News of Todd Haynes making his first documentary should’ve come as something of a curveball, but it was reported that the “Carol” director is planning a non-fiction project about the Velvet Underground, it seemed like the most natural thing in the world. Haynes’ “Velvet Goldmine” is such a knowing, textured, and vividly remembered reflection on the glam rock era that it can be easy to forget that its story merely alludes to the likes of Lou Reed.
But the fascination the Velvet Underground holds for Haynes isn’t the only thing that makes this newly announced documentary feel like such a perfect pairing between subject and storyteller. With the landmark “The Velvet Underground & Nico” LP, Reed and his cohorts effectively forged a new language for countercultural expression, synthesizing the subversive pop stylings of Andy Warhol into a rock movement that had already been neutered of its rebellious beginnings. With films like “Poison” and “Safe,...
But the fascination the Velvet Underground holds for Haynes isn’t the only thing that makes this newly announced documentary feel like such a perfect pairing between subject and storyteller. With the landmark “The Velvet Underground & Nico” LP, Reed and his cohorts effectively forged a new language for countercultural expression, synthesizing the subversive pop stylings of Andy Warhol into a rock movement that had already been neutered of its rebellious beginnings. With films like “Poison” and “Safe,...
- 8/8/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Tuesday, May 2 “Fresh Off the Boat,” 9 p.m. on ABC
Episode Title: “Pie vs. Cake”
Synopsis: Jessica is thrilled to hear Evan is interested in joining the debate team. Yet, when her protégé becomes so good that he beats her at her own game, she second-guesses her worth. Meanwhile, Eddie and Emery team up to enter a comic book contest.
Why You Should Watch: “Fresh off the Boat” is on the bubble and It Shouldn’T Be On The Bubble. But also tune in for the cameo by Stan Lee, who, of course, is playing Stan Lee circa 1996 – and yet didn’t have to change his look at all. The guy is ageless. And will continue to never say “no” to popping up anywhere, at any time.
Read More: How ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ Tells The Untold Story of ’90s Sitcom Moms
“The Americans,” 10 p.m. on FX
Episode Title:...
Episode Title: “Pie vs. Cake”
Synopsis: Jessica is thrilled to hear Evan is interested in joining the debate team. Yet, when her protégé becomes so good that he beats her at her own game, she second-guesses her worth. Meanwhile, Eddie and Emery team up to enter a comic book contest.
Why You Should Watch: “Fresh off the Boat” is on the bubble and It Shouldn’T Be On The Bubble. But also tune in for the cameo by Stan Lee, who, of course, is playing Stan Lee circa 1996 – and yet didn’t have to change his look at all. The guy is ageless. And will continue to never say “no” to popping up anywhere, at any time.
Read More: How ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ Tells The Untold Story of ’90s Sitcom Moms
“The Americans,” 10 p.m. on FX
Episode Title:...
- 5/2/2017
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
As the year comes to a close, there is one group we’ve yet to hear from about the Best of 2016: The Directors.
Filmmakers are busy folks, and some were instantly wary about making a list, with “I haven’t seen enough movies to make a top ten list” a common reply. So we decided to keep it loose. Including TV and other forms of entertainment was encouraged, how they chose to frame their list was totally flexible, and even if they only had a handful of projects they wanted to highlight, IndieWire made it clear we wanted to know what inspired them this year.
The most exciting thing, beyond how many great directors replied, is the time and energy they put into their lists. Be it Kirsten Johnson’s tribute to Abbas Kiarostami, Paul Feig’s surprise message to “Ghostbuster” trolls, Jennifer Kent teasing the start of her new film,...
Filmmakers are busy folks, and some were instantly wary about making a list, with “I haven’t seen enough movies to make a top ten list” a common reply. So we decided to keep it loose. Including TV and other forms of entertainment was encouraged, how they chose to frame their list was totally flexible, and even if they only had a handful of projects they wanted to highlight, IndieWire made it clear we wanted to know what inspired them this year.
The most exciting thing, beyond how many great directors replied, is the time and energy they put into their lists. Be it Kirsten Johnson’s tribute to Abbas Kiarostami, Paul Feig’s surprise message to “Ghostbuster” trolls, Jennifer Kent teasing the start of her new film,...
