When HBO renewed Bill Simmons’ “Music Box” documentary series for a second season in December, it wasn’t exactly surprising. Critics, film festival programmers and audiences were immediately taken with the series of six docs, which launched in July.
But the road to success was a long one. Simmons conceived the series back in 2018. His idea was to make the music version of the wildly successful sports docuseries “30 for 30,” which he co-created for ESPN more than a decade ago. Like “30 for 30,” installments of “Music Box” wouldn’t tell the entire trajectory of an artist’s career, but instead spotlight pivotal moments, creations and creators within the music sector. Also like “30 for 30,” Simmons would enlist A-list documentary filmmakers to make his vision come to light.
Three and a half years later in July, Garret Price’s “Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage” became the first...
But the road to success was a long one. Simmons conceived the series back in 2018. His idea was to make the music version of the wildly successful sports docuseries “30 for 30,” which he co-created for ESPN more than a decade ago. Like “30 for 30,” installments of “Music Box” wouldn’t tell the entire trajectory of an artist’s career, but instead spotlight pivotal moments, creations and creators within the music sector. Also like “30 for 30,” Simmons would enlist A-list documentary filmmakers to make his vision come to light.
Three and a half years later in July, Garret Price’s “Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage” became the first...
- 1/21/2022
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: HBO is turning up the volume of its music documentary slate. The network has renewed Music Box, its Bill Simmons-led collection of feature docs, for a second season.
It comes as the last of its initial six film collection – Juice Wrld: Into The Abyss – is set to air on December 16.
Simmons and HBO will now search for a new selection of films for the sophomore run with each film helmed by a different direction. Each will continue to explore essential moments in music for an artist or band, an iconic album, or the music industry as a whole.
The six films in the first slate were Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage, directed by Garret Price, which premiered in July, Alanis Morissette documentary Jagged, directed by Alison Klayman, Dmx: Don’t Try to Understand, directed by Christopher Frierson, Listening to Kenny G, directed by Penny Lane, Mr. Saturday Night,...
It comes as the last of its initial six film collection – Juice Wrld: Into The Abyss – is set to air on December 16.
Simmons and HBO will now search for a new selection of films for the sophomore run with each film helmed by a different direction. Each will continue to explore essential moments in music for an artist or band, an iconic album, or the music industry as a whole.
The six films in the first slate were Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage, directed by Garret Price, which premiered in July, Alanis Morissette documentary Jagged, directed by Alison Klayman, Dmx: Don’t Try to Understand, directed by Christopher Frierson, Listening to Kenny G, directed by Penny Lane, Mr. Saturday Night,...
- 12/15/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Bill Simmons, co-creator of ESPN’s documentary strand 30 for 30, is turning his attention to music documentaries for his latest project.
Music Box is a 30 for 30-style strand for HBO that encompasses a number of movies about bands and artists. It kicks off tonight with Woodstock 99: Peace, Love & Rage, a film about the chaotic festival.
The film, directed by Love, Antosha helmer Garret Price, looks at what went wrong with the 1999 event that took place 30 years on from the classic hippie fest, including the destruction of the festival’s airbase site and the deaths and sexual assaults that occurred during the weekend. It also looks at the angst of a generation encapsulated by bands such as Limp Bizkit, with its hit “Break Stuff,” and Red Hot Chili Peppers, who played a cover of Jimi Hendrix’s “Fire” as the site burned.
Featuring interviews with artists such as The Roots, Korn,...
Music Box is a 30 for 30-style strand for HBO that encompasses a number of movies about bands and artists. It kicks off tonight with Woodstock 99: Peace, Love & Rage, a film about the chaotic festival.
The film, directed by Love, Antosha helmer Garret Price, looks at what went wrong with the 1999 event that took place 30 years on from the classic hippie fest, including the destruction of the festival’s airbase site and the deaths and sexual assaults that occurred during the weekend. It also looks at the angst of a generation encapsulated by bands such as Limp Bizkit, with its hit “Break Stuff,” and Red Hot Chili Peppers, who played a cover of Jimi Hendrix’s “Fire” as the site burned.
Featuring interviews with artists such as The Roots, Korn,...
- 7/23/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Anyone who was a child or teenager in the late-1990s remembers Woodstock ’99; it was one of those presumably life-altering rites of passage that proved you were almost an adult. But much like MTV Spring Break, Woodstock ’99 held a far darker reality only clearly visible after entering adulthood.
Director Garret Price is no slouch at being able to perfectly encapsulate a moment in time, whether that be in the music world (he helmed 2015’s “Janis Joplin: Little Girl Blue”) or a person. Here, the minute the opening guitar riff of Lit’s “My Own Worst Enemy” starts playing, a few of the doc’s attributes are immediately evident: If you loved rock of this period you’re in for a treat, and you are definitely gonna feel like you dropped back into 1999.
The documentary plays out in a straightforward manner, detailing the desire from Woodstock creatives Michael Lang and John...
Director Garret Price is no slouch at being able to perfectly encapsulate a moment in time, whether that be in the music world (he helmed 2015’s “Janis Joplin: Little Girl Blue”) or a person. Here, the minute the opening guitar riff of Lit’s “My Own Worst Enemy” starts playing, a few of the doc’s attributes are immediately evident: If you loved rock of this period you’re in for a treat, and you are definitely gonna feel like you dropped back into 1999.
The documentary plays out in a straightforward manner, detailing the desire from Woodstock creatives Michael Lang and John...
- 7/23/2021
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
Today (July 23) marks the 22nd anniversary of Woodstock ‘99 festival, and a new HBO documentary fittingly titled “Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage” takes audiences back to the violence-filled, three-day music festival that turned from a celebration into riots, looting and sexual assaults.
Director Garret Price, who also served as co-editor alongside Avner Shiloah, opens the film with scenes from the original, peace-and-love Woodstock festival before plunging into the very different 1999 version, which was headlined by heavy bands like Rage Against the Machine and Limp Bizkit.
Price and Shiloah give audiences behind-the-scenes insight through rare archival footage and interviews that help explain why the festival became known as “The day the ‘90s died.”
Why did you open with footage from the original Woodstock festival?
Garret Price: I wanted it to feel like a ‘90s teen movie — a road-trip movie, where we leaned into the music of the time. I want this...
Director Garret Price, who also served as co-editor alongside Avner Shiloah, opens the film with scenes from the original, peace-and-love Woodstock festival before plunging into the very different 1999 version, which was headlined by heavy bands like Rage Against the Machine and Limp Bizkit.
Price and Shiloah give audiences behind-the-scenes insight through rare archival footage and interviews that help explain why the festival became known as “The day the ‘90s died.”
