A new episode of The Arrow in the Head Show has just arrived online, and in this one hosts John “The Arrow” Fallon and Lance Vlcek are looking back at one of the least popular sequels ever made: the 1987 release Jaws: The Revenge (watch it Here). Some viewers think Jaws: The Revenge is so bad that it makes for entertaining viewing. Others think it’s so bad, it’s almost unwatchable. What do The Arrow and Lance think about it? Check out the video embedded above to find out!
Directed by Joseph Sargent from a script written by Michael de Guzman, Jaws: The Revenge has the following synopsis: The family of widow Ellen Brody has long been plagued by shark attacks, and this unfortunate association continues when her son is the victim of a massive Great White. In mourning, Ellen goes to visit her other son, Michael, in the Bahamas,...
Directed by Joseph Sargent from a script written by Michael de Guzman, Jaws: The Revenge has the following synopsis: The family of widow Ellen Brody has long been plagued by shark attacks, and this unfortunate association continues when her son is the victim of a massive Great White. In mourning, Ellen goes to visit her other son, Michael, in the Bahamas,...
- 3/4/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: Veteran indie executive and filmmaker Jeff Lipsky is hooking up with Kino Lorber to launch The Jeff Lipsky Collection on growing streaming service Kino Now. The collection, which becomes available on March 5, will include five out of seven of Lipsky’s directing efforts dating from 2006-2019. Other filmmakers who are similarly represented with Kino Now Auteur Collections include Jean-Luc Godard, Lina Wertmüller, Derek Jarman, István Szabó and F.W. Murnau.
On the Lipsky roster are Flannel Pajamas (2006), a relationship story co-starring Julianne Nicholson and Justin Kirk; family drama Twelve Thirty (2011), starring Jonathan Groff; surreal comedy Molly’s Theory Of Relativity (2013) with Sophia Takal and Lawrence Michael Levine; character study Mad Women (2015), co-starring Reed Birney and Jamie Harrold; and Holocaust-themed family drama The Last (2019), starring Rebecca Schull. Lipsky hopes to add his first film, 1997’s The End, to the collection as soon as its restoration is complete.
Says Lipsky, “Being inducted...
On the Lipsky roster are Flannel Pajamas (2006), a relationship story co-starring Julianne Nicholson and Justin Kirk; family drama Twelve Thirty (2011), starring Jonathan Groff; surreal comedy Molly’s Theory Of Relativity (2013) with Sophia Takal and Lawrence Michael Levine; character study Mad Women (2015), co-starring Reed Birney and Jamie Harrold; and Holocaust-themed family drama The Last (2019), starring Rebecca Schull. Lipsky hopes to add his first film, 1997’s The End, to the collection as soon as its restoration is complete.
Says Lipsky, “Being inducted...
- 2/15/2021
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Whenever anyone asks what happened to an actor people generally wonder if something ill has befallen them or if they’ve passed away at this juncture. Well, the good news is that Karen Young hasn’t passed away so far as anyone knows, but her career doesn’t appear to have moved forward since 2012, but it does appear that her status has been kept active since otherwise there might be a year indicating when she stepped away from the business. One has to wonder if this means that she might be thinking about it or just taking a long break from the
Whatever Happened to Karen Young?...
Whatever Happened to Karen Young?...
- 2/5/2021
- by Tom
- TVovermind.com
Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund Public Investment Fund (Pif) has been on a tear in 2020 as part of its overall quest to cash in on long-term bets made on industries injured by the pandemic.
Media and tech properties have gotten their fair share of attention from Pif, which is led by the controversial Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. He controls $320 billion in assets, but has been linked to human rights abuses and the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the fall of 2018.
Gulf News reported Monday that Pif is ready to scoop up a 2.3% stake in Jio Platforms, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries (one of India’s most-valuable firms), for $1.5 billion. On Thursday, Pif confirmed it would be investing $1.5 billion for that 2.3% Jio stake. The fund was said to be eyeing a minority stake in Jio Platforms, which has garnered investments seemingly nonstop in 2020, earlier in May.
In late April,...
Media and tech properties have gotten their fair share of attention from Pif, which is led by the controversial Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. He controls $320 billion in assets, but has been linked to human rights abuses and the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the fall of 2018.
Gulf News reported Monday that Pif is ready to scoop up a 2.3% stake in Jio Platforms, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries (one of India’s most-valuable firms), for $1.5 billion. On Thursday, Pif confirmed it would be investing $1.5 billion for that 2.3% Jio stake. The fund was said to be eyeing a minority stake in Jio Platforms, which has garnered investments seemingly nonstop in 2020, earlier in May.
In late April,...
- 6/16/2020
- by Kevin Tran
- Variety Film + TV
“It’s not enough to simply put the shows online.”
