When Jackie Chan Had No Idea About Who Kim Kardashian Or Her Family Was. (Photo Credit – IMDb)
Jackie Chan is a global action star who has also established himself in Hollywood. He is a multifaceted personality and is renowned for his slapstick acrobatic fighting style. An old clip of Chan’s interview has recently gone viral on social media. In it, he is questioned about the Kardashians, and the action star is entirely clueless about who Kim Kardashian and her sisters are. It has won the netizens’ hearts, and we can’t stop wondering how precious the Karate Kid star is. Scroll below for more.
For the unversed, the Kardashians are also called the Kardashian-Jenner family. Kim, Khloe, and Kourtney are part of the Kardashian family, including Rob, as they are Kris Jenner and Robert Kardashian’s children. Kris then married Bruce Jenner, who is now known as Caitlyn Jenner.
Jackie Chan is a global action star who has also established himself in Hollywood. He is a multifaceted personality and is renowned for his slapstick acrobatic fighting style. An old clip of Chan’s interview has recently gone viral on social media. In it, he is questioned about the Kardashians, and the action star is entirely clueless about who Kim Kardashian and her sisters are. It has won the netizens’ hearts, and we can’t stop wondering how precious the Karate Kid star is. Scroll below for more.
For the unversed, the Kardashians are also called the Kardashian-Jenner family. Kim, Khloe, and Kourtney are part of the Kardashian family, including Rob, as they are Kris Jenner and Robert Kardashian’s children. Kris then married Bruce Jenner, who is now known as Caitlyn Jenner.
- 5/20/2024
- by Esita Mallik
- KoiMoi
Dark Matter Season 1 Ep 3 Ending Explained: Do Jason & Amanda Make It To A Different Reality? (Photo Credit – IMDb)
The latest episode of Dark Matter is full of twists and turns and is bound to keep viewers engaged with its sci-fi details. At the end of episode 2, we witnessed the possible murder of Daniela 2 in the alternate reality where Jason 1 had found himself after Jason 2 invaded his universe. This episode begins with Jason 1 trying to figure out what is happening with him.
What Happens to the Different Jasons in Different Realities?
While Jason 1 is trying to figure out what is happening around, Leighton believes that he is having some amnesiac episode and will soon remember things. In order to get a better understanding of his surroundings, Jason 1 agrees to Leighton’s theory and asks him to show him around as that might give a boost to his memory. Leighton, believing him,...
The latest episode of Dark Matter is full of twists and turns and is bound to keep viewers engaged with its sci-fi details. At the end of episode 2, we witnessed the possible murder of Daniela 2 in the alternate reality where Jason 1 had found himself after Jason 2 invaded his universe. This episode begins with Jason 1 trying to figure out what is happening with him.
What Happens to the Different Jasons in Different Realities?
While Jason 1 is trying to figure out what is happening around, Leighton believes that he is having some amnesiac episode and will soon remember things. In order to get a better understanding of his surroundings, Jason 1 agrees to Leighton’s theory and asks him to show him around as that might give a boost to his memory. Leighton, believing him,...
- 5/20/2024
- by Pramila Tripathi
- KoiMoi
EuropaCorp CEO Axel Duroux, the French-Swiss executive who joined the Paris-based company in 2020, has stepped down from his position.
Luc Besson, who co-founded EuropaCorp in 1999, will act as the interim CEO for a limited period starting immediately, EuropaCorp said in a release.
Duroux will remain a shareholder and will continue to work closely with EuropaCorp as special advisor to the chairman until mid-May “in order to ensure the best possible handover to the new management team,” the company added.
EuropaCorp was taken over by New York fund Vine Alternative Investments in 2020, after being placed on a debt waiver by a French commercial court. As part of its restructuring plan, EuropaCorp received a new credit line of $100 million to develop a slate of films and start producing again. Besson, who previously had an operational role in the company, became artistic director with a five-year contract renewable for another two years.
The...
Luc Besson, who co-founded EuropaCorp in 1999, will act as the interim CEO for a limited period starting immediately, EuropaCorp said in a release.
Duroux will remain a shareholder and will continue to work closely with EuropaCorp as special advisor to the chairman until mid-May “in order to ensure the best possible handover to the new management team,” the company added.
EuropaCorp was taken over by New York fund Vine Alternative Investments in 2020, after being placed on a debt waiver by a French commercial court. As part of its restructuring plan, EuropaCorp received a new credit line of $100 million to develop a slate of films and start producing again. Besson, who previously had an operational role in the company, became artistic director with a five-year contract renewable for another two years.
The...
- 12/14/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
March is Women’s History Month which commemorates and encourages the “study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history.” And who better to study, observe and celebrate than Mae West and her place in movie history.
Talk about pushing the envelope. West wrote plays-usually revolving around sex-which landed her in jail. She never met an innuendo she didn’t like. West film comedies were popular and controversial. She was banned from NBC Radio-her name couldn’t even be mentioned-for over a decade. West even guest starred on a 1964 episode of CBS’ “Mr. Ed.” West has inspired several female performers over the decades including Madonna and remained true to herself up until her death in 1980 at the age of 87.
West didn’t look at any other actress of the day. Sources say she was 5’ to 5’ 2” (rumor is that she wore eight-inch platform heels on stage...
