It’s hard to get excited about remakes and reboots these days, but the next “Halloween” could be an exception. David Gordon Green (“George Washington,” “Pineapple Express,” “Stronger”) is directing the latest update to the Michael Myers mythos, which he’s co-writing with Danny McBride (yes, that Danny McBride); what’s more, John Carpenter is composing the score, Jamie Lee Curtis is set to return as Laurie Strode, and Judy Greer may play her daughter.
In a new interview with Charleston City Paper, McBride gives even more reason to be cautiously optimistic when he says that this new “Halloween” will focus on tension and dread rather than gore.
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In a new interview with Charleston City Paper, McBride gives even more reason to be cautiously optimistic when he says that this new “Halloween” will focus on tension and dread rather than gore.
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- 12/2/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best show currently on TV?” can be found at the end of this post.)
This week’s question: What’s the most memorable death — scripted please! — you’ve seen on TV? It could be disturbing, crazy, heartbreaking, etc. Old and current shows fair game.
Tim Surette (@timsurette), TV.com
I can’t seem to scrape the death of Charlie in the Season 3 finale of “Lost” from my mind — I can remember every part of that scene so many years later. There was something about the way the scene was written and shot that was just perfect, and even though it was the perfect time to say goodbye to the character, it was still hard to let him go. Charlie died a hero, dudes. Driveshaft forever!
This week’s question: What’s the most memorable death — scripted please! — you’ve seen on TV? It could be disturbing, crazy, heartbreaking, etc. Old and current shows fair game.
Tim Surette (@timsurette), TV.com
I can’t seem to scrape the death of Charlie in the Season 3 finale of “Lost” from my mind — I can remember every part of that scene so many years later. There was something about the way the scene was written and shot that was just perfect, and even though it was the perfect time to say goodbye to the character, it was still hard to let him go. Charlie died a hero, dudes. Driveshaft forever!
- 10/31/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Halloween always provides a good excuse to celebrate scary movies, but as anyone keen on the genre knows, it’s never really a bad time to do that. That’s especially been true this year, long before “It” broke box office records. Just a few months into 2017 and it was already a banner year for genre films, with “Get Out” becoming a cultural phenomenon, new horror festivals generating headlines, and other promising developments that send a positive message to genre fans. While the industry worries about the future of moviegoing and the quality of the art form in a blockbuster-dominated era, horror fans have nothing to worry about — the genre is secure, but only if you know where to look.
Keeping up our annual tradition, here’s an overview of 13 of the very best horror indies produced over the last 12 months, all of which are available to rent, on streaming platforms or in theaters.
Keeping up our annual tradition, here’s an overview of 13 of the very best horror indies produced over the last 12 months, all of which are available to rent, on streaming platforms or in theaters.
- 10/31/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
It’s hard to believe that some of the best directors of all time have created flops in the box office. Critically acclaimed and award winning directors like Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood and Robert De Palma have in fact made films that they regret. But it happens. All of us have made mistakes, even legends of the screen. Be it a starting point in their careers or simply experimenting in an area outside their comfort zone, some of the most acclaimed behind the camera geniuses have made clunkers. However, it’s important to note that if not for some of
The 20 Worst Movies By Otherwise Great Directors...
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- 10/16/2017
- by Nat Berman
- TVovermind.com
Lots of statues were handed out during the 69th annual Primetime Emmy Awards, a night filled with big triumphs and only a few major disappointments. It was an exciting night for diversity, an exciting night for women in front of the camera as well as behind the scenes, and an exciting night for fans of Donald Glover. Below are some of the notable winners and losers from the evening, including one cameo that didn’t do anyone any favors.
Winner: “Veep”
People were unsure how the frequent Emmy powerhouse might perform, since the news about it ending with Season 7 came out after nominations voting had closed. The answer: as well as usual, with star Julia Louis-Drefyus breaking records for with her historic sixth win for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy.
Loser: Sean Spicer
His cameo during Stephen Colbert’s opening monologue only highlighted how brutal Melissa McCarthy’s Emmy-winning...
Winner: “Veep”
People were unsure how the frequent Emmy powerhouse might perform, since the news about it ending with Season 7 came out after nominations voting had closed. The answer: as well as usual, with star Julia Louis-Drefyus breaking records for with her historic sixth win for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy.
Loser: Sean Spicer
His cameo during Stephen Colbert’s opening monologue only highlighted how brutal Melissa McCarthy’s Emmy-winning...
- 9/18/2017
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
By Jake Orthwein
An exploration of the ethics behind extreme filmmaking tactics.
The article The Great Directors Who Went To The Extreme appeared first on Film School Rejects.
An exploration of the ethics behind extreme filmmaking tactics.
The article The Great Directors Who Went To The Extreme appeared first on Film School Rejects.
- 9/14/2017
- by Jake Orthwein
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Inclusion has become a “Star Wars” staple in front of the camera: Both “The Force Awakens” and “Rogue One” were led by female heroes and included co-leads played by minority actors. However, white males sat in the director’s chair and the hiring of J.J. Abrams to replace Colin Trevorrow as director of “Episode IX” suggests that will continue for many years to come.
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J.J. Abrams is a talented filmmaker, and he’s a fine choice to close out the trilogy of films led by Daisy Ridley’s Rey. He also represents a kind of security that’s hard to resist. The director jumpstarted the new wave of “Star Wars” films with “The Force Awakens,” which earned unanimous acclaim from critics and fans on its way to over $2 billion worldwide. He knows the franchise, he’s beloved by fans,...
