Exclusive: C13Originals is launching a new podcast that tells the true story of a Hell’s Angel member, murder and the impact it had on his family who went into witness protection.
The Entercom-owned company, which is behind podcast series including Root of Evil, Once Upon A Time In The Valley and Long May The Run, is launching Relative Unknown on August 11.
It tells the story of Jackee Taylor, who was born Jacqueline Crouch, the daughter of Clarence “Butch” Crouch, a member of the Banditos motorcycle gang in Texas in the 1960s who became a Hell’s Angel and subsequently confessed to an unsolved murder.
In exchange for a reduced sentence, he agreed to testify against a number of gang members and his family was placed into Witsec.
Taylor has been hidden in the program for almost 40 years. But after a strange and violent incident reveals secrets about her past,...
The Entercom-owned company, which is behind podcast series including Root of Evil, Once Upon A Time In The Valley and Long May The Run, is launching Relative Unknown on August 11.
It tells the story of Jackee Taylor, who was born Jacqueline Crouch, the daughter of Clarence “Butch” Crouch, a member of the Banditos motorcycle gang in Texas in the 1960s who became a Hell’s Angel and subsequently confessed to an unsolved murder.
In exchange for a reduced sentence, he agreed to testify against a number of gang members and his family was placed into Witsec.
Taylor has been hidden in the program for almost 40 years. But after a strange and violent incident reveals secrets about her past,...
- 8/10/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The organizers of the True/False Film Fest, taking place in Columbia, Missouri, on February 28 to March 3, are announcing their lineup exclusively to IndieWire. The 36 feature films and 18 short films (full list below) were culled from “roughly” 1,100 submissions.
Among the 36 new features, four of the films announced are world premieres. “The Hottest August,” is from director Brett Story and explores the anxieties of a “sweltering” New York City. “Midnight in Paris,” the directorial feature debut from Roni Moore and James Blagden, follows the Flint Northern High School’s senior class of 2012 as the Michigan students prepare for prom. Brazil-based filmmaker Maíra Bühler will screen “Let it Burn,” described as a tender portrait of addicts housed in a converted hotel in São Paulo’s notorious Cracolândia neighborhood. And the fourth T/F world premiere is director Jeffrey Peixoto’s exploration into what attracts members to the Church of Scientology in “Over the Rainbow.
Among the 36 new features, four of the films announced are world premieres. “The Hottest August,” is from director Brett Story and explores the anxieties of a “sweltering” New York City. “Midnight in Paris,” the directorial feature debut from Roni Moore and James Blagden, follows the Flint Northern High School’s senior class of 2012 as the Michigan students prepare for prom. Brazil-based filmmaker Maíra Bühler will screen “Let it Burn,” described as a tender portrait of addicts housed in a converted hotel in São Paulo’s notorious Cracolândia neighborhood. And the fourth T/F world premiere is director Jeffrey Peixoto’s exploration into what attracts members to the Church of Scientology in “Over the Rainbow.
- 2/6/2019
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Chicago – In the age of Donald Trump, the number of citizen protests have increased in size and scope. But what are the results of these gatherings and what does it really mean? A new documentary film by co-directors Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley entitled “Working in protest” uncovers a bit of unvarnished truth in these demonstrations, as it covers the protest years of 1987 through 2017. This is part of the final day of the 25th Chicago Underground Film Festival (Cuff), which includes the Closing Night film “Future Language: The Dimensions of Von Lmo,” directed by Lori Felker.
“Working in protest” is an intently rich premise, as it encapsulates different type of American demonstrations, including the Black Panther Party, Confederate Flags, the Iraq War, Occupy Wall Street and of course, Donald J. Trump. By skipping around the years, not only do Galinsky and Hawley expose how “everything old is new again,” but...
“Working in protest” is an intently rich premise, as it encapsulates different type of American demonstrations, including the Black Panther Party, Confederate Flags, the Iraq War, Occupy Wall Street and of course, Donald J. Trump. By skipping around the years, not only do Galinsky and Hawley expose how “everything old is new again,” but...
- 6/10/2018
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The common advice given to filmmakers working on their first project is to “write what you know.” For the team of Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky, they also decided to work with their friends, and the result was the ’90s indie rock cult classic, “Half-Cocked.” The film has now been given a fresh restoration, and we’re excited to exclusively debut the trailer today.
Featuring a slew of indie rock bands — Polvo, Grifters, Freakwater, Versus, Slant 6, Unwound, Helium, Sleepyhead, Crain, and Ruby Falls — the story follows a group of friends who grab a bunch of gear and hit the road in a band they call Truckstop (played by the great Rodan).
Featuring a slew of indie rock bands — Polvo, Grifters, Freakwater, Versus, Slant 6, Unwound, Helium, Sleepyhead, Crain, and Ruby Falls — the story follows a group of friends who grab a bunch of gear and hit the road in a band they call Truckstop (played by the great Rodan).
- 2/12/2018
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Chicago – Dealing with pain has become almost an obsession with Americans. Between over the counter sales of pain relievers, doctor visits and the prescription abuse of painkillers, a crisis has come about. Why are we hurting? Director Michael Galinsky, with co-directors Suki Hawley and David Beilinson, explore an alternative means of pain treatment in “All the Rage” The film returns to Chicago at the Gene Siskel Film Center on January 26th & 27th, 2018, and Galinsky will appear with Dr. John Strack, a local physician who practices the mind/body healing of the film’s subject.
Director Michael Galinsky Talks to Dr. John Sarno in ‘All the Rage’
Photo credit: RumuR Inc.
“All the Rage” is subtitled “Saved by Sarno,” which refers to Dr. John Sarno, a physician whose work with the mind’s connection to healing has been groundbreaking… but only on an underground and word-of-mouth basis. With so much mysterious back pain,...
Director Michael Galinsky Talks to Dr. John Sarno in ‘All the Rage’
Photo credit: RumuR Inc.
“All the Rage” is subtitled “Saved by Sarno,” which refers to Dr. John Sarno, a physician whose work with the mind’s connection to healing has been groundbreaking… but only on an underground and word-of-mouth basis. With so much mysterious back pain,...
- 1/25/2018
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Should you ever see “All the Rage (Saved by Sarno),” you’re going to want to embrace it. (That’s as much of a prognostication as it is a warning.) The directors, David Beilinson, Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley, all seem like warm, emotionally present people. Sometimes their movie, which unmistakably comes across as a labor of love, feels that way too: Alive and engaged. However, it’s hard to work past the project’s limitations, both creatively and budgetary. “All the Rage” is a documentary with a thesis and not much else. The central case being made is for Dr.
