Promo release
Why Lie? I Need a Drink
We've all heard the urban legend of the panhandler hopping in his nice car and making his way to a comfortable home after a day of begging on the freeway off-ramp. Comedian Keith Lowell Jensen decided to find out just how hard it really is to make money holding up a cardboard sign.
With his sights set on the easy life Jensen spent countless hours employing every gimmick imaginable in an attempt to make his fortune. Can you really make a good living begging? Is anyone doing it?
Find out when you watch this enlightening, poignant and hilarious documentary from Apprehensive Studios.
Now Available at: www.WhyLieINeedaDrink.com, www.Amazon.com and most online retail outlets.
Buy direct at www.WhyLieINeedaDrink.com and save 15% buy using the coupon code “Why Lie DVD” when checking out.
View Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8Tz8xDpYuM
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Why Lie? I Need a Drink
We've all heard the urban legend of the panhandler hopping in his nice car and making his way to a comfortable home after a day of begging on the freeway off-ramp. Comedian Keith Lowell Jensen decided to find out just how hard it really is to make money holding up a cardboard sign.
With his sights set on the easy life Jensen spent countless hours employing every gimmick imaginable in an attempt to make his fortune. Can you really make a good living begging? Is anyone doing it?
Find out when you watch this enlightening, poignant and hilarious documentary from Apprehensive Studios.
Now Available at: www.WhyLieINeedaDrink.com, www.Amazon.com and most online retail outlets.
Buy direct at www.WhyLieINeedaDrink.com and save 15% buy using the coupon code “Why Lie DVD” when checking out.
View Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8Tz8xDpYuM
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ART & COPY, the people behind the ads, opens on August 21st (2009/Docu)
Press release
ART & COPY
Opens on August 21, 2009
ART & COPY is a powerful new film about advertising and inspiration.
Directed by Doug Pray (SURFWISE, SCRATCH, HYPE!), it reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time -- people who've profoundly impacted our culture, yet are virtually unknown outside their industry.
Exploding forth from advertising's "creative revolution" of the 1960s, these artists and writers all brought a surprisingly rebellious spirit to their work in a business more often associated with mediocrity or manipulation: George Lois, Mary Wells, Dan Wieden, Lee Clow, Hal Riney and others featured in ART & COPY were responsible for "Just Do It," "I Love NY," "Where's the Beef?," "Got Milk," "Think Different," and brilliant campaigns for everything from cars to presidents.
They managed to grab the attention of millions and truly move them.
Visually interwoven with their stories, TV satellites are launched, billboards are erected, and the social and cultural impact of their ads are brought to light in this dynamic exploration of art, commerce and human emotion.
ART & COPY opens on August 21, 2009.
Runtime is 90 minutes. Not rated
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: www.artandcopyfilm.com
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UPCOMING 2010 screenings:
April 02 only
Winnipeg, Manitoba - Winnipeg Cinematheque
April 15 only
Providence, RI - Cabe Car Cinema
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ART & COPY
Opens on August 21, 2009
ART & COPY is a powerful new film about advertising and inspiration.
Directed by Doug Pray (SURFWISE, SCRATCH, HYPE!), it reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time -- people who've profoundly impacted our culture, yet are virtually unknown outside their industry.
Exploding forth from advertising's "creative revolution" of the 1960s, these artists and writers all brought a surprisingly rebellious spirit to their work in a business more often associated with mediocrity or manipulation: George Lois, Mary Wells, Dan Wieden, Lee Clow, Hal Riney and others featured in ART & COPY were responsible for "Just Do It," "I Love NY," "Where's the Beef?," "Got Milk," "Think Different," and brilliant campaigns for everything from cars to presidents.
They managed to grab the attention of millions and truly move them.
Visually interwoven with their stories, TV satellites are launched, billboards are erected, and the social and cultural impact of their ads are brought to light in this dynamic exploration of art, commerce and human emotion.
ART & COPY opens on August 21, 2009.
Runtime is 90 minutes. Not rated
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: www.artandcopyfilm.com
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UPCOMING 2010 screenings:
April 02 only
Winnipeg, Manitoba - Winnipeg Cinematheque
April 15 only
Providence, RI - Cabe Car Cinema
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(Toronto'08/2009 USA release) THE BEACHES OF AGNES is Now On DVD in the USA!!!
The Beaches of Agnes Directed by Agnes Varda
[(2008)docu-France/CinemaGuild] - (1 hr 50 min)
Logline synopsis: Autobiographical documentary about the life of director Agnes Varda (in her own words and images).
MOVIE website-http://www.cinemaguild.com/beachesofagnes/
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UPCOMING venues:
APRIL 2010
April 21, 2010 - Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
April 24, 2010 - Detroit Film Theatre, Detroit, MI
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[(2008)docu-France/CinemaGuild] - (1 hr 50 min)
Logline synopsis: Autobiographical documentary about the life of director Agnes Varda (in her own words and images).
MOVIE website-http://www.cinemaguild.com/beachesofagnes/
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UPCOMING venues:
APRIL 2010
April 21, 2010 - Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
April 24, 2010 - Detroit Film Theatre, Detroit, MI
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(2009 release) "Big River Man" is On DVD now!!!
