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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 20, 2009 under Awards | 
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Best Feature nominee "Amreeka"
The nominees for the 19th annual Gotham Independent Film Awards were announced yesterday by “At the Movies” co-host and New York Times theater critic A.O. Scott. The awards will be held Nov. 30 at the Cipriani Wall Street in New York.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on March 15, 2009 under Documentary | Comments are off for this article
‘Tyson’ is acclaimed indie director James Toback’s stylistically inventive portrait of a mesmerizing Mike Tyson. Toback allows Tyson to reveal himself without inhibition and with eloquence and a pervasive vulnerability. Through a mixture of original interviews and archival footage and photographs, a startlingly complex, fully-rounded human being emerges. The film ranges from Tyson’s earliest memories of growing up on the mean streets of Brooklyn through his entry into the world of boxing, to his rollercoaster ride in the funhouse of worldwide fame and fortunes won and lost. It is the story of a legendary and uniquely controversial international athletic icon, a figure conjuring radical questions of race and class. In its depiction of a man rising from the most debased circumstances to unlimited heights, destroyed by his own hubris, TYSON emerges as a modern day version of classic Greek tragedy.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on January 11, 2009 under Coming Soon, Industry | Comments are off for this article
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up North American rights to the documentary “Tyson,” which will have its North American premiere at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. The film is the first of NBA all-star Carmelo Anthony’s Krossover Productions. In the film, Mike Tyson examines his own life in and out of the ring with a candor, eloquence and vulnerability that is by turns poignant, funny and never less than brutally honest. Read more …
IFC Films has snapped up the US rights to the Canadian film “The Necessities of Life.” Set in 1952. An Inuit hunter named Tiivii, who suffers from tuberculosis, ends up in a sanatorium near Quebec City, far from home and his loved ones. Read more …