Philip Glass has compiled 20 of his original etudes in an upcoming book that’s set to arrive October 31st. Written for solo piano, Philip Glass Piano Etudes presents this music in a deluxe boxed set.
The whopping nine-pound clothbound box includes the printed sheet music — titled The Complete Folios 1-20 — as well as Studies in Time: Essays on the Music of Philip Glass, a collection of original essays by Martin Scorsese, Alice Waters, Laurie Anderson, Ira Glass, Ari Shapiro, Pico Iyer, and many more, putting Glass’ impact into perspective.
Glass began composing these etudes in the early 1990s as a method to, in his own words, “address the deficiencies in my own playing.” The twentieth etude was completed in 2012, and they’ve since become a go-to source for both beginner and experienced pianists.
Pre-orders for the beautifully-designed set are ongoing, and you can see photos of it below.
See where...
The whopping nine-pound clothbound box includes the printed sheet music — titled The Complete Folios 1-20 — as well as Studies in Time: Essays on the Music of Philip Glass, a collection of original essays by Martin Scorsese, Alice Waters, Laurie Anderson, Ira Glass, Ari Shapiro, Pico Iyer, and many more, putting Glass’ impact into perspective.
Glass began composing these etudes in the early 1990s as a method to, in his own words, “address the deficiencies in my own playing.” The twentieth etude was completed in 2012, and they’ve since become a go-to source for both beginner and experienced pianists.
Pre-orders for the beautifully-designed set are ongoing, and you can see photos of it below.
See where...
- 8/24/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Jacqueline West is one of Hollywood’s most respected costume designers with four Oscar nominations for Philip Kaufmann’s Quills, David Fincher’s The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s The Revenant and Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part One.
She is also Terrence Malick’s go-to costume designer, after a recommendation from his long-time production designer Jack Fisk, working with him on The New World, The Tree of Life, To the Wonder and Knight of Cups, while other credits include Stephen Norrington’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Ben Affleck’s Argo and Martin Scorsese’s upcoming Killers Of The Flower Moon.
Talking about her career in a masterclass for the Doha Film Institute, West said she fell into cinema by chance after connecting with Kaufmann through a clothes store she set up in Berkeley in the 1990s after majoring in art history, having originally planned to study sciences.
She is also Terrence Malick’s go-to costume designer, after a recommendation from his long-time production designer Jack Fisk, working with him on The New World, The Tree of Life, To the Wonder and Knight of Cups, while other credits include Stephen Norrington’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Ben Affleck’s Argo and Martin Scorsese’s upcoming Killers Of The Flower Moon.
Talking about her career in a masterclass for the Doha Film Institute, West said she fell into cinema by chance after connecting with Kaufmann through a clothes store she set up in Berkeley in the 1990s after majoring in art history, having originally planned to study sciences.
- 3/17/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Sundance 2023: ‘Food and Country’ Directed by Laura Gabbert
Premieres Section
During the lockdown time of Covid, trailblazing food writer Ruth Reichl started to make a documentary to show Covid and the shutdown’s effect on the food system, from farmers to restaurants. But her worries over the fate of small farmers, ranchers, and chefs as they wrestled with both immediate and systemic challenges also exposed the broken food system as political and social, and ended with her forging true relationships on a personal level with the originators, suppliers and consumers in the food chain.
Starting in March 2020 Reichl reached out to those who were innovativing new ways of structuring their businesses. She speaks with Brandon Jew, a San Francisco restauranteer in Chinatown, who notes that people are scared to go to Chinatown because Covid has been politicized as Chinese. Reem Assil, a young Arab woman with a restaurant in Oakland, makes her staff co-owners as a way to share and get through this time. Reichl’s contemporary and close friend in the Bay Area, Alice Waters, the first to use local homegrown produce in her restaurant Chez Panisse discusses how much better it is to deal directly with the farmers rather than middlemen.
She speaks to farmer Bob Jones Jr. of the White Oak Pastures, fourth generation farmer who in the mid 90s gradually moved away from his father’s industrialized farming techniques as it produced waste and did not consider the welfare of its animals who need to express their instinctive behaviors. Over 20 years he changed the soil from a dead mineral medium to a live, organic medium teaming with life. Supplying the food conscious restaurant innovators directly also mandated starting his own meat processing. “Everything is tied to everything else,” he states.
Bob Jones Jr. of the White Oak Pastures
Rancher Steve Stratford discusses the cattle business as a US and international problem and points out there are only four big meat packers, so large that if two don’t operate because of a problem like swine fever, the nation suffers and lots of livestock goes unused. “It is all about how cheaply you can produce and it results in waste that could feed a small country. Other countries do not have the discretionary income of American because they spend on food.” Amercans buy food cheaply, but it is problematic (and inferior) because it is mass produced
Meat producers and consumers must rely on these four meat packing companies. Jbs is 100% Brazilian owned, National Beef is 51% Brazilian and Tyson and Cargill are in the hands of two giant American corporations. The Department of Justice Anti Trust Regulatory should take action and the government should encourage smaller meat plants every 3 to 400 miles supplying 2–3% of the daily slaughter and the meat producers should own the plants. Now, should one of the four go down, 15% of the food supply is impacted.
Since the time of this writing, the N.Y. Times has published an expose on meat packers and food processing plants in general which villainize them even more! Their knowing use of illegal immigrant child labor is chilling and will make readers of this and viewers of the film even more passionate about eating well and avoiding the evil of unhealthy processed and mass produced food. See FoodProcessing.com reflect the N.Y. Times article on Feb. 26's exhaustive investigation that went far beyond the early-February fine against Packers Sanitation Services Inc., which provides mostly nighttime/ third-shift sanitation services to many food & beverage plants. That investigation by the U.S. Dept. of Labor found at least 102 children 13 to 17 years old working for the contract sanitation company in 13 meat-processing facilities in eight states. The list specified underage immigrant workers at Jbs USA's Grand Island, Neb., plant, Cargill plant in Dodge City, Kan., a Jbs facility in Worthington, Minn., Buckhead Meat, George's Inc., Gibbon Packing, Greater Omaha Packing, Maple Leaf Farms, Turkey Valley Farms and Tyson. At least three of the minors reportedly suffered injuries while on the job with Pssi. Read the NY Times expose and weep. You will surely become more conscious of the issues raised in this documentary which never mention the abuse of child labor. Farmers (and ranchers) must take out huge bank loans every year at the beginning of planting, hope for good crops to pay off the loan and in the end, make very little profit whereas the suppliers and food processing firms make millions as they supply supermarkets and chain restaurants. America’s largest corporate restaurant food supplier Sysco has 32 states to supply and is supported by Usda. Even during Covid, Usda bailed them out and shut out the smaller suppliers who then must abide by Sysco’s system which in 2021 made $51 billion in sales.
In the early 1900s there were more Black farmers than White. In the 1920s 19% of farms were Black owned. Today it is 1%. Food Apartheid is explored in the course of Ruth’s discussions. Of the 57,000 farms in NY State, ony 139 are Black. 96% of the land owners of farms are white; government interventions help Whites, not Blacks, with subsidies. This makes the food system structurally racist.
As part of President Roosevelt’s New Deal, the minimum wage was established. But black workers, who had been hired as food service workers immediately after slavery, were not included. They were not paid wages at all. They were expected to live off of tips. Tips had just been introduced to the US from Europe. The Blacks, along with immigrants, other racial minorities, women, and the disabled were not included in Roosevelt’s New Deal minimum wages and in fact, only 80 years later did legistration finally grant them a miunum wage of $2.13 per hour. The lowest paid employee is the restaurant worker; next are the farmworkers.
This principal of cheap abundant food started after World War II hand in glove with the arms race when the huge stockpile of ammunition was turned into fertilizer and the government encouraged farms to replace animals with machines thus creating the factory model of food production along with a great debt taken on by the farmers. It was seen as a way to fight Communism to have the cheapest most abundant food on earth. The nutritive value of American food from 1940 to 2000 fell to 40%.
When President Nixon and Khrushchev held the “Kitchen Debates” a point of pride was fast food. The industrialization of food and food processing, and the rise of chain restaurant limited the number of processors and wholesalers to be used by farmers and ranchers. This drove farmers to marginal living as the middlemen’s high costs took most of the farmers’ and cattlemen’s profits.
As you can see, I learned a great deal from this film and found it fascinating as future viewers will as well. America’s decades-old policy of producing cheap food at all costs hobbles farmers and ranchers who are striving to stay independent. Ruth Reichl, a fascinating woman in her own right, coming of age on a commune founded by her then husband in Berkeley in the 60s and writing little vignettes about food for marginal publications, she became a renowned food writer for the New York and Los Angeles Times. As Reichl witnesses and follows intrepid characters puzzling through intractable circumstances, she takes stock of the path she hersef has traveled and the ideals she left behind. Through her eyes, we learn to understand the humanity and struggle behind the food we eat.
Food is elemental; without it we die, but with it, we can either become healthier or ill, depending upon its provenance and processing. Cheaper is not better. Food and Country, along Sundance’s other film Against the Tide, and the 2018 Telluride/ Toronto premiering film The Biggest Little Farmshould be seen in economic classes, culinary arts schools and ecological studies.
