“She’s just upset because the fish on her plate is the only kind she can eat.”
Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of “the best lesbian movie of all time” when But I’m a Cheerleader: Director’s Cut arrives on Digital 4K Ultra HD December 8th from Lionsgate. From Primetime Emmy® Award-nominated director Jamie Babbit (2017, Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, “Silicon Valley”), the film features an all-star cast including Golden Globe® nominee Natasha Lyonne (2020, Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy, “Russian Doll”), Screen Actors Guild Award® winner Clea DuVall (2018, Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, “Veep”), Melanie Lynskey, Primetime Emmy® Award winner RuPaul Charles (2019, Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program, “RuPaul’s Drag Race”), Eddie Cibrian, Golden Globe® nominee Bud Cort (1972, Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Harold and Maude), Wesley Mann, Richard Moll, Douglas Spain, Katharine Towne,...
Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of “the best lesbian movie of all time” when But I’m a Cheerleader: Director’s Cut arrives on Digital 4K Ultra HD December 8th from Lionsgate. From Primetime Emmy® Award-nominated director Jamie Babbit (2017, Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, “Silicon Valley”), the film features an all-star cast including Golden Globe® nominee Natasha Lyonne (2020, Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy, “Russian Doll”), Screen Actors Guild Award® winner Clea DuVall (2018, Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, “Veep”), Melanie Lynskey, Primetime Emmy® Award winner RuPaul Charles (2019, Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program, “RuPaul’s Drag Race”), Eddie Cibrian, Golden Globe® nominee Bud Cort (1972, Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Harold and Maude), Wesley Mann, Richard Moll, Douglas Spain, Katharine Towne,...
- 10/12/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
At the 2018 Oscars, Mary J. Blige made history with “Mudbound” — by becoming the first Black woman to earn multiple Oscar nominations in the same year (for best supporting actress and original song). Now, she’ll be back in the Oscar race for her new song.
Variety has learned the Grammy-winning singer’s latest “See What You’ve Done” from the documentary “Belly of the Beast” will be submitted for the best original song for the 93rd Academy Awards set for next April.
You can hear parts of the song in the new trailer for the movie, directed by Erika Cohn, which offers an unflinching look at women who have been abused in the criminal justice system.
“I was moved by Erika Cohn’s important documentary ‘Belly of the Beast,'” Blige says in an email to Variety. “I immediately knew I wanted to be involved and was inspired to write...
Variety has learned the Grammy-winning singer’s latest “See What You’ve Done” from the documentary “Belly of the Beast” will be submitted for the best original song for the 93rd Academy Awards set for next April.
You can hear parts of the song in the new trailer for the movie, directed by Erika Cohn, which offers an unflinching look at women who have been abused in the criminal justice system.
“I was moved by Erika Cohn’s important documentary ‘Belly of the Beast,'” Blige says in an email to Variety. “I immediately knew I wanted to be involved and was inspired to write...
- 9/11/2020
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
The premiere post-tiff destination (September 20-25th) in the film community and a major leg up for narrative and non-fiction films in development, the Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) announced a whopping 140 projects selected for the Project Forum at the upcoming Ifp Independent Film Week. Made up of several sections (Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers program, No Borders International Co-Production Market and Spotlight on Documentaries), we find latest updates from the likes of docu-helmers Doug Block (112 Weddings) and Lana Wilson (After Tiller), and among the narrative items we find headliners in Andrew Haigh (coming off the well received 45 Years), Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls and Madame Bovary), Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty), Lawrence Michael Levine (Wild Canaries), Jorge Michel Grau (We Are What We Are), Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal (Stranger Things) and new faces in Sundance’s large family in Charles Poekel (Christmas, Again) and Olivia Newman (First Match). Here...
- 7/22/2015
- by admin
- IONCINEMA.com
Former Us beauty queen at centre of the 'manacled Mormon' scandal in the 70s claims new movie 'promotes vicious and malicious lies' about her
Joyce McKinney, the former Us beauty queen who is the subject of documentarian Errol Morris's latest film, Tabloid, is suing the makers of the film, claiming it misrepresents her story. She claims it portrays her as "crazy, a sex offender, an S&M prostitute, and/or a rapist".
The film tells the story of the sensation McKinney caused in the British tabloid press after the brief disappearance of Kirk Anderson, a Us Mormon missionary, from Ewell in Surrey in September 1977. When he reappeared, a few days later, he told police he had been kidnapped and imprisoned in Devon, where McKinney forced him to have sex with her. The affair became known in the UK press as "the case of the manacled Mormon".
McKinney has always...
