There’s a moment early in director Brian Vincent and producer Heather Spore’s documentary Make Me Famous when the ’80s downtown New York artist Edward Brezinski is described by the late artist Duncan Hannah as the guy with the flyers. Brezinski would show up at openings, drink the cheap wine and press flyers for group shows at the Magic Gallery (his own barren apartment on East 3rd Street) into as many palms as possible. In a world where the most successful artists managed to self-promote while simultaneously adopting a pose of understated remove, Brezinski’s old-school hucksterism was memorably uncool. As the […]
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- 7/6/2023
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
There’s a moment early in director Brian Vincent and producer Heather Spore’s documentary Make Me Famous when the ’80s downtown New York artist Edward Brezinski is described by the late artist Duncan Hannah as the guy with the flyers. Brezinski would show up at openings, drink the cheap wine and press flyers for group shows at the Magic Gallery (his own barren apartment on East 3rd Street) into as many palms as possible. In a world where the most successful artists managed to self-promote while simultaneously adopting a pose of understated remove, Brezinski’s old-school hucksterism was memorably uncool. As the […]
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- 7/6/2023
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Currently boasting 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and heading into its second weekend in New York theaters is Brian Vincent‘s Make Me Famous, a self-distributed documentary about the 1980s New York art world centered around painter Edward Brezinski. A notable figure from the era that spawned Nan Goldin, Jean-Michel Basquiat and David Wojnarowicz, he never attained their level of recognition and subsequently disappeared — a disappearance the filmmakers try to solve. From the press materials: A madcap romp through the 1980’s NYC art scene amid the colorful career of painter, Edward Brezinski, hell-bent on making it. What begins as an investigation […]
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- 6/26/2023
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Currently boasting 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and heading into its second weekend in New York theaters is Brian Vincent‘s Make Me Famous, a self-distributed documentary about the 1980s New York art world centered around painter Edward Brezinski. A notable figure from the era that spawned Nan Goldin, Jean-Michel Basquiat and David Wojnarowicz, he never attained their level of recognition and subsequently disappeared — a disappearance the filmmakers try to solve. From the press materials: A madcap romp through the 1980’s NYC art scene amid the colorful career of painter, Edward Brezinski, hell-bent on making it. What begins as an investigation […]
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- 6/26/2023
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
"You think the world is all about *your* content." Quiver has revealed the official trailer for indie horror thriller called Follow Her, yet another social media cautionary tale. This premiered at the Fantasporto and Fantaspoa Film Festivals last year, playing a few others in the US last fall. After a succesful fest run it's set to release for viewing this June including on VOD right away. "Follow Her is a psycho-sexual thriller that questions the ethical boundaries of social media." An aspiring actress responds to a mysterious classified ad and finds herself trapped in her new boss's twisted revenge fantasy. Starring Dani Barker as Jess Peters, Luke Cook, Eliana Jones, Mark Moses, Cristala Carter, and Brian Vincent. The horror site Bloody Disgusting ran a great review, saying: "The fact that Follow Her succeeds at being fun, meta, and thought-provoking, while also being a low budget, female-led project, makes this an exceptional movie.
- 4/25/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
‘Women Talking’, ‘Marcel The Shell With Shoes On’ start in cinemas.
Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania is the headline title at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office, opening in 678 cinemas through Disney and looking to become the first of the Ant-Man trilogy to cross the £20m mark in the territory.
Peyton Reed returns as director having made the first two films. This instalment sees Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang and Evangeline Lilly’s Hope Van Dyne explore the Quantum Realm; new cast members include Kathryn Newton, and Jonathan Majors as the main antagonist Kang the Conqueror.
Ant-Man was the fifth...
Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania is the headline title at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office, opening in 678 cinemas through Disney and looking to become the first of the Ant-Man trilogy to cross the £20m mark in the territory.
Peyton Reed returns as director having made the first two films. This instalment sees Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang and Evangeline Lilly’s Hope Van Dyne explore the Quantum Realm; new cast members include Kathryn Newton, and Jonathan Majors as the main antagonist Kang the Conqueror.
Ant-Man was the fifth...
