chimney demolition program and, when possible, the feature length adaptations of Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe (starring Sean Bean) on ITV. For those who don’t know it,...
In my house, this simply meant that I was able to stay up for certain programs as long as I remained quiet and calm whilst making occasional (but not too frequent) observations about the subject matter at hand. Among the programs I was allowed to stay up for were Chris Eubank boxing matches, Fred Dibnah’s chimney demolition program and, when possible, the feature length adaptations of Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe (starring Sean Bean) on ITV. For those who don’t know it,...
- 3/5/2018
- by Matthew Smail
- Nerdly
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ documentary branch has advanced 15 films out of 170 submissions to vie for the final five Documentary Feature nominations.
As expected, Brett Morgan’s “Jane,” Agnes Varda and Jr’s “Faces Places,” two Syria non-fiction features, “Last Men in Aleppo” and “City of Ghosts,” two social action environmental documentaries, “An Inconvenient Sequel” and “Chasing Coral,” and timely Russian doping expose “Icarus” made the shortlist.
Read More:2018 Oscar Predictions: Best Documentary Feature
Netflix landed four films, including “Chasing Coral,” “Icarus,” “One of Us” and transgender filmmaker’s Yance Ford’s black lives matter documentary “Strong Island.” Amazon delivered Grateful Dead movie “Long Strange Trip,” which qualified even at four hours long, as well as “City of Ghosts” and Ai Weiwei’s immigration feature “Human Flow,” which was backed by Participant Media along with Paramount’s “An Inconvenient Sequel.”
Four features were directed or co-directed by women,...
As expected, Brett Morgan’s “Jane,” Agnes Varda and Jr’s “Faces Places,” two Syria non-fiction features, “Last Men in Aleppo” and “City of Ghosts,” two social action environmental documentaries, “An Inconvenient Sequel” and “Chasing Coral,” and timely Russian doping expose “Icarus” made the shortlist.
Read More:2018 Oscar Predictions: Best Documentary Feature
Netflix landed four films, including “Chasing Coral,” “Icarus,” “One of Us” and transgender filmmaker’s Yance Ford’s black lives matter documentary “Strong Island.” Amazon delivered Grateful Dead movie “Long Strange Trip,” which qualified even at four hours long, as well as “City of Ghosts” and Ai Weiwei’s immigration feature “Human Flow,” which was backed by Participant Media along with Paramount’s “An Inconvenient Sequel.”
Four features were directed or co-directed by women,...
- 12/8/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ documentary branch has advanced 15 films out of 170 submissions to vie for the final five Documentary Feature nominations.
As expected, Brett Morgan’s “Jane,” Agnes Varda and Jr’s “Faces Places,” two Syria non-fiction features, “Last Men in Aleppo” and “City of Ghosts,” two social action environmental documentaries, “An Inconvenient Sequel” and “Chasing Coral,” and timely Russian doping expose “Icarus” made the shortlist.
Read More:2018 Oscar Predictions: Best Documentary Feature
Netflix landed four films, including “Chasing Coral,” “Icarus,” “One of Us” and transgender filmmaker’s Yance Ford’s black lives matter documentary “Strong Island.” Amazon delivered Grateful Dead movie “Long Strange Trip,” which qualified even at four hours long, as well as “City of Ghosts” and Ai Weiwei’s immigration feature “Human Flow,” which was backed by Participant Media along with Paramount’s “An Inconvenient Sequel.”
Four features were directed or co-directed by women,...
As expected, Brett Morgan’s “Jane,” Agnes Varda and Jr’s “Faces Places,” two Syria non-fiction features, “Last Men in Aleppo” and “City of Ghosts,” two social action environmental documentaries, “An Inconvenient Sequel” and “Chasing Coral,” and timely Russian doping expose “Icarus” made the shortlist.
