With “Sasquatch Sunset,” directors David and Nathan Zellner have created one of the oddest but most entertaining movies in recent years, a tale of a Sasquatch family whose relationships are explored with equal amounts of lowbrow humor and affecting poignancy. The Sasquatches’ inner lives are clearly and hilariously conveyed by the actors, a remarkable achievement given that there’s not a single line of dialogue in the entire film (unless you count the creatures’ assorted grunts and yells). The reversion to silent film techniques adds to the movie’s sense of wonder and humor, giving “Sasquatch Sunset” a pleasing sense of innocence that’s paradoxically the result of some extremely sophisticated filmmaking.
For the Zellners, the initial conversations with the actors were primarily technical ones about movement and body language. “We shared a lot of primate videos and talked about how to create a cohesive species with movements and vocalizations,...
For the Zellners, the initial conversations with the actors were primarily technical ones about movement and body language. “We shared a lot of primate videos and talked about how to create a cohesive species with movements and vocalizations,...
- 4/11/2024
- by Jim Hemphill
- Indiewire
Anyone with more than a passing interest in the weird and wonderful will have seen, if not heard of, the Patterson-Gimlin footage, the cryptoozological equivalent of the Zapruder film.
Shot in 1967 in the forests of Northern California, it purports to show a large, ape-like creature with an elongated forehead striding purposefully into the trees. Unlike an ape, the creature walks upright, and unlike the furtive behavior of any other forest creature, it has the casual air of the average human being popping over to the 7-Eleven to pick up a gallon of milk.
Most people who see the footage wonder what the hell this damn thing is. But the sibling directors of Sasquatch Sunset have a couple more questions that they’d like answered. Like, where is it going? And what does it do all day?
If, like David and Nathan Zellner, you have ever pondered the quotidian life of the Sasquatch,...
Shot in 1967 in the forests of Northern California, it purports to show a large, ape-like creature with an elongated forehead striding purposefully into the trees. Unlike an ape, the creature walks upright, and unlike the furtive behavior of any other forest creature, it has the casual air of the average human being popping over to the 7-Eleven to pick up a gallon of milk.
Most people who see the footage wonder what the hell this damn thing is. But the sibling directors of Sasquatch Sunset have a couple more questions that they’d like answered. Like, where is it going? And what does it do all day?
If, like David and Nathan Zellner, you have ever pondered the quotidian life of the Sasquatch,...
- 1/20/2024
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Nineteen sixty-eight has to be considered the apex of psychedelic sexploitation romps, with the release of Candy, adapted from Mason Hoffenberg and Terry Southern’s satirical reworking of Voltaire’s Candide, and Roger Vadim’s Barbarella, based on Jean-Claude Forest’s comic, and partially scripted by Southern (alongside an armada of other credited writers). Both employ a rambling, shaggy-dog structure as an excuse to flagrantly foreground softcore sexual hijinks tinged with a pungent whiff of social commentary, albeit the latter aspect may be easier to discern in Candy’s perverse daisy chain of events.
Southern’s contributions to the Dino De Laurentiis-produced Barbarella can be detected in some of its wittier lines (“A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming!”) and sly pokes at the persistence of class-consciousness. Aside from Southern, the two films are linked by the presence of Anita Pallenberg, style icon and muse of the Rolling...
Southern’s contributions to the Dino De Laurentiis-produced Barbarella can be detected in some of its wittier lines (“A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming!”) and sly pokes at the persistence of class-consciousness. Aside from Southern, the two films are linked by the presence of Anita Pallenberg, style icon and muse of the Rolling...
- 11/21/2023
- by Budd Wilkins
- Slant Magazine
London – A psychedelic eye mosaic commissioned by John Lennon for the swimming pool at his Kenwood home in Surrey in 1965 leads Bonhams’ Rock, Pop & Film sale on Wednesday 29 November at Knightsbridge, London.
Claire Tole-Moir, Bonhams Head of Popular Culture in London, commented: “This monumental mosaic, commissioned by John Lennon is a striking example of the Beatle’s artistic vision and influences. Lennon’s Kenwood home in the English countryside was a place of respite from all the public attention he experienced during the height of The Beatles’ popularity. It’s said Lennon would spend idle hours near the swimming pool and that the mosaic could even be seen from his favoured ‘sunroom’ at the top of the house. With Kenwood still under private ownership, it is very rare to see anything from when John Lennon lived there, making the ‘Psychedelic Eye’ mosaic an incredibly important artefact of Beatles history.”
Consisting of approximately 17,000 tiles,...
Claire Tole-Moir, Bonhams Head of Popular Culture in London, commented: “This monumental mosaic, commissioned by John Lennon is a striking example of the Beatle’s artistic vision and influences. Lennon’s Kenwood home in the English countryside was a place of respite from all the public attention he experienced during the height of The Beatles’ popularity. It’s said Lennon would spend idle hours near the swimming pool and that the mosaic could even be seen from his favoured ‘sunroom’ at the top of the house. With Kenwood still under private ownership, it is very rare to see anything from when John Lennon lived there, making the ‘Psychedelic Eye’ mosaic an incredibly important artefact of Beatles history.”
Consisting of approximately 17,000 tiles,...
- 11/8/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
All the Light We Cannot See is a World War II limited drama series created by Steven Knight and directed by Shawn Levy. The Netflix series is based on Anthony Doerr‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name and it revolves around two teenagers at the height of WWII. Marie-Laure, a blind French girl, and Werner Pfennig and a German boy, who was forced to join the Nazi army. All the Light We Cannot See stars Aria Mia Loberti and Louis Hofmann in the lead roles with Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the Netflix series here are some similar movies and TV shows that you should watch next.
World on Fire (Prime Video Add-On) Credit – BBC One
Synopsis: World on Fire is an adrenalized, emotionally gripping, and resonant World War II drama that follows the intertwining fates of ordinary people in...
World on Fire (Prime Video Add-On) Credit – BBC One
Synopsis: World on Fire is an adrenalized, emotionally gripping, and resonant World War II drama that follows the intertwining fates of ordinary people in...
- 11/2/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
In “Terrifier 2,” a slasher named Art the Clown wears a jester costume with pom-pom buttons and a white bald harlequin head cover, and he’s got licorice-black teeth frozen into a rictus grin (it’s literally a dirty mouth), a hooked nose that looks like something out of an anti-Semitic caricature from the ’30s, a small top hat cocked to the side of his head, and a general attitude of it-only-hurts-you-when-i-laugh blood-soaked dementia. That laugh of Art’s is a real keeper, because it’s silent, like Marcel Marceau’s. He’s so brimming with stylized delight as he chops and saws and skins and dismembers people and throws acid into their faces that he’s like Freddy Krueger channeling Liberace channeling Josef Mengele. When he’s soaked in gore, which is much of the time, the grin shines all the brighter.