- 2/17/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Stars: Dani Barker, Luke Cook, Eliana Jones, Mark Moses, Crystal Carter, Brian Vincent, Justin L. Wilson, Lorraine Farris | Written by Dani Barker | Directed by Sylvia Caminer
Struggling actor and moderately successful live-streaming star Jess Peters has found her way into the zeitgeist. By secretly filming creepy interactions she encounters via online job listings, she uses the kinks and weirdness of others for Internet success. For her next episode she’s hired to write the ending of a screenplay, which leads her to a cabin in the woods with Tom, the self-proclaimed writer. But reading the script, Jess realises she is the main character and Tom is not who he seems…
There has been, in recent years, a plethora of films that look at the “horrors” of the internet – be it social media, a total lack of privacy etc., etc.; films like Cam, The Den, Unfriended and Host. However Follow Her...
Struggling actor and moderately successful live-streaming star Jess Peters has found her way into the zeitgeist. By secretly filming creepy interactions she encounters via online job listings, she uses the kinks and weirdness of others for Internet success. For her next episode she’s hired to write the ending of a screenplay, which leads her to a cabin in the woods with Tom, the self-proclaimed writer. But reading the script, Jess realises she is the main character and Tom is not who he seems…
There has been, in recent years, a plethora of films that look at the “horrors” of the internet – be it social media, a total lack of privacy etc., etc.; films like Cam, The Den, Unfriended and Host. However Follow Her...
- 9/21/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Outfest has announced the complete lineup for its 40th-anniversary Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Film Festival, which will take place from July 14-24 at multiple locations throughout Los Angeles.
More than 200 films, representing 29 countries, will screen as part of this year’s lineup. 42 will make their world premieres, including the doc Stay on Board: The Leo Baker Story from Drew Barrymore’s Flower Films and Pulse Films; the UK feature Phea, starring Sherika Sherard; Mercedes Kane’s Art and Pep; and Scout Durwood’s Youtopia.
Outfest Los Angeles’ Episodics section will also feature a host of world premieres, including advanced looks at at Shudder’s forthcoming docuseries Queer for Fear; the comedy special Queer Riot, headlined by Margaret Cho; and writer-producer Des Moran’s series halfsies, as well as a free sneak peek screening of the upcoming Prime Video series A League of Their Own, starring Abbi Jacobson.
The fest’s Platinum section,...
More than 200 films, representing 29 countries, will screen as part of this year’s lineup. 42 will make their world premieres, including the doc Stay on Board: The Leo Baker Story from Drew Barrymore’s Flower Films and Pulse Films; the UK feature Phea, starring Sherika Sherard; Mercedes Kane’s Art and Pep; and Scout Durwood’s Youtopia.
Outfest Los Angeles’ Episodics section will also feature a host of world premieres, including advanced looks at at Shudder’s forthcoming docuseries Queer for Fear; the comedy special Queer Riot, headlined by Margaret Cho; and writer-producer Des Moran’s series halfsies, as well as a free sneak peek screening of the upcoming Prime Video series A League of Their Own, starring Abbi Jacobson.
The fest’s Platinum section,...
- 6/22/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
NewFest, New York’s LGBTQ+ film festival, kicks off tonight with one of the most prominent documentaries of the fall.
Mayor Pete, directed by Jesse Moss, goes behind the scenes and on the stump with Pete Buttigieg as he became the first openly gay major presidential candidate, vying for the Democratic nomination. Buttigieg’s campaign was unusual not only because of his gay identity, but for his résumé: his background in elective office was limited to serving as the mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
“One of the reasons I wanted to make the film is there seemed to be something almost Frank Capra-esque about this notion that a small-town mayor could run for president and be competitive,” Moss tells Deadline. “Of course, I wasn’t sure that was possible when we set out to make the film.
Mayor Pete, directed by Jesse Moss, goes behind the scenes and on the stump with Pete Buttigieg as he became the first openly gay major presidential candidate, vying for the Democratic nomination. Buttigieg’s campaign was unusual not only because of his gay identity, but for his résumé: his background in elective office was limited to serving as the mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
“One of the reasons I wanted to make the film is there seemed to be something almost Frank Capra-esque about this notion that a small-town mayor could run for president and be competitive,” Moss tells Deadline. “Of course, I wasn’t sure that was possible when we set out to make the film.
- 10/15/2021
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
NewFest, New York City’s premier LGBTQ film festival, swings into its 33rd edition on Friday, delivering over 130 features, shorts, and documentaries across theaters in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and for those viewers outside of NYC, at home virtually.