- 8/11/2017
- by Sam Fragoso
- The Wrap
The second annual Chicago Underground Film Festival was held in 1995, at multiple locations in the city, from Thursday, July 20 to Sunday, July 23.
The festival opened on July 20th at the International Cinema Museum with the film What About Me?, directed by Rachel Amodeo. Other highlights included a retrospective of the work of Kenneth Anger, who attended the fest and screened Fireworks (1947), Scorpio Rising (1963) and Kkk (Kustom Kar Kommandos) (1965) at the Congress Hotel, 520 S. Michigan, on Friday, July 21. Winnipeg filmmaker Guy Maddin also attended and screened films on July 23; while the Reverend Ivan Stang of the Church of Subgenius screened films on July 22.
Also, Charles Pinion screened the world premiere of his feature film Red Spirit Lake, which was preceded by the short film The Operation, directed by Jacob Pander and Marne Lucas. Other short films that screened were Desktop and a preview of Monday 9:02 am, both directed by Tyler Hubby.
The festival opened on July 20th at the International Cinema Museum with the film What About Me?, directed by Rachel Amodeo. Other highlights included a retrospective of the work of Kenneth Anger, who attended the fest and screened Fireworks (1947), Scorpio Rising (1963) and Kkk (Kustom Kar Kommandos) (1965) at the Congress Hotel, 520 S. Michigan, on Friday, July 21. Winnipeg filmmaker Guy Maddin also attended and screened films on July 23; while the Reverend Ivan Stang of the Church of Subgenius screened films on July 22.
Also, Charles Pinion screened the world premiere of his feature film Red Spirit Lake, which was preceded by the short film The Operation, directed by Jacob Pander and Marne Lucas. Other short films that screened were Desktop and a preview of Monday 9:02 am, both directed by Tyler Hubby.
- 7/23/2017
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Chicago – Dealing with pain has become almost an obsession with Americans. Between over the counter sales of pain relievers, doctor visits and the prescription abuse of painkillers, a crisis has come about. Why are we hurting? Director Michael Galinsky, with co-directors Suki Hawley and David Beilinson, explore an alternative means of pain treatment in “All the Rage.”
Director Michael Galinsky Talks to Dr. John Sarno in ‘All the Rage’
Photo credit: Cuff.org
“All the Rage” is subtitled “Saved by Sarno,” which refers to Dr. John Sarno, a physician whose work with the mind’s connection to healing has been groundbreaking… but only on an underground and word-of-mouth basis. With so much mysterious back pain, plus joint and muscle aches, Sarno had advanced that it is the body’s reaction to emotional stress – a syndrome he calls Tension Myositis. The key is to find the source of that stress, and miraculously,...
Director Michael Galinsky Talks to Dr. John Sarno in ‘All the Rage’
Photo credit: Cuff.org
“All the Rage” is subtitled “Saved by Sarno,” which refers to Dr. John Sarno, a physician whose work with the mind’s connection to healing has been groundbreaking… but only on an underground and word-of-mouth basis. With so much mysterious back pain, plus joint and muscle aches, Sarno had advanced that it is the body’s reaction to emotional stress – a syndrome he calls Tension Myositis. The key is to find the source of that stress, and miraculously,...
- 6/3/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Following an award-winning festival run, the provocative and thrilling documentary Who Took Johnny has opened to great box office numbers and packed screenings in the American Mid-West.
Opening on April 24 at the Fleur Cinema & Cafe in Des Moines, Iowa, the film has so far grossed almost $14,000 in total box office receipts. The film’s run at the Fleur Cinema will end on Thursday, May 7 and it will then move on to other theaters in the Mid-West.
Directed by the acclaimed filmmaking team of David Beilinson, Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley , Who Took Johnny is a documentary thriller that digs deep into the controversial case of Johnny Gosch, who disappeared in 1982 at the age of 12 while delivering newspapers — and who has never been found.
In those days before “Amber Alerts,” the ramifications of Johnny’s disappearance would forever alter the way missing child cases would be handled by law enforcement and by society at large.
Opening on April 24 at the Fleur Cinema & Cafe in Des Moines, Iowa, the film has so far grossed almost $14,000 in total box office receipts. The film’s run at the Fleur Cinema will end on Thursday, May 7 and it will then move on to other theaters in the Mid-West.
Directed by the acclaimed filmmaking team of David Beilinson, Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley , Who Took Johnny is a documentary thriller that digs deep into the controversial case of Johnny Gosch, who disappeared in 1982 at the age of 12 while delivering newspapers — and who has never been found.
In those days before “Amber Alerts,” the ramifications of Johnny’s disappearance would forever alter the way missing child cases would be handled by law enforcement and by society at large.
- 5/6/2015
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Suki Hawley, David Beilinson and Michael Galinsky of Rumur Films are an amazing trio of filmmakers who have made many important must-see documentaries, such as Battle for Brooklyn and Who Took Johnny?.
But with their latest project, All the Rage, they are attempting to actually change viewer’s lives.
All the Rage is a profile of Dr. John Sarno, the American doctor who has been a nearly lone — but absolutely essential — voice in the wilderness of modern day medicine. Dr. Sarno has long championed a holistic mind-body approach to solving numerous common ailments, including — most famously — back pain. His contention that most back pain is the result of psychological trauma over physical trauma has earned him the devotion and respect of the thousands of people he has cured.
Some of Dr. Sarno’s most enthusiastic supporters include Larry David, John Stossel, Senator Tom Harkin and Howard Stern.
Now you can...
But with their latest project, All the Rage, they are attempting to actually change viewer’s lives.
All the Rage is a profile of Dr. John Sarno, the American doctor who has been a nearly lone — but absolutely essential — voice in the wilderness of modern day medicine. Dr. Sarno has long championed a holistic mind-body approach to solving numerous common ailments, including — most famously — back pain. His contention that most back pain is the result of psychological trauma over physical trauma has earned him the devotion and respect of the thousands of people he has cured.
Some of Dr. Sarno’s most enthusiastic supporters include Larry David, John Stossel, Senator Tom Harkin and Howard Stern.
Now you can...
- 12/4/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 7th annual Arizona Underground Film Festival will screen a smorgasbord of cult flicks, horror movies, comedies and provocative documentaries on September 19-27 at The Screening Room in Tucson, Az.
Opening Night: The fest kicks off on the 19th with Killers, a dark thriller all the way from Japan and Indonesia about a psychopath and a journalist who forge an unlikely, hellish bond.
