Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Among the most interesting documentaries in consideration for next year's Best Documentary Feature Academy Award are Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am on the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, who died this year; Matt Tyrnauer’s Where’s My Roy Cohn? on the infamous lawyer; Frédéric Tcheng’s Halston on the iconic designer; Alison Klayman’s The Brink on Steve Bannon; Aviva Kempner’s The Spy Behind Home Plate on baseball player Moe Berg; Andrey Paounov’s Walking On Water on Christo; Ron Mann's Carmine Street Guitars on Rick Kelly’s shop in New York, and Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, which had a Special Event screening last week at Doc NYC.
Where’s My Roy Cohn? director Matt Tyrnauer Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Documentary features that...
Among the most interesting documentaries in consideration for next year's Best Documentary Feature Academy Award are Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am on the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, who died this year; Matt Tyrnauer’s Where’s My Roy Cohn? on the infamous lawyer; Frédéric Tcheng’s Halston on the iconic designer; Alison Klayman’s The Brink on Steve Bannon; Aviva Kempner’s The Spy Behind Home Plate on baseball player Moe Berg; Andrey Paounov’s Walking On Water on Christo; Ron Mann's Carmine Street Guitars on Rick Kelly’s shop in New York, and Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, which had a Special Event screening last week at Doc NYC.
Where’s My Roy Cohn? director Matt Tyrnauer Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Documentary features that...
- 11/12/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In today’s film news roundup, Kino Lorber has started a VOD platform, Tony Todd is starring in a horror-comedy, the Red Nation International Film Festival sets its lineup and ballet dancer Kirsten Bloom Allen starts a production company. VOD Distribution Arthouse distribution specialist Kino Lorber is launching VOD platform Kino Now with more than 600 new releases, classics and international films. Kino Now, announced Monday, will offer exclusive early access to new theatrical releases, festival hits and exclusive titles not available on other streaming platforms or not yet available on home video.
The platform will also include special “bundle” offerings of selected hard-to-find titles as well as collections from renowned filmmakers including international TV series such as “Deutschland 83” and “Bad Banks”; documentary series including Joseph Campbell’s “The Power of Myth”; auteur collections built around Jean-Luc Godard, Lina Wertmüller and Fritz Lang; and pioneers of cinema restorations of the...
The platform will also include special “bundle” offerings of selected hard-to-find titles as well as collections from renowned filmmakers including international TV series such as “Deutschland 83” and “Bad Banks”; documentary series including Joseph Campbell’s “The Power of Myth”; auteur collections built around Jean-Luc Godard, Lina Wertmüller and Fritz Lang; and pioneers of cinema restorations of the...
- 10/1/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
DocumentaryThe screening had four films which revealed the extent of the water crisis around the world.Anjana ShekarFor some, water is more than just a resource. It’s a source of sustenance, a way of life. Civilisations grew around water sources and in many cultures, water is glorified, worshiped and revered. Its absence or excess is felt acutely and as the saying goes, water truly is the elixir of life. For Chennai, the south Indian coastal city, water is an important and urgently discussed topic this summer. Just a few years ago too, water was all that people could talk about, but for a different reason. Then it was a question of excess water. Now, even as rain clouds loom above Chennai’s skies at long last, its water situation is still being debated across the world. ‘Will Chennai go down the Cape Town way?’ headlines read as sections of...
- 7/22/2019
- by Anjana
- The News Minute
Respected former Disney France chief Jean-Francois Camilleri has been named President of Paris-based Echo Studio, an international production firm dedicated to creating content with social impact. The move comes about three months after Camilleri announced his departure from Disney where he had spent 30 years in various roles both in France and Los Angeles.
In his new post, Camilleri will develop Echo Studio’s activities including content production, distribution, social impact campaigns, digital and experiences.
At Echo, he reteams with Yves Darandeau and Emmanuel Priou of Bonne Pioche who are also partners in the company. The trio previously worked together on 2005 Oscar winner March Of The Penguins while Camilleri was running Gaumont Buena Vista where he developed local co-productions and acquisitions. Following the success of Penguins, Camilleri created Disneynature in 2008 and became General Manager and Executive Vice President for the label, dedicated to producing theatrical wildlife films. Credits include Oceans (2010), African Cats...
In his new post, Camilleri will develop Echo Studio’s activities including content production, distribution, social impact campaigns, digital and experiences.
At Echo, he reteams with Yves Darandeau and Emmanuel Priou of Bonne Pioche who are also partners in the company. The trio previously worked together on 2005 Oscar winner March Of The Penguins while Camilleri was running Gaumont Buena Vista where he developed local co-productions and acquisitions. Following the success of Penguins, Camilleri created Disneynature in 2008 and became General Manager and Executive Vice President for the label, dedicated to producing theatrical wildlife films. Credits include Oceans (2010), African Cats...
