The fall festival rush is upon us. Locarno is currently ramping up. Venice has released their line-up and Thom Powers and the Toronto International Film Festival team have dropped a bomb with a previously unannounced new feature from powerhouse docu-provocateur Michael Moore. It is truly a miracle that the production of a film such as Moore’s upcoming Where To Invade Next (see still above) managed to go completely undetected by the filmmaking community until it was literally announced to world premiere at one of the largest film festivals in the world. Programmed as a one of the key films in the Special Presentations section at Tiff, the film sees Moore telling “the Pentagon to ‘stand down’ — he will do the invading for America from now on.” Also announced to premiere at Tiff was Avi Lewis’ This Changes Everything, which has slowly been rising up this list, as well as...
- 8/7/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
It’s been a surprisingly interesting month of moving and shaking in terms of doc development. Just a month after making his first public funding pitch at Toronto’s Hot Docs Forum, legendary doc filmmaker Frederick Wiseman took to Kickstarter to help cover the remaining expenses for his 40th feature film In Jackson Heights (see the film’s first trailer below). Unrelentingly rigorous in his determination to capture the American institutional landscape on film, his latest continues down this thematic rabbit hole, taking on the immensely diverse New York City neighborhood of Jackson Heights as his latest subject. According to the Kickstarter page, Wiseman is currently editing the 120 hours of rushes he shot with hopes of having the film ready for a fall festival premiere (my guess would be Tiff, where both National Gallery and At Berkeley made their North American debut), though he’s currently quite a ways away from his $75,000 goal.
- 7/6/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Well folks, after a rather long and brutal winter (at least for me here in Buffalo), we are finally heading into the wonderful warmth of summer, but with that blast of sunshine and steamy humidity comes the mid-year drought of major film fests. After the Sheffield Doc/Fest concludes on June 10th and AFI Docs wraps on June 21st, we likely won’t see any major influx in our charts until Locarno, Venice, Telluride and Tiff announce their line-ups in rapid succession. In the meantime, we can look forward to the intriguing onslaught of films making their debut in Sheffield, including Brian Hill’s intriguing examination of Sweden’s most notorious serial killer, The Confessions of Thomas Quick, and Sean McAllister’s film for which he himself was jailed in the process of making, A Syrian Love Story, the only two films world premiering in the festival’s main competition.
- 6/1/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
It should come as no surprise that Cannes Film Festival will play host to Kent Jones’s doc on the touchstone of filmmaking interview tomes, Hitchcock/Truffaut (see photo above). The film has been floating near the top of this list since it was announced last year as in development, while Jones himself has a history with the festival, having co-written both Arnaud Desplechin’s Jimmy P. and Martin Scorsese’s My Voyage To Italy, both of which premiered in Cannes. The film is scheduled to screen as part of the Cannes Classics sidebar alongside the likes of Stig Björkman’s Ingrid Bergman, in Her Own Words, which will play as part of the festival’s tribute to the late starlet, and Gabriel Clarke and John McKenna’s Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans (see trailer below). As someone who grew up watching road races with my dad in Watkins Glen,...
- 5/1/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Now that the busy winter fest schedule of Sundance, Rotterdam and the Berlinale has concluded, we’ve now got our eyes on the likes of True/False and SXSW. While, True/False does not specialize in attention grabbing world premieres, it does provide a late winter haven for cream of the crop non-fiction fare from all the previously mentioned fests and a selection of overlooked genre blending films presented in a down home setting. This year will mark my first trip to the Columbia, Missouri based fest, where I hope to catch a little of everything, from their hush-hush secret screenings, to selections from their Neither/Nor series, this year featuring chimeric Polish cinema of decades past, to a spotlight of Adam Curtis’s incisive oeuvre. But truth be told, it is SXSW, with its slew of high profile world premieres being announced, such as Alex Gibney’s Steve Jobs...
- 2/27/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Turkey or no turkey, these next couple of days lucky filmmakers who’ve been selected to screen as part of the Sundance Film Festival will get the invitation notice straight from John Cooper and the Park City programming team, and thus, those that we’re betting have made the cut have also inched up the list a bit. One of those that seem an obvious choice to premiere at the fest is director Steve Hoover and producer Danny Yourd’s Crocodile Gennadiy. Following up their Grand Jury Prize winning Blood Brother with incredible turnaround time, our new most anticipated film tracks the delicate operations of Gennadiy Mokhnenko, a Ukrainian activist, orphanage manager and savior of countless children whose addict parents favor injected cold medicine and alcohol over them. Part heartwrenching domestic drama, part sleuth thriller, the film looks to use the Ukrainian uprising as a backdrop to highlight its protagonist...
