Exclusive: In something of an international coup, Mr Robot and True Detective outfit Anonymous Content has inked a first look deal with Israeli talent and artist agency, The Kneller Agency, which reps a host of the country’s leading film and TV creatives.
Under the deal, management and production firm Anonymous Content will have exclusive first-look rights to original film and TV ideas generated from the group.
Based in the center of Tel Aviv and founded in 1996 by Arik Kneller, the agency reps more than 250 clients in TV, film, theater, literature, music and advertising.
Among the company’s most internationally recognized talent are: Two-time Oscar nominee and co-creator and director of HBO series, Our Boys, Joseph Cedar; Keren Margalit — creator, writer, and director of Yellow Peppers which was the basis for UK remake The A Word (BBC); Tomer Kappon — star of The Boys (Amazon), Fauda (Netflix), and When Heroes Fly (Netfix); Israeli author,...
Under the deal, management and production firm Anonymous Content will have exclusive first-look rights to original film and TV ideas generated from the group.
Based in the center of Tel Aviv and founded in 1996 by Arik Kneller, the agency reps more than 250 clients in TV, film, theater, literature, music and advertising.
Among the company’s most internationally recognized talent are: Two-time Oscar nominee and co-creator and director of HBO series, Our Boys, Joseph Cedar; Keren Margalit — creator, writer, and director of Yellow Peppers which was the basis for UK remake The A Word (BBC); Tomer Kappon — star of The Boys (Amazon), Fauda (Netflix), and When Heroes Fly (Netfix); Israeli author,...
- 5/11/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated: Apple will not be proceeding with its planned eight-episode drama series Bastards, starring Richard Gere based on the Israeli format Nevelot. The project, from Howard Gordon and Warren Leight, hails from Fox 21 Television Studios, Gordon’s 20th TV-based Teakwood Lane Productions and Keshet Studios.
I hear the decision was made several months ago, and Fox 21 had shopped the project to other networks.
The series, about two Army vets going on a killing spree to avenge the death of a loved one, had been an outlier at Apple from the get-go, considered darker in tone and edgier in subject matter than most of the rest of the streamer’s slate.
For a couple of years now, there had been talk about Apple’s family-oriented global brand and how its original scripted programming foray would fit into it. Disney had been open about only putting family-friendly fare on Disney+.
I hear the decision was made several months ago, and Fox 21 had shopped the project to other networks.
The series, about two Army vets going on a killing spree to avenge the death of a loved one, had been an outlier at Apple from the get-go, considered darker in tone and edgier in subject matter than most of the rest of the streamer’s slate.
For a couple of years now, there had been talk about Apple’s family-oriented global brand and how its original scripted programming foray would fit into it. Disney had been open about only putting family-friendly fare on Disney+.
- 9/3/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Richard Gere drama series “Bastards” has been scrapped by Apple, a person with knowledge of the plans confirmed for TheWrap.
Written by Howard Gordon and executive produced by Warren Leight, the planned adaptation of Israeli drama “Nevelot” followed two elderly Vietnam vets and best friends who find their monotonous lives upended when a woman they both loved 50 years ago is killed by a car. Their lifelong regrets and secrets collide with their resentment of today’s self-absorbed millennials, and an act of self-defense snowballs into a tragic series of events.
Gere was attached to star in and executive produce the eight-episode series alongside Gordon, Leight, original series creator Dror Sabo, Lee Yardeni, Avi Nir, Alon Shtruzman, Rachel Kaplan, Peter Traugott, Yoram Mokady and Mirit Toovi.
Based on the novel from Yoram Kaniuk,...
Written by Howard Gordon and executive produced by Warren Leight, the planned adaptation of Israeli drama “Nevelot” followed two elderly Vietnam vets and best friends who find their monotonous lives upended when a woman they both loved 50 years ago is killed by a car. Their lifelong regrets and secrets collide with their resentment of today’s self-absorbed millennials, and an act of self-defense snowballs into a tragic series of events.
Gere was attached to star in and executive produce the eight-episode series alongside Gordon, Leight, original series creator Dror Sabo, Lee Yardeni, Avi Nir, Alon Shtruzman, Rachel Kaplan, Peter Traugott, Yoram Mokady and Mirit Toovi.
