These documentaries follow Yugoslav president Tito’s cameraman, who was sent to film liberation wars in Africa and Asia as part of Yugoslavia’s global anti-colonialist push
It’s well worth watching this pair of pensive documentaries by Mila Turajlić, which, through the person of Marshal Tito’s preferred cameraman Stevan Labudović, highlight and question the role of film-making in forging political narratives. The first, Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels (★★★★☆), is directly focused on the lenser’s own history; in particular a key episode when, as part of Yugoslavia’s global anti-colonialist push, he was sent to cover the unfolding Algerian war of independence.
A one-time teenage partisan with a lust for adventure, Labudović, as Tito’s envoy, enjoyed unrestricted access to the Armée de Libération Nationale (Aln). Willing to put himself in the firing line to get the key angles on the fight against the French, he became...
It’s well worth watching this pair of pensive documentaries by Mila Turajlić, which, through the person of Marshal Tito’s preferred cameraman Stevan Labudović, highlight and question the role of film-making in forging political narratives. The first, Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels (★★★★☆), is directly focused on the lenser’s own history; in particular a key episode when, as part of Yugoslavia’s global anti-colonialist push, he was sent to cover the unfolding Algerian war of independence.
A one-time teenage partisan with a lust for adventure, Labudović, as Tito’s envoy, enjoyed unrestricted access to the Armée de Libération Nationale (Aln). Willing to put himself in the firing line to get the key angles on the fight against the French, he became...
- 5/27/2024
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Cillian Murphy is the favorite to win the Best Actor Oscar for his role in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer on Sunday Night. The actor spent almost six months researching and prepping to play the role of the Father of the Atomic Bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer. It was not the first time the actor did extensive research for a role. One such research for a $34 million movie changed him from an agnostic to an atheist.
Cillian Murphy as physicist Robert Capa in Sunshine
In the 2007 sci-fi film Sunshine, Cillian Murphy played another physicist role, Robert Capa. The film takes place in the future and tells the story of a group of astronauts on a dangerous mission to save the Earth by reigniting a dying Sun.
Cillian Murphy’s Belief System Was Changed By His Research For Sunshine
Chris Evans, Cillian Murphy, and Troy Garity in Sunshine
Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle...
Cillian Murphy as physicist Robert Capa in Sunshine
In the 2007 sci-fi film Sunshine, Cillian Murphy played another physicist role, Robert Capa. The film takes place in the future and tells the story of a group of astronauts on a dangerous mission to save the Earth by reigniting a dying Sun.
Cillian Murphy’s Belief System Was Changed By His Research For Sunshine
Chris Evans, Cillian Murphy, and Troy Garity in Sunshine
Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle...
- 3/9/2024
- by Hashim Asraff
- FandomWire
Leo Regan presents more than 25 years of footage of Lanre Fehintola, who documented addicts in Bradford so closely that he became one himself
Back in the 90s, Lanre Fehintola was a talented photojournalist who got hooked on heroin and crack while photographing addicts in Bradford. He started dealing, served time in prison, but never gave up on photography. “It saved my life,” he says in this raw, affectionate documentary directed by his friend Leo Regan from more than 25 years of footage. It’s Regan’s third film about Fehintola – and it’s easy to see what keeps him coming back. As a young man, Fehintola had such life force, such energy; a personality of extremes, he was self-destructive and sensitive, completely intoxicating.
This film begins with Fehintola in the present day, processing his recent diagnosis of lung cancer. Doctors have given him six months to live. “It is what is,...
Back in the 90s, Lanre Fehintola was a talented photojournalist who got hooked on heroin and crack while photographing addicts in Bradford. He started dealing, served time in prison, but never gave up on photography. “It saved my life,” he says in this raw, affectionate documentary directed by his friend Leo Regan from more than 25 years of footage. It’s Regan’s third film about Fehintola – and it’s easy to see what keeps him coming back. As a young man, Fehintola had such life force, such energy; a personality of extremes, he was self-destructive and sensitive, completely intoxicating.
This film begins with Fehintola in the present day, processing his recent diagnosis of lung cancer. Doctors have given him six months to live. “It is what is,...
- 1/29/2024
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
A documentary on revered filmmaker James Ivory is part of an eclectic slate from Min(d) Studio, New York, it was revealed on the sidelines of Singapore’s Asia TV Forum and Market.