International feature film sellers are gearing up for a period of concerted online business now the Cannes Marché du Film and a separate CAA-led consortium confirmed June 22 starts for their respective virtual market hubs.
Both initiatives are hoping to muster some of the phenomenal buzz and sales energy normally generated by the Cannes Film Festival which has been forced to abandon plans for a potential end-June start due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The TV sales sector was the first to experience this new virtual reality at the end of March...
International feature film sellers are gearing up for a period of concerted online business now the Cannes Marché du Film and a separate CAA-led consortium confirmed June 22 starts for their respective virtual market hubs.
Both initiatives are hoping to muster some of the phenomenal buzz and sales energy normally generated by the Cannes Film Festival which has been forced to abandon plans for a potential end-June start due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The TV sales sector was the first to experience this new virtual reality at the end of March...
- 4/24/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
(See previous post: “Gay Pride Movie Series Comes to a Close: From Heterosexual Angst to Indonesian Coup.”) Ken Russell's Valentino (1977) is notable for starring ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev as silent era icon Rudolph Valentino, whose sexual orientation, despite countless gay rumors, seems to have been, according to the available evidence, heterosexual. (Valentino's supposed affair with fellow “Latin Lover” Ramon Novarro has no basis in reality.) The female cast is also impressive: Veteran Leslie Caron (Lili, Gigi) as stage and screen star Alla Nazimova, ex-The Mamas & the Papas singer Michelle Phillips as Valentino wife and Nazimova protégée Natacha Rambova, Felicity Kendal as screenwriter/producer June Mathis (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse), and Carol Kane – lately of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt fame. Bob Fosse's Cabaret (1972) is notable as one of the greatest musicals ever made. As a 1930s Cabaret presenter – and the Spirit of Germany – Joel Grey was the year's Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner. Liza Minnelli...
- 6/30/2017
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Interview by Matthew Edwards
Tony Garnett is one of the most respected and celebrated British filmmakers of his generation having worked extensively in British television and through his work with critically acclaimed filmmakers such as Ken Loach, whom the pair worked together on the seminal British dramas Kes (1969) and Cathy Come Home (1966), both of which Garnett produced. Opting to move away from producing, Garnett set his sights on writing and directing his own feature films. After directing the critically acclaimed drama Prostitute (1980), Garnett went on to the write and direct the film Handgun (1983), a powerful cult rape and revenge thriller. Eschewing the exploitation motifs as explored in the genre titles such as Death Wish (1974), Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45 (1981) and I Spit on Your Grave (1978), favouring an art-house aesthetic and employing a docudrama stylistic approach, Garnett’s film is a measured exploration of the nature of injustice and retribution while a...
Tony Garnett is one of the most respected and celebrated British filmmakers of his generation having worked extensively in British television and through his work with critically acclaimed filmmakers such as Ken Loach, whom the pair worked together on the seminal British dramas Kes (1969) and Cathy Come Home (1966), both of which Garnett produced. Opting to move away from producing, Garnett set his sights on writing and directing his own feature films. After directing the critically acclaimed drama Prostitute (1980), Garnett went on to the write and direct the film Handgun (1983), a powerful cult rape and revenge thriller. Eschewing the exploitation motifs as explored in the genre titles such as Death Wish (1974), Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45 (1981) and I Spit on Your Grave (1978), favouring an art-house aesthetic and employing a docudrama stylistic approach, Garnett’s film is a measured exploration of the nature of injustice and retribution while a...
- 1/2/2017
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Stars: Karen Young, Clayton Day, Suzie Humphreys, Helena Humann, Ben Jones | Written and Directed by Tony Garrett
With one broken relationship still fresh in her mind, Kathleen Sullivan (Young) is in no mood to take on a new boyfriend. Larry (Day) however will not tolerate sexual rebuffs; rape is his means of exercising what he regards as a male prerogative. Consumed by anger and hungry for vengeance, Kathleen now finds she must take matters into her own hands.
The film debut of Karen Young, who would later go on to star in Birdy, Daylight and The Sopranos, is an uncompromising look at America’s hand gun culture through the eyes of a school teacher coming to terms with being raped. Helmed by British director Tony Garnett in the heart of Texas using a mix of actors and local people, Handgun is unlike any other rape/revenge thriller that has come before or since…...
With one broken relationship still fresh in her mind, Kathleen Sullivan (Young) is in no mood to take on a new boyfriend. Larry (Day) however will not tolerate sexual rebuffs; rape is his means of exercising what he regards as a male prerogative. Consumed by anger and hungry for vengeance, Kathleen now finds she must take matters into her own hands.
The film debut of Karen Young, who would later go on to star in Birdy, Daylight and The Sopranos, is an uncompromising look at America’s hand gun culture through the eyes of a school teacher coming to terms with being raped. Helmed by British director Tony Garnett in the heart of Texas using a mix of actors and local people, Handgun is unlike any other rape/revenge thriller that has come before or since…...
