Brooklyn’s Bushwick Film Festival has set the lineup for its hybrid 14th edition, which will return to live screenings and special events from October 20-24, showcasing the digital artworks known as NFTs (non-fungible tokens) for the first time in its history.
This year’s festival features more than 135 indie features from 27 countries. While it’s long presented such awards as Best Feature (Narrative & Documentary), Best Short (Narrative & Documentary), and Best Series, it will now also welcome screenplays into competition.
Notable works screening at this year’s festival include Lissette Feliciano’s Women Is Losers, starring Lorenza Izzo, Simu Liu and Liza Weil; Elias Plagianos’ indie TV series Hudson Falls, starring William Sadler, Richard Kind and Jessica Hecht; Nicolas Minas’ Emma Without Edmond, starring Lynn Cohen; Kate Beacon and Louis Legge’s Rehab Cabin; Elizabeth D. Costa’s Bangla Surf Girls; Prashanth Kamalakanthan’s Have a Nice Life; Ashish Pant...
This year’s festival features more than 135 indie features from 27 countries. While it’s long presented such awards as Best Feature (Narrative & Documentary), Best Short (Narrative & Documentary), and Best Series, it will now also welcome screenplays into competition.
Notable works screening at this year’s festival include Lissette Feliciano’s Women Is Losers, starring Lorenza Izzo, Simu Liu and Liza Weil; Elias Plagianos’ indie TV series Hudson Falls, starring William Sadler, Richard Kind and Jessica Hecht; Nicolas Minas’ Emma Without Edmond, starring Lynn Cohen; Kate Beacon and Louis Legge’s Rehab Cabin; Elizabeth D. Costa’s Bangla Surf Girls; Prashanth Kamalakanthan’s Have a Nice Life; Ashish Pant...
- 9/29/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
After naming Alfonso Cuarón the best-reviewed filmmaker of the 21st century and Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer the worst, Metacritic’s next list explores the 25 best movies directed by women. Unsurprisingly, Kathryn Bigelow takes both the #1 and #2 spots with “Zero Dark Thirty” and “The Hurt Locker,” respectively.
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Bigelow became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director with the latter, a painfully tense drama about the Iraq War. (Her latest, “Detroit,” just misses the list by a few points.) Ava DuVernay also shows up twice (with “Selma” and “13th”), as does Sarah Polley (“Away from Her” and “Stories We Tell”), while the likes of Sofia Coppola, Mia Hansen-Løve, and Maren Ade are represented as well. Here’s the data-driven review aggregator’s full list:
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Read MoreAlfonso Cuarón Is the Best Director of the 21st Century, According to Metacritic — See the Top 25
Bigelow became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director with the latter, a painfully tense drama about the Iraq War. (Her latest, “Detroit,” just misses the list by a few points.) Ava DuVernay also shows up twice (with “Selma” and “13th”), as does Sarah Polley (“Away from Her” and “Stories We Tell”), while the likes of Sofia Coppola, Mia Hansen-Løve, and Maren Ade are represented as well. Here’s the data-driven review aggregator’s full list:
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- 7/30/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Harvey Weinstein is a guy who uses every trick in the book to promote independent films, even if it means playing a little bit dirty sometimes. Can you blame him? He's up against Hollywood blockbusters with multimillion dollar marketing campaigns, and without his aggressive tactics, movies like The King's Speech and The Artist would probably never have found their way to mainstream audiences. However, the problem is that sometimes it's hard to tell whether he's truly doing what's right for the movie or if he's simply doing what benefits himself. This week he is threatening to take a "leave of absence" from the MPAA after they handed down an "R" rating for the documentary Bully. But is he taking a legitimate stand or is it just a publicity stunt? The documentary, formerly titled The Bully Project, is directed by Lee Hirsch and examines the severe problem of bullying in schools across America.
- 2/24/2012
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Updated through 5/10.
"The filmmaker and Oakland native Sidney Peterson once scatted that after World War II, San Francisco 'was a city hanging loose, a small pocket edition, for a brief period, of the Vienna of Wittgenstein and Musil, and the Zurich of Tzara, the Cologne, the Berlin, the Paris, the Hanover, the New York of Dada.'" In the New York Times, Manohla Dargis notes that the version of Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945 - 2000 presented at Anthology Film Archives today and tomorrow and at MoMA on Sunday and Monday "doesn't go as deep or as wide as the original, of course. But it's something of a movable feast nonetheless, and it gives you plenty to chew on, starting with an entire program dedicated to Peterson, a sculptor, painter and novelist whose adventures in the seventh art in the late 1940s turned him...
"The filmmaker and Oakland native Sidney Peterson once scatted that after World War II, San Francisco 'was a city hanging loose, a small pocket edition, for a brief period, of the Vienna of Wittgenstein and Musil, and the Zurich of Tzara, the Cologne, the Berlin, the Paris, the Hanover, the New York of Dada.'" In the New York Times, Manohla Dargis notes that the version of Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945 - 2000 presented at Anthology Film Archives today and tomorrow and at MoMA on Sunday and Monday "doesn't go as deep or as wide as the original, of course. But it's something of a movable feast nonetheless, and it gives you plenty to chew on, starting with an entire program dedicated to Peterson, a sculptor, painter and novelist whose adventures in the seventh art in the late 1940s turned him...
- 5/10/2011
- MUBI
Chicago – Two of the best documentaries of 2010 were recently released on DVD and both are well-worth your time in the very near future as they serve as prime examples of the vitality of the form of non-fiction filmmaking. Both “A Film Unfinished” and the Oscar-winning “Inside Job” are riveting filmmaking, proof that subjects that one might consider dry can be turned into a devastating experience.
DVD Rating: 4.0/5.0
Just glancing at the descriptions of “A Film Unfinished” or “Inside Job,” a potential renter or buyer might think that they know all there is to know about their subjects or, worse, that they’re going to be lectured like they’re sitting in a classroom on a Saturday night. What more could we possibly learn about the Holocaust after decades of books and films on the subject? And how could a subject like the fall of the economy possibly be dramatically interesting?...
