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A representative for Roberta Flack announced Monday that the Grammy-winning musician has Als, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and can no longer sing.
The progressive disease “has made it impossible to sing and not easy to speak,” Flack’s manager Suzanne Koga said in a release. “But it will take a lot more than Als to silence this icon.”
The announcement of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis diagnosis comes just ahead of the premiere of Roberta, a feature-length documentary debuting Thursday at the Docnyc film festival.
Flack is known for hits like “Killing Me Softly With His Song” and “The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face,” the latter of which catapulted her into stardom after Clint Eastwood used it as the soundtrack for a love scene in his 1971 movie Play Misty for Me.
The release says that the Grammy-winning singer and pianist,...
A representative for Roberta Flack announced Monday that the Grammy-winning musician has Als, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and can no longer sing.
The progressive disease “has made it impossible to sing and not easy to speak,” Flack’s manager Suzanne Koga said in a release. “But it will take a lot more than Als to silence this icon.”
The announcement of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis diagnosis comes just ahead of the premiere of Roberta, a feature-length documentary debuting Thursday at the Docnyc film festival.
Flack is known for hits like “Killing Me Softly With His Song” and “The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face,” the latter of which catapulted her into stardom after Clint Eastwood used it as the soundtrack for a love scene in his 1971 movie Play Misty for Me.
The release says that the Grammy-winning singer and pianist,...
- 11/14/2022
- by Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Roberta Flack, the soulful voice behind the hits “Killing Me Softly With His Song” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” has been diagnosed with Als, aka Lou Gehrig’s Disease. The artist, who is 85 and survived a stroke in 2016, can no longer sing and has trouble speaking as a result of the disease, according to Flack’s rep.
“It will take a lot more than Als to silence this icon,” the rep said, adding that Flack intends to stay active in musical and creative endeavors.
Flack, nevertheless,...
“It will take a lot more than Als to silence this icon,” the rep said, adding that Flack intends to stay active in musical and creative endeavors.
Flack, nevertheless,...
- 11/14/2022
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Andrew Herwitz in talks across multiple territories.
The Film Sales Company has licensed French and German TV and Fvod (free VOD) rights to Arte France on the documentary work in progress and EFM sales title Roberta Flack Is Limitless.
Antonino D’Ambrosio directs the feature about the legendary R&b singer and her influence as an artist, entrepreneur and activist. The project will include personal reflections and previously unseen archival footage and interviews with Flack and her coterie of friends.
Flack’s hits include The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Killing Me Softly With His Song and Where Is The Love.
The Film Sales Company has licensed French and German TV and Fvod (free VOD) rights to Arte France on the documentary work in progress and EFM sales title Roberta Flack Is Limitless.
Antonino D’Ambrosio directs the feature about the legendary R&b singer and her influence as an artist, entrepreneur and activist. The project will include personal reflections and previously unseen archival footage and interviews with Flack and her coterie of friends.
Flack’s hits include The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Killing Me Softly With His Song and Where Is The Love.
- 1/25/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Andrew Herwitz in talks across multiple territories.
The Film Sales Company has licensed French and German TV and Fvod (free VOD) rights to Arte France on the documentary work in progress Roberta Flack Is Limitless.
Antonino D’Ambrosio directs the feature about the legendary R&b singer and her influence as an artist, entrepreneur and activist. The project will include personal reflections and previously unseen archival footage and interviews with Flack and her coterie of friends.
Flack’s hits include The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Killing Me Softly With His Song and Where Is The Love.
The network...
The Film Sales Company has licensed French and German TV and Fvod (free VOD) rights to Arte France on the documentary work in progress Roberta Flack Is Limitless.
Antonino D’Ambrosio directs the feature about the legendary R&b singer and her influence as an artist, entrepreneur and activist. The project will include personal reflections and previously unseen archival footage and interviews with Flack and her coterie of friends.
Flack’s hits include The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Killing Me Softly With His Song and Where Is The Love.
The network...
- 1/25/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
"They're afraid to be honest, and that's a bad system." IFC Films has debuted a trailer for hte documentary titled Frank Serpico, telling the true story of the NYPD whistleblower Frank Serpico. Back in 1973, Sidney Lumet directed Al Pacino in the feature film Serpico, telling a fictionalized version of his story of how he called out rampant corruption in the NYPD force, only to have his comrades turn against him. This new documentary goes back and lets Serpico tell his story in his own words: from his Italian-American roots in Brooklyn to his disillusionment with the NYPD and beyond. Featuring interviews with Serpico's associates and admirers, including John Turturro, as well as music by Jack White. His story seems just as relevant today as it was when it first happened. You might want to check this out, looks like a compelling doc to see. Here's the official trailer for...
- 10/6/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Editor's Note: Let Fury Have The Hour, which premiered at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival, is a lively social history chronicling the ways that creative-response is an antidote to the cynicism dominating today's culture. A passionate, mixed media collage incorporating graphic art, music, animation, and spoken word, the film spans three decades of transformation. In his feature directorial debut, Antonino D'Ambrosio brings together over 50 artists, writers, musicians and activists, each attesting to the fact that we can re-imagine the world we live in and take an active role in making that vision a reality. Italy. Spain. Portugal. England. Ireland. France. As I write this on a tour of Europe with my film, Let Fury Have The Hour, thousands of people - some in the hundreds of thousands - in each of these countries are pouring into the streets to protest the brutal austerity measures their respective governments are imposing due to...
