Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen)
Move over, Sandra Bullock—there’s a new Bird Box in town. The only film to have collected prizes at both Sundance and Cannes, Shaunak Sen’s taut, tender documentary has a healing power that’s sourced straight from its subjects: two brothers in Delhi who have devoted their lives to saving the Black Kite—a majestic, medium-sized, hypercarnivorous raptor of the air—from going extinct in Delhi’s fatally-polluted skies. Set to the backdrop of India’s rising social turmoil and Islamophobia, the threatened and neglected state of this bird reflects the brothers’ reality in a place that doesn’t fully recognize their humanity. But that doesn’t stop them from operating. It seems nothing can.
All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen)
Move over, Sandra Bullock—there’s a new Bird Box in town. The only film to have collected prizes at both Sundance and Cannes, Shaunak Sen’s taut, tender documentary has a healing power that’s sourced straight from its subjects: two brothers in Delhi who have devoted their lives to saving the Black Kite—a majestic, medium-sized, hypercarnivorous raptor of the air—from going extinct in Delhi’s fatally-polluted skies. Set to the backdrop of India’s rising social turmoil and Islamophobia, the threatened and neglected state of this bird reflects the brothers’ reality in a place that doesn’t fully recognize their humanity. But that doesn’t stop them from operating. It seems nothing can.
- 2/9/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Tl;Dr:
Bob Dylan and D.A. Pennebaker were collaborators on several different projects.Bob Dylan became unpleasant to work with after an accident, according to D.A. Pennebaker.The film did not air on ABC as they had planned. Bob Dylan | Bettmann/Contributor via Getty
After working with filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker on the film Don’t Look Back, Bob Dylan decided to make another movie. Though he would still be the subject, Dylan wanted to direct the film with Pennebaker as the cinematographer. Nearly immediately, Pennebaker faced problems with the shoot. He said he essentially ran into a wall with Dylan after he got into a motorcycle accident. Pennebaker said Dylan became very difficult to work with.
Bob Dylan and D.A. Pennebaker were collaborators on the film ‘Eat the Document’
In early 1966, Dylan watched Don’t Look Back, a documentary film that followed him on his 1965 tour of England.
Bob Dylan and D.A. Pennebaker were collaborators on several different projects.Bob Dylan became unpleasant to work with after an accident, according to D.A. Pennebaker.The film did not air on ABC as they had planned. Bob Dylan | Bettmann/Contributor via Getty
After working with filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker on the film Don’t Look Back, Bob Dylan decided to make another movie. Though he would still be the subject, Dylan wanted to direct the film with Pennebaker as the cinematographer. Nearly immediately, Pennebaker faced problems with the shoot. He said he essentially ran into a wall with Dylan after he got into a motorcycle accident. Pennebaker said Dylan became very difficult to work with.
Bob Dylan and D.A. Pennebaker were collaborators on the film ‘Eat the Document’
In early 1966, Dylan watched Don’t Look Back, a documentary film that followed him on his 1965 tour of England.
- 2/3/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Photo: The Second City Oh, what a night. Opening its doors on December 16th, 1959 at 1942 N. Wells Street in Chicago, right in the midst of a comedy boom, the Second City was born. Stemming from the genius acting techniques of Viola Spolin; Bernie Sahlins, Howard Alk, and Paul Sills co-founded the theater together and invented a novel and revolutionary approach to creating art; improvisation.. It worked tremendously and has made Second City one of the most attended and most reliable breeding grounds for talent for decades. Related article: Who Are The Groundlings, and What Makes Them So Famous? Related article: A Tribute to Ben Stiller: Respects Paid to Comedy Legend and Critically Acclaimed Writer-Director Just two years after The Second City opened, one of the most influential improvisation instructors in history, Del Close, started at the Second City, but was fired due to substance abuse and didn’t return until the 1970s,...
