The Shine director unpicks the mystery of the string music world but fails to follow up some of his own interesting lines in this messy documentary
Director Scott Hicks has turned his focus to music-related subjects before: most memorably in his 1996 masterpiece Shine and also in the 2007 documentary Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts. In the latter, Hicks got up close and personal with the legendary composer, following him around for a year and taking a detailed look at his day-to-day life. At times the film felt oddly skewed to Glass as a person rather than focusing on the art or the artist – it even featured an oddly long sequence capturing him preparing pizzas in his holiday home.
Related: Shine: rewatching classic Australian films
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Director Scott Hicks has turned his focus to music-related subjects before: most memorably in his 1996 masterpiece Shine and also in the 2007 documentary Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts. In the latter, Hicks got up close and personal with the legendary composer, following him around for a year and taking a detailed look at his day-to-day life. At times the film felt oddly skewed to Glass as a person rather than focusing on the art or the artist – it even featured an oddly long sequence capturing him preparing pizzas in his holiday home.
Related: Shine: rewatching classic Australian films
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- 10/16/2015
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Do you want answers? Do you believe you’re entitled to them? Do you want the truth? Can you, in fact, handle the truth? The 15 documentaries competing for Oscar have been selected.
Check out the list below [via Oscars.org]:
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer Alex Gibney, director (Es Productions LLC) Enemies of the People Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath, directors (Old Street Films) Exit through the Gift Shop Banksy, director (Paranoid Pictures) Gasland Josh Fox, director (Gasland Productions, LLC) Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould Michele Hozer and Peter Raymont, directors
(White Pine Pictures) Inside Job Charles Ferguson, director (Representational Pictures) The Lottery Madeleine Sackler, director (Great Curve Films) Precious Life Shlomi Eldar, director (Origami Productions) “Megamind” Quest for Honor Mary Ann Smothers Bruni, director (Smothers Bruni Productions) Restrepo Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger, directors (Outpost Films) This Way of Life Thomas Burstyn, director (Cloud South Films...
Check out the list below [via Oscars.org]:
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer Alex Gibney, director (Es Productions LLC) Enemies of the People Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath, directors (Old Street Films) Exit through the Gift Shop Banksy, director (Paranoid Pictures) Gasland Josh Fox, director (Gasland Productions, LLC) Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould Michele Hozer and Peter Raymont, directors
(White Pine Pictures) Inside Job Charles Ferguson, director (Representational Pictures) The Lottery Madeleine Sackler, director (Great Curve Films) Precious Life Shlomi Eldar, director (Origami Productions) “Megamind” Quest for Honor Mary Ann Smothers Bruni, director (Smothers Bruni Productions) Restrepo Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger, directors (Outpost Films) This Way of Life Thomas Burstyn, director (Cloud South Films...
- 11/18/2010
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
So last year I joined Twitter and desperately struggled to figure out a good use for it. Assuming most people following my account might come from the Film Junk podcast, I thought it might be an idea platform to keep track of what films I've been watching and what ratings I give them. My first post was March 9th, 2009 with David Cronenberg's The Brood (3.5/4) and since then I've managed to check out a good number of great films over the last year. (Jacques Tati's Play Time and Wim Wender's Paris, Texas are definitely two stand outs on this list.) Many of these are first time viewings, but a there are also a lot of movies I just felt the urge to revisit. So what do you think? Any favourites? Have a look for yourself after the jump! The Brood, (Cronenberg, 1979) 3.5/4 Operation Crossbow (Anderson, 1965) 3.5/4 Watchmen, (Snyder, 2009) 3/4 Pontypool, (McDonald, 2008) 4/4 Pinocchio,...
- 3/10/2010
- by Jay C.
- FilmJunk
David McCullough: Painting with Words (top); Philip Glass in Glass: a portrait of Philip in twelve parts (bottom) David McCullough: Painting with Words and Glass: a portrait of Philip in twelve parts will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 28th annual “Contemporary Documentaries” series on Wednesday, November 4, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission is free. Directed by Mark Herzog and produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, David McCullough: Painting with Words takes a look at the career of Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough (Truman, John Adams). Herzog will be present to take questions from the audience following the screening. Shot on [...]...
- 10/26/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Scott Hicks: One Of The Boys
By
Alex Simon
Scott Hicks made his bones as a filmmaker the old-fashioned way, paying his dues as a crew member during the Australian film industry’s birth in the 1970s. Born in Uganda March 4, 1953, and raised in Kenya, England and finally Australia, Hicks worked his way up to assistant director for soon-to-be big names such as Peter Weir and Bruce Beresford before moving into directing industrial films and documentaries for television. Hicks didn’t direct his first feature, Freedom, until 1982, and had to wait for his second, in 1996, to put him on the A-list. Shine was the true story of Australian piano prodigy David Helfgott, and his battle with mental illness. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, and won a Best Actor statuette for Geoffrey Rush, who played Helfgott as an adult.
Hicks has been choosy since then, going back and...
By
Alex Simon
Scott Hicks made his bones as a filmmaker the old-fashioned way, paying his dues as a crew member during the Australian film industry’s birth in the 1970s. Born in Uganda March 4, 1953, and raised in Kenya, England and finally Australia, Hicks worked his way up to assistant director for soon-to-be big names such as Peter Weir and Bruce Beresford before moving into directing industrial films and documentaries for television. Hicks didn’t direct his first feature, Freedom, until 1982, and had to wait for his second, in 1996, to put him on the A-list. Shine was the true story of Australian piano prodigy David Helfgott, and his battle with mental illness. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, and won a Best Actor statuette for Geoffrey Rush, who played Helfgott as an adult.