- 5/19/2013
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Jason Statham is going to star in the remake of Heat, but before you blurt out “blasphemy”, it isn’t “that” Heat film. (Thank god) Statham has signed on to headline director Brian De Palma’s nouveau version of the Burt Reynolds’ starrer from 1986. For those of you keeping score at home; the Reynolds’ Heat co-starred Karen Young (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) and Peter MacNicol (Battleship). It isn’t to be confused with the much superior Heat that starred Al Pacino, Val Kilmer and Robert De Niro.
- 2/9/2012
- by Kerry Fleming
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Title: The Green Director: Steven Williford Cast: Jason Butler Harner, Cheyenne Jackson, Julia Ormand, Illeana Douglas, Bill Sage, Karen Young, Christopher Bert, Boris McGiver Gay cinema, perhaps understandably, was for a period of many years preoccupied with coming out, which, as a defining moment in the lives of many homosexuals, was ripe for dramatic exploitation. There are, though, of course thousands of other stories that are a part of the gay experience, and so it’s its own small success that something like “The Green,” about a juicy suburban sex scandal in a world tipping ever closer to true marriage equality, could unfold, and only tangentially and occasionally be about its main...
- 11/2/2011
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
Horatio (David Caruso), Ryan (Jonathan Togo) and Walter (Omar Miller) rush to a call out at a Cs where two people have been shot. The car of one of the Vic's crashes into a fire hydrant, so they must race against time to preserve whatever evidence they can, before it's washed away and destroyed. Horatio tries to stop the hydrant gushing out water and Ryan attends to the male Vic, as Walter covers the car, in desperation. Ryan notices the gun on the ground and shouts to Walter, who can't hear him. Why didn't Ryan just go for the gun when he saw it. As he makes a dash for the gun, it's swept into the storm drain. Ryan is angry he lost the gun. It went down the drain. Horatio: "It went down the drain." Not a very catchy or witty one liner from him. Come on writers you need to do better.
- 10/10/2011
- by mhasan@corp.popstar.com (Mila Hasan)
- PopStar
Marcus Miller is a bad man. The newest cold-blooded (and I mean cold-blooded, this is guy is batshit crazy!) killer to hit the silver screen is the star of Matt Farnsworth's violent new film The Orphan Killer. And he doesn't fuck around.
As you'll see by the trailer below, The Orphan Killer is a very Halloween-esque film. But if you're going to model yourself after something, why not one of the most successful independent films of all time?
So what do we know about this new slasher, Marcus Miller? Just judging by the trailer, he's really, really brutal. I would make the argument that he swings an axe with as much aggression and bad intentions as anyone I've ever seen (but I think that nun had it coming).
The Orphan Killer was written and directed by Matt Farnsworth (he also plays Mike in the film) and stars David Backus as Miller.
As you'll see by the trailer below, The Orphan Killer is a very Halloween-esque film. But if you're going to model yourself after something, why not one of the most successful independent films of all time?
So what do we know about this new slasher, Marcus Miller? Just judging by the trailer, he's really, really brutal. I would make the argument that he swings an axe with as much aggression and bad intentions as anyone I've ever seen (but I think that nun had it coming).
The Orphan Killer was written and directed by Matt Farnsworth (he also plays Mike in the film) and stars David Backus as Miller.
- 9/30/2011
- by Doctor Gash
- DreadCentral.com
Netflix has revolutionized the home movie experience for fans of film with its instant streaming technology. Netflix Nuggets is my way of spreading the word about independent, classic and foreign films made available by Netflix for instant streaming.
This Week’s New Instant Releases…
Promised Lands (1974)
Streaming Available: 04/19/2011
Cast: Documentary
Director: Susan Sontag
Synopsis: Set in Israel during the final days of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, this powerful documentary — initially barred by Israel authorities — from writer-director Susan Sontag examines divergent perceptions of the enduring Arab-Israeli clash. Weighing in on matters related to socialism, anti-Semitism, nation sovereignty and American materialism are The Last Jew writer Yoram Kaniuk and military physicist Yuval Ne’eman.
Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen (2009)
Streaming Available: 04/19/2011
Cast: Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung, Gerald Alexander Held, Lena Stolze, Sunnyi Melles
Synopsis: Directed by longtime star of independent German cinema Margarethe von Trotta, this reverent...
This Week’s New Instant Releases…
Promised Lands (1974)
Streaming Available: 04/19/2011
Cast: Documentary
Director: Susan Sontag
Synopsis: Set in Israel during the final days of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, this powerful documentary — initially barred by Israel authorities — from writer-director Susan Sontag examines divergent perceptions of the enduring Arab-Israeli clash. Weighing in on matters related to socialism, anti-Semitism, nation sovereignty and American materialism are The Last Jew writer Yoram Kaniuk and military physicist Yuval Ne’eman.
Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen (2009)
Streaming Available: 04/19/2011
Cast: Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung, Gerald Alexander Held, Lena Stolze, Sunnyi Melles
Synopsis: Directed by longtime star of independent German cinema Margarethe von Trotta, this reverent...
- 4/20/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Originally reviewed at the 2010 AFI Fest.
"Two Gates of Sleep" is about the journey of a coffin to its final resting spot, but in a part of the world where political concerns are limited to the bickering between two brothers over the right way to bury their dead mother. Set apart from any semblance of urban encroachment, save for the lumber mill where the two brothers make a meager wage, Jack (Brady Corbet) and Louis (David Call) reside on the fringe of the Mississippi-Louisiana border where the flicker of their weak television reception just about sums up the pulse of life before their ailing mom (Karen Young) ultimately flatlines and they settle upon hauling her coffin across the river with only their hands.
First-time director Alistair Banks Griffin was originally a painter, which is evident immediately from the fact that "Two Gates of Sleep" is told in brush strokes -...
"Two Gates of Sleep" is about the journey of a coffin to its final resting spot, but in a part of the world where political concerns are limited to the bickering between two brothers over the right way to bury their dead mother. Set apart from any semblance of urban encroachment, save for the lumber mill where the two brothers make a meager wage, Jack (Brady Corbet) and Louis (David Call) reside on the fringe of the Mississippi-Louisiana border where the flicker of their weak television reception just about sums up the pulse of life before their ailing mom (Karen Young) ultimately flatlines and they settle upon hauling her coffin across the river with only their hands.
First-time director Alistair Banks Griffin was originally a painter, which is evident immediately from the fact that "Two Gates of Sleep" is told in brush strokes -...
- 3/31/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
American independent films of the narrative variety are rarely hard art films. But in the case of Alastair Banks Griffin’s Two Gates of Sleep, which bowed at last year’s Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes before finding its way to AFI Fest last Fall, one should be ready to enter a long-take heavy, unspeakably gorgeous dirge that is sure of its influences and even more sure that it has something deeply resonant to express to you. It’s the type of movie that, as the cliche goes, requires the audience to “do some work,” that isn’t going to bend over backwards to entertain you, that’s going to leave your questions unanswered and your desires for exposition or denouement unfulfilled. It tells the story of a pair of backwoods brothers (Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene’s Brady Corbett and Tiny Furniture’s David Call) in the rural American South who...
- 3/30/2011
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Laurent Cantet, who won the Palm d’Or at Cannes for one of his lesser films The Class (2008), is one of the best political filmmakers in the world today although his political cinema is of a different kind than that of past masters like Francesco Rosi, Gilo Pontecorvo and Constantin Costa-Gavras. Distinguishing Cantet from the others is his disinclination to ‘probe’ underneath the surface and provide an overriding analysis. His films do not try to see the whole picture – examine an event from different viewpoints – as Costa-Gavras does in Z (1969) – but tries to stick to one viewpoint. If his films lack an analytical side, their ambiguity perhaps also brings them closer to art.
Heading South (Vers le Sud, 2005) is set in poverty-stricken Haiti in the 1980s and tells the story of three middle-aged women tourists Ellen (Charlotte Rampling), Brenda (Karen Young) and Sue (Louise Portal) who arrive there individually with...
Heading South (Vers le Sud, 2005) is set in poverty-stricken Haiti in the 1980s and tells the story of three middle-aged women tourists Ellen (Charlotte Rampling), Brenda (Karen Young) and Sue (Louise Portal) who arrive there individually with...
- 2/10/2011
- by MK Raghvendra
- DearCinema.com
For anyone that's seen Tom Noonan's "What Happened Was," it would be certainly understandable why the actor/writer/director, who so effortlessly played the misanthropic paralegal on a first date with one of his co-workers, would be a little suspicious of an evening celebrating the film in Los Angeles over the long weekend.
"I thought I would make it and it would go away and it kept coming back," said Noonan of the 1994 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner. "And I'm glad."
The screening of "What Happened Was" at Cinefamily was a rare treat regardless, since the dark, low-budget comedy has never been released on DVD. But Noonan flew in from New York to be a part of the repertory theater's "That Guy!" series, which offered a similar tribute to Bruce Dern a day later and will continue on this month with fetes for character actors such as "Blood Simple...
"I thought I would make it and it would go away and it kept coming back," said Noonan of the 1994 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner. "And I'm glad."
