Foreplays is a column that explores under-known short films by renowned directors. Lynn Ramsay's Gasman (1998) is free to watch below.Lynne Ramsay’s Gasman is a film about family, and a film made with family—the director’s own brother and niece play, respectively, the central father and daughter in the story. Two siblings, Lynne (Lynne Ramsay Jr.) and Steve (Martin Anderson), go to a Christmas party with their father (James Ramsay), while the mother (Denise Flannagan) remains at home. They briefly meet with a woman (Jackie Quinn) and her two kids (Lisa Taylor, Robert McEwan). The woman leaves, but her children join the party. Gasman is the story both of a perfectly banal evening, and of an exceptional event that serves to fracture the family unit, messing up all its usual roles, and dissolving the very idea of what is familiar. Ramsay achieves this by never losing sight either of the everyday,...
- 6/30/2017
- MUBI
Celebs have "people" to do lots of stuff for them ... but lots of them become normies the day before Xmas, scrambling to beat the deadline. We got Sly, Kate Beckinsale, Jason Mewes and lots others at The Grove and the streets of Bev Hils. They even braved crappy weather as they lugged their bags around. Merry Xmas! Read more...
- 12/24/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
[[tmz:video id="0_qj417kqh"]] Here's Paulina Gretzky's son,Tatum, proving that not every kid is looking forward to a visit from ol' St. Nick ... hilariously and adorably panicking at the sight of Santa Claus. Paulina posted the videos of Tatum onto her Instagram stories ... because parents for some reason always find it amusing when their kids are terrified (c'mon, it's funny). No word on whether Tatum was naughty or nice this year ... but it's clear he and Santa...
- 12/20/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
President Barack Obama and fam made their last annual pilgrimage to Hawaii Friday, and the Prez couldn't be happer to reunite with eldest daughter Malia. Obama clearly couldn't wait to board Air Force One .... earlier in the day he ended his White House press conference with "Mele Kalikimaka" ... which means Merry Xmas in Hawaiian. Malia, who's taking a year off before entering Harvard, has been Mia at various events recently and her dad couldn't be...
- 12/17/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
If your boss -- who fired you -- accidentally gave you an extra $40,000 ... would you give it back? Didn't think so. And that's the problem the Washington Redskins are facing ... 'cause they just filed a lawsuit claiming they accidentally issued a $40,000 check to a player they cut back in 2012 ... and he won't give it back. The man with the extra dough is H.B. Blades -- who was on the Redskins' main roster from 2007 to...
- 2/25/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Blake Shelton is rubbing off on Gwen Stefani this holiday season. Gwen wished everyone a Merry Xmas by posting a short video of her new man laying half a dozen kisses on her cheek. It looks like they're hanging out on Blake's home turf ... they're wearing matching camo. Read more...
- 12/22/2015
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Apparently, you don't gotta play a sport to rock a championship ring -- just ask Chris Brown ... who just dropped $100,000 to make his crew look like the '96 Bulls. Brown hit up Joe Avianne of Avianne and Co. in NYC and ordered 15 rings for himself and his best friends ... a crew that calls themselves Ohb (Original Hood Bosses). Avianne tells TMZ Sports ... each ring is made with 50 to 60 grams of 14 karat gold ... and sports roughly 3 carats worth of diamonds.
- 12/4/2015
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Tom Sommerlatte’s debut Summers Downstairs (Im Sommer wohnt er unten) was picked by the audience at this year’s Oldenburg International Film Festival (Sep 16-20) for the German Independence Award.
The French-German co-production, handled internationally by Arri Worldsales, premiered in the Berlinale’s Perspektive Deutsches Kino sidebar in February, won Best Feature Film at the Achtung Berlin! festival in April, and was the opening film of Filmfest Schwerin in May.
There were double honours for Sommerlatte at the closing night gala on Sunday (Sep 20) when the nomination jury for the European Film Awards’ European Discovery - Prix Fipresci announced that Summers Downstairs had been chosen as one of five finalists.
The Seymour Cassel Award - in honour of one of Oldenburg’s aficianados - was shared this year for the first time between two actors: actress Sarah Silverman for her performance in I Smile Back and former European Shooting Star Nikola Rakočević for his role in...
The French-German co-production, handled internationally by Arri Worldsales, premiered in the Berlinale’s Perspektive Deutsches Kino sidebar in February, won Best Feature Film at the Achtung Berlin! festival in April, and was the opening film of Filmfest Schwerin in May.
There were double honours for Sommerlatte at the closing night gala on Sunday (Sep 20) when the nomination jury for the European Film Awards’ European Discovery - Prix Fipresci announced that Summers Downstairs had been chosen as one of five finalists.
