As is annual tradition, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has announced this year’s 25 film set to join the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Selected for their “cultural, historic and/or aesthetic importance,” the films picked range from such beloved actioners as “Die Hard,” childhood classic “The Goonies,” the seminal “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” and the mind-bending “Memento,” with plenty of other genres and styles represented among the list.
The additions span 1905 to 2000, and includes Hollywood blockbusters, documentaries, silent movies, animation, shorts, independent, and even home movies. The 2017 selections bring the number of films in the registry to 725.
“The selection of a film to the National Film Registry recognizes its importance to American cinema and the nation’s cultural and historical heritage,” Hayden said in an official statement. “Our love affair with motion pictures is a testament to their enduring power to enlighten, inspire and...
The additions span 1905 to 2000, and includes Hollywood blockbusters, documentaries, silent movies, animation, shorts, independent, and even home movies. The 2017 selections bring the number of films in the registry to 725.
“The selection of a film to the National Film Registry recognizes its importance to American cinema and the nation’s cultural and historical heritage,” Hayden said in an official statement. “Our love affair with motion pictures is a testament to their enduring power to enlighten, inspire and...
- 12/13/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Since 1989, the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress has been accomplishing the important task of preserving films that “represent important cultural, artistic and historic achievements in filmmaking.” From films way back in 1897 all the way up to 2004, they’ve now reached 725 films that celebrate our heritage and encapsulate our film history.
Today they’ve unveiled their 2017 list, which includes such Hollywood classics as Die Hard, Titanic, and Superman along with groundbreaking independent features like Yvonne Rainer’s Lives of Performers, Charles Burnett’s To Sleep with Anger, and Barbara Loden’s Wanda. Also making this list are a pair of Kirk Douglas-led features, Ace in the Hole and Spartacus, as well as Christopher Nolan’s Memento and more. Check out the full list below and you can watch some films on the registry for free here.
Ace in the Hole (aka Big Carnival) (1951)
Based on the infamous...
Today they’ve unveiled their 2017 list, which includes such Hollywood classics as Die Hard, Titanic, and Superman along with groundbreaking independent features like Yvonne Rainer’s Lives of Performers, Charles Burnett’s To Sleep with Anger, and Barbara Loden’s Wanda. Also making this list are a pair of Kirk Douglas-led features, Ace in the Hole and Spartacus, as well as Christopher Nolan’s Memento and more. Check out the full list below and you can watch some films on the registry for free here.
Ace in the Hole (aka Big Carnival) (1951)
Based on the infamous...
- 12/13/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
On July 11, 1997, Robert Zemeckis unveiled his sci-fi adaptation of Carl Sagan's Contact, starring Jodie Foster. The Hollywood Reporter's original review is below.
If you build it, they will come. This time we're not talking about ballparks and baseball players, but rather satellite dishes and intelligent extraterrestrial life, as an unconventional astronomer obsesses to connect with other life in the universe.
A distillation of the late Carl Sagan's best-seller Contact, this filmic adaptation is also constructed with generic sci-fi components and characters and draws on blueprints from such filmic predecessors as Close Encounters of the Third Kind. But...
If you build it, they will come. This time we're not talking about ballparks and baseball players, but rather satellite dishes and intelligent extraterrestrial life, as an unconventional astronomer obsesses to connect with other life in the universe.
A distillation of the late Carl Sagan's best-seller Contact, this filmic adaptation is also constructed with generic sci-fi components and characters and draws on blueprints from such filmic predecessors as Close Encounters of the Third Kind. But...
- 7/10/2017
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If you build it, Ellen DeGeneres will come — sort of.
A Polish vlogger by the name of Lukasz Jakobiak took his obsession for The Ellen DeGeneres Show to a whole new level by creating a faux set, hiring a film crew and enlisting the help of an DeGeneres lookalike all for a fake interview.
The prank began in early March when Jakobiak told his social media followers that his dreams of meeting the long-time host were finally going to be met. He took to Instagram to shared photos of himself with the DeGeneres doppelganger smiling “on set” of the hit daytime show.
A Polish vlogger by the name of Lukasz Jakobiak took his obsession for The Ellen DeGeneres Show to a whole new level by creating a faux set, hiring a film crew and enlisting the help of an DeGeneres lookalike all for a fake interview.
The prank began in early March when Jakobiak told his social media followers that his dreams of meeting the long-time host were finally going to be met. He took to Instagram to shared photos of himself with the DeGeneres doppelganger smiling “on set” of the hit daytime show.
- 3/28/2017
- by Brittany King
- PEOPLE.com
If you build it, will they come? That’s the question that newly launched Filmstruck must face. The Criterion Collection and Turner Classic Movies’ launch of the new streaming service on Tuesday represents one of the most ambitious undertakings yet in the world of subscription video-on-demand entertainment. (Check out our list of five great films available on the platform now.)
Starting today, FilmStruck is offering hundreds of hard-to-find, critically acclaimed movies and bonus features for $6.99 per month, playing titles from Criterion, Janus Films and Zeitgeist as well as movies from Hollywood studios like Warner Bros. (The platform was originally scheduled to go live on October 19 before issues with the sign-up process required roughly a two-week delay.)
Read More: Inside Criterion’s Plan to Disrupt Streaming Video
For $10.99 per month, subscribers will also have access to the entire Criterion library through The Criterion Channel, an add-on service offering the company’s more than 1,000 movies,...
Starting today, FilmStruck is offering hundreds of hard-to-find, critically acclaimed movies and bonus features for $6.99 per month, playing titles from Criterion, Janus Films and Zeitgeist as well as movies from Hollywood studios like Warner Bros. (The platform was originally scheduled to go live on October 19 before issues with the sign-up process required roughly a two-week delay.)
Read More: Inside Criterion’s Plan to Disrupt Streaming Video
For $10.99 per month, subscribers will also have access to the entire Criterion library through The Criterion Channel, an add-on service offering the company’s more than 1,000 movies,...
- 11/1/2016
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Field of Dreams returns to the big screen this fallField of Dreams returns to the big screen this fallIngrid Randoja - Cineplex Magazine9/8/2016 9:39:00 Am
One of the best movies about baseball, fathers and sons, following your dreams and the metaphysical nature of corn, Field of Dreams (1989) touches all the bases.
Based on Canadian author W.P. Kinsella’s novel "Shoeless Joe", the film finds Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) hearing a voice that says, “If you build it, he will come,” which compels him to build a baseball diamond in his cornfield.
He is also compelled to find reclusive writer Terence Mann (James Earl Jones), seek out the ghost of dead baseball player-turned-doctor Archie “Moonlight” Graham (Burt Lancaster) and finally make peace with his deceased dad.
It’s a sentimental film, but in the best way possible, and that’s why Costner wanted to be part of the...
One of the best movies about baseball, fathers and sons, following your dreams and the metaphysical nature of corn, Field of Dreams (1989) touches all the bases.
Based on Canadian author W.P. Kinsella’s novel "Shoeless Joe", the film finds Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) hearing a voice that says, “If you build it, he will come,” which compels him to build a baseball diamond in his cornfield.
He is also compelled to find reclusive writer Terence Mann (James Earl Jones), seek out the ghost of dead baseball player-turned-doctor Archie “Moonlight” Graham (Burt Lancaster) and finally make peace with his deceased dad.
It’s a sentimental film, but in the best way possible, and that’s why Costner wanted to be part of the...