The screening of "What Happened Was" at Cinefamily was a rare treat regardless, since the dark, low-budget comedy has never been released on DVD. But Noonan flew in from New York to be a part of the repertory theater's "That Guy!" series, which offered a similar tribute to Bruce Dern a day later and will continue on this month with fetes for character actors such as "Blood Simple...
- 1/18/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Next Monday in New York, the Film Society of Lincoln Center is screening a film by Jeff Lipsky called Twelve Thirty, "a drama about a family with adult children that is broken, and a self-centered young man who, in the span of a week, becomes entangled in each of their lives, wreaking havoc in the process."
The young man creating all this havoc is played by actor Jonathan Groff, best known as "Jesse" on Glee and also for his starring role in the Broadway musical Spring Awakenings.
Groff's character is described as a 21st-century version of Dustin Hoffman's character in The Graduate, " whose lusty affection for his former high-school crush Mel (terrific newcomer Portia Reiners) brings him a bit too closely into Mel’s dysfunctional Cedar Rapids family, comprised of her virginal older sister Maura (Mamie Gummer), agoraphobic mother (Karen Young) and estranged bisexual father (Reed Birney)."
This one sounds pretty interesting,...
The young man creating all this havoc is played by actor Jonathan Groff, best known as "Jesse" on Glee and also for his starring role in the Broadway musical Spring Awakenings.
Groff's character is described as a 21st-century version of Dustin Hoffman's character in The Graduate, " whose lusty affection for his former high-school crush Mel (terrific newcomer Portia Reiners) brings him a bit too closely into Mel’s dysfunctional Cedar Rapids family, comprised of her virginal older sister Maura (Mamie Gummer), agoraphobic mother (Karen Young) and estranged bisexual father (Reed Birney)."
This one sounds pretty interesting,...
- 1/6/2011
- by Dennis Ayers
- The Backlot
Rating: 3/5
Writer: Alistair Banks Griffin
Director: Alistair Banks Griffin
Cast: Brady Corbet, David Call, Karen Young
Alistar Banks Griffin’s directorial debut, Two Gates Of Sleep, tells the journey of two brothers dealing with the death and burial of their mother. Taking place in the rural outskirts of Louisiana along the Mississippi River, Jack (Brady Corbet) and Louis (David Call) diligently follow their mother’s (Karen Young) wish of being put to rest surrounded by the environment she loved so much while she was alive.
Read more on AFI Fest 2010 Review: Two Gates Of Sleep…...
Writer: Alistair Banks Griffin
Director: Alistair Banks Griffin
Cast: Brady Corbet, David Call, Karen Young
Alistar Banks Griffin’s directorial debut, Two Gates Of Sleep, tells the journey of two brothers dealing with the death and burial of their mother. Taking place in the rural outskirts of Louisiana along the Mississippi River, Jack (Brady Corbet) and Louis (David Call) diligently follow their mother’s (Karen Young) wish of being put to rest surrounded by the environment she loved so much while she was alive.
Read more on AFI Fest 2010 Review: Two Gates Of Sleep…...
- 11/8/2010
- by Allison Loring
- GordonandtheWhale
Reviewed at the 2010 AFI Fest.
Something tells me Eran Riklis would take it as a compliment to call his a career full of minor works. While many Israeli filmmakers have concentrated on making the big statement about their fractured cultural landscape of their homeland, Riklis has focused on making the small one in recent years, whether it's the legal battle over a lemon grove between a Palestinian woman and the Israeli defense minister in his last drama "Lemon Tree" or the uneasy union of Syrian and Israeli families in his 2004 breakthrough "The Syrian Bride."
As Riklis said in his introduction to the AFI Fest crowd over the weekend, his latest film, "The Human Resources Manager" is "similar, but different" - a nod to the fact that while the titular character travels thousands of miles from Jerusalem to an unnamed Eastern European country to return the corpse of one of his...
Something tells me Eran Riklis would take it as a compliment to call his a career full of minor works. While many Israeli filmmakers have concentrated on making the big statement about their fractured cultural landscape of their homeland, Riklis has focused on making the small one in recent years, whether it's the legal battle over a lemon grove between a Palestinian woman and the Israeli defense minister in his last drama "Lemon Tree" or the uneasy union of Syrian and Israeli families in his 2004 breakthrough "The Syrian Bride."
As Riklis said in his introduction to the AFI Fest crowd over the weekend, his latest film, "The Human Resources Manager" is "similar, but different" - a nod to the fact that while the titular character travels thousands of miles from Jerusalem to an unnamed Eastern European country to return the corpse of one of his...