Based on the novel from Yoram Kaniuk,...
- 9/3/2019
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Autism drama The A Word is set for a U.S. remake with Keshet Studios, the La-based division of the Israeli media firm, and Universal Television planning to take it out in the forthcoming network development season.
The series is based on Keren Margalit’s Israeli drama Yellow Peppers, which launched in 2010, and was remade in the UK for the BBC by Peter Bowker with Christopher Eccleston, airing on SundanceTV in the U.S. The UK show is in production for season three.
The news emerged as part of a wide-ranging interview with Keshet Media Group CEO Avi Nir as he prepares to pick up the Visionary Award at the La-based Israel Film Festival, which takes place today, Thursday June 13 at the Beverly Hilton. Nir discusses how the company has grown since first scoring Homeland at Showtime, a remake of its thriller Prisoners of War and revealed that Keshet...
The series is based on Keren Margalit’s Israeli drama Yellow Peppers, which launched in 2010, and was remade in the UK for the BBC by Peter Bowker with Christopher Eccleston, airing on SundanceTV in the U.S. The UK show is in production for season three.
The news emerged as part of a wide-ranging interview with Keshet Media Group CEO Avi Nir as he prepares to pick up the Visionary Award at the La-based Israel Film Festival, which takes place today, Thursday June 13 at the Beverly Hilton. Nir discusses how the company has grown since first scoring Homeland at Showtime, a remake of its thriller Prisoners of War and revealed that Keshet...
- 6/13/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Richard Gere is set to star in an adaptation of the Israeli drama “Nevelot,” which is near a series order at Apple.
Written by Howard Gordon and executive produced by Warren Leight, the untitled drama follows two elderly Vietnam vets and best friends who find their monotonous lives upended when a woman they both loved 50 years ago is killed by a car. Their lifelong regrets and secrets collide with their resentment of today’s self-absorbed millennials, and an act of self-defense snowballs into a tragic series of events.
Gere is attached to star and executive produce the eight-episode series alongside Gordon, Leight, original series creator Dror Sabo, Lee Yardeni, Avi Nir, Alon Shtruzman, Rachel Kaplan, Peter Traugott, Yoram Mokady and Mirit Toovi.
Also Read: Toby Kebbell to Star on M Night Shyamalan's Thriller Series at Apple
Based on the novel from Yoram Kaniuk, the original 2012 series was created by Dror...
Written by Howard Gordon and executive produced by Warren Leight, the untitled drama follows two elderly Vietnam vets and best friends who find their monotonous lives upended when a woman they both loved 50 years ago is killed by a car. Their lifelong regrets and secrets collide with their resentment of today’s self-absorbed millennials, and an act of self-defense snowballs into a tragic series of events.
Gere is attached to star and executive produce the eight-episode series alongside Gordon, Leight, original series creator Dror Sabo, Lee Yardeni, Avi Nir, Alon Shtruzman, Rachel Kaplan, Peter Traugott, Yoram Mokady and Mirit Toovi.
Also Read: Toby Kebbell to Star on M Night Shyamalan's Thriller Series at Apple
Based on the novel from Yoram Kaniuk, the original 2012 series was created by Dror...
- 12/6/2018
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Apple is close to ordering an American adaptation of the Israeli drama series “Nevelot.”
Richard Gere is attached to star in the project, which concerns two elderly Vietnam vets and best friends who find their monotonous lives upended when a woman they both loved fifty years ago is killed by a car. Their lifelong regrets and secrets collide with their resentment of today’s self-absorbed millennials, and an act of self-defense snowballs into a tragic series of events.
The series would be written by Howard Gordon, who would also executive produce along with Warren Leight, Gere, Dror Sabo, Lee Yardeni, Avi Nir, Alon Shtruzman, Rachel Kaplan, Peter Traugott, Yoram Mokady, and Mirit Toovi. Gordon and Leight would serve as co-showrunners. The project hails from Fox 21 Television Studios, Teakwood Lane Productions, and Keshet Studios. Should it go to series, it would be for an eight-episode first season.
Both Gordon and...
Richard Gere is attached to star in the project, which concerns two elderly Vietnam vets and best friends who find their monotonous lives upended when a woman they both loved fifty years ago is killed by a car. Their lifelong regrets and secrets collide with their resentment of today’s self-absorbed millennials, and an act of self-defense snowballs into a tragic series of events.