Talk about pushing the envelope. West wrote plays-usually revolving around sex-which landed her in jail. She never met an innuendo she didn’t like. West film comedies were popular and controversial. She was banned from NBC Radio-her name couldn’t even be mentioned-for over a decade. West even guest starred on a 1964 episode of CBS’ “Mr. Ed.” West has inspired several female performers over the decades including Madonna and remained true to herself up until her death in 1980 at the age of 87.
West didn’t look at any other actress of the day. Sources say she was 5’ to 5’ 2” (rumor is that she wore eight-inch platform heels on stage...
- 3/29/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Addiction is a scourge on America; it ruins lives, devastates families, and leaves gaping psychic wounds that, in many cases, never heal. This is true whether it's opioid addiction, alcoholism, or an eating disorder. And when it comes to families, the pain and suffering are often passed down, generation to generation.
The 2022 documentary "Our American Family," directed and produced by Hallee Adelman and Sean King O'Grady, shows how for one close-knit Philadelphia family, this reality is all too familiar. Viewers meet the documentary's subjects at a pivotal point in their lives: Nicole is a young mother in rehab who, several months earlier, nearly died of an overdose while alone with her two-year-old daughter, Giovanna. The toddler is now under the care of Nicole's mother Linda and stepfather Brian. Also living in the home is Nicole's brother Chris, who has his own mental health and addiction struggles. Linda herself is a...
The 2022 documentary "Our American Family," directed and produced by Hallee Adelman and Sean King O'Grady, shows how for one close-knit Philadelphia family, this reality is all too familiar. Viewers meet the documentary's subjects at a pivotal point in their lives: Nicole is a young mother in rehab who, several months earlier, nearly died of an overdose while alone with her two-year-old daughter, Giovanna. The toddler is now under the care of Nicole's mother Linda and stepfather Brian. Also living in the home is Nicole's brother Chris, who has his own mental health and addiction struggles. Linda herself is a...
- 8/29/2022
- by Sarah Milner
- Slash Film
Exclusive: WME has signed filmmaker R.J. Cutler and his production company This Machine, fresh off the announcement of Cutler’s upcoming documentary on Elton John.
“The agency will work with the award-winning filmmaker – who has made some of the most significant documentaries and television series of the past quarter century – in all areas,” according to Cutler’s PR reps.
Deadline broke the news last week that Disney Original Documentary and Disney+ won the rights to the Elton John feature, to be co-directed by Cutler and John’s life partner David Furnish, in a deal pegged at around 30 million. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: The Final Elton John Performances And the Years That Made His Legend will include concert performances spanning 50 years, as well as the recording artist’s journals and contemporary footage of his family.
Over the course of a 30-year career,...
“The agency will work with the award-winning filmmaker – who has made some of the most significant documentaries and television series of the past quarter century – in all areas,” according to Cutler’s PR reps.
Deadline broke the news last week that Disney Original Documentary and Disney+ won the rights to the Elton John feature, to be co-directed by Cutler and John’s life partner David Furnish, in a deal pegged at around 30 million. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: The Final Elton John Performances And the Years That Made His Legend will include concert performances spanning 50 years, as well as the recording artist’s journals and contemporary footage of his family.
Over the course of a 30-year career,...
- 5/24/2022
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Disney Original Documentary and Disney+ announced today the feature documentary “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: The Final Elton John Performances and The Years That Made His Legend.” From Academy Award-nominee R.J. Cutler and filmmaker David Furnish, the documentary will serve as the official feature on Elton John, comprised of unseen concert footage of him over the past 50 years, hand-written journals and present-day footage of him and his family. Following a robust festival run and limited theatrical release, the film will be available exclusively on Disney+.
Rooted in Elton John’s “Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour,” the feature documentary film will capture Elton John’s final months on the road, culminating in what promises to be one of the greatest send-offs in rock-and-roll history when John performs his final North American show at Dodger Stadium this upcoming November. The film will also look back at the extraordinary first five years of John’s career when,...
Rooted in Elton John’s “Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour,” the feature documentary film will capture Elton John’s final months on the road, culminating in what promises to be one of the greatest send-offs in rock-and-roll history when John performs his final North American show at Dodger Stadium this upcoming November. The film will also look back at the extraordinary first five years of John’s career when,...
- 5/18/2022
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Exclusive: Disney Original Documentary and Disney+ have won the rights to a big feature documentary package, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: The Final Elton John Performances And the Years That Made His Legend. No one would comment, but we hear the docu, from Academy Award-nominee R.J. Cutler as well as filmmaker (and longtime Elton John partner) David Furnish, sold for about 30 million.
Designed to serve as the official feature on Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is comprised of unseen concert footage of him over the past 50 years, hand-written journals and present-day footage of him and his family. The plan for the project is to get a festival run and limited theatrical release and be made available exclusively on Disney+.
At the heart of the documentary is Elton John’s “Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour” as the film will capture Elton John’s final months on the road, culminating in his...
Designed to serve as the official feature on Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is comprised of unseen concert footage of him over the past 50 years, hand-written journals and present-day footage of him and his family. The plan for the project is to get a festival run and limited theatrical release and be made available exclusively on Disney+.
At the heart of the documentary is Elton John’s “Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour” as the film will capture Elton John’s final months on the road, culminating in his...
