When Patricia Arquette decided to make her feature film directing debut with “Gonzo Girl,” she made a promise to her cast.
“I told them that I would always edit everything for the acting — even if the camera work wasn’t the best in that take or some thing didn’t match from a continuity perspective,” she says a week before the movie’s big premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. “I don’t think someone has ever edited my performance directly for the acting, so I wanted to do this greedy, delicious thing for my ensemble. I wanted to create a space for great acting.”
It helps, of course, that the star of “Gonzo Girl” is none other than Willem Dafoe, a four-time Oscar nominee, as well as rising talents such as Camila Morrone of “Daisy Jones & the Six.” And that kind of creative freedom, and not big salaries,...
“I told them that I would always edit everything for the acting — even if the camera work wasn’t the best in that take or some thing didn’t match from a continuity perspective,” she says a week before the movie’s big premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. “I don’t think someone has ever edited my performance directly for the acting, so I wanted to do this greedy, delicious thing for my ensemble. I wanted to create a space for great acting.”
It helps, of course, that the star of “Gonzo Girl” is none other than Willem Dafoe, a four-time Oscar nominee, as well as rising talents such as Camila Morrone of “Daisy Jones & the Six.” And that kind of creative freedom, and not big salaries,...
- 9/8/2023
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The actor makes an underwhelming first feature as film-maker, a thinly etched adaptation of Cheryl Della Pietra’s semi-autobiographical book
There’s a certain image associated with gonzo journalism – daring, confessional, subversive, male. For all its successes and groundbreaking candor, it’s a style conflated with male ego and excess, the extremes of drugs, adventure and eccentricity that men could afford to pursue.
Gonzo Girl, the directorial debut of the actor Patricia Arquette, seems, at least on the surface, to be interested in complicating that image, or at least adding some footnotes. The 107-minute film, written by Rebecca Thomas and Jessica Caldwell and based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Cheryl Della Pietra, focuses on a young female assistant to a stand-in for Hunter S Thompson in the summer of 1992. Like her real-life counterpart, Alley Russo (Camila Morrone) is a bookish recent grad with literary aspirations who takes a gig assisting...
There’s a certain image associated with gonzo journalism – daring, confessional, subversive, male. For all its successes and groundbreaking candor, it’s a style conflated with male ego and excess, the extremes of drugs, adventure and eccentricity that men could afford to pursue.
Gonzo Girl, the directorial debut of the actor Patricia Arquette, seems, at least on the surface, to be interested in complicating that image, or at least adding some footnotes. The 107-minute film, written by Rebecca Thomas and Jessica Caldwell and based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Cheryl Della Pietra, focuses on a young female assistant to a stand-in for Hunter S Thompson in the summer of 1992. Like her real-life counterpart, Alley Russo (Camila Morrone) is a bookish recent grad with literary aspirations who takes a gig assisting...
- 9/8/2023
- by Adrian Horton
- The Guardian - Film News
Anticipating new interest in one of the most influential horror films of all time, Criterion gives George Romero’s zombie classic the boost to 4K. Pittsburghs’ most famous movie production returns American horror to its down-home roots, with excellent docu-drama direction and enthusiastic performances. It’s like a Disney film: every seven years a new generation will arrive to debate whether the besieged victims should have fought upstairs, or all retreated to the basement. It’s a 3-disc set, one 4K Uhd and two Blu-rays. Where’s the Bill ‘Chilly Billy’ Cardille theme song?
Night of the Living Dead 4K
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 909
1968 / B&w / 1:37 Academy; should be widescreen / 96 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date October 4, 2022 / 49.95
Starring: Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman, Keith Wayne, Judith Ridley, Kyra Schon.
Cinematography: George Romero
Film Editors: George Romero, John Russo
Written by John Russo,...
Night of the Living Dead 4K
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 909
1968 / B&w / 1:37 Academy; should be widescreen / 96 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date October 4, 2022 / 49.95
Starring: Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman, Keith Wayne, Judith Ridley, Kyra Schon.
Cinematography: George Romero
Film Editors: George Romero, John Russo
Written by John Russo,...
- 10/15/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The Notebook is covering the NYFF with an on-going correspondence between critic Doug Dibbern and editor Daniel Kasman.Above: Gunda.Hey, Danny—I know what you mean when you wonder whether or not we’re actually attending a film festival. I’ve never been a fan of digital streaming or projection or of watching movies at home, each of which flattens and diminishes the inherently sensual aspects of the movies. And I’m worried that we’re living through some sort of shadow experience even more now because we usually watch these films for the festival on two of the biggest screens in the city: the Walter Reade and Alice Tully Hall, packed in tightly with sold-out crowds, which always intensifies the fact that movies aren’t just visual—they’re auditory, tactile, gustatory, and olfactory, too.So like you, I’ve been struggling to recreate some simulacrum of the theater experience at home.
- 9/28/2020
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAmy Heckerling on the set of the Off Broadway musical of her film Clueless.We are delighted by the news shared by the New York Times that American auteur Amy Heckerling (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) is producing an Off-Broadway musical of her pop culture landmark film (and so much more!), Clueless. For more on the director, read our 2016 interview.Recommended VIEWINGMarcelo Martinessi's lovely debut film The Heiresses, a delicate drama focusing on the self-discovery of a wealthy, middle-aged queer women in Paraguay, gets an English trailer. We reviewed the film at the 68th Berlinale held earlier this year.The Criterion Collection produced this lovely video exploring the birth and programming vision of New York's Walter Reade cinema. Recommended READINGIt's that time of the year again: Year-end lists of the best films of 2018 have...
- 12/12/2018
- MUBI
Ludwig. Photo courtesy of Agfa.A gaggle of men in formal wear, their collars stiff and blue coats festooned with medals and ropes knotted into different patterns, stand as straight as antenna. It’s a room of immense affluence. The splendor is almost surreal, everything in its right place. The camera pans, prowls, zooming in on faces, on hands and decor, as if smitten or in awe of the decadence. In an adjacent room, a young man with an immaculate face which is frozen in a feigned look of calmness downs a glass of champagne. He paces. Soon, he is told the time has come. The doors open. Bedecked in their glittering symbols of honor and prestige, the men put a crown on his head; they raise a coat the color of wine and drape it over his shoulders. It takes four people to carry the cape. There is now a new king,...
- 6/20/2018
- MUBI
Daniel Talbot, a distributor and exhibitor of enormous influence over specialized exhibition and distribution as well as the international film world, died Friday in Manhattan. He was 91. A memorial was held Sunday, December 31 at the Riverside Memorial Chapel with a capacity audience including many leading New York specialized players. Talbot’s wife and business partner, Toby Talbot, as well as daughters Nina, Emily and Sara attended the memorial, where the family spoke fondly about Talbot’s love for the comedian W.C. Fields.
Another more public post-holiday event marking the closing of the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas is scheduled on January 28 in New York. The last few weeks have seen Talbot’s legacy celebrated with reaction to the unexpected announcement that the six-screen Upper West Side theater would close at the end of January, at the expiration of its lease. Milstein Properties, who have been the Talbots’ co-partners in the theater since...
Another more public post-holiday event marking the closing of the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas is scheduled on January 28 in New York. The last few weeks have seen Talbot’s legacy celebrated with reaction to the unexpected announcement that the six-screen Upper West Side theater would close at the end of January, at the expiration of its lease. Milstein Properties, who have been the Talbots’ co-partners in the theater since...
- 1/1/2018
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
New York Film Critics Online members held their 18th annual awards meeting in Walter Reade Theatre’s Furman Gallery in Lincoln Center, December 10, 2017, and voted winners in fifteen categories: Picture The Florida Project (A24) (tie) Mudbound (Netflix) (tie) Director Dee Rees for Mudbound (Netflix) Actor Gary Oldman for Darkest Hour (Focus) Actress Margot Robbie […]
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- 12/11/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Olaf Möller on Black Gravel (Schwarzer Kies) starring Ingmar Zeisberg, Helmut Wildt and Hans Cossy: "This is really Käutner on his realism track."