Big River Man
Dir. by John Maringouin
Featuring: Martin Strel, Matthew Mohlke, and Borut Strel
[(2009)docu-USA/Self Pictures] - (1 hr 40 min)
Synopsis for "Big River Man", the film will follow swimmer Martin Strel as he attempts to cover 3,375 miles in what is being billed as the world's longest swim. Strel, who hails from Slovenia, previously completed record swims in the Danube, Mississippi and Yangzte rivers and holds several Guiness World Records.
MOVIE website-http://www.bigriverman.com/
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Additional interview courtesy of FilmmakerMagazine.com
The Director Interviews: John Maringoiun, Big River Man
by Alicia Van Couvering
Filmmaker selected John Maringouin as one of our "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2006 after seeing Running Stumbled, the filmmaker's hilarious and disturbing film documenting his own reconciliation with his estranged father. This year he brought his remarkable film Big River Man to Sundance, a film several years in the making that documents the Amazon River expedition of Slovenian endurance swimmer Martin Strel. Strel’s stated mission is to bring environmental awareness to the rivers he swims, which have included some of the most polluted on Earth. Maringouin sets out to follow Strel’s expedition and to paint a portrait of this main, combining shots of Strel swimming by dead bodies and tales of the near-fatal infections he has endured, with his commitment to drinking two bottles of wine every day, his proclivity for waterslides, compulsive gambling, excess weight and advanced age.
Dir. by John Maringouin
Featuring: Martin Strel, Matthew Mohlke, and Borut Strel
[(2009)docu-USA/Self Pictures] - (1 hr 40 min)
Synopsis for "Big River Man", the film will follow swimmer Martin Strel as he attempts to cover 3,375 miles in what is being billed as the world's longest swim. Strel, who hails from Slovenia, previously completed record swims in the Danube, Mississippi and Yangzte rivers and holds several Guiness World Records.
MOVIE website-http://www.bigriverman.com/
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Additional interview courtesy of FilmmakerMagazine.com
The Director Interviews: John Maringoiun, Big River Man
by Alicia Van Couvering
Filmmaker selected John Maringouin as one of our "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2006 after seeing Running Stumbled, the filmmaker's hilarious and disturbing film documenting his own reconciliation with his estranged father. This year he brought his remarkable film Big River Man to Sundance, a film several years in the making that documents the Amazon River expedition of Slovenian endurance swimmer Martin Strel. Strel’s stated mission is to bring environmental awareness to the rivers he swims, which have included some of the most polluted on Earth. Maringouin sets out to follow Strel’s expedition and to paint a portrait of this main, combining shots of Strel swimming by dead bodies and tales of the near-fatal infections he has endured, with his commitment to drinking two bottles of wine every day, his proclivity for waterslides, compulsive gambling, excess weight and advanced age.
Abel Ferrara’s CHELSEA ON THE ROCKS Now Opens on Oct. 2nd! (2009 release/Cannes'08)
Press release
Abel Ferrara’s
CHELSEA ON THE ROCKS
Opens on Friday, October 2, 2009
at the Clearview Chelsea Cinemas
Abel Ferrara’s CHELSEA ON THE ROCKS, a fascinating, freewheeling personal journey inside the walls, history and mythology of Manhattan’s celebrated bohemian landmark, The Chelsea Hotel, will receive its US theatrical premiere on September 25.
The first documentary feature from streetwise auteur Ferrara (GO GO TALES, KING OF NEW YORK, BAD LIEUTENANT), it includes interviews with residents past and present such as Milos Forman, Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper and R. Crumb, vintage music and archival footage, and dramatic re-enactments summoning ghosts of the Chelsea’s storied past – Nancy Spungen and Sid Vicious, Janis Joplin – performed by Bijou Phillips, Jamie Burke, Adam Goldberg, Giancarlo Esposito, and Grace Jones.
The film, an official selection of the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, will open in New York on Friday, September 25 at the Chelsea Clearview Cinemas and will roll out nationally throughout the fall.
Since 1883 The Chelsea Hotel has been a home to artists great and small, from icons such as Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Tennessee Williams, Charles Bukowski, Andy Warhol, and Mark Twain, to assorted aspirants, junkies, prostitutes, and hermits.
But new management has begun evicting boho tenants in favor of a more upscale crowd, prompting long-time resident – and consummate New Yorker – Ferrara to capture the ragged splendor of the place before its unique spirit is lost forever.
Trolling the low-lit halls, visiting the hotel’s cast of memorable characters and raconteurs, and hanging out in the gallery-like lobby strewn with tenants’ paintings, CHELSEA ON THE ROCKS is shot through with an infectious brio, gallows humor and a hard-knock warmth to match its uniquely beloved subject.
As yet another of New York’s cultural landmarks threatens to effectively vanish for the sake of a bland corporate status quo, Ferrara passionately shows how it’s often the misfit structures – and dwellers – that possess a city’s soul.
88 minutes. An Aliquot Films release. Unrated.
www.chelseaontherocks-themovie.com
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Abel Ferrara’s
CHELSEA ON THE ROCKS
Opens on Friday, October 2, 2009
at the Clearview Chelsea Cinemas
Abel Ferrara’s CHELSEA ON THE ROCKS, a fascinating, freewheeling personal journey inside the walls, history and mythology of Manhattan’s celebrated bohemian landmark, The Chelsea Hotel, will receive its US theatrical premiere on September 25.
