The BFI London Film Festival has a new head.
Following what it described as an “exhaustive interview process,” the British Film Institute has named Kristy Matheson its festivals director, a role that see her lead the U.K.’s largest film festival (set to take place Oct. 4-15), and the BFI Flare: London Lgbtqia+ Film Festival from the 2024 edition. Matheson joins the BFI from her recent role as creative director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, and previous to that was director of film at Australia’s national museum of screen culture Acmi.
Matheson replaces Tricia Tuttle, who announced that she was stepping down as festivals director just ahead of the London Film Festival’s 2023 edition last October. Tuttle had been in the role for five years (and spent 10 working at the BFI).
“Festivals provide filmmakers, artists and audiences with a moment to commune on a grand scale – to experience ideas,...
Following what it described as an “exhaustive interview process,” the British Film Institute has named Kristy Matheson its festivals director, a role that see her lead the U.K.’s largest film festival (set to take place Oct. 4-15), and the BFI Flare: London Lgbtqia+ Film Festival from the 2024 edition. Matheson joins the BFI from her recent role as creative director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, and previous to that was director of film at Australia’s national museum of screen culture Acmi.
Matheson replaces Tricia Tuttle, who announced that she was stepping down as festivals director just ahead of the London Film Festival’s 2023 edition last October. Tuttle had been in the role for five years (and spent 10 working at the BFI).
“Festivals provide filmmakers, artists and audiences with a moment to commune on a grand scale – to experience ideas,...
- 3/8/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The BFI London Film Festival has tapped Kristy Matheson as its new director following the departure of Tricia Tuttle.
Matheson will also oversee BFI Flare: London Lgbtqia+ Film Festival from next year. She is set to start in the role next month and will report into Jason Wood, BFI executive director of programming and audiences
Tuttle announced she was stepping down last October after 10 years in the post.
Matheson joins from the Edinburgh International Film Festival, where she served as creative director from 2021-22. Before that she was director of film at Australia’s national museum of screen culture Acmi.
The next BFI Lff is set to take place from Oct. 4–15.
“I am delighted to welcome Kristy as the BFI’s new Director of Festivals,” said Wood. “I have been impressed by Kristy’s knowledge and passion for screen culture and the role it plays in connecting society.”
Kristy Matheson said: “Festivals provide filmmakers,...
Matheson will also oversee BFI Flare: London Lgbtqia+ Film Festival from next year. She is set to start in the role next month and will report into Jason Wood, BFI executive director of programming and audiences
Tuttle announced she was stepping down last October after 10 years in the post.
Matheson joins from the Edinburgh International Film Festival, where she served as creative director from 2021-22. Before that she was director of film at Australia’s national museum of screen culture Acmi.
The next BFI Lff is set to take place from Oct. 4–15.
“I am delighted to welcome Kristy as the BFI’s new Director of Festivals,” said Wood. “I have been impressed by Kristy’s knowledge and passion for screen culture and the role it plays in connecting society.”
Kristy Matheson said: “Festivals provide filmmakers,...
- 3/8/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
The British Film Institute has hired Kristy Matheson as its Festivals Director to oversee the London Film Festival.
Matheson joins the BFI following a stint as Creative Director of the Edinburgh Film Festival, which revealed her departure in the past half hour. During the recruitment process, Matheson’s potential hire attracted much of the industry speculation and Deadline revealed the appointment was imminent late last week.
Matheson will be responsible for delivering the BFI’s flagship London Film Festival (Lff) as well as the body’s Lgbtqia-focused festival BFI Flare, which runs this month from March 15-26.
The Festival Director job is set under a fixed-term, three-year contract, with the potential to extend for a further one to two years. Matheson replaces former Festivals director Tricia Tuttle, who announced she would step down from the role on the eve of last year’s Lff. Tuttle was in post for five years,...
Matheson joins the BFI following a stint as Creative Director of the Edinburgh Film Festival, which revealed her departure in the past half hour. During the recruitment process, Matheson’s potential hire attracted much of the industry speculation and Deadline revealed the appointment was imminent late last week.
Matheson will be responsible for delivering the BFI’s flagship London Film Festival (Lff) as well as the body’s Lgbtqia-focused festival BFI Flare, which runs this month from March 15-26.
The Festival Director job is set under a fixed-term, three-year contract, with the potential to extend for a further one to two years. Matheson replaces former Festivals director Tricia Tuttle, who announced she would step down from the role on the eve of last year’s Lff. Tuttle was in post for five years,...
