Exclusive: Film Movement has acquired U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to the acclaimed documentary Obsessed with Light, which explores the influence of one of the most remarkable figures in American arts – dancer-choreographer Loïe Fuller.
Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum directed the film, which premiered at the 2023 Rome Film Festival and has screened at Doc NYC, Hamptons Doc Fest, the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and the Cleveland International Film Festival. Tony Award winner Cherry Jones provides the voice of Fuller, while actress Erin Anderson provides the voice of Isadora Duncan, another pioneer of American dance.
Loïe Fuller
Fuller became a cultural sensation through her innovative use of lighting techniques in her stage performances.
“Obsessed with Light is a meditation on light and the enduring obsession to create,” notes a description of the documentary. “The film...
Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum directed the film, which premiered at the 2023 Rome Film Festival and has screened at Doc NYC, Hamptons Doc Fest, the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and the Cleveland International Film Festival. Tony Award winner Cherry Jones provides the voice of Fuller, while actress Erin Anderson provides the voice of Isadora Duncan, another pioneer of American dance.
Loïe Fuller
Fuller became a cultural sensation through her innovative use of lighting techniques in her stage performances.
“Obsessed with Light is a meditation on light and the enduring obsession to create,” notes a description of the documentary. “The film...
- 4/18/2024
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Tilda Swinton is the voice of Gertrude Bell in the documentary Letters From Baghdad.
The Hollywood Reporter's exclusive clip of the doc has Swinton narrating a note from the British spy and explorer. Swinton is also an executive producer of the film, along with Thelma Schoonmaker and Ruedi Gerber.
Directed by Sabine Krayenbuhl and Zeva Oelbaum, Letters From Baghdad tells the story of Bell, who came to play a major role in establishing the modern state of Iraq. She wielded an enormous amount of power for a woman of her era. Among her accomplishments was the creation of the Iraq Museum, which was infamously ransacked during the...
The Hollywood Reporter's exclusive clip of the doc has Swinton narrating a note from the British spy and explorer. Swinton is also an executive producer of the film, along with Thelma Schoonmaker and Ruedi Gerber.
Directed by Sabine Krayenbuhl and Zeva Oelbaum, Letters From Baghdad tells the story of Bell, who came to play a major role in establishing the modern state of Iraq. She wielded an enormous amount of power for a woman of her era. Among her accomplishments was the creation of the Iraq Museum, which was infamously ransacked during the...
- 5/31/2017
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ambi Distribution has come on to represent international rights in Cannes to the musical starring Oscar-winner Brie Larson.
Basmati Blues will gets its market debut screening on the Croisette and also stars Cannes competition juror Donald Sutherland, Scott Bakula and Utkarsh Ambudkar. Paradigm handles Us rights.
The film centres on a starry-eyed scientist who teams up with a local farmer and uncovers corporate wrongdoing when she is sent to India to sell genetically modified rice.
Tyne Daly, Saahil Segal, Dalip Tahil, Bugs Bhargava and Lakshmi Manchu round out the cast.
Dan Baron directed Basmati Blues from a screenplay he wrote with Jeff Dorchen.
Monique Caulfield and Jeffrey Soros produce and Ruedi Gerber, Jeff Kleeman, Elliott Lester and Randy Paul serve as executive producers.
Basmati Blues will gets its market debut screening on the Croisette and also stars Cannes competition juror Donald Sutherland, Scott Bakula and Utkarsh Ambudkar. Paradigm handles Us rights.
The film centres on a starry-eyed scientist who teams up with a local farmer and uncovers corporate wrongdoing when she is sent to India to sell genetically modified rice.
Tyne Daly, Saahil Segal, Dalip Tahil, Bugs Bhargava and Lakshmi Manchu round out the cast.
Dan Baron directed Basmati Blues from a screenplay he wrote with Jeff Dorchen.
Monique Caulfield and Jeffrey Soros produce and Ruedi Gerber, Jeff Kleeman, Elliott Lester and Randy Paul serve as executive producers.
- 4/28/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Tree Of Life (12A)
(Terrence Malick, 2011, Us) Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, Laramie Eppler, Sean Penn, Tye Sheridan. 139 mins
Successor to Kubrick's 2001 or extended perfume ad? Either way, Malick's macro/microcosmic take on life, the universe and family life makes most films look unadventurous. Beyond the head-trip "creation of the universe" sequences, it's largely Sean Penn's impressionistic reminiscence of his conflicted childhood, rendered in gorgeous imagery, with introspective voiceovers and a dreamy intensity.