The first documentary feature from streetwise auteur Ferrara (GO GO TALES, KING OF NEW YORK, BAD LIEUTENANT), it includes interviews with residents past and present such as Milos Forman, Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper and R. Crumb, vintage music and archival footage, and dramatic re-enactments summoning ghosts of the Chelsea’s storied past – Nancy Spungen and Sid Vicious, Janis Joplin – performed by Bijou Phillips, Jamie Burke, Adam Goldberg, Giancarlo Esposito, and Grace Jones.
The film, an official selection of the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, will open in New York on Friday, September 25 at the Chelsea Clearview Cinemas and will roll out nationally throughout the fall.
Since 1883 The Chelsea Hotel has been a home to artists great and small, from icons such as Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Tennessee Williams, Charles Bukowski, Andy Warhol, and Mark Twain, to assorted aspirants, junkies, prostitutes, and hermits.
But new management has begun evicting boho tenants in favor of a more upscale crowd, prompting long-time resident – and consummate New Yorker – Ferrara to capture the ragged splendor of the place before its unique spirit is lost forever.
Trolling the low-lit halls, visiting the hotel’s cast of memorable characters and raconteurs, and hanging out in the gallery-like lobby strewn with tenants’ paintings, CHELSEA ON THE ROCKS is shot through with an infectious brio, gallows humor and a hard-knock warmth to match its uniquely beloved subject.
As yet another of New York’s cultural landmarks threatens to effectively vanish for the sake of a bland corporate status quo, Ferrara passionately shows how it’s often the misfit structures – and dwellers – that possess a city’s soul.
88 minutes. An Aliquot Films release. Unrated.
www.chelseaontherocks-themovie.com
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(2009 release/docu)-Megumi Sasaki's HERB & DOROTHY is Now Playing in select venues!!
Press release
ARTHOUSE FILMS presents
HERB & DOROTHY
Opens June 5, 2009 in NYC
with a national release to follow
HERB & DOROTHY tells the extraordinary story of Herbert Vogel, a postal clerk, and Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means.
In the early 1960s, when very little attention was paid to Minimalist and Conceptual Art, Herb and Dorothy Vogel quietly began purchasing the works of unknown artists.
Devoting all of Herb's salary to purchase art they liked, and living on Dorothy's paycheck alone, they continued collecting artworks guided by two rules: the piece had to be affordable, and it had to be small enough to fit in their one-bedroom Manhattan apartment.
Within these limitations, they proved themselves curatorial visionaries; most of those they supported and befriended went on to become world-renowned artists including Sol LeWitt, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Richard Tuttle, Chuck Close, Robert and Sylvia Mangold, Lynda Benglis, Pat Steir, Robert Barry, Lucio Pozzi, and Lawrence Weiner.
HERB & DOROTHY is directed by first time filmmaker Megumi Sasaki. The film received the Golden Starfish Award for the Best Documentary Film and Audience Award from the 2008 Hamptons International Film Festival. It has also received the Audience Award from the 2009 Philadelphia Cinefest and the 2008 SILVERDOCS Film Festival.
Release Date: Opens June 5, 2009 in New York City at Cinema Village
Director and Producer: Megumi Sasaki
Run Time: 87 minutes
Rating: Unrated
For further information please go to: www.herbanddorothy.com
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NOW PLAYING in select theaters!!!
December, 2009
TBA
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UPCOMING screenings:
March 17th
City of Palm Desert - Palm Desert, CA
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ARTHOUSE FILMS presents
HERB & DOROTHY
Opens June 5, 2009 in NYC
with a national release to follow
HERB & DOROTHY tells the extraordinary story of Herbert Vogel, a postal clerk, and Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means.
In the early 1960s, when very little attention was paid to Minimalist and Conceptual Art, Herb and Dorothy Vogel quietly began purchasing the works of unknown artists.
Devoting all of Herb's salary to purchase art they liked, and living on Dorothy's paycheck alone, they continued collecting artworks guided by two rules: the piece had to be affordable, and it had to be small enough to fit in their one-bedroom Manhattan apartment.
Within these limitations, they proved themselves curatorial visionaries; most of those they supported and befriended went on to become world-renowned artists including Sol LeWitt, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Richard Tuttle, Chuck Close, Robert and Sylvia Mangold, Lynda Benglis, Pat Steir, Robert Barry, Lucio Pozzi, and Lawrence Weiner.
HERB & DOROTHY is directed by first time filmmaker Megumi Sasaki. The film received the Golden Starfish Award for the Best Documentary Film and Audience Award from the 2008 Hamptons International Film Festival. It has also received the Audience Award from the 2009 Philadelphia Cinefest and the 2008 SILVERDOCS Film Festival.
Release Date: Opens June 5, 2009 in New York City at Cinema Village
Director and Producer: Megumi Sasaki
Run Time: 87 minutes
Rating: Unrated
For further information please go to: www.herbanddorothy.com
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NOW PLAYING in select theaters!!!
December, 2009
TBA
HELD OVER
TBA
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UPCOMING screenings:
March 17th
City of Palm Desert - Palm Desert, CA
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Glenn Silber's LABOR DAY Opens in New York City and Chicago on October 30, 2009!!!
Press release
LABOR DAY
BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE MOVEMENT
THAT HELPED ELECT BARACK OBAMA
Opening in New York and Chicago on October 30, 2009
LABOR DAY dramatically reveals the largely unknown story of how one union, thousands of activists, and a commitment to change turned Election Day into Labor Day. Two-time Oscar nominee Glenn Silber captures the exuberance and urgency of the 2008 Election in his feature documentary.
