David’s Quick Take for the tl;dr Media Consumer:
If…. is an important film of its time, occasionally droll and inspiring in its provocation of middle-class establishment values but more often charged with unsettling anger and resentment toward the intense pain registered by its various characters. Focusing through a darkly comedic lens on the torments inflicted by authorities on a trio of misfits in a regimented, highly traditional English boarding school, viewers are prodded to answer the question asked in the above poster: which side will you be on? When If…. reaches its explosive conclusion, our response is likely to be urgently felt and quickly resolved, but it’s not the kind of answer that’s likely to rest all that comfortably on our conscience if we let its implications sink in.
Director Lindsay Anderson had already established himself as a creative trailblazer in the British theater and cinema scenes,...
If…. is an important film of its time, occasionally droll and inspiring in its provocation of middle-class establishment values but more often charged with unsettling anger and resentment toward the intense pain registered by its various characters. Focusing through a darkly comedic lens on the torments inflicted by authorities on a trio of misfits in a regimented, highly traditional English boarding school, viewers are prodded to answer the question asked in the above poster: which side will you be on? When If…. reaches its explosive conclusion, our response is likely to be urgently felt and quickly resolved, but it’s not the kind of answer that’s likely to rest all that comfortably on our conscience if we let its implications sink in.
Director Lindsay Anderson had already established himself as a creative trailblazer in the British theater and cinema scenes,...
- 1/17/2017
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
Oopsie. In the Holiday rush we forgot to share one of the most important lists, the list of which films can be nominated for Oscars (in regular categories -- speciality categories like "best foreign language film" having their own rules). Every year the list is a wee bit odd if you really take a deep dive at it because it's filled with movies you haven't heard of as well as missing a few movies you have. Why is that? Because the list is made up of films which met two requirements.
1) Each film played for a week long engagement in Los Angeles that you could buy tickets to like you would any movie (i.e. not a festival engagement alone) and...
2) Films which did that and then Also submitted paperwork to the Academy to be eligible.
The most important film that is missing this year (apparently due to requirement #2) is acclaimed Aquarius starring Sonia Braga.
1) Each film played for a week long engagement in Los Angeles that you could buy tickets to like you would any movie (i.e. not a festival engagement alone) and...
2) Films which did that and then Also submitted paperwork to the Academy to be eligible.
The most important film that is missing this year (apparently due to requirement #2) is acclaimed Aquarius starring Sonia Braga.
- 12/25/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Exclusive: Grasshopper Film has announced the acquisition of all U.S. distribution rights to “The Human Surge,” the electrifying debut from Argentine filmmaker Eduardo Williams, which was recently awarded the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival from a jury led by Dario Argento. The film will open in theaters next year.
The film follows Buenos Aires resident “Exe, 25 years old, has just lost his job and is not looking for another one. His neighbors and friends seem as odd to him as they always do. Online, he meets Alf, a boy from Mozambique who is also bored with his job and who is about to follow Archie, another boy who has run away into the jungle.
– Exclusive: Grasshopper Film has announced the acquisition of all U.S. distribution rights to “The Human Surge,” the electrifying debut from Argentine filmmaker Eduardo Williams, which was recently awarded the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival from a jury led by Dario Argento. The film will open in theaters next year.
The film follows Buenos Aires resident “Exe, 25 years old, has just lost his job and is not looking for another one. His neighbors and friends seem as odd to him as they always do. Online, he meets Alf, a boy from Mozambique who is also bored with his job and who is about to follow Archie, another boy who has run away into the jungle.
- 11/18/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
A confession of love as two men share a meal doesn't go quite the way you might expect in our exclusive clip from Lazy Eye. Heading for theatrical release this Friday in New York and Los Angeles, Lazy Eye debuted at NewFest before gaining additional positive notices on the festival circuit. Here is more from the official verbiage: When Dean (Lucas Near-Verbrugghe), a graphic designer in Los Angeles, reconnects with Alex (Aaron Costa Ganis), an ex-boyfriend he hasn't seen or heard from in 15 years, his life is upended. Over the course of a weekend at a vacation house in the desert, the two men open up old wounds, reveal secrets, and determine whether or not they have a future together. Written and directed by...
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- 11/9/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Exclusive: Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American distribution rights to Nick Corporon’s debut feature film, “Retake.” The film follows “a handsome businessman [who] hires a prostitute to role-play as his long-lost love. What follows is a road trip full of manipulation and mystery as both men near their final destination.” The film premiered in 2016 at Frameline, and went on to play ImageOut, Reel Q, Seattle Twist, Reel Affirmations and Outfest. It stars Tuc Watkins and Devon Graye.
Breaking Glass is planning a theatrical premiere in Los Angeles followed by an On Demand and DVD release early in the first quarter of 2017.
– Strand Releasing has acquired all U.S. rights to Portuguese director Joao Pedro Rodrigues’ “The Ornithologist,...
– Exclusive: Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American distribution rights to Nick Corporon’s debut feature film, “Retake.” The film follows “a handsome businessman [who] hires a prostitute to role-play as his long-lost love. What follows is a road trip full of manipulation and mystery as both men near their final destination.” The film premiered in 2016 at Frameline, and went on to play ImageOut, Reel Q, Seattle Twist, Reel Affirmations and Outfest. It stars Tuc Watkins and Devon Graye.
