Hermann Vaske with 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman and Anne-Katrin Titze on the journey to interview Cate Blanchett for Can Creativity Save the World?: “It started when Cate was shooting The Monuments Men [in 2013] in Berlin with George Clooney. And the Dp was a friend of mine, Phedon Papamichael who works with James Mangold.”
Hermann Vaske’s evermore timely Can Creativity Save The World? (with a lively score by Mark Reeder and Micha Adam) features on-camera interviews with Cate Blanchett, Golshifteh Farahani, Isabella Rossellini, Angelina Jolie, Willem Dafoe, Umberto Eco, Shirin Neshat, Garry Kasparov, Marina Abramović, John Cleese, Salman Rushdie, Luisa Neubauer (of Pussy Riot), Bono (of U2), Oscar Niemeyer, David Bowie, Marlene Knobloch, Sean Penn, Radu Jude, Amos Oz, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Oliviero Toscani, Björk, Campino (of Die Toten Hosen fame), Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Lakshmi Thevasagayam, and Lia Mizrahi Goldfarb (co-editor and production designer of the documentary).
Hermann...
Hermann Vaske’s evermore timely Can Creativity Save The World? (with a lively score by Mark Reeder and Micha Adam) features on-camera interviews with Cate Blanchett, Golshifteh Farahani, Isabella Rossellini, Angelina Jolie, Willem Dafoe, Umberto Eco, Shirin Neshat, Garry Kasparov, Marina Abramović, John Cleese, Salman Rushdie, Luisa Neubauer (of Pussy Riot), Bono (of U2), Oscar Niemeyer, David Bowie, Marlene Knobloch, Sean Penn, Radu Jude, Amos Oz, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Oliviero Toscani, Björk, Campino (of Die Toten Hosen fame), Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Lakshmi Thevasagayam, and Lia Mizrahi Goldfarb (co-editor and production designer of the documentary).
Hermann...
- 4/17/2024
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Paula Weinstein, the veteran studio executive, two-time Emmy winner and producer on such projects as The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Perfect Storm, Analyze This and Grace and Frankie, died Monday. She was 78.
Weinstein died at her home in New York, her daughter, Hannah Rosenberg, told The Hollywood Reporter. No cause of death was revealed.
“The world is a lesser place without my mother,” Rosenberg said in a statement. “She was a masterful producer and a force of nature for the things she believed in, including the many projects that spanned her illustrious career, the stories she fought to tell and the social justice causes she championed.”
In September, Weinstein exited Tribeca Enterprises, which she joined as executive vp in 2013, to work on political campaigns. She earlier was a vp at Warner Bros., an executive vp at 20th Century Fox and president of United Artists.
In 1989, she and her late husband,...
Weinstein died at her home in New York, her daughter, Hannah Rosenberg, told The Hollywood Reporter. No cause of death was revealed.
“The world is a lesser place without my mother,” Rosenberg said in a statement. “She was a masterful producer and a force of nature for the things she believed in, including the many projects that spanned her illustrious career, the stories she fought to tell and the social justice causes she championed.”
In September, Weinstein exited Tribeca Enterprises, which she joined as executive vp in 2013, to work on political campaigns. She earlier was a vp at Warner Bros., an executive vp at 20th Century Fox and president of United Artists.
In 1989, she and her late husband,...
- 3/25/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Performance artist John Bonafede filed a lawsuit against the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, claiming he was groped while performing nude in an exhibit from 2010 honoring the work of artist Marina Abramovic.
This week, 14 years after the incidents, paperwork concerning the case was officially submitted to the New York Supreme Court. Bonafede is seeking to be compensated by the museum for emotional distress, career disruption and humiliation, among other damages.
Bonafede participated in an exhibit from the popular installment from the 1970s called “Imponderabilia” by Abramovic. This particular performance requires two nude performance artists to face each other in respective doorways, causing patrons to have to squeeze past them to enter the gallery room.
During his time in the gallery, Bonafede claims to have been sexually assaulted by visitors five times. After each event, he filed a report with security, but according to Bonafede, the museum did...
This week, 14 years after the incidents, paperwork concerning the case was officially submitted to the New York Supreme Court. Bonafede is seeking to be compensated by the museum for emotional distress, career disruption and humiliation, among other damages.
Bonafede participated in an exhibit from the popular installment from the 1970s called “Imponderabilia” by Abramovic. This particular performance requires two nude performance artists to face each other in respective doorways, causing patrons to have to squeeze past them to enter the gallery room.
During his time in the gallery, Bonafede claims to have been sexually assaulted by visitors five times. After each event, he filed a report with security, but according to Bonafede, the museum did...
- 1/31/2024
- by Morgan Lee Powers
- Uinterview
Willem Dafoe has made more than 150 movies, but in a forced break from filming he leaned into a new role. He talks about art, his new film Poor Things – and gentleman farming
Willem Dafoe is in his apartment in New York, where he is watched over by two works of art. Behind him is an oil painting of his father, a prop created for a film, which required “dynastic portraits” of his relatives. “I liked my father fine, so, there he is.” We are talking on Zoom and he spins the camera round. “But look, even better! Here’s the counterpoint. Do you see that?” To the side of him is a large, lightbox photograph of his friend and occasional collaborator, the artist Marina Abramović, standing priest-like over a naked body adorned with organs. “Anyway, you get the idea,” he says.
Dafoe is less the kind of actor who wants...
Willem Dafoe is in his apartment in New York, where he is watched over by two works of art. Behind him is an oil painting of his father, a prop created for a film, which required “dynastic portraits” of his relatives. “I liked my father fine, so, there he is.” We are talking on Zoom and he spins the camera round. “But look, even better! Here’s the counterpoint. Do you see that?” To the side of him is a large, lightbox photograph of his friend and occasional collaborator, the artist Marina Abramović, standing priest-like over a naked body adorned with organs. “Anyway, you get the idea,” he says.
Dafoe is less the kind of actor who wants...
- 1/7/2024
- by Rebecca Nicholson
- The Guardian - Film News
Willem Dafoe is playing a "dead person" in 'Beetlejuice 2'.The 68-year-old actor features in the cast of Tim Burton's long-awaited sequel to his 1988 fantasy horror comedy film and revealed how he plays a ghostly detective who was a B movie star before his death.Speaking to Variety at the Marrakech Film Festival, Willem said: "I haven't seen any footage yet, but it was fun to do. I play a police officer in the afterlife, so I'm a dead person. And in life I was a B movie action star, but I had an accident and that's what sent me to the other side."But because of my skills, I became a detective character in the afterlife. So that's my job. But it's coloured by the fact of who I was (when I was alive): a B movie action star."Meanwhile, Willem portrays the unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin...
- 11/27/2023
- by Joe Graber
- Bang Showbiz
After skipping Venice due to the actors’ strike, a busy Willem Dafoe is back on the festival trail, attending the 20th edition of the Marrakech Film Festival with his wife, filmmaker and actor Giada Colagrande. He spoke to Variety about his ties to Morocco, why he’s “happy to be promoting and starting to work again” now that the strike is over, and his role in Tim Burton’s upcoming “Beetlejuice 2.”
How does it feel to be back in Marrakech?
