US premiere set for New York Film Festival.
Neon’s boutique label Super has acquired US rights to Alice Diop’s Venice Silver Lion winner and Toronto selection Saint Omer, one of five films shortlisted for France’s international feature film Oscar submission.
‘Saint Omer’: Venice Review
Diop’s fiction feature debut is inspired by a true story and plays on the Medea mythology about the mother who kills her child. It follows Rama, a young novellist researching her next book, who reflects on her relationship with her mother as she attends the trial of a woman accused of infanticide.
Neon’s boutique label Super has acquired US rights to Alice Diop’s Venice Silver Lion winner and Toronto selection Saint Omer, one of five films shortlisted for France’s international feature film Oscar submission.
‘Saint Omer’: Venice Review
Diop’s fiction feature debut is inspired by a true story and plays on the Medea mythology about the mother who kills her child. It follows Rama, a young novellist researching her next book, who reflects on her relationship with her mother as she attends the trial of a woman accused of infanticide.
- 9/16/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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“Encanto” succeeded with the notion of “no villain, except generational trauma,” and Disney keeps that idea going with the delightful “Turning Red” (Walt Disney Home Entertainment), a young woman’s coming-of-age story that’s a metaphor for any number of growing-up issues, including that moment when the “model” child begins to chafe at parental domination. It’s charming and adorable, and the boy-band songs by Billie Eilish and Finneas have already made their way into the latter’s stage act.
Also available:
“The Batman” (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment) Does a three-hour superhero saga have deleted scenes? You bet your bat-hook, and they’re on the 4K/Blu-ray/DVD release alongside other extras.
“Blacklight” (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment) Liam Neeson in the first of two (to date) 2022 thrillers that suggest that maybe it’s time for him to put down the gun.
“Cyrano” (MGM/Universal) Peter Dinklage gives...
“Encanto” succeeded with the notion of “no villain, except generational trauma,” and Disney keeps that idea going with the delightful “Turning Red” (Walt Disney Home Entertainment), a young woman’s coming-of-age story that’s a metaphor for any number of growing-up issues, including that moment when the “model” child begins to chafe at parental domination. It’s charming and adorable, and the boy-band songs by Billie Eilish and Finneas have already made their way into the latter’s stage act.
Also available:
“The Batman” (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment) Does a three-hour superhero saga have deleted scenes? You bet your bat-hook, and they’re on the 4K/Blu-ray/DVD release alongside other extras.
“Blacklight” (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment) Liam Neeson in the first of two (to date) 2022 thrillers that suggest that maybe it’s time for him to put down the gun.
“Cyrano” (MGM/Universal) Peter Dinklage gives...
- 5/6/2022
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
The May 2022 lineup at Mubi here in the United States has been unveiled, most notably featuring a Cannes Takeover timed with the 75th edition of the festival. At long last, Arnaud Desplechin’s Philip Roth adaptation Deception will arrive stateside alongside Karim Ainouz’s documentary Mariner of the Mountains. Reaching further back into the festival’s history, Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure and The Square, David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible, and Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank will also come to the service.
Their Franz Rogowski series will also continue with Great Freedom and Love Steaks, while works from Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Gia Coppola, Joachim Trier, Jeff Nichols, Satyajit Ray, Takashi Miike, and more will also arrive.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
5/1/2022 | Everybody Street | Cheryl Dunn
5/2/2022 | Love Steaks | Jakob Lass
5/3/2022 | Our Lady of the Nile | Atiq Rahimi
5/4/2022 | Time Piece | Jim Henson
5/5/2022 | R100 | Hitoshi Matsumoto...
Their Franz Rogowski series will also continue with Great Freedom and Love Steaks, while works from Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Gia Coppola, Joachim Trier, Jeff Nichols, Satyajit Ray, Takashi Miike, and more will also arrive.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
5/1/2022 | Everybody Street | Cheryl Dunn
5/2/2022 | Love Steaks | Jakob Lass
5/3/2022 | Our Lady of the Nile | Atiq Rahimi
5/4/2022 | Time Piece | Jim Henson
5/5/2022 | R100 | Hitoshi Matsumoto...
- 4/28/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
May on the Criterion Channel will be good to the auteurs. In fact they’re giving Richard Linklater better treatment than the distributor of his last film, with a 13-title retrospective mixing usual suspects—the Before trilogy, Boyhood, Slacker—with some truly off the beaten track. There’s a few shorts I haven’t seen but most intriguing is Heads I Win/Tails You Lose, the only available description of which calls it a four-hour (!) piece “edited together by Richard Linklater in 1991 from film countdowns and tail leaders from films submitted to the Austin Film Society in Austin, Texas from 1987 to 1990. It is Linklater’s tribute to the film countdown, used by many projectionists over the years to cue one reel of film after another when switching to another reel on another projector during projection.” Pair that with 2008’s Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach and your completionism will be on-track.
- 4/21/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Learning to skin a bunny, actor Sharlto Copley says, is “not pleasant.”
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and now living in Los Angeles, the longtime character actor considers himself a city dweller. Six-foot-tall and bearded, he has a gentle, mountain man–like presence, but Zooming out of his L.A. home in the hills, he’s a far cry from Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, whom he plays in the new film “Ted K.” For director Tony Stone’s imagining of the Harvard-educated math prodigy who ran afoul of civilized life to live off the land in the 1970s and meticulously carry out a string of executions and bombings, Copley had to learn how to do things like skin rabbits, chop wood, and survive in freezing, hypothermia-approaching temperatures.
“I grew up in South Africa where we used to go out in the bush quite a lot, in my generation.
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and now living in Los Angeles, the longtime character actor considers himself a city dweller. Six-foot-tall and bearded, he has a gentle, mountain man–like presence, but Zooming out of his L.A. home in the hills, he’s a far cry from Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, whom he plays in the new film “Ted K.” For director Tony Stone’s imagining of the Harvard-educated math prodigy who ran afoul of civilized life to live off the land in the 1970s and meticulously carry out a string of executions and bombings, Copley had to learn how to do things like skin rabbits, chop wood, and survive in freezing, hypothermia-approaching temperatures.
“I grew up in South Africa where we used to go out in the bush quite a lot, in my generation.
- 2/17/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
A risky experiment with a striking payoff, “Ted K” is an impressionistic attempt to personalize the most unrelatable experience imaginable: life as a killer.
Prolific serial killers are often introduced with media-minded nicknames, making it easier for us simultaneously to separate from them and to connect with them. We look upon them as Other, but remain interested, reading and worrying and wondering until — and well after — they’re caught.
The Unabomber is among the most notable examples, with 26 victims spanning nearly two decades. His incomprehensible violence spurred the largest manhunt in FBI history, and as it went on, we all kept reading, and worrying, and wondering.