- 12/28/2016
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Lavish live-action remakes and modern re-imaginings are currently high on the pecking order over at the House of Mouse, and one need only look at Disney’s marketing campaigns for Alice Through the Looking Glass (drawing to a close ahead of release later this week) and Bill Condon’s upcoming Beauty and the Beast (which only just kicked off following the reveal of today’s inaugural teaser) for evidence of this renewed drive.
Sandwiched in between those two relative heavyweights is Pete’s Dragon, David Lowery’s (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) rendition of a cult ’70s classic. It brings together Oakes Fegley’s pint-sized protagonist with a towering, feathery reptile, sparking an usual friendship deep within the woods.
And so, with a release pegged for mid-August in the States – Pete’s Dragon lands in the UK on May 26 – Empire Magazine has premiered a new image spotlighting the titular beast,...
Sandwiched in between those two relative heavyweights is Pete’s Dragon, David Lowery’s (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) rendition of a cult ’70s classic. It brings together Oakes Fegley’s pint-sized protagonist with a towering, feathery reptile, sparking an usual friendship deep within the woods.
And so, with a release pegged for mid-August in the States – Pete’s Dragon lands in the UK on May 26 – Empire Magazine has premiered a new image spotlighting the titular beast,...
- 5/23/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Whether or not any of us were actually clamoring for a redo of Disney children’s classic Pete’s Dragon, one will soon be flying into theaters regardless. Up-and-coming child stars Oakes Fegley (HBO’s Boardwalk Empire) and Oona Laurence (Broadway’s Matilda) landed the lead roles back in September, and today, we’re hearing that veteran actor Robert Redford is also in talks for a key role.
If a deal is made, the All Is Lost star will play a local who tells tall tales involving dragons, none of which are believed by the people around him.
Though the original movie was set in a fishing village at the turn of the 20th century, this new take involves Elliot, the titular dragon, coming under threat from loggers cutting down the forest that he calls home. Pete (Fegley) is a boy orphaned after both his parents are killed in a car crash,...
If a deal is made, the All Is Lost star will play a local who tells tall tales involving dragons, none of which are believed by the people around him.
Though the original movie was set in a fishing village at the turn of the 20th century, this new take involves Elliot, the titular dragon, coming under threat from loggers cutting down the forest that he calls home. Pete (Fegley) is a boy orphaned after both his parents are killed in a car crash,...
- 10/17/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Ever since her transformative performance in David Fincher’s amazing The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo adaptation, Rooney Mara has been highly in-demand. She’s had her pick of projects over the past few years, appearing in such great films as David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects and Spike Jonze’s Her. Mara’s upcoming schedule looks equally promising – she’s got Stephen Daldry’s Trash, a Terrence Malick film, Todd Haynes’ romantic drama Carol and Joe Wright’s blockbuster Pan on the way. Now, the actress has joined another exciting project – Annapurna Pictures’ memoir adaptation A House in the Sky.
Mara will star in and produce the adaptation, based on Amanda Linhout’s account of the ordeal she underwent after being abducted by a rebel terrorist group whilst exploring Somalia in 2008. Amazon’s synopsis for the book reads as follows:
As a child,...
Mara will star in and produce the adaptation, based on Amanda Linhout’s account of the ordeal she underwent after being abducted by a rebel terrorist group whilst exploring Somalia in 2008. Amazon’s synopsis for the book reads as follows:
As a child,...
- 6/25/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Some great films have been made about the horrific Iraq War, from The Hurt Locker to Stop-Loss, though not every movie to explore the human face of the conflict has met with success. Green Zone and Body of Lies stand as the two most prominent examples of films which failed to add anything to the national discussion of American foreign policy in the war-torn nation. It’s too early to tell whether The Yellow Birds, an adaptation of the 2012 National Book Award finalist by Kevin Powers, will fall into the former category or the latter. However, early signs are highly promising.
This week, Benedict Cumberbatch, Will Poulter and Tye Sheridan signed on to star in the film. Poulter is set to play a 21-year-old who meets a young recruit (Sheridan) in boot camp and, at the prompting of the boy’s mother, agrees to watch his back when they are deployed to Iraq.
