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Sent: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 12:04:34 +0100
Subject: The Fortnight Extended: the 2024 selection on international tour!
Re: Cannes Cannes
From October, the Directors’ Fortnight is taking its 2024 selection around the world.
After the ‘Quinzaine en salle’ event last June (a week of previews of the selection’s 20 films in over 30 cinemas across France) the 2024 selection continues its journey. Starting this fall, the Fortnight will be exported in the form of showcases in 4 cities: Recife, New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo. Each city will host a panel of films from the selection in a partner cinema open to the public.
“We are delighted to launch the Directors’ Fortnight international tour program: The Fortnight Extended. It’s a way for us to take films from the last selection around the world and continue to support them. This year, the Fortnight will take place on three continents, in three key cinema countries.
In Brazil: as part of the Recife Film Festival, curated by director Kleber Mendonc?a Filho. The Fortnight had to be present in South America, where artistic creativity is showing impressive vitality, and particularly in Brazil. In fact, in 2025, the Nordeste will be home to the Directors’ Factory, our scheme to encourage the emergence of new talent.
In the USA: in New York at the Museum of the Moving Image, then in Los Angeles through Acropolis Cinema at the Culver Theater over two consecutive weekends. A unique opportunity to celebrate the historic bond between the USA and the Fortnight as a launching pad for young American cinema. It will also be a chance to meet directors and producers of independent and genre cinema.
In Japan: at the Human Trust cinema in Tokyo’s Shibuya district, in partnership with VIPO. The Fortnight remains faithful to the unrivalled dynamism of production from Asia (two films honored by the Came?ra d’Or jury in the last two years) and to the young Japanese cinema that the festival has never ceased to discover. From artist-director Takeshi Kitano, who signed the 2024 poster, to the exciting new generation of filmmakers.
During these reruns, each venue will present a panel of films from the 2024 edition put together by its programmer.”
Julien Rejl, Artistic director
Sent: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 07:32:57 +0000
Subject: Découvrez l’affiche de la 50e édition !
Re: Normandy invasion
Sent: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 07:41:03 -0700
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Sent: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:37:11 +0000
Subject: The Directors’ Fortnight unveils its 2024 selection
Re: Cannes Cannes
Following on from the previous edition, the 2024 selection is less an attempt to draw a map of global film production than to create an editorial line composed of genuine bets, favourites, and films that have been intensely debated within the committee. Our main compass has always been the singularity of a film’s mise-en-scene, as well as its poetry, its affective power, its imaginary, and its authenticity.
The committee paid equal attention to all cinematographic forms and styles: fiction, documentary, animation, experimental, genre cinema (comedy, fantasy, horror, etc.) and essay films. We considered all the films we received – from the most eagerly awaited to the most discreet – with the same graciousness. The Fortnight will continue to celebrate cinema in all its diversity.
SHORT FILMS
AFTER THE SUN (Après le soleil)
by Rayane Mcirdi (France, Algeria)
ANTOINE, ÉLISE AND LÉANDRE (Les Météos d’Antoine)
by Jules Follet (France)
EXTREMELY SHORT (Totemo mijikai)
by Koji Yamamura (Japan)
IMMACULATA
by Kim Lêa Sakkal (Lebanon)
MULBERRY FIELDS (Mot lan dang do)
by Nguyen Trung Nghia (Vietnam)
OUR OWN SHADOW (Nuestra sombra)
by Agustina Sánchez Gavier (Argentina)
THE MOVING GARDEN (O jardim em movimento)
by Inês Lima (Portugal)
VERY GENTLE WORK (Travail très soigné)
by Nate Lavey (USA)
WHEN THE LAND RUNS AWAY (Quando a terra foge)
by Frederico Lobo (Portugal)
FEATURE FILMS
THIS LIFE OF MINE (Ma vie ma gueule)
by Sophie Fillières (France)
opening film
CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER’S POINT
by Tyler Taormina (USA)
DESERT OF NAMIBIA (Namibia no sabaku)
by Yôko Yamanaka (Japan)
EAST OF NOON (Sharq 12)
by Hala Elkoussy (Egypt)
EAT THE NIGHT
by Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel (France)
EEPHUS
by Carson Lund (USA)
first feature film
GAZER
by Ryan J. Sloan (USA)
first feature film
GHOST CAT ANZU (Bakeneko Anzu-chan / Anzu, chat-fantôme)
by Yôko Kuno & Nobuhiro Yamashita (Japan)
GOOD ONE
by India Donaldson (États-Unis)
first feature film
IN HIS OWN IMAGE (À son image)
by Thierry de Peretti (France)
MONGREL
by Chiang Wei Liang & You Qiao Yin (Taiwan)
first feature film
SAVANNA AND THE MOUNTAIN (A savana e a montanha)
by Paulo Carneiro (Portugal)
SISTER MIDNIGHT
by Karan Kandhari (India)
SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED (Algo viejo, algo nuevo, algo prestado)
by Hernán Rosselli (Argentina)
THE FALLING SKY (A queda do céu / La Chute du ciel)
by Eryk Rocha & Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha (Brazil)
THE HYPERBOREANS (Los hiperbóreos)
by Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña (Chile)
THE OTHER WAY AROUND (Volveréis, Septembre sans attendre)
by Jonás Trueba (Spain)
TO A LAND UNKNOWN
by Mahdi Fleifel (Palestine, Denmark)
UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE (Une langue universelle)
by Matthew Rankin (Canada)
VISITING HOURS (La Prisonnière de Bordeaux)
by Patricia Mazuy (France)
PLASTIC GUNS (Les Pistolets en plastique)
by Jean-Christophe Meurisse (France)
closing film
SPECIAL SCREENING
AMERICAN STORIES: FOOD, FAMILY AND PHILOSOPHY (Histoires d’Amérique : Food, Family and Philosophy)
by Chantal Akerman (Belgium)
Sent: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:18:54 +0000
Subject: The “People’s Choice”: a vote for singularity!
Re: Cannes Cannes
The Directors’ Fortnight: open to the public since 1969
Since its creation in 1969, the Directors’ Fortnight has been open to the public. Born amidst a climate of rebellion and the fight for freedom, the Fortnight injected new life into the Festival de Cannes: a programme of films without barriers being one of its founding principles.
Every year, in addition to professionals and other accredited guests, the Fortnight opens its doors to thousands of cinephiles from around the world, in order to share its selection in a welcoming setting, giving filmmakers the opportunity to meet the first audience for their films, and the audiences a chance to take part in Q&As with film teams.
It is this interactive dimension that we’d like to celebrate today by inviting our audiences to vote: this will also mark the first audience award in the history of the Festival de Cannes.
A vote for individuality
The absence of competition between filmmakers is a value we hold dear. It encourages a spirit of sharing and listening, and nurtures each filmmaker and their film.
This is why we see the People’s Choice not as a prize for the “best” film in the selection, but rather as an affirmation of a unique cinematic proposition embracing individuality and freedom of cinematographic expression. The People’s Choice is a mark of achievement designed to help this filmmaker and their film find further audiences, thereby giving a boost to a surprising film that has particularly captivated festival viewers. It is in this spirit that we invite our audiences to take part.
Singularity can of course be expressed in different ways: through the film’s poetry; the daring treatment of a form or subject; an actor’s unique direction… In all cases, it is cinema as the art of mise en scène that the People’s Choice seeks to support.
We have chosen to place this initiative as part of the legacy of Chantal Akerman, whose pioneering, eclectic and fiercely independent vision might serve as a compass for this new People’s Choice.
Chantal Akerman and the Fortnight share a long history. In 1975, Akerman came to the Fortnight to premiere her masterpiece, Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce – 1080 Brussels, recently voted the best film in the history of cinema by a global community of filmmakers and critics in the magazine Sight and Sound – which gave the film renewed international recognition. Throughout her professional life, the Fortnight remained faithful to Akerman, with its selection of Golden Eighties (1986), Sud (1999), La Captive (2000) and Tombée de Nuit sur Shanghaï (2007).
In order to prolong this bond, the Fondation Chantal Akerman is generously supporting the People’s Choice by awarding the filmmaker of the winning feature €7,500, which will be presented at the closing ceremony.
Sent: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 02:52:02 +0000
Re: Being There
We just watched Being There based upon your website’s recommendation. It was great. Really slow to start but the complexity was hilarious. Thanks.
Sent: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 12:10:59 +0000
Subject: Fortnight 2023 : A conversation with Quentin Tarantino!
Re: Cannes Cannes
In 1969, in Cannes, the Directors’ Fortnight was born, a counter-programming of free-spirited films from all over the world.
In 1969, in California, a new generation of filmmakers rose against old Hollywood. Of this, Quentin Tarantino has recently published a captivating analysis in a critical essay on 1970s cinema.
As an exceptional and generous cinephile, Tarantino is at home at the Fortnight. He will be our guest this year to present a secret screening and discuss his counter-history of cinema.
A rockabilly vibe on closing day …
Sent: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 10:00:28 +0000
Subject: Directors’ Fortnight 2023 selection
Re: Cannes Cannes
Julien Rejl, Artistic Director of the Directors’ Fortnight, has revealed the Selection of its 55th edition.
“The Directors’ Fortnight was born when a community of directors came together with the desire to create an independent space that would encourage the emergence of free filmmaking regardless of geographical provenance or any other limiting criteria. At the heart of the creation of the Directors’ Fortnight was the singular quality of a work of art and the impossibility of pigeonholing it.
We have chosen to present 30 films to you which, through their own unique language, embody a spirit of resistance to any form of ideology and to dominant narratives.”
Discover the list of selected feature films and short films and download the press kit.
• AXXAM YARVA, MAQAR ANSAHMU (The House Is on Fire, Might as Well Get Warm / La maison brûle, autant se réchauffer)
by Mouloud Aït Liotna
• DANS LA TÊTE UN ORAGE (A Storm Inside)
by Clément Pérot
• IL COMPLEANNO DI ENRICO (The Birthday Party / L’Anniversaire d’Enrico)
by Francesco Sossai
• J’AI VU LE VISAGE DU DIABLE (I Saw the Face of the Devil)
by Julia Kowalski
• LEMON TREE by Rachel Walden
• MARGARETHE 89 by Lucas Malbrun
• MAST-DEL by Maryam Tafakory
• OYU by Atsushi Hirai
• THE RED SEA MAKES ME WANNA CRY by Faris Alrjoob
• XIA RI FU BEN (Talking to the River)
by Yue Pan
• VAL ABRAÃO (Val Abraham / Abraham’s Valley)
by Manoel de Oliveira
Special screnning
• LE PROCÈS GOLDMAN (The Goldman Case)
by Cédric Kahn
Opening film
• AGRA by Kanu Behl
• L’AUTRE LAURENS (The Other Laurens)
by Claude Schmitz
• BÊN TRONG VO KÉN VÀNG (Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell)
by Thien An Pham
First feature film
• BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY (Merle merle mûre)
by Elene Naveriani
• BLAZH (Grace / La Grâce)
by Ilya Povolotsky
First feature film
• CONANN (She Is Conann)
by Bertrand Mandico
• CREATURA by Elena Martín Gimeno
• DÉSERTS by Faouzi Bensaïdi
• IN FLAMES by Zarrar Kahn
First feature film
• LÉGUA by Filipa Reis & João Miller Guerra
• LE LIVRE DES SOLUTIONS (The Book of Solutions)
by Michel Gondry
• MAMBAR PIERRETTE by Rosine Mbakam
• RIDDLE OF FIRE (Conte de feu)
by Weston Razooli
First feature film
• THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED by Joanna Arnow
First feature film
• THE SWEET EAST by Sean Price Williams
• UN PRINCE (A Prince)
by Pierre Creton
• XIAO BAI CHUAN (A Song Sung Blue)
by Zihan Geng
First feature film
• WOO-RI-UI-HA-RU (In Our Day)
by Hong Sang-soo
Closing film
Watch the 2023 Selection between June 7 and 18 in about 30 arthouse theaters throughout France, thanks to our new event: THE FORTNIGHT EXTENDED.
To give arthouse cinema audiences the opportunity to discover the selection right after the Cannes Film Festival, the Directors’ Fortnight will be organizing premieres of the films from the latest edition over a 10-day period, in 32 associated cinemas in France. A unique event which places theaters at the heart of the current political conversation.
Sent: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 09:13:58 +0000
Subject: Discover the 55th Directors’ Fortnight poster
Re: Cannes Cannes
The 55th edition of the Directors’ Fortnight reveals itself, luminous and adventurous. Serene, with no frills, Leonor Silveira questions our gaze.
The 2023 poster pays tribute to Manoel de Oliveira’s magnificent Abraham’s Valley (inspired by Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary) to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its selection (1993 Directors’ Fortnight).
As censorship was jeopardizing the publication of his novel, Flaubert declared : “There is immorality in good writing”. From May 17 to 26, we invite you to a journey through singular, free-spirited and subversive films.
Sent: Thu, 2 Feb 2023 11:56:09 -0800
Subject: Banshees language
Re: The Banshees of Inisherin
I also objected to the use of the term “depression” to explain Colm’s behavior. It stuck out like a sore thumb. If you go to the trouble to recreate authentic language, why drop in these anachronisms? In contrast with the priest’s question in the confessional: “How’s the despair?” Hopelessness = sin.
Sent: Wed, 2 Nov 2022 09:07:16 +0000
Subject: Directors’ Fortnight | The call for entries is now open !
Re: Cannes Cannes
THE CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR THE 55TH DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT IS NOW OPEN !
The Directors’ Fortnight is open to both short films and features – be they fiction, documentary, animation or hybrid in form – which display a singular cinematographic language and challenge established formal and representational conventions of mise-en-scène, narrative, cinematography, sound, acting and editing. The committee will pay particular attention to any kind of risk-taking.
It also welcomes genre films (comedy, thriller, horror, sci-fi, etc) that demonstrate inventiveness, display audacity and bring new life to the codes of these cinemas.
Directors’ fortnight’s trailer
APPLICATION DEADLINES
Short and medium length films : march 3, 2023
Feature films : march 24, 2023
Submit your film
Sent: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 16:41:43 +0000
Subject: A new selection committee for the Directors’ fortnight
Re: Cannes Cannes
A NEW SELECTION COMMITTEE FOR
THE DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT
The Directors’ Fortnight is happy to introduce the new team supporting Julien Rejl in his selection process.
Gender equal and eclectic, this committee is made up of seven programmers and four consultants.
THE SELECTION COMMITTEE
HERVÉ AUBRON: The former editor-in-chief of Magazine littéraire, Hervé Aubron is a film critic for Cahiers du cinéma. He was a long-time cinema professor at Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle University and is now an instructor and lecturer in theaters and for various institutions (French Cinematheque, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Forum des images…). He has written essays on David Lynch and Pixar studios as well as two books about Werner Herzog, in collaboration with Emmanuel Burdeau.
AGATHE BONITZER: Agathe Bonitzer is a stage and cinema actress. She has had parts in films by Christophe Honoré, Jacques Doillon, Agnès Jaoui, Damien Manivel and Angela Schanelec and has been directed on stage by Michel Fau, Jean-Luc Revol and Robert Cantarella. She is a member of the Jean-Vigo Award jury.
ELSA CHARBIT: From 2005 to 2015, Elsa Charbit organized Q&As, masterclasses, lectures, readings and concerts at the French Cinematheque as deputy manager of Cultural affairs. She then moved on to heading the Brive medium-length film festival which she opened to international selections for its 15th edition. From 2019 to 2021, she was the artistic director of Entrevues, the Belfort international film festival.
CAROLINE MALEVILLE: After various experiences in distribution and film institutions, Caroline Maleville joined the French Cinematheque in 2005. As programming manager since 2009, she has been regularly organizing events dedicated to contemporary innovative filmmaking. Beyond her collaborations with the Locarno Film Festival, the FEMA La Rochelle and Entrevues in Belfort, she is also a member of several script reading committees all over France and for Arte France Cinéma.
DANIELLA SHREIR: Daniella Shreir is British and is the founder and co-editor of Another Gaze, “a publication on cinema and feminisms”, as well as the creator of Another Screen, an international streaming service promoting female directors’ selections. For the past two years, she has been leading an intensive critic workshop around London’s Open City Film Festival. She has translated Chantal Akerman’s Ma mère rit (My Mother Laughs) into English and will soon publish a collection of Marguerite Duras texts.
MUYAN WANG: Muyan Wang is a Chinese film critic based in Paris. Since 2012, he has been a correspondent for several Chinese media outlets, such as The Paper. He is a contributor to American magazine Film Comment and occasionally writes for French media. Also a French-Chinese translator, he has translated interviews with Robert Bresson, Bresson par Bresson.
JEAN-MARC ZEKRI: Jean-Marc Zekri has been the head of Paris arthouse theater Le Reflet Médicis, where he moderates numerous Q&As around repertoire films, often never before seen, as well as films from emerging filmmakers. From 2009 to 2020, he was the founder and head of Baba Yaga Films, a distribution company which re-released films from Paradjanov, Duras and Muratova. He is also a member of the endowment fund board at Parisian voluntary-run theater La Clef.
CONSULTANTS
ÀLVARO ARROBA (Latin America and Spanish-speaking countries): Álvaro Arroba is Spanish and lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he has been working as a programmer for International Independent Film Festival BAFICI since 2017. He has written about cinema and film festival chronicles in newspapers such as La Vanguardia, El diario de Sevilla, Crítica de la Argentina, and in magazines such as SoFilm, Cahiers du Cinéma, Sight & Sound and Cinema Scope. He has edited and written books dedicated to directors Francisco Regueiro, Claire Denis and also about contemporary Argentine cinema. He recently founded a publishing house, Serie Gong and published novels by Agustina Bessa-Buis and essays by Luc Moullet, Pascale Bodet and Paulino Viota.
CÍNTIA GIL (Documentary prospecting): From 2012 to 2019, Cíntia Gil directed Doclisboa – International Film Festival, before moving on to head Sheffield DocFest until 2021. In 2022, Cíntia started the programme of screenings and study groups Artistic Differences, at UnionDocs (NY), as a co-curator together with Jenny Miller and Christopher Allen. Gil has taught seminars, lectures and workshops in different institutions (Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in Mexico, EICTV in Cuba, HGK Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Germany…). She has been a member of the executive Board of Apordoc – Associação pelo Documentário, the Portuguese documentary film association since 2015.
MING-JUNG KUO (Taiwan and Southeast Asia): As Programme Director for Taipei Film Festival (2014-2018), Ming-Jung Kuo carried a balance of showcasing new talent and introducing narrative VR programs as well as celebrating cinema heritage. She launched PAS Taipei in 2015 to help reinforce script development, co-production and sales strategies. She joined the Singapore International Film Festival in 2019, as Artistic Director. Between 2019 and 2021, she was on the selection committee for the Locarno Festival Open Doors.