Director Tony Stone (“Peter and the Farm”) and his cowriters, John Rosenthal and Gaddy Davis, strip most of the rest away in an attempt to address the incomprehensibility. Certainly, the film’s generically ordinary title is no coincidence. Stone wants us to see Ted...
Prolific serial killers are often introduced with media-minded nicknames, making it easier for us simultaneously to separate from them and to connect with them. We look upon them as Other, but remain interested, reading and worrying and wondering until — and well after — they’re caught.
The Unabomber is among the most notable examples, with 26 victims spanning nearly two decades. His incomprehensible violence spurred the largest manhunt in FBI history, and as it went on, we all kept reading, and worrying, and wondering.
Director Tony Stone (“Peter and the Farm”) and his cowriters, John Rosenthal and Gaddy Davis, strip most of the rest away in an attempt to address the incomprehensibility. Certainly, the film’s generically ordinary title is no coincidence. Stone wants us to see Ted...
- 2/16/2022
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
"My motive: I want to change the world." Super Ltd has debuted the full-length official trailer for the film Ted K, from filmmaker Tony Stone. This originally premiered last year at the 2021 Berlin Film Festival, and it played at Camerimage and the Stockholm Film Festival. Sharlto Copley stars as the infamous madman bomber. The film is an exploration of Ted Kaczynksi's life in Lincoln, Montana in the years leading up to his arrest as The Unabomber. Based on Kaczynski's diaries and writings, it's a kaleidoscopic true crime journey into the life of one of America's most complex and eccentric killers. It features a tour-de-force performance by Copley who portrays the complexity of this unique outsider, raging at the forces of both the inescapable technological society that plagues him and his inner demons. Also with Drew Powell, Travis W Bruyer, and Wayne Pyle. Both trailers are superb, not only gripping but...
- 2/4/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
From the mind of acclaimed director and cinematographer. Tony Stone comes “Ted K,” a bracing, cinematic journey into the tortured mind of The Unabomber. And of course, that Unabomber is played by South African actor Sharlto Copley, known for his work with Neill Blomkamp in films like “District 9,” “Elysium,” “Chappie” and more.
Continue reading ‘Ted K’ Red-Band Trailer: Sharlto Copley Plays The Unabomber Out For Revenge at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Ted K’ Red-Band Trailer: Sharlto Copley Plays The Unabomber Out For Revenge at The Playlist.
- 2/3/2022
- by The Playlist
- The Playlist
Ted K Trailer — Tony Stone‘s Ted K (2021) movie trailer has been released by Super Ltd. The Ted K trailer stars Sharlto Copley, Drew Powell, Travis W Bruyer, Wayne Pyle, Tahmus Rounds, Samantha Jones, Sal Rendino, Bob Jennings, Amber Rose Mason, Christian Calloway, and Keith Barber. Crew Tony Stone, Gaddy Davis, and John Rosenthal [...]
Continue reading: Ted K (2021) Teaser Trailer: Sharlto Copley is Notorious & Reclusive Terrorist Ted Kaczynsk...
Continue reading: Ted K (2021) Teaser Trailer: Sharlto Copley is Notorious & Reclusive Terrorist Ted Kaczynsk...
- 1/28/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
District 9 star Sharlto Copley is Ted Kaczynski in upcoming “Unabomber” movie Ted K, a true crime thriller that has received an official teaser trailer ahead of its February release. Ted K was directed by Tony Stone. The film is said to feature “a tour-de-force performance from Sharlto Copley, who portrays the complexity of this […]
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- 1/27/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
"I'm still plenty angry, you understand, but the difference is that I am now able to strike back." Super Ltd has revealed the first teaser trailer for this film known as Ted K, from filmmaker Tony Stone. This already premiered last year at the 2021 Berlin Film Festival, and it played at Camerimage and the Stockholm Film Festival. Sharlto Copley stars as the infamous madman. The film is an exploration of Ted Kaczynksi's life in Lincoln, Montana in the years leading up to his arrest as The Unabomber. Based on Kaczynski's diaries and writings, the film is a kaleidoscopic true crime journey into the life of one of America's most complex and eccentric killers. It features a tour-de-force performance by Copley who portrays the complexity of this unique outsider, raging at the forces of both the inescapable technological society that plagues him and his own inner demons. Also with Drew Powell,...
- 1/27/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Director Tony Stone digs into the depths of the mind of the infamous American Unabomber Ted Kaczynski with Ted K. A fly on the wall look at what made such a brilliant mind embark on a hermit lifestyle and a 17-year campaign of mail bombing terror which killed three people and injured many more.
By no means does Stone glorify this man’s heinous crimes but you can’t help but feel some kind of empathy with the man, who today could well be seen as some kind of eco-terrorist with a sensitive aversion to the slightest loud noise. Filled with hate for those who embark on destroying the forests around him and the waters he fishes in, and the snowboarders causing a raucous on his land fuels Ted (Sharlto Copley) in his righteous campaign of revenge.
Once a college professor and mathematician, Ted upended his life to get away...
By no means does Stone glorify this man’s heinous crimes but you can’t help but feel some kind of empathy with the man, who today could well be seen as some kind of eco-terrorist with a sensitive aversion to the slightest loud noise. Filled with hate for those who embark on destroying the forests around him and the waters he fishes in, and the snowboarders causing a raucous on his land fuels Ted (Sharlto Copley) in his righteous campaign of revenge.
Once a college professor and mathematician, Ted upended his life to get away...
- 12/8/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Tom Stourton co-wrote the screenplay and stars.
Boutique label Super Ltd has acquired North American rights to Andrew Gaynord’s UK feature directorial debut and Tribeca selection All My Friends Hate Me.
The film received its world premiere in the international narrative competition and centres on a college reunion that turns sour when Pete suspects his friends may be out to get him.
Tom Palmer and Tom Stourton co-wrote the screenplay, and Palmer produced. Stourton stars alongside Charly Clive, Georgina Campbell, Joshua Mcguire, and Antonia Clarke.
Mason Speta negotiated the deal for Super Ltd with Endeavor Content on behalf of the filmmakers.
Boutique label Super Ltd has acquired North American rights to Andrew Gaynord’s UK feature directorial debut and Tribeca selection All My Friends Hate Me.
The film received its world premiere in the international narrative competition and centres on a college reunion that turns sour when Pete suspects his friends may be out to get him.
Tom Palmer and Tom Stourton co-wrote the screenplay, and Palmer produced. Stourton stars alongside Charly Clive, Georgina Campbell, Joshua Mcguire, and Antonia Clarke.
Mason Speta negotiated the deal for Super Ltd with Endeavor Content on behalf of the filmmakers.
- 7/30/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Deals struck for UK, Europe, Asia and Latin America.
HanWay Films has closed a raft of deals on Tony Stone’s Unabomber drama Ted K, ahead of the Cannes Pre-Screenings.