LABOR DAY follows a group that played a pivotal role in helping to elect Barack Obama: the SEIU (Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the nation’s fastest-growing labor union, with more than two million members. LABOR DAY is a chronicle of this union’s engagement and mobilization to ensure a Democratic victory in 2008.
For Labor, the Presidential campaign was mission critical. After eight years of Republican policies, the union felt an incredible sense of urgency to take back the White House and change the direction of the economy and the country.
LABOR DAY relives the passion and excitement of this moment in American history with vibrant, cross-country footage from the Presidential campaign– conventions, concerts, rallies, speeches, door-to-door canvassing, and interviews with union members and prominent politicians about their hopes for a better future.
LABOR DAY features a Who’s Who in American politics, journalism and entertainment, including clips from the 2008 campaign with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy, John McCain, and Sarah Palin; interviews with prominent journalists, including Jon Alter (Newsweek), Karen Tumulty (Time), and Ted Koppel, as well as with political figures Gov. Bill Richardson, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, and Rep. George Miller.
The film also features appearances and interviews with entertainment figures Mos Def, Tom Morello, Steve Earle, Allison Moorer, and hip hop phenoms Atmosphere and The Pharcyde.
LABOR DAY is produced and directed by Glenn Silber (The War At Home, El Salvador: Another Vietnam) and is co-produced by Claudia Viantello.
The film opens in New York City on October 30th at Quad Cinemas.
It is in English and unrated with a running time of 76 minutes. More information can be found on the web at http://www.labordaythemovie.com.
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LABOR DAY
BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE MOVEMENT
THAT HELPED ELECT BARACK OBAMA
Opening in New York and Chicago on October 30, 2009
LABOR DAY dramatically reveals the largely unknown story of how one union, thousands of activists, and a commitment to change turned Election Day into Labor Day. Two-time Oscar nominee Glenn Silber captures the exuberance and urgency of the 2008 Election in his feature documentary.
LABOR DAY follows a group that played a pivotal role in helping to elect Barack Obama: the SEIU (Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the nation’s fastest-growing labor union, with more than two million members. LABOR DAY is a chronicle of this union’s engagement and mobilization to ensure a Democratic victory in 2008.
For Labor, the Presidential campaign was mission critical. After eight years of Republican policies, the union felt an incredible sense of urgency to take back the White House and change the direction of the economy and the country.
LABOR DAY relives the passion and excitement of this moment in American history with vibrant, cross-country footage from the Presidential campaign– conventions, concerts, rallies, speeches, door-to-door canvassing, and interviews with union members and prominent politicians about their hopes for a better future.
LABOR DAY features a Who’s Who in American politics, journalism and entertainment, including clips from the 2008 campaign with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy, John McCain, and Sarah Palin; interviews with prominent journalists, including Jon Alter (Newsweek), Karen Tumulty (Time), and Ted Koppel, as well as with political figures Gov. Bill Richardson, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, and Rep. George Miller.
The film also features appearances and interviews with entertainment figures Mos Def, Tom Morello, Steve Earle, Allison Moorer, and hip hop phenoms Atmosphere and The Pharcyde.
LABOR DAY is produced and directed by Glenn Silber (The War At Home, El Salvador: Another Vietnam) and is co-produced by Claudia Viantello.
The film opens in New York City on October 30th at Quad Cinemas.
It is in English and unrated with a running time of 76 minutes. More information can be found on the web at http://www.labordaythemovie.com.
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Peter Greenaway’s REMBRANDT’S J’ACCUSE Premieres October. 21st!! (2009 release/docu)
REMBRANDT’S J’ACCUSE
Peter Greenaway’s Fascinating Exploration of
Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch”
Premieres Theatrically Wed., October 21, 2009 at Film Forum (NYC)
Film Forum is pleased to present the U.S. theatrical premiere of a new documentary from controversial British filmmaker Peter Greenaway, a man whose work never fails to astound, confound, titillate and provoke.
Recently, he has turned his attention to reinterpreting great works of art. His REMBRANDT’S J’ACCUSE is a first-person analysis of ‘The Night Watch,’ the 1642 masterpiece on view in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum.
Greenaway claims that the artist laid out dozens of clues regarding a murder — and for this indiscretion was forced into bankruptcy. Secret alliances, homosexual relationships, phallic symbolism, a transvestite dwarf, illegitimate children, and a Hitchcockian cameo by Rembrandt himself, all come into play.
Greenaway complements his revisionist art history with witty dramatic recreations of these conspiracy theories that reference Rembrandt’s own aesthetic in their elegant framing and lighting.
REMBRANDT’S J’ACCUSE (2008, 86 mins.) Written and Directed by Peter Greenaway.
In English. The Netherlands.
Peter Greenaway’s first feature film, THE DAUGHTSMAN’S CONTRACT, was released in 1982; however, prior to making films, he was trained as a painter. He has created art installations for the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice and the Joan Miró Gallery in Barcelona and has curated exhibitions in Rotterdam and at the Louvre.
Greenaway has also produced an elaborate digital reinterpretation of Paolo Veronese’s “The Wedding at Cana,” the third in a planned series of nine that will include tributes to Picasso, Seurat, Pollock and Monet, among others.
