Timed to SXSW, Freestyle Digital Media has picked up the North American rights to the music-driven documentary Finding Lucinda.
Directed by Joel Fendelman, the road movie follows singer-songwriter Ismay, also known as Avery Hellman, on a quest to track down her hero and music icon Lucinda Williams and the people and places that shaped her early career. The doc, which premiered at the Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham, is set for a fall 2024 release by the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group.
Finding Lucinda features interviews with Charlie Sexton — who played with Williams when he was 11 years old and she was a little-known songwriter in Austin — Buddy Miller, Mary Gauthier, Josh Baca and Max Baca of Los Texmaniacs, Wolf Stephenson and John Grimaudo, Williams’ guitarist from her first record.
The film was written by Fendelman and Hellman, and produced by Liz McBee, Chuck Prophet and Jennifer Steinman Sternin.
Directed by Joel Fendelman, the road movie follows singer-songwriter Ismay, also known as Avery Hellman, on a quest to track down her hero and music icon Lucinda Williams and the people and places that shaped her early career. The doc, which premiered at the Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham, is set for a fall 2024 release by the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group.
Finding Lucinda features interviews with Charlie Sexton — who played with Williams when he was 11 years old and she was a little-known songwriter in Austin — Buddy Miller, Mary Gauthier, Josh Baca and Max Baca of Los Texmaniacs, Wolf Stephenson and John Grimaudo, Williams’ guitarist from her first record.
The film was written by Fendelman and Hellman, and produced by Liz McBee, Chuck Prophet and Jennifer Steinman Sternin.
- 3/11/2024
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult are teaming up for director Justin Kurzel’s “The Order.” The Zach Baylin-penned film will detail the true story of the crime syndicate known as The Silent Brotherhood. It is based on Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt’s book “The Silent Brotherhood and will detail an early-80s crime spree, including bank robberies, armored car heists and counterfeiting committed by a white supremacist terrorist group across the Pacific Northwest.
The AGC Studios-financed feature, along with Chasing Epic Pictures and Riff Raff Entertainment, will star Law as an FBI agent hot on the case. Hoult will play the terrorist leader plotting a war against the federal government. Kurzel has previously directed the likes of “Macbeth” and “Assassin’s Creed,” while Baylin wrote “King Richard” and co-wrote the upcoming “Creed III.”
At the time, the so-called Silent Order was among the scariest and most dangerous racist,...
The AGC Studios-financed feature, along with Chasing Epic Pictures and Riff Raff Entertainment, will star Law as an FBI agent hot on the case. Hoult will play the terrorist leader plotting a war against the federal government. Kurzel has previously directed the likes of “Macbeth” and “Assassin’s Creed,” while Baylin wrote “King Richard” and co-wrote the upcoming “Creed III.”
At the time, the so-called Silent Order was among the scariest and most dangerous racist,...
- 2/3/2023
- by Scott Mendelson
- The Wrap
Jeremy Kyle has been presenting his show on Rupert Murdoch’s TalkTV since last year.
In the next episode of his current affairs programme, Jeremy Kyle Live, the broadcaster, 47, interviews Ghislaine Maxwell.
The disgraced British socialite is serving a 20-year prison sentence in Florida for procuring teenage girls to be abused by the financier Jeffrey Epstein.
But what has Kyle’s career involved up to this point?
From his time working as a life insurance salesman to his controversial ITV series The Jeremy Kyle Show, here are the key things to know…
Early life and first jobs
Kyle was born in Reading in 1965. His mother was a bank clerk, while his father was an accountant and personal secretary to the Queen Mother for 40 years.
After graduating with a History and Sociology degree from the University of Surrey, Kyle started out as a life insurance salesman before moving into recruitment. Later,...
In the next episode of his current affairs programme, Jeremy Kyle Live, the broadcaster, 47, interviews Ghislaine Maxwell.
The disgraced British socialite is serving a 20-year prison sentence in Florida for procuring teenage girls to be abused by the financier Jeffrey Epstein.
But what has Kyle’s career involved up to this point?
From his time working as a life insurance salesman to his controversial ITV series The Jeremy Kyle Show, here are the key things to know…
Early life and first jobs
Kyle was born in Reading in 1965. His mother was a bank clerk, while his father was an accountant and personal secretary to the Queen Mother for 40 years.
After graduating with a History and Sociology degree from the University of Surrey, Kyle started out as a life insurance salesman before moving into recruitment. Later,...
- 1/23/2023
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - TV
By Fred Blosser
Oliver Stone’s “Talk Radio” (1988) has been released by Twilight Time in a Blu-ray limited edition of 3,000 copies. In a short supplemental feature ported over to the Blu-ray from a previous Universal Home Video DVD edition, Stone comments that he was intrigued by the “new phenomenon” of confrontational call-in programming that began to dominate commercial radio in the late 1980s. Stone’s protagonist, Barry Champlain (Eric Bogosian), hosts a popular late-night talk show in Dallas. From his perch, Barry relentlessly provokes, cajoles, and insults the lonely misfits, troubled neurotics, and dangerous neo-Nazis who compulsively phone in to his telephone feed. When an executive from a big radio network turns up at the station one night, Champlain learns that his manager Dan has brokered a deal for national syndication without his knowledge. (Dan is played by Alec Baldwin. See if your kids or your younger siblings realize...
Oliver Stone’s “Talk Radio” (1988) has been released by Twilight Time in a Blu-ray limited edition of 3,000 copies. In a short supplemental feature ported over to the Blu-ray from a previous Universal Home Video DVD edition, Stone comments that he was intrigued by the “new phenomenon” of confrontational call-in programming that began to dominate commercial radio in the late 1980s. Stone’s protagonist, Barry Champlain (Eric Bogosian), hosts a popular late-night talk show in Dallas. From his perch, Barry relentlessly provokes, cajoles, and insults the lonely misfits, troubled neurotics, and dangerous neo-Nazis who compulsively phone in to his telephone feed. When an executive from a big radio network turns up at the station one night, Champlain learns that his manager Dan has brokered a deal for national syndication without his knowledge. (Dan is played by Alec Baldwin. See if your kids or your younger siblings realize...