This week, Benedict Cumberbatch, Will Poulter and Tye Sheridan signed on to star in the film. Poulter is set to play a 21-year-old who meets a young recruit (Sheridan) in boot camp and, at the prompting of the boy’s mother, agrees to watch his back when they are deployed to Iraq.
- 5/20/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Another book to film adaptation is on its way, and we have the early word on who has acquired V.E. Schwab's novel Vicious, in which two ambitious pre-med students discover that under the right conditions a person can develop extraordinary supernatural abilities.
Per Deadline, producer/financier Story Mining & Supply Co. has teamed with Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions to acquire rights to Schwab's Vicious. Sm&Sc’s Jeffrey Sharp and production president Evan Hayes will produce with Ridley Scott and Michael Schaefer, along with Allison Gillogly. She brought in the book, which was published in September by Tor Books.
The acquisition was made through the development fund of Sm&Sc, which was formed earlier this fall by Sharp and writer/director/financier Jim Kohlberg. Kohlberg and Sharp are behind Starz’s "Outlander" and The Yellow Birds, scripted and directed by David Lowery.
Book Synopsis:
Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant,...
Per Deadline, producer/financier Story Mining & Supply Co. has teamed with Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions to acquire rights to Schwab's Vicious. Sm&Sc’s Jeffrey Sharp and production president Evan Hayes will produce with Ridley Scott and Michael Schaefer, along with Allison Gillogly. She brought in the book, which was published in September by Tor Books.
The acquisition was made through the development fund of Sm&Sc, which was formed earlier this fall by Sharp and writer/director/financier Jim Kohlberg. Kohlberg and Sharp are behind Starz’s "Outlander" and The Yellow Birds, scripted and directed by David Lowery.
Book Synopsis:
Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant,...
- 12/17/2013
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
In the latest casting shift for Carol, an upcoming adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s erotic romance The Price of Salt, Rooney Mara has replaced Mia Wasikowska in the lead role of Therese.
The project, announced over a year ago, originally starred Cate Blanchett, who is still attached, and Wasikowska as two women who become entangled in a destructive, passionate romance after sparks fly during a chance encounter. Blanchett will play the eponymous older woman, a housewife trapped in a loveless marriage, while Wasikowska was originally set to play a bored department store employee in her early twenties.
The project was originally to be directed by Boy A and Closed Circuit helmer John Crowley, but that also changed earlier this spring when Crowley bowed out over scheduling conflicts. Provocative filmmaker Todd Haynes (Velvet Goldmine, Far From Heaven, I’m Not There) has since replaced him in the director’s chair.
Mara...
The project, announced over a year ago, originally starred Cate Blanchett, who is still attached, and Wasikowska as two women who become entangled in a destructive, passionate romance after sparks fly during a chance encounter. Blanchett will play the eponymous older woman, a housewife trapped in a loveless marriage, while Wasikowska was originally set to play a bored department store employee in her early twenties.
The project was originally to be directed by Boy A and Closed Circuit helmer John Crowley, but that also changed earlier this spring when Crowley bowed out over scheduling conflicts. Provocative filmmaker Todd Haynes (Velvet Goldmine, Far From Heaven, I’m Not There) has since replaced him in the director’s chair.
Mara...
- 8/29/2013
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
The duo of director/writer David Lowery and actor Casey Affleck of indie drama Ain’t Them Bodies Saints are working together on a new project: an artsy, sci-fi short story adaptation called To Be Two. THR reports that Affleck will star again in the Lowery-directed film, adapted by Lowery himself from the Paul Broks short story To Be Two or Not To Be.
Broks’ original story concerns itself with questions of the self, in a world where a form of teleportation has successfully been invented. However, only a digital version of one’s self exists once teleported, as the original person is vaporized. Comparisons are already being made between Lowery’s adaptation of the short story and Rian Johnson’s Looper, given the similar subject matter.
Lowery’s Saints premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Cinematography Award in the U.S. Dramatic Category and was...