- 3/8/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Matheson will run Lff and BFI Flare in her role as festivals director.
Kristy Matheson has been appointed festivals director at the British Film Institute (BFI), through which she will lead the BFI London Film Festival (Lff) and BFI Flare: London Lgbtqia+ Film Festival.
Starting her role in April, Matheson will lead the festival teams across programming, business operation and adjacent teams across the BFI including fundraising, digital, marketing, communications, finance and industry. She will report into Jason Wood, BFI executive director of programming and audiences.
Lff 2023 will run from October 4 to 15, the BFI has confirmed.
Australian Matheson was recently...
Kristy Matheson has been appointed festivals director at the British Film Institute (BFI), through which she will lead the BFI London Film Festival (Lff) and BFI Flare: London Lgbtqia+ Film Festival.
Starting her role in April, Matheson will lead the festival teams across programming, business operation and adjacent teams across the BFI including fundraising, digital, marketing, communications, finance and industry. She will report into Jason Wood, BFI executive director of programming and audiences.
Lff 2023 will run from October 4 to 15, the BFI has confirmed.
Australian Matheson was recently...
- 3/8/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Who does the industry believe would be a good fit to take over from Tricia Tuttle?
The British Film Institute (BFI) has formally begun its search for a new festivals director to take over from Tricia Tuttle.
Tuttle is moving on after officially taking on the role in 2018, having previously held the post of interim festival director for a year and deputy head of festivals for five years.
The role, which comes with an annual salary of £85,000, will include festival director of the flagship BFI London Film Festival (BFI Lff) and also Lgbtqia+ festival BFI Flare, which next takes place...
The British Film Institute (BFI) has formally begun its search for a new festivals director to take over from Tricia Tuttle.
Tuttle is moving on after officially taking on the role in 2018, having previously held the post of interim festival director for a year and deputy head of festivals for five years.
The role, which comes with an annual salary of £85,000, will include festival director of the flagship BFI London Film Festival (BFI Lff) and also Lgbtqia+ festival BFI Flare, which next takes place...
- 12/14/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Who does the industry believe would be a good fit to take over from Tricia Tuttle?
The British Film Institute (BFI) has formally begun its search for a new festivals director to take over from Tricia Tuttle.
Tuttle is moving on after officially taking on the role in 2018, having previously held the post of interim festival director for a year and deputy head of festivals for five years.
The role, which comes with an annual salary of £85,000, will include festival director of the flagship BFI London Film Festival (BFI Lff) and also Lgbtqia+ festival BFI Flare, which next takes place...
The British Film Institute (BFI) has formally begun its search for a new festivals director to take over from Tricia Tuttle.
Tuttle is moving on after officially taking on the role in 2018, having previously held the post of interim festival director for a year and deputy head of festivals for five years.
The role, which comes with an annual salary of £85,000, will include festival director of the flagship BFI London Film Festival (BFI Lff) and also Lgbtqia+ festival BFI Flare, which next takes place...
- 12/14/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
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Almost 50 years after its release, Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles — Chantal Akerman’s groundbreaking 1975 drama following the meticulous daily routine of a middle-aged widow over the course of three days — has become the first film by a female director to top Sight & Sound magazine’s once-a-decade “Best Films of All Time” poll in 70 years.
More than 1,600 film critics, academics, distributors, writers, curators, archivists and programmers voted in the poll, which the BFI-backed publication has been running since 1952, with the results, announced Thursday, seeing Akerman’s feature — which was heralded by Le Monde in January 1976 as “the first masterpiece of the feminine in the history of the cinema” — leapfrog from 36th position in 2022 to No. 1.
The 2012 winner, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, now sits in second place, with Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (which held the No. 1 spot for 50 years) placed third and Yasujirō Ozu’s Tokyo Story fourth.
Almost 50 years after its release, Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles — Chantal Akerman’s groundbreaking 1975 drama following the meticulous daily routine of a middle-aged widow over the course of three days — has become the first film by a female director to top Sight & Sound magazine’s once-a-decade “Best Films of All Time” poll in 70 years.
More than 1,600 film critics, academics, distributors, writers, curators, archivists and programmers voted in the poll, which the BFI-backed publication has been running since 1952, with the results, announced Thursday, seeing Akerman’s feature — which was heralded by Le Monde in January 1976 as “the first masterpiece of the feminine in the history of the cinema” — leapfrog from 36th position in 2022 to No. 1.
