R.E.M., Steely Dan, Timbaland, and songwriters Dean Pitchford (“Footloose”) and Hillary Lindsey (“Jesus Take the Wheel”) are this year’s inductees into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the organization announced today.
The 2024 induction ceremony and Awards Gala is set for Thursday, June 13, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. Additional special award honorees will be announced soon.
“I’ve said it before, but the music industry does not exist without songwriters delivering great songs first,” Shof Chairman Nile Rodgers said in a statement that this year’s inductees represent “not just iconic songs but also diversity and unity across genres, ethnicity and gender.” He added that this year’s songwriters “have enriched our lives and literally enriched music and the lives of billions of listeners all over the world.”
In today’s announcement, the Hall of Fame listed key songs in the inductees’ catalogs:
Hillary Lindsey:
Jesus Take...
The 2024 induction ceremony and Awards Gala is set for Thursday, June 13, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. Additional special award honorees will be announced soon.
“I’ve said it before, but the music industry does not exist without songwriters delivering great songs first,” Shof Chairman Nile Rodgers said in a statement that this year’s inductees represent “not just iconic songs but also diversity and unity across genres, ethnicity and gender.” He added that this year’s songwriters “have enriched our lives and literally enriched music and the lives of billions of listeners all over the world.”
In today’s announcement, the Hall of Fame listed key songs in the inductees’ catalogs:
Hillary Lindsey:
Jesus Take...
- 1/17/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Steely Dan, Blondie, Public Enemy, R.E.M, Timbaland and the man who wrote bubblegum classics “Build Me Up Buttercup” and “Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)” are among the nominees for the 2024 Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Also included on the roster of nominees are, among others, Bread frontman David Gates, Tracy Chapman, the Guess Who’s Randy Bachman & Burton Cummings, Kenny Loggins, Heart and Roger Nichols, who composed the music for such Carpenters hits as “We’ve Only Just Begun” and “Rainy Days and Mondays.”
See the complete list of nominees below.
According to the Songwriters Hall of Fame, a songwriter with a notable catalog of songs qualifies for induction 20 years after the first significant commercial release of a song. Eligible voting members will have until midnight Et on December 27, 2023 to turn in ballots, with their choices of three nominees from a songwriter and three from performing songwriter categories.
Also included on the roster of nominees are, among others, Bread frontman David Gates, Tracy Chapman, the Guess Who’s Randy Bachman & Burton Cummings, Kenny Loggins, Heart and Roger Nichols, who composed the music for such Carpenters hits as “We’ve Only Just Begun” and “Rainy Days and Mondays.”
See the complete list of nominees below.
According to the Songwriters Hall of Fame, a songwriter with a notable catalog of songs qualifies for induction 20 years after the first significant commercial release of a song. Eligible voting members will have until midnight Et on December 27, 2023 to turn in ballots, with their choices of three nominees from a songwriter and three from performing songwriter categories.
- 11/21/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio in Critics' Week winner Aftersun by Charlotte Well Photo: Courtesy of Cannes Critics' Week Charlotte Wells and Frankie Corrio at the Scottish BAFTAs at the Double Tree Hotel in Glasgow Photo: BAFTA via Getty Images It was a hot night at the Scottish BAFTAs for Charlotte Wells' Aftersun, which took home three awards.
Wells was named Best Director, while Paul Mescal also took home a gong for this portrayal of a troubled single dad who takes his young daughter on a package holiday in her emotionally intense drama. Wells also took home the prize for Director Fiction and Writer Film/Television.
The prize for Feature Film went to Iran-set drama Winners, while Lucy Halliday received the award for Actress Film for her supporting role as a lesbian teenager who forges a bond with her teacher in Blue Jean, her first on-screen performance.
Jono McLeod won...
Wells was named Best Director, while Paul Mescal also took home a gong for this portrayal of a troubled single dad who takes his young daughter on a package holiday in her emotionally intense drama. Wells also took home the prize for Director Fiction and Writer Film/Television.
The prize for Feature Film went to Iran-set drama Winners, while Lucy Halliday received the award for Actress Film for her supporting role as a lesbian teenager who forges a bond with her teacher in Blue Jean, her first on-screen performance.
Jono McLeod won...
- 11/20/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
‘Blue Jean’, ‘My Old School also among awarded films.
Aftersun was the big winner at the 2023 Bafta Scotland Awards, taking three prizes for best actor for Paul Mescal, best director (fiction) for Charlotte Wells and best writer (film and television) for Wells.
Aberdeen-based Hassan Nazer’s Iran-set family drama Winners, produced by Nadira Murray and Paul Welsh, received the feature film award; while Lucy Halliday took the actress film prize for her role as a gay girl in 1980s northeast England in Georgia Oakley’s Blue Jean.
The director factual award went to Jono McLeod for My Old School, a...
Aftersun was the big winner at the 2023 Bafta Scotland Awards, taking three prizes for best actor for Paul Mescal, best director (fiction) for Charlotte Wells and best writer (film and television) for Wells.
