With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit the interwebs. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Captain America: Civil War (Russos)
In seeking to create an expansive multi-film universe, Marvel has managed to both bless and curse each of its subsequent films. The blessing comes in the form of a character development that takes place over the course of films and phases instead of scenes and acts. Characters who we met eight years ago have grown and changed before our eyes, and...
Captain America: Civil War (Russos)
In seeking to create an expansive multi-film universe, Marvel has managed to both bless and curse each of its subsequent films. The blessing comes in the form of a character development that takes place over the course of films and phases instead of scenes and acts. Characters who we met eight years ago have grown and changed before our eyes, and...
- 9/2/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Writer-director Jeff Lipsky's "Molly's Theory of Relativity" has gone to his new company Adopt Films for Us distribution, set for March 2013. The film about "the economy, how we value and measure the pride we take in what we choose to do for a living, the unbreakable bonds of family, and the notion that death is merely a relative thing" stars Sophia Takal, Lawrence Michael Levine, Reed Birney, Daisy Tahan and Rebecca Schull. Nick Athas and Inna Braude produced. Lipsky says: "It was thrilling to able to write for actors ranging from eight to eighty and pure joy to be working again with Reed, Rebecca and Daisy. Shooting in the New York City is always a plus, particularly with the exceptional crew I had at my disposal, all of whom were major artistic contributors to the cause.” Adopt Films ("Nuit #1," "The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye") is also releasing...
- 8/6/2012
- by Sophia Savage
- Thompson on Hollywood
It feels like only yesterday that we were talking about the best films of 2011, and yet here we are, nearly at the end of June, and we've seen pretty much everything that the first half of the year has to offer. So with the mid-point of 2012 nearly upon us, we thought we'd look over the best films we've seen in theaters over the last six months.
And it's not been a terrible year so far. There have been a few real stinkers and some disappointments, but there's also been some decent blockbuster fare and a bevy of foreign language and independent films that have been serious treats for filmgoers. How many of these will still be on our year-end lists come December remains to be seen; there's some tough competition on the way. But all in all, the first part of this year at the movies could have been a lot worse.
And it's not been a terrible year so far. There have been a few real stinkers and some disappointments, but there's also been some decent blockbuster fare and a bevy of foreign language and independent films that have been serious treats for filmgoers. How many of these will still be on our year-end lists come December remains to be seen; there's some tough competition on the way. But all in all, the first part of this year at the movies could have been a lot worse.
- 6/21/2012
- by The Playlist Staff
- The Playlist
Title: The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye Director: Marie Losier An outre nonfiction offering from director Marie Losier, this lively and most assuredly provocative document details — in arty, roundabout fashion — the strange love affair between an aging proto-punk performance artist and his younger muse, as they undergo a series of plastic surgeries to more closely resemble one another. A brisk watch at just over 70 minutes, “The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye” evinces a loose sense of engagement just based on subject matter alone, but it unfortunately rather pathologically buries its lede regarding the abuse and trauma suffered by its subjects, thereby offering up an inch-deep exploration of [ Read More ]...
- 4/5/2012
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
Lausanne Underground Film Festival
The Lausanne Underground Film Festival is an epic 5-day event in Switzerland of the most outrageous movies from all over the world. The 11th annual edition will run on Oct. 17-21 at the Swiss Film Archives and will feature tons of new films, as well as retrospectives of legendary underground filmmakers. Submitting a film, as per Luff tradition, is free.
Luff typically screens a cross-section of over-the-top gross-out flicks, trippy cult movies, experimental narratives, documentaries on fringe subjects, short experimental films and a ton more.
Last year, they screened films such as the unbelievably outrageous The Taint by Drew Bolduc and Dan Nelson, Calvin Lee Reeder’s experimental The Oregonian, Adam Rehmeier‘s fantastically brutal The Bunny Game, Marie Losier’s acclaimed portrait The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye and Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film’s 2011 Movie of the Year Profane by Usama Alshaibi,...
The Lausanne Underground Film Festival is an epic 5-day event in Switzerland of the most outrageous movies from all over the world. The 11th annual edition will run on Oct. 17-21 at the Swiss Film Archives and will feature tons of new films, as well as retrospectives of legendary underground filmmakers. Submitting a film, as per Luff tradition, is free.
Luff typically screens a cross-section of over-the-top gross-out flicks, trippy cult movies, experimental narratives, documentaries on fringe subjects, short experimental films and a ton more.