I’m happy to be back. Morocco for me is “The Last Temptation of Christ,” a film that was a beautiful experience. And I loved shooting it because it demanded a lot of me and it was really full on. And it was very in the nature of Morocco. And we were working with an incredible Moroccan crew. So that’s my association. I’ve always heard Marrakech was...
How does it feel to be back in Marrakech?
I’m happy to be back. Morocco for me is “The Last Temptation of Christ,” a film that was a beautiful experience. And I loved shooting it because it demanded a lot of me and it was really full on. And it was very in the nature of Morocco. And we were working with an incredible Moroccan crew. So that’s my association. I’ve always heard Marrakech was...
- 11/26/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Four-time Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe had no reservations about joining the cast of director Yorgos Lanthimos‘ “Poor Things” alongside Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo and Ramy Youssef. The film, which won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival in September, will be released by Searchlight Pictures on December 8. “I jumped on board happily,” he tells Gold Derby senior editor Denton Davidson. “I like the movie very much and it was a great experience.” Watch the full video interview above.
Dafoe plays Dr. Godwin Baxter, an unorthodox scientist who brings Bella Baxter (Stone) back to life after she’s been found unresponsive. In committing to any role, the actor states, “The director is very important. Do I want to do those things? Do I want to have that adventure? What do I think I will learn? How will this transform me? All those are in my head. I don’t...
Dafoe plays Dr. Godwin Baxter, an unorthodox scientist who brings Bella Baxter (Stone) back to life after she’s been found unresponsive. In committing to any role, the actor states, “The director is very important. Do I want to do those things? Do I want to have that adventure? What do I think I will learn? How will this transform me? All those are in my head. I don’t...
- 11/20/2023
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
Though Mr Eazi has released five bodies of work and several smash Afrobeats singles over the past 10 years, he’s crowning The Evil Genius, out Oct. 27, his debut album. “I don’t like to use the word album loosely,” he says, and he’s pulled out all the stops for this one, including commissioning 16 pieces of physical, visual art, one for each of the tracks. In late 2020 Accra, Ghana, where Eazi, a Nigerian, has made a home since he was 15, he started to become enthralled with the fine arts after visiting a friend’s museum.
- 9/8/2023
- by Mankaprr Conteh
- Rollingstone.com
Welcome to My Favorite Scene! In this series, IndieWire speaks to actors behind a few of our favorite television performances about their personal-best onscreen moment and how it came together.
When Cate Blanchett first guest-starred in “Documentary Now!”, the two-time Oscar-winner played a part suited for her elite status. Directors Alex Buono and Rhys Thomas needed to cast for Izabella Barta, a Marina Abramović-inspired performance artist whose renowned work includes everything from sitting inside a rotating clothes dryer to flinging her paint-soaked body against a blank wall. Blanchett, no ordinary thespian, was the logical choice. If she can bring immediate veracity to both Lydia Tár, a pseudo-fictional character, and Katharine Hepburn, a very real Hollywood legend, then she can instill comedic credence to a legend of the art world, while perfectly serving the episode’s winking parody.
Her return to “Documentary Now,” however, somehow extends the actor’s range even further.
When Cate Blanchett first guest-starred in “Documentary Now!”, the two-time Oscar-winner played a part suited for her elite status. Directors Alex Buono and Rhys Thomas needed to cast for Izabella Barta, a Marina Abramović-inspired performance artist whose renowned work includes everything from sitting inside a rotating clothes dryer to flinging her paint-soaked body against a blank wall. Blanchett, no ordinary thespian, was the logical choice. If she can bring immediate veracity to both Lydia Tár, a pseudo-fictional character, and Katharine Hepburn, a very real Hollywood legend, then she can instill comedic credence to a legend of the art world, while perfectly serving the episode’s winking parody.
Her return to “Documentary Now,” however, somehow extends the actor’s range even further.
- 5/17/2023
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
“This was a sex club called The Zone. So a lot of good vibes in here,” says Lisson Gallery CEO Alex Logsdail, as he gives a tour of Lisson’s newly opened space in Los Angeles’ ever-growing Sycamore District, the globe-spanning art business’ first outpost on the West Coast.
Lisson found the location after The Zone, which catered to gay and bisexual men in L.A., closed in 2020. Its transformation into a high-gloss art gallery fits into the larger conversion of the neighborhood where it’s located, which Wwd has called “L.A.’s newest luxury retail destination” and the L.A. Times has called “L.A.’s coolest new neighborhood.” The area’s one-time warehouses and industrial shops have in the last few years been renovated to become buzzy retail shops, restaurants and art galleries, including Jeffrey Deitch, Gaga & Reena Spaulings and Carpenters Workshop.
“It’s a great area,” says Logsdail,...
Lisson found the location after The Zone, which catered to gay and bisexual men in L.A., closed in 2020. Its transformation into a high-gloss art gallery fits into the larger conversion of the neighborhood where it’s located, which Wwd has called “L.A.’s newest luxury retail destination” and the L.A. Times has called “L.A.’s coolest new neighborhood.” The area’s one-time warehouses and industrial shops have in the last few years been renovated to become buzzy retail shops, restaurants and art galleries, including Jeffrey Deitch, Gaga & Reena Spaulings and Carpenters Workshop.
“It’s a great area,” says Logsdail,...
- 4/27/2023
- by Degen Pener
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Nadya Tolokonnikova, the most visible member of the artist-activist collective Pussy Riot, is now on Russia’s most wanted criminals list. The Associated Press reports that earlier today a Russian news outlet, Mediazona, found Tolokonnikova’s name on the Russian Interior Ministry’s database, which claimed Tolokonnikova faced criminal charges without specifying what those charges are.
“Oopsie, I was just added to Russia’s federal wanted list,” Tolokonnikova wrote on Instagram next to a photo of herself flipping the bird. Tolokonnikova believes the charges relate to her art.
In 2012, Tolokonnikova...
“Oopsie, I was just added to Russia’s federal wanted list,” Tolokonnikova wrote on Instagram next to a photo of herself flipping the bird. Tolokonnikova believes the charges relate to her art.
In 2012, Tolokonnikova...
- 3/29/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
How do you stage an album like Motomami? Released in March, it put the pedal to the metal on Rosalia’s ride to international stardom. Her third record was a syncretic triumph: a mercurial combination of reggaeton, bachata, salsa, flamenco, hip-hop, electro-pop, Latin-pop, pop-pop – all bundled up in a padded leather motorcycle jacket. It swept the Latin Grammys earlier this year. But all those influences: how would they coalesce in a cavernous arena? Remarkably, it turns out.
Rosalia arrives on stage at Lisbon’s Campo Pequeno in fitting fashion, her presence preceded by the thunderous sound of an engine starting. The crowd follows suit, roaring to life. Rosalia emerges out of a makeshift vehicle; it’s a cohort of dancers, dressed in slinky mesh tops and light-up helmets, who move as one. At another point in the show, they contort themselves into a motorcycle that Rosalia straddles. Think Transformers but sexy.