Art the Clown, who is played by...
Art the Clown, who is played by...
- 10/28/2022
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Feature to shoot in Poland in spring 2023.
Jesse Eisenberg has set his next feature as writer-director – A Real Pain – and is lining up a March 2023 shoot in Warsaw, Poland.
Eisenberg will lead the cast alongside Succession star Kieran Culkin. The story will follow two estranged cousins who travel to Poland after their grandmother dies to see where she came from and end up joining a Holocaust tour.
Dave McCary, Emma Stone and Ali Herting’s US production company Fruit Tree will reunite with Eisenberg after producing his feature directing debut When You Finish Saving The World, which premiered online at...
Jesse Eisenberg has set his next feature as writer-director – A Real Pain – and is lining up a March 2023 shoot in Warsaw, Poland.
Eisenberg will lead the cast alongside Succession star Kieran Culkin. The story will follow two estranged cousins who travel to Poland after their grandmother dies to see where she came from and end up joining a Holocaust tour.
Dave McCary, Emma Stone and Ali Herting’s US production company Fruit Tree will reunite with Eisenberg after producing his feature directing debut When You Finish Saving The World, which premiered online at...
- 8/17/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Travel past the edge of the woods, located on the periphery of some unnamed European country, and you’ll find a large house. Inside, an institute dedicated to sponsoring artists who deal in “culinary and alimentary performance” has set up shop. Its mission: giving a safe space to those who push the boundaries of good taste, literal and otherwise. The informal organization’s head, Jan Stevens (Game of Thrones‘ Gwendoline Christie), is currently offering a residency to a trio led by Elle di Elle (Fatma Mohamed), a woman dedicated to...
- 6/21/2022
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
She’s been Connie Conehead, the youngest spawn of Beldar and Prymaat. Or perhaps you remember her as Christie Christina, the cohost of E. Buzz Miller’s public access cable show. Maybe you recall the stints as a TV news reporter on Chevy Chase’s version of SNL’s “Weekend Update” segments.
However you remember Laraine Newman from her Saturday Night Live days of more than four decades ago, you’ll look at her in a different way after reviewing her new audiobook, May You Live in Interesting Times, a nine-hour memoir out via Audible.com March 11.
Narrated by Newman, the audiobook explores the entirety of her life, from growing up in Los Angeles with movie star neighbors, bearing witness to the music scene in the 1960s (and losing her virginity to Johnny Winter) and seeing the rise of comedy in the early 70s, to studying mime in Paris under the tutelage of Marcel Marceau.
However you remember Laraine Newman from her Saturday Night Live days of more than four decades ago, you’ll look at her in a different way after reviewing her new audiobook, May You Live in Interesting Times, a nine-hour memoir out via Audible.com March 11.
Narrated by Newman, the audiobook explores the entirety of her life, from growing up in Los Angeles with movie star neighbors, bearing witness to the music scene in the 1960s (and losing her virginity to Johnny Winter) and seeing the rise of comedy in the early 70s, to studying mime in Paris under the tutelage of Marcel Marceau.
- 3/7/2021
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Laraine Newman was 23 years old when she was cherry-picked by Lorne Michaels to join the inaugural cast of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” in 1975, along with Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris and Dan Aykroyd. During her five-year tenure on the iconic show, Newman skyrocketed to fame for playing memorable characters such as Connie Conehead and Sheri the Valley Girl. A founding member of the legendary comedy troupe the Groundlings, the Emmy-nominated comic would go on to appear in Woody Allen’s “Stardust Memories” and in TV series such as “St. Elsewhere” and “Laverne & Shirley.” Newman would later carve out a thriving career as a voiceover artist, behind characters in such blockbuster animation projects as “The Incredibles,” “Minions” and “The Secret Life of Pets.” She’s also continued to hone her comic chops in the Drama Desk award-winning show “Celebrity Autobiography,” which was created by Eugene Pack.
- 3/5/2021
- by Malina Saval
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Oscar winner Julianne Moore and Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard are attached to star in buzzy new comedy-drama movie package When You Finish Saving the World, which Jesse Eisenberg has written and will direct and which Emma Stone will produce with SNL writer-director Dave McCary and Moore.
CAA Media Finance, which is arranging financing for the film, will rep world distribution rights. The mother-son story is inspired by Eisenberg’s upcoming Audible Original of the same name, which we can reveal is debuting this year.
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The movie, whose precise plot details are being kept under wraps, will have a...
CAA Media Finance, which is arranging financing for the film, will rep world distribution rights. The mother-son story is inspired by Eisenberg’s upcoming Audible Original of the same name, which we can reveal is debuting this year.
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The movie, whose precise plot details are being kept under wraps, will have a...
- 4/9/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Middle East distributor Front Row Filmed Entertainment is shifting a raft of theatrical releases online due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which has shuttered cinemas across the region.
It’s rare for Mena distributors to forego theatrical releases on decent-sized movies given strict windowing rules. But the current climate will see Front Row kick off ‘Premium VOD’ launches with Jesse Eisenberg’s Marcel Marceau biopic Resistance on April 13. The film was due to launch theatrically on April 9 but but will now debut on iTunes, Google Play, beIN On Demand and Osn Store as well as all local platforms including Du, Etisalat E-Vision, Ooredoo, Vodafone, and OmanTel.
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Additional movies now...
It’s rare for Mena distributors to forego theatrical releases on decent-sized movies given strict windowing rules. But the current climate will see Front Row kick off ‘Premium VOD’ launches with Jesse Eisenberg’s Marcel Marceau biopic Resistance on April 13. The film was due to launch theatrically on April 9 but but will now debut on iTunes, Google Play, beIN On Demand and Osn Store as well as all local platforms including Du, Etisalat E-Vision, Ooredoo, Vodafone, and OmanTel.
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Additional movies now...
- 4/6/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The Wages of Ham: Jakubowicz Mimes Melodrama in Offkey Resistance
For his third film, Venezuelan born Jonathan Jakubowicz falls headlong into an acceptable faux pas of English language cinema with the woeful, tonally inept Resistance, a portrait of the famed mime Marcel Marceau’s teenage years in Nazi occupied France. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, utilizing accented English and at least a decade older and then his subject, one can’t blame Jakubowicz’s headliner for the film’s eventual triteness, whose performance is enjoyable enough as this odd entry point in what is otherwise a shapeless succession in melodramas which could easily be constituted as Holocaust exploitation.…...
