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2013 | 2012
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Third Muhammad Ali Doc In The Works - 'I Am Ali' To Focus On Recorded Phone Calls
14 June 2013 7:27 AM, PDT | ShadowAndAct | See recent ShadowAndAct news »
Add this to the growing list of upcoming Muhammad Ali projects. A new documentary from the executive producer of the critically-acclaimed Searching for Sugar Man, and The Imposter, Passion Pictures, said to be centered on the recorded conversations of Ali. Speaking to ScreenDaily, executive producer John Battsek (who claims When We Were Kings was an inspiration) said: “It’s a film built around phone conversations that Ali recorded for many years with his family. That’s the spine of the film. It’s a very personal perspective on Ali, from Ali – in a way – through a 20-year period of his life when he was still fighting.” Titled I Am Ali, and »
- Tambay A. Obenson
Muhammad Ali theatrical doc planned
14 June 2013 2:42 AM, PDT | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Exclusive: Passion Pictures, executive producer of Searching for Sugar Man and The Imposter, board documentary centred on recorded conversations of the boxing champion.
A theatrical documentary based around phone conversations made and received by boxing icon Muhammad Ali is in the works.
I Am Ali is the feature debut of Clare Lewins, who has previously directed episodes of British television series Countrywise, Perspectives andWho Do You Think You Are?.
For production details visit
I Am Ali
The documentary, which will feature interviews, archive and audio archive, is currently being edited for delivery at the end of 2013. Ali is aware of the project.
Financed by Universal Pictures, the film is made by Lewins’ Fisheye Productions and Passion Pictures, which has made hit documentaries such as One Day In September and Restrepo and executive produced award-winners Searching for Sugar Man and The Imposter.
Speaking to ScreenDaily, executive producer John Battsek said: “It’s a film built around phone conversations »
- michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
Muhammad Ali phone doc planned
14 June 2013 2:42 AM, PDT | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Exclusive: Passion Pictures, executive producer of Searching for Sugar Man and The Imposter, board documentary centred on recorded conversations of the boxing champion.
A theatrical documentary based around phone conversations made and received by boxing icon Muhammad Ali is in the works.
I Am Ali is the feature debut of Clare Lewins, who has previously directed episodes of British television series Countrywise, Perspectives andWho Do You Think You Are?.
For production details visit
I Am Ali
The documentary, which will feature interviews, archive and audio archive, is currently being edited for delivery at the end of 2013. Ali is aware of the project.
Financed by NBC Universal, the film is made by Lewins’ Fisheye Productions and Passion Pictures, which has made hit documentaries such as One Day In September and Restrepo and executive produced award-winners Searching for Sugar Man and The Imposter.
Speaking to ScreenDaily, executive producer John Battsek said: “It’s a film built around phone conversations »
- michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
Bart Layton and Musician K'naan Among Those Selected for Sundance's 2013 Directors and Screenwriters Labs
9 May 2013 1:55 PM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
The Sundance Institute today revealed the 13 lucky projects selected for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, taking place from May 17-June 27. This year's high-profile Fellows include "The Imposter" director Bart Layton and rapper K'Naan. The annual workshops give selected films a leg up in the independent film community in terms of financing and representation and make them likely candidates for the institute’s signature film festival. Ten films previously supported by the Institute’s Feature Film Program screened at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, including “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints,” “May in the Summer” and “Blue Caprice.” Michelle Satter, Founding Director of the Feature Film Program, said, "We are very excited to support such a rich selection of projects that reflect the diversity of stories, artistic vision and innovation in narrative form that embraces the next generation of independent filmmakers. The support we provide through the Directors and »
- Nigel M Smith
Move Review - Bernie (2011)
25 April 2013 1:36 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Bernie, 2011.
Directed by Richard Linklater.
Starring Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey.
Synopsis:
Small-town Texas mortician Bernie Tiede begins a friendship with a recently-widowed millionaire, and after he kills her the local community rallies in support of Bernie.
In Bart Layton’s excellent 2012 film The Imposter the line between documentary and thriller is blurred with the use of actors to recreate events based on the testimonial of it’s participants. While The Imposter is ultimately a documentary which borrows from fiction, in Bernie we are given a fiction which borrows from documentary.