- 9/8/2016
- by Ingrid Randoja - Cineplex Magazine
- Cineplex
Beyond the Movies: Top Six Cineplex Events in SeptemberBeyond the Movies: Top Six Cineplex Events in SeptemberJenny Bullough9/7/2016 12:10:00 Pm
From Spock to Shakespeare, Michael Buble to The Beatles, there’s a lot going on in Cineplex Events this month! Here are our top picks for what’s onscreen in September besides movies.
For the Love of Spock – Sept. 9
A one-of-a-kind documentary sure to unite trekkies worldwide, For the Love of Spock tells the life of Star Trek’s Mr. Spock and the actor who played him, Leonard Nimoy, for nearly fifty years. Through interviews with his family, friends, and co-stars, get to know the real Leonard Nimoy beyond the famous ears. Featuring Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Zachary Quinto, Jj Abrams, William Shatner, and Nimoy himself.
Check out the trailer below and click here for tickets and showtimes:
Field of Dreams (Classic Film Series) – Sept.
From Spock to Shakespeare, Michael Buble to The Beatles, there’s a lot going on in Cineplex Events this month! Here are our top picks for what’s onscreen in September besides movies.
For the Love of Spock – Sept. 9
A one-of-a-kind documentary sure to unite trekkies worldwide, For the Love of Spock tells the life of Star Trek’s Mr. Spock and the actor who played him, Leonard Nimoy, for nearly fifty years. Through interviews with his family, friends, and co-stars, get to know the real Leonard Nimoy beyond the famous ears. Featuring Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Zachary Quinto, Jj Abrams, William Shatner, and Nimoy himself.
Check out the trailer below and click here for tickets and showtimes:
Field of Dreams (Classic Film Series) – Sept.
- 9/7/2016
- by Jenny Bullough
- Cineplex
It's summer vacation for Colorado high school teacher Kendal Unruh - but instead of taking a break, she's trying to take down Donald Trump. Unruh, a conservative activist, is a delegate on the Rules Committee of the Republican National Convention, according to NBC News. She hopes to use her position within the committee to convince other Gop party members that delegates are not required to vote for Trump. Helming the joint mission of the groups Free the Delegates and Delegates Unbound along with ally Dane Waters, Unruh is charging that Rnc primary results are not binding: "It's a preference poll,...
- 7/14/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- PEOPLE.com
It's summer vacation for Colorado high school teacher Kendal Unruh - but instead of taking a break, she's trying to take down Donald Trump. Unruh, a conservative activist, is a delegate on the Rules Committee of the Republican National Convention, according to NBC News. She hopes to use her position within the committee to convince other Gop party members that delegates are not required to vote for Trump. Helming the joint mission of the groups Free the Delegates and Delegates Unbound along with ally Dane Waters, Unruh is charging that Rnc primary results are not binding: "It's a preference poll,...
- 7/14/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- PEOPLE.com
At least some people are in favor of Donald Trump's plans for a "big, beautiful wall" - and apparently they're willing to help build it. Bristol Palin's new husband, Dakota Meyer, shared a photo on Instagram featuring himself alongside in-laws Sarah Palin and Todd Palin wearing shirts that read "Border Wall Construction Co." Meyer, 28, lifts a wood beam over his head as his in-laws smile and hold construction equipment. "Never a dull moment," Mayer captioned the picture along with three tears of joy emoji. The shirt is being sold by Breitbart and features the tagline, "If you build it,...
- 7/13/2016
- by Stephanie Petit, @stephpetit_
- PEOPLE.com
At least some people are in favor of Donald Trump's plans for a "big, beautiful wall" - and apparently they're willing to help build it. Bristol Palin's new husband, Dakota Meyer, shared a photo on Instagram featuring himself alongside in-laws Sarah Palin and Todd Palin wearing shirts that read "Border Wall Construction Co." Meyer, 28, lifts a wood beam over his head as his in-laws smile and hold construction equipment. "Never a dull moment," Mayer captioned the picture along with three tears of joy emoji. The shirt is being sold by Breitbart and features the tagline, "If you build it,...
- 7/13/2016
- by Stephanie Petit, @stephpetit_
- PEOPLE.com
This past weekend, Hollywood celebrated the 7th annual Turner Classic Movie Film Festival, and this year’s slate of films did not disappoint.
Shown over 4 days and in multiple theaters along Hollywood Boulevard, the festival continues to draw bigger and bigger crowds each year.
This year’s festival treated classic film fans to over 70 movies and special guests, including Angela Lansbury, Faye Dunaway, Rita Moreno, Francis Ford Coppola, and Carl Reiner – just to name a few.
With so many films showing, its hard to choose what to see, but Wamg attended a few of the classics, along with some special presentations.
Field Of Dreams (1989)
The story goes that while Kevin Costner was filming Bull Durham (1988) he came across the script for Field of Dreams. Producers weren’t holding out for him because they assumed he wouldn’t want to do 2 “baseball movies” in a row. And thank god they were wrong.
Shown over 4 days and in multiple theaters along Hollywood Boulevard, the festival continues to draw bigger and bigger crowds each year.
This year’s festival treated classic film fans to over 70 movies and special guests, including Angela Lansbury, Faye Dunaway, Rita Moreno, Francis Ford Coppola, and Carl Reiner – just to name a few.
With so many films showing, its hard to choose what to see, but Wamg attended a few of the classics, along with some special presentations.
Field Of Dreams (1989)
The story goes that while Kevin Costner was filming Bull Durham (1988) he came across the script for Field of Dreams. Producers weren’t holding out for him because they assumed he wouldn’t want to do 2 “baseball movies” in a row. And thank god they were wrong.
- 5/3/2016
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Craig Keller and Uncas Blythe continue our series of film dialogues. Isiah Medina's 88:88 is having its exclusive online premiere at Mubi, playing through April 17, 2016.Craig Keller: We're going to talk about Isiah Medina's 66-minute film from 2015, 88:88. It's a challenging movie: polyphonic, polypictorial, but not confrontational, in fact pretty chilled-out; if it were featured on Top Gear the hosts might praise its speed, dynamic facility, and stability of suspension. 88:88 presents Medina himself and a group of friends or characters from university in and around the neighborhoods of Winnipeg.Now I'll refrain from synopsizing any more. I had a hard time with the film, but like any complicated work revisitations in whole and in part yield stronger comprehension; accordingly, new insights rise to the surface. Going back through it again the other day I started by watching only the first ten minutes, which provide an overture,...
- 4/5/2016
- by Craig Keller
- MUBI
In the midst of March Madness and with the Kentucky Derby around the corner, the first pitch of baseball season is almost here.
A quote from Field Of Dreams best describes America’s national pastime, “The one constant throughout the years has been baseball.”
To mark the start of the 2016 season, here’s our list of the Best Baseball movies.
The Bad News Bears
Considered by some to be the best baseball movie ever, the film celebrates its 40th anniversary this month (April 7, 1976). In an article from the NY Daily News, one line reads, “It is a movie that someone like the late Philip Seymour Hoffman called his favorite, and one which resonates on many levels today, with all different generations.”
Who are we to argue with greatness?
After skewering all-American subjects such as politics (The Candidate) and beauty pageants (Smile), director Michael Ritchie naturally set his sights on the...
A quote from Field Of Dreams best describes America’s national pastime, “The one constant throughout the years has been baseball.”