- 7/2/2019
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Italy’s Biografilm Festival, an event billed as a cinematic celebration of human lives, will pay tribute to Werner Herzog, whose Japanese-language film “Family Romance, LLC” will launch locally following its Cannes premiere, as will “Meeting Gorbachev,” his sit-down conversation with the former Soviet leader.
The prolific Herzog, 76, whose long career comprises feature films such as “Aguirre: The Wrath of God” and “Fitzcarraldo” and a slew of docs, including, more recently Netflix’s “Into the Inferno,” is expected to be on hand at the Bologna-based fest to receive its Celebration of Lives Award on June 10.
As previously announced, Biografilm, which will run June 7-17, is also celebrating Participant Media this year, in particular Diane Weyermann, head of the U.S. company’s documentary film and television unit, who will receive the fest’s Making it Real Award, honoring excellence in producing. The tribute to Participant will include the European premiere...
The prolific Herzog, 76, whose long career comprises feature films such as “Aguirre: The Wrath of God” and “Fitzcarraldo” and a slew of docs, including, more recently Netflix’s “Into the Inferno,” is expected to be on hand at the Bologna-based fest to receive its Celebration of Lives Award on June 10.
As previously announced, Biografilm, which will run June 7-17, is also celebrating Participant Media this year, in particular Diane Weyermann, head of the U.S. company’s documentary film and television unit, who will receive the fest’s Making it Real Award, honoring excellence in producing. The tribute to Participant will include the European premiere...
- 6/3/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Andrey Paounov on Christo in Walking On Water: "You have the human humour moments and then you have the intensity of the other elements - this to me builds a fascinating film. It's very much based on subtext."
In Michael Almereyda's Marjorie Prime, starring Lois Smith and Jon Hamm, a young Marjorie played by Hannah Gross watches Albert Maysles' documentary on Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 2005 Central Park installation The Gates to mark time.
Andrey Paounov, the director of Walking On Water, in the second installment of our conversation, discusses his first fiction film, which he notes is a Samuel Beckett Waiting For Godot meets Stanley Kubrick's The Shining spaghetti western set in Eastern Europe, a 2016 Brexit moment during the creation of The Floating Piers, Christo's eyelashes, the artist's Barbour jacket, and raw eggs.
Andrey Paounov on Vladimir Yavachev trimming Christo's eyelashes: "It's my favourite scene in the film.
In Michael Almereyda's Marjorie Prime, starring Lois Smith and Jon Hamm, a young Marjorie played by Hannah Gross watches Albert Maysles' documentary on Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 2005 Central Park installation The Gates to mark time.
Andrey Paounov, the director of Walking On Water, in the second installment of our conversation, discusses his first fiction film, which he notes is a Samuel Beckett Waiting For Godot meets Stanley Kubrick's The Shining spaghetti western set in Eastern Europe, a 2016 Brexit moment during the creation of The Floating Piers, Christo's eyelashes, the artist's Barbour jacket, and raw eggs.
Andrey Paounov on Vladimir Yavachev trimming Christo's eyelashes: "It's my favourite scene in the film.
- 6/2/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Andrey M Paounov’s Walking on Water centers on the legendary environmental artist Christo and the realization of his most recent project (his second since the 2009 death of his beloved partner in life and art Jeanne-Claude). 2016’s The Floating Piers was a two-mile-long walkway of monk-yellow fabric that allowed over a million visitors to “float” on foot across Italy’s Lake Iseo. What Walking on Water is not, thankfully, is your standard celebratory portrait of an unconventional maestro. Indeed, what makes Paounov’s Locarno-premiering film so refreshingly […]...
- 5/17/2019
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Andrey M Paounov’s Walking on Water centers on the legendary environmental artist Christo and the realization of his most recent project (his second since the 2009 death of his beloved partner in life and art Jeanne-Claude). 2016’s The Floating Piers was a two-mile-long walkway of monk-yellow fabric that allowed over a million visitors to “float” on foot across Italy’s Lake Iseo. What Walking on Water is not, thankfully, is your standard celebratory portrait of an unconventional maestro. Indeed, what makes Paounov’s Locarno-premiering film so refreshingly […]...
- 5/17/2019
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
"This is madness! Total madness." Kino Lorber has debuted the trailer for the documentary Walking on Water, about legendary maverick artist Christo. With uncensored access to Christo and his team, the doc film is a "cinema vérité look at the celebrated artist and his process, from inception to completion of 2016’s most visited art event—The Floating Piers, a stretched 2-mile dahlia-yellow walkway that allowed over 1.2 million visitors to safely walk across stretches of Italy’s Lake Iseo to experience the sensation of floating and walking on water." You may have seen photos of this remarkable large-scale work of art, but there's also a remarkable story about how it came together - and almost fell apart. "The film takes the viewer on a journey into Christo's world, unmediated by interviews, voice-overs or reenactments, drawing a portrait of an artist who deliberately places visceral experience over demagogy." It's also described as...
- 4/5/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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