The series would be written by Howard Gordon, who would also executive produce along with Warren Leight, Gere, Dror Sabo, Lee Yardeni, Avi Nir, Alon Shtruzman, Rachel Kaplan, Peter Traugott, Yoram Mokady, and Mirit Toovi. Gordon and Leight would serve as co-showrunners. The project hails from Fox 21 Television Studios, Teakwood Lane Productions, and Keshet Studios. Should it go to series, it would be for an eight-episode first season.
Both Gordon and...
- 12/6/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Apple is finalizing an eight-episode order for a drama series starring Richard Gere. The project, from Howard Gordon (24) and Warren Leight (Law & Order: Svu), is based on the Israeli series Nevelot and hails from Fox 21 Television Studios, Gordon’s 20th TV-based Teakwood Lane Prods. and Keshet Studios.
Written by Gordon and showrun by Gordon and Leight, the untitled series centers on two elderly Vietnam vets and best friends — one of whom is played by Gere — who find their monotonous lives upended when a woman they both loved fifty years ago is killed by a car. Their lifelong regrets and secrets collide with their resentment of today’s self-absorbed millennials, and an act of self-defense snowballs into a tragic series of events.
Executive producing the series are Gordon, Leight, Gere, Dror Sabo, Lee Yardeni, Avi Nir, Alon Shtruzman, Rachel Kaplan, Peter Traugott, Yoram Mokady and Mirit Toovi.
The project was referenced by Gordon’s agent,...
Written by Gordon and showrun by Gordon and Leight, the untitled series centers on two elderly Vietnam vets and best friends — one of whom is played by Gere — who find their monotonous lives upended when a woman they both loved fifty years ago is killed by a car. Their lifelong regrets and secrets collide with their resentment of today’s self-absorbed millennials, and an act of self-defense snowballs into a tragic series of events.
Executive producing the series are Gordon, Leight, Gere, Dror Sabo, Lee Yardeni, Avi Nir, Alon Shtruzman, Rachel Kaplan, Peter Traugott, Yoram Mokady and Mirit Toovi.
The project was referenced by Gordon’s agent,...
- 12/6/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Israeli novelist who became disillusioned with his homeland
The novelist Yoram Kaniuk, who has died aged 83 of bone marrow cancer, belonged to the generation that created the state of Israel. He fought in the 1948 war from which it emerged independent, but, along with some other writers of his generation, he became disillusioned with his homeland, disenchanted with its very spirit. "The state I took part in founding had ended long ago and I am not interested in what it has become. It is ludicrous, blunt, vile, dark, sick, and it will not last. We used to think it would be different."
In the half century up to his death, he published 29 books, most of them novels, with subjects ranging from the 1948 war, the Holocaust and the occupation of territories gained in 1967 to parent-child relationships and ageing. Among his best-known are Hemo, King of Jerusalem (1968), the story of a wounded soldier...
The novelist Yoram Kaniuk, who has died aged 83 of bone marrow cancer, belonged to the generation that created the state of Israel. He fought in the 1948 war from which it emerged independent, but, along with some other writers of his generation, he became disillusioned with his homeland, disenchanted with its very spirit. "The state I took part in founding had ended long ago and I am not interested in what it has become. It is ludicrous, blunt, vile, dark, sick, and it will not last. We used to think it would be different."
In the half century up to his death, he published 29 books, most of them novels, with subjects ranging from the 1948 war, the Holocaust and the occupation of territories gained in 1967 to parent-child relationships and ageing. Among his best-known are Hemo, King of Jerusalem (1968), the story of a wounded soldier...
- 6/10/2013
- by Daphna Baram
- The Guardian - Film News
In 1973, Susan Sontag travelled to post-war Israel to film a documentary. As Promised Lands returns to the big screen, Steve Rose finds out how the movie holds up today
Did Susan Sontag enjoy making Promised Lands, her fragmented documentary about the 1973 Yom Kippur war? Shortly after its completion, and its less than enthusiastic reception, she wrote: "Film-making is nitpicking, anxiety, fights, claustrophobia, exhaustion, euphoria. Film-making is catching inspiration out on the wing. Film-making is flubbing the catch, and sometimes knowing the fool that's to blame is yourself. Film-making is blind instinct, petty calculations, smooth generalship, daydreaming, pigheadedness, grace, bluff, risk."