Bernie tells the true story of a Bernie Tiede, a Texan mortician who, in 1996, shot dead Marjorie Nugent after a five-year relationship which began following the death of her millionaire husband. The script is adapted from an article by Skip Hollandsworth (who receives a writing credit along with Linklater) written in 1998 which detailed the events of their »
- Flickering Myth
The HeyUGuys Interview: Producer Simon Chinn talks Project Nim and Academy Awards
22 March 2013 6:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Producer Simon Chinn may not be the man who takes all the plaudits as such, but his meticulous eye for a good story has seen him behind some of the finest documentaries in recent years.
He has worked on Man on Wire, The Imposter and Searching for Sugarman – and it’s his brilliant feature length film Project Nim that makes its British television premiere, airing on BBC2 this Saturday evening.
Project Nim tells the story of a chimpanzee who is raised like a human by a family in the 1970′s, in what is truly a poignant yet compelling piece of cinema. Chinn discusses what first inspired him to get involved in this project, as well as pondering what makes a documentary work on the big screen.
He also talks about the recent closure of distribution company Revolver, as well as commenting on his recent Oscar success with Searching for Sugarman. »
- Stefan Pape
Compliance: would you strip-search a colleague if the police ordered you to?
20 March 2013 3:13 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Director Craig Zobel talks about Compliance, his new film based on a real-life hoax caller who preyed on fast-food chains
It's a busy Friday night in a branch of the Us fast-food chain ChickWich. A harassed, middle-aged manager takes a call from a police officer, who informs her that there is a thief on the premises: a female employee has stolen money from a customer's purse, and it is up to her to detain the teenage miscreant until the police arrive. As a law-abiding member of the public, the manager is eager to help. Eager to a fault, in fact. "I'll do everything you need," she says, as she prepares to carry out his first task: a strip-search of the employee. There's just one problem. The voice belongs not to a policeman but to a hoax-caller determined to test the limits of human subservience to authority.
Although this is the »
- Ryan Gilbey
Trailer Trash
16 February 2013 4:07 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Bart Layton's missing Bafta, Michael Fassbender shows off his moves and Park Chan-wook's Ott English debut, Stoker
Imposter takes Bafta
A strange case of art mirroring life at the Baftas, as the trophy awarded to The Imposter director Bart Layton went missing. Layton, along with his producing partner, Dimitri Doganis, won the prize for outstanding British debut, and was proudly clutching the golden statue at all the post-ceremony parties. Arriving at the Weinstein Company bash, Layton put down his prized possession to talk to the likes of Quentin Tarantino and Michael Fassbender. But moments later he turned round to find it had disappeared. An imposter had walked off with it. CCTV identified the culprit and it was returned to Layton at 5.30am.
Tarantino: not in the mood for dancing
Harvey Weinstein's Bafta events are like impossible dreams. A dinner pre-Bafta to celebrate Silver Linings Playbook found me in »
- Jason Solomons
The winners of the BAFTA Ee British Academy Film Awards 2013 are...
11 February 2013 11:45 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Wrapping up all the winners from the 65th annual BAFTA Ee British Academy Film Awards...
Sunday evening marked the biggest occasion in the British film calendar as Hollywood descended upon London's Royal Opera House for BAFTA's 66th annual British Academy Film Awards, which celebrated the very best in cinematic excellence from the past twelve months.
Tom Hooper's acclaimed musical Les Miserables may have won the most awards, taking home Best Supporting Actress (Anne Hathaway), Production Design, Sound and Make Up & Hair, but the night belonged to Argo, the CIA thriller picking up Best Film and Best Editing, while Ben Affleck was also named Best Director, despite failing to pick up as much as a nomination at the Academy Awards.
Elsewhere, Skyfall received Outstanding British Film (and also received the award for Best Original Music), while Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln) and Emmanuelle Riva (Amour) were honoured in the lead acting categories. »
- Flickering Myth
Bafta judges share the love
11 February 2013 5:27 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Daniel Day-Lewis won best actor for Lincoln but the night belonged to the thriller Argo, and its director Ben Affleck
This was a Bafta ceremony which shared the prizes and spread the love.
The vast landslide for any one single film did not quite materialise, and Daniel Day-Lewis's much-expected best actor award for Lincoln was in fact a rare moment of Bafta love for Spielberg's very fine historical drama.
Yet the evening's big winner was unquestionably Ben Affleck's Argo, with best film and best director, an interesting, lightly fictionalised, intensely patriotic true-life historical caper-thriller about a CIA scheme to spirit Us embassy staff out of Iran during the 1979 hostage crisis by concocting a phoney movie, with elaborate script and set designs – and attempting to pass off the prisoners as film professionals who've been scouting locations in downtown Tehran and now need to leave, thank you very much.
