January is one of the biggest months of the year for independent film, with hundreds of film critics descending upon the Sundance Film Festival to discover the works of up-and-coming directors. But for those of us who can’t make the trek to Park City, Utah, there are plenty of independent movies to enjoy from the comfort of our homes.
This month, there’s a particularly big selection of independent classics to choose from on streaming, particularly if you’re subscribed to the Criterion Channel. In celebration of the approaching festival, Criterion is hosting a massive selection of past Sundance favorites, including the 1968 experimental documentary “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One.” Other favorites in the selection include “Blood Simple,” “Stranger Than Paradise,” “The Times of Harvey Milk,” “Desert Hearts,” “Working Girls,” “Paris Is Burning,” “Mississippi Masala,” “Slacker,” “Hoop Dreams,” and “The Doom Generation.” Other major indie favorites on the streamer this January include...
This month, there’s a particularly big selection of independent classics to choose from on streaming, particularly if you’re subscribed to the Criterion Channel. In celebration of the approaching festival, Criterion is hosting a massive selection of past Sundance favorites, including the 1968 experimental documentary “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One.” Other favorites in the selection include “Blood Simple,” “Stranger Than Paradise,” “The Times of Harvey Milk,” “Desert Hearts,” “Working Girls,” “Paris Is Burning,” “Mississippi Masala,” “Slacker,” “Hoop Dreams,” and “The Doom Generation.” Other major indie favorites on the streamer this January include...
- 1/6/2024
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
Back in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Hollywood operated with a different set of rules. Before the Hays Code cracked down on content in the middle of 1934, films were brushed with hot topics such as sex, female liberation, alcoholism, and depression. These movies are the Pre-Code films.
Working within this realm was just one female director – the Queen, Dorothy Arzner. This director not only created films at a time where men dictated and controlled the industry, she also produced films that had a clear feminist voice. With snappy and head-strong female leads dominating her movies, Arzner helped change the landscape with these incredible films. She was so popular that she was the first woman to be included in the Directors Guild of America.
Thanks to the BFI Film On Film Festival, audiences got to see a newly restored print of her nifty comedy, Working Girls (1931).
Written by Zoe Akins...
Working within this realm was just one female director – the Queen, Dorothy Arzner. This director not only created films at a time where men dictated and controlled the industry, she also produced films that had a clear feminist voice. With snappy and head-strong female leads dominating her movies, Arzner helped change the landscape with these incredible films. She was so popular that she was the first woman to be included in the Directors Guild of America.
Thanks to the BFI Film On Film Festival, audiences got to see a newly restored print of her nifty comedy, Working Girls (1931).
Written by Zoe Akins...
- 6/14/2023
- by Sarah Cook
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Hulu aired the midseason finale of How I Met Your Father Season 2 on Tuesday, March 28. The two episodes included many shocking revelations and, of course, the return of the legend himself, Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson. But, unfortunately, following the conclusion of “Daddy,” fans have a long wait for new How I Met Your Father episodes.
[Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers from How I Met Your Father Season 2 Episode 10, “I’m His Swish,” and Episode 11, “Daddy.”]
Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson and Hilary Duff as Sophie Tompkins | Patrick Wymore/Hulu Neil Patrick Harris returned as Barney in ‘How I Met Your Father’ Season 2 Episode 11
Sophie and Valentina (begrudgingly) had a double date with Robert, played by John Corbett, and Valentina’s new (younger) boyfriend, Swish, played by Michael Cimino, in How I Met Your Father Season 2 Episode 10.
Valentina revealed that she was only dating Swish because he was an ego boost for her, and...
[Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers from How I Met Your Father Season 2 Episode 10, “I’m His Swish,” and Episode 11, “Daddy.”]
Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson and Hilary Duff as Sophie Tompkins | Patrick Wymore/Hulu Neil Patrick Harris returned as Barney in ‘How I Met Your Father’ Season 2 Episode 11
Sophie and Valentina (begrudgingly) had a double date with Robert, played by John Corbett, and Valentina’s new (younger) boyfriend, Swish, played by Michael Cimino, in How I Met Your Father Season 2 Episode 10.
Valentina revealed that she was only dating Swish because he was an ego boost for her, and...
- 3/28/2023
- by Sarah Little
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Hulu‘s How I Met Your Father Season 2 is just getting started, but we’re already looking ahead to future episodes. Fans of the show discovered the complete list of episode titles for season 2, and some of the names stick out to us. One, in particular, is giving off major spoilers vibes, leading us to believe that one How I Met Your Father couple is in danger.
[Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers regarding the episode titles of How I Met Your Father Season 2.]
Hilary Duff as Sophie | Patrick Wymore/Hulu ‘How I Met Your Father’ Season 2 episode title spoilers revealed
One How I Met Your Father fan shared the episode title spoilers in a Reddit thread, and they all sound very intriguing. The How I Met Your Father Season 2 episodes are:
Episode 1: “Cool and Chill”Episode 2: “Midwife Crisis”Episode 3: “The Reset Button”Episode 4: “Pathetic Deirdre”Episode 5: “Ride or Die”Episode 6: “Universal Therapy”Episode 7: “A Terrible,...
[Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers regarding the episode titles of How I Met Your Father Season 2.]
Hilary Duff as Sophie | Patrick Wymore/Hulu ‘How I Met Your Father’ Season 2 episode title spoilers revealed
One How I Met Your Father fan shared the episode title spoilers in a Reddit thread, and they all sound very intriguing. The How I Met Your Father Season 2 episodes are:
Episode 1: “Cool and Chill”Episode 2: “Midwife Crisis”Episode 3: “The Reset Button”Episode 4: “Pathetic Deirdre”Episode 5: “Ride or Die”Episode 6: “Universal Therapy”Episode 7: “A Terrible,...
- 2/14/2023
- by Sarah Little
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Hulu‘s How I Met Your Father just began airing its second season, but fans already want to know what the future holds for the spinoff series. The original show, How I Met Your Mother, ran for nine seasons, so the potential for the new series knows no bounds. However, if the ratings and audience totals are down, How I Met Your Father might be in danger of getting canceled.
Hilary Duff as Sophie and Chris Lowell as Jesse | Photo by: Patrick Wymore/Hulu Hulu has not renewed or canceled ‘How I Met Your Father’
Since only three episodes of How I Met Your Father Season 2 have aired as of the writing of this article, there is no news surrounding what Hulu has planned for the show’s future. However, fans might not have to wait until after the How I Met Your Father Season 2 finale to know if it’s been renewed or canceled.