It can't have been easy for her. Sontag, who died in 2004, was best known as the "dark lady of American letters", the producer of influential essays, novels, short stories and plays. But in writing so authoritatively about culture, photography and every aspect of cinema, from sci-fi to the nouvelle vague,...
Did Susan Sontag enjoy making Promised Lands, her fragmented documentary about the 1973 Yom Kippur war? Shortly after its completion, and its less than enthusiastic reception, she wrote: "Film-making is nitpicking, anxiety, fights, claustrophobia, exhaustion, euphoria. Film-making is catching inspiration out on the wing. Film-making is flubbing the catch, and sometimes knowing the fool that's to blame is yourself. Film-making is blind instinct, petty calculations, smooth generalship, daydreaming, pigheadedness, grace, bluff, risk."
It can't have been easy for her. Sontag, who died in 2004, was best known as the "dark lady of American letters", the producer of influential essays, novels, short stories and plays. But in writing so authoritatively about culture, photography and every aspect of cinema, from sci-fi to the nouvelle vague,...
- 4/23/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Netflix has revolutionized the home movie experience for fans of film with its instant streaming technology. Netflix Nuggets is my way of spreading the word about independent, classic and foreign films made available by Netflix for instant streaming.
This Week’s New Instant Releases…
Promised Lands (1974)
Streaming Available: 04/19/2011
Cast: Documentary
Director: Susan Sontag
Synopsis: Set in Israel during the final days of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, this powerful documentary — initially barred by Israel authorities — from writer-director Susan Sontag examines divergent perceptions of the enduring Arab-Israeli clash. Weighing in on matters related to socialism, anti-Semitism, nation sovereignty and American materialism are The Last Jew writer Yoram Kaniuk and military physicist Yuval Ne’eman.
Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen (2009)
Streaming Available: 04/19/2011
Cast: Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung, Gerald Alexander Held, Lena Stolze, Sunnyi Melles
Synopsis: Directed by longtime star of independent German cinema Margarethe von Trotta, this reverent...
This Week’s New Instant Releases…
Promised Lands (1974)
Streaming Available: 04/19/2011
Cast: Documentary
Director: Susan Sontag
Synopsis: Set in Israel during the final days of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, this powerful documentary — initially barred by Israel authorities — from writer-director Susan Sontag examines divergent perceptions of the enduring Arab-Israeli clash. Weighing in on matters related to socialism, anti-Semitism, nation sovereignty and American materialism are The Last Jew writer Yoram Kaniuk and military physicist Yuval Ne’eman.
Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen (2009)
Streaming Available: 04/19/2011
Cast: Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung, Gerald Alexander Held, Lena Stolze, Sunnyi Melles
Synopsis: Directed by longtime star of independent German cinema Margarethe von Trotta, this reverent...
- 4/20/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"Game of Death" (2011)
Directed by Giorgio Serafini
Released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Quite possibly Wesley Snipes' last film for a long, long time, this action flick features the "Passenger 57" star as a CIA agent who is betrayed by his employer after he's deployed to take out an arms dealer in Detroit. "Grindhouse" star Zoe Bell is onhand to provide backup.
"Celestial Films: Lady Hermit" (1971)
Directed by Meng Hua Ho
Released by Funimation
An aspiring female kung fu warrior searches for an elusive master who turns out to pretend to be a servant in this Shaw Brothers produced action flick.
"Daylight Robbery" (2008)
Directed by Paris Leonti
Released by Well Go USA
Paris Leonti's heist flick involves a group of misfits who plot to rob the London Exchange of the loot in their underground vault.
"Disconnect" (2011)
Directed by Robin Christian...
"Game of Death" (2011)
Directed by Giorgio Serafini
Released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Quite possibly Wesley Snipes' last film for a long, long time, this action flick features the "Passenger 57" star as a CIA agent who is betrayed by his employer after he's deployed to take out an arms dealer in Detroit. "Grindhouse" star Zoe Bell is onhand to provide backup.
"Celestial Films: Lady Hermit" (1971)
Directed by Meng Hua Ho
Released by Funimation
An aspiring female kung fu warrior searches for an elusive master who turns out to pretend to be a servant in this Shaw Brothers produced action flick.
