November over at The Criterion Collection may look a smidge slim, offering up just four new titles, but each new addition to the collection is a seminal selection well-deserving of the Criterion treatment. Of most interest, however, is Donna Deitch’s feature debut “Desert Hearts,” a seminal lesbian drama that’s been going through something of a resurgence as of late, thanks to last year’s 30th anniversary and a continued adoration for its forward-thinking subject matter.
As we recently explored, in the early ’80s, Deitch was a film school grad with only docs under her belt, eager to make a different kind of feature about lesbians in love, and “without the help of Kickstarter or industry backing, she launched an unorthodox grassroots campaign that eventually gained the support of Gloria Steinem, Lily Tomlin, and Stockard Channing. The result was a hit at Sundance in 1986 that went on to become...
As we recently explored, in the early ’80s, Deitch was a film school grad with only docs under her belt, eager to make a different kind of feature about lesbians in love, and “without the help of Kickstarter or industry backing, she launched an unorthodox grassroots campaign that eventually gained the support of Gloria Steinem, Lily Tomlin, and Stockard Channing. The result was a hit at Sundance in 1986 that went on to become...
- 8/16/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The new issue of Theory & Event features a symposium on Lars von Trier. Also in today's roundup: Glauber Rocha on Jean-Luc Godard, Luc Moullet on Samuel Fuller, Peter Bogdanovich on Orson Welles's The Other Side of the Wind, Fernando F. Croce on Luchino Visconti's La terra trema, Dennis Cooper on Karen Black, plus news: Alfonso Cuarón will head the jury in Venice, Spike Lee's lined up Samuel L. Jackson, John Cusack, Kanye West and Jennifer Hudson for Chiraq, and we have notes the passing of Chris Burden and Elizabeth Wilson. » - David Hudson...
- 5/11/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
The new issue of Theory & Event features a symposium on Lars von Trier. Also in today's roundup: Glauber Rocha on Jean-Luc Godard, Luc Moullet on Samuel Fuller, Peter Bogdanovich on Orson Welles's The Other Side of the Wind, Fernando F. Croce on Luchino Visconti's La terra trema, Dennis Cooper on Karen Black, plus news: Alfonso Cuarón will head the jury in Venice, Spike Lee's lined up Samuel L. Jackson, John Cusack, Kanye West and Jennifer Hudson for Chiraq, and we have notes the passing of Chris Burden and Elizabeth Wilson. » - David Hudson...
- 5/11/2015
- Keyframe
m-appeal has picked up Argentinian director Gabriel Lichtmann’s How To Win Enemies ahead of the Marché du Film in Cannes.
The Doménica Films production, which had its world premiere during the Bafici festival in Buenos Aires last month, centres on a young lawyer who believes he has finally found his ideal woman until she disappears without a trace – and with his life savings
The Berlin-based sales agent has also added three new Lgbt titles to its line-up.
The films are Israeli filmmaker Michal Vinik’s coming of age lesbian love story Barash, actor-director Gerald McCullouch’s Daddy, based on Dan Via’s acclaimed play of the same name, and Micaela Rueda’s Uio: Take Me For A Ride.
M-appeal will also be continuing sales in Cannes for such films as veteran German director Rosa von Praunheim’s latest feature Tough Love (Härte) which premiered at the Berlinale’s Panorama in February.
Last week, the...
The Doménica Films production, which had its world premiere during the Bafici festival in Buenos Aires last month, centres on a young lawyer who believes he has finally found his ideal woman until she disappears without a trace – and with his life savings
The Berlin-based sales agent has also added three new Lgbt titles to its line-up.
The films are Israeli filmmaker Michal Vinik’s coming of age lesbian love story Barash, actor-director Gerald McCullouch’s Daddy, based on Dan Via’s acclaimed play of the same name, and Micaela Rueda’s Uio: Take Me For A Ride.
M-appeal will also be continuing sales in Cannes for such films as veteran German director Rosa von Praunheim’s latest feature Tough Love (Härte) which premiered at the Berlinale’s Panorama in February.
Last week, the...