Last year, they screened films such as the unbelievably outrageous The Taint by Drew Bolduc and Dan Nelson, Calvin Lee Reeder’s experimental The Oregonian, Adam Rehmeier‘s fantastically brutal The Bunny Game, Marie Losier’s acclaimed portrait The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye and Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film’s 2011 Movie of the Year Profane by Usama Alshaibi,...
- 3/24/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Documentary on ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
Opens April 13, 2012 at Nuart in Los Angeles
Adopt Films presents The Ballad Of Genesis And Lady Jaye opening April 13, 2012 at Landmark.s Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles for a one-week engagement. In Person: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and director Marie Losier will speak to audiences at evening shows on Friday, April 13, and Saturday, April 14.
Genesis P-Orridge has been one of the most innovative and influential figures in music and fine art for the last 30 years. A link between the pre- and post-punk eras, he is the founder of the legendary groups Coum Transmissions (1969-1976), Throbbing Gristle (1975-1981), and Psychic TV (1981 to present), all of which merged performance art with rock music. Celebrated by critics and art historians as a progenitor of .industrial music., his innovations have transformed the character of rock and electronic music while his prodigious efforts to expand...
Opens April 13, 2012 at Nuart in Los Angeles
Adopt Films presents The Ballad Of Genesis And Lady Jaye opening April 13, 2012 at Landmark.s Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles for a one-week engagement. In Person: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and director Marie Losier will speak to audiences at evening shows on Friday, April 13, and Saturday, April 14.
Genesis P-Orridge has been one of the most innovative and influential figures in music and fine art for the last 30 years. A link between the pre- and post-punk eras, he is the founder of the legendary groups Coum Transmissions (1969-1976), Throbbing Gristle (1975-1981), and Psychic TV (1981 to present), all of which merged performance art with rock music. Celebrated by critics and art historians as a progenitor of .industrial music., his innovations have transformed the character of rock and electronic music while his prodigious efforts to expand...
- 3/13/2012
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Tgif bitches! I set off for the magical land of queso and breakfast tacos tonight -- yep! Going to Austin for SXSW. But not without a little Friday In Theaters to set you off right. It just wouldn't be right to depart without a mild rant about the "John Carter" marketing campaign! Yes, this weekend the questionable Civil War/Sci-Fi "John Carter" muscles its way into theaters, as well as Elizabeth Olsen spooky movie "Silent House," and funny attractive people with problems rom-com "Friends with Kids."
Time for a quiz! Based off the "John Carter" billboards and posters plastered about your town, what do you think the movie is about? A) a caveman hunting elephants B) a Roman slave forced to fight prehistoric creatures in the Coliseum C) a Confederate soldier who gets beamed to Mars after finding a medallion in a cave, where he befriends some aliens, gets a princess humanoid girlfriend,...
Time for a quiz! Based off the "John Carter" billboards and posters plastered about your town, what do you think the movie is about? A) a caveman hunting elephants B) a Roman slave forced to fight prehistoric creatures in the Coliseum C) a Confederate soldier who gets beamed to Mars after finding a medallion in a cave, where he befriends some aliens, gets a princess humanoid girlfriend,...
- 3/9/2012
- by Katie Walsh
- The Playlist
Genesis P-Orridge has been one of the most innovative and influential figures in music and fine art for the last 30 years. Celebrated by critics and art historians as a progenitor of "industrial music," his innovations have transformed the character of rock and electronic music, while his prodigious efforts to expand the boundaries of live performance have radically altered the way people experience sound in a concert setting. Defying artistic boundaries, Genesis has re-defined his art as a challenge to the limits of biology. In 2000, Genesis began a series of surgeries in order to more closely resemble his love, Lady Jaye (nee Jacqueline Breyer), who remained his other half and artistic partner for nearly 15 years. It was the ultimate act of devotion, and Genesis's most risky, ambitious, and subversive performance to date: he became a she in a triumphant act of artistic self-expression. The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye...
- 3/5/2012
- TribecaFilm.com
Adopt Films continues its aggressive buying spree, nabbing U.S. rights to Jean-Marc Valee's "Cafe de Flore," starring Vanessa Paradis, just a day after acquiring U.S. rights to Christian Petzold's acclaimed "Barbara," which just won the Silver Bear for best director at Berlinale. This follows Adopt Film's pick ups of Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Golden Bear winner "Caesar Must Die" as well as Ursula Meier’s “Sister” (which won a special jury prize). Combined, its a very impressive feat for the new company, which has yet to release a film. The maiden release by Adopt Films -- “The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye," opens March 8. "Cafe de Flore," which world premiered at the 2011 Venice Film Festival, is nominated for 13 Genie Awards, the Canadian equivalent of the Oscars. This marks Adopt Film's second French-Canadian title following its acquisition of Anne Émond’s...