REMBRANDT’S J’ACCUSE will have a 2-week engagement, October 21 – November 3, at Film Forum, West Houston Street (W. of 6th Avenue), with screenings daily at 1, 2:45, 4:30, 6:15, 8, 10.
Produced by Femke Wolting, Bruno Felix. Co-producer: Kees Kasander. Director of Photography: Reinier van Brummelen. Sound: Bram Boers. Music: Giovanni Sollima, Marco Robino. Editor: Elmer Leupen. With: Martin Freeman (Rembrandt), Eva Birthistle (Saskia), Jodhi May and Emily Holmes (maids Geertje and Hendrickje).
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Peter Greenaway’s Fascinating Exploration of
Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch”
Premieres Theatrically Wed., October 21, 2009 at Film Forum (NYC)
Film Forum is pleased to present the U.S. theatrical premiere of a new documentary from controversial British filmmaker Peter Greenaway, a man whose work never fails to astound, confound, titillate and provoke.
Recently, he has turned his attention to reinterpreting great works of art. His REMBRANDT’S J’ACCUSE is a first-person analysis of ‘The Night Watch,’ the 1642 masterpiece on view in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum.
Greenaway claims that the artist laid out dozens of clues regarding a murder — and for this indiscretion was forced into bankruptcy. Secret alliances, homosexual relationships, phallic symbolism, a transvestite dwarf, illegitimate children, and a Hitchcockian cameo by Rembrandt himself, all come into play.
Greenaway complements his revisionist art history with witty dramatic recreations of these conspiracy theories that reference Rembrandt’s own aesthetic in their elegant framing and lighting.
REMBRANDT’S J’ACCUSE (2008, 86 mins.) Written and Directed by Peter Greenaway.
In English. The Netherlands.
Peter Greenaway’s first feature film, THE DAUGHTSMAN’S CONTRACT, was released in 1982; however, prior to making films, he was trained as a painter. He has created art installations for the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice and the Joan Miró Gallery in Barcelona and has curated exhibitions in Rotterdam and at the Louvre.
Greenaway has also produced an elaborate digital reinterpretation of Paolo Veronese’s “The Wedding at Cana,” the third in a planned series of nine that will include tributes to Picasso, Seurat, Pollock and Monet, among others.
REMBRANDT’S J’ACCUSE will have a 2-week engagement, October 21 – November 3, at Film Forum, West Houston Street (W. of 6th Avenue), with screenings daily at 1, 2:45, 4:30, 6:15, 8, 10.
Produced by Femke Wolting, Bruno Felix. Co-producer: Kees Kasander. Director of Photography: Reinier van Brummelen. Sound: Bram Boers. Music: Giovanni Sollima, Marco Robino. Editor: Elmer Leupen. With: Martin Freeman (Rembrandt), Eva Birthistle (Saskia), Jodhi May and Emily Holmes (maids Geertje and Hendrickje).
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Ondi Timoner's WE LIVE IN PUBLIC On DVD now!!! (2009/Sundance)
PUBLICITY release
Ondi Timoner's
WE LIVE IN PUBLIC
Watch the trailer for the film at
http://www.weliveinpublicthemovie.com/
WHAT IS THE FILM ABOUT?
Ten years in the making and culled from 5000 hours of footage, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC reveals the effect the web is having on our society, as seen through the eyes of “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of”, artist, futurist and visionary Josh Harris.
Award-winning director Ondi Timoner (DIG! – which also won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in 2004 – making Timoner the only director to win that prestigious award twice) documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives.
Download a We Live In Public widget at
http://bit.ly/3wSBho
Check out our blog posts
See when we will be in your neck of the woods here: http://www.weliveinpublicthemovie.com/now-playing/
Keep up with Ondi and WE LIVE IN PUBLIC on Twitter — twitter.com/onditimoner and twitter.com/wlip and become a fan of our film on Facebook. Find festival dates, a trailer, pics, news, press, boards and more on the ever-evolving WELIVEINPUBLICTHEMOVIE.COM.
WeLiveInPublicTheMovie.Com | JoinUsTheMovie.Com | DigTheMovie.com
Ondi Timoner's
WE LIVE IN PUBLIC
Watch the trailer for the film at
http://www.weliveinpublicthemovie.com/
WHAT IS THE FILM ABOUT?
Ten years in the making and culled from 5000 hours of footage, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC reveals the effect the web is having on our society, as seen through the eyes of “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of”, artist, futurist and visionary Josh Harris.
Award-winning director Ondi Timoner (DIG! – which also won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in 2004 – making Timoner the only director to win that prestigious award twice) documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives.
Download a We Live In Public widget at
http://bit.ly/3wSBho
Check out our blog posts
See when we will be in your neck of the woods here: http://www.weliveinpublicthemovie.com/now-playing/
Keep up with Ondi and WE LIVE IN PUBLIC on Twitter — twitter.com/onditimoner and twitter.com/wlip and become a fan of our film on Facebook. Find festival dates, a trailer, pics, news, press, boards and more on the ever-evolving WELIVEINPUBLICTHEMOVIE.COM.
WeLiveInPublicTheMovie.Com | JoinUsTheMovie.Com | DigTheMovie.com
WINNERS Announced for The 2009 IDA Awards
Publicity release
Nominees Announced for
The 2009 IDA Awards
Friday, December 4, 2009
Laura Ling and Euna Lee to Present Tribute to Courage Under Fire
The nominees for the International Documentary Association’s 2009 IDA Documentary Awards competition were announced, including many of the year’s most buzzed-about titles and festival favorites.
