Posted by editor@vimooz.com on April 30, 2009 under Documentary, LGBT | Comments are off for this article
Former New York Mayor Ed Koch
New York City former mayor, Ed Koch is reportedly upset over the new documentary, “Outrage” now playing in the Tribeca Film Festival. The former mayor is outraged– not because it claims he had “a well-established affair with a man he subsequently ran out of town,” as Variety reported, but because it claims “his record on AIDS and gay rights was virtually nonexistent,”reports the NYPost. Koch is proud of his record on AIDS and gay rights and accuses filmmaker Kirby Dick — a proponent of outing closeted politicians — of revising history.
“Outrage” from Academy Award®-nominated documentary filmmaker Kirby Dick (This Film is Not Yet Rated) is a searing indictment of the hypocrisy of closeted politicians who actively campaign against the LGBT community they covertly belong to. Boldly revealing the hidden lives of some of the United States’ most powerful policymakers, Outrage takes a comprehensive look at the harm they’ve inflicted on keeping their secrets. [Tribeca Film Festival]
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Tell No One – Ne Le Dis A Personne (in French) to be remade in English
Miramax and Focus Features Intl. will team up on the English language remake of the French thriller “Tell No One.” The original French-language film, centered on a doctor grieving for his dead wife who then discovers she may still be alive, was a surprise hit last year in the U.S in limited release.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on April 29, 2009 under Foreign Film | Comments are off for this article
Jackie Chan in “The Forbidden Kingdom”
Jackie Chan announced on his website plans to film his 100th movie, tentatively titled Chinese Zodiac. Jackie will film in several countries including China, Austria, and France and will be directing along with Stanley Tong. (Note: Included in Jackie’s 100 films are those in which he played a cameo or uncredited role.)
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Meryl Streep in “Doubt”
Academy Award winning actress Meryl Streep will be honoured with the life time achievement award at the Rome Film Festival to mark her outstanding career. Streepwill receive the Marcus Aurelius Lifetime Achievement Award, which has previously been bestowed upon industry legends such as Sean Connery and Al Pacino.[via]
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On the Salem Film Festival’s opening night, as more than 200 movie lovers were talking movies and eating hors d’oeuvres inside the Salem Cinema, someone slipped away with the 25-foot-long rented carpet, rented to give the event a more Hollywood feel.
Security tapes show a youngish-looking guy walking toward the theater and then, whoosh, the carpet disappearing.
The perpetrator is still at large, but the festival was able to raise donations to help pay the $300 replacement cost. [via]
In the first official film acquisition at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, Variety is reporting that ESPN has picked up TV broadcast rights to the documentary “The Lost Son of Havana.”
The film, produced by the Farrelly brothers and narrated by Chris Cooper, follows pitcher Luis Tiant’s return to the island nation after 19 seasons with the Boston Red Sox.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on April 28, 2009 under Uncategorized | Comments are off for this article
First Independent Pictures has acquired the U.S. rights to 2009 Sundance film “Big Fan,” the directing debut of “The Wrestler” screenwriter Robert Siegel. The film is expected to be in theaters “late summer to early fall.”
The film stars Patton Oswalt in his first dramatic-lead performance, playing Paul Aufiero, an obsessive New York Giants fan whose chance encounter with his hero unexpectedly ends in violence. “Fan” also stars Kevin Corrigan and Michael Rapaport. [via] Read more of this article »
Hang on to your hats: things are going to get a little bumpy at the 48th International Critics’ Week (May 14-22) at Cannes. That’s because acclaimed Winnipeg, Canada animator Cordell Barker – the man who gave us such animated gems as The Cat Came Back – is back with Runaway, his latest creation. A train wreck of a movie in the finest and funniest sense of the term, Runaway will have its World Premiere during this prestigious one-week event.
What would happen if the world were a driverless train thundering recklessly over bumpy tracks? With his third short film, Runaway (www.nfb.ca/runaway), two-time Oscar nominee Cordell Barker provides a caustic answer to this philosophical question.
Fast-paced, colourful and a joy to watch, Runaway shows us happy passengers having a great time on a crowded train, oblivious to the fate that awaits them around the bend. After a breakdown, a class struggle ensues that is as amusing as it is merciless – with everyone equal in the end. Runaway takes audiences on a journey that is as funny as it is disastrous, set to the infectious music of Benoît Charest, composer for The Triplets of Belleville. This 9-minute short is produced by Derek Mazur out of the NFB Prairie Centre in Winnipeg.
International Critics’ Week is a parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival that features short films alongside feature works by first- or second-time filmmakers.
Right before the taping of “Kobe: Doin’ Work” Kobe Bryant demanded creative control over the documentary and forcing the director, Spike Lee, to drive to his house to beg for a meeting to save the project, sources told Page Six.
Lee had worked for months to get permission from Bryant, the Lakers team, coach Phil Jackson, the NBA and ESPN, which will air the day-in-the-life documentary on May 16.But suddenly Bryant said he wouldn’t cooperate unless he was granted creative control.
It reportedly went so far that Lee had a last-minute plan to substitute Spurs star Tim Duncan for Kobe.
But Kobe and Spike somehow worked it out, and Lee is now busy promoting the documentary film which screened Saturday night at the Tribeca Film Festival.
A spokesman for Lee claimed he retained creative control and called the story of the dispute “completely baseless.”
Academy Award®-nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Waltz With Bashirwill be released on Blu-ray and DVD on June 23, 2009 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The winner of the Golden Globe® for Best Foreign Language Film, Waltz With Bashir was written and directed by Ari Folman.
Based on actual events, Waltz With Bashir is a powerful and groundbreaking animated feature that follows one man’s personal experience with the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. In addition to its Academy Award nomination and Golden Globe win, Waltz With Bashir was nominated for the Palme D’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and was a 2008 official selection at the New York Film Festival, the Toronto Film Festival and the Telluride Film Festival.
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