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J.J. Abrams is a talented filmmaker, and he’s a fine choice to close out the trilogy of films led by Daisy Ridley’s Rey. He also represents a kind of security that’s hard to resist. The director jumpstarted the new wave of “Star Wars” films with “The Force Awakens,” which earned unanimous acclaim from critics and fans on its way to over $2 billion worldwide. He knows the franchise, he’s beloved by fans,...
- 9/12/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Updated (9/12/17): The film’s opening date has been pushed back 7 months from May 2019 to December 20, 2019.
The search for a filmmaker to replace Colin Trevorrow as director of “Star Wars: Episode IX” is over. Lucasfilm has confirmed that J.J. Abrams is returning to the franchise to close out the new trilogy in the third installment. Abrams is credited with bringing life back into the “Star Wars” franchise as the director of “The Force Awakens,” which earned acclaim and over $2 billion worldwide.
Early rumors suggested Rian Johnson, director of “The Last Jedi,” would be the candidate to replace Trevorrow, but Johnson went on record saying he would not be handling directing duties on the trilogy ender. Lucasfilm has had trouble with young directors in the past — they were forced to bring in Tony Gilroy to help Gareth Edwards with reshoots on “Rogue One,” while Phil Lord and Chris Miller were fired...
The search for a filmmaker to replace Colin Trevorrow as director of “Star Wars: Episode IX” is over. Lucasfilm has confirmed that J.J. Abrams is returning to the franchise to close out the new trilogy in the third installment. Abrams is credited with bringing life back into the “Star Wars” franchise as the director of “The Force Awakens,” which earned acclaim and over $2 billion worldwide.
Early rumors suggested Rian Johnson, director of “The Last Jedi,” would be the candidate to replace Trevorrow, but Johnson went on record saying he would not be handling directing duties on the trilogy ender. Lucasfilm has had trouble with young directors in the past — they were forced to bring in Tony Gilroy to help Gareth Edwards with reshoots on “Rogue One,” while Phil Lord and Chris Miller were fired...
- 9/12/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Now that Colin Trevorrow is out as “Star Wars Episode IX” director, everyone has an opinion on who should replace him. That includes IndieWire, of course — our picks include newly crowned Golden Lion winner Guillermo del Toro, wonder woman Patty Jenkins, and true detective Cary Fukunaga — as well as Stephen Colbert. Watch the full segment below.
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The “Late Show” host discussed the “Book of Henry” helmer’s ouster on Friday night, joking that not all is well in the wretched hive of scum and villainy known as Hollywood. Among Colbert’s suggestions to replace Trevorrow? Quentin Tarantino, because we all know that the franchise far, far away is “missing ’70s music and extended conversations about cheeseburgers” — so get ready for “Episode IX: Everybody Shoots First.”
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The “Late Show” host discussed the “Book of Henry” helmer’s ouster on Friday night, joking that not all is well in the wretched hive of scum and villainy known as Hollywood. Among Colbert’s suggestions to replace Trevorrow? Quentin Tarantino, because we all know that the franchise far, far away is “missing ’70s music and extended conversations about cheeseburgers” — so get ready for “Episode IX: Everybody Shoots First.”
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- 9/10/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Acting is a gateway to many different careers as it’s been found in the past, though some only take the actor up and up until they finally reach the pinnacle of their storied rise through the Hollywood ranks. While a large number of actors either retire, become executive producers, or go off on another direction and begin their own line of clothing, perfume, or some other risky venture, others seek to cement their legacy in the industry by becoming the person behind the camera. At this point in their career those that make this attempt have often experienced enough and
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- 6/4/2017
- by Nat Berman
- TVovermind.com
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
20th Century Women (Mike Mills)
That emotional profundity most directors try to build to across an entire film? Mike Mills achieves it in every scene of 20th Century Women. There’s such a debilitating warmness to both the vibrant aesthetic and construction of its dynamic characters as Mills quickly soothes one into his story that you’re all the more caught off-guard as the flurry of emotional wallops are presented.
20th Century Women (Mike Mills)
That emotional profundity most directors try to build to across an entire film? Mike Mills achieves it in every scene of 20th Century Women. There’s such a debilitating warmness to both the vibrant aesthetic and construction of its dynamic characters as Mills quickly soothes one into his story that you’re all the more caught off-guard as the flurry of emotional wallops are presented.
- 3/17/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
While the conversation during fall film festival season tends to be dominated by the Oscars, and which pictures are poised for awards glory, one of the most important roles that Venice, Telluride, Toronto and New York have in the next few weeks is serving as a stage for the next great filmmaking voices. And while […]
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- 8/23/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Johnnie To’s Three Should Be Subtitled ‘Out of Ten’Fantasia Film Festival 2016
Steven Spielberg’s 1941. Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones. John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars. William Friedkin’s Deal of the Century. Dario Argento’s entire post-Opera filmography.
Great directors sometimes make mediocre or downright awful films. It happens to the best, and with the release of Johnnie To’s Three the director of Election, Mad Detective, Drug War, and countless other action gems has joined the club.
Shun (Wallace Chung) is a master criminal whose most recent clash with the law leaves him rushed to a hospital with a bullet in his brain. Inspector Chan (Louis Koo) has been after the thief and his violent gang for a while, and now that he has him he wants Shun to spill details of their next target. Dr. Tong (Vicki Zhao) couldn’t care less about Chan’s needs though as Shun’s condition requires...
Steven Spielberg’s 1941. Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones. John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars. William Friedkin’s Deal of the Century. Dario Argento’s entire post-Opera filmography.