Other films to be on the look out for include documentaries like the powerful Who Took Johnny? by acclaimed filmmakers Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley and David Belinson that examines the legacy of the disappearance of young Johnny Gosch in 1982; Penny Vozniak’s Despite the Gods, about Jennifer Lynch’s struggles to make a Bollywood musical; and Gideon C. Kennedy and Marcus Rosentrater’s wild Limo Ride.
Then, there are horror movies like the Lovecraft-inspired The Call Girl of Cthulu by Chris Lamartina; the slasher flick Crazy Bitches...
Opening Night: The fest kicks off on the 19th with Killers, a dark thriller all the way from Japan and Indonesia about a psychopath and a journalist who forge an unlikely, hellish bond.
Other films to be on the look out for include documentaries like the powerful Who Took Johnny? by acclaimed filmmakers Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley and David Belinson that examines the legacy of the disappearance of young Johnny Gosch in 1982; Penny Vozniak’s Despite the Gods, about Jennifer Lynch’s struggles to make a Bollywood musical; and Gideon C. Kennedy and Marcus Rosentrater’s wild Limo Ride.
Then, there are horror movies like the Lovecraft-inspired The Call Girl of Cthulu by Chris Lamartina; the slasher flick Crazy Bitches...
- 9/19/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 21st annual Chicago Underground FIlm Festival, which ran April 2-6 at the Logan Theatre, has announced their list of award winners.
Winners were decided by a three-panel jury that included Brian Chankin, owner of the Odd Obsession Movies video store in Chicago; Alison Cuddy, the arts and culture reporter for Wbez 91.5 FM Chicago Public Media; and Mike Everleth, editor of the Underground Film Journal.
In total, the jury gave out eight official awards, which are listed below. In addition, given the incredibly strong lineup of films that screened at the festival, a total of 11 Honorable Mentions were also given out, and are listed below as well.
To add a personal note, it was a pleasure and and honor to serve on the jury with Brian and Alison, and our decisions came to us fairly easily, which is a testament to the strength of the work that was made and...
Winners were decided by a three-panel jury that included Brian Chankin, owner of the Odd Obsession Movies video store in Chicago; Alison Cuddy, the arts and culture reporter for Wbez 91.5 FM Chicago Public Media; and Mike Everleth, editor of the Underground Film Journal.
In total, the jury gave out eight official awards, which are listed below. In addition, given the incredibly strong lineup of films that screened at the festival, a total of 11 Honorable Mentions were also given out, and are listed below as well.
To add a personal note, it was a pleasure and and honor to serve on the jury with Brian and Alison, and our decisions came to us fairly easily, which is a testament to the strength of the work that was made and...
- 4/9/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 21st annual Chicago Underground Film Festival, which will run April 2-6 at the Logan Theater, will be extra special this year. Why? Because Mike Everleth, the Executive Editor of the Underground Film Journal, is sitting on this year’s festival jury! And looking over the fest lineup below, he is incredibly excited to witness this visual extravaganza of revolutionary cinematic madness. (Other jurors are Brian Chankin, Therese Grisham and Alison Cuddy.)
Opening Night Film: What I Love About Concrete is the debut feature by the directing team of Katherine Dohan and Alanna Stewart and is a surreal suburban tale about a teenage girl who believes she is transforming into a swan.
Closing Night Film: Usama Alshaibi will be making his triumphant return to Chicago with his latest documentary, American Arab, a personal and sociological examination of what it means to be an Arab in a post-9/11 United States. This...
Opening Night Film: What I Love About Concrete is the debut feature by the directing team of Katherine Dohan and Alanna Stewart and is a surreal suburban tale about a teenage girl who believes she is transforming into a swan.
Closing Night Film: Usama Alshaibi will be making his triumphant return to Chicago with his latest documentary, American Arab, a personal and sociological examination of what it means to be an Arab in a post-9/11 United States. This...
- 3/28/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley‘s Rumur Films is committed to making socially relevant and activist films. Their latest documentary, Who Took Johnny, examines the issue of missing children in America by following the tragic case of Johnny Gosch, a 12-year-old boy who mysteriously disappeared while delivering newspapers one morning in 1982 in West Des Moines, Iowa.
Johnny’s mother, Noreen Gosch, has never given up looking for her son for the past 30 years, even though local law enforcement has never classified her son’s disappearance as a crime.
Rumur Films is currently raising funds on Kickstarter to send DVDs of the completed film to the 50 State Clearinghouses for Missing and Exploited Children that provide valuable resources to missing children, their families and law enforcement agencies.
Plus, the fundraising campaign is also serving to introduce audiences to the entire catalog of Rumur’s productions, many of which have been featured on the Underground Film Journal,...
Johnny’s mother, Noreen Gosch, has never given up looking for her son for the past 30 years, even though local law enforcement has never classified her son’s disappearance as a crime.
Rumur Films is currently raising funds on Kickstarter to send DVDs of the completed film to the 50 State Clearinghouses for Missing and Exploited Children that provide valuable resources to missing children, their families and law enforcement agencies.
Plus, the fundraising campaign is also serving to introduce audiences to the entire catalog of Rumur’s productions, many of which have been featured on the Underground Film Journal,...
- 1/1/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Festival heads announced on December 9 the Special Screenings, Beyond and Shorts programmes for the 20th anniversary event.
The expanded short film programmes include 62 American and international productions, of which 24 are world, five are North American and eight are Us premieres.
The 2014 Shorts showcase includes Narrative, Documentary, Animation, Anarchy and the new Experimental Programme. Jury Awards are presented to short films in all categories and all films are eligible for the Spirit Of Slamdance Award judged by the film-makers themselves.
Films in the Beyond and Special Screening programmes are eligible for the audience awards.
Special screenings include the world premiere of La Bare (pictured) by Joe Manganiello, the North American premiere of Cheatin’ by Bill Plympton and Waiting For Mamu from Thomas Morgan, Francois Caillaud and Dan Chen.
The Beyond Programme includes the world premiere of Who Took Johnny from David Beilinson, Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky, Forever Not Alone by Monja Art and Caroline Bobek and Three Night Stand...
The expanded short film programmes include 62 American and international productions, of which 24 are world, five are North American and eight are Us premieres.
The 2014 Shorts showcase includes Narrative, Documentary, Animation, Anarchy and the new Experimental Programme. Jury Awards are presented to short films in all categories and all films are eligible for the Spirit Of Slamdance Award judged by the film-makers themselves.