At the Film Society of Lincoln Center inside the Furman Gallery of the Walter Reade Theater, Olaf Möller, the curator of The Lost Years of German Cinema: 1949–1963, discussed with me the films of Helmut Käutner, including his Hamlet adaptation, Der Rest Ist Schweigen (The Rest Is Silence), starring Hardy Krüger, Der Traum Von Lieschen Müller (The Dream Of Lieschen Mueller) and Bildnis Einer Unbekannten (Portrait Of An Unknown Woman).
Oe Hasse, Lilli Palmer and Peter van Eyck in Harald Braun's The Glass Tower (Der Gläserne Turm)
Wolfgang Staudte's The Fair (Kirmes) starring Juliette Mayniel, and Harald Braun's The Glass Tower (Der Gläserne Turm) with Lilli Palmer, Oe Hasse and Peter van Eyck, along with Käutner's Redhead (Die Rote) with Gert Fröbe and Ruth Leuwerik,...
At the Film Society of Lincoln Center inside the Furman Gallery of the Walter Reade Theater, Olaf Möller, the curator of The Lost Years of German Cinema: 1949–1963, discussed with me the films of Helmut Käutner, including his Hamlet adaptation, Der Rest Ist Schweigen (The Rest Is Silence), starring Hardy Krüger, Der Traum Von Lieschen Müller (The Dream Of Lieschen Mueller) and Bildnis Einer Unbekannten (Portrait Of An Unknown Woman).
Oe Hasse, Lilli Palmer and Peter van Eyck in Harald Braun's The Glass Tower (Der Gläserne Turm)
Wolfgang Staudte's The Fair (Kirmes) starring Juliette Mayniel, and Harald Braun's The Glass Tower (Der Gläserne Turm) with Lilli Palmer, Oe Hasse and Peter van Eyck, along with Käutner's Redhead (Die Rote) with Gert Fröbe and Ruth Leuwerik,...
- 11/21/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Olaf Möller in front of Katharine Hepburn posters for Christopher Strong and Spitfire: "Das Spukschloss im Spessart [The Haunted Castle]! Which is fantastic. Great musical! It's a horror musical." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
On the opening night of The Lost Years of German Cinema: 1949–1963 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, film historian Olaf Möller, following his introduction of Gottfried Kolditz's White Blood (Weißes Blut), joined me for a conversation on the program he curated that includes sensational work of filmmakers Helmut Käutner, Hans Heinz König, Fritz Lang, Peter Lorre, Kurt Hoffmann, Harald Braun, Wolfgang Staudte, Aleksander Ford, Konrad Petzold, and Robert Siodmak.
Earlier in the day at the Walter Reade Theater I watched Robert Siodmak's The Devil Strikes At Night (Nachts, Wenn Der Teufel Kam) and Hans Heinz König's Roses Bloom In The Moorland (Rosen Blühen Auf Dem Heidegrab). I started out with a couple of childhood television memories.
Fritz Lang's The Tiger Of Eschnapur...
On the opening night of The Lost Years of German Cinema: 1949–1963 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, film historian Olaf Möller, following his introduction of Gottfried Kolditz's White Blood (Weißes Blut), joined me for a conversation on the program he curated that includes sensational work of filmmakers Helmut Käutner, Hans Heinz König, Fritz Lang, Peter Lorre, Kurt Hoffmann, Harald Braun, Wolfgang Staudte, Aleksander Ford, Konrad Petzold, and Robert Siodmak.
Earlier in the day at the Walter Reade Theater I watched Robert Siodmak's The Devil Strikes At Night (Nachts, Wenn Der Teufel Kam) and Hans Heinz König's Roses Bloom In The Moorland (Rosen Blühen Auf Dem Heidegrab). I started out with a couple of childhood television memories.
Fritz Lang's The Tiger Of Eschnapur...
- 11/18/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The 55th New York Film Festival brought together cinematographers Vittorio Storaro (The Conformist, Apocalypse Now) and Ed Lachman (Carol, The Limey) for a master class on the occasion of both having films in the fest’s main slate. Lachman lensed Todd Haynes’ Centerpiece film Wonderstruck and Storaro did Woody Allen’s Closing Night film Wonder Wheel.
Festival director Kent Jones hosted the two at the Walter Reade Theater on October 11 for an all-encompassing talk of their cinematic philosophies and the cinematographers’ 40-year friendship.
Storaro and Lachman showed clips from films that inspire them and clips of their own work. The clips were a launching pad to discuss the difficult-to-pin cinematic language of photographic storytelling. We’ve included key quotes from their talk and the complete video of masterclass below.
Lachman on Storaro
Vittorio has done more in the last 50 years for the recognition and esteem of cinematography than anybody.
Becoming...
Festival director Kent Jones hosted the two at the Walter Reade Theater on October 11 for an all-encompassing talk of their cinematic philosophies and the cinematographers’ 40-year friendship.
Storaro and Lachman showed clips from films that inspire them and clips of their own work. The clips were a launching pad to discuss the difficult-to-pin cinematic language of photographic storytelling. We’ve included key quotes from their talk and the complete video of masterclass below.
Lachman on Storaro
Vittorio has done more in the last 50 years for the recognition and esteem of cinematography than anybody.
Becoming...
- 11/1/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Woody Allen's inspiration for the title of his latest film - Wonder Wheel in Coney Island Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced additional screenings of the New York Film Festival's Closing Night selection, Woody Allen's melancholic Wonder Wheel, starring Kate Winslet, Juno Temple, James Belushi, and Justin Timberlake.
Spotlight on Documentary films: Brett Morgen's Jane; Alex Gibney's No Stone Unturned; Nancy Buirski's The Rape Of Racy Taylor; Myles Kane and Josh Koury's Voyeur - Main Slate: Chloé Zhao's The Rider; Dee Rees' Mudbound; Hong Sang-soo's The Day After; Special Event: Susan Froemke's The Opera House, and Film Comment Presents: A Gentle Creature, directed by Sergei Loznitsa, are the Sunday Encore films.
Public screenings of Wonder Wheel: Saturday, October 14 at 6:00pm and 9:00pm - - Alice Tully Hall; 6:15pm and 9:15pm - Walter Reade...
The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced additional screenings of the New York Film Festival's Closing Night selection, Woody Allen's melancholic Wonder Wheel, starring Kate Winslet, Juno Temple, James Belushi, and Justin Timberlake.
Spotlight on Documentary films: Brett Morgen's Jane; Alex Gibney's No Stone Unturned; Nancy Buirski's The Rape Of Racy Taylor; Myles Kane and Josh Koury's Voyeur - Main Slate: Chloé Zhao's The Rider; Dee Rees' Mudbound; Hong Sang-soo's The Day After; Special Event: Susan Froemke's The Opera House, and Film Comment Presents: A Gentle Creature, directed by Sergei Loznitsa, are the Sunday Encore films.
Public screenings of Wonder Wheel: Saturday, October 14 at 6:00pm and 9:00pm - - Alice Tully Hall; 6:15pm and 9:15pm - Walter Reade...
- 10/14/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The steamy sexuality and physicality of “Call Me by Your Name” seems to be all anyone can talk about. The scene with the peach. The hottest volleyball game since “Top Gun.” Armie Hammer’s voice reading the audio book. And again, that peach scene. The normally chilly Walter Reade Theater felt oddly warm during a press and industry screening earlier this week, and it wasn’t just the Indian summer weather outside.
Continue reading ‘Call Me By Your Name’ Is More Than Just A Sensual Pleasure [Nyff] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Call Me By Your Name’ Is More Than Just A Sensual Pleasure [Nyff] at The Playlist.
- 10/6/2017
- by Kimber Myers
- The Playlist
An Evening with Ava DuVernay and . . . has been cancelled "due to scheduling conflicts". Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
An Evening with Ava DuVernay and... in the Special Event programme that was to take place on October 6 at 6:00pm at Alice Tully Hall has been cancelled "due to scheduling conflicts". The sneak preview screening of Paul Schrader's First Reformed has been slotted in for that time. Ava DuVernay's Oscar-nominated and BAFTA winning documentary 13th was the Opening Night Gala selection for last year's New York Film Festival.