Why did you open with footage from the original Woodstock festival?
Garret Price: I wanted it to feel like a ‘90s teen movie — a road-trip movie, where we leaned into the music of the time. I want this...
- 7/23/2021
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
HBO’s documentary Woodstock 99: Peace, Love and Rage has a lot on its mind when it comes to the debacle of the 1999 music festival, with one of its most provocative ideas tied to the dangers not of forgetting history, but of viewing history through a nostalgia-skewed lens (something that can create worse messes than just a Turner & Hooch TV show).
This alone would make the doc plenty timely and perceptive, even if Garret Price’s film wasn’t also about the dangers of pandering to angry young white men without considering consequences. I have problems with some of the ...
This alone would make the doc plenty timely and perceptive, even if Garret Price’s film wasn’t also about the dangers of pandering to angry young white men without considering consequences. I have problems with some of the ...
- 7/23/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
HBO’s documentary Woodstock 99: Peace, Love and Rage has a lot on its mind when it comes to the debacle of the 1999 music festival, with one of its most provocative ideas tied to the dangers not of forgetting history, but of viewing history through a nostalgia-skewed lens (something that can create worse messes than just a Turner & Hooch TV show).
This alone would make the doc plenty timely and perceptive, even if Garret Price’s film wasn’t also about the dangers of pandering to angry young white men without considering consequences. I have problems with some of the ...
This alone would make the doc plenty timely and perceptive, even if Garret Price’s film wasn’t also about the dangers of pandering to angry young white men without considering consequences. I have problems with some of the ...
- 7/23/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
This Friday, HBO will debut Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage, a documentary about the infamous 30th anniversary staging of the iconic music fest. Ahead of the film’s premiere, Rolling Stone is debuting a clip focusing on one of the more serious and disgusting aspects from the festival: The lack of clean drinking water and the puddles of human sewage that festival-goers mistook as mud.
As seen in the clip, although organizers set up barrels of clean water for the attendees — which leaned heavily toward the young male demographic — to drink,...
As seen in the clip, although organizers set up barrels of clean water for the attendees — which leaned heavily toward the young male demographic — to drink,...
- 7/20/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
"We got off the bus and – 'something's not right.'" HBO is releasing this documentary in July this summer - check out the official trailer for Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage, made by doc filmmaker Garret Price. How did an iconic celebration of harmony descend into mayhem? Woodstock 99, the first film in Bill Simmons' Music Box HBO series, examines how the festival collapsed under the weight of its own misguided ambition. This sounds much like the Fyre Festival some 20 years before the Fyre Festival. The film tells the harrowing and calamitous story of Woodstock '99, a three-day music festival promoted to echo the unity and counterculture idealism of the original 1969 concert, but instead devolved into riots, looting, and sexual assaults. Of course it did, because they were probably trying to make money not really put on a good show. This looks like one helluva doc about what went wrong...
- 7/18/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage" a new documentary directed by Garret Price, covers a disastrous three-day music festival, that was touted as a celebration of unity and counterculture, like the original "Woodstock" festival in 1969, but scorching heat, broken toilets, drugs, alcohol and a lineup of obnoxious rock bands, turned the event into a chaotic hot mess, streaming July 23, 2021 on HBO Max:
"...the documentary is the first in what HBO's 'Music Box' series, created and executive produced by Bill Simmons..."
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"...the documentary is the first in what HBO's 'Music Box' series, created and executive produced by Bill Simmons..."
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- 7/10/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
HBO Max has released a new trailer for Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage, its upcoming documentary about the infamous three-day music festival. The film will arrive on the streaming service July 23rd.
Thrown 30 years after the original Woodstock, Woodstock 99 was completely unlike the counter-cultural celebration of peace, love, and music. The trailer distills the chaos that ensued, from scorching heat and $4 bottles of water, to malfunctioning porta-potties and a whole lot of pent-up white male rage that was unleashed in the form of fights, fires, and multiple reports of sexual assault.
Thrown 30 years after the original Woodstock, Woodstock 99 was completely unlike the counter-cultural celebration of peace, love, and music. The trailer distills the chaos that ensued, from scorching heat and $4 bottles of water, to malfunctioning porta-potties and a whole lot of pent-up white male rage that was unleashed in the form of fights, fires, and multiple reports of sexual assault.
- 7/7/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
When a man foresees his own murder, he tries to change the future in the new sci-fi thriller Volition. After winning the best feature award at the Philip K. Dick Film Festival, Volition has been acquired by Giant Pictures for U.S. distribution, with a July 10th release scheduled for Apple TV, Prime Video, and additional digital platforms.
Press Release: Los Angeles, May 5, 2020 – Giant Pictures has acquired the U.S. rights to the sci-fi/thriller Volition. The film will be released in theaters, on Apple TV, Prime Video and other Digital Platforms on July 10, 2020.
Volition is the feature directorial debut for Tony Dean Smith (Rakka), who co-wrote the script with his brother and producing partner Ryan W. Smith (Next Gen). The film stars Adrian Glynn McMorran (The Revenant), Magda Apanowicz (You), John Cassini (The Possession), Frank Cassini (Watchmen), Aleks Paunovic (War for the Planet of the Apes), and Bill Marchant...
Press Release: Los Angeles, May 5, 2020 – Giant Pictures has acquired the U.S. rights to the sci-fi/thriller Volition. The film will be released in theaters, on Apple TV, Prime Video and other Digital Platforms on July 10, 2020.
Volition is the feature directorial debut for Tony Dean Smith (Rakka), who co-wrote the script with his brother and producing partner Ryan W. Smith (Next Gen). The film stars Adrian Glynn McMorran (The Revenant), Magda Apanowicz (You), John Cassini (The Possession), Frank Cassini (Watchmen), Aleks Paunovic (War for the Planet of the Apes), and Bill Marchant...
- 5/7/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
“This is the only award show that matters. Best night of my life. I love it here,” Olivia Wilde quipped while accepting Best Female Director at the 3rd annual Hollywood Critics Awards on Thursday night.
The “Booksmart” director then congratulated fellow nominees Alma Ha’rel, Lulu Wang, Greta Gerwig and Lorene Scafaria for “paving the way for all the women who are so excited to be able to work,” adding, “there was never a lack of skill or interest. There was just a lack of opportunity.”
Wilde was one of the big winners of the evening, collecting three prizes — including the Trailblazer Award — for her directorial debut. “If I have blazed any trails, it’s only because of those who have blazed them before me.”
Wilde’s fellow winners at the ceremony, held at the Taglyan Cultural Complex in Hollywood, similarly imbued their speeches with a sense of comedic irreverence...