To mark the start of the 2016 season, here’s our list of the Best Baseball movies.
The Bad News Bears
Considered by some to be the best baseball movie ever, the film celebrates its 40th anniversary this month (April 7, 1976). In an article from the NY Daily News, one line reads, “It is a movie that someone like the late Philip Seymour Hoffman called his favorite, and one which resonates on many levels today, with all different generations.”
Who are we to argue with greatness?
After skewering all-American subjects such as politics (The Candidate) and beauty pageants (Smile), director Michael Ritchie naturally set his sights on the...
- 4/4/2016
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” So spoke the great Vermonter and philosopher, Professor and Doctor John Dewey. At its core, If You Build It is about that universal truth.
The story does not lack for authentic human drama. The school superintendent, Dr. Chip Zullinger, of bitterly impoverished Bertie County, North Carolina, takes a chance in a failing area and brings two innovative, untraditional new educators to his high school. Designer Emily Pilloton and architect Matt Miller arrive with heady dreams of revitalizing an area on its knees and set up a shop class, entitled “Studio H,” for ten high school juniors, with the objective of teaching design, and then actually building the students’ project – a Farmer’s Market for the town. Not long after, Zullinger is fired by a frustratingly inept school board stuck in old, broken ways, and Matt and Emily lose their funding.
The story does not lack for authentic human drama. The school superintendent, Dr. Chip Zullinger, of bitterly impoverished Bertie County, North Carolina, takes a chance in a failing area and brings two innovative, untraditional new educators to his high school. Designer Emily Pilloton and architect Matt Miller arrive with heady dreams of revitalizing an area on its knees and set up a shop class, entitled “Studio H,” for ten high school juniors, with the objective of teaching design, and then actually building the students’ project – a Farmer’s Market for the town. Not long after, Zullinger is fired by a frustratingly inept school board stuck in old, broken ways, and Matt and Emily lose their funding.
- 8/20/2015
- by Kyle North
- JustPressPlay.net
Jurassic World, Age of Ultron, Fast & Furious 7 and Fifty Shades of Grey push first-half movie visits to 83m as UK independent films enjoy 25% rise in takings
If you build it, they will come. The glut of successful blockbusters released in cinemas in the first half of the year has resulted in a sharp increase in the numbers of British filmgoers, compared with last year.
The British Film Institute said there were 83.1m admissions to British cinemas between January and June 2015, an increase of 10% on the 75.5m visits in the same period in 2014.
Continue reading...
If you build it, they will come. The glut of successful blockbusters released in cinemas in the first half of the year has resulted in a sharp increase in the numbers of British filmgoers, compared with last year.
The British Film Institute said there were 83.1m admissions to British cinemas between January and June 2015, an increase of 10% on the 75.5m visits in the same period in 2014.
Continue reading...
- 7/24/2015
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
'San Andreas' movie with Dwayne Johnson. 'San Andreas' movie box office: $100 million domestic milestone today As the old saying (sort of) goes: If you build it, they will come. Warner Bros. built a gigantic video game, called it San Andreas, and They have come to check out Dwayne Johnson perform miraculous deeds not seen since ... George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road, released two weeks earlier. Embraced by moviegoers, hungry for quality, original storylines and well-delineated characters – and with the assistance of 3D surcharges – the San Andreas movie debuted with $54.58 million from 3,777 theaters on its first weekend out (May 29-31) in North America. Down a perfectly acceptable 52 percent on its second weekend (June 5-7), the special effects-laden actioner collected an extra $25.83 million, trailing only the Melissa McCarthy-Jason Statham comedy Spy, (with $29.08 million) as found at Box Office Mojo.* And that's how this original movie – it's not officially a remake,...
- 6/9/2015
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Is this heaven? Nope, it’s Opening Week.
Recently Mlb rounded up a group of players to recite, word for word, James Earl Jones’ famous “people will come, Ray” speech from Field Of Dreams.
Wamg declares America’s national pastime, Baseball, to be the official sport of movie fans everywhere. As Brad Pitt said in Moneyball, “How can you not be romantic about Baseball?”
It all started Sunday night with the Cardinals at the Cubs with St. Louis winning 3 to 0.
To celebrate the first pitch of Opening Week, here’s our list of the best Baseball movies.
The Rookie
One of the best baseball biopics to come along over the years, The Rookie, starring Dennis Quaid, tells the true story of Jim Morris, a man who finally gets a shot at his lifelong dream-pitching in the big leagues. A high school science teacher/baseball coach, Morris’ players make a bet with him:if they win district,...
Recently Mlb rounded up a group of players to recite, word for word, James Earl Jones’ famous “people will come, Ray” speech from Field Of Dreams.
Wamg declares America’s national pastime, Baseball, to be the official sport of movie fans everywhere. As Brad Pitt said in Moneyball, “How can you not be romantic about Baseball?”
It all started Sunday night with the Cardinals at the Cubs with St. Louis winning 3 to 0.
To celebrate the first pitch of Opening Week, here’s our list of the best Baseball movies.
The Rookie
One of the best baseball biopics to come along over the years, The Rookie, starring Dennis Quaid, tells the true story of Jim Morris, a man who finally gets a shot at his lifelong dream-pitching in the big leagues. A high school science teacher/baseball coach, Morris’ players make a bet with him:if they win district,...
- 4/6/2015
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
If you build it, they will come. What worked for Wayne's World 2 rang equally true for the Jameson Empire Awards 2015 with the red carpet rolled out at London's Grosvenor Hotel and an array of stars, filmmakers and movie luminaries striding it on their way into Empire magazine's night of nights. Manicams were out; movie lovers were in, with this year's carpet thronged on all sides by a fan phalanx. In attendance were Jessica Chastain, her Interstellar director Christopher Nolan, Karen Gillan, the Paddington ensemble, Hayley Atwell, Daniel Radcliffe, Olga Kurylenko, Andy Serkis, Mark Strong, a Westeros house's worth of Game Of Thrones cast members, Simon Pegg, Henry Cavill and Ralph Fiennes. Click on the images below for the full gallery. © Getty Images ...
- 3/29/2015
- EmpireOnline
The latest, and probably final, trailer for Joss Whedon's Avengers: Age Of Ultron offered yet more clues. We take a deeper look...
Yesterday, Marvel released the final Avengers: Age Of Ultron trailer before the film's release. And that means one last look at the interesting things the trailer has revealed. Everyone ready?
Inevitably, some spoilers for Avengers: Age Of Ultron lie ahead...
If You Build It…
"I tried to create a suit of armor around the world," says Tony Stark, accompanied by footage of his trademark robotic arms assembling… something. It's pretty clear by this point that Ultron is the result of Tony Stark's attempt to come up with a way to protect the planet from another Chitauri-style invasion, but is this just one of the drones, or is it Ultron assembling himself?
Of course, the nature of Ultron means that there are going to be a lot of...
Yesterday, Marvel released the final Avengers: Age Of Ultron trailer before the film's release. And that means one last look at the interesting things the trailer has revealed. Everyone ready?
Inevitably, some spoilers for Avengers: Age Of Ultron lie ahead...
If You Build It…
"I tried to create a suit of armor around the world," says Tony Stark, accompanied by footage of his trademark robotic arms assembling… something. It's pretty clear by this point that Ultron is the result of Tony Stark's attempt to come up with a way to protect the planet from another Chitauri-style invasion, but is this just one of the drones, or is it Ultron assembling himself?