- 5/18/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva and Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Photographer-turned-filmmaker Lauren Greenfield has directed several critically acclaimed docs, including HBO’s “Thin,” “The Queen of Versailles” and “Generation Wealth.” On the heels of that last film, which looks at consumerism, beauty and gender through the lens of a warped American dream, she raises the stakes in her career-long examination of greed-driven corruption with “The Kingmaker,” in theaters Nov. 8, which showcases Imelda Marcos’ crimes as former first lady of the Philippines and her attempts to rebuild her empire. Here, Greenfield chats about the morality of Marcos, why she gravitates to intimate, dynamic portraits and the one-minute ad campaign that made her a star.
“The Kingmaker” uses images in a visceral way. Can you explain how you sharpened your eye?
I worked as a photographer for 18 years before I made my first film. Using composition and color to communicate information has always been an important part of my process. For example,...
“The Kingmaker” uses images in a visceral way. Can you explain how you sharpened your eye?
I worked as a photographer for 18 years before I made my first film. Using composition and color to communicate information has always been an important part of my process. For example,...
- 11/1/2019
- by LaTesha Harris
- Variety Film + TV
You may remember the name Lauren Greenfield from her amazingly successful #LikeAGirl ad campaign for the brand Always that made its’ debut during the Super Bowl, or perhaps you have seen some of her amazing photography and documentary work captured in “Thin”, wherever you know her from, Greenfield is once again paving the way for women and other diverse voices with the launch of her new production company Girl Culture Films.
The idea behind Girl Culture Films is to showcase the lack of diversity and women behind the camera in all areas of film and television, especially throughout the advertising industry. Women make up the largest market of consumers worldwide, however, the advertising world is made up of roughly 80% men, so essentially it is men telling the women of the world what we should buy! Kind of silly if you really think about it!
Girl Culture’s roster features filmmakers across genres,...
The idea behind Girl Culture Films is to showcase the lack of diversity and women behind the camera in all areas of film and television, especially throughout the advertising industry. Women make up the largest market of consumers worldwide, however, the advertising world is made up of roughly 80% men, so essentially it is men telling the women of the world what we should buy! Kind of silly if you really think about it!
Girl Culture’s roster features filmmakers across genres,...
- 2/4/2019
- by Kristyn Clarke
- Age of the Nerd
Review by Peter BelsitoFor the past 25 years acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield has travelled the world, documenting with ethnographic precision and an artist’s sensitivity a vast range of cultural movements and moments.
Yet, after so much seeking and searching, she realized that much of her work pointed at one uniting phenomenon: wealth culture. With her new film, Generation Wealth, she puts the pieces of her life’s work together for in an incendiary investigation into the pathologies that have created the richest society the world has ever seen.
Spanning consumerism, beauty, gender, body commodification, aging and more, Greenfield has created a comprehensive cautionary tale about a culture heading straight for the cliff’s edge. Generation Wealth, simultaneously a deeply personal journey, rigorous historical essay, and raucously entertaining expose, bears witness to the global boom-bust economy, the corrupted American Dream and the human costs of capitalism, narcissism and greed.
Yet, after so much seeking and searching, she realized that much of her work pointed at one uniting phenomenon: wealth culture. With her new film, Generation Wealth, she puts the pieces of her life’s work together for in an incendiary investigation into the pathologies that have created the richest society the world has ever seen.
Spanning consumerism, beauty, gender, body commodification, aging and more, Greenfield has created a comprehensive cautionary tale about a culture heading straight for the cliff’s edge. Generation Wealth, simultaneously a deeply personal journey, rigorous historical essay, and raucously entertaining expose, bears witness to the global boom-bust economy, the corrupted American Dream and the human costs of capitalism, narcissism and greed.
- 8/6/2018
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
When Lauren Greenfield started the quarter century of photography and documentary work that would culminate in “Generation Wealth,” she had no idea how much the current administration would be reflected in the entire project.
Though Donald Trump is only briefly shown in the Amazon film that opened Friday through Magnolia, the same elements that underlie his climb to office — fame, materialism, real estate, reality TV, the commodification of women’s bodies — are the central themes of the documentary.
In “Generation Wealth,” Greenfield’s subjects suffer the fallout of their lavish lifestyles and outsized obsessions, in something of a cautionary tale for today’s culture. Those subjects include a former porn star, the now-grown L.A. teens she photographed in the 1990s, a plastic surgery addict, a disgraced hedge fund manager and Jackie and David Siegel, the billionaire real estate moguls she portrayed in her previous feature “The Queen of Versailles.
Though Donald Trump is only briefly shown in the Amazon film that opened Friday through Magnolia, the same elements that underlie his climb to office — fame, materialism, real estate, reality TV, the commodification of women’s bodies — are the central themes of the documentary.
In “Generation Wealth,” Greenfield’s subjects suffer the fallout of their lavish lifestyles and outsized obsessions, in something of a cautionary tale for today’s culture. Those subjects include a former porn star, the now-grown L.A. teens she photographed in the 1990s, a plastic surgery addict, a disgraced hedge fund manager and Jackie and David Siegel, the billionaire real estate moguls she portrayed in her previous feature “The Queen of Versailles.
- 7/21/2018
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
In her new documentary feature Generation Wealth, acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield investigates the recent pathologies that have created a society obsessed with wealth and popularity in one of the richest civilisations the world has ever seen. Using her own experiences of growing up as a shy middle class Jewish kid born to academic parents, Greenfield tackles the idea of excessive wealth and its effects on society by taking on ideas relating to consumerism, beauty and body commodification in a world where popularity and money have come to symbolise absolute power and success.