“As the boundaries of documentary film continue to be fearlessly shattered by the creativity of nonfiction filmmaking, IDA is proud to be honoring not only the best films of the year, but also many of those who have led the way,” said IDA Executive Director Michael Lumpkin. “The future of nonfiction storytelling could not be better represented by our outstanding host, Ira Glass, who continues to inspire and entertain across a number of media platforms.”
The IDA Documentary Awards will also recognize filmmakers and film journalists who displayed conspicuous bravery in the pursuit of truth -- and put Freedom of Speech above all else, including their own personal safety, in a special “Courage Under Fire” tribute to be presented by Current Media journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee.
The five nominated films for Distinguished Documentary Achievement in IDA’s feature category are:
AFGAN STAR
ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL
DIARY OF A TIMES SQUARE THIEF
FOOD, INC.
MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN.
The four nominated short films are: THE DELIAN MODE, SALT, SARI'S MOTHER, THE SOLITARY LIFE OF CRANES.
In the Limited Series category, the four nominees are: THE ALZHEIMER'S PROJECT, ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL, IN THEIR BOOTS, TIME FOR SCHOOL and WE SHALL REMAIN. Continuing Series nominees are AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, ICONOCLASTS and POV.
Click here for a complete list of honorees, nominees, and finalists.
IDA also announced today that the 2009 Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award will honor Natalia Almada.
A departure from recent IDA Documentary Awards, this year’s evening will begin with an 8pm Awards ceremony followed immediately by an Awards Celebration at 10pm.
Ira Glass to Host 2009 IDA Documentary Awards
IDA welcomes back Ira Glass, himself an IDA Award recipient, as host of the 2009 Awards. Glass is host and producer of This American Life, heard on more than 500 public radio stations each week by over 1.8 million listeners. This American Life has won the highest honors for broadcasting and journalistic excellence, including several Peabody and DuPont-Columbia awards. In March 2007, the television adaptation of This American Life premiered on Showtime to great acclaim winning IDA's Distinguished Continuing Series Award in 2008 as well as several Emmy awards in 2008 and 2009.
Join Ira and IDA as we honor the best documentaries of the year!
Errol Morris to Receive Career Achievement Award
The IDA will award its prestigious 2009 Career Achievement Award to legendary and innovative filmmaker Errol Morris. Given to a filmmaker who has made a major impact on the documentary genre through a long and distinguished body of work, the IDA Career Achievement Award has previously been awarded to Sheila Nevins, Michael Apted, Ken Burns, Albert Maysles, Haskell Wexler, Michael Moore, and last year’s recipient, Werner Herzog. Part detective, part philosopher, part poet, part iconoclast, Errol Morris is one of the most important and influential non-fiction filmmakers of his generation. His movies have achieved great critical success, and he has received a Guggenheim fellowship and a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. His artistic journey has resulted in such landmark works as The Thin Blue Line, Standard Operating Procedure and Academy Award Winner The Fog of War.
Check here for more info, news, and updates.
7pm Doors Open - 8pm Awards Show
Post-show dessert, coffee, and cocktails reception @ Directors Guild of America
Los Angeles, CA View DGA Parking Map
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Nominees Announced for
The 2009 IDA Awards
Friday, December 4, 2009
Laura Ling and Euna Lee to Present Tribute to Courage Under Fire
The nominees for the International Documentary Association’s 2009 IDA Documentary Awards competition were announced, including many of the year’s most buzzed-about titles and festival favorites.
“As the boundaries of documentary film continue to be fearlessly shattered by the creativity of nonfiction filmmaking, IDA is proud to be honoring not only the best films of the year, but also many of those who have led the way,” said IDA Executive Director Michael Lumpkin. “The future of nonfiction storytelling could not be better represented by our outstanding host, Ira Glass, who continues to inspire and entertain across a number of media platforms.”
The IDA Documentary Awards will also recognize filmmakers and film journalists who displayed conspicuous bravery in the pursuit of truth -- and put Freedom of Speech above all else, including their own personal safety, in a special “Courage Under Fire” tribute to be presented by Current Media journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee.
The five nominated films for Distinguished Documentary Achievement in IDA’s feature category are:
AFGAN STAR
ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL
DIARY OF A TIMES SQUARE THIEF
FOOD, INC.
MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN.
The four nominated short films are: THE DELIAN MODE, SALT, SARI'S MOTHER, THE SOLITARY LIFE OF CRANES.
In the Limited Series category, the four nominees are: THE ALZHEIMER'S PROJECT, ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL, IN THEIR BOOTS, TIME FOR SCHOOL and WE SHALL REMAIN. Continuing Series nominees are AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, ICONOCLASTS and POV.
Click here for a complete list of honorees, nominees, and finalists.
IDA also announced today that the 2009 Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award will honor Natalia Almada.
A departure from recent IDA Documentary Awards, this year’s evening will begin with an 8pm Awards ceremony followed immediately by an Awards Celebration at 10pm.
Ira Glass to Host 2009 IDA Documentary Awards
IDA welcomes back Ira Glass, himself an IDA Award recipient, as host of the 2009 Awards. Glass is host and producer of This American Life, heard on more than 500 public radio stations each week by over 1.8 million listeners. This American Life has won the highest honors for broadcasting and journalistic excellence, including several Peabody and DuPont-Columbia awards. In March 2007, the television adaptation of This American Life premiered on Showtime to great acclaim winning IDA's Distinguished Continuing Series Award in 2008 as well as several Emmy awards in 2008 and 2009.