The festival this year runs October 15 through 26, kicking off on Friday with the east coast premiere of the documentary “Mayor Pete,” about Secretary of Transportation and former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg. The film brings viewers inside his campaign to be the youngest U.S. President, and looking at his marriage to his husband Chasten, and their ambitious team — from the earliest days of the campaign to his unlikely victory in Iowa and beyond. This film reveals what goes on inside a campaign for the highest office in the land — and the myriad ways it changes the lives of those at its center. Buttigieg serves as the first openly LGBTQ Cabinet member in U.
The festival this year runs October 15 through 26, kicking off on Friday with the east coast premiere of the documentary “Mayor Pete,” about Secretary of Transportation and former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg. The film brings viewers inside his campaign to be the youngest U.S. President, and looking at his marriage to his husband Chasten, and their ambitious team — from the earliest days of the campaign to his unlikely victory in Iowa and beyond. This film reveals what goes on inside a campaign for the highest office in the land — and the myriad ways it changes the lives of those at its center. Buttigieg serves as the first openly LGBTQ Cabinet member in U.
- 10/15/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio and Jude Dry
- Indiewire
In a certain light, all filmmakers–even the most successful–are con artists as heart, convincing investors, a crew, and performers to go along for the ride with a tremendous amount of uncertainty. Martha Shane’s enlightening documentary Narrowsburg looks at a couple’s desire to start a “Sundance of the East,” very likely without having ever attended Sundance and fully understanding the amount of work that it takes. There are film festivals like this, and in the interest of full disclosure yours truly is the artistic director of a regional film festival and every year we struggle to make sure our filmmakers have realistic expectations for how things will go. The Narrowsburg International Independent Film Festival, and the film the town produced, Four Deadly Reasons, is a textbook study in what can go wrong when you prey on the expectations of small-town residents who get sucked in by a snake oil salesman.
- 11/12/2019
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
From the characters' names (Jack Crews, Red, Earl, Sonny) to the preposterous plot to the numerous chases and fatal crashes, "Black Dog" wags its hoary, tough-underdog-puts-pedal-to-the-metal tale with no verve or veracity.
Even the hard-core bubba crowd is likely to pass this one up despite a country music soundtrack and the casting of Randy Travis in a major role. The Universal release's sole attraction is a few amazing shots of big rigs flying through the air, falling off mountain roads and smashing into things, usually in slow motion.
With little to do but look mean, bark a few orders and growl at his foes, lead Patrick Swayze as former con Crews is well-groomed for this sort of dogfight, but he's inexplicably leashed for most of it. Trying to go straight after serving time for vehicular manslaughter, the trucker takes on a risky job for money needed to pay an overdue mortgage.
His amiable spouse (Brenda Strong) makes a feeble attempt to stop him from hauling a truckload of illegal arms from Atlanta to New Jersey. But the lack of a driver's license and immediate doubts about all parties involved are not enough to deter Jack.
The title refers to a nighttime apparition that causes overworked, "greedy" drivers to crash, which is what happened to tough-luck case Jack. With such a back-story hounding him, he feels twice as challenged, but he's a gullible gorilla to boot.
Recruited by his shady boss Cutler (Graham Beckel) and flown to Georgia, Jack meets Bible-quoting middleman Red (Meat Loaf) and his pack of hired curs, including would-be singer-songwriter Earl (Travis, ha-ha), amiable dreamer Sonny (Gabriel Casseus) and shifty lowlife Wes (Brian Vincent).
Unbeknownst to Jack, Cutler, Red, et al., squabbling FBI and ATF agents (Charles Dutton and Stephen Tobolowsky) are tracking the shipment in an attempt to nab the buyer. Red makes the first move, attempting to "hijack the load" in ambushes involving cars, trucks and motorcycles.
In an ungainly development, Jack, Earl, Sonny and Wes become allies. Slimy Cutler takes Jack's wife and daughter hostage, leaving our hero no choice but to complete the job. After one of his road pals turns out to be an undercover agent and dies, Jack comes up with a plan to save his family and make the world a safer place.
Director Kevin Hooks ("Fled") and cinematographer Buzz Feitshans IV shift into overdrive for the action scenes, but otherwise the wide-screen production is visually undistinguished. Similarly, the screenplay credited to William Mickelberry and Dan Vining is laughably generic, with light humor that usually doesn't work and such dreadfully banal ideas as having Meat Loaf's character toss off lines from the scriptures as he tries to ram Jack with a succession of bigger red chariots.
