National Geographic Documentary Films and Greenwich Entertainment said Friday that they will release Nat Geo’s Thai cave rescue documentary The Rescue in theaters in October. That’s the same month as the theatrical bow of one of Nat Geo’s other feature docs, Becoming Cousteau, which earlier this week set an October 22 release date.
Both are part of a Nat Geo doc foursome bowing this week at the Telluride Film Festival, joined by the Dr. Anthony Fauci feature Fauci and Torn.
The Rescue, which world premieres tonight at Town Park in Telluride, hails from Oscar-winning Free Solo directors E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, who also produced with Storyteller Productions’ P.J. van Sandwijk, Ventureland’s John Battsek and Bob Eisenhardt. It chronicles the daring 2018 rescue of 12 young boys and their soccer coach from deep inside a flooded cave in northern Thailand, using never-seen material and exclusive interviews to piece...
Both are part of a Nat Geo doc foursome bowing this week at the Telluride Film Festival, joined by the Dr. Anthony Fauci feature Fauci and Torn.
The Rescue, which world premieres tonight at Town Park in Telluride, hails from Oscar-winning Free Solo directors E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, who also produced with Storyteller Productions’ P.J. van Sandwijk, Ventureland’s John Battsek and Bob Eisenhardt. It chronicles the daring 2018 rescue of 12 young boys and their soccer coach from deep inside a flooded cave in northern Thailand, using never-seen material and exclusive interviews to piece...
- 9/3/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Max Lowe is in every frame of “Torn.” Even when the filmmaker isn’t appearing on-screen as a subject in his debut documentary, he’s behind the camera, or his voice is carrying over to ask a probing question. Mostly, though, Max Lowe’s own pain and curiosity suffuse each second of the intimate “Torn,” which seeks to excavate the complex history of Lowe’s own family, one previously available to the public in bits and pieces, and only now being told on their own terms.
When Lowe was just 10 years old, his father — the world-class “best there ever was” mountain climber Alex Lowe — perished in an avalanche while on an expedition in Tibet. For years, Alex and his wife Jenni had attempted to find a balance between his climbing career and his status as a family man. It was, as nearly every interview in “Torn” tells us, a nearly impossible ask.
When Lowe was just 10 years old, his father — the world-class “best there ever was” mountain climber Alex Lowe — perished in an avalanche while on an expedition in Tibet. For years, Alex and his wife Jenni had attempted to find a balance between his climbing career and his status as a family man. It was, as nearly every interview in “Torn” tells us, a nearly impossible ask.
- 9/3/2021
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
After the secondhand altitude sickness, the most intense vicarious response inspired by the rock-climbing documentary “Free Solo” is pity — in part for its subject Alex Honnold, a daredevil single-mindedly driven to defy death, but more so for his girlfriend. Amidst all the terrifying, enthralling footage of Honnold scaling sheer cliffs, the standout scene finds him and now-wife Sanni McCandless having a frank discussion about the strain his passion has put on their relationship.
Continue reading ‘Torn’: A Grief-Stricken Family Comes Together In Max Lowe’s Deeply Personal Doc [Telluride Review] at The Playlist.
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- 9/3/2021
- by Charles Bramesco
- The Playlist
Were you planning a modern adaptation of Hamlet, this might be an enticing approach for our post-Free Solo era: Hamlet’s father is a mountaineer, with Claudius as his less vaunted assistant. Sick of playing second fiddle to the king, Claudius stages an avalanche and then returns home and promptly marries the king’s wife. Grief-stricken Hamlet decides to produce a documentary about his father’s death to torment his mother for her too-soon remarriage and in hopes of making Claudius confess. Misadventures ensue, and Hamlet learns a valuable lesson about revenge and nunneries.
This isn’t exactly the story of ...
This isn’t exactly the story of ...
Two documentaries about fallen mountain climbers were accepted into Telluride 2020. Only one held on for this year’s festival.
When last year’s Telluride festival was cancelled in July, the filmmakers behind “The Alpinist” and “Torn had to make a tough decision: should they find another festival to debut their respective films?
“Getting into Telluride was so exciting for us,” says Peter Mortimer, who had re-edited “The Alpinist” with Nick Rosen following the 2018 death of its protagonist, 23-year-old free solo climber Marc-André Leclerc, in an avalanche. “It’s like the holy grail, and Werner Herzog had watched the film and wanted to introduce us on stage after the screening, so when it got canceled, it was bad.”
Red Bull Media House and Sender Films, who produced “The Alpinist,” decided to steer clear of any virtual film festivals and hold the film until the “pandemic improved.” In July Roadside Attractions and...