Hilary Duff as Sophie and Chris Lowell as Jesse | Photo by: Patrick Wymore/Hulu Hulu has not renewed or canceled ‘How I Met Your Father’
Since only three episodes of How I Met Your Father Season 2 have aired as of the writing of this article, there is no news surrounding what Hulu has planned for the show’s future. However, fans might not have to wait until after the How I Met Your Father Season 2 finale to know if it’s been renewed or canceled.
- 2/11/2023
- by Sarah Little
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Warner Bros. Discovery has had a rough go of it recently. The newly-formed mega corporation’s decision to callously prune HBO Max’s servers of hours of content has led to mountains of bad PR and billions of dollars in market cap losses. Suffice it to say, a jam-packed list of new HBO Max releases for September 2022 would provide some welcome relief for the “House of the House of the Dragon.”
Unfortunately, HBO Max’s new releases this month are uncommonly light. It’s impossible to say whether this is the result of more Wbd meddling or simply some bad scheduling luck but either way it’s not going to make any executives’ seats less warm. There are only a handful of notable originals this month, led by season 2 of the Spanish language comedy Los Espookys on Sept. 16. That is joined by a pair of documentaries, Escape from Kabul on Sept.
Unfortunately, HBO Max’s new releases this month are uncommonly light. It’s impossible to say whether this is the result of more Wbd meddling or simply some bad scheduling luck but either way it’s not going to make any executives’ seats less warm. There are only a handful of notable originals this month, led by season 2 of the Spanish language comedy Los Espookys on Sept. 16. That is joined by a pair of documentaries, Escape from Kabul on Sept.
- 9/1/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
‘The African Desperate’ Trailer: Martine Syms’ Feature Debut Deconstructs Race in the High Art World
Los Angeles-based artist Martine Syms is turning the high art world upside down with her feature debut “The African Desperate.”
A coming-of-age comedy, the film premiered at New Directors/New Films this year as the closing night selection, and opens in theaters September 16 at Brooklyn Arts Museum (Bam) and the Quad in New York City, as well as select theaters nationwide, from Mubi
Per the official synopsis, “The African Desperate” tracks one very long day for Palace Bryant (an expertly deadpan Diamond Stingily), a newly minted Mfa grad whose final day of art school becomes a real trip. Palace is not going to the fucking graduation party! She hates the woods. If this were a reality show, she would be the person who was not here to make friends. Palace needs to get home, back to Chicago from upstate New York. But that means surviving a hazy, hilarious, and hallucinatory night-long odyssey,...
A coming-of-age comedy, the film premiered at New Directors/New Films this year as the closing night selection, and opens in theaters September 16 at Brooklyn Arts Museum (Bam) and the Quad in New York City, as well as select theaters nationwide, from Mubi
Per the official synopsis, “The African Desperate” tracks one very long day for Palace Bryant (an expertly deadpan Diamond Stingily), a newly minted Mfa grad whose final day of art school becomes a real trip. Palace is not going to the fucking graduation party! She hates the woods. If this were a reality show, she would be the person who was not here to make friends. Palace needs to get home, back to Chicago from upstate New York. But that means surviving a hazy, hilarious, and hallucinatory night-long odyssey,...
- 8/31/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Fortysomething sex worker Sascha falls for twentysomething Maria, but a visit to her home town forces a reckoning
Henrika Kull’s intimate movie is set in a real-life legal brothel in Berlin. Katharina Behrens plays fortysomething Sascha: a good-natured, easygoing veteran who brusquely calls herself a Nutte, a “tart”, rather than the official term Sexarbeiterin, or sex worker, and she periodically makes tense visits to her home town of Brandenburg to see her 11-year-old son from a previous relationship. She is more or less happy with her life – until suddenly she falls passionately in love with a new girl at the brothel, a twentysomething Italian called Maria, played by the performance artist and former escort Adam Hoya, who as Eva Collé was the subject of the 2019 documentary Searching Eva.
Bliss may or may not illuminate the “sex work is work” debate: certainly, Sascha and Maria’s day-to-day experience of the...
Henrika Kull’s intimate movie is set in a real-life legal brothel in Berlin. Katharina Behrens plays fortysomething Sascha: a good-natured, easygoing veteran who brusquely calls herself a Nutte, a “tart”, rather than the official term Sexarbeiterin, or sex worker, and she periodically makes tense visits to her home town of Brandenburg to see her 11-year-old son from a previous relationship. She is more or less happy with her life – until suddenly she falls passionately in love with a new girl at the brothel, a twentysomething Italian called Maria, played by the performance artist and former escort Adam Hoya, who as Eva Collé was the subject of the 2019 documentary Searching Eva.
Bliss may or may not illuminate the “sex work is work” debate: certainly, Sascha and Maria’s day-to-day experience of the...
- 12/20/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The first film has several names, all variations on a theme: Workers Leaving the Lumières Factory, Lunch Hour at the Lumière Factory, Dinner Hour at the Factory Gate of M. Lumière at Lyon. In the short clip of workers streaming out the doors of the Lumières’ factory in Lyon, France, we see men and women and one dog bursting from the doors of the factory. In all but one of the film’s titles, the fact that most of the workers leaving the factory are women is not mentioned. Most often, both men and women are folded into one gender-neutral term: worker. In the century since, another theme formed particularly in American films. It was a variation on a title about workers, but with a significant qualifier. Working Girl (1988), Match Factory Girl (1990), Working Girls (1931 and 1986), Working Woman (2019), Support the Girls (2018). While women being in the workplace were a given in the Lumières’ film,...
- 11/29/2021
- MUBI
Before each Smackdown, suggestions for alternates to Oscar's roster...
Tilda Swinton in "Caravaggio"
1986 was, from the digging I've done, a fascinating year for queer cinema. Some of the films originated in '85 but belatedly hit the US in 1986, disparate efforts such as Desert Hearts, My Beautiful Laundrette, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, and What Have I Done To Deserve This?!. Meanwhile, Working Girls premiered at that year’s Cannes but didn’t get a US release until February 1987. All of these films showed up in one form or another alongside pure-cut ‘86 releases like Parting Glances and Caravaggio, indicating a shifting tide of indie and mainstream cinema with vested, complex, even sympathetic interests in LGBT themes and characters, often made by queer filmmakers. Not only that, but the films themselves are risky and provocative. Save for the deeply unpleasant Mala Noche, all are worth real engagement, and you couldn’t go...