Aberdeen-based Hassan Nazer’s Iran-set family drama Winners, produced by Nadira Murray and Paul Welsh, received the feature film award; while Lucy Halliday took the actress film prize for her role as a gay girl in 1980s northeast England in Georgia Oakley’s Blue Jean.
The director factual award went to Jono McLeod for My Old School, a...
- 11/19/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Frankie Corio becomes youngest-ever Bafta Scotland nominee.
Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun leads the nominations for the Bafta Scotland Awards 2023, recognised in five categories: actor film, actress film, director fiction, feature film and writer film/television.
The UK-us co-production has acting nominations for Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio, with Corio becoming the youngest-ever nominee at Bafta Scotland.
Scroll down for the full list of nominations
Wells receives the other three nominations, with producers Mark Ceryak, Amy Jackson, Barry Jenkins and Adele Romanski nominated alongside her for feature film.
Aftersun previously received four nominations at the Bafta Film Awards earlier this year, winning...
Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun leads the nominations for the Bafta Scotland Awards 2023, recognised in five categories: actor film, actress film, director fiction, feature film and writer film/television.
The UK-us co-production has acting nominations for Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio, with Corio becoming the youngest-ever nominee at Bafta Scotland.
Scroll down for the full list of nominations
Wells receives the other three nominations, with producers Mark Ceryak, Amy Jackson, Barry Jenkins and Adele Romanski nominated alongside her for feature film.
Aftersun previously received four nominations at the Bafta Film Awards earlier this year, winning...
- 10/11/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The Golden Trailer Awards has unveiled its nominees for its 23rd annual extravaganza taking place on Thursday, June 29th at The Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. The awards show honors the creative teams that are tasked with condensing two-hour films into two-minute trailers.
Films that received the most mentions include Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Nope and Oppenheimer. The TV series that were the most nominated included Ted Lasso, Stranger Things and Only Murders in the Building.
Studios leading the count this year include Disney, NBC Universal, Netflix, Warner Bros./Discovery, Amazon, Paramount (Paramount+), and Apple TV+ The top nominated agencies include Av Squad, Zealot, Tiny Hero, Trailer Park Group and Ignition Creative.
This awards show highlights the phenomenal trailers from the current year.
Films that received the most mentions include Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Nope and Oppenheimer. The TV series that were the most nominated included Ted Lasso, Stranger Things and Only Murders in the Building.
Studios leading the count this year include Disney, NBC Universal, Netflix, Warner Bros./Discovery, Amazon, Paramount (Paramount+), and Apple TV+ The top nominated agencies include Av Squad, Zealot, Tiny Hero, Trailer Park Group and Ignition Creative.
This awards show highlights the phenomenal trailers from the current year.
- 6/5/2023
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
Principal photography recently wrapped in Walton, England.
Diane Keaton will star alongside Patricia Hodge, Lulu, David Harewood and Culture Club singer Boy George in the comedy Arthur’s Whisky, which Arclight Films represents worldwide and will introduce to Cannes buyers this month.
Principal photography recently wrapped in Walton, England, on the Ck Films Production in association with CrossDay Productions financed by Sky, Mep Capital, Arclight Films, Onsight, Sherborne Media and Filmology.
Arthur’s Whisky centres on a widow who discovers her recently deceased husband invented an elixir which makes the drinker look young again. Sharing it with her two friends, the three...
Diane Keaton will star alongside Patricia Hodge, Lulu, David Harewood and Culture Club singer Boy George in the comedy Arthur’s Whisky, which Arclight Films represents worldwide and will introduce to Cannes buyers this month.
Principal photography recently wrapped in Walton, England, on the Ck Films Production in association with CrossDay Productions financed by Sky, Mep Capital, Arclight Films, Onsight, Sherborne Media and Filmology.
Arthur’s Whisky centres on a widow who discovers her recently deceased husband invented an elixir which makes the drinker look young again. Sharing it with her two friends, the three...
- 5/3/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The festival celebrates UK independent cinema and runs September 28 - October 2.
Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees Of Inisherin will screen at France’s Dinard Festival Of British Film (September 28 - October 2), with Sophie Hyde’s Good Luck To You, Leo Grande closing the event.
Both films will have their French premiere at the festival which is held on the coastal town of Dinard, France and celebrates independent cinema from the UK.
Scroll down for full line-up
McDonagh’s Ireland-set comedy drama recently premiered at Venice Film Festival and stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as two lifelong friends hurtled into...
Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees Of Inisherin will screen at France’s Dinard Festival Of British Film (September 28 - October 2), with Sophie Hyde’s Good Luck To You, Leo Grande closing the event.
Both films will have their French premiere at the festival which is held on the coastal town of Dinard, France and celebrates independent cinema from the UK.
Scroll down for full line-up
McDonagh’s Ireland-set comedy drama recently premiered at Venice Film Festival and stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as two lifelong friends hurtled into...
- 9/8/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
‘Orphan: First Kill’, ‘Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero’ also out.
Entertainment Film Distributors’ seafaring sequel Fisherman’s Friends: One And All receives the widest opening of any title at the UK-Ireland box office this weekend, starting in 645 locations.