- 2/20/2012
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
Adopt Films continued its aggressive buying spree at the Berlin International Film Festival, picking up all U.S. rights to Christian Petzold's acclaimed "Barbara," which just won the Silver Bear for best director at the festival. The deal was negotiated by Match Factory’s Brigitte Suárez and Jenny Walendy and Adopt Films co-managing executives Jeff Lipsky and Tim Grady. It follows Adopt Film's pick ups of Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Golden Bear winner "Caesar Must Die" as well as Ursula Meier’s “Sister” (which won a special jury prize). Combined, its a very impressive feat for the new company, which has yet to release a film. The maiden release by Adopt Films -- “The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye" -- an award-winner at last year’s Berlin Film Festival -- opens on March 8th. Full press release below. Adopt Films acquired all U.S. rights to Christian Petzold’s.
- 2/19/2012
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
Indie distributor Adopt Films and GoDigital announce a multi-year distribution deal which foresees releasing six to eight titles per year. First up is Marie Losier's "The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye," which opens theatrical March 8 and on demand via GoDigital. Likely to follow is Anne Emonds' Toronto premiering "Nuit #1," recently acquired by Adopt. Adopt's Jeff Lipsky says GoDigital is "enormously incentivized to put our films at the forearm of their expanding company. We expect to learn from the best." GoDigital say Adopt has "exquisite taste" and notes Lipsky "has been a pioneer in independent film distribution for four decades so we are honored to be working with Adopt Films in the evolving digital distribution landscape."...
- 1/18/2012
- Indiewire
Love can devour, enrapture, overtake and consume you, and while those are usually sentiments left to emotional descriptions of a relationship, the forthcoming documentary "The Ballad Of Genesis And Lady Jaye" finds the passion between a couple going to bizarre and oddly touching physical realms. The documentary follows Genesis P-Orridge, Throbbing Gristle member and Psychic TV founder whose relationship to his partner Lady Jaye goes in directions that pushes more boundaries than anything he created musically. Starting in 2000, he began a number of sex change operations in order to more closely resemble Jaye, but that's not all. The act itself became a giant performance piece of sorts called "Creating the Pandrogyne" in which Geneis and Jaye gave up their own identities to create what they called a third identity. It's the kind of gender theory stuff we remember reading circa university/college but made very, very real. This one has been doing the.
- 12/22/2011
- The Playlist
The documentary “The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye” will be coming to New York for a limited release. The film, directed by Marie Losier, will be open March 8 of next year. If you manage to catch “The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye” next year, you’re sure to be in for a treat, since the film has won numerous accolades from the indie film circuit, including being the Official Selection of the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival, the 2011 SXSW Film Festival, the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival and the 2011 San Francisco International Film Festival. Below is the synopsis of the film as well as a trailer. “Genesis...
- 12/22/2011
- by monique
- ShockYa
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- 11/11/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry)
- www.themoviebit.com
Veteran distribution executive and October Films co-founder Jeff Lipsky has teamed with longtime Twin Cities entrepreneur and former exhibitor Tim Grady to form a new acquisitions-oriented independent distribution company called Adopt Films. They announced their first acquisition at Tiff 2011, the French-American filmmaker Marie Losier’s award-winning documentary The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye. Adopt Films plans a first quarter 2012 release in the U.S. Adopt Films, which will be based in New York, will acquire independent English-language films, both narrative and documentary and foreign language films. “I truly feel this might be the single best time to launch a…...
- 10/20/2011
- Sydney's Buzz
Veteran distribution executive and October Films co-founder Jeff Lipsky has teamed with longtime Twin Cities entrepreneur and former exhibitor Tim Grady to form a new acquisitions-oriented independent distribution company called Adopt Films. They announced their first acquisition at Tiff 2011, the French-American filmmaker Marie Losier’s award-winning documentary The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye. Adopt Films plans a first quarter 2012 release in the U.S. Adopt Films, which will be based in New York, will acquire independent English-language films, both narrative and documentary and foreign language films. “I truly feel this might be the single best time to launch a new independent...
- 10/20/2011
- Sydney's Buzz
Veteran distribution executive and October Films co-founder Jeff Lipsky has teamed with longtime Twin Cities entrepreneur and former exhibitor Tim Grady to form a new acquisitions-oriented independent distribution company called Adopt Films. They announced their first acquisition at Tiff 2011, the French-American filmmaker Marie Losier’s award-winning documentary The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye. Adopt Films plans a first quarter 2012 release in the U.S.