- 11/27/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
They often get quite a bit less attention than their fictional brethren, and it doesn’t help that many films fly under the radar while development and filming is underway. To chart this course with a little more precision, I’m launching Ioncinema.com’s latest feature, What’s Up Doc?, our monthly Top 50 Most Anticipated films, a sort of hitlist and/or snapshot of the most alluring, the most promising documentary film projects from the established documentarian guard, the new crop of future voices or the fiction filmmakers who on occasion dip their toes in the form. Curated by me, Jordan M. Smith, you’ll find docu items that are in their beginning stages to being moments away from their film festival berth. Like any such list, we can expect film items to fluctuate in ranking, with the cut-off being publicly items — such recent examples include Laura Poitras’s white hot Edward Snowden project,...
- 10/23/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Being George Clooney, a new documentary about the voices around the world who do audio dubbing for Hollywood films, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to complete its funding. Helmed by Paul Mariano, the co-director of doc These Amazing Shadows, the film explores audio dubbing of Hollywood films for foreign markets by visiting the men who are the international voices of Clooney. AMong them are a German actor, a Brazilian ER doctor, a Japanese man who studied to be a lawyer and an children's book author. "As Hollywood depends more and more on international box office proceeds, voiceover dubbing has
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- 2/18/2014
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mike Cahill’s sci-fi/not-really sci-fi movie “Another Earth” has been announced as the opening film of the 8th Annual Indianapolis International Film Festival, which will run July 14th through the 24th at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (Ima), and will feature films from the Us and around the world. The full slate consists of nearly 100 short and feature-length films, with a sneak peek at Fox Searchlight’s “Another Earth” on July 14th, and closes on July 23rd with Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton’s “These Amazing Shadows”. With more films to select from than ever, this year’s line-up – screened in American Spectrum (domestic), Matter of Fact (documentary) and World Cinema (foreign) programs – promises to be the most compelling yet. Titles range from selections featured at Sundance, Tribeca and Cannes film festivals to newly discovered regional filmmaking. Films will compete for Best Of in their respective categories, as well...
- 6/24/2011
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
Reviewed by Jeremy Mathews
(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
Directed by: Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton
Featuring: Jay Carr, Peter Coyote, Julie Dash, Caleb Deschanel, Zooey Deschanel, Robert A. Harris, Amy Heckerling, Jennifer Horne, Steve James, Barbara Kopple, Mick Lasalle, John Lasseter, Leonard Maltin, Christopher Nolan, Rob Reiner, Debbie Reynolds, Tim Roth, James Schamus, Paul Schrader, John Singleton, George Takei, Wayne Wang and John Waters
The only requirement for a film to be put on the National Film Registry of the United States is that it be “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.” The great thing about these requirements, according to one board member interviewed in the documentary “These Amazing Shadows,” is that they make it possible for anything to qualify. The registry is an eclectic bunch of films selected to be preserved in the Library of Congress and includes everything from obvious classics like “Casablanca,” “Citizen Kane” and “The Godfather...
(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
Directed by: Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton
Featuring: Jay Carr, Peter Coyote, Julie Dash, Caleb Deschanel, Zooey Deschanel, Robert A. Harris, Amy Heckerling, Jennifer Horne, Steve James, Barbara Kopple, Mick Lasalle, John Lasseter, Leonard Maltin, Christopher Nolan, Rob Reiner, Debbie Reynolds, Tim Roth, James Schamus, Paul Schrader, John Singleton, George Takei, Wayne Wang and John Waters
The only requirement for a film to be put on the National Film Registry of the United States is that it be “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.” The great thing about these requirements, according to one board member interviewed in the documentary “These Amazing Shadows,” is that they make it possible for anything to qualify. The registry is an eclectic bunch of films selected to be preserved in the Library of Congress and includes everything from obvious classics like “Casablanca,” “Citizen Kane” and “The Godfather...