Tilda Swinton in "Caravaggio"
1986 was, from the digging I've done, a fascinating year for queer cinema. Some of the films originated in '85 but belatedly hit the US in 1986, disparate efforts such as Desert Hearts, My Beautiful Laundrette, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, and What Have I Done To Deserve This?!. Meanwhile, Working Girls premiered at that year’s Cannes but didn’t get a US release until February 1987. All of these films showed up in one form or another alongside pure-cut ‘86 releases like Parting Glances and Caravaggio, indicating a shifting tide of indie and mainstream cinema with vested, complex, even sympathetic interests in LGBT themes and characters, often made by queer filmmakers. Not only that, but the films themselves are risky and provocative. Save for the deeply unpleasant Mala Noche, all are worth real engagement, and you couldn’t go...
- 8/15/2021
- by Nick Taylor
- FilmExperience
Highly respected but rarely screened, Working Girls, Lizzie Borden’s 1986 feature about a group of women working an extended shift in a Manhattan brothel, finally makes its way to home video this week thanks to the Criterion Collection. Presented in a new 4K digital restoration, the film is long overdue for reappraisal, and not merely due to the struggles currently faced by sex workers throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Borden’s previous feature, Born in Flames, was defiantly scrappy and overtly political. Working Girls represents an upgrade in production value while retaining Borden’s unwavering interest in feminist politics, race relations, workers’ rights […]
The post “I Could Only Shoot When I Had Increments of $200 to Spend”: Lizzie Borden on Working Girls, Harvey Weinstein and Changing Perceptions of Sex Work first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “I Could Only Shoot When I Had Increments of $200 to Spend”: Lizzie Borden on Working Girls, Harvey Weinstein and Changing Perceptions of Sex Work first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 7/14/2021
- by Erik Luers
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Highly respected but rarely screened, Working Girls, Lizzie Borden’s 1986 feature about a group of women working an extended shift in a Manhattan brothel, finally makes its way to home video this week thanks to the Criterion Collection. Presented in a new 4K digital restoration, the film is long overdue for reappraisal, and not merely due to the struggles currently faced by sex workers throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Borden’s previous feature, Born in Flames, was defiantly scrappy and overtly political. Working Girls represents an upgrade in production value while retaining Borden’s unwavering interest in feminist politics, race relations, workers’ rights […]
The post “I Could Only Shoot When I Had Increments of $200 to Spend”: Lizzie Borden on Working Girls, Harvey Weinstein and Changing Perceptions of Sex Work first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “I Could Only Shoot When I Had Increments of $200 to Spend”: Lizzie Borden on Working Girls, Harvey Weinstein and Changing Perceptions of Sex Work first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 7/14/2021
- by Erik Luers
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
After a hiatus as theaters in New York City and beyond closed their doors during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. While many theaters are still focused on a selection of new releases, there’s a handful of worthwhile repertory screenings taking place.
Museum of the Moving Image
Prints of 2001 (on 70mm), Full Metal Jacket, and The Right Stuff have screenings; The Young Girls of Rochefort has a matinee screening on Friday, while Thief plays Sunday to kick off this year’s Caan Film Festival.
Film at Lincoln Center
The restoration of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s masterpiece Flowers of Shanghai continues, while the great Simone Barbes or Virtue shows through the weekend.
Film Forum
Le Cercle Rouge La Piscine, and 8½ continue, while a print of Paul Schrader’s Blue Collar begins a week-long run; Kent Jones will conduct a Q & A on Friday.
Museum of the Moving Image
Prints of 2001 (on 70mm), Full Metal Jacket, and The Right Stuff have screenings; The Young Girls of Rochefort has a matinee screening on Friday, while Thief plays Sunday to kick off this year’s Caan Film Festival.
Film at Lincoln Center
The restoration of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s masterpiece Flowers of Shanghai continues, while the great Simone Barbes or Virtue shows through the weekend.
Film Forum
Le Cercle Rouge La Piscine, and 8½ continue, while a print of Paul Schrader’s Blue Collar begins a week-long run; Kent Jones will conduct a Q & A on Friday.
- 7/8/2021
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Bertrand Mandico's After Blue (Paradis sale).The lineup for the 2021 Locarno International Film Festival includes Piazza Grande screenings of Michael Mann's Heat and Gaspar Noé's Vortex, and the latest by by Bertrand Mandico, Axelle Ropert, Abel Ferrara, Salomé Lamas and more.The great filmmaker and actor Robert Downey Sr. has passed on at age 85. His incredible filmography includes Babo 73 (1964), Sweet Smell of Sex (1965), Chafed Elbows (1966), No More Excuses (1968), Putney Swope (1969), Pound (1970), and Greaser's Palace (1972).In an interview on the Armchair Expert podcast, Quentin Tarantino announced that he has purchased Los Angeles' Vista Theatre, emphasizing that though the theatre will screen both new and old movies, it will be "only film [...] the best prints." Screenwriter and filmmaker Clare Peploe has died. Though best known for her screenplays for Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged and La Luna,...
- 7/7/2021
- MUBI
After a hiatus as theaters in New York City and beyond closed their doors during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. While many theaters are still focused on a selection of new releases, there’s a handful of worthwhile repertory screenings taking place.
Cinema Village
“Abel Ferrara’s Cinema Village,” a nine-title selection of films both from and beloved by the great director, is underway with tickets running only $5. Read our interview with Ferrara here.
Film at Lincoln Center
The restoration of Joyce Chopra’s Smooth Talk continues, while Hou Hsiao-hsien’s masterpiece Flowers of Shanghai and Muhammad Ali, the Greatest screen.
Museum of the Moving Image
Prints of Full Metal Jacket and The Shining have showings, while 2001 plays on Dcp; non-Kubrick screenings include Beau Travail and The Right Stuff.
Film Forum
Le Cercle Rouge La Piscine,...
Cinema Village
“Abel Ferrara’s Cinema Village,” a nine-title selection of films both from and beloved by the great director, is underway with tickets running only $5. Read our interview with Ferrara here.
Film at Lincoln Center
The restoration of Joyce Chopra’s Smooth Talk continues, while Hou Hsiao-hsien’s masterpiece Flowers of Shanghai and Muhammad Ali, the Greatest screen.
Museum of the Moving Image
Prints of Full Metal Jacket and The Shining have showings, while 2001 plays on Dcp; non-Kubrick screenings include Beau Travail and The Right Stuff.
Film Forum
Le Cercle Rouge La Piscine,...
- 7/2/2021
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
After a hiatus as theaters in New York City and beyond closed their doors during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. While many theaters are still focused on a selection of new releases, there’s a handful of worthwhile repertory screenings taking place.
Film Forum
Le Cercle Rouge has been given a new 4K restoration, while La Piscine and 8½ continue.