For his third film, Venezuelan born Jonathan Jakubowicz falls headlong into an acceptable faux pas of English language cinema with the woeful, tonally inept Resistance, a portrait of the famed mime Marcel Marceau’s teenage years in Nazi occupied France. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, utilizing accented English and at least a decade older and then his subject, one can’t blame Jakubowicz’s headliner for the film’s eventual triteness, whose performance is enjoyable enough as this odd entry point in what is otherwise a shapeless succession in melodramas which could easily be constituted as Holocaust exploitation.…...
- 3/28/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Shanghai and Los Angeles-based Bliss Media has acquired Chinese distribution rights to Resistance, starring Jesse Eisenberg.
Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz (Hands of Stone), the film follows the life of legendary mime Marcel Marceau (Eisenberg) and his involvement in the French resistance during World War II. Principal photography is set to commence in early 2018.
Resistance will be produced by Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag, with Baptiste Marceau, Marcel's oldest son, serving as executive producer. Rocket Science, which is co-financing and producing the project with Pantaleon and Epicentral, is handling international sales at...
Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz (Hands of Stone), the film follows the life of legendary mime Marcel Marceau (Eisenberg) and his involvement in the French resistance during World War II. Principal photography is set to commence in early 2018.
Resistance will be produced by Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag, with Baptiste Marceau, Marcel's oldest son, serving as executive producer. Rocket Science, which is co-financing and producing the project with Pantaleon and Epicentral, is handling international sales at...
- 11/3/2017
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The night was set as a tribute, and in perfect form, Jeff Goldblum delighted the audience at the Deauville Film Festival in France with a meandering 15-minute recount of his career from a high school Marcel Marceau obsessive through leading the audience in songs from Jurassic Park.
The Oscar and Emmy nominee, who took to the stage in a white tux jacket and silver lamé shirt, ditched the podium and usual scripted thank-yous in favor of a 15-minute stand-up speech that could have doubled as an audition for a one-man comedy show, complete with song, dance, mime and a quick...
The Oscar and Emmy nominee, who took to the stage in a white tux jacket and silver lamé shirt, ditched the podium and usual scripted thank-yous in favor of a 15-minute stand-up speech that could have doubled as an audition for a one-man comedy show, complete with song, dance, mime and a quick...
- 9/3/2017
- by Rhonda Richford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A former Washington Post staff writer, Peter Mikelbank has served as People Magazine’s Special Correspondent in Paris since 1987. Here he recounts his time in Paris with the late Jerry Lewis, who died Sunday at the age of 91.
Walking with Jerry Lewis in Paris gave a glimpse of what it was to stroll the gardens at Versailles with kings. To be at Le Bourget when Lindbergh landed. To sit on a tack.
He was a king, a crowned head, whose subjects swarmed him with adulation. He didn’t speak their language (beyond “sandwich jambon”). Unable to return their adoration with words,...
Walking with Jerry Lewis in Paris gave a glimpse of what it was to stroll the gardens at Versailles with kings. To be at Le Bourget when Lindbergh landed. To sit on a tack.
He was a king, a crowned head, whose subjects swarmed him with adulation. He didn’t speak their language (beyond “sandwich jambon”). Unable to return their adoration with words,...
- 8/21/2017
- by Peter Mikelbank
- PEOPLE.com
“Resistance” the story of the famed mime Marcel Marceau and how he learned to mime in order to survive and to save the lives of Jewish orphans in World War II France, written and to be directed by “Hands of Stone” director Jonathan Jakubowicz and produced by Claudine Jakubowicz and Carlos Garcia de Paredes, will star the curly haired and fast talking Jesse Eisenberg who played Mark Zuckerberg in the 2010 film “The Social Network”. Baptiste Marceau, the oldest son of Marcel, has been closely involved in the research for this European coproduction that CAA is packaging and representing in Cannes. Marceau the artist of silence gave his first major performance to 3,000 American troops after the liberation of Paris in August 1944.
Michael Jackson and Marcel Marceau
The producers of last year’s Norwegian hit, “The Wave”, have turned their attention to Marius Holst’s “Betrayed”, the story of the Norwegian Jews...
Michael Jackson and Marcel Marceau
The producers of last year’s Norwegian hit, “The Wave”, have turned their attention to Marius Holst’s “Betrayed”, the story of the Norwegian Jews...
- 6/5/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Resistance is a new film project in development that will be based on the true events of Marcel Marceau, a French actor and mime most famous for his stage persona, “Bip The Clown." Marceau became an orphan when his father, a kosher butcher, was killed in Auschwitz. Afterward, he took up the art of miming to bring hope to other orphans who had lost their parents to the Nazis.
According to Variety, "The film will focus on Marceau’s involvement in the French resistance when his country was occupied by the Nazis during World War II."
Marceau was made Grand Officier de la Légion d’Honneur in 1998 and was awarded the National Order Of Merit in France for his work in the resistance. He also won an Emmy along with many other awards.
Resistance is already being compared to the film Life is Beautiful, which is about a man who...
According to Variety, "The film will focus on Marceau’s involvement in the French resistance when his country was occupied by the Nazis during World War II."
Marceau was made Grand Officier de la Légion d’Honneur in 1998 and was awarded the National Order Of Merit in France for his work in the resistance. He also won an Emmy along with many other awards.
Resistance is already being compared to the film Life is Beautiful, which is about a man who...
- 5/23/2017
- by Koren Butkovich
- GeekTyrant
While prestigious films make their debut at Cannes, in the basement of the Palais, the marketplace is where new projects are being announced and shopped around. It’s hard to keep to keep up with all of them, but here are some of the latest highlights:
While it’s not the six-film action pantomimes franchise we were hoping for, you do want to see a movie about the world’s greatest mime, right? Well, Jesse Eisenberg will play the legendary French mime Marcel Marceau in the film, “Resistance,” centering on the artist’s involvement in the resistance in the WWII.
Continue reading Jesse Eisenberg, Mackenzie Davis, Carrie Brownstein, Sandra Bullock & More Line Up New Projects at The Playlist.
While it’s not the six-film action pantomimes franchise we were hoping for, you do want to see a movie about the world’s greatest mime, right? Well, Jesse Eisenberg will play the legendary French mime Marcel Marceau in the film, “Resistance,” centering on the artist’s involvement in the resistance in the WWII.
Continue reading Jesse Eisenberg, Mackenzie Davis, Carrie Brownstein, Sandra Bullock & More Line Up New Projects at The Playlist.