- 5/11/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Berlin-based sales outfit Raspberry&Cream (R&C) is partnering with Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion to co-produce Like Cattle Towards Glow, which aims to achieve a new way of portraying sex on screen.
The film, which will begin shooting in Paris this summer with French film-maker Christophe Honoré as associate producer, is based on the first screenplay written by the Us novelist Dennis Cooper together with the film’s director, French-American visual artist Zac Farley.
“The idea for the script [for] Like Cattle Towards Glow arose from the fact that violence is prominently featured in films whereas sex, a far less upsetting act, seems to be rather poorly represented,” Brüning said.
According to the producers, the film will comprise “a set of five original narratives that deviate from the norm by using explicit sex as a privileged means to access its participants’ emotions, vulnerabilities, feelings of alienation, and ennui regarding the objectification of their own and others’ bodies.”
Brüning and Labruce...
The film, which will begin shooting in Paris this summer with French film-maker Christophe Honoré as associate producer, is based on the first screenplay written by the Us novelist Dennis Cooper together with the film’s director, French-American visual artist Zac Farley.
“The idea for the script [for] Like Cattle Towards Glow arose from the fact that violence is prominently featured in films whereas sex, a far less upsetting act, seems to be rather poorly represented,” Brüning said.
According to the producers, the film will comprise “a set of five original narratives that deviate from the norm by using explicit sex as a privileged means to access its participants’ emotions, vulnerabilities, feelings of alienation, and ennui regarding the objectification of their own and others’ bodies.”
Brüning and Labruce...
- 4/8/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
From Team America: World Police (2004)
"The task set before the cinema today is one of contributing to people's development into true communists... This historic task requires, above all, a revolutionary transformation of the practice of directing."
That's from the preface of On the Art of Cinema (1973) by Kim Jong-il, North Korea's Dear Leader, who, as you'll have heard by now, died this weekend at the age of 69. His "love of the cinema bordered on the obsessive," notes the BBC in its obituary. "He is said to have collected a library of 20,000 Hollywood movies…. In 1978, he ordered the abduction of a South Korean film director, Shin Sang-ok and his actress wife Choi Eun-hee. They were held separately for five years before being reunited at a party banquet. They said afterwards that Mr Kim had apologized for the kidnappings and asked them to make movies for him. They completed seven before...
"The task set before the cinema today is one of contributing to people's development into true communists... This historic task requires, above all, a revolutionary transformation of the practice of directing."
That's from the preface of On the Art of Cinema (1973) by Kim Jong-il, North Korea's Dear Leader, who, as you'll have heard by now, died this weekend at the age of 69. His "love of the cinema bordered on the obsessive," notes the BBC in its obituary. "He is said to have collected a library of 20,000 Hollywood movies…. In 1978, he ordered the abduction of a South Korean film director, Shin Sang-ok and his actress wife Choi Eun-hee. They were held separately for five years before being reunited at a party banquet. They said afterwards that Mr Kim had apologized for the kidnappings and asked them to make movies for him. They completed seven before...
- 12/19/2011
- MUBI
DVD Playhouse—November 2011
By Allen Gardner
Tree Of Life (20th Century Fox) Terrence Malick’s latest effort is both the best film of 2011 and the finest work of his (arguably) mixed, but often masterly canon. A series of vignettes, mostly set in 1950s Texas, capture the memory of a man (Sean Penn) in present-day New York who looks back on his life, and his parents’ (Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain) troubled marriage, when word of his younger brother’s suicide reaches him. Almost indescribable beyond that, except to say no other film in history so perfectly evokes the magic and mystery of the human memory, which both crystalizes (and sometimes idealizes) the past. Like Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, this is a challenging, polarizing work that you must let wash over you. If you go along for the ride, you’re in for a unique, rewarding cinematic experience. Also available on Blu-ray disc.