- 10/20/2011
- Sydney's Buzz
The 10th annual Lausanne Underground Film Festival is a truly epic film event with an immense lineup of the strangest, sexiest, most grotesque, oddball and downright freakish movies from all over the world — from modern underground treats to classic cult movies of yesteryear.
The fest officially begins on Oct. 15 with a special live performance by the legendary Diamanda Galas. But the film festivities run from Oct. 17-23, starting with the grand opening of an exhibition and retrospective of the films by Ericka Beckman.
The full film lineup, which is presented below, is a massive mix of underground greatness, but here are some of the highlights:
Gross-Out Flicks:
Chop, dir. Trent Haaga.
The Taint, dir. Drew Bolduc and Dan Nelson.
Calibre 9, dir. Jean-Christian Tassy.
The Bunny Game, dir. Adam Rehmeier
Trippy Movies:
Profane, dir. Usama Alshaibi
The Oregonian, dir. Calvin Lee Reeder
Hellacious Acres: The Case of John Glass, dir.
The fest officially begins on Oct. 15 with a special live performance by the legendary Diamanda Galas. But the film festivities run from Oct. 17-23, starting with the grand opening of an exhibition and retrospective of the films by Ericka Beckman.
The full film lineup, which is presented below, is a massive mix of underground greatness, but here are some of the highlights:
Gross-Out Flicks:
Chop, dir. Trent Haaga.
The Taint, dir. Drew Bolduc and Dan Nelson.
Calibre 9, dir. Jean-Christian Tassy.
The Bunny Game, dir. Adam Rehmeier
Trippy Movies:
Profane, dir. Usama Alshaibi
The Oregonian, dir. Calvin Lee Reeder
Hellacious Acres: The Case of John Glass, dir.
- 10/13/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 14th annual Antimatter Film Festival in Vancouver, BC, Canada is an epic 9-day event of expanded cinema performances, feature-length documentaries an a ton of experimental short films and festivals.
There are seven feature documentaries screening including Marie Losier‘s hit The Ballad of Genesis & Lady Jaye, a profile of the pandrogenous entity, Breyer P-Orridge; and Chris Metzler & Lev Kalman’s popular Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone, about the legendary ska punk band. Plus, there’s Adele Horne’s And Again and more.
On the expanded cinema front, Antimatter welcomes retrospectives of Kerry Laitala, who will be presenting a selection of her 3D light and motion experiments; and Roger Beebe will screen a series of multi-projector performances.
As for the short films, the real highlight of the fest is a screening of Jaimz Asmundson‘s trippy and powerful The Magus, a fictional/documentary hybrid of his father’s Satanic painting process.
There are seven feature documentaries screening including Marie Losier‘s hit The Ballad of Genesis & Lady Jaye, a profile of the pandrogenous entity, Breyer P-Orridge; and Chris Metzler & Lev Kalman’s popular Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone, about the legendary ska punk band. Plus, there’s Adele Horne’s And Again and more.
On the expanded cinema front, Antimatter welcomes retrospectives of Kerry Laitala, who will be presenting a selection of her 3D light and motion experiments; and Roger Beebe will screen a series of multi-projector performances.
As for the short films, the real highlight of the fest is a screening of Jaimz Asmundson‘s trippy and powerful The Magus, a fictional/documentary hybrid of his father’s Satanic painting process.
- 10/12/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Breaking out around the time where Nyff is on its last legs, Montreal's Festival du nouveau cinéma (October 12 to 23) kicks in with about four times the size in volume, and obviously more of an eclectic range. This year is the festival's big 40 - and for the occasion they've commissioned some of the names who've been a part of the festival to each contribute a short film in the context of what is being called the "Cartes Blanches" series. Denis Côté, Deco Dawson, Sophie Deraspe, Rodrigue Jean, Zacharias Kunuk, Marie Losier, Catherine Martin, Bruce McDonald, Théodore Ushev and Denis Villeneuve will each submit a four minute short. For their opening and closing festival items they've got the distinction of showing off Foreign Film Oscar selected items in Philippe Falardeau's Monsieur Lazhar and selected as the opener well before it was announced as France's submission for Oscar is Declaration of War by Valérie Donzelli.
- 9/27/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Today, Montreal's Festival du nouveau cinéma (Fnc), which will take place between October 12 to 23. Here's the complete line-up of feature films according to the press release we received.