- 5/19/2017
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Jesse Eisenberg dabbled with biographical films in 2010’s The Social Network, where he played Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. Now Variety reports the Now You See Me 2 star is going full biopic for an upcoming movie about Marcel Marceau, the internationally renowned mime and actor who was a part of the French Resistance in his youth. Eisenberg will play Marceau, who joined the French underground in Limoges, where he would alter the ages on the identification cards of other Jewish teens in an effort to keep them out of the labor camps. He also hid Jewish children from the Gestapo, and even posed as a Boy Scout leader to smuggle them into Switzerland. Sadly, when he returned to his hometown of Strasbourg, he learned his father had been captured and sent to Auschwitz, where he was killed along with so many others.
Jonathan Jakubowicz is writing and directing the ...
Jonathan Jakubowicz is writing and directing the ...
- 5/19/2017
- by Danette Chavez
- avclub.com
Jonathan Jakubowicz to write and direct.
Jesse Eisenberg will play the legendary mime Marcel Marceau in Resistance, a feature that will focus on his involvement in the French resistance during the Second World War.
The film will be in the vein of Life Is Beautiful, in which comedy was used as a device to help children survive the Holocaust.
Jonathan Jakubowicz, whose last film Hands Of Stone starring Edgar Ramirez and Robert De Niro premiered in Cannes last year, will direct from his screenplay.
Production is earmarked for early 2018 and the project is being set up as a European coproduction due to Jakubowicz’s EU citizenship.
Marcel Marceau learned to mime to survive and to save the lives of Jewish orphans whose parents had been killed by the Nazis.
He was born Marcel Mangel and grew up speaking Yiddish as the son of a kosher butcher from Strasbourg. His father was eventually killed in Auschwitz.
Marceau was most...
Jesse Eisenberg will play the legendary mime Marcel Marceau in Resistance, a feature that will focus on his involvement in the French resistance during the Second World War.
The film will be in the vein of Life Is Beautiful, in which comedy was used as a device to help children survive the Holocaust.
Jonathan Jakubowicz, whose last film Hands Of Stone starring Edgar Ramirez and Robert De Niro premiered in Cannes last year, will direct from his screenplay.
Production is earmarked for early 2018 and the project is being set up as a European coproduction due to Jakubowicz’s EU citizenship.
Marcel Marceau learned to mime to survive and to save the lives of Jewish orphans whose parents had been killed by the Nazis.
He was born Marcel Mangel and grew up speaking Yiddish as the son of a kosher butcher from Strasbourg. His father was eventually killed in Auschwitz.
Marceau was most...
- 5/19/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Jesse Eisenberg will play Marcel Marceau, a hallowed member of the French Resistance and world famous mime, in the upcoming film “Resistance,” CAA announced at Cannes on Friday. Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz (“Hands of Stone”), the film will follow Marceau’s efforts to rescue Jewish orphans whose parents were killed by the Nazis in World War II while using comedic theatrics to keep the kids’ spirits up during Europe’s darkest hour. The film’s antagonist, who has yet to be cast, will be Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo captain who tortured and slaughtered prisoners during Nazi Germany’s...
- 5/19/2017
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Jesse Eisenberg is set to play legendary mime Marcel Marceau in Resistance, a film written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz that will focus on Marceau's involvement in the French resistance during WWII. The film is said to be in the vein of Life Is Beautiful, where comedy is used as a tool for children to survive the most dramatic situations imaginable. Claudine Jakubowicz and Carlos Garcia de Paredes produce and will put together the financing. Title is being set up…...
- 5/19/2017
- Deadline
Jesse Eisenberg is joining the Resistance.
The Social Network actor will star as Marcel Marceau in a film titled Resistance, which focuses on the legendary mime's involvement in the French resistance during World War II. Hands of Stone helmer Jonathan Jakubowicz will direct from a screenplay he wrote.
Described as in the vein of Life Is Beautiful, the story will detail how Marceau learned to mime to survive and to save the lives of Jewish orphans whose parents had just been killed by the Nazis. He was born Marcel Mangel and grew up speaking Yiddish as the son of a...
The Social Network actor will star as Marcel Marceau in a film titled Resistance, which focuses on the legendary mime's involvement in the French resistance during World War II. Hands of Stone helmer Jonathan Jakubowicz will direct from a screenplay he wrote.
Described as in the vein of Life Is Beautiful, the story will detail how Marceau learned to mime to survive and to save the lives of Jewish orphans whose parents had just been killed by the Nazis. He was born Marcel Mangel and grew up speaking Yiddish as the son of a...
- 5/19/2017
- by Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Clip It: Each day, Jon Davis looks at the world of trailers, featurettes, and clips and puts it all in perspective. What happens when a bunch of stiff actors happen upon a town inhabited only by clowns? ClownTown presumably has the answer. The films looks pretty vicious, with a sprinkling of female nudity. And I got to admit, it doesn't look that great. But what do I know? Maybe it's an unheralded masterpiece. Perhaps a millennia from now, someone will find the digital files for this movie under some rubble and figure this is how we all lived. We spoke with no inflection and were always on the run from feral clowns. The movie does have some nice logic going for it. It makes sense that clowns travel in packs. Who else could tolerate them? No one wants to see Pagliacci and Marcel Marceau in an interpretive dance war for days on end.
- 9/14/2016
- by Jon Davis
- Hitfix
Cult filmmaker to appear in conversation at film festival.
Chilean filmmaker and artist Alejandro Jodorowsky is to be awarded with a Pardo d’onore at the 69th Locarno Film Festival (Aug 3-13).
As well as screening a selection of his films and the award ceremony on the Piazza Grande, Jodorowsky will also participate in a conversation open to all festival-goers.
As son of Russian immigrants exiled in Chile, Jodorowsky began his artistic career as a puppeteer, poet and theater director. At 23, he moved to France and joined Marcel Marceau’s mime troupe, and five years later founded - alongside Roland Topor and Fernando Arrabal - the performance art movement Panique, which aimed to counter the mainstreaming of surrealism.
Jodorowsky subsequently moved to Mexico, where, over the next 17 years, he created avant-garde theater de Mexico, and directed Fando And Lis (1968), El Topo (1970), The Holy Mountain (1973) and Santa Sangre (1989), films which made him a cult filmmaker around the world...
Chilean filmmaker and artist Alejandro Jodorowsky is to be awarded with a Pardo d’onore at the 69th Locarno Film Festival (Aug 3-13).
As well as screening a selection of his films and the award ceremony on the Piazza Grande, Jodorowsky will also participate in a conversation open to all festival-goers.
