The practice of creating origin stories for well-known characters that are not the leading role in a narrative is reaching a fever pitch these days, but “Ratched” — Netflix’s 2020 series starring Sarah Paulson (above) as the younger, more stylish version of “One Flew the Cuckoo’s Nest” harridan nurse – might have kickstarted the craze given how much you could wring from such a scrupulous character.
“My biggest challenge was we had so much rich material”, said series editor Shelly Westerman, who was responsible for five episodes of the first season (a second one is in the works), “jaw- dropping dailies that you would call out your co-workers screaming ‘you’ve gotta see this’ — the acting, hair, makeup, costumes, cinematography, everything was just amazing. The hardest part was cutting it, especially since we had a nearly 90-minute pilot, I just loved it.”
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And if that wasn’t enough of a challenge,...
“My biggest challenge was we had so much rich material”, said series editor Shelly Westerman, who was responsible for five episodes of the first season (a second one is in the works), “jaw- dropping dailies that you would call out your co-workers screaming ‘you’ve gotta see this’ — the acting, hair, makeup, costumes, cinematography, everything was just amazing. The hardest part was cutting it, especially since we had a nearly 90-minute pilot, I just loved it.”
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And if that wasn’t enough of a challenge,...
- 6/19/2021
- by Jason Clark
- The Wrap
Alice Englert and her ‘Them That Follow’ co-star Thomas Mann.
Alice Englert’s Hollywood career is rocketing with roles in the Netflix series Ratched, horror movie Them That Follow and the upcoming crime thriller Body Brokers.
The 25-year-old daughter of Jane Campion and Colin Englert, Alice has a recurring role in Ratched, the prequel to Miloš Forman’s Oscar-winning 1975 movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which starred Louise Fletcher and Jack Nicholson.
Set in 1947, the series co-created and produced by Ryan Murphy follows the murderous journey of nurse Mildred Ratched (Sarah Paulson) through the mental health care system.
The cast includes Sharon Stone, Rosanna Arquette, Cynthia Nixon, Finn Wittrock, Judy Davis, Jon Jon Briones, Charlie Carver, Harriet Harris and Amanda Plummer. Englert plays a character named Dolly.
First-time directors Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage’s Them That Follow, which premiered in Sundance, opens in the Us on...
Alice Englert’s Hollywood career is rocketing with roles in the Netflix series Ratched, horror movie Them That Follow and the upcoming crime thriller Body Brokers.
The 25-year-old daughter of Jane Campion and Colin Englert, Alice has a recurring role in Ratched, the prequel to Miloš Forman’s Oscar-winning 1975 movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which starred Louise Fletcher and Jack Nicholson.
Set in 1947, the series co-created and produced by Ryan Murphy follows the murderous journey of nurse Mildred Ratched (Sarah Paulson) through the mental health care system.
The cast includes Sharon Stone, Rosanna Arquette, Cynthia Nixon, Finn Wittrock, Judy Davis, Jon Jon Briones, Charlie Carver, Harriet Harris and Amanda Plummer. Englert plays a character named Dolly.
First-time directors Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage’s Them That Follow, which premiered in Sundance, opens in the Us on...
- 7/30/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
In its continuing push to swell the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences membership ranks, 842 artists and executives from 59 countries have been invited to join this year. The branches have increasingly actively sought eligible people to become Academy members, but the Board of Governors makes the final call.
People of color (29 percent) and women (50 percent) are among the many invites, as the Academy continues to address its long-term white-male dominance. As always, actors make up the largest branch of the Academy, but many new members also come from overseas.
In 2018, the Academy invited 928 new members.
Twenty-one Oscar winners are among the new invited members, including Guy Nattiv (“Skin”), filmmaker Jimmy Chin (“Free Solo”), Phil Lord, and Chris Miller (“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”), and 82 Oscar nominees (including newbies like Lady Gaga and “Roma” breakout Marina de Tavira). Ten of the 17 branches invited more women than men. The percentage of women...
People of color (29 percent) and women (50 percent) are among the many invites, as the Academy continues to address its long-term white-male dominance. As always, actors make up the largest branch of the Academy, but many new members also come from overseas.
In 2018, the Academy invited 928 new members.
Twenty-one Oscar winners are among the new invited members, including Guy Nattiv (“Skin”), filmmaker Jimmy Chin (“Free Solo”), Phil Lord, and Chris Miller (“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”), and 82 Oscar nominees (including newbies like Lady Gaga and “Roma” breakout Marina de Tavira). Ten of the 17 branches invited more women than men. The percentage of women...
- 7/1/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
In its continuing push to swell the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences membership ranks, 842 artists and executives from 59 countries have been invited to join this year. The branches have increasingly actively sought eligible people to become Academy members, but the Board of Governors makes the final call.
People of color (29 percent) and women (50 percent) are among the many invites, as the Academy continues to address its long-term white-male dominance. As always, actors make up the largest branch of the Academy, but many new members also come from overseas.
In 2018, the Academy invited 928 new members.
Twenty-one Oscar winners are among the new invited members, including Guy Nattiv (“Skin”), filmmaker Jimmy Chin (“Free Solo”), Phil Lord, and Chris Miller (“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”), and 82 Oscar nominees (including newbies like Lady Gaga and “Roma” breakout Marina de Tavira). Ten of the 17 branches invited more women than men. The percentage of women...
People of color (29 percent) and women (50 percent) are among the many invites, as the Academy continues to address its long-term white-male dominance. As always, actors make up the largest branch of the Academy, but many new members also come from overseas.
In 2018, the Academy invited 928 new members.
Twenty-one Oscar winners are among the new invited members, including Guy Nattiv (“Skin”), filmmaker Jimmy Chin (“Free Solo”), Phil Lord, and Chris Miller (“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”), and 82 Oscar nominees (including newbies like Lady Gaga and “Roma” breakout Marina de Tavira). Ten of the 17 branches invited more women than men. The percentage of women...
- 7/1/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Nz On Air and the New Zealand Film Commission are funding the development of 10 drama series ideas with international and domestic appeal.
The initiative, Raupapa Whakaari Drama to the World, will support each writer/producer team to develop high-end scripted series with an initial grant of Nz$10,000.
Each team will attend a series drama lab held in conjunction with Script to Screen, where international advisers will give feedback on story and market to assist the teams to further develop their concepts and strengthen appeal to the international marketplace.
Following the lab and submission of the re-worked projects, four teams will be selected to receive additional development funding of up to Nz$80,000.
Nzfc CEO Annabelle Sheehan said: “There really has never been a better time to tell stories than now, thanks to the global expansion of mega platforms such as Netflix, Amazon and now Disney with Disney+ and its takeover of Hulu this week.
The initiative, Raupapa Whakaari Drama to the World, will support each writer/producer team to develop high-end scripted series with an initial grant of Nz$10,000.
Each team will attend a series drama lab held in conjunction with Script to Screen, where international advisers will give feedback on story and market to assist the teams to further develop their concepts and strengthen appeal to the international marketplace.
Following the lab and submission of the re-worked projects, four teams will be selected to receive additional development funding of up to Nz$80,000.
