If you told me there was a plan in place to make four Beatles biopics — one each about John, Paul, George, and Ringo — and that they were going to be directed by Richard Linklater, I’d be suffused with curiosity and excitement. If you told me that those same four movies were going to be directed by Martin Scorsese, I’d be suffused with curiosity and excitement. If you told me that a quartet of Beatles biopics were going to be directed (one apiece) by Linklater, Scorsese, Greta Gerwig, and Todd Haynes, I’d be suffused with curiosity and excitement — and, in fact, that last option would make a beautiful kind of sense. When you think about it, why would anyone — even Scorsese, the poet of rock-operatic drama — want to direct all four Beatles biopics? Talk about hogging the spoils.
But Sam Mendes does. According to a master plan handed down on stone tablets by…...
But Sam Mendes does. According to a master plan handed down on stone tablets by…...
- 2/24/2024
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Jaqueline Bisset, the iconic British actress and star of the new drama Loren & Rose, discussed her experiences while making the film in an exclusive uInterview.
Loren & Rose follows the heartbreaking relationship of a young filmmaker, played by Kelly Blatz, and a famed actress, played by Bisset. When asked what drew her to the project, Bisset said that she immediately fell in love with her character.
“I found the role because of my friendship with a young filmmaker named Christopher Munch, with whom I did a movie called The Sleepy Time Gal and who was friends with Russell Brown, who directed Loren & Rose,” she explained.
“I wanted to play [Rose]. I wanted the uneven parts. I wanted the faults of this person… I was very excited to play this woman and I felt sorry for her. She had some rough times and I can really relate to some of it,...
Loren & Rose follows the heartbreaking relationship of a young filmmaker, played by Kelly Blatz, and a famed actress, played by Bisset. When asked what drew her to the project, Bisset said that she immediately fell in love with her character.
“I found the role because of my friendship with a young filmmaker named Christopher Munch, with whom I did a movie called The Sleepy Time Gal and who was friends with Russell Brown, who directed Loren & Rose,” she explained.
“I wanted to play [Rose]. I wanted the uneven parts. I wanted the faults of this person… I was very excited to play this woman and I felt sorry for her. She had some rough times and I can really relate to some of it,...
- 7/26/2023
- by Ava Lombardi
- Uinterview
In 2000, Filmmaker, timed to a traveling retrospective, asked four directors to reflect on the work of legendary French film director Alain Resnais. We are reposting this piece now as another retrospective, Film Forum’s Alain Resnais 100, opens tomorrow. The below films, with the exception of Je T’aime, Je T’aime, are all also streaming now on the Criterion Channel. See as well this article’s original sidebar, in which producer Anatole Dauman reflects on the making of Night and Fog and Hiroshima, Mon Amour. — Editor Perhaps more than those of any other modern director, the films of Alain Resnais are […]
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- 8/11/2022
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
In 2000, Filmmaker, timed to a traveling retrospective, asked four directors to reflect on the work of legendary French film director Alain Resnais. We are reposting this piece now as another retrospective, Film Forum’s Alain Resnais 100, opens tomorrow. The below films, with the exception of Je T’aime, Je T’aime, are all also streaming now on the Criterion Channel. See as well this article’s original sidebar, in which producer Anatole Dauman reflects on the making of Night and Fog and Hiroshima, Mon Amour. — Editor Perhaps more than those of any other modern director, the films of Alain Resnais are […]
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- 8/11/2022
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
ScreenAnarchy presents a set of exclusive stills from the upcoming sci-fi mystery film, The 11th Green. Campbell Scott stars as an investigative reporter who may have discovered a link between U.S. President Eisenhower and extraterrestrial life. This may be of interest to UFO enthusiasts and those intrigued by the official release of three UFO videos by the Pentagon back in April. Have a look at the still below. We have also included the trailer for your viewing pleasure. The 11th Green will be released online through Joma Films’ “Theatrical-At-Home” platform and in select cinema screens across North America, wherever regions are open for business. Acclaimed American Independent Cinema Maverick Christopher Munch Returns with Elegant Eisenhower Eextraterrestrial Mystery The 11th Green Slated...
