Marc Isaacs
Marc Isaacs' This Blessed Plot showcases the director's playful interest in exploring the language of film. Setting it in the quaint English village of Thaxted, Essex, Isaacs and writer Adam Ganz combine documentary and fiction into what the director describes as a "documentary fiction pageant."
The story revolves around Lori, a young Chinese filmmaker who visits Thaxted, and encounters Keith, who appeared in Isaacs' previous film, The Filmmaker's House. Following the death of his wife, Keith has swapped London for village life – along with his extensive collection of Arsenal memorabilia. Exploring the village, and its sense of Englishness, Lori learns about a former vicar who espoused Christian socialism, observes traditional Morris dancing, and discovers the dead continue to live alongside the living.
Lori exploring England
In conversation with Eye For Film, Isaacs discussed transitioning to questions of storytelling and mythology, countering the instinct to explain, and British film culture’s lack of vision.
Marc Isaacs' This Blessed Plot showcases the director's playful interest in exploring the language of film. Setting it in the quaint English village of Thaxted, Essex, Isaacs and writer Adam Ganz combine documentary and fiction into what the director describes as a "documentary fiction pageant."
The story revolves around Lori, a young Chinese filmmaker who visits Thaxted, and encounters Keith, who appeared in Isaacs' previous film, The Filmmaker's House. Following the death of his wife, Keith has swapped London for village life – along with his extensive collection of Arsenal memorabilia. Exploring the village, and its sense of Englishness, Lori learns about a former vicar who espoused Christian socialism, observes traditional Morris dancing, and discovers the dead continue to live alongside the living.
Lori exploring England
In conversation with Eye For Film, Isaacs discussed transitioning to questions of storytelling and mythology, countering the instinct to explain, and British film culture’s lack of vision.
- 1/25/2024
- by Paul Risker
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Javier Grillo-Marxuach, a veteran of the TV space who has most recently served as both a writer and EP on Netflix’s The Witcher — prior to the start of the dual strikes — has come forward to address accusations of “scabbing” prompted by his posts on social media.
Grillo-Marxuach joins a growing list of guild members, between WGA and SAG-AFTRA, that have faced harsh rebukes from peers of activity that is, in fact, guild-approved. Inciting this particular incident were social posts promoting the aforementioned fantasy drama, which as he notes, were made with WGA dictates in mind.
“Today i was accused of scabbing for posting about, and showing the title card and promo for #TheWitcher – which i did of my own volition and not at the request of my corporate overlords – and for engaging with fans of the show,” wrote Grillo-Marxuach. “While my actions are completely within the guild’s strike...
Grillo-Marxuach joins a growing list of guild members, between WGA and SAG-AFTRA, that have faced harsh rebukes from peers of activity that is, in fact, guild-approved. Inciting this particular incident were social posts promoting the aforementioned fantasy drama, which as he notes, were made with WGA dictates in mind.
“Today i was accused of scabbing for posting about, and showing the title card and promo for #TheWitcher – which i did of my own volition and not at the request of my corporate overlords – and for engaging with fans of the show,” wrote Grillo-Marxuach. “While my actions are completely within the guild’s strike...
- 7/29/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2021 Sheffield Doc/Fest has announced its competition contenders alongside its full program.
The international competition includes “Charm Circle” “Rancho”, “Factory to the Workers” and “Summer”.
Also competing are “Equatorial Constellations”, “From the 84 Days”, “This Stained Dawn”, “Nũhũ Yãg Mũ Yõg Hãm: This Land Is Our Land!”, “White on White”, “Double Layered Town / Making a Song to Replace Our Positions” and “My Dear Spies”.
The festival’s complete program includes 55 world premieres, 22 international premieres, 15 European premieres and 59 U.K. premieres from 57 countries with 63 languages represented, spread over 78 features and 88 shorts.
Being presented as special screenings this year are five world premieres. Steve McQueen and James Rogan’s new series “Uprising”; Clive Patterson’s “Sing, Freetown”; and working with U.K. poet laureate Simon Armitage, Brian Hill presents “Where Did The World Go.” Additionally, three films will offer different perspectives on 9/11 and its consequences — “My Childhood, My Country – 20 Years in Afghanistan...
The international competition includes “Charm Circle” “Rancho”, “Factory to the Workers” and “Summer”.
Also competing are “Equatorial Constellations”, “From the 84 Days”, “This Stained Dawn”, “Nũhũ Yãg Mũ Yõg Hãm: This Land Is Our Land!”, “White on White”, “Double Layered Town / Making a Song to Replace Our Positions” and “My Dear Spies”.
The festival’s complete program includes 55 world premieres, 22 international premieres, 15 European premieres and 59 U.K. premieres from 57 countries with 63 languages represented, spread over 78 features and 88 shorts.
Being presented as special screenings this year are five world premieres. Steve McQueen and James Rogan’s new series “Uprising”; Clive Patterson’s “Sing, Freetown”; and working with U.K. poet laureate Simon Armitage, Brian Hill presents “Where Did The World Go.” Additionally, three films will offer different perspectives on 9/11 and its consequences — “My Childhood, My Country – 20 Years in Afghanistan...
- 5/17/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
"What is documentary?" Little White Lies puts the question to Joshua Oppenheimer, Jeanie Finlay, Marc Isaacs, Kim Longinotto, Lucy Walker, Elizabeth Wood and Robert Green. Also in today's roundup: David Bordwell on Paolo Gioli and Jonathan Rosenbaum on American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson and Confirmation. Plus, the Time 100 includes Christopher Nolan on Kip Thorne, Rita Moreno on Gina Rodriguez, Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson on Aziz Ansari, Tony Kushner on Kathleen Kennedy, Dwayne Johnson on Priyanka Chopra, Steven Spielberg on Mark Rylance, Lena Dunham on Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Paul Haggis on Oscar Isaac, David Simon on Idris Elba, Guillermo del Toro on Alejandro González Iñárritu—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 4/24/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
"What is documentary?" Little White Lies puts the question to Joshua Oppenheimer, Jeanie Finlay, Marc Isaacs, Kim Longinotto, Lucy Walker, Elizabeth Wood and Robert Green. Also in today's roundup: David Bordwell on Paolo Gioli and Jonathan Rosenbaum on American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson and Confirmation. Plus, the Time 100 includes Christopher Nolan on Kip Thorne, Rita Moreno on Gina Rodriguez, Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson on Aziz Ansari, Tony Kushner on Kathleen Kennedy, Dwayne Johnson on Priyanka Chopra, Steven Spielberg on Mark Rylance, Lena Dunham on Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Paul Haggis on Oscar Isaac, David Simon on Idris Elba, Guillermo del Toro on Alejandro González Iñárritu—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 4/24/2016
- Keyframe
We've been following Michael Colburn and The Toy Box for the better part of this year and today, finally we have the new trailer for this brutal film based on true events! This gritty looking take on a Texas serial killer is directed by Colburn and stars Jeremy Norton, Dana Walsh, Jen Peebles, Scott Guthrie, Sandra Carrasco, Jessica Flores, Marc Isaacs, Shannon Lark, Bianca Barnett and Julin. The film is set to be released sometime in the Spring and we'll let y'all be the first to know! Check out the cool new trailer after the jump! Plot: Based on a True Story : An American serial killer suspected by police to have murdered as many as 60 people; David tortured and presumably killed his victims in a $100,000 homemade torture chamber he called "The Toy Box."
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- 10/23/2010
- by brians
- GeekTyrant
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