Approaching the subject matter from a very personal standpoint, Greenfield takes us back right to the beginning of her own existence, with her birth, childhood and the divorce of her parents. Later on we are invited to revisit some of her earlier work, namely a series of photographs taken in the 90s which featured a group...
Approaching the subject matter from a very personal standpoint, Greenfield takes us back right to the beginning of her own existence, with her birth, childhood and the divorce of her parents. Later on we are invited to revisit some of her earlier work, namely a series of photographs taken in the 90s which featured a group...
- 7/20/2018
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Lauren Greenfield’s The Queen of Versailles was the perfect and perhaps too prescient portrait of a specific slice of the 1%, and now for her next documentary, she takes on a bigger scope. Generation Wealth, based on her recent exhibit, is a look at different factions (and the machinations) of obscene high class. Following a Sundance premiere, Amazon Studios picked it up for a summer release, and now the first trailer has arrived.
Dan Schindel was mixed in his Sundance review, saying “The results are, predictably, both infuriating for the extreme societal inequality these people embody and depressing for all the ways their money has failed to give them any lasting satisfaction. From the former hedge fund manager turned fugitive to the flash-in-the-‘90s-pan rapper to the onetime porn star, we see clear patterns of status and power acting as a drug, driving people to seek more until they hit some kind of crash.
Dan Schindel was mixed in his Sundance review, saying “The results are, predictably, both infuriating for the extreme societal inequality these people embody and depressing for all the ways their money has failed to give them any lasting satisfaction. From the former hedge fund manager turned fugitive to the flash-in-the-‘90s-pan rapper to the onetime porn star, we see clear patterns of status and power acting as a drug, driving people to seek more until they hit some kind of crash.
- 4/5/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Photographer Lauren Greenfield started her career documenting native tribes, but soon found a different focus, one which would occupy her for the next 25 years. She applied her anthropological lens to the wealthy and privileged, and has been doing variations on that idea ever since, with photo series on Hollywood youths, women’s body issues, conspicuous consumption, new money in China and Europe, and more. Greenfield then compiled these series into a retrospective, Generation Wealth, both as a book and an exhibition which began touring last year. Generation Wealth the documentary is a companion of sorts to the book and exhibition, chronicling both Greenfield’s development over her career and how her subjects have been affected by gaining, having, spending, and/or losing so much money.
The results are, predictably, both infuriating for the extreme societal inequality these people embody and depressing for all the ways their money has failed to give them any lasting satisfaction.
The results are, predictably, both infuriating for the extreme societal inequality these people embody and depressing for all the ways their money has failed to give them any lasting satisfaction.
- 1/21/2018
- by Daniel Schindel
- The Film Stage
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed its 276-member-strong class of 2013.
The list, published by The Hollywood Reporter, includes actors, cinematographers, designers, directors, documentarians, executives, film editors, makeup artists and hairstylists, "members-at-large," musicians, producers, PR folks, short filmmakers and animators, sound technicians, visual effects artists, and writers.
Jason Bateman, Rosario Dawson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Milla Jovovich, Lucy Liu, Jennifer Lopez, Emily Mortimer, Sandra Oh, Jason Schwartzman, and Michael Peña are among the roster of actors, while "The Heat" and "Bridesmaids" helmer Paul Feig made the directors' cut.
"We did not change our criteria at all," says Academy president Hawk Koch of this year's larger-than-usual class. "Yes, this year there is a tremendous amount of women, a tremendous amount of people of color, people from all walks of life. This year, we asked the branches to look at everybody who wasn't in the Academy but who deserved to be.
The list, published by The Hollywood Reporter, includes actors, cinematographers, designers, directors, documentarians, executives, film editors, makeup artists and hairstylists, "members-at-large," musicians, producers, PR folks, short filmmakers and animators, sound technicians, visual effects artists, and writers.
Jason Bateman, Rosario Dawson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Milla Jovovich, Lucy Liu, Jennifer Lopez, Emily Mortimer, Sandra Oh, Jason Schwartzman, and Michael Peña are among the roster of actors, while "The Heat" and "Bridesmaids" helmer Paul Feig made the directors' cut.
"We did not change our criteria at all," says Academy president Hawk Koch of this year's larger-than-usual class. "Yes, this year there is a tremendous amount of women, a tremendous amount of people of color, people from all walks of life. This year, we asked the branches to look at everybody who wasn't in the Academy but who deserved to be.
- 7/4/2013
- by Laura Larson
- Moviefone
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today the 276 members of the entertainment industry invited to join organization. The list includes actors, directors, documentarians, executives, film editors, producers and more. Of those listed below, those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy's membership in 2013. "These individuals are among the best filmmakers working in the industry today," said Academy President Hawk Koch in a press release. "Their talent and creativity have captured the imagination of audiences worldwide, and I am proud to welcome each of them to the Academy." Koch also told Variety, "In the past eight or nine years, each branch could only bring in X amount of members. There were people each branch would have liked to get in but couldn't. We asked them to be more inclusive of the best of the best, and each branch was excited, because they got...
- 6/28/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The Academy just added 276 Oscar voters.
That’s 100 more than last year, and part of an easing of a longstanding cap on the number of new members allowed to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences each year.
AMPAS usually adds between 130 and 180 new members, replacing those who have quit or passed away. The membership now stands around 6,000.
Jason Bateman, Jennifer Lopez, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emmanuelle Riva, and Chris Tucker are among the actors who have been invited to join, the organization announced today.