DVD Rating: 4.0/5.0
Just glancing at the descriptions of “A Film Unfinished” or “Inside Job,” a potential renter or buyer might think that they know all there is to know about their subjects or, worse, that they’re going to be lectured like they’re sitting in a classroom on a Saturday night. What more could we possibly learn about the Holocaust after decades of books and films on the subject? And how could a subject like the fall of the economy possibly be dramatically interesting?...
- 3/21/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Reviewer: James van Maanen
Rating (out of 5): ****
After all the films made about life, and death, in the Warsaw Ghetto – from Polanski’s award-winning The Pianist to Cannon Films' rather silly Jews-fight-back-while-falling-in-love War and Love (aka The Children’s War), not to mention countless documentaries -- it is still a kick in the gut and the head to experience a movie like the new A Film Unfinished from documentarian Yael Hersonski. Whatever the "magic of movies" (and I'm a firm believer in same), to my mind no narrative film I've yet seen begins to pack the punch of watching a documentary such as Shoah. There is something about the reality of documentary film that wipes the floor with the romanticizing in narrative Holocaust movies, from Schindler's List to the latest Claude Lelouch, which – as much as I love his new film, Ces amours-là -- gives us this in spades.
Rating (out of 5): ****
After all the films made about life, and death, in the Warsaw Ghetto – from Polanski’s award-winning The Pianist to Cannon Films' rather silly Jews-fight-back-while-falling-in-love War and Love (aka The Children’s War), not to mention countless documentaries -- it is still a kick in the gut and the head to experience a movie like the new A Film Unfinished from documentarian Yael Hersonski. Whatever the "magic of movies" (and I'm a firm believer in same), to my mind no narrative film I've yet seen begins to pack the punch of watching a documentary such as Shoah. There is something about the reality of documentary film that wipes the floor with the romanticizing in narrative Holocaust movies, from Schindler's List to the latest Claude Lelouch, which – as much as I love his new film, Ces amours-là -- gives us this in spades.
- 3/11/2011
- by underdog
- GreenCine
By Christopher Stipp
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Paul - Screening
I could not be more excited to see this film, the final product of a project that nerds who appreciate Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have been hearing about for years. On purpose I’ve been trying to avoid anything and everything about this movie but it’s been hard because it has been everywhere. An alien, Comic-Con, a road trip, Jason Bateman, the laundry list of good things brewing within this movie’s run time is just scrumptious.
So, if you live in the Phoenix area and can make it to a screening on March 15 then send me your name to Christopher_Stipp@yahoo.com and I’ll get you entered to win a pair of passes to see this before everyone else.
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Paul - Screening
I could not be more excited to see this film, the final product of a project that nerds who appreciate Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have been hearing about for years. On purpose I’ve been trying to avoid anything and everything about this movie but it’s been hard because it has been everywhere. An alien, Comic-Con, a road trip, Jason Bateman, the laundry list of good things brewing within this movie’s run time is just scrumptious.
So, if you live in the Phoenix area and can make it to a screening on March 15 then send me your name to Christopher_Stipp@yahoo.com and I’ll get you entered to win a pair of passes to see this before everyone else.
- 3/7/2011
- by Christopher Stipp
"The Man From Nowhere" (2010)
Directed by Lee Jeong-beom
Released by Well Go USA
Matt Singer said there's a sequence in this Korean revenge thriller that has "already taken up permanent residence in the Movie Hall of Fame section of my brain," so what more do you need? "Mother" star Won Bin stars as the man who is framed by local gangsters and seeks to retrieve the young girl he lives next door to after she's been kidnapped.
"Abducted" (2011)
Directed by Jon Bonnell
Released by Brain Damage Films
Originally called "Match.Dead," this 2009 thriller details the perils of online dating when a teen girl (Kathleen Benner) arranges a date with a man she soon learns is a psychopath (James Ray). Alan Smithee is the credited screenwriter on IMDb, so one might not want to go in with high expectations.
"Babysitters Beware" (2011)
Directed by Douglas Horn
Released by Phase 4 Films
If you're the...
Directed by Lee Jeong-beom
Released by Well Go USA
Matt Singer said there's a sequence in this Korean revenge thriller that has "already taken up permanent residence in the Movie Hall of Fame section of my brain," so what more do you need? "Mother" star Won Bin stars as the man who is framed by local gangsters and seeks to retrieve the young girl he lives next door to after she's been kidnapped.
"Abducted" (2011)
Directed by Jon Bonnell
Released by Brain Damage Films
Originally called "Match.Dead," this 2009 thriller details the perils of online dating when a teen girl (Kathleen Benner) arranges a date with a man she soon learns is a psychopath (James Ray). Alan Smithee is the credited screenwriter on IMDb, so one might not want to go in with high expectations.
"Babysitters Beware" (2011)
Directed by Douglas Horn
Released by Phase 4 Films
If you're the...
- 3/5/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
As with any other cinematic year, many of the best movies of 2010 flew so far under the mainstream, 3D-centric radar that there was almost no way to catch them in theaters, unless you live in New York or L.A., or are blessed by a local arthouse. Now, then, is an appropriate time to thank the movie gods for Netflix (and, to a lesser extent, video on demand), where these ten terrific movies will be given the shelf-life denied them on the theatrical circuit. Without further ado, here are our picks for the year’s best movies you didn’t see. 10. A Film Unfinished Israeli filmmaker Yael Hersonski devastatingly analyzes the found-footage of a Nazi propaganda film about the Warsaw Ghetto to depict the inner machinations of an enormously comprehensive deception. Uncompromisingly, Hersonski reveals the Nazi apparatus at work, manifested in glaring inconsistencies, small enlightening moments and the harrowing images of living corpses strewn, near...