Directed by Meg Leonard and Nick Moorcroft, One And All is a sequel to Chris Foggin’s Fisherman’s Friends, about 10 Cornish fisherman who gain a record deal with their album of sea shanties.
The sequel sees the group struggle with their second album after the highs of performing on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury.
Fisherman’s Friends opened to £1.2m from 506 locations in March...
Entertainment Film Distributors’ seafaring sequel Fisherman’s Friends: One And All receives the widest opening of any title at the UK-Ireland box office this weekend, starting in 645 locations.
Directed by Meg Leonard and Nick Moorcroft, One And All is a sequel to Chris Foggin’s Fisherman’s Friends, about 10 Cornish fisherman who gain a record deal with their album of sea shanties.
The sequel sees the group struggle with their second album after the highs of performing on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury.
Fisherman’s Friends opened to £1.2m from 506 locations in March...
- 8/19/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
In 1993, a 17-year-old pupil at a Glasgow school was unmasked as a fully grown adult. Now his classmates have made a documentary – My Old School – about the astonishing deception
What most people remember about Scotland’s notorious schoolboy impostor Brian MacKinnon is the size of the lie. How did a 30-year-old man, with only a dodgy accent and a worse perm, succeed in passing himself off as a 17-year-old high-school pupil in one of the most salubrious suburbs of Glasgow, hoaxing teachers who had already taught him some years before? Moreover, why would anyone want to?
MacKinnon made sky-high headlines in the mid-1990s, but these questions are re-posed three decades later with curiosity, humour and some tenderness in My Old School. Directed by Jono McLeod, a school contemporary of MacKinnon’s (the second time around), the film pieces together the recollections of former classmates, friends and teachers, finally allowing...
What most people remember about Scotland’s notorious schoolboy impostor Brian MacKinnon is the size of the lie. How did a 30-year-old man, with only a dodgy accent and a worse perm, succeed in passing himself off as a 17-year-old high-school pupil in one of the most salubrious suburbs of Glasgow, hoaxing teachers who had already taught him some years before? Moreover, why would anyone want to?
MacKinnon made sky-high headlines in the mid-1990s, but these questions are re-posed three decades later with curiosity, humour and some tenderness in My Old School. Directed by Jono McLeod, a school contemporary of MacKinnon’s (the second time around), the film pieces together the recollections of former classmates, friends and teachers, finally allowing...
- 8/18/2022
- by Libby Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
A lot of people, when asked what they would do differently if they could go back in time, insist “I wouldn’t change a thing.”
Not Brandon Lee.
In 1993, a 16-year-old boy going by that name enrolled in a Scottish secondary school called Bearsden Academy, located in a tony suburb of Glasgow. He claimed to have grown up in Canada, the son of a peripatetic opera singer who had been killed in an auto accident. His academic gifts dazzled, even if his social skills didn’t impress so much. With his precocious intellect, Lee appeared well on his way to achieving his stated goal of getting into medical school.
It took more than a year for the truth to come out: “Brandon Lee” was a fiction. Lee was actually Brian MacKinnon, a 32-year-old former Bearsden pupil who had returned to the school in the guise of a teenager. The strange...
Not Brandon Lee.
In 1993, a 16-year-old boy going by that name enrolled in a Scottish secondary school called Bearsden Academy, located in a tony suburb of Glasgow. He claimed to have grown up in Canada, the son of a peripatetic opera singer who had been killed in an auto accident. His academic gifts dazzled, even if his social skills didn’t impress so much. With his precocious intellect, Lee appeared well on his way to achieving his stated goal of getting into medical school.
It took more than a year for the truth to come out: “Brandon Lee” was a fiction. Lee was actually Brian MacKinnon, a 32-year-old former Bearsden pupil who had returned to the school in the guise of a teenager. The strange...
- 8/2/2022
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Laure Calamy, who plays Noémie, the wacky assistant to Mathias Barneville in Call My Agent!, won the César (French equivalent of the Oscars) for Best Actress for My Donkey, My Lover & I, the film by Caroline Vignal that opens this weekend Stateside from Greenwich Entertainment. It’s the distributor’s second narrative film in a year and its widest release since The Rescue.
Wide here means 52 screens in 28 markets in the U.S. where the specialty box office can still be pretty punishing, especially for foreign language fare. Greenwich has been releasing about two film a month, mostly documentaries. My Donkey (Antionette Dans Les Cévennes in French) is Calamy’s first starring film role. It has a theatrical window through August 30.
Netflix’ hit French series became a U.S. and global phenomenon over four seasons, recently sparking a U.K. adaptation
It’s a sort of summer vacation movie with...
Wide here means 52 screens in 28 markets in the U.S. where the specialty box office can still be pretty punishing, especially for foreign language fare. Greenwich has been releasing about two film a month, mostly documentaries. My Donkey (Antionette Dans Les Cévennes in French) is Calamy’s first starring film role. It has a theatrical window through August 30.
Netflix’ hit French series became a U.S. and global phenomenon over four seasons, recently sparking a U.K. adaptation
It’s a sort of summer vacation movie with...
- 7/22/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
“My Old School” was originally reviewed out of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.
