Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
Directed by Jon Foy
Written by Jon Foy & Colin Smith
2011
It’s quite reassuring that despite living in such a fast paced, busy and prioritized world that seems to have waved a thin curtain of disinterest over the smaller matters that there are still some people out there, often labeled subversive or other much less flattering terms, who show the will to stop and chase a dream, no matter how unusual or socially lamentable. Most of us traipse along busy city streets with heads down and music blaring from our headphones, engulfed in our own bubble of privacy and treating our surroundings with disregard. Some of us, the likes of unconventional Sherlock Holmes Justin Duerr, take the time to spot the bizarre messages left for us on said sidewalks and intersections.
When a series of bizarre tiles began appearing on the streets...
Directed by Jon Foy
Written by Jon Foy & Colin Smith
2011
It’s quite reassuring that despite living in such a fast paced, busy and prioritized world that seems to have waved a thin curtain of disinterest over the smaller matters that there are still some people out there, often labeled subversive or other much less flattering terms, who show the will to stop and chase a dream, no matter how unusual or socially lamentable. Most of us traipse along busy city streets with heads down and music blaring from our headphones, engulfed in our own bubble of privacy and treating our surroundings with disregard. Some of us, the likes of unconventional Sherlock Holmes Justin Duerr, take the time to spot the bizarre messages left for us on said sidewalks and intersections.
When a series of bizarre tiles began appearing on the streets...
- 5/6/2013
- by Scott Patterson
- SoundOnSight
DVD Playhouse—February 2012
By Allen Gardner
To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Robert Mulligan’s film of Harper Lee’s landmark novel pits a liberal-minded lawyer (Gregory Peck) against a small Southern town’s racism when defending a black man (Brock Peters) on trumped-up rape charges. One of the 1960s’ first landmark films, a truly stirring human drama that hits all the right notes and isn’t dated a bit. Robert Duvall makes his screen debut (sans dialogue) as the enigmatic Boo Radley. DVD and Blu-ray double edition. Bonuses: Two feature-length documentaries: Fearful Symmetry and A Conversation with Gregory Peck; Featurettes; Excerpts and film clips from Gregory Peck’s Oscar acceptance speech and AFI Lifetime Achievement Award; Commentary by Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 2.0 mono.
Outrage: Way Of The Yakuza (Magnolia) After a brief hiatus from his signature oeuvre of Japanese gangster flicks,...
By Allen Gardner
To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Robert Mulligan’s film of Harper Lee’s landmark novel pits a liberal-minded lawyer (Gregory Peck) against a small Southern town’s racism when defending a black man (Brock Peters) on trumped-up rape charges. One of the 1960s’ first landmark films, a truly stirring human drama that hits all the right notes and isn’t dated a bit. Robert Duvall makes his screen debut (sans dialogue) as the enigmatic Boo Radley. DVD and Blu-ray double edition. Bonuses: Two feature-length documentaries: Fearful Symmetry and A Conversation with Gregory Peck; Featurettes; Excerpts and film clips from Gregory Peck’s Oscar acceptance speech and AFI Lifetime Achievement Award; Commentary by Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 2.0 mono.
Outrage: Way Of The Yakuza (Magnolia) After a brief hiatus from his signature oeuvre of Japanese gangster flicks,...
- 2/26/2012
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Top 10 Movies of 2011 from one of Tribeca Film Festival's Programmers, including Kristen Wiig, Michael Fassbender, the apocalypse, and a chimp. Cara Cusumano Programmer, Tribeca Film Festival (list in alphabetical order) The Artist (Michael Hazanavicius) Candy for cinephiles. Bombay Beach (Alma Har'el) A haunting, surreal, and beautiful impressionistic documentary. Bridesmaids (Paul Feig) Kristen Wiig is my hero. Drive (Nicolas Wending Refn) Equal parts 80s action film, European arthouse, and smoldering Ryan Gosling. Hugo (Martin Scorsese) More candy for cinephiles! Jane Eyre (Cary Fukunaga) Michael Fassbender as a saucy Rochester in a gothic take on my all-time favorite book of all time. Melancholia (Lars Von Trier) The end of the world never looked so beautiful. Project Nim (James Marsh) The most human story of the year. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery Of The Toynbee Tiles (Jon Foy) Twisty and spooky and downright unbelievable. Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols) An apocalyptic, intimate family drama. Check...