- 11/7/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Strong characters and well-established motivation to overcome conflict are two incredibly important parts of a story. While you can sacrifice a little of one to make room for the other, it.s impossible to engage an audience if they don.t understand the characters and their actions. This is what writer/director Alistair Banks Griffin tries to get away with in his film Two Gates of Sleep, but, as one could expect, it simply doesn.t work. In the film, two brothers (Brady Corbet and David Call) living in the woods of Mississippi with their mother (Karen Young) who habitually wanders away from the house. Their mother then dies and, after building her a coffin, the brothers attempt to take her upriver to bury her. First, it.s worth noting that the mother doesn.t die until approximately 45 minutes into the film, which only runs 78 minutes to begin with. The...
- 11/7/2010
- cinemablend.com
Portia Reiners, Jonathan Groff, Twelve Thirty Jeff Lipsky's Twelve Thirty opens at New York’s Angelika Film Center on Friday, Jan. 14, 2011. In the cast: Jonathan Groff, Mamie Gummer, Karen Young, Reed Birney, Portia Reiners, Halley Feiffer, Rebecca Schull, and veteran Barbara Barrie (Oscar nominee for Breaking Away in 1979). A sneak preview of Twelve Thirty will take place on Jan. 10, 2011, at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, which will also screen Lipsky's Flannel Pajamas (2006), starring Justin Kirk (Weeds) and Julianne Nicholson (Law & Order: Criminal Intent). Members of the cast and crew of both films will be on hand at the event for Q&A sessions. (See trailer at www.twelvethirtymovie.com.) The Twelve Thirty synopsis below is from the film's press release: Twelve Thirty is the story of three women and the two men in their lives. In the Langley’s Cedar Rapids household, the mother, Vivien (Karen Young), is...
- 10/25/2010
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
This is the daily news vodcast from the London Film Festival on Pure Movies covering the gala screening of Conviction, based on a true story starring two time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell, Oscar nominee Minnie Driver, Oscar nominee Melissa Leo, Peter Gallagher, Ari Graynor, Loren Dean, Conor Donovan, Owen Campbell, Tobias Campbell, Bailee Madison, Clea DuVall, Karen Young, Talia Balsam, John Pyper-Ferguson and Oscar nominee Juliette Lewis. Directed by Tony Goldwyn and written by Pamela Gray, the film’s producers are Andrew Sugerman, Andrew S. Karsch and Tony Goldwyn. Executive Producers are Hilary Swank, Markus Barmettler, Alwyn Hight Kushner, James Smith, Anthony Callie and Myles Nestel. The production team includes director of photography Adriano Goldman, production designer Mark Ricker, edited by Jay Cassidy, A.C.E., costume designer Wendy Chuck and music by Paul Cantelon. Conviction is the inspirational true story of a sister’s unwavering devotion to her brother.
- 10/22/2010
- by Dan Higgins
- Pure Movies
This is the trailer for Conviction, based on a true story starring two time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell, Oscar® nominee Minnie Driver, Oscar nominee Melissa Leo, Peter Gallagher, Ari Graynor, Loren Dean, Conor Donovan, Owen Campbell, Tobias Campbell, Bailee Madison, Clea DuVall, Karen Young, Talia Balsam, John Pyper-Ferguson and Oscar nominee Juliette Lewis. Directed by Tony Goldwyn and written by Pamela Gray, the film’s producers are Andrew Sugerman, Andrew S. Karsch and Tony Goldwyn. Executive Producers are Hilary Swank, Markus Barmettler, Alwyn Hight Kushner, James Smith, Anthony Callie and Myles Nestel. The production team includes director of photography Adriano Goldman, production designer Mark Ricker, edited by Jay Cassidy, A.C.E., costume designer Wendy Chuck and music by Paul Cantelon. Conviction is the inspirational true story of a sister’s unwavering devotion to her brother. When Betty Anne Waters’ (two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank) older...
- 10/12/2010
- by Dan Higgins
- Pure Movies
If you're a director showing a film in the Quinzaine, a.k.a the Director's Fortnight, you begin your day with a public press conference in a tent on the Croisette near Palais Stephanie, you break for lunch and either continue doing press stuff and you conclude your day with a night screening among those that have worked their butts off to realize one vision. - If you're a director showing a film in the Quinzaine, a.k.a the Director's Fortnight, you begin your day with a public press conference in a tent on the Croisette near Palais Stephanie, you break for lunch and either continue doing press stuff and you conclude your day with a night screening among those that have worked their butts off to realize one vision. Here's how a future rising star in America Independent cinema commenced his day, and then, in the clip below,...
- 5/21/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
If you're a director showing a film in the Quinzaine, a.k.a the Director's Fortnight, you begin your day with a public press conference in a tent on the Croisette near Palais Stephanie, you break for lunch and either continue doing press stuff and you conclude your day with a night screening among those that have worked their butts off to realize one vision. Here's how a future rising star in America Independent cinema commenced his day, and then, in the clip below, how it came to a close. In this clip we find the cast members Brady Corbet, David Call, Karen Young, the crew and producers that helped bring Two Gates of Sleep to Cannes.