Cinematographers Edward Lachman (Todd Haynes' Wonderstruck) and Vittorio Storaro (Bernardo Bertolucci, Carlos Saura, and Francis Ford Coppola) will participate in a Master Class conversation with New York Film Festival Director Kent Jones on Wednesday, October 11 at 6:15pm - Walter Reade Theater.
A Conversation with Kate Winslet, who stars in Woody Allen's Wonder Wheel (Closing Night selection of the festival) will go on as.
An Evening with Ava DuVernay and... in the Special Event programme that was to take place on October 6 at 6:00pm at Alice Tully Hall has been cancelled "due to scheduling conflicts". The sneak preview screening of Paul Schrader's First Reformed has been slotted in for that time. Ava DuVernay's Oscar-nominated and BAFTA winning documentary 13th was the Opening Night Gala selection for last year's New York Film Festival.
Cinematographers Edward Lachman (Todd Haynes' Wonderstruck) and Vittorio Storaro (Bernardo Bertolucci, Carlos Saura, and Francis Ford Coppola) will participate in a Master Class conversation with New York Film Festival Director Kent Jones on Wednesday, October 11 at 6:15pm - Walter Reade Theater.
A Conversation with Kate Winslet, who stars in Woody Allen's Wonder Wheel (Closing Night selection of the festival) will go on as.
- 10/4/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Richard Linklater’s new film Last Flag Flying may not be in theaters until November, but it opened this year’s New York Film Festival and the director sat down with festival director Kent Jones for extensive at the Walter Reade Theater on Saturday, September 30.
On Cinema is an annual event at the festival where world-renowned filmmakers invite festival goers to learn their cinematic inspiration and influences. Linklater built the conversation around his favorite moments in film, including The Long Goodbye, Pickpocket and Taxi Driver, among others. From the beginning of his talk, it was clear Linklater held reverence for everyone he was to discuss, but none received praise like Robert Bresson and Robert Altman.
Linklater fixates on the passing moments in film, which he calls the stuff we remember from cinema. He’s gifted American cinema with a philosophy unique to the last twenty years of filmmaking and was...
On Cinema is an annual event at the festival where world-renowned filmmakers invite festival goers to learn their cinematic inspiration and influences. Linklater built the conversation around his favorite moments in film, including The Long Goodbye, Pickpocket and Taxi Driver, among others. From the beginning of his talk, it was clear Linklater held reverence for everyone he was to discuss, but none received praise like Robert Bresson and Robert Altman.
Linklater fixates on the passing moments in film, which he calls the stuff we remember from cinema. He’s gifted American cinema with a philosophy unique to the last twenty years of filmmaking and was...
- 10/3/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
When the Academy invited press for a hard-hat tour of its long-delayed, over-budget Museum of Motion Pictures, we heard Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti say nice things, as did new Academy president John Bailey, museum director Kerry Brougher, new chair of new board of trustees Ron Meyer, and museum committee chair Kathleen Kennedy. Yes, it’s great that, after 90 (!) years of planning, we’re finally getting a 300,000 square-foot Los Angeles movie museum at the corner of Fairfax and Wilshire to celebrate Hollywood past, present, and future.
However, that’s not what we came for. We wanted to know when it’s going to be finished and what it’s going to look like. (Notably, Academy CEO Dawn Hudson, who did much of the heavy lifting and controversy-dodging about museum funding and and construction, was on site but not part of the press conference. And Lacma director Michael Govan showed up late for the construction-site tour.
However, that’s not what we came for. We wanted to know when it’s going to be finished and what it’s going to look like. (Notably, Academy CEO Dawn Hudson, who did much of the heavy lifting and controversy-dodging about museum funding and and construction, was on site but not part of the press conference. And Lacma director Michael Govan showed up late for the construction-site tour.
- 9/28/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
When the Academy invited press for a hard-hat tour of its long-delayed, over-budget Museum of Motion Pictures, we heard Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti say nice things, as did new Academy president John Bailey, museum director Kerry Brougher, new chair of new board of trustees Ron Meyer, and museum committee chair Kathleen Kennedy. Yes, it’s great that, after 90 (!) years of planning, we’re finally getting a 300,000 square-foot Los Angeles movie museum at the corner of Fairfax and Wilshire to celebrate Hollywood past, present, and future.
However, that’s not what we came for. We wanted to know when it’s going to be finished and what it’s going to look like. (Notably, Academy CEO Dawn Hudson, who did much of the heavy lifting and controversy-dodging about museum funding and and construction, was on site but not part of the press conference. And Lacma director Michael Govan showed up late for the construction-site tour.
However, that’s not what we came for. We wanted to know when it’s going to be finished and what it’s going to look like. (Notably, Academy CEO Dawn Hudson, who did much of the heavy lifting and controversy-dodging about museum funding and and construction, was on site but not part of the press conference. And Lacma director Michael Govan showed up late for the construction-site tour.
- 9/28/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Each month, the fine folks at FilmStruck and the Criterion Collection spend countless hours crafting their channels to highlight the many different types of films that they have in their streaming library. This August will feature an exciting assortment of films, as noted below.
To sign up for a free two-week trial here.
Tuesday, August 1
Tuesday’s Short + Feature: These Boots and Mystery Train
Music is at the heart of this program, which pairs a zany music video by Finnish master Aki Kaurismäki with a tune-filled career highlight from American independent-film pioneer Jim Jarmusch. In the 1993 These Boots, Kaurismäki’s band of pompadoured “Finnish Elvis” rockers, the Leningrad Cowboys, cover a Nancy Sinatra classic in their signature deadpan style. It’s the perfect prelude to Jarmusch’s 1989 Mystery Train, a homage to the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll and the musical legacy of Memphis, featuring appearances by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and Joe Strummer.
To sign up for a free two-week trial here.
Tuesday, August 1
Tuesday’s Short + Feature: These Boots and Mystery Train
Music is at the heart of this program, which pairs a zany music video by Finnish master Aki Kaurismäki with a tune-filled career highlight from American independent-film pioneer Jim Jarmusch. In the 1993 These Boots, Kaurismäki’s band of pompadoured “Finnish Elvis” rockers, the Leningrad Cowboys, cover a Nancy Sinatra classic in their signature deadpan style. It’s the perfect prelude to Jarmusch’s 1989 Mystery Train, a homage to the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll and the musical legacy of Memphis, featuring appearances by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and Joe Strummer.
- 7/24/2017
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
Watching a 70mm print of “Dunkirk” at Lincoln Center’s glorious Walter Reade theater was enough to make me want to pick up the baton and join Christopher Nolan’s fight to preserve the theatrical experience. Earlier this week, Nolan railed against Netflix in an interview with IndieWire, citing the company’s “mindless policy” with respect to theatrical distribution, and after seeing how the director masterfully envelopes the audience into his WWII drama, it’s hard to disagree with idea that this great director’s work belongs on the big screen.
Read More: Christopher Nolan: I Won’t Work With Netflix Because Their Film Strategy is ‘Pointless’
While it’s admirable that Warner Brothers backed Nolan’s efforts to make sure his dedicated fans have a first rate way of seeing the film – “Dunkirk” will be projected in 70mm and 70mm IMAX in over 100 screens this weekend – the problem...
Read More: Christopher Nolan: I Won’t Work With Netflix Because Their Film Strategy is ‘Pointless’
While it’s admirable that Warner Brothers backed Nolan’s efforts to make sure his dedicated fans have a first rate way of seeing the film – “Dunkirk” will be projected in 70mm and 70mm IMAX in over 100 screens this weekend – the problem...
- 7/20/2017
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Predictably, most of the memorials for the late great horror director George A. Romero focused on his influence on the zombie and wider horror genre. Yes, he was important and influential in that area. But his legacy is much wider. More than any other filmmaker, Romero changed the course of independent film making in America.
Independent films have been around as long as movies existed. Indeed, in their infancy all early features from around 1912 were basically independent, before the Hollywood studio system rapidly evolved in the late teens.