Filmmaker Laura Gabbert (City of Gold, 2015 Sundance Film Festival) with Reichl gives the expansive history behind an ever-more consolidating food industry. The film covers a rich cultural spectrum, from fine dining rooms to farmlands, discovering passionate, inspirational changemakers along the way. Laura Gabbert’s City of Gold (Sundance, SXSW 2015), was released theatrically in 50+ markets by IFC and included in Vogue magazine’s “78 best documentaries of all time.” Gabbert also directed the feature documentaries Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles (Tribeca 2020, IFC/Hulu), No Impact Man (Sundance 2009, Oscilloscope), and Sunset Story (Tribeca 2005, Independent Lens).
Producer Caroline Libresco was a programmer for Sundance for twenty years before leaving to produce. She is known for Disclosure (2020), American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs (2013) and Sunset Story (2003).
Producer Paula P. Manzanedo is known for Memory, Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) and Dive (2022).
Directed and Produced By: Laura Gabbert (City of Gold)
Produced By: Ruth Reichl, Paula P. Manzanedo, Caroline Libresco
Executive Produced By: Jamie Wolf, Nathalie Seaver, Sigrid Dyekjær, Melony Lewis, Adam Lewis, Jana Edelbaum, Rachel Cohen, Janet Tittiger, Peter Tittiger, Jenn Lee Smith, Andrea van Beuren
Jessica Lacy and Oliver Wheeler of Range Media Partners, a subsidary of Anton Films is representing the film which to date seems to have no U.S. or international distribution set.
99 minutes
Sundance Film FestivalFilm FestivalsDocumentaryWomenFood...
Premieres Section
During the lockdown time of Covid, trailblazing food writer Ruth Reichl started to make a documentary to show Covid and the shutdown’s effect on the food system, from farmers to restaurants. But her worries over the fate of small farmers, ranchers, and chefs as they wrestled with both immediate and systemic challenges also exposed the broken food system as political and social, and ended with her forging true relationships on a personal level with the originators, suppliers and consumers in the food chain.
Starting in March 2020 Reichl reached out to those who were innovativing new ways of structuring their businesses. She speaks with Brandon Jew, a San Francisco restauranteer in Chinatown, who notes that people are scared to go to Chinatown because Covid has been politicized as Chinese. Reem Assil, a young Arab woman with a restaurant in Oakland, makes her staff co-owners as a way to share and get through this time. Reichl’s contemporary and close friend in the Bay Area, Alice Waters, the first to use local homegrown produce in her restaurant Chez Panisse discusses how much better it is to deal directly with the farmers rather than middlemen.
She speaks to farmer Bob Jones Jr. of the White Oak Pastures, fourth generation farmer who in the mid 90s gradually moved away from his father’s industrialized farming techniques as it produced waste and did not consider the welfare of its animals who need to express their instinctive behaviors. Over 20 years he changed the soil from a dead mineral medium to a live, organic medium teaming with life. Supplying the food conscious restaurant innovators directly also mandated starting his own meat processing. “Everything is tied to everything else,” he states.
Bob Jones Jr. of the White Oak Pastures
Rancher Steve Stratford discusses the cattle business as a US and international problem and points out there are only four big meat packers, so large that if two don’t operate because of a problem like swine fever, the nation suffers and lots of livestock goes unused. “It is all about how cheaply you can produce and it results in waste that could feed a small country. Other countries do not have the discretionary income of American because they spend on food.” Amercans buy food cheaply, but it is problematic (and inferior) because it is mass produced
Meat producers and consumers must rely on these four meat packing companies. Jbs is 100% Brazilian owned, National Beef is 51% Brazilian and Tyson and Cargill are in the hands of two giant American corporations. The Department of Justice Anti Trust Regulatory should take action and the government should encourage smaller meat plants every 3 to 400 miles supplying 2–3% of the daily slaughter and the meat producers should own the plants. Now, should one of the four go down, 15% of the food supply is impacted.
Since the time of this writing, the N.Y. Times has published an expose on meat packers and food processing plants in general which villainize them even more! Their knowing use of illegal immigrant child labor is chilling and will make readers of this and viewers of the film even more passionate about eating well and avoiding the evil of unhealthy processed and mass produced food. See FoodProcessing.com reflect the N.Y. Times article on Feb. 26's exhaustive investigation that went far beyond the early-February fine against Packers Sanitation Services Inc., which provides mostly nighttime/ third-shift sanitation services to many food & beverage plants. That investigation by the U.S. Dept. of Labor found at least 102 children 13 to 17 years old working for the contract sanitation company in 13 meat-processing facilities in eight states. The list specified underage immigrant workers at Jbs USA's Grand Island, Neb., plant, Cargill plant in Dodge City, Kan., a Jbs facility in Worthington, Minn., Buckhead Meat, George's Inc., Gibbon Packing, Greater Omaha Packing, Maple Leaf Farms, Turkey Valley Farms and Tyson. At least three of the minors reportedly suffered injuries while on the job with Pssi. Read the NY Times expose and weep. You will surely become more conscious of the issues raised in this documentary which never mention the abuse of child labor. Farmers (and ranchers) must take out huge bank loans every year at the beginning of planting, hope for good crops to pay off the loan and in the end, make very little profit whereas the suppliers and food processing firms make millions as they supply supermarkets and chain restaurants. America’s largest corporate restaurant food supplier Sysco has 32 states to supply and is supported by Usda. Even during Covid, Usda bailed them out and shut out the smaller suppliers who then must abide by Sysco’s system which in 2021 made $51 billion in sales.
In the early 1900s there were more Black farmers than White. In the 1920s 19% of farms were Black owned. Today it is 1%. Food Apartheid is explored in the course of Ruth’s discussions. Of the 57,000 farms in NY State, ony 139 are Black. 96% of the land owners of farms are white; government interventions help Whites, not Blacks, with subsidies. This makes the food system structurally racist.
As part of President Roosevelt’s New Deal, the minimum wage was established. But black workers, who had been hired as food service workers immediately after slavery, were not included. They were not paid wages at all. They were expected to live off of tips. Tips had just been introduced to the US from Europe. The Blacks, along with immigrants, other racial minorities, women, and the disabled were not included in Roosevelt’s New Deal minimum wages and in fact, only 80 years later did legistration finally grant them a miunum wage of $2.13 per hour. The lowest paid employee is the restaurant worker; next are the farmworkers.
This principal of cheap abundant food started after World War II hand in glove with the arms race when the huge stockpile of ammunition was turned into fertilizer and the government encouraged farms to replace animals with machines thus creating the factory model of food production along with a great debt taken on by the farmers. It was seen as a way to fight Communism to have the cheapest most abundant food on earth. The nutritive value of American food from 1940 to 2000 fell to 40%.
When President Nixon and Khrushchev held the “Kitchen Debates” a point of pride was fast food. The industrialization of food and food processing, and the rise of chain restaurant limited the number of processors and wholesalers to be used by farmers and ranchers. This drove farmers to marginal living as the middlemen’s high costs took most of the farmers’ and cattlemen’s profits.
As you can see, I learned a great deal from this film and found it fascinating as future viewers will as well. America’s decades-old policy of producing cheap food at all costs hobbles farmers and ranchers who are striving to stay independent. Ruth Reichl, a fascinating woman in her own right, coming of age on a commune founded by her then husband in Berkeley in the 60s and writing little vignettes about food for marginal publications, she became a renowned food writer for the New York and Los Angeles Times. As Reichl witnesses and follows intrepid characters puzzling through intractable circumstances, she takes stock of the path she hersef has traveled and the ideals she left behind. Through her eyes, we learn to understand the humanity and struggle behind the food we eat.
Food is elemental; without it we die, but with it, we can either become healthier or ill, depending upon its provenance and processing. Cheaper is not better. Food and Country, along Sundance’s other film Against the Tide, and the 2018 Telluride/ Toronto premiering film The Biggest Little Farmshould be seen in economic classes, culinary arts schools and ecological studies.
Filmmaker Laura Gabbert (City of Gold, 2015 Sundance Film Festival) with Reichl gives the expansive history behind an ever-more consolidating food industry. The film covers a rich cultural spectrum, from fine dining rooms to farmlands, discovering passionate, inspirational changemakers along the way. Laura Gabbert’s City of Gold (Sundance, SXSW 2015), was released theatrically in 50+ markets by IFC and included in Vogue magazine’s “78 best documentaries of all time.” Gabbert also directed the feature documentaries Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles (Tribeca 2020, IFC/Hulu), No Impact Man (Sundance 2009, Oscilloscope), and Sunset Story (Tribeca 2005, Independent Lens).
Producer Caroline Libresco was a programmer for Sundance for twenty years before leaving to produce. She is known for Disclosure (2020), American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs (2013) and Sunset Story (2003).
Producer Paula P. Manzanedo is known for Memory, Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) and Dive (2022).
Directed and Produced By: Laura Gabbert (City of Gold)
Produced By: Ruth Reichl, Paula P. Manzanedo, Caroline Libresco
Executive Produced By: Jamie Wolf, Nathalie Seaver, Sigrid Dyekjær, Melony Lewis, Adam Lewis, Jana Edelbaum, Rachel Cohen, Janet Tittiger, Peter Tittiger, Jenn Lee Smith, Andrea van Beuren
Jessica Lacy and Oliver Wheeler of Range Media Partners, a subsidary of Anton Films is representing the film which to date seems to have no U.S. or international distribution set.
99 minutes
Sundance Film FestivalFilm FestivalsDocumentaryWomenFood...
- 3/7/2023
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Tom Luddy, co-founder of the Telluride Film Festival and producer of numerous films for Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope Studios, died February 13 at a nursing home in Berkeley, CA, where he had been under care for dementia. He was 79.