The US feature, which premiered in Berlin’s Panorama strand in March, has been picked up for distribution in the UK and Ireland (Altitude), Italy (Movies Inspired), Scandinavia (NonStop), Portugal (Films4You), Greece (Odeon), Cis & Baltics (Paradise), Middle East (Front Row), ships and airlines (Horizon), Singapore (Shaw) and Latin America (CDC).
Cinetic Media previously negotiated a North America deal with Super Ltd, Neon’s boutique distribution label.
The third feature of...
HanWay Films has closed a raft of deals on Tony Stone’s Unabomber drama Ted K, ahead of the Cannes Pre-Screenings.
The US feature, which premiered in Berlin’s Panorama strand in March, has been picked up for distribution in the UK and Ireland (Altitude), Italy (Movies Inspired), Scandinavia (NonStop), Portugal (Films4You), Greece (Odeon), Cis & Baltics (Paradise), Middle East (Front Row), ships and airlines (Horizon), Singapore (Shaw) and Latin America (CDC).
Cinetic Media previously negotiated a North America deal with Super Ltd, Neon’s boutique distribution label.
The third feature of...
- 6/18/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Think of it as the boutique label’s boutique label.
Super Ltd., the distributor of the Oscar-nominated “Quo Vadis, Aida?,” is an offshoot of “Parasite” producer Neon, and was launched to handle more experimental work. It’s not that Neon, which has made a name for itself with indie hits like “I, Tonya” and “Border,” is in the business of backing franchise fare, but Darcy Heusel and Dan O’Meara, Super Ltd.’s founders, say the label’s small size has helped them provide a personalized touch for movies that might struggle to find an audience. In the case of “Quo Vadis, Aida?,” a searing drama about a U.N. translator who works to save a family during the Bosnian war, that meant conceiving a distribution plan and launching an awards season strategy within six weeks of the film being acquired.
“We’re lean and mean,” says O’Meara. “Because...
Super Ltd., the distributor of the Oscar-nominated “Quo Vadis, Aida?,” is an offshoot of “Parasite” producer Neon, and was launched to handle more experimental work. It’s not that Neon, which has made a name for itself with indie hits like “I, Tonya” and “Border,” is in the business of backing franchise fare, but Darcy Heusel and Dan O’Meara, Super Ltd.’s founders, say the label’s small size has helped them provide a personalized touch for movies that might struggle to find an audience. In the case of “Quo Vadis, Aida?,” a searing drama about a U.N. translator who works to save a family during the Bosnian war, that meant conceiving a distribution plan and launching an awards season strategy within six weeks of the film being acquired.
“We’re lean and mean,” says O’Meara. “Because...
- 4/21/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The true crime drama recently premiered in the Berlin festival’s Panorama section.
Berlin festival entry Ted K has been acquired for North America by Super Ltd, distributor Neon’s boutique label.
Written and directed by Tony Stone, the true crime drama had its premiere in the Panorama section of the recent Berlin International Film Festival. Based on the diaries and writings of Ted Kaczynski, the film tracks the life of the so-called Unabomber, played by Sharlto Copley, while he was in hiding in Montana.
Ted K is presented by Heathen Films in association with Verisimilitude, Hideout Pictures, In Your Face Entertainment and Cameron Brodie.
Berlin festival entry Ted K has been acquired for North America by Super Ltd, distributor Neon’s boutique label.
Written and directed by Tony Stone, the true crime drama had its premiere in the Panorama section of the recent Berlin International Film Festival. Based on the diaries and writings of Ted Kaczynski, the film tracks the life of the so-called Unabomber, played by Sharlto Copley, while he was in hiding in Montana.
Ted K is presented by Heathen Films in association with Verisimilitude, Hideout Pictures, In Your Face Entertainment and Cameron Brodie.
- 3/16/2021
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Ted K, the true crime drama that premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, has been snapped up for North American distribution by Neon’s boutique label Super Ltd.
The pics stars Sharlto Copley in the title role – Ted Kaczynski, the ‘Unabomber’ – and the movie is based on Kaczynski’s own diaries and writings, offering a window into one of America’s most eccentric killers.
Tony Stone wrote and directed the pic. It was produced by Heathen Films in association with Verisimilitude, Hideout Pictures, In Your Face Entertainment and Cameron Brodie.
Cinetic Media negotiated the North America deal. Hanway Films is handling international rights.
“We are very excited to be working with Neon and Super Ltd to release this wild and nuanced story of the Unabomber,” commented Stone. “Ted Kaczynski is one of the more enigmatic violent figures in the history of American terror, living a primitive and isolated...
The pics stars Sharlto Copley in the title role – Ted Kaczynski, the ‘Unabomber’ – and the movie is based on Kaczynski’s own diaries and writings, offering a window into one of America’s most eccentric killers.
Tony Stone wrote and directed the pic. It was produced by Heathen Films in association with Verisimilitude, Hideout Pictures, In Your Face Entertainment and Cameron Brodie.
Cinetic Media negotiated the North America deal. Hanway Films is handling international rights.
“We are very excited to be working with Neon and Super Ltd to release this wild and nuanced story of the Unabomber,” commented Stone. “Ted Kaczynski is one of the more enigmatic violent figures in the history of American terror, living a primitive and isolated...
- 3/16/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Neon’s boutique label Super Ltd has picked up the North American rights to Tony Stone’s true crime drama Ted K.
The dramatic thriller written and directed by Stone — where Sharlto Copley plays the Rocky Mountains wilderness recluse who became known to the world as the Unabomber — bowed as part of the Panorama section at the Berlin International Film Festival.
The film about the Vermont loner is produced by Heathen Films in association with Verisimilitude, Hideout Pictures, In Your Face Entertainment and Cameron Brodie.
“We are very excited to be working with Neon and Super Ltd to release this wild and ...
The dramatic thriller written and directed by Stone — where Sharlto Copley plays the Rocky Mountains wilderness recluse who became known to the world as the Unabomber — bowed as part of the Panorama section at the Berlin International Film Festival.
The film about the Vermont loner is produced by Heathen Films in association with Verisimilitude, Hideout Pictures, In Your Face Entertainment and Cameron Brodie.
“We are very excited to be working with Neon and Super Ltd to release this wild and ...
- 3/16/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Neon’s boutique label Super Ltd has picked up the North American rights to Tony Stone’s true crime drama Ted K.
The dramatic thriller written and directed by Stone — where Sharlto Copley plays the Rocky Mountains wilderness recluse who became known to the world as the Unabomber — bowed as part of the Panorama section at the Berlin International Film Festival.
The film about the Vermont loner is produced by Heathen Films in association with Verisimilitude, Hideout Pictures, In Your Face Entertainment and Cameron Brodie.