Great directors sometimes make mediocre or downright awful films. It happens to the best, and with the release of Johnnie To’s Three the director of Election, Mad Detective, Drug War, and countless other action gems has joined the club.
Shun (Wallace Chung) is a master criminal whose most recent clash with the law leaves him rushed to a hospital with a bullet in his brain. Inspector Chan (Louis Koo) has been after the thief and his violent gang for a while, and now that he has him he wants Shun to spill details of their next target. Dr. Tong (Vicki Zhao) couldn’t care less about Chan’s needs though as Shun’s condition requires...
- 7/19/2016
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The Notebook is the North American home for Locarno Film Festival Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian's blog. Chatrian has been writing thoughtful blog entries in Italian on Locarno's website since he took over as Director in late 2012, and now you can find the English translations here on the Notebook as they're published. The Locarno Film Festival will be taking place August 3 - 13. Jacques Rivette in Locarno in 1991 when he received the Pardo d’onore. © Festival del film Locarno 1. Writing as a filmmaker “The only true criticism of a film is another film,” wrote Jacques Rivette, commenting on Ingmar Bergman’s Sommarlek (Summer Interlude) in 1958. He was making his intentions quite clear, and indeed his colleagues of the time recall how he was the first to be sure he would be a filmmaker. So a film cannot be explained in words, but Rivette still tried to put into words his own adventures as a spectator.
- 2/3/2016
- by Carlo Chatrian
- MUBI
Jacques Rivette has passed away at the age of 87. "Rivette, who emerged in the 1950s, along with Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol, as one of the primary filmmakers of the French New Wave, is the most underappreciated (and under-screened) of this legendary group," wrote Saul Austerlitz in his 2003 entry into the Senses of Cinema Great Directors Database. "Rivette’s deliberately challenging, super-size films defy easy assimilation, and demand a level of attention unusual even to his compatriots’ works. In addition to being considered difficult, however, Rivette’s body of work is also, arguably, the richest of the New Wave era, possessing an intellectual inquiry and humanity unmatched in the French cinema of his time." » - David Hudson...
- 1/29/2016
- Keyframe
Jacques Rivette has passed away at the age of 87. "Rivette, who emerged in the 1950s, along with Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol, as one of the primary filmmakers of the French New Wave, is the most underappreciated (and under-screened) of this legendary group," wrote Saul Austerlitz in his 2003 entry into the Senses of Cinema Great Directors Database. "Rivette’s deliberately challenging, super-size films defy easy assimilation, and demand a level of attention unusual even to his compatriots’ works. In addition to being considered difficult, however, Rivette’s body of work is also, arguably, the richest of the New Wave era, possessing an intellectual inquiry and humanity unmatched in the French cinema of his time." » - David Hudson...
- 1/29/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
In today's overview of new issues of film magazines and journals, we point to tributes to the late Chantal Akerman from Cinema Scope, Senses of Cinema and, in frieze, James Benning, Jem Cohen, Tacita Dean, Chris Dercon, Joanna Hogg, Sharon Lockhart and more. Among the dossiers in several issues: Pier Paolo Pasolini, William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives and Bruce Baillie and Paul Sharits. Quentin Tarantino is ushered into Senses' Great Directors Database. Adrian Martin writes about Maurice Pialat and Manny Farber. Kent Jones discusses "The Films in My Life" and his own documentary, Hitchcock/Truffaut. And much, much more. » - David Hudson...
- 12/22/2015
- Keyframe
In today's overview of new issues of film magazines and journals, we point to tributes to the late Chantal Akerman from Cinema Scope, Senses of Cinema and, in frieze, James Benning, Jem Cohen, Tacita Dean, Chris Dercon, Joanna Hogg, Sharon Lockhart and more. Among the dossiers in several issues: Pier Paolo Pasolini, William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives and Bruce Baillie and Paul Sharits. Quentin Tarantino is ushered into Senses' Great Directors Database. Adrian Martin writes about Maurice Pialat and Manny Farber. Kent Jones discusses "The Films in My Life" and his own documentary, Hitchcock/Truffaut. And much, much more. » - David Hudson...
- 12/22/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Landing in theatres this Friday is Ridley Scott’s The Martian, a sci-fi survival epic that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month to rapturous applause and overwhelmingly positive reviews. Though mainly about Matt Damon’s Mark Watney, an astronaut scrambling to survive while stranded on the surface of Mars, no movie and no mission comes down to just one man.
As Nasa head Teddy Sanders, Emmy-winner Jeff Daniels has to call the shots from Earth while Mark plans a seemingly impossible return. We sat down with Damon’s co-star at Tiff to talk about finding a character, when you know you’re working with the smartest people in your industry, and leaving your movie in the audience’s hands.
Check out what he had to say below, and enjoy!
So how’s the reception been so far?
Jeff Daniels: You never know, but surprisingly wonderful so far.
As Nasa head Teddy Sanders, Emmy-winner Jeff Daniels has to call the shots from Earth while Mark plans a seemingly impossible return. We sat down with Damon’s co-star at Tiff to talk about finding a character, when you know you’re working with the smartest people in your industry, and leaving your movie in the audience’s hands.
Check out what he had to say below, and enjoy!
So how’s the reception been so far?
Jeff Daniels: You never know, but surprisingly wonderful so far.
- 9/29/2015
- by Sam Woolf
- We Got This Covered
This podcast focuses on Criterion’s Eclipse Series of DVDs. Hosts David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett give an overview of each box and offer their perspectives on the unique treasures they find inside. In this episode, David and Trevor discuss Eclipse Series 43: Agnès Varda in California.