"Daylight Robbery" (2008)
Directed by Paris Leonti
Released by Well Go USA
Paris Leonti's heist flick involves a group of misfits who plot to rob the London Exchange of the loot in their underground vault.
"Disconnect" (2011)
Directed by Robin Christian...
- 2/15/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
By David D'Arcy
Reviewing Adam Resurrected for Screen, David D'Arcy noted that the "Holocaust is a new subject for director Paul Schrader, a Calvinist from Michigan, who infuses drama and physical comedy into Yoram Kaniuk's matter-of-fact tone in the novel. Yet the subject is not entirely foreign. As with the protagonists of Taxi Driver and Affliction, Adam Stein is consumed by grueling inner turmoil - in this case, by the guilt of a survivor whose family perished. Schrader navigates this emotional territory effectively."
Here, David talks with Schrader, Kaniuk ("one of the most innovative, brilliant novelists in the Western World," as the New York Times has put it) and producer Ehud Bleiberg about the challenges of adapting a novel Susan Sontag once compared to the work of Gabriel García Márquez.
Reviewing Adam Resurrected for Screen, David D'Arcy noted that the "Holocaust is a new subject for director Paul Schrader, a Calvinist from Michigan, who infuses drama and physical comedy into Yoram Kaniuk's matter-of-fact tone in the novel. Yet the subject is not entirely foreign. As with the protagonists of Taxi Driver and Affliction, Adam Stein is consumed by grueling inner turmoil - in this case, by the guilt of a survivor whose family perished. Schrader navigates this emotional territory effectively."
Here, David talks with Schrader, Kaniuk ("one of the most innovative, brilliant novelists in the Western World," as the New York Times has put it) and producer Ehud Bleiberg about the challenges of adapting a novel Susan Sontag once compared to the work of Gabriel García Márquez.
- 12/9/2008
- by dwhudson
- GreenCine
by Eric Hynes (December 8, 2008) [An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.]
There's no joy to be had in enumerating the shortcomings of "Adam Resurrected," an ambitious and long gestating adaptation of a much-admired novel by Yoram Kaniuk. But in most respects the film just doesn't click: tone stumbles and fumbles meaning, dialogue meanders above uneven visuals, and scenes herk and jerk, frustrating momentum. An arrhythmic quality might well evoke the literary source (which I have not read), but Paul Schrader's feature is no better for it.
There's no joy to be had in enumerating the shortcomings of "Adam Resurrected," an ambitious and long gestating adaptation of a much-admired novel by Yoram Kaniuk. But in most respects the film just doesn't click: tone stumbles and fumbles meaning, dialogue meanders above uneven visuals, and scenes herk and jerk, frustrating momentum. An arrhythmic quality might well evoke the literary source (which I have not read), but Paul Schrader's feature is no better for it.
- 12/8/2008
- by peter
- Indiewire
By Neil Pedley
Things really shift into high gear this week when a bumper crop of award season heavy-hitters and indies stream into theaters, as well as a cadre of movie stars doing what they do best - whether that's Keanu Reeves acting alien, Clint Eastwood brandishing his trademark scowl, or Benicio Del Toro doing his own brand of mumblecore while waging war against fascists.
"Adam Resurrected"
It's been a long, strange directorial career for Paul Schrader, who followed his work as
the unsung hero of some of Martin Scorsese's most celebrated masterpieces with successes like "American Gigolo" and oddities like "Dominion: The Prequel to the Exorcist." Yet the always daring Schrader is taking on the Holocaust in his latest film, an adaptation of Yoram Kaniuk's story about Adam Stein (Jeff Goldblum), a former circus entertainer who grudgingly succumbs to the role of grim court jester to a...
Things really shift into high gear this week when a bumper crop of award season heavy-hitters and indies stream into theaters, as well as a cadre of movie stars doing what they do best - whether that's Keanu Reeves acting alien, Clint Eastwood brandishing his trademark scowl, or Benicio Del Toro doing his own brand of mumblecore while waging war against fascists.
