When Robert Aldrich’s 1968 Hollywood insider yarn, “The Legend of Lylah Clare” screens at the Maine International Film Festival in Waterville, Maine, it will represent much more than a simple revival of a New Hollywood-era roman à clef.
The film’s presentation on July 12 will include a discussion between actor Michael Murphy, who co-stars in the film, and former MGM publicity director Mike Kaplan, who has from the film’s earliest screenings defended both the film’s director, who Kaplan feels was “grossly maligned” by the depiction of him in Ryan Murphy’s limited series “Feud,” and the film, which monumentally tanked both critically and commercially when first released.
Kaplan recalls “I loved the script, and I loved the film. MGM had an unexceptional slate at the time. I was a big fan at the get-go.”
But as MGM’s New York City-based publicity chief, Kaplan watched helplessly as others,...
The film’s presentation on July 12 will include a discussion between actor Michael Murphy, who co-stars in the film, and former MGM publicity director Mike Kaplan, who has from the film’s earliest screenings defended both the film’s director, who Kaplan feels was “grossly maligned” by the depiction of him in Ryan Murphy’s limited series “Feud,” and the film, which monumentally tanked both critically and commercially when first released.
Kaplan recalls “I loved the script, and I loved the film. MGM had an unexceptional slate at the time. I was a big fan at the get-go.”
But as MGM’s New York City-based publicity chief, Kaplan watched helplessly as others,...
- 7/12/2023
- by Steven Gaydos
- Variety Film + TV
After you see Alexsei Fedorchenko's Silent Souls sometime in the second quarter of 2011, you can send Shadow Distribution's Ken Eisen a kind thank you note for championing this pearl of a film and saving it from what would have been a certain death after its showings on the film festival circuit. Shadow Distribution picked up the distribution rights to a picture that preemed at Venice, Tiff and Nyff (where we caught it a second time). Gist: Based on the novel “The Buntings” by Aist Sergeyev, after a man’s young wife dies suddenly (the cause is never disclosed) he enlists the help of a colleague in disposing of the body in accordance with the local custom. The characters here are Meryar, descendants of a 400-year-old Finnish tribe once native to that part of western Russia, but now all but forgotten. They have different and non-traditional names for places and people,...
- 11/9/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Chai Vasarhelyi’s award-winning film ‘Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love’ to open at Paris Theatre in Manhattan on June 12, 2009 as well as Bam Rose Cinemas in Brooklyn , it was announced today by Ken Eisen, president of Shadow Distribution. The award-winning film is a music-infused cinematic journey about the power of one man’s voice to inspire change. Youssou Ndour is the highest selling African artist of all time and has collaborated with musical superstars Bono, Neneh Cherry and Peter Gabriel. At home in Senegal , the Grammy-award winning artist is an inspiration for generations. [...]...
- 5/28/2009
- by The Critic
- SmartCine.com
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