The boutique studio, the brainchild of Dev Benegal (New York City), Maya Patel (London and Hong Kong), Neeraj Jain (Los Angeles), came together during the pandemic with a shared vision to tell stories about people and cultures that are often unheard and unseen. Benegal is the celebrated director of “English, August,” “Split Wide Open” and “Road, Movie.”
The slate kicks off with “Ink & Ivory,” a film on director James Ivory (one half of the famed Merchant-Ivory partnership and adapted screenplay Oscar winner for “Call Me By Your Name”) and his vision for an exhibition of works selected by him at The Metropolitan Museum, New York, scheduled for summer 2024.
Feature “Further to Fly,” from a short story by Meera Nair,...
The boutique studio, the brainchild of Dev Benegal (New York City), Maya Patel (London and Hong Kong), Neeraj Jain (Los Angeles), came together during the pandemic with a shared vision to tell stories about people and cultures that are often unheard and unseen. Benegal is the celebrated director of “English, August,” “Split Wide Open” and “Road, Movie.”
The slate kicks off with “Ink & Ivory,” a film on director James Ivory (one half of the famed Merchant-Ivory partnership and adapted screenplay Oscar winner for “Call Me By Your Name”) and his vision for an exhibition of works selected by him at The Metropolitan Museum, New York, scheduled for summer 2024.
Feature “Further to Fly,” from a short story by Meera Nair,...
- 12/9/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
If the Trinity Test was the most historic moment of the 20th century, surely the bombshell box office success that was "Barbenheimer" is the 21st-century equivalent. Ok, maybe not. But "Barbenheimer" did feel somewhat culturally historic in the way it captured our collective attention — and our money. Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" brought in an outrageous $162 million on its opening weekend while Christopher Nolan managed to hold his own with "Oppenheimer" making an impressive $82 million without the aid of brand recognition or existing IP.
Still, Nolan had the benefit of telling the story of a man the director has been on record as calling the most important figure in history. On July 16, 1945, J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of physicists watched as their efforts to harness the power of Quantum physics lead to the first test of the most destructive weapon ever created. That famous Trinity Test was, as "Oppenheimer" shows,...
Still, Nolan had the benefit of telling the story of a man the director has been on record as calling the most important figure in history. On July 16, 1945, J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of physicists watched as their efforts to harness the power of Quantum physics lead to the first test of the most destructive weapon ever created. That famous Trinity Test was, as "Oppenheimer" shows,...
- 8/1/2023
- by Joe Roberts
- Slash Film
Cillian Murphy plays the lead character in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. An amazing actor in a movie that Nolan himself called “kind of a horror movie“? We’ll take it.
So, in that spirit we thought we’d take a stroll through the Peaky Blinders actor’s resume in both the thriller and horror genres. Hell, the last time Nolan and Murphy worked together they created one of the best horror aspects of The Dark Knight trilogy with the Scarecrow character!
Let’s take a look through Cillian Murphy’s career in the horror/thriller genres…
28 Days Later (2002)
For many of us, 28 Days Later was our introduction to Cillian Murphy. Our full frontal introduction to Cillian Murphy. The camera pans down on a naked man in a hospital bed who wakes up (after presumably being hit by a car) to absolute nothingness. Everything and almost everyone has been...
So, in that spirit we thought we’d take a stroll through the Peaky Blinders actor’s resume in both the thriller and horror genres. Hell, the last time Nolan and Murphy worked together they created one of the best horror aspects of The Dark Knight trilogy with the Scarecrow character!
Let’s take a look through Cillian Murphy’s career in the horror/thriller genres…
28 Days Later (2002)
For many of us, 28 Days Later was our introduction to Cillian Murphy. Our full frontal introduction to Cillian Murphy. The camera pans down on a naked man in a hospital bed who wakes up (after presumably being hit by a car) to absolute nothingness. Everything and almost everyone has been...
- 7/20/2023
- by Mike Holtz
- bloody-disgusting.com
If Danny Boyle stopped making movies after "Trainspotting," he would have already earned his spot as one of the most influential British directors of all time. Since then, he has developed a reputation as something of a national treasure, winning an Oscar for "Slumdog Millionaire" and overseeing the quirky opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics in London.