Rosalia arrives on stage at Lisbon’s Campo Pequeno in fitting fashion, her presence preceded by the thunderous sound of an engine starting. The crowd follows suit, roaring to life. Rosalia emerges out of a makeshift vehicle; it’s a cohort of dancers, dressed in slinky mesh tops and light-up helmets, who move as one. At another point in the show, they contort themselves into a motorcycle that Rosalia straddles. Think Transformers but sexy.
- 11/28/2022
- by Annabel Nugent
- The Independent - Music
Cate Blanchett is one of those rare performers who seems like she can do almost anything, and the trailer for her latest film, "TÁR," looks like it's going to give her the chance to really show off her acting talents. The film was written and directed by Todd Field, who hasn't released a film since the Kate Winslet-starring "Little Children" in 2006. It's been 16 years since "Little Children," but the trailer for "TÁR" certainly sets the filmmaker up to return with a bang.
The film follows an imaginary world-famous composer and orchestra conductor, Lydia Tár (Blanchett), who can control the soundscape of an entire room with just a flick of her wrist. Blanchett has played artists and musicians before, famously starring as an interpretation of real-world singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in Todd Haynes' "I'm Not There," as well as starring in her own "Documentary Now!" episode where she was a performance...
The film follows an imaginary world-famous composer and orchestra conductor, Lydia Tár (Blanchett), who can control the soundscape of an entire room with just a flick of her wrist. Blanchett has played artists and musicians before, famously starring as an interpretation of real-world singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in Todd Haynes' "I'm Not There," as well as starring in her own "Documentary Now!" episode where she was a performance...
- 8/25/2022
- by Danielle Ryan
- Slash Film
Cruz’s eccentric director employs unorthodox techniques to manage lead actors – and polar opposites – Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martínez
It’s clever casting – and very entertaining – to put screen goddess Penélope Cruz in the role of a superstar film director. Cruz is most famous for her working relationship with Pedro Almodóvar; often she’s described as his muse – demeaningly, I think. Well, with this playful satire of the movie industry, Argentinian film-making duo Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat give her all the power in the role of a borderline tyrannical auteur with a bonkers streak (think Marina Abramović or maybe even Björk). Wearing a massive curly wig – made from saucepan scourers, it looks like – Cruz lets rip with a deliciously fun performance.
She plays eccentric director Lola Cuevas, who is starting rehearsals for her new film: an adaptation of a prize-winning novel about the rivalry between two brothers. Lola’s...
It’s clever casting – and very entertaining – to put screen goddess Penélope Cruz in the role of a superstar film director. Cruz is most famous for her working relationship with Pedro Almodóvar; often she’s described as his muse – demeaningly, I think. Well, with this playful satire of the movie industry, Argentinian film-making duo Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat give her all the power in the role of a borderline tyrannical auteur with a bonkers streak (think Marina Abramović or maybe even Björk). Wearing a massive curly wig – made from saucepan scourers, it looks like – Cruz lets rip with a deliciously fun performance.
She plays eccentric director Lola Cuevas, who is starting rehearsals for her new film: an adaptation of a prize-winning novel about the rivalry between two brothers. Lola’s...
- 8/24/2022
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
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For decades, countless Angelenos wondered about the identity of the mysterious blonde bombshell who appeared on hundreds of billboards across town beginning in the mid ’80s, most bearing little but her pseudonym: Angelyne.
A precursor to famous-for-being-famous megastars like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, Angelyne was the ultimate pop-culture tease. Her intention was to pique curiosity, but never satisfy it.
It wasn’t until The Hollywood Reporter‘s Gary Baum published two probing feature profiles of her — in 2015 and 2017 — that her true story was revealed: The sex-symbol who eternally cruised around L.A. in a pink Corvette and seemed to embody the glitz of the city itself was born about as far from that world as one could imagine— in Poland, in 1950, to Holocaust survivors.
Baum’s investigative reporting formed the basis for Peacock’s miniseries Angelyne, starring Emmy Rossum. In the following...
For decades, countless Angelenos wondered about the identity of the mysterious blonde bombshell who appeared on hundreds of billboards across town beginning in the mid ’80s, most bearing little but her pseudonym: Angelyne.
A precursor to famous-for-being-famous megastars like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, Angelyne was the ultimate pop-culture tease. Her intention was to pique curiosity, but never satisfy it.
It wasn’t until The Hollywood Reporter‘s Gary Baum published two probing feature profiles of her — in 2015 and 2017 — that her true story was revealed: The sex-symbol who eternally cruised around L.A. in a pink Corvette and seemed to embody the glitz of the city itself was born about as far from that world as one could imagine— in Poland, in 1950, to Holocaust survivors.
Baum’s investigative reporting formed the basis for Peacock’s miniseries Angelyne, starring Emmy Rossum. In the following...
- 6/14/2022
- by Julian Sancton
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mubi will release Sharrock’s 2015 film ’Pikadero’ in the UK and Ireland.
UK sales outfit Film Republic has sealed deals across its slate of titles at both the Pre-Cannes Screenings and the online Cannes market, including a UK-Ireland streaming deal for Ben Sharrock’s Pikadero with Mubi.
Sharrock’s film won the award for best British feature debut at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2016, alongside awards from Zurich, Kiev and Brussels festivals.
The director has subsequently made 2020 festival hit Limbo, which was nominated for outstanding British Film and outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer at the 2021 Baftas.
UK sales outfit Film Republic has sealed deals across its slate of titles at both the Pre-Cannes Screenings and the online Cannes market, including a UK-Ireland streaming deal for Ben Sharrock’s Pikadero with Mubi.
Sharrock’s film won the award for best British feature debut at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2016, alongside awards from Zurich, Kiev and Brussels festivals.
The director has subsequently made 2020 festival hit Limbo, which was nominated for outstanding British Film and outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer at the 2021 Baftas.
- 7/14/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Documentary festival to take place online, with plans for physical screenings in May.
Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Cph:Dox) has revealed the full lineup for its 2021 edition, which includes features by Werner Herzog, Spike Lee, Gianfranco Rosi and Frank Oz.
A total of 180 documentaries have been selected for the festival, which will take place virtually from April 21 to May 5. Cph:dox also plans to screen a selection of films in Copenhagen cinemas from May 6-12, if the Danish government goes ahead with its plan to reopen theatres. Those titles have yet to be revealed.
The programme includes Lee’s American Utopia,...
Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Cph:Dox) has revealed the full lineup for its 2021 edition, which includes features by Werner Herzog, Spike Lee, Gianfranco Rosi and Frank Oz.
A total of 180 documentaries have been selected for the festival, which will take place virtually from April 21 to May 5. Cph:dox also plans to screen a selection of films in Copenhagen cinemas from May 6-12, if the Danish government goes ahead with its plan to reopen theatres. Those titles have yet to be revealed.
The programme includes Lee’s American Utopia,...
- 3/30/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Copenhagen Intl. Documentary Film Festival, better known as Cph:dox, has unveiled its full program, which includes the screenings of 180 films, interactive art, and 40 live debates and talks with artists, experts and opinion-makers.
The festival offers new films from a number of leading directors. Werner Herzog, Gianfranco Rosi, Shelly Silver, Errol Morris, Ulrike Ottinger, Spike Lee and Sergei Losnitza all participate in the festival with their films, as does Muppet master Frank Oz, who is back with “In & Of Itself.”
