Documentary producer Chiemi Karasawa ("The Betrayal - Nerakhoon") makes his directorial debut with "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me," about the Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress. The 87-year-old is most known for her performance in Stephen Sondheim's 1970 musical "Company," as well as her more recent part as Jack Donaghy's mother Colleen on NBC's "30 Rock." Karasawa, who shares the same hairdresser with Stritch, tells the story of the still-working legend through interviews with Nathan Lane, Tina Fey and others. What it's about: "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me" is an intimate, entertaining and unflinching portrait of the Broadway legend on and off-stage as she approaches her 87th year. About the filmmaker: This is my directorial debut, so take it easy on me. I've been producing documentaries exclusively for the past 7 years, including: "Billy the Kid," "The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)", "Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak," "Elevate," "Love Etc." and "Harry Dean.
- 4/2/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
Consider "Love, Etc." to be an antidote to the cloying saccharine taste of cynical big-studio cash grabs like "Valentine's Day." Yes, both films chronicle love in different forms and at different times in life, but "Love Etc." does so with a sense of both gravity and sweetness. The film opens with a 79 year old Al Mazur singing his original composition "Everyday's a Holiday in Brooklyn," and chatting with his 89 year old wife, Marion, setting the tone for this gem of a doc from Jill Andresevic. After this introduction to a lasting love, and a credits sequence capturing the everyday moments of affection between couples and families in New York City, a hand-drawn animated map takes us (via subway) to our first stop: Jamaica Hills, Queens, where engaged couple Chitra and Mehendra are just waking up. This intimate morning scene is punctuated by the sweetest of nothings from Mehendra: "I have to move the car.
- 2/2/2012
- The Playlist
Two new movies are opening in wide release this weekend:
Already beating box office records is the fantasy sequel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. The film’s music is composed by Alexandre Desplat who scored his second Harry Potter film. A soundtrack album featuring Desplat’ score has been released on Watertower Music (click here for our soundtrack announcement including audio clips). To watch a short video from the score’s recording sessions and to listen to an audio interview with the composer, check out our previous article. Also check out Classic FM’s short interview with Desplat talking about his music for the final Harry Potter installment.
Also opening wide is Walt Disney Pictures’ animated film Winnie the Pooh. Henry Jackman composed the score for the movie. A soundtrack album featuring Jackman’s score, the film’s songs written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez and an...
Already beating box office records is the fantasy sequel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. The film’s music is composed by Alexandre Desplat who scored his second Harry Potter film. A soundtrack album featuring Desplat’ score has been released on Watertower Music (click here for our soundtrack announcement including audio clips). To watch a short video from the score’s recording sessions and to listen to an audio interview with the composer, check out our previous article. Also check out Classic FM’s short interview with Desplat talking about his music for the final Harry Potter installment.
Also opening wide is Walt Disney Pictures’ animated film Winnie the Pooh. Henry Jackman composed the score for the movie. A soundtrack album featuring Jackman’s score, the film’s songs written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez and an...
- 7/16/2011
- by filmmusicreporter
- Film Music Reporter
Jill Andresevic's acclaimed multi-character documentary Love Etc. will premiere in New York City on July 1st and Los Angeles July 15th. Distributed by Paladin, M&C was lucky enough to get an exclusive clip from the documentary . which depicts the many stages of modern metropolitan romance. The film, which is the first production from Jonathan Tisch.s Walnut Hill Media, had its world premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival last October, where it won the Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary. Set entirely in New York, a city that it explores and embraces in glorious detail, the film will debut in exclusive Manhattan engagements beginning July 1st before expanding nationally throughout the summer including an La...
- 7/1/2011
- by Patrick Luce
- Monsters and Critics
Reveling in the vivid urban landscape that is New York City as well as the colorful characters that inhabit it, Love Etc. is a winsome documentary that explores the universality of love through five different stories. Documentarian Jill Andresevic makes her directorial debut – leaping from short form docs to long – by bounding from Jamaica Hills and Forest Hills, Queens to Harlem then Soho in Manhattan and finally Canarsie, Brooklyn, to reveal real people going through familiar stages in love’s stories: First Love, Getting Married, Having Children (oddly titled as ‘Single’), Starting Over (after a divorce), and Lasting Love. While this pleasant premise is one that could easily fall into trite or treacly territory, the subjects of these narratives prove so vibrant that they defy cutesy categorization. Whether it be Brazillian-born Gabriel and his pontification-prone high school girlfriend Danielle, or the theatre director/soon-to-be single dad (via surrogate) Scott, Andresevic...