Joyce McKinney, the former Us beauty queen who is the subject of documentarian Errol Morris's latest film, Tabloid, is suing the makers of the film, claiming it misrepresents her story. She claims it portrays her as "crazy, a sex offender, an S&M prostitute, and/or a rapist".
The film tells the story of the sensation McKinney caused in the British tabloid press after the brief disappearance of Kirk Anderson, a Us Mormon missionary, from Ewell in Surrey in September 1977. When he reappeared, a few days later, he told police he had been kidnapped and imprisoned in Devon, where McKinney forced him to have sex with her. The affair became known in the UK press as "the case of the manacled Mormon".
McKinney has always...
- 11/8/2011
- by Michael Hann
- The Guardian - Film News
By Sean P. Means
Salt Lake Tribune
(Rns) Not even an Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker like Errol Morris is immune from the allure of a salacious sex scandal.
Morris ("The Fog of War") was reading his newspaper in 2008 and came across an Associated Press story about an American woman who had her pit bull cloned in South Korea.
The last paragraph of the item noted that the woman, Bernann McKinney, might also be Joyce McKinney, who was part of a "sex in chains" story from 30 years ago.
Morris was immediately intrigued.
"What is a tabloid story? A story that usually drags us in," Morris said in an interview from his Cambridge, Mass., office. "It could be a four- or five-word headline, but it makes us want to find out more."
McKinney's lurid and fascinating story -- of the former beauty queen and the Mormon missionary she tied to a bed in...
Salt Lake Tribune
(Rns) Not even an Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker like Errol Morris is immune from the allure of a salacious sex scandal.
Morris ("The Fog of War") was reading his newspaper in 2008 and came across an Associated Press story about an American woman who had her pit bull cloned in South Korea.
The last paragraph of the item noted that the woman, Bernann McKinney, might also be Joyce McKinney, who was part of a "sex in chains" story from 30 years ago.
Morris was immediately intrigued.
"What is a tabloid story? A story that usually drags us in," Morris said in an interview from his Cambridge, Mass., office. "It could be a four- or five-word headline, but it makes us want to find out more."
McKinney's lurid and fascinating story -- of the former beauty queen and the Mormon missionary she tied to a bed in...
- 7/13/2011
- by Jahnabi Barooah
- Huffington Post
When we presented the trailer for Errol Morris' new film "Tabloid", we mentioned how the film's subject, Joyce McKinney, has been popping up at screenings to correct the errors and omissions she believes are in the film, which is about her relationship with a man that she was accused of kidnapping and trying to "deprogram" from Mormonism using sex.
As detailed by Peter Labuza on his website, McKinney "snuck into" a recent screening of "Tabloid" at the Museum of Modern Art and presented the audience with a lengthy rebuttal to the film (if you believe one anonymous comment below the piece, her diatribe ran at least fifteen minutes). Amongst her many claims against the film, she accused Morris of trying to keep her from speaking out, misrepresenting her story, and giving her a "phony contract with Showtime to do a television series" ("Tabloid" producer Mark Lipson told Labuza that...
As detailed by Peter Labuza on his website, McKinney "snuck into" a recent screening of "Tabloid" at the Museum of Modern Art and presented the audience with a lengthy rebuttal to the film (if you believe one anonymous comment below the piece, her diatribe ran at least fifteen minutes). Amongst her many claims against the film, she accused Morris of trying to keep her from speaking out, misrepresenting her story, and giving her a "phony contract with Showtime to do a television series" ("Tabloid" producer Mark Lipson told Labuza that...
- 6/28/2011
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
Sneak Peek the newsprint-styled poster supporting the documentary feature film "Tabloid", produced by Julie Bilson Ahlberg, Mark Lipson and directed by Oscar winner Errol Morris ("The Fog Of War") :
"...'Tabloid' follows the much stranger-than-fiction adventures of 'Joyce McKinney', a former beauty queen whose single-minded devotion to the man of her dreams leads her across the globe and directly onto the front pages of the British tabloid newspapers. Joyce's crusade takes her through a surreal world of gunpoint abduction, manacled Mormons, oddball accomplices, magic underwear and dreams of celestial unions..."
"'Tabloid' is a return to my favorite genre," said Morris, "sick, sad and funny, but, of course, it’s more than that. It is a meditation on how we are shaped by the media and even more powerfully, by ourselves. Joyce is a woman profoundly influenced by her dreams and, in a sense, she was living...
"...'Tabloid' follows the much stranger-than-fiction adventures of 'Joyce McKinney', a former beauty queen whose single-minded devotion to the man of her dreams leads her across the globe and directly onto the front pages of the British tabloid newspapers. Joyce's crusade takes her through a surreal world of gunpoint abduction, manacled Mormons, oddball accomplices, magic underwear and dreams of celestial unions..."