JEAN NARBONI: Jean Narboni is a former editor-in-chief of Cahiers du cinéma. He has founded and headed the publishing house of the same name, which has published books by Roland Barthes, Serge Daney, Eric Rohmer or Jean Louis Schefer. In 1987, he and Noël Simsolo published a standard reference book of interviews with Samuel Fuller: Il était une fois… Samuel Fuller. His other books include Mikio Naruse Les Temps incertains, En présence d’un clown de Ingmar Bergman, La nuit sera noire et blanche, …Pourquoi les coiffeurs ? Notes actuelles sur Le Dictateur and lately, La Grande Illusion de Céline.
Sent: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 16:06:33 +0000
Subject: A new Artistic Director for the Directors’ Fortnight
Re: Cannes Cannes
Created in 1969 by the SRF in a spirit of freedom and rebellion, the Directors’ Fortnight has steadfastly reinvented itself and revealed talents from all over the world.
During its Annual General Meeting which was held last Saturday, June 25th at the Fémis, the SRF voted for a new French designation, wishing to be more inclusive and turned towards film and filmmakers in a decisive and firmly political way : the “Quinzaine des Cinéastes”.
In this new momentum, the SRF is particularly delighted to welcome its new Artistic Director, Julien Rejl.
His sheer, communicative, structured and versatile passion is exactly what arthouse cinema will need in the coming years. The SRF has been drawn to his firm belief that the Directors’ Fortnight needs to remain a space for discovery, boldness, debate and new forms, and that whether it is made by a first-timer or a cinema legend, a film stands out first and foremost through its mise-en-scène.
Today, the SRF expresses its full confidence in him for his new missions.
Julien Rejl, Artistic Director of the Directors’ Fortnight:
« The SRF has chosen to entrust me with the task of implementing the project of a new Directors’ Fortnight. I am very honored and look forward to the challenges that lie ahead.
First of all, I would like to salute the work and dedication that Paolo Moretti and his team have shown in recent years, despite the constraints imposed by the health crisis. I would like to thank them for the rigorous programming choices they have made, which have contributed to maintaining the international standing of the selection.
“La Quinzaine des Cinéastes”. This new identity is first and foremost an opportunity to reaffirm the role and commitment of a selection created by and for filmmakers in 1969: The Fortnight is the label that celebrates the vitality of world cinephilia and places the act of mise-en-scène as the invention of a singular language at the heart of the programming process. A home for filmmakers from all over the world, the Fortnight is a privileged space for boldness and risk-taking, in fiction as well as in documentary, open to all genres, in a convivial and non-competitive spirit.
The selection is also a reflection, a resonance chamber of contemporary political, economic, social and ecological crises and struggles. In this perspective, the Fortnight shows its unwavering support for all filmmakers whose creative freedom is threatened, hindered or simply not supported. We are more than ever mindful of all the works that will see the light of day, having succeeded in overcoming the obstacles.
The Fortnight also wishes to rally around producers, distributors and exhibitors to support the cinema theater as an indispensable venue to discover films. All year round, the Fortnight will promote the selected films in order to re-establish a relationship of trust with the public in theaters, and may host professional meetings on the issues of distribution. Similarly, the Fortnight in Action program will continue to improve access to culture and film education. This is an opportunity to carry out a common and cohesive project with all the professionals in the industry, supported by a determined and united team. »
Sent: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 09:36:49 +0000
Subject: 54th Directors’ Fortnight : Short films Selection
Re: Cannes Cannes
54TH DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT : SHORT FILMS SELECTION
ARIBADA
by Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau & Natalia Escobar
30’ – Germany, Colombia
AS TIME PASSES
by Jamil McGinnis
14’ – United States, Turkey
BEBEN (Tremor, Tremblement)
by Rudolf Fitzgerald-Leonard
15’ – Germany
DES JEUNES FILLES ENTERRENT LEUR VIE
by Maïté Sonnet
33’ – France
HAPPY NEW YEAR, JIM (Bonne année, Jim)
by Andrea Gatopoulos
9’ – Italy
JITTERBUG
by Ayo Akingbade
24’ – UK
MARIA SCHNEIDER, 1983
by Elisabeth Subrin
24’ – France
POTEMKINISTII (The Potemkinists)
by Radu Jude
18’ – Romania
STAGING DEATH
by Jan Soldat
8’ – Germany, Austria
THE SPIRAL (La Spirale)
by María Silvia Esteve
19’ – Argentina
Sent: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 10:45:29 +0000
Subject: The Directors’ Fortnight unveils its 2022 selection
Re: Cannes Cannes
THE DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT UNVEILS ITS 2022 SELECTION
FEATURE FILMS
L’ENVOL (Scarlet)
by Pietro Marcello
Opening film
1976
by Manuela Martelli
First feature film
THE DAM (Al-Sadd, Le Barrage)
by Ali Cherri
First feature film
LES ANNÉES SUPER 8 (The Super 8 Years)
by Annie Ernaux & David Ernaux-Briot
First feature film
ASHKAL
by Youssef Chebbi
First feature film
LES CINQ DIABLES (The Five Devils)
by Léa Mysius
DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA
by Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor
LA DÉRIVE DES CONTINENTS (AU SUD) (Continental Drift (South))
by Lionel Baier
EL AGUA (The Water)
by Elena López Riera
First feature film
ENYS MEN
by Mark Jenkin
FALCON LAKE
by Charlotte Le Bon
First feature film
FOGO-FÁTUO (Will-o’-the-Wisp, Feu follet)
by João Pedro Rodrigues
FUNNY PAGES
by Owen Kline
First feature film
GOD’S CREATURES
by Anna Rose Holmer & Saela Davis
LES HARKIS (Harkis)
by Philippe Faucon
MEN
by Alex Garland
Special screnning
LA MONTAGNE (The Mountain)
by Thomas Salvador
PAMFIR
by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
First feature film
REVOIR PARIS (Paris Memories)
by Alice Winocour
TAHT ALSHAJRA (Under the Fig Trees, Sous les figues)
by Erige Sehiri
UN BEAU MATIN (One Fine Morning)
by Mia Hansen-Løve
UN VARÓN (A Male)
by Fabian Hernández
First feature film
LE PARFUM VERT (The Green Perfume)
by Nicolas Pariser
Closing film
The last title of the selection will be announced soon, as well as the selection of short and medium-length films.
Sent: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 09:01:52 +0000
Subject: The 54th Directors’ Fortnight poster !
Re: Cannes Cannes
The official poster of the 54th Directors’ Fortnight is based on “Blue Flight”, a photo-performance by multidisciplinary artist Cecilia Paredes.
Born in Lima, Cecilia Paredes lives and works between Peru and the United States. Her work explores the themes of nature and the interaction between the body and its environment.
Both visible and invisible, the artist blends into the image she creates, much like filmmakers do in their films.
The 54th edition of the Directors’ Fortnight will take place from May 18 to 27, 2022
Artistic Director: Paolo Moretti
Managing Director: Christophe Leparc
Sent: Thu, 3 Mar 2022 15:56:12 +0000
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT | Cannes’ parallel sections express their solidarity with Ukraine.
The Directors’ Fortnight, La Semaine de la Critique and the ACID join the Cannes Film Festival in expressing their solidarity for the Ukranian people, fighting today for their freedom.
We reiterate our ongoing support for the artists, filmmakers, critics, film industry professionals, audiences, and all the men and women whose lives are in danger and upended by the turmoil of war.
Our thoughts also go out to those in Russia who put themselves at risk to protest against the deadly invasion imposed by their government.
We stand by the Cannes Film Festival in refusing all official delegations and government representatives from Russia.
Ever since their creation, the parallel sections of the Cannes Film Festival have welcomed dissident artists, persecuted in their home countries. We have always endeavored to share their voices and images with audiences from around the world.
We will continue to do so freely as we strive to keep the spirit of resistance alive, in all its forms and colors.
We will continue to receive and consider films from all filmmakers regardless of their nationality.
The teams of Directors’ Fortnight, La Semaine de la Critique and ACID
Sent: 29 Nov 2021 16:17:30 -0800
Subject: Re: New Message
Hello
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Subject: Website Analysis
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Sent: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 17:27:50 +0000
Subject: Invitation to Festival Premiere from Nathan Suher
Re: The Assassination of Western Civilization
YOUR INVITED!
‘The Assassination of Western Civilization’ makes its festival premiere at The Shawna Shea Film Festival
THE ASSASSINATION OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION is a psychological/political thriller done as a single take feature film.
WHAT’S IT ABOUT? A tabloid writer while juggling a failing marriage, a mistress, and pressures of his job, witnesses the assassination of a senator and is paid a visit by FBI agents – who may or may not be who they say they are.
Come to our screening, but stay for all the others too!
The Shawna Shea Memorial Film Festival is a remarkable foundation. Learn about it here.
Time: Our film is screening on Wednesday September 22nd at 6pm.
Where: Sturbridge Host Hotel & Conference Center located at 366 Main Street, Sturbridge, MA
Tickets for the screening are only $10 – AVAILABLE HERE OR CLICK ON THIS LINK: https://filmfreeway.com/TheShawnaSheaFilmFestival/tickets
Important Info: Masks will be required at the screening and proof of vaccination status. LETS ALL DO OUR PART TO KEEP THE WORLD SAFE!
Sent: Sat, 11 Sep 2021 06:52:17 +0000
Subject: Important news
How’s it been?
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Subject: waiting for certification
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Sent: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 09:57:49 +0000
Subject: Press conference of the 53rd Directors’ Fortnight
Re: Cannes Cannes
We are pleased to inform you that the line-up of the 53rd Quinzaine des Réalisateurs will be revealed on the 8th of June, 11 am Paris time, live on YouTube. Follow us, wherever you may be!
Sent: Wed, 19 May 2021 12:23:56 +0000
Subject: The 53rd Directors’ Fortnight poster !
Re: Cannes Cannes
The image, by photographer and filmmaker Daniel Mercadante, is part of his series “The Enchanted Forest”, and was created through a process that combines long exposure photography, light projection and juxtapositions.
The artist “paints” the trees with the coloured light of handheld flashlights and, using long exposure techniques, explores the temporal dimension that photography shares with cinema. The wide spectrum of colours reflects the richness and diversity of contemporary cinema which will be, once again, at the heart of the Directors’ Fortnight selection.
The 53rd Directors’ Fortnight edition will be held in Cannes from 7 to 17 July 2021.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Artistic Director: Paolo Moretti
Managing Director: Christophe Leparc
Sent: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 19:41:23 -0400
Subject: Question for Scott’s Small Engine Repair
Hi Scott,
I hope all is going well for you at Scott’s Small Engine Repair!
I wanted to reach out and see if you had a few minutes to chat about your software engineering goals? …
Sent: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 00:22:36 -0400
Subject: “The Homemade Sketch Show” a Digital Series Created in the Pandemic Lands Distribution on Tubi TV
The Platform Group’s “The Homemade Sketch Show” finds a home on Tubi TV
Creating new works is nothing new to Shara Ashley Zeiger, and when the world shut down, her brain turned on, and she gathered her friends. They don’t have a huge budget and lots of bells and whistles staying at home, but the beauty is that no one else does either. Enlisting an extremely diverse team of skilled multi-hyphenates to create a full half hour weekly sketch comedy series, The Homemade Sketch Show was born. “Homemade. Well Done. Funny” is their brand. They don’t have a huge production studio, but this new way of working invites collaborations crossing states and even countries. The regular cast and crew are in NYC, Miami, Toronto, Los Angeles, and Kansas City. Each week features a new guest host, and musical guest from across the globe, and a slew of brand new curated comedy sketches created and performed remotely.
The regular cast/sketch creators curated include: Shara Ashley Zeiger (Bull,The Plot Against America), Danny Gardner (Broadway’s Dames at Sea, Radio City), Tonya Cornelisse (Broadway’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? Parks & Recreation), Tanya Perez (Orange is the New Black, Blue Bloods), Eric Lockley (Luke Cage, The Movement Theatre Co), Christine Aziz (12 Monkeys,The Firm), Nicky Nasrallah (Panacea, Selena Vyle- Drag), Chelsea Gonsalves (New Dogs Old Tricks), Latisha DeVenuto (Girls, Blue Bloods), Gabbie Fried (The PIT), Michael Piper-Younie (All You Can Eat, I’d Like to be Alone Now), and Matthew Rini (American Kirare-Yaku).
Some of the show’s notable guest creators curated include: Joe Aaron Reid (Broadway’s Chicago, Curtains, If/Then/West End’s In The Heights, Dreamgirls) , Camille Theobald (Caroline’s on Broadway Headliner) Michael Mott (Broadway Records),Matt Burke (Nashville Recording Artist),Matt O’Brien (Just for Laughs, Conan O’Brien, MTV), Chase Coleman (The Originals, Boardwalk Empire, Mercy Mode), Matais (Columbian Recording Artist), and Kimberly Faye Greenberg (The Plot Against America, Off-Broadway’s Fanny Brice).
The show started on Youtube back in May, in the watch party of their Facebook group, and sketches through the week on Instagram. Never in their wildest dreams did the group of creators imagine they’d be making a full season of 15 episodes and offered distribution on Tubi TV. Now the series can be seen by a wide audience on Tubi’s Smart TV Channel, Roku, Tubi App and Website. The creators hope bringing the first season to a wide audience through Tubi TV, they will attract a network to pick up the show, and bring them on to produce season 2.
More information about The Homemade Sketch Show can be found on their website at www.theplatformgroup.org/the-homemade-sketch-show
Watch The Homemade Sketch Show Free to consumer on Tubi TV: tubitv.com/series/300005707/the_homemade_sketch_show
Join their Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/thehomemadesketchshow
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Sent: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 08:03:53 +0000
Subject: Two titles selected for the 2020 Directors’ Fortnight to be released next September
Re: Cannes Cannes
The Directors’ Fortnight is pleased to announce that audiences will be able to discover, starting next September, two titles selected for the 2020 Fortnight
We Are Who We Are
by Luca Guadagnino (Italy, USA)
and
Kajillionaire
by Miranda July (USA)
Officially selected before the cancellation of the 2020 edition, the two films should have had their premieres at the 52nd Fortnight, and have recently redefined their release strategies.
Faithful to its commitment, the Directors’ Fortnight is pleased to continue standing by the films as they meet the audience.
- We Are Who We Are will be broadcast on HBO starting in September and in Italy on Sky in October.
- Kajillionaire will be released in theatres in the United States on September 18 and in France on September 30, distributed by Apollo Films.
The Directors’ Fortnight is also pleased to support David Dufresne’s Un pays qui se tient sage (France), distributed by Jour2fête, which is scheduled for theatrical release on September 30.
Sent: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 13:01:15 +0000
Subject: Cannes Film Festival Parallel Sections Press Release
Re: Cannes Cannes
Following the French President’s April 13 announcement banning any festival from taking place until mid July, the parallel sections of the Cannes Film Festival acknowledge that the previously considered postponement to late June/early July is no longer an option. Consequently, the Directors’ Fortnight, La Semaine de la Critique and ACID regret to announce the cancellation of their 2020 editions in Cannes.
The health crisis we are all presently facing makes it impossible to anticipate the practical course of events. However, in order to support the whole film industry impacted by the current circumstances, each section, in consultation with the Cannes Film Festival, is looking at the best way to keep on supporting the films submitted to its 2020 edition.
The Directors’ Fortnight, La Semaine de la Critique and ACID teams.
Sent: Sun, 10 May 2020 10:58:32 -0700
Subject: Wim Wenders
Re: The five
I had no idea Wim Wenders did a movie about Kaspar Hauser too! I was
entranced by Werner Herzog’s film about him. I will seek it out!
Sent: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:01:19 +0000
Subject: Call for entries is now open!
Re: Cannes Cannes
Quinzaine
des Réalisateurs
Société des réalisateurs de films
CANNES
52nd DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT
The next Directors’ Fortnight will be held from May 13 to 23, 2020.
CALL FOR ENTRIES IS NOW OPEN
Entry deadline for Feature films: March 27, 2020.
Entry deadline for Short and medium length films: March 13, 2020.
Feature films must be received no later than April 10, 2020.
Short and medium length films must be received no later than March 13, 2020.
EARLY SUBMISSIONS – EARLY BIRD FEES
Submit your films until December 31, 2019 and benefit of an Early Bird submission fee.
The Early Bird registration deadline for all films is December 31, 2019.
All Early Bird registrations must be received no later than January 31, 2020.
‹‹SUBMIT YOUR FILM››
Please read the full regulation before submitting your film.
Sent: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:47:31 +0100
Subject: consignment box
Attn: Beneficiary,
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Sent: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:27:59 +0000
Subject: Laurie Anderson & Hsin-Chien Huang VR exhibition at the 51. Directors’ Fortnight
Re: Cannes Cannes
GO WHERE YOU LOOK!
FALLING OFF SNOW MOUNTAIN
Three virtual reality installations
presented at the Suquet des Art(iste)s in Cannes, from May 15th to 25th
Laurie Anderson is a musician, filmmaker, writer, digital arts creative pioneer and, ultimately, a storyteller in the broadest sense. In 1987, her bond with the Directors’ Fortnight began as she presented her first feature film, Home of the Brave, now a cult film-concert. It is therefore natural for the Directors’ Fortnight to invite her this year to present a new form of her exploration in storytelling: the entirety of her recent virtual reality creations, co-signed with new media creator Hsin-Chien Huang.
Aloft, Chalkroom and To the Moon, three poetically linked and complementary pieces presented together for the first time, give viewers a comprehensive overview of their research in these new narrative territories.
The sensory, poetic and technological dimensions of these three pieces are tightly intertwined and offer new forms of storytelling by amplifying our cinematic experience. It is this singular and fully authorial, approach of virtual reality, that the Directors’ Fortnight wishes to highlight, honour and share.
Laurie Anderson’s artistic path is a testament to the Directors’ Fortnight’s exploratory spirit, and to this 51st edition, aiming to be both an observatory and a laboratory of the evolution of storytelling through moving images, as well as an echo chamber for all forms of creation in this field.
Sent: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 09:01:23 +0000
Subject: DEERSKIN (LE DAIM) by Quentin Dupieux to open the 51st Directors’ Fortnight
Re: Cannes Cannes
“Forty-four-year-old Georges and his 100% suede jacket have a plan.”