As son of Russian immigrants exiled in Chile, Jodorowsky began his artistic career as a puppeteer, poet and theater director. At 23, he moved to France and joined Marcel Marceau’s mime troupe, and five years later founded - alongside Roland Topor and Fernando Arrabal - the performance art movement Panique, which aimed to counter the mainstreaming of surrealism.
Jodorowsky subsequently moved to Mexico, where, over the next 17 years, he created avant-garde theater de Mexico, and directed Fando And Lis (1968), El Topo (1970), The Holy Mountain (1973) and Santa Sangre (1989), films which made him a cult filmmaker around the world...
- 6/20/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
I’m not sure if any bad cops in the whole genre of bad cop comedy have paid so little lip service to actual policing as the pair in John Michael McDonagh’s "War on Everyone." And I’m not sure that the genre has produced such an irresistibly funny film. When we first see New Mexico police officers Bob Balaño (Michael Peña) and Terry Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård), they are speeding after a Marcel Marceau look-alike who’s on foot. “I’ve always wondered — if you hit a mime, does he make a sound?” asks Bob of his colleague at the wheel, a drunk who’s unable, or more likely unwilling, to drive in a straight line. They soon find the answer. We never once see Bob and Terry on an actual case, even though one suspects their combined skill set would make them pretty good at law enforcement; interestingly,...
- 2/12/2016
- by Demetrios Matheou
- Thompson on Hollywood
Ellen Albertini Dow, a multi-faceted performer and acting coach perhaps best known for spitting a fire rendition of "Rapper's Delight" in Adam Sandler's The Wedding Singer, died Monday, May 4th, Deadline reports. She was 101.
Along with her scene-stealing turn as The Wedding Singer's rapping granny (not to be confused with the actual Rappin' Granny, Vivian Smallwood), Dow has appeared in countless films and TV shows, despite beginning her on-screen career as a septuagenarian.
Dow's film credits included parts in Sister Act, Patch Adams and 54, while her feisty demeanor...
Along with her scene-stealing turn as The Wedding Singer's rapping granny (not to be confused with the actual Rappin' Granny, Vivian Smallwood), Dow has appeared in countless films and TV shows, despite beginning her on-screen career as a septuagenarian.
Dow's film credits included parts in Sister Act, Patch Adams and 54, while her feisty demeanor...
- 5/5/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Some sad news this morning, we have learned that Ellen Albertini Dow, who appeared in more than 100 shows and movies, died yesterday at 101 years old reports Deadline. She’s probably best known for her role as the rapping granny in Adam Sandler‘s The Wedding Singer.
Albertini Dow studied acting with Michael Shurtleff and Uta Hagen in NYC, worked with mimes Marcel Marceau and Jacques LeCog in Paris and played the Borscht Belt as part of a comedy act before moving west to teach in the drama department at Los Angeles City College. The Pennsylvania native later transferred to Pierce College in the San Fernando Valley, where her husband Eugene Dow launched the theater department where they both taught. Albertini Dow retired from teaching in 1985 and went on to study acting at the American Film Institute.
She will be missed. Drop a beat, Ellen:...
Albertini Dow studied acting with Michael Shurtleff and Uta Hagen in NYC, worked with mimes Marcel Marceau and Jacques LeCog in Paris and played the Borscht Belt as part of a comedy act before moving west to teach in the drama department at Los Angeles City College. The Pennsylvania native later transferred to Pierce College in the San Fernando Valley, where her husband Eugene Dow launched the theater department where they both taught. Albertini Dow retired from teaching in 1985 and went on to study acting at the American Film Institute.
She will be missed. Drop a beat, Ellen:...
- 5/5/2015
- by Graham McMorrow
- City of Films
Veteran actress Ellen Albertini Dow has died at the age of 101.
Dow was perhaps best known for her scene-stealing moment in Adam Sandler's The Wedding Singer, in which she performed The Sugarhill Gang's 'Rapper's Delight'.
Her longtime agent Juliet Green confirmed Dow's passing on Monday (May 4) to Deadline.
Dow did not begin her movie career until she was in her 70s, having previously studied acting in New York and working with mimes Marcel Marceau and Jacques LeCog in Paris.
She later went on to teach drama at Los Angeles City College, before moving to Pierce College in the San Fernando Valley and teaching theatre with her husband Eugene.
Her first role was in the 1986 version of The Twilight Zone, and soon landed parts in various films and TV shows, including My Blue Heaven, Sister Act, Moonlighting, The Golden Girls, The Wonder Years and Seinfeld.
Her most memorable role...
Dow was perhaps best known for her scene-stealing moment in Adam Sandler's The Wedding Singer, in which she performed The Sugarhill Gang's 'Rapper's Delight'.
Her longtime agent Juliet Green confirmed Dow's passing on Monday (May 4) to Deadline.
Dow did not begin her movie career until she was in her 70s, having previously studied acting in New York and working with mimes Marcel Marceau and Jacques LeCog in Paris.
She later went on to teach drama at Los Angeles City College, before moving to Pierce College in the San Fernando Valley and teaching theatre with her husband Eugene.
Her first role was in the 1986 version of The Twilight Zone, and soon landed parts in various films and TV shows, including My Blue Heaven, Sister Act, Moonlighting, The Golden Girls, The Wonder Years and Seinfeld.
Her most memorable role...
- 5/5/2015
- Digital Spy
Ellen Albertini Dow, the scene-stealing actress who blossomed on both the big and small screens late in life and gave a memorable rapping performance in "The Wedding Singer," has died. She was 101.
Albertini Dow's incredible life began in Pennsylvania in 1913, and she studied acting and mime alongside industry legends including Martha Graham and Marcel Marceau. She and her husband, Eugene Dow, started the theater program at Pierce College in California, where she taught until she retired in 1985.
But Albertini Dow didn't stop there. She started taking acting classes at the American Film Institute and began a career in her 70s, scoring roles in television series including the 1980s reboot of "The Twilight Zone." She went on to appear on television numerous times throughout the next few decades of her life, including guest spots on series such as "Moonlighting," "Murphy Brown," "The Golden Girls," "The Wonder Years," "Star Trek: The Next Generation,...
Albertini Dow's incredible life began in Pennsylvania in 1913, and she studied acting and mime alongside industry legends including Martha Graham and Marcel Marceau. She and her husband, Eugene Dow, started the theater program at Pierce College in California, where she taught until she retired in 1985.
But Albertini Dow didn't stop there. She started taking acting classes at the American Film Institute and began a career in her 70s, scoring roles in television series including the 1980s reboot of "The Twilight Zone." She went on to appear on television numerous times throughout the next few decades of her life, including guest spots on series such as "Moonlighting," "Murphy Brown," "The Golden Girls," "The Wonder Years," "Star Trek: The Next Generation,...