But is he any good? That's something I'm still not sure about. Far too often he favors flash over substance and his stylistic choices are such a mixed bag. At best, his hyperkinetic flourishes serve the material really well. The rapid-fire editing and nightmarish fantasy sequences in his landmark "Trainspotting" put us right inside the skittish psyche of a bunch of Edinburgh junkies, while the special effects and visions of saints employed in "Millions" effectively evoked the rich make-believe world of its child protagonists. At his worst, Boyle's attention-grabbing techniques can overpower a story,...
But is he any good? That's something I'm still not sure about. Far too often he favors flash over substance and his stylistic choices are such a mixed bag. At best, his hyperkinetic flourishes serve the material really well. The rapid-fire editing and nightmarish fantasy sequences in his landmark "Trainspotting" put us right inside the skittish psyche of a bunch of Edinburgh junkies, while the special effects and visions of saints employed in "Millions" effectively evoked the rich make-believe world of its child protagonists. At his worst, Boyle's attention-grabbing techniques can overpower a story,...
- 12/1/2022
- by Lee Adams
- Slash Film
"Saving Private Ryan" holds a special place in the pantheon of WWII movies. Known for its bloody realism and Janusz Kaminski's Academy Award-winning cinematography inspired by photojournalist Robert Capa's pictures of the D-Day landing, the film shaped the public imagination of the war for generations. Audiences now know it as the quintessential WWII film, but screenwriter Robert Rodat found its inspiration in an entirely different era.
In the movie, three of four brothers in the Ryan family have already perished in action. U.S. Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall (Harve Presnell) has determined that for the sake of morale, they can't afford...
The post The Original Inspiration Behind Saving Private Ryan Didn't Actually Come From WWII appeared first on /Film.
In the movie, three of four brothers in the Ryan family have already perished in action. U.S. Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall (Harve Presnell) has determined that for the sake of morale, they can't afford...
The post The Original Inspiration Behind Saving Private Ryan Didn't Actually Come From WWII appeared first on /Film.
- 6/15/2022
- by Leigh Giangreco
- Slash Film
Ran Tal’s moving documentary “1341 Frames of Love and War” has won three key awards at DocAviv and been sold to seven territories by sales company Reservoir Docs.
Tal took home the best director prize while Nilli Feller snagged the editor award. In addition, the doc won the Kedar Foundation Award for a film inspired by Israel’s history and society, which includes a 15,000 cash prize.
Since its world premiere at the Berlinale Special sidebar of the Berlin Film Festival, Reservoir Docs, which handles world sales excluding North America, Israel, Greece and Portugal, has sold the doc to several territories, including Non Stop (Nordic), Tanweer Films (Greece) and Nos Lusomundo Audiovisuais (Portugal).
A collage of stills taken by Israel’s most renowned war photographer Micha Bar-Am, the doc is produced by Tal and Sarig Peker. Made up almost entirely of archival images taken by Bar-Am over five decades, the doc...
Tal took home the best director prize while Nilli Feller snagged the editor award. In addition, the doc won the Kedar Foundation Award for a film inspired by Israel’s history and society, which includes a 15,000 cash prize.
Since its world premiere at the Berlinale Special sidebar of the Berlin Film Festival, Reservoir Docs, which handles world sales excluding North America, Israel, Greece and Portugal, has sold the doc to several territories, including Non Stop (Nordic), Tanweer Films (Greece) and Nos Lusomundo Audiovisuais (Portugal).
A collage of stills taken by Israel’s most renowned war photographer Micha Bar-Am, the doc is produced by Tal and Sarig Peker. Made up almost entirely of archival images taken by Bar-Am over five decades, the doc...
- 6/9/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Ahead of Sunday’s world premiere of documentary “1341 Frames of Love and War,” which plays in Berlinale Special, Variety spoke to the film’s writer-director Ran Tal, and Israeli war photographer Micha Bar-Am, who is the subject of the film.
In some ways “Frames” continues Tal’s interest in Israeli history evident in his previous work, “What If? Ehud Barak on War and Peace,” which centered on the former prime minister of Israel. Bar-Am was born in Berlin in 1930, but grew up in what became Israel, and across a five decade-long career as a photographer he documented many of the major episodes – in particular the wars – in the life of the young country, founded in 1948.