As previously reported, Marina Abramovic, David Byrne, and Slavoj Zizek will feature in the discussion program “An Evening With.”
The digital festival will be available on Cph:dox’s digital platform from April 21 to May 5. From May 6-12, a selection of films will be screened in movie theaters in Copenhagen.
Tine Fischer, CEO of Cph:dox, said: “The lineup includes films focusing on new platform economies, the dominance of tech giants, new democratic movements,...
The festival offers new films from a number of leading directors. Werner Herzog, Gianfranco Rosi, Shelly Silver, Errol Morris, Ulrike Ottinger, Spike Lee and Sergei Losnitza all participate in the festival with their films, as does Muppet master Frank Oz, who is back with “In & Of Itself.”
As previously reported, Marina Abramovic, David Byrne, and Slavoj Zizek will feature in the discussion program “An Evening With.”
The digital festival will be available on Cph:dox’s digital platform from April 21 to May 5. From May 6-12, a selection of films will be screened in movie theaters in Copenhagen.
Tine Fischer, CEO of Cph:dox, said: “The lineup includes films focusing on new platform economies, the dominance of tech giants, new democratic movements,...
- 3/30/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
David Byrne, Seyran Ates and Marina Abramovic are among the participants in the digital events; the festival is preparing a programme for the opening of Danish cinemas on 6 May. Cph:Dox, which this year runs online from 21 April-2 May, has announced the Big Digital Live Platform, a jam-packed debate programme with 40 digital live talks and panels with well-established names and new voices. With large TV studio broadcasts and interactive formats, audiences can expect a festival of live conversations and encounters between people with experience and opinions. Part of the live programme is the talk series dubbed “An Evening With”, where audiences can meet international artists, thinkers and activists in live conversations. These events focus on the potential of facilitating change through art, knowledge and engagement, this year diving into solutions to global crises – including, but not limited to, the current pandemic – and the role of art...
American singer, songwriter David Byrne and Serbian conceptual and performance artist Marina Abramovic will be among the speakers taking part in live digital events at documentary film festival Cph:dox.
The Danish event has announced that it will extend its run by 10 days after the Danish government ruled that movie theaters could open on May 6. The main festival will now run April 21-May 12, with industry activities taking place April 23-30.
Byrne and Abramovic will appear as part of the discussion series “An Evening With.” Byrne stars in Spike Lee’s “American Utopia,” which screens during the festival’s program, and Abramovic’s film “512 Hours” will have its world premiere at Cph:dox.
Other speakers include German female imam Seyran Ates, who is portrayed in Nefise Özkal Lorentzen’s film “Sex, Revolution and Islam,” world premiering in competition at the festival. Ates will be in conversation with the Danish-Kurdish author Sara Omar focusing...
The Danish event has announced that it will extend its run by 10 days after the Danish government ruled that movie theaters could open on May 6. The main festival will now run April 21-May 12, with industry activities taking place April 23-30.
Byrne and Abramovic will appear as part of the discussion series “An Evening With.” Byrne stars in Spike Lee’s “American Utopia,” which screens during the festival’s program, and Abramovic’s film “512 Hours” will have its world premiere at Cph:dox.
Other speakers include German female imam Seyran Ates, who is portrayed in Nefise Özkal Lorentzen’s film “Sex, Revolution and Islam,” world premiering in competition at the festival. Ates will be in conversation with the Danish-Kurdish author Sara Omar focusing...
- 3/25/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Festival’s industry activities will still take place online frmo April 23-30.
Copenhagen’s Cph:Dox has extended the dates for its upcoming edition by 10 days in a bid to host physical screenings and events when Denmark’s cinemas reopen on May 6.
Organisers at the documentary festival had originally planned to host a hybrid of physical and digital screenings and events from April 21 to May 2. But with Denmark still dealing with the ongoing pandemic, the government’s latest reopening plan has set May 6 as a tentative date for cinemas to resume business.
This has prompted Cph:dox to extend its 18th...
Copenhagen’s Cph:Dox has extended the dates for its upcoming edition by 10 days in a bid to host physical screenings and events when Denmark’s cinemas reopen on May 6.
Organisers at the documentary festival had originally planned to host a hybrid of physical and digital screenings and events from April 21 to May 2. But with Denmark still dealing with the ongoing pandemic, the government’s latest reopening plan has set May 6 as a tentative date for cinemas to resume business.
This has prompted Cph:dox to extend its 18th...
- 3/24/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Two members of the Russian punk band will appear in court on March 18.
International film and TV professionals including actors Gillian Anderson, Martin Sheen and members of the European Film Academy (Efa) have called on the Russian government to drop all charges against two members of punk band Pussy Riot, as the pair’s trial begins tomorrow (March 18).
Masha Alekhina and Lucy Shtein will appear in court in Moscow, accused of calling for a rally in support of political prisoners. They face up to two years in prison; the pair have been under house arrest for two months already, with...
International film and TV professionals including actors Gillian Anderson, Martin Sheen and members of the European Film Academy (Efa) have called on the Russian government to drop all charges against two members of punk band Pussy Riot, as the pair’s trial begins tomorrow (March 18).
Masha Alekhina and Lucy Shtein will appear in court in Moscow, accused of calling for a rally in support of political prisoners. They face up to two years in prison; the pair have been under house arrest for two months already, with...
- 3/17/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
‘Mama Weed’ starring Isabelle Huppert, is also opening in France.
France, opening Wednesday September 9
The French box office appeared to be on route to recovery in the first week of September thanks to the launch of Tenet and a wider range of titles on release generally. It now remains to be seen if this momentum can be sustained with further US studio releases remaining elusive and the country on high alert following a spike in Covid-19 cases.
French cinemas this week will mainly be reliant on local films to draw spectators.
This week’s biggest release is Jean-Paul Salomé’s...
France, opening Wednesday September 9
The French box office appeared to be on route to recovery in the first week of September thanks to the launch of Tenet and a wider range of titles on release generally. It now remains to be seen if this momentum can be sustained with further US studio releases remaining elusive and the country on high alert following a spike in Covid-19 cases.
French cinemas this week will mainly be reliant on local films to draw spectators.
This week’s biggest release is Jean-Paul Salomé’s...
- 9/11/2020
- by Ben Dalton¬Martin Blaney¬Melanie Goodfellow¬Gabriele Niola
- ScreenDaily
When Marina Abramovic left Yugoslavia as a young artist in the 1970s, she could have hardly imagined what the years ahead would bring. Her homeland—a communist state ruled for nearly 40 years by Marshal Josip Broz Tito—would dissolve amid the geopolitical reshuffling of the post-Cold War era, while Abramovic herself would go on to become one of the most acclaimed, influential, and, at times, divisive artists on the planet.
Her return to Belgrade, after more than four decades of self-imposed exile, is at the heart of “Homecoming: Marina Abramovic and Her Children,” director Boris Miljkovic’s intimate documentary portrait of the artist as she stages her retrospective, “The Cleaner,” in the city of her birth. Produced by Belgrade-based Action Production, the film, which was slated to open the Summer Screen Program of the Sarajevo Film Festival, will have its world premiere on the festival’s newly launched VOD platform.