Of course, the nature of Ultron means that there are going to be a lot of...
- 3/5/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
From Kingsman, the moment he was set to direct Casino Royale, to the lost Stardust 2, here's our chat with director Matthew Vaughn...
It's no secret that Matthew Vaughn was, under the original plan, going to move on to X-Men: Days Of Future Past after his success with X-Men: First Class. But instead, the director of Kick-Ass, Stardust and Layer Cake opted for Kingsman: The Secret Service instead.
In a chat ahead of the release of the new film, he tells us about why, about queuing up for effects shots, and the Stardust sequel that never was...
When I saw the film you came in and did a brief introduction. You described it then as the film you're most proud of doing to date. But why? Given some of the films you've made in the past, what made this one so special to you?
Because it was a culmination of everything...
It's no secret that Matthew Vaughn was, under the original plan, going to move on to X-Men: Days Of Future Past after his success with X-Men: First Class. But instead, the director of Kick-Ass, Stardust and Layer Cake opted for Kingsman: The Secret Service instead.
In a chat ahead of the release of the new film, he tells us about why, about queuing up for effects shots, and the Stardust sequel that never was...
When I saw the film you came in and did a brief introduction. You described it then as the film you're most proud of doing to date. But why? Given some of the films you've made in the past, what made this one so special to you?
Because it was a culmination of everything...
- 1/26/2015
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Nikki Rocco, one of the film industry’s game changers and revolutionaries, will retire from Universal Pictures tomorrow as its President of Distribution, a post she held for 19 years as part of her 47-year run with the studio that began at age 17 (Deadline announced the news back in April). Rocco is an anomaly: Not only has she survived countless regime changes in a dog-eat-dog business, but as the first female distribution head she rallied Universal past the $1B mark nine times (2000, 2003, 2005, 2007-08, 2011-14), with last year’s $1.42B haul marking an all-time high for the studio. Such box office feats have been achieved by Rocco not only by meeting moviegoers head-on during prime seasons such as summer and the year-end holidays but in her boldness to successfully launch titles and cater to crowds on weekends that rival distrib chiefs underestimated.
Before any Marvel film broke an opening record during the first weekend of May,...
Before any Marvel film broke an opening record during the first weekend of May,...
- 12/31/2014
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline
Staying relevant. It is a fear actors, directors, content creators, and to be honest, most human beings grapple with constantly. The more than half-century year-old Sunset Boulevard exemplified this fear in the delusional Gloria Swanson. And while I’m sure this obsession is a random extraneous facet of the greatly evolved human consciousness, it may be spin-off on our desire to survive.
This wasn’t part of Birdman. This was Emma Stone actually telling Mk the truth.
“If you build it they will come.” While that may have been true at one time, many have since ‘built’ and the audience has been spread thinly. We see the loss of audience at the Elks Theatre weekly. And while the theater hasn’t changed, I understand audiences’ needs have. It’s clear there are more and more forms of entertainment available instantly, and cost and convenience is absolutely the apogee of necessity in the realm of entertainment.
This wasn’t part of Birdman. This was Emma Stone actually telling Mk the truth.
“If you build it they will come.” While that may have been true at one time, many have since ‘built’ and the audience has been spread thinly. We see the loss of audience at the Elks Theatre weekly. And while the theater hasn’t changed, I understand audiences’ needs have. It’s clear there are more and more forms of entertainment available instantly, and cost and convenience is absolutely the apogee of necessity in the realm of entertainment.
- 11/24/2014
- by Max Einhorn
- Hope for Film
While baseball has become a multi-million and billion dollar sport both in the United States and countries around the world, the "Field Of Dreams" aphorism (slightly tweaked for our purposes) still remains true: "If you build it, they will come." And in the forthcoming documentary "Opposite Field," the diamond is the place where opportunities for a better future lie. Directed by Jay Shapiro, for the three years the filmmaker followed Ugandan coach George Mukhobe, a mentor to young baseball players, who pursues the dream to lead the first African team into the Little League World Series. But as you'll see in this exclusive clip, Mukhobe sees the sport as much more than just a route to making his place in history — it's an opportunity to change his life, and the lives of those around him. "Opposite Field" screens at Doc NYC this week. Watch below.
- 11/17/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Whoopsy. I forgot to share this list... Herewith the films that could be up for Best Documentary Feature this year. We'll get a finalist of 15 at some point next month followed by 5 nominees in January "until we crown A Winnah!" If we've reviewed the titles, you'll notice their pretty color which you can then click on to read about them. The magic of the internet. You can also see the animated and documentary Oscar charts here.
The 134 Semi-Finalists
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Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq, Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case, Algorithms, Alive Inside, All You Need Is Love, Altina, America: Imagine the World without Her, American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, Anita, Antarctica: A Year on Ice, Art and Craft, Awake: The Life of Yogananda, The Barefoot Artist, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, Before You Know It, Bitter Honey, Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity, Botso The Teacher from Tbilisi,...
The 134 Semi-Finalists
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Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq, Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case, Algorithms, Alive Inside, All You Need Is Love, Altina, America: Imagine the World without Her, American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, Anita, Antarctica: A Year on Ice, Art and Craft, Awake: The Life of Yogananda, The Barefoot Artist, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, Before You Know It, Bitter Honey, Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity, Botso The Teacher from Tbilisi,...
- 11/3/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
One hundred thirty-four features have been submitted for consideration in the Documentary Feature category for the 87th Academy Awards. A shortlist of 15 films will be announced in December.
The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are:
“Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq”
“Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case”
“Algorithms”
“Alive Inside”
“All You Need Is Love”
“Altina”
“America: Imagine the World without Her”
“American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs”
“Anita”
“Antarctica: A Year on Ice”
“Art and Craft”
“Awake: The Life of Yogananda”
“The Barefoot Artist”
“The Battered Bastards of Baseball”
“Before You Know It”
“Bitter Honey”
“Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity”
“Botso The Teacher from Tbilisi”
“Captivated The Trials of Pamela Smart”
“The Case against 8”
“Cesar’s Last Fast”
“Citizen Koch”
“CitizenFour”
“Code Black”
“Concerning Violence”
“The Culture High”
“Cyber-Seniors”
“DamNation”
“Dancing in Jaffa”
“Death Metal Angola”
“The Decent One”
“Dinosaur 13”
“Do You Know What My Name Is?...
The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are:
“Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq”
“Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case”
“Algorithms”
“Alive Inside”
“All You Need Is Love”
“Altina”
“America: Imagine the World without Her”
“American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs”
“Anita”
“Antarctica: A Year on Ice”
“Art and Craft”
“Awake: The Life of Yogananda”
“The Barefoot Artist”
“The Battered Bastards of Baseball”
“Before You Know It”
“Bitter Honey”
“Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity”
“Botso The Teacher from Tbilisi”
“Captivated The Trials of Pamela Smart”
“The Case against 8”
“Cesar’s Last Fast”
“Citizen Koch”
“CitizenFour”
“Code Black”
“Concerning Violence”
“The Culture High”
“Cyber-Seniors”
“DamNation”
“Dancing in Jaffa”
“Death Metal Angola”
“The Decent One”
“Dinosaur 13”
“Do You Know What My Name Is?...
- 11/2/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Citizenfour, Life Itself, Red Army, Warsaw Uprising among long-list contenters for the 87th Academy Awards.