Nzfc CEO Annabelle Sheehan said: “There really has never been a better time to tell stories than now, thanks to the global expansion of mega platforms such as Netflix, Amazon and now Disney with Disney+ and its takeover of Hulu this week.
- 5/16/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Actors Naomi Watts and Christoph Waltz and filmmaker Taika Waititi (“Thor: Ragnarok”) have joined the main jury of the Venice Film Festival, which will be presided over by director Guillermo del Toro, the winner of last year’s Golden Lion for “The Shape of Water.”
Also on the panel are Taiwan’s Sylvia Chang, director of “Love Education,” which opened last year’s Tokyo FILMeX fest; Danish actress Trine Dyrholm, who was in Venice last year as the star of “Nico, 1988”; French director-actor Nicole Garcia (“Place Vendome”); Italian director Paolo Genovese (“Perfect Strangers”); and Poland’s Malgorzata Szumowska, director of “Mug,” which won this year’s Berlin Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize.
Waltz was on the Lido last year as one of the stars of opener “Downsizing.” Watts was in Venice in 2016 with boxing drama “The Bleeder,” directed by Liev Schreiber. It will be Waititi’s first appearance on the Venice red carpet.
Also on the panel are Taiwan’s Sylvia Chang, director of “Love Education,” which opened last year’s Tokyo FILMeX fest; Danish actress Trine Dyrholm, who was in Venice last year as the star of “Nico, 1988”; French director-actor Nicole Garcia (“Place Vendome”); Italian director Paolo Genovese (“Perfect Strangers”); and Poland’s Malgorzata Szumowska, director of “Mug,” which won this year’s Berlin Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize.
Waltz was on the Lido last year as one of the stars of opener “Downsizing.” Watts was in Venice in 2016 with boxing drama “The Bleeder,” directed by Liev Schreiber. It will be Waititi’s first appearance on the Venice red carpet.
- 7/26/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
By Glenn Dunks
Alison Maclean is not a prolific filmmaker. While her resume is littered with TV (Sex and the City, The Tudors), music videos (Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn”) and short films (the superb domestic horror Kitchen Sink, and a segment in Subway Tales), films are few and far between. Her third feature is The Rehearsal and if its release feels awfully quiet then you can probably thank the near 20-year gap between feature projects and her return to her native New Zealand with a thorny film about tricky subject matter and written with a sense of ambiguous mystery.
My knowledge of New Zealand cinema is by far not as thorough as Australian film, but Maclean’s Crush is perhaps my favourite from there that isn’t Heavenly Creatures or The Piano. It is a film rife for rediscovery, not least of all for the delicious performance by Marcia Gay Harden...
Alison Maclean is not a prolific filmmaker. While her resume is littered with TV (Sex and the City, The Tudors), music videos (Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn”) and short films (the superb domestic horror Kitchen Sink, and a segment in Subway Tales), films are few and far between. Her third feature is The Rehearsal and if its release feels awfully quiet then you can probably thank the near 20-year gap between feature projects and her return to her native New Zealand with a thorny film about tricky subject matter and written with a sense of ambiguous mystery.
My knowledge of New Zealand cinema is by far not as thorough as Australian film, but Maclean’s Crush is perhaps my favourite from there that isn’t Heavenly Creatures or The Piano. It is a film rife for rediscovery, not least of all for the delicious performance by Marcia Gay Harden...
- 7/7/2017
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
The Rehearsal, director Alison Maclean’s first feature since the 1999 Denis Johnson adaptation Jesus’ Son, is such a hodgepodge of arthouse references, arch distancing effects, and emotionally vacant wide-screen compositions that one could easily mistake it for an awkward debut film. James Rolleston stars as Stanley, a hunky first-year student at a prestigious New Zealand acting school who is encouraged by the combative, guru-like head instructor, Hannah (Kerry Fox), to develop a theater piece based on a local sex scandal that has engulfed the family of his underage girlfriend, Isolde (Ella Edward). Contrived as it may sound, this isn’t a bad premise. But every bit of inherent tension is dissipated by Maclean’s direction, which meanders from affectlessness to affectation, producing a blank mise en scène in which nothing behind or around the actors means anything, unless it literally says “Brecht” in big letters. The Rehearsal signifies and ...
- 7/6/2017
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
The Rehearsal Mongel International Director: Alison Maclean Written by: Alison Maclean, Emily Perkins based on Eleanor Catton’s novel “The Rehearsal” Cast: James Rolleston, Kerry Fox, Ella Edward, Rachel Roberts, Marlon Williams, Alice Englert, Kieran Charnock, Erroll Shand Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 6/24/17 Opens: July 7, 2017 As Michael Cart, a critic from Booklist notes […]
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- 6/30/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
The Rehearsal.
Ghita Loebenstein is gearing up for another year of She Speaks First, the female-focused film series she founded in 2015..
The series, in which screenings of films made by women are followed by conversations about the space women occupy in cinema, most recently presented Athina Rachel Tsangari's Chevalier at Melbourne's Australian Centre for the Moving Image last October..
This Wednesday, She Speaks First returns to Acmi with a screening of New Zealand feature The Rehearsal, directed by Alison Maclean..
Afterwards, Maclean will appear via video-link from La to talk about her film. Kim Krejus, artistic director of 16th Street Actors Studio, will also join the conversation..
The Rehearsal is adapted from the novel by Booker Prize—winning Kiwi author Eleanor Catton (The Luminaries). Variety described the film, which premiered last year at Tiff, as "like Fame redone as a good movie"..
James Rolleston (Boy, The Dark Horse) plays Stanley,...
Ghita Loebenstein is gearing up for another year of She Speaks First, the female-focused film series she founded in 2015..
The series, in which screenings of films made by women are followed by conversations about the space women occupy in cinema, most recently presented Athina Rachel Tsangari's Chevalier at Melbourne's Australian Centre for the Moving Image last October..
This Wednesday, She Speaks First returns to Acmi with a screening of New Zealand feature The Rehearsal, directed by Alison Maclean..
Afterwards, Maclean will appear via video-link from La to talk about her film. Kim Krejus, artistic director of 16th Street Actors Studio, will also join the conversation..
The Rehearsal is adapted from the novel by Booker Prize—winning Kiwi author Eleanor Catton (The Luminaries). Variety described the film, which premiered last year at Tiff, as "like Fame redone as a good movie"..
James Rolleston (Boy, The Dark Horse) plays Stanley,...
- 1/16/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
There are many sentences I know I will go my entire life without hearing, but this one was previously near the top: Sylvester Stallone will lead the next film from Olivier Assayas. We can now cross that off the list, as the Rocky and Rambo actor has joined Idol’s Eye, a crime drama that had been called off a few years ago, just moments before shooting was set to begin. Thankfully, it’s now back on and, for those that were looking forward to the original ensemble, the majority has also remained intact.
While Stallone will be taking the role previously meant for Robert De Niro (of Chicago mob boss Tony Accardo), Robert Pattinson and Rachel Weisz are still aboard, according to ScreenDaily. Budgeted at around $25 million, the film follows Pattinson’s character as a “petty thief who unknowingly steals a blue diamond from Accardo and sparks a war...