The 2012 winner, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, now sits in second place, with Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (which held the No. 1 spot for 50 years) placed third and Yasujirō Ozu’s Tokyo Story fourth.
- 12/1/2022
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Protest
Oscar and Venice-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras and fellow filmmakers Georgia Oakley (“Blue Jean”), Roberto Minervini (“What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?”) and Ondi Timoner (“Last Flight Home”) were among those who protested against the imprisonment of Iranian filmmakers and other incarcerated artists around the world, and to demonstrate support for the tenacious women of Iran who are challenging for their freedom at the BFI London Film Festival on Monday.
They joined festival director Tricia Tuttle, producer Madeleine Molyneaux (“Gospel Hill”); actors Aurélia Petit (“Saint Omer”) and Taki Mumladze (“A Room of My Own”); actor and writer Mariam Khundadze (“To Batumi and every single memory”); writer Morgan M. Page (“Framing Agnes”); industry leaders Tabitha Jackson, Clare Binns and Jason Wood; and other festival delegates in a moment of solidarity and reflection.
They stood together holding the names of imprisoned Iranian filmmakers Mohammad Rasoulof, Mostafa Al-Ahmad and Jafar Panahi,...
Oscar and Venice-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras and fellow filmmakers Georgia Oakley (“Blue Jean”), Roberto Minervini (“What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?”) and Ondi Timoner (“Last Flight Home”) were among those who protested against the imprisonment of Iranian filmmakers and other incarcerated artists around the world, and to demonstrate support for the tenacious women of Iran who are challenging for their freedom at the BFI London Film Festival on Monday.
They joined festival director Tricia Tuttle, producer Madeleine Molyneaux (“Gospel Hill”); actors Aurélia Petit (“Saint Omer”) and Taki Mumladze (“A Room of My Own”); actor and writer Mariam Khundadze (“To Batumi and every single memory”); writer Morgan M. Page (“Framing Agnes”); industry leaders Tabitha Jackson, Clare Binns and Jason Wood; and other festival delegates in a moment of solidarity and reflection.
They stood together holding the names of imprisoned Iranian filmmakers Mohammad Rasoulof, Mostafa Al-Ahmad and Jafar Panahi,...
- 10/11/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Members of the UK film community came together at the BFI Southbank.
Around 40 members of the UK filmmaking community came together at the BFI Southbank yesterday (October 10) to stand in solidarity with jailed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, the women leading the protest movement in Iran and all those demonstrating for freedom in the country.
BFI London Film Festival director Tricia Tuttle led the event, which was attended by filmmakers and executives including: Picturehouse’s managing director Clare Binns; former Sundance director Tabitha Jackson; All The Beauty And The Bloodshed filmmaker Laura Poitras; Blue Jean director Georgia Oakley; No Kings director...
Around 40 members of the UK filmmaking community came together at the BFI Southbank yesterday (October 10) to stand in solidarity with jailed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, the women leading the protest movement in Iran and all those demonstrating for freedom in the country.
BFI London Film Festival director Tricia Tuttle led the event, which was attended by filmmakers and executives including: Picturehouse’s managing director Clare Binns; former Sundance director Tabitha Jackson; All The Beauty And The Bloodshed filmmaker Laura Poitras; Blue Jean director Georgia Oakley; No Kings director...
- 10/11/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The shortlist will be announced the week beginning October 10.
The final round of judges for Screen’s revamped The Big Screen Awards has been unveiled.
Featured in the final batch of judges are producer, consultant and former president of international marketing at 20th Century Fox Kieran Breen; Netflix’s director of distribution for Emea Hamish Moseley; and Anton’s vice president for international marketing and publicity, Karina Gechtman.
Also joining the judging panel are Warp Films’ joint CEO Mark Herbert, and distribution and marketing consultant at IHeartCinema, Deborah Sheppard.
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The full list of judges for the...
The final round of judges for Screen’s revamped The Big Screen Awards has been unveiled.
Featured in the final batch of judges are producer, consultant and former president of international marketing at 20th Century Fox Kieran Breen; Netflix’s director of distribution for Emea Hamish Moseley; and Anton’s vice president for international marketing and publicity, Karina Gechtman.
Also joining the judging panel are Warp Films’ joint CEO Mark Herbert, and distribution and marketing consultant at IHeartCinema, Deborah Sheppard.
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The full list of judges for the...
- 10/4/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
The first group of confirmed judges also includes actor/producer Ray Panthaki and execs from BFI and Vue.