BLACK DOG
Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures and
Mutual Film Company present
a Prelude Pictures production
in association with Raffaella De Laurentiis
Director: Kevin Hooks
Screenwriters: William Mickelberry, Dan Vining
Producers: Peter Saphier, Mark W. Koch,
Raffaella De Laurentiis
Executive producer: Mace Neufeld,
Robert Rehme, Gary Levinsohn, Mark Gordon
Director of photography: Buzz Feitshans IV
Production designer: Victoria Paul
Editors: Debra Neil-Fisher, Sabrina Plisco-Morris
Costume designer: Peggy Stamper
Music: George S. Clinton
Casting: Elisabeth Rudolph
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jack Crews: Patrick Swayze
Red: Meat Loaf
Earl: Randy Travis
Sonny: Gabriel Casseus
Wes: Brian Vincent
Cutler: Graham Beckel
Melanie: Brenda Strong
Ford: Charles Dutton
McClaren: Stephen Tobolowsky
Running time -- 88 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Even the hard-core bubba crowd is likely to pass this one up despite a country music soundtrack and the casting of Randy Travis in a major role. The Universal release's sole attraction is a few amazing shots of big rigs flying through the air, falling off mountain roads and smashing into things, usually in slow motion.
With little to do but look mean, bark a few orders and growl at his foes, lead Patrick Swayze as former con Crews is well-groomed for this sort of dogfight, but he's inexplicably leashed for most of it. Trying to go straight after serving time for vehicular manslaughter, the trucker takes on a risky job for money needed to pay an overdue mortgage.
His amiable spouse (Brenda Strong) makes a feeble attempt to stop him from hauling a truckload of illegal arms from Atlanta to New Jersey. But the lack of a driver's license and immediate doubts about all parties involved are not enough to deter Jack.
The title refers to a nighttime apparition that causes overworked, "greedy" drivers to crash, which is what happened to tough-luck case Jack. With such a back-story hounding him, he feels twice as challenged, but he's a gullible gorilla to boot.
Recruited by his shady boss Cutler (Graham Beckel) and flown to Georgia, Jack meets Bible-quoting middleman Red (Meat Loaf) and his pack of hired curs, including would-be singer-songwriter Earl (Travis, ha-ha), amiable dreamer Sonny (Gabriel Casseus) and shifty lowlife Wes (Brian Vincent).
Unbeknownst to Jack, Cutler, Red, et al., squabbling FBI and ATF agents (Charles Dutton and Stephen Tobolowsky) are tracking the shipment in an attempt to nab the buyer. Red makes the first move, attempting to "hijack the load" in ambushes involving cars, trucks and motorcycles.
In an ungainly development, Jack, Earl, Sonny and Wes become allies. Slimy Cutler takes Jack's wife and daughter hostage, leaving our hero no choice but to complete the job. After one of his road pals turns out to be an undercover agent and dies, Jack comes up with a plan to save his family and make the world a safer place.
Director Kevin Hooks ("Fled") and cinematographer Buzz Feitshans IV shift into overdrive for the action scenes, but otherwise the wide-screen production is visually undistinguished. Similarly, the screenplay credited to William Mickelberry and Dan Vining is laughably generic, with light humor that usually doesn't work and such dreadfully banal ideas as having Meat Loaf's character toss off lines from the scriptures as he tries to ram Jack with a succession of bigger red chariots.
BLACK DOG
Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures and
Mutual Film Company present
a Prelude Pictures production
in association with Raffaella De Laurentiis
Director: Kevin Hooks
Screenwriters: William Mickelberry, Dan Vining
Producers: Peter Saphier, Mark W. Koch,
Raffaella De Laurentiis
Executive producer: Mace Neufeld,
Robert Rehme, Gary Levinsohn, Mark Gordon
Director of photography: Buzz Feitshans IV
Production designer: Victoria Paul
Editors: Debra Neil-Fisher, Sabrina Plisco-Morris
Costume designer: Peggy Stamper
Music: George S. Clinton
Casting: Elisabeth Rudolph
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jack Crews: Patrick Swayze
Red: Meat Loaf
Earl: Randy Travis
Sonny: Gabriel Casseus
Wes: Brian Vincent
Cutler: Graham Beckel
Melanie: Brenda Strong
Ford: Charles Dutton
McClaren: Stephen Tobolowsky
Running time -- 88 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- "The Deli", which serves up a thick and not particularly appetizing slice of New York life, is the kind of laid-back comedy that will leaves audiences hungry for more.