Her return to Belgrade, after more than four decades of self-imposed exile, is at the heart of “Homecoming: Marina Abramovic and Her Children,” director Boris Miljkovic’s intimate documentary portrait of the artist as she stages her retrospective, “The Cleaner,” in the city of her birth. Produced by Belgrade-based Action Production, the film, which was slated to open the Summer Screen Program of the Sarajevo Film Festival, will have its world premiere on the festival’s newly launched VOD platform.
- 8/12/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
One of the first decisions writer/director Lulu Wang and her cinematographer Anna Franquesa Solano had to make on the “The Farewell” is what aspect ratio they would use to compose shots of the film’s family ensemble, which is often gathered in the same room. When Wang was on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast, she explained her initial instinct was to go with a narrower, taller frame that tended to be the choice for family drama films and that would also highlight the uniquely tall ceilings in her China locations.
“But then we came across this idea of shooting the family as you’d shoot a landscape because that’s really what it was, a landscape of a family,” said Wang. “[The way] to portray the family as a unit and still be close to their faces was to go wider.”
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“But then we came across this idea of shooting the family as you’d shoot a landscape because that’s really what it was, a landscape of a family,” said Wang. “[The way] to portray the family as a unit and still be close to their faces was to go wider.”
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- 1/2/2020
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
In 2019, no movie became a greater flashpoint for cultural debate than “Joker” — and Todd Phillips sat happily at the center of the battlefield. To some, Phillips looked like he wanted to provoke the ire of the moment — the bearded reprobate with a naughty grin and cynical gaze, the Hollywood bro who made those “Hangover” movies and gave up on comedy to avoid the sensitivities of the moment, a Tinseltown huckster straight out of the “Entourage” mold who cared less about the art of filmmaking than contorting it into the ultimate blockbuster coup.
But these readings tend to ignore his roots, and how they set him up for everything that followed. Phillips’ origin story has been obscured by the sheer scale of his commercial successes, and even he’s reticent to look back. “People don’t always know about my beginnings, and I get it,” Phillips told me when we met...
But these readings tend to ignore his roots, and how they set him up for everything that followed. Phillips’ origin story has been obscured by the sheer scale of his commercial successes, and even he’s reticent to look back. “People don’t always know about my beginnings, and I get it,” Phillips told me when we met...
- 1/1/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
When director Greta Gerwig introduces each of the four March sisters, at the beginning of her adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women,” each has already gone off in her own direction of adulthood. Even when the illness of the youngest sister Beth (Eliza Scanlen) brings them back home, the four sisters are never again reunited.
“They’re never all together again, not the four of them,” said Gerwig when she was a guest on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “When I realized that about the book, once they are in their separate lives that’s it, I found that unbearably heartbreaking. I thought, ‘Oh, the thing you miss is already gone.'”
Gerwig plays with time in structuring her adaptation, starting with the sisters on their own in early adulthood, and then flashing back seven years to when they were living in the family home as teenagers. In essence,...
“They’re never all together again, not the four of them,” said Gerwig when she was a guest on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “When I realized that about the book, once they are in their separate lives that’s it, I found that unbearably heartbreaking. I thought, ‘Oh, the thing you miss is already gone.'”
Gerwig plays with time in structuring her adaptation, starting with the sisters on their own in early adulthood, and then flashing back seven years to when they were living in the family home as teenagers. In essence,...
- 12/26/2019
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Right on the first page of the script for “1917,” director Sam Mendes announced his cinematic intentions: “The following script takes place in real time, and – with the exception of one moment – is written and designed to be shot in one single continuous take.”
It’s a cool-sounding concept, but the difference between it being a gimmick versus an effective storytelling device required tremendous planning, a huge part of which rested on Mendes long-standing collaboration with cinematographer Roger Deakins. Deakins and Mendes were recently on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast to discuss how they pulled it off.
“The big conversation with Roger really was about how the camera moved and when, and what determined its movement,” said Mendes. “Somehow we wanted the relationship between [the characters], the land and the camera to be this constantly evolving and flowing shape. And at the same time, we didn’t want the audience to think...
It’s a cool-sounding concept, but the difference between it being a gimmick versus an effective storytelling device required tremendous planning, a huge part of which rested on Mendes long-standing collaboration with cinematographer Roger Deakins. Deakins and Mendes were recently on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast to discuss how they pulled it off.
“The big conversation with Roger really was about how the camera moved and when, and what determined its movement,” said Mendes. “Somehow we wanted the relationship between [the characters], the land and the camera to be this constantly evolving and flowing shape. And at the same time, we didn’t want the audience to think...
- 12/23/2019
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Quentin Tarantino’s collaboration with his “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” cinematographer Robert Richardson started on “Kill Bill,” but it didn’t begin in the most conventional way. With “Kill Bill” Tarantino was referencing four distinct aesthetic styles of filmmaking: Shaw Brothers kung fu, pulpy 1970s samurai films, Japanese anime, and Spaghetti Westerns. When Tarantino was on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast along with Richardson, he explained that he wanted to take a different approach to how he handled the film’s various styles.
“Initially putting the idea together in my mind, I had a whole hodgepodge idea of the movie [of] compartmentalizing the whole damn thing,” said Tarantino. “I even had an idea of hiring four composers to do different sections, nobody was into that idea. [Laughs] And at first I had the idea of hiring two different cinematographers and then I did.”
Tarantino hired Hong Kong cinematographer Arthur Wong...
“Initially putting the idea together in my mind, I had a whole hodgepodge idea of the movie [of] compartmentalizing the whole damn thing,” said Tarantino. “I even had an idea of hiring four composers to do different sections, nobody was into that idea. [Laughs] And at first I had the idea of hiring two different cinematographers and then I did.”
Tarantino hired Hong Kong cinematographer Arthur Wong...
- 12/20/2019
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
[Editor’s note: This post and podcast contain spoilers for Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out.”]
Filmmaker Rian Johnson grew up reading and watching Agatha Christie-style mysteries. With his “Knives Out,” he wanted to translate his love of the whodunit in the form of a modern update, but he also went into the creative process fully aware of some of the inherent flaws and difficulties with the genre itself.
“As much as I love Agatha Christie’s books, in a lot of them there does hit a point about three-quarters of the way through where you start to flag,” said Johnson when he was a guest on the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “And you start to feel like, ‘Ah, yeah, okay, we just keep gathering clues, I’m never going to guess this. Let’s just get to the point where the detective gives me the solution.'”
Hitchcock, who hated the whodunit, defined this problem as the difference between audience surprise versus what he did,...
Filmmaker Rian Johnson grew up reading and watching Agatha Christie-style mysteries. With his “Knives Out,” he wanted to translate his love of the whodunit in the form of a modern update, but he also went into the creative process fully aware of some of the inherent flaws and difficulties with the genre itself.
“As much as I love Agatha Christie’s books, in a lot of them there does hit a point about three-quarters of the way through where you start to flag,” said Johnson when he was a guest on the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “And you start to feel like, ‘Ah, yeah, okay, we just keep gathering clues, I’m never going to guess this. Let’s just get to the point where the detective gives me the solution.'”
Hitchcock, who hated the whodunit, defined this problem as the difference between audience surprise versus what he did,...