When last year’s Telluride festival was cancelled in July, the filmmakers behind “The Alpinist” and “Torn had to make a tough decision: should they find another festival to debut their respective films?
“Getting into Telluride was so exciting for us,” says Peter Mortimer, who had re-edited “The Alpinist” with Nick Rosen following the 2018 death of its protagonist, 23-year-old free solo climber Marc-André Leclerc, in an avalanche. “It’s like the holy grail, and Werner Herzog had watched the film and wanted to introduce us on stage after the screening, so when it got canceled, it was bad.”
Red Bull Media House and Sender Films, who produced “The Alpinist,” decided to steer clear of any virtual film festivals and hold the film until the “pandemic improved.” In July Roadside Attractions and...
- 9/2/2021
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Documentaries are front and center at this year’s Telluride Film Festival, far more than usual, with 18 new releases in the main program (not classics) and a total of four from NatGeo Documentary Films. How did that happen? NatGeo is no stranger to quality nonfiction, from Oscar, BAFTA, and Emmy-winning “Free Solo” to Oscar-nominated Syria-under-siege documentary “The Cave.”
For one thing, one of the films booked for last year’s canceled festival is in the 2021 selection, as Tff co-director Julie Huntsinger welcomed rookie filmmaker Max Lowe back with “Torn,” the true story of a family hit hard by the loss of his father, legendary mountaineer Alex Lowe, killed in a Tibet avalanche in 1999.
Much like Bing Liu’s Oscar-winning “Minding the Gap,” “Torn” explores untapped emotions as Lowe seeks answers to complex and uncharted family dynamics, helped by his younger brothers, his mother, and her second husband, his father’s mountain partner,...
For one thing, one of the films booked for last year’s canceled festival is in the 2021 selection, as Tff co-director Julie Huntsinger welcomed rookie filmmaker Max Lowe back with “Torn,” the true story of a family hit hard by the loss of his father, legendary mountaineer Alex Lowe, killed in a Tibet avalanche in 1999.
Much like Bing Liu’s Oscar-winning “Minding the Gap,” “Torn” explores untapped emotions as Lowe seeks answers to complex and uncharted family dynamics, helped by his younger brothers, his mother, and her second husband, his father’s mountain partner,...
- 9/1/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Yes, today’s announcement of films playing the Telluride Film Festival, which starts Thursday and runs through Labor Day, features many of the usual suspects spotted on the fall fest circuit and eyeing awards attention for their hot Oscar prospects. Netflix has multiple movies, so does Amazon. Focus, Warner Bros, Searchlight, Neon, A24, Sony Classics and more will also be there with some prime prospects.
But perhaps most surprisingly, National Geographic is leading the pack and taking four, count ’em four 2021 documentaries to world premiere at Telluride. And actually it would have been five but the festival passed on another (great) one, but more on that momentarily.
When I sat down recently for lunch and a preview of all five movies on Nat Geo’s impressive slate this year with Carolyn Bernstein, EVP Global Scripted Content and Documentary Films for National Geographic, among the first things she pointed out before...
But perhaps most surprisingly, National Geographic is leading the pack and taking four, count ’em four 2021 documentaries to world premiere at Telluride. And actually it would have been five but the festival passed on another (great) one, but more on that momentarily.
When I sat down recently for lunch and a preview of all five movies on Nat Geo’s impressive slate this year with Carolyn Bernstein, EVP Global Scripted Content and Documentary Films for National Geographic, among the first things she pointed out before...
- 9/1/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Keeping its lineup as secret as possible until the eve of its opening on Thursday, the Telluride Film Festival just announced an eclectic, varied and in some cases likely Oscar-contending group of movies, most of which will have their U.S. debuts, and some world premieres, even though the fest doesn’t use labels like that themselves.
The hotly anticipated Warner Bros Williams family tennis drama King Richard starring Will Smith will have its world premiere at Telluride, along with MGM/Uar’s musical Cyrano starring Peter Dinklage, Amazon’s Encounter with Riz Ahmed plus their The Electrical Life of Louis Wain with Benedict Cumberbatch, and from Focus Features director Kenneth Branagh’s very personal coming-of-age black-and-white 1969-set film Belfast. The latter has previously been announced as a world premiere for the Toronto Film Festival, but movie fans in Colorado this Labor Day weekend will get the first look at it.
The hotly anticipated Warner Bros Williams family tennis drama King Richard starring Will Smith will have its world premiere at Telluride, along with MGM/Uar’s musical Cyrano starring Peter Dinklage, Amazon’s Encounter with Riz Ahmed plus their The Electrical Life of Louis Wain with Benedict Cumberbatch, and from Focus Features director Kenneth Branagh’s very personal coming-of-age black-and-white 1969-set film Belfast. The latter has previously been announced as a world premiere for the Toronto Film Festival, but movie fans in Colorado this Labor Day weekend will get the first look at it.