The Princess Of Montpensier (15)
(Bertrand Tavernier, 2010, Fra) Mélanie Thierry, Gaspard Ulliel, Lambert Wilson. 140 mins
There's costumes and courtliness, but this 16th-century saga remains unstuffy. Sought-after Thierry's quest for self-determination is the focus, and the treatment is modern and immediate.
Trust (15)
(David Schwimmer, 2010, Us) Liana Liberato, Clive Owen, Catherine Keener. 106 mins
Those who saw Catfish will know where this teen's online relationship with an apparently nice boy is headed. But what follows is an exercise in parent-worrying technophobia.
(Terrence Malick, 2011, Us) Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, Laramie Eppler, Sean Penn, Tye Sheridan. 139 mins
Successor to Kubrick's 2001 or extended perfume ad? Either way, Malick's macro/microcosmic take on life, the universe and family life makes most films look unadventurous. Beyond the head-trip "creation of the universe" sequences, it's largely Sean Penn's impressionistic reminiscence of his conflicted childhood, rendered in gorgeous imagery, with introspective voiceovers and a dreamy intensity.
The Princess Of Montpensier (15)
(Bertrand Tavernier, 2010, Fra) Mélanie Thierry, Gaspard Ulliel, Lambert Wilson. 140 mins
There's costumes and courtliness, but this 16th-century saga remains unstuffy. Sought-after Thierry's quest for self-determination is the focus, and the treatment is modern and immediate.
Trust (15)
(David Schwimmer, 2010, Us) Liana Liberato, Clive Owen, Catherine Keener. 106 mins
Those who saw Catfish will know where this teen's online relationship with an apparently nice boy is headed. But what follows is an exercise in parent-worrying technophobia.
- 7/8/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
"Come Fly Away" leads the nominees for this year's Fred and Adele Astaire Awards. The combination of Twyla Tharp's inventiveness and Frank Sinatra's croon prompted seven nominations, more than any other production.The awards will be presented June 7 at a gala the Gerald W. Lynch Theater in New York. Director and choreographer Kenny Ortega is to receive the Douglas Watt Lifetime Achievement Award. The evening will feature performances by Ronald K. Brown's dance company Evidence; Tony Dovolani of "Dancing With the Stars"; and the Tony-nominated Lee Roy Reams with women who once danced with Astaire. The complete list of nominees is below.Best ChoreographerBill T. Jones, "Fela"Twyla Tharp, "Come Fly Away"Sergio Trujillo, "Memphis"Marcia Milgrom Dodge, "Ragtime" Steven Hoggett, "American Idiot"Best Male DancerCharlie Neshyba-Hodges, "Come Fly Away"Keith Roberts, "Come Fly Away"John Selya, "Come Fly Away"Maksim Chmerkovskiy, "Burn the Floor"Male Ensemble, "Memphis" (Brad Bass,...
- 5/19/2010
- backstage.com
The Mill Valley Film Festival opens tonight, filling the next 10 days with some of the most anticipated films of the rest of the year, as well as a selection of international films making its way to the Bay Area. In addition, the festival will also host the awarding of talents such as Woody Harrelson, Clive Owen, Uma Thurman, Jason Reitman and screen legend Anna Karina.
We'll have reviews coming in for the festival soon, but for the moment, here's a brief preview of what to look for.
Clive Owen gets a spotlight for bringing his latest work, the patriarchal drama The Boys Are Back, which opens the festival tonight. Owen plays a father who has to raise his two sons on his own after his wife's sudden death. As part of the program is a screening of Owen's breakout role in the gambling thriller Croupier.
Paired with fatherhood is Motherhood,...
We'll have reviews coming in for the festival soon, but for the moment, here's a brief preview of what to look for.
Clive Owen gets a spotlight for bringing his latest work, the patriarchal drama The Boys Are Back, which opens the festival tonight. Owen plays a father who has to raise his two sons on his own after his wife's sudden death. As part of the program is a screening of Owen's breakout role in the gambling thriller Croupier.
Paired with fatherhood is Motherhood,...