“We are very excited to be working with Neon and Super Ltd to release this wild and ...
The dramatic thriller written and directed by Stone — where Sharlto Copley plays the Rocky Mountains wilderness recluse who became known to the world as the Unabomber — bowed as part of the Panorama section at the Berlin International Film Festival.
The film about the Vermont loner is produced by Heathen Films in association with Verisimilitude, Hideout Pictures, In Your Face Entertainment and Cameron Brodie.
“We are very excited to be working with Neon and Super Ltd to release this wild and ...
- 3/16/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
For a criminal who revealed his agenda in exhaustively detailed black-and-white — via his famous essay “Industrial Society and the Future,” published in The Washington Post months ahead of his 1996 capture — Ted Kaczynski remains a somewhat unreadable figure. The domestic terrorist better known as the Unabomber killed three people and injured two dozen more in a national bombing campaign aimed at protesting man’s environmental destruction and technological dependence. Yet his manifesto shed little light on who he actually was, or how a mild-mannered math professor from Chicago grew into an eccentric, isolated survivalist and, eventually, FBI most-wanted material. That makes him a subject both fascinating and oddly resistant to dramatization, though that hasn’t stopped writers and filmmakers from trying over the years.
The latest such effort, Tony Stone’s growlingly moody “Ted K,” is a biopic that effectively honors its subject with its opaque severity. There’s little attempt...
The latest such effort, Tony Stone’s growlingly moody “Ted K,” is a biopic that effectively honors its subject with its opaque severity. There’s little attempt...
- 3/6/2021
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Director Tony Stone delves into the world of “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski in Ted K, premiering in the Panorama strand of the Berlin Film Festival. More of a mood piece than a biopic, it stars an understated Sharlto Copley as the former math professor, who’s living off grid in the Montana mountains, fostering a burgeoning grudge against technology. We drop in on him over the decades as he gathers materials to experiment with bombs, targeting people he believes are harming the environment. We watch him write coded rants against industrialization, and about the invasive noise of airplanes.
Sound is key to communicating Ted’s point of view. In the wilderness, we hear the ripple of a stream, the crackle of a fire, the clank of his spoon on a tin — he is alone and uninterrupted. When an airplane flies over, he’s visibly distressed. When he takes a trip into the city,...
Sound is key to communicating Ted’s point of view. In the wilderness, we hear the ripple of a stream, the crackle of a fire, the clank of his spoon on a tin — he is alone and uninterrupted. When an airplane flies over, he’s visibly distressed. When he takes a trip into the city,...
- 3/1/2021
- by Anna Smith
- Deadline Film + TV
The underseen but arresting 2016 documentary feature Peter and the Farm is a warts-and-all portrait of a flinty Vermont loner and his volatile relationship to the land that has consumed him for more than three decades. Its director, Tony Stone, now blurs the line between nonfiction and narrative filmmaking to depict another solitary man inseparable from his natural environment in Ted K, a piercing psychological probe into the domestic terrorist known as the Unabomber. Played by Sharlto Copley in a febrile performance so wired it’s almost uncomfortable to watch, Ted Kaczynski is revealed here in his own words, lifted from 25,...
The underseen but arresting 2016 documentary feature Peter and the Farm is a warts-and-all portrait of a flinty Vermont loner and his volatile relationship to the land that has consumed him for more than three decades. Its director, Tony Stone, now blurs the line between nonfiction and narrative filmmaking to depict another solitary man inseparable from his natural environment in Ted K, a piercing psychological probe into the domestic terrorist known as the Unabomber. Played by Sharlto Copley in a febrile performance so wired it’s almost uncomfortable to watch, Ted Kaczynski is revealed here in his own words, lifted from 25,...
The story of Ted Kaczynski, better known to many as the Unabomber, has played out on-screen several times since his 1996 arrest following the most expensive FBI manhunt in bureau history.
However, the former math prodigy-turned-terrorist’s years of isolation living in a small cabin in the Montana wilderness have never been tackled with the commitment to detail and accuracy on display in “Ted K,” a new feature from Tony Stone (“Peter and the Farm”), which stars Sharlto Copley (“District 9”) as Kaczynski.
Variety caught up with Stone ahead of the film’s debut in the Panorama section of this year’s Berlinale to talk about throwing conventional biopic tropes out the window, and his hopes for a potential theatrical release.
What compelled you to make a film about the Unabomber, about Ted Kaczynski?
We felt like there was a void of Ted’s reality. There’s so much about the manhunt,...
However, the former math prodigy-turned-terrorist’s years of isolation living in a small cabin in the Montana wilderness have never been tackled with the commitment to detail and accuracy on display in “Ted K,” a new feature from Tony Stone (“Peter and the Farm”), which stars Sharlto Copley (“District 9”) as Kaczynski.
Variety caught up with Stone ahead of the film’s debut in the Panorama section of this year’s Berlinale to talk about throwing conventional biopic tropes out the window, and his hopes for a potential theatrical release.
What compelled you to make a film about the Unabomber, about Ted Kaczynski?
We felt like there was a void of Ted’s reality. There’s so much about the manhunt,...
- 3/1/2021
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s Global Bulletin, Hanway Films and Cinetic Media give a first look at Tony Stone’s “Ted K,” Amazon Prime Video orders a second season of “El Internado: Las Cumbres,” Greenlit goes global, Abundantia Entertainment plans for a “Keepers of the Kalachakra” adaptation, Brigid O’Shea steps down from Dok Leipzig and BMG Production Music hires Deb Oh as senior director of creative licensing.
First Look
Hanway Films and Cinetic Media have dropped the first clip from Tony Stone’s (“Peter and the Farm”) “Ted K,” starring Sharlto Copley (“District 9”) as the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. The film is produced by Heathen Films in association with Verisimilitude, Hideout Pictures, In Your Face Entertainment and Cameron Brodie, and will screen in the Panorama section at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival.
Drawing from Kaczynski’s own personal diaries and the accounts of those who knew him during his time spent in the Montana wilderness,...
First Look
Hanway Films and Cinetic Media have dropped the first clip from Tony Stone’s (“Peter and the Farm”) “Ted K,” starring Sharlto Copley (“District 9”) as the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. The film is produced by Heathen Films in association with Verisimilitude, Hideout Pictures, In Your Face Entertainment and Cameron Brodie, and will screen in the Panorama section at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival.
Drawing from Kaczynski’s own personal diaries and the accounts of those who knew him during his time spent in the Montana wilderness,...
- 2/26/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Berlin Film Festival artistic director Carlo Chatrian and his programming team were forced to think of this year’s official selection in “different terms” when what they had to offer the film industry changed due to the pandemic.