Though the majors dominated moviemaking and distribution from their hub in Southern California, many independent filmmakers such as Edgar G. Ulmer, the idiosyncratic Edward Wood, African-American pioneer Oscar Micheaux and various ethnic cinemas flourished on the side. In 1955 Robert Altman was making industrial films in Kansas City when he was hired by a local businessman to make his first feature, the low-budget...
Independent films have been around as long as movies existed. Indeed, in their infancy all early features from around 1912 were basically independent, before the Hollywood studio system rapidly evolved in the late teens.
Though the majors dominated moviemaking and distribution from their hub in Southern California, many independent filmmakers such as Edgar G. Ulmer, the idiosyncratic Edward Wood, African-American pioneer Oscar Micheaux and various ethnic cinemas flourished on the side. In 1955 Robert Altman was making industrial films in Kansas City when he was hired by a local businessman to make his first feature, the low-budget...
- 7/17/2017
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
Japan’s Close-Knit wins audience award.
Thai high school thriller Bad Genius starring the Screen International Rising Star Asia Award winner Chutimon ‘Aokbab’ Chuengcharoensukying was named best feature as the 16th New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff) came to a close.
Director Nattawut “Baz” Poonpiriya attended the awards ceremony on July 15. His film received its international premiere and opened the 17-day festival on June 30, when Chuengcharoensukying collected her award on stage at the Walter Reade Theater. Nyaff concluded on July 16 with the Us premiere of The Villainess.
Bad Genius was among seven features nominated in the new main competition, which was restricted to films by first- and second-time directors. The inaugural three-person jury comprised actress Jennifer Kim, VOD acquisitions executive George Schmaltz, and festival super fan Kristina Winters.
The competition’s special mention award went to Yoshiyuki Kishi’s A Double Life from Japan, and an honourable mention for most promising director went to Le Binh Giang for Vietnam...
Thai high school thriller Bad Genius starring the Screen International Rising Star Asia Award winner Chutimon ‘Aokbab’ Chuengcharoensukying was named best feature as the 16th New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff) came to a close.
Director Nattawut “Baz” Poonpiriya attended the awards ceremony on July 15. His film received its international premiere and opened the 17-day festival on June 30, when Chuengcharoensukying collected her award on stage at the Walter Reade Theater. Nyaff concluded on July 16 with the Us premiere of The Villainess.
Bad Genius was among seven features nominated in the new main competition, which was restricted to films by first- and second-time directors. The inaugural three-person jury comprised actress Jennifer Kim, VOD acquisitions executive George Schmaltz, and festival super fan Kristina Winters.
The competition’s special mention award went to Yoshiyuki Kishi’s A Double Life from Japan, and an honourable mention for most promising director went to Le Binh Giang for Vietnam...
- 7/17/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Japan’s Close-Knit wins audience award.
Thai high school thriller Bad Genius starring the Screen International Rising Star Asia Award winner Chutimon ‘Aokbab’ Chuengcharoensukying was named best feature as the 16th New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff) came to a close.
Director Nattawut “Baz” Poonpiriya attended the awards ceremony on July 15. His film received its international premiere and opened the 17-day festival on June 30, when Chuengcharoensukying collected her award on stage at the Walter Reade Theater.
Director Nattawut “Baz” Poonpiriya attended the awards ceremony on July 15 and Nyaff concluded on July 16 with the Us premiere of The Villainess.
Bad Genius was among seven features nominated in the new main competition, which was restricted to films by first- and second-time directors. The inaugural three-person jury comprised actress Jennifer Kim, VOD acquisitions executive George Schmaltz, and festival super fan Kristina Winters.
The competition’s special mention award went to Yoshiyuki Kishi’s A Double Life from Japan, and an honourable...
Thai high school thriller Bad Genius starring the Screen International Rising Star Asia Award winner Chutimon ‘Aokbab’ Chuengcharoensukying was named best feature as the 16th New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff) came to a close.
Director Nattawut “Baz” Poonpiriya attended the awards ceremony on July 15. His film received its international premiere and opened the 17-day festival on June 30, when Chuengcharoensukying collected her award on stage at the Walter Reade Theater.
Director Nattawut “Baz” Poonpiriya attended the awards ceremony on July 15 and Nyaff concluded on July 16 with the Us premiere of The Villainess.
Bad Genius was among seven features nominated in the new main competition, which was restricted to films by first- and second-time directors. The inaugural three-person jury comprised actress Jennifer Kim, VOD acquisitions executive George Schmaltz, and festival super fan Kristina Winters.
The competition’s special mention award went to Yoshiyuki Kishi’s A Double Life from Japan, and an honourable...
- 7/17/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
When George Romero died at the age of 77, he was in the process of developing more zombie movies with the insightful Diy ethos that first put him on the map nearly 50 years ago with “Night of the Living Dead.” The horror community has embraced Romero over the years, and as the decades wore on, he went from being one of the genre’s most exciting contributors to its preeminent guru. Here’s an overview of the factors that contributed his legacy.
The Modern Zombie Movie
While the initial concept of zombies dates back to a mix of African and Haitian folklore, George A. Romero cemented the modern vision with his seminal 1968 classic “Night of the Living Dead.” While the word “zombie” is never uttered in the film, his spin on the lurching undead forever changed pop culture. The director cemented this legacy with five more films in the “Night of the Living Dead” series,...
The Modern Zombie Movie
While the initial concept of zombies dates back to a mix of African and Haitian folklore, George A. Romero cemented the modern vision with his seminal 1968 classic “Night of the Living Dead.” While the word “zombie” is never uttered in the film, his spin on the lurching undead forever changed pop culture. The director cemented this legacy with five more films in the “Night of the Living Dead” series,...
- 7/17/2017
- by Eric Kohn and William Earl
- Indiewire
New York is the city that never sleeps, and with so many events and activities each week across all five boroughs, it can be hard to know what’s actually worthwhile. Here are the events New York City actors should have on their radars this week. Get a free taste of the Great White Way.Broadway in Bryant Park returns for its annual summer festivities on July 6, and will once again offer outdoor performances from tons of Broadway and Off-Broadway’s new and long-running hits. Ongoing each Thursday through Aug. 10, this first installment will feature megahits “Wicked” and “The Phantom of the Opera,” as well as this year’s Tony-nominated best musical, “Groundhog Day.” The show starts at 12:30, but early arrival is encouraged as the lawn fills up quickly! (Free) The Asian Film Festival is back, and anything but average.The New York Asian Film Festival is back this...
- 6/30/2017
- backstage.com
Lucky New Yorkers, it's that time again when the good folks at Subway Cinema bring us the New York Asian Film Festival, a superior alternative to bombastic multiplex fare, and a one-stop shop for the latest and greatest of the innovative works from all across Asia. As usual, an almost overwhelming variety is on offer, running the gamut from distinctive takes on familiar genres to the truly bizarre and unclassifiable. The festival runs from June 30 through July 16 at the Walter Reade Theater and the Sva Theatre. Dustin Chang and I have selected 10 films that you should especially look out for. Click through the gallery below for our takes on these....
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- 6/29/2017
- Screen Anarchy
I was standing outside the hotel room of a movie icon, unsure quite what I would find on the find on the other side of the door. It was the final day of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, and after a week of frantic coordinating with various schedulers, I’d finally managed to land an interview with Jean-Pierre Léaud. He had just played the lead role in “The Death of Louis Xiv,” and still endured the impact of enacting his death for the cameras.
Léaud became one of international cinema’s most famous faces at 14, when he starred in Francois Truffaut’s seminal French New Wave debut “The 400 Blows.” As the adolescent Antoine Doinel, who spends much of the movie acting out at school and at home while witnessing the dissolution of his parents’ marriage, Léaud quickly became the defining face of angst-riddled youth. The movie’s memorable closing freeze-frame...
Léaud became one of international cinema’s most famous faces at 14, when he starred in Francois Truffaut’s seminal French New Wave debut “The 400 Blows.” As the adolescent Antoine Doinel, who spends much of the movie acting out at school and at home while witnessing the dissolution of his parents’ marriage, Léaud quickly became the defining face of angst-riddled youth. The movie’s memorable closing freeze-frame...