"Adam Resurrected"
It's been a long, strange directorial career for Paul Schrader, who followed his work as
the unsung hero of some of Martin Scorsese's most celebrated masterpieces with successes like "American Gigolo" and oddities like "Dominion: The Prequel to the Exorcist." Yet the always daring Schrader is taking on the Holocaust in his latest film, an adaptation of Yoram Kaniuk's story about Adam Stein (Jeff Goldblum), a former circus entertainer who grudgingly succumbs to the role of grim court jester to a...
- 12/8/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
MoviesOnline sat down with actor Jeff Goldblum to talk about his new movie, “Adam Resurrected,” directed by Paul Schrader from a screenplay by Noah Stollman based on the novel by Yoram Kaniuk. The film also stars Willem Dafoe, Derek Jacobi and Ayelet Zurer. Goldblum delivers a highly theatrical performance in “Adam Resurrected” which follows former Berlin magician and circus impresario Adam Stein, an enthralling, enigmatic patient at the Seizling Institute, a remote Israeli rehabilitation outpost for Holocaust survivors. Entertainer, clairvoyant, sophisticate and l...
- 12/8/2008
- MoviesOnline.ca
Paul Schrader's "Adam Resurrected" is throwing its hat into the Oscar ring.
Producer Ehud Bleiberg said Wednesday that he is planning to book an Oscar-qualifying run for the film in December in New York and Los Angeles so it can meet the requirements for awards consideration.
Written by Noah Stollman and based on the novel by Israeli author Yoram Kaniuk, "Adam" stars Jeff Goldblum as a former Berlin magician and circus impresario who is a patient at a remote Israeli rehabilitation facility for Holocaust survivors. The film also stars Willem Dafoe, Derek Jacobi and Ayelet Zurer.
It was produced by Bleiberg and Werner Wirsing, with Ulf Israel and Marion Forster-Bleiberg serving as exec producers.
"Adam," which played the Telluride and Toronto film festivals in September, also will be seen at the 2008 AFI Fest in Los Angeles, where it will screen Nov. 8-9.
The filmmakers are hoping the movie could...
Producer Ehud Bleiberg said Wednesday that he is planning to book an Oscar-qualifying run for the film in December in New York and Los Angeles so it can meet the requirements for awards consideration.
Written by Noah Stollman and based on the novel by Israeli author Yoram Kaniuk, "Adam" stars Jeff Goldblum as a former Berlin magician and circus impresario who is a patient at a remote Israeli rehabilitation facility for Holocaust survivors. The film also stars Willem Dafoe, Derek Jacobi and Ayelet Zurer.
It was produced by Bleiberg and Werner Wirsing, with Ulf Israel and Marion Forster-Bleiberg serving as exec producers.
"Adam," which played the Telluride and Toronto film festivals in September, also will be seen at the 2008 AFI Fest in Los Angeles, where it will screen Nov. 8-9.
The filmmakers are hoping the movie could...
- 10/29/2008
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Review by Keith Uhlich
Adam Resurrected is an out-and-out mediocrity, a strange thing to say about a film concerning a WWII-era Jewish clown (Jeff Goldblum) forced to be the dog of a Nazi commandant (Willem Dafoe - no, really?!!). As Adam Stein, Goldblum slathers an exaggerated German-Jewish accent over his already inimitable cadence, an unfortunately distracting effect made all the more pronounced by his inability to maintain the inflection throughout. It could be argued, by way of justification, that Stein is always playing a role, even his own heritage, but the distinct “work-for-hire” vibe brought to the project by Paul Schrader (directing Noah Stollman’s screenplay adaptation of Yoram Kaniuk’s novel) pretty much counteracts any such intentionality of performance.
Adam Resurrected is an out-and-out mediocrity, a strange thing to say about a film concerning a WWII-era Jewish clown (Jeff Goldblum) forced to be the dog of a Nazi commandant (Willem Dafoe - no, really?!!). As Adam Stein, Goldblum slathers an exaggerated German-Jewish accent over his already inimitable cadence, an unfortunately distracting effect made all the more pronounced by his inability to maintain the inflection throughout. It could be argued, by way of justification, that Stein is always playing a role, even his own heritage, but the distinct “work-for-hire” vibe brought to the project by Paul Schrader (directing Noah Stollman’s screenplay adaptation of Yoram Kaniuk’s novel) pretty much counteracts any such intentionality of performance.