“I wanted to do two films: one about a player in history […] and the second one should be about the witness,” Tal says. The filmmaker got in touch with Bar-Am, who showed him his archive...
In some ways “Frames” continues Tal’s interest in Israeli history evident in his previous work, “What If? Ehud Barak on War and Peace,” which centered on the former prime minister of Israel. Bar-Am was born in Berlin in 1930, but grew up in what became Israel, and across a five decade-long career as a photographer he documented many of the major episodes – in particular the wars – in the life of the young country, founded in 1948.
“I wanted to do two films: one about a player in history […] and the second one should be about the witness,” Tal says. The filmmaker got in touch with Bar-Am, who showed him his archive...
- 2/13/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Diana Kennedy has been described as “the Mick Jagger” of Mexican food. Director Elizabeth Carroll makes her feature documentary debut with “Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy” (available on-demand) following the 97-year-old author, teacher and chef around Mexico, where Kennedy lives off the grid near Michoacan.
The documentary opens with Kennedy telling Carroll and her Dp Paul Mailman that she has “cooked my way through 80, 90 years of my life.” Viewers immediately get a sense of her feisty side before she starts to reminisce and tell her story. We see footage from renowned chefs such as Alice Waters and Rick Bayless who describe how this British woman became an influence on the way they cook Mexican food.
Dp Mailman tells Variety about traveling to Mexico to follow Kennedy on her hiking trails and how he captured the essence of what makes her Diana Kennedy, nothing fancy.
Did you know who Diana Kennedy was before this?...
The documentary opens with Kennedy telling Carroll and her Dp Paul Mailman that she has “cooked my way through 80, 90 years of my life.” Viewers immediately get a sense of her feisty side before she starts to reminisce and tell her story. We see footage from renowned chefs such as Alice Waters and Rick Bayless who describe how this British woman became an influence on the way they cook Mexican food.
Dp Mailman tells Variety about traveling to Mexico to follow Kennedy on her hiking trails and how he captured the essence of what makes her Diana Kennedy, nothing fancy.
Did you know who Diana Kennedy was before this?...
- 6/24/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Berlin — Giant Brazilian TV network Globo has seen its bet on shorter-format series vindicated by the selection of two of their new series at this year’s Berlinale Series Market.
Distancing itself from the tradition telenovela narrative, one of Globo’s Berlinale players is ‘Unsoul’ a supernatural drama, rare in its nature as it allows its director, Carlos Manga Jr, to explore the narrative beats of the horror genre without loosing a certain melodrama flare so rooted in Latin American tradition.
The series follows the arrival of Giovana (Maria Ribeiro) and her two daughters at Brigida, a town of descendants of a large wave of Ukrainian immigration. She has decided to settle there and rebuild her life after the sudden suicide of her husband, who had deep family connections to the town. As Ivana Kupala, a folkloric Slavic celebration approaches, she is confronted by mysteries surrounding a crime of the...
Distancing itself from the tradition telenovela narrative, one of Globo’s Berlinale players is ‘Unsoul’ a supernatural drama, rare in its nature as it allows its director, Carlos Manga Jr, to explore the narrative beats of the horror genre without loosing a certain melodrama flare so rooted in Latin American tradition.
The series follows the arrival of Giovana (Maria Ribeiro) and her two daughters at Brigida, a town of descendants of a large wave of Ukrainian immigration. She has decided to settle there and rebuild her life after the sudden suicide of her husband, who had deep family connections to the town. As Ivana Kupala, a folkloric Slavic celebration approaches, she is confronted by mysteries surrounding a crime of the...
- 2/27/2020
- by Emiliano Granada
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSWe're saddened by the death of actor Robert Forster, whose prolific and eclectic career included an Oscar-nominated role in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown and Gus Van Sant's Psycho, which is currently showing on Mubi in the United Kingdom. Hurray! At a recent screening of the 4k restoration of Crash at Montreal's Festival du Nouveau Cinema, David Cronenberg announced that he is currently set to write and direct his body horror novel, Consumed, as a mini-series. Recommended VIEWINGThe official U.S. trailer for Russian director Kantemir Balagov's Beanpole, which follows the strained friendship between two women in the aftermath of World War II. The film is having its exclusive online premiere on Mubi in the United Kingdom, from October 11 - November 9, 2019.A trailer for So Close to My Land, Jia Zhangke's documentary about Chinese novelists.