- 3/31/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Class of 2017 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema opening night Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Pictured above from left to right are: Frantz's François Ozon, uniFrance General Director Isabelle Giordano, Reda Kateb and Cécile de France, stars of Django, a highlight of the festival, Mal De Pierres' Nicole Garcia, Django's Étienne Comar, Réparer Les Vivants' Katell Quillévéré, composer Martin Wheeler for 150 Milligrams and Sólveig Anspach's L'Effet Aquatique, Planetarium's Rebecca Zlotowski, La Fille De Brest's Emmanuelle Bercot, and in the front row, Florence Almozini, Associate Director of Programming for the Film Society of Lincoln Center with Agnès Varda for the Opening Night of the 22nd edition of New York's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema on March 1 at the Walter Reade Theater.
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema at the Film Society of Lincoln Center Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Jérôme Salle’s The Odyssey (L'Odyssée) starring Lambert Wilson as Jacques Cousteau with Audrey Tautou...
Pictured above from left to right are: Frantz's François Ozon, uniFrance General Director Isabelle Giordano, Reda Kateb and Cécile de France, stars of Django, a highlight of the festival, Mal De Pierres' Nicole Garcia, Django's Étienne Comar, Réparer Les Vivants' Katell Quillévéré, composer Martin Wheeler for 150 Milligrams and Sólveig Anspach's L'Effet Aquatique, Planetarium's Rebecca Zlotowski, La Fille De Brest's Emmanuelle Bercot, and in the front row, Florence Almozini, Associate Director of Programming for the Film Society of Lincoln Center with Agnès Varda for the Opening Night of the 22nd edition of New York's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema on March 1 at the Walter Reade Theater.
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema at the Film Society of Lincoln Center Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Jérôme Salle’s The Odyssey (L'Odyssée) starring Lambert Wilson as Jacques Cousteau with Audrey Tautou...
- 3/2/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In its 22nd edition, Rendez-Vous with French Cinema at Fslc remains one of the main attractions for cinephiles in a crowded New York spring film event season. This year's lineup features 23 films from established filmmakers and newcomers alike, including François Ozon, Bertrand Bonello, Bruno Dumont, Rebecca Zlotowski, Jérome Salle, Christophe Honoré, and the list goes on. In conjunction with Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, Fiaf presents Agnès Varda: Life as Art, taking place February 28–March 21. A special exhibition imported from the esteemed photography festival Les Rencontres d’Arles will be on view in the Walter Reade Theater’s Furman Gallery throughout the festival, displaying newly discovered color photos from behind the scenes of Fellini’s black-and-white masterpiece 8 1/2, shot by the late Paul Ronald and accompanied...
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- 2/28/2017
- Screen Anarchy
For the twenty-second year in a row, The Film Society of Lincoln Center and UniFrance have lined up a sparkling slate for their Rendez-Vous with French Cinema screening series, which aims to showcase “the variety and vitality of contemporary French filmmaking.” The series runs from March 1 – 12. This year’s programming, including the selected films, panels, and events, includes a special focus on the myriad of ways that French culture influences the arts in America, and vice-versa.
Read More: ‘Django’ Review: Etienne Comar’s Django Reinhardt Biopic Dazzles Despite Striking a Few Flat Notes — Berlinale 2017
The series will open with the North American premiere of Étienne Comar’s “Django,” starring Reda Kateb as the legendary jazz musician and Cécile de France, and will close with the U.S. premiere of Jérôme Salle’s “The Odyssey,” with Lambert Wilson as explorer Jacques Cousteau and co-starring Audrey Tautou and Pierre Niney.
This year...
Read More: ‘Django’ Review: Etienne Comar’s Django Reinhardt Biopic Dazzles Despite Striking a Few Flat Notes — Berlinale 2017
The series will open with the North American premiere of Étienne Comar’s “Django,” starring Reda Kateb as the legendary jazz musician and Cécile de France, and will close with the U.S. premiere of Jérôme Salle’s “The Odyssey,” with Lambert Wilson as explorer Jacques Cousteau and co-starring Audrey Tautou and Pierre Niney.
This year...
- 2/16/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
For decades, cinephiles have gathered at arthouses and film institutions to discuss the latest movies, directors, productions and more. Now, FilmStruck and Criterion Channel are showcasing legendary venues around that country that “continue to carry the torch for film culture,” in a new original program titled “Art-House America.”
Each episode in the series will spotlight one theater and pair “a new documentary that charts the institution’s history with films handpicked by its curators,” according to the release. The first venue to be highlighted is Manhattan’s Walter Reade Theater at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, which has long been home to an eclectic, forward-thinking repertory program and the New York Film Festival.
Read More: The Criterion Collection Announces April Titles: ‘Tampopo,’ ‘Rumble Fish,’ ‘Woman of the Year’ and More
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, a clip from the episode features Richard Peña, former director of programming, talking about the...
Each episode in the series will spotlight one theater and pair “a new documentary that charts the institution’s history with films handpicked by its curators,” according to the release. The first venue to be highlighted is Manhattan’s Walter Reade Theater at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, which has long been home to an eclectic, forward-thinking repertory program and the New York Film Festival.
Read More: The Criterion Collection Announces April Titles: ‘Tampopo,’ ‘Rumble Fish,’ ‘Woman of the Year’ and More
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, a clip from the episode features Richard Peña, former director of programming, talking about the...
- 2/7/2017
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
The Clive Barnes Foundation handed out top honors to some of New York City’s finest theater and dance artists today. Hosted at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theatre by Michael Riedel, the seventh annual Clive Barnes Awards were presented in memory of their namesake, a writer and critic who dedicated his life to supporting live performance. Winning the top awards were actor Khris Davis for his luminous performance in “The Royale” at Lincoln Center Theater, and for dance, Indiana Woodward of New York City Ballet. Oscar- and Tony-winning actor Joel Grey presented Davis with his award, while Woodward received hers from Ashley Bouder, the New York City Ballet’s principal dancer. Both honorees are to receive an award of $5,000. Read: The Dancer’s 5-Minute Workout All additional 2017 Clive Barnes Awards finalists, announced in November, won cash prizes. These finalists were actors Timothee Chalamet for “Prodigal Son,” and Juwan Crawley and Nora Shell for “Spamilton,...
- 1/9/2017
- backstage.com
“It’s a war story within Caesar’s heart,” director Matt Reeves said about the narrative of the upcoming “War For The Planet Of The Apes” while sitting inside New York’s Walter Reade theater during yesterday’s 20th Century Fox 2017 movie preview. “And one of the central questions is, will Caesar lose his empathy?” Press were encouraged to share their thoughts over social media, but Reeves, still working with unfinished footage said, “By the way, that thing you said about the tweeting opinions?
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- 12/9/2016
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
Viola Davis knows Rose Maxson. Six years ago, the actress won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her turn in the Kenny Leon-directed revival of the classic August Wilson play, the sixth offering in his ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle. Davis starred in the film alongside Denzel Washington, who played Rose’s husband Troy Maxson, and who also picked up a Tony for his part in the play. Washington’s affection for the production has never abated, and the Oscar winner has now adapted the 1983 play into a film by the same name, doing double duty as both director and star.
Davis, of course, reprises her role in the film, an on-screen reunion that breathes new life into a production the pair have already excelled at making their own. But for Davis, the choice to return to Rose and the play itself, which chronicles the traumas and...
Davis, of course, reprises her role in the film, an on-screen reunion that breathes new life into a production the pair have already excelled at making their own. But for Davis, the choice to return to Rose and the play itself, which chronicles the traumas and...
- 11/18/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film and TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday morning. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?” can be found at the end of this post.)
At long last, the Alamo Drafthouse is finally opening in Brooklyn this Friday, complementing a new wave of New York City cinemas that already includes the Metrograph, the Nitehawk (which will soon open another location), and the iPic chain, and is scheduled to add several more exciting venues 2017. With that exciting news in mind, we’ve put forward the following question to our panel of critics: What is the best movie theater that you have ever been to, and what made it so special?
