Exclusive: Black Bear, the production, management and financing company founded by Teddy Schwarzman, on Thursday announced its signing of Simona Tabasco, one of the breakout Italian stars of The White Lotus‘ second season.
The news follows the firm’s introduction to Tabasco as the producer of Immaculate, a forthcoming psychological horror film in which she stars opposite fellow White Lotus alum Sydney Sweeney.
In the Sicily-set second installment of Mike White’s HBO satire The White Lotus, examining the dynamics between employees and guests at luxury hotels around the world, Tabasco starred alongside Adam Dimarco, Michael Imperioli, Beatrice Grannò, Theo James and more. The 10x Emmy-winning series had her playing the role of Lucia Greco, a prostitute enjoying the high life alongside aspiring chanteuse Mia (Grannò), as she builds her business on the grounds of The White Lotus Sicily. For her performance, the actress was recognized with an Emmy nom...
The news follows the firm’s introduction to Tabasco as the producer of Immaculate, a forthcoming psychological horror film in which she stars opposite fellow White Lotus alum Sydney Sweeney.
In the Sicily-set second installment of Mike White’s HBO satire The White Lotus, examining the dynamics between employees and guests at luxury hotels around the world, Tabasco starred alongside Adam Dimarco, Michael Imperioli, Beatrice Grannò, Theo James and more. The 10x Emmy-winning series had her playing the role of Lucia Greco, a prostitute enjoying the high life alongside aspiring chanteuse Mia (Grannò), as she builds her business on the grounds of The White Lotus Sicily. For her performance, the actress was recognized with an Emmy nom...
- 8/10/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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- 7/19/2023
- Look to the Stars
[Editor’s Note: Spoilers follow for “Black Mirror” Season 4, Episode 5, “Metalhead.”]
It all starts with The Dog.
David Slade, the director of “Metalhead” — itself the starkest episode in a particularly bleak Season 4 of “Black Mirror” — knew that for the story to work, the predatory robot had to be a realistic threat for both audience and prey. The effective other half of a horror two-hander, the faceless, nameless robot had to convey all the dread of future where all forms of life were under attack.
In a recent IndieWire interview, Slade talked about some of the original design ideas for what would become one of the series’ more chilling villains.
“We very quickly came to the idea in the backstory of what the robot was and how it’s made, that it would probably be a piece of military hardware. That it wouldn’t have generalized artificial intelligence, but it would have enough artificial intelligence to problem...
It all starts with The Dog.
David Slade, the director of “Metalhead” — itself the starkest episode in a particularly bleak Season 4 of “Black Mirror” — knew that for the story to work, the predatory robot had to be a realistic threat for both audience and prey. The effective other half of a horror two-hander, the faceless, nameless robot had to convey all the dread of future where all forms of life were under attack.
In a recent IndieWire interview, Slade talked about some of the original design ideas for what would become one of the series’ more chilling villains.
“We very quickly came to the idea in the backstory of what the robot was and how it’s made, that it would probably be a piece of military hardware. That it wouldn’t have generalized artificial intelligence, but it would have enough artificial intelligence to problem...
- 1/2/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Documentary from Australian war artist George Gittoes centres on street kids in Afghanistan.
Tel Aviv-based sales company Cinephil has acquired the worldwide right to George Gittoes’ Snow Monkey ahead of its international premiere in competition at Idfa (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) (Nov 18-29).
The film is a portrait of daily life in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, where art activist Gittoes recruited gangs of war-damaged children to shoot local, Pashto-style films - vibrant, colorful and infused with the violence they experience on a daily basis.
Gittoes will return to Idfa, which runs Nov 18-29, having previously screened Miscreants of Taliwood, shot in Peshawar with Taliban-besieged filmmakers, some of which have helped create Snow Monkey.
Cinephil MD Philippa Kowarsky negotiated the deal with producers Gittoes and Lizzette Atkins of Unicorn Films.
Executive producers are Norway’s Torstein Grude and Bjarte Mørner Tveit for Piraya Film.
Kowarsky said the film “offers an unprecedented understanding of the lives of the people of Jalalabad...
Tel Aviv-based sales company Cinephil has acquired the worldwide right to George Gittoes’ Snow Monkey ahead of its international premiere in competition at Idfa (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) (Nov 18-29).
The film is a portrait of daily life in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, where art activist Gittoes recruited gangs of war-damaged children to shoot local, Pashto-style films - vibrant, colorful and infused with the violence they experience on a daily basis.
Gittoes will return to Idfa, which runs Nov 18-29, having previously screened Miscreants of Taliwood, shot in Peshawar with Taliban-besieged filmmakers, some of which have helped create Snow Monkey.
Cinephil MD Philippa Kowarsky negotiated the deal with producers Gittoes and Lizzette Atkins of Unicorn Films.
Executive producers are Norway’s Torstein Grude and Bjarte Mørner Tveit for Piraya Film.
Kowarsky said the film “offers an unprecedented understanding of the lives of the people of Jalalabad...