Film at Lincoln Center
As the new restoration of In the Mood for Love continues playing daily, Joyce Chopra’s Smooth Talk begins a week-long run.
Museum of the Moving Image
“See It Big” has a major weekend with Daughters of the Dust, Beau Travail, The Piano, and Do the Right Thing; meanwhile, 2001 plays on 70mm this Friday.
IFC Center
The restoration of Lizzie Borden’s Working Girls continues.
Roxy Cinema
Prints of John Waters’ Polyester and...
Film Forum
Le Cercle Rouge has been given a new 4K restoration, while La Piscine and 8½ continue.
Film at Lincoln Center
As the new restoration of In the Mood for Love continues playing daily, Joyce Chopra’s Smooth Talk begins a week-long run.
Museum of the Moving Image
“See It Big” has a major weekend with Daughters of the Dust, Beau Travail, The Piano, and Do the Right Thing; meanwhile, 2001 plays on 70mm this Friday.
IFC Center
The restoration of Lizzie Borden’s Working Girls continues.
Roxy Cinema
Prints of John Waters’ Polyester and...
- 6/24/2021
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSFollowing the launch of the English-language podcast earlier this month, yesterday we revealed our upcoming original Spanish-language podcast! In the first season of the Mubi Podcast: Encuentros, co-produced by Mubi and La Corriente del Golfo Podcast, leading voices in Latin American film and culture come together to think about their own methods and processes for approaching the craft, talk about personal experiences, and reflect on films and filmmakers that have inspired their work. We begin with Gael García Bernal (Mexico) and Carolina Sanín (Colombia) as the guests of the first episode, entitled The Ritual of the Masks. The first season of Encuentros consists of in-depth conversations among colleagues, an encounter between two people who share their love for cinema. Check out the trailer above and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts here.Andrea Arnold...
- 6/16/2021
- MUBI
Bookmark this page for all the latest international feature submissions.
Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2021 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.
Scroll down for the full list
The 93rd Academy Awards is set to take place on April 25, 2021. It was originally set to be held on February 28, before both the ceremony and eligibility period were postponed for two months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Submitted films must have been released in their respective countries between the expanded dates of October 1, 2019, and December 31, 2020. (Last year it was October-September.
Submissions for the best international feature film award at the 2021 Academy Awards have started to come in, and Screen is keeping a running list of each film below.
Scroll down for the full list
The 93rd Academy Awards is set to take place on April 25, 2021. It was originally set to be held on February 28, before both the ceremony and eligibility period were postponed for two months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Submitted films must have been released in their respective countries between the expanded dates of October 1, 2019, and December 31, 2020. (Last year it was October-September.
- 11/11/2020
- by Ben Dalton¬Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, which has led to lockdowns and closures of film festivals, cinemas, and screening events worldwide, a number of filmmakers have made their titles available online. One of these, a true gem, is Lizzie Borden's Working Girls (1986), a film about a group of escorts who live together in Manhattan, and their interactions with their exploitative employer as well as the fantasies of their leering clients. Borden, best known for the feminist dystopian film Born in Flames (1983), shared the film this past week, urging her followers on Twitter: "Please stay safe, especially sex workers." Amid the ongoing crisis, sex workers including escorts like the protagonists of the film (many of whom were sex workers themselves) comprise an especially vulnerable group, facing layoffs and housing instability among other forms of financial loss, as well as exposure to the virus. Borden's online release of Working Girls...
- 3/27/2020
- MUBI
Filles de joie
French director Frédéric Fonteyne breaks an eight-year hiatus with his fifth feature Filles de joie aka Working Girls (initially titled The Border) in 2020, produced by Jacques-Henri and Olivier Bronckart, Yael Fogiel and Laetitia Gonzalez. Sara Forestier, Noemie Lvovsky and Annabelle Legronne headline the film. Previously, Fonteyne competed in Venice with his 1999 sophomore film An Affair of Love (aka A Pornographic Affair) and returned to Venice in the Horizons sidebar with 2004’s Gille’s Wife (which won the C.I.C.A.E. Award in the sidebar) and 2012’s Tango Libre (which won a Special Jury Prize in the sidebar).
Gist: Co-written by his Tango libre scribe Anne Paulicevich, is about three women who, everyday cross the border from France to Belgium, where they carry out their secret professions as sex workers.…...
French director Frédéric Fonteyne breaks an eight-year hiatus with his fifth feature Filles de joie aka Working Girls (initially titled The Border) in 2020, produced by Jacques-Henri and Olivier Bronckart, Yael Fogiel and Laetitia Gonzalez. Sara Forestier, Noemie Lvovsky and Annabelle Legronne headline the film. Previously, Fonteyne competed in Venice with his 1999 sophomore film An Affair of Love (aka A Pornographic Affair) and returned to Venice in the Horizons sidebar with 2004’s Gille’s Wife (which won the C.I.C.A.E. Award in the sidebar) and 2012’s Tango Libre (which won a Special Jury Prize in the sidebar).
Gist: Co-written by his Tango libre scribe Anne Paulicevich, is about three women who, everyday cross the border from France to Belgium, where they carry out their secret professions as sex workers.…...
- 12/30/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
’Time of the Signs: Chasing the American Zeitgeist’ is inspired by current affairs in Trump-era America.
The retrospective programme for the 2018 Edinburgh International Film Festival (June 20-July 1) has been announced.
Titled ’Time of the Signs: Chasing the American Zeitgeist’, the section is inspired by current affairs in Trump-era America and will focus on Us cinema from the 1980s.
It will be comprised of three strands. Firstly ’American Woman: Female Directors in American Cinema’ will screen work by female directors from 1980-1990 including Amy Heckerling’s Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Lizzie Borden’s Working Girls and Kathryn Bigelow’s western horror Near Dark.
The retrospective programme for the 2018 Edinburgh International Film Festival (June 20-July 1) has been announced.
Titled ’Time of the Signs: Chasing the American Zeitgeist’, the section is inspired by current affairs in Trump-era America and will focus on Us cinema from the 1980s.
It will be comprised of three strands. Firstly ’American Woman: Female Directors in American Cinema’ will screen work by female directors from 1980-1990 including Amy Heckerling’s Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Lizzie Borden’s Working Girls and Kathryn Bigelow’s western horror Near Dark.
- 3/22/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The Weinstein Company assets will be purchased by the Ron Burkle-backed Maria Contreras-Sweet, and all things Weinstein will be removed from whatever remains. After a nearly four-decade run, the legacy of the most successful specialized distributor in history comes down to the last five tumultuous months that mark an inglorious (if not inglourious) end.