In the world of nonfiction filmmaking, it’s not uncommon for a documentary to be acclaimed for how interesting the story is rather than for how accomplished the storytelling is; a crazy, fascinating tale can sometimes seem like a great doc even if it’s a routine piece of work.
And then there’s “My Old School,” which flipped that equation. Director Jono McLeod’s filmmaking itself is inventive and odd, and that’s almost enough – emphasis on the word almost – to make up for the fact that the story itself is something of a letdown.
A classic unreliable-narrator doc, the film is always fun to watch. But unlike, say, Ramin Bahrani’s “2nd Chance” — a 2022 Sundance doc that is intricately constructed to take the viewer through the twists and evasions doled out by its own unreliable narrator...
In the world of nonfiction filmmaking, it’s not uncommon for a documentary to be acclaimed for how interesting the story is rather than for how accomplished the storytelling is; a crazy, fascinating tale can sometimes seem like a great doc even if it’s a routine piece of work.
And then there’s “My Old School,” which flipped that equation. Director Jono McLeod’s filmmaking itself is inventive and odd, and that’s almost enough – emphasis on the word almost – to make up for the fact that the story itself is something of a letdown.
A classic unreliable-narrator doc, the film is always fun to watch. But unlike, say, Ramin Bahrani’s “2nd Chance” — a 2022 Sundance doc that is intricately constructed to take the viewer through the twists and evasions doled out by its own unreliable narrator...
- 7/21/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
London-based documentary specialist Dogwoof has closed a host of sales for Daniel Roher’s “Navalny” and Jono McLeod’s “My Old School,” both of which premiered at Sundance and are screening this week at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
Roher’s riveting documentary thriller (pictured above) won the Festival Favorite Award and the U.S. Documentary Audience Award at Sundance. It follows the Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny, as he and investigative news organizations Bellingcat and CNN try to unravel the botched effort to assassinate him in 2020.
Following CNN’s world premiere broadcast on April 24, TV rights were sold to BBC (U.K.), Rtl (Germany), Discovery (Italy), Svt (Sweden), Dr (Denmark), Nrk (Norway), Ruv (Iceland), Vrt (Belgium), Vpro (the Netherlands), Channel 8 (Israel), Yesdocu (Israel), Tvn (Poland), and Aleph (Romania).
The film was released theatrically last month by Warner Bros. Studios and Fathom Events in...
Roher’s riveting documentary thriller (pictured above) won the Festival Favorite Award and the U.S. Documentary Audience Award at Sundance. It follows the Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny, as he and investigative news organizations Bellingcat and CNN try to unravel the botched effort to assassinate him in 2020.
Following CNN’s world premiere broadcast on April 24, TV rights were sold to BBC (U.K.), Rtl (Germany), Discovery (Italy), Svt (Sweden), Dr (Denmark), Nrk (Norway), Ruv (Iceland), Vrt (Belgium), Vpro (the Netherlands), Channel 8 (Israel), Yesdocu (Israel), Tvn (Poland), and Aleph (Romania).
The film was released theatrically last month by Warner Bros. Studios and Fathom Events in...
- 5/4/2022
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The Jono McLeod-directed documentary My Old School, which made its world premiere at this year’s virtual Sundance Film Festival, has landed at Magnolia Pictures. The specialty cinema label has taken North American rights to the docu, which features Alan Cumming. A July 22 theatrical release has been set.
My Old School unravels the astonishing true story of a mysterious new student who may not be who his Scottish classmates and teachers believe.
In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow. What followed over the next two years would become the stuff of legend. Brandon had been privately tutored in Canada while he accompanied his mother, an opera diva, on tour before her tragic death. The preternaturally bright student surprised teachers by blazing toward his goal of entering medical school, displaying a wealth of knowledge beyond his years. Brandon found friends despite his initial awkwardness,...
My Old School unravels the astonishing true story of a mysterious new student who may not be who his Scottish classmates and teachers believe.
In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow. What followed over the next two years would become the stuff of legend. Brandon had been privately tutored in Canada while he accompanied his mother, an opera diva, on tour before her tragic death. The preternaturally bright student surprised teachers by blazing toward his goal of entering medical school, displaying a wealth of knowledge beyond his years. Brandon found friends despite his initial awkwardness,...
- 4/4/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Hopscotch Films production received co-funding from Creative Scotland.
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to My Old School, the documentary starring Alan Cumming that premiered at Sundance earlier this year.
Jono McLeod directed the film, which unravels the true story of a mysterious new student at a secondary school in an affluent part of Glasgow who may not be who his Scottish classmates and teachers believe.
Magnolia will release the film in theaters on July 22. Olivia Lichtenstein and John Archer served as producers.
My Old School is a Hopscotch Films production with co-funding from Creative Scotland. Executive producers are Mark Thomas,...
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to My Old School, the documentary starring Alan Cumming that premiered at Sundance earlier this year.
Jono McLeod directed the film, which unravels the true story of a mysterious new student at a secondary school in an affluent part of Glasgow who may not be who his Scottish classmates and teachers believe.
Magnolia will release the film in theaters on July 22. Olivia Lichtenstein and John Archer served as producers.