The festival announced Luddy’s death this morning. The news comes two months after the death of another Telluride co-founder, Bill Pence.
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“The world has lost a rare ingredient that we’ll all be searching for, for some time,” said Julie Huntsinger, executive director of the Telluride Film Festival. “I would sometimes find myself feeling sad for those who didn’t get to know Tom Luddy properly. He had a Sphinxlike quality that took a little time to get around, for some.
The festival announced Luddy’s death this morning. The news comes two months after the death of another Telluride co-founder, Bill Pence.
Related Story Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2023: Photo Gallery & Obituaries Related Story Bill Pence Dies: Telluride Film Festival Co-Founder Was 82 Related Story Telluride Review: Werner Herzog's 'Theater Of Thought'
“The world has lost a rare ingredient that we’ll all be searching for, for some time,” said Julie Huntsinger, executive director of the Telluride Film Festival. “I would sometimes find myself feeling sad for those who didn’t get to know Tom Luddy properly. He had a Sphinxlike quality that took a little time to get around, for some.
- 2/14/2023
- by Todd McCarthy and Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Sundance 2023: ‘The Disappearance of Shere Hite’ Directed by Nicole Newnham
U.S. Documentary Competition
The Hite Report, a groundbreaking study of female sexuality, remains one of the bestselling books of all time since its publication in 1976. The Hite Report brought the female orgasm out of unspoken shadows into the light of day by revealing the most private experiences of thousands of anonymous survey respondents. Shere Hite’s findings rocked the American establishment and presaged current conversations about gender and sex.
Drawn from anonymous survey responses, the book challenged restrictive conceptions of sex and opened a dialogue in popular culture around women’s pleasure. Its charismatic author, Shere Hite, a feminist sex researcher and former model, became the public messenger of women’s secret confessions. With each subsequent bestseller, she engaged television titans in unforgettably explicit debates about sexuality while suffering the backlash her controversial findings provoked. But who remembers Shere Hite today? What led to her erasure?
The takeaway of The Hite Report was that female expression of sexuality should not be defined by patriarchal power. This idea deeply offended the male establishment and consequently, the media made as much of their wounded ideas of themselves as of the book itself whose authentic and anonymous findings were treated with intense controversy.
The astonishing beauty of Shere Hite herself lies outside of the cliche perameters of the “scholarly” (i.e., “homely) woman. And so her methodical research was called “unscientific” and was called into question (and answered smartly by her). Her background as a working-class, bisexual, former nude model with photographs appearing in Playboy did not sit well with the offended and offensive men who interviewed her on top TV shows after the book became a runaway success. All of her many identities are displayed in the movie.
Digging into exclusive archives, as well as Hite’s personal journals and the original survey responses, filmmaker Nicole Newnham transports viewers back to the 70s, a time of great societal transformation around sexuality (See Fairyland, about queer life in San Francisco, also playing here in Sundance,for another take on the 70s and Food and Country about the coming of age of California cuisine in the 70s under the guiding hands of Ruth Reichl and Alice Waters of Chez Panisse). Newnham’s revelatory portrait brings us to reconsider a pioneer who broke the ground for our current conversations about gender, sexuality, and autonomy. Her story also is a timely, cautionary tale of what too often happens to women who dare speak out.
Nicole Newnham is an Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning documentary director and producer and four-time Sundance alum. She co-directed Crip Camp (2020) with Jim LeBrecht. Crip Camp was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Sundance U.S. Documentary Audience Award. Newnham’s other documentary directing credits include the Emmy-nominated films The Revolutionary Optimists, Sentenced Home, and The Rape of Europa.
U.S. Sales and Distribution: Josh Braun, Submarine Entertainment
There is no international sales agent. Maggie Pisacane at WME is the producers rep along with Josh Braun.
Directed and Produced By: Nicole Newnham (Crip Camp)
Produced By: Molly O’Brien, R.J. Cutler, Elise Pearlstein, Kimberley Ferdinando, Trevor Smith
Co-Produced By: Erica Fink, Eleanor West
Executive Produced By: Elizabeth Fischer, Liz Cole, Noah Oppenheim, Andy Berg, Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman
116 minutes
Film FestivalsWomenDocumentaryGenderSundance...
U.S. Documentary Competition
The Hite Report, a groundbreaking study of female sexuality, remains one of the bestselling books of all time since its publication in 1976. The Hite Report brought the female orgasm out of unspoken shadows into the light of day by revealing the most private experiences of thousands of anonymous survey respondents. Shere Hite’s findings rocked the American establishment and presaged current conversations about gender and sex.
Drawn from anonymous survey responses, the book challenged restrictive conceptions of sex and opened a dialogue in popular culture around women’s pleasure. Its charismatic author, Shere Hite, a feminist sex researcher and former model, became the public messenger of women’s secret confessions. With each subsequent bestseller, she engaged television titans in unforgettably explicit debates about sexuality while suffering the backlash her controversial findings provoked. But who remembers Shere Hite today? What led to her erasure?
The takeaway of The Hite Report was that female expression of sexuality should not be defined by patriarchal power. This idea deeply offended the male establishment and consequently, the media made as much of their wounded ideas of themselves as of the book itself whose authentic and anonymous findings were treated with intense controversy.
The astonishing beauty of Shere Hite herself lies outside of the cliche perameters of the “scholarly” (i.e., “homely) woman. And so her methodical research was called “unscientific” and was called into question (and answered smartly by her). Her background as a working-class, bisexual, former nude model with photographs appearing in Playboy did not sit well with the offended and offensive men who interviewed her on top TV shows after the book became a runaway success. All of her many identities are displayed in the movie.
Digging into exclusive archives, as well as Hite’s personal journals and the original survey responses, filmmaker Nicole Newnham transports viewers back to the 70s, a time of great societal transformation around sexuality (See Fairyland, about queer life in San Francisco, also playing here in Sundance,for another take on the 70s and Food and Country about the coming of age of California cuisine in the 70s under the guiding hands of Ruth Reichl and Alice Waters of Chez Panisse). Newnham’s revelatory portrait brings us to reconsider a pioneer who broke the ground for our current conversations about gender, sexuality, and autonomy. Her story also is a timely, cautionary tale of what too often happens to women who dare speak out.
Nicole Newnham is an Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning documentary director and producer and four-time Sundance alum. She co-directed Crip Camp (2020) with Jim LeBrecht. Crip Camp was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Sundance U.S. Documentary Audience Award. Newnham’s other documentary directing credits include the Emmy-nominated films The Revolutionary Optimists, Sentenced Home, and The Rape of Europa.
U.S. Sales and Distribution: Josh Braun, Submarine Entertainment
There is no international sales agent. Maggie Pisacane at WME is the producers rep along with Josh Braun.
Directed and Produced By: Nicole Newnham (Crip Camp)
Produced By: Molly O’Brien, R.J. Cutler, Elise Pearlstein, Kimberley Ferdinando, Trevor Smith
Co-Produced By: Erica Fink, Eleanor West
Executive Produced By: Elizabeth Fischer, Liz Cole, Noah Oppenheim, Andy Berg, Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman
116 minutes
Film FestivalsWomenDocumentaryGenderSundance...
- 2/11/2023
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
For their documentary “Food and Country,” director Laura Gabbert and renowned food writer Ruth Reichl gathered a thoughtful and strikingly personable cast of characters from across the U.S. to tell their stories in the shadow of the pandemic. Some are chefs, bakers, restaurateurs. Others are independent farmers, ranchers, even a kelp harvester. Some work in big cities, like Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and New York. Others make their increasingly fragile living working fields or rearing herds in Kansas, Nebraska, Georgia and Ohio. Their collective insights tell us a great deal about our food system and serve as a warning. Yet their devotion to the work — and often their employees — is heartening, even humbling.
Before joining forces, the director and her chief protagonist had each embarked on separate projects about the duress those in the independent food industry were experiencing because of the 2020 pandemic lockdown. Gabbert, whose 2015 film “City of Gold...
Before joining forces, the director and her chief protagonist had each embarked on separate projects about the duress those in the independent food industry were experiencing because of the 2020 pandemic lockdown. Gabbert, whose 2015 film “City of Gold...
- 2/8/2023
- by Lisa Kennedy
- Variety Film + TV
Leveraging a modest start as a restaurant reviewer for New West magazine in the 1970s, renowned food writer and chef Ruth Reichl rose to the pinnacle of professional achievement as the restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times and New York Times. She then moved on to become Gourmet magazine’s editor-in-chief for a decade, prior to the venerable publication’s unfortunate demise. Along the way there have been high-profile stints in broadcasting and no fewer than six James Beard Foundation awards.
So when the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic shuts down thousands of restaurants nationwide, what’s a food reporter to write about? Fortunately, Reichl’s interests have always been much broader than just fine dining, touching also on history, sustainability and social justice. Laura Gabbert, director of 2015 culinary adventure City of Gold and eco-doc No Impact Man (2009), catches up with Reichl in early 2020 as they begin a collaboration...
So when the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic shuts down thousands of restaurants nationwide, what’s a food reporter to write about? Fortunately, Reichl’s interests have always been much broader than just fine dining, touching also on history, sustainability and social justice. Laura Gabbert, director of 2015 culinary adventure City of Gold and eco-doc No Impact Man (2009), catches up with Reichl in early 2020 as they begin a collaboration...