- 10/8/2009
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
A disappointing short feature documentary about the building of a fantastical museum to house the extraordinary sculpture of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely, who died in 1991, "Meta-Mecano" is all but lifeless and not even close to mirroring the anarchistic spirit of its subject.
Too mechanical and static -- while Tinguely's bizarre and often huge kinetic wonders are anything but -- the Swiss production bowed recently at the 1998 Nortel Palm Springs International Film Festival. More festival engagements are sure to follow, but overall, "Meta-Mecano" is more suitable for architecture and engineering students than fans of the artist.
With such works as "Communication at Your Work Place" on his resume, Swiss documentarian Rudolf Gerber, a New York University alumnus, knows his way around a construction site. But he's not much of a storyteller, and he uses interviews and archival material only sparingly.
What become almost unbearably frustrating are the endless shots of Tinguely's elaborate creations being dismantled, transported, reassembled and tested. Only in the final moments, for a far too brief payoff, does the film actually show the artist's surreal and delicate "festival of errors" come to life.
Instead of illuminating the themes and variations of Tinguely's works, which were donated by his widow, the film plays like a long advertisement for the state-of-the-art museum.
Overlooking the Rhine in Tinguely's hometown of Basel, the impressive structure is the work of architect Mario Botta, and it boasts 11-meter-high ceilings and retractable walls. The film exhaustively chronicles its building with dry precision, including a relatively riveting visit to a river where the blocks of stone for the outer walls are harvested.
Tinguely himself is seen only a few times in old footage that forms intriguing sound bites. The filmmaker thankfully breaks up the monotony with short but helpful visits with Tinguely's widow, the artist Niki de Saint Phalle -- herself a popular nouveau realist whose works are displayed in many European cities -- and with Tinguely's longtime assistant and welder Seppi Imhof, as well as with Pontus Hulten, director and curator the museum.
META-MECANO
ZAS Film
Director-writer-producer: Rudolf Gerber
Associate producer: Ted Scapa
Director of photography: Patrick Lindenmaier
Editor: Mirjam Krakenberger
Sound: Dieter Lengacher
Music: Vinz Vonlanthen
Color/stereo
With: Mario Botta, Niki de Saint Phalle, Seppi Imhof, Pontus Hulten, Jean Tinguely
Running time -- 64 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Too mechanical and static -- while Tinguely's bizarre and often huge kinetic wonders are anything but -- the Swiss production bowed recently at the 1998 Nortel Palm Springs International Film Festival. More festival engagements are sure to follow, but overall, "Meta-Mecano" is more suitable for architecture and engineering students than fans of the artist.
With such works as "Communication at Your Work Place" on his resume, Swiss documentarian Rudolf Gerber, a New York University alumnus, knows his way around a construction site. But he's not much of a storyteller, and he uses interviews and archival material only sparingly.
What become almost unbearably frustrating are the endless shots of Tinguely's elaborate creations being dismantled, transported, reassembled and tested. Only in the final moments, for a far too brief payoff, does the film actually show the artist's surreal and delicate "festival of errors" come to life.
Instead of illuminating the themes and variations of Tinguely's works, which were donated by his widow, the film plays like a long advertisement for the state-of-the-art museum.
Overlooking the Rhine in Tinguely's hometown of Basel, the impressive structure is the work of architect Mario Botta, and it boasts 11-meter-high ceilings and retractable walls. The film exhaustively chronicles its building with dry precision, including a relatively riveting visit to a river where the blocks of stone for the outer walls are harvested.
Tinguely himself is seen only a few times in old footage that forms intriguing sound bites. The filmmaker thankfully breaks up the monotony with short but helpful visits with Tinguely's widow, the artist Niki de Saint Phalle -- herself a popular nouveau realist whose works are displayed in many European cities -- and with Tinguely's longtime assistant and welder Seppi Imhof, as well as with Pontus Hulten, director and curator the museum.
META-MECANO
ZAS Film
Director-writer-producer: Rudolf Gerber
Associate producer: Ted Scapa
Director of photography: Patrick Lindenmaier
Editor: Mirjam Krakenberger
Sound: Dieter Lengacher
Music: Vinz Vonlanthen
Color/stereo
With: Mario Botta, Niki de Saint Phalle, Seppi Imhof, Pontus Hulten, Jean Tinguely
Running time -- 64 minutes
No MPAA rating...
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