About the films:
The legendary French filmmaker Agnès Varda, whose remarkable career began in the 1950s and has continued into the twenty-first century, produced some of her most provocative works in the United States. After temporarily relocating to California in the late sixties with her husband, Jacques Demy, Varda, inspired by the politics, youth culture, and sunshine of the San Francisco and Los Angeles areas, created three works that use documentary and fiction in various ways. She returned a decade later, and made two other fascinating portraits of outsiderness. Her five revealing, entertaining California films, encompassing shorts and features, are collected in this set,...
About the films:
The legendary French filmmaker Agnès Varda, whose remarkable career began in the 1950s and has continued into the twenty-first century, produced some of her most provocative works in the United States. After temporarily relocating to California in the late sixties with her husband, Jacques Demy, Varda, inspired by the politics, youth culture, and sunshine of the San Francisco and Los Angeles areas, created three works that use documentary and fiction in various ways. She returned a decade later, and made two other fascinating portraits of outsiderness. Her five revealing, entertaining California films, encompassing shorts and features, are collected in this set,...
- 9/21/2015
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
Jake Gyllenhaal once said that director David Fincher “paints with people”. By that, he meant that Fincher’s actors – like Gyllenhaal, who had a less than pleasant experience with the director on the set of Zodiac – were in Fincher’s mind just instruments for him to wield, and with which he might realise his vision.
It’s a mindset shared by a surprising number of successful filmmakers; to those directors, the film lasts forever, whereas the discomfort of an actor will last only for the relatively short period of filming, meaning that drawing out that great performance from said actor can and should be achieved by any means necessary.
Great directors have typically used every method at their disposal to get the best out of their human paintbrushes. For some performers it’ll be pampering, for others it’ll be a harsher approach designed to discipline them...
Jake Gyllenhaal once said that director David Fincher “paints with people”. By that, he meant that Fincher’s actors – like Gyllenhaal, who had a less than pleasant experience with the director on the set of Zodiac – were in Fincher’s mind just instruments for him to wield, and with which he might realise his vision.
It’s a mindset shared by a surprising number of successful filmmakers; to those directors, the film lasts forever, whereas the discomfort of an actor will last only for the relatively short period of filming, meaning that drawing out that great performance from said actor can and should be achieved by any means necessary.
Great directors have typically used every method at their disposal to get the best out of their human paintbrushes. For some performers it’ll be pampering, for others it’ll be a harsher approach designed to discipline them...
- 2/19/2015
- by Brogan Morris
- Obsessed with Film
Exclusive Q&A: It arrived too late to factor in guild and critics awards, but the Clint Eastwood-directed American Sniper has established such a connection with American movie audiences that its dark horse chances of upsetting the Oscar status quo cannot be ignored. It passed Saving Private Ryan to become the highest domestic grossing war movie ever; it even shot past the U.S. gross of Bradley Cooper’s previous biggest hit, The Hangover, and trails only The Passion Of The Christ for biggest-ever R-rated domestic grosser. This, for a hard R film about the wartime exploits and horrors faced by the most dangerous sniper in U.S. military history, and the price paid by Chris Kyle, wife Taya, and his fellow soldiers tasked with door to door searches in Sadr City when it was the most dangerous place in Iraq.
Nominated for Best Actor for his spare portrayal of the Navy Seal sharpshooter,...
Nominated for Best Actor for his spare portrayal of the Navy Seal sharpshooter,...
- 2/11/2015
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline
The 2009 film Great Directors from doc filmmaker Angela Ismailos is a great introduction to the work, creative philosophies and personalities of ten directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles. The film presents conversations and clips from the work of those filmmakers, […]
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The post Watch ‘Great Directors’ Documentary, With Richard Linklater, David Lynch, Catherine Breillat, and More appeared first on /Film.
- 1/23/2015
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
There's a lot of buzz surrounding director Richard Linklater right now, because of his stellar, ambitious indie project Boyhood. The film won the Golden Globe for Best Drama and it's nominated for Best Picture at the 87th Academy Awards with Linklater getting a Best Director nomination too. And if you want to know a little bit more about Linklater, you may want to check out a Angela Ismailo's feautre-length documentary called Great Directors, which features in-depth interviews with the Boyhood director as well as nine other respected auteurs such as David Lynch, Bernardo Bertolucci, Stephen Frears and others. Here's the full documentary Great Directors available to watch from Vimeo (via The Playlist): Great Directors features a collection of in-depth interviews with Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles, all conducted by Angela Ismailo. But since...
- 1/19/2015
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Documentary filmmaker Angela Ismailos’s 2009 documentary “Great Directors” was a satisfactory first step for burgeoning film buffs to not only learn about what goes into becoming a director but to hopefully become inspired to seek out the brilliant works of the directors interviewed for the film. Today you can watch the whole thing for free, thanks to the good people at Anisma Films. For her doc, Ismailos sat down with some of the most revered and influential names in film history, including Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles, each expounding on their influences and artistic processes. Upon its release, “Great Directors” got mixed reviews. Many critics praised Ismailos’ ability to extract honest and candid interviews with her subjects but criticized the fact that she inserted too much of her own thoughts on these directors and their films via voice-over.
- 1/19/2015
- by Oktay Ege Kozak
- The Playlist
Reviewed by Robert J. Thompson II
MoreHorror.com
Possible spoilers ahead. *Seriously, don't read, if you haven't seen the movie*
When I first heard about Jen and Sylvia Soska (re: Soska Twins/The Soskas), I admit I had never seen their work. I had zero idea about who they were, or how they had come to Indie Horror prominence, yet once I started hearing their names, it became almost a daily occurrence.