- 12/15/2011
- TribecaFilm.com
This interview with Jon Foy, director of Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, was originally published during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, where the film won the Documentary Directors Award. The film opens today at the IFC Center in New York, with Foy and his collaborators doing Q & A’s at the evening shows.
There are few professions in the world that demand more from their practitioners than documentary filmmaking — most filmmakers spend years (if not lives) toiling away in obscurity, with little keeping them going beside the faith that theirs is a story worth sacrificing everything for.
Sundance newbie, Jon Foy, is certainly a man of faith — his feature debut, Resurrect Dead, was entirely self-funded by a series of odd jobs. When he got the call that the film he’d been working on for five years was going to be at Sundance, he was working as a house cleaner.
There are few professions in the world that demand more from their practitioners than documentary filmmaking — most filmmakers spend years (if not lives) toiling away in obscurity, with little keeping them going beside the faith that theirs is a story worth sacrificing everything for.
Sundance newbie, Jon Foy, is certainly a man of faith — his feature debut, Resurrect Dead, was entirely self-funded by a series of odd jobs. When he got the call that the film he’d been working on for five years was going to be at Sundance, he was working as a house cleaner.
- 9/2/2011
- by Mary Anderson Casavant
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
One of the chief delights of Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles is how its cocktail of detective story, conspiracy paranoia, street art, and pop science fiction coalesces into such a compelling story. The film gives an overview and history of the appearance of hand-cut linoleum tiles embedded in public roadways across the mainly in the eastern United States but as far away as cities in Brazil and Chile. The tiles bear the cryptic yet evocative textToynbee IdeaIn Kubrick's 2001Resurrect DeadOn Planet JupiterResurrect Dead won the Directors award at this years Sundance Festival, and was one of my personal highlights at HotDocs 2011. So much so that I tracked down director Jon Foy (who also wrote and recorded the films catchy score) to talk about the his...
- 9/2/2011
- Screen Anarchy
A South Philadelphia neighborhood, the British historian/philosopher Arnold J. Toynbee, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and a one-act play by David Mamet all turn up as important elements in the investigation conducted during Resurrect Dead: The Mystery Of The Toynbee Tiles. It can, at times, feel like a Diy version of The Da Vinci Code. Instead of an oddly coiffed Tom Hanks, Jon Foy’s documentary has for its hero Justin Duerr, a Philly-based artist and grown-up punk who becomes entranced by a series of mysterious tiles that for years have turned up embedded in the pavement of his home ...
- 9/1/2011
- avclub.com
Jon Foy's acclaimed and perplexing documentary Resurrect Dead: The Mystery Of The Toynbee Tiles will kick off it's theatrical run September 2nd at the IFC Center in New York and Twitch wants you to be there.Strangeness is afoot. Most people don't notice the hundreds of cryptic tiled messages about resurrecting the dead that have been appearing in city streets over the past three decades. But Justin Duerr does. For years, finding an answer to this long-standing urban mystery has been his obsession. He has been collecting clues that the tiler has embedded in the streets of major cities across the U.S. and South America. But as Justin starts piecing together key events of the past he finds a story that is more surreal than he imagined, and...
- 8/29/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Jon Foy's acclaimed documentary Resurrect Dead: The Mystery Of The Toynbee Tiles begins its limited theatrical run September 2nd - find a list of upcoming screenings here - and Twitch has been given an exclusive clip to share.Strangeness is afoot. Most people don't notice the hundreds of cryptic tiled messages about resurrecting the dead that have been appearing in city streets over the past three decades. But Justin Duerr does. For years, finding an answer to this long-standing urban mystery has been his obsession. He has been collecting clues that the tiler has embedded in the streets of major cities across the U.S. and South America. But as Justin starts piecing together key events of the past he finds a story that is more surreal than he...
- 8/16/2011
- Screen Anarchy
One of the strangest and most intriguing documentaries to premiere at Sundance this year, Jon Foy's "Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles," dropped its trailer today and it looks mighty promising. In the film, Foy follows Justin Duerr, a guy obsessed with uncovering the story behind hundreds of cryptic tiled messages about resurrecting the dead that have been appearing in city streets over the past thirty years. If ...