The “Booksmart” director then congratulated fellow nominees Alma Ha’rel, Lulu Wang, Greta Gerwig and Lorene Scafaria for “paving the way for all the women who are so excited to be able to work,” adding, “there was never a lack of skill or interest. There was just a lack of opportunity.”
Wilde was one of the big winners of the evening, collecting three prizes — including the Trailblazer Award — for her directorial debut. “If I have blazed any trails, it’s only because of those who have blazed them before me.”
Wilde’s fellow winners at the ceremony, held at the Taglyan Cultural Complex in Hollywood, similarly imbued their speeches with a sense of comedic irreverence...
- 1/11/2020
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
América
Their bittersweet music box of a film is enamored with its title character, a 93-year-old Mexican woman caught in an unwilling limbo. Her son has been sent to prison for failing to take care of her, elder neglect, leaving her unprepared adult grandsons to look after her, perhaps in the same way she looked after them when they were children. – Jose S. (full review)
Where to Stream: iTunes
Birds of Passage (Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra)
It probably says more about Ciro Guerra’s last film than this inimitable new offering (which he co-directed with his long-serving producer Christina Gallego) to suggest that fans of...
América
Their bittersweet music box of a film is enamored with its title character, a 93-year-old Mexican woman caught in an unwilling limbo. Her son has been sent to prison for failing to take care of her, elder neglect, leaving her unprepared adult grandsons to look after her, perhaps in the same way she looked after them when they were children. – Jose S. (full review)
Where to Stream: iTunes
Birds of Passage (Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra)
It probably says more about Ciro Guerra’s last film than this inimitable new offering (which he co-directed with his long-serving producer Christina Gallego) to suggest that fans of...
- 11/15/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: CAA has signed award-winning filmmaker Drake Doremus.
The write-director-producer’s latest movie Endings, Beginnings which stars Shailene Woodley, Jamie Dornan, and Sebastian Stan, was recently sold to Samuel Goldwyn Films in the wake of the pic’s world premiere at Tiff.
The Orange, California native and AFI alum’s feature Douchebag, which made its world premiere in Dramatic Competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. There was more immediately in store for Doremus, for the following year he premiered his Anton Yelchin-Felicity Jones-Jennifer Lawrence $250K feature Like Crazy (which was largely improvised) winning the fest’s Grand Jury Prize for Best Picture. In addition, the pic landed a Special Jury Prize for Jones. The film was released by Paramount the following October and also garnered a Breakthrough Actor award from the National Board of Review for Jones.
Doremus’ other credits include Breathe In, which starred Emmy winner Guy Pearce.
The write-director-producer’s latest movie Endings, Beginnings which stars Shailene Woodley, Jamie Dornan, and Sebastian Stan, was recently sold to Samuel Goldwyn Films in the wake of the pic’s world premiere at Tiff.
The Orange, California native and AFI alum’s feature Douchebag, which made its world premiere in Dramatic Competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. There was more immediately in store for Doremus, for the following year he premiered his Anton Yelchin-Felicity Jones-Jennifer Lawrence $250K feature Like Crazy (which was largely improvised) winning the fest’s Grand Jury Prize for Best Picture. In addition, the pic landed a Special Jury Prize for Jones. The film was released by Paramount the following October and also garnered a Breakthrough Actor award from the National Board of Review for Jones.
Doremus’ other credits include Breathe In, which starred Emmy winner Guy Pearce.
- 11/11/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
“Apollo 11” was the big winner at the fourth annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards on Sunday in New York City.
The film took home the award for documentary feature, as well as editing for Todd Douglas Miller and score for Matt Morton. “Apollo 11” was also honored with archival documentary and science/nature documentary prizes.
There was a tie for director between Peter Jackson for “They Shall Not Grow Old,” and Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar for “American Factory.” “They Shall Not Grow Old” also brought home the award for innovative documentary. “American Factory” nabbed the prize for political documentary.
The inaugural D. A. Pennebaker Award, formerly known as the Critics’ Choice lifetime achievement award, was presented to Chris Hegedus, Pennebaker’s longtime collaborator and widow. Michael Apted received the landmark award in honor of his “Up” series.
The ceremony, hosted by “Property Brothers” star Jonathan Scott, was held at Bric in Brooklyn.
The film took home the award for documentary feature, as well as editing for Todd Douglas Miller and score for Matt Morton. “Apollo 11” was also honored with archival documentary and science/nature documentary prizes.
There was a tie for director between Peter Jackson for “They Shall Not Grow Old,” and Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar for “American Factory.” “They Shall Not Grow Old” also brought home the award for innovative documentary. “American Factory” nabbed the prize for political documentary.
The inaugural D. A. Pennebaker Award, formerly known as the Critics’ Choice lifetime achievement award, was presented to Chris Hegedus, Pennebaker’s longtime collaborator and widow. Michael Apted received the landmark award in honor of his “Up” series.
The ceremony, hosted by “Property Brothers” star Jonathan Scott, was held at Bric in Brooklyn.
- 11/11/2019
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
“Anton found me to direct this story,” declares Garret Price about his directorial debut “Love, Antosha.” The documentary about the life of the late actor Anton Yelchin has brought Price, a longtime editor on documentary films, his first success as a director. The film has earned a nomination for Best First Feature at the Critics Choice Documentary Awards. In our exclusive video interview (watch above), Price confesses that the awards are secondary with his experience becoming familiar with Yelchin and his family. “I went into making this thinking that if nobody ever sees this movie,” Price says, “I wanted to give a love letter from Anton to his parents.”
SEECritics’ Choice Documentary Awards 2019 nominations
Price sees the documentary as more than just a document of Yelchin’s life, and as much an account of the loving relationship between the young actor and his parents. The director worked closely with his parents in making the film,...
SEECritics’ Choice Documentary Awards 2019 nominations
Price sees the documentary as more than just a document of Yelchin’s life, and as much an account of the loving relationship between the young actor and his parents. The director worked closely with his parents in making the film,...
- 10/30/2019
- by Tony Ruiz
- Gold Derby
John Chester‘s “The Biggest Little Farm” leads the fourth annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards with seven nominations, including Best Documentary Feature and Best Director. Right behind it with six bids apiece are Todd Douglas Miller‘s “Apollo 11” and Peter Jackson‘s “They Shall Not Grow Old.” The other eight films nominated for the top prize are “American Factory,” “The Cave,” “Honeyland,” “The Kingmaker,” “Knock Down the House,” “Leaving Neverland,” “Maiden,” and “One Child Nation.”