- 12/31/2010
- by Robert Levin
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The shortlist for the Documentary Feature category of the 2011 Academy Awards has been announced and has been met with equal amounts of pleasant surprise and puzzled scratching of heads. The joyous bemusement in reaction to the inclusion of Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop, which many of us were convinced would be this year’s Anvil, and the shock that Laura Poitas' The Oath was notably absent. It’s particularly refreshing to see the inclusion of Exit given the general view that the Academy only saw the more "worthy"-subject based documentaries as genuine contenders, and that more populist fare never stood a chance. As documentaries don't compete within other filmmaking categories such as editing and cinematography (of which Armadillo would certainly deserve to be listed) the Documentary Feature category has always felt that it has to be an award based on overall filmmaking achievement, rather than subject, impact or agenda.
- 11/19/2010
- by Charlotte
- FilmJunk
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
The MPAA continues to dig their irrelevance hole ever deeper.
Over the summer they earned controversy for their decision to give Yael Hersonski's gripping Warsaw Ghetto documentary, 'A Film Unfinished,' an R-rating, eschewing precedent on films like 'The Last Days,' which earned a PG-13. Such is the way of the MPAA. They rule and contradict themselves, and moviegoers and filmmakers throw up their hands in exasperation.
But now a war is brewing. After receiving two very surprising ratings for their premiere awards contenders -- 'The King's Speech' and 'Blue Valentine' -- The Weinstein Company has had enough. They're not going to just accept the awards and let the MPAA rule over the fate of their films -- they're assembling a "formidable legal team" to fight.
Continue Reading...
The MPAA continues to dig their irrelevance hole ever deeper.
Over the summer they earned controversy for their decision to give Yael Hersonski's gripping Warsaw Ghetto documentary, 'A Film Unfinished,' an R-rating, eschewing precedent on films like 'The Last Days,' which earned a PG-13. Such is the way of the MPAA. They rule and contradict themselves, and moviegoers and filmmakers throw up their hands in exasperation.
But now a war is brewing. After receiving two very surprising ratings for their premiere awards contenders -- 'The King's Speech' and 'Blue Valentine' -- The Weinstein Company has had enough. They're not going to just accept the awards and let the MPAA rule over the fate of their films -- they're assembling a "formidable legal team" to fight.
Continue Reading...
- 11/18/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Moviefone
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
The MPAA continues to dig their irrelevance hole ever deeper.
Over the summer they earned controversy for their decision to give Yael Hersonski's gripping Warsaw Ghetto documentary, 'A Film Unfinished,' an R-rating, eschewing precedent on films like 'The Last Days,' which earned a PG-13. Such is the way of the MPAA. They rule and contradict themselves, and moviegoers and filmmakers throw up their hands in exasperation.
But now a war is brewing. After receiving two very surprising ratings for their premiere awards contenders -- 'The King's Speech' and 'Blue Valentine' -- The Weinstein Company has had enough. They're not going to just accept the awards and let the MPAA rule over the fate of their films -- they're assembling a "formidable legal team" to fight.
Continue Reading...
The MPAA continues to dig their irrelevance hole ever deeper.
Over the summer they earned controversy for their decision to give Yael Hersonski's gripping Warsaw Ghetto documentary, 'A Film Unfinished,' an R-rating, eschewing precedent on films like 'The Last Days,' which earned a PG-13. Such is the way of the MPAA. They rule and contradict themselves, and moviegoers and filmmakers throw up their hands in exasperation.
But now a war is brewing. After receiving two very surprising ratings for their premiere awards contenders -- 'The King's Speech' and 'Blue Valentine' -- The Weinstein Company has had enough. They're not going to just accept the awards and let the MPAA rule over the fate of their films -- they're assembling a "formidable legal team" to fight.
Continue Reading...
- 11/18/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
The Cinema Eye Honors, devoted to highlighting the best of the year's nonfiction films, have flipped for Lixin Fan's fantastic "Last Train Home," which follows a family of migrant workers as they struggle to stay connected while living separated by hundreds of miles. "Last Train Home" received the most nominations -- seven -- while Banksy's "Exit Through The Gift Shop" and Afghanistan documentary "Armadillo" each received six. The award ceremony will take place on January 18 at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, and will be broadcast on the Documentary Channel.
Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
Armadilllo
Directed by Janus Metz
Produced by Sara Stockmann and Ronnie Fridthjof
Exit Through The Gift Shop
Directed by Banksy
Produced by Jaimie D'Cruz
Last Train Home
Directed by Lixin Fan
Produced by Mila Aung-Thwin and Daniel Cross
Marwencol
Directed by Jeff Malmberg
Produced by Jeff Malmberg, Tom Putnam, Matt Radecki, Chris Shellen...
Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
Armadilllo
Directed by Janus Metz
Produced by Sara Stockmann and Ronnie Fridthjof
Exit Through The Gift Shop
Directed by Banksy
Produced by Jaimie D'Cruz
Last Train Home
Directed by Lixin Fan
Produced by Mila Aung-Thwin and Daniel Cross
Marwencol
Directed by Jeff Malmberg
Produced by Jeff Malmberg, Tom Putnam, Matt Radecki, Chris Shellen...
- 11/5/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
Goebbels' propaganda film is now showing in another guise. Which shows why Germany is a unique case for censorship
A new film is roiling the waters in Germany. Jud Süss: A Film Without a Conscience was greeted with boos at a press screening at the Berlinale, the Berlin international film festival. The film is best described as a film within a film. It re-enacts parts of the most infamous anti-Semitic propaganda film of all times, Jud Süss, while simultaneously telling the back story, albeit in somewhat fictionalised form, about the making of this film.
Jud Süss, whose executive producer was Josef Goebbels, premiered in 1940 at more than 80 cinemas in Berlin alone. Over 20 million Germans eventually saw it. It also won large audiences in other European countries. It depicts Jews as not only sneaky, conniving and physically revolting, but also posing a direct danger to the non-Jews around them. The Nazi...
A new film is roiling the waters in Germany. Jud Süss: A Film Without a Conscience was greeted with boos at a press screening at the Berlinale, the Berlin international film festival. The film is best described as a film within a film. It re-enacts parts of the most infamous anti-Semitic propaganda film of all times, Jud Süss, while simultaneously telling the back story, albeit in somewhat fictionalised form, about the making of this film.