Films in the Beyond and Special Screening programmes are eligible for the audience awards.
Special screenings include the world premiere of La Bare (pictured) by Joe Manganiello, the North American premiere of Cheatin’ by Bill Plympton and Waiting For Mamu from Thomas Morgan, Francois Caillaud and Dan Chen.
The Beyond Programme includes the world premiere of Who Took Johnny from David Beilinson, Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky, Forever Not Alone by Monja Art and Caroline Bobek and Three Night Stand...
- 12/9/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
As Jay-z continues his eight-show run celebrating the opening of the Barclays Center, a newly released video captures the venue's construction dating back to its ground-breaking ceremony in March 2010.
Since it was first proposed, the Atlantic Yards project has been a lightning rod for controversy, with affordable housing advocates criticizing developer Bruce Ratner for what they believe has been a "monument built on broken promises."
Fast forward to this past Friday, a documentary titled "Battle for Brooklyn" premiered a few blocks from the first Jay-z concert. Filmmakers Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley discussed any grievances they may have with the rapper and Nets minority owner.
There's going to be a certain amount of protest, but certainly not aimed at the people going to see Jay-z. It's really aimed at getting the media to pay attention to the fact that every promise was broken, and that the system is rigged against the average person.
Since it was first proposed, the Atlantic Yards project has been a lightning rod for controversy, with affordable housing advocates criticizing developer Bruce Ratner for what they believe has been a "monument built on broken promises."
Fast forward to this past Friday, a documentary titled "Battle for Brooklyn" premiered a few blocks from the first Jay-z concert. Filmmakers Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley discussed any grievances they may have with the rapper and Nets minority owner.
There's going to be a certain amount of protest, but certainly not aimed at the people going to see Jay-z. It's really aimed at getting the media to pay attention to the fact that every promise was broken, and that the system is rigged against the average person.
- 10/1/2012
- by Inae Oh
- Huffington Post
Australia’s Revelation Perth International Film Festival will be holding it’s explosive 15th annual edition on July 5-15 with one of it’s most jam-packed lineups yet.
One of the most special events that Revelation will be holding is July 14‘s retrospective of the films of Jeff Keen, the pioneering British underground filmmaker who very sadly just passed away on June 21. Keen’s work has been having a major resurgence lately and Revelation is the latest organization to so boldly feature his breathtaking experimental film work, from classics like 1967′s Marvo Movie to modern films like Artwar (1993) and Joy Thru Film (2000). This is absolutely an event not to be missed.
Another staggering event this year is a very special live presentation of Crispin Hellion Glover‘s notorious underground films What Is It? and It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. (Click film titles for Bad Lit reviews!) These very...
One of the most special events that Revelation will be holding is July 14‘s retrospective of the films of Jeff Keen, the pioneering British underground filmmaker who very sadly just passed away on June 21. Keen’s work has been having a major resurgence lately and Revelation is the latest organization to so boldly feature his breathtaking experimental film work, from classics like 1967′s Marvo Movie to modern films like Artwar (1993) and Joy Thru Film (2000). This is absolutely an event not to be missed.
Another staggering event this year is a very special live presentation of Crispin Hellion Glover‘s notorious underground films What Is It? and It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. (Click film titles for Bad Lit reviews!) These very...
- 6/26/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
This Week’s Absolute Must Read is an absolute for sad reasons: David Hudson compiles the best tribute to famed film curator Amos Vogel, who passed away last week. Actually, “curator” probably isn’t the best word to summarize all that Vogel did in his life in promoting indie, avant-garde, experimental and underground film, but no word has been invented to how important his contributions to film curation, programming and scholarship have been.After actress Elizabeth Banks dissed the ’90s underground film Surrender Dorothy in which she starred, the movie’s director, Kevin Dinovis, politely chided her for not only insulting him, but the entire indie film scene. We here at Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film don’t have to be so polite. To quote the late, great Divine, we find Banks guilty of assholism. If you want to see Surrender Dorothy, which won Best Narrative Feature at the 1998 Chicago Underground Film Festival,...
- 4/29/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Filmmaker Michael Galinsky has been named one of thirteen Guggenheim Fellows in film and video for 2012.
For the past 88 years, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded fellowships to scholars, artists, and scientists in a variety of different disciplines in the creative arts, humanities, natural and social sciences. Out of nearly 3,000 applicants in 2012, 181 fellows were chosen.
Galinsky’s most recent film was the documentary Battle for Brooklyn, which he co-directed with Suki Hawley. Seven years in the making, the doc focused on the struggles of a group of Brooklyn residents to prevent their homes from being demolished by an aggressive developer hoping to build a new sports complex with the help of a compliant city government.
Battle for Brooklyn was named runner-up for Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film’s Movie of the Year for 2011.
Galinsky is also one-third of Rumur, a multimedia production studio and distributor that...
For the past 88 years, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded fellowships to scholars, artists, and scientists in a variety of different disciplines in the creative arts, humanities, natural and social sciences. Out of nearly 3,000 applicants in 2012, 181 fellows were chosen.
Galinsky’s most recent film was the documentary Battle for Brooklyn, which he co-directed with Suki Hawley. Seven years in the making, the doc focused on the struggles of a group of Brooklyn residents to prevent their homes from being demolished by an aggressive developer hoping to build a new sports complex with the help of a compliant city government.
Battle for Brooklyn was named runner-up for Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film’s Movie of the Year for 2011.
Galinsky is also one-third of Rumur, a multimedia production studio and distributor that...
- 4/24/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
North of Dallas, Texas, lies the college town of Denton, where more than 100,000 people go to sleep at night, wondering if Bonnie and Clyde will ever return. The 1967 film version of their lives was partially shot in Denton, where the outlaws once hid out. Nowadays, film buffs who are fascinated by real life stories gravitate toward documentaries, and Denton's own Thin Line Film Fest has a dandy, 11-day program that's filled with nothing but documentaries. It's set to start rolling out tomorrow. To quote from the press release, the fest kicks off Friday night "with the Texas premiere of Battle for Brooklyn with Director and Producer Suki Hawley in attendance. ... "On Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 12:30 pm at the Square Donut...
- 2/9/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Choosing Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film’s 2011 Movie of the Year came down to a near dead heat. There were two movies that came out this year filled with such grand ambition, artistry and skill that the decision almost came down to a tie before ultimately settling on the singular Movie of the Year tradition.
That movie this year is Usama Alshaibi‘s Profane, a spectacular triumph of uncompromising vision, extreme daring and intimate personal expression. There was simply no other film like it this year — underground or otherwise — and its only rival of sheer audacity of the past several years was last year’s Movie of the Year pick, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then.
