Exclusive: Nancy Buirski, the director of By Sidney Lumet and The Loving Story, is headed to the Venice Film Festival with her latest project, The Rape Of Recy Taylor. The documentary about a woman who defied the times to stand up against the physical abuse of black women in the 1940s south, is running in the Horizons section and screens next week. It will have its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival in October. See a first-look clip above. This is the…...
- 8/28/2017
- Deadline
Girl Talk is a weekly look at women in film — past, present, and future.
The fall festival season has long been a harbinger of things to come, from the contenders that will consume months of awards season jockeying to bright new talents just making their first big splashes, and this year brings with it another glimpse of the future: one that’s filled with new films from a wide variety of female filmmakers.
From Venice to Toronto, New York to Telluride, this year’s fall festival circuit is filled with new offerings from from female filmmakers of every stripe, including 20 that we’ve hand-picked as the ones to keep an eye on during the coming weeks.
First-time feature filmmakers like Maggie Betts, Brie Larson, and the Mulleavey sisters are out in full force, along with the return of mainstays like Angelina Jolie, Lynn Shelton, and Susanna White. There are plenty...
The fall festival season has long been a harbinger of things to come, from the contenders that will consume months of awards season jockeying to bright new talents just making their first big splashes, and this year brings with it another glimpse of the future: one that’s filled with new films from a wide variety of female filmmakers.
From Venice to Toronto, New York to Telluride, this year’s fall festival circuit is filled with new offerings from from female filmmakers of every stripe, including 20 that we’ve hand-picked as the ones to keep an eye on during the coming weeks.
First-time feature filmmakers like Maggie Betts, Brie Larson, and the Mulleavey sisters are out in full force, along with the return of mainstays like Angelina Jolie, Lynn Shelton, and Susanna White. There are plenty...
- 8/25/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
A lengthy talk-fest interview of the underrated filmmaker, who takes us through his life story as a personal journey, not a string of movie assignments. Sidney Lumet seems to attract a lot of criticism, and so did this docu for not challenging his opinions or rubbing his nose in his less admirable movie efforts. The docu is just Lumet’s thoughts, and the words of a man of integrity are always inspiring.
By Sidney Lumet
Blu-ray
FilmRise
2015 / Color /1:78 widescreen / 103 min. / Street Date January 9, 2017 / 24.95
Starring Sidney Lumet
Cinematography Tom Hurwitz
Film Editor Anthony Ripoli
Produced by Scott Berrie, Nancy Buirski, Chris Donnelly, Joshua A. Green, Thane Rosenbaum, Robin Yigit Smith
Directed by Nancy Buirski
This ought to be a good year for documentary filmmaker Nancy Buirski. I first caught up with her excellent feature docu Afternoon of a Faun, about the ill-fated ballerina Tanaquil Le Clerc, and she’s had other successes as well.
By Sidney Lumet
Blu-ray
FilmRise
2015 / Color /1:78 widescreen / 103 min. / Street Date January 9, 2017 / 24.95
Starring Sidney Lumet
Cinematography Tom Hurwitz
Film Editor Anthony Ripoli
Produced by Scott Berrie, Nancy Buirski, Chris Donnelly, Joshua A. Green, Thane Rosenbaum, Robin Yigit Smith
Directed by Nancy Buirski
This ought to be a good year for documentary filmmaker Nancy Buirski. I first caught up with her excellent feature docu Afternoon of a Faun, about the ill-fated ballerina Tanaquil Le Clerc, and she’s had other successes as well.
- 2/21/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Film legend Sidney Lumet is one of the most accomplished, influential and revered directors in cinema history, known for films like “12 Angry Men,” “Dog Day Afternoon,” “Network” and “The Verdict.”
Before his death in 2011, Lumet told his story in a never-before-seen interview for the documentary “By Sidney Lumet.” Directed by Nancy Buirski, Lumet guides viewers through his life and work, describing his Depression-era, working-class Lower East Side beginnings as a child and his transition to becoming a five-time Oscar nominee.
Launching Season 31, “American Masters: By Sidney Lumet” premieres Tuesday, January 3 at 8 p.m. on PBS and also features a new, exclusive interview with Golden Globe and Emmy Award-nominated actor Treat Williams, who starred in Lumet’s “Prince of the City.”