Something about this concerned me, though, because the first thing I heard about them was, “Have you seen 'American Mary'? They're awesome for female Directors! Their stuff can lean a bit extreme feminist at times, but, they're not bad, at all!” – and that didn't quite sit well, with me. The way their work was described was almost 'man-hating', and for obvious reasons, I found myself hesitant to seek out their work.
Then I heard that Katherine Isabelle...
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Possible spoilers ahead. *Seriously, don't read, if you haven't seen the movie*
When I first heard about Jen and Sylvia Soska (re: Soska Twins/The Soskas), I admit I had never seen their work. I had zero idea about who they were, or how they had come to Indie Horror prominence, yet once I started hearing their names, it became almost a daily occurrence.
Something about this concerned me, though, because the first thing I heard about them was, “Have you seen 'American Mary'? They're awesome for female Directors! Their stuff can lean a bit extreme feminist at times, but, they're not bad, at all!” – and that didn't quite sit well, with me. The way their work was described was almost 'man-hating', and for obvious reasons, I found myself hesitant to seek out their work.
Then I heard that Katherine Isabelle...
- 12/11/2014
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Reviewer: Jeffrey M Anderson
Rating (out of five): ***
If you're a certain kind of film fan, there's nothing quite like a good clip show. It's so easy to please these fans just by showing scenes from favorite movies. These viewers never fail to "ooh" and "ahh" if you can surprise them with a good clip.
Angela Ismailos' debut documentary Great Directors has plenty of them, and it's a generally happy experience. It's very satisfying to hear favorite directors like David Lynch and Richard Linklater talking about how they dealt with their flops Dune and The Newton Boys. It's lovely to listen to dear, sweet Agnes Varda talking about herself, and it's even interesting to hear what the aggravating Catherine Breillat had to say.
Rating (out of five): ***
If you're a certain kind of film fan, there's nothing quite like a good clip show. It's so easy to please these fans just by showing scenes from favorite movies. These viewers never fail to "ooh" and "ahh" if you can surprise them with a good clip.
Angela Ismailos' debut documentary Great Directors has plenty of them, and it's a generally happy experience. It's very satisfying to hear favorite directors like David Lynch and Richard Linklater talking about how they dealt with their flops Dune and The Newton Boys. It's lovely to listen to dear, sweet Agnes Varda talking about herself, and it's even interesting to hear what the aggravating Catherine Breillat had to say.
- 11/8/2011
- by weezy
- GreenCine
Release Date: Nov. 8, 2011
Price: DVD $29.95
Studio: Kino Lorber
David Lynch is one of ten filmmakers included in the documentary Great Directors.
Ten of the world’s top filmmakers discuss their craft in first-time director Angela Ismailos’ 2009 documentary film Great Directors.
The lineup is an impressive one: Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris), David Lynch (Blue Velvet), Stephen Frears (Tamara Drewe), Agnes Varda (Vagabond), Ken Loach (Kes), Liliana Cavani (The Night Porter), Todd Haynes (Poison), Catherine Breillat (Bluebeard), Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused) and John Sayles (The Secret of Roan Inish).
They all open up about their careers with candor and humor. They speak about everything from their personal artistic evolutions to the roles that politics and history play in their movies. Most satisfyingly, they all honor their influences, from Todd Haynes on Fassbinder (I Only Want You to Love Me) to Breillat on Ingmar Bergman (Face to Face) to Lynch...
Price: DVD $29.95
Studio: Kino Lorber
David Lynch is one of ten filmmakers included in the documentary Great Directors.
Ten of the world’s top filmmakers discuss their craft in first-time director Angela Ismailos’ 2009 documentary film Great Directors.
The lineup is an impressive one: Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris), David Lynch (Blue Velvet), Stephen Frears (Tamara Drewe), Agnes Varda (Vagabond), Ken Loach (Kes), Liliana Cavani (The Night Porter), Todd Haynes (Poison), Catherine Breillat (Bluebeard), Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused) and John Sayles (The Secret of Roan Inish).
They all open up about their careers with candor and humor. They speak about everything from their personal artistic evolutions to the roles that politics and history play in their movies. Most satisfyingly, they all honor their influences, from Todd Haynes on Fassbinder (I Only Want You to Love Me) to Breillat on Ingmar Bergman (Face to Face) to Lynch...
- 10/17/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
A series of interviews with well-known film-makers that is unctuous, uninspiring stuff, says Catherine Shoard
It's not hard to work out why the likes of Stephen Frears, Catherine Breillat and John Sayles would agree to appear in a documentary called The Great Directors. Nor why film-maker Angela Ismailos (oft on-camera in soulful closeup) might like to rub shoulders with them. But the results don't do either party any favours. There's no coherent organisation, so Todd Haynes discusses Fassbinder, Richard Linklater critics, and Agnès Varda must come up with a response to such posers as: "Why are you known as the grandmother of the new wave?" You'd learn more just watching one of their films.
Rating: 2/5
DocumentaryStephen FrearsKen LoachRichard LinklaterCatherine Shoard
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It's not hard to work out why the likes of Stephen Frears, Catherine Breillat and John Sayles would agree to appear in a documentary called The Great Directors. Nor why film-maker Angela Ismailos (oft on-camera in soulful closeup) might like to rub shoulders with them. But the results don't do either party any favours. There's no coherent organisation, so Todd Haynes discusses Fassbinder, Richard Linklater critics, and Agnès Varda must come up with a response to such posers as: "Why are you known as the grandmother of the new wave?" You'd learn more just watching one of their films.