The Salt Of The Earth, Happy Valley, Jodorowsky’s Dune, Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, Food Chains and Point And Shoot are also named.
The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are:
20,000 Days On Earth
Afternoon Of A Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
Algorithms
Alive Inside
All You Need Is Love
Altina
America: Imagine The World Without Her
American Revolutionary: The Evolution Of Grace Lee Boggs
Anita
Antarctica: A Year On Ice
Art And Craft
Awake: The Life Of Yogananda
The Barefoot Artist
The Battered Bastards Of Baseball
Before You Know It
Bitter Honey
Born To Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity
Botso The Teacher From Tbilisi
Captivated The Trials Of Pamela Smart
The Case Against 8
Cesar’s Last Fast
Citizen Koch
Citizenfour
Code Black
Concerning Violence
The Culture High
Cyber-Seniors
Damnation
Dancing In Jaffa
Death Metal Angola
The...
The Salt Of The Earth, Happy Valley, Jodorowsky’s Dune, Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, Food Chains and Point And Shoot are also named.
The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are:
20,000 Days On Earth
Afternoon Of A Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
Algorithms
Alive Inside
All You Need Is Love
Altina
America: Imagine The World Without Her
American Revolutionary: The Evolution Of Grace Lee Boggs
Anita
Antarctica: A Year On Ice
Art And Craft
Awake: The Life Of Yogananda
The Barefoot Artist
The Battered Bastards Of Baseball
Before You Know It
Bitter Honey
Born To Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity
Botso The Teacher From Tbilisi
Captivated The Trials Of Pamela Smart
The Case Against 8
Cesar’s Last Fast
Citizen Koch
Citizenfour
Code Black
Concerning Violence
The Culture High
Cyber-Seniors
Damnation
Dancing In Jaffa
Death Metal Angola
The...
- 10/31/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released its list of 134 film vying for the Best Feature Documentary Oscar at the 87th Annual Academy Awards in February. A number of the nonfic hopefuls have yet to get their required Los Angeles and New York qualifying releases. Those that don’t will be cut from the contention. A shortlist of 15 films will be announced in December. Oscar noms will be revealed January 15, and ABC will broadcast Hollywood’s Big Night live on February 22 from the Dolby Theatre.
Here are the docu feature submissions:
Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
Algorithms
Alive Inside
All You Need Is Love
Altina
America: Imagine the World without Her
American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
Anita
Antarctica: A Year on Ice
Art and Craft
Awake: The Life of Yogananda
The Barefoot Artist
The Battered Bastards of Baseball...
Here are the docu feature submissions:
Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
Algorithms
Alive Inside
All You Need Is Love
Altina
America: Imagine the World without Her
American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
Anita
Antarctica: A Year on Ice
Art and Craft
Awake: The Life of Yogananda
The Barefoot Artist
The Battered Bastards of Baseball...
- 10/31/2014
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline
One hundred thirty-four features have been submitted for consideration in the Documentary Feature category for the 87th Academy Awards®. Several of the films have not yet had their required Los Angeles and New York qualifying releases. Submitted features must fulfill the theatrical release requirements and comply with all of the category's other qualifying rules in order to advance in the voting process. A shortlist of 15 films will be announced in December. Films submitted in the Documentary Feature category also may qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture, provided they meet the requirements for those categories. The 87th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 15, 2015, at 5:30 a.m. Pt in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater. The Oscars® will be held on Sunday, February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar...
- 10/31/2014
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
The Hurt Locker producer gives ten tips for producing award-winning films at the right budget.
Voltage Pictures president Nicolas Chartier, producer of The Hurt Locker and executive producer of Dallas Buyers Club, used his keynote speech at the Zurich Summit to offer ten tips for ‘producing award-winning films at the right budget’.
The tongue-in-cheek speech, which went down a storm, included plenty of sage advice.
Chartier agreed to share the speech with Screen and below is the near-entire transcript…
‘Good morning. So yesterday on the plane I was reading Hope For Film, the biography of Ted Hope who for those who don’t know him, was one of the founders of Good Machine, a great independent company which produced Crouching Tiger, Ice Storm, In the Bedroom, Brothers McMullen and many other independent films.
He wrote, I quote: “To make art, survive independently, and make a living that is tied to modest financial gain, you have to...
Voltage Pictures president Nicolas Chartier, producer of The Hurt Locker and executive producer of Dallas Buyers Club, used his keynote speech at the Zurich Summit to offer ten tips for ‘producing award-winning films at the right budget’.
The tongue-in-cheek speech, which went down a storm, included plenty of sage advice.
Chartier agreed to share the speech with Screen and below is the near-entire transcript…
‘Good morning. So yesterday on the plane I was reading Hope For Film, the biography of Ted Hope who for those who don’t know him, was one of the founders of Good Machine, a great independent company which produced Crouching Tiger, Ice Storm, In the Bedroom, Brothers McMullen and many other independent films.
He wrote, I quote: “To make art, survive independently, and make a living that is tied to modest financial gain, you have to...
- 9/29/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Disney Infinity 2.0 made me feel eight years old. And I mean that in the best way possible.
There’s a certain magic to playing with toys when you’re young. Action figures spring to life in your imagination, and pieces of furniture transform into the sites of epic battles. A hallway can become a racetrack, a chair a mountaintop, and all it takes is a couple plastic figures to create a spark of inspiration.
Infinity 2.0 lets players create whatever they can imagine, and the spark this time around is bringing together the Mouse House’s vast catalogue of franchises and...
There’s a certain magic to playing with toys when you’re young. Action figures spring to life in your imagination, and pieces of furniture transform into the sites of epic battles. A hallway can become a racetrack, a chair a mountaintop, and all it takes is a couple plastic figures to create a spark of inspiration.
Infinity 2.0 lets players create whatever they can imagine, and the spark this time around is bringing together the Mouse House’s vast catalogue of franchises and...
- 9/18/2014
- by Jonathon Dornbush
- EW.com - PopWatch
Kevin Costner is back on the big screen this week in action-thriller 3 Days to Kill. It's not a classic Costner film by any stretch (he's essentially playing Liam Neeson in Taken), but the film is arriving right in the middle of a career revival for the actor who headlined big hits two decades ago. With Man of Steel, Draft Day, Jack Ryan and 3 Days all under his belt over the last 12 months, we're experiencing something of a Costnaissance (to swipe a term coined for Matthew McConaughey).
As a screen star Costner was never blessed with dynamic range or the ability to transform himself like a Daniel Day-Lewis can, but what he can deliver is a performance of earnestness and honesty that connects with an audience. He is frequently the glue that holds a film together, a movie star with the everyman appeal of someone like James Stewart. If anything, Costner...
As a screen star Costner was never blessed with dynamic range or the ability to transform himself like a Daniel Day-Lewis can, but what he can deliver is a performance of earnestness and honesty that connects with an audience. He is frequently the glue that holds a film together, a movie star with the everyman appeal of someone like James Stewart. If anything, Costner...
- 6/21/2014
- Digital Spy
If you build it, they will come. Kevin Costner paid a visit to the site of Field of Dreams in rural Iowa on Friday, June 13, 25 years after the smash movie's original release. "For me, it represented a magical story about, you know, listening to a voice you maybe didn't want to listen to," 59-year-old Costner told the Des Moines Register of the 1989 flick. "[The movie does deal] with that biblical thing of men and their sons and maybe not getting along," Costner explained. "You don't [...]...