Ahead of its debut, the network has released a handful of clips of the special, including the one below which features Lumet describing his motivation for the making “12 Angry Men.
Before his death in 2011, Lumet told his story in a never-before-seen interview for the documentary “By Sidney Lumet.” Directed by Nancy Buirski, Lumet guides viewers through his life and work, describing his Depression-era, working-class Lower East Side beginnings as a child and his transition to becoming a five-time Oscar nominee.
Launching Season 31, “American Masters: By Sidney Lumet” premieres Tuesday, January 3 at 8 p.m. on PBS and also features a new, exclusive interview with Golden Globe and Emmy Award-nominated actor Treat Williams, who starred in Lumet’s “Prince of the City.”
Ahead of its debut, the network has released a handful of clips of the special, including the one below which features Lumet describing his motivation for the making “12 Angry Men.
- 12/28/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- 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.
– Exclusive: Maxine Street LLC will release Alex Grossman’s teen workplace comedy “Hickey” for an La theatrical run on January 6, followed by a North American DVD/Tvod release from Gravitas Ventures on January 10. The film is Grossman’s first feature film and stars Troy Doherty, Flavia Watson, Raychel Diane Weiner and Tommy “Tiny” Lister Jr. Grossman wrote and directed and Lije Sarki produced.
The film is “a day in the life of math whiz and recent high school graduate Ryan Chess (Doherty) who has spent the entire summer dithering over his choice of colleges. On the one hand, he has a full ride to his dream school, MIT but he’s also hopelessly in love with co-worker...
– Exclusive: Maxine Street LLC will release Alex Grossman’s teen workplace comedy “Hickey” for an La theatrical run on January 6, followed by a North American DVD/Tvod release from Gravitas Ventures on January 10. The film is Grossman’s first feature film and stars Troy Doherty, Flavia Watson, Raychel Diane Weiner and Tommy “Tiny” Lister Jr. Grossman wrote and directed and Lije Sarki produced.
The film is “a day in the life of math whiz and recent high school graduate Ryan Chess (Doherty) who has spent the entire summer dithering over his choice of colleges. On the one hand, he has a full ride to his dream school, MIT but he’s also hopelessly in love with co-worker...
- 12/9/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek star in the adventure based on the bestselling 1969 memoir of convicted French felon and fugitive Henri Charriere.
Papillon shot for 51 days in Belgrade, Serbia, as well as various locations in Montenegro and the Mediterranean Film Studioswater tanks in Malta.
Michael Noer directs from a screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski. The story charts Charriere’s escape attempts from the brutal penal colony on French Guiana.
Red Granite’s Joey McFarland, David Koplan and Riza Aziz produce with Ram Bergman and Roger Corbi.
Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman starred in the 1973 version.
Condé Nast Entertainment has hired Bruce Perlmutter as senior vice-president of production to oversee the company’s digital video content. Perlmutter most recently produced BuzzFeed’s live election night coverage, and the Heaven Sent live skydiving event for Fox, Facebook Live and Snapchat. FilmRise has acquired North American rights to Nancy Buirski’s documentary By Sidney Lumet. The film premiered...
Papillon shot for 51 days in Belgrade, Serbia, as well as various locations in Montenegro and the Mediterranean Film Studioswater tanks in Malta.
Michael Noer directs from a screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski. The story charts Charriere’s escape attempts from the brutal penal colony on French Guiana.
Red Granite’s Joey McFarland, David Koplan and Riza Aziz produce with Ram Bergman and Roger Corbi.
Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman starred in the 1973 version.
Condé Nast Entertainment has hired Bruce Perlmutter as senior vice-president of production to oversee the company’s digital video content. Perlmutter most recently produced BuzzFeed’s live election night coverage, and the Heaven Sent live skydiving event for Fox, Facebook Live and Snapchat. FilmRise has acquired North American rights to Nancy Buirski’s documentary By Sidney Lumet. The film premiered...
- 12/5/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
As prolific a filmmaker as there ever could be, attempting to cover the expansive career of the late director Sidney Lumet could seem a bit foolhardy. A career not only spanning decades and 44 feature films, Lumet’s influence on theater performing and the evolution of television storytelling is just as important to his legacy, if not more so. However, it gets a bit easier, and all the more engrossing, when he’s the one doing the talking.