- 11/10/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
On Demand DVD New Releases Nov. 3-9 The Dog An intimate portrait of John Wojtowicz, the inspiration behind Al Pacino’s character in Sidney Lumet’s Oscar-Nominated Dog Day Afternoon. (TV-ma, 1:41) 11/4 Hercules The son of Zeus, Hercules has completed his 12 labors only to find himself without a family. As he moves forward, he leads his band of fighters into battle to collect money, fighting on any side — until one battle opens his eyes to the ruthlessness that exists within some of his employers. Dwayne Johnson, Ian McShane, John Hurt (PG-13, 1:38) 11/4 Land Ho! Two men, former brothers-in-law, take … Continue reading →
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- 11/3/2014
- by Meredith Ennis
- ChannelGuideMag
By now you have had the chance to see The Dog, one of Drafthouse Films' most intriguing acquisitions this year. If not, you can watch it online via Amazon or Vimeo. Released in theaters last month, the documentary covers the remarkable character John Wojtowicz, aka "The Dog," inspiration for the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon about a man who robbed a bank pay for his male lover's gender reassignment surgery. I saw the movie during SXSW earlier this year.
Stunned after watching the intimate portrait from Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren, I made my way to meet them during SXSW, at the end of a hotel hallway across from another room where (ironically) Snoop Dogg was also meeting the press. Here's the transcript of our two-on-one interview.
Slackerwood: John Wojtowicz died in 2006. What work or shooting on the film have you done since then?
Frank Keraudren: The first four years we shot John exclusively,...
Stunned after watching the intimate portrait from Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren, I made my way to meet them during SXSW, at the end of a hotel hallway across from another room where (ironically) Snoop Dogg was also meeting the press. Here's the transcript of our two-on-one interview.
Slackerwood: John Wojtowicz died in 2006. What work or shooting on the film have you done since then?
Frank Keraudren: The first four years we shot John exclusively,...
- 9/8/2014
- by Mike Saulters
- Slackerwood
August 22nd, 1972 was just another hot summer day in New York City, at least until two men walked into a Brooklyn branch of Chase bank and made a somewhat incompetent attempt to rob it. John “The Dog” Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturale were the two would-be robbers, and while you probably don’t recognize their names you’re most likely familiar with their exploits that day. The event — and the botched robbery most definitely became an event complete with hostages, intense media coverage and crowds of cops and civilians — inspired the Al Pacino-led film Dog Day Afternoon just a few years later. Naturale was killed by police as the situation came to a frenzied and suspenseful conclusion, and Wojtowicz went to jail, but The Dog’s story continued to grow well past his eventual release. By his own account, he had attempted the robbery so that his male lover could afford a sex change operation. That...
- 8/15/2014
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The Dog
A documentary directed by Allison Berg & Frank Keraudren
USA, 2013
The great advantage of documentaries is their ability to dampen the cinematic white noise and give us a peek into the human condition. In the fantastic documentary, The Dog, we meet a man whose entire life is predicated upon the fundamental need for validation. John Wojtowicz derives his self-worth first through sexual conquest, and then through the comically tragic bank robbery that catapulted him to infamy. John’s extraordinary life is the stuff of fiction, leaving us to wonder where the truth ends and the persona begins. Or maybe it’s the other way around.
On August 22nd, 1972, John Wojtowicz and two accomplices walked into the Chase Manhattan Bank at the corner of East Third and Avenue P in Brooklyn. 14 hours later, John was arrested for robbing the bank and holding 7 employees hostage in order to pay for his male lover’s sex-change operation.
A documentary directed by Allison Berg & Frank Keraudren
USA, 2013
The great advantage of documentaries is their ability to dampen the cinematic white noise and give us a peek into the human condition. In the fantastic documentary, The Dog, we meet a man whose entire life is predicated upon the fundamental need for validation. John Wojtowicz derives his self-worth first through sexual conquest, and then through the comically tragic bank robbery that catapulted him to infamy. John’s extraordinary life is the stuff of fiction, leaving us to wonder where the truth ends and the persona begins. Or maybe it’s the other way around.
On August 22nd, 1972, John Wojtowicz and two accomplices walked into the Chase Manhattan Bank at the corner of East Third and Avenue P in Brooklyn. 14 hours later, John was arrested for robbing the bank and holding 7 employees hostage in order to pay for his male lover’s sex-change operation.
- 8/13/2014
- by J.R. Kinnard
- SoundOnSight
Gay respectability is thrown out the window in “The Dog,” a tremendously thoughtful and entertaining documentary that restores opportunistic sleaze, lovelorn hysteria, and proud promiscuity to queer history. “I'm a pervert,” insists pudgy, gray-haired, gruff-voiced outer-borougher John Wojtowicz. “Nobody would ever rob a bank to cut off a guy's dick to give him a sex operation.” Wojtowicz did just that in 1972, and his sensationalistic motive — and the hours-long media circus he instigated by taking hostages, ordering pizza deliveries to the bank, publicly French kissing a male ex, and throwing money out the door at gathered onlookers —...