- 9/23/2008
- UGO Movies
Adam Resurrected, adapted by Noah Stollum Stollman from the book of the same name by Yoram Kaniuk and directed by Paul Schrader, is a darkly abstract and haunting film featuring Jeff Goldblum in his finest, most layered performance ever. Goldblum portrays Adam Steiner, a tragic clown shattered by the horrors of the Holocaust. A clown and ringleader of his own highly successful circus act in pre-War Berlin, Adam finds himself, his wife, and their two young daughters caught in the roundup of Jews. Ironically, his audience was once full of soldiers in Nazi uniforms; now the very people Adam spent his life making happy are just as happy to see him and his family exterminated.
Adam in the present is a prisoner of his memories of those terrible years, and now resident ringleader of a fictional asylum for Holocaust survivors in the Israeli desert. He's a man with a fractured soul,...
Adam in the present is a prisoner of his memories of those terrible years, and now resident ringleader of a fictional asylum for Holocaust survivors in the Israeli desert. He's a man with a fractured soul,...
- 9/4/2008
- by Kim Voynar
- Cinematical
Directors David Fincher and Jan Troell and actress Jean Simmons will trek this weekend to the Rockies, where each will be feted with a tribute at the 35th Telluride Film Festival.
The pocket-size festival, which traditionally doesn't reveal its lineup until the last minute, gets under way today in the Colorado mountain town and runs through Monday. Despite the all-American locale, this year's event will have an especially international feel.
"Internationally, this has been another terrific year," Gary Meyer, who serves as fest director along with Tom Luddy, said of the lineup the two have assembled.
The only soft spot might be the U.S. component.
"The trend that all the fall festivals are facing," Meyer said, "is that because of the writers strike, a lot of high-profile American films that might have been available just aren't going to be ready in time."
That, in turn, could affect the way...
The pocket-size festival, which traditionally doesn't reveal its lineup until the last minute, gets under way today in the Colorado mountain town and runs through Monday. Despite the all-American locale, this year's event will have an especially international feel.
"Internationally, this has been another terrific year," Gary Meyer, who serves as fest director along with Tom Luddy, said of the lineup the two have assembled.
The only soft spot might be the U.S. component.
"The trend that all the fall festivals are facing," Meyer said, "is that because of the writers strike, a lot of high-profile American films that might have been available just aren't going to be ready in time."
That, in turn, could affect the way...
- 8/28/2008
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
So, apparently Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg will star in the Lars von Trier (Dogville) directed horror "Antichrist" which films in Germany.
The story follows a couple who are mourning the loss of their child and take some time off at a cabin in the woods. Soon enough, they fall victim to terrifying happenings.
Producing are Bettina Brokemper (Manderlay) and Meta Louise Foldager ("Dansen"). Von Trier writes alongside Anders Thomas Jensen, known for his work on Brothers and The Duchess
Dafoe's in Dennis Lee's Fireflies in the Garden as well as the Spierig Brothers' Daybreakers with Ethan Hawke and Sam Neill. Additionally, he's completed Adam Resurrected directed by Paul Schrader; a film set in the aftermath of World War II adapted by Noah Stollman from the novel by Yoram Kaniuk.
...
The story follows a couple who are mourning the loss of their child and take some time off at a cabin in the woods. Soon enough, they fall victim to terrifying happenings.
Producing are Bettina Brokemper (Manderlay) and Meta Louise Foldager ("Dansen"). Von Trier writes alongside Anders Thomas Jensen, known for his work on Brothers and The Duchess
Dafoe's in Dennis Lee's Fireflies in the Garden as well as the Spierig Brothers' Daybreakers with Ethan Hawke and Sam Neill. Additionally, he's completed Adam Resurrected directed by Paul Schrader; a film set in the aftermath of World War II adapted by Noah Stollman from the novel by Yoram Kaniuk.
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- 8/12/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
BERLIN - Berlin jury president Paul Schrader was in good company Friday when he presented the latest actors to join the cast of his upcoming Holocaust survivor movie "Adam Resurrected" to the media here.
Newcomers to the cast include Cannes best actress winner Hana Laszlo ("Free Zone"), herself the daughter of camp survivors, and Israeli actress Evgenia Dudina, who acted in the long-running stage adaptation of "Adam" adapted from Yoram Kaniuk's novel.