And yes, I did say there was almost a tie this year. The first runner-up is a film that achieved greatness for several different reasons than Profane‘s accomplishments.
But, before I get to that close runner-up,...
That movie this year is Usama Alshaibi‘s Profane, a spectacular triumph of uncompromising vision, extreme daring and intimate personal expression. There was simply no other film like it this year — underground or otherwise — and its only rival of sheer audacity of the past several years was last year’s Movie of the Year pick, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then.
And yes, I did say there was almost a tie this year. The first runner-up is a film that achieved greatness for several different reasons than Profane‘s accomplishments.
But, before I get to that close runner-up,...
- 12/20/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Rooftop Films will present "Films for the Occupation," a series of four film programs set to run December 13-16 in New York. Films to be screened include Emily James' "Just Do It: A Tale of Modern-Day Outlaws," Michael Galinsky & Suki Hawley's "Battle for Brooklyn," David Singleton's "The Flaw" and various short films. Full press release below: Rooftop Films Presents “Films For The Occupation” Series December 5, 2011 – Rooftop Films, in conjunction with several of New York City’s finest film venues, will bring a series of four film programs to audiences from December 13-16. The series is curated by Rooftop Films with NewFest Director of Programming and Indiewire contributor Bryce J. Renninger. “As the situation in Zuccotti Park unfolded the last few months, Rooftop Films received countless emails and phone calls from filmmakers, activists, and...
- 12/5/2011
- Indiewire
Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film offers special congratulations to filmmakers Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley for their epic documentary Battle for Brooklyn making the Oscar shortlist for Best Documentary.
Out of 124 eligible films this year, Battle for Brooklyn was one of only 15 films chosen for the list by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Documentary Branch Screening Committee. Up next for the Academy is to pick five docs out of the 15 to become this year’s official nominees.
Battle for Brooklyn was produced over the course of about seven years as the residents of Prospect Heights fight both city hall and an aggressive real estate developer, Forest City Ratner, to prevent the demolition of their neighborhood for a sports complex.
The true hero of the film is Daniel Goldstein, a graphic designer, who becomes a full-time activist to save his home. We become intimately involved in...
Out of 124 eligible films this year, Battle for Brooklyn was one of only 15 films chosen for the list by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Documentary Branch Screening Committee. Up next for the Academy is to pick five docs out of the 15 to become this year’s official nominees.
Battle for Brooklyn was produced over the course of about seven years as the residents of Prospect Heights fight both city hall and an aggressive real estate developer, Forest City Ratner, to prevent the demolition of their neighborhood for a sports complex.
The true hero of the film is Daniel Goldstein, a graphic designer, who becomes a full-time activist to save his home. We become intimately involved in...
- 11/22/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Documentary Branch Screening Committee has announced the 15 film shortlist for the Best Documentary Oscar. The selections were culled from a list of 124 eligible titles.
Some Filmmaker favorites, including films by 25 New Face Directors Danfung Dennis (Hell and Back Again) and Marshall Curry (If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front) are in the mix, as are Wim Wender’s Pina, Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky’s Battle for Brooklyn, and Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s Paradise Lost 3. I was sad to see more experimental docs like Bombay Beach and The Arbor left off the list and surprised by the omissions of The Interruptors and Senna.
The 15 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company in parentheses and links to our coverage
Battle for Brooklyn (Rumer Inc.)
Bill Cunningham New York (First Thought Films...
Some Filmmaker favorites, including films by 25 New Face Directors Danfung Dennis (Hell and Back Again) and Marshall Curry (If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front) are in the mix, as are Wim Wender’s Pina, Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky’s Battle for Brooklyn, and Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s Paradise Lost 3. I was sad to see more experimental docs like Bombay Beach and The Arbor left off the list and surprised by the omissions of The Interruptors and Senna.
The 15 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company in parentheses and links to our coverage
Battle for Brooklyn (Rumer Inc.)
Bill Cunningham New York (First Thought Films...
- 11/18/2011
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Title: Battle For Brooklyn Directors: Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley When people talk about a movie being depressing, whether in a context either admiring or dismissive, they’re almost always talking about and assessing the dramatic heft of a down-tempo narrative film – how a writer, director and actors worked in concert to shine a light on various human frailties, turmoils and difficulties, and in doing so impacted a viewer’s mood in a manner that lingered with them long after the theater lights came up. Real life, however, is even more full of disease and death, moral injustice and underdogs being smacked down by the powers that be. That may not always be what one wishes...
- 8/21/2011
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
They say you can’t fight City Hall, but you wouldn’t know it watching Battle for Brooklyn (trailer here). There’s so much sparring in Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky’s new documentary about New York’s Atlantic Yards project that you’ll think you’ve stumbled into a screening of The Fighter . The opposing sides — the project developer, Forest City Ratner, and a grassroots organization that wants to sink said project, Develop Don’t Destroy — canvas, rally, plot, meet, speak, and, yes, battle over what city councilwoman Letitia James calls “the soul of Brooklyn.” It’s a credit to the filmmakers that Battle for Brooklyn convinces you they’re fighting for even more than that. Following community members who stand up against the flashy new development, the film emerges as ...
- 8/19/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
In Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley's "Battle for Brooklyn," the subject is the Atlantic Yards development project, in which the New Jersey Nets, with the help of co-owner Jay-z, would get a new home in downtown Brooklyn. It's a local story about plans to develop an area of Brooklyn that's currently taken up by an abandoned railway... and a series of well-populated residential blocks. Today, little of what the developers ...
- 8/19/2011
- Indiewire
In Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley's "Battle for Brooklyn," the subject is the Atlantic Yards development project, in which the New Jersey Nets, with the help of co-owner Jay-z, would get a new home in downtown Brooklyn. It's a local story about plans to develop an area of Brooklyn that's currently taken up by an abandoned railway... and a series of well-populated residential blocks. Today, little of what the developers ...
- 8/19/2011
- indieWIRE - People
First reported by Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, the documentary Battle for Brooklyn was the 5th best movie of this past weekend, based on a per screen average. The film made a weekend gross of $11,141 playing at just one theater, Cinema Village, in NYC. These figures were derived from the website Box Office Mojo. The film is doing so well that it’s being held over at the theater until July 1. Find showtimes and ticket info on the Cinema Village website.
