"There's no such thing as evil, son. There's just people doing good and bad to each other." The Orchard has debuted a trailer for indie drama In the Radiant City, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year. The film is the feature directorial debut of Kentucky native Rachel Lambert, and it's set in Kentucky, about a man who returns home only to find his family is still haunted by the stigma of a murder his brother committed years ago. The cast includes Michael Abbott Jr in the lead role, along with Marin Ireland, Madisen Beaty, Celia Weston, Jon Michael Hill, Deirdre O'Connell, and Paul Sparks. This film is produced by fellow filmmaker Jeff Nichols, and it also has one of the best posters this year (as seen below). Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Rachel Lambert's In the Radiant City, direct from YouTube: A man (Michael Abbott Jr.,...
- 7/23/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
For her feature narrative debut, “In the Radiant City,” Rachel Lambert started with some compelling material: the truth. The filmmaker and her writing partner Nathan Gregorski were first inspired to write their film after reading a New York Times article that chronicled the fallout of publicized tragedies on the families of the perpetrators.
As Lambert explained to IndieWire during the Toronto International Film Festival, where her film bowed last fall, “There was an article in The New York Times, and it was called ‘Killers’ Family Confront Fear and Shame.’ And it wasn’t like a firebrand, scorched earth kind of testimonial, it was profiling four families of murderers of some great note. I just had never read anything that painted with such humanity something that I think is typically seen as inhuman. It...
As Lambert explained to IndieWire during the Toronto International Film Festival, where her film bowed last fall, “There was an article in The New York Times, and it was called ‘Killers’ Family Confront Fear and Shame.’ And it wasn’t like a firebrand, scorched earth kind of testimonial, it was profiling four families of murderers of some great note. I just had never read anything that painted with such humanity something that I think is typically seen as inhuman. It...
- 7/6/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
IndieWire’s Springboard column profiles up-and-comers in the film industry worthy of your attention.
Rachel Lambert started with the truth. For her narrative feature directorial debut — she’s previously helmed a short film and a feature-length documentary — Lambert and her writing partner Nathan Gregorski dove into true stories of families marked by tragedy, though not in the way people typically expect. Initially inspired by a New York Times article that chronicled the fallout of publicized tragedies on the families of the perpetrators (think: David Kaczynski, who helped bring his brother Ted, the so-called Unabomber, to justice), the pair started working on a feature that would tell that kind of story, built as a sensitive family drama with secrets to spare.
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The result is “In the Radiant City,” which features a stellar cast of actor’s actors, including Celia Weston,...
Rachel Lambert started with the truth. For her narrative feature directorial debut — she’s previously helmed a short film and a feature-length documentary — Lambert and her writing partner Nathan Gregorski dove into true stories of families marked by tragedy, though not in the way people typically expect. Initially inspired by a New York Times article that chronicled the fallout of publicized tragedies on the families of the perpetrators (think: David Kaczynski, who helped bring his brother Ted, the so-called Unabomber, to justice), the pair started working on a feature that would tell that kind of story, built as a sensitive family drama with secrets to spare.
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The result is “In the Radiant City,” which features a stellar cast of actor’s actors, including Celia Weston,...
- 9/11/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
With In the Radiant City, I wrote in my Toronto preview, Louisville, Ky native Rachel Lambert has brought to Toronto a debut film that seems like it might be the kind of laconic, unexpectedly emotional regional drama associated with filmmakers like Victor Nunez. Executive produced by Jeff Nichols, In the Radiant City follows a man, Yurley (Michael Abbott, Jr.), estranged from his family, who returns home to finally deal with the aftermath of a violent act in his family’s past. Supporting players include the always excellent Marin Ireland and Paul Sparks. Below, Lambert discusses how she connected with Nichols, why […]...
- 9/11/2016
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
I have been thinking about this for a while now and it is finally starting to come to a head when I read an article by Michael Abbott a professor who has some of the most intelligent posts of video games on the internet – just not this time. His latest article (It’s a B+ World) is off base because he tries to suggest that the video game industry has no originality and all triple A games are the same, and I have to disagree with this assertion. Personally I don’t believe there is a lack of originality in video games and even if there is, we gamers are the reason.
You read and hear it all the time how everything is the same in video games, and that 99% of games are first person shooters. However, I have to ask: are these people who are complaining about a lack of originality just not looking?...
You read and hear it all the time how everything is the same in video games, and that 99% of games are first person shooters. However, I have to ask: are these people who are complaining about a lack of originality just not looking?...
- 7/25/2011
- by Matt Mann
- Obsessed with Film
Tech-savvy Texans will be some of the first in the U.S. to experience comprehensive Nfc-driven mobile commerce, thanks to Isis. Pretty soon, you'll be able to leave your wallet at home.
If you're gonna pay in Texas, you can do it with the cellphone in your hand.
At least that's the hope of Isis, a joint venture for wireless credit-card payments made up of At&T, T-Mobile USA, and Verizon, which announced that Austin will be among the initial launch markets for its "wave and pay" Nfc-driven mobile-commerce program that lets consumers pay for goods and services with nothing but a phone.