- 6/17/2014
- Us Weekly
If you build it, they will come. And if you honor it, most of them will return to take part in the celebration. That.s what we learned over the weekend, as Kevin Costner, Timothy Busfield (who played Costner.s brother-in-law, Mark, in the movie), sportscaster Bob Costas and Field of Dreams fans from far and wide reunited in an Iowa cornfield to remember the impact of Phil Alden Robinson.s fantastic family drama. Over Father.s Day weekend. God, could it be any more perfect? No, you are the one tearing up as you sit by your computer on a Monday morning. The Huffington Post says a screen was set up in the outfield of the Field of Dreams ball field, where Kevin Costner and the gathered crowd relived the memories of the 25-year-old film. The actor, of his memorable, role, said: "I'm glad to be here with friends...
- 6/16/2014
- cinemablend.com
Actor Colin Egglesfield wasn't in the classic baseball film Field of Dreams. But if they built a screen in center field, he would come. When Egglesfield heard about plans to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the movie's release during Father's Day weekend in Iowa, he flew to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, picked up his dad and drove six hours to the farm where it was filmed. The Los Angeles-based Egglesfield, most recently seen on TV shows such as Rizzoli and Isles and The Client List, and his father reached rural Dyersville in time for a viewing of the movie on...
- 6/15/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
Actor Colin Egglesfield wasn't in the classic baseball film Field of Dreams. But if they built a screen in center field, he would come. When Egglesfield heard about plans to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the movie's release during Father's Day weekend in Iowa, he flew to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, picked up his dad and drove six hours to the farm where it was filmed. The Los Angeles-based Egglesfield, most recently seen on TV shows such as Rizzoli and Isles and The Client List, and his father reached rural Dyersville in time for a viewing of the movie on...
- 6/15/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
S1 E12, 'The Jerusalem Duality'
Ego can be a great thing, as it can be the driving force that causes you to constantly be better, to strive harder and go further in whatever field you excel at. Unfortunately, those who have an overinflated ego are fragile, and when that ego has been challenged, it can cause that person to have a crisis and to lose any drive they may have had.
Enter Dennis Kim, a 15-year-old wunderkind who Dr. Gablehauser is courting to bring to Caltech for his doctorate work. Gablehauser introduces him to Sheldon and Leonard, who are having a discussion about how teleportation isn't a desirable mode of transportation as it merely makes a copy of the individual and destroys the original. When Sheldon tells him that he himself started his doctorate work at 14, Kim merely states that he lost a year while he and his family were...
Ego can be a great thing, as it can be the driving force that causes you to constantly be better, to strive harder and go further in whatever field you excel at. Unfortunately, those who have an overinflated ego are fragile, and when that ego has been challenged, it can cause that person to have a crisis and to lose any drive they may have had.
Enter Dennis Kim, a 15-year-old wunderkind who Dr. Gablehauser is courting to bring to Caltech for his doctorate work. Gablehauser introduces him to Sheldon and Leonard, who are having a discussion about how teleportation isn't a desirable mode of transportation as it merely makes a copy of the individual and destroys the original. When Sheldon tells him that he himself started his doctorate work at 14, Kim merely states that he lost a year while he and his family were...
- 4/17/2014
- Shadowlocked
The saying goes, "If you build it, they will come" but sometimes, you have to go to India first. Spring is here, and baseball season is starting, and Disney is getting on the mound with "Million Dollar Arm," another inspirational sports movie with a fish-out-of-water twist. Starring Jon Hamm, Lake Bell and Alan Arkin, the based-on-a-true-story film follows sports agent Jb Bernstein whose career hits a slump, but heads to India with harebrained scheme to recruit cricket pitchers bowlers for the big leagues. When he brings back the promising talent, they get a reality check and he gets a life lesson or something. Anyway, as you'll see in the four clips below Jb's plan is not without hiccups and quirkiness but it will probably all end okay for everybody because, Disney. "Million Dollar Arm" pitches on May 16th.
- 4/10/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Recorded Picture Company
Sex sells. Or, as Peter Stringfellow may or may not have once said, “If you build it, they will come.” Sex permeates every aspect of our daily lives, from advertisements to TV shows to book covers to – if we’re lucky – actual rufty. And ever since the early days, when people were cowering at the great phallic steam train pulling into a station and jutting out of the screen right into their faces (don’t even get me started on the 3D version), sex has been a huge part of cinema too. In fact, we’ve often celebrated the bravest and boldest of sex on the silver screen. Which was difficult, because there’s a lot out there to choose from, as Wikipedia puts it in its own inimitably cold, robotic way: “Many actors and actresses have exposed at least parts of their bodies or dressed and...
Sex sells. Or, as Peter Stringfellow may or may not have once said, “If you build it, they will come.” Sex permeates every aspect of our daily lives, from advertisements to TV shows to book covers to – if we’re lucky – actual rufty. And ever since the early days, when people were cowering at the great phallic steam train pulling into a station and jutting out of the screen right into their faces (don’t even get me started on the 3D version), sex has been a huge part of cinema too. In fact, we’ve often celebrated the bravest and boldest of sex on the silver screen. Which was difficult, because there’s a lot out there to choose from, as Wikipedia puts it in its own inimitably cold, robotic way: “Many actors and actresses have exposed at least parts of their bodies or dressed and...
- 3/25/2014
- by Tom Baker
- Obsessed with Film
We have noticed recently with seemingly endless proliferation of film fests here and worldwide how many of them hew to very specific business and content areas for their films and, obviously, audiences. This is a good example of this tendency.
Recent films about architecture and design and panel discussions on urban design, restoration and more are part of L.A.'s first Architecture & Design Film Festival, which began Wednesday (March 12-16).
The photo is a still from Telos: The Fantastic World of Eugene Tssui, one of 30 films screening during this week's Architecture & Design Film Festival.
The Los Angeles edition of the Architecture & Design Film Festival kicks off its five-day salute to art, architecture, design, fashion and urban planning Wednesday with showings of If You Build It, Design Is One: Massimo & Leila Vignelli and 16 Acres.
The L.A. film festival, running through Sunday, will feature 30 recent feature-length and short films from around the world. "There is something for everyone who likes design at the festival," said the festival's founder and director, architect Kyle Bergman.
The films will screen at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 S. Spring St.
Several documentaries in the series will focus on designs specific to California, including The Oyler House, a film about the Lone Pine retreat designed by Richard Neutra; Coast Modern, a look at West Coast Modernist architecture; and Telos: The Fantastic World of Eugene Tssui, making its world premiere.
Director Kyung Lee said she hoped her documentary on Tssui, considered by some to be an eccentric nature-based architect, would challenge viewers' perception of what architecture should be.
"So many people have opinions about architecture and what they like and what they don't like," she said. "I'd like people to come and see for themselves. Maybe it's not practical, but we should be able to extend our idea of architecture."
The festival also will feature question-and-answer sessions with the filmmakers, including Kyung Lee and Eugene Tssui (Telos: The Fantastic World of Eugene Tssui), Aimee Madsen (Paolo Soleri: Beyond Form) and Doug Pray (Levitated Mass), as well as five hourlong panel discussions.
Thursday
Clifford Pearson, deputy editor of Architectural Record, will moderate "Remaking the City," a panel on population, scale, urban design and Danish architect and urban planner Jan Gehl, whose work is featured in the film The Human Scale. Panelists are architect Jonathan Ward, Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne and Mina M. Chow, professor at the USC School of Architecture. 7 p.m.