While Stallone will be taking the role previously meant for Robert De Niro (of Chicago mob boss Tony Accardo), Robert Pattinson and Rachel Weisz are still aboard, according to ScreenDaily. Budgeted at around $25 million, the film follows Pattinson’s character as a “petty thief who unknowingly steals a blue diamond from Accardo and sparks a war...
- 11/3/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The following essay was written by a participant in the 2016 New York Film Festival Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring critics co-produced by IndieWire, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Film Comment.
From the very first night, this year’s New York Film Festival put women front and center. Ava DuVernay became the first woman of color in the festival’s 54-year history to direct an opening night film (“13th”). Titles like Kelly Reichardt’s “Certain Women” and Mike Mills’s “20th Century Women” punctuated the festival’s Main Slate, offering portraits of emotionally complex (albeit mostly white) modern women. Actresses over 60, like Sonia Braga and Isabelle Huppert, turned in dazzling, sexy performances, beating back the standards of an industry that often prefers to throw its aging women away, as Huppert’s character Nathalie ironically remarks in Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Things to Come.”
The conspicuous presence of women at...
From the very first night, this year’s New York Film Festival put women front and center. Ava DuVernay became the first woman of color in the festival’s 54-year history to direct an opening night film (“13th”). Titles like Kelly Reichardt’s “Certain Women” and Mike Mills’s “20th Century Women” punctuated the festival’s Main Slate, offering portraits of emotionally complex (albeit mostly white) modern women. Actresses over 60, like Sonia Braga and Isabelle Huppert, turned in dazzling, sexy performances, beating back the standards of an industry that often prefers to throw its aging women away, as Huppert’s character Nathalie ironically remarks in Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Things to Come.”
The conspicuous presence of women at...
- 10/19/2016
- by Lauren Du Graf
- Indiewire
Drama teachers will command their students to roll around studio floors in all black outfits to loosen their bodies. Training for an emerging actor is often technical, involving a long and difficult process of deconstructing what it is to be human. It’s this concentrated discipline that’s the backdrop for Alison Maclean’s newest feature, The Rehearsal, which recently played the Main Slate of the 54th New York Film Festival. “It’s ironic that I wanted to make a film about the acting process because that’s the aspect of filmmaking I’ve always found the most challenging,” said Maclean. “I’ve wanted to go deeper […]...
- 10/19/2016
- by Taylor Hess
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The Rehearsal is a youthful melodrama that becomes a bit too “mellow” during its elongated midsection of teenage irresponsibility. A soul-searching beginning and an applause-worth end sandwich a hefty helping of chewy, overdone archetypes reminiscent of every passable coming-of-age tale you’ve ever sat through. Filmmaker Alison Maclean does certain justice to Eleanor Catton’s source novelization, but it’s not exactly the poignant theater-culture showstopper that’d halt talent agents in their tracks. Familiarity and dry plotting by way of bad decisions are Maclean’s worst enemies, yet those more tolerant viewers should have no trouble sticking around for a rousing final act. The kids aren’t alright – but is anyone, really?
James Rolleston stars as Stanley, an aspiring actor who’s just beginning his first-year of specialty schooling. On a bus one day, he meets Isolde (Ella Edward), and they begin “dating.” Isolde is the sister of a...
James Rolleston stars as Stanley, an aspiring actor who’s just beginning his first-year of specialty schooling. On a bus one day, he meets Isolde (Ella Edward), and they begin “dating.” Isolde is the sister of a...
- 10/7/2016
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
Above: Us one sheet for Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, USA, 2016).The 54th New York Film Festival starts tonight, and, as I have done for the past seven years, I have collected all the posters I could find for the films in the festival’s main slate, otherwise billed as “Twenty-five of the most exciting new feature films from around the world.”I can’t attest to the films themselves yet, but the two best posters of the festival are those for Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight and Ava DuVernay’s 13th. Both posters feature striking and stylized images of African American men, which is fitting for a festival that is kicking off with—in its first documentary opening night ever—DuVernay’s urgent examination into America’s mass incarceration of black men.None of the other posters are quite as exciting, though I do have a soft spot for the blatantly Photoshopped family...
- 9/30/2016
- MUBI
Lineup and Pre-Festival Announcements and News
Nyff Reveals Main Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Manchester By the Sea,’ ‘Paterson’ and ‘Personal Shopper’
New York Film Festival Announces James Gray’s ‘The Lost City of Z’ As Closing Night Selection
New York Film Festival Announces Mike Mills’ ’20th Century Women’ As Centerpiece Selection
Nyff 2016 Adds Ang Lee’s ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,’ His Ambitious 4K Fast Frame Narrative Feature
Nyff Announces Retrospective Selections Inspired By Bertrand Tavernier’s ‘My Journey Through French Cinema’ – Exclusive
Film Society of Lincoln Center Announces Nyff Artist Academy And Critics Academy Participants
Fslc Announces Filmmaker Talks Lineup For 54th New York Film Festival
Nyff: Film Society Announces Special Events Section and ‘An Evening With’ Kristen Stewart and Adam Driver
Nyff Announces Lineup For Immersive Storytelling Program Convergence (Exclusive)
‘Jackie’: New York Film Festival Adds Special U.S. Premiere Of Pablo Larraín’s Oscar Contender...
Nyff Reveals Main Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Manchester By the Sea,’ ‘Paterson’ and ‘Personal Shopper’
New York Film Festival Announces James Gray’s ‘The Lost City of Z’ As Closing Night Selection
New York Film Festival Announces Mike Mills’ ’20th Century Women’ As Centerpiece Selection
Nyff 2016 Adds Ang Lee’s ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,’ His Ambitious 4K Fast Frame Narrative Feature
Nyff Announces Retrospective Selections Inspired By Bertrand Tavernier’s ‘My Journey Through French Cinema’ – Exclusive
Film Society of Lincoln Center Announces Nyff Artist Academy And Critics Academy Participants
Fslc Announces Filmmaker Talks Lineup For 54th New York Film Festival
Nyff: Film Society Announces Special Events Section and ‘An Evening With’ Kristen Stewart and Adam Driver
Nyff Announces Lineup For Immersive Storytelling Program Convergence (Exclusive)
‘Jackie’: New York Film Festival Adds Special U.S. Premiere Of Pablo Larraín’s Oscar Contender...
- 9/29/2016
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has today announced the addition of Pablo Larraín’s “Jackie” to 54th New York Film Festival as a Special U.S. Premiere Presentation. The film will have its American debut on Thursday, October 13 at Alice Tully Hall. The film is Larraín’s second in the festival, as Nyff is also playing home to his portrait of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, “Neruda.”
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The film is the filmmaker’s first English-language film, and is described by the festival as “a bolt from the blue, a fugue-like study of Jackie Kennedy, brilliantly acted by Natalie Portman. Dramatizing events from just before, during, and after JFK’s assassination, this carefully reconstructed, beautifully visualized film is grounded in Jackie’s interactions with her children, her social secretary (Greta Gerwig), Lbj...