- 1/24/2023
- by Justin Lowe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ruth Reichl has so much to tell us about food. She’s been a chef, a restaurant owner, and a critic. She’s edited Gourmet magazine, written bestselling memoirs and cookbooks, and hosted a show on gastronomy. And now, she wants to teach us about the failings of the American food system itself.
“Food and Country” begins in March 2020; Reichl’s impetus is the pandemic onset that ruthlessly exposes the shaky foundations beneath most restaurants. Serving as producer behind the scenes and on-camera interviewer, Reichl Zooms with chefs, restaurateurs, farmers and ranchers across the country, beginning with her longtime friend and farm-to-table pioneer Alice Waters.
But her ambitions are far greater, which is both the movie’s boldest asset and eventual undoing. Director Laura Gabbert (“City of Gold”) tries to cover all of Reichl’s interests, which leaves her with (at least) five movies’ worth of material. We touch on,...
“Food and Country” begins in March 2020; Reichl’s impetus is the pandemic onset that ruthlessly exposes the shaky foundations beneath most restaurants. Serving as producer behind the scenes and on-camera interviewer, Reichl Zooms with chefs, restaurateurs, farmers and ranchers across the country, beginning with her longtime friend and farm-to-table pioneer Alice Waters.
But her ambitions are far greater, which is both the movie’s boldest asset and eventual undoing. Director Laura Gabbert (“City of Gold”) tries to cover all of Reichl’s interests, which leaves her with (at least) five movies’ worth of material. We touch on,...
- 1/24/2023
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
Long ago, in a distant and far away America, independent films could make their mark at the megaplex, and some of them could be documentaries. Remember the glory days of “Rgb” (total domestic gross: $14 million), “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” ($22.8 million), “Three Identical Strangers” ($12 million), “They Shall Not Grow Old” ($18 million), and “Apollo 11” ($9 million)?
I’m not saying that Lisa Hurwitz’s “The Automat,” had it been released in those now possibly vanquished days, could have joined the commercial company of those films (though maybe it could have). But when I caught this marvelous documentary at Film Forum in New York, the audience for it was ecstatic. It was not an audience of young people; it was the kind of older folks who, statistically speaking, haven’t been going to the movies. But they turned out for this one, and when I left at the end, a bunch of...
I’m not saying that Lisa Hurwitz’s “The Automat,” had it been released in those now possibly vanquished days, could have joined the commercial company of those films (though maybe it could have). But when I caught this marvelous documentary at Film Forum in New York, the audience for it was ecstatic. It was not an audience of young people; it was the kind of older folks who, statistically speaking, haven’t been going to the movies. But they turned out for this one, and when I left at the end, a bunch of...
- 2/25/2022
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Sony Pictures Classics releases Telluride-darling documentary Julia with a national TV push, culinary events and virtual screenings through November hosted by famous chefs from Alice Waters (San Francisco) and Johnny Spero (Boston) to Jamie Bissonnette (Houston) and luminaries from New York, LA, Philly and Miami.
Directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen talked up the film on one Today show segment, followed by another, where food stylist Susan Spungen made Child’s recipe for pear and almond tarts. Chef Marcus Samuelsson – who appears in the film — cooked Julia Child’s classic roasted chicken and glazed carrots on Rachel Ray. A Nightline interview with West and Cohen airs next week.
Marketing and outreach is key in the current tepid specialty market.
“Every city is new event. It’s a real grassroots campaign,” said Sony Pictures Classic co-president Tom Bernard. That includes ads in food sections of newspapers, on cooking podcasts and YouTube.
Directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen talked up the film on one Today show segment, followed by another, where food stylist Susan Spungen made Child’s recipe for pear and almond tarts. Chef Marcus Samuelsson – who appears in the film — cooked Julia Child’s classic roasted chicken and glazed carrots on Rachel Ray. A Nightline interview with West and Cohen airs next week.
Marketing and outreach is key in the current tepid specialty market.
“Every city is new event. It’s a real grassroots campaign,” said Sony Pictures Classic co-president Tom Bernard. That includes ads in food sections of newspapers, on cooking podcasts and YouTube.
- 11/12/2021
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
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Anthony Bourdain had a way with words, penning 13 best-selling books throughout his life, most of them rollicking tales about making his way through the tumultuous food industry throughout the ’80s and ’90s.
But his latest book, “World Travel: An Irreverent Guide,” despite being credited to Bourdain himself, was actually assembled by his good friend and longtime assistant Laurie Woolever, based entirely on Bourdain’s own writing and hours-long interviews she conducted with him before his death. His final, best-selling book epitomizes what the raconteur was known for, tracing readers through an entertaining and informative travel guide punctuated by the chef’s one-of-a-kind stories. In addition to his own travel stories, though, “World Travel...
Anthony Bourdain had a way with words, penning 13 best-selling books throughout his life, most of them rollicking tales about making his way through the tumultuous food industry throughout the ’80s and ’90s.
But his latest book, “World Travel: An Irreverent Guide,” despite being credited to Bourdain himself, was actually assembled by his good friend and longtime assistant Laurie Woolever, based entirely on Bourdain’s own writing and hours-long interviews she conducted with him before his death. His final, best-selling book epitomizes what the raconteur was known for, tracing readers through an entertaining and informative travel guide punctuated by the chef’s one-of-a-kind stories. In addition to his own travel stories, though, “World Travel...
- 6/25/2021
- by Anna Tingley
- Variety Film + TV
Everybody in Hollywood in the 1980s and ‘90s wanted to go to Wolfgang Puck’s restaurant Spago, which featured an open kitchen with a wood-burning stove made for serving up fancy pizzas. Puck rode that initial success to a sort of food empire, often at some cost to his personal life, and that makes up the narrative thread of “Wolfgang,” a documentary directed by David Gelb, who also made the very popular food-based doc “Jiro Dreams of Sushi.”
The most impressive element of “Wolfgang” is the amount of ground it manages to cover in 78 minutes without ever seeming to rush over anything. Gelb takes time to linger for a few key moments over Puck looking for fresh fruits and vegetables — which was an innovation in the LA of the 1980s — and also over the concentration Puck brings to cooking itself, which seems to bring the legendary chef contentment that other...
The most impressive element of “Wolfgang” is the amount of ground it manages to cover in 78 minutes without ever seeming to rush over anything. Gelb takes time to linger for a few key moments over Puck looking for fresh fruits and vegetables — which was an innovation in the LA of the 1980s — and also over the concentration Puck brings to cooking itself, which seems to bring the legendary chef contentment that other...
- 6/24/2021
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
Most people know Wolfgang Puck as the ebullient proprietor of celebrity-saturated Spago, purveyor of frozen pizzas to the masses and ubiquitous presence on TV magazine shows. But before all he blazed the trail as one of the first true celebrity chefs, there was an uncertain boy who grew up in a poor Austrian family with a difficult stepfather, who left to work in France at just 14 years old before coming to Hollywood.
That’s the story David Gelb, director of “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” and “Chef’s Table” creator, tells in “Wolfgang,” the new documentary about the man who not only invented the smoked salmon and goat cheese pizza but mentored a generation of chefs while building a restaurant empire. “Wolfgang” premieres Saturday at the Tribeca Festival and begins streaming on Disney Plus on June 25.
Puck has been driven by his early need for his stepfather’s approval his whole life,...
That’s the story David Gelb, director of “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” and “Chef’s Table” creator, tells in “Wolfgang,” the new documentary about the man who not only invented the smoked salmon and goat cheese pizza but mentored a generation of chefs while building a restaurant empire. “Wolfgang” premieres Saturday at the Tribeca Festival and begins streaming on Disney Plus on June 25.
Puck has been driven by his early need for his stepfather’s approval his whole life,...
- 6/12/2021
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Bravo has set the premiere date for Season 18 of “Top Chef,” which was shot in Portland, Ore., amid the pandemic. The network also released a trailer featuring the crop of new contestants who packed their knives and headed off to cook for Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons in the Pacific Northwest. See that video above.
The new season of the culinary competition will premiere with a supersized episode airing Thursday, April 1 from 8-9:15 p.m. Et/Pt.
“This season, a new batch of 15 extremely talented executive chefs and restaurant owners, representing a cross section of kitchens and food around the country, vie for the coveted title bringing their unique skillsets, diversity of cuisines and gamut of flavors,” per Bravo. “With Portland as a picturesque backdrop and culinary inspiration, the chefs compete in a variety of challenges including celebrating Pdx’s Pan-African cuisine to feeding hundreds of frontline...
The new season of the culinary competition will premiere with a supersized episode airing Thursday, April 1 from 8-9:15 p.m. Et/Pt.
“This season, a new batch of 15 extremely talented executive chefs and restaurant owners, representing a cross section of kitchens and food around the country, vie for the coveted title bringing their unique skillsets, diversity of cuisines and gamut of flavors,” per Bravo. “With Portland as a picturesque backdrop and culinary inspiration, the chefs compete in a variety of challenges including celebrating Pdx’s Pan-African cuisine to feeding hundreds of frontline...
- 2/8/2021
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Diana Kennedy has been described as “the Mick Jagger” of Mexican food. Director Elizabeth Carroll makes her feature documentary debut with “Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy” (available on-demand) following the 97-year-old author, teacher and chef around Mexico, where Kennedy lives off the grid near Michoacan.
The documentary opens with Kennedy telling Carroll and her Dp Paul Mailman that she has “cooked my way through 80, 90 years of my life.” Viewers immediately get a sense of her feisty side before she starts to reminisce and tell her story. We see footage from renowned chefs such as Alice Waters and Rick Bayless who describe how this British woman became an influence on the way they cook Mexican food.
