It is a tricky thing, recreating a beloved classic. Since the 1992 premiere of Penny Marshall’s “A League of Their Own” audiences have fallen in love again and again with Dottie Henson, Kit Keller, Marla Hooch, and the rest of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. But these characters were based on real people, and there was only so much that could fill 90 minutes in a ’90s movie. Now, Abbi Jacobson and Will Graham are filling in the stories the movie left out — namely those of Black and queer players — as seen through the eyes of Carson Shaw (Jacobson) and Max Chapman (Chanté Adams), the central characters of Prime Video’s take on “A League of Their Own.”
“The impetus behind this whole endeavor is our love for Penny Marshall’s movie,” executive producer Hailey Wierengo told IndieWire. “We don’t think it needs to be improved upon. We don...
“The impetus behind this whole endeavor is our love for Penny Marshall’s movie,” executive producer Hailey Wierengo told IndieWire. “We don’t think it needs to be improved upon. We don...
- 8/23/2022
- by Valentina Valentini
- Indiewire
The Manic Pixie Dream Girl is officially dead, and the Girl with a Cracked iPhone Screen has taken her place. That’s not as catchy (it kind of sounds like the least exciting Stieg Larsson novel of all time), but it still feels like progress. The old trope was just a foil for some forlorn male protagonist, less of an actual person than an adorkable fairy godmother whose sole purpose in life was to restore a sense of self-worth to an aimless dude who forgot how to generate his own. The new trope, on the other hand, is alive — she creates her own context.
Usually a twenty something who is falling short of her potential, The Girl with a Cracked iPhone Screen is a mess, she doesn’t have a ton of money (shout out to the gig economy), and she makes an audience of millennials feel comparatively stable. Odds are,...
Usually a twenty something who is falling short of her potential, The Girl with a Cracked iPhone Screen is a mess, she doesn’t have a ton of money (shout out to the gig economy), and she makes an audience of millennials feel comparatively stable. Odds are,...
- 11/14/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
With the continual rise of social networking and apps like Skype, what has become of the “long distance relationship”? At the click of a mouse or the touch of anyone’s iPhone screen, you can be in touch with a loved one in mere seconds. Gone are the days of waiting anxiously to receive a letter or even the short amount of time one would take to get an e-mail. What is the nature of the modern long distance relationship?
That’s the question that director Carlos Marques-Marcet tries to dig deeply into in his newest film, entitled 10,000 km. The film introduces us to a loving young couple, Alexandra and Sergi, in the midst of making love. They’ve decided to try and have a child, only to, in the same roughly 20 minute long opening take, discover that Alexandra has been offered a gig 10,000 km away in La. Both have been moonlighting as teachers,...
That’s the question that director Carlos Marques-Marcet tries to dig deeply into in his newest film, entitled 10,000 km. The film introduces us to a loving young couple, Alexandra and Sergi, in the midst of making love. They’ve decided to try and have a child, only to, in the same roughly 20 minute long opening take, discover that Alexandra has been offered a gig 10,000 km away in La. Both have been moonlighting as teachers,...
- 7/17/2015
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Carlos Marques-Marcet's lovely, lovely debut "10,000 Km" opens with an impressively staged single take that manages to convey the entire universe of a longterm relationship in just 23 minutes. We meet Alex (Natalia Tena) and Sergi (David Verdaguer), two Barcelonans of millennial age, in the middle of sex. It has the hot abandon of a new courtship, except they've been together for seven years. Later in the same take, delicately choreographed by the first-time director and his Dp Dagmar Weaver-Madsen, Alex opens her computer to an unexpected email announcing she has been offered a year-long residency in Los Angeles. She's a struggling photographer who, amid the tough economic realities for creative types in the post-Internet Age, can't afford to say no to the offer, and doesn't. Save that long take and a (devastating) closing scene, the rest of this subtly melancholic, modern romance spans a year of Alex and Sergi nobly...
- 7/6/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Versatility is an essential skill for cinematographers, and Dagmar Weaver-Madsen has it in spades. Dividing her time between Brooklyn and Los Angeles, Weaver-Madsen seamlessly alternates between shooting indie films and web series, such as "Be Here Nowish," a comedy about two New Yorkers who head to L.A. in search of spiritual and sexual enlightenment. She's also the Dp for Vimeo's hugely successful original web series, "High Maintenance," which was just acquired by HBO, and "The Impossibilities," the new web series from Anna Kerrigan. She's shot countless short films and documentaries and her two latest features, Carlos Marques-Marcet's "10,000 Km," which won best performance at SXSW 2014, and Kris Swanberg’s "Unexpected," which premiered earlier this year Sundance, will hit theaters in July. Indiewire recently spoke to Weaver-Madsen about the difference between shooting web series and indie films. Read More: 10 Reasons...
- 5/27/2015
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
Carlos Marques-Marcet's lovely, lovely debut "10,000 Km" opens with an impressively staged single take that manages to convey the entire universe of a longterm relationship in just 23 minutes. We meet Alex (Natalia Tena) and Sergi (David Verdaguer), two Barcelonans of millennial age, in the middle of sex. It has the hot abandon of a new courtship, except they've been together for seven years. Later in the same take, delicately choreographed by the first-time director and his Dp Dagmar Weaver-Madsen, Alex opens her computer to an unexpected email announcing she has been offered a year-long residency in Los Angeles. She's a struggling photographer who, amid the tough economic realities for creative types in the post-Internet Age, can't afford to say no to the offer, and doesn't. Save that long take and a (devastating) closing scene, the rest of this subtly melancholic, modern romance spans a year of Alex and Sergi nobly...
- 11/10/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Wally Pfister, the brilliant cinematographer of Christopher Nolan's "Inception" won big at the 25th Annual American Society of Cinematographers (Asc) Outstanding Achievement Award in the feature film competition.
Pfister, receiving his first Asc Award, beat Matthew Libatique ("Black Swan"), Danny Cohen ("The King's Speech"), Jeff Cronenweth ("The Social Network"), and Roger Deakins ("True Grit"). All of the nominees are also Oscar-nominated this year.
Jonathan Freeman took home the Outstanding Achievement Award in the Television Episodic Series/Pilot Category for his work on the "Boardwalk Empire" episode entitled "Home."
Steven Windon claimed the top honor in the Television Movie/Miniseries for the "Okinawa" episode of "The Pacific."
Here's the rest of the press release from the Asc:
Oscar®-winner Tom Hanks presented the Board of Governors Award to the Julia Roberts in recognition of her tremendous body of work and contributions to the art of filmmaking. Roberts earned an Academy...
Pfister, receiving his first Asc Award, beat Matthew Libatique ("Black Swan"), Danny Cohen ("The King's Speech"), Jeff Cronenweth ("The Social Network"), and Roger Deakins ("True Grit"). All of the nominees are also Oscar-nominated this year.
Jonathan Freeman took home the Outstanding Achievement Award in the Television Episodic Series/Pilot Category for his work on the "Boardwalk Empire" episode entitled "Home."
Steven Windon claimed the top honor in the Television Movie/Miniseries for the "Okinawa" episode of "The Pacific."
Here's the rest of the press release from the Asc:
Oscar®-winner Tom Hanks presented the Board of Governors Award to the Julia Roberts in recognition of her tremendous body of work and contributions to the art of filmmaking. Roberts earned an Academy...
- 2/16/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
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