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- 6/15/2020
- Screen Anarchy
Essentially forgotten after its 1991 Sundance premiere, Christopher Munch’s beautiful, spare, imagining of John Lennon and Brian Epstein’s friendship, “The Hours and Times,” has finally been restored and is being given a proper release courtesy of Oscilloscope Laboratories. While this understated film may not be for everyone, it is nonetheless a stunning time capsule into the independent film movement of the early-’90s, and a psychologically complex look into the lives of both Epstein and Lennon, right before ‘Beatlemania’ hit.
Continue reading ‘The Hours And Times’: Christopher Munch’s Acclaimed John Lennon Drama Gets A Beautiful New Restoration [Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘The Hours And Times’: Christopher Munch’s Acclaimed John Lennon Drama Gets A Beautiful New Restoration [Review] at The Playlist.
- 3/10/2019
- by Christian Gallichio
- The Playlist
"I found you an engaging and remarkable man, Brian." Oscilliscope Labs has debuted a new trailer for the restored re-release of The Hours and Times, the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Christopher Munch. This played at the Toronto Film Festival in late 1991, then at the Sundance, Berlin, and Tokyo Film Festivals in 1992. The film has been restored from the original 35mm negative elements, and re-printed as fresh 4K Dcp, which will be touring theatrically starting in March for those interested in catching this. The film is a fictionalized account of what may have happened when John Lennon and Brian Epstein went on holiday together to Barcelona in 1963. Starring Ian Hart as John Lennon (of The Beatles), and David Angus as Brian Epstein (manager of The Beatles). The film won numerous indie awards back in 1992, but never really got a chance to shine. Hopefully it will find a bigger audience with this re-release.
- 2/18/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Sundance has added five films to next month’s lineup, including Babak Anvari’s “Wounds.” The writer-director, whose “Under the Shadow” made waves at the festival two years ago, returns to Park City alongside Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson, and Zazie Beets with a film in which “disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.
Also returning to Sundance are “The Blair Witch Project” and “The Hours and Times,” which are screening as part of From the Collection. “Wounds” isn’t the only premiere, as “Corporate Animals” — which stars Demi Moore, Ed Helms, and Jessica Williams — and “Paddleton” (led by Mark Duplass and Ray Romano) are likewise bowing at the fest.
Premieres
“Paddleton” / U.S.A. — An unlikely friendship between two misfit neighbors becomes an unexpectedly emotional journey when the younger man is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Also returning to Sundance are “The Blair Witch Project” and “The Hours and Times,” which are screening as part of From the Collection. “Wounds” isn’t the only premiere, as “Corporate Animals” — which stars Demi Moore, Ed Helms, and Jessica Williams — and “Paddleton” (led by Mark Duplass and Ray Romano) are likewise bowing at the fest.
Premieres
“Paddleton” / U.S.A. — An unlikely friendship between two misfit neighbors becomes an unexpectedly emotional journey when the younger man is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
- 12/20/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Before the New Year rings in the Sundance Institute added five features and a Special Event today to the 2019 Sundance Film Festival taking place from Jan. 24 to Feb. 4.
This includes the world premiere of Alex Lehmann’s Paddleton which follows the friendship of two misfit neighbors, one of whom has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Mark Duplass, Ray Romano, Ravi Patel, Christine Woods star and Mark and Jay Duplass, Mel Eslyn, Alana Carithers, and Sean Bradle produce.
In the Midnight Section, there’s two world premieres, Patrick Brice’s Corporate Animals and Babak Anvari’s Wounds.
The logline for Corporate Animals written by Sam Bain reads: Disaster strikes when the egotistical CEO of an edible cutlery company leads her long-suffering staff on a corporate team-building trip in New Mexico. Trapped underground, this mismatched and disgruntled group must pull together to survive. Demi Moore, Ed Helms, Jessica Williams, and Karan Soni star.
This includes the world premiere of Alex Lehmann’s Paddleton which follows the friendship of two misfit neighbors, one of whom has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Mark Duplass, Ray Romano, Ravi Patel, Christine Woods star and Mark and Jay Duplass, Mel Eslyn, Alana Carithers, and Sean Bradle produce.
In the Midnight Section, there’s two world premieres, Patrick Brice’s Corporate Animals and Babak Anvari’s Wounds.
The logline for Corporate Animals written by Sam Bain reads: Disaster strikes when the egotistical CEO of an edible cutlery company leads her long-suffering staff on a corporate team-building trip in New Mexico. Trapped underground, this mismatched and disgruntled group must pull together to survive. Demi Moore, Ed Helms, Jessica Williams, and Karan Soni star.