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The film is the filmmaker’s first English-language film, and is described by the festival as “a bolt from the blue, a fugue-like study of Jackie Kennedy, brilliantly acted by Natalie Portman. Dramatizing events from just before, during, and after JFK’s assassination, this carefully reconstructed, beautifully visualized film is grounded in Jackie’s interactions with her children, her social secretary (Greta Gerwig), Lbj...
- 9/27/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The Dressmaker director Jocelyn Moorhouse on Sophie Theallet: "I met her because we are both good friends with Rupert Everett." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Loving Billy Wilder, watching Sunset Boulevard, an Audrey Hepburn Sabrina remodeling, Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Visit and Jack Nicholson in Sean Penn's The Pledge, Sergio Leone, Alice B Toklas in Paris, South Pacific, David and Albert Maysles' Grey Gardens, consulting with Sophie Theallet about Madeleine Vionnet and Cristóbal Balenciaga - Jocelyn Moorhouse and producer Sue Maslin revealed the underpinnings of The Dressmaker.
Kate Winslet as Tilly Dunnage: "We're entering a fable. Although the story, of course, is very truthful and universal."
Based on the novel by Rosalie Ham, screenplay Pj Hogan and Moorhouse, starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth, and Hugo Weaving with Sarah Snook, Kerry Fox (Alison Maclean's The Rehearsal), Gyton Grantley, Alison Whyte, Shane Bourne, and Barry Otto (Gracie Otto and...
Loving Billy Wilder, watching Sunset Boulevard, an Audrey Hepburn Sabrina remodeling, Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Visit and Jack Nicholson in Sean Penn's The Pledge, Sergio Leone, Alice B Toklas in Paris, South Pacific, David and Albert Maysles' Grey Gardens, consulting with Sophie Theallet about Madeleine Vionnet and Cristóbal Balenciaga - Jocelyn Moorhouse and producer Sue Maslin revealed the underpinnings of The Dressmaker.
Kate Winslet as Tilly Dunnage: "We're entering a fable. Although the story, of course, is very truthful and universal."
Based on the novel by Rosalie Ham, screenplay Pj Hogan and Moorhouse, starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth, and Hugo Weaving with Sarah Snook, Kerry Fox (Alison Maclean's The Rehearsal), Gyton Grantley, Alison Whyte, Shane Bourne, and Barry Otto (Gracie Otto and...
- 9/22/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The spirit of collaboration runs deep in Alison Maclean’s “The Rehearsal,” the filmmaker’s often ambitious and hearteningly daring big screen adaptation of Man Booker Prize-winning author Eleanor Catton’s first novel of the same name. Catton won the prestigious Booker for her latest novel — only her second! — “The Luminaries,” making her the youngest recipient of the storied book prize since its inception in 1969.
That Catton is so accomplished at such a young age speaks to the themes of “The Rehearsal,” which she wrote when she was just 21 as her Master’s thesis, which follows a teen girl dealing with the fallout from her older sister’s affair with a teacher at their high school, juxtaposed alongside the story of a group of drama students who later attempt to use the ensuing scandal as fodder for an important performance. The two stories and their respective characters mix and mingle in unexpected ways,...
That Catton is so accomplished at such a young age speaks to the themes of “The Rehearsal,” which she wrote when she was just 21 as her Master’s thesis, which follows a teen girl dealing with the fallout from her older sister’s affair with a teacher at their high school, juxtaposed alongside the story of a group of drama students who later attempt to use the ensuing scandal as fodder for an important performance. The two stories and their respective characters mix and mingle in unexpected ways,...
- 9/21/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
After a 17-year hiatus from directing feature length films, Alison Maclean returns to the screen with The Rehearsal, an adaptation of Eleanor Catton‘s acclaimed 2008 novel. On its surface, it looks like other films in a specific, youthful sub-genre that rarely produces particularly insightful or interesting dramas. However, its visual precision elicits a unique mood that elevates the film from the normal, self-important teenage tale.
The most fascinating moments play out as we’re shown the inner workings of the fine arts academy that Maclean places us in. The Head of Acting, Hannah (played masterfully by Kerry Fox) commands a lot from her young students in terms of acting prowess and also building an intimate, familial environment in the institute. This is examined through intense and personal acting classes interspersed throughout the greater narrative. Maclean works with cinematographer Andrew Commis to make these scenes feel claustrophobic and weighty while also...
The most fascinating moments play out as we’re shown the inner workings of the fine arts academy that Maclean places us in. The Head of Acting, Hannah (played masterfully by Kerry Fox) commands a lot from her young students in terms of acting prowess and also building an intimate, familial environment in the institute. This is examined through intense and personal acting classes interspersed throughout the greater narrative. Maclean works with cinematographer Andrew Commis to make these scenes feel claustrophobic and weighty while also...
- 9/11/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
“Based on the novel by Eleanor Catton” has become a much more marketable phrase in the three years since the New Zealand author won the Man Booker prize for “The Luminaries,” a marvel of an 848-page tome currently being adapted as a miniseries for BBC. Her first novel, “The Rehearsal,” has beaten her second to the screen courtesy of filmmaker Alison Maclean. Set at a prestigious drama school and frequently engrossing, the film unfolds like an experimental acting workshop that occasionally falters when the plot intrudes on the performances.
Both Catton and a hardcover copy of “The Luminaries” make brief cameos here, but the real star is James Rolleston. Familiar to anyone who’s seen “Boy” or “The Dark Horse,” he plays Stanley, a shy but talented thespian in the process of finding himself as both a person and a performer — making him the perfect candidate for the baptism-by-fire approach...
Both Catton and a hardcover copy of “The Luminaries” make brief cameos here, but the real star is James Rolleston. Familiar to anyone who’s seen “Boy” or “The Dark Horse,” he plays Stanley, a shy but talented thespian in the process of finding himself as both a person and a performer — making him the perfect candidate for the baptism-by-fire approach...
- 9/11/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
One of the most perceptive novels of the 20th century becomes one of the most ill-conceived movies of the 21st as Ewan McGregor tries his hand at directing with this ruinously streamlined adaptation of Philip Roth’s 1997 masterpiece, “American Pastoral.” It’s a disaster, but could it really have been anything else?
Roth’s writing is notoriously difficult to capture on camera, even for filmmakers with years of experience. James Schamus knocked it out of the park with “Indignation” earlier this year, but the former head of Focus Features spent decades shepherding (and writing) stories of similar sensitivity, and learned to recognize why certain texts might be — or might not be — suited for the screen.
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However, anyone who believed it was a good idea to adapt “American Pastoral” doesn’t share the same intuition. All of...
Roth’s writing is notoriously difficult to capture on camera, even for filmmakers with years of experience. James Schamus knocked it out of the park with “Indignation” earlier this year, but the former head of Focus Features spent decades shepherding (and writing) stories of similar sensitivity, and learned to recognize why certain texts might be — or might not be — suited for the screen.
Read More: Uzo Aduba Joins Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, Others in ‘American Pastoral’ Adaptation
However, anyone who believed it was a good idea to adapt “American Pastoral” doesn’t share the same intuition. All of...