Hicks has been choosy since then, going back and...
- 9/28/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will launch its 28th annual "Contemporary Documentaries" screening series with Oscar winner "Man on Wire" and "In a Dream" on Sept. 30 at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.
Directed by James Marsh, "Man on Wire" is a portrait of high-wire artist Philippe Petit. Directed by Jeremiah Zagar, "In a Dream" chronicles the work of muralist Isaiah Zagar.
Part one of this two-part series runs through December.
Titles on tap are:
Oct. 7: "The Garden" and "Crips and Bloods: Made in America"
Oct. 21: "Encounters at the End of the World" and "Flow"
Nov. 4: "David McCullough: Painting with Words" and "Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts"
Nov. 11: "Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh" and "Pray the Devil Back to Hell"
Dec. 9: "Wild Ocean" and "Hurricane on the Bayou" (at the IMAX Theater, California Science Center,...
Directed by James Marsh, "Man on Wire" is a portrait of high-wire artist Philippe Petit. Directed by Jeremiah Zagar, "In a Dream" chronicles the work of muralist Isaiah Zagar.
Part one of this two-part series runs through December.
Titles on tap are:
Oct. 7: "The Garden" and "Crips and Bloods: Made in America"
Oct. 21: "Encounters at the End of the World" and "Flow"
Nov. 4: "David McCullough: Painting with Words" and "Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts"
Nov. 11: "Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh" and "Pray the Devil Back to Hell"
Dec. 9: "Wild Ocean" and "Hurricane on the Bayou" (at the IMAX Theater, California Science Center,...
- 9/15/2009
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Errol Morris, on Oscar winner in 2004 for his documentary "The Fog of War," has made the cut that could lead to another Academy Award nomination for his latest film, "Standard Operating Procedure," a study of torture in Abu Ghraib in Iraq.
Morris' film, from Participant and Sony Pictures Classics, is one of 15 films that have made it through a preliminary round of voting by the Academy's documentary branch steering committee and are now eligible to compete for one of the five nominations in the feature documentary category.
Bill Maher's "Religulous," the top-grossing doc of the year with $12.6 million domestically, failed to make the list, though plenty of other hot-button topics were represented.
Joshua Tickell's "Fuel" looks at the energy crisis; Patrick Creadon's "I.O.U.S.A.," from Roadside Attractions, takes on the credit crunch; Peter Gilbert and Steve James' "At the Death House Door" examines a case of capital punishment...
Morris' film, from Participant and Sony Pictures Classics, is one of 15 films that have made it through a preliminary round of voting by the Academy's documentary branch steering committee and are now eligible to compete for one of the five nominations in the feature documentary category.
Bill Maher's "Religulous," the top-grossing doc of the year with $12.6 million domestically, failed to make the list, though plenty of other hot-button topics were represented.
Joshua Tickell's "Fuel" looks at the energy crisis; Patrick Creadon's "I.O.U.S.A.," from Roadside Attractions, takes on the credit crunch; Peter Gilbert and Steve James' "At the Death House Door" examines a case of capital punishment...
- 11/17/2008
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Musician Philip Glass' modern classical scores have been featured in many films, but now the artist himself will hit the big screen.
Koch Lorber Films has acquired U.S. theatrical and home video rights to Scott Hicks' documentary Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts. The feature includes interviews with Martin Scorsese, Errol Morris, Chuck Close, and Christopher Hampton in its exploration of Glass' life and work.
Glass was shot in the 18 months leading up to the artist's 70th birthday last year. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
In addition to composing such operas as Einstein on the Beach, Glass earned three Oscar nominations for scores to Notes on a Scandal, The Hours and Scorsese's Kundun.
Though Hicks is best known as the Oscar-nominated director of Shine, he also helmed such TV docus as Submarines: Sharks of Steel and The Great Wall of Iron.
Glass will premiere in April at New York's IFC Center to coincide with a revival of his opera Satyagraha at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Koch Lorber Films has acquired U.S. theatrical and home video rights to Scott Hicks' documentary Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts. The feature includes interviews with Martin Scorsese, Errol Morris, Chuck Close, and Christopher Hampton in its exploration of Glass' life and work.
Glass was shot in the 18 months leading up to the artist's 70th birthday last year. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
In addition to composing such operas as Einstein on the Beach, Glass earned three Oscar nominations for scores to Notes on a Scandal, The Hours and Scorsese's Kundun.
Though Hicks is best known as the Oscar-nominated director of Shine, he also helmed such TV docus as Submarines: Sharks of Steel and The Great Wall of Iron.
Glass will premiere in April at New York's IFC Center to coincide with a revival of his opera Satyagraha at the Metropolitan Opera House.
- 1/11/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- I’m not sure what the previous years have churned out, but this year’s Real to Reel (Tiff's doc section) packs a wallop: either the film’s selected happen to have a muscle name among doc filmmakers attached or the docu subject will raise more than one eyebrow. Among the mix we have Phil Donahue’s Body of War – a doc that is coming to the fest with ample buzz, we have film critic Todd McCarthy’s documentary of a Cannes fest icon Pierre Rissient who makes the term 'cinephile' sound like a disease, and after a successful crossover into feature films, Kevin Macdonald looks into the mind of Gestapo commander Klaus Barbie, a.k.a the Butcher of Lyon. Here is the complete list:algerie, Histoires A Ne Pas Dire Jean-Pierre Lledo, AlgeriaFour Algerians of Muslim origin revisit the last years of their country's War of Independence, searching
- 7/31/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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