Other interesting additions: the musician Prince, Girls and Tiny Furniture writer/director/actress Lena Dunham,...
That’s 100 more than last year, and part of an easing of a longstanding cap on the number of new members allowed to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences each year.
AMPAS usually adds between 130 and 180 new members, replacing those who have quit or passed away. The membership now stands around 6,000.
Jason Bateman, Jennifer Lopez, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emmanuelle Riva, and Chris Tucker are among the actors who have been invited to join, the organization announced today.
Other interesting additions: the musician Prince, Girls and Tiny Furniture writer/director/actress Lena Dunham,...
- 6/28/2013
- by Anthony Breznican
- EW - Inside Movies
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 276 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures. Those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy’s membership in 2013.
“These individuals are among the best filmmakers working in the industry today,” said Academy President Hawk Koch. “Their talent and creativity have captured the imagination of audiences worldwide, and I am proud to welcome each of them to the Academy.”
The 2013 invitees are:
Actors
Jason Bateman – “Up in the Air,” “Juno”
Miriam Colon – “City of Hope,” “Scarface”
Rosario Dawson – “Rent,” “Frank Miller’s Sin City”
Kimberly Elise – “For Colored Girls,” “Beloved”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt – “Lincoln,” “The Dark Knight Rises”
Charles Grodin – “Midnight Run,” “The Heartbreak Kid”
Rebecca Hall – “Iron Man 3,” “The Town”
Lance Henriksen – “Aliens,” “The Terminator”
Jack Huston – “Not Fade Away,” “Factory Girl”
Milla Jovovich – “Resident Evil,...
“These individuals are among the best filmmakers working in the industry today,” said Academy President Hawk Koch. “Their talent and creativity have captured the imagination of audiences worldwide, and I am proud to welcome each of them to the Academy.”
The 2013 invitees are:
Actors
Jason Bateman – “Up in the Air,” “Juno”
Miriam Colon – “City of Hope,” “Scarface”
Rosario Dawson – “Rent,” “Frank Miller’s Sin City”
Kimberly Elise – “For Colored Girls,” “Beloved”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt – “Lincoln,” “The Dark Knight Rises”
Charles Grodin – “Midnight Run,” “The Heartbreak Kid”
Rebecca Hall – “Iron Man 3,” “The Town”
Lance Henriksen – “Aliens,” “The Terminator”
Jack Huston – “Not Fade Away,” “Factory Girl”
Milla Jovovich – “Resident Evil,...
- 6/28/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
With the credits poised to roll on 2012, it's time for the Guardian's countdown through the year's best films. We start at number 10: Lauren Greenfield's tragicomic documentary about the Us housing crisis
It's been a pretty good year for documentaries. Bart "Banged Up Abroad" Layton gave us the trashy thrills of The Imposter, Alma Har'el's Bombay Beach offered a mournful valediction to ruined lives on the American margins, while Werner Herzog – who else – took an intriguingly uninflected position on the death penalty with Into the Abyss. But Lauren Greenfield's The Queen of Versailles was arguably the pick of the year, zeroing in on a very contemporary fable and telling its story with sly wit and a degree of empathy.
Greenfield hasn't arrived from nowhere, though: a photographer of considerable distinction, she put herself on the map with her Girl Culture book before breaking into feature-length film-making with the eating-disorder doco Thin,...
It's been a pretty good year for documentaries. Bart "Banged Up Abroad" Layton gave us the trashy thrills of The Imposter, Alma Har'el's Bombay Beach offered a mournful valediction to ruined lives on the American margins, while Werner Herzog – who else – took an intriguingly uninflected position on the death penalty with Into the Abyss. But Lauren Greenfield's The Queen of Versailles was arguably the pick of the year, zeroing in on a very contemporary fable and telling its story with sly wit and a degree of empathy.
Greenfield hasn't arrived from nowhere, though: a photographer of considerable distinction, she put herself on the map with her Girl Culture book before breaking into feature-length film-making with the eating-disorder doco Thin,...
- 12/3/2012
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
This week on DVD/Blu-ray: Lauren Greenfield's timely documentary that opened this year's Sundance Film Festival; the latest from Oliver Stone; Amy Heckerling's reunion with her "Clueless" star Alicia Silverstone; Julie Delpy's winning follow-up to "2 Days in Paris"; and the latest dry comedy from Todd Solondz. #1. "The Queen of Versailles" Criticwire Page Acclaimed documentary filmmaker and photographer Lauren Greenfield ("Thin") didn't know what she was getting herself into when she approached billionaire Jackie Siegel (wife to timeshare titan David) at a party hosted by Donatella Versace. Greenfield's initial intention was to photograph Jackie for a photographic work about wealth, consumerism and the American Dream. But as soon as Greenfield found out that the Siegels were in the midst of building the biggest home in America, she picked up her movie camera and began to document the family's...
- 11/13/2012
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
Who needs ten kitchens in their house? I’m looking forward to this documentary giving me some insight into people who feel very alien to me. I mean, I think I can imagine having so much money I could do whatever I wanted... but I simply cannot imagine wanting to do with it what these people do. And I do anticipate some major insight, for this is from Lauren Greenfield, who made the emotionally harrowing and perceptive Thin.
