Peripatetic filmmaker Laura Poitras never imagined that “Risk,” her follow-up to the demanding Oscar-winning Edward Snowden documentary “Citizenfour,” would present another set of daunting challenges. This time she’s up close and personal with controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, as he gets on the phone with a lawyer in Hillary Clinton’s State Department in 2010 to alert them of a massive dump of unredacted State Department documents on his site.
Read More: ‘Risk’ Review: Julian Assange Gets An Unflattering Closeup From A Former Friend In New Edit
Poitras and her two cinematographers catch telling details: Assange, with dyed hair, assuming a disguise, has trouble inserting his colored contact lens. Flames lick at shredded documents in a bowl. Kirsten Johnson’s camera looks down from above on Assange emerging from a London court, surrounded by photographers and supporters. (“We were thinking of Coppola’s ‘The Conversation,'” said Poitras.) The filmmaker...
Read More: ‘Risk’ Review: Julian Assange Gets An Unflattering Closeup From A Former Friend In New Edit
Poitras and her two cinematographers catch telling details: Assange, with dyed hair, assuming a disguise, has trouble inserting his colored contact lens. Flames lick at shredded documents in a bowl. Kirsten Johnson’s camera looks down from above on Assange emerging from a London court, surrounded by photographers and supporters. (“We were thinking of Coppola’s ‘The Conversation,'” said Poitras.) The filmmaker...
- 5/4/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Peripatetic filmmaker Laura Poitras never imagined that “Risk,” her follow-up to the demanding Oscar-winning Edward Snowden documentary “Citizenfour,” would present another set of daunting challenges. This time she’s up close and personal with controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, as he gets on the phone with a lawyer in Hillary Clinton’s State Department in 2010 to alert them of a massive dump of unredacted State Department documents on his site.
Read More: ‘Risk’ Review: Julian Assange Gets An Unflattering Closeup From A Former Friend In New Edit
Poitras and her two cinematographers catch telling details: Assange, with dyed hair, assuming a disguise, has trouble inserting his colored contact lens. Flames lick at shredded documents in a bowl. Kirsten Johnson’s camera looks down from above on Assange emerging from a London court, surrounded by photographers and supporters. (“We were thinking of Coppola’s ‘The Conversation,'” said Poitras.) The filmmaker...
Read More: ‘Risk’ Review: Julian Assange Gets An Unflattering Closeup From A Former Friend In New Edit
Poitras and her two cinematographers catch telling details: Assange, with dyed hair, assuming a disguise, has trouble inserting his colored contact lens. Flames lick at shredded documents in a bowl. Kirsten Johnson’s camera looks down from above on Assange emerging from a London court, surrounded by photographers and supporters. (“We were thinking of Coppola’s ‘The Conversation,'” said Poitras.) The filmmaker...
- 5/4/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Today it was announced that Laura Poitras, Aj Schnack and Charlotte Cook will collaborate to launch Field of Vision, the visual journalism arm of The Intercept, of which Poitras serves as a co-editor. The trio will work together to commission between 40 and 50 short-form nonfiction films each year, with the first season debuting on The Intercept on September 29, following the world premiere of Poitras’ Asylum as part of “Field of Vision: New Episodic Nonfiction” at the Nyff on September 27. You can expect new work from 25 New Faces Iva Radivojevic and Dustin Guy Defa, along with Poitras d.p. Kirsten Johnson, […]...
- 9/9/2015
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Today it was announced that Laura Poitras, Aj Schnack and Charlotte Cook will collaborate to launch Field of Vision, the visual journalism arm of The Intercept, of which Poitras serves as a co-editor. The trio will work together to commission between 40 and 50 short-form nonfiction films each year, with the first season debuting on The Intercept on September 29, following the world premiere of Poitras’ Asylum as part of “Field of Vision: New Episodic Nonfiction” at the Nyff on September 27. You can expect new work from 25 New Faces Iva Radivojevic and Dustin Guy Defa, along with Poitras d.p. Kirsten Johnson, […]...
- 9/9/2015
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Read More: 'Citizenfour' Team Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras Talk to the Late David Carr Laura Poitras, the Oscar-winning documentarian behind "Citizenfour" and "The Oath," is launching a new documentary unit alongside Aj Schnack and Charlotte Cook, announced Variety earlier today. Named Field of Vision, the unit is being developed in collaboration with First Look Media and journalism website The Intercept and looks to commission 40-50 short-form docs each year. The unit will launch their debut project at the New York Film Festival in the form of Poitras' "Asylum," a short-form series tracking Julian Assange as he publishes diplomatic cables and seeks asylum in London's Ecuadorian embassy. The official first season of episodes will debut September 29 on The Intercept, with a second season already being planned for early 2016. New works from Kirsten Johnson, Michael Moore, Shola Lynch, Beau Willimon, Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de...