Based entirely around a newly unearthed interview in 2008, Nancy Buirski’s newest documentary attempts to give us a glimpse deep into the life and work of director Lumet, from the man himself. Before passing away in 2011, the director sat down for an exhaustive interview that, while opening on a rumination about his best known film 12 Angry Men, spans far more than just the greatest hits.
Entitled By Sidney Lumet, the film finds Lumet at his most introspective,...
Based entirely around a newly unearthed interview in 2008, Nancy Buirski’s newest documentary attempts to give us a glimpse deep into the life and work of director Lumet, from the man himself. Before passing away in 2011, the director sat down for an exhaustive interview that, while opening on a rumination about his best known film 12 Angry Men, spans far more than just the greatest hits.
Entitled By Sidney Lumet, the film finds Lumet at his most introspective,...
- 10/28/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
His films don’t necessarily have the hip reputations of some of his contemporaries, he wasn’t as precious about the work as some other auteurs, and he never won a Best Director Oscar (though he received an honorary one in 2005). But there can be no question that Sidney Lumet was one of American cinema’s finest filmmakers, as anyone who has read his seminal book “Making Movies,” or just seen one of his many great films, can attest.
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- 10/27/2016
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
In the wake of Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow’s wonderful De Palma, a documentary concerning the life and career of director Brian De Palma, it’s difficult to look at the almost equally enjoyable By Sidney Lumet without comparing. Both explore the careers of vitally important filmmakers whose work has perhaps not attained the mainstream success of their blockbuster-spewing contemporaries. While De Palma contains an undeniable sense of joy in illuminating every facet of the director’s process, By Sidney Lumet instead fixates on a thematic exploration of director Sidney Lumet‘s filmography. It’s an enthralling film, very much worthy of its skillful subject.
The seeds of Lumet’s career as director lie in his childhood and his relationship with his father, Baruch, a director in the Jewish Theater. As a boy, Lumet worked under Baruch as a child actor, even taking a crucial role in the film One Third of a Nation.
The seeds of Lumet’s career as director lie in his childhood and his relationship with his father, Baruch, a director in the Jewish Theater. As a boy, Lumet worked under Baruch as a child actor, even taking a crucial role in the film One Third of a Nation.
- 10/27/2016
- by Tony Hinds
- The Film Stage
The late Sidney Lumet, a quintessential “actor’s director” who spent his entire life around the profession, is an engaging enough interviewee to qualify the documentary By Sidney Lumet as indifferently watchable. The format is very close to Jake Paltrow and Noah Baumbach’s recent De Palma (even the running time is the same): The filmmaker slouches in a low-backed chair in a dark room presumed to be somewhere in Manhattan and gives his version of his career, illustrated with plenty of clips and photos. But while De Palma zinged along on the strength of its subject’s bitchy ego and the fact that even the worst Brian De Palma movies can be visually interesting, By Sidney Lumet has no clue how to make a case for its subject’s movies. Lumet (filmed in 2008, some years before his death) can’t separate good from bad in his work, and...
- 10/27/2016
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.
This Past Weekend:
In one of the busier weekends of the month, two of the movies did better than I predicted and two did worse. The real winner of the weekend was Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween, which did far better than anyone thought with an opening weekend of $28.5 million in just 2,260 theaters or $12,611 per theater. It ended up completely demolishing Tom Cruise’s action sequel Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, which opened in almost 1,500 more theaters, but at least that ended up around where I predicted with $22.9 million. Ouija: Origin of Evil came out slightly below my prediction to take third place with $14 million, while the Fox comedy Keeping Up with the Joneses bombed even worse than I expected with $5.5 million in 3,000 theaters.
This Past Weekend:
In one of the busier weekends of the month, two of the movies did better than I predicted and two did worse. The real winner of the weekend was Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween, which did far better than anyone thought with an opening weekend of $28.5 million in just 2,260 theaters or $12,611 per theater. It ended up completely demolishing Tom Cruise’s action sequel Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, which opened in almost 1,500 more theaters, but at least that ended up around where I predicted with $22.9 million. Ouija: Origin of Evil came out slightly below my prediction to take third place with $14 million, while the Fox comedy Keeping Up with the Joneses bombed even worse than I expected with $5.5 million in 3,000 theaters.