The Weinsteins made its first big Oscar splash in 1990 with “My Left Foot,” but they’d already been around for some time. Long before I covered box office for IndieWire, I spent 30 years as a film buyer, booking for theaters — and was a first-hand witness to Harvey and Bob Weinstein’s rise. Here’s my perspective on how they grew from a small outlier to an indie powerhouse.
“Bob Weinstein on the line. He says he’s from Buffalo.”
Back in 1981, phone calls were announced by a receptionist. As a young film buyer for M&R Theaters,...
The Weinsteins made its first big Oscar splash in 1990 with “My Left Foot,” but they’d already been around for some time. Long before I covered box office for IndieWire, I spent 30 years as a film buyer, booking for theaters — and was a first-hand witness to Harvey and Bob Weinstein’s rise. Here’s my perspective on how they grew from a small outlier to an indie powerhouse.
“Bob Weinstein on the line. He says he’s from Buffalo.”
Back in 1981, phone calls were announced by a receptionist. As a young film buyer for M&R Theaters,...
- 3/6/2018
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
How are the mighty fallen. I first met Harvey Weinstein at Cannes in 1986, where he had a tiny room at the Majestic Hotel and ran around the festival looking for movies for Miramax Films to acquire. The former Buffalo concert promoter was an anxious and eager hustler. He eventually picked up Lizzie Borden’s realistic look at New York hookers, “Working Girls,” out of Director’s Fortnight and took it to Sundance, where it won a 1987 jury prize. Even back then, as Peter Biskind reported in “Down and Dirty Pictures,” while the Weinsteins did a good job releasing the movie ($1.7 million domestic), the producers audited Miramax’s books and found some inappropriate expenses that the Weinsteins were forced to reimburse.
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That was the template. Stories about dodgy business practices continue to this day, as vendors complain...
Read More:Harvey Weinstein’s Firing: What Happens to TWC, the Movies, and Harvey
That was the template. Stories about dodgy business practices continue to this day, as vendors complain...
- 10/9/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
How are the mighty fallen. I first met Harvey Weinstein at Cannes in 1986, where he had a tiny room at the Majestic Hotel and ran around the festival looking for movies for Miramax Films to acquire. The former Buffalo concert promoter was an anxious and eager hustler. He eventually picked up Lizzie Borden’s realistic look at New York hookers, “Working Girls,” out of Director’s Fortnight and took it to Sundance, where it won a 1987 jury prize. Even back then, as Peter Biskind reported in “Down and Dirty Pictures,” while the Weinsteins did a good job releasing the movie ($1.7 million domestic), the producers audited Miramax’s books and found some inappropriate expenses that the Weinsteins were forced to reimburse.
Read More:Harvey Weinstein’s Firing: What Happens to TWC, the Movies, and Harvey
That was the template. Stories about dodgy business practices continue to this day, as vendors complain...
Read More:Harvey Weinstein’s Firing: What Happens to TWC, the Movies, and Harvey
That was the template. Stories about dodgy business practices continue to this day, as vendors complain...
- 10/9/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Some thoughts on last night's Broad City episode guest-starring Hillary Clinton coming up just as soon as I look like a Bachelor contestant who quits because she's too good for the show... Clinton's cameo was the headline for "2016," if not for this new Broad City season as a whole. Unsurprisingly, though, her appearance (which Comedy Central put online in its entirety even before "2016" aired) was far from the episode's high point. With a few exceptions like John McCain or Al Franken (who had a head start), politicians who do comedy at best qualify as good sports, and that's more or less how Broad City used Clinton: a glorified prop for Ilana and Abbi to have a brief but amusing freak-out over. (My favorite part, and not just because it alluded to perhaps the series' best episode, was when Abbi, struggling for things to say about herself to the former First Lady,...
- 3/17/2016
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Look how far Sandra Bullock has come! When fans think of the A-list actress, roles in The Blind Side, The Proposal and Miss Congeniality may quickly come to mind. But before winning an Oscar and becoming a household name, Bullock received a spot in a TV series titled Working Girls. In a throwback video clip from 1990, E! News sat down with the actress known on the series at Tess McGill where her love for Hollywood was totally visible. "It's amazing. I come to work thinking 'I'm getting paid for this?'" she shared with E! News before breaking out into song. "I'm getting money. I'm having so much fun." She continued, "It's really great. It's a job...
- 10/29/2015
- E! Online
Above: Pipe Dreams (1976).
While searching for something to post on Movie Poster of the Day on Christmas Eve, I took a look at the poster for Bob Clark’s A Christmas Story, which I hadn’t paid much attention to before. On closer inspection I recognized it as a pretty perfect pastiche of Norman Rockwell, with its meticulous depiction of a domestic scene in medias res, and down to its details like its circular frame within a frame, its white background, and the parallel black lines mimicking the Saturday Evening Post masthead.
The association with, or subversion of, America’s favorite purveyor of whimsical Americana makes perfect sense in light of the poster’s tagline about the "Original, Traditional, One-Hundred-Percent, Red-Blooded, Two-Fisted, All-American Christmas” and the artist, Robert Tanenbaum, even took his parody a step further by signing his illustration in the style of Rockwell’s trademark stenciled signature.
Once...
While searching for something to post on Movie Poster of the Day on Christmas Eve, I took a look at the poster for Bob Clark’s A Christmas Story, which I hadn’t paid much attention to before. On closer inspection I recognized it as a pretty perfect pastiche of Norman Rockwell, with its meticulous depiction of a domestic scene in medias res, and down to its details like its circular frame within a frame, its white background, and the parallel black lines mimicking the Saturday Evening Post masthead.
The association with, or subversion of, America’s favorite purveyor of whimsical Americana makes perfect sense in light of the poster’s tagline about the "Original, Traditional, One-Hundred-Percent, Red-Blooded, Two-Fisted, All-American Christmas” and the artist, Robert Tanenbaum, even took his parody a step further by signing his illustration in the style of Rockwell’s trademark stenciled signature.
Once...
- 12/29/2014
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
It’s a film starring Sundance Film Fest creator Robert Redford and another film starring Sundance mainstay James Franco that are the latest and last items to officially pad the 2015 edition. Ken Kwapis’ A Walk in the Woods (surely to be discussed as a companion piece to Gus Van Sant’s heavy Cannes contender The Sea of Trees) and Rupert Goold’s directorial debut, True Story – a story that is stranger than fiction close out the Premieres selections. Also announced we find items for New Frontier, Sundance Kids and the From the Collection items. And while the line-up is complete, the actual final piece to the puzzle might actually be a secret screening or two. This year I wager on Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups playing as a non official showing. Here’s the press release.