- 7/1/2011
- by Kristy Puchko
- The Film Stage
Romance and New York City go together like the red heart and “NY” in Milton Glaser’s famous logo. Jill Andresevic’s documentary Love Etc. covers both sprawling subjects with the perfunctory efficiency of a whirlwind weekend visit—a landmark or two, an ethnic neighborhood, a trip downtown, and a commemorative T-shirt. The five subjects it follows are all from different parts of the city and are in different stages of relationships. There’s Ethan, a divorced single-dad construction worker from Forest Hills; Chitra and Mahendra, an Indian couple from Jamaica Hills who are preparing to marry; Scott, a gay ...
- 6/30/2011
- avclub.com
Reviewed by Chris Allsop
(June 2011)
Directed by: Jill Andresevic
Where’d they get these people? “Love Etc.” is a documentary that follows the lives and, more pertinently, the loves of five separate individuals/pairings over the course of one year. With such a setup, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to expect a brace of reality TV-style extroverts: dull-minded, empty-eyed insomniacs pulling each other’s hair in drunken nightclub sorties after one either made eyes/flashed a sex organ at someone who wasn’t their partner.
But, no, quite the opposite; Jill Andresevic, in her debut feature, has managed to collect a group of reasonable and surprisingly likable human beings (and in New York City, no less).
Meet Albert (79) and Marion (89), married for 48 happy years and facing the shadow of Marion’s encroaching dementia; brash Ethan (41), divorced, with two teenage kids; Chitra (28) and Mahendra (29), the young couple on the threshold of marriage; Scott (52), a single,...
(June 2011)
Directed by: Jill Andresevic
Where’d they get these people? “Love Etc.” is a documentary that follows the lives and, more pertinently, the loves of five separate individuals/pairings over the course of one year. With such a setup, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to expect a brace of reality TV-style extroverts: dull-minded, empty-eyed insomniacs pulling each other’s hair in drunken nightclub sorties after one either made eyes/flashed a sex organ at someone who wasn’t their partner.
But, no, quite the opposite; Jill Andresevic, in her debut feature, has managed to collect a group of reasonable and surprisingly likable human beings (and in New York City, no less).
Meet Albert (79) and Marion (89), married for 48 happy years and facing the shadow of Marion’s encroaching dementia; brash Ethan (41), divorced, with two teenage kids; Chitra (28) and Mahendra (29), the young couple on the threshold of marriage; Scott (52), a single,...
- 6/29/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Chris Allsop
(June 2011)
Directed by: Jill Andresevic
Where’d they get these people? “Love Etc.” is a documentary that follows the lives and, more pertinently, the loves of five separate individuals/pairings over the course of one year. With such a setup, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to expect a brace of reality TV-style extroverts: dull-minded, empty-eyed insomniacs pulling each other’s hair in drunken nightclub sorties after one either made eyes/flashed a sex organ at someone who wasn’t their partner.
But, no, quite the opposite; Jill Andresevic, in her debut feature, has managed to collect a group of reasonable and surprisingly likable human beings (and in New York City, no less).
Meet Albert (79) and Marion (89), married for 48 happy years and facing the shadow of Marion’s encroaching dementia; brash Ethan (41), divorced, with two teenage kids; Chitra (28) and Mahendra (29), the young couple on the threshold of marriage; Scott (52), a single,...
(June 2011)
Directed by: Jill Andresevic
Where’d they get these people? “Love Etc.” is a documentary that follows the lives and, more pertinently, the loves of five separate individuals/pairings over the course of one year. With such a setup, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to expect a brace of reality TV-style extroverts: dull-minded, empty-eyed insomniacs pulling each other’s hair in drunken nightclub sorties after one either made eyes/flashed a sex organ at someone who wasn’t their partner.
But, no, quite the opposite; Jill Andresevic, in her debut feature, has managed to collect a group of reasonable and surprisingly likable human beings (and in New York City, no less).
Meet Albert (79) and Marion (89), married for 48 happy years and facing the shadow of Marion’s encroaching dementia; brash Ethan (41), divorced, with two teenage kids; Chitra (28) and Mahendra (29), the young couple on the threshold of marriage; Scott (52), a single,...