Chester’s newest documentary follows his family’s journey as they develop a sustainable farm outside of Los Angeles. As the Ccda nomination leader it follows in the footsteps of last year’s eventual Academy Awards winner “Free Solo” who led this group’s field with six nominations. “Free Solo” may have won at the Oscars and three Ccda awards, but it lost the main prize here to “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?...
Chester’s newest documentary follows his family’s journey as they develop a sustainable farm outside of Los Angeles. As the Ccda nomination leader it follows in the footsteps of last year’s eventual Academy Awards winner “Free Solo” who led this group’s field with six nominations. “Free Solo” may have won at the Oscars and three Ccda awards, but it lost the main prize here to “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?...
- 10/15/2019
- by John Benutty
- Gold Derby
“The Biggest Little Farm” leads nominees for the fourth annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards, with seven bids, followed by “Apollo 11” and “They Shall Not Grow Old.” “One Child Nation” received five nominations.
The winners will be presented their awards at a gala, hosted by Property Brothers’ Jonathan Scott, on Nov. 10 at Bric in Brooklyn.
The awards honor documentaries released in theaters, on TV and on major digital platforms, as determined by the voting of qualified Cca members.
A new honor, the D.A. Pennebaker Award, will be presented to Frederick Wiseman. Michael Apted will receive the landmark award for his work on the “Up” series of films, with “63 Up” opening this year.
“As the film and television industry constantly evolves, documentaries remain a vibrant creative art form that entertains as well as informs,” said Cca CEO Joey Berlin. “We are proud that our awards event has become a...
The winners will be presented their awards at a gala, hosted by Property Brothers’ Jonathan Scott, on Nov. 10 at Bric in Brooklyn.
The awards honor documentaries released in theaters, on TV and on major digital platforms, as determined by the voting of qualified Cca members.
A new honor, the D.A. Pennebaker Award, will be presented to Frederick Wiseman. Michael Apted will receive the landmark award for his work on the “Up” series of films, with “63 Up” opening this year.
“As the film and television industry constantly evolves, documentaries remain a vibrant creative art form that entertains as well as informs,” said Cca CEO Joey Berlin. “We are proud that our awards event has become a...
- 10/14/2019
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
‘Biggest Little Farm’, Peter Jackson, ‘Apollo 11′ Top Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards Nominations
Farm animals, the historic moon landing and World War I veterans back to vivid life top the nominations for the fourth annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards.
The Biggest Little Farm leads this year with seven nominations, including Best Documentary Feature, John Chester for Best Director and noms for Best Cinematography, Editing, Score, Narration and Science/Nature Documentary.
Recognized with six nominations each are Apollo 11 and They Shall Not Grow Old. The nominations for Apollo 11 are Best Documentary Feature, Todd Douglas Miller for Best Director, plus Editing, Score, Archival Documentary and Science/Nature Documentary, The nominations for They Shall Not Grow Old are Best Documentary Feature, Peter Jackson for Best Director, Editing, Score, Archival Documentary and Most Innovative Documentary.
One Child Nation received five nominations: Best Documentary Feature, Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang for Best Director, along with Editing, Narration, and Political Documentary.
The Cave, Honeyland, American Factor, Aquarela...
The Biggest Little Farm leads this year with seven nominations, including Best Documentary Feature, John Chester for Best Director and noms for Best Cinematography, Editing, Score, Narration and Science/Nature Documentary.
Recognized with six nominations each are Apollo 11 and They Shall Not Grow Old. The nominations for Apollo 11 are Best Documentary Feature, Todd Douglas Miller for Best Director, plus Editing, Score, Archival Documentary and Science/Nature Documentary, The nominations for They Shall Not Grow Old are Best Documentary Feature, Peter Jackson for Best Director, Editing, Score, Archival Documentary and Most Innovative Documentary.
One Child Nation received five nominations: Best Documentary Feature, Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang for Best Director, along with Editing, Narration, and Political Documentary.
The Cave, Honeyland, American Factor, Aquarela...
- 10/14/2019
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
With only an 80-page outline to guide them, there were a lot of blanks to fill when “Endings, Beginnings” director Drake Doremus hired Shailene Woodley to star in the film just two weeks before shooting began. In between casting and shooting, however, Doremus, Woodley, and co-star Sebastian Stan made a two-day road trip up the California coast to the film’s Bir Sur location, swapping life philosophies along the way.
“We ended up driving for five-and-a-half hours and the amount of inside jokes and the vulnerability that came from that drive alone really drove our characters forward,” Woodley said at an “Endings, Beginnings” panel discussion the day after the film’s Toronto International Film Festival premiere. “The first day of filming, we had to be very vulnerable with one another, intimate with one another … I felt like all of us were riding on the same frequency.”
The film chronicles Woodley...
“We ended up driving for five-and-a-half hours and the amount of inside jokes and the vulnerability that came from that drive alone really drove our characters forward,” Woodley said at an “Endings, Beginnings” panel discussion the day after the film’s Toronto International Film Festival premiere. “The first day of filming, we had to be very vulnerable with one another, intimate with one another … I felt like all of us were riding on the same frequency.”
The film chronicles Woodley...
- 9/10/2019
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
Deadline is teaming with with the International Documentary Association and Hulu to launch For the Love of Docs, a screening series of 10 feature documentaries that represent the best of the brand. The films will be screened each week at the Landmark Theatre in Los Angeles beginning September 17 and running until December 10. The screenings are free.
The following films were chosen:
Ask Dr. Ruth, directed by Ryan White: A documentary about America’s favorite sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
Bellingcat, Truth in a Post Truth World, directed by Hans Pool: An exciting film about “citizen investigative journalism” tackling issues such as the crash of Mh 17 to the poisoning of a Russian spy.
Halston, directed by Frédéric Tcheng: A captivating documentary about the legendary ’70s fashion designer Halston.
Love, Antosha, directed by Garret Price: A film about the late actor Anton Yelchin, who died in 2016. Told through letters...
The following films were chosen:
Ask Dr. Ruth, directed by Ryan White: A documentary about America’s favorite sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
Bellingcat, Truth in a Post Truth World, directed by Hans Pool: An exciting film about “citizen investigative journalism” tackling issues such as the crash of Mh 17 to the poisoning of a Russian spy.
Halston, directed by Frédéric Tcheng: A captivating documentary about the legendary ’70s fashion designer Halston.
Love, Antosha, directed by Garret Price: A film about the late actor Anton Yelchin, who died in 2016. Told through letters...