Rating: 2/5
DocumentaryStephen FrearsKen LoachRichard LinklaterCatherine Shoard
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- 3/31/2011
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Filmmaker Angela Ismailos decides that the best way to learn about cinema is by interviewing several veteran movie directors. This is the central idea for the new documentary, The Great Directors. I would say that the film offers an overview of the world’s best filmmakers, but the interview subjects are from North America and Europe. It’s a shame that the Middle East, Asia, India, and Australia are not represented. Perhaps they will be included in a follow-up sequel. The directors included offer some interesting insights into the history of cinema.
A talk with Italian filmmaker, Bernardo Bertolucci who relates a story about a childhood encounter with Pier Paolo Pasolini that sparked an interest in cinema, begins the film. Later he talks about his work including his censor problems over Last Tango In Paris (some countries banned it for decades). In France we meet Catherine Briellant who also had...
A talk with Italian filmmaker, Bernardo Bertolucci who relates a story about a childhood encounter with Pier Paolo Pasolini that sparked an interest in cinema, begins the film. Later he talks about his work including his censor problems over Last Tango In Paris (some countries banned it for decades). In France we meet Catherine Briellant who also had...
- 7/30/2010
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
This month, the documentary Great Directors arrives in a few theaters around the country, and it's exactly what you'd think it would be about: Filmmakers, discussing their craft, their own work, and their influences.
The film features some very influential names and a few that, for American audiences, are probably yet to be discoverd: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Liliana Cavani, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater, and John Sayles. We've got the trailer as well as separate discussions with Todd Haynes and David Lynch, who talks candidly about the failure of Dune.
And I hear if all goes well, I hear documentrix Angela Ismailos will make a sequel about second-rate hacks like Stephen Sommers, so that's exciting. (Actually, she is working on a sequel, which will feature more Euro directors and Asian filmmakers as well).
The film features some very influential names and a few that, for American audiences, are probably yet to be discoverd: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Liliana Cavani, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater, and John Sayles. We've got the trailer as well as separate discussions with Todd Haynes and David Lynch, who talks candidly about the failure of Dune.
And I hear if all goes well, I hear documentrix Angela Ismailos will make a sequel about second-rate hacks like Stephen Sommers, so that's exciting. (Actually, she is working on a sequel, which will feature more Euro directors and Asian filmmakers as well).
- 7/10/2010
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
First-time filmmaker Angela Ismailos sits down with “Great Directors” and reignites one’s passion for film.
Almost everyone who ends up working in the film industry — whether as a filmmaker, a studio employee or a journalist — is a movie buff, a cinephile who at some point encountered Cinema with a capital “C.” Angela Ismailos, director of the documentary “Great Directors,” probably experienced this moment at a younger age than most.
Greek in ancestry, Ismailos is of a different era. Classically beautiful with platinum blonde hair and wearing an elegant sundress with wedge heels, she harks back to 1960s Europe, the filmmaking period she so admires. Her father introduced her to film: Renoir, Eisenstein, Bergman, Pasolini, Antonioni, De Sica and Cocteau. “He was my cinema professor,” she says. Her studies began when she was age 10 or 11. “The first film I ever watched was film noir, and I was amazed how a...
Almost everyone who ends up working in the film industry — whether as a filmmaker, a studio employee or a journalist — is a movie buff, a cinephile who at some point encountered Cinema with a capital “C.” Angela Ismailos, director of the documentary “Great Directors,” probably experienced this moment at a younger age than most.
Greek in ancestry, Ismailos is of a different era. Classically beautiful with platinum blonde hair and wearing an elegant sundress with wedge heels, she harks back to 1960s Europe, the filmmaking period she so admires. Her father introduced her to film: Renoir, Eisenstein, Bergman, Pasolini, Antonioni, De Sica and Cocteau. “He was my cinema professor,” she says. Her studies began when she was age 10 or 11. “The first film I ever watched was film noir, and I was amazed how a...
- 7/4/2010
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Angela Ismailos probably wasn't intending herself to be included when she gave her film the simple title, "Great Directors," but when the film played to a standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival last year, Ismailos figured they were just applauding for the ten internationally renowned auteurs she profiles.
"Todd Haynes was like 'get up!'" laughed Ismailos, who eventually realized it was the only thing that would stem the five-minute-and-counting ovation. "Marco Müller, the director of Venice told me, 'I've never seen an audience touched so much by a documentary.' I guess it reminds people what all good cinema used to be."
Indeed, "Great Directors" will likely have movie lovers running to their local video stores and Netflix queues to discover or revisit the work of the ten directors Ismailos gathered for her documentary, a celebrated group that includes Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Stephen Frears, Agnès Varda, Ken Loach,...
"Todd Haynes was like 'get up!'" laughed Ismailos, who eventually realized it was the only thing that would stem the five-minute-and-counting ovation. "Marco Müller, the director of Venice told me, 'I've never seen an audience touched so much by a documentary.' I guess it reminds people what all good cinema used to be."
Indeed, "Great Directors" will likely have movie lovers running to their local video stores and Netflix queues to discover or revisit the work of the ten directors Ismailos gathered for her documentary, a celebrated group that includes Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Stephen Frears, Agnès Varda, Ken Loach,...