- 8/30/2012
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
A half-finished Florida mansion is the centerpiece of the funny documentary The Queen Of Versailles Photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield is a thoughtful and arty chronicler of youth culture via her short film kids + money, about teens and consumer culture; her feature-length documentary Thin, about young women battling extreme eating disorders, as well as numerous photo exhibitions and monographs. For her latest documentary, The Queen of Versailles, Greenfield steps away from kids and focuses on longtime couple David Siegel and Jackie Siegel, who start work on the largest home in America; a mansion inspired by the famous French royal palace as well as a Las Vegas high rise. Over the course of Greenfield’s lively movie, David and Jackie see their dream project come to a grinding halt when the economic recession...
- 7/20/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
A half-finished Florida mansion is the centerpiece of the funny documentary The Queen Of Versailles Photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield is a thoughtful and arty chronicler of youth culture via her short film kids + money, about teens and consumer culture; her feature-length documentary Thin, about young women battling extreme eating disorders, as well as numerous photo exhibitions and monographs. For her latest documentary, The Queen of Versailles, Greenfield steps away from kids and focuses on longtime couple David Siegel and Jackie Siegel, who start work on the largest home in America; a mansion inspired by the famous French royal palace as well as a Las Vegas high rise. Over the course of Greenfield’s lively movie, David and Jackie see their dream project come to a grinding halt when the economic recession...
- 7/20/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
All hail "The Queen of Versailles." This irresistible documentary, about the effects of the 2008 economic collapse on a free-spending, über-wealthy couple, gives viewers an up-close-and-personal look at the gaudy weirdness that is the American Dream – in reverse. "Versailles," directed and produced by Lauren Greenfield ("Thin"), focuses on David and Jackie Siegel, who in 2006 broke ground on their 90,000-square-foot dream house in Windermere, Florida. They named it 'Versailles' and, upon completion, it would have been the largest private residence in the U.S. Today, their hulking Versailles stands half-finished, a potent symbol...
- 7/19/2012
- by Leah Rozen
- The Wrap
Photographer Lauren Greenfield lucked out with "Queen of Versailles," her second feature documentary. Her instincts drew her to forge a connection at a 2007 party with billionaire trophy wife Jackie Siegel, one of Versace's best customers, and to follow her around with a camera. (One photo of her blingy gold and silver purses was one of Time's pictures of the year.) Greenfield had no idea that this gregarious silicone-busty blonde with seven children--whose Florida real estate mogul husband David was building a 90,000-square-foot Versailles, the biggest house in America, the embodiment of the American Dream--was about to hit the 2008 financial crisis skids. "I was intrigued by their wealth and lifestyle," says Greenfield in a phone interview. "It had a fantasy quality. She had an accessible, down to earth and open personality, which was unusual for a rich person." Initially Greenfield, who had directed HBO's "Thin," thought...
- 7/19/2012
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker and photographer Lauren Greenfield ("Thin") didn't know what she was getting herself into when she approached billionaire Jackie Siegel (wife to timeshare titan David) at a party hosted by Donatella Versace. Greenfield's initial intention was to photograph Jackie for a photographic work about wealth, consumerism and the American Dream. But as soon as Greenfield found out that the Siegel's were in the midst of building the biggest home in America, she picked up her camera and began to document the family's day-to-day routines. Cut to five years later and the result of their time spent together, "The Queen of Versailles" (the Siegel's modeled their new home on the Palace of Versailles), has a twist in the tale none of them could see coming -- the family ended up in dire financial straits that are a result of the 2008 stock market collapse. What began as a study of...
- 7/18/2012
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
Title: The Queen of Versailles Director: Lauren Greenfield (‘Thin,’ ‘Kids + Money’) Starring: David Siegel, Jackie Siegel People are often willing to do whatever it takes in order to achieve their goals and dreams, while also becoming financially successful. But it becomes even more difficult for a person to keep the dream after it has already been realized, and everything they’ve worked so hard for has come tumbling down. This devastating drama unfolds in director Lauren Greenfield’s new documentary, ‘The Queen of Versailles,’ showing that the bigger a fortune and dream a person has, the harder it is to adjust once it’s taken away. ‘The Queen of Versailles’ follows the [ Read More ]...
- 7/16/2012
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
I know what you're probably thinking, but no, this is not a period drama or a historical film of any kind. The Queen of Versailles is a documentary about what it's like to live a life of luxury buoyed by a billionaire husband, and what happens when the faltering economy brings you back down to reality. It was a hit at Sundance earlier this year where director Lauren Greenfield (Thin) won the jury prize for Best Director, and it has already spawned a lawsuit from one of the subjects... so it's gotta be good, right? The film follows David Siegel, a timeshare mogul who amassed a fortune through his company Westgate Resorts Ltd. He and his former beauty queen wife, Jacqueline, set out on a quest to build the biggest house in America, a 90,000-square-foot dream house modeled after Versailles. Unfortunately, when the real estate bubble bursts, they find themselves...
- 6/22/2012
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
After exploring the lack of ladies when it comes to the world of composing, I decided to go directly to the source and ask a composer who is currently (and actively) working in the business, and who also happens to be a woman. Miriam Cutler is best known for her work in documentaries such as Thin, Lost in La Mancha and Ethel (which recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival back in January.) I spoke with Cutler not just about her background in music and composing (which is both impressive and extensive), but also about her perspective on the industry as a whole and as a woman working in it. While there may not be many well-known female composers at the moment, they are certainly on the rise. With veterans like Cutler paving the way, it sounds like many composers coming into the industry now are not just men, and it will be interesting to see how...