- 3/24/2021
- by Armando Brigham
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
Only God Forgives: King Resurrects Fred Hampton in Significant, Unequivocal Portrait of Betrayal and Assassination
On December 4, 1969, Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (Bpp) was assassinated in a raid orchestrated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with the assistance of the Chicago Police Department and the Cook County State Attorney’s Office. Howard Alk’s 1971 documentary The Murder of Fred Hampton is a requisite time capsule as far as understanding the period, and until recently, a recuperation of the slain activist has been relegated to peripheral mentions (as in his portrayal by Kelvin Harrison Jr.…...
On December 4, 1969, Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (Bpp) was assassinated in a raid orchestrated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with the assistance of the Chicago Police Department and the Cook County State Attorney’s Office. Howard Alk’s 1971 documentary The Murder of Fred Hampton is a requisite time capsule as far as understanding the period, and until recently, a recuperation of the slain activist has been relegated to peripheral mentions (as in his portrayal by Kelvin Harrison Jr.…...
- 2/11/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The Berlinale continues to unveil its lineup, today announcing films selected for its Forum category: an independent section of the festival, organized by Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, celebrating its 50th anniversary.
This intermeshing of old and new runs throughout the selection. The category offers challenging and thought-provoking films that bring together cinema with the visual arts, theatre and literature. Many of the 35 films in this year’s program — 28 of which are world premieres — are distinguished by how they navigate between past and present.
Included in the selection is late Chilean director Raúl Ruiz and his widow Valeria Sarmientos’ “The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror,” which opens this year’s Forum. Ruiz, who died in 2011, shot the material in Chile in 1967, but was unable to complete it before going into exile in 1973. His widow Sarmiento has now transformed the footage into a finished film.
The...
This intermeshing of old and new runs throughout the selection. The category offers challenging and thought-provoking films that bring together cinema with the visual arts, theatre and literature. Many of the 35 films in this year’s program — 28 of which are world premieres — are distinguished by how they navigate between past and present.
Included in the selection is late Chilean director Raúl Ruiz and his widow Valeria Sarmientos’ “The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror,” which opens this year’s Forum. Ruiz, who died in 2011, shot the material in Chile in 1967, but was unable to complete it before going into exile in 1973. His widow Sarmiento has now transformed the footage into a finished film.
The...
- 1/21/2020
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
Martin Scorsese’s film “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story” is being billed in some circles as a documentary about Dylan’s fabled Rolling Thunder Revue tour of late 1975.
And so it is. Sort of.
But “Rolling Thunder Revue” is also a deliberate act of mythmaking, a blend of fiction and reality in which the people talking to the camera are as apt to be lying as telling the truth.
This is fitting for an artist who landed in New York from Minnesota in the late 1950s with an invented name, a phony history and a boatload of tall tales about his background, and one who has remained famously elusive throughout his extraordinary career.
Also Read: 'Rolling Thunder Revue' Film Review: Martin Scorsese Chronicles Bob Dylan's Legendary Bicentennial Tour
At one point in the film, Dylan looks into Scorsese’s camera and explains that he wore a mask...
And so it is. Sort of.
But “Rolling Thunder Revue” is also a deliberate act of mythmaking, a blend of fiction and reality in which the people talking to the camera are as apt to be lying as telling the truth.
This is fitting for an artist who landed in New York from Minnesota in the late 1950s with an invented name, a phony history and a boatload of tall tales about his background, and one who has remained famously elusive throughout his extraordinary career.
Also Read: 'Rolling Thunder Revue' Film Review: Martin Scorsese Chronicles Bob Dylan's Legendary Bicentennial Tour
At one point in the film, Dylan looks into Scorsese’s camera and explains that he wore a mask...
- 6/12/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Longtime Bob Dylan fans know Rolling Thunder Revue as one of the enigmatic singer-songwriter’s most legendary tours, so it should come as little surprise that Martin Scorsese decided to indulge in some mythmaking of his own for “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story.”