Led by Jean Dujardin and Adèle Haenel, Deerskin is Quentin Dupieux’s seventh feature. Among the most singular directors in the contemporary film scene, Quentin Dupieux is also a screenwriter, director of photography, film editor and composer of electronic music, known internationally as Mr. Oizo.
Deerskin marks the return to Cannes of Jean Dujardin in a leading role after his worldwide breakout in The Artist in 2011, for which he won Best Actor awards both at Cannes and at the Oscars, among many other awards. Adèle Haenel, one of the most talented and highly regarded actresses in French cinema, again shows the breadth and fluidity of her range.
Quentin Dupieux began his career with music videos and advertising clips, working with Michel Gondry. In 2001, he directed his first film, Nonfilm, a disturbing and disjointed telling of the film shoot itself. Next came Steak, starring the well-known comic duo Éric and Ramzy; then Rubber, selected for Critics’ Week in 2010, which creeped out the Croisette with the murderous obsessions of… a tyre.
In 2012 he directed Wrong, which was followed a year later by the short film Wrong Cops, selected at the Directors’ Fortnight, the first chapter of the feature film of the same name presented in 2013 at Sundance. In Reality, (Venice Film Festival 2015) Alain Chabat has 48 hours to find the best whimper in the history of filmmaking. Keep an Eye Out, a surrealist absurdist and grating film starring the extraordinary Benoît Poelvoorde, Grégoire Ludig and Anaïs Demoustier, was among the most successful arthouse films of 2018 in French film theatres.
Deerskin will have its world premiere at the Directors’ Fortnight on May 15, and will be released theatrically in France on June 19, distributed by Diaphana.
Sent: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 13:17:01 +0000
Subject: Irish Films in Seattle This Weekend!
Thanks to all who came out for our 20th Anniversary celebrations. After taking a much-needed break in 2018 we have decided not to continue with the Irish Reels Film Festival.
Our goal in launching the festival back in 1997 was to support Irish filmmakers by providing a platform for those films not getting US distribution and to introduce Northwest audiences to these unique and inspiring stories. Today we have an abundance of ways to distribute films globally and for audiences to access these works.
Our deepest gratitude to the many partners and volunteers who joined us over the years in producing the festival. Heartfelt thanks to our sponsors and co-presenters who championed our efforts and the engaged audiences who came out year after year to celebrate Irish film and meet visiting filmmakers. It has been a joy to work with so many talented and inspiring individuals and to get to know all of you who share our passion for Irish film.
This weekend the Irish Heritage Club will be screening a selection of films as part of Irish Week celebrations at the Seattle Center.
Sent: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 19:23:51 -0700
Subject: Important Lawn Mower Catcher Information
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Sent: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 18:35:21 +0000
Subject: ‘Indie Film Rules says it all’ sent you a Direct Message
Hi Scott, We are pushing hard to get Preacher Six finished. Would you be so kind as to pitch in to the film campaign? Check out the new trailer from this summer’s filming. t.co/W1fsUtUuqG Everything helps. This is grassroots. Thank you for being a film champion! Btw… I am not a bot! Lol
Sent: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 13:01:13 +0000
Subject: Call for entries is now open!
Re: Cannes Cannes
51ST DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT
The next Directors’ Fortnight will be held from May 15 to 25, 2019.
CALL FOR ENTRIES IS NOW OPEN
Entry deadline for Feature films: March 29, 2019.
Entry deadline for Short and medium length films: March 15, 2019.
Feature films must be received no later than April 7, 2019.
Short and medium length films must be received no later than March 15, 2019.
EARLY SUBMISSIONS – EARLY BIRD FEES
Submit your films until December 31, 2018
and benefit of an Early Bird submission fee.
The Early Bird registration deadline for all films is December 31, 2018.
All Early Bird registrations must be received no later than January 31, 2019.
Sent: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:53:55 -0400
Subject: Women’s rights film West Coast Premiere
Re: The Red Lotus
An Unsettling Drama about Women’s Rights will have a West Coast Premiere at The Awareness Festival
Shara Ashley Zeiger’s Female Driven The Red Lotus to play Awareness Festival
The Red Lotus is an official selection at The Awareness Festival. The Red Lotus is a narrative 19min short film with a bone chilling story. Two sisters go away for a weekend to strengthen their relationship and uncover a secret that will bind them for life. Set in a world much like today, The Red Lotus is a tale of strength, women’s rights, sisterhood, and the human spirit. Michelle drags her sister Debbie to a yoga retreat only to reveal that there is something much bigger than Vinyasa going on. In her traditional storytelling style, Shara interviewed many women who have had abortions for the source material that inspired the film.
The screening will take place in the Short Film Block on Sunday October 7th at 12:00 noon at The LA LIVE Regal at 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015. The screening will be followed by a talkback with the filmmakers in the block. Tickets can be purchased in advanced at www.AwarenessFestival.org
The cast includes Jennifer Plotzke, Shara Ashley Zeiger, Paula Rossman, Jared P Smith, Dani Baum, Walker Hare, and Jen Lyon. The film is written by Shara Ashley Zeiger, directed and edited by Jessica Green, with an original score by Leeran Z. Raphaely. The creative team is rounded out by Mike Magilnick, Scott Aviles, Jack Bradley, David Sikora, Adrian Bosi, and Jonathan Wetjen. The Red Lotus is co-executive produced by Shara Ashley Zeiger’s company The Platform Group and Paula Rossman’s Wall is the Way: Works.
The film was shot on location at The Dragon’s Egg in Mystic CT, and at the prestigious Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford CT, where Shara trained with the National Theater Institute.
The Awareness Film Festival is organized by Heal One World, a non-profit charity serving the community surrounding West Pico blvd in Los Angeles, California.
As well as serving as a fundraiser, the mission of the Awareness Film Festival is to inform and inspire audiences through a program of films on Ecological, Political, Health/Well Being and Spiritual topics. More information about the Awareness Festival and how to purchase tickets can be found on their website at www.AwarenessFestival.org
A trailer for The Red Lotus is available on www.ThePlatformGroup.org
Twitter & Instagram: @PlatformGroup @WallWayWorks @SharaAshleyZ #TheRedLotusFilm
Sent: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 03:12:01 +0000
Subject: Nathan Suher invites you to the world premiere of Higher Methods
The World Premiere of Higher Methods
Friday September 28th, 2018
at the historic Orpheum Theater in Foxboro, MA
Doors at 7pm
Showtime 8pm
After 3 years of concept to completion, ‘Higher Methods’ ready to see the light of day. Please come out and support local independent cinema!
Sent: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 22:59:41 +0000
Subject: World Premiere of the Official Trailer!
Re: Maturing Youth
MATURING YOUTH
Watch the Official Trailer Now!
Watch the Official Trailer Now!
From the multi award winning entertainment production company, R&F Entertainment comes this new and exciting dramedy about life, love, and loss.
#MATURINGYOUTH Official Trailer’s WORLD PREMIERE available exclusively on the films
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Sent: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 14:01:21 +0000
Subject: World Premiere of the Official Trailer!
Re: Maturing Youth
EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT!
The WORLD PREMIERE of the OFFICIAL TRAILER is next FRIDAY, JUNE 15th!
We are very excited to show you this heart-warming dramedy from first-time filmmaker Divoni Simon and the multi-award-winning production company R&F ENTERTAINMENT.
Sent: Sun, 20 May 2018 02:12:44 -0400
Subject: World Premiere of Women’s Rights Film in NYC
Re: The Red Lotus
The Red Lotus, a New Unsettling Drama about Women’s Rights will Premiere at The New York Shorts International Film Festival
Female Driven Dystopian Dramatic Short to premiere in NYC this Spring
The dramatic short film “The Red Lotus” is an official selection at The New York Shorts International Film Festival. The Red Lotus is a narrative short film with a bone chilling story. Two sisters go away for a weekend to strengthen their relationship and uncover a secret that will bind them for life. Set in a world much like today, The Red Lotus is a tale of strength, women’s rights, sisterhood, and the human spirit. Michelle drags her sister Debbie to a yoga retreat only to reveal that there is something much bigger than Vinyasa going on. In her traditional storytelling style, Shara interviewed many women who have had abortions for the source material that inspired the film.
The screening will take place in NYC at Anthology Film Archives at 7:00pm on May 31st on 32 Second Ave. New York, NY 10003. The screening will be followed by a talkback with the filmmakers in the block. Tickets can be purchased in advanced at www.nyshortsfest.com
The cast includes Jennifer Plotzke, Shara Ashley Zeiger, Paula Rossman, Jared P Smith, Dani Baum, Walker Hare, and Jen Lyon. The film is written by Shara Ashley Zeiger, directed and edited by Jessica Green, with an original score by Leeran Z. Raphaely. The creative team is rounded out by Mike Magilnick, Scott Aviles, Jack Bradley, David Sikora, Adrian Bosi, and Jonathan Wetjen. The Red Lotus is co-executive produced by Shara Ashley Zeiger’s company The Platform Group and Paula Rossman’s Wall is the Way: Works.
The film was shot on location at The Dragon’s Egg in Mystic CT, and at the prestigious Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford CT, where Shara trained with the National Theater Institute.
The New York Shorts International Film Festival showcases the finest short-form cinema from around the world to enthusiastic audiences in the vibrant filmmaking enclave of New York City.
A trailer for The Red Lotus is available on www.ThePlatformGroup.org
Sent: Thu, 17 May 2018 19:34:42 +0100
Subject: Films primés
50th Directors’ Fortnight
Sponsors’ prizes
Directors’ Fortnight is a non competitive section but some of our sponsors could award some films during closing ceremony.
ART CINEMA AWARD
Climax by Gaspar Noé
SACD PRIZE
En liberté ! by pierre Salvadori
Co-written by Pierre Salvadori, Benoit Graffin and Benjamin Charbit
LABEL EUROPA CINEMA
Troppa Grazia by Gianni Zanesi
ILLY AWARD
Skip Day by Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan
Sent: Thu, 17 May 2018 20:23:38 +0200
Subject: Pingyao Film Festival / 11-20 October 2018 / China
Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival (PYIFF) was initiated by internationally renowned Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke and prestigious festival director Marco Müller.
The inaugural edition of PYIFF took place in 2017. Held in the magificent ancient city of Pingyao, PYIFF will celebrate once again next October the latest achievements in international cinema, as well as promoting works from young Chinese directors.
Sent: Mon, 14 May 2018 16:31:50 +0000
Subject: 50e anniversaire de la Quinzaine
2018 WILL BE THE YEAR OF THE 50TH DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT
Above all, we want to explore and revive an era – joyful, carefree, insolent and curious – that preceded the creation of the Fortnight by a few years and accompanied its rise. During this period, the cinema opened itself to a new generation of auteurs, and to new territories. There was a period of four or five years, between 1966 and 1972, during which the “New Cinemas” as the Cahiers du Cinéma called them in one of its columns, burgeoned here and there all over the world, but without reaching wide audiences. It has gone down in history that the Fortnight was born in the wake of 1968 and the cancelling of the Cannes Film Festival that year. That is both undeniable and a bit of a simplification.
The Fortnight is above all the upshot of this wider movement that was happening on every continent during the 60’s. With the Fortnight, these auteurs and these films had found a safe haven, an adoptive family they became part of the minute they arrived. And they found an open door to a world that had previously been closed, a door that the Fortnight, against all odds and in the face of industry trends, still strives today to keep wide open. Through a book, an exhibition, a sound creation, this is the atmosphere we wish to relive.
THE ANNIVERSARY AT THÉÂTRE CROISETTE
MONDAY, MAY 14th
Édouard Waintrop invites Pierre-Henri Deleau, Artistic Director of the Fortnight from 1969 to 1999, to celebrate the young years of the selection, on the occasion of its 50th edition. All directors selected in the Fortnight will be invited to join the festivities.
Sent: Tue, 8 May 2018 18:59:19 +0000
Subject: 50th Directors’ Fortnight Opening
The 50th edition of the Directors’ Fortnight will took place from May 9 to 19 in Cannes. See you on May 9 from 8.45 am for a very promising beginning!
OPENING FILM
Ciro Guerra et Cristina Gallego will open the 50th Fortnight
Three years after “El abrazo de la serpiente” Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego signed “Pájaros de verano”, an epic story of an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s.
TUNISIA FACTORY
For its 6th edition, the Factory focus on Tunisia
Meeting on Wednesday, May 9th at 12 pm at Théâtre Croisette to discover the 4 short films of the new tandems of directors.
Sent: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 18:55:36 +0200
Subject: Cinéma(s) en liberté 1969 – 1972 / An exhibition in Cannes by La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs
Suquet des art(iste)s / 5-27 mai 2018
FREE entrance – everyday from 10 to 12,30 am and from 2 to 6 pm
7 Rue Saint-Dizier, 06400 Cannes
The society of the late 1960s and early 1970s experienced profound social, political and cultural upheavals. From its creation, the Fortnight is a reflection of these upheavals and the showcase of a cinema that, everywhere in the world, is reinventing itself. In Brazil, Italy, the United States, Switzerland, Canada, Japan, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Senegal, Egypt… Filmmakers explore new forms, while experimental cinema (Fluxus, Zanzibar, Factory) shakes up
academicism, while erotic cinema mocks morality and while political cinema merges with militant cinema.
The brand new Fortnight will naturally become the place where this Cinéma en liberté (name given to the first edition) will be expressed.
Through texts, photos, videos, posters, film clips and sound testimonies, the exhibition will propose to immerse oneself in the first four years of the Fortnight and to discover how they draw a picture of the world. A fun and exciting exploration that will certainly make you want to discover or watch again movies that have mostly become cult.
• Politique et Censure
• Sex, Drugs, and Rock’n’Roll
• Cinéma Expérimental
• Le Documentaire
Sound Creation
A sound piece by Benoît Bories, who has travelled the world for a year collecting aural ambiance material and verbal recollections, in order to recreate the atmosphere and the energy of the era.
Sent: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 11:03:17 +0000
Subject: Tunisia Factory
After Taipei in 2013, Nordic in 2014, Chile in 2015, South Africa in 2016 and Lebanon Factory in 2017, the Directors’ Fortnight, with the collaboration of Tunisian CNCI, join to continue the adventure this coming year with Tunisia Factory.
This Factory is co-produced by Dora Bouchoucha & Lina Chaabane (Nomadis Images), Habib Attia (Cinétéléfilms), Imed Marzouk (Propaganda Production), Omar Ben Ali (SVP) Riadh et Selma Thabet (Ulysson) et Khaled Mechken (Objectif) on the Tunisian side, and by Dominique Welinski (DW) on the French side. The Factory aims at the emergence of new talents on the international scene, allowing young filmmakers, Tunisians and internationals, to meet and create together. The Fortnight is proud to present the result of these discussions, four short films co-directed by four pairs of young directors.
TUNISIA FACTORY IN BRIEF
• 4 young international filmmakers have been chosen during last year.
• In 2017, after an announcement at Cannes Film Festival, a call for entry was launched.
• Late October 2017, in Tunis, after interviewing a short list of 12 directors, 4 Tunisian filmmakers were selected and paired with international ones.
• The couples had 3 months to write together a short film, which should last 15 min.
• March 2018, for more than one month in Tunis and around, each pair shot, edited and completed his short film with local cast and crew.
• May 2018, in Cannes, the 8 participants will meet with representatives of the international film industry (producers, distributors, festival representatives, international sales…), who will help them in the development of their respective first feature films.
The 4 short films will be screened on Wednesday, May 9 at the Théâtre Croisette, the day of the opening of the 50th edition of the Fortnight.
Sent: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 16:21:41 +0100
Subject: Cannes, Quinzaine des Réalisateurs – 2018 Quiz…
Sent: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:16:54 +0000
Subject: Higher Methods – It’s all about the first 3 days
Our Seed&Spark campaign to support Higher Methods is now live! The goals of the campaign are to increase awareness and grow audiences for Higher Methods, the first full-length feature from IM Filmworks, and to raise post-production funds for the film. I am writing you today because Seed&Spark tells us that the first 72 hours of any campaign are make or break and absolutely crucial to its success.
So, if you’re planning to support this campaign – by contributing, participating, and sharing our posts and content – now is the time! Please enjoy here an interview with me, the director and co-producer; check out the film’s website; and then visit our campaign page between now and this Thursday, October 12th. And follow-up with us this coming Sunday, October 15th, to join us for our first special, live Higher Methods event!
VISIT OUR CAMPAIGN PAGE HERE
Sent: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 02:31:57 +0000
Subject: Irish Reels Film Festival Sept 29-Oct 1
Come celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Irish cinema in Seattle! There’s still time to get your tickets to our Opening Night Gala, co-hosted by Irish Network Seattle on Friday, September 29th, at 6:00pm at The Ruins.
On Saturday at 2:00pm the Film Program begins at SIFF Film Center with Mattress Men. Colm Quinn’s award winning documentary is a bitter-sweet story of Michael Flynn who with the help of his friend Paul Kelly, reinvents himself as the eccentric online personality ‘Mattress Mick’.
At 4:00pm our first Short Program of the weekend is GAZE on Tour. Five short films celebrate the strides that have been taken in LGBT representation on screen in Ireland over the past number of years. Director Michael Moody Culpepper will be present to speak about his film 3 Friends. Winner of Best Irish Short at this year’s GAZE Int’l Festival, 3 Friends is based on a Colm Tóibín story of the same name . Also, not to be missed in this medley is the award winning Lily.
At 6:00pm the identity of the Irish worker in New York finds itself at an historical crossroads in Colin Broderick’s first feature film, Emerald City. A crew of Irish construction workers still trying to work hard and party hard, are starting to discover the price of a life spent dodging adult responsibility.
Sunday at 2:00pm we begin with Song of Granite. Now officially Ireland’s entry for Best Foreign Language Film for the Oscars 2018, this docudrama revolves around the life of the great traditional Irish singer, Joe Heaney. The harsh landscape combined with the myths, fables and songs of his Connemara childhood helped shape this complex and fascinating character. Producer Alan Maher will attend.
At 4:00pm, nine new short films including narrative, documentary and animation provide a perfect way to spend a Seattle Sunday afternoon. Sprinkled with award winners, these are moving stories of love, passion and intrigue from new Irish filmmakers.
Sunday night at 6:00pm join us for our closing film In The Name of Peace: John Hume in America. Narrated by Liam Neeson and scored by Bill Whelan, the film chronicles John Hume’s approach to politics in Northern Ireland in co-ordination with senior political figures in the US. includes interviews with President Bill Clinton, President Jimmy Carter, US Senators and Congressmen, as well as Irish leaders and British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and John Major. At a time of political instability, this is a timely film examining steady leadership and international co-operation.