Dp Mailman tells Variety about traveling to Mexico to follow Kennedy on her hiking trails and how he captured the essence of what makes her Diana Kennedy, nothing fancy.
Did you know who Diana Kennedy was before this?...
The documentary opens with Kennedy telling Carroll and her Dp Paul Mailman that she has “cooked my way through 80, 90 years of my life.” Viewers immediately get a sense of her feisty side before she starts to reminisce and tell her story. We see footage from renowned chefs such as Alice Waters and Rick Bayless who describe how this British woman became an influence on the way they cook Mexican food.
Dp Mailman tells Variety about traveling to Mexico to follow Kennedy on her hiking trails and how he captured the essence of what makes her Diana Kennedy, nothing fancy.
Did you know who Diana Kennedy was before this?...
- 6/24/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Last week the “Top Chef” All-Stars got their Olympic Games on by cooking a six-course Kaiseki meal and Karen Akunowicz was eliminated for the second time. She faced off with Kevin Gillespie in “Last Chance Kitchen” and lost. Kevin then had to beat two out of three still-remaining chefs to stage a comeback, and he managed to do that, too. Brian Malarkey’s reaction to the fierce competitor coming back? “Good god!” Read on for our minute-by-minute takes on the 11th episode of Season 17.
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10:02 p.m. A culinary legend is seated next to host Padma Lakshmi in the kitchen. It’s Jonathan Waxman. As Padma tells us, “He is considered a pioneer of California cuisine and a James Beard Award winner. He’s also my friend, which I think is his greatest accomplishment.” They clink wine glasses and drink champagne.
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10:02 p.m. A culinary legend is seated next to host Padma Lakshmi in the kitchen. It’s Jonathan Waxman. As Padma tells us, “He is considered a pioneer of California cuisine and a James Beard Award winner. He’s also my friend, which I think is his greatest accomplishment.” They clink wine glasses and drink champagne.
- 5/29/2020
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
Diana Kennedy has spent six decades writing about the traditions of Mexican cooking. But despite her James Beard awards and other honors, the British author’s legacy has become more complicated now that Mexican chefs and writers are telling their own stories.
The feisty woman who set out to chronicle the country’s regional cooking was influential particularly for English-speaking readers and cooks, so documentary filmmaker Elizabeth Carroll wanted to document the fascinating life of the now-97 year old author.
In “Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy,” now in virtual cinemas and coming June 19 to VOD, Kennedy recalls arriving in Mexico in 1957 and traveling around the country in her truck learning local traditions.
Aside from a long-ago cooking series for the Learning Channel, Kennedy isn’t a familiar face on TV like Julia Child, but her nine books and her cooking workshops were influential in bringing a deeper understanding Mexican cuisine to the attention of English-speaking chefs.
The feisty woman who set out to chronicle the country’s regional cooking was influential particularly for English-speaking readers and cooks, so documentary filmmaker Elizabeth Carroll wanted to document the fascinating life of the now-97 year old author.
In “Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy,” now in virtual cinemas and coming June 19 to VOD, Kennedy recalls arriving in Mexico in 1957 and traveling around the country in her truck learning local traditions.
Aside from a long-ago cooking series for the Learning Channel, Kennedy isn’t a familiar face on TV like Julia Child, but her nine books and her cooking workshops were influential in bringing a deeper understanding Mexican cuisine to the attention of English-speaking chefs.
- 5/29/2020
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
She’s been called “the Indiana Jones of food,” “the Mick Jagger of Mexico,” and “the grand dame of Mexican cooking.” Observing the fervor with which chef Diana Kennedy barrels down the dirt roads of Michoacán in her white Nissan pickup truck, it’s not hard to see why the sprightly 95-year-old has earned such esteemed admirers, from the likes of Alice Waters, José Andrés, and Craig Claiborne. Kennedy’s no-nonsense attitude, passionate takes on everything from sex to sustainability, and encyclopedic knowledge of regional Mexican cuisine make her a perfect documentary subject. With director Elizabeth Carroll as skilled sous-chef, “Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy”
Borrowing its title from one of her nine classic cookbooks, “Nothing Fancy” presents Kennedy’s life at an engaging but thorough pace. Born in England in 1923, Kennedy moved to Mexico in 1957 after meeting her late husband, New York Times Latin America correspondent Paul Kennedy, during a military coup in Port-au-Prince.
Borrowing its title from one of her nine classic cookbooks, “Nothing Fancy” presents Kennedy’s life at an engaging but thorough pace. Born in England in 1923, Kennedy moved to Mexico in 1957 after meeting her late husband, New York Times Latin America correspondent Paul Kennedy, during a military coup in Port-au-Prince.
- 5/21/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
"I believe Diana is a Mexicana in her soul and heart." Greenwich Ent. has debuted the first official trailer for a documentary about a charming, spunky, food-loving, one-of-a-kind woman named Diana Kennedy. The film is titled Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy and it explores Diana's vibrant, unconventional life, blending vérité with archival footage, photographs and interviews. The author of nine acclaimed cookbooks and a two-time James Beard Award winner, Diana is called the "Julia Child of Mexico", but the feisty cook prefers the moniker "The Mick Jagger of Mexican Cuisine". Featuring extensive interviews with Kennedy, and with famed chefs José Andrés, Rick Bayless, Gabriela Camara, and Alice Waters, the film provides an intimate look at the leading expert on Mexican cuisine. Viewers accompany her in intimate settings at home - cooking, gardening, and traveling to accept awards & speak to audiences. This doc looks entirely enjoyable. Official trailer (+ poster) for Elizabeth Carroll...
- 3/8/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired the North American rights to documentary Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy. The feature directorial debut of Elizabeth Carroll puts the spotlight on the titular celebrated chef of Mexican cuisine. In honor of Mexican culture and Cinco de Mayo, Nothing Fancy will open in theaters in May.
The film made its premiere at SXSW in March and includes interviews with Kennedy as well as famed chefs José Andrés, Gabriela Camara and Alice Waters. Kennedy authored nine cookbooks and has spent nearly seventy years exploring Mexico researching the country’s varied and complex cuisines. A two-time James Beard Award winner, she was decorated with an Order of the Aztec Eagle from the Mexican government in 1982 and became a Member of the Order of the British Empire from the UK in 2002. Kennedy is often referred to as the “Julia Child of Mexico” although the feisty food expert prefers...
The film made its premiere at SXSW in March and includes interviews with Kennedy as well as famed chefs José Andrés, Gabriela Camara and Alice Waters. Kennedy authored nine cookbooks and has spent nearly seventy years exploring Mexico researching the country’s varied and complex cuisines. A two-time James Beard Award winner, she was decorated with an Order of the Aztec Eagle from the Mexican government in 1982 and became a Member of the Order of the British Empire from the UK in 2002. Kennedy is often referred to as the “Julia Child of Mexico” although the feisty food expert prefers...
- 10/10/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
This is an excerpt from the new book, The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World, published by Harmony.
The Laboratories Of Memphis Meats are located in Berkeley, California, next to a juice bar and a small-batch coffee roaster, and not far from Alice Waters’s Chez Panisse, the Shangri-la of farm-to-table restaurants. Here, in a newly renovated brick building on a quiet, tree-lined street, a group of scientists is rethinking meat production at the molecular level — which is to say, completely. Their novel...
The Laboratories Of Memphis Meats are located in Berkeley, California, next to a juice bar and a small-batch coffee roaster, and not far from Alice Waters’s Chez Panisse, the Shangri-la of farm-to-table restaurants. Here, in a newly renovated brick building on a quiet, tree-lined street, a group of scientists is rethinking meat production at the molecular level — which is to say, completely. Their novel...
- 6/3/2019
- by Amanda Little
- Rollingstone.com
At the big Time 100 gala, “Salt Fat Acid Heat” host and chef Samin Nosrat wasn’t wowed by the celebrities, but instead by the other Most Influential People honorees that aren’t household names.
“There were these two amazing female lawyers from India who were the ones who had overturned the anti-gay legislation there,” Nosrat said in an interview with IndieWire. “And there were these women from Ireland who had really spearheaded the abortion referendum. Those people were by far, by and large, the most inspirational, the most amazing for me to get to interact with.”
It’s this genuine enthusiasm and curiosity about other people that serves Nosrat so well in Netflix’s series “Salt Fat Acid Heat,” which puts a spin on the usual food show. Mixing travel and instruction, the four-part series is unlike any cooking show on TV. This is in large part due to Nosrat’s warmth and spirit,...
“There were these two amazing female lawyers from India who were the ones who had overturned the anti-gay legislation there,” Nosrat said in an interview with IndieWire. “And there were these women from Ireland who had really spearheaded the abortion referendum. Those people were by far, by and large, the most inspirational, the most amazing for me to get to interact with.”
It’s this genuine enthusiasm and curiosity about other people that serves Nosrat so well in Netflix’s series “Salt Fat Acid Heat,” which puts a spin on the usual food show. Mixing travel and instruction, the four-part series is unlike any cooking show on TV. This is in large part due to Nosrat’s warmth and spirit,...
- 4/30/2019
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
In 2007, when Dieter Kosslick launched the Berlinale’s inventive Culinary Cinema section, it had been simmering in the back of his mind for decades.