Jud Süss, whose executive producer was Josef Goebbels, premiered in 1940 at more than 80 cinemas in Berlin alone. Over 20 million Germans eventually saw it. It also won large audiences in other European countries. It depicts Jews as not only sneaky, conniving and physically revolting, but also posing a direct danger to the non-Jews around them. The Nazi...
- 10/5/2010
- by Deborah Lipstadt
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – The power of a single image is often far greater than any amount of written words. In a culture as visually over-saturated as our own, it’s so easy to take images for granted. Our days are too hectic, and our minds are too cluttered to view every piece of footage filtered down to us from the mainstream media with the same critical eye and healthy dose of skepticism.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Similarly, many moviegoers don’t have the luxury to discern between a good film and a mediocre one when catching a movie on a Saturday night. That’s why it’s the job of critics to look behind the moving image and investigate its complexities, its meaning, its relevance and its inherent worth. “A Film Unfinished” is, among other things, an accomplished and essential work of critical analysis, deconstructing one of the most notorious and misinterpreted pieces of archival footage ever unearthed.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Similarly, many moviegoers don’t have the luxury to discern between a good film and a mediocre one when catching a movie on a Saturday night. That’s why it’s the job of critics to look behind the moving image and investigate its complexities, its meaning, its relevance and its inherent worth. “A Film Unfinished” is, among other things, an accomplished and essential work of critical analysis, deconstructing one of the most notorious and misinterpreted pieces of archival footage ever unearthed.
- 10/1/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
By Christopher Stipp
The Archives, Right Here
Check out my other column, This Week In Trailers, at SlashFilm.com and follow me on Twitter under the name: Stipp
Yael Hersonski- Interview
Just when you thought that everything has been unearthed about what happened to Jews in the holocaust filmmaker Yael Heronski unearths documentary footage, shot by Nazis, about life in a Warsaw ghetto. It was mere months before this very same ghetto would be purged of its residents, the remainder still around shipped off and sent to their certain death.
What Heronski found in the footage that was once thought complete, the movie on display here showing the lengths to which the Nazis wanted to craft their own narrative that stretched the truth about what was happening inside these claustrophobic walls of half a million Jews that were contained within 3 square miles. From retakes that had poor, starving children...
The Archives, Right Here
Check out my other column, This Week In Trailers, at SlashFilm.com and follow me on Twitter under the name: Stipp
Yael Hersonski- Interview
Just when you thought that everything has been unearthed about what happened to Jews in the holocaust filmmaker Yael Heronski unearths documentary footage, shot by Nazis, about life in a Warsaw ghetto. It was mere months before this very same ghetto would be purged of its residents, the remainder still around shipped off and sent to their certain death.
What Heronski found in the footage that was once thought complete, the movie on display here showing the lengths to which the Nazis wanted to craft their own narrative that stretched the truth about what was happening inside these claustrophobic walls of half a million Jews that were contained within 3 square miles. From retakes that had poor, starving children...
- 8/27/2010
- by Christopher Stipp
As the summer enters its final frames, two docs - Amir Bar-Lev's "The Tillman Story" and Yael Hersonski's "A Film Unfinished" - led a batch of specialty debuts at the box office this weekend. The films share the distinction of being handed down controversial R-ratings by the MPAA (of which both "Tillman"'s Weinstein Company and "Unfinished"'s Oscilloscope understandably lashed back). Oscilloscope ended up deciding to release "Unfinished" unrated (wanting students to ...
- 8/22/2010
- Indiewire
The narrator of Israeli director Yael Hersonski's A Film Unfinished describes the "layers of meaning" locked within the images recorded by Nazi soldiers of the residents of the Warsaw Ghetto in May 1942. They are part of a compilation of raw footage that until 12 years ago were assumed to be vérité glimpses of the half-million Jews trapped within the confines of the Ghetto. It was only when a new reel of outtakes -- shots of the subjects rehearsing their "spontaneous" moments over and over -- was discovered that something closer to the truth about their provenance was revealed. Hersonski's measured, devastating pursuit of that truth adds another layer of meaning to those reels, even as it methodically spools and studies each one.
- 8/19/2010
- Movieline
Every film is a documentary to some degree, because even the most stage-managed productions record their participants at specific times in their lives. Yael Hersonski’s documentary A Film Unfinished is about an unusual one-hour film found in an archive of Nazi propaganda: a piece called “The Ghetto,” which was meant to show Germans and Poles the depravity of the Jews in Warsaw. Between the staged scenes of well-dressed Jews whooping it up in lavish apartments, the filmmakers also shot footage of shoeless urchins, starving scavengers, piles of garbage, puddles of sewage, and naked corpses being piled on carts. No ...
- 8/19/2010
- avclub.com
Two of the best reviewed documentaries off this year's festival circuit, Amir Bar-Lev's "The Tillman Story" and Yael Hersonski's "A Film Unfinished" both hit theaters this Friday. The films also share the distinction of arriving with controversial R-ratings by the MPAA (of which both "Tillman"'s Weinstein Company and "Unfinished"'s Oscilloscope understandably lashed out about), though hopefully this won't keep the both films from affecting and educating audiences come this weekend. The ...
- 8/18/2010
- Indiewire
In May of 1942, there were more than 440,000 Polish Jews crammed into a three-mile nightmare known as the Warsaw Ghetto. By September of 1943, approximately 250,000 of them were dead. The rest were either clinging to life or wishing their number had already been called.
Yael Hersonski’s “A Film Unfinished” reveals the Warsaw Ghetto for what it really was: genocide in waiting — a pre-internment camp rife with death and disease, unspeakable cruelty, population control and starvation (among other atrocities).
The story is largely based upon (and mostly comprised of) several reels of silent footage filmed by the Nazis in the spring of ’42. These reels were originally found in an underground bunker after the end of WWII. But there was very little context to explain the often contradictory and sometimes puzzling footage until a final reel surfaced years later, providing the crucial link that exposed these reels for what they really were.