The first group of judges for The Big Screen Awards 2022, the relaunched version of the Screen Awards, has been announced ahead of the extended entry deadline on September 23.
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Now in their 11th year, the industry awards celebrate the ingenuity, skills and achievements of the people, teams and companies that connect films with the UK’s cinemagoing audiences.
Among the first group of judges confirmed for this year’s awards are Film4 chairman Daniel Battsek, Boiling Point actor/producer Ray Panthaki,...
The first group of judges for The Big Screen Awards 2022, the relaunched version of the Screen Awards, has been announced ahead of the extended entry deadline on September 23.
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Now in their 11th year, the industry awards celebrate the ingenuity, skills and achievements of the people, teams and companies that connect films with the UK’s cinemagoing audiences.
Among the first group of judges confirmed for this year’s awards are Film4 chairman Daniel Battsek, Boiling Point actor/producer Ray Panthaki,...
- 9/12/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Krzysztof Kieślowski's magnum opus for Polish Television is a transcendent 'cycle' of moral tales, each based on one of the Ten Commandments. But sometimes it's difficult to get the connection -- these brilliant mini-movies are pretty tricky. Dekalog Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 837 1988 / Color / 1:33 flat full frame; 1:70 widescreen / 583 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date September 27, 2016 / 99.95 Starring Aleksander Bardini, Janusz Gajos, Krystyna Janda, Bugoslaw Linda, Daniel Olbrychski many others. Cinematography Witold Adamek, Jacek Blawut, Slavomir Idziak, Andrzej Jaroszewicz, Edward Klosinski, Dariusz Kuc, Krzysztof Pakulski, Piotr Sobocinski, Wieslaw Zdort Film Editor Ewa Smal Original Music Zbigniew Preisner Written by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Plesiewicz Produced by Ryszard Chutkowski Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Back in the early 1990s I believe my first access to Polish director Krzystof Kieślowski was a laserdisc of his film The Double Life of Veronique. I also remember a big reaction in 1996 when...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Back in the early 1990s I believe my first access to Polish director Krzystof Kieślowski was a laserdisc of his film The Double Life of Veronique. I also remember a big reaction in 1996 when...
- 10/17/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Picturehouse and former Curzon exec engaged in a heated debate over the changing face of cinemas.
A debate on the price and value of cinema descended into an on-stage war of words at the recent This Way Up exhibition conference in Manchester.
Jason Wood, the artistic director of film at Manchester’s Home arts centre, voiced concern on the panel that cinemas are focussing too little attention on movie audiences.
“I worry that cinemas aren’t seen as cinemas but as somewhere to come to have a drink,” said Wood, who was previously director of programming at Curzon Cinemas.
Referring to the recently opened Picturehouse Central in London’s West End, Wood said: “I think the pricing is outrageous but they’ve named screens after film-makers and prominent industry figures. At least they’re making an effort.
“Some of the other chains, they couldn’t give a fuck. They couldn’t give a fuck about the audiences...
A debate on the price and value of cinema descended into an on-stage war of words at the recent This Way Up exhibition conference in Manchester.
Jason Wood, the artistic director of film at Manchester’s Home arts centre, voiced concern on the panel that cinemas are focussing too little attention on movie audiences.
“I worry that cinemas aren’t seen as cinemas but as somewhere to come to have a drink,” said Wood, who was previously director of programming at Curzon Cinemas.
Referring to the recently opened Picturehouse Central in London’s West End, Wood said: “I think the pricing is outrageous but they’ve named screens after film-makers and prominent industry figures. At least they’re making an effort.
“Some of the other chains, they couldn’t give a fuck. They couldn’t give a fuck about the audiences...
- 12/7/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Well-received race and identity comedy Dear White People marks the first acquisition for The New Black Film Collective but the film faces significant challenges in the UK.
Justin Simien’s Sundance-winning feature debut Dear White People, the identity comedy about the tension between white and black students at an elite university, was a critical and commercial success in the Us.
The low-budget indie – part-backed by crowd-funder Indiegogo - took $4.5m at the Us box office in October and was widely praised by Us and international critics.
Tessa Thompson (Copper) stars alongside well-known TV faces Tyler James Williams (Everybody Hates Chris) and Dennis Haysbert (24) in the film, which carries important messages about race and identity but also “smartly pinpoints people’s universal needs”.
The New York Times’ A.O Scott hailed the film as “as smart and fearless a debut as I have seen from an American filmmaker in quite some time…everyone should...