- 10/26/2016
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
Nancy Buirski, the director of the Cannes documentary By Sidney Lumet and The Loving Story, which aired on HBO and became the basis for Jeff Nichols’ Cannes-bound pic Loving, has found her next project. She will direct and produce The Rape Of Recy Taylor, the true story of a 24-year-old wife and mother who was gang raped in Alabama by seven white men in 1944. Recy Taylor’s story highlights the black women who waged war to take back their bodies and their dignity, and by…...
- 4/19/2016
- Deadline
Read More: 2015 Austin Film Festival Unveils First Slate, Including 'Carol,' 'Youth' and More Stephen Frears' "The Program" has been added to the Austin Film Festival (Aff) as the Closing Night Film. Starring Ben Foster as Lance Armstrong, the drama tracks the meteoric rise and fall of the cycling superstar. The movie also stars Chris O'Dowd, Guillaume Canet, Dustin Hoffman and Jesse Plemons. New marquee titles have also been revealed, including "Love the Coopers" and "The 33," which will be added to the previously announced slate that includes "Carol," "Brooklyn," "Miss You Already," "The Adderall Diaries," "By Sidney Lumet," "Go With Me," "I Saw the Light," "Last Days in the Desert," "Man Up," "Mojave," "Remember," "Youth, "Legend" and the world premiere of "Burning Bodhi." Chris Cooper, Aff’s...
- 10/13/2015
- by Sonya Saepoff
- Indiewire
In Nancy Buirski's By Sidney Lumet, the director "shares great insights on Dog Day Afternoon and Network and on how his army experiences influenced Fail Safe and The Hill," notes Ben Kenigsberg at RogerEbert.com. "Lumet notes that he took knocks from auteurists for working in a wide variety of subjects and genres, yet he sees a common question at the core of all his films: 'Is it fair?'" For the Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney, the documentary "sheds light on the profoundly moral and inherently democratic sensibility that shaped his output, in which questions of justice and fairness provide a thematic bedrock, albeit one that Lumet claims was formed more by accident than design." We're collecting more reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 5/22/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
In Nancy Buirski's By Sidney Lumet, the director "shares great insights on Dog Day Afternoon and Network and on how his army experiences influenced Fail Safe and The Hill," notes Ben Kenigsberg at RogerEbert.com. "Lumet notes that he took knocks from auteurists for working in a wide variety of subjects and genres, yet he sees a common question at the core of all his films: 'Is it fair?'" For the Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney, the documentary "sheds light on the profoundly moral and inherently democratic sensibility that shaped his output, in which questions of justice and fairness provide a thematic bedrock, albeit one that Lumet claims was formed more by accident than design." We're collecting more reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 5/22/2015
- Keyframe
Exclusive: Tribeca title explores radical Islamic school.
International sales agent Cinephil has taken world rights, excluding North America, to controversial Tribeca title Among The Believers.
The film, directed by Hemal Trivedi and Mohammed Ali Naqvi, offers an unsettling insight into radical Islamic school Red Mosque, which trains legions of children to devote their lives to jihad, or holy war, from a very young age.
It is billed a “timely and relevant look into the causes that have led to the growth of radical Islam in Pakistan and around the world”.
North American sales are handled by Submarine. The film is a market premiere in Cannes.
Another new title on Cinephil’s slate is By Sidney Lumet, a feature doc screening in Cannes Classics in which Lumet (director of Dog Day Afternoon and Serpico) interviewed not long before his death, takes viewers through his life and work.
Martin Scorsese was a special advisor on the film, which is directed...
International sales agent Cinephil has taken world rights, excluding North America, to controversial Tribeca title Among The Believers.
The film, directed by Hemal Trivedi and Mohammed Ali Naqvi, offers an unsettling insight into radical Islamic school Red Mosque, which trains legions of children to devote their lives to jihad, or holy war, from a very young age.
It is billed a “timely and relevant look into the causes that have led to the growth of radical Islam in Pakistan and around the world”.
North American sales are handled by Submarine. The film is a market premiere in Cannes.
Another new title on Cinephil’s slate is By Sidney Lumet, a feature doc screening in Cannes Classics in which Lumet (director of Dog Day Afternoon and Serpico) interviewed not long before his death, takes viewers through his life and work.
Martin Scorsese was a special advisor on the film, which is directed...
- 5/14/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
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