Yael Hersonski’s “A Film Unfinished” reveals the Warsaw Ghetto for what it really was: genocide in waiting — a pre-internment camp rife with death and disease, unspeakable cruelty, population control and starvation (among other atrocities).
The story is largely based upon (and mostly comprised of) several reels of silent footage filmed by the Nazis in the spring of ’42. These reels were originally found in an underground bunker after the end of WWII. But there was very little context to explain the often contradictory and sometimes puzzling footage until a final reel surfaced years later, providing the crucial link that exposed these reels for what they really were.
- 8/17/2010
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Can you believe your own eyes? Not since computer-generated images made it all but impossible to distinguish between real images and ones that were digitally created. But, as Yael Hersonski's documentary, A Film Unfinished, shows, even in documentary film, seeing wasn't always believing -- and the Nazis knew this. A Film Unfinished, opening Wednesday in limited release, is a chilling example of the Big Lie that Josef Goebbels propagated during the Third Reich. Tell it loudly enough and often enough and you'll convince people that it must be true. (Hello, birthers?) In this case, it was a container of film that had been hidden away in a trove of Nazi documentary footage that was discovered after World War II. With the words "The Ghetto" written on the canister, it was a mysterious artifact: seemingly a documentary showing that Jews in the Warsaw...
- 8/16/2010
- by Marshall Fine
- Huffington Post
Toronto -- Veteran directors David Cronenberg, John Waters and Peter Bogdanovich, film editor Walter Murch and "Dexter" creator Jeff Lindsay, will help launch the new home of the Toronto International Film Festival this fall, organizers said Monday.
Also giving guest talks at Bell Lightbox this fall is actor/director Isabella Rossellini, film critic Molly Haskell, actor Michael Murphy and Quebec cinematographer and director Michel Brault.
Bell Lightbox on Monday also unveiled a fall film lineup heavy on foreign-language arthouse titles and film print restorations to follow Tiff's upcoming Sept. 9 to 19 installment.
The festival's year-round home and its five cinema screens will launch Sept. 23 with screenings of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Oscar winner "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives," Israeli director Yael Hersonski's "A Film Unfinished," which grabbed the best international feature award at the recent Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto, and Quebec filmmaker Xavier Dolan's "Les Amours imaginaires.
Also giving guest talks at Bell Lightbox this fall is actor/director Isabella Rossellini, film critic Molly Haskell, actor Michael Murphy and Quebec cinematographer and director Michel Brault.
Bell Lightbox on Monday also unveiled a fall film lineup heavy on foreign-language arthouse titles and film print restorations to follow Tiff's upcoming Sept. 9 to 19 installment.
The festival's year-round home and its five cinema screens will launch Sept. 23 with screenings of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Oscar winner "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives," Israeli director Yael Hersonski's "A Film Unfinished," which grabbed the best international feature award at the recent Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto, and Quebec filmmaker Xavier Dolan's "Les Amours imaginaires.
- 8/16/2010
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
When the Motion Picture Association of America gave the Holocaust documentary "A Film Unfinished" an R-rating, Adam Yauch, Beastie Boy and founder of the film's North American distributor Oscilloscope Laboratories, called the MPAA's decision "bullshit." But the film's director, young Israeli Yael Hersonski, sees things a little bit differently. "This MPAA thing has made many people talk about this film," she said, in Oscilloscope's funky West Village offices. "Eventually, I don't ...
- 8/13/2010
- Indiewire
While the last decade has been a prosperous one for the Israeli film industry with the output of quality feature "fiction" films, the Israeli documentary scene is creating an even a bigger buzz. About 20 fiction features are created each year in Israel and the number of annual Israeli documentaries is more than a double that number. This year, a pair of Ophir Award nominated documentaries are receiving a lot of buzz-worthy attention. Yael Hersonski's A Film Unfinished has already won a few awards in the international festival circuit (including Best International Feature at this year's Hotdocs), and is receiving a limited release in the U.S via Oscilloscope Pictures (Adam Yauch recently called Bs on the MPAA), while Shlomi Eldar's Precious Life received a special jury mention in the last Jerusalem Film Festival (where "A Film Unfinished" won best documentary), and last week it was announced that it...
- 8/9/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
On Monday, I reported that Yael Hersonski's gripping Holocaust documentary, A Film Unfinished, was given an R by the MPAA for "disturbing images of holocaust atrocities including graphic nudity." The filmmaker, Oscilloscope Laboratories, and Warsaw Ghetto survivor Hana Avrutzky (by means of a letter) fought the decision, asking the appeals board to "consider the context of the nudity in the film in terms of its historical and educational importance" so that viewers across the country could have unrestricted access to the material.
But the board upheld the decision, voting 12 to 3 in favor of the R rating. It's another example of the MPAA ignoring precedent and voting by whim, as the Oscar-winning Steven Spielberg film, The Last Days, was given a PG-13 for "graphic images and descriptions of Holocaust atrocities."
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But the board upheld the decision, voting 12 to 3 in favor of the R rating. It's another example of the MPAA ignoring precedent and voting by whim, as the Oscar-winning Steven Spielberg film, The Last Days, was given a PG-13 for "graphic images and descriptions of Holocaust atrocities."
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- 8/6/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
The MPAA has voted 12 to 3 to give an R rating to a Holocaust documentary "A Film Unfinished," which documents an uncompleted Nazi propaganda film shot in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942. MPAA cited "disturbing images of Holocaust atrocities including graphic nudity" in its decision. Ghetto survivor Hana Avrutzky and director Yael Hersonski both made arguments for a reduced rating, asking board members to consider the rating of Steven Spielberg's "The Last Days," which features a mass execution and extensive nudity. That film received a PG-13 rating. Adam Yauch, Oscilloscope (distributor) founder and a member of music group Beastie Boys, said in a statement: "This is too important of a historical document to ban from classrooms. While there's no doubt that Holocaust atrocities are displayed, if teachers feel their students are ready to understand what happened, it's essential that young people are given the opportunity to see this film... I understand...