Faced with worsening Covid-19 conditions in Germany, the festival quickly pivoted in December to a two-step formula — an industry and press-focused event March 1-5 and a public Summer Special from June 9-20. Chatrian is proud of the result, which he calls “a good mix of new voices and established filmmakers” with many titles “carrying the marks of the pandemic in their images.” He spoke to Variety about the challenges and goals of assembling this unprecedented edition. Excerpts below.
Simply put: how much did being forced to split the festival impact the makeup of this year’s lineup?
We had to think of the selection in different terms because the festival was changing...
Faced with worsening Covid-19 conditions in Germany, the festival quickly pivoted in December to a two-step formula — an industry and press-focused event March 1-5 and a public Summer Special from June 9-20. Chatrian is proud of the result, which he calls “a good mix of new voices and established filmmakers” with many titles “carrying the marks of the pandemic in their images.” He spoke to Variety about the challenges and goals of assembling this unprecedented edition. Excerpts below.
Simply put: how much did being forced to split the festival impact the makeup of this year’s lineup?
We had to think of the selection in different terms because the festival was changing...
- 2/26/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
‘Ted K’: HanWay & Cinetic Board Berlin Film Festival Drama About Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, First Look
HanWay Films and Cinetic have boarded Berlin Film Festival entry Ted K for international and North American sales, respectively. The companies have also released a first look image.
Writer-director Tony Stone’s true crime drama, starring Sharlto Copley (District 9) as the ‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski, will play in the Panorama section of this year’s largely digital Berlinale.
The film tracks a period in the life of Kaczynski, more widely known as the Unabomber, and draws from his personal diaries and accounts from those who knew him during his life in hiding in a simple wooden cabin in the mountains of Montana.
According to the producers, a number of the film’s supporting cast are non-professional locals, some of whom knew Kaczynski, and the production worked closely with his former neighbors and employers to corroborate research and paint an authentic picture of the man.
Stone built a recreation of Kaczynski...
Writer-director Tony Stone’s true crime drama, starring Sharlto Copley (District 9) as the ‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski, will play in the Panorama section of this year’s largely digital Berlinale.
The film tracks a period in the life of Kaczynski, more widely known as the Unabomber, and draws from his personal diaries and accounts from those who knew him during his life in hiding in a simple wooden cabin in the mountains of Montana.
According to the producers, a number of the film’s supporting cast are non-professional locals, some of whom knew Kaczynski, and the production worked closely with his former neighbors and employers to corroborate research and paint an authentic picture of the man.
Stone built a recreation of Kaczynski...
- 2/23/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Cinetic Media and HanWay Films have launched sales on writer/director Tony Stone’s Berlin Panorama selection “Ted K,” starring Sharlto Copley (“District 9”).
The film tracks a period in the life of Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, and draws from his personal diaries and accounts from those who knew him during his life in hiding. Kaczynski, a former university professor who despises modern society and its faith in technology, becomes radicalized and commits local acts of sabotage, ultimately leading to deadly bomb attacks.
HanWay is in charge of international sales, while Cinetic is handling North America.
“As filmmakers we wanted to revisit and abolish the usual tropes of the biopic to create an experiential cinematic journey, depicting what Ted’s day to day life was like through extreme subjectivity,” said Stone. “Since 1996 when a man covered in filth was dragged out of his cabin, the public has...
The film tracks a period in the life of Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, and draws from his personal diaries and accounts from those who knew him during his life in hiding. Kaczynski, a former university professor who despises modern society and its faith in technology, becomes radicalized and commits local acts of sabotage, ultimately leading to deadly bomb attacks.
HanWay is in charge of international sales, while Cinetic is handling North America.
“As filmmakers we wanted to revisit and abolish the usual tropes of the biopic to create an experiential cinematic journey, depicting what Ted’s day to day life was like through extreme subjectivity,” said Stone. “Since 1996 when a man covered in filth was dragged out of his cabin, the public has...
- 2/23/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Sharlto Copley stars as Unabomber Ted Kaczynski in the true crime drama directed by Tony Stone.
HanWay Films has secured international sales rights to Tony Stone’s Unabomber drama Ted K, which is set to premiere in the Panorama strand of the industry-focused, online-only Berlin International Film Festival (March 1-5).
Cinetic Media will handle North America sales on the US feature, which stars Sharlto Copley as Ted Kaczynski, who is serving eight life sentences for waging a bomb campaign against individuals for nearly 20 years.
London-based sales outfit HanWay will begin discussing the feature with buyers during the virtual European Film...
HanWay Films has secured international sales rights to Tony Stone’s Unabomber drama Ted K, which is set to premiere in the Panorama strand of the industry-focused, online-only Berlin International Film Festival (March 1-5).
Cinetic Media will handle North America sales on the US feature, which stars Sharlto Copley as Ted Kaczynski, who is serving eight life sentences for waging a bomb campaign against individuals for nearly 20 years.
London-based sales outfit HanWay will begin discussing the feature with buyers during the virtual European Film...
- 2/23/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
New features from ‘Thunder Road’ director Jim Cummings and Denis Cote among line-up.
The Berlin International Film Festival has unveiled the features that will comprise its Encounters and Panorama strands, which will first be seen at the industry-focused, online-only event from March 1-5.
Panorama will include 19 titles, of which 16 are world premieres, while Encounters includes 12 features, all world premieres.
Like other strands that have been slimmed down for this year’s first virtual edition, Panorama is nearly half of the 36 titles that were selected last year. However, the Encounters competition, now in its second year, is just three titles fewer...
The Berlin International Film Festival has unveiled the features that will comprise its Encounters and Panorama strands, which will first be seen at the industry-focused, online-only event from March 1-5.
Panorama will include 19 titles, of which 16 are world premieres, while Encounters includes 12 features, all world premieres.
Like other strands that have been slimmed down for this year’s first virtual edition, Panorama is nearly half of the 36 titles that were selected last year. However, the Encounters competition, now in its second year, is just three titles fewer...
- 2/10/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The Berlin Film Festival has revealed 12 titles from 16 countries that will compete in the festival’s Encounters strand, including Denis Côté’s “Social Hygiene” from Canada, Alice Diop’s “We” from France, and Fern Silva’s “Rock Bottom Riser” from the U.S.
The selections also take in “As I Want” (Egypt/France/Norway/Palestine) by Samaher Alqadi; “Azor” (Switzerland/France/Argentina) by Andreas Fontana; “The Beta Test” (U.S./U.K.) by Jim Cummings, Pj McCabe; and “Bloodsuckers (Germany) by Julian Radlmaier.
Also competing will be “The Girl and the Spider” (Switzerland) by Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher; “District Terminal” (Iran/Germany) by Bardia Yadegari, Ehsan Mirhosseini; “Moon, 66 Questions” (Greece/France) by Jacqueline Lentzou; “The Scary of Sixty-First” (U.S.) by Dasha Nekrasova; and “Taste” (Vietnam/Singapore/France/Thailand/Germany/Taiwan) by Lê Bảo.