A Walk in the Woods / U.S.A. (Director: Ken Kwapis, Screenwriters: Rick Kerb,...
A Walk in the Woods / U.S.A. (Director: Ken Kwapis, Screenwriters: Rick Kerb,...
- 12/15/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Sundance: Robert Redford stars opposite Nick Nolte in Salt Lake City gala
Festival top brass announced on December 15 a volley of 10 additional films and New Frontier installations.
The late arrivals mean the festival will screen 123 features overall from 29 countries culled from 12,166 submissions. A total of 106 of the features will be world premieres and 45 of the total line-up hail from first-time film-makers,
Sundance is set to run from January 22-February 1.
All synopses provided by the festival.
Premieres
A Walk In The Woods (USA)
Ken Kwapis
An aging travel writer sets out to hike the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail with a long-estranged high school buddy. Along the way, the duo face off with each other, nature, and an eccentric assortment of characters. Together, they learn that some roads are better left untraveled.
Cast: Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Emma Thompson, Mary Steenburgen, Nick Offerman, Kristen Schaal.
World premiere
Salt Lake City Gala Film
True Story (USA)
Rupert Goold
When disgraced New York...
Festival top brass announced on December 15 a volley of 10 additional films and New Frontier installations.
The late arrivals mean the festival will screen 123 features overall from 29 countries culled from 12,166 submissions. A total of 106 of the features will be world premieres and 45 of the total line-up hail from first-time film-makers,
Sundance is set to run from January 22-February 1.
All synopses provided by the festival.
Premieres
A Walk In The Woods (USA)
Ken Kwapis
An aging travel writer sets out to hike the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail with a long-estranged high school buddy. Along the way, the duo face off with each other, nature, and an eccentric assortment of characters. Together, they learn that some roads are better left untraveled.
Cast: Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Emma Thompson, Mary Steenburgen, Nick Offerman, Kristen Schaal.
World premiere
Salt Lake City Gala Film
True Story (USA)
Rupert Goold
When disgraced New York...
- 12/15/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
It’s been 5 months since my last confession and so I’d like to share with you thoughts about What I’ve Been Watching. It’s a chance for me to share some TV viewing pleasures I have had in the hopes that you’ll check them out for yourself; you never know, you just might find a new favorite!
If I am missing any good movies and/or TV shows, post a comment below or Facebook and let me know.
Say Goodbye, Nucky And Friends
Boardwalk Empire
It wasn’t The Sopranos, but it never intended to be. Instead, it was one of the best crime dramas ever on TV and set itself apart a slow boil style set in a period of history that requires attention to detail and character. It was a wild ride that I will soon have to revisit.
Status: The series finale aired October 26, 2014 on HBO
No.
If I am missing any good movies and/or TV shows, post a comment below or Facebook and let me know.
Say Goodbye, Nucky And Friends
Boardwalk Empire
It wasn’t The Sopranos, but it never intended to be. Instead, it was one of the best crime dramas ever on TV and set itself apart a slow boil style set in a period of history that requires attention to detail and character. It was a wild ride that I will soon have to revisit.
Status: The series finale aired October 26, 2014 on HBO
No.
- 11/21/2014
- by Graham McMorrow
- City of Films
They're two young women in their mid-twenties, living in New York and struggling to retain their dignity in a world of humiliating hook-ups and wageslave degradation. One of them, Abbi, works at a chic, faux-holistic gym cleaning toilets; the other, Ilana, sleeps through her crappy day job and wants nothing more from life than a dimebag and a date with Lil Wayne. Created by Upright Citizen Brigade alumni Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, Comedy Central's Broad City takes the duo's scrappy Web series and supersizes it (sort of) for...
- 3/24/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Lovelace
Directed by: Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Juno Temple, Chris Noth, Hank Azaria, James Franco
Running Time: 1 hr 32 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: August 9, 2013
Plot: The story of Deep Throat porn star Linda Lovelace (Seyfried) and her relationship with abusive manager Chuck Traynor (Sarsgaard).
Who’S It For? Not really sure. Those who like to be bummed out about the control of the porn industry? At the very least, fans of Seyfried who will follow her to even the messiest of projects.
Overall
Amanda Seyfried is fitfully, but unfortunately servant in Lovelace, a movie that confirms Boogie Nights might have a monopoly on widespread films about the porn industry. While it does take a commendable amount of lady cojones for an actress to attempt to represent such a complicated figure, one wouldn’t recognize such an attitude, as the former Mean Girls star is constantly...
Directed by: Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Juno Temple, Chris Noth, Hank Azaria, James Franco
Running Time: 1 hr 32 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: August 9, 2013
Plot: The story of Deep Throat porn star Linda Lovelace (Seyfried) and her relationship with abusive manager Chuck Traynor (Sarsgaard).
Who’S It For? Not really sure. Those who like to be bummed out about the control of the porn industry? At the very least, fans of Seyfried who will follow her to even the messiest of projects.
Overall
Amanda Seyfried is fitfully, but unfortunately servant in Lovelace, a movie that confirms Boogie Nights might have a monopoly on widespread films about the porn industry. While it does take a commendable amount of lady cojones for an actress to attempt to represent such a complicated figure, one wouldn’t recognize such an attitude, as the former Mean Girls star is constantly...
- 8/11/2013
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
Highlights from the month that was in case you missed anything...
Peter Parker and Bruce Wayne join the Cock Rocking Kings of Tampa!
Emma ♥ Andrew A Red Carpet Convo with Joanna
Best of the Year Thus Far Halfway Mark Summary, January through June
Burning Questions Michael wants to know what the Best Bonus Features are on a Bluray or DVD?
The Dark Knight Rises... And Falls, Sputters, Limps and Soars
Q&A Working Girls and Generational Comedy
Top Ten "Jane"s A Bit of Name Dropping Silliness
Finding Nemo 2 Pixar Jumps the Shark
Moviegoing Diaries Beau takes a date to Magic Mike. Was this wise?
Most Eyeballs: Before Magic Mike, there was "Ricky the Rocket"
Most Discussed: Cast This! Baby Jane Redux
Coming in August: Reader Appreciation Month, Gene Kelly Centennial Celebration, Hope Springs, ParaNorman, Marilyn Monroe, Michelle Yeoh, Robert Pattinson in Cosmopolis and Bel Ami, Total Recall, Bel Ami,...
Peter Parker and Bruce Wayne join the Cock Rocking Kings of Tampa!