- 6/29/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
When first time feature director Jill Andresevic set out to make a love story, she knew she was not making a typical generic romantic comedy. To start with, she wanted to use real people, in various real-life stages of love. And what better setting than the city that is, in her eyes, a "snapshot of the globe"? (And, honestly, what city has better characters than New York City?) The result, Love Etc., is a charming slice-of-life documentary that introduces us to a delightful group of characters with one thing in common: they all want, need, appreciate, and/or cherish relationships in their lives that fill them with love. In some cases, it's a fluid, ongoing search for a new kind of relationship; in others, it's a matter of working hard to sustain the relationship they are already in. The film does not shy away from the difficulties that lie therein: for example,...
- 6/29/2011
- TribecaFilm.com
It would seem more appropriate for Jill Andresevic's documentary "Love Etc." to open nearer to another holiday, but I guess romance can and does occur during the 4th of July weekend. After all, cinema regularly reminds us that fireworks are a metaphor for, or at least accompaniment to, love. Then again, "Love Etc." also isn't the rom-doc you might expect based on the title, anyway. Not to spoil too much, but some of the people in the doc are out of love by film's end. Might disappoint some people who later check it out as a Valentine's Day rental. However,…...
- 6/28/2011
- Spout
See a new exclusive clip and images from the Love, Etc. documentary. The multi-character documentary depicting the many stages of modern metropolitan romance premieres in NYC on July 1st , in La on July 15th. Love, Etc. is helmed by Jill Andresevic and being distributed by Paladin. Filmed over the course of a year, Love Etc. is actually five different relationship stories—all of them real—combined in a single film. With characters ranging in age from 18 to 89, the youthful end of the spectrum is represented by high school sweethearts Gabriel and Danielle, whose first-love romance is tested as graduation nears. On the other end of the spectrum are Albert and Marion, octogenarian lovebirds whose chance meeting turned into a 50 year marriage...
- 6/24/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See a new exclusive clip and images from the Love, Etc. documentary. The multi-character documentary depicting the many stages of modern metropolitan romance premieres in NYC on July 1st , in La on July 15th. Love, Etc. is helmed by Jill Andresevic and being distributed by Paladin. Filmed over the course of a year, Love Etc. is actually five different relationship stories—all of them real—combined in a single film. With characters ranging in age from 18 to 89, the youthful end of the spectrum is represented by high school sweethearts Gabriel and Danielle, whose first-love romance is tested as graduation nears. On the other end of the spectrum are Albert and Marion, octogenarian lovebirds whose chance meeting turned into a 50 year marriage...
- 6/24/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See a new exclusive clip and images from the Love, Etc. documentary. The multi-character documentary depicting the many stages of modern metropolitan romance premieres in NYC on July 1st , in La on July 15th. Love, Etc. is helmed by Jill Andresevic and being distributed by Paladin. Filmed over the course of a year, Love Etc. is actually five different relationship stories—all of them real—combined in a single film. With characters ranging in age from 18 to 89, the youthful end of the spectrum is represented by high school sweethearts Gabriel and Danielle, whose first-love romance is tested as graduation nears. On the other end of the spectrum are Albert and Marion, octogenarian lovebirds whose chance meeting turned into a 50 year marriage...
- 6/24/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Paladin, the distributor that was recently behind Tom Shadyac’s I Am, has acquired the upcoming drama One Fall, and we have your first exclusive look at the film. Produced by Dean Silvers and Marlen Hecht (Flirting With Disaster, Spanking the Monkey), it is the directorial debut from Marcus Dean Fuller. Check out the photo above which features Fuller, next to Mark Margolis (Pi, The Fountain, and the upcoming Immortals) and click for high-resolution.
Fuller is joined by a cast that includes Zoe McLellan (Dirty Sexy Money), James McCaffrey (Rescue Me), Phyllis Somerville (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Mark La Mura (Something Borrowed), Dominic Fumusa (Nurse Jackie), and newcomer Seamus Mulcahy.
Paladin will release the film this August and you can see the press release below, which includes a synopsis.
New York, NY (June 21, 2011) — One Fall, a powerful story about a man who is both blessed and cursed with an unusual power,...