Opening and closing
The 40th edition of the Fnc kicks off on Wednesday, October 12, with Declaration of War by Valérie Donzelli (France) at Cinéma Impérial (Centre Sandra & Leo Kolber, Salle Lucie & André Chagnon). This critically-acclaimed second feature by Valérie Donzelli (The Queen of Hearts) tells the love story of Roméo and Juliette who are battling to save their sick child. The director and her producer Edouard Weil will be in attendance.
Ten days later, on Saturday, October 22, Monsieur Lazhar (Quebec/Canada) by Philippe Falardeau will close the Festival. Selected to represent Canada at the Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film, Monsieur Lahzar shows the efforts of an Algerian schoolteacher to help his Grade 6 students come to terms with their teacher’s death.
Opening and closing
The 40th edition of the Fnc kicks off on Wednesday, October 12, with Declaration of War by Valérie Donzelli (France) at Cinéma Impérial (Centre Sandra & Leo Kolber, Salle Lucie & André Chagnon). This critically-acclaimed second feature by Valérie Donzelli (The Queen of Hearts) tells the love story of Roméo and Juliette who are battling to save their sick child. The director and her producer Edouard Weil will be in attendance.
Ten days later, on Saturday, October 22, Monsieur Lazhar (Quebec/Canada) by Philippe Falardeau will close the Festival. Selected to represent Canada at the Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film, Monsieur Lahzar shows the efforts of an Algerian schoolteacher to help his Grade 6 students come to terms with their teacher’s death.
- 9/27/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
I will soon post a list of films I have already seen that I highly recommend as well as a list of my most anticipated films screening at this year’s Festival du Nouveau Cinema. For now here is the press release from the festival. Make sure you read carefully because there are a ton of great films to check out.
Montreal, Tuesday September 27, 2011– Montreal’s Festival du nouveau cinéma will be celebrating its 40th edition from October 12 to 23. For the past 40 years, Canada’s oldest film festival has offered film buffs a selection of the year’s most exciting new films — a bold lineup with plenty of whimsical and surprising elements, but one that also turns its lens on social realities and the evolution of film and new technologies. Over the course of this year’s 11-day Festival, audiences of all ages can take in features and shorts, fiction films and documentaries,...
Montreal, Tuesday September 27, 2011– Montreal’s Festival du nouveau cinéma will be celebrating its 40th edition from October 12 to 23. For the past 40 years, Canada’s oldest film festival has offered film buffs a selection of the year’s most exciting new films — a bold lineup with plenty of whimsical and surprising elements, but one that also turns its lens on social realities and the evolution of film and new technologies. Over the course of this year’s 11-day Festival, audiences of all ages can take in features and shorts, fiction films and documentaries,...
- 9/27/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
October Films co-founder Jeff Lipsky is once again a distributor, teaming with cycling film magnate Tim Grady to form Adopt Films. Their first title will be Marie Losier’s award-winning documentary “The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye,” slated for a U.S. release in first-quarter 2012. Adopt is based in New York. Lipsky also owned and operated distributor Lot 47, but in recent years has devoted more time to filmmaking as ...
- 9/7/2011
- Indiewire
Adopt Films, a new independent distribution company formed by October Films co-founder Jeff Lipsky and former exhibitor Tim Grady, have announced their first acquisition, the award-winning documentary "The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye." The company plans to release French-American filmmaker Marie Losier’s film in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2012. Adopt Films, which will be based in New York, plans to acquire independent English-language films, both narrative and documentary, as well as foreign language films. "I truly feel this might be the single best time to launch a new independent...
- 9/7/2011
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
For their 5th annual event, which is set to run Sept. 8-11, the Sydney Underground Film Festival is looking a little more demented than ever. And that’s saying a lot for this scrappy, still relatively young fest, which typically offers ample twisted cinematic offerings.
The fun kicks off with the Opening Night film, the demented superhero comedy Super, written and directed by former Troma go-to screenwriter James Gunn (Tromeo & Juliet); then ends with the Closing Night wallowing in Sydney’s seedy underbelly, X, by homegrown filmmaker Jon Hewitt.
Crammed between these two excursions into violence and depravity is a lineup filled with perverse visions, scandalous public figures, sickening horror, experimental pop culture remixes and more.
For Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film, the highlight of the fest is Usama Alshaibi‘s Profane, a complex psychological, psychosexual, spiritual morality play about a Muslim sex worker who endures a “reverse...
The fun kicks off with the Opening Night film, the demented superhero comedy Super, written and directed by former Troma go-to screenwriter James Gunn (Tromeo & Juliet); then ends with the Closing Night wallowing in Sydney’s seedy underbelly, X, by homegrown filmmaker Jon Hewitt.