- 8/8/2014
- by Inkoo Kang
- The Wrap
The Dog tells the oftentimes sad, oftentimes mad story of John Wojtowicz (pronounce wah-toe-witz), the Vietnam vet who became a media celebrity in 1972 when he and a friend robbed a Brooklyn bank and held numerous hostages for ransom in order to get money to give his second wife a sex change operation. Cinephiles will recognize this story as the basis for Sidney Lumet’s 1975 multi-Oscar nominated film Dog Day Afternoon, with Al Pacino playing Wojtowicz (though his character is named Sonny Wortzik). It’s a larger than life Robin Hood story about a man’s need to self-mythologize and his eventual half-tragic downfall, which is tied directly to the Gay Rights Movement of the 1970s and a shrewd personal history that seemed all too weird too be true but too engrossing to be fake.
Shot over the course of a 10-year period, co-directors Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren’s documentary...
Shot over the course of a 10-year period, co-directors Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren’s documentary...
- 8/8/2014
- by Sean Hutchinson
- LRMonline.com
Directed and produced by Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren
With John Wojtowicz, Liz Eden, Theresa Wojtowicz, Carmen Wojtowicz, Stan Thaler, Donnie Fazekas
Any movie geek who has been around for any length of time must have seen Dog Day Afternoon, one of the seminal movies from the 1970s, the movie that put Al Pacino in the top rung of movie actors and one of the classic movies on Sidney Lumet’s resume. Dog Day Afternoon is also one of the most loved and quoted from New York movies.
Movies filmed in New York City are their own special breed, especially crime movies, the French Connection, The Seven Ups, Prince of the City, King of New York, Crazy Joe, The Godfather franchise, a long and distinguished list. Dog Day Afternoon joined that line up in 1975 and recreated a media circus that surrounded a bank robbery that went very wrong on a hot summer day in Brooklyn.
With John Wojtowicz, Liz Eden, Theresa Wojtowicz, Carmen Wojtowicz, Stan Thaler, Donnie Fazekas
Any movie geek who has been around for any length of time must have seen Dog Day Afternoon, one of the seminal movies from the 1970s, the movie that put Al Pacino in the top rung of movie actors and one of the classic movies on Sidney Lumet’s resume. Dog Day Afternoon is also one of the most loved and quoted from New York movies.
Movies filmed in New York City are their own special breed, especially crime movies, the French Connection, The Seven Ups, Prince of the City, King of New York, Crazy Joe, The Godfather franchise, a long and distinguished list. Dog Day Afternoon joined that line up in 1975 and recreated a media circus that surrounded a bank robbery that went very wrong on a hot summer day in Brooklyn.
- 8/8/2014
- by Sam Moffitt
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In Dog Day Afternoon, Al Pacino played a thinly fictionalized version of John Wojtowicz, who famously attempted to rob a Brooklyn bank in 1972 in order to pay for his spouse’s gender-reassignment operation. (Or who used the operation as a smokescreen for an underlying mafia motive, depending on who you believe.) Now the life and crimes […]
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- 8/7/2014
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Sidney Lumet's crackling 1975 classic "Dog Day Afternoon" told the incredible true story of man who decides to rob a bank to help pay for his partner's sex change operation. The movie was an instant hit, earning six Oscar nominations (winning Best Screenplay), and catapulted an already ascendant Al Pacino, into the stratosphere. But, Lumet's film was only one part of a much bigger story that is every bit as wild and unbelievable as that long summer day in Brooklyn. Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren's "The Dog" tells the rest of the tale of John Wojtowicz, the man whose attempted bank robbery is just one story in a life filled with even more tall tales and unexpected twists of fate. The documentary chronicles the real life man's gay rights activism, his tough years in prison, the celebrity he found following the release of Lumet's movie and how it changed him,...
- 8/7/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Highly entertaining if slightly indulgent, The Dog looks at the life of John Wojtowicz, the man who was portrayed by Al Pacino in Sidney Lumet's classic Dog Day Afternoon. Wojtowicz is a pretty fascinating guy who crammed more than his share of lives into his time on earth, and we learn from a series of frank and, at times, filthy interviews about his various escapades. To the film's credit, it effectively situates his life within the nascent gay rights movement of the early 70s, showcasing through a series of vintage documentary footage the environment in which the more celebrated events of Dog Day Afternoon took place. Behind the sensationalistic story of a bank robbery committed so that a man could get his male wife a...
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- 8/7/2014
- Screen Anarchy
The 8th annual Sydney Underground Film Festival is a power-packed event featuring outrageous cult films, provocative documentaries and wild short films that will run September 4-7 at its usual haunt, The Factory Theater.
Opening Night: The fest opens with Housebound, a New Zealand horror comedy by Gerard Johnstone about a woman in trouble with the law who comes to believe that her family home is haunted. The film will be preceded by a performance by Renny Kodgers and a free pizza party; and followed by an after party.
Closing Night: The fest will close with the controversial German teen sex comedy Wetlands directed by David Wendt. The film will then be followed by a late-night after party.
Highlights: Usama Alshaibi‘s must see documentary American Arab — an intimate, socially relevatory and essential film — screens at 4 p.m. on Sept. 6. Read the Underground Film Journal review of American Arab.
Jorge Torres-Torres...
Opening Night: The fest opens with Housebound, a New Zealand horror comedy by Gerard Johnstone about a woman in trouble with the law who comes to believe that her family home is haunted. The film will be preceded by a performance by Renny Kodgers and a free pizza party; and followed by an after party.
Closing Night: The fest will close with the controversial German teen sex comedy Wetlands directed by David Wendt. The film will then be followed by a late-night after party.
