Albert Maysles at the premiere of Simon Trevor's White Gold Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
On October 4, the morning before the world premiere of Steven Spielberg's Bridge Of Spies, starring Tom Hanks, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda, Mark Rylance, Billy Magnussen and Eve Hewson (Bono and Ali's daughter), during the New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Maysles family will host a tribute to Albert Maysles.
Filmmakers Morgan Neville, Fabien Constant, Varon Bonicos and Guy Maddin, together with Gay Talese and Frédéric Boyer, sent a tribute when they heard the news about Albert's passing on March 5.
Iris Apfel at The Paris Theatre Iris premiere on Albert Maysles: "Oh, he was the greatest. I'm very lucky, very lucky." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The event at Alice Tully Hall will include a selection of clips from the career of the master documentarian and his brother David. In 2014, the...
On October 4, the morning before the world premiere of Steven Spielberg's Bridge Of Spies, starring Tom Hanks, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda, Mark Rylance, Billy Magnussen and Eve Hewson (Bono and Ali's daughter), during the New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Maysles family will host a tribute to Albert Maysles.
Filmmakers Morgan Neville, Fabien Constant, Varon Bonicos and Guy Maddin, together with Gay Talese and Frédéric Boyer, sent a tribute when they heard the news about Albert's passing on March 5.
Iris Apfel at The Paris Theatre Iris premiere on Albert Maysles: "Oh, he was the greatest. I'm very lucky, very lucky." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The event at Alice Tully Hall will include a selection of clips from the career of the master documentarian and his brother David. In 2014, the...
- 10/1/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Albert Maysles at Simon Trevor's White Gold premiere at MoMA Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Documentary filmmakers Morgan Neville (2014 Oscar winner for 20 Feet From Stardom), Fabien Constant (Mademoiselle C), Varon Bonicos (A Man's Story) and Keyhole director Guy Maddin share their thoughts on the passing of the great documentarian Albert Maysles at the age of 88, Thursday, March 5, in New York City.
Author and journalist Gay Talese on an American Assignment for the New York Times in Selma, Alabama, sent a note, upon hearing the news, from the place where Gay had covered the civil rights march and "Bloody Sunday" 50 years ago.
Albert Maysles with Iris Apfel, the subject of his film Iris
Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer wrote "…this is very sad to lose a master of Cinema. We are playing his last film in the Tribeca [World Documentary] Competition,..." In Transit, co-directed by Maysles with Nelson Walker, Lynn True, David Usui,...
Documentary filmmakers Morgan Neville (2014 Oscar winner for 20 Feet From Stardom), Fabien Constant (Mademoiselle C), Varon Bonicos (A Man's Story) and Keyhole director Guy Maddin share their thoughts on the passing of the great documentarian Albert Maysles at the age of 88, Thursday, March 5, in New York City.
Author and journalist Gay Talese on an American Assignment for the New York Times in Selma, Alabama, sent a note, upon hearing the news, from the place where Gay had covered the civil rights march and "Bloody Sunday" 50 years ago.
Albert Maysles with Iris Apfel, the subject of his film Iris
Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer wrote "…this is very sad to lose a master of Cinema. We are playing his last film in the Tribeca [World Documentary] Competition,..." In Transit, co-directed by Maysles with Nelson Walker, Lynn True, David Usui,...
- 3/7/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
I was scheduled to interview British fashion designer Ozwald Boateng in New York, about A Man's Story and was surprised when I arrived, that Varon Bonicos, who directed the documentary, was also in the room, working on his laptop, pretending not to be there. I should have expected him, because the documentary chronicles Boateng's life in precisely that way, with Bonicos playing the designer's shadow for more than a decade.
In the film, Ozwald Boateng, the "killer of the cut," explains about fabric, saying that "touching is also understanding" and that he wants his clothes to "enhance who the person is". "That's what I live for," says the Samurai of Savile Row.
Some of the celebrities captured on camera, wearing and being fitted by Boateng in order of appearance, are Paul Bettany, Forest Whitaker, Gabriel Byrne, Will Smith, Richard Branson, Spike Lee. At 28, he became the...
In the film, Ozwald Boateng, the "killer of the cut," explains about fabric, saying that "touching is also understanding" and that he wants his clothes to "enhance who the person is". "That's what I live for," says the Samurai of Savile Row.
Some of the celebrities captured on camera, wearing and being fitted by Boateng in order of appearance, are Paul Bettany, Forest Whitaker, Gabriel Byrne, Will Smith, Richard Branson, Spike Lee. At 28, he became the...