- 12/5/2019
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
In Body Of Truth Evelyn Schels explores the lives and works of Marina Abramović, Sigalit Landau, Shirin Neshat, and Katharina Sieverding Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
As the tenth annual Doc NYC Closing Night selection, Ebs Burnough’s The Capote Tapes (based on audio recordings by George Plimpton of Truman Capote) was screening at Sva Theatre 1, I attended the international première of Evelyn Schels’ Body Of Truth, screening in Sva Theatre 2.
Shot by Börres Weiffenbach (Margarethe von Trotta’s Searching For Ingmar Bergman), edited by Ulrike Tortora (Nina Wesemann’s Kids) and with a score by Christoph Rinnert (Schels’ Georg Baselitz), Body Of Truth explores the lives and work of four artists - Marina Abramovic, Shirin Neshat, Sigalit Landau, and Katharina Sieverding.
Marina Abramović with Klaus Biesenbach at the Gotham Awards for Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
At Cinépolis Chelsea, Evelyn Schels and producer Arek Gielnik (Isabella Sandri’s An Uncertain.
As the tenth annual Doc NYC Closing Night selection, Ebs Burnough’s The Capote Tapes (based on audio recordings by George Plimpton of Truman Capote) was screening at Sva Theatre 1, I attended the international première of Evelyn Schels’ Body Of Truth, screening in Sva Theatre 2.
Shot by Börres Weiffenbach (Margarethe von Trotta’s Searching For Ingmar Bergman), edited by Ulrike Tortora (Nina Wesemann’s Kids) and with a score by Christoph Rinnert (Schels’ Georg Baselitz), Body Of Truth explores the lives and work of four artists - Marina Abramovic, Shirin Neshat, Sigalit Landau, and Katharina Sieverding.
Marina Abramović with Klaus Biesenbach at the Gotham Awards for Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
At Cinépolis Chelsea, Evelyn Schels and producer Arek Gielnik (Isabella Sandri’s An Uncertain.
- 11/18/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
"There is energy in abundance everywhere on the planet." Vision Films has unveiled an official trailer for an indie documentary titled Teslafy Me, made my Slovenian filmmaker Janja Glogovac. The film takes a closer look at the iconic inventor / technological mastermind Nikola Tesla, born in in 1856 and raised in the Austrian Empire before coming to America. A vision for a world free of pollution and climate problems, with energy available in abundance - are we ready to take up legacy of ingenious inventor Nikola Tesla? By now (thanks to The Prestige and Elon Musk's car company) we all know about Tesla and his legacy, despite the fact that the history books don't spend much time on him. The film features William Terbo, Branko Terzič, Leonardo DiCaprio, Marina Abramovic and also Gramatik. Here's the official trailer for Janja Glogovac's documentary Teslafy Me, direct ...
- 11/6/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Roster includes docs on Banksy, Nikola Tesla, Rolling Stones.
Vision Films is lining up an Afm sales slate that includes female biker thriller Nation’s Fire starring Krista Grotte Saxon and Bruce Dern, as well as documentaries on Nikola Tesla, legendary street artist Banksy, and a market screening of crime thriller Adverse starring Mickey Rourke.
Teknocentric’s female-centred biker action film Nation’s Fire stars Saxon, Gil Bellows and Dern and follows the former leader of a female motorcycle club who reunites with her gang to seek retribution after her son is killed in a school shooting. Thomas J. Churchill directed,...
Vision Films is lining up an Afm sales slate that includes female biker thriller Nation’s Fire starring Krista Grotte Saxon and Bruce Dern, as well as documentaries on Nikola Tesla, legendary street artist Banksy, and a market screening of crime thriller Adverse starring Mickey Rourke.
Teknocentric’s female-centred biker action film Nation’s Fire stars Saxon, Gil Bellows and Dern and follows the former leader of a female motorcycle club who reunites with her gang to seek retribution after her son is killed in a school shooting. Thomas J. Churchill directed,...
- 10/29/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Roster includes docs on Banksy, Nikola Tesla, Rolling Stones.
Vision Films is lining up an Afm sales slate that includes female biker thriller Nation’s Fire starring Krista Grotte Saxon and Bruce Dern, as well as documentaries on Nikola Tesla, legendary street artist Banksy, and a market screening of crime thriller Adverse starring Mickey Rourke.
Teknocentric’s female-centred biker action film Nation’s Fire stars Saxon, Gil Bellows and Dern and follows the former leader of a female motorcycle club who reunites with her gang to seek retribution after her son is killed in a school shooting. Thomas J. Churchill directed,...
Vision Films is lining up an Afm sales slate that includes female biker thriller Nation’s Fire starring Krista Grotte Saxon and Bruce Dern, as well as documentaries on Nikola Tesla, legendary street artist Banksy, and a market screening of crime thriller Adverse starring Mickey Rourke.
Teknocentric’s female-centred biker action film Nation’s Fire stars Saxon, Gil Bellows and Dern and follows the former leader of a female motorcycle club who reunites with her gang to seek retribution after her son is killed in a school shooting. Thomas J. Churchill directed,...
- 10/29/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Roster includes docs on Banksy, Nikola Tesla, Rolling Stones.
Vision Films is lining up an Afm sales slate that includes a market screening of crime thriller Adverse starring Mickey Rourke and Sea Astin, as well as documentaries on Nikola Tesla, legendary street artist Banksy, and The Rolling Stones.
Adverse also stars Lou Diamond Phillips, Penelope Ann Miller, Thomas Ian Nicholas, and Andrew Keegan. Brian A. Metcalf wrote and directed the story about a ride-share driver with a questionable past who attempts to pay off a crime syndicate to save his sister. Metcalf, Thomas Ian Nicholas produced the Black Jellybeans Productions...
Vision Films is lining up an Afm sales slate that includes a market screening of crime thriller Adverse starring Mickey Rourke and Sea Astin, as well as documentaries on Nikola Tesla, legendary street artist Banksy, and The Rolling Stones.
Adverse also stars Lou Diamond Phillips, Penelope Ann Miller, Thomas Ian Nicholas, and Andrew Keegan. Brian A. Metcalf wrote and directed the story about a ride-share driver with a questionable past who attempts to pay off a crime syndicate to save his sister. Metcalf, Thomas Ian Nicholas produced the Black Jellybeans Productions...
- 10/29/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Cate Blanchett is a two-time Academy Award winner and is featured on the next IFC subversive comedy Documentary Now! In our preview clip, you will witness her esteemed acting chops on full display as she channels her inner Marina Abramovic, a temperamental performance artist with a penchant for theatrics. To understand where the comedy comes from, one must know who Abramovic is and why channeling her intensity was a ripe comedic opportunity for the writers and producers of the IFC breakout series. In this episode titled Waiting for the Artist, Blanchett taps into the Marina portrayed in the groundbreaking 2012 […]
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- 3/5/2019
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Few people could introduce a fake documentary called “Bats— Valley” with a straight face. But if there’s anyone for the job, it’s Dame Helen Mirren.
Clad in a shin-length orange dress, Mirren, studio host of the parody series “Documentary Now!,” stood resolute at her mark and took a lengthy pause before delivering the introductory line, “This is ‘Bats— Valley,'” deadpan to camera — only allowing herself a brief chuckle when the director called “cut!”