Festival passes and individual tickets can be purchased through SIFF Film Center and at the box office 30 minutes before each show time.
Sent: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 23:58:25 -0700
Subject: 8th annual Silicon Valley Film Festival 2017 – Inviting movies for submission – Last date: Oct: 31
Dear Filmmakers!
I’m Clara Smith , Marketing Director for Silicon Valley Film Festival. Our team came across the wonderful movies you have made. Hope you might have joined our previous years’ festivals as well. We’d like to invite you to welcome and submit for Silicon Valley Film Festival 2017. Pl. find the details below. Wish you great success in Filmmaking!
Regards,
Clara Smith
Silicon Valley Film Festival – Marketing
*New at SVFF 2017!!
New Awards: ‘NARRATIVE FEATURE’, ‘COMMERCIAL AD SPOT’, AS WELL AS “BEST
ACTOR”, “ACTRESS”, “DIRECTOR”, “EDITOR”, AND “CINEMATOGRAPHY”. ‘SVFF
JURY’s HONORABLE MENTION’ of ‘TOP 3 MOVIES’ in every category. More new
categories – lots of chances to be recognized and honored by the people
from the World’s technology paradise – Silicon Valley at SVFF 2017.
Dear Filmmakers,
We are happy to announce our 5th annual Silicon Valley Film Festival –
2017, celebrating Silicon Valley Innovations in Digital Cinema around
the world – now accepting submissions in more than 7 categories. We are
happy to personally invite you to submit your incredible Films for SVFF
and join us at SVFF 2017.
*Film Submission Deadlines:
* One Deadline: October 31, 2017.
* One flat fee:
* $25 for Short Films (Less than 30 minutes)
* $35 for Feature Films (Over 30 minutes)
NEW SVFF AWARDS
* Narrative Features, Commercial ad, and Best Actor, Actress, Director, Editor, Cinematography
SVFF SPECIAL AWARDS
* Best Vision of the Future,
* Best Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Best Green Earth.
SPECIAL PROGRAMS
* Movie Screenings – Top selection of movies from around the world and from Silicon Valley Moviemakers.
* Pitching & Film Fund Raising
* World Premieres of feature Films
* Award Ceremony, Green Carpet Reception, performances, VIPs, Panels and more.
With the vision for ‘Tomorrow’s World’, Silicon Valley truly is the
birth place of Digital Film Making and Digital Media including the top A
companies (Adobe, Apple, Avid, Auto Desk). In the heart of Silicon
Valley, the Hi-Tech community is celebrating the Spirit of Silicon
Valley the Power of Imagination by promoting Digital Cinema and giving
international movie makers a venue to showcase their creativity, find
funding and meet with fellow filmmakers, Media Companies, Producers and
Distributors at Silicon Valley Film Festival.
Silicon Valley Awards
Honoring world digital filmmakers with our esteemed Silicon Valley
Awards every year.
Awards include best of the following categories: Feature and Short in
Narrative, Documentary, Animation, Music, Commercial Ad Spot, Green
Earth, Vision of the Future, Innovation and Entrepreneurship and best
Actor, Actress, Director, Editor, Cinematography.
All Awards are selected by our Chief Judges except Audience choice
award. Visit our past ‘SVFF Hall of Fame’ page at www.svffi.org
SVFF Inviting International Judges:
Do you have a favorite filmmaker whom you want to be part of SVFF
Judges, send us their contact info. at svff@svffi.org, we will be glad to talk to them.
Submit online
Our programming team eagerly inviting you to submit your great work for
Silicon Valley Film Festival to take it to the rest of the world. Please
submit online. www.svffi.org/svfilmfestival_submissions.aspx
Sent: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 21:01:03 -0400
Subject: Press Release: A Life Not To Follow out July 4!
Re: A Life Not to Follow
There may not be a way back from the path you take…
Christopher Di Nunzio’s Neo-Noir Gangster Thriller
A LIFE NOT TO FOLLOW
Debuts on Digital & VOD – JULY 4!
Los Angeles, Calif. – June 2017 – Leading independent cinema distributor Random Media and Creepy Kid Productions proudly announce the debut of director Christopher Di Nunzio‘s gritty neo-noir gangster thriller A LIFE NOT TO FOLLOW, on Digital, VOD and DVD, July 4, 2017. An exciting new film in the dark dramatic style of ‘The Departed’ and ‘John Wick,’ the action-packed feature was a festival award-winner* and has been acclaimed for action and authentic noir style. It intertwines three engaging storylines, showcasing a triptych of different tales of life in the dangerous criminal underworld – one of revenge, settling scores and atonement; a second of a rising mob lieutenant who must kill or be killed; and the final climactic conclusion, the story of a world-weary private investigator who seeks to set things right.
TRAILER vimeo.com/190039907
The sophomore feature by director Christopher Di Nunzio, A LIFE NOT TO FOLLOW stars Michael Capozzi (as Luca Trapani), Fiore Leo (as Eric DiVenardi), Molly Kay (as Eliza Cushing), David Graziano (as Tobias Kane), John Martellucci (as Angelo), Erica Derrickson (as Fiona), William Bloomfield (as Derby) and Johnny Cammarata (as Jimmy Trapani). The film was written Pedro Alvarado and Christopher Di Nunzio. It was produced by Pedro Alvarado, William Bloomfield, Michael Capozzi, Amy DePaola, Christopher Di Nunio, Melanie Kotoch, Jason Miller, Christine Perla, Jami Tennille and Nolan Yee.
Distributed by Random Media, A LIFE NOT TO FOLLOW has a running time of 106 minutes. The film is not rated.
A LIFE NOT TO FOLLOW – synopses:
Short: In a story resembling the dark dramatic style of ‘The Departed’ and ‘John Wick,’ a hitman, a gangster and a private detective share an interlacing narrative about common human frailty.
Long: A Neo-Noir film told in three interlacing chapters. The first story presents Eric, a criminal who knows death is imminent. He must make amends for his past sins, by killing those who wronged him, no matter the price. The second tale features Angelo, a wiseguy willing to do anything to move up in the world, who must make the ultimate sacrifice – kill his best friend or be killed himself. The final act presents Tobias, an F.B.I. agent turned P.I. on the trail of a missing girl. In his long search for her he comes face to face with a host of unsavory characters who will lead him to perdition or salvation.
* Film Festival Acclaim Includes:
Winner, 2015 Shawna Shea Film Festival – Best Director
Winner, 2015 Action on Film International Film Festival- Alan J. Bailey Award Excellence in the Craft of Filmmaking
Nominated, 2015 Action on Film Award – Best Guerrilla Film – Feature
Nominated, 2015 Gwinnett Center International Film Festival – Best Feature Film – Fiction
Sent: Sat, 27 May 2017 16:28:27 +0000
Subject: 49th Directors’ Fortnight: our sponsors’ prizes
Directors’ Fortnight is a non competitive section but some of our sponsors could award some films during closing ceremony.
ART CINEMA AWARD
The Rider by Chloé Zaho
SACD prize
Bright Sunshine In by Claire Denis
L’amant d’un jour by Philippe Garrel
Label Europa Cinema
A Ciambra by Jonas Carpignagno
Illy Award
Retour à Genoa City by Benoît Grimalt
FIPRESCI Prize
The Nothing Factory by Pedro Pinho
Those portraits from directors has been taken by Cécile Burban and Guillaume Lutz for the Directors’ Fortnight. (Re)discover all our photos ans interviews on www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com
Sent: Wed, 10 May 2017 21:29:19 +0000
SIFF Highlights | GiveBIG | Fall Festival Dates
SAVE THE DATE: SEPT 29-OCT 1, 2017
Mark your calendars! The Irish Reels Film Festival will return to SIFF Cinema for 3 days of new Irish cinema, SEPT 29-OCT 1, 2017. We’ll be celebrating our 20th Anniversary! In the meantime, catch up on this fabulous slate of new releases at the upcoming Seattle International Film Festival.
Spotlight on Irish Films at SIFF
Emer Reynolds will be in town with her documentary The Farthest which features stunning imagery from the Voyager space probes. Launched in 1977 the probes have traveled 12 billion miles in 40 years. The Farthest is both an intimate love letter to science and technology as well as a genuinely cinematic, epic-scale adventure. Emer is scheduled to attend the Friday May 19th 4pm and Saturday May 20th 5pm screenings.
3 Friends is a short film adapted from Colm Tóibín’s short story of the same name. Seattle Director Michael Culpepper traveled to Cork to spend 3 weeks with a fabulous Irish cast and crew. Join Michael at the 3 Friends screening on May 28th 6pm in the Short Film package Boy Trouble.
NEW IRISH FEATURES at SIFF
A Date for Mad Mary
Ireland | 2016 | 92 mins | Darren Thornton
After 20-something “Mad” Mary McArdle is denied a plus-one to her friend’s wedding on the grounds that she doesn’t have one, she becomes determined to find a date, leading to an unlikely relationship that helps heal her troubled past. Screens May 27th 7pm and May 28th 6pm.
Bad Day for The Cut
Ireland | 2016 | 99 mins | Chris Baugh
Revenge is coming for the criminals who have killed the mother of a seemingly mild-mannered Irish farmer in this tense, tough-as-nails thriller including flashes of bloody hilarity and featuring a career-making lead performance from Nigel O’Neill. Screens May 21st 9pm and May 25th 4:30pm
Handsome Devil
Ireland | 2016 | 95mins | John Butler.
Music-obsessed Irish teenager Ned is an outcast at his rugby-obsessed boarding school, understood only by an inspirational English teacher (Andrew Scott, “Sherlock”), at least until he becomes roommates with a star athlete, in this breezy coming-of-age underdog story. Screens May 23rd 7pm, and May 26th 7pm.
Without Name
Ireland | 2016 | 93mins | Lorcan Finnegan
In this psychologically tense slice of a hallucinogenic eco-horror, a land surveyor on a secretive mission in a remote and unnamed Irish forest begins to have strange visions after his equipment goes haywire, leading him to suspect that someone-or something-is lurking in the woods. Screens May 28th 9pm, June 2nd 9:30pm and June 4th 9:30pm.
Also worth checking out!! Nick Hamm’s The Journey depicts the key negotiations between former protestant leader Ian Paisley (Timothy Spall) and catholic Sinn Fein head Martin McGuiness (Colm Meaney) that ultimately laid the groundwork for a historic plan for bringing peace to Northern Ireland. Screens June 5th & 6th.
Sent: Tue, 2 May 2017 15:34:02 +0000
Subject: Quinzaine à la Bocca 2017 – Opening ceremony
The Directors’ Fortnight initiated this project with the support of BNP Paribas, SISLEY Foundation, France Television Foundation, the city of Cannes and Cannes Cinéma. The Fortnight in the Bocca district project aims to try out an original dynamic in cultural activism aimed at an outlying quarter of Cannes that is part of a wider policy of democratization and access to culture. Linked with the Directors’ Fortnight, it aims to extend the reach of the event to the district of la Bocca.
Throughout the year, the Quinzaine at La Bocca organizes previews and screenings of Fortnight selections in general release. As part of this programming, the Fortnight pursues its pedagogical mission and sets up screenwriting workshops in local vocational centers. During the festival, as part of Cannes Cinéphiles, part of the program is screened in two neighborhood cinemas of La Bocca: the Licorne and the Raimu. Admission is free, open to all and include Q&As with directors. There are also image education workshops with vocational centers and local associations.
Sent: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 16:03:26 +0200
Subject: Quinzaine des Réalisateurs – Cannes 2017
Bonjour,
Catherine Giraud et moi-même sommes en charge du bureau de presse de
la Quinzaine des réalisateurs, qui aura lieu cette année du 18 au 28
mai prochain, à Cannes.
Nous serions ravis de vous accueillir au bureau de presse, situé à la
Malmaison (47, La Croisette).
Les projections ont lieu au Théâtre Croisette de l’hôtel Marriott.
L’accréditation au festival du film vous en garantit l’accès.
Edouard Waintrop, notre directeur artistique, dévoilera la sélection
durant la conférence de presse le 25 avril à 11h au Forum des images.
Vous trouverez tous les documents et le matériel presse nécessaire sur
notre site Internet (www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com)
SAVEZ-VOUS DÉJÀ QUI, CHEZ VOUS, COUVRIRA LE FESTIVAL DE CANNES ?
Sent: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 13:11:17 -0500
Subject: Science-based drama PAINLESS to hold World Premiere at Cinequest
Painless, the tale of a lonely, reclusive man who becomes obsessed with finding a cure for his rare condition that doesn’t allow him to feel physical pain, has been invited to hold its world premiere screening at the prestigious Cinequest Film and VR Festival (CQFF) on March 2.
The science-based drama was written and directed by New York native Jordan Horowitz, whose 2015 documentary Angel of Nanjing took home thirteen best film and best director awards from festivals around the world, and produced by the award winning, Rhode Island duo of Anthony Ambrosino and Nicholas Delmenico, whose last film Almost Human premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival where it was purchased by IFC.
“Painless is a modern-day fable about loneliness and alienation, and the sacrifices one makes for what they believe in,” said Horowitz. He added, “feelings I think we’ve all experienced at some point in our lives.” Painless was filmed in both New York City and Rhode Island.
The film stars Montreal native Joey Klein, a working film and television actor for the last decade, with roles in American Gangster, On The Road and 12 Monkeys: The Series. He most recently wrote and directed the feature film The Other Half which premiered at the 2016 South by Southwest Film Festival.
Cinequest, voted Best Film Festival by USA Today readers, is set in the home of the world’s most influential media technology companies (Apple, Cisco, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, LinkedIn, etc.). CQFF showcases premier films, renowned and emerging artists, and breakthrough technology—empowering global connectivity between creators, innovators and audiences. Named best digital festival and a top 10 film festival (out of thousands) by the Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide, CQFF has led the world in its showcase and implementation of the technologies that have revolutionized filmmaking, exhibition and distribution.
Sent: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 17:24:01 +0000
Subject: Higher Methods Home Stretch – SUCCESS
I can’t lie or hide the fact the past month during this Indiegogo campaign for Higher Methods, that it has been one of the most mentally and physically challenging times of my life. Very little sleep, high anxiety, and two trips to the ER just to begin. I tell you this at the risk of being judged, because any sane person wouldn’t subject themselves to something like this. I’m not saying I’m crazy at all. I just know that there is unquenchable burning desire to make this film happen. Since this campaign began 46 amazing people have seen something of value in supporting our team in this endeavor. There are hundreds of you out there that this post and video will reach. If 46 backers believe in this film so far, I know there are at least another 20 or so more that feel the same way. This campaign is already an success. I don’t care if another penny is contributed. More then anything I’m here to simply spread the love and the message that there are some wonderful people out there who understand how difficult it is to be an artist (in my case an independent filmmaker), and that it only takes often times the ability to share a campaign or a link with your own network to introduce an artist to a wider audience. Thank you to everyone who has supported this campaign through a donation, or sharing, or commenting, or giving me pep talks during this time. It all has value. Thank you!
Sent: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 21:03:31 +0000
Subject: Nathan Suher is launching his first feature film, Higher Methods.
Hello friends and supporters of the independent film scene.
This is an exciting time for me because I’m about to embark on the ambitious project of my life. I’ve decided to direct and produce a feature length film. Not some backyard home video, but a real movie with real actors and expensive cameras and lights.
It would mean the world to me if you could please view this campaign and share it with your friends, family, and your network. If you can help us out in any way that’s a bonus. The most important thing is that by sharing the campaign we build momentum and build an audience.
A great benefit to our supportors includes some unique perks to those that help us out! See for yourself what goodies we are offering!
We couldn’t launch a campaign with out the FINAL WORD from THE BOSS.
WATCH THE VIDEO HERE
On a personal note
Nathan is an award winning filmmaker. He has recently had films accepted in the Charlotte Film Festival, The Shawna Shea Film Festival, The SENE Film, Music, and Art Festival, and Another Hole in the Head Film Festival. He has been a working filmmaker for 18 years with more then 30 credits to his name.
Sent: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 11:18:58 -0400
Subject: Film: Delusion picked up by Cinema Epoch
Re: Delusion
Delusion has been picked up for distribution by Cinema Epoch and is now
available on Amazon! The film will be release on more outlets very soon…
More info below.
*Trailer*
*IMDb*
*Link to Amazon*
Sent: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 22:31:40 +0000
Subject: Irish Reels Film Festival Oct 7-9: Spotlight on New Irish Cinema
Irish Reels Film Festival
SIFF FILM CENTER
OCT 7-9
Join us for the 19th annual celebration of Irish cinema in Seattle! The festival kicks off on Friday, October 7th, at 6:00pm at the SIFF Film Center with an Opening Night Gala co-hosted by Irish Network Seattle.
At 7:30pm we open with Simon Fitzmaurice’s highly acclaimed My Name is Emily. A beautifully crafted and scored, visually stunning coming of age story, the film features Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter), Michael Smiley (The Lobster, Kill List, A Field in England) and newcomer George Webster (City of Dreamers).
Saturday night’s feature presentation is the compelling new film from Director Rebecca Daly. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2016, Mammal (starring Oscar nominated Rachel Griffiths) is the story of a woman who has lost her son and develops an unorthodox relationship with a homeless youth. Our closing night feature on Sunday is Mark Noonan’s You’re Ugly Too (Winner of Best Feature at Galway Film Fleadh 2015), the story of a young girl Stacey (Lauren Kinsella) and her mysterious uncle Will (Aiden Gillan – Game of Thrones) who set off into the midlands to build a future life together.
On Saturday at 1:00pm the first of two Senior Presentations featured over the weekend graces the screen. Older Than Ireland is a landmark documentary revealing the story of a hundred years of life as seen through the eyes of thirty Irish men and women aged 100 or over. We’re thrilled to have Director Alex Fegan (The Irish Pub) present to share his latest documentary. On Sunday A Doctor’s Sword follows a family’s journey to Japan to uncover the origin of the Japanese Samurai sword which now resides in MacCarthy’s Bar in Castletownbere. Two award winning films round out the documentary program for the weekend. Narrated by Brendan Gleason, Atlantic (Risteard O’Domhnaill’s follow-up to THE PIPE), screens on Saturday. Filmed in some of the most remote and breathtaking locations in the North Atlantic, this vital and timely film is described by The Irish Times as “Epic in scope, damning in its conclusions.” Mark Cousins’ I Am Belfast, a heartfelt poetic depiction of Belfast and its citizens, screens at 5:00pm on Sunday.
Thirteen short films are sprinkled throughout the weekend. Enjoy new works in animation, short documentaries and fiction and celebrate the 2016 Oscar winner Stutterer which screens on our opening night and again in Short Film Program II on Sunday!