- 9/10/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Just about anyone who’s ever taken an acting class should feel a wave of queasy familiarity watching “The Rehearsal,” a keenly observed coming-of-age drama, about the ways some teachers push budding young thespians to “be honest” to the point of complete, embarrassing exposure. Based on an Eleanor Catton novel — adapted to the screen by […]
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- 9/10/2016
- by Noel Murray
- The Playlist
This year, the fall festival season will see two filmmakers who have long been away from the feature filmmaking game, return in a big way. Barry Jenkins will hit pretty much every stop in the next six to eight weeks with “Moonlight,” while “Jesus’ Son” director Alison Maclean will land at Tiff and Nyff with her […]
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- 8/24/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Alison Maclean (Jesus’ Son) returns to her New Zealand filmmaking roots with a multilayered coming-of-age story about a young actor (James Rolleston) searching for the truth of a character he’s playing onstage and the resulting moral dilemma in his personal life. Set largely in a drama school, featuring Kerry Fox as a diva-like teacher who tries to shape her student’s raw talent, The Rehearsal, adapted from the novel by Eleanor Catton, demystifies actors and acting in order to reveal the moments where craft becomes art. The same happens with Maclean’s understated but penetrating filmmaking. Her concentration on the quotidian yields a finale that borders on the sublime. “The Rehearsal” was [ Read More ]
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- 8/24/2016
- by Rudie Obias
- ShockYa
Nigerian metropolis Lagos is the focus of the eighth City To City showcase at the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) as top brass anoint two international Rising Stars.
Tiff’s latest line-up announcement also featured extra selections in Galas and Special Presentations, among them Walter Hill’s (Re)Assignment, Philippe Falardeau’s The Bleeder, David Leveaux’ The Exception (pictured), Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or winner I, Daniel Blake and Terry George’s drama The Promise.
A vibrant crop of Contemporary World Cinema entries includes Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius, Danis Tanović’s Death In Sarajevo, Marie Noëlle’s Marie Curie, The Courage Of Knowledge and Akin Omotoso’s Vaya.
Hirokazu Kore-eda brings After The Storm to the Masters showcase, alongside Marco Bellocchio’s Sweet Dreams, Pedro Almodóvar’s Julieta, Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation, Gianfranco Rosi’s Berlin Golden Bear winner Fire At Sea and Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s Once Again.
Rounding out the...
Tiff’s latest line-up announcement also featured extra selections in Galas and Special Presentations, among them Walter Hill’s (Re)Assignment, Philippe Falardeau’s The Bleeder, David Leveaux’ The Exception (pictured), Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or winner I, Daniel Blake and Terry George’s drama The Promise.
A vibrant crop of Contemporary World Cinema entries includes Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius, Danis Tanović’s Death In Sarajevo, Marie Noëlle’s Marie Curie, The Courage Of Knowledge and Akin Omotoso’s Vaya.
Hirokazu Kore-eda brings After The Storm to the Masters showcase, alongside Marco Bellocchio’s Sweet Dreams, Pedro Almodóvar’s Julieta, Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation, Gianfranco Rosi’s Berlin Golden Bear winner Fire At Sea and Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s Once Again.
Rounding out the...
- 8/16/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Nigerian capital Lagos is the focus of the eighth City To City showcase at the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) as top brass anoint two international Rising Stars.
Tiff’s latest line-up announcement also featured extra selections in Galas and Special Presentations, among them Walter Hill’s (Re)Assignment, Philippe Falardeau’s The Bleeder, David Leveaux’ The Exception (pictured), Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or winner I, Daniel Blake and Terry George’s drama The Promise.
A vibrant crop of Contemporary World Cinema entries includes Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius, Danis Tanović’s Death In Sarajevo, Marie Noëlle’s Marie Curie, The Courage Of Knowledge and Akin Omotoso’s Vaya.
Hirokazu Kore-eda brings After The Storm to the Masters showcase, alongside Marco Bellocchio’s Sweet Dreams, Pedro Almodóvar’s Julieta, Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation, Gianfranco Rosi’s Berlin Golden Bear winner Fire At Sea and Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s Once Again.
Rounding out the...
Tiff’s latest line-up announcement also featured extra selections in Galas and Special Presentations, among them Walter Hill’s (Re)Assignment, Philippe Falardeau’s The Bleeder, David Leveaux’ The Exception (pictured), Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or winner I, Daniel Blake and Terry George’s drama The Promise.
A vibrant crop of Contemporary World Cinema entries includes Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius, Danis Tanović’s Death In Sarajevo, Marie Noëlle’s Marie Curie, The Courage Of Knowledge and Akin Omotoso’s Vaya.
Hirokazu Kore-eda brings After The Storm to the Masters showcase, alongside Marco Bellocchio’s Sweet Dreams, Pedro Almodóvar’s Julieta, Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation, Gianfranco Rosi’s Berlin Golden Bear winner Fire At Sea and Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s Once Again.
Rounding out the...
- 8/16/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Toronto International Film Festival is mere weeks from kicking off, yet the annual fall fest is showing zero sign of slowing down when it comes to announcing the titles that will round out this year’s event. Today’s announcement brings with it a number of Cannes favorites, including Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or-winning “I, Daniel Blake,” Olivier Assayas’ divisive Kristen Stewart-starring “Personal Shopper” and Pedro Almodovar’s “Julieta.”
Read More: Tiff Reveals First Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Magnificent Seven,’ ‘American Honey,’ ‘La La Land’ and ‘Birth of A Nation’
The slate will also play home to the Dardenne Brothers’ latest, “The Unknown Girl,” which has reportedly been through an edit since it debuted at Cannes earlier this year. Other standouts from Cannes include Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “Aquarius,” Boo Junfeng’s “Apprentice,” Cristian Mungiu’s “Graduation,” Brillante Ma Mendoza’s “Ma’ Rosa” and Cristi Puiu’s “Sieranevada.
Read More: Tiff Reveals First Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Magnificent Seven,’ ‘American Honey,’ ‘La La Land’ and ‘Birth of A Nation’
The slate will also play home to the Dardenne Brothers’ latest, “The Unknown Girl,” which has reportedly been through an edit since it debuted at Cannes earlier this year. Other standouts from Cannes include Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “Aquarius,” Boo Junfeng’s “Apprentice,” Cristian Mungiu’s “Graduation,” Brillante Ma Mendoza’s “Ma’ Rosa” and Cristi Puiu’s “Sieranevada.
- 8/16/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
NEWSBarry Jenkins' MoonlightThe New York Film Festival has announced its main slate, which among many of the year's better known titles includes new films by Barry Jenkins, Hong Sang-soo and Alison Maclean. The closing night film will be James Gray's The Lost City of Z.Recommended VIEWINGThe teaser for Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. We are notable fans of this too often derided filmmaker.Another future-set teaser: Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi flick Arrival, which is to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.A third teaser, this one for Woody Allen's series for Amazon, Crisis in Six Scenes.Aussie director John Hillcoat made one of the more under-appreciated big budget films this year, Triple 9, and now he returns to the director's seat for a video for Massive Attack, featuring Hope Sandoval and Cate Blanchett.Recommended READINGThe ShallowsIn a moment when any...