The Encounters strand supports new or innovative voices in cinema. A jury will choose winners for best film,...
The selections also take in “As I Want” (Egypt/France/Norway/Palestine) by Samaher Alqadi; “Azor” (Switzerland/France/Argentina) by Andreas Fontana; “The Beta Test” (U.S./U.K.) by Jim Cummings, Pj McCabe; and “Bloodsuckers (Germany) by Julian Radlmaier.
Also competing will be “The Girl and the Spider” (Switzerland) by Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher; “District Terminal” (Iran/Germany) by Bardia Yadegari, Ehsan Mirhosseini; “Moon, 66 Questions” (Greece/France) by Jacqueline Lentzou; “The Scary of Sixty-First” (U.S.) by Dasha Nekrasova; and “Taste” (Vietnam/Singapore/France/Thailand/Germany/Taiwan) by Lê Bảo.
The Encounters strand supports new or innovative voices in cinema. A jury will choose winners for best film,...
- 2/10/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the titles that will screen in its Panorama, Encounters, and Perspektive Deutsches Kino sidebars.
The art-house heavy selection for the 2021 Panorama includes several directorial debuts, including British drama Censor by Prano Bailey-Bond, Danis Goulet’s Canadian/New Zealand co-production Night Raiders, and The World After Us, the first feature from French filmmaker Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas, which will have its world premiere in Berlin. Other 2021 Panorama highlights include German drama Human Factors by Ronny Trocker, featuring local stars Mark Waschke and Sabine Timoteo; Ted K, director Tony Stone’s experimental portrait of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski; and Dirty Feathers, a documentary from director Carlos Alfonso Corral ...
The art-house heavy selection for the 2021 Panorama includes several directorial debuts, including British drama Censor by Prano Bailey-Bond, Danis Goulet’s Canadian/New Zealand co-production Night Raiders, and The World After Us, the first feature from French filmmaker Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas, which will have its world premiere in Berlin. Other 2021 Panorama highlights include German drama Human Factors by Ronny Trocker, featuring local stars Mark Waschke and Sabine Timoteo; Ted K, director Tony Stone’s experimental portrait of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski; and Dirty Feathers, a documentary from director Carlos Alfonso Corral ...
- 2/10/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the titles that will screen in its Panorama, Encounters, and Perspektive Deutsches Kino sidebars.
The art-house heavy selection for the 2021 Panorama includes several directorial debuts, including British drama Censor by Prano Bailey-Bond, Danis Goulet’s Canadian/New Zealand co-production Night Raiders, and The World After Us, the first feature from French filmmaker Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas, which will have its world premiere in Berlin. Other 2021 Panorama highlights include German drama Human Factors by Ronny Trocker, featuring local stars Mark Waschke and Sabine Timoteo; Ted K, director Tony Stone’s experimental portrait of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski; and Dirty Feathers, a documentary from director Carlos Alfonso Corral ...
The art-house heavy selection for the 2021 Panorama includes several directorial debuts, including British drama Censor by Prano Bailey-Bond, Danis Goulet’s Canadian/New Zealand co-production Night Raiders, and The World After Us, the first feature from French filmmaker Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas, which will have its world premiere in Berlin. Other 2021 Panorama highlights include German drama Human Factors by Ronny Trocker, featuring local stars Mark Waschke and Sabine Timoteo; Ted K, director Tony Stone’s experimental portrait of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski; and Dirty Feathers, a documentary from director Carlos Alfonso Corral ...
- 2/10/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New York City is a city of numerous festivals and film series be it new or of a more repertory bent. However, few festivals worldwide are as intriguing as The Big Apple’s New Directors/New Films series. Playing home to some of today’s greatest and most avant garde motion pictures, New Directors/New Films is a superb portrait of filmmakers early in their career as they toy not only with the medium of film but the tropes of specific genres and film making styles.
Take the new Tony Stone-directed documentary Peter And The Farm for example. Not Stone’s first film, it is his most entrancing work and easily one of this year’s most interesting documentaries. And that’s due to both the blunt nature of its aesthetic as well as the singular focus at its center.
There are few characters quite like Peter Dunning. A...
Take the new Tony Stone-directed documentary Peter And The Farm for example. Not Stone’s first film, it is his most entrancing work and easily one of this year’s most interesting documentaries. And that’s due to both the blunt nature of its aesthetic as well as the singular focus at its center.
There are few characters quite like Peter Dunning. A...
- 11/18/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Say hello to your new obsession: A spellbinding homage to old pulp paperbacks and the Technicolor melodramas of the 1960s, Anna Biller’s “The Love Witch” is a throwback that’s told with a degree of perverse conviction and studied expertise that would make Quentin Tarantino blush. Shot in velvety 35mm and seen through the lens of a playfully violent female gaze, the film follows a beautiful, narcissistic young sorceress named Elaine (Samantha Robinson, unforgettable in a demented breakthrough performance) as she blows into a coastal Californian town in desperate search of a replacement for her recently murdered husband. Sex, death, Satanic rituals, God-level costume design, and cinema’s greatest tampon joke ensue, as Biller spins an archly funny — but also hyper-sincere — story about the true price of the patriarchy. There hasn’t been anything quite like it in decades.
Entrancingly self-possessed, “The Love Witch” announces itself with rare authority...
Entrancingly self-possessed, “The Love Witch” announces itself with rare authority...
- 11/8/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Disney’s animation roster has a history of playing with culturally insensitive fire, from the “siamese” cats in “Lady and the Tramp” to the savage Middle Eastern stereotypes in “Aladdin.” The same directors of that movie, Ron Clements and John Musker, reteam for “Moana,” the tale of a young Polynesian woman who commands the high seas to save the world. But the movie has two other co-directors, Don Hall and Chris Williams, whose credits include more recent Disney efforts such as “Big Hero 6.” While the quartet of credits may contribute to the movie’s uneven tone, it also suggests a merging of Disney’s past and present.
Visually dazzling and loaded with charm, the movie is also blatant in its quest for cultural sensitivity: It has memorable songs by “Hamilton” phenom Lin-Manuel Miranda and a first-rate mystical soundtrack by Samoan composer Opetaia Tavia Foa’i, in addition to a...
Visually dazzling and loaded with charm, the movie is also blatant in its quest for cultural sensitivity: It has memorable songs by “Hamilton” phenom Lin-Manuel Miranda and a first-rate mystical soundtrack by Samoan composer Opetaia Tavia Foa’i, in addition to a...
- 11/7/2016
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
It’s November – a time for Thanksgiving, feasts, and the presence of relatives. If you have some time off (or are trying to grab some much-needed alone time), here is a list of films opening throughout the coming weeks, separated into categories of wide and limited runs. (Synopses are provided by festivals and distributors.)