Join Ira and IDA as we honor the best documentaries of the year!
Errol Morris to Receive Career Achievement Award
The IDA will award its prestigious 2009 Career Achievement Award to legendary and innovative filmmaker Errol Morris. Given to a filmmaker who has made a major impact on the documentary genre through a long and distinguished body of work, the IDA Career Achievement Award has previously been awarded to Sheila Nevins, Michael Apted, Ken Burns, Albert Maysles, Haskell Wexler, Michael Moore, and last year’s recipient, Werner Herzog. Part detective, part philosopher, part poet, part iconoclast, Errol Morris is one of the most important and influential non-fiction filmmakers of his generation. His movies have achieved great critical success, and he has received a Guggenheim fellowship and a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. His artistic journey has resulted in such landmark works as The Thin Blue Line, Standard Operating Procedure and Academy Award Winner The Fog of War.
Check here for more info, news, and updates.
7pm Doors Open - 8pm Awards Show
Post-show dessert, coffee, and cocktails reception @ Directors Guild of America
Los Angeles, CA View DGA Parking Map
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THE WAR ON KIDS Opens November 18, 2009 in NYC!!! (Documentary)
Press release
THE WAR ON KIDS
Opens November 18, 2009
For One-week run at the Quad Cinemas in NYC
THE WAR ON KIDS will be shown at the Quad Cinema, 34 West 13th Street, in New York City, from Wednesday, November 18 through Wednesday, November 25.
Film admission is $11.00 for adults, $8.00 for children and senior citizens. Tickets are available by calling 777-FILM #636 or on the web at http://www.movietickets.com.
THE WAR ON KIDS is a 95 minute documentary that shows how American public schools continue to become more dangerously authoritarian.
In addition to failing in their mission educate effectively, they erode the country's democratic foundation and often resemble prisons.
School children are interviewed as are high school teachers and administrators, as well as prison security guards, plus renowned educators and authors including:
Henry Giroux: Author of Stealing Innocence Corporate Culture's War on Children
Mike A. Males: Sociologist, Author of Scapegoat Generation
John Gatto: New York City and New York State Teacher of the Year
Judith Browne: Associate Director of the Advancement Project
Dan Losen: The Civil Rights Project, Harvard University
Dr. Peter Breggin: Author of Toxic Psychiatry and Talking Back to Prozac
Music in the film is performed by The Chumps, Tommy Gardner, John S. Hall, and Laura Mayer with Scott Grinthal.
THE WAR ON KIDS is directed by Cevin Soling who won the NYIIFVF award for "best educational film" in 2009. His documentary, THE WAR ON THE WAR ON DRUGS won NYIIFVF's best experimental feature film. Cevin has directed and produced a number of films, including: RELAX IT'S JUST SEX starring Jennifer Tilly, Lori Petty and Cynda Williams; A HOLE IN THE HEAD, which was broadcast on Discovery and The Learning Channel; and URINE: GOOD HEALTH. He also created a number of animated works, including THE BILL JOHNSON SHOW, BORIS THE DOG (which broadcast on both MTV and the BBC), CAPTAIN STICKMAN, as well as the short film, DESTRUCTION.
Truly a New York institution, the Quad Cinema has been showing the best of foreign and independent films since 1972. Family owned and operated, the Quad continues to book films which are unique, original, and intellectual to appeal to a loyal following of New York moviegoers.
http://thewaronkids.com/
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THE WAR ON KIDS
Opens November 18, 2009
For One-week run at the Quad Cinemas in NYC
THE WAR ON KIDS will be shown at the Quad Cinema, 34 West 13th Street, in New York City, from Wednesday, November 18 through Wednesday, November 25.
Film admission is $11.00 for adults, $8.00 for children and senior citizens. Tickets are available by calling 777-FILM #636 or on the web at http://www.movietickets.com.
THE WAR ON KIDS is a 95 minute documentary that shows how American public schools continue to become more dangerously authoritarian.
In addition to failing in their mission educate effectively, they erode the country's democratic foundation and often resemble prisons.
School children are interviewed as are high school teachers and administrators, as well as prison security guards, plus renowned educators and authors including:
Henry Giroux: Author of Stealing Innocence Corporate Culture's War on Children
Mike A. Males: Sociologist, Author of Scapegoat Generation
John Gatto: New York City and New York State Teacher of the Year
Judith Browne: Associate Director of the Advancement Project
Dan Losen: The Civil Rights Project, Harvard University
Dr. Peter Breggin: Author of Toxic Psychiatry and Talking Back to Prozac
Music in the film is performed by The Chumps, Tommy Gardner, John S. Hall, and Laura Mayer with Scott Grinthal.
THE WAR ON KIDS is directed by Cevin Soling who won the NYIIFVF award for "best educational film" in 2009. His documentary, THE WAR ON THE WAR ON DRUGS won NYIIFVF's best experimental feature film. Cevin has directed and produced a number of films, including: RELAX IT'S JUST SEX starring Jennifer Tilly, Lori Petty and Cynda Williams; A HOLE IN THE HEAD, which was broadcast on Discovery and The Learning Channel; and URINE: GOOD HEALTH. He also created a number of animated works, including THE BILL JOHNSON SHOW, BORIS THE DOG (which broadcast on both MTV and the BBC), CAPTAIN STICKMAN, as well as the short film, DESTRUCTION.