- 12/13/2012
- TribecaFilm.com
What kind of world do you want to live in? It's a pretty loaded question, however, a new documentary from filmmaker/author Antonino D'Ambrosio will look to answer it. From Cavu pictures, "Let Fury Have the Hour" attempts to examine the counter-culture of 2012, through the artists, actors, musicians and writers who know it best. The film includes interviews with everyone from Chuck D to guitarist Tom Morello to comedian Lewis Black, waxing poetic on how they've been able transform the anger and emotions of an entire generation into provocative works of art. Here, Moviefone is happy to debut the official poster for the documentary, which you can see in full below. The print was designed by artist Shepard Fairey, who's best known for creating the Barack Obama "Hope" poster during the 2008 presidential campaign. "Let Fury Have the Hour" will be released on December 14 in New York and on January 25 in Los Angeles.
- 11/29/2012
- by Alex Suskind
- Moviefone
Cavu Pictures has acquired rights to Antonino D’Ambrosio’s political documentary “Let Fury Have The Hour.” The New York-based distributor plans a theatrical release beginning December 14 at New York’s Quad Cinema, followed by an expanded rollout through January. Using subjects such as Eve Ensler, Lewis Black, John Sayles, Shepard Fairey, Tom Morello, Edwidge Danticat, Wayne Kramer and many others, “Fury” looks at the last 50 years of social history to make the case for activism and creative response as an antidote to cynicism. SnagFilms (Indiewire’s parent company) has VOD rights to “Fury,” which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, and will make the film available digitally mid-February. Read More: John Sayles, Antonino D'Ambrosio & DJ Spooky Discuss 'Let Fury Have the Hour' and the 'Post-Truth' Era at Paley Doc Fest “Building on the glowing reviews that ‘Let...
- 11/28/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
SnagFilms launches "Snag the Vote 2012" - a free online film festival running through Election Day that will feature 100+ documentaries highlighting ten key issues defining the 2012 presidential election. The issues: Economy and Jobs, Health Care, Immigration, the Environment, Foreign Affairs, Energy, National Security, Education, Civil Liberties, and the political process. Artist Shepard Fairey - who is responsible for the iconic 2008 Obama "Hope" poster - has also created a series of six posters for "Snag the Vote 2012," inspired by Antonino D'Ambrosio's "Let Fury Have the Hour" - one of the festival's premieres. Among the films are ten digital premieres in October using Sang's Social Screening ™ technology to connect viewers to each other, the filmmakers and experts. SnagFilms' Rick Allen states that “Snag the Vote 2012 brings the election’s big issues to life in the most compelling and thoughtful...
- 8/22/2012
- by Sophia Savage
- Thompson on Hollywood
It's Year 11 for the Tribeca Film Festival, and it looks like the fest created by Robert De Niro is hitting its stride.
The 11-day event, which takes place April 18-29, has always been known for its flashy red- carpet premieres (this year's fest is bookended with the comedy "The Five-Year Engagement" and Marvel's latest “The Avengers”) and fun family fare (free Drive In screenings of "Jaws" and "The Goonies"). Tribeca is also branching out into the online world: For its second year, the festival will screen a handful of titles from this year's Tribeca Online Film Festival as well as stream some of its panels.
But if you like to watch your movies the old-fashioned way (in the theater), here are 15 titles from this year's fest that we think you should check out.
1. '2 Days in New York'
In Julie Delpy's sequel to her 2007 directorial debut "2 Days in Paris,...
The 11-day event, which takes place April 18-29, has always been known for its flashy red- carpet premieres (this year's fest is bookended with the comedy "The Five-Year Engagement" and Marvel's latest “The Avengers”) and fun family fare (free Drive In screenings of "Jaws" and "The Goonies"). Tribeca is also branching out into the online world: For its second year, the festival will screen a handful of titles from this year's Tribeca Online Film Festival as well as stream some of its panels.
But if you like to watch your movies the old-fashioned way (in the theater), here are 15 titles from this year's fest that we think you should check out.
1. '2 Days in New York'
In Julie Delpy's sequel to her 2007 directorial debut "2 Days in Paris,...
- 4/17/2012
- by Jason Guerrasio
- NextMovie
This year's Tribeca Film Festival (site) opens on Wednesday with the world premiere of The Five-Year Engagement, which, like Forgetting Sarah Marshall, is directed by Nicholas Stoller, produced by Judd Apatow and stars Jason Segel, and closes on April 28 with Joss Whedon's The Avengers. In the New York Times, Stephen Holden notes that the new programming team (Frédéric Boyer, former artistic director of the Directors' Fortnight, Sundance vet Geoffrey Gilmore and Genna Terranova) have slimmed the lineup down to 90 features from 150 just two years ago: "As a result Tribeca is no longer a catchall basin for middling stray films seeking a showcase." What's more, "for the first time [the] world narrative and world documentary competitions have official opening-night films":
The opening narrative feature, Eytan Fox's Yossi, is the sequel to his gay love story, Yossi and Jagger, for which the Israeli actor Ohad Knoller won a best actor...
The opening narrative feature, Eytan Fox's Yossi, is the sequel to his gay love story, Yossi and Jagger, for which the Israeli actor Ohad Knoller won a best actor...
- 4/16/2012
- MUBI
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