- 1/29/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Jeremy Mathews
(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
Directed by: Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton
Featuring: Jay Carr, Peter Coyote, Julie Dash, Caleb Deschanel, Zooey Deschanel, Robert A. Harris, Amy Heckerling, Jennifer Horne, Steve James, Barbara Kopple, Mick Lasalle, John Lasseter, Leonard Maltin, Christopher Nolan, Rob Reiner, Debbie Reynolds, Tim Roth, James Schamus, Paul Schrader, John Singleton, George Takei, Wayne Wang and John Waters
The only requirement for a film to be put on the National Film Registry of the United States is that it be “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.” The great thing about these requirements, according to one board member interviewed in the documentary “These Amazing Shadows,” is that they make it possible for anything to qualify. The registry is an eclectic bunch of films selected to be preserved in the Library of Congress and includes everything from obvious classics like “Casablanca,” “Citizen Kane” and “The Godfather...
(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
Directed by: Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton
Featuring: Jay Carr, Peter Coyote, Julie Dash, Caleb Deschanel, Zooey Deschanel, Robert A. Harris, Amy Heckerling, Jennifer Horne, Steve James, Barbara Kopple, Mick Lasalle, John Lasseter, Leonard Maltin, Christopher Nolan, Rob Reiner, Debbie Reynolds, Tim Roth, James Schamus, Paul Schrader, John Singleton, George Takei, Wayne Wang and John Waters
The only requirement for a film to be put on the National Film Registry of the United States is that it be “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.” The great thing about these requirements, according to one board member interviewed in the documentary “These Amazing Shadows,” is that they make it possible for anything to qualify. The registry is an eclectic bunch of films selected to be preserved in the Library of Congress and includes everything from obvious classics like “Casablanca,” “Citizen Kane” and “The Godfather...
- 1/29/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Check out the links below — and check back often — for all the latest blogs, reviews, video interviews and filmmaker features from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
Actors scheduled to appear in the Moving Pictures Media Studio on Park City’s Main Street during the fest include Elizabeth Banks, Kate Bosworth, Steve Buscemi, Patrick Dempsey, Zooey Deschanel, Paul Giamatti, Ed Helms, Rashida Jones, Ashley Judd, Ray Liotta, Emma Roberts, Paul Rudd, Alicia Silverstone, Liv Tyler and Rita Wilson (talent subject to change). Do you have a question for one of our guests? Leave it in the comment box below for the chance to connect with a Sundance star!
Preview
‘Be There’ or Be Square: Festival director John Cooper and programming director Trevor Groth are making Sundance the gem of indie fests. Read our interview with the duo for insider tips on how to Sundance, from in-depth programming notes to what to pack...
Actors scheduled to appear in the Moving Pictures Media Studio on Park City’s Main Street during the fest include Elizabeth Banks, Kate Bosworth, Steve Buscemi, Patrick Dempsey, Zooey Deschanel, Paul Giamatti, Ed Helms, Rashida Jones, Ashley Judd, Ray Liotta, Emma Roberts, Paul Rudd, Alicia Silverstone, Liv Tyler and Rita Wilson (talent subject to change). Do you have a question for one of our guests? Leave it in the comment box below for the chance to connect with a Sundance star!
Preview
‘Be There’ or Be Square: Festival director John Cooper and programming director Trevor Groth are making Sundance the gem of indie fests. Read our interview with the duo for insider tips on how to Sundance, from in-depth programming notes to what to pack...
- 1/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Check out the links below — and check back often — for all the latest blogs, reviews, video interviews and filmmaker features from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
Actors scheduled to appear in the Moving Pictures Media Studio on Park City’s Main Street during the fest include Elizabeth Banks, Kate Bosworth, Steve Buscemi, Patrick Dempsey, Zooey Deschanel, Paul Giamatti, Ed Helms, Rashida Jones, Ashley Judd, Ray Liotta, Emma Roberts, Paul Rudd, Alicia Silverstone, Liv Tyler and Rita Wilson (talent subject to change). Do you have a question for one of our guests? Leave it in the comment box below for the chance to connect with a Sundance star!
Preview
‘Be There’ or Be Square: Festival director John Cooper and programming director Trevor Groth are making Sundance the gem of indie fests. Read our interview with the duo for insider tips on how to Sundance, from in-depth programming notes to what to pack...
Actors scheduled to appear in the Moving Pictures Media Studio on Park City’s Main Street during the fest include Elizabeth Banks, Kate Bosworth, Steve Buscemi, Patrick Dempsey, Zooey Deschanel, Paul Giamatti, Ed Helms, Rashida Jones, Ashley Judd, Ray Liotta, Emma Roberts, Paul Rudd, Alicia Silverstone, Liv Tyler and Rita Wilson (talent subject to change). Do you have a question for one of our guests? Leave it in the comment box below for the chance to connect with a Sundance star!