My Old School is a Hopscotch Films production with co-funding from Creative Scotland. Executive producers are Mark Thomas,...
- 4/4/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Unbelievable is an understatement when it comes to describing the documentary My Old School.
Jono McLeod brings this unnerving true story to this year’s Glasgow Film Festival, in what is his feature debut. Based on events he personally experienced in school it has twists that would make M.Night Shyamalan proud.
It is the story of a new pupil at Scottish secondary school, Bearsden Academy, who is not what he seems. It is a hybrid of interviews with former pupils with animation and stars Alan Cumming and music legend LuLu.
We sit down with the trio to talk about this fascinating, how the project came about and we ask Alan Cumming about the prospect of returning to Nightcrawler in a possible MCU X-Men crossover.
My Old School premiered on March 3rd with additional screening on March 13th (tickets here) courtesy of Hopscotch Films and Dogwoof.
The post Alan Cumming,...
Jono McLeod brings this unnerving true story to this year’s Glasgow Film Festival, in what is his feature debut. Based on events he personally experienced in school it has twists that would make M.Night Shyamalan proud.
It is the story of a new pupil at Scottish secondary school, Bearsden Academy, who is not what he seems. It is a hybrid of interviews with former pupils with animation and stars Alan Cumming and music legend LuLu.
We sit down with the trio to talk about this fascinating, how the project came about and we ask Alan Cumming about the prospect of returning to Nightcrawler in a possible MCU X-Men crossover.
My Old School premiered on March 3rd with additional screening on March 13th (tickets here) courtesy of Hopscotch Films and Dogwoof.
The post Alan Cumming,...
- 3/7/2022
- by Thomas Alexander
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Alan Cumming on lip-synching Brandon's words: 'There's talk about him being mask-like in the film and, in a way, vocally he's mask-like, as well' Jono McLeod's documentary My Old School, takes a walk down memory lane to consider the curious case of "Brandon Lee" a "schoolboy" at Bearsden Academy in 1993, who turned out to be nothing like the person everyone thought he was. McLeod, whose film had its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival before it headed to Glasgow Film Festival this week, interviews those who knew Brandon at the time, calling into question memories and myths that have sprung up since. Although "Brandon" himself does not appear in the film, he was interviewed by McLeod and his words are lip-synched by Alan Cumming in such buttoned up fashion - it's no wonder the star joked about the "glamour role" that it is a long way from being when...
- 3/5/2022
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
My Old School Photo: Courtesy of Sundance Institute St Andrews has a new film festival - Sands: International Film Festival of St Andrews will have its inaugural edition from March 25 to 27.
The festival, which will take place at the town's Byre Theatre, will feature nine fiction and non-fiction films, including a mystery film which has yet to be announced.
The theme of this year's festival is Beginnings, with fiction features including debut films, including Blerta Basholi's Hive, starring Ylka Gashi, and Amalia Ulman's El Planeta.
Homegrown talent will include Leith-based filmmaking duo, Will Hewitt and Austen McCowan, who will present Long Live My Happy Head, a documentary long-distance love story about comic books and cancer and Jono McLeod's schoolboy imposter tale My Old School, which recently screened at Sundance and will also play at Glasgow Film Festival.
Other notable inclusions are Jessica Kingdon's Oscar-nominated documentary Ascension, which...
The festival, which will take place at the town's Byre Theatre, will feature nine fiction and non-fiction films, including a mystery film which has yet to be announced.
The theme of this year's festival is Beginnings, with fiction features including debut films, including Blerta Basholi's Hive, starring Ylka Gashi, and Amalia Ulman's El Planeta.
Homegrown talent will include Leith-based filmmaking duo, Will Hewitt and Austen McCowan, who will present Long Live My Happy Head, a documentary long-distance love story about comic books and cancer and Jono McLeod's schoolboy imposter tale My Old School, which recently screened at Sundance and will also play at Glasgow Film Festival.
Other notable inclusions are Jessica Kingdon's Oscar-nominated documentary Ascension, which...
- 2/21/2022
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The first ever Sands: International Film Festival, set to be held in Scotland’s St Andrews, has revealed its line-up.
Running March 25-27, the program will consist of nine fiction and non-fiction features, including a mystery film not yet announced.
On the list is documentary Long Live My Happy Head, from Leith-based filmmaking duo Will Hewitt and Austen McCowan, which is a love story about comic books and caner that follows a long-distance couple as they navigate a Covid lockdown. The film will premiere at this year’s BFI Flare festival next month.
Screening in St Andrews having premiered recently in Sundance is Jono McLeod’s My Old School, a documentary-animation hybrid that unravels a Scottish scandal.
Arriving from Sundance’s 2021 edition will be Blerta Basholli’s feature debut Hive, Amalia Ulman’s El Planeta, and Christopher Makoto Yogi’s I Was a Simple Man.
A pair of titles will...
Running March 25-27, the program will consist of nine fiction and non-fiction features, including a mystery film not yet announced.