By Allen Gardner
Tree Of Life (20th Century Fox) Terrence Malick’s latest effort is both the best film of 2011 and the finest work of his (arguably) mixed, but often masterly canon. A series of vignettes, mostly set in 1950s Texas, capture the memory of a man (Sean Penn) in present-day New York who looks back on his life, and his parents’ (Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain) troubled marriage, when word of his younger brother’s suicide reaches him. Almost indescribable beyond that, except to say no other film in history so perfectly evokes the magic and mystery of the human memory, which both crystalizes (and sometimes idealizes) the past. Like Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, this is a challenging, polarizing work that you must let wash over you. If you go along for the ride, you’re in for a unique, rewarding cinematic experience. Also available on Blu-ray disc.
- 11/25/2011
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Sidney Lumet's 12 Angry Men (1957) "has become a cultural touchstone, a time capsule of American justice before the civil rights era and the expansion of civil liberties in the 1960s," writes Thane Rosenbaum for Criterion, which releases a new DVD and Blu-ray this week. "Its influence has been vast, and it established Lumet's reputation as an artist at the forefront of social change."
"The crown jewel of the Criterion disc's extras has to be the original television broadcast of 12 Angry Men, written by [Reginald] Rose and directed by Franklin J Schaffner for Studio One in 1954," notes Bill Ryan, and he compares and contrasts the two productions at considerable length. With its "sterling image and extensive extras," this package scores DVD Beaver's "highest recommendation and will be noted in our Year End Poll."
Today and Friday, MoMA is featuring three programs of work by Jack Smith (Flaming Creatures, 1963). Bradford Nordeen for the...
"The crown jewel of the Criterion disc's extras has to be the original television broadcast of 12 Angry Men, written by [Reginald] Rose and directed by Franklin J Schaffner for Studio One in 1954," notes Bill Ryan, and he compares and contrasts the two productions at considerable length. With its "sterling image and extensive extras," this package scores DVD Beaver's "highest recommendation and will be noted in our Year End Poll."
Today and Friday, MoMA is featuring three programs of work by Jack Smith (Flaming Creatures, 1963). Bradford Nordeen for the...
- 11/23/2011
- MUBI
@DAVID_LYNCH: "Dear Twitter Friends, I'm sorry I haven't been in touch with you for awhile. I was very busy working on the installation of a show on mathematics at the Fondation Cartier in Paris. Now I'm working on a lithograph called 'Oh, A Bad Dream Comes.'" Patti Smith and Takeshi Kitano, by the way, also have work on view in Fondation's exhibition, Mathematics: A Beautiful Elsewhere, through March 18.
Master of the monster roundup, Dennis Cooper has outdone himself with "Acid Westerns Day."
Asked to select his top ten Criterions, Aki Kaurismäki squeezes in as many double, triple and quadruple bills as he figures he's allowed.
About a year before Fritz Lang died in 1976, William Friedkin interviewed him and you can watch all 49 minutes and 30 seconds here.
Earlier this month, Jonathan Poritsky ribbed Sarah Deming a little in Heeb. She's the Michigan woman suing FilmDistrict, distributors of Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive,...
Master of the monster roundup, Dennis Cooper has outdone himself with "Acid Westerns Day."
Asked to select his top ten Criterions, Aki Kaurismäki squeezes in as many double, triple and quadruple bills as he figures he's allowed.
About a year before Fritz Lang died in 1976, William Friedkin interviewed him and you can watch all 49 minutes and 30 seconds here.
Earlier this month, Jonathan Poritsky ribbed Sarah Deming a little in Heeb. She's the Michigan woman suing FilmDistrict, distributors of Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive,...
- 10/22/2011
- MUBI
Your Weekly Source for the Newest Releases to Blu-Ray Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
‘Twas The Night Before Christmas: 2-Disc Deluxe Edition (1974)
Synopsis: For some unexplained reason, letters to Santa Claus are being returned to the children of Junctionville. It seems some resident has angered St. Nick by calling him “a fraudulent myth!” Skeptical Albert Mouse has to be brought to his senses “and let up a little on the wonder why.” How Albert is persuaded to change his tune paves the way for Santa’s jolly return to town – and the joyous finale of the animated fable inspired by Clement Moore’s poem and produced by the merrymaking conjures of Rankin/bass studios. The voice talents of Joel grey, Tammy Grimes, John McGiver and George Gobel make this festive fable even more fun. (highdefdigest.com)
Special Features:
Tba
The 12 Dogs Of Christmas (2005)
Synopsis: A girl who uses dogs to...