It »
- Peter Bradshaw
Baftas: stars dress for show not snow as awards hail director Ben Affleck
11 February 2013 5:26 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Bizarre tale of CIA rescue from Iran wins best film and best director, while Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln takes best actor
Ben Affleck had never before been invited to the Baftas, let alone nominated for one, so his obvious pleasure in Argo winning best film and him winning best director at the awards was understandable.
"This is a second act for me," he said. "You've given me that, this industry has given me that and I am so grateful and proud and I dedicate this to anyone out there who is trying to get their second act because you can do it."
Affleck may have been referring to some of the terrible performances in terrible movies – Gigli, definitely, Pearl Harbor, probably – he has given over the years but on Sunday night nobody was talking about them.
It was all about Argo, a nerve-shredder of a movie with such a ludicrous »
- Mark Brown
Official List Of Winners Released From Ee British Academy Film Awards
11 February 2013 2:43 AM, PST | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
That’s right folks – one awards ceremony down, many more to go. Last night saw London play host to the 2013 Ee British Academy Film Awards aka the BAFTAs. This star-studded event saw the likes of Ben Affleck, Anne Hathaway, Juno Temple and Quentin Tarantino (amongst many other) receive an accolade for their immense talent and dedication to film.
Here’s the official list of winners (and the other nominees) for anyone who didn’t stay awake long enough (winners highlighted in bold):
Fellowship – Alan Parker
Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema – Tessa Ross
Best Film
Argo – Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney
Les MISÉRABLES – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh
Life Of Pi – Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark
Lincoln – Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy
Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison
Outstanding British Film
Anna Karenina – Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Tom Stoppard »
- Jazmine Sky Bradley
Full list of BAFTA Film Award winners
10 February 2013 10:35 PM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
News Simon Brew Feb 11, 2013
Argo, Ben Affleck, Les Miserables, Quentin Tarantino, Skyfall and Daniel Day-Lewis all prevail at the BAFTAs...
Last night saw us Brits muscle in on the annual movie gong giving spectacle, in a ceremony where traditionally British films are over-rewarded, and Twitter tends to spoil the results in advance (given that the television broadcast takes place a little while after the ceremony itself).
The BAFTAs returned then, with Stephen Fry (along with added facial hair) hosting. And the whole shebang did little to remove the suspicion that Argo may be on course for the top prize at the Oscars later this month. It won Best Film, as well as taking home a Best Director gong for Ben Affleck. The prizes will sit in pride of place, no doubt next to his Best Film award from, er, Den Of Geek. Ahem.
It's all but certain that you can »
- simonbrew
Big Win for "Argo," Ben Affleck! Oh Yes, and "Skyfall!"
10 February 2013 10:00 PM, PST | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
Ben Affleck's "Argo" is not only being celebrated in the U.S., it has also been receiving love abroad particularly at the recently concluded BAFTA Awards (British Academy of Film and Television), the U.K. equivalent to the Oscars.
"Argo" took home the Best Film of the Year trophy, as well as the Best Director Award for Affleck. Once again, take that Academy -- the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, that is...
In the acting categories, Daniel Day-Lewis won for "Lincoln" (surprise, surprise), while Emmanuelle Riva (love her!!!!) won the Best Actress award for "Amour." Now, call me crazy, but I have a sneaky feeling that Riva will win the Best Actress Oscar as well. She's beloved, a classic, an icon, a legend -- everything a Best Actress Oscar winner should be!
In the supporting acting categories, my favorite, Anne Hathaway took home the Best Supporting Actress »
- Manny
And The BAFTA Goes To Argo – Ben Affleck Movie Takes Best Film, Editing, Director; Les MISÉRABLES Wins Four
10 February 2013 9:01 PM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
On Sunday the Ee British Academy Film Awards were held at London’s Royal Opera House and hosted by the always delightful Stephen Fry. The show was televised here in the States on BBC America. In a continuation of what Awards watchers have witnessed over the past weeks, Argo was named Best Film, Ben Affleck won the Director BAFTA and the film also took the Editing award.
Les Misérables did win four BAFTAs for Production Design, Sound, Make Up & Hair and Supporting Actress for Anne Hathaway.
Amour won the award for Film Not in the English Language and Emmanuelle Riva won Leading Actress. Leading Actor was awarded to Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln. Christoph Waltz won Supporting Actor for his performance in Django Unchained and the film’s writer/director Quentin Tarantino won the Original Screenplay BAFTA.