Battle for Brooklyn is a documentary co-directed by Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley that chronicles the long 7-year struggle of local residents against the proposed development of a basketball stadium and 16 skyscrapers in downtown Brooklyn planned by the company Forest City Ratner. The aggressive building plans meant the displacement of nearly 1,000 local residents.
Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film reviewed the documentary just previous to its release, saying...
Battle for Brooklyn is a documentary co-directed by Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley that chronicles the long 7-year struggle of local residents against the proposed development of a basketball stadium and 16 skyscrapers in downtown Brooklyn planned by the company Forest City Ratner. The aggressive building plans meant the displacement of nearly 1,000 local residents.
Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film reviewed the documentary just previous to its release, saying...
- 6/20/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Of all the movies that have opened this weekend, the one that's generated the most interesting press by far is Page One: Inside The New York Times. The usual round of promotional interviews, for example, turns out to have been not so usual. Talking with writer-director-cinematographer Andrew Rossi and co-writer Kate Novack, a husband-and-wife team of a documentary filmmaker and a former media reporter, Eric Hynes acknowledges that his piece for the Voice can't help but lay on another layer of meta. Right off, he has Novack commenting on Page One's focus on the Nyt media desk: "It was journalists reporting on journalism, and we were working as journalists covering that."
So it goes in other interviews: Drew Taylor's with Rossi for the Playlist; Stephen Saito's with Rossi and Nyt media reporter David Carr, indisputably the star of Page One, for IFC; Sarah Ellison's with Gay Talese, author of the 1969 classic,...
So it goes in other interviews: Drew Taylor's with Rossi for the Playlist; Stephen Saito's with Rossi and Nyt media reporter David Carr, indisputably the star of Page One, for IFC; Sarah Ellison's with Gay Talese, author of the 1969 classic,...
- 6/18/2011
- MUBI
Battle for Brooklyn, the new documentary by Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley, is opening today, June 17, in two theaters in New York City. It is screening both at the Cinema Village in Manhattan and at indieScreen in Brooklyn. It’s running for one week at both theaters and the filmmakers are hoping to attend as many screenings as possible.
The film chronicles the intense fight over the controversial Atlantic Yards project being built in downtown Brooklyn. Multi-million dollar development company Forest City Ratner and local politicians propose a new basketball stadium and 16 surrounding skyscrapers to be built, but in order to do so they must kick out almost a thousand local residents and business owners, several of whom do not plan to leave without a fight.
Opening at the height of Hollywood’s summer blockbuster season, Battle for Brooklyn is an equally epic, cinematic tour de force and this year’s must-see political thriller.
The film chronicles the intense fight over the controversial Atlantic Yards project being built in downtown Brooklyn. Multi-million dollar development company Forest City Ratner and local politicians propose a new basketball stadium and 16 surrounding skyscrapers to be built, but in order to do so they must kick out almost a thousand local residents and business owners, several of whom do not plan to leave without a fight.
Opening at the height of Hollywood’s summer blockbuster season, Battle for Brooklyn is an equally epic, cinematic tour de force and this year’s must-see political thriller.
- 6/17/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Most viewers should find the documentary Battle For Brooklyn gripping and provocative, no matter their opinions about eminent domain, historic preservation, or public dollars going to support private development. But there’s no doubt what side co-directors Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley are on. They spent eight years following a group of Brooklynites who were trying to thwart—or at least modify—plans to displace longtime residents and businesses to build a basketball arena and skyscrapers. Throughout those eight years, Galinsky and Hawley focused on Daniel Goldstein, an apartment-dweller who joined the organization Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, and became ...
- 6/16/2011
- avclub.com
In 2004 it was announced that real-estate developer and New Jersey Nets co-owner Bruce Ratner planned to build a new arena for the team on the Atlantic Rail Yards site. Right in the heart of the borough, just a short walk from Downtown Brooklyn, Ft. Greene, Park Slope and Prospect Heights, it was a prime piece of real-estate, and the developer stood to make a tremendous amount of money if he could successfully move the team to Brooklyn. Despite coming with the promise of mixed-income housing, many locals were unconvinced of the project’s necessity and many who lived in the area targeted for redevelopment refused to leave their homes for the sake of a new workplace for millionaire athletes and their billionaire team owners, who also include rapper Jay-z and Russian oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov, the team’s principle owner. As backlash against the proposed new stadium began, some neighborhood luminaries,...
- 6/15/2011
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Battle for Brooklyn has everything you want in a great political thriller: An everyman underdog fighting against impossible forces. Elected officials in bed with big money businessmen. Devious and deceptive business and political maneuverings. Great personal tragedy and triumph.
And, of course, since Battle for Brooklyn is a documentary, it’s all true.
Filmmaking duo Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley are no strangers to the political documentary game having previously directed the strange, sad fate of George W. Bush biographer J.H. Hatfield in the film Horns and Halos, which was reviewed on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film back in 2002.
That’s a long time between films, but the directors know how to really get involved with their subjects. Battle for Brooklyn has been seven years in the making, mostly because the battle that they chronicle — over Brooklyn’s controversial Atlantic Yards development project — has been an epic one in the real world.
And, of course, since Battle for Brooklyn is a documentary, it’s all true.
Filmmaking duo Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley are no strangers to the political documentary game having previously directed the strange, sad fate of George W. Bush biographer J.H. Hatfield in the film Horns and Halos, which was reviewed on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film back in 2002.
That’s a long time between films, but the directors know how to really get involved with their subjects. Battle for Brooklyn has been seven years in the making, mostly because the battle that they chronicle — over Brooklyn’s controversial Atlantic Yards development project — has been an epic one in the real world.
- 6/15/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Here’s some underground film Twitter feeds for you to follow:
An Affair. Chris Hansen’s (American Messiah, Endings) third feature film has recently gone into production in Texas and you can follow its progress on Twitter, which links to very entertaining production blog posts and more. Learn all about shooting at sleazy locations; shutting down city streets for Steadicam shots and the bonding of Hansen’s film student crew. (Hansen is a film professor at Baylor University and uses his students as crew.) Follow @AnAffair_Film.
Battle for Brooklyn. The new documentary by Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky (Horns and Halos) is now out on the festival circuit and will soon be in a theater near you. Read up on the accolades it’s earning and learn more about the continuing skirmishes over Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards project that the film covers. (Film to be reviewed on Bad Lit soon.
An Affair. Chris Hansen’s (American Messiah, Endings) third feature film has recently gone into production in Texas and you can follow its progress on Twitter, which links to very entertaining production blog posts and more. Learn all about shooting at sleazy locations; shutting down city streets for Steadicam shots and the bonding of Hansen’s film student crew. (Hansen is a film professor at Baylor University and uses his students as crew.) Follow @AnAffair_Film.