Presenting a colorful cast of New York actors in the ramshackle tale of a delicatessen owner struggling to pay his gambling debts while dealing with myriad eccentric friends, relatives and customers, its minor charms won't get it much attention in a commercial environment. Inexplicably given a recommendation by the National Board of Review, it was showcased recently at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.
John Gallagher's feature does give a welcome opportunity for heavy-set chararcter actor Mike Starr to shine in a starring role. He plays Johnny Amico, a deli owner whose gambling habit has put him in jeopardy with the neighborhood mobsters. To make things worse, his mother's number has just come in, but Johnny, although he's taken her money, hasn't placed a bet on it in years.
A lot of familiar faces pass through the deli, including Iceas a meat delivery man; Chris Noth as a trash man; David Johanson as a rambunctious cabbie; and the model Iman (which could account for the inclusion of some David Bowie songs on the soundtrack) as a woman searching for an avocado, etc.
Also showing up in tiny roles are figures such as veteran rapper Heavy D, Heather Matarazzo ("Welcome to the Dollhouse"), Michael Imperioli, Debi Mazar, William McNamara, Jerry Stiller, Shirley Stoler and Burt Young as the neighborhood gangster. Clearly, the filmmakers were able to call in some debts of their own.
Gallagher and John Dorian's anecdotal screenplay is short on true wit or resonance and doesn't add up to very much, but it does offer the opportunity for the colorful cast to provide some amusing moments, and the film manages to present a vivid and authentic depiction of an Italian working-class neighborhood.
Further adding to the atmosphere is the canny use of music from Rome-based CAM Original Soundtracks, including classic themes from composers such as Nino Rota and Ennio Morricone.
THE DELI
Golden Monkey Pictures
Director: John Gallagher
Screenplay: John Dorian, John Gallagher
Producer: Sylvia Caminer
Executive producer: John Dorrian
Director of photography: Robert Lechterman
Editor: Sue Blainey
Original score: Ernie Mannix
Color/stereo
Cast:
Johnny: Mike Starr
Andy: Matt Keeslar
Mrs. Amico: Judith Malina
Pinky: Brian Vincent
Eric the Soda Man: Michael Badalucco
Bo: Heavy D
Phil the Meat Man: Ice
Running time -- 98 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Presenting a colorful cast of New York actors in the ramshackle tale of a delicatessen owner struggling to pay his gambling debts while dealing with myriad eccentric friends, relatives and customers, its minor charms won't get it much attention in a commercial environment. Inexplicably given a recommendation by the National Board of Review, it was showcased recently at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.
John Gallagher's feature does give a welcome opportunity for heavy-set chararcter actor Mike Starr to shine in a starring role. He plays Johnny Amico, a deli owner whose gambling habit has put him in jeopardy with the neighborhood mobsters. To make things worse, his mother's number has just come in, but Johnny, although he's taken her money, hasn't placed a bet on it in years.
A lot of familiar faces pass through the deli, including Iceas a meat delivery man; Chris Noth as a trash man; David Johanson as a rambunctious cabbie; and the model Iman (which could account for the inclusion of some David Bowie songs on the soundtrack) as a woman searching for an avocado, etc.
Also showing up in tiny roles are figures such as veteran rapper Heavy D, Heather Matarazzo ("Welcome to the Dollhouse"), Michael Imperioli, Debi Mazar, William McNamara, Jerry Stiller, Shirley Stoler and Burt Young as the neighborhood gangster. Clearly, the filmmakers were able to call in some debts of their own.
Gallagher and John Dorian's anecdotal screenplay is short on true wit or resonance and doesn't add up to very much, but it does offer the opportunity for the colorful cast to provide some amusing moments, and the film manages to present a vivid and authentic depiction of an Italian working-class neighborhood.
Further adding to the atmosphere is the canny use of music from Rome-based CAM Original Soundtracks, including classic themes from composers such as Nino Rota and Ennio Morricone.
THE DELI
Golden Monkey Pictures
Director: John Gallagher
Screenplay: John Dorian, John Gallagher
Producer: Sylvia Caminer
Executive producer: John Dorrian
Director of photography: Robert Lechterman
Editor: Sue Blainey
Original score: Ernie Mannix
Color/stereo
Cast:
Johnny: Mike Starr
Andy: Matt Keeslar
Mrs. Amico: Judith Malina
Pinky: Brian Vincent
Eric the Soda Man: Michael Badalucco
Bo: Heavy D
Phil the Meat Man: Ice
Running time -- 98 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 11/19/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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