"Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel García Márquez," a portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning author who died last year at 87, has been scooped up by indie distributor Icarus Films for North American release. Directed by Barcelona-based filmmaker Justin Webster and shot in Colombia (the writer's native country), Cuba, France, Mexico, Spain and the Us, "Gabo" asks the question, "How did a boy from a tiny town on the Caribbean coast become a writer who won the hearts of millions? How did he change our perception of reality with his work?" Read More: Gabriel García Márquez and Akira Kurosawa Talk Film, Writing and 'Rhapsody in August' in 1991 Interviewees in the film include Colombian writers María Jimena Duzán and Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Márquez biographer Gerald Martin, Márquez literary agent Carmen Balcells, New Yorker writer Jon Lee Anderson, and former presidents of Colombia and the U.S....
- 7/22/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
The Internet may be taking its toll on print journalism, but war photography is alive and well. Last week, Michael Mann (The Insider, Ali, Heat) and documentary director David Frankham launched a four-part documentary series on HBO called Witness, which follows seasoned war photographers through some of the most dangerous conflict zones on earth. Eros Hoagland, whose father was killed during his own work as a war photographer, takes viewers to Juarez, Mexico, and the favelas of Rio de Janeiro; French photojournalist Veronique de Viguerie, notorious for embedding with the Taliban, leads us through the jungles of South Sudan; and Michael Christopher Brown,...
- 11/12/2012
- by Josh Stillman
- EW - Inside TV
Chicago – Steven Soderbergh’s “Che” is one of the most underrated and misunderstood films of the ’00s. It features not only one of the best performances of the last several years from the great Benicio Del Toro but this challenging biopic should have been embraced by all the critics and audience members who are constantly lamenting the lack of filmmakers willing to take risks and provoke discussion.
Blu-Ray Rating: 5.0/5.0
With an amazing output in just three months - “Che,” “The Girlfriend Experience,” and “The Informant!” - arguably the most essential American filmmaker continues to prove that great auteurs need not come with standard expectations. His most challenging film, the two-part, four-hour “Che,” has been inducted into the Criterion Collection and the result is one of the best Blu-ray releases of the last twelve months. Only the video transfer is mildly disappointing, but that’s likely un-fixable. More on that later,...
Blu-Ray Rating: 5.0/5.0
With an amazing output in just three months - “Che,” “The Girlfriend Experience,” and “The Informant!” - arguably the most essential American filmmaker continues to prove that great auteurs need not come with standard expectations. His most challenging film, the two-part, four-hour “Che,” has been inducted into the Criterion Collection and the result is one of the best Blu-ray releases of the last twelve months. Only the video transfer is mildly disappointing, but that’s likely un-fixable. More on that later,...
- 1/27/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
DVD Playhouse—January 2010
By
Allen Gardner
The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment) Absorbing character study follows the leader (Jeremy Renner) of a bomb squad unit in Iraq and his growing addiction to the adrenaline-fueled life and death edge that he and his men must walk on a daily basis. Director Kathryn Bigelow, an unheralded great filmmaker for nearly two decades, has finally hit paydirt with this gut-wrenching examination of war as drug, as opposed to hell. That said, The Hurt Locker is 2/3 of a great movie that takes a wild left turn in a subplot involving Renner’s character and that of a local boy to whom he takes a shine, and never quite recovers its momentum. In spite of that hiccup, it remains one of the best films of 2009 and, thus far, the finest cinematic exploration of America’s war in the Middle East. Also available on Blu-ray disc, in...
By
Allen Gardner
The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment) Absorbing character study follows the leader (Jeremy Renner) of a bomb squad unit in Iraq and his growing addiction to the adrenaline-fueled life and death edge that he and his men must walk on a daily basis. Director Kathryn Bigelow, an unheralded great filmmaker for nearly two decades, has finally hit paydirt with this gut-wrenching examination of war as drug, as opposed to hell. That said, The Hurt Locker is 2/3 of a great movie that takes a wild left turn in a subplot involving Renner’s character and that of a local boy to whom he takes a shine, and never quite recovers its momentum. In spite of that hiccup, it remains one of the best films of 2009 and, thus far, the finest cinematic exploration of America’s war in the Middle East. Also available on Blu-ray disc, in...
