To the public, the late Cary Grant was a handsome and successful actor. But behind closed doors, he struggled with a very tough loss. The late star's childhood wasn't easy, and that was because his father, Elias, had secretly committed his mother, Elsie, to an asylum when he was a young boy. Cary once described the betrayal as "a void in my life, a sadness of spirit that affected each daily activity with which I occupied myself to overcome it." That said, it wasn't until later in life that he really found happiness. "Most of the people who truly knew him commented on the fact that he was a much happier person in the later part of his life," his fifth wife Barbara Jaynes, 68, told Closer Weekly in the magazine's latest issue, on newsstands now. Cary especially found joy when he married British hotel PR agent in 1981. "Once he realized how much I loved him,...
- 10/10/2018
- by Samantha Faragalli
- Closer Weekly
Barry Levitt was a participant on this year's inaugural Film Critics Day workshop at the Cinema Rediscovered film festival in Bristol and Clevedon in the U.K. Cinema Rediscovered is a celebration of the finest new digital restorations, contemporary classics and film print rarities from across the globe. 15 early career and aspiring film critics took part in a full day workshop looking at the state of things for film criticism in the U.K. and beyond. They each produced a written or visual piece of criticism around the films in the program. Further examples of their work, as well as information about the program, can be found on the Cinema Rediscovered Blog.Dawson City: Frozen TimeAt the bottom of a derelict swimming pool in Dawson City, deep in the Yukon territory of north-west Canada, lay one of the greatest discoveries in film history, waiting to be found. For nearly fifty...
- 8/23/2017
- MUBI
Bafta-nominated filmmaker updates on next project, which will chronicle the sex trade in Paris.
Dionne Walker is riding high this year after receiving a Bafta nomination in the Outstanding British Debut category for documentary The Hard Stop.
The film told the story of the 2011 London riots, which were sparked by the death of Mark Duggan at the hands of armed police.
Walker produced that doc with director George Amponsah and she is now plotting her own feature debut as a director, Invisible Woman 2.0 (on which Amponsah is a co-producer), which is participating in the MeetMarket at this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest.
Speaking to Screen from Paris, where she is researching the new film, Walker says that while the Bafta recognition was “amazing” and will hopefully ramp up interest in her projects, she sees Invisible Woman 2.0 as a “different beast” because she is directing.
Invisible Woman 2.0
Walker’s approach to filmmaking is guerrilla in nature, and she favours...
Dionne Walker is riding high this year after receiving a Bafta nomination in the Outstanding British Debut category for documentary The Hard Stop.
The film told the story of the 2011 London riots, which were sparked by the death of Mark Duggan at the hands of armed police.
Walker produced that doc with director George Amponsah and she is now plotting her own feature debut as a director, Invisible Woman 2.0 (on which Amponsah is a co-producer), which is participating in the MeetMarket at this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest.
Speaking to Screen from Paris, where she is researching the new film, Walker says that while the Bafta recognition was “amazing” and will hopefully ramp up interest in her projects, she sees Invisible Woman 2.0 as a “different beast” because she is directing.
Invisible Woman 2.0
Walker’s approach to filmmaking is guerrilla in nature, and she favours...
- 6/12/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Cary Grant, one of Hollywood’s greatest leading men, was always discomfited by the disconnect he felt between his public image — debonair, to the same degree that Napoleon could be called powerful — and a nagging internal emptiness. He alluded to it in his most famous comment (“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant”), but the private unhappiness went a lot deeper — as you’ll learn from the fascinating new Showtime documentary Becoming Cary Grant.
“For many years I have cautiously peered from behind the face of a man known as Cary Grant. The protection...
“For many years I have cautiously peered from behind the face of a man known as Cary Grant. The protection...
- 6/8/2017
- by Tom Gliatto
- PEOPLE.com
Given the effervescent personality of its subject, an oddly somber tone suffuses the would-be revelatory documentary Becoming Cary Grant. Perfectly decent as an appreciative account of the great star's life and career, Mark Kidel's film aspires to something more, that being an exploration of the actor's successful use of LSD as a psychiatric tool in the 1950s. But as the realities of Grant's trailblazing were beneficial — his drug experiences made him a happier person — they hardly provide a whole new way to view the actor's spectacular achievements.
Available on Showtime beginning Friday, the French-made...
