In “Capturing Grace”, director David Iverson closely follows the lives of a unique dance company who call themselves the Brooklyn Parkinson’s Dance Group. Under the tutelage of the renowned Mark Morris Dance group, the diverse elderly use movement through dance to navigate living with a disease that has taken over their bodies. It’s a quintessential “New York” documentary in many ways, one that relies heavily on the landscape, the soundscape, the colorful characters of the city to bring texture and variation to a relatively straightforward story. It’s these “characters” that add the majority of whatever charm the film has. One older couple in the group, Reggie and Bobbye Butts, form much...
- 11/20/2014
- by Zeba Blay
- ShadowAndAct
Along with yesterday's news that the seventh and final season of AMC's "Mad Men" will be broken into two seven-episode batches, to unspool over spring 2014 and spring 2015, showrunner Matthew Weiner also announced that veteran screenwriter Robert Towne ("Chinatown") is one of the new additions to the show's writing staff. Towne will be a consulting producer for the show. He won the Original Screenplay Oscar for Roman Polanski's "Chinatown" in 1974, and has been nominated for an additional three screenwriting Oscars -- 1973's "The Last Detail," 1975's "Shampoo" and 1984's "Greystroke: Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes." Patricia Resnick ("Nine to Five") and David Iverson ("Saturday Night Live") have also signed as consulting producers for the next season of "Mad Men." Meanwhile, Matthew Weiner's big-screen directorial debut, "You Are Here," didn't land so well with critics following its premiere at Tiff last week.
- 9/18/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
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