Battle for Brooklyn. The new documentary by Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky (Horns and Halos) is now out on the festival circuit and will soon be in a theater near you. Read up on the accolades it’s earning and learn more about the continuing skirmishes over Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards project that the film covers. (Film to be reviewed on Bad Lit soon.
- 6/12/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Updated through 6/10.
Colin Beckett: "Whether by design or circumstance, this June has become Thai Cinema Month in New York, with an array of the city's art houses and museums boasting otherwise hard-to-see gems from the Thai film renaissance that began in the late 1990s. But the biggest cause for celebration is the belated arrival of two films by Uruphong Raksasad — Agrarian Utopia (2009), running at Anthology Film Archives June 10 - 15, and Stories from the North (2006), which plays Museum of the Moving Image on June 5 [this afternoon at 3] — whose formal ingenuity and geopolitical urgency make the familiar generalizations about national cinemas seem quaint, if not willfully narrow."
Updates, 6/10: For Michael Joshua Rowin, writing for Artforum, "here is an undeniably stunning work of visual art, a premiere example of the equal footing hi-def digital video now holds with celluloid filmmaking. Acting as his own cinematographer, Uruphong finds intimate wonder in lush, verdant hills; in twilights...
Colin Beckett: "Whether by design or circumstance, this June has become Thai Cinema Month in New York, with an array of the city's art houses and museums boasting otherwise hard-to-see gems from the Thai film renaissance that began in the late 1990s. But the biggest cause for celebration is the belated arrival of two films by Uruphong Raksasad — Agrarian Utopia (2009), running at Anthology Film Archives June 10 - 15, and Stories from the North (2006), which plays Museum of the Moving Image on June 5 [this afternoon at 3] — whose formal ingenuity and geopolitical urgency make the familiar generalizations about national cinemas seem quaint, if not willfully narrow."
Updates, 6/10: For Michael Joshua Rowin, writing for Artforum, "here is an undeniably stunning work of visual art, a premiere example of the equal footing hi-def digital video now holds with celluloid filmmaking. Acting as his own cinematographer, Uruphong finds intimate wonder in lush, verdant hills; in twilights...
- 6/10/2011
- MUBI
"Battle for Brooklyn" will be playing the Rooftop Films Summer Series on Thursday, June 9th at 9pm. The screening will be taking place at Fort Greene Park.*Doors Open at 8:00pm Live Musical Performance & Rally by Brooklyn Activist Reverend Billy at 8:30pm Don't Miss Q&A with one of the film's subjects Daniel Goldstein and filmmakers Michael Galinsky & Suki Hawley following the screening!About...
- 6/7/2011
- by Anthony T
Tonight marks the opening of the 18th annual Chicago Underground Film Festival. The fest is kicking off this year with the transcendental comedy debut feature by Jerzy Rose, Some Girls Never Learn.
The film chronicles several coincidental paranormal discoveries, including the unearthing of Amelia Earhart’s leg bone, the spontaneous gatherings of wildlife into concentric circles, the loss of helium into the luminiferous aether, and the journey a high school science teacher takes to the underworld to find his girlfriend.
The film screens tonight at 8:00 p.m. at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
Watch the trailer below.
Cuff will then continue every night until June 9. Some other highlights of the fest include Usama Alshaibi’s Profane, Marie Losier‘s The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, Jeff Krulik & John Heyn’s Heavy Metal Parking Lot and Michael Galinsky & Suki Hawley‘s Battle of Brooklyn.
Check out the full lineup here.
The film chronicles several coincidental paranormal discoveries, including the unearthing of Amelia Earhart’s leg bone, the spontaneous gatherings of wildlife into concentric circles, the loss of helium into the luminiferous aether, and the journey a high school science teacher takes to the underworld to find his girlfriend.
The film screens tonight at 8:00 p.m. at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
Watch the trailer below.
Cuff will then continue every night until June 9. Some other highlights of the fest include Usama Alshaibi’s Profane, Marie Losier‘s The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, Jeff Krulik & John Heyn’s Heavy Metal Parking Lot and Michael Galinsky & Suki Hawley‘s Battle of Brooklyn.
Check out the full lineup here.
- 6/2/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 18th annual Chicago Underground Film Festival is ready to have another monumental year at the Gene Siskel Film Center on June 2-9, featuring a killer lineup with new films from some true underground legends.
First, Usama Alshaibi will screen his latest, most visually stunning and conceptually innovative feature Profane, about a spiritually confused Muslim sex worker trying to recapture her lost jinn — a demon of smokeless fire — on streets of the Windy City.
Then, documentary filmmakers Jeff Krulik and John Heyn return to their hard rockin’ roots with Heavy Metal Picnic, which relives one of the most notorious ’80s weekend parties in the history of Maryland and the world — the Full Moon Jamboree, which if you can remember it means you weren’t there. Plus, Hmp will be screened with Heyn and Krulik’s underground classic Heavy Metal Parking Lot.
Also in the documentary vein, are Marie Losier‘s...
First, Usama Alshaibi will screen his latest, most visually stunning and conceptually innovative feature Profane, about a spiritually confused Muslim sex worker trying to recapture her lost jinn — a demon of smokeless fire — on streets of the Windy City.
Then, documentary filmmakers Jeff Krulik and John Heyn return to their hard rockin’ roots with Heavy Metal Picnic, which relives one of the most notorious ’80s weekend parties in the history of Maryland and the world — the Full Moon Jamboree, which if you can remember it means you weren’t there. Plus, Hmp will be screened with Heyn and Krulik’s underground classic Heavy Metal Parking Lot.
Also in the documentary vein, are Marie Losier‘s...
- 5/13/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
.Battle For Brookln,. The Story Of One Neighborhood.S Fight Against The Controversial Atlantic Yards Project, To Have Theatrical Premiere In New York City
Film to open at Cinema Village in Manhattan and
at Indie Screen in Brooklyn on June 17
Battle For Brooklyn, the controversial documentary by acclaimed filmmakers Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley (Horns and Halos) about one Brooklyn neighborhood.s enduring battle against the corporate developers of the Atlantic Yards project, will have its theatrical premiere in New York City on June 17th. The film will also open this year.s Brooklyn Film Festival on June 3rd, and will screen in the Rooftop Films summer series on June 9th in Fort Greene Park.
Battle For Brooklyn is an intimate look at the very public and passionate fight waged by residents and business owners of Brooklyn.s historic Prospect Heights neighborhood facing condemnation of their property to make way...