Available on Showtime beginning Friday, the French-made...
- 6/6/2017
- by Todd McCarthy
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
At the height of his fame, Cary Grant turned to LSD therapy for help. He later claimed the drug saved him, but did it also spell the end of his career?
In the late 1950s, at the height of his fame, Cary Grant set off on a trip in search of his true self, unpicking the myth he had spent three decades perfecting. He tried hypnosis and yoga and felt that they both came up short. So he began dropping acid and claimed to have found inner peace. “During my LSD sessions, I would learn a great deal,” he would later remark. “And the result was a rebirth. I finally got where I wanted to go.”
Grant’s adventures in psychedelia – an estimated 100 sessions, spanning the years 1958-1961 – provide the basis for Becoming Cary Grant, a fascinating documentary that plays at next week’s Cannes film festival. It’s a...
In the late 1950s, at the height of his fame, Cary Grant set off on a trip in search of his true self, unpicking the myth he had spent three decades perfecting. He tried hypnosis and yoga and felt that they both came up short. So he began dropping acid and claimed to have found inner peace. “During my LSD sessions, I would learn a great deal,” he would later remark. “And the result was a rebirth. I finally got where I wanted to go.”
Grant’s adventures in psychedelia – an estimated 100 sessions, spanning the years 1958-1961 – provide the basis for Becoming Cary Grant, a fascinating documentary that plays at next week’s Cannes film festival. It’s a...
- 5/12/2017
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
We’re just under two weeks away from the start of the Cannes Film Festival, and one thing the organizers like to do every year is highlight documentaries or films about moviemakers. This year, one of the most compelling is “Becoming Cary Grant,” which brings the dark side of the beloved actor into focus.
Directed by Mark Kidel, the film takes a look at the traumas, anxieties, and insecurities of the Hollywood icon, who beneath his dazzling smile and quick wit, was plagued by doubts and pain.
Continue reading Cannes Trailer: Documentary ‘Becoming Cary Grant’ Explores The Dark Side Of An Icon at The Playlist.
Directed by Mark Kidel, the film takes a look at the traumas, anxieties, and insecurities of the Hollywood icon, who beneath his dazzling smile and quick wit, was plagued by doubts and pain.
Continue reading Cannes Trailer: Documentary ‘Becoming Cary Grant’ Explores The Dark Side Of An Icon at The Playlist.
- 5/8/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
While Cannes Film Festival hosts the world premieres of some of our most-anticipated dramas of the year, it also debuts promising documentaries, a good portion of which are about cinema history. This year they have a new documentary about one of Hollywood’s most iconic actors with Becoming Cary Grant. Ahead of the premiere, and an airing on Showtime next month, the first trailer has arrived.
Rather than taking a look at his acting process or experiences on set, this new documentary, from director Mark Kidel, offers a more personal angle. Through Grant’s own words from his unpublished autobiographical book, as spoken by Jonathan Pryce, it looks at the actor’s difficult upbringing and therapy he underwent in the 1950s. Judging from the first preview, it looks to be a moving film, perhaps reminiscent of Listen to Me Marlon from a few years ago. Check out the trailer below.
Rather than taking a look at his acting process or experiences on set, this new documentary, from director Mark Kidel, offers a more personal angle. Through Grant’s own words from his unpublished autobiographical book, as spoken by Jonathan Pryce, it looks at the actor’s difficult upbringing and therapy he underwent in the 1950s. Judging from the first preview, it looks to be a moving film, perhaps reminiscent of Listen to Me Marlon from a few years ago. Check out the trailer below.
- 5/8/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
"Cary invented himself, and of course it worked superbly on screen." Showtime has unveiled a trailer for a documentary about acting icon Cary Grant, titled simply Becoming Cary Grant. This doc follows in the footsteps of other fantastic recent documentaries about actors, like Listen to Me Marlon, which also uses audio recordings. Becoming Cary Grant seems to be more about who Cary was in real life, as a real person, not so much his performances or career as an actor. There's an interesting passage in this trailer about using LSD and how it helped (maybe?) him with his own demons. Grant earned two Oscar nominations, but never won before he died in 1986. This looks like a must watch doc for any fans of Grant and his work. See below. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Mark Kidel's documentary Becoming Cary Grant, from YouTube: Using words from his unpublished autobiography...