Crammed between these two excursions into violence and depravity is a lineup filled with perverse visions, scandalous public figures, sickening horror, experimental pop culture remixes and more.
For Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film, the highlight of the fest is Usama Alshaibi‘s Profane, a complex psychological, psychosexual, spiritual morality play about a Muslim sex worker who endures a “reverse...
- 8/9/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
This week’s Must Read: The Brooklyn Rail offers up a eulogy for Adolfas Mekas by gathering comments from the likes of P. Adams Sitney, Peggy Ahwesh, Ken Jacobs and other colleagues/contemporaries. Mekas passed away in May.The Guardian got a rare interview with Jean-Luc Godard who has declared that we are all auteurs now. Good.If you hadn’t heard, structural film pioneer Owen Land passed away last month, but news of his passing only came late last week. I think Lux has the best, most detailed obit for him. Although, the Office Baroque Gallery has a very passionate one — and I think initial word of Land’s death came from them.More Land: Making Light of It posts a scan of an interview with him conducted by P. Adams Sitney from Film Culture. (I actually happen to own two issues of Film Culture, one of which includes this great interview.
- 7/17/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Updated through 6/26.
"The golden age of New York moviegoing is now," argues Ao Scott in the New York Times. "Two events in the coming days offer confirmation of this hunch." Tonight "in Brooklyn the BAMcinemaFest opens with Weekend, Andrew Haigh's bracing, present-tense exploration of sex, intimacy and love, the first of 26 features that will play, along with 24 short films, over the next 10 days. And Friday is the official opening night of the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, a charming two-screen jewel box carved (by the architect David Rockwell) out of garage and office space at Lincoln Center." He touches on the Museum of the Moving Image and the reRun Gastropub Theater as well, before returning to BAMcinemaFEST: "Not everything in the lineup is quite so perfectly realized as Weekend, but the range and generosity of the sampling make it hard to go wrong. Even the misfires and train wrecks are interesting,...
"The golden age of New York moviegoing is now," argues Ao Scott in the New York Times. "Two events in the coming days offer confirmation of this hunch." Tonight "in Brooklyn the BAMcinemaFest opens with Weekend, Andrew Haigh's bracing, present-tense exploration of sex, intimacy and love, the first of 26 features that will play, along with 24 short films, over the next 10 days. And Friday is the official opening night of the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, a charming two-screen jewel box carved (by the architect David Rockwell) out of garage and office space at Lincoln Center." He touches on the Museum of the Moving Image and the reRun Gastropub Theater as well, before returning to BAMcinemaFEST: "Not everything in the lineup is quite so perfectly realized as Weekend, but the range and generosity of the sampling make it hard to go wrong. Even the misfires and train wrecks are interesting,...
- 6/26/2011
- MUBI
From Morgan Spurlock to gripping portraits of activism, documentary has made a thrilling show of itself this year. Danny Leigh has the festival highlights
The first stroke of genius at this year's Sheffield Doc/Fest was obvious every time you set foot outside – its relocation from November to June. With the evenings instantly lengthened and the sun dappling the Yorkshire rooftops, it felt like the cosmos was smiling on an event that, at a time of cash-strapped tension for much of the film industry, had a hugely upbeat atmosphere.
There were the obligatory star cameos (Albert Maysles, Morgan Spurlock, Nick Broomfield) – but such illuminations felt like adjuncts rather than the whole point of a festival on the up. If the countless TV execs had been buoyed by the BBC's recent hymn to non-fiction of "quality and complexity", then film-makers and the zesty young filmgoers who crowded the Showroom cinema also...
The first stroke of genius at this year's Sheffield Doc/Fest was obvious every time you set foot outside – its relocation from November to June. With the evenings instantly lengthened and the sun dappling the Yorkshire rooftops, it felt like the cosmos was smiling on an event that, at a time of cash-strapped tension for much of the film industry, had a hugely upbeat atmosphere.
There were the obligatory star cameos (Albert Maysles, Morgan Spurlock, Nick Broomfield) – but such illuminations felt like adjuncts rather than the whole point of a festival on the up. If the countless TV execs had been buoyed by the BBC's recent hymn to non-fiction of "quality and complexity", then film-makers and the zesty young filmgoers who crowded the Showroom cinema also...
- 6/17/2011
- by Danny Leigh
- The Guardian - Film News
The 14th annual Revelation Perth International Film Festival is, once again, packed to the gills with worldwide wonderful, weird and revelatory filmmaking. The fest runs this year on July 14-24.