‘Twas The Night Before Christmas: 2-Disc Deluxe Edition (1974)
Synopsis: For some unexplained reason, letters to Santa Claus are being returned to the children of Junctionville. It seems some resident has angered St. Nick by calling him “a fraudulent myth!” Skeptical Albert Mouse has to be brought to his senses “and let up a little on the wonder why.” How Albert is persuaded to change his tune paves the way for Santa’s jolly return to town – and the joyous finale of the animated fable inspired by Clement Moore’s poem and produced by the merrymaking conjures of Rankin/bass studios. The voice talents of Joel grey, Tammy Grimes, John McGiver and George Gobel make this festive fable even more fun. (highdefdigest.com)
Special Features:
Tba
The 12 Dogs Of Christmas (2005)
Synopsis: A girl who uses dogs to...
- 10/3/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Dark Stars Rising, featuring conversations between Shade Rupe (Funeral Party) and 27 of the leading lights of the transgressive arts (including Peter Sotos, Teller, Chas Ballun, Gaspar Noe, William Lustig and Floria Sigismondi, to name a few), is more than a mere book. Clocking in at 558 teeming pages, featuring over 500 jaw dropping images, many rare or unseen, and sporting a design of mind bending intricacy, each chapter boasting its very own lavish layout, Dark Stars Rising is a cross between a carnival, a massacre, and everyone’s ideal dinner party… At Headpress The Players 1. Richard Kern 2. Alejandro Jodorowksy 3. Buddy Giovinazzo 4. Udo Kier 5. Jim VanBebber 6. Dennis Paoli 7. Tura Satana 8. Teller 9. Brother Theodore 10. Peter Sotos 11. Johannes Schonherr 12. Chas. Balun 13. Divine 14. Floria Sigismondi 15. Hermann Nitsch 16. Genesis P-Orridge 17. William Lustig 18. Dennis Cooper 19. Gaspar Noe [...]...
- 12/11/2010
- by admin
- Horror News
As part of our ongoing effort to expose our readers to all the latest and greatest genre-related projects in the literary realm, today we present to you Shade Rupe's Dark Stars Rising, a collection of 27 candid interviews spanning 24 years with unique and free-thinking artists from America to Austria and beyond.
From the Press Release:
Working in different media, countries, constraints, and freedoms, the vortex here is created by New York film writer Shade Rupe, known for his avant interests and the cultural realm he inhabits with his Funeral Party books. Everyone in this collection has produced artifacts that affect the heart, mind, soul, and future.
The smaller half of Penn & Teller ends the silence for a lengthy discussion of magic and falsehoods; Divine opens the closet for his transition to playing male roles; Crispin Glover discusses his love for the films of Fassbinder and other greats; Faster Pussycat! Kill,...
From the Press Release:
Working in different media, countries, constraints, and freedoms, the vortex here is created by New York film writer Shade Rupe, known for his avant interests and the cultural realm he inhabits with his Funeral Party books. Everyone in this collection has produced artifacts that affect the heart, mind, soul, and future.
The smaller half of Penn & Teller ends the silence for a lengthy discussion of magic and falsehoods; Divine opens the closet for his transition to playing male roles; Crispin Glover discusses his love for the films of Fassbinder and other greats; Faster Pussycat! Kill,...
- 12/7/2010
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Ask me what my top 5 films of 2006 were, and it would probably be one of the rare times I'd list a short film among my top picks. Up there with Children of Mens and Little Childrens, I'd say a highlight of the year and certainly the best film of the 06' edition of the Sundance Film Festival was Bugcrush from fashion photographer/commercials director Carter Smith. A creepy, horror film about a loner who is enamored by a school bully travelled to Cannes and I imagine it meant that every horror script was sent to the filmmaker's agent's way. He would be attached to direct Come Closer - the Sara Gran novel for Miramax films, and he was invited to Sundance's 2007 Screenwriter's Lab (with projects such as Cary Fukunaga's Sin Nombre, Fernando Eimbcke's Lake Tahoe, So Yong Kim's Treeless Mountain and Victoria Mahoney's Yelling To The Sky...