- 3/22/2012
- by Allison Loring
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Documentary director Lauren Greenfield (Thin) returned to Sundance with another fascinating slice of American life – the winner of this year’s U.S. Directing Award for Documentary features, The Queen of Versailles is an unexpectedly amusing tale of delusion and disgusting wealth, toplined by a couple of American originals who prove to be wackily riveting. The film chronicles Jackie and David Siegel, incredibly wealthy Floridians best known for their attempt to build the United States’ largest single family residence, one they modeled after equal parts the Palace of Versailles and the top three floors of the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. There is perhaps no other sentence that could so accurately describe what kind of people the Siegels are. Greenfield initially began documenting the lives of the Siegels when they were at the top of their game – David is founder, owner, president, and chief executive officer of Westgate Resorts, one of the world’s largest real estate...
- 1/30/2012
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Magnolia Pictures announced at Sundance that the company has bought the North American rights to Lauren Greenfield's The Queen of Versailles : The Wagner/Cuban Company.s Magnolia Pictures announced today they have acquired North American distribution rights to The Queen Of Versailles, an outrageous, timely and moving film that premiered last night to a sold out crowd at the Eccles theater as this year.s opening night film at the Sundance film festival. Television and international rights are still available. From acclaimed filmmaker and photographer Lauren Greenfield (Thin, Kids + Money; named one of the top 25 most influential photographers of our time by American Photo), The Queen Of Versailles is a prescient, wildly entertaining documentary about billionaires Jackie and...
- 1/21/2012
- Comingsoon.net
Exclusive: Magnolia Pictures is making a deal for The Queen Of Versailles, the documentary that made its Sundance Film Festival debut Thursday at Eccles Theater. I’m told the deal will be for all rights in North America except TV. Plans are for a theatrical release later this summer. Several companies chased the film including Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions together, and Sony Pictures Classics, which today bought Searching for Sugar Man. The Queen Of Versailles focuses on the odyssey of timeshare magnate David Siegel and his 30-years younger wife Jackie. Riding high, they decided at the peak of their wealth to build Versailles, a 90,000-square-foot home that would have been the largest in America. Modeled after the Palace of Versailles, the plans included an indoor ice skating rink and 10 kitchens. When the 2008 economic collapse hit, their plans were dashed and they struggled to live like the unwashed masses. The docu...
- 1/20/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
On Monday, August 15, 2011, Wif and Ida joined forces at The Cinefamily to produce a panel of esteemed women documentary filmmakers called Doc U: Women Behind the Camera. Moderated by producer Lucy Webb, the panel featured the insight of Lauren Greenfield (Thin), Jennifer Arnold (A Small Act), and veteran filmmaker Michele Ohayon (S.O.S/State of Security, Colors Straight Up). The three panelists each took their turns answering questions from Ms. Webb and the audience. Here's some of the educational and inspiring things they had to say.Jennifer Arnold on choosing a ...
- 9/7/2011
- by IDA Editorial Staff
- International Documentary Association
Jennifer Arnold (A Small Act) has officially signed on to join Michele Ohayon (S.O.S/State of Security, Colors Straight Up) and Lauren Greenfield (Thin) on the Women Behind the Camera panel as a part of Doc U on Monday, August 15 at 7pm. Moderated by producer Lucy Webb, these accomplished women filmmakers will discuss the rewards, challenges and opportunities women face in producing and directing documentary films. This special engagement is one night only. The night's conversation will be followed by an audience Q&A and a reception on the Cinefamily's backyard Spanish patio.
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- 8/13/2011
- by IDA Editorial Staff
- International Documentary Association
The upcoming exhibition Beauty Culture, which opens on May 21 at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City, will feature a new 30-minute documentary directed by Lauren Greenfield. As per the Annenberg Foundation's press release, Greenfield's film, which includes interviews with several photographers and subjects included in the exhibition, "accompanies the venue’s sweeping, unprecedented photographic exploration of how feminine beauty is defined, challenged and revered in modern society." Among the film’s subjects are photographers Albert Watson, Melvin Sokolsky and Tyen; fashion models Crystal Renn, Carmen Dell'Orefice and Emme; and agents Eileen Ford and Bethann Hardison. Jamie Lee Curtis, daughter of famous beauty Janet Leigh, is one of the personalities providing additional commentary. Filmmaker and photographer Lauren Greenfield's credits include Thin, kids + money, Girl Culture and Fast Forward: Growing up in the Shadow of Hollywood. Thin won the John Grierson Award for Best Documentary at the London Film Festival.
- 5/10/2011
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
Documentarian R.J. Cutler is stepping into the world of fiction, and will direct "Fabulous Nobodies" for Colac Pictures. The movie is based on the novel by fashion journalist Lee Talloch. It revolves around Reality Nirvana Tuttle, a shallow doorgirl at an exclusive New York club. Mark Fortin and Josh Miller are writing. Cutler will produce with Julie Anne Quay and Gail Lyon. The director is known for "The September Issue" and "'Hick' Town," both from 2009, and "Thin," from 2006. Cutler is repped by Wme and Mosaic. Related Articles: ...
- 4/6/2011
- by Joshua L. Weinstein
- The Wrap
I'm all for documentary filmmakers making the occasional fiction film, particularly if it helps them fund another non-fiction film later on. But why must so many of the fiction films documentarians choose to make be trashy romantic comedies and teen dramas? Case in point: according to Variety, R.J. Cutler is set to direct an adaptation of Melissa de la Cruz's sex-filled Hamptons-set young adult novel The Au Pairs. A few reviews I've seen of the 2004 publication, which spawned a few sequels (Skinny Dipping, Sun Kissed and Crazy Hot) recommended it for fans of Gossip Girl.