- 8/21/2019
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
The weekend has had a sizable crowd of specialty newcomers, though as summer begins its sunset, it appears some audiences are going beyond the big studio brouhaha. Sundance psycho-thriller Luce lead the pack with a $132,916 start in five locations, grabbing a $26,583 per theater average for the Neon release in the three-day estimate, while not far behind was IFC Films’ The Nightingale for $40,082 in two theaters and a $20,041 PTA. A24’s The Farewell, meanwhile, landed comfortably in the top 10 this weekend, while being in far fewer theaters than the studio titles. The Sundance title by Lulu Wang grossed over $2.4M in 409 theaters, averaging a robust $5,939 for the Mandarin and English-language feature. It has cumed over $6.84M.
Neon reported Sunday that writer-director Julius Onah’s Luce’s exits showed “broad appeal,” with a 28% African-American audience and about a 50/50 split between crowds over and under 40 years-old. Moviegoers were about 59% female and 41% male.
“Julius...
Neon reported Sunday that writer-director Julius Onah’s Luce’s exits showed “broad appeal,” with a 28% African-American audience and about a 50/50 split between crowds over and under 40 years-old. Moviegoers were about 59% female and 41% male.
“Julius...
- 8/4/2019
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s hard to imagine a more heartfelt eulogy than “Love, Antosha,” the emotional new documentary from first-time director Garret Price, about the life and the tragic, sudden, almost unbelievable death of actor Anton Yelchin.
Born Anton Viktorovich Yelchin to immigrant ice-skating superstars from the U.S.S.R., the young actor co-starred in 69 movies and television shows before he was crushed by his own car in a bizarre accident when he was only 27. Mainstream audiences probably knew him best as Anton Chekov, the rookie crew member aboard J.J. Abrams’ rebooted “Star Trek” movie franchise. But since 2000, Yelchin had been working as a child actor in high profile projects like “ER” and “Hearts in Atlantis,” before eventually graduating to mature leading roles in celebrated films like “Like Crazy” and “Green Room.”
As a child star, and an enterprising youngster who made experimental films with his friends and family, there’s...
Born Anton Viktorovich Yelchin to immigrant ice-skating superstars from the U.S.S.R., the young actor co-starred in 69 movies and television shows before he was crushed by his own car in a bizarre accident when he was only 27. Mainstream audiences probably knew him best as Anton Chekov, the rookie crew member aboard J.J. Abrams’ rebooted “Star Trek” movie franchise. But since 2000, Yelchin had been working as a child actor in high profile projects like “ER” and “Hearts in Atlantis,” before eventually graduating to mature leading roles in celebrated films like “Like Crazy” and “Green Room.”
As a child star, and an enterprising youngster who made experimental films with his friends and family, there’s...
- 8/2/2019
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
This is a packed weekend for new specialty rollouts, one of the most crowded of the summer. Neon is opening writer-director Julius Onah’s drama Luce with New York and L.A. runs in its opening frame. The company picked up the title starring Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Octavia Spencer and Kelvin Harrison Jr. out of Sundance. Diane Kruger stars in psychological thriller The Operative by writer-director Yuval Adler. The Vertical Entertainment release is playing 10 theaters around the country starting Friday. IFC Films released Jennifer Kent’s 2014 feature The Babadook and is spearheading her latest, The Nightingale, with a traditional rollout. Photographer and artist Jay Maisel is at the center of the documentary Jay Myself, which is playing an exclusive window at Film Forum in New York via Oscilloscope. Cohen Media Group picked up Tel Aviv on Fire out of its Venice premiere, beginning its U.S. theatrical run in New York,...
- 8/2/2019
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
Three of Anton Yelchin’s most beloved films will return to theaters this month in the run-up to the release of “Love, Antosha,” a documentary about the late actor’s many creative pursuits which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The theatrical retrospective will feature J.J. Abrams’ “Star Trek” (2009), Drake Doremus’ “Like Crazy” (2011), and Jeremy Saulnier’s “Green Room” (2015). The screenings are set to take place at New York’s Quad Cinema and Portland’s Regal Fox Tower Cinemas, with additional cites to be announced at a later date.
Directed by Garret Price, “Love, Antosha” features interviews with the actor’s parents, Irina and Viktor Yelchin, as well as many of his high-profile friends and collaborators. While his acting work is well known to many, Price highlights the lesser-known sides of Yelchin’s artistic process by exploring his photographic projects as well as scoring the film entirely with the actor’s original music.
Directed by Garret Price, “Love, Antosha” features interviews with the actor’s parents, Irina and Viktor Yelchin, as well as many of his high-profile friends and collaborators. While his acting work is well known to many, Price highlights the lesser-known sides of Yelchin’s artistic process by exploring his photographic projects as well as scoring the film entirely with the actor’s original music.
- 8/1/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Amidst the usual glitz and glamour of a red carpet, Monday night’s premiere of “Love, Antosha” had an air of seriousness bordering on reverence — even the reporters were nervous. And at the center of it all were Irina and Victor Yelchin, the parents of late actor Anton Yelchin.
“Anton deserved it, and everything that we’re doing. We’re trying to keep his legacy alive,” Victor Yelchin told Variety about his emotional experience on the red carpet outside Arclight Hollywood. “For me to watch this movie one more time, it’s a chance to give Anton another 1.5 hours.”
“And for me, I’m leaving in the middle of the film, when I know that something is coming,” Irina Yelchin added, referencing news footage surrounding her son’s death. “We can’t avoid it, that happened. But at some point, I’m coming back again because he’s again alive — he’s smiling,...
“Anton deserved it, and everything that we’re doing. We’re trying to keep his legacy alive,” Victor Yelchin told Variety about his emotional experience on the red carpet outside Arclight Hollywood. “For me to watch this movie one more time, it’s a chance to give Anton another 1.5 hours.”
“And for me, I’m leaving in the middle of the film, when I know that something is coming,” Irina Yelchin added, referencing news footage surrounding her son’s death. “We can’t avoid it, that happened. But at some point, I’m coming back again because he’s again alive — he’s smiling,...
- 7/31/2019
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
A poignant tribute to the late Anton Yelchin, Garret Price’s documentary “Love, Antosha” filters the young actor’s life through interviews with his collaborators and family. Narrated, in part, by Yelchin’s “Dying of the Light” collaborator, Nicholas Cage and produced by his “Like Crazy” director Drake Doremus (whom Price has served as an editor for), the documentary serves as an encapsulation of the profound impact Yelchin made during his all too short time as an actor.
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- 7/31/2019
- by Christian Gallichio
- The Playlist
Upcoming documentary Love, Antosha details the life and career of late actor Anton Yelchin, who rose to fame for roles in tentpole films such as Star Trek and Terminator: Salvation as well as his various indie film performances, among them Like Crazy and Odd Thomas.