On the list is documentary Long Live My Happy Head, from Leith-based filmmaking duo Will Hewitt and Austen McCowan, which is a love story about comic books and caner that follows a long-distance couple as they navigate a Covid lockdown. The film will premiere at this year’s BFI Flare festival next month.
Screening in St Andrews having premiered recently in Sundance is Jono McLeod’s My Old School, a documentary-animation hybrid that unravels a Scottish scandal.
Arriving from Sundance’s 2021 edition will be Blerta Basholli’s feature debut Hive, Amalia Ulman’s El Planeta, and Christopher Makoto Yogi’s I Was a Simple Man.
A pair of titles will...
- 2/21/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Tommy Ga-Ken Wan. My Old School Review — My Old School (2022) Film Review from the 45th Annual Sundance Film Festival, a documentary written and directed by Jono McLeod, starring Alan Cumming. We’ve all agreed that it’s kinda sad if you peak in high school. However [...]
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- 2/8/2022
- by Jacob Mouradian
- Film-Book
This year’s Diff will run as physical event from February 23-March 6.
Sasha King’s Vicky and Dónal Foreman’s The Cry Of Granuaile are among the world premieres screening at this year’s Dublin International Film Festival (Diff), which will run as a physical event from February 23-March 6.
Produced by King and Bill Snodgrass, documentary Vicky tells the story of Irish woman Vicky Phelan’s work to expose the truth behind Ireland’s Cervical Check healthcare scandal.
The Cry Of Granuaile is produced by Foreman, Liam Beatty and Edwina Forkin and centres on an American filmmaker, reeling from the...
Sasha King’s Vicky and Dónal Foreman’s The Cry Of Granuaile are among the world premieres screening at this year’s Dublin International Film Festival (Diff), which will run as a physical event from February 23-March 6.
Produced by King and Bill Snodgrass, documentary Vicky tells the story of Irish woman Vicky Phelan’s work to expose the truth behind Ireland’s Cervical Check healthcare scandal.
The Cry Of Granuaile is produced by Foreman, Liam Beatty and Edwina Forkin and centres on an American filmmaker, reeling from the...
- 2/4/2022
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
Most kids wouldn’t want to endure high school twice, although there are some who would no doubt prefer to remain there forever. Brandon Lee chose a third path by re-enrolling when he was 32 years old and getting away with it, at least for a while. How it all happened is whimsically recounted in My Old School, a clever, amusing and rather slight account of a Scottish misfit’s most irregular education. Or, as Woody Allen used to describe himself, it’s “thin but fun.”
“The man at the heart of this story does not want to show his face. But you will hear his voice,” some narration declares early in the film, which debuted in the Premieres section of the just-wrapped Sundance Film Festival. The face you see instead is of that most nimble of actors, Alan Cumming, who, in...
“The man at the heart of this story does not want to show his face. But you will hear his voice,” some narration declares early in the film, which debuted in the Premieres section of the just-wrapped Sundance Film Festival. The face you see instead is of that most nimble of actors, Alan Cumming, who, in...
- 2/1/2022
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
“My Old School,” a documentary by Jono McLeod, opens with an enticing montage. Interviewees speak ominously about a mysterious character who’s done something strange — a man who may even be unhinged enough to have changed his identity through facial reconstruction. But the story the film goes on to tell doesn’t merit this supervillain setup, especially since it refuses to condemn its subject’s very contemptible actions. Though “My Old School” is inventive in some ways and plenty entertaining, its self-indulgent silliness undercuts any shot at a long-lasting impact.
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- 1/30/2022
- by Lena Wilson
- The Playlist
Chicago – The 2022 Sundance Film Festival is on Day Nine, and will be announcing their top film honorees on January 28th. The festival is wrapping up as virtual/online, meaning anyone/anywhere with a ticket or a pass (link) can indulge in the film offerings and events throughout the festival, which runs until January 30th.
One of the highlight offerings is free to anyone, with no need for extra tickets or credentials. Beyond Film programming offers something for everyone … with filmmaker chats, meet-ups and a daily talk show with Festival Director Tabitha Jackson. Festivals stars and directors participating include Emma Thompson, Dakota Johnson, Amy Poehler and Eva Longoria Bastón. Click on Beyond Film for the archive.
Am I Okay?
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The Sundance Film Festival is an annual event organized by the Sundance Institute – an organization founded by actor Robert Redford in 1980 – and dedicated to the growth of independent artists.
One of the highlight offerings is free to anyone, with no need for extra tickets or credentials. Beyond Film programming offers something for everyone … with filmmaker chats, meet-ups and a daily talk show with Festival Director Tabitha Jackson. Festivals stars and directors participating include Emma Thompson, Dakota Johnson, Amy Poehler and Eva Longoria Bastón. Click on Beyond Film for the archive.
Am I Okay?
Photo credit: Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is an annual event organized by the Sundance Institute – an organization founded by actor Robert Redford in 1980 – and dedicated to the growth of independent artists.