- 8/10/2016
- MUBI
"So what happens here? And what can you do to minimize the damage?" The first trailer has arrived for a film playing at this year's Toronto Film Festival (Tiff) called The Rehearsal, from Canadian director Alison Maclean. It's a complex drama about a first-year acting student who "mines his girlfriend's family scandal as material for the end-of-year show at drama school." Yeah, that sounds a bit crazy, but this looks damn good. James Rolleston stars, along with Ella Edward, Alice Englert, Kerry Fox and Michelle Ny. I am expecting some exceptional performances from a film about acting, and from what I can tell, there will be plenty. The song featured in this is "Fragile" (McHncl Remix) by Maya Payne & Kabyn Walley. See below. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Alison Maclean's The Rehearsal, direct from YouTube: Alison Maclean returns to her New Zealand filmmaking roots with a multilayered...
- 8/10/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Every film playing in the 54th New York Film Festival this fall is a must-see in the eyes of Festival Director and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones, but a handful of titles are particularly indispensable. During a presentation on Tuesday morning unveiling the 25 films that will make up Nyff’s Main Slate, Jones shared some insights into the festival’s selection process.
Read More: Nyff Reveals Main Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Manchester By the Sea,’ ‘Paterson’ and ‘Personal Shopper’
“We’re not interested in selecting a movie just because we can put stars on the carpet,” Jones said, adding that films thought to be award contenders also carry no additional weight with the festival’s selection committee. “If we started worrying about being viable for awards season, we’d be lost. We’d be throwing away our mission.”
Though certain directors have become Nyff regulars over the years, Jones insisted...
Read More: Nyff Reveals Main Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Manchester By the Sea,’ ‘Paterson’ and ‘Personal Shopper’
“We’re not interested in selecting a movie just because we can put stars on the carpet,” Jones said, adding that films thought to be award contenders also carry no additional weight with the festival’s selection committee. “If we started worrying about being viable for awards season, we’d be lost. We’d be throwing away our mission.”
Though certain directors have become Nyff regulars over the years, Jones insisted...
- 8/9/2016
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
The powers that be at the Film Society Of Lincoln Center announced on Tuesday the 25 films to screen as the main slate of the 54th New York Film Festival, set to run from September 30–October 16.
The typically robust roster features the latest work from Pablo Larrain, Ken Loach, Kenneth Lonergan, Paul Verhoeven, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Maren Ade.
“The cinema is so many things at once,” said Nyff director and selection committee chair Kent Jones.
“And when I look at the films in this year’s selection, I’m aware of the fact that it is a form of response. The Dardenne Brothers, Ken Loach, Cristian Mungiu, Gianfranco Rosi, Kleber Mendonça Filho, and Ava DuVernay are sounding alarms, while Jim Jarmusch, Kenneth Lonergan, Barry Jenkins, Maren Ade, Olivier Assayas, James Gray, and Mike Mills are fixed on internal landscapes, proclaiming the urgency of self-realization.
“I also see in this year’s lineup a bounty of vital work from...
The typically robust roster features the latest work from Pablo Larrain, Ken Loach, Kenneth Lonergan, Paul Verhoeven, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Maren Ade.
“The cinema is so many things at once,” said Nyff director and selection committee chair Kent Jones.
“And when I look at the films in this year’s selection, I’m aware of the fact that it is a form of response. The Dardenne Brothers, Ken Loach, Cristian Mungiu, Gianfranco Rosi, Kleber Mendonça Filho, and Ava DuVernay are sounding alarms, while Jim Jarmusch, Kenneth Lonergan, Barry Jenkins, Maren Ade, Olivier Assayas, James Gray, and Mike Mills are fixed on internal landscapes, proclaiming the urgency of self-realization.
“I also see in this year’s lineup a bounty of vital work from...
- 8/9/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Nyff main slate largely consists of well-established and years-in-the-making auteurs, which inevitably means that the — note: I rather dislike this term, and especially when discussing a festival that does much to provide audiences with world cinema, so forgive me — “smaller” selections get a bit overshadowed, even if only on first glance. One such item that’s caught my eye is U.S. premiere The Rehearsal, the new film from Alison Maclean (Jesus’ Son) that adapts the debut novel by Eleanor Catton, a New Zealand author who’d go on to bigger things with her Man Booker-winning follow-up, The Luminaries.
But enough about “bigger” and “smaller.” The Rehearsal is a finely drawn, conceptually adventurous novel (in its theatrical focus, often reminiscent of Rivette) attuned to the many particulars feelings that come with entering a new school and trying to make something of yourself in light of others’ expectations — easy-to-connect-with, hard-to-translate...
But enough about “bigger” and “smaller.” The Rehearsal is a finely drawn, conceptually adventurous novel (in its theatrical focus, often reminiscent of Rivette) attuned to the many particulars feelings that come with entering a new school and trying to make something of yourself in light of others’ expectations — easy-to-connect-with, hard-to-translate...
- 8/9/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
The Film Society of Lincoln Center's unveiled the lineup for the Main Slate of the 54th New York Film Festival, running from September 30 through October 16. New films by Ava DuVernay, Mike Mills, James Gray, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Kelly Reichardt, Paul Verhoeven, Gianfranco Rosi, Cristian Mungiu, Matías Piñeiro, Ken Loach, Pedro Almodóvar, Kenneth Lonergan, Barry Jenkins, Dash Shaw, Pablo Larraín, Jim Jarmusch, Olivier Assayas, Alison Maclean, Cristi Puiu, Eugène Green, Alain Guiraudie, Mia Hansen-Løve, Maren Ade, Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne and Hong Sang-soo. » - David Hudson...
- 8/9/2016
- Keyframe
The Film Society of Lincoln Center's unveiled the lineup for the Main Slate of the 54th New York Film Festival, running from September 30 through October 16. New films by Ava DuVernay, Mike Mills, James Gray, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Kelly Reichardt, Paul Verhoeven, Gianfranco Rosi, Cristian Mungiu, Matías Piñeiro, Ken Loach, Pedro Almodóvar, Kenneth Lonergan, Barry Jenkins, Dash Shaw, Pablo Larraín, Jim Jarmusch, Olivier Assayas, Alison Maclean, Cristi Puiu, Eugène Green, Alain Guiraudie, Mia Hansen-Løve, Maren Ade, Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne and Hong Sang-soo. » - David Hudson...
- 8/9/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
The 2016 New York Film Festival line-up has arrived, and as usual for the festival, it’s an amazing slate of films. Along with the previously announced The 13th, 20th Century Women, and The Lost City of Z, there’s two of our Sundance favorites, Manchester By the Sea and Certain Women, as well as the top films of Cannes: Elle, Paterson, Personal Shopper, Graduation, Julieta, I, Daniel Blake, Aquarius, Neruda, Sieranevada, Toni Erdmann, and Staying Vertical. As for other highlights, the latest films from Hong Sang-soo, Barry Jenkins, and Matías Piñeiro will also screen.
Check it out below, including our reviews where available.
The 13th (Opening Night, previously announced)
Directed by Ava DuVernay
USA, 2016
World Premiere
The title of Ava DuVernay’s extraordinary and galvanizing documentary refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,...
Check it out below, including our reviews where available.
The 13th (Opening Night, previously announced)
Directed by Ava DuVernay
USA, 2016
World Premiere
The title of Ava DuVernay’s extraordinary and galvanizing documentary refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,...