- 9/1/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Tuesday’s results show for “The Voice” promises surprising eliminations, steals and saves. Coaches Kelly Clarkson, John Legend, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton face a situation they’ve never had before following Monday’s first ever Cross Battles round. Which of their artists will even be around for the Top 24 show in just two weeks?
As of this afternoon, there were 32 contestants remaining, but that will change tonight. Voters throughout America have been voting for the past 24 hours for their favorites in the eight battles from Monday evening. Eight losers could go home, but each coach has one steal (from another team) and one save (from their own team) that can be used tonight or next Tuesday night. The Emmy-winning program on NBC is hosted by Carson Daly.
Here is a full list of the 16 contenders who performed last night and are waiting on the public vote tonight:
Team Blake’s Kim Cherry (“Poison”) vs.
As of this afternoon, there were 32 contestants remaining, but that will change tonight. Voters throughout America have been voting for the past 24 hours for their favorites in the eight battles from Monday evening. Eight losers could go home, but each coach has one steal (from another team) and one save (from their own team) that can be used tonight or next Tuesday night. The Emmy-winning program on NBC is hosted by Carson Daly.
Here is a full list of the 16 contenders who performed last night and are waiting on the public vote tonight:
Team Blake’s Kim Cherry (“Poison”) vs.
- 4/16/2019
- by Denton Davidson and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Days before “The Voice” debuted its brand new round of competition known as the live Cross Battles, fans were excited about the concept. Instead of the usual Knockout rounds, these Cross Battles pit two artists from different teams against each other on live television with the at-home audience voting their favorites into the Finals. Now that we’ve seen the Cross Battles in action, do you think NBC should keep them as a permanent part of the reality TV show, or should they nix the idea going forward? Vote in our poll below.
See‘The Voice’ season 16 schedule: Live Cross Battles begin April 15, finale May 21
The first half of the Top 32 artists competed during Monday’s first-ever Cross Battles episode, with the results set to be announced live on Tuesday night. (The second half of artists will battle next week.) Each coach got to pick an artist from their team...
See‘The Voice’ season 16 schedule: Live Cross Battles begin April 15, finale May 21
The first half of the Top 32 artists competed during Monday’s first-ever Cross Battles episode, with the results set to be announced live on Tuesday night. (The second half of artists will battle next week.) Each coach got to pick an artist from their team...
- 4/16/2019
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
The Voice’s Knockouts went down for the count as Monday’s episode ushered in the NBC sing-off’s new round, the Live Cross Battles… which was actually a bit like the old round since it featured two contestants chosen by their coaches to perform two different numbers. But, unlike in the Knockouts, the competitors came not from the same team but from different ones, and the winners would be decided by overnight voting rather than the coaches. How did it all shake out? Read on…
Team Blake’s Kim Cherry performing “Poison” (Grade: C-) took on Team Kelly’s...
Team Blake’s Kim Cherry performing “Poison” (Grade: C-) took on Team Kelly’s...
- 4/16/2019
- TVLine.com
The big twist for “The Voice” Season 16 is that there is no knockout round this year. Producers are now debuting a live Cross Battles round beginning Monday evening, pitting an artist from one team against a singer from another coach’s team.
There are 32 contestants remaining, so that means 16 battles over the next two Mondays. Results from your live votes start counting tonight and will be announced on Tuesday’s first results episode of the year. The Emmy-winning program on NBC is hosted by Carson Daly.
Here is a full list of the 32 contenders competing over the next two weeks:
Team Adam Levine —
Celia Babina
Kendra Checketts
Lb Crew
Domenic Haynes
Andrews Jannakos
Kalvin Jarvis
Mari Jones
Rod Stokes
Team John Legend —
Beth Griffith-Manley
Maelyn Jarmon
Julian King
Jacob Maxwell
Jimmy Mowery
Lisa Ramey
Shawn Sounds
Kayslin Victoria
Team Kelly Clarkson —
Betsy Ade
The Bundys
Karen Galera
Rebecca Howell
Matthew...
There are 32 contestants remaining, so that means 16 battles over the next two Mondays. Results from your live votes start counting tonight and will be announced on Tuesday’s first results episode of the year. The Emmy-winning program on NBC is hosted by Carson Daly.