Breaking Glass is planning a theatrical premiere in Los Angeles followed by an On Demand and DVD release early in the first quarter of 2017.
– Strand Releasing has acquired all U.S. rights to Portuguese director Joao Pedro Rodrigues’ “The Ornithologist,...
- 10/14/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Sony Pictures Classics has announced that they have acquired North American rights to Academy Award winner Taylor Hackford’s comedy, “The Comedian.” Written by Art Linson, the film stars Robert De Niro, Leslie Mann, Edie Falco, Harvey Keitel, Danny DeVito, Patti LuPone and Veronica Ferres.
The film follows “an aging comic icon, Jackie (Robert De Niro) [who] has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played. Already a strain on his younger brother (Danny DeVito) and his wife (Patti LuPone), Jackie is forced to serve out a sentence doing community service for accosting an audience member. While there,...
– Sony Pictures Classics has announced that they have acquired North American rights to Academy Award winner Taylor Hackford’s comedy, “The Comedian.” Written by Art Linson, the film stars Robert De Niro, Leslie Mann, Edie Falco, Harvey Keitel, Danny DeVito, Patti LuPone and Veronica Ferres.
The film follows “an aging comic icon, Jackie (Robert De Niro) [who] has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played. Already a strain on his younger brother (Danny DeVito) and his wife (Patti LuPone), Jackie is forced to serve out a sentence doing community service for accosting an audience member. While there,...
- 10/7/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Film Movement has announced its acquisition of Boo Junfeng’s second feature film, “Apprentice,” “about a correctional officer who becomes friends with the chief executioner of a prison and then is tapped to become his trainee.” The film premiered in Un Certain Regard at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, and will next make its North American premiere in the Contemporary World Cinema program of the Toronto International Film Festival next month.
“Apprentice” stars Fir Rhaman in his first feature film. In it, he plays “Aiman, a 28-year-old Malay correctional officer who is recently transferred to the territory’s top prison. At his new workplace, Aiman begins to take an interest in a 65-year-old sergeant named Rahim (veteran actor Wan Hanafi Su). Soon,...
– Film Movement has announced its acquisition of Boo Junfeng’s second feature film, “Apprentice,” “about a correctional officer who becomes friends with the chief executioner of a prison and then is tapped to become his trainee.” The film premiered in Un Certain Regard at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, and will next make its North American premiere in the Contemporary World Cinema program of the Toronto International Film Festival next month.
“Apprentice” stars Fir Rhaman in his first feature film. In it, he plays “Aiman, a 28-year-old Malay correctional officer who is recently transferred to the territory’s top prison. At his new workplace, Aiman begins to take an interest in a 65-year-old sergeant named Rahim (veteran actor Wan Hanafi Su). Soon,...
- 8/19/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
CBS Films and Lionsgate announced the casting on Thursday on the project that will already star Dylan O’Brien and Michael Keaton.
Michael Cuesta will direct American Assassin from Stephen Schiff’s adapted screenplay based on Vince Flynn’s bestseller.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Nick Wechsler produce the spy story.
Daniel Arsham, Yung Jake and Lily Baldwin and Saschka Unseld will join the Sundance Institute New Frontier | Jaunt Vr Residency Program, a six-month initiative to help creative Vr short film creators.Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights from Circus Road Films to Tim Kirkman’s romance Lazy Eye, which premiered at the Provincetown International Film Festival and stars Lucas Near-Verbugghe, Aaron Costa Ganis, and Michaela Watkins.
Michael Cuesta will direct American Assassin from Stephen Schiff’s adapted screenplay based on Vince Flynn’s bestseller.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Nick Wechsler produce the spy story.
Daniel Arsham, Yung Jake and Lily Baldwin and Saschka Unseld will join the Sundance Institute New Frontier | Jaunt Vr Residency Program, a six-month initiative to help creative Vr short film creators.Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights from Circus Road Films to Tim Kirkman’s romance Lazy Eye, which premiered at the Provincetown International Film Festival and stars Lucas Near-Verbugghe, Aaron Costa Ganis, and Michaela Watkins.
- 8/18/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The process of finding investors for independent film can be trying, to say the least, but it can also be illuminating. Anyone who has ever attempted to find money for a film knows that there are typical questions that always get asked by first-time investors: How will I make back my investment? When do the investors get paid? How is the deal structured? Can I come to the premiere? While looking for partners for Lazy Eye, our micro-budget feature, writer/director Tim Kirkman received an e-mail from a potential investor who had forwarded our package to a friend/advisor. The email contained […]...
- 7/16/2015
- by Gill Holland and Tim Kirkman
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The process of finding investors for independent film can be trying, to say the least, but it can also be illuminating. Anyone who has ever attempted to find money for a film knows that there are typical questions that always get asked by first-time investors: How will I make back my investment? When do the investors get paid? How is the deal structured? Can I come to the premiere? While looking for partners for Lazy Eye, our micro-budget feature, writer/director Tim Kirkman received an e-mail from a potential investor who had forwarded our package to a friend/advisor. The email contained […]...
- 7/16/2015
- by Gill Holland and Tim Kirkman
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
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