- 12/20/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
One of cinema’s greats, the French director Alain Resnais, died yesterday, March 1, at the age of 91. The director of such landmark films as Last Year at Marienbad, Hiroshima, Mon Amour, and Night and Fog, he premiered his latest film, Life of Riley, just one month ago at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2000, coinciding with a retrospective organized by both the American Cinematheque and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Peter Bowen wrote the following short essay, and we collected appreciations from three independent directors — Christopher Munch, Keith Gordon and Radley Metzger. It is reprinted below. Perhaps […]...
- 3/3/2014
- by Peter Bowen
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
One of cinema’s greats, the French director Alain Resnais, died yesterday, March 1, at the age of 91. The director of such landmark films as Last Year at Marienbad, Hiroshima, Mon Amour, and Night and Fog, he premiered his latest film, Life of Riley, just one month ago at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2000, coinciding with a retrospective organized by both the American Cinematheque and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Peter Bowen wrote the following short essay, and we collected appreciations from three independent directors — Christopher Munch, Keith Gordon and Radley Metzger. It is reprinted below. Perhaps […]...
- 3/3/2014
- by Peter Bowen
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Submarine Entertainment announces it has licensed three films to SnagFilms for an exclusive cable VOD and digital distribution deal. The films are Christopher Munch's Sasquatch drama "Letters from the Big Man," Paul Eagleston and Stephen Rose's performance artist documentary "Hi My Name Is Ryan" and Bobby Sheehan's cabaret film "Arias with a Twist: The Documentary." The films will be released later this year across SnagFilms platforms. “All three of these acclaimed films bring great stories to the screen,” stated Rick Allen, SnagFilms CEO. “We are pleased to be working closely with Submarine Entertainment on their broad distribution via our digital and cable partners.” Full Press Release Below: Cannes, France - May 22, 2012 - Submarine Entertainment announced today that it has licensed a package of 3 films to SnagFilms for exclusive cable VOD and digital...
- 5/23/2012
- by Devin Lee Fuller
- Indiewire
Submarine Entertainment has licensed three films to on-demand hub SnagFilms: “Letters From the Big Man,” “Hi My Name Is Ryan” and “Arias With a Twist: The Documentary.” SnagFilms now has exclusive cable VOD and digital distribution rights to the films in the U.S. and will release the trio across all platforms later this year. “All three of these acclaimed films bring great stories to the screen,” said SnagFilms CEO Rick Allen. “We are pleased to be working closely with Submarine Entertainment on their broad distribution via our digital and cable partners.” Submarine’s David Koh, Josh Braun and Dan Braun negotiated the deal with SnagFilms’ Andrew Mer. (Full disclosure: SnagFilms is the parent company of Indiewire.) Christopher Munch’s “Letters From the Big Man,” which had its premiere at Sundance in 2011, stars Lily Rabe, Jason Butler Harner, Isaac...
- 5/22/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
Outside of maybe Harry And The Hendersons, there’s not too many Bigfoot movies that showcase the creature in a kinder light. Every once and a while a film dares to be different and that’s definitely the case with Letters From The Big Man. I’m not exactly sinking my teeth into the concept, but it scores for being unusual. Go ahead and take a peek at the trailer below and let us know how you feel about Letters From The Big Man:
After swearing off relationships, a fiercely individualistic artist named Sarah (Lily Rabe, daughter of the late Jill Clayburgh) takes to the woods with the dual goals of surveying a stream and finding herself. As she ventures deeper into the wilds of southwestern Oregon, a series of strange incidents lead her to suspect that she isn’t alone, after all. Before long, Sarah’s mysterious neighbor...
After swearing off relationships, a fiercely individualistic artist named Sarah (Lily Rabe, daughter of the late Jill Clayburgh) takes to the woods with the dual goals of surveying a stream and finding herself. As she ventures deeper into the wilds of southwestern Oregon, a series of strange incidents lead her to suspect that she isn’t alone, after all. Before long, Sarah’s mysterious neighbor...