Here is a full list of the 32 contenders competing over the next two weeks:
Team Adam Levine —
Celia Babina
Kendra Checketts
Lb Crew
Domenic Haynes
Andrews Jannakos
Kalvin Jarvis
Mari Jones
Rod Stokes
Team John Legend —
Beth Griffith-Manley
Maelyn Jarmon
Julian King
Jacob Maxwell
Jimmy Mowery
Lisa Ramey
Shawn Sounds
Kayslin Victoria
Team Kelly Clarkson —
Betsy Ade
The Bundys
Karen Galera
Rebecca Howell
Matthew...
- 4/15/2019
- by John Benutty and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Federation Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights for “Amsterdam Vice,” a crime thriller series which will work as a prequel to A.C. Baantjer’s popular Dutch book franchise.
“Amsterdam Vice” is set in the roaring 80’s, in the center of Amsterdam, where modern life clashes with the old village mentality. The series follows Jud Cox, a detective who has just been promoted to the toughest department within the capital cities’ police forces, and paired with another cop. Together they are investigating a murder case which leads them to discover that an attack is being plotted on the coronation day of Princess Beatrix.
Federation Entertainment, which will start pre-selling the series at MipTV, said “Amsterdam Vice” will be a “character-driven drama, starring two unlikely detectives, one from the city and one from the country, much like Amsterdam itself: gritty, yet warm-hearted and witty.”
The series is being produced by Rachel van Bommel,...
“Amsterdam Vice” is set in the roaring 80’s, in the center of Amsterdam, where modern life clashes with the old village mentality. The series follows Jud Cox, a detective who has just been promoted to the toughest department within the capital cities’ police forces, and paired with another cop. Together they are investigating a murder case which leads them to discover that an attack is being plotted on the coronation day of Princess Beatrix.
Federation Entertainment, which will start pre-selling the series at MipTV, said “Amsterdam Vice” will be a “character-driven drama, starring two unlikely detectives, one from the city and one from the country, much like Amsterdam itself: gritty, yet warm-hearted and witty.”
The series is being produced by Rachel van Bommel,...
- 4/2/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Lille, France — Leading French independent production-finance-distribution sales company Federation Entertainment has secured international sales rights on upcoming French psychological thriller “Torn.”
The series was created and written by director Lionel Bailliu (“Innocente”)and Yann Le Gal and world premieres in the official French competition on March 25 at France’s Series Mania TV festival. Attending the series’ premiere will be French actress – producer Julie Gayet, Bailliu, Le Gal, as well as Elephant producers Gaëlle Cholet and Guillaume Renouil.
Elephant Story and At-Production co-produced with participation from France Télévisions. France 3, Belgian public broadcaster Rtbf and TV5 Monde are already set to broadcast.
In the series, a school teacher named Victoire moves to a small village in rural France with her young family. There, she runs into Florent, her first love from a lifetime ago, and their long-dormant feelings for one another reignite. Unable to suppress their desires for one another, the...
The series was created and written by director Lionel Bailliu (“Innocente”)and Yann Le Gal and world premieres in the official French competition on March 25 at France’s Series Mania TV festival. Attending the series’ premiere will be French actress – producer Julie Gayet, Bailliu, Le Gal, as well as Elephant producers Gaëlle Cholet and Guillaume Renouil.
Elephant Story and At-Production co-produced with participation from France Télévisions. France 3, Belgian public broadcaster Rtbf and TV5 Monde are already set to broadcast.
In the series, a school teacher named Victoire moves to a small village in rural France with her young family. There, she runs into Florent, her first love from a lifetime ago, and their long-dormant feelings for one another reignite. Unable to suppress their desires for one another, the...
- 3/25/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
It takes three to tango on “Dancing with the Stars” — and to cha-cha, paso doble, salsa, Argentine tango and Charleston. Week 4 is Trio Week, but with a twist this time. While pros and troupe members have joined couples in the past, the show is bringing in former contestants, “Dancing with the Stars: Juniors” contestant Maddie Ziegler (as previously announced), and two people who have absolutely nothing to do with the show whatsoever.
Scarlett Byrne, who played Pansy Parkinson in the “Harry Potter” films, will team with her former co-star Evanna Lynch and Keo Motsepe for their salsa, while “Bachelor in Paradise” star Jordan Kimball will hit the hardwood with Grocery Store Joe and Jenna Johnson for their salsa. Stay thirsty, ABC.
Former champs Melissa Rycroft and Rashad Jennings, and alums Nastia Liukin, Linsdsey Stirling, Riker Lynch, Joey Fatone and Amy Purdy are the past contestants who’ll take another step on the dance floor.