Highlights: Usama Alshaibi‘s must see documentary American Arab — an intimate, socially relevatory and essential film — screens at 4 p.m. on Sept. 6. Read the Underground Film Journal review of American Arab.
Jorge Torres-Torres...
- 8/7/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
John Wojtowicz is the rare subject whose real life was more complex, more borderline-unbelievable and more gloriously strange than the one presented on the big screen. He was “The Dog,” the wannabe bank robber whose failed heist of a Chase Manhattan Bank in sweltering '70s Brooklyn was the basis for Sidney Lumet’s classic “Dog Day Afternoon.” Portrayed by a peak-of-his-powers Al Pacino (named Sonny Wortzik in the film), Wojtowicz is mostly remembered for the ostensible reason behind the robbery—to pay for his boyfriend’s sex change operation. As the moving, sad, riotously humorous documentary “The Dog” explains, the film only captured traces of Wojtowicz’s personality, and only told bits of his story. 'Afternoon' is a masterpiece, to be sure, but the real dog’s life was even wilder, its central figure an utterly eccentric character. “I’m an angel, but I got horns,” the late Wojtowicz...
- 8/6/2014
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Playlist
Dog Eat Dog: Berg & Keraudren’s Doc an Intriguing Portrait of a Famous Bank Robber
Destined to be a compelling double feature event with Sidney Lumet’s classic 1975 film, Dog Day Afternoon, Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren’s documentary The Dog examines the life of the real life bank robber, John Wojtowicz. Though it may be a unique pathway for a younger generation to be exposed to the classic film, it will surely be fans of the Oscar nominated Al Pacino headliner that should take an immediate interest. As scandalous and tawdry as Wojtowicz’s famed crime was made out to be, this behind the scenes account, which follows Wojtowicz and several friends and family members through the significant aftereffects of the robbery, his whole story is definitely unique enough for this strikingly compiled portrait of a man relayed through conversation. What inspired the Lumet film is still intact here,...
Destined to be a compelling double feature event with Sidney Lumet’s classic 1975 film, Dog Day Afternoon, Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren’s documentary The Dog examines the life of the real life bank robber, John Wojtowicz. Though it may be a unique pathway for a younger generation to be exposed to the classic film, it will surely be fans of the Oscar nominated Al Pacino headliner that should take an immediate interest. As scandalous and tawdry as Wojtowicz’s famed crime was made out to be, this behind the scenes account, which follows Wojtowicz and several friends and family members through the significant aftereffects of the robbery, his whole story is definitely unique enough for this strikingly compiled portrait of a man relayed through conversation. What inspired the Lumet film is still intact here,...
- 8/6/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
John Wojtowicz may be the perfect embodiment of Maslow's ideal of self-actualization. The inspiration for Al Pacino's character in Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon and now subject of Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren's fascinating documentary The Dog, Wojtowicz was many things: soldier, bank robber, libertine, and both "Goldwater Republican" and "McCarthy peacenik." Through it all, however, he was a lover. And it was his love of Ernest Aron (later Elizabeth Eden) that spurred him to realize, in his own words, "On Aug. 22, 1972, I had to do something."
That "something" was robbing a Brooklyn branch of Chase Manhattan with accomplices Sal Naturale and (briefly) Robert Westenberg. Fifteen hours later, Naturale was dead and Wojtowicz was in custody, facing a 20-y...
That "something" was robbing a Brooklyn branch of Chase Manhattan with accomplices Sal Naturale and (briefly) Robert Westenberg. Fifteen hours later, Naturale was dead and Wojtowicz was in custody, facing a 20-y...
- 8/6/2014
- Village Voice
On August 22, 1972, a man named John Wojtowicz attempted to rob a bank in Brooklyn to pay for his lover’s sex-change operation—at least, that is what has been long believed. The bungled heist would later inspire Sidney Lumet’s classic 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon, which starred Al Pacino as “Sonny Wortzik” and John Cazale as his fellow robber, Sal. Now, four decades on, Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren have made The Dog, a documentary which relates the real, incredible true story of that August day, and what happened to Wojtowicz afterwards.
The Dog premieres in theaters on Aug. 8 and...
The Dog premieres in theaters on Aug. 8 and...
- 7/31/2014
- by Clark Collis
- EW - Inside Movies
Birthday shoutouts go to Thomas Gibson (above), who is 52, Connie Nielsen is 49, and Betty Buckley is 67.
Op-ed: How Can Extreme Homophobes Still Win Elections?
Ryan Gosling had difficulties on the set of The Notebook
This is from Chicago Pride. The look on the cop’s face is priceless.
Here’s a first look at Henry Cavill in Batman Vs. Superman
Here’s the IndieGoGo trailer for Same Difference: “A feature length documentary that presents the lives of two adolescent boys who identify as gay from a young age. Graeme Taylor, now 18 and off to college, grows up and goes to school in a supporting environment that allows him to thrive. Justin Aaberg (1994-2010) unfortunately grows up and goes to a school filled with intolerant backwards policies and scandal. Justin was just one of nine teens that took their lives while attending the Anoka-Hennepin School District between 2009-2011. This resulted...