- 12/6/2011
- by Elvis
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
"In five features over two decades Christopher Munch has cultivated a singular career on the margins of the independent film world," begins Dennis Lim in the New York Times. "Although his debut, The Hours and Times (1991), was grouped with the emerging New Queer Cinema, Mr Munch, 49, has never fit in with a movement, and it's hard to think of another working American filmmaker with a similar sensibility or array of interests."
Writing in Filmmaker, Howard Feinstein suggests that Munch "explores that chaotic region where two forms of desire butt up against each other: the wish for a more perfect world, for one, usually depicted as majestic nature and whatever beauty man might have put into it (the old, deserted railroad in Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day [1996]) — an American version of classic German Romanticism, or blood and soil when taken to a nationalist extreme; and two, the physical attraction...
Writing in Filmmaker, Howard Feinstein suggests that Munch "explores that chaotic region where two forms of desire butt up against each other: the wish for a more perfect world, for one, usually depicted as majestic nature and whatever beauty man might have put into it (the old, deserted railroad in Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day [1996]) — an American version of classic German Romanticism, or blood and soil when taken to a nationalist extreme; and two, the physical attraction...
- 11/11/2011
- MUBI
American independent director Christopher Munch has been making movies now for over 30 years — longer if you count the award-winning short he directed for a PBS affiliate at age 15 about the San Diego Zoo — carving a niche for himself on the international festival circuit as a shape-shifting film artist with a highly idiosyncratic voice. In 1992, Munch won a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for his 57-minute black-and-white feature The Hours and Times, a talky, speculative film about an erotically charged weekend that John Lennon and his manager Brian Epstein purportedly spent in Barcelona in 1963. Four years later, the California native won the “Someone to Watch” Award at the Independent Spirit Awards for Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day, a gorgeously photographed period film about a Chinese-American man’s deep historical and spiritual connection to the Yosemite Valley Railroad, an old-world relic which he attempts to save from...
- 11/9/2011
- by Damon Smith
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Movie lovers with a prolonged case of the Munchies could soon be sated. Indie-pure director Christopher Munch is back, in fine form, with his latest film, Letters From the Big Man.
Munch imbues his works with a distinct nostalgic longing. The Germans have a precise word for it: Sehnsucht. He explores that chaotic region where two forms of desire butt up against each other: the wish for a more perfect world, for one, usually depicted as majestic nature and whatever beauty man might have put into it (the old, deserted railroad in Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day) — an American version of classic German Romanticism, or blood and soil when taken to a nationalist extreme; and two, the physical attraction of one living being toward another. The latter might be a gay man’s unrequited feelings toward a disinterested straight man (The Hours and Times), or even two brothers...
Munch imbues his works with a distinct nostalgic longing. The Germans have a precise word for it: Sehnsucht. He explores that chaotic region where two forms of desire butt up against each other: the wish for a more perfect world, for one, usually depicted as majestic nature and whatever beauty man might have put into it (the old, deserted railroad in Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day) — an American version of classic German Romanticism, or blood and soil when taken to a nationalist extreme; and two, the physical attraction of one living being toward another. The latter might be a gay man’s unrequited feelings toward a disinterested straight man (The Hours and Times), or even two brothers...
- 11/6/2011
- by Howard Feinstein
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The Longest Cocktail Party will document tumultuous period between founding of Apple Records and sessions for Let It Be
Michael Winterbottom is to bring the story of the final years of the Beatles to the big screen in The Longest Cocktail Party, reports the Playlist.
The Fab Four have been immortalised on film on many occasions, but Winterbottom's take would appear to be a rare glimpse of the band at the peak of their powers. Based on Richard Dilello's book, it will trace the timeline from the founding of Apple Records in 1968 to the tumultuous sessions for the final Beatles album, Let It Be.
Dilello worked for Apple Records between 1968 and 1970, writing The Longest Cocktail Party about his experiences. The title is a reference to the company's penchant for entertaining guests at lavish free events in the final days of the swinging 60s, a habit which helped bring Apple...
Michael Winterbottom is to bring the story of the final years of the Beatles to the big screen in The Longest Cocktail Party, reports the Playlist.
The Fab Four have been immortalised on film on many occasions, but Winterbottom's take would appear to be a rare glimpse of the band at the peak of their powers. Based on Richard Dilello's book, it will trace the timeline from the founding of Apple Records in 1968 to the tumultuous sessions for the final Beatles album, Let It Be.