Justin Simien’s Sundance-winning feature debut Dear White People, the identity comedy about the tension between white and black students at an elite university, was a critical and commercial success in the Us.
The low-budget indie – part-backed by crowd-funder Indiegogo - took $4.5m at the Us box office in October and was widely praised by Us and international critics.
Tessa Thompson (Copper) stars alongside well-known TV faces Tyler James Williams (Everybody Hates Chris) and Dennis Haysbert (24) in the film, which carries important messages about race and identity but also “smartly pinpoints people’s universal needs”.
The New York Times’ A.O Scott hailed the film as “as smart and fearless a debut as I have seen from an American filmmaker in quite some time…everyone should...
- 6/22/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
After five years as Curzon’s director of programming, Jason Wood takes newly-created role of artistic director for Manchester venue.
At Manchester-based Home, Wood will programme international, and contemporary cinema, as well as commission, curate and encourage cross-art form collaboration.
Formed from the merger of Cornerhouse and Library Theatre Company, Home is Manchester’s new purpose-built centre for contemporary visual art, film and theatre.
“Home will offer a recognition of cinema’s rich heritage, historical importance and ability to inspire, provoke and challenge,” said Wood. “Film at Home will act as a space for learning and engagement and a home for curiosity seekers.”
Wood joins Walter Meierjohann and Sarah Perks, in charge of Theatre and Visual Art respectively, in the artistic directorate for the £25m multi-arts venue that will open to the public in spring 2015.
The new building will feature five purpose-built cinema screens as well as digital production and broadcast facilities, a 500-seat...
At Manchester-based Home, Wood will programme international, and contemporary cinema, as well as commission, curate and encourage cross-art form collaboration.
Formed from the merger of Cornerhouse and Library Theatre Company, Home is Manchester’s new purpose-built centre for contemporary visual art, film and theatre.
“Home will offer a recognition of cinema’s rich heritage, historical importance and ability to inspire, provoke and challenge,” said Wood. “Film at Home will act as a space for learning and engagement and a home for curiosity seekers.”
Wood joins Walter Meierjohann and Sarah Perks, in charge of Theatre and Visual Art respectively, in the artistic directorate for the £25m multi-arts venue that will open to the public in spring 2015.
The new building will feature five purpose-built cinema screens as well as digital production and broadcast facilities, a 500-seat...
- 10/30/2014
- ScreenDaily
Box-office takings can soar when it rains … so what happened this year?
The story goes that when Kirk Douglas was filming To Catch A Spy in 1970 on the west coast of Scotland, he grew increasingly exasperated by the relentless bad weather. One day, suffering cabin fever in his dismal hotel, he put on his mac and went out for a walk, taking shelter at a bus stop where his only companion was a young boy. "Tell me, son, does it rain here all the time?" he asked. After a long pause, the boy answered: "I wouldn't know. I'm only 11 years old."
Douglas's experience underlines something Brits have long known: our weather is notoriously unsettled. Drought warnings are no guarantee it won't soon be raining long and hard.
Our film industry remains dangerously dependent on the weather. On an independent film, it is estimated that up to 40% of the potential opening...
The story goes that when Kirk Douglas was filming To Catch A Spy in 1970 on the west coast of Scotland, he grew increasingly exasperated by the relentless bad weather. One day, suffering cabin fever in his dismal hotel, he put on his mac and went out for a walk, taking shelter at a bus stop where his only companion was a young boy. "Tell me, son, does it rain here all the time?" he asked. After a long pause, the boy answered: "I wouldn't know. I'm only 11 years old."
Douglas's experience underlines something Brits have long known: our weather is notoriously unsettled. Drought warnings are no guarantee it won't soon be raining long and hard.
Our film industry remains dangerously dependent on the weather. On an independent film, it is estimated that up to 40% of the potential opening...
- 7/13/2012
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- The Guardian - Film News
"In the late 1950s Terence Rattigan fell victim to time and trend," begins Nigel Andrews in the Financial Times. "You could look up 'unfashionability' in an illustrated dictionary and there was the playwright's mug shot: the Winslow Boy/Browning Version/Deep Blue Sea man looking out glumly into a condemned future. Today, with the Angry Young Playwright generation, his usurpers, looking more like the condemned ones, the cry 'Anyone for Terence?' is heard throughout theatreland. Now it invades cinema. Terence Davies's The Deep Blue Sea is one Terry's tribute to another: a Rattigan play about tortured love in postwar England adapted by the filmmaker who gave us his tortured love paean — love of family, of childhood, of the tender nightmares of growing up in 1950s Liverpool — in Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988). Davis hasn't made a feature since 2000, his film of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. His style doesn't spread easily.