The Seymour Cassel Award - in honour of one of Oldenburg’s aficianados - was shared this year for the first time between two actors: actress Sarah Silverman for her performance in I Smile Back and former European Shooting Star Nikola Rakočević for his role in...
- 9/21/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Hollywood Veteran Matthew Modine, currently starring in TNT’s medical drama Proof, shares 25 surprising facts about himself exclusively with Us Weekly. 1. My wife, Caridad [Rivera, 60] is the love of my life. 2. My son, Boman [29], recently directed me in a short film, Merry Xmas. 3. MTV’s Ridiculousness is one of my favorite shows. 4. I skateboard to Cafe Gratitude for breakfast. 5. I’ve always wanted to play the ukulele. 6. I recently drove cross-country with my daughter, Ruby [24], in a U-Haul. 7. I once jumped from a cliff to [...]...
- 6/14/2015
- Us Weekly
Exclusive: Christmas in April? Why not — if it’s got Dick Van Dyke and Valerie Harper? Here’s a sneak peek at their new short film Merry Xmas, which is set to unwrap, er, unspool at the Tribeca Film Festival next month. Glenne Headly and Matthew Modine co-star in director Boman Modine’s comic look at how the holidays can be murder. Expect danger! romance! tragedy! and … junks. Joe D’Angerio and Matthew Modine produced the short. Have a look, but beware the “Jingle Bell…...
- 3/13/2015
- Deadline
Sixty films, a record 40 of which are world premieres, will screen across nine thematic programmes during the festival, set to run from April 15-26.
The Tribeca Film Festival selections hail from 18 countries and were curated from 3076 submissions.
Selections include: Body Team 12, a documentary about the Ebola outbreak that Olivia Wilde (pictured) produced; artist Daniel Arsham directing Juliette Lewis in Future Relic 03; Boman Modine’s Merry Xmas stars Dick Van Dyke; and Katie Holmes directing Romanian gymnast legend Nadia Comaneci in Eternal Princess.
Recipients of the Tribeca Film Festival’s best narrative short and best documentary short awards will qualify for Oscar consideration. Last year’s festival winner for best narrative short, The Phone Call, earned the live-action short Academy Award last month.
Each of the seven selections in the Fml programme will become available online as part of the Tribeca Online Festival three hours after the premiere of each film. The films will...
The Tribeca Film Festival selections hail from 18 countries and were curated from 3076 submissions.
Selections include: Body Team 12, a documentary about the Ebola outbreak that Olivia Wilde (pictured) produced; artist Daniel Arsham directing Juliette Lewis in Future Relic 03; Boman Modine’s Merry Xmas stars Dick Van Dyke; and Katie Holmes directing Romanian gymnast legend Nadia Comaneci in Eternal Princess.
Recipients of the Tribeca Film Festival’s best narrative short and best documentary short awards will qualify for Oscar consideration. Last year’s festival winner for best narrative short, The Phone Call, earned the live-action short Academy Award last month.
Each of the seven selections in the Fml programme will become available online as part of the Tribeca Online Festival three hours after the premiere of each film. The films will...
- 3/6/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Sixty films, a record 40 of which are world premieres, will screen across nine thematic programmes during the festival, set to run from April 15-26.
The selections hail from 18 countries and were curated from 3076 submissions.
Selections include: Body Team 12, a documentary about the Ebola outbreak that Olivia Wilde produced; artist Daniel Arsham directing Juliette Lewis in Future Relic 03; Boman Modine’s Merry Xmas stars Dick Van Dyke; and Katie Holmes directing Romanian gymnast legend Nadia Comaneci in Eternal Princess.
Recipients of the Tribeca Film Festival’s best narrative short and best documentary short awards will qualify for Oscar consideration. Last year’s festival winner for best narrative short, The Phone Call, earned the live-action short last month.
Each of the seven selections in the Fml programme will become available online as part of the Tribeca Online Festival three hours after the premiere of each film. The films will run online through April 26.
To find out more about...
The selections hail from 18 countries and were curated from 3076 submissions.
Selections include: Body Team 12, a documentary about the Ebola outbreak that Olivia Wilde produced; artist Daniel Arsham directing Juliette Lewis in Future Relic 03; Boman Modine’s Merry Xmas stars Dick Van Dyke; and Katie Holmes directing Romanian gymnast legend Nadia Comaneci in Eternal Princess.
Recipients of the Tribeca Film Festival’s best narrative short and best documentary short awards will qualify for Oscar consideration. Last year’s festival winner for best narrative short, The Phone Call, earned the live-action short last month.
Each of the seven selections in the Fml programme will become available online as part of the Tribeca Online Festival three hours after the premiere of each film. The films will run online through April 26.
To find out more about...
- 3/6/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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