Dilello worked for Apple Records between 1968 and 1970, writing The Longest Cocktail Party about his experiences. The title is a reference to the company's penchant for entertaining guests at lavish free events in the final days of the swinging 60s, a habit which helped bring Apple...
- 10/13/2011
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Updated through 6/26.
"The golden age of New York moviegoing is now," argues Ao Scott in the New York Times. "Two events in the coming days offer confirmation of this hunch." Tonight "in Brooklyn the BAMcinemaFest opens with Weekend, Andrew Haigh's bracing, present-tense exploration of sex, intimacy and love, the first of 26 features that will play, along with 24 short films, over the next 10 days. And Friday is the official opening night of the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, a charming two-screen jewel box carved (by the architect David Rockwell) out of garage and office space at Lincoln Center." He touches on the Museum of the Moving Image and the reRun Gastropub Theater as well, before returning to BAMcinemaFEST: "Not everything in the lineup is quite so perfectly realized as Weekend, but the range and generosity of the sampling make it hard to go wrong. Even the misfires and train wrecks are interesting,...
"The golden age of New York moviegoing is now," argues Ao Scott in the New York Times. "Two events in the coming days offer confirmation of this hunch." Tonight "in Brooklyn the BAMcinemaFest opens with Weekend, Andrew Haigh's bracing, present-tense exploration of sex, intimacy and love, the first of 26 features that will play, along with 24 short films, over the next 10 days. And Friday is the official opening night of the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, a charming two-screen jewel box carved (by the architect David Rockwell) out of garage and office space at Lincoln Center." He touches on the Museum of the Moving Image and the reRun Gastropub Theater as well, before returning to BAMcinemaFEST: "Not everything in the lineup is quite so perfectly realized as Weekend, but the range and generosity of the sampling make it hard to go wrong. Even the misfires and train wrecks are interesting,...
- 6/26/2011
- MUBI
With the Los Angeles Film Festival kicking off this Thursday, it's time to really dive into marketing materials for some of the films Team Gatw will be watching and reviewing. Today brings us the trailer for Letters From The Big Man, a Sundance pick from director Christopher Munch that somehow slipped past our radar back in January.
Read more on Laff 2011: Trailer for Letters From The Big Man...
Read more on Laff 2011: Trailer for Letters From The Big Man...
- 6/13/2011
- by Kate Erbland
- GordonandtheWhale
Holding court downtown from June 16-26, 2011, the Los Angeles Film Festival comprehensively curates the cinematic landscape across a variety of media. Produced by Film Independent, the festival has continued to grow in recent years, and now boasts many of the best independent films of the year.
With the departure of the organization’s CEO, Dawn Hudson, to run the Academy, it will be interesting to see whether the festival’s director Rebecca Yeldham will stay on board past 2011. In the meantime, they’ve announced their line-up for the 2011 festival, and it includes some much buzzed about Sundance and SxSW titles (“Project Nim,” “The Future,” “Crime After Crime,” “The Salesman,” “Terri,” “Another Earth,” “The Guard,” “Natural Selection,” “Tyrannosaur,” “Where Soldiers Come From” and “Higher Ground,” to name a few), as well as 27 world, North American and U.S. premieres.
For the official list of competition and other films, as well as...
With the departure of the organization’s CEO, Dawn Hudson, to run the Academy, it will be interesting to see whether the festival’s director Rebecca Yeldham will stay on board past 2011. In the meantime, they’ve announced their line-up for the 2011 festival, and it includes some much buzzed about Sundance and SxSW titles (“Project Nim,” “The Future,” “Crime After Crime,” “The Salesman,” “Terri,” “Another Earth,” “The Guard,” “Natural Selection,” “Tyrannosaur,” “Where Soldiers Come From” and “Higher Ground,” to name a few), as well as 27 world, North American and U.S. premieres.
For the official list of competition and other films, as well as...
- 5/3/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Holding court downtown from June 16-26, 2011, the Los Angeles Film Festival comprehensively curates the cinematic landscape across a variety of media. Produced by Film Independent, the festival has continued to grow in recent years, and now boasts many of the best independent films of the year.