All are invited to enjoy post festival conversation and conviviality at our closing night party at T.S. McHugh’s, 21 Mercer Street, at 9:00pm Sunday night.
Festival passes and individual tickets can be purchased through SIFF Film Center and at the box office 30 minutes before each show time.
Sent: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 23:00:10 +0200
Subject: International Monetary Fund (IMF
My name is Ms. Christine Lagarde and I work with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), I am writing you to let you know that finally your ATM Card worth $5000,000.00 USD has been delivered through UPS to Mr. Frank Wes, who works with the IMF where it is going to be activated before final delivery to your home address. You can use the tracking number with the tracking site below…
Sent: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 16:44:17 -0700
Subject: Weird News; Good News – Selfie Shootout
Re: $elfie Shootout
Weird first; Selfie has been pirated twice (what an irony) on You Tube. Once it was translated into 3D format; once traditional 2D. I had both films taken but only after thousands of views.
Good next…
Amazon has moved the film from pay per view to free for Amazon Prime Members opening the film to much wider audience. We are however still paid $4.00 per view.
Once again I ask your support and spread the good Amazon news on your social media and/or email lists.
In addition, you might be interested in this:
I have a finished script, The Trouble with Midnight, a film noir with a strong female lead which has attracted significant investor interest; we’ll see how that progresses…
One more addition. In the early 1980s I had a book, China Clipper, published in the US, Canada and Japan.
My entertainment attorney, Bianca Goodloe, read the story and compared it to a combination Titanic – Casablanca. She has taken the book to UTA (United Talent Agency) for a potential studio production. Keeping my fingers crossed…
Sent: Tue, 3 May 2016 12:45:15 +0000
Subject: Save The Date | GiveBig | Irish Films Now Available in US
SAVE THE DATE: OCT 7-9
The Irish Reels Film Festival will return to SIFF Film Center for 3 days of new Irish cinema, October 7-9, 2016. It’s been a great year for Irish film and we’re already excited by the number of new exciting films that are coming our way. Join us for our Opening Night Gala, Friday, Oct 7th co-hosted by Irish Network Seattle.
GiveBig Today!
Support the IRISH REELS FILM FESTIVAL, so we can continue to bring thought provoking and compelling stories and filmmakers from across the Atlantic to our local audience. Presented by the Seattle Foundation, GiveBig is a 24-hour, online giving event that taps into Seattle’s passion for giving, bringing together donors with local nonprofits.
Did you attend the FREE film screenings at Seattle Center during Irish Week this year? Your gift, large or small, enables us to offer FREE and discounted tickets that ensures our programming is accessible to all members of our community. We encourage you to GIVE TODAY to the IRISH REELS FILM FESTIVAL and other great non-profits that are making a difference in Seattle. It only takes a few minutes. Click here and make it happen any time today. Thank You for your support!
Irish Reels Films now available in US.
It’s the No. 1 question we get – where can I see this film again, how can I get a copy, when will it be available in the US? And while we can’t always provide the desired response we are excited by the increasing number of films that are now available to stream online and on DVD or BluRay. It’s why we’ve spent the past twenty years focusing on bringing these films to US audiences. Here’s a list of films we’ve screened recently that you can now revisit and introduce to your friends. Enjoy!
Song of The Sea on iTunes
Patrick’s Day on iTunes and Amazon
One Million Dubliners on iTunes
Glassland on iTunes and newly available on Amazon today!
Made in Belfast on iTunes
John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man on Amazon
Sent: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 12:52:56 +0000
Subject: Film Festival Screenings
Re: Please Punish Me
My short film, “Please Punish Me”, will be screening today (April 23rd, 2016) at the Columbus Theater in Providence, RI at 2:00pm as part of the SENE Film, Arts and Music Festival in the Regional Shorts block. There will be some great films including Mike Messier’s “Thanksgiving” and Zach Levenson’s “The Toymaker”. Hope to see you there!
The film has also recently been accepted into two more festivals, Sanford International Film Festival and TEXAS Ultimate Shorts.
Sent: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 11:27:33 +0200
Subject: Quinzaine des réalisateurs?
Bonjour,
Catherine Giraud et moi-mème sommes en charge du bureau de presse de
la Quinzaine des réalisateurs, qui aura lieu cette année du 12 au 22
mai prochain, à Cannes.
Nous serions ravis de vous accueillir au bureau de presse, situé à la
Malmaison (47, La Croisette).
Les projections ont lieu au Théâtre Croisette de l’hôtel Marriott.
L’accréditation au festival du film vous en garantit l’accès.
Edouard Waintrop, notre directeur artistique, dévoile la sélection
durant la conférence depresse le 19 avril à 11h au Forum des images.
Vous trouverez tous les documents et le matériel presse nécessaire sur
notre site Internet (www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com)
SAVEZ-VOUS DÉJÀ QUI, CHEZ VOUS, COUVRIRA LE FESTIVAL DE CANNES ?
Sent: Sat, 02 Apr 2016 08:34:37 +0000
Subject: Greatings
Hello friend
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Please do not fail to contact on this email address…
Sent: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 20:01:20 +0000
Subject: March Screenings, Fall Dates, Oscars, Oh My!
Everyone’s Irish in Seattle in March! Join the Irish Reels Film Festival in The Armory at Seattle Center, March 12-13 for FREE screenings during Irish Week, All screenings are in Loft Suite 3.
Our program kicks off at noon on Saturday with Mary McAleese & The Man Who Saved Ireland a documentary which follows the former President through Europe to uncover Columbanus’ legacy. The afternoon Shorts Program brings a delightful selection of narrative and documentary shorts and is followed by John Ford: Dreaming The Quiet Man providing another opportunity to view this wonderful homage to Maureen O’Hara & The Quiet Man.
Sunday’s program begins with A City Dreaming, a series of personal and intimate recollections of the city of Derry-Londonderry. The short documentary A Hearth of Our Own takes a look at the plight of undocumented Irish immigrants in the US, while Vaun Raymond’s The Blue & The Green follows the Seattle Police Pipe & Drum Band on their journey to Ireland in 2015.
In remembrance of the 1916 Easter Rising our afternoon film is the feature docudrama A Terrible Beauty, the story of the men and women, Irish and British, caught up in The Battle of Mount Street Bridge. Check out the complete program here.
SAVE THE DATE: The Irish Reels Film Festival returns to the SIFF FILM CENTER for a 3-day festival, Oct 7-9, 2016. Mark your calendars for a weekend of award winning features, documentaries, short films and visiting Irish filmmakers. Join us for our opening night Gala on Friday, Oct 7th co-hosted by Irish Network Seattle. New volunteers are always welcome, let us know if you’d like to join in our festival planning.
Sent: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 09:05:22 -0700
Subject: Warming Trend
Re: Hot stuff
Forgive me for my naïveté. Where would you go to watch this short film?
[Good question. A link on Audrey Noone’s Facebook page leads to the Los Angeles CineFest website where A Warming Trend is in competition. There is a link there to view the film as well as an opportunity to vote for it.]
Sent: Mon, 18 May 2015 16:55:45 -0700
Subject: Hi :)
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Maybe we could meet up this weekend? Come visit my profile…
Sent: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 09:30:02 -0430
Subject: Hello feedback
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I saw your your profile and you interested me very much!
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Sent: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 14:08:20 +0000
Subject: Cannes 2015
Bonjour
Catherine Giraud et moi-même sommes en charge du bureau de presse de la Quinzaine des réalisateurs, qui aura lieu cette année du 14 au 24 mai prochain, à Cannes.
Nous serions ravis de vous accueillir au bureau de presse, situé à la Malmaison (47, La Croisette).
Les projections ont lieu au Théâtre Croisette de l’hôtel Marriott. L’accréditation au festival du film vous en garantit l’accès.
Edouard Waintrop, notre directeur artistique, dévoile la sélection durant la conférence depresse le 21 avril à 11h au Forum des images.
Vous trouverez tous les documents et le matériel presse nécessaire sur notre site Internet (www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com)
SAVEZ-VOUS DÉJÀ QUI, CHEZ VOUS, COUVRIRA LE FESTIVAL DE CANNES ?
Sent: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 12:05:19 -0500
Subject: Hello
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Sent: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 19:04:05 -0700
Subject: SVFF 2014 – Movie Submissions last date August 31 and Festival starts
Nov. 7th
Dear Filmmakers!
I’m Clara Smith, Marketing Director for Silicon Valley Film Festival. We are happy to announce the dates for our 5th anniversary this year SVFF2014 starting from Nov. 7th in Silicon Valley! As we grow every year our guests list also growing including our city mayors, chief judge Hollywood Cameraman Alex Buono and this year we partner with US-China Movie and Television Association and hosting group of mainstream directors and producers from China and screening their movies as well.
I Hope you might have joined our previous years’ festivals or our team might have come across the movie you have made We’d like to invite you to welcome and submit for Silicon Valley Film Festival 2014. Pl. find the details below. Wish you great success in movie making!
Please check out our Blog and twitter or Facebook for immediate updates.
Regards,
Clara Smith
Silicon Valley Film Festival – Marketing
Sent: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 23:34:15 -0700
Subject: Silicon Valley Film Festival 2014 – Inviting movies for submission
– 2 months to submit for SVFF 2014
Dear Filmmakers!
I’m Clara Smith, Marketing Director for Silicon Valley Film Festival. Our team came across the wonderful movies you have made. Hope you might have joined our previous years’ festivals as well. We’d like to invite you to welcome and submit for Silicon Valley Film Festival 2014. Pl. find the details below. Wish you great success in Filmmaking!
Regards,
Clara Smith
Silicon Valley Film Festival – Marketing
Browse the invitation online…
Sent: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 13:43:04 +0100
Subject: Jacob Wrestling With The Angel – available for online rental – low price of 99cent
Re: Something for your short list
Hello,
I wanted to get in touch and let people know that JWWTA is available for online streaming for the very low price of 99cent. You can access the film here: http://muvi.es/w6345 Please feel free to pass around and also if you have any questions let me know.
Warmest regards,
Bertie Brosnan
Jacob’s IMDb
Official Trailer
Sent: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 16:17:49 -0700
Subject: Silicon Valley Film Festival 2014 – Inviting movies for submission – 4 months to submit for SVFF 2014
Submission Deadline: One Deadline: August 31st, 2014 .
Dear Filmmakers!
I’m Clara Smith , Marketing Director for Silicon Valley Film Festival. Our team came across the wonderful movies you have made. Hope you might have joined our previous years’ festivals as well. We’d like to invite you to welcome and submit for Silicon Valley Film Festival 2014. Pl. find the details below. Wish you great success in Filmmaking!
Regards,
Clara Smith
Silicon Valley Film Festival – Marketing
Browse the invitation online…
Sent: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 01:38:03 +0100
Subject: height of moher cliffs
Re: Give an Inch…
Hello,
This is very interesting reading. The cliffs of moher in Clare are 600
feet high. I thought the storm scene was done in south Africa. Sorry to hear how Mitchum ended up.
Sent: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:16:32 +0100
Subject: Re: FBI NEED SOLID PROOF FROM YOU BECAUSE OF THE FUND YOU ARE ABOUT TO RECEIVE?
This is an official advice from the FBI foreign remittance/telegraphic dept. it has come to our notice that bank of Nigeria has released US$10,500,000.00 U.S dollars into bank of America in your name as the beneficiary, by Inheritance means…
Sent: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:58:01 -0600
Subject: ENOCH!!!!!! It’s ENOCH
Enoch is the dude in the Bible where it say that, “Enoch was NOT for God took him.”
This guys got a wild video about what Enoch wrote, prophecy and 2012. Here it is: http://youtu.be/BZGN6EKjvAo
Sent: Tue, 8 May 2012 15:28:15 -0500
Subject: Don Briscoe
Re: One Pontabee brother (1919-2004) and at least two Jennings brothers (1940-2004)
Thank you, for covering the career of Don Briscoe so eloquently, and with
appreciation. With all the actors in the world striving to earn a living at
their craft, only do we see a handful succeed in becoming a regular on a
popular show, or have a good starring role in a successful film. He was
also able to do that in under five years time before his illness. Pretty
good, for a guy who has been criticized by some as being a bad actor. I do
not agree with these judgements. Directing plays a large part in how an
actor delivers his or her lines, also acting style, and transitioning from
stage to television/film. This is proven in a few of the introduction voice
over narrations he did for Dark Shadows, and his performance in House of Dark Shadows. I thought were good. Those directors who chose Mr. Briscoe
for acting parts, saw something more than a pretty, photogenic face, of
which, in this industry, are dime a dozen. Thank you.
Sent: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:41:41 -0700
Subject: OPEN YOUR EYES
The Awakening
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just Youtube video ----> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DTVbJHaK7Tvc
I know. I know. There is nothing else like this? Yes….. you’re welcome.
Cool bro!
Sent: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 05:20:21 -0700
Subject: Mayans DUDE! Mayans
Can you believe this Mayan Video this guy made. WOW. Seriously….. Mayan End of World!
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Sent: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 20:41:33 +0100
Subject: Ha!
Re: The call of the past
Hey, dad. I found your page, and now I can bombard you with FEEDBACK! *evil grin*
So… did you feed the cat? And what’s for dinner tomorrow? And will you please stop spending all your time on that darned Mormon ancestry website?! Yes – this is much less fun than I thought. Okay, forget it, I’d rather play pointless games. You’ve reduced me to that… I hope you’re happy…
Sincerely,
Your one half-Irish descendant.
Sent: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:50:12 -0500
Subject: Thank you from Le Stuff!!!!!
Re: To catch a film setting II
Just wanted to drop you a line and say thank you for your very kind review of Le Stuff! Comments like yours provide the motivation needed to continue my TCAT series.
I’m very much looking forward to delving in to scottsmovies.com!
Sent: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:02:20 -0800
Subject: 30 Dec posting
Re: Moment to moment
In “Moment to moment,” you mention Roman Polanski’s film “The Ghost
Writer” but call it “The Ghost.” Sorry, can’t help proofreading. (I
thought it was kind of a big nothing, myself.)
[Sorry to confuse. I was using the original UK title rather than the one put on the film for U.S. release.]
Sent: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:31:41 +0000
Subject: TRACING A MOVIE
Hi
You’re so knowledgable and well organised, I wondered if you (or indeed any of your readers) might be able to help me identify and trace a film. It was probably a flop but may perhaps be on DVD.
It was advertised at my local cinema in Hull when I went to see Miss Congeniality 2 in 2001 but it was never shown there. The cinema told me later that they don’t show all the films that they advertise.
I think the name of the film was something like “The Secret Life of Molly Reilly” or the “Secret Dream of Molly Reilly”. In case I’m completely wrong regarding the name, here are some points about the film that may identify it:
• Comedy start with feel good factor as country yokel girl becomes famous opera singer.
• Irish(?) family of country yokels – lots of kids.
• “Molly” is a young girl (13 or thereabouts?) made out to look very plain and comical. She has red hair and pigtails and is very clumsy. Her clothes are gaudy and look awful.
• At one point Molly falls downstairs bumping her head comically on each step as she falls down.
• She dreams of owning and restoring a deserted, overgrown house she has found (in some woodland?)
• To do that she knows she needs money so she sets about earning some money.
• Then the kids in the family form a group which plays for money and they enter a big prize competition which they win. This sets her on her way.
• At the end of the film, you see her grown up and she has become an opera renowned opera singer – with short dark hair, very glamorous, beautifully dressed, walking onto a huge (outdoor?) stage in front of a huge audience and to great applause.
• Presumably she then gets to own and restore the house she’s always dreamed of living in.
Any help you or your readers can give me in identifying and locating the film would be most welcome. Meanwhile, keep up the good work!
Kind regards
Sent: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:06:19 +0100
Subject: Hello
I am General David Petraeus (Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A)) and I am looking for Matured and God fearing personnel to receive the sum of US$10m on my behalf,I want you to respond to this mail and let me know what you want as your share from this amount as you are important to me to bring the money out of Iraq. I am now in Afghanistan as commanding officer. I do not want any scandal because of this money and I do not want to loss the money.
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Sent: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 12:40:05 -0700
Subject: From spaldinggray.com
Re: Swimming to collision
Thank you for mentioning www.spaldinggray.com and the great work by David. I am adding a link to your site under Spalding’s Ireland and Fan Writings on the site. Note the numerous articles and exclusive radio transcript under Spalding’s Ireland.
Sent: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:26:34 -0800
Subject: Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now is not a “film about Vietnam” any more than Joseph Conrad’s
Heart of Darkness was. The Vietnam war was the setting in which the story
takes place. This could be why “you don’t know quite what to make of it
all.”
Sent: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:01:12 -0400
Subject: Cannes
Re: Cannes Cannes
You are correct in your musings about the pronunciation of Cannes. I would like to offer a further comment. Although proper pronunciation is definitely closer to CAN than CON, may I suggest that it is closest to the CAN in Cannibal—using tin can as the example is not quite right…..
I am surprised that almost no postings on any site I have visited with regard to the pronunciation of Cannes cover the fact that even pronunciation of CAN differs when used in different ways—i.e. “Can of beer” versus “Yes, I can….”
I do hope you consider some inclusion of these thoughts…..
Sent: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:34:07 -0700
Subject: transformers exdtended version
i have seen the first transformer movie and i was wondering if there is going to be a extended version of the movie because what ever happen to barricade at the end of the first movie when the autobots and decepticons were coming down the freeway before optimus prime took out bone crusher they show barricade for a minute then they don’t show any more of him after that and on the commentary with michael bay he doesn’t say anything about what happen to barricade at the end of the movie they just show starscream at the end credits after it says transformers. so if they do release a extended version of the first transformers movie will they show what happen to barricade. thank you.
Sent: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:45:10 -0400
Subject: Kern County
Re: Hollywood North?
I too am from the kern county area. I am from a town just a little bit south of Bakersfield and find myself looking for my home town in the back ground of movie. In fact it has interested me enough that I am writing my final paper for my film class about the movies in the area. I also was a counselor at camp KEEP with a group from OIL Dale. I had been to Bakersfield a few times growing up. I was wondering if you had any ideas were else I could look besides the Internet movie data base to find out about movies and other entertain venues of that nature filmed in the areas. I had no idea that Psycho was filed so close to home. I guess I could have stayed with Hitchcock as the subject for final paper but I felt that the angle about the entertainment world being in my home town was a view that a professor from Indiana would have never seen before. It is nice to know that I am not the only one who finds looking for my home town in the backgrounds of movies is interesting.
Sent: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:17:28 +0100
Subject: VOX HUMANA
Did I thank you for the kind remarks about my above film?
I do so now.