A foodie since way before it became fashionable, Kosslick, who is a former film critic and journalist, in the early 1980s had a monthly column in German magazine Konkret in which he wrote about “the organic world” and “the terrible treatment of animals,” he recalls.
Kosslick is being honored at the Berlin festival with Variety‘s Achievement in International Film Award.
Kosslick says the two most formative experiences in his “food life” are being taken to Berkeley’s Chez Panisse by his then-girlfriend, Ifp founder Sandra Schulberg, who introduced him to eminent chef and activist Alice Waters, and going to restaurants with late great German food critic Wolfram Siebeck, whom met while at college in Munich.
Culinary Cinema, which tapped into the Slow Food movement zeitgeist,...
A foodie since way before it became fashionable, Kosslick, who is a former film critic and journalist, in the early 1980s had a monthly column in German magazine Konkret in which he wrote about “the organic world” and “the terrible treatment of animals,” he recalls.
Kosslick is being honored at the Berlin festival with Variety‘s Achievement in International Film Award.
Kosslick says the two most formative experiences in his “food life” are being taken to Berkeley’s Chez Panisse by his then-girlfriend, Ifp founder Sandra Schulberg, who introduced him to eminent chef and activist Alice Waters, and going to restaurants with late great German food critic Wolfram Siebeck, whom met while at college in Munich.
Culinary Cinema, which tapped into the Slow Food movement zeitgeist,...
- 2/4/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Sffilm executive director Noah Cowan knows how to play awards season. He moved the San Francisco Film Society’s annual awards fundraising night from April to December — in the awards corridor — knowing he could lure some awards players to San Francisco. What’s in it for them? Bay Area Academy members, who showed up for a Monday night pre-event cocktail party at The Palace of Fine Arts, including documentary filmmakers, costume designers, sound editors, animators, and visual effects artists. With Pixar and Lucasfilm based in San Francisco, it’s a crafts mecca.
This awards night belonged to Oakland filmmaker made good, Boots Riley, whose father beamed with pride along with novelist Ishmael Reed, who presented the Kanbar Award for Storytelling to the rookie director. Riley thanked Sffilm for making him a filmmaker in residence in 2014 and helping him to develop Sundance breakout “Sorry to Bother You,” which Annapurna turned into a summer hit.
This awards night belonged to Oakland filmmaker made good, Boots Riley, whose father beamed with pride along with novelist Ishmael Reed, who presented the Kanbar Award for Storytelling to the rookie director. Riley thanked Sffilm for making him a filmmaker in residence in 2014 and helping him to develop Sundance breakout “Sorry to Bother You,” which Annapurna turned into a summer hit.
- 12/4/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The Hammer Museum announced today that Grammy Award-nominated recording artist Leon Bridges will perform at its annual Gala in the Garden, which will take place on Sunday, October 14.
Solange Ferguson, Elizabeth Segerstrom, and Darren Star will serve as co-chairs for the event honoring award-winning author Margaret Atwood and acclaimed artist Glenn Ligon. Also participating in this year’s program are Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon and social justice advocate Bryan Stevenson, who will deliver the tribute speeches for Atwood and Ligon, respectively. The annual celebration recognizes artists and innovators who have made profound contributions to society through their work.
International shopping destination South Coast Plaza will partner with the Hammer Museum to present this year’s Gala in the Garden. The highly anticipated event attracts cultural and civic leaders in Los Angeles, as well as artists, collectors, and patrons of the arts. Last year’s event raised $2.4 million for the museum.
Solange Ferguson, Elizabeth Segerstrom, and Darren Star will serve as co-chairs for the event honoring award-winning author Margaret Atwood and acclaimed artist Glenn Ligon. Also participating in this year’s program are Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon and social justice advocate Bryan Stevenson, who will deliver the tribute speeches for Atwood and Ligon, respectively. The annual celebration recognizes artists and innovators who have made profound contributions to society through their work.
International shopping destination South Coast Plaza will partner with the Hammer Museum to present this year’s Gala in the Garden. The highly anticipated event attracts cultural and civic leaders in Los Angeles, as well as artists, collectors, and patrons of the arts. Last year’s event raised $2.4 million for the museum.
- 9/20/2018
- Look to the Stars
“I hope that nobody has ever had to look at anybody they love through glass,” 19-year-old Tish shares in the opening scene of James Baldwin’s “If Beale Street Could Talk,” moments before breaking the news that she’s pregnant to boyfriend Fonny, imprisoned for an unpardonable crime. A work of social realism elevated to poetic heights by the sheer beauty of its voice and the humanism of its spirit — a feat director Barry Jenkins also managed to achieve with his previous film, “Moonlight” — Baldwin’s Harlem-set 1974 novel takes readers on two separate journeys, depending largely on their racial background.
White people will see a black man behind bars and jump to their own conclusions, drawing fast assumptions that Baldwin uses the rest of the book to challenge and untangle: How can Tish hope to raise this child if she’s poor and her baby daddy’s in jail? Black folks,...
White people will see a black man behind bars and jump to their own conclusions, drawing fast assumptions that Baldwin uses the rest of the book to challenge and untangle: How can Tish hope to raise this child if she’s poor and her baby daddy’s in jail? Black folks,...
- 9/10/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
I’ve always thought I understood the arcane workings of the star system, but I still marvel at how cooks and bottle washers have achieved the star status of actors and musicians. Famous foodies are much in the news lately — Mario Batali, Gordon Ramsay, Wolfgang Puck and the late Anthony Bourdain — and the shows of star chefs sprawl across the TV landscape. “Misfits, free spirits and wanderers have created a new American profession,” heralds Andrew Friedman in his new book titled Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll, which is good summer reading.
Friedman writes colorfully about his cast of foodie miscreants, but I am left wondering whether we’re all falling victim to a feast of hype. I’m willing to pay a hefty tab at a top restaurant heralding a “name” chef, but still wonder how the egos, prices and sexual...
Friedman writes colorfully about his cast of foodie miscreants, but I am left wondering whether we’re all falling victim to a feast of hype. I’m willing to pay a hefty tab at a top restaurant heralding a “name” chef, but still wonder how the egos, prices and sexual...
- 7/5/2018
- by Peter Bart
- Deadline Film + TV
A friend of mine who’s a devoted carnivore told me that he had no interest in seeing the food documentary “Eating Animals,” because “when I hear that title, it makes my mouth water.” He is, in other words, not the target viewer for a lesson in vegetarian fortitude. Actually, though, he’s got the movie all wrong. If the phrase “eating animals” makes your mouth water, then you are, in fact, the ideal audience for this documentary investigation into where our meat comes from. The movie, loosely adapted from Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2009 memoir and narrated by Natalie Portman (who is one of its producers), isn’t a sanctimonious veggie harangue. Directed by Christopher Quinn, it is, at certain moments, almost a love letter to the time-honored splendor of the carnivorous impulse.
Enlightened eaters know that there’s a school of thought — a powerful and convincing one — that says...
Enlightened eaters know that there’s a school of thought — a powerful and convincing one — that says...
- 6/15/2018
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Natalie Portman takes narration duties in Christopher Dillon Quinn’s documentary Eating Animals, based on a memoir by Jonathan Safran Foer. The IFC Films release, which examines dietary choices, opens with two exclusive engagements in New York before heading to L.A. next week. Lea Thompson makes her feature film directorial bow with The Year of Spectacular Men, written by her daughter Madelyn Deutch and starring Zoey Deutch. The trio appeared at the New York premiere of the film in New York for the Cinema Society Wednesday night ahead of its bow in a dozen cities this weekend via MarVista Entertainment. Rock band Deer Tick is at the center of Abramorama doc Straight Into a Storm by William Miller. And Mike Tyson stars in Cleopatra Entertainment’s China Salesman by Chinese filmmaker Tan Bing.
Gotti starring starring John Travolta as mob boss John Gotti is among other limited releases opening this weekend.
Gotti starring starring John Travolta as mob boss John Gotti is among other limited releases opening this weekend.
- 6/14/2018
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
Jane Fonda celebrated her 80th birthday in style — by raising $1.3 million for charity.
On Saturday, the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential, which Fonda founded in 1995 to provide sexual health education and help prevent teen pregnancy, celebrated the legendary actress’ upcoming landmark birthday with an intimate fundraiser called “Eight Decades of Jane” held at The Whitley in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta.
And even though the party coincided with a snowstorm in the city, a number of Fonda’s closest friends and family were able to attend the festive occasion, including Rosanna Arquette, Catherine Keener, James Taylor, Carole King...
On Saturday, the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential, which Fonda founded in 1995 to provide sexual health education and help prevent teen pregnancy, celebrated the legendary actress’ upcoming landmark birthday with an intimate fundraiser called “Eight Decades of Jane” held at The Whitley in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta.
And even though the party coincided with a snowstorm in the city, a number of Fonda’s closest friends and family were able to attend the festive occasion, including Rosanna Arquette, Catherine Keener, James Taylor, Carole King...
- 12/10/2017
- by Maria Pasquini and Elissa Rosen
- PEOPLE.com
“We all have our own instincts. What we have to do is back up that instinct with something called craft,” explains Ron Howard in the trailer for his first ever online directing course, brought to you by MasterClass. In the class, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind “Apollo 13” and “A Beautiful Mind” will cover topics such as camera technique, casting, working with actors, evaluating ideas, and collaboration. From the nuggets of wisdom he drops in the trailer alone, this is one you won’t want to miss.
“You have to understand one thing about directing,” says Howard. “Every project you get involved with, ultimately, is just going to find its way to breaking your heart.”