Fuller is joined by a cast that includes Zoe McLellan (Dirty Sexy Money), James McCaffrey (Rescue Me), Phyllis Somerville (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Mark La Mura (Something Borrowed), Dominic Fumusa (Nurse Jackie), and newcomer Seamus Mulcahy.
Paladin will release the film this August and you can see the press release below, which includes a synopsis.
New York, NY (June 21, 2011) — One Fall, a powerful story about a man who is both blessed and cursed with an unusual power,...
- 6/22/2011
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Ask the average single person living in New York City and you'll probably hear about how it's "hard to meet someone" when you work all the time. It's a common excuse and it's become somewhat of an anthem for the romantically disengaged living in the five boroughs. Love Etc. is a documentary devoted to these people, following a collection of New Yorkers as they search for love in the big city. If you like what you see in the trailer and you're in NY, you can buy tickets to a screening at the 92nd St. Y.
Love Etc. is directed by Jill Andresevic and hits theaters in July.
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Love Etc. is directed by Jill Andresevic and hits theaters in July.
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- 6/7/2011
- by l.walker@justpressplay.net (Lex Walker)
- JustPressPlay.net
Paladin has acquired Jill Andresevic's documentary "Love Etc.," winner of the Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary at the Hamptons International Film Festival where it had its world premiere. Set in New York, the film tracks a group of diverse couples, each in different stages of their relationships. “‘Love Etc.’ is as poignant, poetic, and polished as the best fiction, but has the added bonus of being completely real," said ...
- 3/15/2011
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Love Etc., the Jill Andresevic-directed documentary that is the first film production from Jonathan Tisch's Walnut Hill Media, has been acquired for distribution by Paladin CEO Mark Urman. The documentary made its premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival last fall, where it won the Audience Award for documentary. The film, shot entirely in New York, will debut in exclusive Manhattan engagements in June before Paladin expands around the country through the summer. Love Etc. tracks five different relationships over the course of a year. The participants include 18-year-old high school sweethearts and an 89-year-old readying for a 50th wedding anniversary. One couple plans a big wedding but struggles after the honeymoon is over. There is a divorced father of teenagers who braves the dating market, as does a single gay man who's about to become the father of twins. Urman called the film "as poignant, poetic...
- 3/14/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Paladin announced today it will release Jill Andresevic's documentary Love Etc. : Love Etc., Jill Andresevic's acclaimed multi-character documentary depicting the many stages of modern metropolitan romance, will be distributed by Paladin, it was announced by company president and CEO, Mark Urman. The film, which is the first production from Jonathan Tisch.s Walnut Hill Media, had its world premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival last October, where it won the Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary. Set entirely in New York, a city that it explores and embraces in glorious detail, the film will debut in exclusive Manhattan engagements in June before expanding nationally throughout the summer. Filmed over the course of a year, Love Etc. is actually five...
- 3/14/2011
- Comingsoon.net
Tom Hooper's "The King's Speech," starring Colin Firth as Britain's King George VI, won the narrative audience prize at the Hamptons International Film Festival tonight in East Hampton, NY. The documentary audience award went to Jill Andresevic's "Love Etc." The festival, which closes tomorrow on Long Island in New York, awarded a number of prizes at Sunday night's ceremony. In the festival's Golden Starfish Competition, Alice Nellis' "Mamas and Papas" won ...
- 10/11/2010
- Indiewire
East Hampton, NY (October 10th, 2010) – The Hamptons International Film Festival announced tonight their audience, jury and special prizes at their awards ceremony. Tom Hooper’s The King’S Speech and Jill Andresevic’s Love Etc. take the audience awards honored tonight among the film industries finest. Mamas And Papas, directed by Alice Nellis, was selected by the jury as the winner of The Golden Starfish Narrative Feature Award. The Documentary Golden Starfish went to Aaron Schock’s Circo. Mamas And Papas also took home the Zicherman Screenplay Award. Another winner in the Narrative category, Xavier Dolan’s Heartbeats took the Kodak Award for Best Cinematography. The festival’s Brizzolara Family Conflict and Resolution Award was presented to Lisa Gossel’s My So Called Enemy. Special awards went to The House Of Suh, directed by Iris Shim, which was the winner of the Investigation Discovery Award for Excellence in Journalism, and No Tomorrow,...
- 10/11/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
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