Apart from the shared audience award at the Galway Film Fleadh, it has since won a ‘Best Original Approach’ (to music on film) at the Skopje Intl Music on Film Festival. Its been selected for Cork Fest next week and next month it will be given ‘Director’s Choice’ award at BIFF (I don’t know whether that’s a secret).
So your instincts were not bad.
Thanks again.
Bob Quinn
Sent: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:12:53 -0700
Subject: We have listed your website
Re: Easter hols, finally?
I visited your site today whilst looking for relevant sites to add to our new business directory. I have added a link to your site in our directory and was wondering if you would not mind adding a link back to us? … Description: Buy, Sell or Rent your dream property abroad with us. With thousands of properties to choose from you are sure to find the perfect one for you.
Sent: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:23:48 -0700
Subject: Staying to the real end of a movie.
Re: The bitter end
Scott, I went to your site looking for something else, stumbled upon your piece on this subject and read it through to the end (of course!) and could not agree with you MORE! It is so reassuring to know I’m not alone in this habit. My family think I’m a kook to begin with, and the fact that I will not leave a film until the lights come up further
confirms that fact for them. I know when I began doing this, too. Exactly. Well, not the date, but the movie, for sure. (Had to look – October 1986.)
It was “The Mission.” Do you remember what I’m talking about? One, last, riveting scene which is still branded into my brain. Since then I’ve seldom left until that last image – usually something about the Dolby Sound – appears on the screen. And here, the clean-up crews wait fairly quietly and politely until I stand up to make my way down from the second-to-last row, where I always sit, before they begin their sweeping and dumping. Nice that they’ve been taught proper customer-relations regarding this situation.
I want to know where the filming was done, what the music was, complete with composers and performers, and of course, the identity of that elusive face. I like watching the names scroll up, and if it’s too fast to read all, I just watch the first names and meditate on those. And I usually enjoy the postlude of the music from the picture.
I have, a few times, walked out before the end because I was with
other people and didn’t want to make them wait. This is one of many reasons I prefer to attend movies alone! Love it that your friends and family just go along with your need.They must be a good crowd.
You and I would be compatible movie buddies.
Sent: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:22:01 -0500
Subject: No Country For Old Men
Note: Contains spoilers
Am I the only one who thinks that Tommy Lee Jones and Javier Bardem split the money? They did so in the last motel room scene, which was preplaned. Tommy’s brother’s role was to explain their family’s criminal history and for us to see Tommy’s remorse towards his brother’s poverty, followed by Tommy’s retirement. If you think about this explanation, it answers many questions. Just, fyi!
Sent: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:27:51 +0000
Subject: Irish-interest
Boondock Saints???
Sent: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 13:15:10 -0500
Subject: i am a dark shadows fan
Re: Dark Shadows
i think that you should never stop writing about the show that was so great. next year there will be a festival in burbank. lots of fans go all over the world. a film is comming out withjohnny deep as the vampire. dark shadows will never die.
Sent: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:36:35 -0400
Subject: Tuscan movies
Re: Enchanted Tuscany
Love the site Scott,
Just a correction in the Tuscany section.
You mentioned Shirley Valentine. It is set and filmed in Greece, not Italy.
Ciao
Sent: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:21:52 -0700
Subject: your review of The French Lieutenant’s Woman
You mistakenly refer to the novel’s author as Knowles, when you earlier, accurately, called him Fowles. Were you thinking A Separate Peace or Beyonce?
Sent: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:17:18 -0500
Subject: New Irish film
Great resource, thanks.
Wanted to add one for your Irish-themed films:
www.imdb.com/title/tt0067140/ – IRA revolutionary in the old west.
Sent: Thu, 17 May 2007 13:08:26 -0400
Subject: OGL
Hi. Our award winning indie comedy Opie Gets Laid comes out on DVD soon. Watch for it.
Here’s the trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGuzIgUj6_w
Sent: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:54:57 +1000
Subject: correction
Re: To Russia with Love
Hi Scott
Just a correction on the documentary To Russia With Love reviewed on your website (read it with interest) and am interested in your commnets on the film – thank you – but can I get you to make a correction – I directed the film – Adrian McCarthy was the producer. I would be grateful if you could correct it. A journalist made the error once and it is endlessly repeated. If you have seen the film – it is easy to check the credits at the end.
Many Thanks
( I live in Australia Now)
Louise Wadley
[So sorry for the error! It has been fixed.]
Sent: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:52:36 -0700
Re: Senseless
I just finished reading your weekly commentary ‘Senseless’. Since video/computer gaming is one of my primary interests and hobbies, I thought I’d pass along a San Fran Chronicle article from today (4/24/2007) that examines some of the (in your words) predictable relationships drawn between the Virginia Tech event and video games.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/24/DDG4PPCNHL1.DTL
I’m also providing an additional link as well on the background of Mr. Thompson.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorney)
Sent: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:09:56 -0400
Subject: World Premiere of RECON 2022 at Sci-Fi London Film Festival
MONTREAL, CANADA, April 17, 2007 – Movie Seals Productions is delighted to announce that their latest sci-fi/action film RECON 2022: The Mezzo Incident, the sequel to the award winning RECON 2020 : the Caprini Massacre, will have its World Premiere at the renowned Sci-Fi London Festival in England on May 5th, 2007.
Directed by Christian Viel ( Evil Breed : the Legend of Samhain, Recon 2020, Deaden), the film stars Anderson Bradshaw (Gothika), Heidi Hawkins (Evil Breed), Deke Richards (Deaden), Carmen Echeverria (Undressed), with special appearances by Berge Garabedian (aka JoBlo) of joblo.com fame, John Fallon (aka Arrrow in the Head ) and scream queen Suzi Lorraine.
From a screenplay written by Christian Viel, John Fallon and William Alexander, the action packed story picks up two years after the events of the first film, and introduces a new cast of characters as well as bringing back familiar ones. After the gruesome events on Caprini, Sharp (Anderson Bradshaw) and his elite team of toughand witty space Marines must now head out to the icy planet Mezzo to investigate further Ma’har activities. What they will encounter will defy their imaginations as they tackle giant man eating snow worms, an underground city of Cyborgs, a slew of murderous alien entities and maybe, finally, the ever elusive Ma’hars.
Director Christian Viel and actor Anderson Bradshaw will be attending the premiere held on Saturday, May 5th, at 9:30 PM at the Apollo West End Theatre and stay for a Q&A following the movie.
The same day, in the morning, Christian Viel has been invited as a guest speaker for the Sci-Fi Film School alongside with fellow low budget indie filmmaker Neil Oseman to discuss the tricks of the trade with attendees. This presentation will be followed by a special screening of RECON 2022.
ABOUT THE SCI-FI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL :
Sci-Fi London is the UK’s only dedicated SF and Fantastic film festival, will run its 6th edition May 2-6, 2007 at the Apollo West End, London. As usual, it has an eclectic mix of movies and events including four world premieres. Alongside the festival Cine-Express: the first London Cult Film Conference will take place. About 50 international cult film specialists, critics, plus practitioners from the movie industry take part in the program.
Sent: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:25:25 -0800
Subject: Lifetime movies are bad for women
Re: A Lifetime of agony
I totally agree with you about Lifetime movies. I used to be addicted to them and watch them all weekend with my grandma. But as I got older I started to wonder who was writing the movies and why the women were always being beat up or mistreated. I finally just refused to watch it and would rather watch the oxgen network. The Lifetime movies present terrible role models and representations of what a woman’s life is or what it should be. I personally think it can only keep women bitter and cynical about relationships,which is a huge reason why I stopped watching. I want to be happy,strong and maybe even independent not living in fear. Anyway, it’s nice to know there are others that share my sentiments.
Sent: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:14:35 -0700
Subject: Driving Lessons
Re: Driving Lessons
I think the review was wonderful. Of course if people had read it, they’d know you never claimed Dan can’t act, but that people have said that. Of course all of what they said to “prove” doesn’t prove anything. Have any of these youngsters heard of William Shatner? Awards don’t mean anything. Popularity goes along way in those. And snapping up roles doesn’t say anything about talent, but it speaks a lot about popularity. Especially when the mainstream media can only talk about “Harry Potter” instead of “Daniel Radcliffe.” All Equus got was, “Harry Potter goes nude.” What does that say? It says that people go after Dan for the popularity, not for the talent. Dan has very few good reviews. Some are nice, but most are always putting him down. Rupert has rarely gotten a bad review. And he’s proved once again that he’s got acting chops beyond those of his age with “Driving Lessons.” As many critics have stated, including the likes of Variety and Premiere Magazine, he’s given an awesome performance, and he’ll be around forever.
Sent: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:16:49 -0700
Subject: Review Rupert Grint
Re: Driving Lessons
I am sorry but I won’t call you a critic, you certainly don’t know Daniel Radcliffe’s achievement, you called Rupert Grint a better actor than Daniel Radcliffe, it looks to me that you haven’t done your homework, someone that is not good, according to you, shouldn’t be getting other projects like December Boys or a masterpiece in Equus.
I think you need to watch more closely the movies and you’ll see who really is the better actor, I know the REAL critics think Daniel is, but of course who am I talking to, someone who runs an almost blog for a site.
Sent: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:12:54 -0700
Subject: Driving Lessons review
Re: Driving Lessons
You said that Rupert “Overact” Grint is actually a better actor than the titular fellow he is a sidekick to, where have you gotten that idea?? have you ever check Daniel Radcliffe nomination for his acting compare to Rupert’s nominations, Daniel has been nominated for the Film Critics Awards for many years, now his co-star Rupert Grint has gotten how many nominations? NONE!! He is the only actor in the HP series who overacts all the time, he makes funny faces during the entire HP movies, the kid cannot do drama but comedy because of his goofy face, now where in the world you are getting the idea that he IS a better actor than Radcliffe, Radcliffe has been approached to be in a masterpiece for next summer, Equus, a legendary writer of this play Mr. Peter Shaffer, didn’t want to give up the rights of his play until the right boy to play the main lead Alan was found, Mr. Shaffer saw Daniel in a theater workshop last year portraying this character Alan and he was so impress with Dan’s performance that he gave up his play’s rights.
Mr. Griffith a winner of this year Tony Award was also approached to be part of the cast in Equus after Daniel was cast, Griffith accept the role and knowing how strict Griffith is in theater he wouldn’t take a role knowing that Daniel was not going to be able to take such a huge responsibility in playing Alan. Remember that theater is about art and not about how is popular, at least in UK is about art.
I really would like you to at least give some facts of why you think Rupert is a better actor, like I said before Rupert is a comedian, he can do goofy faces and funny high pitch voices, so now days that is call a great performance!
If you think that then you shouldn’t call yourself a critic.
Sent: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:29:38 -0400
Subject: what kind!
Re: A Lifetime of agony
what kind of lifetime movies are there?
Sent: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:09:39 -0700
Subject: I’m a woman, and I refuse to be a victim
Re: A Lifetime of agony
I’m responding to the poster whose first sentence in her or his comment:
“Your commentary is pretty pathetic!”
Actually, I am a rather independent, self-sufficient woman who reads a lot, is active in social causes, and is good at what she does for a living; and I can’t stand Lifetime. I believe it sets feminism back.
I don’t feel Lifetime speaks for me personally. I’m sorry, but not all women believe they’re victims no matter what they do.
Believe it or not, there are women out there who consider themselves feminists but don’t go around feeling entitled to everything and that no matter what they do, they’re always the one who’s been screwed, and they’re always right. We don’t think men are always wrong either.
I find it insulting that Lifetime bills itself as “Television for Women;” hence says that because I’m a woman, I’m supposed to always consider myself a victim.
I find this message condescending, not empowering.
Sent: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 23:44:47 -0400
Subject: Great List
Great List -
Love the Irish movie list especially.
I know it’s not a movie, but have you seen the BBC Ireland production of “The Hanging Gale,” a four-part mini-series about The Famine, with Michael Kitchen and the McGann brothers?
If so, wondered what your take on it is. Haven’t seen any other film dramatizations of this period, some docs, no dramas.
Sent: Fri, 26 May 2006 00:13:24 -0700
Subject: your commentary
I can’t believe you haven’t written about Dan Curtis!
Sent: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:34:35 -0700
Subject: The absurdity of it all films
Re: The absurdity of it all
First, I have issues with the term “absurd” applied to these anti war films. The John Wayne movie “Green Berets” should be at the top of that list, if “absurd” was the operative term.
That said, the “Scotts Movie” list is a great for good anti-war films. A few I would like to submit. “The Americanization of Emily” and “King of Hearts”. First, I have not seen either of these in well over 20 years. But The Americanization of Emily was well ahead of its time. James Garner as an anti-war figure?? And if the term “absurd” applies at all, it would be to “King of Hearts”. What a sweet film….
Sent: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 15:20:04 -0700
Subject: Gregory Peck.
Re: Twelve o’clock high for Atticus and Ahab (1916-2003)
… I ran into your eulogies … I must confess that I haven’t been to your site for a long time. and hadn’t seen this section before… I browsed on down, and found Gregory Peck ….. and opened that. He was always one of my film heroes, and I found your article interesting … I would just like to add one little tidbit of information. [My husband] worked with a gentleman for many years who was about 6’ 5” … A lovely charming man that I always enjoyed being with …. AND he had been a rowing mate of Greg Peck’s in college. … Somehow, I always kinda enjoyed knowing someone who knew Gregory Peck in real life. (And life doesn’t get more real than rowing, I think. haha.
Also, I don’t know if you ever saw any of the series of TV programs that he did rather late in life … where he sat on a stage and just talked to people in the audience. That was wonderful!!!
Sent: Fri, Sun, 19 Feb 2006 17:16:51 -0500
Re: A Lifetime of agony
I am a woman, and I totally agree with your assessment of the Lifetime channel. I very much enjoy the shows that this channel provides such as The Golden Girls, Designing Women, The Nanny, Will & Grace, etc. The movies they show are awful though! I don’t understand why anyone, let alone women, would want to watch those horror movies with women being the victims the majority of the time. They portray men as monsters or imbeciles, and not as normal human beings.
I know as a women I would much rather see movies with strong female characters. Movies such as A League of Their Own, Steel Magnolias, Now and Then, Charlie’s Angels, Matilda, and Tomb Raider would be great movies to see. Of course there can always be chick flicks like You’ve Got Mail, Notting Hill, and Ever After.
I have found in asking many women and men, that women worry about things much more than men. Women tend to have many things on their mind at once. Men don’t seem to worry as much about things as we do. I think that having these movies on all the time just make women worry more than they need to. It’s true that women need to be more cautious than men do, but we do not need to live a life of fear!
Sent: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:53:23 -0800
Subject: Almeria
Re: High plains drifters
Most of the best tourist experiences of my life have been with 40 minutes before closing. Good for you.
Sent: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:12:49 -0400
Subject: BallyK-the series
Re: BallyK ballyhoo
I too have just become addicted to this show. Although I am a newcomer (I just found the show on PBS a month ago), it is my newest addiction!
I do love the show, mostly for the scenery of the Irish countryside and seaside. How beautiful and old and historic.
As an American, I unrealistically want living in Ireland to be like living in Bally K. It’s such an escape for the life I have here – 60 miles north of New York City and being encroached by an endless number of people transplanting themselves here. Farms going, huge homes being built for hundreds of thousands of dollars – up to millions. Where is the common man here?
The show is so sweet. Everyday problems, but lots of respect and love between the people. Boy, do I wish it was like this here! Common people all trying to help one another. Real people – at least I hope so!
Anyway, I love the show and hope I can continue to catch up with all the shows I have missed!
Sent: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 13:27:41 -0400
Subject: Join the 2500 Churches that will premiere the new Left Behind movie on October 21
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Sent: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:49:09 -0700
Subject: strange you should mention Hanif Kurieshi
Re: Buddha of Britannia
A while ago I saw a movie on cable called “Intimacy” which was so good I rented it from Netflix so I could see it again and then I recently rented it yet again so I could watch it with [a friend] cuz I wanted her opinion about it. Thought-provoking movie! I wanted more info so I looked it up on the Imdb and was kinda surprised to see that it was written by the same guy who did “My Beautiful Laundrette”. There is nothing ethnic in “Intimacy” but the two main characters are both outsiders, pretending to be people they are not.
Of course, this is not to say the only kind of movies an ethnic minority person can write is about being a minority. It’s only to say that Kureishi apparently has moved on from the ethnic kind of outsider to the more generic kind of outsider.
I recommend it highly but be sure the munchkin is in bed cuz it’s got lots of naughty bits showing.
Sent: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 17:44:13 -0400
Subject: The Commentary
Great job!!! I mean it!!!!! I just read the commentary on this site and it was very interesting and educational. This means that I liked it.
Sent: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:01:27 -0400
Subject: your reviews
You know I just stumbled upon your site and have only read a few of them – but I must say I completely enjoy them. I’m going to read more.
They are funny and witty and pretty damn spot on!
Sent: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:37:38 -0700
Subject: Lifetime – Television for Women – Feedback to Commentary
Re: A Lifetime of agony
Your commentary is pretty pathetic! If you hate Lifetime “Television for Women” so much all you’ve got to do is simply ~~~change the channel! America was founded with freedom of speech in mind, this means different people are entitle to have an option to enjoy what they like, or to not tune in if they do not agree with what is been presented to them.
In response to your two questions:
The fact Lifetime’s slogan is “Television for Women” does not imply that all other channels are specifically targeted towards men only. Are you kidding me! It does give the viewer a clear outlook on the intention set forth by the producers and founders to entertain and meet the needs, questions, and concerns centered around women issues. Just like the “Disney” channel focuses on children, and “Spike” channel focuses on Male entertainment.
Also just because your circle of friends do not meet the norm---males who are interested in sports and women who are more interested in intellectual & social pursuits does not mean most women can’t appreciate a richly rewarding and invaluable station as lifetime.
I would even go to the extend of saying you must be in denial if you think your closest guy friends would let you know if they enjoyed watching “playboy”, taking into account how judgemental you sound. Besides, maybe them not paying the premium to own it have nothing to do with them been prudes, but simply not been able to afford it!
I am also not sure what to make of why you would consider sports suitable for only sexually ambiguous or confused individuals! It sounds to me as if you are emotionally unstable and a little confused about your own sexuality. As far as I am concern sport, drama, cooking, kids, playboy, mtv they are all targeted towards a specific type of audience. This is call marketing and a lot of research and money goes to determine which market will attract the most viewers. In lifetime’s case, I am sure they are doing pretty darn fantastic as the majority of people in this country are women; women with different life experiences, races, backgrounds, social and financial status.