Cutler is best known recently for his Oscar-shortlisted doc The September Issue, which takes a behind the scenes look at the production of every mailman's least favorite issue of Vogue magazine and its powerful editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour. Previously he directed the Oliver North campaign doc A Perfect Candidate. Other films Cutler has been involved with...
Cutler is best known recently for his Oscar-shortlisted doc The September Issue, which takes a behind the scenes look at the production of every mailman's least favorite issue of Vogue magazine and its powerful editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour. Previously he directed the Oliver North campaign doc A Perfect Candidate. Other films Cutler has been involved with...
- 3/3/2010
- by Christopher Campbell
- Cinematical
- The do-gooders over at the Sundance Institute have announced the four projects that will benefit from the expertise of others. Now in its fifth year, the Documentary Film Editing and Story Laboratory merges creative advisors with the lucky few who get some hands on help. The Creative Advisors for the 2007 Documentary Editing and Story Lab are: editors Jean-Philippe Boucicaut (Citizen King and Matters Of Race); Kate Amend (Thin, and Academy Award-winner The Long Way Home); Lewis Erskine (Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple and Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind); Mary Lampson (A Lion in the House and Harlan County) and accomplished directors Robb Moss (Secrecy and The Same River Twice) and Ra’anan Alexandrowicz (The Inner Tour and James’ Journey To Jerusalem). Here are the brief descriptions of the lucky four projects that should get a Sundance festival birth fairly soon. Tibet In Song
- 6/15/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
How the Internet has changed the creative process, the life of a film and its distribution pattern were the topics discussed by a panel of notable Hollywood screenwriters at the first in a new speakers series hosted by Google on Monday night.
Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow), Lauren Greenfield (Thin), Ted Griffin (Ocean's Eleven), and Jim Uhls (Fight Club) spoke specifically to how they each use the Web's resources for development, how blogging communities now serve to promote films online and the impact of digital technology not only on a film's aesthetics but the industry at large to a mostly packed theater inside the Mann Criterion and close to Google's Santa Monica location.
"It used to be that reviews came out on Friday, then they were lining everybody's birdcage but now they're there forever," quipped Griffin about the power behind the interactive nature of blogging on the Net.
Brewer, whose 2005's "Hustle & Flow" garnered Terrence Howard an Academy Award nomination for best actor credited the social community aspect created through blogging as responsible for creating greater momentum for the film.
Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow), Lauren Greenfield (Thin), Ted Griffin (Ocean's Eleven), and Jim Uhls (Fight Club) spoke specifically to how they each use the Web's resources for development, how blogging communities now serve to promote films online and the impact of digital technology not only on a film's aesthetics but the industry at large to a mostly packed theater inside the Mann Criterion and close to Google's Santa Monica location.
"It used to be that reviews came out on Friday, then they were lining everybody's birdcage but now they're there forever," quipped Griffin about the power behind the interactive nature of blogging on the Net.
Brewer, whose 2005's "Hustle & Flow" garnered Terrence Howard an Academy Award nomination for best actor credited the social community aspect created through blogging as responsible for creating greater momentum for the film.
LONDON -- Lauren Greenfield's Thin, about a Florida eating disorder treatment center, won the second annual Times BFI London Film Festival Grierson Award, organizers said Wednesday.
The Grierson nod is given to the director of the best feature-length documentary shown during the festival.
Greenfield is scheduled to be presented with the award at a special screening of the documentary today
The award is presented in conjunction with the Grierson Trust, which commerates Scottish documentary-maker John Grierson, who died in 1972.
The Grierson nod is given to the director of the best feature-length documentary shown during the festival.
Greenfield is scheduled to be presented with the award at a special screening of the documentary today
The award is presented in conjunction with the Grierson Trust, which commerates Scottish documentary-maker John Grierson, who died in 1972.
- 10/26/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross' political docudrama The Road to Guantanamo took home best narrative feature and best ensemble acting honors at the ninth annual Newport International Film Festival. At the awards ceremony, held Saturday in Rhode Island, actors Diane Ladd and Brian Dennehy were given lifetime achievement awards. Other top honors went to best director Kelly Reichardt for Old Joy, and best actress Emily Rios for Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland's Quinceanera. Three features shared the top documentary prizes: Gary Tarn's Black Sun, Lauren Greenfield's Thin and Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg's The Trials of Darryl Hunt.
- 6/13/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- This year Ioncinema.com is covering the 2006 edition of the Sundance Film Festival Live from Park City, Utah. We’ll be on hand to cover the festival, and while we won’t be able to cover everything from A to Z: here is a comprehensive beforehand look at the selections in each of the festival’s sections. (Note: To access individual preview pages, simply click on the links below) January 19th to the 28th, 2006Counting Down: updateCountdownClock('January 19, 2006'); Docu Competition"American Blackout," Ian Inaba's assessment of the career of U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney of Georgia and the purported suppression of the black vote historically and in the 2004 election in Florida and Ohio. "Crossing Arizona," Joseph Mathew's mosaic of human stories enmeshed in Arizona's illegal immigration crisis. "God Grew Tired of Us," Christopher Quinn and Tom Walker's account of the culture shock that hits four Sudanese
- 1/17/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
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