Read More:2018 Oscar Predictions: Best Documentary Feature
Netflix landed four films, including “Chasing Coral,” “Icarus,” “One of Us” and transgender filmmaker’s Yance Ford’s black lives matter documentary “Strong Island.” Amazon delivered Grateful Dead movie “Long Strange Trip,” which qualified even at four hours long, as well as “City of Ghosts” and Ai Weiwei’s immigration feature “Human Flow,” which was backed by Participant Media along with Paramount’s “An Inconvenient Sequel.”
Four features were directed or co-directed by women,...
- 12/8/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Pamela Anderson received instant backlash for comments she made about the Harvey Weinstein scandal on “Megyn Kelly Today,” most notably that “you know what you’re getting into if you’re going into a hotel room alone.” She has since expounded on her statement in an Instagram post, and isn’t exactly apologetic — among other things, she said that “my position is not ‘problematic’ because I doesn’t fall in line with the common herd or trend.”
Read More:Pamela Anderson Says Harvey Weinstein Accusers Should’ve Known Better: ‘Don’t Go Into a Hotel Room Alone’
“I’m trying to tell women as a survivor of childhood abuse myself – It is important to be proactive as an adult who knows better – in defending themselves,” she writes. “Don’t get in cars with strangers #rideresponsibly – Don’t go to Hotel rooms alone for an audition.”
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Read More:Pamela Anderson Says Harvey Weinstein Accusers Should’ve Known Better: ‘Don’t Go Into a Hotel Room Alone’
“I’m trying to tell women as a survivor of childhood abuse myself – It is important to be proactive as an adult who knows better – in defending themselves,” she writes. “Don’t get in cars with strangers #rideresponsibly – Don’t go to Hotel rooms alone for an audition.”
Read More:Pamela Anderson Wrote...
- 12/2/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Ahoy there folks! For what is one of my final installments in the annual category/contender rundown, I’m beginning to finish things up by moving on from the big eight categories. Yes, I’m taking a look now at one of the in betweens, or as I call them, the “mini-majors”. That’s where the focus will now be. This time out, that happens to be the rarely boring and highly unpredictable Best Documentary Feature race. Obviously, this is a rather hard one to pin down early on, or really ever, but as always, I’m feeling more than up for the challenge. Take a gander below and obviously keep in mind that this one also will be more fluid than normal going forward, as lots is still to be decided. Additionally, I’ll make up my mind soon about if there’s another category getting this treatment after Foreign Language Feature next week.
- 10/27/2017
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
By Glenn Dunks
There is a knack to watching Laura Poitras’ latest film, Risk, her first as a director since winning the Academy Award for Citizenfour. And it’s not being abreast of the life and controversies of its on-screen subject, Julian Assange. Although that certainly helps to a point, his journey felt to be of little consequence to me in regards to how I ultimately felt about the movie. The film is messy and often perplexing, no better personified by an utterly surreal and bizarre sequence with Lady Gaga that is not kind to either of its participants.
Rather, the key to Risk’s success is to not view the film as about Assange at all, but rather Poitras herself. Sure, the WikiLeaks co-founder is front and centre in the film, and documenting him was the modus operandi, but as a documentary subject he’s often far less interesting...
There is a knack to watching Laura Poitras’ latest film, Risk, her first as a director since winning the Academy Award for Citizenfour. And it’s not being abreast of the life and controversies of its on-screen subject, Julian Assange. Although that certainly helps to a point, his journey felt to be of little consequence to me in regards to how I ultimately felt about the movie. The film is messy and often perplexing, no better personified by an utterly surreal and bizarre sequence with Lady Gaga that is not kind to either of its participants.
Rather, the key to Risk’s success is to not view the film as about Assange at all, but rather Poitras herself. Sure, the WikiLeaks co-founder is front and centre in the film, and documenting him was the modus operandi, but as a documentary subject he’s often far less interesting...
- 10/3/2017
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
Agnes Varda, Errol Morris, Steve James and Laura Poitras are among the documentary filmmakers who have placed films on Doc NYC’s 2017 Short List of the year’s most awards-worthy nonfiction films, an annual list that typically serves as an accurate predictor of docs that will receive Oscar attention. The list includes Varda and Jr’s wry travelogue, “Faces Places”; Morris’ look at portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman, “The B-Side”; James’ chronicle of a small family firm that became the only bank prosecuted in the aftermath of the financial meltdown, “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail”; and Poitras’ film about Julian Assange,...