Truly a New York institution, the Quad Cinema has been showing the best of foreign and independent films since 1972. Family owned and operated, the Quad continues to book films which are unique, original, and intellectual to appeal to a loyal following of New York moviegoers.
http://thewaronkids.com/
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Hilary Helstein's "As Seen Through These Eyes"
As Maya Angelou narrates this powerful documentary, she reveals the story of a brave group of people who fought Hitler with the only weapons they had: charcoal, pencil stubs, shreds of paper and memories etched in their minds. These artists took their fate into their own hands to make a compelling statement about the human spirit, enduring against unimaginable odds.
The film features the story and artwork of Dina Gottliebova Babbitt who had been the personal portrait artist to the infamous Dr. Mengele in Auschwitz having painted portraits of Gypsies for his medical experiments. The paintings survived and Dina had been engaged in a battle to get her art back from the Auschwitz Museum.
[(2008)docu-USA/2009 release/MenemshaFilms/70 min]
The film features the story and artwork of Dina Gottliebova Babbitt who had been the personal portrait artist to the infamous Dr. Mengele in Auschwitz having painted portraits of Gypsies for his medical experiments. The paintings survived and Dina had been engaged in a battle to get her art back from the Auschwitz Museum.
[(2008)docu-USA/2009 release/MenemshaFilms/70 min]
The CMJ Film Festival- Oct. 21-22, 2009
The CMJ Film Festival would like to draw your attention to compelling documentary film programs playing at this year's CMJ Film Festival.
Come see the most controversial documentary film of the year, Bananas!*
Catch the CineMini Documentary Short Film Program
Join us for the Downtown Doc Double Bill a celebration of 2 of the greatest downtown bandsin New York City's history: The Fleshtones and Kid Creole and the Coconuts
Tickets are going quickly, so please make sure to purchase your tickets online here
Online ticket sales end midnight October 18th,
after which they can be purchase onsite at
the Clearview Cinemas Chelsea, 260 West 23rd Street.
ALL SCREENINGS @ the Clearview Chelsea on W. 23rd (Btwn 75h & 8th aves) - NYC
Come see the most controversial documentary film of the year, Bananas!*
Catch the CineMini Documentary Short Film Program
Join us for the Downtown Doc Double Bill a celebration of 2 of the greatest downtown bandsin New York City's history: The Fleshtones and Kid Creole and the Coconuts
Tickets are going quickly, so please make sure to purchase your tickets online here
Online ticket sales end midnight October 18th,
after which they can be purchase onsite at
the Clearview Cinemas Chelsea, 260 West 23rd Street.
ALL SCREENINGS @ the Clearview Chelsea on W. 23rd (Btwn 75h & 8th aves) - NYC
Bananas!* (NYC Premiere)
7:15pm | Wednesday, October 21
Dir. Fredrick Gertten, Sweden, 88 min.
Juan “Accidentes” Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a groundbreaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility. Can he beat the giant, or will the corporation get away with it? In the suspenseful and controversial documentary BANANAS!*, filmmaker Fredrik Gertten sheds new light on the global politics of food. Q&A following screening.
CMJ CineMini Short Film Contest - Documentary Short Films
9:30pm Wednesday, October 21
I Am A Man: From Memphis, A Lesson In Life
Dir. Jonathon Epstein, U.S.A., 27 min.
Members of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike recount their stories of the painful, yet pivotal civil rights demonstration
No Sana Hoy
Dir. Becky Corman, Canada/U.S.A., 9 min.
A journey to Havana where the filmmaker’s grandmother, Saluña, once lived.
From Wood To Singing Guitar
Dir. Shawn Lind, U.S.A., 32 min.
This film follows master luthier Wayne Henderson as he uses his intuitive instinct for finding the unique voice in each guitar he makes.
Welcome To My Queer Bookstore
Dir. Larry Tung, Taiwan, 19 min.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2009, the bookstore has played a groundbreaking and critical role in Taiwan’s LGBT movement
Water In The Boat
Dir. David Gutierrez Camps, U.S.A., 18 min.
This is a quietly poetic and uplifting portrait of a life in today’s East Village.
Downtown Doc Double Bill
9:15pm | Thursday, October 22 .
Pardon Us For Living But The Graveyard Is Full (NYC Premiere)
Dir. Geoffray Barbier, U.S.A., 59 min.
When a gang of suburban teens stumbled across a bunch of abandoned instruments and formed TheFleshtones little did they know that 30 years later they would still be rocking – and struggling to pay the bills.
Kid Creole And My Coconuts (World Premiere)
Dir. Adriana Kaegi, U.S.A., 50 min.
A delightful, danceable and unflinchingly honest memoir chroniclingAdriana Kaegi’s adventures as Mama Coconut – co-founder of the 1980s tropical funk machine, Kid Creole and the Coconuts. From jamming in scrappy downtown dives to performing for American Presidents and Lady Diana, Kid Creole and the Coconutswere trailblazers.
Tickets are going quickly please make sure to purchase your tickets online here
Online ticket sales end midnight October 18th, after which they can be purchase onsite at
the Clearview Cinemas Chelsea, 260 West 23rd Street.