- 11/30/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
I thought I was immune to horror on stage, but watching sock puppets mime real-life torture reminded me it can still beat cinema at its own game
I'm fairly strong-stomached. I'm not necessarily proud of enjoying Blasted or the Lieutenant of Inishmore, say, without a twinge of nausea, but then again I'd be a pretty sorry critic if a trip to the theatre meant I risked puking on my seatmates.
So I was surprised some weeks ago when a performance made me distinctly queasy. During the recent Under the Radar festival in New York, I attended Jerk, a French play acted by Jonathan Capdeville and several sock puppets. Adapted from short stories by Dennis Cooper, Jerk is a crime psychodrama based on real-life serial killer Dean Corll who, with the help of two teenage accomplices, tortured, raped and killed more than two dozen Texan youths. Capdeville plays one of the abettors,...
I'm fairly strong-stomached. I'm not necessarily proud of enjoying Blasted or the Lieutenant of Inishmore, say, without a twinge of nausea, but then again I'd be a pretty sorry critic if a trip to the theatre meant I risked puking on my seatmates.
So I was surprised some weeks ago when a performance made me distinctly queasy. During the recent Under the Radar festival in New York, I attended Jerk, a French play acted by Jonathan Capdeville and several sock puppets. Adapted from short stories by Dennis Cooper, Jerk is a crime psychodrama based on real-life serial killer Dean Corll who, with the help of two teenage accomplices, tortured, raped and killed more than two dozen Texan youths. Capdeville plays one of the abettors,...
- 2/10/2010
- by Alexis Soloski
- The Guardian - Film News
One of the best things about YouTube is that you can find bizarre treasures that fans have lovingly transferred from VHS or Betamax for your viewing pleasure. One of the most fascinating crazycakes actors of all time, Klaus Kinski, is in full effect on YouTube, so I've gathered a few of his most fabulous outbursts for your viewing pleasure.
Author Dennis Cooper has also excerpted on his blog some of the more choice quotes he found online from one of Kinski's books, All I Need is Love. He certainly wasn't lacking for sex, since Kinski, despite his looks and batty tendencies -- or perhaps because of them? -- had a way with the ladies. But I digress. If you think Abel Ferrara's choice words for Herzog, Kinski's frequent collaborator and frenemy, was bad, check this out:
Now I absolutely despise the murderer Herzog. I tell him to his face...
Author Dennis Cooper has also excerpted on his blog some of the more choice quotes he found online from one of Kinski's books, All I Need is Love. He certainly wasn't lacking for sex, since Kinski, despite his looks and batty tendencies -- or perhaps because of them? -- had a way with the ladies. But I digress. If you think Abel Ferrara's choice words for Herzog, Kinski's frequent collaborator and frenemy, was bad, check this out:
Now I absolutely despise the murderer Herzog. I tell him to his face...
- 8/27/2009
- by Jenni Miller
- Cinematical
- The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things is an unflinching account of the true story of J.T. LeRoy: a young boy who survived a childhood of drugs, sexual abuse, prostitution, alcoholism, and religious fanaticism while growing up in the heart of America’s bible country. Ultimately, at the age of 20, J.T.would write an autobiographical book and celebrities like Madonna, Winona Ryder and Liv Tyler would be friend him and authors such as Dennis Cooper and Mary Gaitskill would champion his work. Later, with Asia Argento (Dario Argento’s daughter) J.T. Leroy would see his life story finally hit the big screen. Finally after all of that had been accomplished, the truth comes out: the whole story was a lie and there is no such person as J.T. LeRoy. The author of the synonymous book wasn't in fact written by a "J.T. LeRoy", but by a 40-something Brooklynite name Laura Albert.
- 3/9/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
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