- 5/4/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The 2017 Cannes Film Festival has announced the lineup for Cannes Classics, a selection of vintage films and masterpieces from the history of cinema. This year’s program is dedicated primarily to the history of the festival, and includes one short film and five new documentaries.
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Highlights from the lineup include “Belle du Jour” (1967), Luis Bunuel’s classic about a housewife who dabbles in prostitution, and “All That Jazz ” (1979) Bob Fosse’s story of a womanizing, drug-using dancer played by Roy Scheider. There is also the documentary “Filmworker,” which tells the story of Leon Vitali, an actor who abandoned his career after “Barry Lyndon” to become Stanley Kubrick’s right hand man and creative collaborator behind the scenes.
Rights holders to the films decide whether to screen them in 2K or 4K, or use an original print. Jean Vigo’s “L’Atalante,...
Read More: Cannes Adds Roman Polanski Film to Lineup
Highlights from the lineup include “Belle du Jour” (1967), Luis Bunuel’s classic about a housewife who dabbles in prostitution, and “All That Jazz ” (1979) Bob Fosse’s story of a womanizing, drug-using dancer played by Roy Scheider. There is also the documentary “Filmworker,” which tells the story of Leon Vitali, an actor who abandoned his career after “Barry Lyndon” to become Stanley Kubrick’s right hand man and creative collaborator behind the scenes.
Rights holders to the films decide whether to screen them in 2K or 4K, or use an original print. Jean Vigo’s “L’Atalante,...
- 5/3/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Strand will focus on the history of Cannes for the festival’s 70th anniversary.
Cannes Film Festival (May 17-28) has unveiled the line-up for this year’s Classic programme, with 24 screenings set to take place alongside five documentaries and one short film.
Documentaries about cinema including Filmworker - which focuses of Stanley Kubrick’s right hand man Leon Vitali, who played a crucial role behind the scenes of the director’s films - as well as Cary Grant doc Becoming Cary Grant, are set to feature.
This year’s selection is also set to focus on the history of the festival itself, with prize-winning films such as Michelangelo Antonioni Grand 1966 Prix winning film Blow-Up and Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Le Salaire de la peur (The Wages of Fear) from 1952 screening.
Nagisa Oshima’s 1976 film Ai No Korîda (In The Realm Of The Senses/L’Empire Des Sens), Luis Buñuel’s 1967 classic Belle De Jour (Beauty Of The Day...
Cannes Film Festival (May 17-28) has unveiled the line-up for this year’s Classic programme, with 24 screenings set to take place alongside five documentaries and one short film.
Documentaries about cinema including Filmworker - which focuses of Stanley Kubrick’s right hand man Leon Vitali, who played a crucial role behind the scenes of the director’s films - as well as Cary Grant doc Becoming Cary Grant, are set to feature.
This year’s selection is also set to focus on the history of the festival itself, with prize-winning films such as Michelangelo Antonioni Grand 1966 Prix winning film Blow-Up and Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Le Salaire de la peur (The Wages of Fear) from 1952 screening.
Nagisa Oshima’s 1976 film Ai No Korîda (In The Realm Of The Senses/L’Empire Des Sens), Luis Buñuel’s 1967 classic Belle De Jour (Beauty Of The Day...
- 5/3/2017
- ScreenDaily
While Cannes Film Festival premieres some of the best new films of the year, they also have a rich history of highlighting cinema history with their Cannes Classics line-up, many of which are new restorations of films that previously premiered at the festival. This year they are taking that idea further, featuring 16 films that made history at the festival, along with a handful of others, and five new documentaries. So, if you can’t make it to Cannes, to get a sense of restorations that may come to your city (or on Blu-ray) in the coming months/years, check out the line-up below.
From 1946 to 1992, from René Clément to Victor Erice, sixteen history-making films of the Festival de Cannes
1946: La Bataille du Rail (Battle of the Rails) by René Clément (1h25, France): Grand Prix International de la mise en scène and Prix du Jury International.
Presented by Ina.
From 1946 to 1992, from René Clément to Victor Erice, sixteen history-making films of the Festival de Cannes
1946: La Bataille du Rail (Battle of the Rails) by René Clément (1h25, France): Grand Prix International de la mise en scène and Prix du Jury International.
Presented by Ina.
- 5/3/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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