- 8/3/2011
- Indiewire
#10. I Saw The Devil - Kim Jee-woon (March 4th) Byung-hun Lee and Min-sik Choi going head to head in a revenge drunk, ultra violent game of cat and mouse, crafted by the headstrong stylings of Kim Jee-woon? Sign me up. #9. Bobby Fischer Against the World - Liz Garbus (HBO Premiere) An interest in chess helped peak my interest, but Liz Garbus's doc about the insanity that was chess master Bobby Fischer's life is an absorbing bit of film making. With an excellent sense of pace, and a cast of interviewees that not only were probably the only people that could tell Fischer's story, but told it with ardent detail whether they loved him, or thought he was a complete nut job, the HBO doc is sure to spread the good word of chess to the masses while simultaneously entertaining. #8. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles - Jon Foy...
- 7/5/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
Directed by Jon Foy
2011, USA, 88 mins.
“Toynbee idea / in Kubrick’s 2001 / resurrect dead / on planet Jupiter” – this message, appearing in colourful tiles sunk into asphalt, has appeared in cities across the Us and in several in South American. Toynbee tiles have a great deal of mystery behind them – how are they made, what do they mean, and who makes them? Resurrect Dead sets out to answer some of those questions, and in doing so proves that something so inconsequential can be immersive, fascinating, and wonderful.
Call CSI?
Resurrect Dead primarily follows Justin Duerr, a Philadelphia-based artist obsessed with Toynbee Tiles, and friends Colin Smith and Steve Weinik. Though Toynbee tiles have received a great deal of attention from the conspiracy theory and paranormal crowds, these three don’t buy into the tinfoil hat brigade. Their interest is in the artist – or ‘tiler...
Directed by Jon Foy
2011, USA, 88 mins.
“Toynbee idea / in Kubrick’s 2001 / resurrect dead / on planet Jupiter” – this message, appearing in colourful tiles sunk into asphalt, has appeared in cities across the Us and in several in South American. Toynbee tiles have a great deal of mystery behind them – how are they made, what do they mean, and who makes them? Resurrect Dead sets out to answer some of those questions, and in doing so proves that something so inconsequential can be immersive, fascinating, and wonderful.
Call CSI?
Resurrect Dead primarily follows Justin Duerr, a Philadelphia-based artist obsessed with Toynbee Tiles, and friends Colin Smith and Steve Weinik. Though Toynbee tiles have received a great deal of attention from the conspiracy theory and paranormal crowds, these three don’t buy into the tinfoil hat brigade. Their interest is in the artist – or ‘tiler...
- 5/6/2011
- by DaveRobson
- SoundOnSight
Here is why the current trend in documentary filmmaking, the re-purposing of a 'standard talking heads doc' with a more structured genre-framework (eg. Man on Wire, The Cove, King of Kong), has yet to find its quality ceiling or go stale. Who would have thought a quirky street art mystery (following on the heels of the wildly successful Exit Through The Gift Shop) would ultimately be about respect, community, passion and human dignity? Prepare to have your mind expanded.What do Stanley Kubrick, Street Art, a renown meta-history professor, short-wave radio, David Mamet, the construction of a mammoth telescope in Chile, bringing the dead back to life and pigeon husbandry have in common? In Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, Jon Foy and Justin Duerr tackle...
- 4/28/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Toynbee Idea
In Kubrick’s 2001
Resurrect Dead
On Planet Jupiter
Maybe you’ve seen these words before. If they seem oddly familiar but you have no idea why, it could be because you’ve stumbled across them, literally, once or twice before. Embedded in city streets and highways across the Us, tiles containing these words have confounded mystery enthusiasts for decades. These are affectionately known as Toynbee tiles. The documentary Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles covers the efforts of Justin Duerr who has spent quite a bit of his time discovering their origin and the concepts behind these seemingly unrelated and bizarre words. If you’ve never heard of these tiles and if you’re positive you’ve never stumbled across one, by the end you’ll know all you need to. Perhaps even more than you want to if you crave unsolved mysteries, because Resurrect Dead offers a pretty convincing verdict.