- 8/9/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has unveiled the 25 films that will make up the Main Slate of this fall’s 54th New York Film Festival, including a number of festival favorites — with plenty of Cannes crossover and Sundance premieres rounding out the list — and a generous dose of early awards contenders. Nyff Director and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones presented the slate to a select group of press this morning, where he made it clear that he was very proud of a slate that includes a hefty dose of “vital and important works.”
Selections from Cannes include Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or-winning “I, Daniel Blake,” along with Olivier Assayas’ “Personal Shopper” and Cristian Mungiu’s “Graduation” (which tied for Best Director at the festival) and Maren Ade’s already beloved comedy “Toni Erdmann,” which won the Cannes Critics’ Prize. Jim Jarmusch’s Adam Driver-starring “Paterson” will also screen,...
Selections from Cannes include Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or-winning “I, Daniel Blake,” along with Olivier Assayas’ “Personal Shopper” and Cristian Mungiu’s “Graduation” (which tied for Best Director at the festival) and Maren Ade’s already beloved comedy “Toni Erdmann,” which won the Cannes Critics’ Prize. Jim Jarmusch’s Adam Driver-starring “Paterson” will also screen,...
- 8/9/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Oren Moverman doesn't suffer fools. And he doesn't kowtow to Hollywood suits. So he has managed by sheer stubbornness to fashion a rather remarkable body of work. His films are lean, organic, and anchored in the real world. They embrace both its ugliness and beauty, from the films he has written ("I'm Not There," co-written with Todd Haynes, "Married Life" with Ira Sachs, and Alison Maclean's "Jesus's Son") to the ones he directed starring Woody Harrelson, military drama "The Messenger," for which he earned an original Screenplay Oscar nomination, and hardboiled Los Angeles police story "Rampart." This year he wrote Bill Pohlad's Brian Wilson biopic "Love & Mercy" and wrote and directed "Time Out of Mind," starring Richard Gere as a homeless New Yorker, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last September. And he's helping to foster Israeli talent as well. He produced a movie with Joseph.
- 9/8/2015
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Oren Moverman doesn't suffer fools. And he doesn't kowtow to Hollywood suits. So he has managed by sheer stubbornness to fashion a rather remarkable body of work. His films are lean, organic, and anchored in the real world. They embrace both its ugliness and beauty, from the films he has written ("I'm Not There," co-written with Todd Haynes, "Married Life" with Ira Sachs, and Alison Maclean's "Jesus's Son") to the ones he directed starring Woody Harrelson, military drama "The Messenger," for which he earned an original Screenplay Oscar nomination, and hardboiled Los Angeles police story "Rampart." This year he wrote Bill Pohlad's Brian Wilson biopic "Love & Mercy" and wrote and directed "Time Out of Mind," starring Richard Gere as a homeless New Yorker, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last September. And he's helping to foster Israeli talent as well. He produced a movie with Joseph.
- 6/22/2015
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The folks at Taste of Cinema have curated a list of 25 of what they dub the best shorts available to watch online. Weighted towards the experimental and animation, it is indeed a good list. One personal favorite is Alison Maclean’s 1989 short, Kitchen Sink, a masterpiece of domestic horror with a strong David Lynch influence. From Kitchen Sink Maclean went on to direct the features Crush and Jesus’ Son and, more recently, various commercials and TV episodes. Back in the day, Kitchen Sink made a huge impact, and I still recommend it to filmmakers looking for an example of […]...
- 4/24/2014
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
The folks at Taste of Cinema have curated a list of 25 of what they dub the best shorts available to watch online. Weighted towards the experimental and animation, it is indeed a good list. One personal favorite is Alison Maclean’s 1989 short, Kitchen Sink, a masterpiece of domestic horror with a strong David Lynch influence. From Kitchen Sink Maclean went on to direct the features Crush and Jesus’ Son and, more recently, various commercials and TV episodes. Back in the day, Kitchen Sink made a huge impact, and I still recommend it to filmmakers looking for an example of […]...
- 4/24/2014
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Columns Festival Roundup The Cannes Film Festival, the Istanbul Film Festival, the Philadelphia Film Festival, and the Human Rights Film Festival covered by Howard Feinstein, Paula Bernstein, Paul Shannon and Bill Dole Production Update by Mary Glucksman Legal Affairs Joseph Martin Carasso on low-cost legal advice for independents Technology Robert Kolker on David Blair’s pioneering electronic cinema Words Summer releases reviewed by Marc Schiller, Holly Willis, and Wes Sewell Home Video Rob Edelman on Star Time‘s journey to tape Short Ends Summer 1993 Table Of Contents Features Under Pressure Scott Macaulay talks with Crush‘s Alison Maclean and Marcia Gay Harden …...
- 3/2/2013
- by t.k.
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
The Hive Lab has announced its film-makers to collaborate with artists, theatre actors, choreographers, animators and writers over 11-14 October. The list of film-makers include Sophie Raymond, co-director of Mrs Carey’s Concert and Natasha Pincus, director of music video Somebody That I Used to Know by Gotye with artists such as Eddie Perfect and Bill Henson.The announcement:
A roll call of some of Australia’s most extraordinary artists, filmmakers, theatre practitioners, choreographers, animators and writers have signed up for the Hive Lab, taking place during the Melbourne Festival from 11-14 October. The four-day Hive Lab brings seventeen filmmakers and artists together in a creative clash of cultures, nurturing new ideas that cut across artistic boundaries.
The second Hive Lab was originally conceived by Adelaide Film Festival and is co-presented with Australia Council, ABC TV, Screen Australia and the South Australian Film Corporation.
The 2012 Hive Lab participants are arts and performance practitioners Bill Henson,...
A roll call of some of Australia’s most extraordinary artists, filmmakers, theatre practitioners, choreographers, animators and writers have signed up for the Hive Lab, taking place during the Melbourne Festival from 11-14 October. The four-day Hive Lab brings seventeen filmmakers and artists together in a creative clash of cultures, nurturing new ideas that cut across artistic boundaries.
The second Hive Lab was originally conceived by Adelaide Film Festival and is co-presented with Australia Council, ABC TV, Screen Australia and the South Australian Film Corporation.
The 2012 Hive Lab participants are arts and performance practitioners Bill Henson,...
- 9/13/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The Believer's 2012 Film Issue is out and you can sample every essay, interview and list that's in it, though only a handful of texts are online in full. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, for example, talks with Peter Doig, "a figurative painter whose lush dreamscapes at once evoke his medium's past and suggest the feel of photos and films," who also co-runs the StudioFilmClub in Trinidad: "In an airy old rum factory with a digital projector on one wall, a large screen on another, and a homey bar stocked with coconut water and local Stag beer, he hosts free screenings. Each Thursday night, FilmClub's patrons thrill to independent and art-house films ranging from Killer of Sheep and Klute to — on the night of my first visit a couple years ago — Nagisa Oshima's 1976 classic of sensual obsession, In the Realm of the Senses." You can see more of the flyers Doig's painted for the FilmClub here.