- 11/1/2012
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
John Carter (12A)
(Andrew Stanton, 2012, Us) Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Mark Strong, Dominic West, Samantha Morton, Ciarán Hinds. 132 mins
Despite the technological might of Pixar, this Martian epic still feels closer to retro fare such as Flash Gordon or Dune. It's a cumbersome hero's journey fully of silly names, skimpy costumes and princesses in peril – stuff we've seen recycled so many times since Edgar Rice Burroughs first wrote this, it now feels laughably quaint. Still, it's always fun to see an expensively rendered alien world, even if cheesy myth-making comes with the territory.
Trishna (15)
(Michael Winterbottom, 2011, UK) Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed, Roshan Seth. 113 mins
Hardy's Tess looks a comfortable fit with modern-day India in this naturalistic drama, which takes liberties with the text but finds new resonances, as Pinto's subdued villager struggles to find happiness with a wealthy young British-Indian.
The Raven (15)
(James McTeigue, 2012, Us) John Cusack, Alice Eve, Luke Evans.
(Andrew Stanton, 2012, Us) Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Mark Strong, Dominic West, Samantha Morton, Ciarán Hinds. 132 mins
Despite the technological might of Pixar, this Martian epic still feels closer to retro fare such as Flash Gordon or Dune. It's a cumbersome hero's journey fully of silly names, skimpy costumes and princesses in peril – stuff we've seen recycled so many times since Edgar Rice Burroughs first wrote this, it now feels laughably quaint. Still, it's always fun to see an expensively rendered alien world, even if cheesy myth-making comes with the territory.
Trishna (15)
(Michael Winterbottom, 2011, UK) Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed, Roshan Seth. 113 mins
Hardy's Tess looks a comfortable fit with modern-day India in this naturalistic drama, which takes liberties with the text but finds new resonances, as Pinto's subdued villager struggles to find happiness with a wealthy young British-Indian.
The Raven (15)
(James McTeigue, 2012, Us) John Cusack, Alice Eve, Luke Evans.
- 3/10/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★★☆ As the enigmatic real-life star of Varon Bonicos' 2010 documentary A Man's Story, Oswald Boateng makes for captivating viewing in what is a well-structured and fascinating film about one of the UK's foremost fashion designers to the stars. As director, Bonicos spent 12 years documenting Boateng's personal and professional life, examining his struggles to become the hugely successful designer he is today.
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- 3/8/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
A Deborah Moggach book caught on film leads to Tulip Fever, and Ozwald Boateng makes a bid to dress Bond
Brought to book
In a brief scene in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Penelope Wilton is pictured relaxing in the garden of the eponymous Indian hotel reading a book. A quick shot reveals it's the novel Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach, who also happened to write These Foolish Things, upon which Ol Parker based the screenplay to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. It's a sweet in-joke and recalls the one at the end of Notting Hill, where Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant are reposing on a garden bench and she's reading Captain Corelli's Mandolin. This was, at the time, a nod to Notting Hill director Roger Michell's proposed next film – he was slated to direct the Louis de Bernières bestseller. However, illness meant Michell had to drop out and...
Brought to book
In a brief scene in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Penelope Wilton is pictured relaxing in the garden of the eponymous Indian hotel reading a book. A quick shot reveals it's the novel Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach, who also happened to write These Foolish Things, upon which Ol Parker based the screenplay to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. It's a sweet in-joke and recalls the one at the end of Notting Hill, where Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant are reposing on a garden bench and she's reading Captain Corelli's Mandolin. This was, at the time, a nod to Notting Hill director Roger Michell's proposed next film – he was slated to direct the Louis de Bernières bestseller. However, illness meant Michell had to drop out and...
- 2/26/2012
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers? Taped Trailer I, like many other boys, went through a Patrick Dempsey phase when I was younger. It all started with Can't Buy Me Love...
- 1/28/2012
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
Directed by Varon Bonicos (who also created the TV series "House of Boateng"), the documentary "A Man's Story" spans an epic dozen years in the life of its subject, designer and larger than life fashion world figure Ozwald Boateng. The youngest and first black tailor to open a shop on London's Savile Row, Boateng starts the film in 1998 at a low point, having lost his business in the midst of a tough divorce. "A Man's Story" treks through the next decade-plus at a breakneck pace, charting Boateng's stint at Givenchy, his marriage, the birth of his two children, his second divorce, his celebrity-studded charity event in Ghana, fashion shows in Milan, in Paris, in London, trips to China, Russia, Los Angeles, Doha, runways, red carpets, offices, storefronts, parties, planes. It's a glittering blur throughout which Boateng remains tireless, both in his work and as a careful curator of his personal brand.
- 10/22/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
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