With the departure of the organization’s CEO, Dawn Hudson, to run the Academy, it will be interesting to see whether the festival’s director Rebecca Yeldham will stay on board past 2011. In the meantime, they’ve announced their line-up for the 2011 festival, and it includes some much buzzed about Sundance and SxSW titles (“Project Nim,” “The Future,” “Crime After Crime,” “The Salesman,” “Terri,” “Another Earth,” “The Guard,” “Natural Selection,” “Tyrannosaur,” “Where Soldiers Come From” and “Higher Ground,” to name a few), as well as 27 world, North American and U.S. premieres.
For the official list of competition and other films, as well as...
With the departure of the organization’s CEO, Dawn Hudson, to run the Academy, it will be interesting to see whether the festival’s director Rebecca Yeldham will stay on board past 2011. In the meantime, they’ve announced their line-up for the 2011 festival, and it includes some much buzzed about Sundance and SxSW titles (“Project Nim,” “The Future,” “Crime After Crime,” “The Salesman,” “Terri,” “Another Earth,” “The Guard,” “Natural Selection,” “Tyrannosaur,” “Where Soldiers Come From” and “Higher Ground,” to name a few), as well as 27 world, North American and U.S. premieres.
For the official list of competition and other films, as well as...
- 5/3/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Film Independent Announces First Round Of Us & International
Film Selections For 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival,
Presented By The Los Angeles Times - 19 Films Chosen for Narrative & Documentary Competition - - International Spotlight to Focus on Cuba -
Los Angeles (May 3, 2011) . Today the Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times, announced the first round of official Us and international selections. The 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival is produced by Film Independent . the non-profit arts organization that also produces the Spirit Awards . and will screen over 200 feature films, shorts, and music videos, representing more than 30 countries. Opening and Closing Night films, Galas, Conversations, Artists in Residence, Lafca.s Films That Got Away, along with additional special guests and programming for the Festival Talks will be announced at later dates.
Returning to downtown Los Angeles, with its central hub at L.A. Live, the Festival will run from Thursday, June 16 to Sunday,...
Film Selections For 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival,
Presented By The Los Angeles Times - 19 Films Chosen for Narrative & Documentary Competition - - International Spotlight to Focus on Cuba -
Los Angeles (May 3, 2011) . Today the Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times, announced the first round of official Us and international selections. The 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival is produced by Film Independent . the non-profit arts organization that also produces the Spirit Awards . and will screen over 200 feature films, shorts, and music videos, representing more than 30 countries. Opening and Closing Night films, Galas, Conversations, Artists in Residence, Lafca.s Films That Got Away, along with additional special guests and programming for the Festival Talks will be announced at later dates.
Returning to downtown Los Angeles, with its central hub at L.A. Live, the Festival will run from Thursday, June 16 to Sunday,...
- 5/3/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Recalling the heyday of New Queer Cinema, Gregg Araki brings back the ‘90s with the college-set Kaboom, depicting a pansexual college experience where students are more concerned with hallucinogens and getting laid than studying. While 1992's The Living End wasn't Araki's debut film, it was the first one to bring him anything approaching mainstream attention. Its depiction of a couple of gay, HIV-positive outlaws on the run drew on the AIDS activism of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, and it was often linked with films like Todd Haynes' Poison and Christopher Munch's The Hours and Times as part of the New Queer Cinema movement. Araki has proved adept at reinventing himself. Nothing in The Living End suggested that one day he would make a stoner comedy like Smiley Face, or a drama as sober as Mysterious Skin, which brought him back into critical favor after years of inaction.
- 1/25/2011
- TribecaFilm.com
If you aren't able to make it up to Park City, Utah this year for Sundance 2011, you still may have the opportunity to watch some of the highest profile films showing at the festival in a city near you. Here are the details!
Sundance Institute today announced the films from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival scheduled to screen in theaters in nine different cities, including the newly added Seattle, Washington Egyptian Theatre, on the evening of Thursday, January 27, 2011. The screenings are part ofSundance Film Festival USA, designed to introduce the Festival experience to film-loving audiences nationwide. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival opens January 20 and runs through January 30 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
“A major component of the Sundance Institute mission is to expand and engage audiences for independent storytelling,” said Keri Putnam, Executive Director, Sundance Institute. “Sundance Film Festival USA is an extension of the Institute’s...