- 8/6/2010
- WorstPreviews.com
Beastie Boy and Oscilloscope Laboratories founder Adam Yauch lost his appeal Thursday with the MPAA for the "R-rating" against his upcoming Oscilloscope release "A Film Unfinished," a documentary about the creation of an unfinished Nazi propaganda film shot in Poland's Warsaw Ghetto in 1942. According to “Deadline,” director Yael Hersonski made a personal appeal in front of the MPAA ratings board asking them to judge the nudity in the documentary from a historical and educational standpoint.
- 8/6/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Exclusive: When filmmakers appeal ratings and try to measure themselves against ratings given other films, the MPAA generally refuses to engage in those comparisons. So the MPAA ratings board today shot down an appeal by Oscilloscope Laboratories to rescind the "R" rating given the Holocaust documentary A Film Unfinished. It was upheld in a just-concluded appeals hearing by a 12-3 vote. Oscilloscope, the indie distribution company founded by Beastie Boys co-founder Adam Yauch, acquired the film at Sundance. He expressed outrage earlier this week when told that the film got an R rating for "disturbing images of Holocaust atrocities including graphic nudity." Oscilloscope's appeal today included an impassioned argument by director Yael Hersonski to judge the nudity in the film from a historical and educational standpoint. A letter was presented by Warsaw Ghetto survivor Hana Avrutzky, and an argument was also made that the film should be judged similarly to...
- 8/5/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Beastie Boy and Oscilloscope Laboratories founder Adam Yauch filed an appeal Monday with the MPAA for the "R-rating" against the upcoming Oscilloscope release "A Film Unfinished," a documentary about the creation of an unfinished Nazi propaganda film show in Poland's Warsaw Ghetto in 1942. Yael Hersonski's documentary, which premiered in the World Cinema Documentary section at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, received its R-rating for "disturbing images of holocaust atrocities including graphic nudity" from the raw footage of the 1942 Nazi-produced film.
- 8/3/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Beastie Boys star Adam Yauch has called on officials at the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to reconsider the adult rating awarded to new Holocaust documentary "A Film Unfinished", insisting the film is "too important" to be banned from schools. The powerful documentary, written and directed by Yael Hersonski, documents an unfinished Nazi propaganda film shot in 1942.
It has been given an R rating because it features "disturbing images of holocaust atrocities including graphic nudity". The restriction means only people aged 17 and older can view the movie in the theater unless accompanied by an adult, and the project cannot be shown in classrooms as an educational documentary.
But Yauch is angry about the ruling because he's convinced school children can learn a lot about the Jewish tragedy from the film. He says, "This is too important of a historical document to ban from classrooms. While there's no doubt that Holocaust atrocities are displayed,...
It has been given an R rating because it features "disturbing images of holocaust atrocities including graphic nudity". The restriction means only people aged 17 and older can view the movie in the theater unless accompanied by an adult, and the project cannot be shown in classrooms as an educational documentary.
But Yauch is angry about the ruling because he's convinced school children can learn a lot about the Jewish tragedy from the film. He says, "This is too important of a historical document to ban from classrooms. While there's no doubt that Holocaust atrocities are displayed,...
- 8/3/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
You might have noticed that I've been championing a new documentary from Yael Hersonski called A Film Unfinished. The new feature takes propaganda footage from the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII -- which has been used in the past as historical document -- and reveals the "cinematic deception" of the frames. Hersonski outlines how many of the scenes of "real life" were crafted by the filmmakers to try and show a hideous disconnect between the Ghetto's "rich Jews and poor Jews" -- scenes of passerby walking over corpses are juxtaposed with lavish dinners (entirely crafted by the Nazis) and entertainment (where people were beaten if they didn't look like they were having enough fun).
It is a harrowing account, for sure, but also a worthy one. However, the documentary has now hit a snag, getting an R rating from the MPAA, which has inspired the Beastie Boys' (and Oscilloscope founder) Adam Yauch to speak out.
It is a harrowing account, for sure, but also a worthy one. However, the documentary has now hit a snag, getting an R rating from the MPAA, which has inspired the Beastie Boys' (and Oscilloscope founder) Adam Yauch to speak out.
- 8/2/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
Given the presence of overt anti-Semitism in the Arab world (think of Rashid Ali's pro-Nazi regime in Iraq) and a more subtle hatred of Jews elsewhere, Hitler thought he was doing the world a favor by exterminating Jews. If so, one wonders why he believed world opinion would turn against him if he graphically exhibited the way that Germany was dealing with Jews unfortunate enough to be in Germany or occupied countries. That he showed concern about world opinion is on display in Yael Hersonski's doc, "A Film Unfinished." Or is it?...
- 7/27/2010
- Arizona Reporter
Cinematical has just received this exclusive poster for Yael Hersonski's excellent documentary A Film Unfinished. I had the fortune of seeing this film at Hot Docs and couldn't say enough good things about it, though it did leave me emotionally wrecked. Quite simply, it's a harrowing but worthy-of-your-time documentary that works two-fold teaching about the nature and lies of cinema, and the horrors the Jewish people faced in Poland's Warsaw Ghetto during World War II -- the sort of film that's hard to get through, but must be experienced and remembered.
The film won the World Cinema Documentary Editing Award at Sundance, before going on to win Best International Feature at Hot Docs this year. Luckily, you won't have to wait long to see it for yourself. It's slated to hit theaters on August 18, just a month and a half away. In the meantime, check out the full poster in the gallery below,...
The film won the World Cinema Documentary Editing Award at Sundance, before going on to win Best International Feature at Hot Docs this year. Luckily, you won't have to wait long to see it for yourself. It's slated to hit theaters on August 18, just a month and a half away. In the meantime, check out the full poster in the gallery below,...