- 5/5/2015
- by Katie Roberts
- Moviefone
Ellen Albertini Dow, whose memorable take on “Rapper’s Delight” stole the show in the 1998 Adam Sandler movie The Wedding Singer — and whose screen career started in her 70s — died today. She was 101. Her longtime manager Juliet Green confirmed the actress’ death to Deadline but offered no details. Albertini Dow studied acting with Michael Shurtleff and Uta Hagen in NYC, worked with mimes Marcel Marceau and Jacques LeCog in Paris and played the Borscht Belt as part of a…...
- 5/5/2015
- Deadline TV
Ellen Albertini Dow, whose memorable take on “Rapper’s Delight” stole the show in the 1998 Adam Sandler movie The Wedding Singer — and whose screen career started in her 70s — died today. She was 101. Her longtime manager Juliet Green confirmed the actress’ death to Deadline but offered no details. Albertini Dow studied acting with Michael Shurtleff and Uta Hagen in NYC, worked with mimes Marcel Marceau and Jacques LeCog in Paris and played the Borscht Belt as part of a…...
- 5/5/2015
- Deadline
Venice – The mix of limpid naturalism with lyricism that has often distinguished David Gordon Green's indie films slides into sentimentality, or worse yet, whimsy in Manglehorn. Those cloying excesses are even represented by their professional flag-bearer, the fully costumed mime artist. And while few things should trigger anyone's rage disorder like a backwater Marcel Marceau, the simmering title character played by a mostly subdued Al Pacino gives him a pass. Twice. It's hard to do likewise for Paul Logan's ham-fisted script, which painstakingly spells out every metaphor, whether it's spoken or visual. One such loaded symbol is
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- 8/30/2014
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
I don’t often get time to read a lot of books these days, but I knew that Joseph Maddrey had a couple of genre-related titles coming out and I needed to make the time. A few years ago, Maddrey teamed up with iconic actor Lance Henriksen for the wonderfully engaging Not Bad for a Human, and Maddrey’s latest literary efforts- Beyond Fear and A Strange Idea of Entertainment-are both equally informative and compelling reads for any horror fan.
Beyond Fear: Reflections on Stephen King, Wes Craven and George Romero’s Living Dead focuses on Maddrey’s analysis and reflections on three of our genre’s most influential storytellers and how their visions uniquely shaped the landscape of horror entertainment over the last several decades. Considering we live in a world where we seem to have a documentary about practically every possible subject out there now, there’s actually...
Beyond Fear: Reflections on Stephen King, Wes Craven and George Romero’s Living Dead focuses on Maddrey’s analysis and reflections on three of our genre’s most influential storytellers and how their visions uniquely shaped the landscape of horror entertainment over the last several decades. Considering we live in a world where we seem to have a documentary about practically every possible subject out there now, there’s actually...
- 8/20/2014
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
How we love Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part 6, the one with the kick-ass Alice Cooper soundtrack! The film's director, Tom McLoughlin, is also an accomplished author and will be the featured guest at Larry Edmunds Bookshop signing copies of his A Strange Idea of Entertainment. Cool!
McLoughlin will be the featured guest, along with the book's co-writer, Joseph Maddrey, and rumor has it that a certain undead resident of Crystal Lake may make an appearance as well. The book signing will be held at Larry Edmunds Bookshop, 6644 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA on July 30 at 7:30 p.m.
Check out Larry Edmunds Bookshop for any updated information.
About Tom McLoughlin
Tom McLoughlin’s reel life began in 1957 at the age of seven, making 8mm movies in the back lots of MGM Studios. He was a magician during the 50s, a rock musician in the 60s (opening for groups like...
McLoughlin will be the featured guest, along with the book's co-writer, Joseph Maddrey, and rumor has it that a certain undead resident of Crystal Lake may make an appearance as well. The book signing will be held at Larry Edmunds Bookshop, 6644 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA on July 30 at 7:30 p.m.
Check out Larry Edmunds Bookshop for any updated information.
About Tom McLoughlin
Tom McLoughlin’s reel life began in 1957 at the age of seven, making 8mm movies in the back lots of MGM Studios. He was a magician during the 50s, a rock musician in the 60s (opening for groups like...
- 7/28/2014
- by Scott Hallam
- DreadCentral.com
How I Met Your Mother Season 9, Episode 12 “Unpause”
Written by Chris Harris
Directed by Pamela Fryman
Airs Monday nights at 8pm Et on CBS
If there’s one thing How I Met Your Mother‘s always been consistent with over the years, it’s the idea of hope. Knowing from episode one that Ted Mosby would have his happy ending frames the entire show as a love story, a reflection on the many mistakes, coincidences, and bad decisions at 2am that provide us the opportunities to grow into better versions of ourselves. A person’s luck can always change, for better or worse – and even though Ted’s mother still insists that nothing good ever happens in the darkest hours of the night, the opening and closing scenes to “Unpause” are a reminder of what makes Himym‘s story so endearing: all it takes is one night, one experience, one...
Written by Chris Harris
Directed by Pamela Fryman
Airs Monday nights at 8pm Et on CBS
If there’s one thing How I Met Your Mother‘s always been consistent with over the years, it’s the idea of hope. Knowing from episode one that Ted Mosby would have his happy ending frames the entire show as a love story, a reflection on the many mistakes, coincidences, and bad decisions at 2am that provide us the opportunities to grow into better versions of ourselves. A person’s luck can always change, for better or worse – and even though Ted’s mother still insists that nothing good ever happens in the darkest hours of the night, the opening and closing scenes to “Unpause” are a reminder of what makes Himym‘s story so endearing: all it takes is one night, one experience, one...
- 1/21/2014
- by Randy Dankievitch
- SoundOnSight
Fyi Rose McGowan, there are way easier ways to tell the paparazzi that you don't want to talk. We assume the Charmed alum was going for silent street performer chic in this sexy mime attire. The stripes are just right. The pants are perfect. The only thing that's missing is white face makeup and a black beret! Oh, and five more inches of fabric right around the waist... Of course, if this isn't some attempt at a modern Marcel Marceau, we can't get behind the attire. Those jail-stripes are over-played (thanks to Robin Thicke). The cropped top is on its way out (especially ones showing that much skin). And baggy trousers are barely flattering on a french man (our apologies to the late, great...