Preview
‘Be There’ or Be Square: Festival director John Cooper and programming director Trevor Groth are making Sundance the gem of indie fests. Read our interview with the duo for insider tips on how to Sundance, from in-depth programming notes to what to pack...
- 1/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Monday at the Sundance Film Festival I spent a year at the New York Times and 100 years at the movies. Two documentaries, Page One: A Year Inside The New York Times and These Amazing Shadows, both impressed with their poignancy and entertainment value. Both, however, are plagued with the same flaw - a penchant to go off on tangents and stay away from a narrative core. In each case these tangents are actually pretty interesting, adding to your enjoyment, but as a whole film, each suffers ever so slightly. Page One is exactly what the title says, "A Year Inside the New York Times." It follows several prominent reporters and stories over the course of a year while simultaneously exploring the role of print media in today's digital age. These Amazing Shadows tells the tale of the National Film Registry and the role they play in preserving and restoring films.
- 1/25/2011
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
Directors: Paul Mariano, Kurt Norton Writers: Paul Mariano, Kurt Norton Starring: Christopher Nolan, Tim Roth, John Waters, Barbara Kopple, Rob Reiner, Julie Dash, Wayne Wang, Robert Rosen, Zooey Deschanel, Caleb Deschanel, John Lasseter, George Takei and Dr. James Billington (Librarian of Congress) As a direct result of Ted Turner’s push to colorize black and white films from the MGM archives, President Ronald Reagan signed the National Film Preservation Act on September 27, 1988. This law established the United States National Film Preservation Board. The National Film Registry is the National Film Preservation Board’s list of films slated for preservation in the Library of Congress. Ever since 1989, a maximum of 25 films per year have been deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” and added to the Registry. Films must be at least 10 years old in order to qualify. (I often wish that I could wait 10 years before creating my year-end list of favorite films.
- 1/22/2011
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Although any cinephile worth his salt knows that movie watching is but a fleeting experience, few comprehend that it may be one they won’t be able to repeat. The studios who produce films aren’t museums — they’re in the business of protecting their own assets, not our cinematic history. Without intervention, scenes, moments and entire back catalogues might be lost to the inevitabilities of decay.
Sundance newcomers Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton’s These Amazing Shadows tells the story of the National Film Registry, a government-appointed body that each year adds another 25 films it deems “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” to the Library of Congress. Through interviews with board members and notable filmmakers, they explore not only the films we love but how they shaped us.
For those who don’t have the good fortune to be at the festival, it’s available on IFC On Demand starting...
Sundance newcomers Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton’s These Amazing Shadows tells the story of the National Film Registry, a government-appointed body that each year adds another 25 films it deems “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” to the Library of Congress. Through interviews with board members and notable filmmakers, they explore not only the films we love but how they shaped us.
For those who don’t have the good fortune to be at the festival, it’s available on IFC On Demand starting...
- 1/17/2011
- by Mary Anderson Casavant
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
If it's too cold to leave the house for your local theater, there's plenty of options if you stay inside online, on demand and on DVD. What follows is your guide to all the new releases coming your way between now and April.
Online and On Demand
My French Film Festival
Thanks to bids for Oscar consideration, the winter is traditionally one of the rare times foreign films get plenty of attention in the States, particularly at West Coast festivals such as Palm Springs and Santa Barbara. However, Francophiles in particular will be excited to know you won't have to go to California or New York -- or even Paris for that matter -- to be able to catch some of the most recent cinema from France since uniFrance is unveiling My French Film Festival, which is being billed as the "first exclusively online film festival celebrating French talent" that...
Online and On Demand
My French Film Festival
Thanks to bids for Oscar consideration, the winter is traditionally one of the rare times foreign films get plenty of attention in the States, particularly at West Coast festivals such as Palm Springs and Santa Barbara. However, Francophiles in particular will be excited to know you won't have to go to California or New York -- or even Paris for that matter -- to be able to catch some of the most recent cinema from France since uniFrance is unveiling My French Film Festival, which is being billed as the "first exclusively online film festival celebrating French talent" that...
- 1/11/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: Can’t make it to Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival this month? Have no fear. Sundance is bringing a portion of the festival to us.