“It was a little long, but I wanted it to be frightfully serious,” Mirren said, explaining why she delayed the final expletive.
“Bats— Valley” was just one of multiple mockumentaries for which Mirren filmed intros on a hot August day at Walt Disney Studios. Reading from a teleprompter, the seasoned actress knocked each one out back-to-back, only pausing every so often to clear her strained throat (Adr work earlier that day required “a bit...
Clad in a shin-length orange dress, Mirren, studio host of the parody series “Documentary Now!,” stood resolute at her mark and took a lengthy pause before delivering the introductory line, “This is ‘Bats— Valley,'” deadpan to camera — only allowing herself a brief chuckle when the director called “cut!”
“It was a little long, but I wanted it to be frightfully serious,” Mirren said, explaining why she delayed the final expletive.
“Bats— Valley” was just one of multiple mockumentaries for which Mirren filmed intros on a hot August day at Walt Disney Studios. Reading from a teleprompter, the seasoned actress knocked each one out back-to-back, only pausing every so often to clear her strained throat (Adr work earlier that day required “a bit...
- 2/8/2019
- by Christi Carras
- Variety Film + TV
When you think about TV in February, it’s usually: Super Bowl and the Oscars. But there’s plenty going in between the universe’s last two monocultural events: Showtime brings a pair of inimitable personalities to late night; IFC panders to the documentary geeks with a new season of a certified cult hit; and HBO takes a long, hard look at prison life in America. Meanwhile, ABC and NBC will compete for a slice of the action procedural pie, and Elvis Presley will receive a reverent tribute from the...
- 1/31/2019
- by Charles Bramesco
- Rollingstone.com
What’s shaking this week in the world of trailers, you ask? How about the first official clip of the new live-action Spider-Man movie; a look at the next season of IFC’s brilliant parody series Documentary Now; the first official promo for a black metal biopic; a new Soderbergh movie (!); the third John Wick movie (!!!); and a cryptic teaser for … another Ghostbusters reboot?! Here’s your trailer round-up of the week.
Documentary Now!, Season 3
The greatest TV show (ridiculously meticulous parodies of actual legendary documentaries division) returns! Fred Armisen...
Documentary Now!, Season 3
The greatest TV show (ridiculously meticulous parodies of actual legendary documentaries division) returns! Fred Armisen...
- 1/19/2019
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Fred Armisen, Bill Hader and more spoof bowlers, music producers, performance artists and more in the trailer for Season Three – or Season 52, by their count – of Documentary Now. The show returns to IFC February 20th.
The minute-long clip offers quick looks at the show’s next slate of parodies and myriad guest stars. Among the most prominent is an episode titled, “Waiting for the Artist,” a play on the 2012 Marina Abramovic doc, The Artist Is Present, which will star Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett as Izabella Barta and Armisen as her estranged lover,...
The minute-long clip offers quick looks at the show’s next slate of parodies and myriad guest stars. Among the most prominent is an episode titled, “Waiting for the Artist,” a play on the 2012 Marina Abramovic doc, The Artist Is Present, which will star Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett as Izabella Barta and Armisen as her estranged lover,...
- 1/17/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The latest season of “Documentary Now!” has Cate Blanchett playing a Marina Abramovic-style performance artist. It has Taran Killam and John Mulaney in a riff on “Original Cast Album: Company.” Owen Wilson pops up in a comedic reworked version of “Wild Wild Country.” There’s not much else to say, really, that would convince on-the-fence viewers that the latest season of IFC’s doc parody series is something to get excited about.
For those who somehow need a little more visual proof, the network revealed the first look at the six episodes that make up this season.
The show-within-a-show is now in its “52nd” season, offering up very specific twists on existing documentary classics. Aside from the aforementioned films getting the “Documentary Now!” treatment, this upcoming batch of episodes also includes a pre-“30 for 30” look at pro bowling, starring Bobby Moynihan, Michael C. Hall, and Tim Robinson.
In true “Documentary Now!
For those who somehow need a little more visual proof, the network revealed the first look at the six episodes that make up this season.
The show-within-a-show is now in its “52nd” season, offering up very specific twists on existing documentary classics. Aside from the aforementioned films getting the “Documentary Now!” treatment, this upcoming batch of episodes also includes a pre-“30 for 30” look at pro bowling, starring Bobby Moynihan, Michael C. Hall, and Tim Robinson.
In true “Documentary Now!
- 1/17/2019
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
The magic of writer-director Melissa B. Miller Costanzo’s “All These Small Moments” can be found within the intimacy of the scenarios, the authenticity of her earnest characterizations, and the accessibility of the actors’ honest performances. In her deftly polished directorial debut, Costanzo dovetails the primary story about a teen’s coming of age with a secondary story about a marriage tenuously tied together. Though this sweet, subtle, and sentimental work is a smidge too simplistic in narrative design, it wins over any resistance with its quiet refinement and heartrending insight.
It’s a tumultuous time for the Sheffield family — particularly for high-schooler Howie (Brendan Meyer), who’s in a transitional phase, caught between teenage anxieties and the onset of adult ones. His parents, Carla (Molly Ringwald) and Tom (Brian d’Arcy James), have hit a rough patch in their marriage and are on the brink of divorce. They bicker constantly,...
It’s a tumultuous time for the Sheffield family — particularly for high-schooler Howie (Brendan Meyer), who’s in a transitional phase, caught between teenage anxieties and the onset of adult ones. His parents, Carla (Molly Ringwald) and Tom (Brian d’Arcy James), have hit a rough patch in their marriage and are on the brink of divorce. They bicker constantly,...
- 1/17/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s film and visual art exhibition has assumed near-mythic status as one of the strangest endeavours in European film history.
Dau, the long-gestating and controversial series of feature films and visual art projects and live installations by Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovsky, is gearing up to launch in the neighbouring Theatre du Chatelet and Theatre de la Ville theatres in Paris on January 24. The event will run non-stop, for 24 hours a day, until February 17.
The project, originally conceived as a $3m arthouse film biopic about the Nobel prize-winning Russian physicist Lev Landau in 2006, has assumed near-mythic status as one...
Dau, the long-gestating and controversial series of feature films and visual art projects and live installations by Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovsky, is gearing up to launch in the neighbouring Theatre du Chatelet and Theatre de la Ville theatres in Paris on January 24. The event will run non-stop, for 24 hours a day, until February 17.
The project, originally conceived as a $3m arthouse film biopic about the Nobel prize-winning Russian physicist Lev Landau in 2006, has assumed near-mythic status as one...
- 1/10/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
FX has given a nine-episode order to Mrs. America, a timely limited series starring Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning actor Cate Blanchett in her first role on American television. The series hails from Emmy-winning writer Davhi Waller (Mad Men), Oscar-nominated producer Stacey Sher and FX Productions. Blanchett also executive produces Mrs. America with Sher; Waller, who also serves as showrunner; and Coco Francini (The Hateful Eight). Production is scheduled to begin in 2019.
Mrs. America tells the true story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly, played by Blanchett. Through the eyes of the women of that era — both Schlafly and second-wave feminists Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug and Jill Ruckelshaus — the series explores how one of the toughest battlegrounds in the culture wars of the ’70s helped give rise to...