In Kubrick’s 2001
Resurrect Dead
On Planet Jupiter
Maybe you’ve seen these words before. If they seem oddly familiar but you have no idea why, it could be because you’ve stumbled across them, literally, once or twice before. Embedded in city streets and highways across the Us, tiles containing these words have confounded mystery enthusiasts for decades. These are affectionately known as Toynbee tiles. The documentary Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles covers the efforts of Justin Duerr who has spent quite a bit of his time discovering their origin and the concepts behind these seemingly unrelated and bizarre words. If you’ve never heard of these tiles and if you’re positive you’ve never stumbled across one, by the end you’ll know all you need to. Perhaps even more than you want to if you crave unsolved mysteries, because Resurrect Dead offers a pretty convincing verdict.
- 4/3/2011
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
Position Among the Stars directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich from Netherlands won the World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Documentary Films while Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey, directed by Constance Marks was declared the Winner of the Special Jury Prize, U.S. Documentary Competition. Sundance Film Festival 2011 announced its awards on Monday.
India’s co-production venture with UK and USA, The Bengali Detective, directed by Philip Cox, was presented in the World Cinema Documentary Competition.
List of Awards:
Winner of the World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Documentary Film:
Position Among the Stars (Stand van de Sterren), directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich (Netherlands)
Winner of the World Cinema Cinematography Award for Documentary Filmmaking:
Hell and Back Again, cinematography by Danfung Dennis (U.S.A./U.K.)
Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Editing Award:
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, edited by Goran Hugo Olsson and Hanna Lejonqvist, and directed by Goran Hugo Olsson.
India’s co-production venture with UK and USA, The Bengali Detective, directed by Philip Cox, was presented in the World Cinema Documentary Competition.
List of Awards:
Winner of the World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Documentary Film:
Position Among the Stars (Stand van de Sterren), directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich (Netherlands)
Winner of the World Cinema Cinematography Award for Documentary Filmmaking:
Hell and Back Again, cinematography by Danfung Dennis (U.S.A./U.K.)
Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Editing Award:
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, edited by Goran Hugo Olsson and Hanna Lejonqvist, and directed by Goran Hugo Olsson.
- 2/1/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The Sundance Film Festival Juries have selected the winners of the 2011 awards. Since they give out so many awards, the list is extremely long. We shound be playing catch up on the festival now that it is over and things are a little less chaotic. In the meantime here are the winners.
The 2011 Sundance Film Festival Juries consisted of:
U.S. Documentary Competition: Jeffrey Blitz, Matt Groening, Laura Poitras, Jess Search, Sloane Klevin U.S. Dramatic Competition: America Ferrera, Todd McCarthy, Tim Orr, Kimberly Peirce, Jason Reitman World Cinema Documentary Competition: José Padilha, Mette Hoffmann Meyer, Lucy Walker World Cinema Dramatic Competition: Susanne Bier, Bong Joon-Ho, Rajendra Roy Shorts Competition: Barry Jenkins, Kim Morgan, Sara Bernstein Alfred P. Sloan Award: Jon Amiel, Paula Apsell, Sean Carroll, Clark Gregg -
2011 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners:
The Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented to How to Die in Oregon, directed by Peter D.
The 2011 Sundance Film Festival Juries consisted of:
U.S. Documentary Competition: Jeffrey Blitz, Matt Groening, Laura Poitras, Jess Search, Sloane Klevin U.S. Dramatic Competition: America Ferrera, Todd McCarthy, Tim Orr, Kimberly Peirce, Jason Reitman World Cinema Documentary Competition: José Padilha, Mette Hoffmann Meyer, Lucy Walker World Cinema Dramatic Competition: Susanne Bier, Bong Joon-Ho, Rajendra Roy Shorts Competition: Barry Jenkins, Kim Morgan, Sara Bernstein Alfred P. Sloan Award: Jon Amiel, Paula Apsell, Sean Carroll, Clark Gregg -
2011 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners:
The Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented to How to Die in Oregon, directed by Peter D.
- 1/30/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The Sundance Institute announced the award winners for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Like Crazy ended up winning the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize, and Circumstance won the dramatic audience award. I thought Like Crazy was a good film, but it definitely was not one of my favorites or one of the best movie there. I didn't end up getting to see Circumstance.
Check out the full list of winners below:
2011 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners:
The Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented to How to Die in Oregon, directed by Peter D. Richardson. In 1994 Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. How to Die in Oregon gently enters the lives of terminally ill Oregonians to illuminate the power of death with dignity.
The Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to Like Crazy, directed by Drake Doremus; written by Drake Doremus and Ben York Jones. A young American guy and...
Check out the full list of winners below:
2011 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners:
The Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented to How to Die in Oregon, directed by Peter D. Richardson. In 1994 Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. How to Die in Oregon gently enters the lives of terminally ill Oregonians to illuminate the power of death with dignity.
The Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to Like Crazy, directed by Drake Doremus; written by Drake Doremus and Ben York Jones. A young American guy and...
- 1/30/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Festivalgoers came out of screenings of Alrick Brown’s “Kinyarwanda” feeling it had changed their lives. The film, the first to come out of Rwanda since the war, won the World Cinema Audience award
By Christy Karras
(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
It’s time to wrap up the Sundance blog. I’ll miss you … until next year. In the meantime, here are the award winners (presented Saturday night by Tim Blake Nelson, who appeared wearing a snowflake costume, apparently in honor of the sheer cold of much of this year’s festival), along with some thoughts from me on notable films. In short, here’s the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Sundance 2011:
The Good
The world cinema categories have long been among my favorite at the festival, for several reasons. The quality is uniformly higher than that of the U.S. entries. The films tend to...
By Christy Karras
(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
It’s time to wrap up the Sundance blog. I’ll miss you … until next year. In the meantime, here are the award winners (presented Saturday night by Tim Blake Nelson, who appeared wearing a snowflake costume, apparently in honor of the sheer cold of much of this year’s festival), along with some thoughts from me on notable films. In short, here’s the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Sundance 2011:
The Good
The world cinema categories have long been among my favorite at the festival, for several reasons. The quality is uniformly higher than that of the U.S. entries. The films tend to...
- 1/30/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Festivalgoers came out of screenings of Alrick Brown’s “Kinyarwanda” feeling it had changed their lives. The film, the first to come out of Rwanda since the war, won the World Cinema Audience award
By Christy Karras
(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
It’s time to wrap up the Sundance blog. I’ll miss you … until next year. In the meantime, here are the award winners (presented Saturday night by Tim Blake Nelson, who appeared wearing a snowflake costume, apparently in honor of the sheer cold of much of this year’s festival), along with some thoughts from me on notable films. In short, here’s the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Sundance 2011:
The Good
The world cinema categories have long been among my favorite at the festival, for several reasons. The quality is uniformly higher than that of the U.S. entries. The films tend to...
By Christy Karras
(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
It’s time to wrap up the Sundance blog. I’ll miss you … until next year. In the meantime, here are the award winners (presented Saturday night by Tim Blake Nelson, who appeared wearing a snowflake costume, apparently in honor of the sheer cold of much of this year’s festival), along with some thoughts from me on notable films. In short, here’s the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Sundance 2011:
The Good
The world cinema categories have long been among my favorite at the festival, for several reasons. The quality is uniformly higher than that of the U.S. entries. The films tend to...
- 1/30/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Tonight the Sundance Institute announced the award winners for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Like Crazy won the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize, and Circumstance won the dramatic audience award. You can find the full list of winners in the press release after the jump. 2011 Sundance Film Festival Announces Awards Happy, Happy, Hell and Back Again, How to Die in Oregon and Like Crazy Earn Grand Jury Prizes Audience Favorites Include Buck, Circumstance, Kinyawaranda and Senna to.get.her Awarded Best of Next! Audience Award Park City, Ut–The Jury, Audience, Next! and other special award-winners of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival were announced tonight at the Festival’s Awards Ceremony hosted by Tim Blake Nelson (star of Flypaper which premiered in this year’s Premieres section) in Park City, Utah. Highlights from the Awards Ceremony can be seen on the Festival website, www.sundance.org/festival. Films receiving Jury Awards were selected from four categories: U.
- 1/30/2011
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
The Sundance Film Festival is now over and here is the recognition. Sundance Film Festival announced the Jury, Audience, Next! And other special award-winners during a ceremony in Park City, Utah. Highlights of the awards ceremony can be seen on the Sundance’s web site here. The Jury Awards were selected in four categories, including U.S. Dramatic Competition, U.S. Documentary Competition, World Cinema Dramatic Competition and World Cinema Documentary Competition. The Audience Awards were selected by the festival’s audiences. “Success at Sundance can be measured in terms of attendance, sponsorships, acquisitions, even the weather,” said Sundance Film Festival director John Cooper in a press release. “Ultimately, it’s about the films themselves – were they well received? Did they resonate with the audience enough to have a life beyond these 10 days? And this year, the answer is resounding yet.” The film festival featured 118 films, representing 29 countries and 40 first-time filmmakers.