Outstanding British Film and Original Music were awarded to Skyfall. Life of Pi won »
- Michelle McCue
“Life of Pi” wins 2 BAFTAs
10 February 2013 8:22 PM, PST | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »
Ang Lee’s Life of Pi, shot in India with an Indian cast, won two BAFTAs: Best Cinematography for Claudio Miranda and Special Visual Effects. Life of Pi actor Suraj Sharma, who was nominated for the Rising Star award up for public voting, lost it to British actress Juno Temple.
Argo won the Best Film while Ben Affleck won the Best Director BAFTA for the film. Michael Haneke’s Amour won in the ‘Film not in English Language’ category.
Complete list of winners:
Best Film: Argo
Director: Ben Affleck (Argo)
Leading Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
Leading Actress: Emmanuelle Riva (Amour)
Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)
Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables)
Original Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino(Django Unchained)
Adapted Screenplay: David O Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)
Film Not in the English Language: Amour
Original Music: Skyfall (Thomas Newman)
Cinematography: Life Of Pi (Claudio Miranda)
Outstanding British Film: Skyfall »
- NewsDesk
Riva Among Precious Few non-Hollywood, non-Anglo-American British Academy Winners
10 February 2013 5:27 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
British Academy Awards 2013: As in past years, strong Hollywood presence The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced the (mostly Hollywood-made and/or co-produced and/or distributed) BAFTA 2013 winners. For starters, as mentioned in the previous Alt Film Guide article, the Warner Bros. release Argo took home BAFTAs for Best Picture, Best Director (Ben Affleck), and Best Editor (William Goldenberg). (Pictured above: The Avengers star and British Academy Award presenter Tom Hiddleston on the red carpet.) American auteurs David O. Russell and Quentin Tarantino won the screenplay awards in, respectively, the adapted and original categories for two movies distributed by The Weinstein Company in North America: the comedy-drama Silver Linings Playbook and the violent, socially conscious period comedy-drama Django Unchained. In addition, Django earned Christoph Waltz his second British Academy Award -- Waltz's first win, also as Best Supporting Actor, was for another Tarantino effort, Inglourious Basterds »
- Anna Robinson
Ben Affleck & 'Argo' Win Best Director & Film at 2013 BAFTA Awards
10 February 2013 4:56 PM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Affleck wins again! Can Argo be stopped? What a year of awards! This weekend in London, the BAFTA (or British Academy of Film and Television Arts) held their annual show, the BAFTA Awards, honoring the finest in film and television from 2012. This year's biggest winner was quite a surprise, but nonetheless yet another sweet victory. Ben Affleck and Argo won Best Director and Best Film, along with Best Editing, but nothing else. Most of the other technical wins were split up between Tom Hooper's Les Miserables and Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, with a few for Amour and Silver Linings Playbook snuck in there. Here's the complete list of film winners (listed in bold) for the 2013 BAFTA Awards, via BAFTA.org: Best Film: Argo Les Misérables Life of Pi Lincoln Zero Dark Thirty Outstanding British Film: Anna Karenina The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Les Misérables Seven Psychopaths Skyfall Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, »
- Alex Billington
The BAFTA Winners List Announced
10 February 2013 3:54 PM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
The ceremony is over here in London, bringing together some of the finest and most talented people in the film industry under the same roof for one night. The BAFTAs are this country’s highest honour in film, and they have handed out their awards for the 66th time to those whom they deem the most deserving in the past year in film.
And since Ben Affleck is one of my favourite filmmakers of all time, I have been in a brilliant mood tonight, because he’s won (and very much earned) Best Director for Argo, and taken home the Best Film prize alongside his co-producers George Clooney and Grant Heslov. If you haven’t yet seen Argo, I can’t recommend enough how much you should see it as soon as possible.
If you were following Jon’s liveblog, or if you watched the BBC’s almost-live coverage of tonight’s proceedings, »
- Kenji Lloyd
BAFTA winners announced
10 February 2013 2:17 PM, PST | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts handed out their awards Sunday in London. Argo walked away the big winner with Best Film and Best Director for Ben Affleck.
Lead acting prizes went to Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln and Emmanuelle Riva for Amour, with supporting awards going to Christolph Waltz for Django Unchained, and Anne Hathaway for Les Misérables. Click past the jump to take a look at the full list of winners.
Best Film Argo
Best Director Ben Affleck, Argo
Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Best Actress Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Best Supporting Actor Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Best Supporting Actress Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables
Visit IMDb's Road to the Oscars for more awards info »
- Lindsey Bahr
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