- 11/27/2011
- MUBI
Andrew Kötting will be on hand for a Q&A this evening at the Curzon Renoir in London and he'll be taking his new film, This Our Still Life, to Manchester and Brighton over the coming days as well. The BFI has details. Kötting, notes Sukhdev Sandhu in a profile for the Guardian, "has carved out a singular career encompassing sound art, installation pieces, avant-garde theatre, short films, artists' books and full-length features whose cussedness and often unclassifiable nature has led him to be described as the heir to English dissidents such as Derek Jarman and Peter Greenaway."
Jason Wood for Little White Lies: "Evolving as a series of drawings — now collected in a beautiful book — This Our Still Life offers a beguiling and expansive portrait of 'Louyre,' the remote tumbledown Pyrenean hidey-hole that filmmaker Andrew Kötting shares with his partner Leila McMillan and their daughter Eden (the...
Jason Wood for Little White Lies: "Evolving as a series of drawings — now collected in a beautiful book — This Our Still Life offers a beguiling and expansive portrait of 'Louyre,' the remote tumbledown Pyrenean hidey-hole that filmmaker Andrew Kötting shares with his partner Leila McMillan and their daughter Eden (the...
- 11/21/2011
- MUBI
Short, but sweet, this week. I was out of town pretty much all week and didn’t have time to gather many links, unfortunately. Plus, I’ve been ensconced in a couple of bigger projects that have been eating up tons of my time. But, I had a few links drop pretty much into my lap, so that’s what we’ve got. Here they are:
Sick of the Radio interviewed Bad Lit fave Jon Clark about his music video for “So Unreal,” plus about his work in general. They asked him just about all the questions I would have wanted answered — and a few more.For Moving Image Source, Ed Halter writes a lengthy essay on the formerly “lost” films of philosopher Manuel DeLanda, one of Nick Zedd’s inspirations behind the Cinema of Transgression.Speaking of Transgression — and I usually am — Jay Hollinsworth lets us know about a...
Sick of the Radio interviewed Bad Lit fave Jon Clark about his music video for “So Unreal,” plus about his work in general. They asked him just about all the questions I would have wanted answered — and a few more.For Moving Image Source, Ed Halter writes a lengthy essay on the formerly “lost” films of philosopher Manuel DeLanda, one of Nick Zedd’s inspirations behind the Cinema of Transgression.Speaking of Transgression — and I usually am — Jay Hollinsworth lets us know about a...
- 3/6/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Neils Arden Oplev criticises casting of American actor in lead role of Lisbeth Salander in American version of Swedish film
The director of the original Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has questioned the need for the upcoming American remake, reigniting a long-running war of words over Hollywood raiding foreign language films to repackage them for a global audience.
With an English-language version in the works, to be directed by The Social Network's David Fincher, film-maker Niels Arden Oplev expressed anger at plans to cast an American actor in the lead role of Lisbeth Salander, drawing unflattering comparisons with the Hollywood adaptation of the French film La Femme Nikita, which was poorly received when remade as The Assassin, starring Bridget Fonda in the 1990s.
He told the Word & Film website: "Even in Hollywood there seems to be a kind of anger about the remake; like, 'Why...
The director of the original Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has questioned the need for the upcoming American remake, reigniting a long-running war of words over Hollywood raiding foreign language films to repackage them for a global audience.
With an English-language version in the works, to be directed by The Social Network's David Fincher, film-maker Niels Arden Oplev expressed anger at plans to cast an American actor in the lead role of Lisbeth Salander, drawing unflattering comparisons with the Hollywood adaptation of the French film La Femme Nikita, which was poorly received when remade as The Assassin, starring Bridget Fonda in the 1990s.
He told the Word & Film website: "Even in Hollywood there seems to be a kind of anger about the remake; like, 'Why...
- 11/10/2010
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Actor/screenwriter Jason Segal made one couple's dreams come true on U.S. TV on Tuesday - by presiding over their wedding ceremony.
The Forgetting Sarah Marshall star met fans Abbe Thorner and Jason Wood in a bar in Los Angeles recently and they asked him whether he would do them the honour of hosting their nuptials.
The funnyman agreed and suggested they carry out the ceremony on TV.