Each week we will have more updates and information, so be sure to keep coming back. You can also check our calendar page, which has releases for the rest of the year. Eat well and keep watching!
Week of November 4 Wide
Trolls
Director: Mike Mitchell, Walt Dohrn
Cast: Anna Kendrick, Christine Baranski, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Gwen Stefani, Icona Pop, James Corden, Jeffrey Tambor, John Cleese, Justin Timberlake, Kunal Nayyar, Quvenzhané Wallis, Ron Funches, Russell Brand, Zooey Deschanel
Synopsis: After the Bergens invade Troll Village, Poppy, the happiest Troll ever born, and the overly-cautious curmudgeonly Branch set off...
Each week we will have more updates and information, so be sure to keep coming back. You can also check our calendar page, which has releases for the rest of the year. Eat well and keep watching!
Week of November 4 Wide
Trolls
Director: Mike Mitchell, Walt Dohrn
Cast: Anna Kendrick, Christine Baranski, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Gwen Stefani, Icona Pop, James Corden, Jeffrey Tambor, John Cleese, Justin Timberlake, Kunal Nayyar, Quvenzhané Wallis, Ron Funches, Russell Brand, Zooey Deschanel
Synopsis: After the Bergens invade Troll Village, Poppy, the happiest Troll ever born, and the overly-cautious curmudgeonly Branch set off...
- 11/4/2016
- by Zipporah Smith
- Indiewire
“It’s a fucked up mess, but I’m pretty used to it.” Peter Dunning is talking about the mangled hand that he nearly lost in a sawmill accident during his twenties, but he might as well be talking about his life.
A grizzled 68-year-old alcoholic who lives on a patchy piece of land in the earthy interior of Vermont with a flock of sheep, some bales of hay, and several decades worth of festering regrets, Dunning is constantly weighing the value of this mortal coil against the oblivion that waits for him on the other side. He’s a man pulled between primordial rage and cosmic acceptance, the sort of modern-day Hemingway character you might find at your local farmer’s market. Sometimes he’s at peace — at others, he asks a farmhand to hide his rifle so he doesn’t kill himself. In other words, Dunning is in dire need of some perspective.
A grizzled 68-year-old alcoholic who lives on a patchy piece of land in the earthy interior of Vermont with a flock of sheep, some bales of hay, and several decades worth of festering regrets, Dunning is constantly weighing the value of this mortal coil against the oblivion that waits for him on the other side. He’s a man pulled between primordial rage and cosmic acceptance, the sort of modern-day Hemingway character you might find at your local farmer’s market. Sometimes he’s at peace — at others, he asks a farmhand to hide his rifle so he doesn’t kill himself. In other words, Dunning is in dire need of some perspective.
- 11/4/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
The Duplass enerothers have become so synonymous with a certain strain of warmed over indie dramedy that it’s easy to overlook just how twisted they can be, and often are. Directorial efforts like “Baghead” and “Cyrus” have been sliced through with genuinely disturbing behavior, and many of the movies they’ve produced or presented (e.g. “Tangerine” or “The Overnight”) have pushed boundaries of one kind or another, albeit it with such a gentle touch that these transgressions seem as natural as breathing. It’s a helpful way of reframing the modesty of their work and the speed at which they churn it out — it’s not that the Duplai prioritize quantity over quality, but rather that their kooky ideas (and those of the filmmakers they’re eager to support) are too dangerously delicate to support anything bigger than a micro-budget project that’s shot in nine days and destined for VOD.
- 11/4/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
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.
Anthropoid (Sean Ellis)
Throw a dart at a map, and you can make a World War II movie set in whatever place you hit. Of course, pretty much any film about the Good War that doesn’t focus on the American (sometimes British) point of view of the conflict will probably seem “random” to the mainstream; one odd side-effect of Hollywood’s Oscar-baity love of the era. But there...
Anthropoid (Sean Ellis)
Throw a dart at a map, and you can make a World War II movie set in whatever place you hit. Of course, pretty much any film about the Good War that doesn’t focus on the American (sometimes British) point of view of the conflict will probably seem “random” to the mainstream; one odd side-effect of Hollywood’s Oscar-baity love of the era. But there...
- 11/4/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
To any passing outsider, Peter Dunning looks to be one hell of a farmer. In Tony Stone’s entertaining, heartbreaking documentary “Peter and the Farm,” the 68-year-old Dunning walks Stone and his small crew through some of what he has to do to keep his modest Vermont operation running; and his skill and dedication impresses. He bales hay, saws wood, slops hogs, herds sheep, slaughters and dresses his stock, and maintains his equipment, pretty much all by himself.
Continue reading ‘Peter And The Farm’ Chronicles The Full & Fascinating Life Of Peter Dunning [Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Peter And The Farm’ Chronicles The Full & Fascinating Life Of Peter Dunning [Review] at The Playlist.
- 11/3/2016
- by Noel Murray
- The Playlist
“I don’t know why death is always the same, but it is,” cryptically muses Peter Dunning, the owner of Vermont’s Mile Hill Farm, after he’s slaughtered a sheep. In Peter’s 38 years running the organic farm, he’s seen three wives and four children come and go. He hasn’t spoken to them in nearly two decades. His speech patterns buzzing with homespun philosophy, Dunning compares his farm animals to prisoners, saying that he’s spent enough time in jail to know what that must feel like. At the farmer’s market, when you imagine who’s growing the organic vegetables, you’re not exactly picturing a borderline hermit like Dunning. He even writes carefully worded letters to the editor of his local newspaper, which he’s outraged to find published in edited versions. Dunning drinks and curses and rages at the camera, daring the audience to look away.
- 11/3/2016
- by Tony Hinds
- The Film Stage
Whatever your conception of a farmer may be, Peter Dunning, the 68-year-old subject of Peter And The Farm, may deviate from it significantly. Dunning certainly looks the part, sporting a bushy gray beard and wearing comfortable sweater-and-jeans combos as he trudges around his 187 acres in Vermont, tending to his sheep and cattle. As soon as he starts talking to the camera, however, it becomes clear why director Tony Stone (Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery Of America) decided to fashion a documentary character study around this unusual man. Indeed, the longer the movie goes on, the more disturbing it becomes, to the point where viewers may start to fear that they’re witnessing the buildup to something truly awful. Thankfully, Dunning doesn’t follow through on his darkest impulses, but there’s enough rural angst on view here to justify Stone’s use of aggressive post-rock needle drops on the ...