Saturday
Frances Anderton, host of Kcrw's "DnA: Design and Architecture"; Knud Erik Hansen, chief executive of Danish furniture company Carl Hansen & Son; architectural historian Barbara Lamprecht; and others will discuss "No Easy Chair: Architects and the Design of Furniture." 2:30 p.m.
Saturday
Architect Alice Kimm, professor at USC's School of Architecture, will moderate "Learning Culture: Embedded Architecture," a discussion on the current state of architectural education, with Kevin Kennon, founding principal of United Architects; architect and educator Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter; professor and designer Amy Murphy; and urban historian Norman Klein. 4:30 p.m.
Sunday
Architecture critic Michael Webb will moderate "Purism and Pragmatism: Restoring Classic Modern Houses," a panel on the restoration and delicate balance between idealism and practicality. He will be joined by actress and preservationist Kelly Lynch, who owns Richard Neutra's Oyler House; designer Michael Boyd of Boyd Design; and architect Frank Escher, partner at Escher GuneWardena Architecture and an expert on John Lautner. 2:30 p.m.
Sunday
Mimi Zeiger, critic, curator and founder of the architecture zine and blog Loud Paper, will present "Hands-on, Ground-up: Community and Design/Build" with Steve Badanes, director of the Neighborhood Design Build Studio at the University of Washington; artist Jenna Didier; and Dave Sellers, architect and co-creator of the utopian Prickly Mountain enclave in Vermont. 5:30 p.m.
For more information visit Here...
Recent films about architecture and design and panel discussions on urban design, restoration and more are part of L.A.'s first Architecture & Design Film Festival, which began Wednesday (March 12-16).
The photo is a still from Telos: The Fantastic World of Eugene Tssui, one of 30 films screening during this week's Architecture & Design Film Festival.
The Los Angeles edition of the Architecture & Design Film Festival kicks off its five-day salute to art, architecture, design, fashion and urban planning Wednesday with showings of If You Build It, Design Is One: Massimo & Leila Vignelli and 16 Acres.
The L.A. film festival, running through Sunday, will feature 30 recent feature-length and short films from around the world. "There is something for everyone who likes design at the festival," said the festival's founder and director, architect Kyle Bergman.
The films will screen at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 S. Spring St.
Several documentaries in the series will focus on designs specific to California, including The Oyler House, a film about the Lone Pine retreat designed by Richard Neutra; Coast Modern, a look at West Coast Modernist architecture; and Telos: The Fantastic World of Eugene Tssui, making its world premiere.
Director Kyung Lee said she hoped her documentary on Tssui, considered by some to be an eccentric nature-based architect, would challenge viewers' perception of what architecture should be.
"So many people have opinions about architecture and what they like and what they don't like," she said. "I'd like people to come and see for themselves. Maybe it's not practical, but we should be able to extend our idea of architecture."
The festival also will feature question-and-answer sessions with the filmmakers, including Kyung Lee and Eugene Tssui (Telos: The Fantastic World of Eugene Tssui), Aimee Madsen (Paolo Soleri: Beyond Form) and Doug Pray (Levitated Mass), as well as five hourlong panel discussions.
Thursday
Clifford Pearson, deputy editor of Architectural Record, will moderate "Remaking the City," a panel on population, scale, urban design and Danish architect and urban planner Jan Gehl, whose work is featured in the film The Human Scale. Panelists are architect Jonathan Ward, Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne and Mina M. Chow, professor at the USC School of Architecture. 7 p.m.
Saturday
Frances Anderton, host of Kcrw's "DnA: Design and Architecture"; Knud Erik Hansen, chief executive of Danish furniture company Carl Hansen & Son; architectural historian Barbara Lamprecht; and others will discuss "No Easy Chair: Architects and the Design of Furniture." 2:30 p.m.
Saturday
Architect Alice Kimm, professor at USC's School of Architecture, will moderate "Learning Culture: Embedded Architecture," a discussion on the current state of architectural education, with Kevin Kennon, founding principal of United Architects; architect and educator Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter; professor and designer Amy Murphy; and urban historian Norman Klein. 4:30 p.m.
Sunday
Architecture critic Michael Webb will moderate "Purism and Pragmatism: Restoring Classic Modern Houses," a panel on the restoration and delicate balance between idealism and practicality. He will be joined by actress and preservationist Kelly Lynch, who owns Richard Neutra's Oyler House; designer Michael Boyd of Boyd Design; and architect Frank Escher, partner at Escher GuneWardena Architecture and an expert on John Lautner. 2:30 p.m.
Sunday
Mimi Zeiger, critic, curator and founder of the architecture zine and blog Loud Paper, will present "Hands-on, Ground-up: Community and Design/Build" with Steve Badanes, director of the Neighborhood Design Build Studio at the University of Washington; artist Jenna Didier; and Dave Sellers, architect and co-creator of the utopian Prickly Mountain enclave in Vermont. 5:30 p.m.
For more information visit Here...
- 3/16/2014
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
Film Independent, the nonprofit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, handed out top honors to 12 Years a Slave, Dallas Buyers Club and Nebraska at this afternoon’s 29th Film Independent Spirit Awards. Blue Jasmine, Fruitvale Station, Blue is the Warmest Color, Short Term 12, This is Martin Bonner and 20 Feet from Stardom also received awards at the ceremony, which is held in a tent on the beach in Santa Monica.
Comedian Patton Oswalt was this year’s host.
Highlights include: The first ever award delivered via Wild Rabbit’s state-of-the-art drone. Mid-show Patton also received multiple motivational messages via Skype from Sarah Silverman, Reggie Watts, Weird Al Yankovic and… his parents. Also showcased during the ceremony, the Indie-izer, Patton’s newly developed app that turns anyHollywood big budget film into an indie film.
The Spirit Awards were the first event to exclusively honor independent film,...
Comedian Patton Oswalt was this year’s host.
Highlights include: The first ever award delivered via Wild Rabbit’s state-of-the-art drone. Mid-show Patton also received multiple motivational messages via Skype from Sarah Silverman, Reggie Watts, Weird Al Yankovic and… his parents. Also showcased during the ceremony, the Indie-izer, Patton’s newly developed app that turns anyHollywood big budget film into an indie film.
The Spirit Awards were the first event to exclusively honor independent film,...
- 3/2/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
I have one line on Girls this season, it came about solely through nepotism, and I could not be more proud.I'm Lena Dunham's godfather. Each season, since the show’s been on the air, she’s sent me an e-mail asking me to make an appearance. Secretly thrilled but not wanting to pressure, I responded, "If you build it, I will come." She didn't build it the first two seasons, and I didn't brood. (Much.) This year, it happened. Although I’ve done my share of TV, and this was a single scene, and I’m not quite sure I heard what I said when I saw the final cut, I’m pretty sure that I killed. We shot it on June 26 in a small office at 1619 Broadway — a.k.a. the Brill Building, where Carole King, Leiber and Stoller, Burt Bacharach, and countless other songwriters and performers made their music.