Sundance Institute today announced the films from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival scheduled to screen in theaters in nine different cities, including the newly added Seattle, Washington Egyptian Theatre, on the evening of Thursday, January 27, 2011. The screenings are part ofSundance Film Festival USA, designed to introduce the Festival experience to film-loving audiences nationwide. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival opens January 20 and runs through January 30 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
“A major component of the Sundance Institute mission is to expand and engage audiences for independent storytelling,” said Keri Putnam, Executive Director, Sundance Institute. “Sundance Film Festival USA is an extension of the Institute’s...
- 12/9/2010
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
The 2011 Sundance Film Festival is fast approaching and if you can't make it to Utah yourself, the festival is bringing some of its highest profile films to a city near you. The largest and most important U.S. film festival will take place from January 20-30 in and around Park City, Utah and the selection of films this year is nothing short of remarkable. In competition there [1] are films like Michael Rapaport's Tribe Called Quest documentary Beats, Rhymes and Life, and Vera Farmiga's Higher Ground, out of competition there [2] are films like Kevin Smith's Red State and Morgan Spurlock’s documentary The Greatest Movie Ever Sold and even the short film selections [3] have films with stars like Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Julia Stiles and Isabella Rossellini. And that's not even beginning to scratch the surface. All in all, over 200 brand new movies will be screening at the festival and,...
- 12/9/2010
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
The Sundance Film Festival announced the in competition film line-up for the film festival running January 20th through January 30th 2011 in Park City, Utah.
Today the festival has announced the line-up for the non-competition films and there is one hell of a line-up! There are a ton of great films that will be premiering at the festival, and if you're going you have a lot of great films to choose from!
Each film has an incredible cast and a great story. These films include Cedar Rapids, about a man traveling to an insurance conference, featuring Ed Helms, John C. Reilly and Sigourney Weaver; Kevin Smith's Red State, about a group of misfits encounter extreme fundamentalism in Middle America; The Details, about domestic tensions spawned by raccoons with Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney, Ray Liotta, Dennis Haysbert; I Melt With You, starring Thomas Jane, Jeremy Piven, Rob Lowe, Christian McKay,...
Today the festival has announced the line-up for the non-competition films and there is one hell of a line-up! There are a ton of great films that will be premiering at the festival, and if you're going you have a lot of great films to choose from!
Each film has an incredible cast and a great story. These films include Cedar Rapids, about a man traveling to an insurance conference, featuring Ed Helms, John C. Reilly and Sigourney Weaver; Kevin Smith's Red State, about a group of misfits encounter extreme fundamentalism in Middle America; The Details, about domestic tensions spawned by raccoons with Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney, Ray Liotta, Dennis Haysbert; I Melt With You, starring Thomas Jane, Jeremy Piven, Rob Lowe, Christian McKay,...
- 12/2/2010
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Artist Sam Taylor-Wood surprises us with an old-fashioned, affecting film exploring John Lennon's early years, writes Philip French
As composers, performers, producers and the subjects of documentaries, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr have made a remarkable contribution to the cinema over the years. The dominant figure, of course, has been Lennon. He's been impersonated by his fellow Liverpudlian Ian Hart in both Backbeat, Iain Softley's film about the Beatles in Hamburg, and The Hours and Times, Christopher Munch's picture about his 1963 trip with Brian Epstein to Barcelona, and more fleetingly in Todd Haynes's Bob Dylan movie I'm Not There. He's at the centre of a fascinating documentary on his political activities, The Us vs John Lennon (2006) and haunts the shadowy edges of The Killing of John Lennon, Andrew Piddington's 2006 portrait of his assassin, Mark Chapman. Now we have Sam Taylor-Wood's feature debut,...
As composers, performers, producers and the subjects of documentaries, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr have made a remarkable contribution to the cinema over the years. The dominant figure, of course, has been Lennon. He's been impersonated by his fellow Liverpudlian Ian Hart in both Backbeat, Iain Softley's film about the Beatles in Hamburg, and The Hours and Times, Christopher Munch's picture about his 1963 trip with Brian Epstein to Barcelona, and more fleetingly in Todd Haynes's Bob Dylan movie I'm Not There. He's at the centre of a fascinating documentary on his political activities, The Us vs John Lennon (2006) and haunts the shadowy edges of The Killing of John Lennon, Andrew Piddington's 2006 portrait of his assassin, Mark Chapman. Now we have Sam Taylor-Wood's feature debut,...
- 12/27/2009
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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