- 1/28/2022
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The IndieWire Sundance 2022 Bible: Every Review, Interview, and News Item Posted During the Festival
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‘Jihad Rehab’ Review: A Provocative Look Inside the Spa-Like Saudi Facility that Tries to Re-Educate Terrorists
‘Navalny’ Review: CNN’s Thriller-Like Doc Goes Inside Putin’s Failed Attempt to Assassinate His Rival
Sundance Indie Episodic Program Looks to the Past to Escape a Grim Present
‘Blood’ Review: ‘Wetlands’ Star Carla Juri Grieves Through a Meandering Soul Search in Japan
‘Dos Estaciones’ Review: The Owner of a Tequila Factory Struggles to Stay Afloat in Sobering Docudrama
‘My Old School’ Review: A One-of-a-Kind Alan Cumming Performance Undone by Shrug-Worthy Hoax
‘Happening’ Review: Captivating Venice Winner Takes a Clear-Eyed View of Abortion
‘Palm Trees and Power Lines’ Review: Breakout Lily McInerny Boosts Painfully Honest Coming-of-Age Tale
‘The American Dream and...
- 1/28/2022
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The 2022 Glasgow Film Festival unveils an exciting programme with the UK premiere of The Outfit kicking it off.
Undoubtedly a highlight in the festival calendar, Gff this year will show 10 world premieres including Monstrous as part of FrightFest and the European premiere of Alan Cumming’s My Old School.
Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s Camera D’ or winning, Murina, will close the festival in what will be its UK premiere.
The 18th annual festival will exclusively show the first episode of season six of the worldwide hit series, Outlander. Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta is among the Scottish premieres as well as Ruth Paxton’s A Banquet, to name but a few.
Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta.
In-person events also return with the legendary Armando Iannucci who will look back on his varied career to date.
As well as the 1962 retrospective showing classics including Cape Fear, which we reported here, the festival will...
Undoubtedly a highlight in the festival calendar, Gff this year will show 10 world premieres including Monstrous as part of FrightFest and the European premiere of Alan Cumming’s My Old School.
Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s Camera D’ or winning, Murina, will close the festival in what will be its UK premiere.
The 18th annual festival will exclusively show the first episode of season six of the worldwide hit series, Outlander. Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta is among the Scottish premieres as well as Ruth Paxton’s A Banquet, to name but a few.
Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta.
In-person events also return with the legendary Armando Iannucci who will look back on his varied career to date.
As well as the 1962 retrospective showing classics including Cape Fear, which we reported here, the festival will...
- 1/27/2022
- by Thomas Alexander
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Plot summaries (and reviews) of My Old School face a difficult task: how to describe a film whose very existence is based around a big spoiler. Sundance’s program summary, for example, hits the basics—a 16-year-old Canadian named Brandon Lee enrolled in a school in Scotland, bringing with him a tale of woe and an oddly advanced knowledge-base—while also referring to “his unbelievable secret.” There’s a good chance you already have a guess as to what that secret is, or perhaps you recall this story from the mid-90s—it did draw international headlines.
Whether you know the truth going in or not, My Old School is a hugely entertaining charmer. It’s at least 20 minutes too long and loses a great deal of steam once the secret is revealed, but it has all the earmarks of a streaming hit; Netflix released 2021 Sundance entry Misha and the Wolves...
Whether you know the truth going in or not, My Old School is a hugely entertaining charmer. It’s at least 20 minutes too long and loses a great deal of steam once the secret is revealed, but it has all the earmarks of a streaming hit; Netflix released 2021 Sundance entry Misha and the Wolves...
- 1/27/2022
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
Christina Ricci’s upcoming aquatic horror film “Monstrous” is set to premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival (Gff) in March.
Ricci plays a domestic abuse victim fleeing with her 7-year-old soon who soon encounters a terrifying monster living nearby. It is directed by Chris Sivertson (“All Cheerleaders Die”) and written by Carol Chrest (“The Prophet’s Game”).
Also having their world premieres at the festival, which is in its 18th edition, are “Skint,” from Peter Mullan and “Derry Girls” creator Lisa McGee, “Wake Up Punk” from Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s son Joe Corré, “Pictures from Iraq” about war photographer David Pratt and “Adult Adoption,” a debut film from Karen Knox.
Mark Rylance starrer “The Outfit” will open Gff while family drama “Murina,”direct by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic and executive-produced by Martin Scorsese, will close it.
Altogether the line-up includes 10 World premieres, 4 European premieres, 65 U.K. premieres, and 13 Scottish premieres.
Ricci plays a domestic abuse victim fleeing with her 7-year-old soon who soon encounters a terrifying monster living nearby. It is directed by Chris Sivertson (“All Cheerleaders Die”) and written by Carol Chrest (“The Prophet’s Game”).
Also having their world premieres at the festival, which is in its 18th edition, are “Skint,” from Peter Mullan and “Derry Girls” creator Lisa McGee, “Wake Up Punk” from Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s son Joe Corré, “Pictures from Iraq” about war photographer David Pratt and “Adult Adoption,” a debut film from Karen Knox.
Mark Rylance starrer “The Outfit” will open Gff while family drama “Murina,”direct by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic and executive-produced by Martin Scorsese, will close it.
Altogether the line-up includes 10 World premieres, 4 European premieres, 65 U.K. premieres, and 13 Scottish premieres.