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“You have to understand one thing about directing,” says Howard. “Every project you get involved with, ultimately, is just going to find its way to breaking your heart.”
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In addition to Howard’s, MasterClass also announced exciting new roster of instructors, including courses from Helen Mirren, Stephen Curry, Thomas Keller,...
- 11/16/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Lena Dunham thought she was prepared for the end of her HBO series Girls.
Yet after the finale aired earlier this year after six seasons, the actress, 31, “found myself wandering around my house eating crackers at night and feeling confused about what my life meant,” she tells People in this week’s issue. “Then I thought, ‘Oh, maybe I’m a little more emotional about this than I thought!’ ”
Dunham is now channeling her energy into her work. Lenny Imprint, her company with Jenni Konner, just released its first non-fiction book, Courage Is Contagious, a collection of essays about Michelle Obama.
Yet after the finale aired earlier this year after six seasons, the actress, 31, “found myself wandering around my house eating crackers at night and feeling confused about what my life meant,” she tells People in this week’s issue. “Then I thought, ‘Oh, maybe I’m a little more emotional about this than I thought!’ ”
Dunham is now channeling her energy into her work. Lenny Imprint, her company with Jenni Konner, just released its first non-fiction book, Courage Is Contagious, a collection of essays about Michelle Obama.
- 11/1/2017
- by Julie Jordan
- PEOPLE.com
At this year’s Telluride Film Festival, the “Wonder Woman” effect continues to send ripples throughout the industry. Case in point: Saturday’s hugely attended “Wonder Women” panel, moderated by director Peter Sellars and boasting a panel that included actress and filmmaker Angelina Jolie, lauded chef and restaurateur Alice Waters, tennis champ Billie Jean King (the subject of the Telluride premiere “Battle of the Sexes”), and actress and filmmaker Natalie Portman.
Jolie was at the annual Colorado film festival to bow her latest directorial effort, “First They Killed My Father,” which debuted the night before the panel. It will be available on Netflix later this month, after screening at Tiff next week.
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In our review, Eric Kohn praised it as being “a more focused, involving work than any of her earlier efforts, a...
Jolie was at the annual Colorado film festival to bow her latest directorial effort, “First They Killed My Father,” which debuted the night before the panel. It will be available on Netflix later this month, after screening at Tiff next week.
Read More:‘First They Killed My Father’ Review: Angelina Jolie’s Cambodian Drama Is Her Best Film
In our review, Eric Kohn praised it as being “a more focused, involving work than any of her earlier efforts, a...
- 9/3/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Meghan Markle looks up to very inspiring women!
The 36-year-old Suits star shared her personal list of 10 women who have changed her life and career with Glamour on Tuesday.
Related: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Go on Romantic Safari Getaway for Actress' 36th Birthday
Among the list is actress Julia Roberts, who Markle says was the first person who motivated her to begin her own acting career.
"She was the first person I saw on screen and thought, 'That looks like so much fun; I wanna do that,'" the actress wrote. "When I was younger, someone once told me, 'You kind of look like Julia Roberts in profile.' It was the best compliment of all time."
Novelist Toni Morrison is also credited with impacting Markle's life. "In college, I took a class on the works of Toni Morrison," the philanthropist shared. "The first time I read The Bluest Eye, I thought, 'Wow! She...
The 36-year-old Suits star shared her personal list of 10 women who have changed her life and career with Glamour on Tuesday.
Related: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Go on Romantic Safari Getaway for Actress' 36th Birthday
Among the list is actress Julia Roberts, who Markle says was the first person who motivated her to begin her own acting career.
"She was the first person I saw on screen and thought, 'That looks like so much fun; I wanna do that,'" the actress wrote. "When I was younger, someone once told me, 'You kind of look like Julia Roberts in profile.' It was the best compliment of all time."
Novelist Toni Morrison is also credited with impacting Markle's life. "In college, I took a class on the works of Toni Morrison," the philanthropist shared. "The first time I read The Bluest Eye, I thought, 'Wow! She...
- 8/16/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Meghan Markle looks up to very inspiring women!
The 36-year-old Suits star shared her personal list of 10 women who have changed her life and career with Glamour on Tuesday.
Related: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Go on Romantic Safari Getaway for Actress' 36th Birthday
Among the list is actress Julia Roberts, who Markle says was the first person who motivated her to begin her own acting career.
"She was the first person I saw on screen and thought, 'That looks like so much fun; I wanna do that,'" the actress wrote. "When I was younger, someone once told me, 'You kind of look like Julia Roberts in profile.' It was the best compliment of all time."
Novelist Toni Morrison is also credited with impacting Markle's life. "In college I took a class on the works of Toni Morrison," the philanthropist shared. "The first time I read The Bluest Eye, I thought...
The 36-year-old Suits star shared her personal list of 10 women who have changed her life and career with Glamour on Tuesday.
Related: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Go on Romantic Safari Getaway for Actress' 36th Birthday
Among the list is actress Julia Roberts, who Markle says was the first person who motivated her to begin her own acting career.
"She was the first person I saw on screen and thought, 'That looks like so much fun; I wanna do that,'" the actress wrote. "When I was younger, someone once told me, 'You kind of look like Julia Roberts in profile.' It was the best compliment of all time."
Novelist Toni Morrison is also credited with impacting Markle's life. "In college I took a class on the works of Toni Morrison," the philanthropist shared. "The first time I read The Bluest Eye, I thought...
- 8/16/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Meghan Markle credits her female role models (all 10 of them!) for changing her life, and she’s sharing their names with fans.
The Suits actress, 36, revealed her top sheroes for Glamour, and the influencers reign from all different backgrounds including acting, philanthropy, business and music.
Among those who have shaped Markle’s career are NBCUniversal Chairman Bonnie Hammer and actress Julia Roberts. “She was the first person I saw onscreen and thought, ‘That looks like so much fun; I wanna do that,'” Markle explained of Roberts. “When I was younger, someone once told me, ‘You kind of look like Julia Roberts in profile.
The Suits actress, 36, revealed her top sheroes for Glamour, and the influencers reign from all different backgrounds including acting, philanthropy, business and music.
Among those who have shaped Markle’s career are NBCUniversal Chairman Bonnie Hammer and actress Julia Roberts. “She was the first person I saw onscreen and thought, ‘That looks like so much fun; I wanna do that,'” Markle explained of Roberts. “When I was younger, someone once told me, ‘You kind of look like Julia Roberts in profile.
- 8/16/2017
- by Karen Mizoguchi
- PEOPLE.com
Tonight’s American Masters on PBS looks at the making of legendary TV chef Jacques Pépin — and how he turned cooking from a craft into an art. The 80-year-old French chef has appeared regularly on television in the Us since the late 1980s, with some of his best-known shows being The Complete Pépin, Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home (with Julia Child), Jacques Pépin: Fast Food My Way, and Essential Pépin. The PBS episode is part of the network’s American Masters: Chefs Flight series, which also features James Beard, Julia Child and Alice Waters. The documentary includes interviews with other celebrity...read more...
- 5/26/2017
- by Julian Cheatle
- Monsters and Critics
Jacques Pepin and Alice Waters are not fans of cooking competition reality TV series. They did not mince words when asked about the programming trend during a TCA panel today to promote PBS’ American Masters series upcoming Chefs Flight series of four documentaries, debuting in May. "It's a disservice; it's not what cooking is about," Pepin said dismissively. "Confrontation you have there is not how you learn to cook or understand food." Scoffed Waters, "We're teaching…...
- 1/16/2017
- Deadline TV
Renowned chefs Alice Waters and Jacques Pepin say reality competition cooking shows such as “Top Chef” and “Chopped” are doing a “disservice” to the art of cooking. The famous chefs, who are the subjects of the PBS documentary series “Chefs Flight,” said at the Television Critics Association press tour on Monday that the shows are promoting the “fast food culture” of American cuisine. “It’s a disservice very often because this is not what’s cooking is all about,” Pepin said. “That kind of confrontation that you have there is not really how you learn to cook. Or how you understand food.
- 1/16/2017
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Interview with Berlinale festival director Dieter Kosslick.
The Berlinale’s greater emphasis on television this year should not be interpreted as the first step towards a German Mip, according to festival director Dieter Kosslick.
In an exclusive interview with ScreenDaily, Kosslick said: ¨We don’t want to make a Mip TV or Mipcom, that’s as sure as day follows night and anything more would overstretch us.¨
He pointed out that that the Berlinale had had successful screenings of quality TV in the past with such productions as Dominik Graf’s Im Namen des Verbrechens, Jane Campion’s Top Of The Lake and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz.
“We have now been working for the past two years on this programme which is composed of two parts: a series of discussions on new trends at the Efm and two days of drama series integrated into the festival programme and shown at Haus der Berliner [link=tt...
The Berlinale’s greater emphasis on television this year should not be interpreted as the first step towards a German Mip, according to festival director Dieter Kosslick.
In an exclusive interview with ScreenDaily, Kosslick said: ¨We don’t want to make a Mip TV or Mipcom, that’s as sure as day follows night and anything more would overstretch us.¨
He pointed out that that the Berlinale had had successful screenings of quality TV in the past with such productions as Dominik Graf’s Im Namen des Verbrechens, Jane Campion’s Top Of The Lake and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz.
“We have now been working for the past two years on this programme which is composed of two parts: a series of discussions on new trends at the Efm and two days of drama series integrated into the festival programme and shown at Haus der Berliner [link=tt...
