Chicago – Local filmmaking has always gotten a boost through director Jack C. Newell. His 2015 film “Open Tables,” shot in Chicago and Paris, will get it’s digital release on Tuesday, December 6th, 2016, on iTunes and Video-On-Demand. This coincides with his art project “The Wabash Lights,” and his continued production work.
“Open Tables” features couples and groups meeting in restaurants, talking about their lives and relationships. Although the centerpiece is food, the meal is the conversation, including a story about a sojourn into Paris – shot in black and white. Newell directed the film in the improvisation style rooted in the Chicago comedy scene, much like his first narrative film, “Close Quarters,” which featured many local improvisation artists. He also takes on the lead role as Ryan, who defines himself through the adventure in Paris. The film explores and provides perspective on the elusiveness of relationships.
Jack C. Newell in a Scene...
“Open Tables” features couples and groups meeting in restaurants, talking about their lives and relationships. Although the centerpiece is food, the meal is the conversation, including a story about a sojourn into Paris – shot in black and white. Newell directed the film in the improvisation style rooted in the Chicago comedy scene, much like his first narrative film, “Close Quarters,” which featured many local improvisation artists. He also takes on the lead role as Ryan, who defines himself through the adventure in Paris. The film explores and provides perspective on the elusiveness of relationships.
Jack C. Newell in a Scene...
- 11/30/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The final episodes of AMC’s western period drama “Hell on Wheels” are rolling out in quick succession. According to AMC, the last seven episodes of the series mark the end of Cullen Bohannon’s work on America’s first transcontinental railroad.
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From the official final season synopsis: “The last push to finish brings with it a reckoning for Bohannon and the men standing in his path: the bloodthirsty Swede (Christopher Heyerdahl); the mercenary Chang (Byron Mann); and the rapacious Thomas Durant (Colm Meaney). Bohannon contends with corruption, greed and murder as he leads the trek to complete the final stages of the building of the railroad from the Central Pacific through the Sierras and across the Utah desert to Promontory Point. While the railroad’s completion is certain, who and what will survive...
Read More: Is ‘Hell on Wheels’ Worth Adding to Your DVR Line-up in Its New Season?
From the official final season synopsis: “The last push to finish brings with it a reckoning for Bohannon and the men standing in his path: the bloodthirsty Swede (Christopher Heyerdahl); the mercenary Chang (Byron Mann); and the rapacious Thomas Durant (Colm Meaney). Bohannon contends with corruption, greed and murder as he leads the trek to complete the final stages of the building of the railroad from the Central Pacific through the Sierras and across the Utah desert to Promontory Point. While the railroad’s completion is certain, who and what will survive...
- 6/17/2016
- by Kate Halliwell
- Indiewire
Two UK premieres at Sci-Fi London – The Last Push and Sol – embody the best and worst of the genre
The credits rolled on the excellent Sci-Fi London film festival on Monday. In the best tradition of niche film festivals, the awful and awesome extremes of low-budget filmmaking were showcased. So on Friday and Sunday we got the first UK screenings of The Last Push (written and directed by Eric Hayden), and on Saturday there was Sol.
In The Last Push, an unmanned probe has spotted whale-like shapes gliding beneath the ice of Jupiter's moon Europa and a private space enterpreneur, Walter Moffit (Lance Henrickson), has spent a mindblowing $50bn sending a manned spacecraft to investigate. But the six-year mission has to be aborted when a meteoroid strikes the craft, killing one of the two astronauts.
Watch the trailer for The Last Push on YouTube
For the next two years the survivor,...
The credits rolled on the excellent Sci-Fi London film festival on Monday. In the best tradition of niche film festivals, the awful and awesome extremes of low-budget filmmaking were showcased. So on Friday and Sunday we got the first UK screenings of The Last Push (written and directed by Eric Hayden), and on Saturday there was Sol.
In The Last Push, an unmanned probe has spotted whale-like shapes gliding beneath the ice of Jupiter's moon Europa and a private space enterpreneur, Walter Moffit (Lance Henrickson), has spent a mindblowing $50bn sending a manned spacecraft to investigate. But the six-year mission has to be aborted when a meteoroid strikes the craft, killing one of the two astronauts.
Watch the trailer for The Last Push on YouTube
For the next two years the survivor,...
- 5/8/2012
- by James Kingsland
- The Guardian - Film News
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