German stars Joachim Krol, Juliane Koehler and Veronica Ferres have also boarded. "There have been many movies about the Holocaust, but this is the first one where Americans, Israelis and Germans have worked together," Ferres said. "I'm very touched to be a small part of this production."
The latest additions all lined up for a bustling photo call in a Berlin hotel alongside stars already announced; Jeff Goldblum, who will play the title character, Willem Dafoe, who plays a concentration camp commandant, Israeli actress Ayelet Zurer ("Munich"), and Moritz Bliebtreu, who won the Silver Bear here last year for his performance in Oskar Roehler's "Elementary Particles".
"Adam" is set in an asylum for Holocaust survivors in the Negev desert in the 1960s, and uses flashbacks to recount events in the camps.
Newcomers to the cast include Cannes best actress winner Hana Laszlo ("Free Zone"), herself the daughter of camp survivors, and Israeli actress Evgenia Dudina, who acted in the long-running stage adaptation of "Adam" adapted from Yoram Kaniuk's novel.
German stars Joachim Krol, Juliane Koehler and Veronica Ferres have also boarded. "There have been many movies about the Holocaust, but this is the first one where Americans, Israelis and Germans have worked together," Ferres said. "I'm very touched to be a small part of this production."
The latest additions all lined up for a bustling photo call in a Berlin hotel alongside stars already announced; Jeff Goldblum, who will play the title character, Willem Dafoe, who plays a concentration camp commandant, Israeli actress Ayelet Zurer ("Munich"), and Moritz Bliebtreu, who won the Silver Bear here last year for his performance in Oskar Roehler's "Elementary Particles".
"Adam" is set in an asylum for Holocaust survivors in the Negev desert in the 1960s, and uses flashbacks to recount events in the camps.
Willem Dafoe has signed on to star opposite Jeff Goldblum in Adam Resurrected, a World War II Holocaust drama that Paul Schrader is directing for Bleiberg Entertainment.
Resurrected is based on the acclaimed 2000 book by Israeli novelist Yoram Kaniuk. It centers on Adam Stein (Goldblum), a former circus clown who was spared the gas chamber so he could entertain thousands of Jews as they marched to their deaths. The novel has been translated into 20 languages.
Noah Stollman wrote the adaptation.
Dafoe is playing a Nazi officer whose life is saved by Stein. He later spares Stein.
Bleiberg chairman and CEO Ehud Bleiberg is producing with Werner Wirsing, head of German distributor EMS/3L. Ulf Israel is executive producing.
Bleiberg is eyeing an April production start date for the film, which will be shot in Germany, Romania and Israel. Bleiberg Entertainment is financing the film along with EMS/3L and is handling worldwide sales.
Dafoe's recent credits include Inside Man and American Dreamz. He is repped by Endeavor and Widescreen Management.
Resurrected is based on the acclaimed 2000 book by Israeli novelist Yoram Kaniuk. It centers on Adam Stein (Goldblum), a former circus clown who was spared the gas chamber so he could entertain thousands of Jews as they marched to their deaths. The novel has been translated into 20 languages.
Noah Stollman wrote the adaptation.
Dafoe is playing a Nazi officer whose life is saved by Stein. He later spares Stein.
Bleiberg chairman and CEO Ehud Bleiberg is producing with Werner Wirsing, head of German distributor EMS/3L. Ulf Israel is executive producing.
Bleiberg is eyeing an April production start date for the film, which will be shot in Germany, Romania and Israel. Bleiberg Entertainment is financing the film along with EMS/3L and is handling worldwide sales.
Dafoe's recent credits include Inside Man and American Dreamz. He is repped by Endeavor and Widescreen Management.
- 12/18/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ehud Bleiberg is stepping down as chairman and chief executive officer of Dream Entertainment, the Los Angeles-based production and international sales company, to launch a new company, Bleiberg Entertainment. The new shingle will produce, acquire and handle sales of film and television programming. Under terms of the departure, Bleiberg, a co-founder of Dream, is taking ownership of 40% of Dream's film titles as well as the feature film projects Adam Resurrected, a drama based on Yoram Kaniuk's Holocaust novel, and the action-comedy spoof Kill Will.
- 8/16/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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