- 5/21/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Bressonian in approach and Malick-like in its use of the natural surroundings, Alistair Banks Griffin's Two Gates of Sleep is a sublime film debut that reminds me of how David Gordon Green broke out with George Washington a little more than a decade ago. - Sorry folks. There's been a lack of Cannes-related updates due to the simple fact that I'm at four plus films per day and have been adding some interviews late in the game - so I'm technically going into Day 10, when the site is pumping out Day 7 items, which is fine because it was a particularly great day of Cannes movie watching, which initially began with the press conference for a film I've been keen on seeing way before it was announced as a Director's Fortnight selected film. Bressonian in approach and Malick-like in its use of the natural surroundings, Alistair Banks Griffin...
- 5/21/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Sorry folks. There's been a lack of Cannes-related updates due to the simple fact that I'm at four plus films per day and have been adding some interviews late in the game - so I'm technically going into Day 10, when the site is pumping out Day 7 items, which is fine because it was a particularly great day of Cannes movie watching, which initially began with the press conference for a film I've been keen on seeing way before it was announced as a Director's Fortnight selected film. Bressonian in approach and Malick-like in its use of the natural surroundings, Alistair Banks Griffin's Two Gates of Sleep is a sublime film debut that reminds me of how David Gordon Green broke out with George Washington a little more than a decade ago. This is just one portion of my coverage on the film, look for more items coming soon and...
- 5/21/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
A Full Fathom 5 production, Sibling: Marcus Miller the Orphan Killer is getting set to make the rounds at several film festivals in Los Angeles. Smmtok involves childhood trauma and the character Marcus Miller turning from innocent youth to cold-blooded killer. The first trailer is very graphic, very cutting edge, and very not safe for work. Several characters are taken care of by Marcus' favourite tool, the axe. Others endure his torturer, while Marcus searches for some type of murderous resolution to the death of his parents. The trailer is inside, but this is over eighteen material folks.
The synopsis for Sibling: Marcus Miller the Orphan Killer:
"The intense story of a brother and his younger sister who witness their parents' violent murder at a very young age. The girl, Audrey, is adopted by a loving single father, while her brother, Marcus, is left to languish in an orphanage where he is abused.
The synopsis for Sibling: Marcus Miller the Orphan Killer:
"The intense story of a brother and his younger sister who witness their parents' violent murder at a very young age. The girl, Audrey, is adopted by a loving single father, while her brother, Marcus, is left to languish in an orphanage where he is abused.
- 1/18/2010
- by Michael Ross Allen
- 28 Days Later Analysis
There's no escaping the gnawing sadness brought on by the images of horrific destruction and misery coming out of Haiti. There is, though, brief visual respite in revisiting the intelligent, perceptive, sorrowfully angry 2005 movie Heading South. Laurent Cantet's unnerving drama about single women who head south for sex tourism is set in a Haiti, circa 1979, that's as politically and economically wretched as ever, a time when strongman Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier and his thugs terrorized the country. But at least all the little houses still stood, in a landscape of deceptive, beachy beauty. Cantet -- whose great schoolroom study...
- 1/14/2010
- by Lisa Schwarzbaum
- EW.com - The Movie Critics
Most recently invited to the Nyff 08's with his short Gauge, Griffin appears to be part of a collective of filmmakers worth keeping a very close eye on. There's an inkling of Days of Heaven, Ballast and Shotgun Stories (guns/open fields) and that's enough to get me interested. - #71. Two Gates of Sleep Photo Exclusive: Featuring Brady Corbet and David Call. Director/Writer: Alistair Banks GriffinProducers: Andrew Renzi (Sympathy for Delicious) and Antonio Campos, Sean Durkin, and Josh Mond (Afterschool)Distributor: Rights Available. The Gist: When Jack’s mother turns up dead at the edge of a field near his rural home, he and his brother set out on an arduous journey to fulfill her last wish...(more) Cast: Brady Corbet, Karen Young and David Call. Why is it on the list?: Most recently invited to the Nyff 08's with his short Gauge, Griffin appears...
- 1/13/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
I think there are only three film festivals on the circuit where filmmakers and producers are really conscious on how a production start date my ultimately affect their film festival status. There are the heavyweights of Cannes and Venice, and then there is Sundance. For the better part of the last 15 years, we are talking about the Reservoir Dogs era, the festival has jumped started thousands of careers and perhaps the best sign of adulation is the creation of competing festivals in SXSW and Tribeca. Here are five more prediction picks, you can find the complete list of predictions by clicking here. - I think there are only three film festivals on the circuit where filmmakers and producers are really conscious on how a production start date my ultimately affect their film festival status. There are the heavyweights of Cannes and Venice, and then there is Sundance. For the better part of the last 15 years,...