Miriam Bale (@mimbale), Freelance
The Castro Theater in San Francisco is obviously the best. See anything there and you’ll know why.
At long last, the Alamo Drafthouse is finally opening in Brooklyn this Friday, complementing a new wave of New York City cinemas that already includes the Metrograph, the Nitehawk (which will soon open another location), and the iPic chain, and is scheduled to add several more exciting venues 2017. With that exciting news in mind, we’ve put forward the following question to our panel of critics: What is the best movie theater that you have ever been to, and what made it so special?
Miriam Bale (@mimbale), Freelance
The Castro Theater in San Francisco is obviously the best. See anything there and you’ll know why.
- 10/24/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Parody Twitter accounts — the good ones, anyway — are precise, impatient and always hungry for their next big joke. They blow through social media like a brushfire, burning until they’ve engulfed all of the air in the room, and then they flame out (the good ones, anyway). They are, in many ways, not unlike a certain nominee for President, himself a parody of a Republican candidate. But how can satire survive the age of Donald Trump, a time when everything is absurd and nothing is funny?
The answer, for the film world anyway, arrived in early September. The industry had congregated at the Toronto International Film Festival, as it always does during the week after Labor Day, but this year was different — this year, it felt as though everyone who had traveled there from the United States had been granted a furlough from the impossibly grim soap opera that was unfolding back home.
The answer, for the film world anyway, arrived in early September. The industry had congregated at the Toronto International Film Festival, as it always does during the week after Labor Day, but this year was different — this year, it felt as though everyone who had traveled there from the United States had been granted a furlough from the impossibly grim soap opera that was unfolding back home.
- 10/11/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
The life of a government bureaucrat is one of consistent routine, but rarely one of genuine human connection. In the new film “Everything Else,” Doña Flor (Adriana Barraza), a 63-year-old bureaucrat in Mexico City who worked in the same office her entire life. She meets people from all walks of life at her job, but the nature of her employment inhibits any sort of deeper connection. But after a tragedy strikes Doña Flor, she heads to the local pool in the hope that she will find solace. Watch a trailer for the film below and check out the poster as well a film still.
Read More: Fslc Announce Shorts Programs And New Section Explorations For 54th New York Film Festival
On the film’s observational approach, director Natalia Almada says, “In many ways all my films have straddled the line between fiction and documentary. It is precisely the tension on...
Read More: Fslc Announce Shorts Programs And New Section Explorations For 54th New York Film Festival
On the film’s observational approach, director Natalia Almada says, “In many ways all my films have straddled the line between fiction and documentary. It is precisely the tension on...
- 10/7/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
The spirit of collaboration runs deep in Alison Maclean’s “The Rehearsal,” the filmmaker’s often ambitious and hearteningly daring big screen adaptation of Man Booker Prize-winning author Eleanor Catton’s first novel of the same name. Catton won the prestigious Booker for her latest novel — only her second! — “The Luminaries,” making her the youngest recipient of the storied book prize since its inception in 1969.
That Catton is so accomplished at such a young age speaks to the themes of “The Rehearsal,” which she wrote when she was just 21 as her Master’s thesis, which follows a teen girl dealing with the fallout from her older sister’s affair with a teacher at their high school, juxtaposed alongside the story of a group of drama students who later attempt to use the ensuing scandal as fodder for an important performance. The two stories and their respective characters mix and mingle in unexpected ways,...
That Catton is so accomplished at such a young age speaks to the themes of “The Rehearsal,” which she wrote when she was just 21 as her Master’s thesis, which follows a teen girl dealing with the fallout from her older sister’s affair with a teacher at their high school, juxtaposed alongside the story of a group of drama students who later attempt to use the ensuing scandal as fodder for an important performance. The two stories and their respective characters mix and mingle in unexpected ways,...
- 9/21/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
What do U.S. military veterans know about making movies? If the early success of the zombie comedy “Range 15” is any indication — kind of a lot, actually.
Billed as the first film to be produced by and star primarily U.S. military veterans, the movie claimed the Best Film Award at the GI Film Festival last month and has already generated more than $500,000 in its first week at the box office, showing on more than 550 screens through the crowdsourcing company Tugg, which lets individuals choose a film they want to pay to see in theaters. The film first hit theaters on Wednesday, June 15.
Watch: Veterans Face the Emotional Aftermath of Combat in Exclusive ‘Searching For Home’ Trailer
“Range” combines more than two dozen U.S. military vets with Hollywood actors William Shatner, Sean Astin, Keith David and Danny Trejo in a story about a zombie apocalypse that threatens to destroy the U.
Billed as the first film to be produced by and star primarily U.S. military veterans, the movie claimed the Best Film Award at the GI Film Festival last month and has already generated more than $500,000 in its first week at the box office, showing on more than 550 screens through the crowdsourcing company Tugg, which lets individuals choose a film they want to pay to see in theaters. The film first hit theaters on Wednesday, June 15.
Watch: Veterans Face the Emotional Aftermath of Combat in Exclusive ‘Searching For Home’ Trailer
“Range” combines more than two dozen U.S. military vets with Hollywood actors William Shatner, Sean Astin, Keith David and Danny Trejo in a story about a zombie apocalypse that threatens to destroy the U.
- 6/17/2016
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
The Film Society of Lincoln Center is giving its Walter Reade Theater a makeover for its 25th birthday, and is asking New York filmgoers to pitch in via Kickstarter for a tiny portion of the job.
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The Film Society began a major three-year renovation and technology upgrade for the theater last year that includes refurbishing its 35mm and 70mm projectors, upgrading from 2K to 4K digital projection, and renovating its concession stand and lobby, and is turning to Kickstarter to raise additional funds that will go toward replacing the theater’s screen.
“We have funding for a number of other big ticket items, but we’re going to Kickstarter for this one specific thing,” said Eugene Hernandez, the Film Society’s Deputy Director. “It’s a great way for us to engage and enlist the support of people who come here for movies every single day.” Replacing the screen and masking that covers it will cost $60,000. The Kickstarter campaign has a $50,000 target, and as of Tuesday had raised roughly $7,000, with 24 days left in the campaign.
The Film Society shows movies 365 days a year, but will close for renovations between July 4 and Labor Day, and close again during the summer of 2017. One of the benefits of the technological upgrade will be allowing for digital projection of films at the highest possible quality as more and more titles are restored with 4K resolution.
“We’re trying to anticipate technology for the next five and 10 years,” said the Film Society’s Executive Director, Lesli Klainberg. “We have the very best quality exhibition now, but as the technology changes, we’re going to be able to keep up with it.” Excluding physical film prints, the Film Society will eventually receive the titles it exhibits through cloud-based servers, Klainberg added.
Read More: The Actualities of Agnès Varda at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
Though most arts and cultural organizations like the Film Society rely on funding from wealthy patrons, it is not uncommon for these institutions to turn to Kickstarter for specific fundraising initiatives. Last year, the Smithsonian Institution raised $719,779 through the crowdfunding site to restore the original spacesuit worn by Neil Armstrong and bring it to a new exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum, while London’s Royal Academy of Arts raised nearly $175,000 to bring Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s tree sculptures from rural china to central London.
Check out the Film Society’s Kickstarter campaign video below.
Related storiesEquity Crowdfunding is Here - And It Could Be Terrible For Indie FilmmakersCannes 2016: Meet Dan Schoenbrun, Senior Film Outreach Lead At KickstarterFilm Society of Lincoln Center Names Alice Rohrwacher as Filmmaker In Residence...
Read More: A Conversation with Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
The Film Society began a major three-year renovation and technology upgrade for the theater last year that includes refurbishing its 35mm and 70mm projectors, upgrading from 2K to 4K digital projection, and renovating its concession stand and lobby, and is turning to Kickstarter to raise additional funds that will go toward replacing the theater’s screen.