- 9/28/2017
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Doc NYC, America’s largest documentary festival, has announced its 15-film Short List of Oscar contenders along with its opening-night selection, “The Final Year,” in which Greg Barker follows key members of Barack Obama’s administration during their last year in office. The festival runs November 9-16.
Thom Powers, Doc NYC’s artistic director as well as documentary programmer for Tiff, oversees curation of the Short List of films that may be in the running for the Academy Award for Best Documentary feature. This year contains a spectrum of funders and distributors, including four from Netflix — and none from HBO.
Historically, most Doc NYC picks do land on the Academy’s official 15-film Oscar Short List. For the past four years, the Short List had nine to 10 titles overlap, with four or five titles going on to Oscar nominations. For the last six years, Doc NYC screened the documentary that...
Thom Powers, Doc NYC’s artistic director as well as documentary programmer for Tiff, oversees curation of the Short List of films that may be in the running for the Academy Award for Best Documentary feature. This year contains a spectrum of funders and distributors, including four from Netflix — and none from HBO.
Historically, most Doc NYC picks do land on the Academy’s official 15-film Oscar Short List. For the past four years, the Short List had nine to 10 titles overlap, with four or five titles going on to Oscar nominations. For the last six years, Doc NYC screened the documentary that...
- 9/28/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Doc NYC, America’s largest documentary festival, has announced its 15-film Short List of Oscar contenders along with its opening-night selection, “The Final Year,” in which Greg Barker follows key members of Barack Obama’s administration during their last year in office. The festival runs November 9-16.
Thom Powers, Doc NYC’s artistic director as well as documentary programmer for Tiff, oversees curation of the Short List of films that may be in the running for the Academy Award for Best Documentary feature. This year contains a spectrum of funders and distributors, including four from Netflix — and none from HBO.
Historically, most Doc NYC picks do land on the Academy’s official 15-film Oscar Short List. For the past four years, the Short List had nine to 10 titles overlap, with four or five titles going on to Oscar nominations. For the last six years, Doc NYC screened the documentary that...
Thom Powers, Doc NYC’s artistic director as well as documentary programmer for Tiff, oversees curation of the Short List of films that may be in the running for the Academy Award for Best Documentary feature. This year contains a spectrum of funders and distributors, including four from Netflix — and none from HBO.
Historically, most Doc NYC picks do land on the Academy’s official 15-film Oscar Short List. For the past four years, the Short List had nine to 10 titles overlap, with four or five titles going on to Oscar nominations. For the last six years, Doc NYC screened the documentary that...
- 9/28/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Dave Lawrie Aug 4, 2017
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Did you know that around 20 percent of the films released in the UK are documentaries? It’s a surprisingly large figure. I think the reason behind it might be that ‘documentary’ is considered to be a genre in and of itself. “And the Academy Award for best documentary feature goes to…”. They're all lumped into the same bracket. Also, they're relatively cheap to make and can be assembled independently by a team of only a few people. Success at the box office is often down on the priorities list for creators wanting to spread a message, tell a story or get a point across and, when they only need to recoup that small amount to be considered successful, documentary cinema becomes fertile ground for ambitions to grow in.
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Blackfish, The Act Of Killing - we celebrate the great documentaries distributed by the UK's Dogwoof...
Did you know that around 20 percent of the films released in the UK are documentaries? It’s a surprisingly large figure. I think the reason behind it might be that ‘documentary’ is considered to be a genre in and of itself. “And the Academy Award for best documentary feature goes to…”. They're all lumped into the same bracket. Also, they're relatively cheap to make and can be assembled independently by a team of only a few people. Success at the box office is often down on the priorities list for creators wanting to spread a message, tell a story or get a point across and, when they only need to recoup that small amount to be considered successful, documentary cinema becomes fertile ground for ambitions to grow in.
See related Preacher...
- 8/3/2017
- Den of Geek
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