- 7/2/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
With The Twilight Saga: Eclipse opening in more theatres than any other movie in history, I don't think there's any question what the biggest new release of the long weekend is. However, vampires and werewolves do have some competition in the form of M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender, a movie that was expected to do quite well, right up until it became one of the worst reviewed movies of the year. In limited release, we have Love Ranch starring Joe Pesci and Helen Mirren, and Great Directors, a documentary that features conversations with nine of the world's most respected living filmmakers including David Lynch, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, and Richard Linklater. What will you be watching this weekend? The Twilight Saga: Eclipse [1] The Last Airbender [2] Love Ranch [3] (limited) Great Directors [4] (limited) God of Vampires [5] (limited) [1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1325004/ [2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0938283/ [3] http://www.
- 7/2/2010
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
"Depending on who's watching, a better title for Great Directors might be A Few Great Directors and Some Highly Competent Ones," suggests Jeannette Catsoulis in the New York Times. "Truth in advertising aside, this spasmodically entertaining documentary from Angela Ismailos chronicles her globe-trotting goal of interviewing 10 of her personal cinematic heroes." And those ten are: Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Todd Haynes, Richard Linklater, Ken Loach, David Lynch, John Sayles and Agnès Varda.
- 7/2/2010
- MUBI
I don't know if Angela Ismailos's Great Directors is a great documentary, but for the most part it's a treat to watch. On second thought, I do know: This not a great or even a particularly good documentary. It lacks structure, posits fandom as perspective and persists in drifting into unforgivable transitional shots of this or that filmmaker looking moody and glamorous. And yet it's packed with raw material that even lesser directors than Ismailos couldn't ruin: She gained access to 10 of the world's more interesting directors and recorded their conversations at length. Though the movie is largely vanilla in its pleasures, film lovers will eat it up.
- 7/1/2010
- Movieline
The title of the film Great Directors is exceptionally misleading, given that its real title should be People Whose Films I Like and Who Agreed to Be Interviewed By Me on Camera For This Movie. Written and directed by Angela Ismailos, whose credentials seem distinctly lacking to choose which directors to award the title of "great," this film jumps around between interviews with David Lynch, Bernardo Bertolucci and such head-scratchers as Todd Haynes, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda and Richard Linklater. Really, other than listing the names of the directors of this film, it's pointless to talk about it extensively because the selections seem so random. The interviews are half-assed, the attempts to put the directors in context are hopeless -- and Ismailos' budget obviously was too small to include relevant clips that truly define even this motley collection of filmmakers. Not that there's...
- 6/30/2010
- by Marshall Fine
- Huffington Post
A curious celebration of cinema and the mix of craft, history and ideology that goes into its making, Angela Ismailos’ Great Directors provides a chance to travel into the minds of ten of the world’s most celebrated film directors. In conversations with Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Liliana Cavani, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles, Ismailos probes these directors for the secrets of their success while recounting much of the history of post-War world cinema via archival footage, occasionally ponderous black-and-white B-roll of the filmmakers, and mostly insightful voice over commentary. Detailed and revealing, the film’s dissection of the varied...
- 6/30/2010
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Angela Ismailos interviewing Bernardo Bertolucci For her simply titled debut documentary Great Directors, Greek-born cineaste (and opera singer!) Angela Ismailos spent 2 ½ years of her life doing something many of us have probably fantasized about: traveling across the world, getting to know revered titans of filmmaking. The result, an official selection at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, is an expansive portrait of the last four+ decades of film, including the historical contexts (where relevant), various trends in filmmaking, and the wildly diverse personalities one finds behind the camera. Ismailos' subjects range from old-school European masters (Bernardo Bertolucci, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach) to American indie gods (Todd Haynes, Richard Linklater, John Sayles) to modern goddesses (Catherine Breillat, Liliana Cavani) to uncategorizable geniuses (Stephen Frears, David Lynch). Through her interviews, Ismailos weaves in film clips from each, plus additional clips of the directors cited by her subjects as major influences (Pier Paolo Pasolini, ...
- 6/30/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
Director Angela Ismailos and Paladin President Mark Urman earlier this week at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) for a screening of "Great Directors," a doc featuring ten of the world's most acclaimed filmmakers. The feature spotlights the directors from around the world with in depth conversations, including Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Liliana Cavani, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles. , Ismailos ...
- 6/25/2010
- Indiewire
Toward the end of "Great Directors," first-time filmmaker Angela Ismailos' documentary about 10 innovative directors still alive today, David Lynch explains why he dislikes answering questions about his films after the fact: "The film is the talking. The film is the thing, so you go see the film, that’s the thing. It’s a whole thing, and it’s there, and that’s it!"...
- 6/23/2010
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Yesterday, June 22, the film 'Great Directors' premiered at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The film, directed by Angela Ismailos, follows her own journey as an artist. In the film she has conversations with nine of the world's greatest living directors including Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater, and John Sayles. BroadwayWorld brings coverage of the event below. Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images...
- 6/23/2010
- BroadwayWorld.com
[Update: Very nice poster pays homage to Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera, after the cut.] Great Directors opens July 2 in NY and July 9 in La. From Anisma Films & Paladin: Angela Ismailos’ Great Directors, is a celebration of films and filmmaking starring ten of the worlds most acclaimed,...
- 4/23/2010
- by Ryan Adams
- AwardsDaily.com
It's a wrap! The Martin Gropius Bau is empty and the final pickups follow. This is a work in progress and readers are invited and welcome to contribute. Presales have returned in reaction to the reduced number of finished films on offer over the past two markets. Presales applies across the board from Us to French and even Italian films. English language films are increasingly coming out of the major non English language territories but local product is impacting sales on Us films internationally. Business was quickly wrapped up but it was done with a healthy number of buys reported. Lower prices have become accepted but the market must have product as this event proved.