Film to open at Cinema Village in Manhattan and
at Indie Screen in Brooklyn on June 17
Battle For Brooklyn, the controversial documentary by acclaimed filmmakers Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley (Horns and Halos) about one Brooklyn neighborhood.s enduring battle against the corporate developers of the Atlantic Yards project, will have its theatrical premiere in New York City on June 17th. The film will also open this year.s Brooklyn Film Festival on June 3rd, and will screen in the Rooftop Films summer series on June 9th in Fort Greene Park.
Battle For Brooklyn is an intimate look at the very public and passionate fight waged by residents and business owners of Brooklyn.s historic Prospect Heights neighborhood facing condemnation of their property to make way...
- 5/9/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Happy Mother’s Day! Let’s get to it:
This week’s Must Read is j. j. murphy’s review of the Candy Darling documentary Beautiful Darling. Murphy usually writes about indie film screenplays, but I also really like his writings on Warhol, since I’ve been a Warhol nut since college.For Artforum, Amy Taubin reviews James Fotopoulos’ new feature Alice in Wonderland, which just made its World Premiere at Brooklyn’s Microscope Gallery. Taubin said it was a must see and now I’m dying to see it, too.Also, Fotopoulos has totally relaunched his company Fantasma Inc. on the web. Check out their new redesigned homepage, then hit ‘em up on Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo and subscribe to the blog.For Time Out Chicago, Patrick Friel interviews the legendary Ken Jacobs about his lesser-discussed live-performance pieces.Bob Moricz was wowed by a Cinema Project screening of the films of William Eggleston.
This week’s Must Read is j. j. murphy’s review of the Candy Darling documentary Beautiful Darling. Murphy usually writes about indie film screenplays, but I also really like his writings on Warhol, since I’ve been a Warhol nut since college.For Artforum, Amy Taubin reviews James Fotopoulos’ new feature Alice in Wonderland, which just made its World Premiere at Brooklyn’s Microscope Gallery. Taubin said it was a must see and now I’m dying to see it, too.Also, Fotopoulos has totally relaunched his company Fantasma Inc. on the web. Check out their new redesigned homepage, then hit ‘em up on Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo and subscribe to the blog.For Time Out Chicago, Patrick Friel interviews the legendary Ken Jacobs about his lesser-discussed live-performance pieces.Bob Moricz was wowed by a Cinema Project screening of the films of William Eggleston.
- 5/8/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
It’s Viva Las Vegas time in this trip down memory lane with the one and only Miss Nancy Sinatra and her co-conspirator Lee Hazlewood. And yes, the above embedded short documentary by Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky includes archive footage of her singing “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” live on stage. (Personally, I prefer the Crispin Glover cover version, but this will do.) And that stage is at The Riviera, one of the last of the old school Vegas casinos still in business to this day, having opened back in 1955.
The occasion for this short doc about Lee Hazlewood was a re-release screening of the 1973 documentary Nancy & Lee in Las Vegas at the Anthology Film Archives sometime in the late ’90s. Hazlewood, who helped edit the ’73 film, and the film’s director, Torbjörn Axelman, were at the Archives’ screening where Hawley and Galinsky sat them down to discuss the making of it.
The occasion for this short doc about Lee Hazlewood was a re-release screening of the 1973 documentary Nancy & Lee in Las Vegas at the Anthology Film Archives sometime in the late ’90s. Hazlewood, who helped edit the ’73 film, and the film’s director, Torbjörn Axelman, were at the Archives’ screening where Hawley and Galinsky sat them down to discuss the making of it.
- 1/21/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
I’ve remarked a couple of times on the site in the past that there’s little to no reference sources online for the first two New York Underground Film Festivals, held in 1994 and 1995. The official Nyuff website has had its archives offline for, I think, over a year now. If you go to their site, they simply direct you to what’s available on the site Archive.org. (And, from my own experience, it’s a safe bet not to assume your stuff will be on Archive.org forever — it can really vanish at any minute.)
At Archive.org, the Nyuff archives only go back to 1996. I don’t know if the fest had a web presence those first two years or not, but whether they were ever there, the optimum point is that they’re not there now and probably never will be. And my own personal assumption...
At Archive.org, the Nyuff archives only go back to 1996. I don’t know if the fest had a web presence those first two years or not, but whether they were ever there, the optimum point is that they’re not there now and probably never will be. And my own personal assumption...
- 11/1/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The term “underground film” has never enjoyed a popular definition. Oh, some writers have attempted formal definitions, but I doubt there will ever be one that is popularly agreed upon. It’s not even a term that can be agreed upon to be used. But, it is used and I personally have billed this site “The Journal of Underground Film,” so I thought I’d give my general perception of what “underground film” might mean to contribute to an ongoing dialogue about it.
And I prefer to consider writing a post like this as contributing to a dialogue because I do not have any interest in trying to build a definition myself. However, what I can say is that “Underground film” is not a genre. Actually, what leads me to use the term “underground” is that it feels to me to be a catch-all for other genres.
Avant-garde, experimental, poem,...
And I prefer to consider writing a post like this as contributing to a dialogue because I do not have any interest in trying to build a definition myself. However, what I can say is that “Underground film” is not a genre. Actually, what leads me to use the term “underground” is that it feels to me to be a catch-all for other genres.
Avant-garde, experimental, poem,...
- 1/12/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
NEW YORK -- Continuing a flurry of recent deals under its new head of acquisitions, Marie Therese Guirgis, indie banner Wellspring has acquired U.S rights to Dans ma peau (In My Skin), the first feature directed by Marina de Van. Peau, which follows a young woman's increasing fascination with her body after sustaining an injury at a party, premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain and will be released theatrically at the end of the year. De Van, who co-wrote Francois Ozon's 8 Women and Under the Sand, penned the script and stars in Peau. Laurence Farenc served as producer. The deal was brokered by Guirgis and Pierre Menahem of Paris-based sales outfit Celluloid Dreams. Also this month, Wellspring snapped up international rights to Billy Corben's controversial documentary Raw Deal as well as another documentary, Horns and Halos, by Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley (HR 3/18).
- 3/25/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Indie banner Wellspring has picked up international rights to Billy Corben's controversial documentary Raw Deal, as well as another documentary, Horns and Halos by Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley. The acquisitions are the first for Wellspring under the company's newly appointed head of acquisitions, Marie Therese Guirgis, who was upped from director of acquisitions this month (HR 3/11).
- 3/18/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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