- 10/16/2019
- MUBI
Playtime, the leading international sales and co-production companies behind Olivier Assayas’s “Non-Fiction” and Laszlo Nemes’s “Sunset,” is rolling into Mipcom with its first TV drama slate.
Headed by former Fox executive Virginie Boireaux, Playtime’s TV division has boarded a pair of high-concept shows with female protagonists — “Mental” (“Hp”), a comedy-drama series about Sheila, a twenty-something intern in psychiatry who discovers the burlesque and tragic world of madness; and “Helvetica,” a political thriller mini-series about Tina, a native of Albania in her forties who works as a maid in government offices in Switzerland, and turns into a double agent for the Balkan mob and the Swiss counter-terrorism agency.
“‘Mental’ and ‘Helvetica’ represent perfectly what Playtime is about regarding our international TV ambitions: strong scripts with high concepts,” said Boireaux, who is head of TV sales and acquisitions at Playtime.
“While ‘Mental’ brings out comedy and drama from off-beat situations in a unique setting,...
Headed by former Fox executive Virginie Boireaux, Playtime’s TV division has boarded a pair of high-concept shows with female protagonists — “Mental” (“Hp”), a comedy-drama series about Sheila, a twenty-something intern in psychiatry who discovers the burlesque and tragic world of madness; and “Helvetica,” a political thriller mini-series about Tina, a native of Albania in her forties who works as a maid in government offices in Switzerland, and turns into a double agent for the Balkan mob and the Swiss counter-terrorism agency.
“‘Mental’ and ‘Helvetica’ represent perfectly what Playtime is about regarding our international TV ambitions: strong scripts with high concepts,” said Boireaux, who is head of TV sales and acquisitions at Playtime.
“While ‘Mental’ brings out comedy and drama from off-beat situations in a unique setting,...
- 10/15/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
“Love, Cecil” demonstrates how a documentary can be a magical experience. I went into the film barely having heard of Cecil Beaton, who (as I learned) was one of the most incandescent photographers who ever lived. The reason I state my ignorance in such blunt terms — hey, I’m a film critic, not a photography scholar — is that for me, as I suspect will be the case for many others, the movie’s splendor lies in the sensation of being washed over by an elated experience of discovery.
The documentary tells the story of Beaton’s life, and it’s a moving and majestic one that spans many of the revolutions in perception that defined the 20th century. Yet “Love, Cecil” is rooted in the mind-bendingly eclectic splendor of Beaton’s images. He was a visionary fashion photographer, a fearless journalist of war, an indelible chronicler of celebrity, and — through...
The documentary tells the story of Beaton’s life, and it’s a moving and majestic one that spans many of the revolutions in perception that defined the 20th century. Yet “Love, Cecil” is rooted in the mind-bendingly eclectic splendor of Beaton’s images. He was a visionary fashion photographer, a fearless journalist of war, an indelible chronicler of celebrity, and — through...
- 6/30/2018
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Two of France’s major film companies, Curiosa and Playtime, are teaming up to launch Curious Times, a production label dedicated to premium scripted drama. Under this label, the two Paris-based companies will produce French and European TV projects.
The first project to be developed under the Curious Times banner is “War Photographer,” a mini-series based on the life of the legendary photographer Robert Capa, who lived through three wars and was a witness to all key events of the 20th century.
“War Photographer” was created by French director Gilles Bourdos (“Renoir”) and Israeli screenwriter Yaron Seelig (“Matter Of Time”).
Curious Times is currently developing a slate of high-profile projects with well-established filmmakers, in line with the auteur-driven approach of both Curiosa Films and Playtime.
The two companies previously collaborated on several films, including Claire Denis’s critically-acclaimed “Let the Sunshine In” with Juliette Binoche which opened Cannes’s Directors’ Fortnight last year.
The first project to be developed under the Curious Times banner is “War Photographer,” a mini-series based on the life of the legendary photographer Robert Capa, who lived through three wars and was a witness to all key events of the 20th century.
“War Photographer” was created by French director Gilles Bourdos (“Renoir”) and Israeli screenwriter Yaron Seelig (“Matter Of Time”).
Curious Times is currently developing a slate of high-profile projects with well-established filmmakers, in line with the auteur-driven approach of both Curiosa Films and Playtime.