- 9/9/2015
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
We now take a look at the indie film "Pray the Devil Back to Hell." The documentary is helmed by Gini Reticker, 2004 Academy Award® short nominee for "Asylum" which she shared with Sandy McLeod. This is also the winner of the Sundance Film Festival Short Filmmaking Award. Additionally, the film was honored with the Best Documentary Feature Award at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. An important film detailing the struggle for peace in a nation devastated by a seemingly neverending civil war. Balcony Releasing distributes the Fork Films production on November 7th this year in limited areas.
- 10/7/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
We now take a look at the indie film "Pray the Devil Back to Hell." The documentary is helmed by Gini Reticker, 2004 Academy Award® short nominee for "Asylum" which she shared with Sandy McLeod. This is also the winner of the Sundance Film Festival Short Filmmaking Award. Additionally, the film was honored with the Best Documentary Feature Award at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. An important film detailing the struggle for peace in a nation devastated by a seemingly neverending civil war. Balcony Releasing distributes the Fork Films production on November 7th this year in limited areas.
- 10/7/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
We now take a look at the indie film "Pray the Devil Back to Hell." The documentary is helmed by Gini Reticker, 2004 Academy Award® short nominee for "Asylum" which she shared with Sandy McLeod. This is also the winner of the Sundance Film Festival Short Filmmaking Award. Additionally, the film was honored with the Best Documentary Feature Award at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. An important film detailing the struggle for peace in a nation devastated by a seemingly neverending civil war. Balcony Releasing distributes the Fork Films production on November 7th this year in limited areas. We recommend you check out the official site here. What's the all about? Pray the Devil Back to Hell is the gripping account of a group of brave women who demanded peace for Liberia, a nation torn to shreds by a decades-long civil war. The women's historic achievement finds its voice in a narrative that intersperses interviews,...
- 10/7/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
We now take a look at the indie film "Pray the Devil Back to Hell." The documentary is helmed by Gini Reticker, 2004 Academy Award® short nominee for "Asylum" which she shared with Sandy McLeod. This is also the winner of the Sundance Film Festival Short Filmmaking Award. Additionally, the film was honored with the Best Documentary Feature Award at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. An important film detailing the struggle for peace in a nation devastated by a seemingly neverending civil war. Balcony Releasing distributes the Fork Films production on November 7th this year in limited areas.
- 10/7/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
By Michael Atkinson
One of the pioneering wagon-train movies of the inaugural, New York-based independent film movement, predating Jarmusch's "Stranger than Paradise," Bette Gordon's "Variety" (1983) comes off in retrospect as a veritable time capsule of post-punk downtown coolness. Just read the credits: screenwriter Kathy Acker (experimental novelist), star/photog Nan Goldin (famed shutterbug and model for the Ally Sheedy role in "High Art" 15 years later), soundtrack composer John Lurie (of Jarmusch movies and The Lounge Lizards), cinematographer Tom Dicillo (director of "Living in Oblivion," etc.), producer Renee Shafransky (Spalding Gray's longtime girlfriend), co-star Luiz Guzman, bit players Spalding Gray and Cookie Mueller (veteran of John Waters's universe), production assistant Christine Vachon, and so on. Where is Cindy Sherman? The grungy vibe of "Variety" is itself a window on the past . only at the nascent launch of a Diy indie wave in the post-'60s period could you,...
One of the pioneering wagon-train movies of the inaugural, New York-based independent film movement, predating Jarmusch's "Stranger than Paradise," Bette Gordon's "Variety" (1983) comes off in retrospect as a veritable time capsule of post-punk downtown coolness. Just read the credits: screenwriter Kathy Acker (experimental novelist), star/photog Nan Goldin (famed shutterbug and model for the Ally Sheedy role in "High Art" 15 years later), soundtrack composer John Lurie (of Jarmusch movies and The Lounge Lizards), cinematographer Tom Dicillo (director of "Living in Oblivion," etc.), producer Renee Shafransky (Spalding Gray's longtime girlfriend), co-star Luiz Guzman, bit players Spalding Gray and Cookie Mueller (veteran of John Waters's universe), production assistant Christine Vachon, and so on. Where is Cindy Sherman? The grungy vibe of "Variety" is itself a window on the past . only at the nascent launch of a Diy indie wave in the post-'60s period could you,...
- 6/3/2008
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
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