Sundance Selects, the theatrical and video-on-demand film label, recently announced a partnership with the Sundance Institute to once again sponsor the “Direct from the Sundance Film Festival.” Running concurrently with the 2011 Sundance Film Festival – scheduled for Jan. 20-30 — the initiative will air five films being screened at the fest through on-demand technology.
From the release:
The films include four world premieres recently acquired by Sundance Selects (Brendan Fletcher’s Mad Bastards, Michael Tully’s Septien, Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton’s These Amazing Shadows, and Joe Swanberg’s Uncle Kent) and one U.S. premiere (Gregg Araki’s Kaboom).
The films featured through the Sundance Institute and Sundance Selects partnership will begin screening on video-on-demand at...
Hollywoodnews.com: Can’t make it to Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival this month? Have no fear. Sundance is bringing a portion of the festival to us.
Sundance Selects, the theatrical and video-on-demand film label, recently announced a partnership with the Sundance Institute to once again sponsor the “Direct from the Sundance Film Festival.” Running concurrently with the 2011 Sundance Film Festival – scheduled for Jan. 20-30 — the initiative will air five films being screened at the fest through on-demand technology.
From the release:
The films include four world premieres recently acquired by Sundance Selects (Brendan Fletcher’s Mad Bastards, Michael Tully’s Septien, Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton’s These Amazing Shadows, and Joe Swanberg’s Uncle Kent) and one U.S. premiere (Gregg Araki’s Kaboom).
The films featured through the Sundance Institute and Sundance Selects partnership will begin screening on video-on-demand at...
- 1/10/2011
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
Sundance Selects, the theatrical and streaming media label, today announced the second partnership with the not-for-profit Sundance Institute for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival (January 20th – 30th, Park City, Ut). It presents initiative under which traditional film fests (including TriBeCa, established in 2002, NY) expand their brands by offering a few current selections for a limited time via VOD platforms. The films will be available in approximately 40 million homes on most major cable systems including Bright House, Comcast, Cablevision, Cox, and Time Warner Cable.
Photos, all recently procured by Sundance Selects, are Brendan Fletcher’s “Mad Bastards,” (Drama, 2010) Michael Tully’s “Septien,”(Comedy/Drama, 2010) Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton’s “These Amazing Shadows,” (Documentary, 2011) Joe Swanberg’s “Uncle Kent” (Drama, 2011) and Gregg Araki’s “Kaboom.” (Comedy/Sci-Fi, 2010)
John Cooper, Director, Sundance Film Festival quoted, “As part of the Sundance family, we have always been excited about discovering innovative ways to help our filmmakers find their audience.
Photos, all recently procured by Sundance Selects, are Brendan Fletcher’s “Mad Bastards,” (Drama, 2010) Michael Tully’s “Septien,”(Comedy/Drama, 2010) Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton’s “These Amazing Shadows,” (Documentary, 2011) Joe Swanberg’s “Uncle Kent” (Drama, 2011) and Gregg Araki’s “Kaboom.” (Comedy/Sci-Fi, 2010)
John Cooper, Director, Sundance Film Festival quoted, “As part of the Sundance family, we have always been excited about discovering innovative ways to help our filmmakers find their audience.
- 1/8/2011
- by Nikola Mraovic
- Filmofilia
Can't make it to Utah this year for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival? Well, thanks to Sundance Selects, the theatrical and video-on-demand film label, five films being screened at the fest will simultaneously be available nationwide, on demand, on most major cable systems. Two seems to qualify as genre films, but the others sound worthy of a bit of attention as well.
From the Press Release:
Sundance Selects has announced its second partnership with the not-for-profit Sundance Institute for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival (January 20th-30th; Park City, Ut). Five films are part of the "Direct from the Sundance Film Festival" initiative, including four world premieres recently acquired by Sundance Selects (Brendan Fletcher's Mad Bastards, Michael Tully's Septien, Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton's These Amazing Shadows, and Joe Swanberg's Uncle Kent) and one U.S. premiere (Gregg Araki's Kaboom). The films featured through the Sundance Institute...
From the Press Release:
Sundance Selects has announced its second partnership with the not-for-profit Sundance Institute for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival (January 20th-30th; Park City, Ut). Five films are part of the "Direct from the Sundance Film Festival" initiative, including four world premieres recently acquired by Sundance Selects (Brendan Fletcher's Mad Bastards, Michael Tully's Septien, Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton's These Amazing Shadows, and Joe Swanberg's Uncle Kent) and one U.S. premiere (Gregg Araki's Kaboom). The films featured through the Sundance Institute...