Scarlett Byrne, who played Pansy Parkinson in the “Harry Potter” films, will team with her former co-star Evanna Lynch and Keo Motsepe for their salsa, while “Bachelor in Paradise” star Jordan Kimball will hit the hardwood with Grocery Store Joe and Jenna Johnson for their salsa. Stay thirsty, ABC.
Former champs Melissa Rycroft and Rashad Jennings, and alums Nastia Liukin, Linsdsey Stirling, Riker Lynch, Joey Fatone and Amy Purdy are the past contestants who’ll take another step on the dance floor.
- 10/15/2018
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
This noir hits with the force of a blast furnace -- Cy Endfield's wrenching tale of social neglect and injustice will tie your stomach in knots. Sound like fun? An unemployed man turns to crime and reaps a whirlwind of disproportionate retribution. It's surely the most powerful of all filmic accusations thrown at the American status quo. Try and Get Me! Blu-ray Olive Films 1950 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 92 min. / Street Date April 19, 2016 / The Sound of Fury / available through the Olive Films website / 29.95 Starring Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Richard Carlson, Lloyd Bridges, Katherine Locke, Adele Jergens, Art Smith, Renzo Cesana, Irene Vernon, Cliff Clark, Donald Smelick, Joe E. Ross. Cinematography Guy Roe Production Design Perry Ferguson Film Editor George Amy Original Music Hugo Friedhofer Written by Jo Pagano from his novel The Condemned Produced by Robert Stillman Directed by Cyril Endfield
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Socially conscious 'issue' movies are not all made equal.
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Socially conscious 'issue' movies are not all made equal.
- 4/15/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Sony Music and Syco Music have announced a new X Factor Songbook compilation album.
The 3Cd collection will include songs which are regularly performed or heard on the ITV talent show from past and present.
Among the 60 tracks are those covered by contestants, performed by musical guests or heard during the audition stages.
One Direction, Ella Henderson, Olly Murs and Rebecca Ferguson are among the former X Factor acts to be included on the album, alongside artists such as Beyoncé, Adele, Take That, Michael Bublé and Robbie Williams.
The album will be released on CD and as a digital download from November 24.
The full tracklisting:
Disc 1
1. Adele - Make You Feel My Love
2. Beyoncé - Listen
3. Sam Smith - Stay With Me
4. John Legend - All Of Me
5. Ella Henderson – Ghost
6. Ed Sheeran - The A Team
7. One Direction - Story Of My Life
8. Katy Perry - The One That Got Away...
The 3Cd collection will include songs which are regularly performed or heard on the ITV talent show from past and present.
Among the 60 tracks are those covered by contestants, performed by musical guests or heard during the audition stages.
One Direction, Ella Henderson, Olly Murs and Rebecca Ferguson are among the former X Factor acts to be included on the album, alongside artists such as Beyoncé, Adele, Take That, Michael Bublé and Robbie Williams.
The album will be released on CD and as a digital download from November 24.
The full tracklisting:
Disc 1
1. Adele - Make You Feel My Love
2. Beyoncé - Listen
3. Sam Smith - Stay With Me
4. John Legend - All Of Me
5. Ella Henderson – Ghost
6. Ed Sheeran - The A Team
7. One Direction - Story Of My Life
8. Katy Perry - The One That Got Away...
- 10/29/2014
- Digital Spy
Rising star Lucy Griffiths, best known for her role as Maid Marion in Robin Hood, stars in a new two-part drama for ITV The Little House. 24 year old Lucy (represented by Hamilton Hodell), has gone blonde again for the part of Ruth, as she did for her role as Jane in ITV's five-part drama Collision.
The Little House is a compelling two-part thriller exploring the psychological power struggles within one family and the lengths an obsessive mother will go to keep control of her son, based on the best-selling novel by Philippa Gregory. Adapted for television by Ed Whitmore, the drama also stars BAFTA-winning actress Francesca Annis, Tim Pigott-Smith, and Rupert Evans.
"The Little House is a creepy and compelling tale of the power struggles within one family. Ed's script brilliantly captures the claustrophobia and tension in Philippa's novel and constantly plays with your perceptions of the two central women.
The Little House is a compelling two-part thriller exploring the psychological power struggles within one family and the lengths an obsessive mother will go to keep control of her son, based on the best-selling novel by Philippa Gregory. Adapted for television by Ed Whitmore, the drama also stars BAFTA-winning actress Francesca Annis, Tim Pigott-Smith, and Rupert Evans.
"The Little House is a creepy and compelling tale of the power struggles within one family. Ed's script brilliantly captures the claustrophobia and tension in Philippa's novel and constantly plays with your perceptions of the two central women.
- 10/29/2010
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
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