- 6/29/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
At this year's Hot Docs, perhaps the most important festival in the world documentary circuit was where Yael Hersonski's "A Film Unfinished" claimed the Best International Feature award. The film revolves around a Nazi propaganda film that was recently discovered. Back in the ghetto, the Nazis staged a fake documentary with the participation of the Jewish residents of the ghetto, trying to deceive the world, showing them all is well. - At this year's Hot Docs, perhaps the most important festival in the world documentary circuit was where Yael Hersonski's "A Film Unfinished" claimed the Best International Feature award. The film revolves around a Nazi propaganda film that was recently discovered. Back in the ghetto, the Nazis staged a fake documentary with the participation of the Jewish residents of the ghetto, trying to deceive the world, showing them all is well. Looking at the film today, Hersonski uncovers...
- 5/31/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
At this year's Hot Docs, perhaps the most important festival in the world documentary circuit was where Yael Hersonski's "A Film Unfinished" claimed the Best International Feature award. The film revolves around a Nazi propaganda film that was recently discovered. Back in the ghetto, the Nazis staged a fake documentary with the participation of the Jewish residents of the ghetto, trying to deceive the world, showing them all is well. Looking at the film today, Hersonski uncovers the lies the Nazis told through cinema. Unfortunately, the Sundance winner of the Editing award has yet to be screened in Israel. Two non-Israeli documentaries dealing with Israeli issues stepped into the light this month. The Heart of Jenin tells the story of the family of a Palestinian boy who was shot and killed in the Palestinian city of Jenin. Despite their tragedy, they decide to donate their son's organs to needed people of Palestinian and Israeli.
- 5/31/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Yael Hersonski’s A Film Unfinished Sterling World Feature Competiton The Arrivals / France/French Embassy, (2009), 111 minutes (Directors: Claudine Bories and Patrice Chagnard)—Arriving on the shores of France is merely the beginning of a labyrinthian journey for more than 50,000 refugees seeking asylum through the municipal reception center in Paris each year. North American Premiere. As Lilith / Israel, 2009, 78 minutes (Director: Eytan Harris)—After a 14-year-old Israeli girl commits suicide, her mother, Lilith, wants the body cremated. Before she can proceed, she must fight Zaka, one of Israel’s [...]...
- 5/28/2010
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
Although World War II ended in 1945, it still lives on the screens of cinema. For years, we've watched the war's struggles, victories, and devastation. Over half a century has passed, yet it's still burned deeply into our consciousness, so much so that it seems like we know it all. But then a documentary like A Film Unfinished comes along. Taking forgotten propaganda footage from the Warsaw Ghetto, Yael Hersonski has crafted a film that not only oozes a harsh reality never before seen, but also reveals the all-too-easy "cinematic deception" of film, reminding us that image doesn't necessarily equal truth.
On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, and by the end of the month, Warsaw fell. Under Nazi control the Ghetto was formed, a walled barrier keeping the city's Jewish population contained under terrible and deadly living conditions. Roughly two and a half years later, and shortly before hundreds of thousands...
On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, and by the end of the month, Warsaw fell. Under Nazi control the Ghetto was formed, a walled barrier keeping the city's Jewish population contained under terrible and deadly living conditions. Roughly two and a half years later, and shortly before hundreds of thousands...
- 5/6/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
Oscilloscope Laboratories has picked up North American rights to the Holocaust documetnary "A Film Unfinished" by director Yael Hersonski. Film premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival and is the story of Nazi propaganda made about Jewish life in the Warsaw ghetto. Film will be released August 18th in one New York theater then add another two days later and expand to various areas at some stage. Oscilloscope head Adam Yauch said that "This movie really affected me. It's an incredibly powerful film, not just because of the rare Nazi propaganda footage it shows but also the captivating way the filmmakers tell the story." Oscilloscope's "The Messenger" won critical acclaim. That film starred Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson and was an Oscar nominee for Best original screenplay as well as a best supporting actor nomination for Harrelson.
- 4/9/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Oscilloscope has acquired North American distribution rights to Yael Hersonski's Holocaust documentary "A Film Unfinished."
The doc, which premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival, is the story of a Nazi propaganda film made about Jewish life in the Warsaw ghetto. Oscilloscope will open the pic Aug. 18 on a single New York screen, add a second Manhattan venue two days later and expand distribution during subsequent frames.
"This movie really affected me," Oscilloscope head Adam Yauch said. "It's an incredibly powerful film, not just because of the rare Nazi propaganda footage it shows but also the captivating way the filmmakers tell the story."...
The doc, which premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival, is the story of a Nazi propaganda film made about Jewish life in the Warsaw ghetto. Oscilloscope will open the pic Aug. 18 on a single New York screen, add a second Manhattan venue two days later and expand distribution during subsequent frames.
"This movie really affected me," Oscilloscope head Adam Yauch said. "It's an incredibly powerful film, not just because of the rare Nazi propaganda footage it shows but also the captivating way the filmmakers tell the story."...
- 4/8/2010
- by By Carl DiOrio
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Oscilloscope Laboratories has announced that it has acquired North American distribution rights to Yael Hersonski's documentary "A Film Unfinished." The doc, which premiered at Sundance this year and won the World Cinema Documentary Editing Award, also played at Berlinale 2010 in the Panorama section. Oscilloscope will open the film August 18 at Film Forum and August 20th at Lincoln Plaza in New York City, with a national release to follow. "This ...
- 4/8/2010
- Indiewire
By Wrap Staff
Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American distribution rights to Yael Hersonski’s documentary "A Film Unfinished."
The documentary won the World Cinema Documentary Editing Award when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. It also played in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year.
Oscilloscope plans to open the film Aug. 18 at Film Forum and Aug. 20 at Lincoln Plaza in New York City, with a national release to follow.
Adam Yauch, head of Oscilloscope Laboratories, said in a statement, ...
Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American distribution rights to Yael Hersonski’s documentary "A Film Unfinished."
The documentary won the World Cinema Documentary Editing Award when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. It also played in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year.