- 1/8/2011
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Five indie films screening at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, which is set to run Jan. 20-30, will air simultaneously on Video-on-Demand systems all over the country, courtesy of Sundance Selects, the theatrical and VOD distributor.
The films that will be playing on VOD are: Brendan Fletcher’s Mad Bastards, Michael Tully’s Septien, Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton’s These Amazing Shadows, Joe Swanberg’s Uncle Kent and Gregg Araki’s Kaboom. The first four films in that list are World Premieres while Kaboom is the film’s U.S. premiere.
Uncle Kent is Swanberg’s first film in Sundance, although this isn’t his first experience with a film of his playing on a movie screen and on TV simultaneously. Back in 2007, his film Hannah Takes the Stairs had a limited theatrical release while also playing on demand courtesy of IFC. Interestingly, both IFC and Sundance Selects are owned by the same media conglomerate,...
The films that will be playing on VOD are: Brendan Fletcher’s Mad Bastards, Michael Tully’s Septien, Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton’s These Amazing Shadows, Joe Swanberg’s Uncle Kent and Gregg Araki’s Kaboom. The first four films in that list are World Premieres while Kaboom is the film’s U.S. premiere.
Uncle Kent is Swanberg’s first film in Sundance, although this isn’t his first experience with a film of his playing on a movie screen and on TV simultaneously. Back in 2007, his film Hannah Takes the Stairs had a limited theatrical release while also playing on demand courtesy of IFC. Interestingly, both IFC and Sundance Selects are owned by the same media conglomerate,...
- 1/7/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 2011 Sundance Film Festival will be expanding beyond the limits of Park City, Utah, and into your living room. This year the heralded festival will be making five films available On Demand for 30 days around their Sundance debut on most major cable systems.
According to /Film, all you need to do to view these five flicks (four of which will be world premieres, one will be a U.S. premiere) is hit your remote’s On Demand button and select the Direct from Sundance Film Festival option.
The featured films and their synopses are as follows:
Uncle Kent ~ Directed by Joe Swanberg
(Premieres at Sundance on Friday, January 21)
Forty-year-old Kent Osborne works out of his sunny Los Angeles home as a cartoonist for a children’s show. During his day, he takes bong hits and hangs out with his fluffy cat. Kent hopes to hook up with Kate, a cute...
According to /Film, all you need to do to view these five flicks (four of which will be world premieres, one will be a U.S. premiere) is hit your remote’s On Demand button and select the Direct from Sundance Film Festival option.
The featured films and their synopses are as follows:
Uncle Kent ~ Directed by Joe Swanberg
(Premieres at Sundance on Friday, January 21)
Forty-year-old Kent Osborne works out of his sunny Los Angeles home as a cartoonist for a children’s show. During his day, he takes bong hits and hangs out with his fluffy cat. Kent hopes to hook up with Kate, a cute...
- 1/7/2011
- by Kristy Puchko
- The Film Stage
Filed under: Movie News, Sundance Film Festival, Cinematical, Festivals
If you've been clenching your fists in frustration because Utah hates you and won't let you attend this year's Sundance Film Festival, the movie gods are throwing you a bone. Sundance Selects, the festival's theatrical and video-on-demand film label, is teaming up with the Sundance Institute for their 2011 celebration. While attendees are cozy in their seats getting ready to watch Gregg Araki's 'Kaboom,' Brendan Fletcher's 'Mad Bastards,' Michael Tully's 'Septien,' Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton's 'These Amazing Shadows,' and Joe Swanberg's 'Uncle Kent,' those same films will be simultaneously available on-demand ... for you.
Your Bright House, Comcast, Cabelvision, Cox and Time Warner overlords are hooking you up with Sundance Selects so you can make like you're rubbing elbows with our own Erik Davis (lucky!). This will...
If you've been clenching your fists in frustration because Utah hates you and won't let you attend this year's Sundance Film Festival, the movie gods are throwing you a bone. Sundance Selects, the festival's theatrical and video-on-demand film label, is teaming up with the Sundance Institute for their 2011 celebration. While attendees are cozy in their seats getting ready to watch Gregg Araki's 'Kaboom,' Brendan Fletcher's 'Mad Bastards,' Michael Tully's 'Septien,' Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton's 'These Amazing Shadows,' and Joe Swanberg's 'Uncle Kent,' those same films will be simultaneously available on-demand ... for you.