The two companies previously collaborated on several films, including Claire Denis’s critically-acclaimed “Let the Sunshine In” with Juliette Binoche which opened Cannes’s Directors’ Fortnight last year.
- 5/2/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
As is annual tradition, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has announced this year’s 25 film set to join the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Selected for their “cultural, historic and/or aesthetic importance,” the films picked range from such beloved actioners as “Die Hard,” childhood classic “The Goonies,” the seminal “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” and the mind-bending “Memento,” with plenty of other genres and styles represented among the list.
The additions span 1905 to 2000, and includes Hollywood blockbusters, documentaries, silent movies, animation, shorts, independent, and even home movies. The 2017 selections bring the number of films in the registry to 725.
“The selection of a film to the National Film Registry recognizes its importance to American cinema and the nation’s cultural and historical heritage,” Hayden said in an official statement. “Our love affair with motion pictures is a testament to their enduring power to enlighten, inspire and...
The additions span 1905 to 2000, and includes Hollywood blockbusters, documentaries, silent movies, animation, shorts, independent, and even home movies. The 2017 selections bring the number of films in the registry to 725.
“The selection of a film to the National Film Registry recognizes its importance to American cinema and the nation’s cultural and historical heritage,” Hayden said in an official statement. “Our love affair with motion pictures is a testament to their enduring power to enlighten, inspire and...
- 12/13/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Since 1989, the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress has been accomplishing the important task of preserving films that “represent important cultural, artistic and historic achievements in filmmaking.” From films way back in 1897 all the way up to 2004, they’ve now reached 725 films that celebrate our heritage and encapsulate our film history.
Today they’ve unveiled their 2017 list, which includes such Hollywood classics as Die Hard, Titanic, and Superman along with groundbreaking independent features like Yvonne Rainer’s Lives of Performers, Charles Burnett’s To Sleep with Anger, and Barbara Loden’s Wanda. Also making this list are a pair of Kirk Douglas-led features, Ace in the Hole and Spartacus, as well as Christopher Nolan’s Memento and more. Check out the full list below and you can watch some films on the registry for free here.
Ace in the Hole (aka Big Carnival) (1951)
Based on the infamous...
Today they’ve unveiled their 2017 list, which includes such Hollywood classics as Die Hard, Titanic, and Superman along with groundbreaking independent features like Yvonne Rainer’s Lives of Performers, Charles Burnett’s To Sleep with Anger, and Barbara Loden’s Wanda. Also making this list are a pair of Kirk Douglas-led features, Ace in the Hole and Spartacus, as well as Christopher Nolan’s Memento and more. Check out the full list below and you can watch some films on the registry for free here.
Ace in the Hole (aka Big Carnival) (1951)
Based on the infamous...
- 12/13/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum (Sophie Bassaler)
When one conjures iconic memories from cinema history, they might be of your favorite shot or sequence, but my mind often travels to behind-the-scenes photos featuring director, cast, crew, and beyond. These photographs often have a unifying connection: they come from Magnum Photos. Since 1947, the photographic cooperative — founded by such iconic names as Robert Capa amd Henri Cartier-Bresson — has been responsible...
Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum (Sophie Bassaler)
When one conjures iconic memories from cinema history, they might be of your favorite shot or sequence, but my mind often travels to behind-the-scenes photos featuring director, cast, crew, and beyond. These photographs often have a unifying connection: they come from Magnum Photos. Since 1947, the photographic cooperative — founded by such iconic names as Robert Capa amd Henri Cartier-Bresson — has been responsible...
- 10/20/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
When one conjures iconic memories from cinema history, they might be of your favorite shot or sequence, but my mind often travels to behind-the-scenes photos featuring director, cast, crew, and beyond.
These photographs often have a unifying connection: they come from Magnum Photos. Since 1947, the photographic cooperative — founded by such iconic names as Robert Capa amd Henri Cartier-Bresson — has been responsible for legendary images and now they deservedly are the subject of a documentary.
Directed by Sophie Bassaler, Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum, premiered at Telluride last month and will be debut on FilmStruck this Friday. Along the documentary, they will also be streaming a selection of short films each featuring a different photographer, as well as The Misfits and Voyage to Italy, both featured in the film.
We’re pleased to exclusively debut a clip from the documentary, along with a gallery of Magnum images, which can be seen below.