Oscilloscope plans to open the film Aug. 18 at Film Forum and Aug. 20 at Lincoln Plaza in New York City, with a national release to follow.
Adam Yauch, head of Oscilloscope Laboratories, said in a statement, ...
- 4/8/2010
- by Lisa Horowitz
- The Wrap
Until women reach a 50-50 parity with men directors, my mission continues to count the women directors in upcoming and recent film festivals (and an occasional informal glance at what’s selling in the markets). Women’s films in Berlin reflect women’s place in the world both in content and in the numbers of women represented as directors, producers, writers, etc. John Cooper of Sundance stresses the increasing and possibly 50-50 parity of women producers, but I am looking at the directors. As March is Women’s History Month (and all the other months are Men’s History Month according to Gloria Steinem’s L.A. Times Article of March 4, 2010) this blog is in honor of all women everywhere.
Congratulations to Kathryn Bigelow for winning the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture. La Times puts into perspective the fact that the Best Director Oscar went to Kathryn Bigelow...
Congratulations to Kathryn Bigelow for winning the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture. La Times puts into perspective the fact that the Best Director Oscar went to Kathryn Bigelow...
- 3/8/2010
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Animal Kingdom, The Red Chapel, Restrepo, and Winter's Bone Earn Grand Jury Prizes
Audience Favorites Feature Contracorriente, happythankyoumoreplease, Waiting For Superman, and Wasteland
Park City, Ut-The Jury, Audience, Next, and other special award-winners of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival were announced tonight at the Festival's Awards Ceremony hosted by David Hyde Pierce (star of The Perfect Host which premiered in this year's Park City at Midnight section) in Park City, Utah. Highlights from the Awards Ceremony can be seen on the Festival website, www.sundance.org/festival.
Films receiving Jury Awards were selected from four categories: U.S. Dramatic Competition, U.S. Documentary Competition, World Cinema Dramatic Competition and World Cinema Documentary Competition. All films in competition were also eligible for Sundance Film Festival Audience Awards as selected by Festival audiences. The U.S. Audience Awards presented by Honda and World Cinema Audience Awards were announced by Louis C.K. Joseph Gordon Levitt...
Audience Favorites Feature Contracorriente, happythankyoumoreplease, Waiting For Superman, and Wasteland
Park City, Ut-The Jury, Audience, Next, and other special award-winners of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival were announced tonight at the Festival's Awards Ceremony hosted by David Hyde Pierce (star of The Perfect Host which premiered in this year's Park City at Midnight section) in Park City, Utah. Highlights from the Awards Ceremony can be seen on the Festival website, www.sundance.org/festival.
Films receiving Jury Awards were selected from four categories: U.S. Dramatic Competition, U.S. Documentary Competition, World Cinema Dramatic Competition and World Cinema Documentary Competition. All films in competition were also eligible for Sundance Film Festival Audience Awards as selected by Festival audiences. The U.S. Audience Awards presented by Honda and World Cinema Audience Awards were announced by Louis C.K. Joseph Gordon Levitt...
- 2/1/2010
- Makingof.com
Debra Granik's "Winter's Bone" was the big winner in Park City Saturday night, as it won both the dramatic competition grand jury prize and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Earlier in the day, the gritty drama secured North American distribution through Roadside Attractions for release later this year.
The film, about an unflinching Ozark Mountain girl trudging through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her missing father, was adapted from the Daniel Woodrell novel by Granik and Anne Rosellini. Granik's previous film, the 2004 Sundance entry "Down to the Bone," won her a dramatic directing award.
The rest of the awards were fairly well spread around at the Saturday night ceremony hosted by David Hyde Pierce, who starred in the Park City at Midnight entry "The Perfect Host" this year.
To kick off the evening, Pierce came on stage in knit cap rapping to...
The film, about an unflinching Ozark Mountain girl trudging through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her missing father, was adapted from the Daniel Woodrell novel by Granik and Anne Rosellini. Granik's previous film, the 2004 Sundance entry "Down to the Bone," won her a dramatic directing award.
The rest of the awards were fairly well spread around at the Saturday night ceremony hosted by David Hyde Pierce, who starred in the Park City at Midnight entry "The Perfect Host" this year.
To kick off the evening, Pierce came on stage in knit cap rapping to...
- 1/30/2010
- by By Jay A. Fernandez and Gregg Goldstein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Berlin -- The Berlin film festival's Panorama sidebar is coming back loud and proud this year with a lineup packed with films examining gender identity and the gay movement.
The 2010 Panorama opens Feb. 11 with the Russian film "Jolly Fellows," director Felix Mikhailov's look at the drag queen subculture of a Moscow club.
This year's lineup also features Cheryl Dunye's thriller "The Owls," in which aging lesbians try to get away with murder; and Jake Yuzna's "Open," a series of intertwined love stories featuring gay and trans-gendered partners.
Several of Panorama's documentary selections explores related themes -- such as Crayton Robery's "Making The Boys" about Matt Crowley's ground breaking gay play "The Boys in the Band;" "Cuchillo de Palo," Renate Costa's expose of persecution of homosexuals during the Paraguayan dictatorship and the German doc "Rock Hudson – Dark and Handsome Stranger" from directors Andrew Davies and Andre Schaefer.
The 2010 Panorama opens Feb. 11 with the Russian film "Jolly Fellows," director Felix Mikhailov's look at the drag queen subculture of a Moscow club.
This year's lineup also features Cheryl Dunye's thriller "The Owls," in which aging lesbians try to get away with murder; and Jake Yuzna's "Open," a series of intertwined love stories featuring gay and trans-gendered partners.
Several of Panorama's documentary selections explores related themes -- such as Crayton Robery's "Making The Boys" about Matt Crowley's ground breaking gay play "The Boys in the Band;" "Cuchillo de Palo," Renate Costa's expose of persecution of homosexuals during the Paraguayan dictatorship and the German doc "Rock Hudson – Dark and Handsome Stranger" from directors Andrew Davies and Andre Schaefer.
- 1/22/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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