- 1/30/2011
- LRMonline.com
2011 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners
The Grand Jury Prize:Documentary was presented to How to Die in Oregon, directed by Peter D. Richardson. In 1994 Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. How to Die in Oregon gently enters the lives of terminally ill Oregonians to illuminate the power of death with dignity.
The Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to Like Crazy, directed by Drake Doremus; written by Drake Doremus and Ben York Jones. A young American guy and a young British girl meet in college and fall in love. Their love is tested when she is required to leave the country and they must face the challenges of a long-distance relationship.
The World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary was presented to Hell and Back Again, directed by Danfung Dennis. Told through the eyes of one Marine from the start of his 2009 Afghanistan tour to his distressing return and rehabilitation in the U.
The Grand Jury Prize:Documentary was presented to How to Die in Oregon, directed by Peter D. Richardson. In 1994 Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. How to Die in Oregon gently enters the lives of terminally ill Oregonians to illuminate the power of death with dignity.
The Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to Like Crazy, directed by Drake Doremus; written by Drake Doremus and Ben York Jones. A young American guy and a young British girl meet in college and fall in love. Their love is tested when she is required to leave the country and they must face the challenges of a long-distance relationship.
The World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary was presented to Hell and Back Again, directed by Danfung Dennis. Told through the eyes of one Marine from the start of his 2009 Afghanistan tour to his distressing return and rehabilitation in the U.
- 1/30/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
The Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony is the Road Runner of award shows. While other award programs take their time to add dance numbers, film montages, and In Memoriam tributes, Sundance was all business Saturday night as the festival raced through its 26 awards in just 90 minutes. Award recipients were asked to limit their acceptance speeches to one minute, and lo and behold, nearly all of them complied. Maybe that’s because the event’s open bar would reopen as soon as the show concluded; but, more likely, it’s because these winners are up-and-coming indie filmmakers who were just happy...
- 1/30/2011
- by John Young
- EW - Inside Movies
Felicity Jones in Drake Doremus' Like Crazy Sundance 2011 Awards: Romantic Drama, Euthanasia Documentary Take Top Us Prizes Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic Like Crazy Grand Jury Prize, Documentary How to Die in Oregon World Cinema Jury Prize, Dramatic Happy, Happy World Cinema Jury Prize, Documentary Hell and Back Again Dramatic Audience Award Circumstance Documentary Audience Award Buck World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award Kinyarwanda World Cinema Documentary Audience Award Senna The Best of Next Audience Award to.get.her Directing Award, Dramatic Martha Marcy May Marlene, directed by Sean Durkin Directing Award, Documentary Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, directed by Jon Foy World Cinema Directing Award, Dramatic Tyrannosaur, directed by Paddy Considine World Cinema Directing Award, Documentary Project Nim, directed by James Marsh Waldo Scott Screenwriting Award Another Happy Day World Cinema Screenwriting Award Restoration Documentary Editing Award If a Tree Falls World Cinema Documentary Editing Award The...
- 1/30/2011
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
The 2011 Sundance Film Festival awards have been announced.
Drake Doremus‘ Like Crazy and Peter D. Richardson‘s documentary How to Die in Oregon won the grand jury prizes for American films at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival awards ceremony.
Jason Reitman presented the grand jury prize for U.S. dramatic film to Drake Doremus’ Like Crazy, one of the big sales of the fest . Doremus also wrote the script with Ben York Jones.
The movie starring Felicity Jones, Anton Yelchin and Jennifer Lawrence follows young American guy and a young British girl meet in college and fall in love. Their love is tested when she is required to leave the country and they must face the challenges of a long-distance relationship.
Felicity Jones of Like Crazy also won a special jury award for acting. Producer Jonathan Schwartz and writer-director Drake Doremus accepted the award for the British actress, who was working in England.
Drake Doremus‘ Like Crazy and Peter D. Richardson‘s documentary How to Die in Oregon won the grand jury prizes for American films at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival awards ceremony.