Your Bright House, Comcast, Cabelvision, Cox and Time Warner overlords are hooking you up with Sundance Selects so you can make like you're rubbing elbows with our own Erik Davis (lucky!). This will...
- 1/7/2011
- by Alison Nastasi
- Moviefone
Filed under: Movie News, Sundance Film Festival, Cinematical, Festivals
If you've been clenching your fists in frustration because Utah hates you and won't let you attend this year's Sundance Film Festival, the movie gods are throwing you a bone. Sundance Selects, the festival's theatrical and video-on-demand film label, is teaming up with the Sundance Institute for their 2011 celebration. While attendees are cozy in their seats getting ready to watch Gregg Araki's 'Kaboom,' Brendan Fletcher's 'Mad Bastards,' Michael Tully's 'Septien,' Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton's 'These Amazing Shadows,' and Joe Swanberg's 'Uncle Kent,' those same films will be simultaneously available on-demand ... for you.
Your Bright House, Comcast, Cabelvision, Cox and Time Warner overlords are hooking you up with Sundance Selects so you can make like you're rubbing elbows with our own Erik Davis (lucky!). This will...
If you've been clenching your fists in frustration because Utah hates you and won't let you attend this year's Sundance Film Festival, the movie gods are throwing you a bone. Sundance Selects, the festival's theatrical and video-on-demand film label, is teaming up with the Sundance Institute for their 2011 celebration. While attendees are cozy in their seats getting ready to watch Gregg Araki's 'Kaboom,' Brendan Fletcher's 'Mad Bastards,' Michael Tully's 'Septien,' Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton's 'These Amazing Shadows,' and Joe Swanberg's 'Uncle Kent,' those same films will be simultaneously available on-demand ... for you.
Your Bright House, Comcast, Cabelvision, Cox and Time Warner overlords are hooking you up with Sundance Selects so you can make like you're rubbing elbows with our own Erik Davis (lucky!). This will...
- 1/7/2011
- by Alison Nastasi
- Cinematical
The Sundance Institute announced yesterday that 5 feature films from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival will stream worldwide as part of Sundance Selects, the institute’s theatrical and video-on-demand (VOD) film label. The five Sundance Selects titles selected were: Mad Bastards by Brendan Fletcher, Septien from Michael Tully, These Amazing Shadows from Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton, Uncle Kent by Joe Swanberg and Kaboom by Gregg Araki. The films will be available on the VOD channels of major cable providers including Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, Cablevision and Bright House and premiere in-sync with the screening dates at the festival.
- 1/7/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The Sundance Institute announced yesterday that 5 feature films from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival will stream worldwide as part of Sundance Selects, the institute’s theatrical and video-on-demand (VOD) film label. The five Sundance Selects titles selected were: Mad Bastards by Brendan Fletcher, Septien from Michael Tully, These Amazing Shadows from Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton, Uncle Kent by Joe Swanberg and Kaboom by Gregg Araki. The films will be available on the VOD channels of major cable providers including Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, Cablevision and Bright House and premiere in-sync with the screening dates at the festival.
- 1/7/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Can't make it to Utah this month for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival? Here are your options. One - keep it locked right here to Slashfilm.com because myself, Peter Sciretta and David Chen will be on the scene reporting daily. Two - head to one of the cities that's hosting a Sundance Film Festival USA [1] screening. Or three - just click the On Demand button on your remote and join in to the Direct from the Sundance Film Festival initiative. Five specially selected films - four world premieres and one U.S. premiere - that will be playing at the festival will be available for a limited time on demand in on most major cable systems. They are Mad Bastards, directed by Brendan Fletcher, Septien, directed by Michael Tully, These Amazing Shadows, directed by Kurt Norton, Uncle Kent, directed by Joe Swanberg and Kaboom, directed by Gregg Araki. Read full...
- 1/7/2011
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
Sundance Selects, the theatrical and VOD film label, has partnered up with the Sundance Institute for a second time to bring five films being screened at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival to approximately 40 million homes nationwide via VOD, as part of the 'Direct from the Sundance Film Festival' initiative. The films include four world premieres recently acquired by Sundance Selects: "Brendan Fletcher's "Mad Bastards," Michael Tully's "Septien," Paul Mariano ...
- 1/6/2011
- Indiewire
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