These photographs often have a unifying connection: they come from Magnum Photos. Since 1947, the photographic cooperative — founded by such iconic names as Robert Capa amd Henri Cartier-Bresson — has been responsible for legendary images and now they deservedly are the subject of a documentary.
Directed by Sophie Bassaler, Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum, premiered at Telluride last month and will be debut on FilmStruck this Friday. Along the documentary, they will also be streaming a selection of short films each featuring a different photographer, as well as The Misfits and Voyage to Italy, both featured in the film.
We’re pleased to exclusively debut a clip from the documentary, along with a gallery of Magnum images, which can be seen below.
- 10/18/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Though he’s currently preoccupied giving Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine an appropriate swan song as the actor prepares to hang up his adamantium claws, James Mangold is already eyeing a very different kind of project. Deadline reports that the versatile helmer will tackle an adaptation of Chris Greenhalgh’s Seducing Ingrid Bergman, possibly to be titled Blood and Champagne, about the heated love affair between actress Bergman and war photographer Robert Capa.
Set in 1945 in post-wwii Paris, the pic will focus on a pivotal time in the Casablanca actress’ life; she would subsequently become a tabloid sensation after launching into an affair with director Roberto Rossellini.
Arash Amel (Grace of Monaco) wrote the script for the historical romance and will also produce.
Blood and Champagne takes the place of drama The Deep Blue Good-By on Mangold’s priority list. That project, starring Christian Bale, was set to kick off production...
Set in 1945 in post-wwii Paris, the pic will focus on a pivotal time in the Casablanca actress’ life; she would subsequently become a tabloid sensation after launching into an affair with director Roberto Rossellini.
Arash Amel (Grace of Monaco) wrote the script for the historical romance and will also produce.
Blood and Champagne takes the place of drama The Deep Blue Good-By on Mangold’s priority list. That project, starring Christian Bale, was set to kick off production...
- 6/22/2015
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
The TCM Classic Film Festival is teaming up with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to showcase a unique slate of programming that taps into Academy archives and distinguished membership to illustrate this year.s overall festival theme of Style in the Movies.
AMPAS will exhibit Hollywood home movies, preserved by the Academy, featuring legendary stars and filmmakers, presented by Randy Haberkamp of AMPAS and Lynn Kirste of the Academy Film Archive with special guests Margaret O’Brien; Steve McQueen.s former wife Neile Adams McQueen Toffel; Henry Koster.s son, Robert Koster; and the daughter of Fred MacMurray, Kate MacMurray.
AMPAS will also present a discussion of how art directors use various items to aid in storytelling featuring members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Art Directors Branch as well an exhibit of sketches and behind-the-scenes photography that illustrate the work of costume...
AMPAS will exhibit Hollywood home movies, preserved by the Academy, featuring legendary stars and filmmakers, presented by Randy Haberkamp of AMPAS and Lynn Kirste of the Academy Film Archive with special guests Margaret O’Brien; Steve McQueen.s former wife Neile Adams McQueen Toffel; Henry Koster.s son, Robert Koster; and the daughter of Fred MacMurray, Kate MacMurray.
AMPAS will also present a discussion of how art directors use various items to aid in storytelling featuring members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Art Directors Branch as well an exhibit of sketches and behind-the-scenes photography that illustrate the work of costume...
- 3/19/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
DEAUVILLE, France -- The 31st Deauville Festival of American Cinema got off to a quiet start over the weekend, overshadowed by the weightier Venice Film Festival that runs almost parallel to it. The glorious weather contributed to smaller audiences at the festival venues, according to some theater owners, but the mood was upbeat in spite of the lack of Hollywood stars, who are expected to show up before the festival wraps Sunday. Pierce Brosnan, making a return visit to Deauville with black comedy The Matador, which opened the festival Friday, provided all the star power to be had in Deauville over the weekend. Brosnan's Los Angeles-based production company, Irish DreamTime, is working on a slate of new projects including The Topkapi Affair, a sequel to The Thomas Crown Affair, and a biopic of photojournalist Robert Capa, who was killed by a landmine in Vietnam in 1954, Brosnan's business partner Beau St. Clair said.
For a hotshot photojournalist, James Nachtwey comes across as a remarkably serene, quite shy individual whose soft-spoken demeanor stands in distinct contrast to the stark, visceral power of his extraordinary images.