“We have funding for a number of other big ticket items, but we’re going to Kickstarter for this one specific thing,” said Eugene Hernandez, the Film Society’s Deputy Director. “It’s a great way for us to engage and enlist the support of people who come here for movies every single day.” Replacing the screen and masking that covers it will cost $60,000. The Kickstarter campaign has a $50,000 target, and as of Tuesday had raised roughly $7,000, with 24 days left in the campaign.
The Film Society shows movies 365 days a year, but will close for renovations between July 4 and Labor Day, and close again during the summer of 2017. One of the benefits of the technological upgrade will be allowing for digital projection of films at the highest possible quality as more and more titles are restored with 4K resolution.
“We’re trying to anticipate technology for the next five and 10 years,” said the Film Society’s Executive Director, Lesli Klainberg. “We have the very best quality exhibition now, but as the technology changes, we’re going to be able to keep up with it.” Excluding physical film prints, the Film Society will eventually receive the titles it exhibits through cloud-based servers, Klainberg added.
Read More: The Actualities of Agnès Varda at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
Though most arts and cultural organizations like the Film Society rely on funding from wealthy patrons, it is not uncommon for these institutions to turn to Kickstarter for specific fundraising initiatives. Last year, the Smithsonian Institution raised $719,779 through the crowdfunding site to restore the original spacesuit worn by Neil Armstrong and bring it to a new exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum, while London’s Royal Academy of Arts raised nearly $175,000 to bring Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s tree sculptures from rural china to central London.
Check out the Film Society’s Kickstarter campaign video below.
Related storiesEquity Crowdfunding is Here - And It Could Be Terrible For Indie FilmmakersCannes 2016: Meet Dan Schoenbrun, Senior Film Outreach Lead At KickstarterFilm Society of Lincoln Center Names Alice Rohrwacher as Filmmaker In Residence...
- 6/14/2016
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
The French Connection 45th Anniversary Screening in Los Angeles
By Todd Garbarini
The Ahrya Fine Arts Theatre in Los Angeles will be presenting a 45th anniversary screening of William Friedkin’s Oscar-winning 1971 crime drama The French Connection. The 102-minute film will be screened on Saturday, June 18, 2016 at 7:30 pm. Starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Fernando Rey, Marcel Bozuffi, and the two real-life detectives who broke the actual case: the late Eddie Eagen and Salvatore “Sonny” Grosso, The French Connection is a New York movie of the first order and paved the way for gritty crime dramas like The Seven-Ups and The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3.
Director Friedkin is scheduled to appear at a Q&A session following the film.
From the press release:
Part of our Anniversary Classics series. For details, visit: laemmle.com/ac.
45th Anniversary Screening
This gritty and gripping police thriller won five...
By Todd Garbarini
The Ahrya Fine Arts Theatre in Los Angeles will be presenting a 45th anniversary screening of William Friedkin’s Oscar-winning 1971 crime drama The French Connection. The 102-minute film will be screened on Saturday, June 18, 2016 at 7:30 pm. Starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Fernando Rey, Marcel Bozuffi, and the two real-life detectives who broke the actual case: the late Eddie Eagen and Salvatore “Sonny” Grosso, The French Connection is a New York movie of the first order and paved the way for gritty crime dramas like The Seven-Ups and The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3.
Director Friedkin is scheduled to appear at a Q&A session following the film.
From the press release:
Part of our Anniversary Classics series. For details, visit: laemmle.com/ac.
45th Anniversary Screening
This gritty and gripping police thriller won five...
- 6/11/2016
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
The recipients of the Screen International Rising Star Asia awards this year are from Japan, China and the Philippines.
Celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, the New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff, June 22 - July 9) has selected Japan’s Go Ayano, China’s Jelly Lin [pictured left] and the Philippines’ Teri Malvar [pictured right] as the recipients of the Screen International Rising Star Asia awards.
Ayano, recognised by Nyaff for his range, has recently played a Machiavellian fixer in A Bride for Rip Van Winkle, Japan’s most corrupt cop in Twisted Justice and one of three suspects of a heinous crime in murder-mystery Rage.
Jelly Lin is being recognised as a gifted comedienne for her debut in Stephen Chow’s The Mermaid. She also stars in two high-profile upcoming films: Guo Jingming’s L.O.R.D. and Tsui Hark’s sequel to Chow’s Journey To The West: Conquering The Demons.
Teri Malvar is being recognised for her performances...
Celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, the New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff, June 22 - July 9) has selected Japan’s Go Ayano, China’s Jelly Lin [pictured left] and the Philippines’ Teri Malvar [pictured right] as the recipients of the Screen International Rising Star Asia awards.
Ayano, recognised by Nyaff for his range, has recently played a Machiavellian fixer in A Bride for Rip Van Winkle, Japan’s most corrupt cop in Twisted Justice and one of three suspects of a heinous crime in murder-mystery Rage.
Jelly Lin is being recognised as a gifted comedienne for her debut in Stephen Chow’s The Mermaid. She also stars in two high-profile upcoming films: Guo Jingming’s L.O.R.D. and Tsui Hark’s sequel to Chow’s Journey To The West: Conquering The Demons.
Teri Malvar is being recognised for her performances...
- 5/14/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Stepping out for some promotional duties, Katie Holmes showed up at Manhattan’s Walter Reade Theater dressed in a midnight blue Zac Posen gown last night (February 10).
The “Dawson’s Creek” star was in the house for the big premiere of her latest film “Touched With Fire,” and she even brought her mother Kathleen Holmes and sisters Holly and Nancy along for the ride.
In the flick, Katie plays a character struggling with mental illness. She told press, “Preparing for the role took a lot, there was a lot of research and I worked with someone to help me break it down and wrap my head around it. You don't want to take on a role like this and not do your best because so many people are suffering from this.”...
The “Dawson’s Creek” star was in the house for the big premiere of her latest film “Touched With Fire,” and she even brought her mother Kathleen Holmes and sisters Holly and Nancy along for the ride.
In the flick, Katie plays a character struggling with mental illness. She told press, “Preparing for the role took a lot, there was a lot of research and I worked with someone to help me break it down and wrap my head around it. You don't want to take on a role like this and not do your best because so many people are suffering from this.”...
- 2/11/2016
- GossipCenter
The winners for the sixth annual Clive Barnes Awards were announced Jan. 11 with recognition in the dance category for American Ballet Theatre’s Gabe Stone Shayer, and for Dave Thomas Brown in the theater category for his leading turn in Off-Broadway play, “The Legend of Georgia McBride.” All finalists won a cash prize, while the winners took home $5,000. Tony winner Annaleigh Ashford (“You Can’t Take it With You,” “Sylvia”) and Blakeley White-McGuire (Martha Graham Dance Company) presented the awards at the Walter Reade Theater in Lincoln Center, NYC. Fellow nominees included New York City Ballet dancer Joseph Gordon, Alvin Ailey’s Jacqueline Green, and Abt’s Catherine Hurlin; Brown beat out actors Jack Difalco of “Mercury Fur,” and Sandra Mae Frank, Katie Boeck, and Austin McKenzie of Deaf West’s Broadway production of “Spring Awakening.” Created in honor of the performance critic, Clive Barnes, candidates are selected via a...
- 1/11/2016
- backstage.com
The Clive Barnes Foundation announced Nov. 20 the nominees for its sixth annual Clive Barnes Awards. Broadway revival “Spring Awakening” led the pack with three of its lead actors receiving finalist recognition. Newbies Austin P. McKenzie, who plays Melchior Gabor, as well as Sandra Mae Frank and Katie Boeck—who are nominated together for their turn as Wendla Bergmann—are best theater actor nominees along with Jack Difalco of “Mercury Fur” and Dave Thomas Brown for “The Legend of Georgia McBride.” This year’s four finalists for dance are Catherine Hurlin and Gabe Stone Shayer of American Ballet Theatre, Joseph Gordon of New York City Ballet, and Jacqueline Green of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. On Jan. 11, 2016, the awards ceremony will present a $5,000 cash award to one actor and one dancer at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater. All finalists, chosen each year by a Clive Barnes Foundation selection committee of critics and performers,...