The highlight of the festival is the once-in-a-lifetime live performance of Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, which will be performed on July 17 at 7:15 p.m. American animator Brent Green will be traveling Down Under to provide the live musical score and narration for his emotional, live-action animated tale about undying love and creation. He will also be accompanied by band mates and foley artists, Mike McGinley, John Swartz, Donna K and Drew Henkles.
Some other films to look out for at the fest will be the Australian premiere of Zach Clark‘s terminally twisted Vacation!, a black comedy about four girls on a debauched weekend of drinking and drugging that ends horribly for all involved; Marie Losier’s acclaimed...
The highlight of the festival is the once-in-a-lifetime live performance of Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, which will be performed on July 17 at 7:15 p.m. American animator Brent Green will be traveling Down Under to provide the live musical score and narration for his emotional, live-action animated tale about undying love and creation. He will also be accompanied by band mates and foley artists, Mike McGinley, John Swartz, Donna K and Drew Henkles.
Some other films to look out for at the fest will be the Australian premiere of Zach Clark‘s terminally twisted Vacation!, a black comedy about four girls on a debauched weekend of drinking and drugging that ends horribly for all involved; Marie Losier’s acclaimed...
- 6/17/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Tonight marks the opening of the 18th annual Chicago Underground Film Festival. The fest is kicking off this year with the transcendental comedy debut feature by Jerzy Rose, Some Girls Never Learn.
The film chronicles several coincidental paranormal discoveries, including the unearthing of Amelia Earhart’s leg bone, the spontaneous gatherings of wildlife into concentric circles, the loss of helium into the luminiferous aether, and the journey a high school science teacher takes to the underworld to find his girlfriend.
The film screens tonight at 8:00 p.m. at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
Watch the trailer below.
Cuff will then continue every night until June 9. Some other highlights of the fest include Usama Alshaibi’s Profane, Marie Losier‘s The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, Jeff Krulik & John Heyn’s Heavy Metal Parking Lot and Michael Galinsky & Suki Hawley‘s Battle of Brooklyn.
Check out the full lineup here.
The film chronicles several coincidental paranormal discoveries, including the unearthing of Amelia Earhart’s leg bone, the spontaneous gatherings of wildlife into concentric circles, the loss of helium into the luminiferous aether, and the journey a high school science teacher takes to the underworld to find his girlfriend.
The film screens tonight at 8:00 p.m. at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
Watch the trailer below.
Cuff will then continue every night until June 9. Some other highlights of the fest include Usama Alshaibi’s Profane, Marie Losier‘s The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, Jeff Krulik & John Heyn’s Heavy Metal Parking Lot and Michael Galinsky & Suki Hawley‘s Battle of Brooklyn.
Check out the full lineup here.
- 6/2/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 18th annual Chicago Underground Film Festival is ready to have another monumental year at the Gene Siskel Film Center on June 2-9, featuring a killer lineup with new films from some true underground legends.
First, Usama Alshaibi will screen his latest, most visually stunning and conceptually innovative feature Profane, about a spiritually confused Muslim sex worker trying to recapture her lost jinn — a demon of smokeless fire — on streets of the Windy City.
Then, documentary filmmakers Jeff Krulik and John Heyn return to their hard rockin’ roots with Heavy Metal Picnic, which relives one of the most notorious ’80s weekend parties in the history of Maryland and the world — the Full Moon Jamboree, which if you can remember it means you weren’t there. Plus, Hmp will be screened with Heyn and Krulik’s underground classic Heavy Metal Parking Lot.
Also in the documentary vein, are Marie Losier‘s...
First, Usama Alshaibi will screen his latest, most visually stunning and conceptually innovative feature Profane, about a spiritually confused Muslim sex worker trying to recapture her lost jinn — a demon of smokeless fire — on streets of the Windy City.
Then, documentary filmmakers Jeff Krulik and John Heyn return to their hard rockin’ roots with Heavy Metal Picnic, which relives one of the most notorious ’80s weekend parties in the history of Maryland and the world — the Full Moon Jamboree, which if you can remember it means you weren’t there. Plus, Hmp will be screened with Heyn and Krulik’s underground classic Heavy Metal Parking Lot.
Also in the documentary vein, are Marie Losier‘s...