Emma ♥ Andrew A Red Carpet Convo with Joanna
Best of the Year Thus Far Halfway Mark Summary, January through June
Burning Questions Michael wants to know what the Best Bonus Features are on a Bluray or DVD?
The Dark Knight Rises... And Falls, Sputters, Limps and Soars
Q&A Working Girls and Generational Comedy
Top Ten "Jane"s A Bit of Name Dropping Silliness
Finding Nemo 2 Pixar Jumps the Shark
Moviegoing Diaries Beau takes a date to Magic Mike. Was this wise?
Most Eyeballs: Before Magic Mike, there was "Ricky the Rocket"
Most Discussed: Cast This! Baby Jane Redux
Coming in August: Reader Appreciation Month, Gene Kelly Centennial Celebration, Hope Springs, ParaNorman, Marilyn Monroe, Michelle Yeoh, Robert Pattinson in Cosmopolis and Bel Ami, Total Recall, Bel Ami,...
- 7/31/2012
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
CBS Fan Awards: Choose Your Favorite Moments from the 2011-2012 Season
CBS has decided to get in the awards game by giving fans of its shows the opportunity to vote for their favorite moments of the past season.
The awards are headquartered at CBS.com/awards, but fans will be able to use Twitter and Facebook to cast their vote from now through July 11 on categories such as "Best Meltdown Moment" and "Best Catchphrase". Fans can return back to the page at any time to see which nominee is in the lead.
The nominees are:
Best Meltdown Moment - #bestmeltdownmoment
1. Mike & Molly - "The Wedding" #mikeandmolly
2. Person Of Interest - "Baby Blue" #personofinterest
3. The Amazing Race - "Taste Your Salami" #amazingrace
4. The Big Bang Theory - "The Recombination Hypothesis" #bigbangtheory
5. 2 Broke Girls - "And the Really Petty Cash" #2brokegirls
Best Catchphrase - #bestcatchphrase
1. How I Met Your Mother - "Legendary...
CBS has decided to get in the awards game by giving fans of its shows the opportunity to vote for their favorite moments of the past season.
The awards are headquartered at CBS.com/awards, but fans will be able to use Twitter and Facebook to cast their vote from now through July 11 on categories such as "Best Meltdown Moment" and "Best Catchphrase". Fans can return back to the page at any time to see which nominee is in the lead.
The nominees are:
Best Meltdown Moment - #bestmeltdownmoment
1. Mike & Molly - "The Wedding" #mikeandmolly
2. Person Of Interest - "Baby Blue" #personofinterest
3. The Amazing Race - "Taste Your Salami" #amazingrace
4. The Big Bang Theory - "The Recombination Hypothesis" #bigbangtheory
5. 2 Broke Girls - "And the Really Petty Cash" #2brokegirls
Best Catchphrase - #bestcatchphrase
1. How I Met Your Mother - "Legendary...
- 6/13/2012
- by Clarissa
- TVovermind.com
Blue Blood's came back after three week's with an exciting murder trial and an unexpected job offer. "Working Girls" put Erin in the spotlight and her reaction to it wasn't always pretty.
I had to chuckle when Erin tried to tell Boris that everything was going to be Ok. A cold blooded killer just told him that he knew where his children were. There was nothing Ok about that. I'm pretty sure any sane person would think twice about testifying.
Then everyone was telling poor Sophia that her family in Russia would be kept safe. They couldn't keep their witnesses here safe. Why should she believe they could protect her family half a world away?
I know Erin was trying to sound strong for the press in this Blue Bloods quote…
Erin: We have truth on our side that's all the evidence that we need. | permalink
…but I thought it came across as naive.
I had to chuckle when Erin tried to tell Boris that everything was going to be Ok. A cold blooded killer just told him that he knew where his children were. There was nothing Ok about that. I'm pretty sure any sane person would think twice about testifying.
Then everyone was telling poor Sophia that her family in Russia would be kept safe. They couldn't keep their witnesses here safe. Why should she believe they could protect her family half a world away?
I know Erin was trying to sound strong for the press in this Blue Bloods quote…
Erin: We have truth on our side that's all the evidence that we need. | permalink
…but I thought it came across as naive.
- 4/28/2012
- by christine@tvfanatic.com (C. Orlando)
- TVfanatic
Harvey Weinstein amuses me. When I first met him in 1987 in Cannes, he was a hungry indie distributor on the rise hawking Lizzie Borden's Working Girls. I've tracked him and interviewed him and annoyed him over the years--and the video interview below reveals some of the things I know about him. 1. He likes to live in the past. That's because he has so many past triumphs to dine on--from Scary Movie, Inglourious Basterds and The King's Speech's worldwide grosses, to having trained half the execs in Hollywood. "The problem with our business is you have to have people who love movies in the business," he says. Ideally, yes. 2. But he knows he has to adjust to the present. "We have to build ...
- 4/26/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
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
First, let’s revisit the long and winding path that Bob Marley projects have taken, since the Warner Bros announcement in 1999…
One… two… three… go!
Alright, so there was the 1999 Warner Bros. project which was to be based on Timothy White’s 1998 novel Catch A fire: The Life of Bob Marley; the film was to star Bob Marley’s son Rohan (as Bob) and Lauryn Hill (as Rita Marley), but nothing ever materialized.
7 years later, in 2006, Jamie Foxx (of all people) was said to be starring as Bob Marley in a biopic that was to be directed by French-Algerian filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb, which was reportedly conceived by Rita Marley. As an aside, long-time readers of this blog will recognize Rachid Bouchareb’s name, as it’s come up a number of times – notably, his latest film, Hors La Loi (Outside The Law) caused quite a stir at last year’s Cannes Film Festival; also,...
One… two… three… go!
Alright, so there was the 1999 Warner Bros. project which was to be based on Timothy White’s 1998 novel Catch A fire: The Life of Bob Marley; the film was to star Bob Marley’s son Rohan (as Bob) and Lauryn Hill (as Rita Marley), but nothing ever materialized.
7 years later, in 2006, Jamie Foxx (of all people) was said to be starring as Bob Marley in a biopic that was to be directed by French-Algerian filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb, which was reportedly conceived by Rita Marley. As an aside, long-time readers of this blog will recognize Rachid Bouchareb’s name, as it’s come up a number of times – notably, his latest film, Hors La Loi (Outside The Law) caused quite a stir at last year’s Cannes Film Festival; also,...
- 2/2/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Almost 30 years after his death, we still have yet to see a theatrically-released biopic or documentary based on the life of Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley.
There have been a number of attempts over the last decade or so that either eventually died, or stalled, for one reason or another, and I’ll re-address those in a second.