The documentary, directed by Garret Price, features a look at Yelchin's journal entries, photography and original music, as well as interviews with his family and colleagues. Numerous industry peers share their experiences of him, including J.J. Abrams, Willem Dafoe, Nicolas Cage, Like Crazy director Drake Doremus, Jodie Foster, John Cho and more.
The soundtrack to ...
The documentary, directed by Garret Price, features a look at Yelchin's journal entries, photography and original music, as well as interviews with his family and colleagues. Numerous industry peers share their experiences of him, including J.J. Abrams, Willem Dafoe, Nicolas Cage, Like Crazy director Drake Doremus, Jodie Foster, John Cho and more.
The soundtrack to ...
- 7/16/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Upcoming documentary Love, Antosha details the life and career of late actor Anton Yelchin, who rose to fame for roles in tentpole films such as Star Trek and Terminator: Salvation as well as his various indie film performances, among them Like Crazy and Odd Thomas.
The documentary, directed by former editor Garret Price, features a look at Yelchin's journal entries, photography and original music, as well as interviews with his family and colleagues. Numerous industry peers share their experiences of him, including J.J. Abrams, Willem Dafoe, Nicolas Cage, Like Crazy director Drake Doremus, Jodie Foster, John Cho and more.
The ...
The documentary, directed by former editor Garret Price, features a look at Yelchin's journal entries, photography and original music, as well as interviews with his family and colleagues. Numerous industry peers share their experiences of him, including J.J. Abrams, Willem Dafoe, Nicolas Cage, Like Crazy director Drake Doremus, Jodie Foster, John Cho and more.
The ...
- 7/16/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Late actor Anton Yelchin, who died in 2016, is the subject of a new documentary, Love, Antosha. In the first trailer for the film, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, everyone from Willem Dafoe to Chris Pine to Simon Pegg to J.J. Abrams recount their memories of Yelchin. It includes footage from the actor’s youth leading into his film career, as well as his death at 27 years old.
The documentary, directed by Garret Price, is in theaters August 2nd. The official synopsis describes the film as a...
The documentary, directed by Garret Price, is in theaters August 2nd. The official synopsis describes the film as a...
- 6/11/2019
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
‘Star Trek’ leading man Chris Pine delighted the crowd at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sunday evening by introducing the trailer for “Love, Antosha,” a documentary about the actor’s late co-star and friend Anton Yelchin. The emotional footage played before a screening of “Star Trek” that commemorated the 10th anniversary of the film’s debut.
“Obviously we’re here for Anton; he was one of my dear friends and I felt like I was only getting a chance to know him a better one when he passed,” Pine told the crowd. “The film is incredible and I think it’ll show you all different sides of the guy that I knew — this curious, fascinating, complex, strange little dude.”
Pine went on to talk about working with Yelchin on the “Star Trek” films, saying he was like a little brother to the cast since he was about 10 years younger than the other actors.
“Obviously we’re here for Anton; he was one of my dear friends and I felt like I was only getting a chance to know him a better one when he passed,” Pine told the crowd. “The film is incredible and I think it’ll show you all different sides of the guy that I knew — this curious, fascinating, complex, strange little dude.”
Pine went on to talk about working with Yelchin on the “Star Trek” films, saying he was like a little brother to the cast since he was about 10 years younger than the other actors.
- 6/10/2019
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Kayti Burt Jun 10, 2019
Check out the trailer for the upcoming documentary celebrating the life and art of actor Anton Yelchin.
The trailer just dropped for Love, Antosha, a documentary that celebrates the life and work of actor Anton Yelchin, who died unexpectedly in a freak accident at the age of 27 years old in 2016.
Despite dying at a young age, Yelchin, who was born in Russia and moved to the U.S. when he was only six months old, had a vibrant career. He started acting professionally when he was only nine years old, starring in films and TV shows alongside actors some of western film's most celebrated actors. He was perhaps particularly known for his role as Chekov in the Star Trek reboot films, as well as for his work in Like, Crazy, alongside Felicity Jones, and Green Room, alongside Patrick Stewart.
The documentary, which was begun by Yelchin's parents,...
Check out the trailer for the upcoming documentary celebrating the life and art of actor Anton Yelchin.
The trailer just dropped for Love, Antosha, a documentary that celebrates the life and work of actor Anton Yelchin, who died unexpectedly in a freak accident at the age of 27 years old in 2016.
Despite dying at a young age, Yelchin, who was born in Russia and moved to the U.S. when he was only six months old, had a vibrant career. He started acting professionally when he was only nine years old, starring in films and TV shows alongside actors some of western film's most celebrated actors. He was perhaps particularly known for his role as Chekov in the Star Trek reboot films, as well as for his work in Like, Crazy, alongside Felicity Jones, and Green Room, alongside Patrick Stewart.
The documentary, which was begun by Yelchin's parents,...
- 6/10/2019
- Den of Geek
Anton Yelchin’s untimely death at the age of 27 almost three years ago shocked the world. From Chekov in the rebooted Star Trek franchise to his involvement in acclaimed indies like Only Lovers Left Alive and the pulsating cult classic Green Room, the actor had an amiable disposition and unwavering talent. In his directorial debut, Garrett Price intends to unveil a side of Anton Yelchin that his fans have never seen.
His new documentary Love, Antosha conveys the story of Anton Yelchin from his birth in the former Soviet Union and his family’s eventual escape to America, to his rise in the indie film circuit all the way to Hollywood, eventually culminating to his untimely death and his enduring legacy. With interviews conducted with his parents, co-stars, co-workers, friends, and his personal diaries narrated by Nicolas Cage, the first trailer has now arrived ahead of an August release.
In our interview from Sundance,...
His new documentary Love, Antosha conveys the story of Anton Yelchin from his birth in the former Soviet Union and his family’s eventual escape to America, to his rise in the indie film circuit all the way to Hollywood, eventually culminating to his untimely death and his enduring legacy. With interviews conducted with his parents, co-stars, co-workers, friends, and his personal diaries narrated by Nicolas Cage, the first trailer has now arrived ahead of an August release.
In our interview from Sundance,...
- 6/10/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Almost three years after the tragic and shocking passing of the uncommonly sensitive and prolific actor Anton Yelchin, a new documentary about his life and work offers an intimate window into this rare talent. Garret Price’s heartbreaking “Love, Antosha” features interviews with the actor’s parents, Irina and Viktor Yelchin, as well as many of his high-profile friends and collaborators. While his acting work is well known to many, Price highlights the lesser-known sides of Yelchin’s artistic process by exploring his photographic projects as well as scoring the film entirely with the actor’s original music. The newly released trailer also promises plenty of archival photos and video of the young actor, sure to move any fan to tears.