- 1/15/2014
- E! Online
The Tfh Grab Bag! concludes at Trailers from Hell, with Alan Spencer introducing Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie."Brooks' affectionate 1976 tribute to silent films is oddly subdued (for a Mel Brooks film) though the good-natured comedy still contains plenty of chuckles if not outright bellylaughs. By deciding to keep his actors completely silent, Brooks lost much of the raucous verbal humor that propels so much of his best work. With cameo appearances by Burt Reynolds, Paul Newman and that chatterbox Marcel Marceau.
- 12/20/2013
- by Trailers From Hell
- Thompson on Hollywood
Th 84-year-old director rolled into Cannes this week to discuss his latest film La Danza de la Realidad, a magic-realist memoir of his youth. He talks about his troubled childhood, his passion for psychomagic – and why ageing doesn't trouble him
Missing, believed lost, Alejandro Jodorowsky rolls into Cannes like a conquering hero. He has a room at the Croisette and a film in the directors' fortnight – a rambunctious sidebar away from the Palais. "I am like the rain, I go where I'm needed," the director explains. "If I were in the big house, with the red carpet and photographers and all the fancy women, I would be ashamed." He has always been happier way out on the fringes.
Jodorowsky turned 84 last birthday. He has white hair, bright eyes and a crocodile smile. It is now more than four decades since he thrilled the faithful as El Topo, a mysterious gunslinger in rabbinical black,...
Missing, believed lost, Alejandro Jodorowsky rolls into Cannes like a conquering hero. He has a room at the Croisette and a film in the directors' fortnight – a rambunctious sidebar away from the Palais. "I am like the rain, I go where I'm needed," the director explains. "If I were in the big house, with the red carpet and photographers and all the fancy women, I would be ashamed." He has always been happier way out on the fringes.
Jodorowsky turned 84 last birthday. He has white hair, bright eyes and a crocodile smile. It is now more than four decades since he thrilled the faithful as El Topo, a mysterious gunslinger in rabbinical black,...
- 5/23/2013
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Los Angeles, April 21: Actor Russell Crowe started appreciating mime after he saw the performance of Marcel Marceau, an internationally acclaimed French actor and mime artist. But clarifies that he has "never intentionally performed a mime".
"Something that causes much mirth among acquaintances is that the first time I ever went to the theatre was to see mime artist Marcel Marceau," contactmusic.com quoted Crowe as saying.
"It's the truth, and I loved it. He was at the top of his game. But just for clarity, I have never intentionally performed a mime," he added.
Russell, 49, also admitted his love for films as a.
"Something that causes much mirth among acquaintances is that the first time I ever went to the theatre was to see mime artist Marcel Marceau," contactmusic.com quoted Crowe as saying.
"It's the truth, and I loved it. He was at the top of his game. But just for clarity, I have never intentionally performed a mime," he added.
Russell, 49, also admitted his love for films as a.
- 4/21/2013
- by Shiva Prakash
- RealBollywood.com
Washington, Apr 21: Russell Crowe has revealed that he has been a big fan of mime ever since he saw famed star Marcel Marceau on his first theatre trip as a youngster, although he was made fun of for his delight with the silent art.
The 49-year-old actor admitted that something that causes much mirth among his acquaintances is that the first time he ever went to the theatre was to see mime artist Marcel Marceau, Contactmusic reported.
The 'Les Miserables' star added that it was true that he loved the art because Marceau was at the top of his game.
He further cleared that he has never intentionally performed a mime..
The 49-year-old actor admitted that something that causes much mirth among his acquaintances is that the first time he ever went to the theatre was to see mime artist Marcel Marceau, Contactmusic reported.
The 'Les Miserables' star added that it was true that he loved the art because Marceau was at the top of his game.
He further cleared that he has never intentionally performed a mime..
- 4/21/2013
- by Smith Cox
- RealBollywood.com
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 28, 2013
Price: DVD $24.95, Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Olive Films
Marcel Marceau is Shanks.
Starring world-renowned mime Marcel Marceau in a dual role, the bizarre 1974 cult horror-fantasy film Shanks is the final movie directed by William Castle, the equally renowned gimmick-loving horror filmmaker who produced Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby just a few years earlier.
Malcolm Shanks (Marceau) is a sad deaf and mute man living with his cruel sister (Tsilla Chelton) and her husband (Philippe Clay), who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. This talent that earns him a job as a lab assistant to an weird professor (also Marceau) who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies with electrodes and manipulating their bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body,...
Price: DVD $24.95, Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Olive Films
Marcel Marceau is Shanks.
Starring world-renowned mime Marcel Marceau in a dual role, the bizarre 1974 cult horror-fantasy film Shanks is the final movie directed by William Castle, the equally renowned gimmick-loving horror filmmaker who produced Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby just a few years earlier.
Malcolm Shanks (Marceau) is a sad deaf and mute man living with his cruel sister (Tsilla Chelton) and her husband (Philippe Clay), who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. This talent that earns him a job as a lab assistant to an weird professor (also Marceau) who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies with electrodes and manipulating their bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body,...
- 3/29/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Today, we're featuring Marcel Marceau in 1983. Marceau joined Jean-Louis Barrault's company and was soon cast in the role of Arlequin in the pantomime, Baptiste which Barrault had interpreted in the film Les Enfants du Paradis. In 1947 Marceau created Bip the Clown and was first played at the Thtre de Poche Pocket Theatre in Paris. In his appearance he wore a striped pullover and a battered, beflowered silk opera hat.
- 11/8/2012
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Anna Belknap is in for quite a day -- fueled largely by Green Day -- on "CSI: NY."
Now back in its former time slot after CBS' quick benching of "Made in Jersey," the crime procedural airs a new episode Friday (Oct. 19) that's a big gamble for a TV drama: A sizable chunk of the story has no dialogue. Largely new music by the Grammy-winning Green Day functions as "narration," as forensic police detective Lindsay Monroe Messer (Belknap) is hurt in the frenzy following an attempt on a politician's (guest star Neal McDonough) life.
Appropriately subtitled "Unspoken," the tale posed built-in challenges for Belknap and such other "CSI: NY" stars as Gary Sinise and Sela Ward. "When I was reading the script, I didn't realize it would be the debut of all this music," Belknap tells Zap2it of the included tunes from "Green Day ¡Dos!" (to be released Nov.
Now back in its former time slot after CBS' quick benching of "Made in Jersey," the crime procedural airs a new episode Friday (Oct. 19) that's a big gamble for a TV drama: A sizable chunk of the story has no dialogue. Largely new music by the Grammy-winning Green Day functions as "narration," as forensic police detective Lindsay Monroe Messer (Belknap) is hurt in the frenzy following an attempt on a politician's (guest star Neal McDonough) life.