- 5/13/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Torontonians love their film festivals. In September, they love star-gazing, and voting on the movies that are most likely to - and usually do - go on to win Oscar gold. They love waiting in line in the sun all day for tickets, and standing in rush lines, and charting their 5-films-a-day schedules on carefully calculated spreadsheets. And in May, they love watching documentaries: docs that you've never heard of and will never hear from again; docs that played and won awards in Sundance and South by Southwest; docs about obscure Canadian things like curling, Alan Zweig, and longboarding on the highway. The city arguably gets more up-in-arms about Hot Docs than they do about Tiff, opting for the more quaint venues that aren't bombarded by outsiders and celebrities. It's a great mix of films, and they can be viewed in theatres full of eclectic audiences. This week I'll be...
- 4/29/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
By John Esther
(April 2011)
As some film festivals diminish in size or structure during these woeful economic times, the San Francisco International Film Festival (Sfiff), the longest-running film festival in the Americas, launched its 54th version April 21 with a screening of writer-director Mike Mills’ “Beginners,” starring Mélanie Laurent, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Goran Visnjic.
The next day, Sfiff was in full force, screening films from around the world in several different venues in San Francisco and beyond, and will continue until May 5.
Some of the European highlights in the festival are writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s delightfully quirky film “Attenberg,” about a 23-year-old Greek woman, Marina (Ariane Labed), coming to terms with sex, death and decay in its various forms, and Régis Sauder’s “Children of teh Princess of Cleves,” a rather fascinating documentary about a group of working-class French teenagers who find value in themselves, literature and art...
(April 2011)
As some film festivals diminish in size or structure during these woeful economic times, the San Francisco International Film Festival (Sfiff), the longest-running film festival in the Americas, launched its 54th version April 21 with a screening of writer-director Mike Mills’ “Beginners,” starring Mélanie Laurent, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Goran Visnjic.
The next day, Sfiff was in full force, screening films from around the world in several different venues in San Francisco and beyond, and will continue until May 5.
Some of the European highlights in the festival are writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s delightfully quirky film “Attenberg,” about a 23-year-old Greek woman, Marina (Ariane Labed), coming to terms with sex, death and decay in its various forms, and Régis Sauder’s “Children of teh Princess of Cleves,” a rather fascinating documentary about a group of working-class French teenagers who find value in themselves, literature and art...
- 4/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
By John Esther
(April 2011)
As some film festivals diminish in size or structure during these woeful economic times, the San Francisco International Film Festival (Sfiff), the longest-running film festival in the Americas, launched its 54th version April 21 with a screening of writer-director Mike Mills’ “Beginners,” starring Mélanie Laurent, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Goran Visnjic.
The next day, Sfiff was in full force, screening films from around the world in several different venues in San Francisco and beyond, and will continue until May 5.
Some of the European highlights in the festival are writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s delightfully quirky film “Attenberg,” about a 23-year-old Greek woman, Marina (Ariane Labed), coming to terms with sex, death and decay in its various forms, and Régis Sauder’s “Children of teh Princess of Cleves,” a rather fascinating documentary about a group of working-class French teenagers who find value in themselves, literature and art...
(April 2011)
As some film festivals diminish in size or structure during these woeful economic times, the San Francisco International Film Festival (Sfiff), the longest-running film festival in the Americas, launched its 54th version April 21 with a screening of writer-director Mike Mills’ “Beginners,” starring Mélanie Laurent, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Goran Visnjic.
The next day, Sfiff was in full force, screening films from around the world in several different venues in San Francisco and beyond, and will continue until May 5.
Some of the European highlights in the festival are writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s delightfully quirky film “Attenberg,” about a 23-year-old Greek woman, Marina (Ariane Labed), coming to terms with sex, death and decay in its various forms, and Régis Sauder’s “Children of teh Princess of Cleves,” a rather fascinating documentary about a group of working-class French teenagers who find value in themselves, literature and art...
- 4/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
This week’s Absolute Must Read: Ian Olds has a long and touching remembrance of helping the late Garrett Scott make the documentary Cul de Sac, one of the greatest, little-seen documentaries ever made. Read and learn how genius comes together. It’s not an easy or pretty process.The second Absolute Must Read: Filmmaker Jennifer Reeves is thankful to be alive and ambulatory after being struck by a car. Send good wishes her way.Simple, but really cool: Phil Solomon posts up a film loop of about 4 frames that Stan Brakhage once gave him. Click Phil’s tiny image to get the embiggened version, which is quite astounding looking.The S.F. Weekly has a brief preview of this week’s Ata Film & Video Festival retrospective at the Roxie. The Weekly calls it “a killer selection of experimental works,” with which I have to agree!While the 2011 San Francisco...
- 4/17/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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