The plan came to fruition on Tuesday when Segal used an appearance on Jay Leno's The Tonight Show to marry the pair - the star gained an official licence, Leno served as a witness and the couple's family sat in the studio audience to see them exchange vows.
Segal told the host, "They turned out to be the nicest, most normal fun-loving couple ever. I guess the guys who were supposed to officiate their wedding dropped out and they were watching Sarah Marshall at the time... so they convinced me that I would be an appropriate person to officiate their wedding."...
The Forgetting Sarah Marshall star met fans Abbe Thorner and Jason Wood in a bar in Los Angeles recently and they asked him whether he would do them the honour of hosting their nuptials.
The funnyman agreed and suggested they carry out the ceremony on TV.
The plan came to fruition on Tuesday when Segal used an appearance on Jay Leno's The Tonight Show to marry the pair - the star gained an official licence, Leno served as a witness and the couple's family sat in the studio audience to see them exchange vows.
Segal told the host, "They turned out to be the nicest, most normal fun-loving couple ever. I guess the guys who were supposed to officiate their wedding dropped out and they were watching Sarah Marshall at the time... so they convinced me that I would be an appropriate person to officiate their wedding."...
- 7/7/2010
- WENN
Jay Leno is cranking the guests tonight. Tonight: Actor and newly confirmed minister with the Universal Life Church Jason Segel (.Forgetting Sarah Marshall.) a wedding on NBC.s .The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. (Monday-Friday, 11:35 p.m. Et) on Tuesday, July 6. Tonight.s other guests include Jenni .J-Woww. Farley and Enrique Iglesias. After seeing flyers taped to the trees around his neighborhood asking, .Jason Segel will you marry us?. the actor from the new film .Despicable Me. was approached by lovebirds Abbe Thorner and Jason Wood at his local bar. .They turned out to be the nicest most normal fun-loving couple ever,. said Segel. .I guess the guys who were supposed to officiate their wedding dropped out and they...
- 7/7/2010
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Jason Segel's latest project: How I Met Our Minister. The actor-screenwriter presided over the nuptials of a non-actor couple Tuesday on The Tonight Show. They had watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall and thought that Segel would be the perfect man to marry them. While wearing clothes, of course. Then Abbe Thorner and Jason Wood had the good luck to see Segel at a West Hollywood bar, where they asked him to do the honors. "They turned out to be the nicest, most normal fun-loving couple ever," Segal told Jay Leno. "I guess the guys who were supposed to officiate their wedding dropped out and they were watching Sarah Marshall at the time—which, I mean, most people are—so...
- 7/7/2010
- E! Online
Before you watch the video embedded in this post, I must warn you that you'll most definitely get your cry on. So if you're surrounded by people and don't really want them to see you wiping away tears and sniffling up a storm, you might want to wait until you have some alone time before diving in. Directed and edited by Eliot Rausch, Last Minutes with Oden is a short documentary about a guy who's saying goodbye to his best friend Oden -- a dog that helped bring more love into his life than he could ever possibly imagine.
Throughout the six-minute doc we learn little bits and pieces about Jason Wood, whose dog Oden is sick and needs to be put down. We know Jason spent some time in prison and has been around drugs for a good portion of his life. We also know that Oden came into...
Throughout the six-minute doc we learn little bits and pieces about Jason Wood, whose dog Oden is sick and needs to be put down. We know Jason spent some time in prison and has been around drugs for a good portion of his life. We also know that Oden came into...
- 12/21/2009
- by Erik Davis
- Cinematical
Casting directors came out from behind the curtain to be honored by their peers last night at the 25th Annual Artios Awards. The bi-coastal awards, which were held simultaneously at the new Times Center in New York City and the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, are presented yearly for outstanding achievement in casting in theater, film, and television categories on the criteria of originality, creativity, and contribution of casting to the overall quality of a project.Celebrity awards presenters in New York were Patrick Wilson ("Little Children," "Angels in America"), Carrie Preston ("True Blood"), Michael Shannon ("Revolutionary Road"), Jennifer Morrison ("House"), Bill Pullman ("Oleanna"), Christine Ebersole ("Grey Gardens"), Vincent Kartheiser ("Mad Men"), and Elizabeth Reaser ("Twilight"). Stanley Tucci and producer Daryl Roth presented the New York Big Apple Award to Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron, whose "Love, Loss and What I Wore" recently opened Off-Broadway to rave reviews.