Like its Massachusetts-raised subject, Christian Frei's Academy Award-nominated documentary is at its most effective when it focuses on those acclaimed photographs and the process involved to get them.
Closely following Nachtwey over a period of two years, during which time his work took him from war-torn Kosovo to war-torn Ramallah, Frei provides a keenly observed, amply illustrated portrait of the man and his not exactly comfy chosen profession.
Taking to heart noted war photographer Robert Capa's motto, "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough," Frei outfitted Nachtwey's camera with a microcam, effectively enabling the viewer to take Nachtwey's point of view as he must make split-second decisions, finding the one lasting shot in the middle of a burning blaze or a hail of bullets.
Although the majority of his 25-year career behind the lens has been about documenting war, Nachtwey proves equally adept at turning in photographic essays not specifically involving armed conflict. In one highly tangible instance, he navigates the intense heat and blinding yellow dust of an Indonesian sulfur mine, with his stinging eyes barely able to get a lock on the viewfinder.
Determined to figure out what drives this conflicted man -- for whom the irony of profiting from someone else's tragedy is a constant personal struggle -- Frei turns to several of his professional colleagues, including CNN's Christiane Amanpour, insightful Stern magazine foreign editor Hans-Hermann Klare, magazine editor and former girlfriend Christiane Breustedt and screenwriter and longtime friend Denis O'Neill, for possible clues.
But while hearing Klare postulate that Nachtwey "needs that flow of adrenaline and that fear of dying in order to stay alive" might shed some light, at a noticeable 96 minutes, "War Photographer" should have trusted his soul-stirring pictures to do the majority of the talking.
WAR PHOTOGRAPHER
First Run/Icarus Films
A Christian Frei Filmproductions presentation in association with Swiss National Television and Suissimage
Credits:
Director-producer-editor: Christian Frei
Director of photography: Peter Indergand
Music: Eleni Karaindrou, Arvo Part, David Darling. Interviewees: James Nachtwey, Christiane Amanpour, Hans-Hermann Klare, Christiane Breustedt, Des Wright, Denis O'Neill
Running time -- 96 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Like its Massachusetts-raised subject, Christian Frei's Academy Award-nominated documentary is at its most effective when it focuses on those acclaimed photographs and the process involved to get them.
Closely following Nachtwey over a period of two years, during which time his work took him from war-torn Kosovo to war-torn Ramallah, Frei provides a keenly observed, amply illustrated portrait of the man and his not exactly comfy chosen profession.
Taking to heart noted war photographer Robert Capa's motto, "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough," Frei outfitted Nachtwey's camera with a microcam, effectively enabling the viewer to take Nachtwey's point of view as he must make split-second decisions, finding the one lasting shot in the middle of a burning blaze or a hail of bullets.
Although the majority of his 25-year career behind the lens has been about documenting war, Nachtwey proves equally adept at turning in photographic essays not specifically involving armed conflict. In one highly tangible instance, he navigates the intense heat and blinding yellow dust of an Indonesian sulfur mine, with his stinging eyes barely able to get a lock on the viewfinder.
Determined to figure out what drives this conflicted man -- for whom the irony of profiting from someone else's tragedy is a constant personal struggle -- Frei turns to several of his professional colleagues, including CNN's Christiane Amanpour, insightful Stern magazine foreign editor Hans-Hermann Klare, magazine editor and former girlfriend Christiane Breustedt and screenwriter and longtime friend Denis O'Neill, for possible clues.
But while hearing Klare postulate that Nachtwey "needs that flow of adrenaline and that fear of dying in order to stay alive" might shed some light, at a noticeable 96 minutes, "War Photographer" should have trusted his soul-stirring pictures to do the majority of the talking.
WAR PHOTOGRAPHER
First Run/Icarus Films
A Christian Frei Filmproductions presentation in association with Swiss National Television and Suissimage
Credits:
Director-producer-editor: Christian Frei
Director of photography: Peter Indergand
Music: Eleni Karaindrou, Arvo Part, David Darling. Interviewees: James Nachtwey, Christiane Amanpour, Hans-Hermann Klare, Christiane Breustedt, Des Wright, Denis O'Neill
Running time -- 96 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 6/20/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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