- 1/27/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
By Abe Friedtanzer
Alan Cumming appears in My Old School
Screening multiple films a day at a festival can lead to the discovery of unexpected thematic connections. Initially, My Old School and The Cathedral, may seem to be completely unrelated films, but, seeing them within twenty-four hours of each other (with two or three others in between), I was surprised by their similarities. They both grapple with memory and history on a very specific level, and do so in inventive manners…...
Alan Cumming appears in My Old School
Screening multiple films a day at a festival can lead to the discovery of unexpected thematic connections. Initially, My Old School and The Cathedral, may seem to be completely unrelated films, but, seeing them within twenty-four hours of each other (with two or three others in between), I was surprised by their similarities. They both grapple with memory and history on a very specific level, and do so in inventive manners…...
- 1/26/2022
- by Abe Friedtanzer
- FilmExperience
In 1993, six years after Johnny Depp and company were deemed too old to keep up the charade on “21 Jump Street,” Brandon Lee went back to Bearsden Academy. At least he said his name was Brandon Lee. Some people thought that was weird, since another Brandon Lee had just died a few months earlier. They also found it strange that this fifth-year transfer student — who claimed to be from Canada, the same country where countless teenage con men swear that their long-distance girlfriends live — looked so much older than everyone else.
If you grew up in Scotland, you probably (think you) know this story. If you’re from the relatively posh Glasgow suburb of Bearsden, the Brandon Lee saga is the stuff of local legend. But if you’re stumbling into “My Old School” unawares, as most of the film’s virtual Sundance audience did, then you have a lot...
If you grew up in Scotland, you probably (think you) know this story. If you’re from the relatively posh Glasgow suburb of Bearsden, the Brandon Lee saga is the stuff of local legend. But if you’re stumbling into “My Old School” unawares, as most of the film’s virtual Sundance audience did, then you have a lot...
- 1/25/2022
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
His name was Brandon and to almost everyone at Glasgow’s Bearsden Academy, he seemed a bit odd. This new pupil was much taller than the other students, said he was from Canada and, well, his face looked…strange. At least for a 15-year-old in 1995. But if you made inquiries, Brandon had answers for everything. Until he didn’t. That true-life scenario sets the stage for Jono McLeod‘s entertaining documentary, “My Old School,” which makes its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival this weekend.
Continue reading ‘My Old School’: Alan Cumming & Director Jono McLeod On Tackling The ‘Great Unmade Scottish Movie’ [Sundance Interview] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘My Old School’: Alan Cumming & Director Jono McLeod On Tackling The ‘Great Unmade Scottish Movie’ [Sundance Interview] at The Playlist.
- 1/23/2022
- by Gregory Ellwood
- The Playlist
The legendary Scottish singer Lulu has had a career that’s spanned six decades and is still, as she says, “smashing it onstage.” But she is most associated with a song and a film that she made when she was a teenager: the 1967 Sidney Poitier-starring classic “To Sir, With Love.” The film depicted Poitier as a British Guyanese teacher at a tough East London school and the ensuing racial issues, and featured Lulu not just as a student in his class but also singing the title song to him in a pivotal scene at the end.
Though just 18 at the time, Lulu (real name: Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie) was already a major pop star in Swinging London-era Britain, with a powerhouse voice that got her discovered at the age of 15. She was steered to top chart success by Marion Massey, one of the first female managers in the business...
Though just 18 at the time, Lulu (real name: Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie) was already a major pop star in Swinging London-era Britain, with a powerhouse voice that got her discovered at the age of 15. She was steered to top chart success by Marion Massey, one of the first female managers in the business...
- 1/11/2022
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
A Sundance-bound documentary starring Alan Cumming as one of Scotland’s most notorious imposters has been picked up for world sales by doc specialists Dogwoof.
Directed by Jono McLeod in his debut feature, “My Old School” will premiere at the virtual Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 23. Produced by Hopscotch Films, the film tells the astonishing true story of 16-year-old “Brandon Lee,” who was the new kid at Glasgow’s Bearsden Academy in 1993. He quickly rose to become top of the class, acing exams and even taking the lead in the school musical. But Lee’s stint as the model student soon came to a shocking end when he was unmasked.
Scottish actor Cumming (“The Good Wife”) will play Lee, voicing audio that McLeod recorded with Lee. The film also features interviews with the student’s old classmates and teachers.
Cumming called the story a “great Scottish tale that gripped the...
Directed by Jono McLeod in his debut feature, “My Old School” will premiere at the virtual Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 23. Produced by Hopscotch Films, the film tells the astonishing true story of 16-year-old “Brandon Lee,” who was the new kid at Glasgow’s Bearsden Academy in 1993. He quickly rose to become top of the class, acing exams and even taking the lead in the school musical. But Lee’s stint as the model student soon came to a shocking end when he was unmasked.
Scottish actor Cumming (“The Good Wife”) will play Lee, voicing audio that McLeod recorded with Lee. The film also features interviews with the student’s old classmates and teachers.
Cumming called the story a “great Scottish tale that gripped the...
- 1/10/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
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