Chicago – One of the notable films to kick off the autumn film season is writer/director Ira Sach’s “Love is Strange.” The story of two men in a longtime gay relationship, who finally can marry – but whose lives go off track unexpectedly – features brilliant performances from veterans John LIthgow and Alfred Molina.
Ira Sachs is a veteran writer and director himself, on his sixth feature film. He first got noticed with “Forty Shades of Blue” in 2005 and “Married Life” two years later. The latter film featured Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson and Pierce Brosnan. After some great reviews for his fifth film “Keep the Lights On” (2012), he is back with “Love is Strange,” a personal and subtle character driven story.
Ira Sachs (center) with Leading Men Alfred Molina and John Lithgow of ‘Love is Strange’
Photo credit: Sony Pictures Classics
HollywoodChicago.com sat down to interview Ira Sachs, as his...
Ira Sachs is a veteran writer and director himself, on his sixth feature film. He first got noticed with “Forty Shades of Blue” in 2005 and “Married Life” two years later. The latter film featured Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson and Pierce Brosnan. After some great reviews for his fifth film “Keep the Lights On” (2012), he is back with “Love is Strange,” a personal and subtle character driven story.
Ira Sachs (center) with Leading Men Alfred Molina and John Lithgow of ‘Love is Strange’
Photo credit: Sony Pictures Classics
HollywoodChicago.com sat down to interview Ira Sachs, as his...
- 8/27/2014
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Inspired by Ira Sachs’ Last Address, filmmaker (Love in the Time of Money) and novelist (The Deep Whatsis) Peter Mattei made this short film, Lost Arts, in 2010. Sachs’ film — which he discusses in the current issue of Filmmaker — looks at the final addresses of a generation of New York artists who died of AIDS. With Lost Arts, Mattei has taken Sachs’ formal approach and applied it to the real estate of arthouse cinema. For those who have long lived in New York, see how many of these Duane Reades, health clubs and Apple stores evoke any hint […]...
- 8/5/2014
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Inspired by Ira Sachs’ Last Address, filmmaker (Love in the Time of Money) and novelist (The Deep Whatsis) Peter Mattei made this short film, Lost Arts, in 2010. Sachs’ film — which he discusses in the current issue of Filmmaker — looks at the final addresses of a generation of New York artists who died of AIDS. With Lost Arts, Mattei has taken Sachs’ formal approach and applied it to the real estate of arthouse cinema. For those who have long lived in New York, see how many of these Duane Reades, health clubs and Apple stores evoke any hint […]...
- 8/5/2014
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
While not all films mentioned below are necessarily guaranteed future place among the Sundance Film Festival elite, it’s certainly a step in the right direction for the filmmakers and more importantly the producers backing the future of independent film. Among the eleven project participants below selected for the annual Creative Producing Labs and Creative Producing Summit (July 30 – August 3) in the Feature Film category we find such names as future superstars in Summer Shelton (she worked with Ramin Bahrani) and receives the first ever Bingham Ray Creative Producing Fellow, Tory Lenosky (worked as an assistant to Jay Van Hoy and Lars Knudsen) and Lucas Joaquin (second unit producer for Beasts of the Southern Wild). Here is the full press release below.
Feature Film Creative Producing Lab
The Feature Film Creative Producing Lab is a five-day Lab where narrative feature film producers work with an accomplished group of Creative Advisors to develop their creative instincts,...
Feature Film Creative Producing Lab
The Feature Film Creative Producing Lab is a five-day Lab where narrative feature film producers work with an accomplished group of Creative Advisors to develop their creative instincts,...
- 7/18/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
This week, Sundance Institute announced its 2012 participants in the Creative Producing Initiatives. The week-long program begins with two concurrently-running Creative Producing Labs (July 30-Aug. 3)—the Feature Film Program and the Documentary Film Program and Fund—before capping off with the Creative Producing Summit (Aug. 3-5). Keri Putnam, Executive Director of Sundance Institute, said, “Sundance Institute is committed to supporting emerging independent film producers, and our Creative Producing Initiative is a rare opportunity for them to sharpen their creative instincts, evolve their problem-solving skills, and deepen their knowledge of the distribution landscape. In doing so, they are better equipped to successfully navigate an increasingly complex marketplace.” Eleven projects have been chosen to participate (5 feature films, 6 documentaries).
Following the Creative Producing Labs, 40 independent producers and directors (including the labs’ participating filmmakers) will connect with 30 independent cinema leaders over the three-day Creative Producing Summit. The invite-only event includes panel discussions, case studies, and roundtable meetings,...
Following the Creative Producing Labs, 40 independent producers and directors (including the labs’ participating filmmakers) will connect with 30 independent cinema leaders over the three-day Creative Producing Summit. The invite-only event includes panel discussions, case studies, and roundtable meetings,...