Broks’ original story concerns itself with questions of the self, in a world where a form of teleportation has successfully been invented. However, only a digital version of one’s self exists once teleported, as the original person is vaporized. Comparisons are already being made between Lowery’s adaptation of the short story and Rian Johnson’s Looper, given the similar subject matter.
Lowery’s Saints premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Cinematography Award in the U.S. Dramatic Category and was...
- 8/23/2013
- by Emily Estep
- We Got This Covered
A scene from Matt Creed's Lily, in Competition at the Deauville Festival of American Cinema.
Deauville, an elegant belle epoque beach resort and equestrian town in Normandy, hosts an annual American Film Festival – partly because of its historical Second World War connections to the United States. The beaches where the landings took place are close by and Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan had its launch there.
This year’s official Competition selection, unveiled in the town this afternoon, will see a host of starry premieres including David M Rosenthal’s A Single Shot with Sam Rockwell, Drake Doremus’s Breathe In with Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones, All Is Lost by J C Sandor with Robert Redford, Ain’t them Bodies Saints by David Lowery with Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara and Sweetwater by Logan and Noah Miller with Ed Harris. Among the others in the 12-title section are...
Deauville, an elegant belle epoque beach resort and equestrian town in Normandy, hosts an annual American Film Festival – partly because of its historical Second World War connections to the United States. The beaches where the landings took place are close by and Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan had its launch there.
This year’s official Competition selection, unveiled in the town this afternoon, will see a host of starry premieres including David M Rosenthal’s A Single Shot with Sam Rockwell, Drake Doremus’s Breathe In with Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones, All Is Lost by J C Sandor with Robert Redford, Ain’t them Bodies Saints by David Lowery with Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara and Sweetwater by Logan and Noah Miller with Ed Harris. Among the others in the 12-title section are...
- 7/19/2013
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The top stories of the week from Toh! Reviews: Weekend Preview: Critics Divided on Luminous "To The Wonder," "42" Neither Home-Run Nor Strike-Out, "Disconnect" Connects Can Cruise and Universal Make Kosinski's Sci-Fi "Oblivion" a Global Hit? Review and Roundup Malick Stumbles with "To The Wonder" Now and Then: Cary Grant, The Man from Dream City, Revisited (Clips) News: Robert Redford to Star in David Lowery's Next Movie Indiewire Adds Two Stars to to Blog Network: Jerry Beck and Jon Friedman Ebert Memorial: Saying Goodbye to Roger Television: Aereo's Barry Diller Disrupts the TV Establishment -- Yet Again "Top of the Lake" Episode 5 Recap: The Body Knows What To Do Five Striking Similarities Between Elisabeth Moss' Roles on "Mad Men" and "Top of the Lake" "Game of Thrones" Recap 3.2: "Dark Wings, Dark Worlds" Interviews: Immersed in Movies: Recreating Ebbets Field for '42' Sebastian Junger Grieves for Fallen Comrade...
- 4/13/2013
- by TOH!
- Thompson on Hollywood
SXSW is one of my favorite festivals of the year as it showcases some of the best and most innovative real independent films, and with this host of world premiers, it's also playing alot of Sundance material as well as genre fare from all over the world, many of which we've covered heavily in these pages.
From the Sundance lineup, we have films like Moon, The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, You Won't Miss Me, Grace, and Humpday, among others.
For the world genre material we've covered, there's Lake Mungo, The Square, Zift, and Awaydays.
I think you get the point that lots of great looking film will be playing. I'll leave a bit of the exploration to you..
Lineup after the break.
Narrative Features Competition
Artois the Goat
Director: Kyle Bogart. Writer: Cliff and Kyle Bogart
Lab technician Virgil Gurdies embarks on an epic quest to craft the greatest...
From the Sundance lineup, we have films like Moon, The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, You Won't Miss Me, Grace, and Humpday, among others.
For the world genre material we've covered, there's Lake Mungo, The Square, Zift, and Awaydays.
I think you get the point that lots of great looking film will be playing. I'll leave a bit of the exploration to you..
Lineup after the break.
Narrative Features Competition
Artois the Goat
Director: Kyle Bogart. Writer: Cliff and Kyle Bogart
Lab technician Virgil Gurdies embarks on an epic quest to craft the greatest...
- 2/2/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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