- 4/15/2019
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
In the late Seventies, an African-American police officer infiltrated a Colorado Springs chapter of the Ku Klux Klan simply by replying to a classified ad. That unbelievable-yet-true story is the basis of Spike Lee’s action-packed new BlacKkKlansman, made all the more disturbing since it’s set in what seems like a sleepy hamlet on the Rockies’ front range, then a city of around 200,000 at the foot of regal Pikes Peak.
Lee brilliantly uses the story to weave together the threads of supremacist culture in the Seventies with the election of President Donald Trump,...
Lee brilliantly uses the story to weave together the threads of supremacist culture in the Seventies with the election of President Donald Trump,...
- 8/23/2018
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Since it reduces its complex subject to a matter of a handful of easily lampooned buffoons, the film may garner some business as a novelty or midnight movie item, but anyone looking for a serious treatment on the growth of native, hardcore fascist racism, or on the type of people attracted to such a movement, will be sorely disappointed or even angered.
The bulk of the film is set during a couple of days in the late 1980s at the Cohoctah, Mich., country retreat of the Rev. Bob Miles, a former Ku Klux Klan official. Filmmakers Anne Bohlen and Kevin Rafferty, along with journalist James Ridgeway and, briefly, Michael Moore (in his pre-''Roger & Me'' days), were given free run of the place, where they filmed various veteran and neophyte racists, Nazis, Klansmen (and women), Christian Identity fanatics and supporters of the Posse Comitatus from the United States and Canada giving folksy variants on their poisonous philosophy in both speeches and interviews.
In general, the interviews and speech snippets, particularly in the first half, are designed to emphasize the oddball nature of whatever speaker, a tactic that deliberately ends up making the subjects look like a bunch of goofballs.
The isolation of the group and its lack of connection with ordinary political discourse combine with the sniggering to produce a picture of an ineffectual bunch of nuts, this at a time when such people were rapidly swelling their ranks with disaffected, violent youth (there are no skinheads at all in the film).
There are a couple of exceptions. One woman, never identified, calmly explains how she became racist through reading, not experience, and that it is a simple way of life for her. The revelation that her husband was wanted by the FBI for a number of violent crimes, including the murder of Denver talk show host Alan Berg, comes as a jolt. And Allen Poe, a cold-eyed and calmly furious minister, is outright scary when relating his teachings of hate and revenge. But these are exceptions.
More in keeping with the film's general tone is '60s archive footage of murdered Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell, irrelevantly padding out the second half. Beyond serving as a counterpoint to retreat guests' remembrances of him, the flashbacks also mock the working-class milieu in which Rockwell lived and recruited.
Last-ditch efforts near film's end to inject a note or two of seriousness simply do not jibe with the preceding snickering.
BLOOD IN THE FACE
First Run Features
Producer-directors Anne Bohlen, Kevin Rafferty, James Ridgeway
Editor Kevin Rafferty
Production manager Anne Bohlen
Conceived by James Ridgeway
Camera Kevin Rafferty, Sandi Sissel
Interviewers: James Ridgeway, Anee Bohlen, Kevin Rafferty, Michael Moore
Color/black and white
Running time -- 85 minutes
No MPAA rating
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
The bulk of the film is set during a couple of days in the late 1980s at the Cohoctah, Mich., country retreat of the Rev. Bob Miles, a former Ku Klux Klan official. Filmmakers Anne Bohlen and Kevin Rafferty, along with journalist James Ridgeway and, briefly, Michael Moore (in his pre-''Roger & Me'' days), were given free run of the place, where they filmed various veteran and neophyte racists, Nazis, Klansmen (and women), Christian Identity fanatics and supporters of the Posse Comitatus from the United States and Canada giving folksy variants on their poisonous philosophy in both speeches and interviews.
In general, the interviews and speech snippets, particularly in the first half, are designed to emphasize the oddball nature of whatever speaker, a tactic that deliberately ends up making the subjects look like a bunch of goofballs.
The isolation of the group and its lack of connection with ordinary political discourse combine with the sniggering to produce a picture of an ineffectual bunch of nuts, this at a time when such people were rapidly swelling their ranks with disaffected, violent youth (there are no skinheads at all in the film).
There are a couple of exceptions. One woman, never identified, calmly explains how she became racist through reading, not experience, and that it is a simple way of life for her. The revelation that her husband was wanted by the FBI for a number of violent crimes, including the murder of Denver talk show host Alan Berg, comes as a jolt. And Allen Poe, a cold-eyed and calmly furious minister, is outright scary when relating his teachings of hate and revenge. But these are exceptions.
More in keeping with the film's general tone is '60s archive footage of murdered Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell, irrelevantly padding out the second half. Beyond serving as a counterpoint to retreat guests' remembrances of him, the flashbacks also mock the working-class milieu in which Rockwell lived and recruited.
Last-ditch efforts near film's end to inject a note or two of seriousness simply do not jibe with the preceding snickering.
BLOOD IN THE FACE
First Run Features
Producer-directors Anne Bohlen, Kevin Rafferty, James Ridgeway
Editor Kevin Rafferty
Production manager Anne Bohlen
Conceived by James Ridgeway
Camera Kevin Rafferty, Sandi Sissel
Interviewers: James Ridgeway, Anee Bohlen, Kevin Rafferty, Michael Moore
Color/black and white
Running time -- 85 minutes
No MPAA rating
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
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