- 1/19/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Steven Soderbergh's Che was met both praise and derision upon being unleashed in 2008. After a long wait, The Criterion Collection (in conjunction with IFC) has issued a three DVD box set and two disc Blu-Ray set of the film. The naysayers are entitled to their opinions, but as Criterion's exquisite home video release demonstrates, Che is a technically accomplished and intellectually rigorous film that stands as one of the more important works in Soderbergh's filmography.
Che is divided into two parts (135 and 136 minutes, respectively), which are included on two separate DVDs. The two films are different in style and tone, but combine to form an epic rise-and-fall story. The map sequences that open each part of Che serve as a guide to the film geographical and temporal structure and serves as indicator of its epic scope.
Part One (released as The Argentine in Europe) chronicles Ernesto Che Guevara's participation...
Che is divided into two parts (135 and 136 minutes, respectively), which are included on two separate DVDs. The two films are different in style and tone, but combine to form an epic rise-and-fall story. The map sequences that open each part of Che serve as a guide to the film geographical and temporal structure and serves as indicator of its epic scope.
Part One (released as The Argentine in Europe) chronicles Ernesto Che Guevara's participation...
- 1/15/2010
- Screen Anarchy
It's been a long time coming, but Steven Soderbergh's two-part biopic about Argentine-Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara will finally get the full DVD and Blu-ray release that it deserves this coming January. Apparently they had hoped to have it ready for December, but Soderbergh needed extra time to reconstruct deleted scenes and prepare some of the supplementary material. In the words of Criterion president Peter Becker, the delay was "a trade we will always make, even if it means we don't get the benefit of sales in the holiday season, and we think that's the kind of decision our collectors would want us to make". Kudos to Criterion for that. The extras on this release will include the following: High-definition digital transfers of Che: Part One and Che: Part Two, supervised and approved by director Steven Soderbergh, with DTS-hd Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition Audio commentaries on both films,...
- 10/26/2009
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Anyone that reads this site even on a semi-regular basis probably knows I absolutely love Federico Fellini's 8½ and that is one of the major reasons I am so looking forward to Rob Marshall's musical adaptation Nine. So, to learn Criterion is bringing the Fellini classic to Blu-ray with a brand new 52-minute documentary on Fellini's lost alternate ending for 8½ is almost too much for me to handle and is certainly too long to wait.
Along with the upcoming arrival of 8½, Criterion has also announced Blu-ray and DVD releases for Steven Soderbergh's Che and Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas. Details on these three titles are detailed below, but don't go yet there is a little more...
8½ (January 12, 2010) Introduction by filmmaker Terry Gilliam Audio commentary featuring film critic and Fellini friend Gideon Bachmann and Nyu film professor Antonio Monda Fellini: A Director's Notebook, a 52-minute film by Federico Fellini,...
Along with the upcoming arrival of 8½, Criterion has also announced Blu-ray and DVD releases for Steven Soderbergh's Che and Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas. Details on these three titles are detailed below, but don't go yet there is a little more...
8½ (January 12, 2010) Introduction by filmmaker Terry Gilliam Audio commentary featuring film critic and Fellini friend Gideon Bachmann and Nyu film professor Antonio Monda Fellini: A Director's Notebook, a 52-minute film by Federico Fellini,...
- 10/16/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Normally, when you hear about a distribution company pushing back it's release of something you want to see, it's a bad thing. It may also be accompanied by groans, sighs, eye rolling and maybe even bad words. When you hear that Criterion is delaying a release, though, you can almost always assume that there is a very good, worthwhile reason for it. And their upcoming release of Steven Soderbergh's epic biography Che is no exception. Originally announced as a Fall 2009 release, Che, which was split into two 130+ minute long movies for it's theatrical release, is now expected to hit shelves sometime in January of 2010. According to Criterion's newsletter, Criterion Collection president Peter Becker explained the delay saying "We wanted to be ready for December, but Steven Soderbergh needed time to reconstruct some deleted scenes, and we were also able, in what we think is going to be a controversial coup,...