- 11/3/2009
- backstage.com
"Star Trek," "Tropic Thunder," "Milk" and "Up" were among the films honored Monday night as the Casting Society of America held its 25th Artios Awards.
At simultaneous ceremonies at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Century City and the New York Times Building in New York, "Mad Men" and "Flight of the Conchords" were singled out in the TV series categories.
The awards, which recognize originality, creativity and quality in casting, were hosted by actor John Michael Higgins.
A career achievement award was presented to producer Laura Ziskin. Nora and Delia Ephron received the New York Apple Award, and John Frank Levey was the recipient of the Hoyt Bowers Award.
On the film side, the winners were April Webster and Alyssa Weisberg for "Star Trek" in the category of studio feature, drama; Francine Maisler for "Tropic Thunder" (studio feature, comedy); Maisler and Nina Henninger (location casting) for "Milk" (indie...
At simultaneous ceremonies at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Century City and the New York Times Building in New York, "Mad Men" and "Flight of the Conchords" were singled out in the TV series categories.
The awards, which recognize originality, creativity and quality in casting, were hosted by actor John Michael Higgins.
A career achievement award was presented to producer Laura Ziskin. Nora and Delia Ephron received the New York Apple Award, and John Frank Levey was the recipient of the Hoyt Bowers Award.
On the film side, the winners were April Webster and Alyssa Weisberg for "Star Trek" in the category of studio feature, drama; Francine Maisler for "Tropic Thunder" (studio feature, comedy); Maisler and Nina Henninger (location casting) for "Milk" (indie...
- 11/3/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Producer Laura Ziskin, writer-director Nora Ephron, writer Delia Ephron and casting director John Frank Levey will be honored at the Casting Society of America's 24th annual Artios Awards.
Simultaneous awards ceremonies will be held in at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles and the New York Times Building in New York on Nov. 2.
Ziskin is set to receive the group's Career Achievement Award. The New York Apple Award will be presented to Nora and Delia Ephron. Levy is this year's recipient of the Hoyt Bowers Award.
Representing 425 members in the United States, Canada, England and Australia, Cas also announced its nominees in film TV and theater on Thursday.
In the category of big budget feature drama, Ellen Chenoweth scored two noms for "Changeling" and "Duplicity." The category nominees are John Papsidera for "The Dark Knight"; April Webster and Alyssa Weisberg for "Star Trek" and Avy Kaufman for "State of Play.
Simultaneous awards ceremonies will be held in at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles and the New York Times Building in New York on Nov. 2.
Ziskin is set to receive the group's Career Achievement Award. The New York Apple Award will be presented to Nora and Delia Ephron. Levy is this year's recipient of the Hoyt Bowers Award.
Representing 425 members in the United States, Canada, England and Australia, Cas also announced its nominees in film TV and theater on Thursday.
In the category of big budget feature drama, Ellen Chenoweth scored two noms for "Changeling" and "Duplicity." The category nominees are John Papsidera for "The Dark Knight"; April Webster and Alyssa Weisberg for "Star Trek" and Avy Kaufman for "State of Play.
- 9/17/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"No Country for Old Men" and "Juno," two of the most honored films of 2007, made one more appearance on the awards circuit Monday night as they took home top prizes at the Casting Society of America's 24th Artios Awards.
Recognizing outstanding achievement in casting, the awards, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Century City, singled out Oscar winner "No Country" in the studio feature-drama category, with the trophy going to Ellen Chenoweth and Jo Edna Boldin (location casting). In the studio feature-comedy category, the winners were Mindy Marin, Coreen Mayres (location) and Heike Brandstatter (location) for "Juno."
The group gave its Career Achievement Award to producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. Thomas Schumacher received the New York Apple Award at a simultaneous event in New York hosted by Julie Halston, and the Hoyt Bowers Award was presented to the late Mali Finn.
Donna Morong...
Recognizing outstanding achievement in casting, the awards, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Century City, singled out Oscar winner "No Country" in the studio feature-drama category, with the trophy going to Ellen Chenoweth and Jo Edna Boldin (location casting). In the studio feature-comedy category, the winners were Mindy Marin, Coreen Mayres (location) and Heike Brandstatter (location) for "Juno."
The group gave its Career Achievement Award to producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. Thomas Schumacher received the New York Apple Award at a simultaneous event in New York hosted by Julie Halston, and the Hoyt Bowers Award was presented to the late Mali Finn.
Donna Morong...
- 11/11/2008
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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