- 2/21/2014
- by Jerry Saltz
- Vulture
'If you build it, they will come.' They'll come in droves. It's 2014 and at this point, it's safe to say that Hollywood has mastered the art of pandering to the masses. They deliver exactly what we are pre-conditioned to want. The box office charts each year are now completely filled by franchises and pre-branded efforts. Frozen, for example, isn't a true original, but the 12th episode of the Disney Princess franchise that's been breaking box office records since (gulp) 1937. It's now extremely rare for a non-sequel non-pre-branded film to ever become a mammoth hit; only one "original" per year even cracks the annual top ten now (Gravity in 2013, Ted in 2012, none in 2011) which is a big downturn from the Aughts which themselves weren't as original as the Nineties.
All of which brings us to this weekend's chart topper, The Lego Movie. With its built-in nostalgia for childhood as...
All of which brings us to this weekend's chart topper, The Lego Movie. With its built-in nostalgia for childhood as...
- 2/10/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Title: If You Build It Director: Patrick Creadon An engaging documentary about the transformative power of the sort of teacher who is able to connect with and inspire teenagers, “If You Build It” illustrates the benefits of the practical application of alternative education, and the ripple effects that it can often create for a community — if and when that community is ready to embrace it. Telling the story of a pair of architectural designer-activists who alight upon a rural burgh with dwindling economic opportunity, the film is a bittersweet exploration of outreach and advocacy. Directed by Patrick Creadon, “If You Build It” unfolds in the small town of Windsor, North Carolina, in [ Read More ]
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- 1/25/2014
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
"Constraint builds ingenuity," declares Matthew Miller in the documentary "If You Build It," with his life and business partner Emily Pilloton quickly quipping, "We're masochists a little bit." And that little exchange perfectly encapsulates the determined spirit of the pair as they bring their fledgling student program Studio H to Windsor in Bertie County, one of the poorest in North Carolina. And the concept is simple: design, build, transform. That's the motto Miller and Pilloton live by, and in the film by Patrick Creadon, we witness the tremendous sacrifice they make to prove their simple idea that giving back to the community is a lesson that leaves an impression that lasts far beyond the classroom. And for the kids of Windsor, the classroom is mostly a laptop. With budgets being squeezed, some of the students see as much as half of their course load taking place online (including phys ed,...
- 1/10/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
A polished, if not exactly thorough, portrait of one North Carolina school administrator’s attempt to modernize shop class—and perhaps the entire education system—If You Build It plops two liberal (read: progressive) elite (read: educated) design activists in Bertie County, the poorest in the state. There, designer Emily Pilloton and architect Matthew Miller—partners at work and at home—set up Studio H (for “humanity,” “habitats,” “health” and “happiness”) to teach a class of 10 juniors to “Design. Build. Transform.” (They’re big on taglines.) Over the course of the year, their students learn to dream up, develop and construct a backyard game, chicken...
- 1/10/2014
- Pastemagazine.com
This weekend, Mark Wahlberg and Taylor Kitsch take on the Taliban in "Lone Survivor," Hercules's origins get a reboot in "The Legend of Hercules," and tensions grow between Meryl Streep and the rest of her dysfunctional family in "August: Osage County."
"Lone Survivor" stars Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Ben Foster, and Emile Hirsch as members of Seal Team 10, who are tasked to bring down Taliban leader, Ahmad Shahd. Based on the 2005 mission "Operation Red Wings," the covert assignment soon gets comprised and the SEALs are ambushed by enemy forces in Afghanistan. Directed by Peter Berg, the film examines the courage and heroism of the brothers in arms.
"The Legend of Hercules" tells the epic story of Hercules's origins and stars Kellan Lutz as the mythical Greek hero -- the son of Zeus, a half-god-half-man gifted with extraordinary strength. In this version of the story, Hercules is betrayed by his stepfather,...
"Lone Survivor" stars Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Ben Foster, and Emile Hirsch as members of Seal Team 10, who are tasked to bring down Taliban leader, Ahmad Shahd. Based on the 2005 mission "Operation Red Wings," the covert assignment soon gets comprised and the SEALs are ambushed by enemy forces in Afghanistan. Directed by Peter Berg, the film examines the courage and heroism of the brothers in arms.
"The Legend of Hercules" tells the epic story of Hercules's origins and stars Kellan Lutz as the mythical Greek hero -- the son of Zeus, a half-god-half-man gifted with extraordinary strength. In this version of the story, Hercules is betrayed by his stepfather,...
- 1/9/2014
- by Jonny Black
- Moviefone
In If You Build It, a documentary about a high-concept high school product-design class in, of all places, rural North Carolina, director Patrick Creadon collects rich material but builds a rickety structure.
The program is Studio H, led by two enterprising, idealistic architects who are brought to rural Bertie County to inject new life into a stalled community's educational system by a visionary superintendent of schools — who, early in the film, is canned by the stuck-in-the-mud school board, marking the last we see of him.
The board agrees to continue with Studio H only after the designers, Emily Pilloton and Matt Miller, forego any salary. Creadon's great strength here is in his unsentimental introduction of a slice of America often treated with sentim...
The program is Studio H, led by two enterprising, idealistic architects who are brought to rural Bertie County to inject new life into a stalled community's educational system by a visionary superintendent of schools — who, early in the film, is canned by the stuck-in-the-mud school board, marking the last we see of him.
The board agrees to continue with Studio H only after the designers, Emily Pilloton and Matt Miller, forego any salary. Creadon's great strength here is in his unsentimental introduction of a slice of America often treated with sentim...
- 1/7/2014
- Village Voice
Feature Louisa Mellor 22 Oct 2013 - 12:01
Now the finale has aired and a third series has been commissioned, we salute some of the highlights of Cbbc’s Wolfblood series two…
This feature contains plot details for Wolfblood series one and two.
Inventive humour and satisfying storytelling pay little heed to age brackets. Just as Horrible Histories and Adventure Time couldn’t limit their audience to school-age kids if they tried, neither can Cbbc’s Wolfblood, a drama that’s welcomed viewers of all ages into its growing pack.
Not that we interlopers gave Wolfblood any choice; construct a compelling world from likeable characters, peril, comedy and romance, and viewers seeking a decent story won’t be put off by an after-school timeslot. If you build it, they will… oh, you know the rest. Creator Debbie Moon and co. built it, and we came. Loads of us. Kids and grown-ups and everyone in between.
Now the finale has aired and a third series has been commissioned, we salute some of the highlights of Cbbc’s Wolfblood series two…
This feature contains plot details for Wolfblood series one and two.
Inventive humour and satisfying storytelling pay little heed to age brackets. Just as Horrible Histories and Adventure Time couldn’t limit their audience to school-age kids if they tried, neither can Cbbc’s Wolfblood, a drama that’s welcomed viewers of all ages into its growing pack.
Not that we interlopers gave Wolfblood any choice; construct a compelling world from likeable characters, peril, comedy and romance, and viewers seeking a decent story won’t be put off by an after-school timeslot. If you build it, they will… oh, you know the rest. Creator Debbie Moon and co. built it, and we came. Loads of us. Kids and grown-ups and everyone in between.
- 10/22/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Several of the films from this year’s Full Frame Documentary Film Festival dealt with themes of community. Two films in particular that focused on question of community were Patrick Creadon’s If You Build It and Jeff Reichert and Farihah Zaman’s Remote Area Medical. In both cases, we are introduced to both the pleasures and the complexities of providing resources — medical or educational — to rural communities that have been neglected in recent years. If You Build It depicts the efforts of Emily Pilloton and Matt Miller to introduce a design-oriented curriculum to rural Bertie County, North Carolina, and to …...
- 4/8/2013
- by Chuck Tryon
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
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