- 11/25/2015
- backstage.com
Howdy folks it's Jason here - with this week's "Beauty vs Beast" we gave some thanks for two classic Christina Ricci performances (have you voted yet?) but it's a rich world with lots of good to great stuff in it so here are a few more things that have brought a big dumb smile to my big dumb face this year.
- For Getting On and the spectacular showcase it's given three crazy talented actresses (not to mention all the smaller roles they fill in with even more under-used gems), letting each of them be both hysterically funny and heartbreaking within the matter of milliseconds (and for introducing the phrase "anal horn" into my vocabulary - that one's a keeper!)
- For the venom that dripped off of Rose Byrne's every ace line reading in Spy (this scene in particular)
- For whoever is tailoring Chad Radwell's khakis on...
- For Getting On and the spectacular showcase it's given three crazy talented actresses (not to mention all the smaller roles they fill in with even more under-used gems), letting each of them be both hysterically funny and heartbreaking within the matter of milliseconds (and for introducing the phrase "anal horn" into my vocabulary - that one's a keeper!)
- For the venom that dripped off of Rose Byrne's every ace line reading in Spy (this scene in particular)
- For whoever is tailoring Chad Radwell's khakis on...
- 11/24/2015
- by JA
- FilmExperience
This year on Halloween night, horror fans filed into the Walter Reade theater at New York's Lincoln Center for a screening of Corin Hardy's debut film, "The Hallow." The film screened as part of Lincoln Center's ninth annual Scary Movies series, a five-day block of indie horror programming from all over the world. Some of the audience members came dressed in costume, including the director himself when he appeared for a Q&A after the film. Hardy took the stage dressed as Eric Draven from "The Crow" to discuss choosing practical effects over CGI, shooting on location in the frigid Irish woods and news about his upcoming reboot of the series from which his costume was based. Read More: The 9 Indies to Watch on VOD This November: 'The Hallow,' 'Entertainment' and More "The Hallow" is centered around a family who moves into a house deep in the Irish woods,...
- 11/5/2015
- by Wil Barlow
- Indiewire
Watch: First Trailer For Nanni Moretti's 'Mia Madre' Starring Margherita Buy & John Turturro Nanni Moretti’s latest film, "Mia Madre," played for critics at the New York Film Festival on September 25, where it received a warm response from the crowd at the Walter Reade Theater. The film hits strong notes of both comedy and drama as it tells the story of Margherita, a film director whose mother falls ill during the middle of a particularly challenging film shoot. John Turturro plays Barry Huggins, an American actor whose egotism and inability to remember his lines, nevermind pronounce them properly in Italian, causes him to clash with Margherita on set throughout the film. After the screening, Turturro and Moretti gave a press conference in which they spoke about the making of the film and the roots of this intimate tragicomedy. From the beginning, Moretti was clear that this film...
- 9/28/2015
- by Wil Barlow
- Indiewire
53rd New York Film Festival honoree Kate Winslet Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The Film Society of Lincoln Center will honour Kate Winslet on October 6 during the 53rd New York Film Festival with a dinner and conversation with Director of Programming and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones.
Danny Boyle's biopic, Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbinder (as Jobs), Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels, Katherine Waterston and Michael Stuhlbarg, written by Aaron Sorkin, is the festival Centerpiece.
Past honorees include Nicole Kidman, Pedro Almodóvar, David Cronenberg, Cate Blanchett, Ralph Fiennes, past Director of Programming and Selection Committee Chair Richard Peña and last year’s guests, Richard Gere and Ethan Hawke.
Steve Jobs has four screenings on October 3 - 6:00pm and 9:00pm at Alice Tully Hall; 6:15pm and 9:15pm at the Walter Reade Theater.
This year's New York Film Festival runs from September 25 to October 11....
The Film Society of Lincoln Center will honour Kate Winslet on October 6 during the 53rd New York Film Festival with a dinner and conversation with Director of Programming and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones.
Danny Boyle's biopic, Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbinder (as Jobs), Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels, Katherine Waterston and Michael Stuhlbarg, written by Aaron Sorkin, is the festival Centerpiece.
Past honorees include Nicole Kidman, Pedro Almodóvar, David Cronenberg, Cate Blanchett, Ralph Fiennes, past Director of Programming and Selection Committee Chair Richard Peña and last year’s guests, Richard Gere and Ethan Hawke.
Steve Jobs has four screenings on October 3 - 6:00pm and 9:00pm at Alice Tully Hall; 6:15pm and 9:15pm at the Walter Reade Theater.
This year's New York Film Festival runs from September 25 to October 11....
- 9/14/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Executive producer of The True Cost Livia Firth with producer Michael Ross and director Andrew Morgan Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
At the Film Society of Lincoln Center last night, Georgina Chapman, Harvey Weinstein, William Ivey Long, Cindy Sherman and Stella McCartney held a star-studded private screening of Andrew Morgan's The True Cost, with executive producer Livia Firth (credited as Livia Giuggioli).
Anna Wintour in support of Livia Firth Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Anna Wintour, Isabella Rossellini, Yigal Azrouel, Giovanna Battaglia, Keren Craig, Stephanie Lacava, Anne Hathaway with Adam Shulman, Tonne Goodman, Timo Weiland, Laura Piety, Steven Kolb, Julia Garner, Julia Loomis, Amy Fine Collins, Derek Blasberg, Gigi Mortimer, Ingrid Sischy, Michael Avedon, Sandra Brant, Diana Picasso, Christine Baranski, Fatima Siad, Luma Grothe, Alexandra Agoston, Joy Ciocci, Aimee Ruby, Alise Shoemaker, Joy and Regis Philbin, were among those attending the screening at the Francesca Beale Theater, which was followed by a cocktail...
At the Film Society of Lincoln Center last night, Georgina Chapman, Harvey Weinstein, William Ivey Long, Cindy Sherman and Stella McCartney held a star-studded private screening of Andrew Morgan's The True Cost, with executive producer Livia Firth (credited as Livia Giuggioli).
Anna Wintour in support of Livia Firth Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Anna Wintour, Isabella Rossellini, Yigal Azrouel, Giovanna Battaglia, Keren Craig, Stephanie Lacava, Anne Hathaway with Adam Shulman, Tonne Goodman, Timo Weiland, Laura Piety, Steven Kolb, Julia Garner, Julia Loomis, Amy Fine Collins, Derek Blasberg, Gigi Mortimer, Ingrid Sischy, Michael Avedon, Sandra Brant, Diana Picasso, Christine Baranski, Fatima Siad, Luma Grothe, Alexandra Agoston, Joy Ciocci, Aimee Ruby, Alise Shoemaker, Joy and Regis Philbin, were among those attending the screening at the Francesca Beale Theater, which was followed by a cocktail...
- 6/17/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
First a Question For You
Have you ever been baffled or resentful of an Oscar win (any category) only to finally see the picture and go "Oh, okay. I get it" and feel sheepish about your past dismissal (even if it wouldn't quite change your vote)?
Such was the case with me and Sophia Loren's Two Women (1961) the only 1960s Best Actress win I hadn't seen, largely because I was so angry about it growing up given my intense love of Natalie Wood, who lost her best shot at the statue (Splendor in the Grass) in the peak year of her popularity (West Side Story). But when the Walter Reade screened Vittoria de Sica's Two Women this weekend I decided to fix the gap. Sophia was terrific, particularly in the final act when the movie takes quite a dark turn (in some ways it's a very strange film, a...
Have you ever been baffled or resentful of an Oscar win (any category) only to finally see the picture and go "Oh, okay. I get it" and feel sheepish about your past dismissal (even if it wouldn't quite change your vote)?
Such was the case with me and Sophia Loren's Two Women (1961) the only 1960s Best Actress win I hadn't seen, largely because I was so angry about it growing up given my intense love of Natalie Wood, who lost her best shot at the statue (Splendor in the Grass) in the peak year of her popularity (West Side Story). But when the Walter Reade screened Vittoria de Sica's Two Women this weekend I decided to fix the gap. Sophia was terrific, particularly in the final act when the movie takes quite a dark turn (in some ways it's a very strange film, a...
- 5/25/2015
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
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