For this would-be definitive chronicle of the people, places and music involved in Dylan’s 1975-76 concert series, Scorsese combines vintage footage with modern-day interviews — not all of them real — for a vibrant, engaging portrait of Dylan then and now, filling gaps in his own inscrutable history while simultaneously showcasing some of his most eclectic and vivid performances.
Framed by the United States’ impending bicentennial, Rolling Thunder was conceived as a response to the stadium tour he’d done with the Band the previous year, an opportunity to play smaller venues at lower ticket prices and to connect with fans in a more intimate way.
For this would-be definitive chronicle of the people, places and music involved in Dylan’s 1975-76 concert series, Scorsese combines vintage footage with modern-day interviews — not all of them real — for a vibrant, engaging portrait of Dylan then and now, filling gaps in his own inscrutable history while simultaneously showcasing some of his most eclectic and vivid performances.
Framed by the United States’ impending bicentennial, Rolling Thunder was conceived as a response to the stadium tour he’d done with the Band the previous year, an opportunity to play smaller venues at lower ticket prices and to connect with fans in a more intimate way.
- 6/11/2019
- by Todd Gilchrist
- The Wrap
Even after 45 years, no one can agree on why Bob Dylan called that tour “Rolling Thunder Revue” — it might be one of those things that only gets more elusive over time. The “Revue” part is easy enough: Dylan was famous enough to do what he wanted, but too frazzled to do it alone, so he extended an open invitation to the best minds of his generation to join him for a series of intimate shows across the United States; it would be a folk happening and a freewheeling gypsy caravan and a chance for a busful of beautiful seekers to go out and look for whatever it was they were trying to find.
The reason for “Rolling Thunder,” on the other hand, is a bit harder to pin down. Some say that Dylan was inspired by a storm that clapped its way across the East Village. Others have suggested that...
The reason for “Rolling Thunder,” on the other hand, is a bit harder to pin down. Some say that Dylan was inspired by a storm that clapped its way across the East Village. Others have suggested that...
- 6/11/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Early on in Martin Scorsese’s new documentary The Rolling Thunder Revue, Bob Dylan tries to explain the idea behind legendary 1975/76 tour and quickly grows flustered. “I’m trying to get to the core of what this Rolling Thunder thing is all about,” he says, “and I don’t have a clue because it’s about nothing! It’s just something that happened 40 years — and that’s the truth of it. I don’t remember a thing about Rolling Thunder. It happened so long ago I wasn’t even born.
- 6/10/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
This Friday (September 15), The Metroraph in New York City and the UCLA Film And Television Archive team up for what is bound to be one of 2017’s great repertory film series.
As part of their mission statement if you will, the UCLA Film And Television Archive strives to bring back to life some of cinema’s great forgotten masterworks. Be it social activist documentaries from the Civil Rights era or long lost silent masterpieces, the group’s Festival Of Preservation is a bi-annual series and subsequent national tour of new restorations spanning the history of film. With past festivals include titles as wide ranging as Too Late For Tears and God’s Little Acre, these series are some truly exciting restorations and the perfect way to discover your new favorite film.
After a run in La earlier this year, the series is now set to hit The Big Apple this week,...
As part of their mission statement if you will, the UCLA Film And Television Archive strives to bring back to life some of cinema’s great forgotten masterworks. Be it social activist documentaries from the Civil Rights era or long lost silent masterpieces, the group’s Festival Of Preservation is a bi-annual series and subsequent national tour of new restorations spanning the history of film. With past festivals include titles as wide ranging as Too Late For Tears and God’s Little Acre, these series are some truly exciting restorations and the perfect way to discover your new favorite film.
After a run in La earlier this year, the series is now set to hit The Big Apple this week,...
- 9/15/2017
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
We thought all the great vintage music documentaries were accounted for, but Murray Lerner’s look at the Newport Folk Festival in the mid-‘sixties is a terrific time machine to a kindler, gentler musical era. The mix of talent is broad and deep, and we get to see excellent vintage coverage of some real legends, before the hype & marketing plague arrived.