Adriana Chiesa has licensed Federico Moccia’s teen trilogy to Savor to Spain. The first title, Sorry If I Love You (Scusa Ma Ti Chiamo Amore) grossed $27m when released by Medusa on 600 prints in Italy.
Adriana Chiesa has licensed Federico Moccia’s teen trilogy to Savor to Spain. The first title, Sorry If I Love You (Scusa Ma Ti Chiamo Amore) grossed $27m when released by Medusa on 600 prints in Italy.
- 3/9/2010
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
At the end of the day, the goal of Ioncinema.com is to celebrate and promote the process, and this is why Ismailos' Great Directors might interest our readers - she interviews such auteurs as Bernardo Bertolucci, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Liliana Cavani, David Lynch, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater, Haynes and Sayles. - I was stoked when I received an invite for a market screening of this film in Cannes - I regretfully couldn't make it but wished that one day I'd get to see this via some channel - I'm especially glad that the doc film which played in Venice (see pic of John Sayles, helmer Angela Ismailos and Todd Haynes above) will actually see the day of light in theaters this Spring via Mark Urman's Paladin Films. At the end of the day, the goal of Ioncinema.com is to celebrate and promote the process,...
- 2/18/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
New York-based independent film company Paladin, formed last fall by distribution veteran Mark Urman, announced today that it will release Angela Ismailos’ Great Directors, a celebration of films and filmmaking starring ten of the world’s most acclaimed, provocative, and individualistic living directors. The documentary had its world premiere at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, and was produced through Ismailos’ Anisma Films. Paladin will open the film in NY, Los Angeles, and other top markets in late Spring.
A deeply personal and intimate look at the art of cinema and the artists who create it, Great Directors features original, in-depth conversations with world-class filmmakers Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor, The Dreamers), David Lynch (The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive), Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons, The Grifters, The Queen, High Fidelity), Agnes Varda (Vagabond/Without Roof or Rule), Ken Loach (Hidden Agenda, Land and Freedom, Land and Freedom...
A deeply personal and intimate look at the art of cinema and the artists who create it, Great Directors features original, in-depth conversations with world-class filmmakers Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor, The Dreamers), David Lynch (The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive), Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons, The Grifters, The Queen, High Fidelity), Agnes Varda (Vagabond/Without Roof or Rule), Ken Loach (Hidden Agenda, Land and Freedom, Land and Freedom...
- 2/18/2010
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
Indie Roundup is your weekly guide to what's new and upcoming in the world of independent film. Pictured from left to right: Le Refuge, Countdown to Zero, and Picture Me.
Deals. It was another busy week of acquisition activity. Here's a quick rundown, with details courtesy of our friends at indieWIRE.
Strand Releasing picked up Francois Ozon's Le Refuge. Isabelle Carre stars as woman impregnated by her late boyfriend; she 'develops a strong bond with her boyfriend's brother.' Oh, the French! Look for it in theaters this spring. Magnolia Pictures grabbed the documentary Countdown to Zero, directed by Lucy Walker, a Sundance premiere that "follows the escalating global nuclear arms crisis." A fall release is in the works. IFC Films acquired Duncan Ward's satire Boogie Woogie, set in the contemporary London art scene. The cast is impressive, including Danny Huston, Stellan Skarsgard, Heather Graham, Alan Cumming, Christopher Lee,...
Deals. It was another busy week of acquisition activity. Here's a quick rundown, with details courtesy of our friends at indieWIRE.
Strand Releasing picked up Francois Ozon's Le Refuge. Isabelle Carre stars as woman impregnated by her late boyfriend; she 'develops a strong bond with her boyfriend's brother.' Oh, the French! Look for it in theaters this spring. Magnolia Pictures grabbed the documentary Countdown to Zero, directed by Lucy Walker, a Sundance premiere that "follows the escalating global nuclear arms crisis." A fall release is in the works. IFC Films acquired Duncan Ward's satire Boogie Woogie, set in the contemporary London art scene. The cast is impressive, including Danny Huston, Stellan Skarsgard, Heather Graham, Alan Cumming, Christopher Lee,...
- 2/17/2010
- by Peter Martin
- Cinematical
New York-based independent film company Paladin, formed last fall by distribution veteran Mark Urman, announced today that it will release Angela Ismailos' doc "Great Directors," which celebrates films and filmmaking by interviewing ten of the world's most acclaimed living directors. The documentary had its world premiere at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, and was produced through Ismailos' Anisma Films. Paladin will open the film in New York, Los Angeles, and other ...
- 2/16/2010
- Indiewire
- Joe Dante will be presenting not one, but two films at the Lido. The Venice Film Festival will be presenting Dante's latest film - the 3D supernatural called The Hole and will include a re-cut showing for The Movie Orgy - Ultimate Version. The stitched together pic, that Dante made during his student days, is a back-breaking 280-minute look at the B films from the 50's and 60's which I'm sure would be a blast for film aficionados like Quentin Tarantino. The 66th Venice International Film Festival will also include a film from the Makhmalbaf. Youngest member Hana will show Green Days, which looks at women in Iran in docu form and fiction, this will be shown Out of Competition. Also showing is Angela Ismailos's Great Directors. There was a private screening at Cannes which I couldn't make and I regret, since it looks at contemporary cinema and talks with Bernardo Bertolucci,
- 8/24/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
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