- 1/27/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Many people may know Les Blank most for his association with Werner Herzog, who he filmed while on the brink of creative madness in Burden of Dreams and earlier in Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, in which the notoriously true-to-his-word filmmaker indeed ate his shoe after having promised he’d do so if Errol Morris managed to finish his pet cemetery film, Gates of Heaven. But those ignoring the larger majority of Blank’s overflowing oeuvre would be sorely missing out on the jubilance of life that the quietly curious documentarian managed to strike on film with just his trusty 16mm Eclair, his appreciation for cultures of all kinds, and a fervent hunger for life. Sadly, Blank passed away in the spring of last year, just weeks before receiving the Outstanding Achievement Award and a restored retrospective of his body of work in Toronto at the Hot Docs Film Festival,...
- 12/2/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Warning: Don’t watch this if you’re hungry and food is not immediately available. Wayne Wang directs this documentary about Cecilia Chiang, the patron saint of Chinese cooking in America. Originally intended as a memento of Chiang preparing a banquet in her apartment, it grew into a feature on the life of the woman who opened San Francisco’s famed restaurant the Mandarin in 1961. Her students over the years have included such renowned chefs as Julia Child, James Beard and Alice Waters. Soul Of A Banquet includes interviews with Chiang, now 95, along with Waters and food writer Ruth Reichl. Oscilloscope Laboratories plans a slow rollout starting this month. Seconds will be available.
- 10/8/2014
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Nov. 25, 2014
Price: DVD $124.95, Blu-ray $124.95
Studio: Criterion
An uncompromisingly independent filmmaker, Les Blank (Burden of Dreams) made documentaries for nearly fifty years, elegantly disappearing with his camera into cultural spots rarely seen on-screen—mostly on the peripheries of the United States, but also occasionally abroad.
The collector’s set Les Blank: Always for Pleasure provides a diverse survey of Blank’s vast output.
Gap Toothed Women, a 1987 film by Les Blank
The collection provides a diverse survey of the late filmmaker’s vast output, including the warmly funny The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins, about the legendary Texas musician; Always for Pleasure, which captures the vivacious spirit of New Orleans; Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers, a hilarious celebration of the pungent, flavorful “stinking rose” of the title; and eleven other unexpected features, plus eight of Blank’s short films.
Seemingly off-the-cuff yet poetically constructed,...
Price: DVD $124.95, Blu-ray $124.95
Studio: Criterion
An uncompromisingly independent filmmaker, Les Blank (Burden of Dreams) made documentaries for nearly fifty years, elegantly disappearing with his camera into cultural spots rarely seen on-screen—mostly on the peripheries of the United States, but also occasionally abroad.
The collector’s set Les Blank: Always for Pleasure provides a diverse survey of Blank’s vast output.
Gap Toothed Women, a 1987 film by Les Blank
The collection provides a diverse survey of the late filmmaker’s vast output, including the warmly funny The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins, about the legendary Texas musician; Always for Pleasure, which captures the vivacious spirit of New Orleans; Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers, a hilarious celebration of the pungent, flavorful “stinking rose” of the title; and eleven other unexpected features, plus eight of Blank’s short films.
Seemingly off-the-cuff yet poetically constructed,...
- 8/25/2014
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
The top stories of the week from Toh! Awards:Tony Nominations Snub Hollywood, Cut Swath in Open YearWeinstein Release Calendar Reveals Awards Itinerary, But Don't Place Any Bets Just YetBox Office:Arthouse Audit: "Locke" Breaks Out, CBS Films Takes VOD Route for Diaz-starrer "Gambit," Written by CoensTop Ten: "Other Woman" Unseats "Captain America" in Top Spot Ahead of Upcoming Male-Centric TentpolesFeatures:Career Watch: Cameron Diaz Is Back as "The Other Woman," But What's Her Next Best Move?Tired of Tentpoles? Here Are Ten Great Indies to Catch This SummerFestivals:Alice Waters Throws Chez Panisse Feast for Sauper's Sfiff Film "We Come as Friends"San Francisco International Film Festival Opens with "Two Faces of January"Interviews:Dane DeHaan Talks "Amazing Spider-Man 2," Meteoric Career"Decoding Annie Parker" Is True Best Cancer QuestHow Does "Amazing Spider-Man 2" Composer Hans Zimmer Do It? Hack or Genius? (Video)How "The German Doctor" Director Lucia Puenzo Found a Film in the.
- 5/3/2014
- by TOH!
- Thompson on Hollywood
The phone rings with an invite to a special dinner at Chez Panisse tonight. I'm on deadline, at home, hoping to finish a piece before I drive over to the first full day of the 57th Annual San Francisco Film Festival. I'm determined to make it in by the 3 p.m. screening of "We Come as Friends," by Hubert Sauper. Alice Waters, it seems, met Sauper at the Berlin Film Festival in February, loved "We Come as Friends," and is hosting a dinner in his honor. "Yes, of course, thank you so much, I'll see you there." I was entertained, engaged, and horrified by his witty, ironic, and moving "Darwin's Nightmare," Oscar-nominated for Best Documentary Feature in 2006, and winner of the 2006 Cesar for Best First Film, nominally about the voracious Nile perch, which took over Lake Victoria in central Africa, but actually about the pernicious effects of globalization. "We Come as Friends...
- 5/1/2014
- by Meredith Brody
- Thompson on Hollywood
All hail the queen! Beyoncé takes the prime spot as the cover girl on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. And she's far from the only entertainer on the list. Also making the cut were actors Amy Adams, Benedict Cumberbatch, Matthew McConaughey, Robert Redford, Kerry Washington and Robin Wright, along with musicians Miley Cyrus, Pharrell Williams and Carrie Underwood. But it's Beyoncé who gets top billing, having proven she can do it all - juggling motherhood with activism while, oh yes, reinventing how music is made, sold and performed. "Beyoncé doesn't just sit at the table.
- 4/24/2014
- by Tim Nudd
- PEOPLE.com
All hail the queen! Beyoncé takes the prime spot as the cover girl on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. And she's far from the only entertainer on the list. Also making the cut were actors Amy Adams, Benedict Cumberbatch, Matthew McConaughey, Robert Redford, Kerry Washington and Robin Wright, along with musicians Miley Cyrus, Pharrell Williams and Carrie Underwood. But it's Beyoncé who gets top billing, having proven she can do it all - juggling motherhood with activism while, oh yes, reinventing how music is made, sold and performed. "Beyoncé doesn't just sit at the table.
- 4/24/2014
- by Tim Nudd
- PEOPLE.com
When Sundance announced the films in competition for the 2014 festival yesterday, its organizers noted that they were impressed by the caliber of cinematic artistry — mostly due to technology — that freed up filmmakers to experiment with different genres. No category of the festival is more rooted in genre than Park City at Midnight, the late-night section that specializes in horror and the supernatural, and this year’s slate has several potential breakouts. “The Midnight lineup came together in a way that is about the strongest group we’ve ever had, top to bottom,” says Trevor Groth, Sundance’s director of programming.
- 12/5/2013
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Sundance Institute executives announced on December 5 that the festival will feature new work from artist Doug Aitken as well as Klip Collective’s external projections on the Egyptian Theatre.
An expanded New Frontier will showcase installations, performance, transmedia and panel discussion section. Most of the installations will be housed at a new, 5,000-square-foot location at the Gateway in Park City adjacent to Main Street.
Doug Aitken’s The Source (Evolving) will occur at a nearby location along Main Street.
“As human and machine, biological and media experiences blur and hybridise, the distinctions between them are also becoming irrelevant,” said curator of the exhibition and Sundance Film Festival senior programmer Shari Frilot.
“The digital and the organic integrally constitute a new primordial pool. What does creativity and storytelling look like if we revel in this new way of being?”
“This year’s expanded New Frontier allows artists to continue pushing the boundaries in telling their stories,” said Sundance...
An expanded New Frontier will showcase installations, performance, transmedia and panel discussion section. Most of the installations will be housed at a new, 5,000-square-foot location at the Gateway in Park City adjacent to Main Street.
Doug Aitken’s The Source (Evolving) will occur at a nearby location along Main Street.
“As human and machine, biological and media experiences blur and hybridise, the distinctions between them are also becoming irrelevant,” said curator of the exhibition and Sundance Film Festival senior programmer Shari Frilot.
“The digital and the organic integrally constitute a new primordial pool. What does creativity and storytelling look like if we revel in this new way of being?”
“This year’s expanded New Frontier allows artists to continue pushing the boundaries in telling their stories,” said Sundance...
- 12/5/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
On Friday evening at New York's New Museum, "Mad Men" creator and executive producer Matthew Weiner was featured as this year's Visionary in the fifth annual installment of The Stuart Regen Visionaries Series. (The award, designed to honor leading contributors to the international cultural community, has previously honored artists like choreographer Bill T. Jones, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, chef and author Alice Waters, and artist and architect Maya Lin.) The event featured Weiner in conversation with author A.M. Homes in front of a full house at the New Museum's downstairs theater. Their exchange was friendly and informal as Homes moderated the conversation before opening it up to questions. Weiner deliberately refrained from saying anything about the upcoming seventh and final season of "Mad Men," which AMC recently announced would be split into two seven-episodes segments to premiere in 2014 and 2015. Regardless of the final episodes' airdates, he'll have completed his work.
- 9/30/2013
- by Aaron Dobbs
- Indiewire
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