- 7/17/2012
- by Billy Brennan
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
A pair of titles in our Most Anticipated Films for 2012 in #39. Andrew Dosunmu (Ma George) and #30. Mark Jackson (Untitled Sicily Project) are two of the lucky fifteen filmmakers to have received coin in the shape of 2012 Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute grants. Recipients include a trio of titles that we caught in Park City back in January in Terence Nance’s An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, Ira Sach’s Keep the Lights On, and Destin Daniel Cretton’s I Am Not a Hipster. Here’s the press release.
Post-Production Feature Film Grants
Keep the Lights On
Writer/director: Ira Sachs
The story of a tumultuous, decade-long relationship between two men in New York City. Keep the Lights On premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
Ira Sachs is a writer and director based in New York City. His films include Married Life (2007), The Delta (1997) and the 2005 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize-winning Forty Shades of Blue.
Post-Production Feature Film Grants
Keep the Lights On
Writer/director: Ira Sachs
The story of a tumultuous, decade-long relationship between two men in New York City. Keep the Lights On premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
Ira Sachs is a writer and director based in New York City. His films include Married Life (2007), The Delta (1997) and the 2005 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize-winning Forty Shades of Blue.
- 6/6/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
"It's easy to enjoy Raffaello Matarazzo's melodramas for the campy excess of their acting and story lines," blogs Dave Kehr, "but it's more productive to take them seriously, I think — to see how cleanly and elegantly Matarazzo presents this bezerko material, with a visual style that reminded Jacques Lourcelles of Lang, Dreyer and Mizoguchi, and how perfectly engineered his narratives are, with every outlandish episode incorporated into a serene, symmetrical structure. The new Matarazzo box set (my New York Times review is here) from Criterion's budget Eclipse line contains four of Matarazzo's seven films with the towering star couple Amedeo Nazzari and Yvonne Sanson (literally — Matarazzo's mise-en-scene somehow makes them seem larger, both physically and emotionally, than any of the other characters on the screen), all subtitled in English for the first time: Chains (1949) [image above], Tormento (1950), Nobody's Children (1952) and The White Angel (1955)."
"Though immensely popular, the films were dismissed by...
"Though immensely popular, the films were dismissed by...
- 6/30/2011
- MUBI
Zeitgeist will release a 20th Anniversary Edition of Todd Haynes’ groundbreaking American independent film Poison on DVD on May 24.
From the Oscar-nominated director of Far From Heaven, I’m Not There and the new HBO mini-series Mildred Pierce, 1991’s Poison is a trailblazing landmark in the U.S.’s “New Queer Cinema” wave of the 1990s.
Todd Haynes' breakthrough film Poison returns to DVD this May.
Shot in rich black-and-white, Haynes’ first feature film — following the underground short sensation Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story — this movie is a thrilling work of immense visual invention.
Inspired by the writings of controversial French novelist and activist Jean Genet, Poison interweaves a trio of transgressive tales — “Hero,” “Horror” and “Homo” — that build toward a devastating climax. Shot in a mock tabloid-tv style, “Hero” tells a bizarre story of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice. “Horror,” filmed like a delirious ’50s B-movie melodrama,...
From the Oscar-nominated director of Far From Heaven, I’m Not There and the new HBO mini-series Mildred Pierce, 1991’s Poison is a trailblazing landmark in the U.S.’s “New Queer Cinema” wave of the 1990s.
Todd Haynes' breakthrough film Poison returns to DVD this May.
Shot in rich black-and-white, Haynes’ first feature film — following the underground short sensation Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story — this movie is a thrilling work of immense visual invention.
Inspired by the writings of controversial French novelist and activist Jean Genet, Poison interweaves a trio of transgressive tales — “Hero,” “Horror” and “Homo” — that build toward a devastating climax. Shot in a mock tabloid-tv style, “Hero” tells a bizarre story of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice. “Horror,” filmed like a delirious ’50s B-movie melodrama,...
- 3/24/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
The 49th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival is an epic celebration of experimental media that runs for six days on March 22-27. There’s so much great stuff screening this year, it makes one wonder what they’ll have left for their 50th anniversary next year!
A couple of the highlights include the highly anticipated feature-length documentary The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye by Marie Losier, which chronicles the pandrogynous love story between industrial music pioneer Genesis P-Orridge and his late wife. The film already made a big splash at the Berlinale earlier in the year and looks to be a major hit on the festival circuit this year.
Also not to be missed is a special retrospective of one of this year’s festival jury members, Vanessa Renwick, a longtime favorite on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film. Renwick will screen 10 of her quirky and artistic documentary portraits,...
A couple of the highlights include the highly anticipated feature-length documentary The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye by Marie Losier, which chronicles the pandrogynous love story between industrial music pioneer Genesis P-Orridge and his late wife. The film already made a big splash at the Berlinale earlier in the year and looks to be a major hit on the festival circuit this year.
Also not to be missed is a special retrospective of one of this year’s festival jury members, Vanessa Renwick, a longtime favorite on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film. Renwick will screen 10 of her quirky and artistic documentary portraits,...
- 3/7/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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