Op-ed: How Can Extreme Homophobes Still Win Elections?
Ryan Gosling had difficulties on the set of The Notebook
This is from Chicago Pride. The look on the cop’s face is priceless.
Here’s a first look at Henry Cavill in Batman Vs. Superman
Here’s the IndieGoGo trailer for Same Difference: “A feature length documentary that presents the lives of two adolescent boys who identify as gay from a young age. Graeme Taylor, now 18 and off to college, grows up and goes to school in a supporting environment that allows him to thrive. Justin Aaberg (1994-2010) unfortunately grows up and goes to a school filled with intolerant backwards policies and scandal. Justin was just one of nine teens that took their lives while attending the Anoka-Hennepin School District between 2009-2011. This resulted...
- 7/3/2014
- by snicks
- The Backlot
Lover. Husband. Soldier. Activist. Mama’s Boy. Bank Robber.
Drafthouse Films has released the new trailer for The Dog – an intimate portrait of the vivacious John Wojtowicz, the inspiration behind Al Pacino’s character in Sidney Lumet’s Oscar-Nominated Dog Day Afternoon.
Coming of age in the 1960s, John Wojtowicz took pride in being a pervert. His libido was excessive even by the libertine standards of the era, with multiple wives and lovers, both women and men.
In August, 1972, he attempted to rob a Brooklyn bank to finance his lover’s sex reassignment surgery. The attempted heist resulted in a fourteen-hour hostage situation that was broadcast on TV. Three years later, Pacino portrayed his character instigating the unforgettable crime on the big screen. The award-winning film had a profound influence on Wojtowicz, and when he emerged from prison six years later, he became known as “The Dog.”
Filmed over the...
Drafthouse Films has released the new trailer for The Dog – an intimate portrait of the vivacious John Wojtowicz, the inspiration behind Al Pacino’s character in Sidney Lumet’s Oscar-Nominated Dog Day Afternoon.
Coming of age in the 1960s, John Wojtowicz took pride in being a pervert. His libido was excessive even by the libertine standards of the era, with multiple wives and lovers, both women and men.
In August, 1972, he attempted to rob a Brooklyn bank to finance his lover’s sex reassignment surgery. The attempted heist resulted in a fourteen-hour hostage situation that was broadcast on TV. Three years later, Pacino portrayed his character instigating the unforgettable crime on the big screen. The award-winning film had a profound influence on Wojtowicz, and when he emerged from prison six years later, he became known as “The Dog.”
Filmed over the...
- 6/30/2014
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
For fans of Sidney Lumet’s Oscar-nominated film “Dog Day Afternoon,” Drafthouse Films’ latest feature, “The Dog,” will be a must-see, particularly because “The Dog” will focus on the real life inspiration for Al Pacino’s character, John Wojtowicz. Wojtowicz was a character all on his own, making him a great documentary subject for directors Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren. In fact, “The Dog” has been called “The best documentary about a human being ever made” by Next Projection and a “[s]urprisingly sad portrait of a sexually liberated man held captive by his past, forever chasing and trying to rewrite his own legend” by Variety. Here’s more about the film: “Coming of [ Read More ]
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- 5/30/2014
- by monique
- ShockYa
QFest St. Louis continues with The Dog at 7:00 pm Wednesday April 30th.
QFest St. Louis, the annual gay and Lesbian Film Festival presented by Cinema St. Louis, kicks off this weekend. It runs through May 1st and all films will be screened at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar in The Loop, University City, Mo)
QFest uses the art of contemporary gay cinema to spotlight the lives of Lgbtq people and celebrate queer culture. The 2014 event features an eclectic slate of contemporary Lgbtq-themed feature films, documentaries, and shorts. Tickets are now on sale for all shows.
The Dog screens at 7:00pm Wednesday April 30th
John Wojtowicz took pride in being a pervert. Coming of age in the 1960s, his libido was excessive even by the libertine standards of the era, with multiple wives and lovers, both women and men. In August 1972, he attempted to rob a Brooklyn bank to finance his lover’s sex-reassignment surgery.
QFest St. Louis, the annual gay and Lesbian Film Festival presented by Cinema St. Louis, kicks off this weekend. It runs through May 1st and all films will be screened at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar in The Loop, University City, Mo)
QFest uses the art of contemporary gay cinema to spotlight the lives of Lgbtq people and celebrate queer culture. The 2014 event features an eclectic slate of contemporary Lgbtq-themed feature films, documentaries, and shorts. Tickets are now on sale for all shows.
The Dog screens at 7:00pm Wednesday April 30th
John Wojtowicz took pride in being a pervert. Coming of age in the 1960s, his libido was excessive even by the libertine standards of the era, with multiple wives and lovers, both women and men. In August 1972, he attempted to rob a Brooklyn bank to finance his lover’s sex-reassignment surgery.
- 4/29/2014
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Drafthouse Films is building a strong slate of quality documentaries, and The Dog is a fine addition to that collection.
Filmmakers Allison Berg and Francois Keraudren, who brought their previous film Witches in Exile to SXSW in 2004, have completed an 11-year project to document the life of John Wojtowicz, aka "The Dog," who became famous in 1971 for robbing a Chase Manhattan bank in order to pay for gender reassignment surgery for his lover. The event served as inspiration for the 1975 Sidney Lumet film Dog Day Afternoon.