The early 2012 launch will enable a "comprehensive mobile commerce experience" for Austin consumers, according to the company's press release. CEO Michael Abbott says Isis chose Austin because it's "home to progressive and tech savvy consumers and merchants" who are more likely to latch on to the much-hyped...
If you're gonna pay in Texas, you can do it with the cellphone in your hand.
At least that's the hope of Isis, a joint venture for wireless credit-card payments made up of At&T, T-Mobile USA, and Verizon, which announced that Austin will be among the initial launch markets for its "wave and pay" Nfc-driven mobile-commerce program that lets consumers pay for goods and services with nothing but a phone.
The early 2012 launch will enable a "comprehensive mobile commerce experience" for Austin consumers, according to the company's press release. CEO Michael Abbott says Isis chose Austin because it's "home to progressive and tech savvy consumers and merchants" who are more likely to latch on to the much-hyped...
- 6/22/2011
- by Kit Eaton
- Fast Company
The fantasy of buying a Slurpee with nothing more than a dramatic wave of your iPhone 5 seems to be coming true. But like hydrogen cars and hoverboards, electronic wallet technology has a long, long way to go.
While it might feel like Manifest Destiny, progress towards a cash-less economy will be messy. For pay-with-your-phone to actually happen, it'll require cooperation between a bunch of powerful stakeholders, many of whom are eyeing the same pieces of the pie, and many of whom will have new technology to share this year at the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin. There will be bickering.
Sure, Visa is experimenting with contactless mobile phone payments in Europe; Google's Eric Schmidt recently championed near field communication, a key technology to m-commerce, at an industry trade show; and BMW is working on Nfc car keys. Even Apple is allegedly planning Nfc in future iPhones. According to Juniper Research,...
While it might feel like Manifest Destiny, progress towards a cash-less economy will be messy. For pay-with-your-phone to actually happen, it'll require cooperation between a bunch of powerful stakeholders, many of whom are eyeing the same pieces of the pie, and many of whom will have new technology to share this year at the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin. There will be bickering.
Sure, Visa is experimenting with contactless mobile phone payments in Europe; Google's Eric Schmidt recently championed near field communication, a key technology to m-commerce, at an industry trade show; and BMW is working on Nfc car keys. Even Apple is allegedly planning Nfc in future iPhones. According to Juniper Research,...
- 3/10/2011
- by Chris Dannen
- Fast Company
Higher education is all about introducing young minds to classic works of art, right? How many of us wouldn't have read or seen Plato's "Republic," Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" or "The Seventh Seal" by Ingmar Bergman, if not for some awesome professor who managed to keep us awake all throughout class?
Add Michael Abbott to that class of awesome professors. Abbott writes the acclaimed Brainy Gamer video game blog and is also a professor at Wabash College. Thanks to his efforts, incoming students at Wabash College will have to play "Portal," Valve's beloved first-person shooter/puzzle hybrid. "Portal" runs a player-controlled character named Chell through a series of test chambers designed to put a new teleportation gun through its paces, not caring if she lives through the process. As you make your way through Portal's beguiling physics-based puzzles, the self-aware AI-in-charge named GLaDOS lies, taunts and tempts you (with cake!
Add Michael Abbott to that class of awesome professors. Abbott writes the acclaimed Brainy Gamer video game blog and is also a professor at Wabash College. Thanks to his efforts, incoming students at Wabash College will have to play "Portal," Valve's beloved first-person shooter/puzzle hybrid. "Portal" runs a player-controlled character named Chell through a series of test chambers designed to put a new teleportation gun through its paces, not caring if she lives through the process. As you make your way through Portal's beguiling physics-based puzzles, the self-aware AI-in-charge named GLaDOS lies, taunts and tempts you (with cake!
- 8/26/2010
- by Evan Narcisse
- ifc.com
Several high-profile members of the Palm WebOS team have left in the weeks since the company was purchased by Hp. That's bad news for Hp, but great news for the companies they've landed at, including Apple and Google.
Palm's WebOS team included some of the best Ui designers in the world, and together they created some great products. Of course, that didn't stop Palm from going down the toilet, but you'd expect Hp's purchase of the struggling smartphone company to mean a revitalization or second chance for WebOS, right?
Maybe not. Hp hasn't given WebOS fans a lot of hope for what they'll do with the Os (printers? really?) and several of WebOS's key designers are fleeing--right into the arms of Palm's competitors.
Rich Dellinger, Notifications
The most recent is Rich Dellinger, who's credited with WebOS's notification system. As smartphones get more and more powerful, they start to take on more simultaneous tasks,...
Palm's WebOS team included some of the best Ui designers in the world, and together they created some great products. Of course, that didn't stop Palm from going down the toilet, but you'd expect Hp's purchase of the struggling smartphone company to mean a revitalization or second chance for WebOS, right?
Maybe not. Hp hasn't given WebOS fans a lot of hope for what they'll do with the Os (printers? really?) and several of WebOS's key designers are fleeing--right into the arms of Palm's competitors.
Rich Dellinger, Notifications
The most recent is Rich Dellinger, who's credited with WebOS's notification system. As smartphones get more and more powerful, they start to take on more simultaneous tasks,...
- 6/10/2010
- by Dan Nosowitz
- Fast Company
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