Even before the critically adored, commercially popular Searching for Sugar Man and 20 Feet from Stardom gave way to countless copycats, the documentary field was deluged with attempts to excavate, polish, and in some cases restart the careers of musical also-rans and behind-the-sceners.
Kieran Turner's Jobriath A.D. is an exceptional example of this subgenre, a cubist portrait of an unknowable man and a dramatic whodunit about an artist-victim who died by a thousand cuts. Glam rocker Jobriath succumbed to AIDS in 1983, but most of Turner's interviewees agree that the former piano prodigy died a more significant death a decade earlier, when neither of his two albums managed to chart.
Though it's never explicitly presented as such, this comprehensiv...
Kieran Turner's Jobriath A.D. is an exceptional example of this subgenre, a cubist portrait of an unknowable man and a dramatic whodunit about an artist-victim who died by a thousand cuts. Glam rocker Jobriath succumbed to AIDS in 1983, but most of Turner's interviewees agree that the former piano prodigy died a more significant death a decade earlier, when neither of his two albums managed to chart.
Though it's never explicitly presented as such, this comprehensiv...
- 4/30/2014
- Village Voice
WWE Studios and Blumhouse Productions have struck a partnership on Incarnate whereby WWE star Mark Henry will play a cameo and the studio will help promote the film.
WWE Studios and Blumhouse Productions have struck a partnership on Incarnate whereby WWE star Mark Henry will play a cameo and the studio will help promote the film.
Brad Peyton directs the micro-budget thriller from a screenplay by Ronnie Christensen. Aaron Eckhart stars and Blumhouse finances with Im Global.
Universal will distribute in the Us and Blumhouse International handles international sales.
Factory 25 has acquired Kieran Turner’s music documentary Jobriath A.D. about the 1970’s glam rock musician Jobriath.
Variance Films has acquired Us theatrical rights to Eliza Hittman’s debut feature It Felt Like Love and has earmarked an early 2014 theatrical launch.
WWE Studios and Blumhouse Productions have struck a partnership on Incarnate whereby WWE star Mark Henry will play a cameo and the studio will help promote the film.
Brad Peyton directs the micro-budget thriller from a screenplay by Ronnie Christensen. Aaron Eckhart stars and Blumhouse finances with Im Global.
Universal will distribute in the Us and Blumhouse International handles international sales.
Factory 25 has acquired Kieran Turner’s music documentary Jobriath A.D. about the 1970’s glam rock musician Jobriath.
Variance Films has acquired Us theatrical rights to Eliza Hittman’s debut feature It Felt Like Love and has earmarked an early 2014 theatrical launch.
- 11/25/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The seventies glam rock musician Jobriath who was known as "The American Bowie," "The True Fairy of Rock & Roll," and "Hype of the Year" has been rediscovered and profiled in Kieran Turner’s music documentary, "Jobriath A.D." The feature explores Jobriath, the first openly gay rock musician and his brief reign as a star before a publicity machined doomed his career leaving him to die in obscurity at the Chelsea Hotel as one of the first victims of AIDS. Henry Rollins (Black Flag) narrates the film which features the artists Jobriath influenced including: Marc Almond, Joey Arias, Jayne County, Joe Elliott of Def Leppard, Stephin Merritt of Magnetic Fields, Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters, Will Sheff of Okkervil River, and Justin Tranter of Semi Precious Weapons Factory 25 has acquired the film and will be releasing it digitally on December 10th via cable VOD, iTunes, Amazon Vudu, X-Box, Sony Playstation and other digital outlets.
- 11/25/2013
- by James Hiler
- Indiewire
NewFest, New York’s Lgbt film festival, returns this year with bicoastal fortification, its programming taken over by the folks at L.A.’s Outfest, whose motive for the merge is to foster a national queer arts entity. But is the alliance holy? With Outfest having just wrapped its 30th anniversary, an 11-day event that boasted nearly 150 titles (including Ira Sachs’s Keep the Lights On, Jonathan Lisecki’s Gayby, and David France’s riveting Act Up doc, How to Survive a Plague), NewFest has the not-so-faint whiff of an afterthought, its 18-feature lineup looking more like the subpar cache of a scavenger than a carefully curated medley. The only films that seem to leap out as hot tickets are Yossi, Eytan Fox’s tender sequel to Yossi and Jagger; Cloudburst, a geriatric lesbian dramedy with Brenda Fricker and Olympia Dukakis; I Want Your Love, Travis Matthews’s arthouse-porno expansion of his 2010 short; and Four,...
- 7/28/2012
- by R. Kurt Osenlund
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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