- 12/13/2009
- by Ioncinema.com Staff
- IONCINEMA.com
[caption id="attachment_14823" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Handsome Harry"]/caption] Handsome Harry Directed by Bette Gordon A spectacular cast and a deliberate tone help to distract from director Bette Gordon's Handsome Harry, which acts both as an emotionally detailed character study and a slightly ungainly road movie. The titular Harry (Jamey Sheridan), an aging ex-Navy electrician, is shaken from his cozy small-town existence when he receives a call from an old Navy buddy (Steve Buscemi), who is dying of a dire, unnamed disease. He summons Harry to his deathbed to exact one final wish: to track down Kagan (Campbell Scott), the old cohort that Harry, along with Buscemi and a gaggle of their Navy buddies, viciously assaulted following a wild night at sea. Bound by a sense of duty, Harry travels to Miami to find Kagan, dropping in on the rest of his old crew along the way, who are played to the hilt by an impressive array of character actors,...
- 10/21/2009
- by Simon
- SoundOnSight
In indie film, we have new images in for the Damian Harris helmed and written drama "Gardens of the Night." In this strong cast are Gillian Jacobs, John Malkovich, Ryan Simpkins, Tom Arnold, Kevin Zegers, Harold Perineau and Jeremy Sisto. Harris' last attempt at the wheel was for the 2000 release "Mercy" starring Ellen Barkin, Wendy Crewson, Peta Wilson, Karen Young and Julian Sands. City Lights Entertainment distributes the Shoot Productions, Station 3 and Fastback Pictures film. Jacobs was last in Fox Searchlight Pictures' "Choke" with Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston.
- 10/9/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
In indie film, we have new images in for the Damian Harris helmed and written drama "Gardens of the Night." In this strong cast are Gillian Jacobs, John Malkovich, Ryan Simpkins, Tom Arnold, Kevin Zegers, Harold Perineau and Jeremy Sisto. Harris' last attempt at the wheel was for the 2000 release "Mercy" starring Ellen Barkin, Wendy Crewson, Peta Wilson, Karen Young and Julian Sands. City Lights Entertainment distributes the Shoot Productions, Station 3 and Fastback Pictures film. Jacobs was last in Fox Searchlight Pictures' "Choke" with Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston.
- 10/9/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
In indie film, we have new images in for the Damian Harris helmed and written drama "Gardens of the Night." In this strong cast are Gillian Jacobs, John Malkovich, Ryan Simpkins, Tom Arnold, Kevin Zegers, Harold Perineau and Jeremy Sisto. Harris' last attempt at the wheel was for the 2000 release "Mercy" starring Ellen Barkin, Wendy Crewson, Peta Wilson, Karen Young and Julian Sands. City Lights Entertainment distributes the Shoot Productions, Station 3 and Fastback Pictures film. Jacobs was last in Fox Searchlight Pictures' "Choke" with Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston. See the gallery now! What's this about? Leslie (Gillian Jacobs), struggles with a hand to mouth existence on the streets of San Diego with only her childhood friend Donnie (Evan Ross) to look after her, both of them trying to cope with the trauma of having been abducted and held captive by two men nine years earlier. As an eight-year-old girl,...
- 10/9/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
In indie film, we have new images in for the Damian Harris helmed and written drama "Gardens of the Night." In this strong cast are Gillian Jacobs, John Malkovich, Ryan Simpkins, Tom Arnold, Kevin Zegers, Harold Perineau and Jeremy Sisto. Harris' last attempt at the wheel was for the 2000 release "Mercy" starring Ellen Barkin, Wendy Crewson, Peta Wilson, Karen Young and Julian Sands. City Lights Entertainment distributes the Shoot Productions, Station 3 and Fastback Pictures film. Jacobs was last in Fox Searchlight Pictures' "Choke" with Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston.
- 10/9/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
- Today's nine title announcement for the Berlin Festival’s main competition section (the 58th edition runs between Feb. 7-17.) is an early sign that the 2008 year in film is rich in international film from all corners of the globe and that the upcoming Cannes film festival is going to be loaded once again with heavyweight titles. Out of the titles I'm most looking forward to seeing are the little known Mike Leigh project called Happy-Go-Lucky and Erick Zonca’s French thriller Julia starring Tilda Swinton, and the postponed domestic release of Isabel Coixet’s Elegy. Here is the 9-list:Feuerherz (Heart of Fire) Germany/Austria (adapted from the bestseller by Senait Mehari) by Luigi Falorni (The Story of the Weeping Camel) with Letekidan Micael Julia France by Erick Zonca (The Dreamlife of Angels) with Tilda Swinton, Aidan Gould, Saúl Rubinek Lady Jane France By Robert Guédiguian (Le Promeneur du champ de Mars,
- 1/9/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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