- 3/5/2012
- MUBI
Production designer David Doernberg, who brought a sensitive, finely crafted and observant touch to many excellent independent films, died in New York on Friday after a battle with cancer.
Doernberg began his career in the late ’80s/early ’90s working on music videos for bands like Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo and Superchunk. He quickly moved into independent features, working as a propmaster for films by Hal Hartley (Amateur), Daisy von Scherler Mayer (Party Girl) and Eric Schaeffer (If Lucy Fell). Soon after he became a production designer, bookending his career with films by Kelly Reichardt. He designed her 1994 debut film, River of Grass, as well as her 2010 period tale of frontier life on the Oregon Trail, Meek’s Cutoff. Other notable credits include Phil Morrison’s Junebug, Alison Maclean’s Jesus’s Son, Morgan J. Freeman’s Desert Blue, Todd Solondz’s Palindromes and Pete Sollett’s Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.
Doernberg began his career in the late ’80s/early ’90s working on music videos for bands like Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo and Superchunk. He quickly moved into independent features, working as a propmaster for films by Hal Hartley (Amateur), Daisy von Scherler Mayer (Party Girl) and Eric Schaeffer (If Lucy Fell). Soon after he became a production designer, bookending his career with films by Kelly Reichardt. He designed her 1994 debut film, River of Grass, as well as her 2010 period tale of frontier life on the Oregon Trail, Meek’s Cutoff. Other notable credits include Phil Morrison’s Junebug, Alison Maclean’s Jesus’s Son, Morgan J. Freeman’s Desert Blue, Todd Solondz’s Palindromes and Pete Sollett’s Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.
- 3/5/2012
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Jackie Kelman Bisbee and Lance Acord, partners in Park Pictures, announced today they have formed a narrative feature company, Park Pictures Features with independent film darling Galt Niederhoffer and award-winning producer Sam Bisbee. Park Pictures Features’ first project will be the family comedy, “Robot & Frank,” starring Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon, James Marsden, Liv Tyler, Jeremy Strong and Liev Schreiber, as the voice of the Robot. Written by Christopher Ford, the film marks the feature film directorial debut of Park Pictures’ director Jake Schreier. The film is currently shooting in New York. Niederhoffer, Bisbee, Kelman Bisbee and Acord are producing the film. The film is executive produced by White Hat/Tbb. Matt Lloyd is the Director of Photography.
Park Features’ next projects are the directorial debut of Lance Acord, and a new project from British director, Ringan Ledwidge. The company will also produce the adaptations of Sam Lipsyte’s best-selling novel,...
Park Features’ next projects are the directorial debut of Lance Acord, and a new project from British director, Ringan Ledwidge. The company will also produce the adaptations of Sam Lipsyte’s best-selling novel,...
- 7/12/2011
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
Killer Films, the venerable Gotham-based indie film company run by Christine Vachon and Pam Koffler, has teamed with Moxie Pictures' Dan Levinson and Robert Fernandez to form KillerMoxie Management. The bicoastal shingle, repping indie-minded filmmakers, actors and recording artists, will be steered by Brian Young. He has left Untitled Entertainment after 11 years and gets the venture started with his entire client list. That includes Todd Haynes, The Runaways director Floria Sigismondi, Gregg Araki, James Foley, Alison Maclean, Sam Jones, Nicholas Jarecki and Independent Spirit Awards nominees Nicholas Fackler and Dana Adam Shapiro.
- 1/12/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Over the transom comes this press release from Killer Films and Moxie Pictures, who have combined forces to create KillerMoxie Management. With offices in L.A., New York and London, the company will rep filmmakers, actors and recording artists across various media and branded entertainment ventures. (Interestingly, and appropriately, the announcement makes clear that a broad range of media formats, not just feature films or conventional advertising, will be the focus of the company.) The venture will be headed by Brian Young, who leaves Untitled Entertainment to join KillerMoxie. Here’s the press release:
New York-based indie film powerhouse Killer Films (Christine Vachon and Pam Koffler) and global media company Moxie Pictures (Dan Levinson and Robert Fernandez) are partnering to create KillerMoxie Management, a talent management firm to be headed by manager/producer Brian Young, recently of Untitled Entertainment, La The La-based company, with offices in NYC and London, will shepherd the careers of filmmakers,...
New York-based indie film powerhouse Killer Films (Christine Vachon and Pam Koffler) and global media company Moxie Pictures (Dan Levinson and Robert Fernandez) are partnering to create KillerMoxie Management, a talent management firm to be headed by manager/producer Brian Young, recently of Untitled Entertainment, La The La-based company, with offices in NYC and London, will shepherd the careers of filmmakers,...
- 1/12/2011
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Leading up to our 18th birthday, I’ll be revisiting on the blog one issue of Filmmaker a day. Today’s is Summer, 1993. Summer, 1993 is another issue whose content didn’t make it over to WordPress. Our cover story was Alison Maclean’s Crush. Sande Zeig interviewed Sally Potter about her Orlando, which was just reissued by Sony Pictures Classics. John Woo, John Greyson, and Ross McElwee were all in the book along with an article tracking the development status of several beloved cult novels’ film adaptations. We also ran a great how-to by Strand Releasing’s Marcus Hu on guerilla marketing your no-budget film. Our director interview was between Ang Lee, whose The Wedding Banquet had taken Berlin by storm,...
- 8/5/2010
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Animal Kingdom, The Red Chapel, Restrepo, and Winter's Bone Earn Grand Jury Prizes
Audience Favorites Feature Contracorriente, happythankyoumoreplease, Waiting For Superman, and Wasteland
Park City, Ut-The Jury, Audience, Next, and other special award-winners of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival were announced tonight at the Festival's Awards Ceremony hosted by David Hyde Pierce (star of The Perfect Host which premiered in this year's Park City at Midnight section) in Park City, Utah. Highlights from the Awards Ceremony can be seen on the Festival website, www.sundance.org/festival.
Films receiving Jury Awards were selected from four categories: U.S. Dramatic Competition, U.S. Documentary Competition, World Cinema Dramatic Competition and World Cinema Documentary Competition. All films in competition were also eligible for Sundance Film Festival Audience Awards as selected by Festival audiences. The U.S. Audience Awards presented by Honda and World Cinema Audience Awards were announced by Louis C.K. Joseph Gordon Levitt...
Audience Favorites Feature Contracorriente, happythankyoumoreplease, Waiting For Superman, and Wasteland
Park City, Ut-The Jury, Audience, Next, and other special award-winners of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival were announced tonight at the Festival's Awards Ceremony hosted by David Hyde Pierce (star of The Perfect Host which premiered in this year's Park City at Midnight section) in Park City, Utah. Highlights from the Awards Ceremony can be seen on the Festival website, www.sundance.org/festival.
Films receiving Jury Awards were selected from four categories: U.S. Dramatic Competition, U.S. Documentary Competition, World Cinema Dramatic Competition and World Cinema Documentary Competition. All films in competition were also eligible for Sundance Film Festival Audience Awards as selected by Festival audiences. The U.S. Audience Awards presented by Honda and World Cinema Audience Awards were announced by Louis C.K. Joseph Gordon Levitt...
- 2/1/2010
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