First, this morning brings news that Emmy Award-winning British director Jenny Ash is developing a feature film that will concentrate on Marley’s 1-year sojourn in London, in 1977 (although he actually spent close to 2 years there in a self-imposed exile, after a near-fatal 1976 assassination attempt) – a important year in Marley’s life, the year he discovered he had the cancer that would eventually kill him. It was also the period when he recorded his great Exodus and Kaya albums – the former producing hit singles, Exodus, Waiting in Vain, Jamming, and One Love. Marley...
There have been a number of attempts over the last decade or so that either eventually died, or stalled, for one reason or another, and I’ll re-address those in a second.
First, this morning brings news that Emmy Award-winning British director Jenny Ash is developing a feature film that will concentrate on Marley’s 1-year sojourn in London, in 1977 (although he actually spent close to 2 years there in a self-imposed exile, after a near-fatal 1976 assassination attempt) – a important year in Marley’s life, the year he discovered he had the cancer that would eventually kill him. It was also the period when he recorded his great Exodus and Kaya albums – the former producing hit singles, Exodus, Waiting in Vain, Jamming, and One Love. Marley...
- 8/18/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Almost 30 years after his death, we still have yet to see a theatrically-released biopic or documentary based on the life of Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley.
There have been a number of attempts over that last 11 years that either eventually died, or stalled, for one reason or another. So, what happened to all of them?
Let’s take a look shall we…?
First, there was the 1999 Warner Bros. project which was to be based on Timothy White’s 1998 novel Catch A fire: The Life of Bob Marley; the film was to star Bob Marley’s son Rohan (as Bob) and Lauryn Hill (as Rita Marley), but nothing ever materialized.
7 years later, in 2006, Jamie Foxx (of all people) was said to be starring as Bob Marley in a biopic that was to be directed by French-Algerian filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb, which was reportedly conceived by Rita Marley. As an aside, long-time readers...
There have been a number of attempts over that last 11 years that either eventually died, or stalled, for one reason or another. So, what happened to all of them?
Let’s take a look shall we…?
First, there was the 1999 Warner Bros. project which was to be based on Timothy White’s 1998 novel Catch A fire: The Life of Bob Marley; the film was to star Bob Marley’s son Rohan (as Bob) and Lauryn Hill (as Rita Marley), but nothing ever materialized.
7 years later, in 2006, Jamie Foxx (of all people) was said to be starring as Bob Marley in a biopic that was to be directed by French-Algerian filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb, which was reportedly conceived by Rita Marley. As an aside, long-time readers...
- 6/20/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Before there was Donna Deitch (Desert Hearts) and Cheryl Dunye (Watermelon Woman) there was Barbara Hammer. In 1974, while attending school in UCLA, the young Barbara met a group of women and realized she was both a lesbian and a feminist, something that would influence not only Barbara herself, but generations of women — whether they realize it or not.
1974 is when Barbara put the first lesbian sex scene on film. It was a short, called Dyketatics, and shot close-up in all black and white. It was real sex between two women (Hammer and a friend) and it was controversial, of course. But it helped Barbara realized that capturing lesbian life on screen was part of her ideal life, and she wouldn't stop using her camera and her sexuality to infiltrate the worlds of art and film. Now, she's giving herself to the world of publishing with her new book, Hammer! Making...
1974 is when Barbara put the first lesbian sex scene on film. It was a short, called Dyketatics, and shot close-up in all black and white. It was real sex between two women (Hammer and a friend) and it was controversial, of course. But it helped Barbara realized that capturing lesbian life on screen was part of her ideal life, and she wouldn't stop using her camera and her sexuality to infiltrate the worlds of art and film. Now, she's giving herself to the world of publishing with her new book, Hammer! Making...
- 3/8/2010
- by Trish Bendix
- AfterEllen.com
'I think it was a really big learning experience for me,' she says of dating Jay Lyon on camera.
By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Christina Garibaldi
Whitney Port
Photo: MTV News
Jay Lyon and Whitney Port had a whirlwind romance on "The City" last time around. With new episodes already being aired, Port says she wouldn't change a thing, despite admitting that having a serious relationship on the show wasn't the best idea in the world.
"I really don't have any regrets," she told MTV News. "I think it was a really big learning experience for me. I didn't really realize or think about how crazy getting in a deep relationship on camera was going to be and what the outcome was and how it was going to affect me."
But she said that, like so many choices made in front of the cameras, it's all hindsight. And...
By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Christina Garibaldi
Whitney Port
Photo: MTV News
Jay Lyon and Whitney Port had a whirlwind romance on "The City" last time around. With new episodes already being aired, Port says she wouldn't change a thing, despite admitting that having a serious relationship on the show wasn't the best idea in the world.
"I really don't have any regrets," she told MTV News. "I think it was a really big learning experience for me. I didn't really realize or think about how crazy getting in a deep relationship on camera was going to be and what the outcome was and how it was going to affect me."
But she said that, like so many choices made in front of the cameras, it's all hindsight. And...
- 10/8/2009
- MTV Music News
NEW YORK -- Rita Marley is executive producing the first-ever biopic of her late husband Bob Marley, and if she has it her way, the reggae icon's daughter-in-law Lauryn Hill will portray her onscreen.
The Weinstein Co. will produce and distribute a big-screen version of her 2004 autobiography "No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley," a chronicle of the musician's childhood and their tumultuous 15-year marriage through his death from cancer in 1981.
"Lauryn would be ideal [to play me]" said Marley. Her husband's son with Janet Hunt, Rohan, is married to the troubled singer, who largely disappeared from the music scene after her acclaimed 1998 debut solo album. "She sees my life as her life". Hill will vet the adaptation currently being written by Lizzie Borden ("Working Girls"), who is down in Jamaica completing the script.
The untitled project from producer Rudy Langlais ("The Hurricane") is tentatively set to begin filming early next year with a projected late 2009 release date.
The Weinstein Co. will produce and distribute a big-screen version of her 2004 autobiography "No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley," a chronicle of the musician's childhood and their tumultuous 15-year marriage through his death from cancer in 1981.
"Lauryn would be ideal [to play me]" said Marley. Her husband's son with Janet Hunt, Rohan, is married to the troubled singer, who largely disappeared from the music scene after her acclaimed 1998 debut solo album. "She sees my life as her life". Hill will vet the adaptation currently being written by Lizzie Borden ("Working Girls"), who is down in Jamaica completing the script.
The untitled project from producer Rudy Langlais ("The Hurricane") is tentatively set to begin filming early next year with a projected late 2009 release date.
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