- 11/2/2016
- by Mike D'Angelo
- avclub.com
Peter And The Farm Magnolia Pictures Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B Director: Tony Stone Written by: Tony Stone Cast: Peter Dunning Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 10/26/16 Opens: November 4, 2016 If I were asked to name two charismatic people from the idyllic state of Vermont, I would proudly answer: Bernie Sanders and Peter Dunning. The former is an older man whose message and delivery are magnetic enough to draw in a prime target of young people. Bernie is a democratic socialist who believes that people do best when they work together and take responsibility for one another well beyond the needs of their immediate families. Peter, on [ Read More ]
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The post Peter and the Farm Movie Review appeared first on Shockya.com.
- 10/27/2016
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
In light of a greater push internationally toward farm-to-table, organic eating, there’s still a disconnect between the food that we eat and the process by which it comes into our stores and homes. While the upcoming documentary “Peter And The Farm” offers plenty of beautiful backdrops, it also takes an unflinching look at farm life through the eyes of one particularly rugged eccentric.
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Directed by Tony Stone, the film focuses on Peter Dunning, an elderly farmer who still pretty much does it all on his farm, even if his ability to do so is starting to wane.
Continue reading Exclusive: Red Band Trailer For ‘Peter And The Farm’ Shows The Bloody Reality Behind The Beauty at The Playlist.
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Directed by Tony Stone, the film focuses on Peter Dunning, an elderly farmer who still pretty much does it all on his farm, even if his ability to do so is starting to wane.
Continue reading Exclusive: Red Band Trailer For ‘Peter And The Farm’ Shows The Bloody Reality Behind The Beauty at The Playlist.
- 10/25/2016
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Tony Stone’s “Peter and the Farm” garnered acclaim out of its premiere at the True/False Film Festival and now it’s finally receiving a theatrical and VOD release. The film is a portrait of Peter Dunning, rugged individualist and proud proprietor of Mile Hill Farm in Vermont, whose only company are the animals he tends. During the film, he confronts his legacy, including his alcoholism, his failed marriages and self-destructive tendencies. Watch an exclusive clip from the film below.
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“I have known Peter since I met him at the Brattleboro, Vermont farmer’s market when I was nine years old but had never gone to his farm,” said Stone in a director’s statement. “The rest of the crew had met Peter at the market on visits with me. Everyone was always drawn by...
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“I have known Peter since I met him at the Brattleboro, Vermont farmer’s market when I was nine years old but had never gone to his farm,” said Stone in a director’s statement. “The rest of the crew had met Peter at the market on visits with me. Everyone was always drawn by...
- 10/24/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
“American Fringe: A New Look at American Independent Cinema” will officially launch this November as part of the Festival d’Automne. This new film series, which will take place from November 25 to November 27, will screen eight recent American independent feature films that collectively and individually capture the irreverence and innovation that have always been at the heart of that movement.
Produced by The Arts Arena, a Parisian nonprofit initiative in the visual arts, performing arts, film and issues of culture and society, the organization has just announced the lineup.
Read More: Parisian Arts Initiative Launching ‘American Fringe’ Film Series in 2016
Organized and selected by Richard Peña, Director Emeritus of the New York Film Festival, and Alessia Palanti, the duo know that recently there has been an enormous growth in the number of indie films and documentaries created. With “American Fringe” they hope to celebrate a slew of works that still...
Produced by The Arts Arena, a Parisian nonprofit initiative in the visual arts, performing arts, film and issues of culture and society, the organization has just announced the lineup.
Read More: Parisian Arts Initiative Launching ‘American Fringe’ Film Series in 2016
Organized and selected by Richard Peña, Director Emeritus of the New York Film Festival, and Alessia Palanti, the duo know that recently there has been an enormous growth in the number of indie films and documentaries created. With “American Fringe” they hope to celebrate a slew of works that still...
- 9/27/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
"Do you want to save the world, or go down?" Magnolia Pictures has released a trailer for a documentary titled Peter and the Farm, about an aging Vermont farmer named Peter Dunning. Filmmaker Tony Stone decided to profile Peter because he has quite a legacy - he's been working on his 187 acre farm for 40 years, has had 3 wives, has 4 children, and yet now works alone on his farm with all of his animals. As much as it may seem a doc about a farmer is boring, this is anything but - it's a deeply introspective examination of a person who has lived quite an incredible life. The description says "Peter veers between elation and despair, often suggesting to the filmmakers his own suicide", which is quite sad but also a brutally honest look at the balance of life. This looks exceptional, actually, with fantastic cinematography to top it off. Worth watching.
- 9/7/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: Veltri replaces Christina Rogers at the Us sales company.
Scott Veltri has been promoted to head of worldwide sales forcand replaces Christina Rogers, who is departing to pursue other opportunities.
Veltri previously served as vice-president of international sales and worked closely with Rogers over the last three years to increase the profile of the division.
He sold titles such as Sean Baker’s Tangerine, Steve James’ documentary Life Itself, Crystal Moselle’s The Wolfpack, Albert Maysles’ Iris, and Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon’s Best Of Enemies.
“Scott has proven himself to be an invaluable asset to the international sales team, and we’re very pleased for him to take on this new responsibility,” said Magnolia president Eamonn Bowles.
The Magnolia sales slate features Sundance horror The Eyes Of My Mother, and a slew of Park City documentaries that includes Werner Herzog’s Lo And Behold: Reveries Of The Connected World, Tickled and [link...
Scott Veltri has been promoted to head of worldwide sales forcand replaces Christina Rogers, who is departing to pursue other opportunities.
Veltri previously served as vice-president of international sales and worked closely with Rogers over the last three years to increase the profile of the division.
He sold titles such as Sean Baker’s Tangerine, Steve James’ documentary Life Itself, Crystal Moselle’s The Wolfpack, Albert Maysles’ Iris, and Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon’s Best Of Enemies.
“Scott has proven himself to be an invaluable asset to the international sales team, and we’re very pleased for him to take on this new responsibility,” said Magnolia president Eamonn Bowles.
The Magnolia sales slate features Sundance horror The Eyes Of My Mother, and a slew of Park City documentaries that includes Werner Herzog’s Lo And Behold: Reveries Of The Connected World, Tickled and [link...
- 5/12/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
BehemothAs more prominent film festivals gear up for spring, a smaller though by no means slighter affair begins in New York. New Directors/New Films, curated by Museum of the Modern Art and Film Society of Lincoln Center, unfurls its carefully considered program of 27 features and 10 shorts, with its premise and draw on emerging voices in cinema. Indeed, the festival may very well be a last stop for filmmakers on the rise before they are introduced to wider audiences. Nd/Nf has brought us in the recent past Fort Buchanan and Diary of a Teenage Girl, and longer ago films by Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Chantal Akerman. Most of this year’s selection has premiered at festivals, many have been covered by this very site, and all are compelling. Here are several highlights.***With a narrative rooted loosely on Dante’s Divine Comedy, Zhao Liang’s documentary Behemoth depicts the...
- 3/17/2016
- by Elissa Suh
- MUBI
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