The official synopsis reads: “From a prolific career in film and television, Anton Yelchin left an indelible legacy as an actor. Through his journals and other writings, his photography,...
The official synopsis reads: “From a prolific career in film and television, Anton Yelchin left an indelible legacy as an actor. Through his journals and other writings, his photography,...
- 6/10/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
"Who he was as an artist was so far beyond acting..." Lurker has debuted the first official trailer for the documentary Love, Antosha, which initially premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and has played at a few other festivals in the spring. Made by editor-turned-director Garret Price, and produced by filmmaker Drake Doremus, the doc film is look at the life of talented actor Anton Yelchin - who very sadly was killed in 2016 at the age of the young age of 27. The documentary is more than just a simply look back at the life and the acting career of Yelchin, presenting a "broader portrait of the man" that many people loved. The tribute includes appearances from Chris Pine, Jennifer Lawrence, Zachary Quinto, Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Frank Langella, J.J. Abrams, William Dafoe, and many others. One Sundance review states that it "serves as a reminder of the...
- 6/10/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Following an acclaimed and emotional premiere at January’s Sundance Film Festival, a documentary about the life and work of late actor Anton Yelchin will hit U.S. theaters this summer.
Lurker Productions will self-distribute the movie, “Love, Antosha,” beginning with New York and Los Angeles in early August, with Michael Tuckman’s mTuckman Media booking theaters. The film will expand throughout the country into August and September.
“This film proves that passion, talent, and love are stronger than all adversities,” Yelchin’s parents Irina and Viktor said. “It has a tremendous charge of positive energy.”
Yelchin died in June 2016 in a freak accident. The doc examines his lifelong passion for the arts, and is told through journals and other writings, photography, original music, as well as interviews with his family, friends, and colleagues. First-time filmmaker Garret Price takes the lead, with Yelchin’s “Like Crazy” director Drake Doremus producing alongside Adam Gibbs.
Lurker Productions will self-distribute the movie, “Love, Antosha,” beginning with New York and Los Angeles in early August, with Michael Tuckman’s mTuckman Media booking theaters. The film will expand throughout the country into August and September.
“This film proves that passion, talent, and love are stronger than all adversities,” Yelchin’s parents Irina and Viktor said. “It has a tremendous charge of positive energy.”
Yelchin died in June 2016 in a freak accident. The doc examines his lifelong passion for the arts, and is told through journals and other writings, photography, original music, as well as interviews with his family, friends, and colleagues. First-time filmmaker Garret Price takes the lead, with Yelchin’s “Like Crazy” director Drake Doremus producing alongside Adam Gibbs.
- 4/10/2019
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
From international stardom with Star Trek to roles in films from Jeremy Saulnier, Paul Schrader, and Joe Dante, Garret Price’s new documentary Love, Antosha, covers all sides of Anton Yelchin, an actor taken too soon. We spoke with Price and producer Drake Doremus, who collaborated with the actor in Like Crazy, at the Sundance Film Festival about making their documentary shortly after Yelchin’s death. We also discussed the ethics of sharing his private diaries and erotic photos he took, along with industry-wide contributions of Yelchin material for the project.
The Film Stage: Why tell Anton’s story now?
Garret Price: I think Martin Landau said it best: we live in a world that moves on very quickly. We didn’t want Anton to be forgotten. We wanted to get it out as soon as possible.
How did Nicholas Cage get involved in narrating Anton’s diaries?
Price: As...
The Film Stage: Why tell Anton’s story now?
Garret Price: I think Martin Landau said it best: we live in a world that moves on very quickly. We didn’t want Anton to be forgotten. We wanted to get it out as soon as possible.
How did Nicholas Cage get involved in narrating Anton’s diaries?
Price: As...
- 2/6/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
“Love, Antosha,” a documentary about the life and career of actor Anton Yelchin, is coming out almost three years after his death — and Yelchin’s parents wanted his story to be told as soon as possible.
“The sooner the better, because we truly feel that Anton is alive and we want him to keep on living,” Irina Yelchin told TheWrap’s Beatrice Verhoeven at the Sundance Film Festival.
“We live in a world that moves on very quickly and we just don’t want him to be forgotten,” added Garret Price, the film’s director.
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“He’s always with us,” Irina Yelchin added. “It’s hard to say we love this film. We do love this film but it’s a film about our son who is far away. So we do love...
“The sooner the better, because we truly feel that Anton is alive and we want him to keep on living,” Irina Yelchin told TheWrap’s Beatrice Verhoeven at the Sundance Film Festival.
“We live in a world that moves on very quickly and we just don’t want him to be forgotten,” added Garret Price, the film’s director.
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“He’s always with us,” Irina Yelchin added. “It’s hard to say we love this film. We do love this film but it’s a film about our son who is far away. So we do love...
- 2/5/2019
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
When 27-year-old Anton Yelchin was killed in a freak accident in 2016, the outpouring of grief from the film community was overwhelming and immediate. But for those of us who only knew him onscreen, it was difficult to immediately assess his career. Unlike Heath Ledger, another star of a slightly older generation who died a shockingly young death, Yelchin was a respected and successful actor who nonetheless had yet to find his “Brokeback Mountain” or his “Dark Knight” – a role that could easily define him and clearly demarcate the potential that had been lost. In his short career, he’d made his name as a precocious and prolific child actor, established indie darling cred in “Like Crazy” and “Green Room,” and left his mark on multi-generational franchises like “Star Trek” and “Terminator Salvation.” But who was Anton Yelchin, and what might he have become?
Directed by Garret Price with substantial assistance from Yelchin’s former costars,...
Directed by Garret Price with substantial assistance from Yelchin’s former costars,...
- 1/30/2019
- by Andrew Barker
- Variety Film + TV
At yesterday’s Sundance Film Festival premiere of Love, Antosha, a new documentary celebrating the life of the late actor Anton Yelchin, his grief-stricken parents Irina and Viktor Yelchin emerged for a Q&A to a standing ovation from the crowd. Sundance had been a good home to Anton, who first visited with Alpha Dog in 2006 and returned many times, and the Park City audience sobbed as Price’s film—gathered from reams of material Anton shot and wrote, as well as reminiscences from friends and co-stars—unspooled for the first time.