Jason Reitman presented the grand jury prize for U.S. dramatic film to Drake Doremus’ Like Crazy, one of the big sales of the fest . Doremus also wrote the script with Ben York Jones.
The movie starring Felicity Jones, Anton Yelchin and Jennifer Lawrence follows young American guy and a young British girl meet in college and fall in love. Their love is tested when she is required to leave the country and they must face the challenges of a long-distance relationship.
Felicity Jones of Like Crazy also won a special jury award for acting. Producer Jonathan Schwartz and writer-director Drake Doremus accepted the award for the British actress, who was working in England.
- 1/30/2011
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
After an unprecedented year for sales and a year that longtime trade critic Todd McCarthy said was the best Sundance he's ever been to, this year's winners of the Sundance Film Festival were announced this evening, with many of the prize winners like recent Paramount acquisition "Like Crazy," a romantic drama starring Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones (who also picked up a special jury prize), and Fox Searchlight pickups "Martha Marcy May Marlene" and "Another Earth" coming soon to a theater near you. Without much ado, the winners are here:
Grand Jury Prize, U.S. Drama: "Like Crazy," directed by Drake Doremus
Grand Jury Prize, U.S. Documentary: "How To Die in Oregon," directed by Peter D. Richardson
Directing Award, Dramatic: Sean Durkin, "Martha Marcy May Marlene"
Directing Award, U.S. Documentary: Jon Foy, "Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles"
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Sam Levinson, "Another Happy Day"
(Note: Levinson,...
Grand Jury Prize, U.S. Drama: "Like Crazy," directed by Drake Doremus
Grand Jury Prize, U.S. Documentary: "How To Die in Oregon," directed by Peter D. Richardson
Directing Award, Dramatic: Sean Durkin, "Martha Marcy May Marlene"
Directing Award, U.S. Documentary: Jon Foy, "Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles"
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Sam Levinson, "Another Happy Day"
(Note: Levinson,...
- 1/30/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
The Sundance Film Festival announced its jury prize winners this evening with Drake Doremus‘ examination of a long-distance relationship, Like Crazy, taking home the Grand Jury Prize. The film’s lead actress, Felicity Jones, also won a Special Jury acting prize. Other top winners include Peter D. Richardson‘s documentary, How to Die in Oregon for Grand Jury doc prize; Circumstance won the dramatic Audience Award while Buck won the audience award for documentary. Sean Durkin won the narrative best directing prize for Martha Marcy May Marlene and best doc directing went to Jon Foy for Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles. Read the complete list of winners below. And go to our dedicated Sundance page for full coverage from the fest.
Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic:
Like Crazy, Drake Doremus
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary:
How to Die in Oregon, director Peter D. Richardson
World Cinema Jury Prize, Dramatic:
Happy,...
Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic:
Like Crazy, Drake Doremus
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary:
How to Die in Oregon, director Peter D. Richardson
World Cinema Jury Prize, Dramatic:
Happy,...
- 1/30/2011
- by Jason Guerrasio
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for U.S. dramatic film went tonight to Like Crazy, writer-director Drake Doremus’s love story starring Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones. The Grand Jury Prize for U.S. documentary was awarded to How to Die in Oregon, Peter D. Richardson’s film about assisted suicide. Other winners announced tonight include:
World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary: Hell and Back Again, which follows a Marine from the start of his 2009 Afghanistan tour to his rehabilitation in the U.S., and shows what modern “unconventional” warfare really means to the men who are fighting it.
World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary: Hell and Back Again, which follows a Marine from the start of his 2009 Afghanistan tour to his rehabilitation in the U.S., and shows what modern “unconventional” warfare really means to the men who are fighting it.
- 1/30/2011
- by Benjamin Svetkey
- EW - Inside Movies
Tim Blake Nelson hosted the awards ceremony tonight for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Taking the top prize was Drake Doremus‘ Like Crazy, with Winter’s Bone winning grand jury prize (dramatic) last year. We weren’t too hot on the film, and surprised something great like Sean Durkin‘s Martha Marcy May Marlene or Mike Nichols‘ Take Shelter didn’t grab it. You can check out the rest of the winners below and our complete Sundance 2011 coverage here.
Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic:
Like Crazy
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary:
How To Die In Oregon
World Cinema Jury Prize, Dramatic:
Happy, Happy
World Cinema Jury Prize, Documentary:
Hell and Back Again
Dramatic Audience Award:
Circumstance
Documentary Audience Award:
Buck
World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award:
Kinyarwanda
World Cinema Documentary Audience Award:
Senna
The Best of Next Audience Award:
to.get.her
Directing Award, Dramatic:
Martha Marcy May Marlene, directed by Sean Durkin
Directing Award,...
Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic:
Like Crazy
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary:
How To Die In Oregon
World Cinema Jury Prize, Dramatic:
Happy, Happy
World Cinema Jury Prize, Documentary:
Hell and Back Again
Dramatic Audience Award:
Circumstance
Documentary Audience Award:
Buck
World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award:
Kinyarwanda
World Cinema Documentary Audience Award:
Senna
The Best of Next Audience Award:
to.get.her
Directing Award, Dramatic:
Martha Marcy May Marlene, directed by Sean Durkin
Directing Award,...
- 1/30/2011
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
One of the surprise word-of-mouth hits at Sundance comes from an unexpected source: first-time filmmaker Jon Foy, of Philadelphia, who landed in the Sundance competition with Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles. Veteran doc filmmaker Doug Block (Home Page, The Kids Grow Up), who runs the doc community site The D-Word, got a call from the rookie Philadelphia filmmaker and film school dropout, seeking advice. He had been toiling away for more than five years on a doc about the Toynbee Tiles, which crop up embedded in roads around the country, from the North East spreading all the way to South America, inspiring many theories about their origin. Update: The doc won the best directing documentary prize Saturday at Sundance. Here's the Sundance ...
- 1/30/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
By Trevor Anderson (writer-director of “The High Level Bridge”)
When I really think about it, I guess I’m going to Sundance because I lost a contest.
“The High Level Bridge” is my ninth short film. It’s a five-minute, personal documentary about the largest bridge in my hometown: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The best way for me to describe the movie to people who haven’t seen it is to tell them the first lines of my voiceover: “This is the High Level Bridge. It’s where people who live in Edmonton go when we’re finally ready to kill ourselves. By the end of this little video, I’m gonna huck this camera over the edge.”
When I’m talking to the press, it’s tempting to pretend that the only reason I made the documentary was to memorialize our dead. But when I’m honest with myself, I...
When I really think about it, I guess I’m going to Sundance because I lost a contest.
“The High Level Bridge” is my ninth short film. It’s a five-minute, personal documentary about the largest bridge in my hometown: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The best way for me to describe the movie to people who haven’t seen it is to tell them the first lines of my voiceover: “This is the High Level Bridge. It’s where people who live in Edmonton go when we’re finally ready to kill ourselves. By the end of this little video, I’m gonna huck this camera over the edge.”
When I’m talking to the press, it’s tempting to pretend that the only reason I made the documentary was to memorialize our dead. But when I’m honest with myself, I...
- 1/24/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
The cool-looking documentary Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles premieres next week at Sundance 2011, and today we have the new poster for you to check out, courtesy of Imp Awards.
The docu-film is directed by first-time filmmaker Jon Foy with artist/musician Justin Duerr leading the investigation, which they have been filming since 2005.
Synopsis:
Strangeness is afoot. Most people don't notice the hundreds of cryptic tiled messages about resurrecting the dead that have been appearing in city streets over the past three decades. But Justin Duerr does. For years, finding an answer to this long-standing urban mystery has been his obsession. He has been collecting clues that the tiler has embedded in the streets of major cities across the U.S. and South America. But as Justin starts piecing together key events of the past he finds a story that is more surreal than he imagined, and one...
The docu-film is directed by first-time filmmaker Jon Foy with artist/musician Justin Duerr leading the investigation, which they have been filming since 2005.
Synopsis:
Strangeness is afoot. Most people don't notice the hundreds of cryptic tiled messages about resurrecting the dead that have been appearing in city streets over the past three decades. But Justin Duerr does. For years, finding an answer to this long-standing urban mystery has been his obsession. He has been collecting clues that the tiler has embedded in the streets of major cities across the U.S. and South America. But as Justin starts piecing together key events of the past he finds a story that is more surreal than he imagined, and one...
- 1/17/2011
- by brians
- GeekTyrant
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