Before you decide to feels such a strong emotion such as “HATE” you may want to do a little introspection and find out of what it is that you really hate. It sounds to me as though you are a victim in your own life and circumstances and for this reason that is what you are choosing to connect with and identify with, when watching their feature movies. I personally think the fact you took the time, energy and effort to put your opinion in this message board about this channel is somewhat of an oxymoron. Do you hate the channel or do you hate your life. I find it odd you do not have anything better to do than watch television every afternoon, and not just television but the same channel that supposely you “HATE” so much. Maybe the focus of your attention shouldn’t be on “Lifetime” but “YOUR LIFETIME” which title seems to fit perfectly " A Lifetime of agony”. I would suggest finding something more productive and meaningful to do with your time. Volunteering work, Actually working, or Meeting some normal people!!!!
I think lifetime is a great medium for women to become exposed to other people’s realities and mind sets. I am not sure what you mean by saying that women are portrayed in a “victimized” light, quite the contrary, most movies are focused on empowering women and offering choices, and options by simply learning from other people’s mistakes. If you are a self made woman, motivated, independent and self sufficient, you wouldn’t perceive this channel as a “Cry me a River” or “Poor Me” channel. You would be able to appreciate how different women are, and how we all come in different packages! This is what lifetime celebrates our diversity, similarities and differences! LIfetime “Television for Women” is a much needed medium of expression for the strongest gender yet imaginable. It not only offers entertainment for women but extends professional and highly skilled females the opportunity to create, express and manifest their “gift” to the world through the creation of their movies.
Instead of bashing on another great outlet, women need to rejoice that at least their voice is being heard!
I am so Glad Lifetime was created and rejoice on the fact that opinions like yours can’t bring them down!
Sent: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:08:31 +0600
Subject: Exchange of links with your site
We several Websites with high PR, our main target is to get links for site s with tattoos, veterinarians, plastic surgeons, sattelite TV, weight loss and beauty products.
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Sent: Wed, 11 May 2005 23:40:09 -0400
Subject: Life time movies for women
Re: A Lifetime of agony
I just read an article from a man who absolutely detests the choice of movies on this channel and I couldn’t agree more with his opinon.
The commercials for this channel always say enjoy the hilarious comedies, romance, blah blah, but the NUMBER ONE thing that is consistently on is just another horror story of someone getting murdered……enough already, this is totally depressing. Then to add insult to injury, the same movies are shown over and over again.
Where are the comedy and romance movies….I don’t think they exist.
CHANGE THE FORMAT PLEASE…..NOW!
Thanks
Sent: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:06:24 +0200
Subject: leaving las vegas
John O’Brien, author of the book that inspired the movie Leaving Las Vegas, didn’t drink himself to death. He shot himself when the movie was about to begin production. A little documentation, please!
Sent: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:24:43 -0800
Subject: right on
Re: Separate but equal?
I mean. Look at Janet Reno, one of the biggest sex symbols in recent history.
Besides, Love Actually was just a sucky movie. And if she wants to take pot shots at that movie, she overlooked the stupidest thing: the guy who flew to Michigan expecting to get laid by all those mindlessly horny and stupid American girls—and DID! You could probably write a whole column about how dumb that movie was. And you know what? I liked it. Ha.
Sent: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:22:08 -0800
Re: Cannes do
It’s pronounced CAN.
Sent: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:40:22 +0530
Subject: link exchange request
I am contacting you about cross linking. I am interested in scottsmovies.com because it looks like it’s relevant to a site for which I am seeking links.
This site is about home-based medical testing kits…
Sent: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:24:44 -0800
Subject: the answer is “yes”
Re: ‘Tis the season
“…the HFPA are basically a bunch of whores who can be bribed or perhaps intoxicated into submission to support whatever movies, TV shows or actors the studios promote most heavily…”
I saw a documentary about this a while ago somewhere on a channel I can’t remember—it outlined the facts as you’ve stated them and was a catalog of just exactly who these individuals are. Pretty much without exception, they’re all a bunch of star worshippers who don’t particularly know jack shit about movies or films, just happen to be foreign and happen to live in LA and suck up to the right people. Some of them aren’t even journalists. They get special access to Hollywood figures for interviews, are feted and given lavish gifts. The Foreign Press Assn. people repeatedly blocked his attempts to interview members once they figured out what he was doing, so it was hard for him to get first-person info. But the picture was painted vividly enough to convince me.
Sent: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:13:59 -0800
Subject: Theo Van Gogh
Re: Dying for a film
I read with interest your commentary about his murder. Here’s a link to an article I read about it back a few weeks. You make some very valid points. He’s a tough guy to use as a poster child for freedom of expression—a bit like using a shock jock or smut film producer, but the fact remains, it is a disturbing incident in and of itself, but the lack of response is almost more disturbing. We seem to be a nation of bystanders.
www.opinionjournal.com
Sent: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:11:37 +0530
Subject: link exchange request
I am contacting you about cross linking. I am interested in scottsmovies.com because it looks like it’s relevant to a site for which I am seeking links.
The site offers valuable information on corporate event entertainment. The company provides corporate comedy, which features a well-known professional corporate comedian…
Sent: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:01:29 -0700
Subject: film composers
Re: Can’t stop the music
Now I don’t know if you’re reading my blog or not, but I have talked quite a
bit about film music here and there—rather an ongoing topic. I think I
even mentioned Elmer Bernstein’s death a month ago. Often I see again a
movie I’d seen in the past and realize HOW MUCH the music sucked me in,
“delivered” the movie to me—it’s incalculable, in my view. It can be
argued that the soundtrack can make or break a movie.
The ones I have been looking up on the IMDb most are:
Thomas Newman: Fried Green Tomatoes, The Shawshank Redemption, American
Beauty, The Green Mile, Pay It Forward, the TV show Six Feet Under, Road to
Perdition, the tv movie Angels In America. There are a whole bunch of
others; he’s been a busy guy. Someone who knows more about music could
explain this to you, though: all of these work with a minor key, a mournful
sound associated with the blues or Southern culture or the Depression-era
1930s down-home folksy-country-type thing. Very distinctive.
I think I’ve also talked about Michael Nyman—The End of the Affair, The
Piano, Carrington being some notable favorites. And Bernard Hermann of
course. Seriously. Try separating a Hitchcock movie from its score. Alfred
Newman: All About Eve, Wuthering Heights, so many others.. But I suppose all
in all, John Williams is the Man, judged by both quality and quantity. I
think.
Sent: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:05:57 +0530
Subject: link exchange request
I am contacting you about cross linking. I am interested in scottsmovies.com because it looks like it’s relevant to a site for which I am seeking links.
The site belongs to a company providing foreclosure and real estate investing services…
Sent: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:51:07 -0700
Subject: Bourne Supremacy
Hi there! Was just reading your review and – since we don’t get the
chance to do this like we used to – had some lingering thoughts about
this one that prompted me to write.
First of all, didn’t you find the camera work somewhat distracting? The
jittery, hand-held feel supposedly adds to the tension, but it was so
prevelant that it was hard to tell what actually was happening in some
scenes. In the one fight scene in the apartment, I could have sworn the
camerman was IN the fight.
Second of all, with all his quick-thinking and attention to small
details to get him out of tight spots, don’t you think Bourne would
learn to disguise himself better and get a different passport when
entering a country? “Dang, they’re onto me again!”
Finally, do you think Matt Damon is at risk of being stereotyped as a
shy, unassuming, slightly schizo, fade into the background character
actor? Will Hunting, Private Ryan, Tom Ripley, Jason Bourne…all
essentially the same “I can’t look you in the eye” role. Admittedly, I
missed some of his other films between these characters (and can’t
really remember what he was like in Ocean’s Eleven), but thought it was
worth observing.
Sent: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:29:55 EDT
Subject: Hume Cronyn
Re: An actor’s character actor (1911-2003)
I always went to see a film with Hume Cronyn, knowing it would be an interesting one as well as one to remember. The ONLY exception I make is the one he made in Mt. Dora, Florida. Except for the additon of a pink elephant gliding on the lake the film was undoubtedly the biggest waste of good talent I have ever seen! My husband and I lived in a community close to Mt. Dora and we were so pleased to think we might be able to see Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy in person. I will say it was unusual in that they had painted all the buildings downtown PINK! Anyway we were disappointed in that we didn’t see Hume or Jessica and actually didn’t get to see the film until we visited friends in San Diego, Calif and there was only one other couple viewing the film in the theater. It had been running a while by then. Enough said. The film was “Honky Tonk Freeway.”
Sent: Thu, 05 Feb 04 05:54:01 +0000
Subject: Soméoné is interésted in you
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Sent: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 13:59:09 -0500
Subject: Re: scottsmovies.com
I am creating a web directory, The-Insight.com, and would like to include your website Scottsmovies.com under the “religion/unitarian universalism” category. If you’d like to be added, please follow…
Sent: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 07:15:53 +0000
Subject: Zither in The Third Man
Re: The Third Man
Just stumbled onto your website. Thought I’d make a comment about the soundtrack of The Third Man. Zither is not just popular in Greece. It’s actually sort of the national instrument of Austria and I guess southern Germany, in a way. I’m not a classical music expert, but I believe even Schubert composed for the instrument. So the use of zither is very appropriate for the locale.
Moreover, it’s actually a very sophisticated soundtrack. There are elements where the melody played by the zither makes distinct commentary on the action in the film. It’s subtle, but there.
Sent: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 12:51:53 -0500
Re: A Lifetime of agony
Liftetime television has been a huge success. Men and Women think different. They process things differently from men. The Lifetime Channel helps connect women together. They can relate. Women love to share. Feel that they are part of something. Of course their movies are about victims. As a man, you don’t know what women feel in a man’s world. Women have grown up in a much different situation than you or I. Many have been victimized, at one point or another. The movies you see on Lifetime often, are movies that women can place themselves into, see a reflection of themselves, and route for that hero in the movie. Men are more about independence, surviving on their own. Women want to see themselves as one element in a group, not as a whole. The reason why ESPN does not highlight that it is for men is because that would directly erode the element of independence. No man really wants to be perceived in a click, or a group that shares. As men we prefer to think of ourselves as one.
(A mans viewpoint)
Sent: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 16:55:06 -0500
Subject: Sierra Madra
Re: Hollywood North?
Early on, Hollywood used Kern County’s desert terrain for location filming of westerns in the 1930s, including The Red River Valley, The Plainsman and Stagecoach. In 1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre was filmed there,…
Unless I’m mistaken, John Huston was given much credit for filming Treasure of hte Sierra Madre on location in and around Tampico, Mexico. Here is an excerpt from moviedata.com:
Treasure of the Sierra Madre was one of the first American films shot almost completely on location outside the US. Tampico, Mexico, was the jumping off point, but Huston wanted his cast far from civilization as possible, which to Bogart was anyplace where you couldn’t drive to Mike Romanoff’s restaurant for a drink. “John wanted everything perfect” he said. “I have to admire him for that, but it was plenty rough on our troupe. We had nice quarters—sure. But, John didn’t make any shots around that beautiful little resort village where we stayed. No. He had to go up in the hills. I mean MOUNTAINS. If he saw a nice, close mountain, than that was no good. If we could get to a location site without fording a couple of streams and walking through rattlesnake-infested areas in the scorching sun, then it wasn’t quite right. We got to calling him ‘Hard Way Huston.’ Huston father and son took the opportunity of sampling marijuana on location, but not Bogart. And, he found only two Spanish words worth learning: “Dos Equis,” so he could order a beer. Stage veteran Walter Huston thought “acting is not supposed to be done outdoors.” But, Bogart conceded, “It’s always better to shoot a hot weather picture in a hot country. You get a different expression on your face.”
Sent: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 15:52:17 -0500
Subject: Re: scottsmovies.com
I am creating a web directory… and would like to include your website scottsmovies.com under the “beverages” category. If you’d like to be added, please follow this url…
Sent: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 22:32:17
Subject: Lock Up Your Sons and Daughters
Thanks for your great review of my show, Lock Up Your Sons and Daughters!.. Just a quick note, that ‘Being Different’s abrupt conclusion was MADE that way, as it was a ‘What Would You Do?’ film, whereas the film would end, and then the class would talk about it. Did I not say that in my opening remarks? I’m sure I must have.
Anyways, I LOVED Cork, I can hardly wait to come back.
Sent: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:23:56 -0500
Subject: Hollywood Wives: The New Generation
Last night I viewed a movie with Farrah Fawcett, Melissa Gilbert and Vivica K. Fox. What in this world has happened to Farrah Fawcett’s smile. It used to go halfway around her pretty face! Now it is only a half smile. Someone or somebody has really done a doosey on her beautiful smile. Otherwise she was the great Angel a I knew her. How could some?one?body have done this to her. She can’t even smile the whole way! Just concerned.
Sent: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 00:00:19 -0400
Subject: Music and Background sounds
Re: A Lifetime of agony
I enjoy most of the Lifetime Movies but please pay more attention to excessive background noises; and excessively loud background or mood music that drownds out the dialog.
Sent: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:27:56 +0100
Subject: diff
Thanks for your site! Simple as that-thanks. I stumbled accross your site today while troling through google measuring corks internet presence and was genuinely surprised and delighted. Well done i love your reviews and comments , i was just wondering why you there was no comment about DIFF as a festival (did you not like?)Any way I hope you enjoy Cork, its a great festival one of the best in my oppion. We are holding DIFF in feburary this year 12-22.
Sent: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 11:37:50 -0400
Subject: Enjoyed the reviews
Hello, I enjoyed the reviewes, which I’ve read over a couple of long, wet nights here in Montreal. Especially the little-known films which only get shown at the festivals. Thanks for paying attention.
Sent: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 23:35:53 -0500
Subject: Intl. Society for Excellence in Christian Film & Television
Dear Scott,
Hope all is well with you and the Missus. As you can see from our press release, we are at it again.
Be blessed.
the ever mysterious,
Deborah
**PRESS RELEASE**
International Film & Television Awards come to California October 25th
With the CFT Excellence Award announcements just three weeks away, preparations and participants alike are becoming a bit frantic. Voting closes at midnight GMT on the 17th and ballots, video tapes and publicity photos are flying back and forth over the Atlantic and Pacific like mad to make it under the wire.
The Intl. Society for Excellence in Christian Film & Television rewards outstanding achievement in productions that are sympathetic to the Christian faith. The awards committee of the ISECFT has announced that Pasadena, California will be the site of this year’s awards presentation. Dublin, Ireland was host to the ceremony last year.
Nominated for the CFT Excellence Award for Best Motion Picture of 2002 are Evelyn, Joshua, Time Changers, The Climb and Tribulation Force. Distinguished actors Alan Bates, Pierce Brosnan, Kirk Cameron, Tony Goldwyn and Gavin MacLeod have been nominated for the CFT Excellence Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture. Nominated for Best Motion Picture Actress are Julianna Margulies, recording star Mandy Moore, Jennifer O’Neill, Janaya Stephens and ten-year-old Sophie Vavasseur in her motion picture debut.
Up for Best Television Series of the 2002 season are Doc – PAX TV; Hack – CBS; Just Cause – Minds Eye Entertainment; Life with Bonnie – ABC; and Touched by an Angel – CBS. The actresses nominated for Best Actress in a Television Series are Roma Downey, Bonnie Hunt, Lisa Lackey, Donna Murphy and Tracy Shreve. John Dye, George Dzundza, Derek McGrath, David Morse, and Richard Thomas have been nominated for an award in the Best Television Actor category.
The BBC’s production of Moses, the first American account of the life of C.S. Lewis, along with The Jesus Experience produced by the Catholic Paulist organization are among the nominees for Best Documentary Film of 2002. Winners in all categories will be announced on the evening of October 25th, 2003.
Mel Gibson’s controversial production, The Passion, graphically depicting the last hours of Jesus Christ will also be previewed during the ceremony. Details of the society and the awards can be found on the ISECFT web site. www.cftExcellence.net
Sent: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 05:51:31 -0400
Subject: Beverages Directory
Re: Popping my Cork
Hello,
I checked your website… and I believe it is compatible with mine, and I think it would be great to make a link exchange. This is my site: “www.utyx.com/beverages”…
Sent: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 22:38:57 -0700
Subject: The Magdalene Sisters
Why have you not seen this movie yet?
Sent: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:58:32 -0700
Subject: Hi Scott
Re: Moore suprises
Always enjoy your comments and now that I learn you were “that close” to Mike, I wonder if I can get your autograph.
Sent: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 19:33:08 -0400
Subject: smut and language
What has happened to the movies that had good wholesome English without a
lot of cursing and using the Lords name in vein? With all the bad
language, sex, violence, and down right uninteresting movies out today,
my wife and I only get to see about 3 or 4 movies a year. We use to go
about every other week. We will not sit and watch movies with filthy
language and a lot of blood and gore. Who do we complain to that will
actually listen?
A Movie Fan
Sent: Tue, 20 May 2003 13:42:24 -0700
Subject: how to pronounce Cannes
Re: RE: Cannes
Hi.
It’s pronounced ‘can.” Like can of coke. see below.
www.cannesguide.com
Sent: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 19:00:47 -0700
Subject: Play it again
I have never heard it said better.
Hope you don’t mind if I copy it and send it around.
Sent: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:56:42 -0700
Subject: RE: Cannes
Re: The CORRECT pronunciation of Cannes
A couple of friends of mine got into a ferocious argument over the
pronunciation of Cannes the other night. The one friend is going there to
see a short film she wrote and starred in and was pronouncing it KAHN.
The other friend *went* several years ago and swore that it was CAN and
while he was there, was continuously corrected by the “natives.”
Since it’s something I’ve always avoided saying because of things like
this, I looked it up online. For everyone that claims it’s KAHN, there’s
another claiming it CAN. (It would never be CANS because the last ‘s’ is
almost always silent in French.) But French *does* have some very harsh
sounds like the flat and nasally ‘a’ of CAN, which is how it is actually
pronounced.
But the reason I’m writing you is because someone posted a message on
your site about how silly and stupid Americans are for pronouncing it
like ‘beer can’ (as if the beer part of that phrase soiled it). In fact,
it is silly and ignorant Americans who pronounce it WRONG to appear
educated. I have three sources for the correct pronunciation:
www.riviera.fr/cannes.htm
Pronunication database
www.speech.cs.cmu.edu
I can’t find a pronunciation on the Official Website of Cannes (but maybe
you could email them) but I found their link from this guy’s site, so I
imagine he’s an authority:
www.cannesrental.net
Anyway, I thought you might be interested. Obviously, there are many
people who insist that it’s KAHN and I’m sure those differing opinions
will continue to exist side-by-side.
Sent: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:35:10 -0700
Subject: Im from Porterville.