- 10/12/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
Normally, when you hear about a distribution company pushing back it's release of something you want to see, it's a bad thing. It may also be accompanied by groans, sighs, eye rolling and maybe even bad words. When you hear that Criterion is delaying a release, though, you can almost always assume that there is a very good, worthwhile reason for it. And their upcoming release of Steven Soderbergh's epic biography Che is no exception. Originally announced as a Fall 2009 release, Che, which was split into two 130+ minute long movies for it's theatrical release, is now expected to hit shelves sometime in January of 2010. According to Criterion's newsletter, Criterion Collection president Peter Becker explained the delay saying "We wanted to be ready for December, but Steven Soderbergh needed time to reconstruct some deleted scenes, and we were also able, in what we think is going to be a controversial coup,...
- 10/12/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
Normally, when you hear about a distribution company pushing back it's release of something you want to see, it's a bad thing. It may also be accompanied by groans, sighs, eye rolling and maybe even bad words. When you hear that Criterion is delaying a release, though, you can almost always assume that there is a very good, worthwhile reason for it. And their upcoming release of Steven Soderbergh's epic biography Che is no exception. Originally announced as a Fall 2009 release, Che, which was split into two 130+ minute long movies for it's theatrical release, is now expected to hit shelves sometime in January of 2010. According to Criterion's newsletter, Criterion Collection president Peter Becker explained the delay saying "We wanted to be ready for December, but Steven Soderbergh needed time to reconstruct some deleted scenes, and we were also able, in what we think is going to be a controversial coup,...
- 10/11/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
And so as the festivities die down and Christmas feels like it was simply ages ago, we enter into a new year. Sure, you’re broke after over-spending on presents, feeling heavy after too much Christmas pud and dreading the dark mornings minus the glow of the twinkling fairy lights but Happy New Year! For many this will mean a return to work on Monday as the weekly slog starts over again, however before you get glum at the prospect there are just a few days of fun to be had and so spend them wisely. Might we suggest a trip to the cinema? There’s something for everyone with stylised comic book action, provocative drama and a historical biopic. How’s about that for dispelling those post-Xmas blues?
If you see… The Spirit, a comic book crime caper starring Gabriel Macht as a cop that comes back from the...
If you see… The Spirit, a comic book crime caper starring Gabriel Macht as a cop that comes back from the...
- 1/2/2009
- Boxwish.com
Benicio Del Toro as Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Che
Photo: IFC Films If the life of the Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara were an ocean Steven Soderbergh's two-part Che biopic would symbolize two pebbles thrown into the vast sea as very little is accomplished from any standpoint outside of a great performance by Benicio Del Toro as the title character and the work of Steven Soderbergh working as his own director of photography. For all the love-hate there seems to be for Che Guevara none of the reasoning is visible in Soderbergh's picture as Part One involves the 26th of July Movement in which Che participated alongside Fidel Castro in 1959 to overthrow the Fulgencio Batista government in Cuba and Part Two featuring Che's failed attempt to do much of the same in Bolivia in 1966-67. For such a grand effort, as the two films together total 269 minutes of screen time,...
Photo: IFC Films If the life of the Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara were an ocean Steven Soderbergh's two-part Che biopic would symbolize two pebbles thrown into the vast sea as very little is accomplished from any standpoint outside of a great performance by Benicio Del Toro as the title character and the work of Steven Soderbergh working as his own director of photography. For all the love-hate there seems to be for Che Guevara none of the reasoning is visible in Soderbergh's picture as Part One involves the 26th of July Movement in which Che participated alongside Fidel Castro in 1959 to overthrow the Fulgencio Batista government in Cuba and Part Two featuring Che's failed attempt to do much of the same in Bolivia in 1966-67. For such a grand effort, as the two films together total 269 minutes of screen time,...
- 12/12/2008
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Benicio del Toro as Che Guevara in Che I still have Jon Lee Anderson's "Che" biography sitting on my coffee table. I have managed to read only 112 pages of the 800+ beast, which is actually an accomplishment for me since reading nonfiction is something of a pet peeve of mine and considering I have finished four other books since starting "Che". However, I am reading "Che" for two reasons. 1) I want to see what all the fuss is about before seeing Steven Soderbergh's film(s) on Che Guevara Che (separately The Argentine and Guerrilla) and 2) I want to know why people are saying, "I will only see it if they don't romanticize the story." This second point was the primary reason since I have seen it so many times and I would be willing to bet at least half of the people making the statement haven't actually learned anything...
- 7/31/2008
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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