Beginning with his early years, The Dog covers a journey to Vietnam and a return to post-war Stonewall New York during the birth of the gay rights movement, revealing a fascinating character who refuses to play by any rules but his own. Wojtowicz is a force of nature, who describes himself as "an angel with horns," who does not drink, smoke, or gamble, reserving sex as his only vice.
Filmmakers Allison Berg and Francois Keraudren, who brought their previous film Witches in Exile to SXSW in 2004, have completed an 11-year project to document the life of John Wojtowicz, aka "The Dog," who became famous in 1971 for robbing a Chase Manhattan bank in order to pay for gender reassignment surgery for his lover. The event served as inspiration for the 1975 Sidney Lumet film Dog Day Afternoon.
Beginning with his early years, The Dog covers a journey to Vietnam and a return to post-war Stonewall New York during the birth of the gay rights movement, revealing a fascinating character who refuses to play by any rules but his own. Wojtowicz is a force of nature, who describes himself as "an angel with horns," who does not drink, smoke, or gamble, reserving sex as his only vice.
- 3/13/2014
- by Mike Saulters
- Slackerwood
Sundance just ended, and we are already preparing for the next big film festival, South By Southwest. Not too long ago, the festival announced a few of the films premiering this year, but now they’ve announced the main slate. The midnight selections and some inevitable late-breaking additions are still to be announced, but this should be more than enough to get you excited. Along with many World Premieres, and Sundance favorites like Richard Linklater’s Boyhood and Gareth Evans’ The Raid 2, the line up also includes an anniversary screening of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and an extended Q&A screening of The Grand Budapest Hotel with Wes Anderson. SXSW 2014 runs March 7 through 15 in Austin, Texas. Check out the line up after the jump.
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Narrative Feature Competition
Eight world premieres, eight unique ways to celebrate the art of storytelling. Selected from 1,324 films submitted to SXSW 2014. Films screening in Narrative...
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Narrative Feature Competition
Eight world premieres, eight unique ways to celebrate the art of storytelling. Selected from 1,324 films submitted to SXSW 2014. Films screening in Narrative...
- 1/31/2014
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Today the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival announced a diverse features lineup for this year’s Festival, the 21st edition and running March 7 – 15, 2014 in Austin, Texas. The 2014 program expands on SXSW tradition of embracing a range of genres and span of budgets, featuring a wealth of vision from experienced and developing filmmakers alike.
For more information visit http://sxsw.com/film.
Listed in the announcement are 115 of the features that will screen over the course of nine days at SXSW 2014. The lineup below includes 68 films from first-time filmmakers, and consists of 76 World Premieres, 10 North American Premieres and 7 U.S. Premieres. These films were selected from a record 2,215 feature-length film submissions composed of 1,540 U.S. and 675 international feature-length films. With a record number of 6,482 submissions total, the overall increase was 14% over 2013. The Midnighters feature section and the Short Film program will be announced on February 5, with the complete...
For more information visit http://sxsw.com/film.
Listed in the announcement are 115 of the features that will screen over the course of nine days at SXSW 2014. The lineup below includes 68 films from first-time filmmakers, and consists of 76 World Premieres, 10 North American Premieres and 7 U.S. Premieres. These films were selected from a record 2,215 feature-length film submissions composed of 1,540 U.S. and 675 international feature-length films. With a record number of 6,482 submissions total, the overall increase was 14% over 2013. The Midnighters feature section and the Short Film program will be announced on February 5, with the complete...
- 1/31/2014
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
After announcing earlier this month that Jon Favreau’s Chef and the Veronica Mars movie will be making their world debuts at SXSW this year, the festival has revealed its full line-up, including further very promising world premieres, alongside appearances from some of the year’s most high-profile films.
The Midnight programme will be announced early next month, along with the Shorts line-up, and the complete Conference slate a little later as well.
Led by Seth Rogen and Zac Efron, Nicholas Stoller’s anticipated R-rated comedy, Neighbors, will be making its world debut at the festival, notably marked out as a ‘work-in-progress’ ahead of its theatrical release in May.
David Gordon Green’s acclaimed Joe will make its Us premiere, having bowed at Venice and then Toronto last year. Early reviews have Nicolas Cage giving one of the finest performances of his career, with Tye Sheridan (Mud) excellent alongside him.
The Midnight programme will be announced early next month, along with the Shorts line-up, and the complete Conference slate a little later as well.
Led by Seth Rogen and Zac Efron, Nicholas Stoller’s anticipated R-rated comedy, Neighbors, will be making its world debut at the festival, notably marked out as a ‘work-in-progress’ ahead of its theatrical release in May.
David Gordon Green’s acclaimed Joe will make its Us premiere, having bowed at Venice and then Toronto last year. Early reviews have Nicolas Cage giving one of the finest performances of his career, with Tye Sheridan (Mud) excellent alongside him.