Appropriately subtitled "Unspoken," the tale posed built-in challenges for Belknap and such other "CSI: NY" stars as Gary Sinise and Sela Ward. "When I was reading the script, I didn't realize it would be the debut of all this music," Belknap tells Zap2it of the included tunes from "Green Day ¡Dos!" (to be released Nov.
- 10/19/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Fringe Episode 503
“The Recordist”
Written By: Graham Roland
Directed By: Jeff T. Thomas
Original Airdate: 12 October 2012
In This Episode...
Astrid digs the first tape out of the amber - which is actually tape three. No one is really surprised that Walter would hide them out of order. The tape is a little warped, but they get coordinates that send them out to rural Pennsylvania. In the middle of nowhere, they are “captured” by tree people - humans who live in the forest and have a creeping bark-like fungus on their skin. Walter, Olivia, Peter, and Etta are brought to the tree people’s encampment, where the “leader,” Edwin, recognizes Walter.
This encampment is where the history lives. When the invasion started, Edwin and a clan of followers headed into the forest to live off the grid and record every major event since - all on super high-tech glowy cubes. Fringe...
“The Recordist”
Written By: Graham Roland
Directed By: Jeff T. Thomas
Original Airdate: 12 October 2012
In This Episode...
Astrid digs the first tape out of the amber - which is actually tape three. No one is really surprised that Walter would hide them out of order. The tape is a little warped, but they get coordinates that send them out to rural Pennsylvania. In the middle of nowhere, they are “captured” by tree people - humans who live in the forest and have a creeping bark-like fungus on their skin. Walter, Olivia, Peter, and Etta are brought to the tree people’s encampment, where the “leader,” Edwin, recognizes Walter.
This encampment is where the history lives. When the invasion started, Edwin and a clan of followers headed into the forest to live off the grid and record every major event since - all on super high-tech glowy cubes. Fringe...
- 10/15/2012
- by Alyse Wax
- FEARnet
French actor known for her role as the cantankerous widow in Tatie Danielle, the 1990 film directed by Étienne Chatiliez
With her remarkable portrayal of the cantankerous, mean-spirited and selfish widow in Tatie Danielle (1990), Tsilla Chelton joined the ranks of those elderly female performers who, after a long career in show business, suddenly find themselves as film stars. Like Katie Johnson in The Ladykillers (1955) and Ruth Gordon in Harold and Maude (1972), Chelton, who has died aged 93, finally moved into the limelight in her 70s.
In this second feature directed by Étienne Chatiliez, Auntie Danielle manipulates everyone around her, including her great-nephew, his family and a housekeeper whom she regularly abuses, until she meets her match in a young woman paid to look after her. Not pathetic or twinkly-eyed, as older people are generally depicted in the movies, Chelton, in the antipathetic title role, is on screen most of the time, not seeking understanding,...
With her remarkable portrayal of the cantankerous, mean-spirited and selfish widow in Tatie Danielle (1990), Tsilla Chelton joined the ranks of those elderly female performers who, after a long career in show business, suddenly find themselves as film stars. Like Katie Johnson in The Ladykillers (1955) and Ruth Gordon in Harold and Maude (1972), Chelton, who has died aged 93, finally moved into the limelight in her 70s.
In this second feature directed by Étienne Chatiliez, Auntie Danielle manipulates everyone around her, including her great-nephew, his family and a housekeeper whom she regularly abuses, until she meets her match in a young woman paid to look after her. Not pathetic or twinkly-eyed, as older people are generally depicted in the movies, Chelton, in the antipathetic title role, is on screen most of the time, not seeking understanding,...
- 7/22/2012
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – “Barbarella” is nearly the definitive camp classic. Mocked upon its release and ineffective at the box office, the movie was nearly lost to history. But flicks this wonderfully weird don’t just disappear. It was only a matter of time before loyal audiences found this truly bizarre adult comic book. And one would think that the very loyal audience for this Jane Fonda gem would make an easy target for a great Blu-ray release. So why no special features?
I suppose, as a friend and colleague said, the movie itself is special enough. If you haven’t seen it in years, if you’re just familiar with it from its cultural references (look up the history of the band Duran Duran or do a google search for zero gravity strip tease), you really owe it to yourself to see it again. It’s So much weirder than I remembered...
I suppose, as a friend and colleague said, the movie itself is special enough. If you haven’t seen it in years, if you’re just familiar with it from its cultural references (look up the history of the band Duran Duran or do a google search for zero gravity strip tease), you really owe it to yourself to see it again. It’s So much weirder than I remembered...
- 7/9/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Review by Barbara Snitzer
Woody Allen’s latest offering charts his European Travel Period down south to Rome, Italy in “To Rome With Love.”
Fortunately, it proves a cure for the hangover I’ve had since the atrocious “Midnight in Paris.” (While I was not able to review that film in a timely manner, know that I Hated it. I realize many people disagree with me; of course they are entitled to their wrong opinion.)
Criminally, I have not set foot on Italian soil, but I’m going to give Woody the benefit of the doubt to say he captured the feeling of Italy since he did indeed capture the chilly, dull tones that of London in “You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger” that I know from living there.
The film opens with a beautiful drive around Rome, the terminus a traffic cop ineptly evoking Marcel Marceau as he...
Woody Allen’s latest offering charts his European Travel Period down south to Rome, Italy in “To Rome With Love.”
Fortunately, it proves a cure for the hangover I’ve had since the atrocious “Midnight in Paris.” (While I was not able to review that film in a timely manner, know that I Hated it. I realize many people disagree with me; of course they are entitled to their wrong opinion.)
Criminally, I have not set foot on Italian soil, but I’m going to give Woody the benefit of the doubt to say he captured the feeling of Italy since he did indeed capture the chilly, dull tones that of London in “You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger” that I know from living there.
The film opens with a beautiful drive around Rome, the terminus a traffic cop ineptly evoking Marcel Marceau as he...
- 7/6/2012
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
When Michelle Collins left Bwe several months ago, she compiled this list of her favorite posts of all time. In honor of Bwe’s final week, we’ve reposted this handy guide in case you find yourself suffering from BWEthdrawal in the coming weeks and wish to peruse some bona fide literary classics. She also would like us to clarify that she did not write the title of this post. Take it away, Michelle: Well, my time at Best Week Ever is coming to a close. But before I go, here are 37 things I am proud to have done over the last 6 years. Please note that putting this list together has given me life-altering anxiety this week because I can’t believe it’s over! So, presenting The Final Countdown: 37 Things I Did For Best Week Ever: 37. Fell In Love With Knut. Met Him. Then Mourned Him. Our...
- 6/14/2012
- by Michelle Collins
- BestWeekEver
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