For the Yelchins, the past few days here in Park City have been fraught with emotion. But it’s a pain they’ve been blinded by for two-and-a-half years now, since their son’s cruel death in 2016 aged just 27. As Yelchin’s sweet notes to his mother—signed “Love, Antosha,” her nickname for him—make clear, their bond with Anton burned deep.
For the Yelchins, the past few days here in Park City have been fraught with emotion. But it’s a pain they’ve been blinded by for two-and-a-half years now, since their son’s cruel death in 2016 aged just 27. As Yelchin’s sweet notes to his mother—signed “Love, Antosha,” her nickname for him—make clear, their bond with Anton burned deep.
- 1/29/2019
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s been nearly three years since the tragic passing of Anton Yelchin, but thanks to the actor’s prolific pursuits, a new documentary about his life and career includes more than just footage of his acting. “All the music in the movie, besides the score is Anton,” “Love, Antosha” director Garret Price told Kate Erbland at the IndieWire Studio presented by Dropbox this past weekend. “He scored his own movie, basically. Which is pretty amazing.”
Yelchin’s parents, Irina and Viktor, also spoke at the studio, explaining that “Love, Antosha” is a movie they think he would have enjoyed. “He would love the way the story’s told, how it goes from one thing to another and it flows,” Irina Yelchin said.
Read More: Anton Yelchin’s Photography Can Be Seen by the Public for the First Time
Viktor pointed out that Anton had a sense of humility that...
Yelchin’s parents, Irina and Viktor, also spoke at the studio, explaining that “Love, Antosha” is a movie they think he would have enjoyed. “He would love the way the story’s told, how it goes from one thing to another and it flows,” Irina Yelchin said.
Read More: Anton Yelchin’s Photography Can Be Seen by the Public for the First Time
Viktor pointed out that Anton had a sense of humility that...
- 1/28/2019
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
It’s been almost three years since we lost 27 year old actor Anton Yelchin, best known for his roles in the Star Trek movies, Rudderless, Odd Thomas, Alpha Dog, Charlie Bartlett, Hearts in Atlantis, and many more. He was killed in a freak accident involving his car in 2016, just a month before he was seen onscreen in Star Trek Beyond. He was distinguished and funny, heartbreaking and sincere. I am a big fan of so many of his films, and his death was a huge blow to his fans, his co-stars, and of course, his friends and family.
His parents have made a documentary about his life and what he was really like beyond the silver screen. Irina Yelchin, Anton’s mother, explained why they made the film in a statement:
Maybe it was a selfish reason, because Anton, we just didn’t want to let him go. He was gone,...
His parents have made a documentary about his life and what he was really like beyond the silver screen. Irina Yelchin, Anton’s mother, explained why they made the film in a statement:
Maybe it was a selfish reason, because Anton, we just didn’t want to let him go. He was gone,...
- 1/28/2019
- by Jessica Fisher
- GeekTyrant
Anton Yelchin‘s parents are still grieving the loss of their son.
Viktor and Irina Yelchin, former figure skaters from Russia, spoke to the Los Angeles Times about their son, who passed away at 27 after being crushed by his Jeep at his home in 2016, and the new documentary reflecting on his life.
The two parents revealed they were living in the Star Trek actor’s Los Angeles home after they found it too emotionally painful to sell it.
“It’s difficult, but we feel his presence,” Viktor told the newspaper. “We’re closer to him, even if it’s very hard.
Viktor and Irina Yelchin, former figure skaters from Russia, spoke to the Los Angeles Times about their son, who passed away at 27 after being crushed by his Jeep at his home in 2016, and the new documentary reflecting on his life.
The two parents revealed they were living in the Star Trek actor’s Los Angeles home after they found it too emotionally painful to sell it.
“It’s difficult, but we feel his presence,” Viktor told the newspaper. “We’re closer to him, even if it’s very hard.
- 1/24/2019
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
An amazing talent gone way too soon, Janis Joplin is more than her boozy, brash public image. This bio docu has the personal background and the insights of those her knew, plus the Texas and San Francisco context in the Rock breakout of the late 1960s. Janis: Little Girl Blue DVD Filmrise / Mvd 2015 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 105 min. / Street Date May 6, 2016 / 19.95 Starring Janis Joplin, Cat Power (voice), Peter Albin, Melissa Etheridge, Clive Davis, Laura Joplin, Michael Joplin, D.A. Pennebaker, Kris Kristofferson, Country Joe McDonald, Dick Cavett.. Cinematography Francesco Carrozzini, Jenna Rosher Film Editors Mark Harrison, Maya Hawke, Billy McMillin, Garret Price, Brendan Walsh Produced by Amy J. Berg, Alex Gibney, Katherine LeBlond, Jeff Jampol Directed by Amy J. Berg
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Janis: Little Girl Blue is an entertaining and emotionally affecting bio-film about the noted singer and songwriter, whose rise to fame in the San Francisco scene of the...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Janis: Little Girl Blue is an entertaining and emotionally affecting bio-film about the noted singer and songwriter, whose rise to fame in the San Francisco scene of the...
- 4/30/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Dir/scr. Amy J Berg. Us, 2015, 103 mins.
Three decades before Amy Winehouse there was Janis Joplin, another dynamic, feisty, bluesy female vocalist whose life came to a tragic end at the rock world’s unlucky age - 27. A different Amy – documentary-maker Berg – pays joyous, moving tribute in this feature-length film to the girl from Port Arthur, Texas, whose breakout performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival ushered in a short but intense three-year period of rock fame before her death from a heroin overdose in October 1970.
If there’s one thing Janis: Little Girl Blue conveys brilliantly it’s the exuberant love for life and sense of fun that emanated from every pore of this snub-nosed singer.
Co-produced by PBS’ long-running American Masters series, Janis: Little Girl Blue is a classic rock documentary, told using a conventional but well-sifted mix of present-day and archive interviews with performance and backstage footage. It’s a good...
Three decades before Amy Winehouse there was Janis Joplin, another dynamic, feisty, bluesy female vocalist whose life came to a tragic end at the rock world’s unlucky age - 27. A different Amy – documentary-maker Berg – pays joyous, moving tribute in this feature-length film to the girl from Port Arthur, Texas, whose breakout performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival ushered in a short but intense three-year period of rock fame before her death from a heroin overdose in October 1970.
If there’s one thing Janis: Little Girl Blue conveys brilliantly it’s the exuberant love for life and sense of fun that emanated from every pore of this snub-nosed singer.
Co-produced by PBS’ long-running American Masters series, Janis: Little Girl Blue is a classic rock documentary, told using a conventional but well-sifted mix of present-day and archive interviews with performance and backstage footage. It’s a good...
- 9/6/2015
- ScreenDaily
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