- 1/30/2014
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Not sure if there is a Short Term 12 equivalent in this year’s Narrative Feature Comp, but on paper SXSW programmers are serving up a mean (and the usual lean group of 8 out of a whopping 1,324 film entries) for the upcoming competitiuon of eight which includes notable entries (that we’ve been tracking for a good time now) such as Zachary Wigon’s The Heart Machine, John Magary’s The Mend, Leah Meyerhoff’s I Believe in Unicorns and Lawrence Michael Levine’s Wild Canaries. Undoubtedly one of the most anticipated docs of the year, on the non-fiction side we find Margaret Brown’s The Great Invisible. Below you’ll find a breakdown of the other sections (notable world preems in We’ll Never Have Paris and Faults (see Mary Elizabeth Winstead above), some Sundance items with Texan connections and other nuggets.
Narrative Feature Competition
Eight world premieres, eight...
Narrative Feature Competition
Eight world premieres, eight...
- 1/30/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Selection opens with a documentary about what motivates Somali pirates and includes the European premiere of 20,000 Days on Earth, starring Nick Cave, and 10 world premieres.Scroll down for full list
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 6-16) has unveiled the 16 films that will make up the documentary section of its Panorama strand.
This year’s Panorama Dokumente comprises 16 films, including ten world premieres, and will open on Feb 7 with the world premiere of Dutch co-production The Last Hijack by Tommy Pallotta and Femke Wolting. The film depicts what motivates piracy in Somalia.
The topic of Africa, which is also reflected in the Ethiopian fictional feature Difret, is also central to Swedish filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson in Concerning Violence. This commentary on Africa’s decolonisation, cites Frantz Fanon’s “The Wretched of the Earth” - and Us singer Lauryn Hill lends these texts her voice.
Olsson previously presented The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 about the Afro-American civil rights...
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 6-16) has unveiled the 16 films that will make up the documentary section of its Panorama strand.
This year’s Panorama Dokumente comprises 16 films, including ten world premieres, and will open on Feb 7 with the world premiere of Dutch co-production The Last Hijack by Tommy Pallotta and Femke Wolting. The film depicts what motivates piracy in Somalia.
The topic of Africa, which is also reflected in the Ethiopian fictional feature Difret, is also central to Swedish filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson in Concerning Violence. This commentary on Africa’s decolonisation, cites Frantz Fanon’s “The Wretched of the Earth” - and Us singer Lauryn Hill lends these texts her voice.
Olsson previously presented The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 about the Afro-American civil rights...
- 1/22/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Finding the right archival material for your documentary can be an enormous and daunting undertaking -- one that, if you don't go about it the right way, may not pay off. Panelists on the "Dig Into Archives" panel at Doc NYC yesterday highlighted the most important things to keep in mind when researching and trying to secure the rights to archival material. The panelists included Frank Keraudren, co-director, "The Dog," Shola Lynch, director, "Free Angela and all Political Prisoners," Tom Jennings, director, "Mlk: The Assassination Tapes" and Scott Norman, content manager, NBC News Archives. Judith Aley, who has worked as an archival researcher on "When the Levees Broke," "Sicko" and "The Tillman Story," among other documentaries, moderated. "Free Angela Davis" tells the story of how Angela Davis' radical political stance wrongly implicated her in a kidnapping attempt and landed her on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list. The final...
- 11/20/2013
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
A life and a psychological state so complex, that if John Wojtowicz’s entire life were put into film, Dog Day Afternoon would account for about 5 minutes worth. The more they plunged into their subject matter, the more helmers Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren’s found that the the likeable smuck’s lifestory is just as sprawled out as Dicaprio’s Frank Abagnale character in Catch Me if You Can. Today, THR reports that Drafthouse & Cinedigm have teamed on the Tiff-preemed The Dog. A release is being circled for next summer.
Gist: This chronicles the true story of John Wojtowicz, who robbed a bank in 1972 to finance his male lover’s sex-reassignment surgery. Wojtowicz, working with two other men, held Chase Manhattan bank employees hostage for 14 hours. In 1975, Al Pacino would play a fictionalized version of Wojtowicz in Sidney Lumet’s Academy Award-winning film.
Worth Noting: Dog Day Afternoon won...
Gist: This chronicles the true story of John Wojtowicz, who robbed a bank in 1972 to finance his male lover’s sex-reassignment surgery. Wojtowicz, working with two other men, held Chase Manhattan bank employees hostage for 14 hours. In 1975, Al Pacino would play a fictionalized version of Wojtowicz in Sidney Lumet’s Academy Award-winning film.
Worth Noting: Dog Day Afternoon won...
- 11/1/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Drafthouse Films and Cinedigm have jointly acquired North American rights to documentary The Dog.
Allison Berg and Frank Keraudre’s film premiered in Toronto and chronicles the true story of John Wojtowicz, whose infamous attempted robbery of a Brooklyn bank to finance his male lover’s sex-reassignment surgery inspired Dog Day Afternoon.
The partners have earmarked a theatrical and VOD release for summer 2014.
”The Dog was made over the course of a decade, but we knew it was something special from day one,” said the directors. “The story was surreal, the characters unique. We wanted to let them be themselves and knew that audiences would feel that authenticity, as we did.
“We’re thrilled to be working with Drafthouse and Cinedigm. Their enthusiasm for the film combined with their expertise and forward-thinking approach to distribution is the best we could have hoped for, and we are very excited to be ‘unleashing’ The Dog with them in 2014.”