Festival: Folk Music at Newport, 1963-1966
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 892
1967 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 97 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date September 12, 2017 / 39.95
Starring: Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Donovan, Bob Dylan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Pete Seeger, Peter Yarrow, Mary Travers, Odetta, Ronnie Gilbert, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, Theodore Bikel, Cousin Emmy, Horton Barker, Fiddler Beers, Mimi Fariña, Richard Farina, Mrs. Ollie Gilbert, Fannie Lou Hamer, Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, John Koerner, Jim Kweskin, Tex Logan, Mel Lyman, Spokes Mashiyane, Fred McDowell, Brownie McGhee, Pappy Clayton McMichen,...
Festival: Folk Music at Newport, 1963-1966
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 892
1967 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 97 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date September 12, 2017 / 39.95
Starring: Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Donovan, Bob Dylan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Pete Seeger, Peter Yarrow, Mary Travers, Odetta, Ronnie Gilbert, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, Theodore Bikel, Cousin Emmy, Horton Barker, Fiddler Beers, Mimi Fariña, Richard Farina, Mrs. Ollie Gilbert, Fannie Lou Hamer, Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, John Koerner, Jim Kweskin, Tex Logan, Mel Lyman, Spokes Mashiyane, Fred McDowell, Brownie McGhee, Pappy Clayton McMichen,...
- 8/29/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
D.A. Pennebaker puts cinema verité on the map with his terrific up-close docu portrait of Bob Dylan as he runs from concert appearances to hotels, cutting up with his friends, practicing with Joan Baez and giving reporters grief. Criterion's extras give us the best look yet at Pennebaker's innovative approach: don't direct, observe. Dont Look Back Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 786 1967 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 96 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date November 24, 2015 / 39.95 Starring Bob Dylan, Donovan, Joan Baez, Alan Price, Albert Grossman Cinematography Howard Alk, Jones Alk, D.A. Pennebaker Production Designer James D. Bissell Music performed by Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Donovan, Alan Price Produced by John Court and Albert Grossman Written, Edited and Directed by D.A. Pennebaker
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
"I am not a folk singer. Do not call me a folk singer." The man who turned pop music on to socially conscious poetry is...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
"I am not a folk singer. Do not call me a folk singer." The man who turned pop music on to socially conscious poetry is...
- 11/24/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Chicago — Comedy fans know the names – John Belushi, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Joan Rivers – but before those famous faces graced Hollywood movies or the "Saturday Night Live" stage they were discovered by Bernie Sahlins, co-founder of The Second City.
Alumni of the Chicago comedy club spent Monday remembering Sahlins, who died Sunday at age 90, as an innovator who along with business partners Howard Alk and Paul Sills opened the theater in December 1959. It quickly gained national attention and helped establish Chicago as a vibrant comedy town.
"Bernie was absolutely crucial in the formative years of Second City, as important a figure as it's ever had," said comedian and actor Robert Klein, who went on from Second City in 1965 to star on television series and in movies.
Second City caught on within months of opening, despite some early money problems and other issues. It became instrumental in the growth and development of improvisational and sketch comedy.
Alumni of the Chicago comedy club spent Monday remembering Sahlins, who died Sunday at age 90, as an innovator who along with business partners Howard Alk and Paul Sills opened the theater in December 1959. It quickly gained national attention and helped establish Chicago as a vibrant comedy town.
"Bernie was absolutely crucial in the formative years of Second City, as important a figure as it's ever had," said comedian and actor Robert Klein, who went on from Second City in 1965 to star on television series and in movies.
Second City caught on within months of opening, despite some early money problems and other issues. It became instrumental in the growth and development of improvisational and sketch comedy.