Re: Hollywood North?
Well, How cool is that. I grew up in Porterville. I still live here
actually. I enjoyed reading your page. Found it doing a search for
movies filmed in Porterville after watching a Movie filmed here “The
Last Best Sunday”.
Sent: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 09:30:12 -0800
Subject: Ballykissangel
Re: BallyK ballyhoo
Northern Exposure was my all time favorite TV series and I have taped
every show.
I would love to see Ballykissangel. Do you know if it is available in
the US?
Sent: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:50:35 -0800
Subject: Ballykissangel
Re: BallyK ballyhoo
Nobody confesses to watching it because it has a silly title.
Did you see that Ruth Ann died a few days ago? Saw it in the paper. It
reminded me for a minute of that great episode where Ed realizing Ruth
Ann is old and will die sometime, probably soonish. So he buys her that
plot of land out on a bluff overlooking a beautiful valley, and they
stand out there and dance on her future grave. Lovely closing shot
circling up from them. I hope someone goes to her grave (Peg Phillips,
the actress) now and dances on it.
Sent: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 11:33:02 +0900
Subject: hello
Hello.
I come from Japan.
Your site is very interesting.
The comment is carried out with the viewpoint different from
Japan.
I want to write many things in fact.
But, I weak English.
Can’t write long letter.
Sorry…
Good bye!
Sent: 02 Oct 2002 18:29:01 -0700
Subject: Are we a country of Gun Nuts or just plain Nuts?
Hello-
You have received this e-mail to help support a movie that might change
lives. Michael Moore, the controversial director of the award winning
documentary Roger & Me, is back with another thought provoking film
entitled “Bowling for Columbine.”
In his latest documentary, Moore takes a satirical and provocative look
at gun control and the events that took place at Columbine High School in
Littleton, CO on the morning of April 20th, 1999. Through the course of
the film he reveals a side of these stories that most people are not
aware of. Much like Roger & Me, a behind the scenes look at how the Ford
Motor Company’s move out of this country for greater financial gain
contributed to the downfall of a town and the lives of people who lived
and worked there, this film is designed to open eyes when most choose to
look the other way.
Please take a couple of minutes to read the synopsis attached and view
the trailer by clicking on the link provided below. We think you will
agree it has tremendous social importance and we hope you will help us
get the word out.
Link
As you probably know most documentaries such as this do not have large
budgets. We are sending this in hopes you will find the subject matter
compelling enough to post the trailer on your website, so it can reach
the general public in which it was created for.
Sent: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:44:24 -0500
Subject: lifetime movies for women
Re: A Lifetime of agony
the movies are for women, so stop watching them if they bother you. I
think most of them are great. you are correct, they most often portray
women as victims, but unfortunately women are often victims of rape,
murder, etc. Remember, these movies are most often based upon true life
stories. That should prove to you how many women are victimized every
day in this country. I think it is important to become aware of these
issues, I personally look forward to these movies. I wish we could go
back to the days of “June Cleaver”, sad to say that there are so many
psychos out there, (mostly men), who intend to do bodily harm to women
for whatever reasons.
Sent: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 12:08:26 -0500
Subject: Dublin Ireland venue for intl entertainment awards
**PRESS RELEASE**
Ireland Chosen to Host International Television Awards
The Christian Film & Television Excellence Awards committee has announced
that Dublin, Ireland will be the site of their awards presentation to the
2001 television season winners. Mike Dawson, spokesman for the
international society, said that it seemed only appropriate that the
ceremony commending the BBC Northern Ireland series be held in the
country where it was filmed.
The winners of the CFT Excellence Awards for Best Actor and Best Actress
in a Television Series are Niall Toibin (kneel toe-bean) and Aine Ni
Mhuiri (Anya knee Worry) who are both Dublin residents. Mr. Toibin and
Ms. Ni Mhuiri are being honored for their performances in the final
series of Ballykissangel.
The BBC Northern Ireland series, Ballykissangel, won the society’s award
for Best Television Series beating out the American WB Network’s series
7th Heaven and Touched by an Angel produced by network television
heavyweight, CBS.
In the motion picture category, actor Michael York took the Best Actor
award with Ms. April Grace winning Best Actress for her role in Barry
Berman’s film Waterproof, which also won Best Motion Picture.
The Dublin awards ceremony is set for the 29th of October followed by the
ceremony for the CFT Excellence film awards which will be held in
California. Awards results in all categories and details of the society
can be found on the ISECFT web site. www.cftExcellence.net
Sent: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:51:11 -0700
Subject: The CORRECT pronunciation of Cannes
Re: Pronunciation of Cannes
Actually, the statement highlighted below that was posted on your site is
very incorrect. Any French person, or anyone who has ever studied the
French language, will tell you that the correct pronunciation of the city
is “Kahn” like in “Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn,” or James Kahn.
Only stupid Americans who mutilate other languages in their attempt to
sound pretentious would ever think the city is pronounced like “beer
can.”
It also bothers me that many American entertainment reporters even
mispronounce it – just to appease the dumb Americans in regards the to
the film festival held there. (Just like they mispronounce Los Angeles
like “Las Anjel – iss,” when it is correctly pronounced: “Los (Like Los
Lobos) Ahngle S.”
So, whomever wrote that ignorant pronunciation as “can” like “beer can” -
obviously you like to perpetuate your ignorance to others.
Sent: Mon, 13 May 2002 21:41:58 +0200
Subject: Dogma 95
Re: The King Is Alive
In your comment on #4 The King Is Alive, by Kristian Levring, you
willingly humiliated and offended the Dogma brethren! the dogma 95
movemnet is a group of 4 DANES (Vinterberg: #1, Von Trier: #2,
Kragh-Jacobson #3 and Levring #4) (because it is important that they are
DANISH) that wanted to spark a revolution in contemporary cinema! and
they succeeded: not only is dogma 95 one of the most influential film
groups ever in film history, they also had large international succes
with films like #1 The Celebration (Festen), #2 The Idiots (Idioterne)
and also #3 Mifune (Mifunes Sidste Sang), winning a truck-load of
internationally renouned awards, such as the Golden Palm (Cannes) and
several golden and silver bears at the festival of Berlin!
so, considering dogma 95 to be one of the 5 big courants in film history
(the others: German Expressionism, Italian Neo-Realism, French
Nouvelle-Vague, Iranian Neo-Realism and the fifth and sixth generation of
chinese directors), there is no reason at all to laugh at them or react
to them in such cynical way!!!!
since dogma 95, the number of films with unlocked images (the shaking
image) has become uncountable!!!!)
as a life-long fan and admirer of the dogma 95 “vow of chastity”, i hope
you see i thought it necesarry that i’d react to this rather shocking
line: The director is the Dane Kristian Levring, and this film subscribes
to Dogma 95, in which a bunch of European (they’re Danish!!!!) filmmakers
agreed that they wouldn’t use any technology in their movies that might
make them interesting (nice special effects can’t necesarrily make a film
more interesting; e.g. Star Trek, STar Wars, Dune, etc.) to watch.
Sent: Mon, 6 May 2002 21:37:27 -0500
Subject: The Penis Graduation Song?
Love your web site. You are terrific!
Have you seen this? The Penis Graduation Song?
-----------------------------------
A review of a newly released movie…sound enticing?
THE PENIS GRADUATION SONG
By Bob Westal
* * 1/2
Rarely in the history of cinema has a title been more completely
descriptive
of an entire work…
[Link to full attached review]
Sent: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 16:48:18 -0600
Subject: RE: lifetime of agony Oct.25 2001
Re: A Lifetime of agony
Finally a kindred spirit. My wife and I have on going debates as to the
worth and quality of the Lifetime network. A good friend described it as
the “Men Suck” network. Basically as I see it the lessons you can learn
from the programming are as follows:
Your Husband/boyfriend that you stole from your best friend is probably a
serial rapist who is planning on having his mistress kidnap your
children. Of course those children were conceived while you were fooling
around with this smooth talking young man who secretly is a member of
some Nazi organization and is very busy with his illicit drug business
and may be his spawn. Meanwhile your mother (or mother-in-law) is
badmouthing you behind your back and is scheming to have you committed
because she thinks you are fooling around with her husband / boyfriend.
Now you could go to the police with wild accusations about all of the
above parties, but they will only launch a flaccid investigation until
they are distracted by a doughnut. The FBI? No, because they all golf
with your serial rapist/killer Husband/boyfriend.
I don’t much care for it, tune me in to HGTV or even (god forbid) The
HSN.
Sent: 04 Apr 2002 20:27:03 -0800
Subject: Press Release: MIB II Alien Preview!
Hello -
I wanted to give you a “sneak” preview into the biggest movie this summer
-
Men In Black II. Every Friday Sony Pictures will release a new alien on
the official site, www.meninblack.com, for “Alien Fridays.” I have
attached a press release regarding this event.
This Friday, April 5th, we will feature the alien ‘Mosh Bulb’. I have
included his information below and have attached his picture for your
use.
Feel free to post information about ‘Mosh Bulb’ and “Alien Fridays”
because I know your readers will enjoy this preview into the
movie!
Contact me if you have any further questions. I will be sending you the
next alien on Thursday, April 11th.
Name: Mosh Bulb
Age: 234
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 245 lbs.
Health: Medium
Armor: Strong
Speed: Medium
Bio Information: This rowdy and cantankerous individual hails from the
jungle planet Doldunn, where the plant-life dominates the world. Mosh
Bulb
himself is a sentient plant, with chlorophyll instead of blood. The
bodies
of your average Doldunnian are short and squat. Their skin is green with
small red hairs that can absorb sunlight. The most noticeable feature is
the huge dangling bulb at the end of their nose, which contain seeds for
creating more of their race. Mosh Bulb was incarcerated by the MIB for
killing a man who accidentally ate some of his seeds (The victim thought
they were sunflower seeds). This is just one incident where
misunderstanding has occurred between the Doldunnians and Earthlings.
Mosh
Bulb is being held until a representative of his planet
arrives.
Sent: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:14:47 -0600
Subject: Press Release
Irish Lead the Field in Award Nominations
Ireland is the home of four out of six CFT Excellence Award nominees up
for best television acting in the 2001 television season. The US based
Christian Film & Television Excellence Society reward outstanding
achievement in production and performance in media presented from a
Christian viewpoint. Categories for recognition in the field of
television are Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Television Series, Best
Advertising Spot, and Best Documentary.
The BBC N.Ireland/World-wide Productions series, Ballykissangel, has been
nominated for the Best Television Series along with Touched by an Angel
on CBS and WB Network’s 7th Heaven. Irishmen Niall Toibin and Gary
Whelan are both nominated for Best Actor along with New York native,
David Gallagher. The two Irish lasses vying for the title of Best Actress
are Roma Downey and Aine Ni Mhuiri. Actress and recording star, Della
Reese is also nominated in the Best Actress Category.
Further details of the society and the awards can be found on the CFTES
web site. www.cftExcellence.net
Sent: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 16:37:09 -0800
Subject: Hi Scott!
Re: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
I have been telling [my husband] that we really must go see Lord of the
Rings, and you have given me the extra push that I have needed.
Hopefully by next week end the lines won’t be so long. That it got into
your all time best 5 star movies is really a BIG rating…..Love your
site.
Sent: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 20:43:45 -0000
Subject: Lord Of The Rings Review
Re: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
I hold the opinion as do you that The Lord Of The Rings is one of the
greatest pieces of literature that has ever been written (wrote?), and
that the film is indeed deserving of the 5* rating that you gave it. I
didn’t miss Tom Bombadil or the Ents either, but here’s the thing, I
didn’t miss Tom Bombadil because all he did was sing or dance and talk in
riddles, but I didn’t miss the Ents because they don’t come into the
story until the 2nd book, The Two Towers. I just thought that I’d point
it out, nothing personal! Great site, keep up the good work.
Sent: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 12:06:36 -0800
Subject: Vanilla Sky
Note: Contains spoilers
This, without a doubt, is the worst movie I have been drug to in a long
time. My wife makes a habit of taking me to movies that, in many cases,
are sorry. I can’t say this is the sorriest movie I’ve ever sat through,
though, since I’ve seen ‘The Last Tango in Paris’. (I don’t think I’ll
ever forgive her for that one).
This movie’s script line is about a hot shot (Top Gun/Tom Cruise) young
company president (51% inherited from his father, with the rest given to
the Board, who may or may not figure in this story) who becomes too
familiar with one girl before he meets the one he really wants. After
the first girl attempts to kill both the hot shot and herself, but
succeeds only with herself, the boy friend is left with a godawful
disfigured face. I think he imagines that his face is put back to normal
after a second operation and he then re-establishes bliss with his
preferred. With guilt piling on guilt, wheels within wheels begin to
spin as the hot shot imagines his preference suddenly turns into the
deceased (once or twice, I can’t remember and it really doesn’t matter).
All this happens in the midst of sex (which he sees no point in
cancelling) and later smothers her with the pillow. This part may have
really happened since he finds himself in the dock where a sympathetic
psychologist tries to get at the root of his problem. A wierd cryogenics
man then tries to talk him into having himself frozen stiff so that his
DNA can be used at some future date to resurrect his original body (with
the pretty face), and apparently does. I think the contract is signed,
though I’ve become quite lost in the plot line by now. Finally, meeting
on the roof top of a skyscraper with the twin towers of the WTC in the
background, the final confrontation occurs between wierd cryogenics,
sympathetic psychologist, and hot shot. Convinced as I was that
sympathetic Freud had it about right, he finds he can’t even answer the
question as to what his daughter’s names are! This does it for Hot Shot
as he accepts Cryogenics as the true reality and proceeds to fling
himself from the roof, believing Cryogenics will scrape him off the walk
and crystalize him in liquid nitrogen to be resurrected at some later
date. Or maybe none of this happened and it was all nightmares as my
wife thinks? I’d rather not think about it.
If you really want to play a joke on someone, send them to this movie and
have them tell you what it was all about!!
Sent: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 14:45:56 +0100
Subject: Disco Pigs correction
Re: Disco Pigs
> sacrificed. First-time director Kirsten Sheridan (daughter
> of James) cast the two actors who originated the
> characters on stage. Elaine Cassidy is skilled in the role
Actually, Elaine didn’t play the original Runt in the first stage
production. Eileen Walsh (Janice Beard 45WPM) played the first Runt and
Orla Fitzgerald (Company of Strangers, TV) took over after her.
grassroots.tinet.ie
goes into the first production (including a picture of a young
Murphy).
I’ve seen the play twice, but have yet to see the film.
This may sound like a dumb question, but how does a US based critic end
up over here so often?
Sent: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:20:05 -0700
Subject: Commentary
Re: Horror
Don’t rush back to you topic of consumer fraud-----
Your reflections on recent events are inspiring.
Sent: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 03:43:24 -0400
Subject: Thank you.
Re: F*@k the Disabled
Thanks for the review of F*@k The Disabled. I’ve linked you on my
sight.
Peace.
Visit The Official Greg Walloch web-sight:
www.GregWalloch.com
Sent: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 00:55:49 -0400
Subject: Pronunciation of Cannes
Re: Cannes do
Cannes is pronounced can, as in beer can. Ask any French
person.
Sent: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:56:24 -0800
Subject: Stanley Kramer
Re: The other Stanley K. (1913-2001)
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World is one of the first movies I remember seeing
where I followed it all the way through from beginning to end. My whole
family cherishes it; it’s part of our lexicon, we joke about the Big W
and
quote lines from it all the time. I agree, it’s a classic.
Sent: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 23:21:18 -0800
Subject: Robards
Re: [A thousand clowns’ journey into night
(1922-2000)]
I couldn’t agree more.
BTW……… typo in Borstal
Boy……. you’ll be wanting to say “who”……
Sent: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 22:00:24 +0000
Subject: Tuntematon sotilas
Re: The Unknown Soldier
You wrote (probably ages ago) of the movie Unknown Soldier (Tuntematon
sotilas):
“This movie is billed as the Finnish Platoon.—Although it runs nearly
three hours and there is not a single note of music in the entire
soundtrack, the time passes quickly.—From the lengthy credits, I would
say virtually everyone in Finland worked on this movie.”
Didn’t the movie start with Jean Sibelius’ Finlandia, the great symphony?
And for your information, there are over 5 million people in Finland =)
Nice to notice that someone else than a Finnish person has actually seen
a Finnish movie. Remember where you saw it?
Sent: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 23:30:57 -0700
Subject: Review
Well, we are waiting for the review on your
wifes delivery – - -
Sent: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 19:47:00 -0700
Subject: yo adrian
Re: Cinema interruptus
Another delightful musing from you. But I think you should have me
proofread your essays before you post them. I think you wanted to say
“Law *and* order was never a problem under the Pinochet regime”….
Same goes for me, if you ever see anything on The Bystander, let
me know.
That reminds me, do you say “Pinochett” or “Pinochay”? I hear it both
ways in the press. Spanish speakers would say Pinochett, wouldn’t
they?
Sent: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 18:36:29 -0700
Subject: How to see a movie
Re: Right and wrong ways to see a movie
I’m spending a fortune setting up a home theater with surround sound,
cable movie channels by the dozen, DVD, VCR ---
Set up leather chairs and cup holders. It even has a popcorn popper.
However, I world give anything to find a way to download an appreciative
audience.
You are right, that opening night experience is hard to beat.
Sent: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 15:19:24 -0700
Subject: new URL for my home page
Re: Post-Oscar musings
The Oscar Fest was fun; I’m thinking that booze, food, and a gathering of irreverent film fans is the
only way to watch this turkey. (I did like how one snippy online columnist referred to the display of
filial love from Angelina Jolie as the broadcast’s creepy “Angels
& Insects moment.”)
Sent: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 17:52:30 -0700
Subject: congrats on your new feature
Re: Post-Oscar musings
Taking your meta-entertainment thing a step further, the other night I
found myself plastered to the tube watching (of all things) Joan Rivers’
post-Oscar fashion analysis. Armed with her array of weirdo fashion experts
and her replacement unit (daughter Melissa). Stranger still was the fact
that my husband was also sitting on the couch unable to tear himself away
long after it was his bedtime. He who truly madly deeply does *not* care
about what Gwyneth did with her hair. Why? Why? And yet, so utterly
compelling, in that car-accident-voyeurism way. Yes, I watched the whole
thing, including the post-coverage coverage, the post-coverage, the whole
long show, and the post-show fashion analysis. Why? So I could get yet
another look at Angelina Joie’s get-up? Like we need to see that again? Or
maybe it was just Joan Rivers’ face, me thinking about the movie Brazil with
the elderly ladies and their post-facelift faces melting to mush…. Who
knows.