Josh Braun...
Allison Berg and Frank Keraudre’s film premiered in Toronto and chronicles the true story of John Wojtowicz, whose infamous attempted robbery of a Brooklyn bank to finance his male lover’s sex-reassignment surgery inspired Dog Day Afternoon.
The partners have earmarked a theatrical and VOD release for summer 2014.
”The Dog was made over the course of a decade, but we knew it was something special from day one,” said the directors. “The story was surreal, the characters unique. We wanted to let them be themselves and knew that audiences would feel that authenticity, as we did.
“We’re thrilled to be working with Drafthouse and Cinedigm. Their enthusiasm for the film combined with their expertise and forward-thinking approach to distribution is the best we could have hoped for, and we are very excited to be ‘unleashing’ The Dog with them in 2014.”
Josh Braun...
- 11/1/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Dog Day Afternoon is one of the quintessential New York City films of the ‘70s, and documentary The Dog, which tells the true story of the life of bank robber and libertine John Wojtowicz, is every bit as funny and oddly touching as Sidney Lumet’s celebrated depiction of the robbery that made Wojtowicz infamous.
Wojtowicz was born in New York City in 1945. He served in Vietnam and was married to Carmen Bifulco in 1967, but his rampant libido and bisexuality meant that they didn’t stay married for long, separating in 1969 after having two children together. He met Ernest Aron in 1971, and the two were married (although not legally) in April 1971 in Greenwich Village. On 22nd August 1972, Wojtowicz, Salvatore Naturale and Robert Westenberg attempted to rob the Chase Manhattan Bank at the corner of East 3rd Street and Avenue P in Gravesend, Brooklyn. Wojtowicz’s motivation for the robbery, as portrayed in Dog Day Afternoon,...
Wojtowicz was born in New York City in 1945. He served in Vietnam and was married to Carmen Bifulco in 1967, but his rampant libido and bisexuality meant that they didn’t stay married for long, separating in 1969 after having two children together. He met Ernest Aron in 1971, and the two were married (although not legally) in April 1971 in Greenwich Village. On 22nd August 1972, Wojtowicz, Salvatore Naturale and Robert Westenberg attempted to rob the Chase Manhattan Bank at the corner of East 3rd Street and Avenue P in Gravesend, Brooklyn. Wojtowicz’s motivation for the robbery, as portrayed in Dog Day Afternoon,...
- 9/26/2013
- by Ian Gilchrist
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Eccentric New Yorker John Wojtowicz was turned into an iconic figure when Al Pacino played the unorthodox bank robber in 1975's "Dog Day Afternoon." Director Sidney Lumet's daylong saga, in which Wojtowicz took a bank hostage in the hopes of raising money for his transsexual lover's sex change operation, hardly exaggerated the actual 1972 event, but only captured one piece of a much larger story. "The Dog," directors Alison Berg and Frank Keraudren's decade-plus effort to chronicle Wojtowicz in the years leading up to his death from cancer in 2006, capably fills in the gaps in his bizarre life. Working as both an unofficial "Dog Day" sequel and unconventional overview of New York gay culture from the past 40 years, "The Dog" combines archival footage, still photographs, and testaments from many of those who knew Wojtowicz well to construct a vivid account of his strange trajectory. But "The Dog" derives its...
- 9/8/2013
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
The real-life incident of a man robbing a bank to fund his lover’s sex-change operation was immortalized in Sidney Lumet’s 1975 classic Dog Day Afternoon, with Al Pacino winning an Oscar nod for his fine performance as Sonny Wortzik. However the true story of John Wojtowicz — the man on whom Wortzik was based — remains all but unknown. The remarkable tale of that robbery and of Wojtowicz’s life after he emerged from prison is chronicled in Allison Berg & Frank Keraudren’s documentary The Dog, which the pair shot over the course of over a decade, starting in 2002. It has its […]...
- 9/6/2013
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The real-life incident of a man robbing a bank to fund his lover’s sex-change operation was immortalized in Sidney Lumet’s 1975 classic Dog Day Afternoon, with Al Pacino winning an Oscar nod for his fine performance as Sonny Wortzik. However the true story of John Wojtowicz — the man on whom Wortzik was based — remains all but unknown. The remarkable tale of that robbery and of Wojtowicz’s life after he emerged from prison is chronicled in Allison Berg & Frank Keraudren’s documentary The Dog, which the pair shot over the course of over a decade, starting in 2002. It has its […]...
- 9/6/2013
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
You likely already know that Dog Day Afternoon was based on a true story. But did you know the inspiration for Al Pacino’s character didn’t die until 2006? His name was not Sonny Wortzik, it was John Wojtowicz, and there’s a new documentary about him titled The Dog. Directed by Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren, the film is set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month. The production needs some extra financial help, though, to continue working right up until the event and complete all the finishing touches in time. And for their campaign, Berg and Keraudren have gone with a new crowdfunding outlet called Seed&Spark, which lets you pick specifically what parts of the film you want to donate to from a “wish list.” This project’s options include archival footage and photo licensing ($25-$100 apiece), poster design ($500) and color correction ($25 per portion). Even though Wojtowicz died seven years ago...
- 8/3/2013
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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