"'Tabloid' is a return to my favorite genre," said Morris, "sick, sad and funny, but, of course, it’s more than that. It is a meditation on how we are shaped by the media and even more powerfully, by ourselves. Joyce is a woman profoundly influenced by her dreams and, in a sense, she was living...
- 6/16/2011
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
New York, NY (January 18, 2011) – Sundance Selects announced today that the company is acquiring North American rights to Errol Morris’ highly acclaimed documentary Tabloid. The dark, funny and altogether surreal film was one of the standout hits at this year's Toronto International Film Festival winning indieWIRE's critics poll for Best Documentary. The film was produced by Morris regular collaborators Julie Bilson Ahlberg (The Fog Of War, Standard Operating Procedure), and Mark Lipson, (The Thin Blue Line, co-produced Fast, Cheap And Out Of Control). The company plans to play the critically acclaimed film at key film festivals before aggressively rolling it out theatrically and on their video on-demand platform in the summer of 2011. The deal was negotiated for Sundance Selects by Arianna Bocco, Senior Vice President, Acquisitions & Productions, and by Josh Braun of Submarine Entertainment on behalf of the filmmaker. Robert Fernandez and Angus Wall executive produced the project, with Moxie Pictures presenting.
- 1/18/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Errol Morris' documentary practically redefines the word quirky. A portrait of four individuals whose careers and passions set them far apart from the mainstream, "Fast, Cheap & Out of Control" is a low-concept cinematic essay that seems more like a satirical magazine article than a film, but it manages to work anyway.
Although not a major effort, it is an entertaining and sometimes moving look at people who march to a different drummer.
The film shows four subjects who are passionate about what they do: Dave Hoover, a lion tamer whose hero is the legendary Clyde Beatty; George Mendonca, a topiary gardener who still works by hand; Ray Mendez, whose specialty is the study of the hairless mole rat; and Rodney Brooks, a scientist specializing in robot research. Each is allowed to present, at length, his ideas about his craft and profession while staring directly into the camera in Morris' trademark style.
Their often humorous and sometimes moving comments are enhanced by film footage of their subjects. Visually, the film is enlivened by cinematographer Robert Richardson's eclectic styles, in which he uses various film stocks and formats to create an often hallucinatory effect (much like the work he did for Oliver Stone in "Natural Born Killers" and "JFK").
What makes the film endearing is Morris' uncondescending attitude toward his subjects; he mines the humorous elements of their passions while celebrating their individuality. Although Morris is less successful at unifying the ideas of the film with any grand or serious theme, he manages to find the romance in the sheer obsessiveness of their endeavors.
FAST, CHEAP & OUT OF CONTROL
Sony Pictures Classics
Director-producer Errol Morris
Co-producers Julia Sheehan,
Mark Lipson, Kathy Trustman
Executive producer Lindsay Law
Director of photography Robert Richardson
Editors Shondra Merrill, Karen Schmeer
Composer Caleb Sampson
Color/stereo
Running time -- 82 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
Although not a major effort, it is an entertaining and sometimes moving look at people who march to a different drummer.
The film shows four subjects who are passionate about what they do: Dave Hoover, a lion tamer whose hero is the legendary Clyde Beatty; George Mendonca, a topiary gardener who still works by hand; Ray Mendez, whose specialty is the study of the hairless mole rat; and Rodney Brooks, a scientist specializing in robot research. Each is allowed to present, at length, his ideas about his craft and profession while staring directly into the camera in Morris' trademark style.
Their often humorous and sometimes moving comments are enhanced by film footage of their subjects. Visually, the film is enlivened by cinematographer Robert Richardson's eclectic styles, in which he uses various film stocks and formats to create an often hallucinatory effect (much like the work he did for Oliver Stone in "Natural Born Killers" and "JFK").
What makes the film endearing is Morris' uncondescending attitude toward his subjects; he mines the humorous elements of their passions while celebrating their individuality. Although Morris is less successful at unifying the ideas of the film with any grand or serious theme, he manages to find the romance in the sheer obsessiveness of their endeavors.
FAST, CHEAP & OUT OF CONTROL
Sony Pictures Classics
Director-producer Errol Morris
Co-producers Julia Sheehan,
Mark Lipson, Kathy Trustman
Executive producer Lindsay Law
Director of photography Robert Richardson
Editors Shondra Merrill, Karen Schmeer
Composer Caleb Sampson
Color/stereo
Running time -- 82 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
- 9/30/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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