- 6/18/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
The Chicago Tribune is reporting the death of Bernard “Bernie” Sahlins, best known as one of the co-founders (along with director Paul Sills and actor-turned-filmmaker Howard Alk) of The Second City, the improvisational-comedy theater that became a launching pad for star comedians, and whose influence changed the face of comedy and American acting. Although Sills generally gets the lion’s share of the credit for shaping the theater’s voice, Sahlins was equally legendary for his eye for talent, and for the sharp business sense that made Second City such a success. Sahlins is said to have died “peacefully” according ...
- 6/17/2013
- avclub.com
Chicago — Bernard "Bernie" Sahlins, who co-founded Chicago's Second City theater and who nurtured the early careers of many of the earliest stars of "Saturday Night Live," died Sunday. He was 90.
Andrew Alexander, one of Second City's current owners and its CEO, told The Associated Press that Sahlins died peacefully at his Chicago home with his family nearby. He is survived by his wife, Jane Nicholl Sahlins.
Sahlins and business partners Howard Alk and Paul Sills opened The Second City in December 1959, and it quickly gained national attention and helped establish Chicago as a vibrant comedy town, the Chicago Sun-Times reported ( ). http://bit.ly/1bLDRZo
The Second City wasn't Sahlins' first attempt at running a theater. He was a producer-investor in a theater troupe in the early 1950s that was comprised of many fellow University of Chicago graduates, and he and several business partners produced plays at the Studebaker Theater...
Andrew Alexander, one of Second City's current owners and its CEO, told The Associated Press that Sahlins died peacefully at his Chicago home with his family nearby. He is survived by his wife, Jane Nicholl Sahlins.
Sahlins and business partners Howard Alk and Paul Sills opened The Second City in December 1959, and it quickly gained national attention and helped establish Chicago as a vibrant comedy town, the Chicago Sun-Times reported ( ). http://bit.ly/1bLDRZo
The Second City wasn't Sahlins' first attempt at running a theater. He was a producer-investor in a theater troupe in the early 1950s that was comprised of many fellow University of Chicago graduates, and he and several business partners produced plays at the Studebaker Theater...
- 6/17/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
The writer, director, and comedian who co-founded the Second City comedy troupe in Chicago in 1959 died Sunday, reports the Chicago Tribune. He was 90. Sahlins, along with Second City partners Paul Sills and Howard Alk, created the comedy institution that turned out alumni including Alan Arkin, Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, John Candy, Dan Aykroyd, Catherine O’Hara, Gilda Radner, and John and Jim Belushi. Award-winning Sahlins also opened Toronto’s Second City Theatre and co-founded The University of Chicago’s Off-Off Campus and The International Theatre Festival of Chicago. He executive produced the troupe’s foray into Canadian television, Sctv, which ran from 1976 to 1984.
- 6/17/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Bernard "Bernie" Sahlins, a founder of the famed Second City improvisational comedy troupe and a producer on the TV show "Sctv," died Sunday at his home in Chicago. He was 90. Sahlins founded the Chicago comedy group with Paul Sills (at right with Sahlins in photo above) and Howard Alk in 1959. The improv troupe was a launching pad for a number of early "Saturday Night Live' performers, including John and James Belushi, John Candy, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Harold Ramis and Bill Murray. "Bernie's track record for discovering future Hollywood megastars...
- 6/17/2013
- by Todd Cunningham
- The Wrap
Mike Gray, who co-wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for The China Syndrome about a nuclear power plant disaster cover-up, has died. Gray passed away Tuesday of heart failure at his Hollywood Hills home, his family told the Los Angeles Times. He was 77. Gray developed the China Syndrome screenplay after researching the dangers of nuclear power. It turns out the timing was uncanny. Just three weeks after the opening of the film starring Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas, a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania went into partial meltdown. “I meant China Syndrome to educate people about what I’d found … that our heavy reliance on nuclear plants hadn’t been clearly thought through,” Gray told the Chicago Tribune in 1998. Gray co-wrote the script with T.S. Cook and James Bridges. Gray also collaborated with Chicago’s Second City comedy group founder Howard Alk on several documentary films, including...
- 5/3/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
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