Mrs. America tells the true story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly, played by Blanchett. Through the eyes of the women of that era — both Schlafly and second-wave feminists Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug and Jill Ruckelshaus — the series explores how one of the toughest battlegrounds in the culture wars of the ’70s helped give rise to...
- 10/30/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
A cinematic shapeshifter who never feels like she’s wearing a disguise, Tilda Swinton is one of the greatest chameleons the movies have ever known, and yet even her most extreme performances are rooted in an elemental sense of reality. She’s always equal parts natural and unnatural; intractably human, but always ready to be reborn. Revisiting her best roles almost feels like watching someone perform “Cloud Atlas” as a one-woman show.
To date, the characters Swinton has played include a vampire, a rock god, an angel, an alcoholic, an inter-dimensional monk, a gender-bending English nobleman, a post-apocalyptic Sarah Sanders, a literal ice queen, and now — in a bold new reimagining of Dario Argento’s “Suspiria” — a witchy ballet teacher, a male Holocaust survivor, and a monster who viewers will have to meet for themselves. It doesn’t matter if Swinton is starring in a Marvel movie, coldly seducing Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Beach,...
To date, the characters Swinton has played include a vampire, a rock god, an angel, an alcoholic, an inter-dimensional monk, a gender-bending English nobleman, a post-apocalyptic Sarah Sanders, a literal ice queen, and now — in a bold new reimagining of Dario Argento’s “Suspiria” — a witchy ballet teacher, a male Holocaust survivor, and a monster who viewers will have to meet for themselves. It doesn’t matter if Swinton is starring in a Marvel movie, coldly seducing Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Beach,...
- 10/29/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Courtney Love reunited with her former band mate Melissa Auf der Maur onstage for the first time in six years Saturday at an all-star tribute to the Hole singer.
Love, who was on hand at the Auf der Maur-co-founded Basilica Hudson as the honored guest of the Pioneering People fundraising concert, performed the Hole songs “Miss World,” “Doll Parts” and “Softer Softest” with her former bassist. The two last played together onstage in 2012 at a documentary after-party in New York.
A backing band featuring members of the Hold Steady and...
Love, who was on hand at the Auf der Maur-co-founded Basilica Hudson as the honored guest of the Pioneering People fundraising concert, performed the Hole songs “Miss World,” “Doll Parts” and “Softer Softest” with her former bassist. The two last played together onstage in 2012 at a documentary after-party in New York.
A backing band featuring members of the Hold Steady and...
- 10/28/2018
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
The question that Hermann Vaske has asked for over two decades is a large one. Why Are We Creative? There’s no blanket answer — no right or wrong notion of the philosophical ramifications trying to put your own personal interpretation into words conjures. So it’s interesting that he would end his film with a statement explaining how the thousand-plus subjects he asked changed the way he looks at the world. It’s interesting because we don’t know if that is true. After traveling the world to confront geniuses in their respective fields and creating an art exhibit with pages upon pages of written and drawn summaries of definitions spoken, Vaske hasn’t created any concrete evidence towards the worthiness of the endeavor to himself besides that single line of dialogue.
One therefore has to look past what it is he believes the film has always been. We have...
One therefore has to look past what it is he believes the film has always been. We have...
- 9/2/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Almost certain to be the most polarizing film since “mother!” split audiences between rapture and embarrassment last fall, Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” is a coldly violent seance for the evils of the 20th century, none of which are quite as dead as we might have once hoped. Based on the screenplay of Dario Argento’s giallo classic, Guadagnino’s radical new take is less a remake of the original than it is an estranged sibling — the fraternal twin sister who recognized herself as the black sheep of an already twisted family, ran away from home to become a fascist, and has dressed in gray every day since then. Only by drawing some blood can you tell the two are even related.
As grim and severe as Argento’s film was ecstatic and harlequin, this “Suspiria” offers a richer, more explicit interpretation of that old nightmare; it digs up the latent...
As grim and severe as Argento’s film was ecstatic and harlequin, this “Suspiria” offers a richer, more explicit interpretation of that old nightmare; it digs up the latent...
- 9/1/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Film sells to UK, Japan, Italy.
Hermann Vaske’s provocative and highly unusual new film Why Are We Creative? has racked up early deals for sales agent Celluloid Dreams in advance of its Venice Days premiere today.
Sky has taken UK TV and SVoD rights to the film, while further deals have been done for Japan (New Select), Greece/Cyprus (Feelgood Entertainment), Italy (I Wonder Pictures), Poland (Mowi Serwis) Cis (Inoekino) and Turkey (Filmarti.) As announced already, Rise And Shine is handling German distribution.
The feature documentary, made over many years, includes interviews with multiple artists and celebrities, among them David Bowie,...
Hermann Vaske’s provocative and highly unusual new film Why Are We Creative? has racked up early deals for sales agent Celluloid Dreams in advance of its Venice Days premiere today.
Sky has taken UK TV and SVoD rights to the film, while further deals have been done for Japan (New Select), Greece/Cyprus (Feelgood Entertainment), Italy (I Wonder Pictures), Poland (Mowi Serwis) Cis (Inoekino) and Turkey (Filmarti.) As announced already, Rise And Shine is handling German distribution.
The feature documentary, made over many years, includes interviews with multiple artists and celebrities, among them David Bowie,...
- 9/1/2018
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Why are you creative? It’s the titular question, and it’s a good one. Why. That one word makes the question, that really makes you stop for a second and think. Our question for you is, have you ever wondered what makes your favorite creatives create? Well, if the answer to that is yes, look no further.
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In a new documentary focusing on that exact question by Hermann Vaske, he conducts some 50 candid interviews with people such as David Bowie, Quentin Tarantino, Ai Weiwei, Björk, Wim Wenders, Philippe Stark, Yoko Ono, John Hegarty, David Lynch, Yohji Yamamoto, Damien Hirst, Angelina Jolie, Nobuyoshi Araki, Tarantino, Bono, Nick Cave, Neo Rauch, Stephen Hawkins, the Dalai Lama, Peter Ustinov, Marina Abramovic, Diane Kruger, Julian Schnabel, Jimmy Page, Vivienne Westwood, Takeshi Kitano, and many others.
Continue reading ‘Why Are You Creative’ Trailer Features David Bowie,...
Read More: 55 Must-See Films: The 2018 Fall Movie Preview
In a new documentary focusing on that exact question by Hermann Vaske, he conducts some 50 candid interviews with people such as David Bowie, Quentin Tarantino, Ai Weiwei, Björk, Wim Wenders, Philippe Stark, Yoko Ono, John Hegarty, David Lynch, Yohji Yamamoto, Damien Hirst, Angelina Jolie, Nobuyoshi Araki, Tarantino, Bono, Nick Cave, Neo Rauch, Stephen Hawkins, the Dalai Lama, Peter Ustinov, Marina Abramovic, Diane Kruger, Julian Schnabel, Jimmy Page, Vivienne Westwood, Takeshi Kitano, and many others.
Continue reading ‘Why Are You Creative’ Trailer Features David Bowie,...
- 9/1/2018
- by Jamie Rogers
- The Playlist
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