One of independent film’s key players, Ray Price, died July 16 at the age of 75 from heart failure after a long battle with cancer, his long-term partner Meg Madison confirmed.
Talking to Price about movies, past and present, was an exhilarating sport that could take a while. He knew his stuff — no one loved movies more — but more than anyone during the great indie decades of the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, he was a respected innovator who thought outside the box. He began as an exhibitor in San Francisco and moved on to marketing, releasing, and distributing movies, leaning toward the outrageous in how he lured audiences to sample challenging fare.
“Ray, while being a defiantly singular individual, was also emblematic of a bygone age of independent film,” Magnolia Pictures co-ceo Eamonn Bowles wrote me in an email. “From theatre chain owner to distributor, exquisite marketer, and production exec, he...
Talking to Price about movies, past and present, was an exhilarating sport that could take a while. He knew his stuff — no one loved movies more — but more than anyone during the great indie decades of the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, he was a respected innovator who thought outside the box. He began as an exhibitor in San Francisco and moved on to marketing, releasing, and distributing movies, leaning toward the outrageous in how he lured audiences to sample challenging fare.
“Ray, while being a defiantly singular individual, was also emblematic of a bygone age of independent film,” Magnolia Pictures co-ceo Eamonn Bowles wrote me in an email. “From theatre chain owner to distributor, exquisite marketer, and production exec, he...
- 7/21/2023
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Ray Price, a respected producer of indie filmmaking, died July 16 from heart failure after a long battle with cancer. The news was confirmed by his long-term partner Meg Madison. He was 75 years old.
Price launched his film career in 1972, managing the Berkeley storefront theater the Rialto, and went on to build with Allen Michaan Renaissance Theaters, an independent art film chain that became one of the largest (33 at its peak) in the Bay Area and was later sold to the Landmark Theatre circuit.
A tough negotiator and exacting exhibitor, under Price’s stewardship, Renaissance Theaters were renowned for redesigning marketing materials, from posters to press books — designs that fledgling distributors often adopted when the films hadn’t found success in other markets.
At a time when most top arthouse distributors focused on established auteurs from Europe and Asia, Renaissance Theaters exploded those norms by programming new American directors like Martin Scorsese and John Cassavetes.
Price launched his film career in 1972, managing the Berkeley storefront theater the Rialto, and went on to build with Allen Michaan Renaissance Theaters, an independent art film chain that became one of the largest (33 at its peak) in the Bay Area and was later sold to the Landmark Theatre circuit.
A tough negotiator and exacting exhibitor, under Price’s stewardship, Renaissance Theaters were renowned for redesigning marketing materials, from posters to press books — designs that fledgling distributors often adopted when the films hadn’t found success in other markets.
At a time when most top arthouse distributors focused on established auteurs from Europe and Asia, Renaissance Theaters exploded those norms by programming new American directors like Martin Scorsese and John Cassavetes.
- 7/21/2023
- The Wrap
Ray Price, an indie film producer and marketing veteran, died on July 16 of heart failure after battling cancer, his longterm partner Meg Madison confirmed. He was 75.
During his career in film, Price was president of Francis Ford Coppola’s production company American Zoetrope and First Look Pictures and a marketing and distribution exec for Landmark Theatres, Trimark Pictures and 2929 Entertainment. He also supported up-and-coming filmmakers like Tran Anh Hung (“The Scent of Green Papaya”), Gurinder Chadha (“Bhaji on The Beach”), Carl Franklin (“One False Move”), Allison Anders (“Gas Food Lodging”) and John Sayles (“The Secret of Roan Inish”).
“Ray, while being a defiantly singular individual, was also emblematic of a bygone age of independent film,” said Magnolia Pictures co-ceo Eamonn Bowles in a statement. “From theatre chain owner to distributor, exquisite marketer, and production exec, he always sought out novel ways of approaching things. He truly was a rebel...
During his career in film, Price was president of Francis Ford Coppola’s production company American Zoetrope and First Look Pictures and a marketing and distribution exec for Landmark Theatres, Trimark Pictures and 2929 Entertainment. He also supported up-and-coming filmmakers like Tran Anh Hung (“The Scent of Green Papaya”), Gurinder Chadha (“Bhaji on The Beach”), Carl Franklin (“One False Move”), Allison Anders (“Gas Food Lodging”) and John Sayles (“The Secret of Roan Inish”).
“Ray, while being a defiantly singular individual, was also emblematic of a bygone age of independent film,” said Magnolia Pictures co-ceo Eamonn Bowles in a statement. “From theatre chain owner to distributor, exquisite marketer, and production exec, he always sought out novel ways of approaching things. He truly was a rebel...
- 7/21/2023
- by Jordan Moreau
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The cast for Amazon Prime Video’s vengeance-driven Nazi-hunting series executive produced by Academy Award winner Jordan Peele continues to grow with Kate Mulvany joining as a series regular and James Le Gros, Ebony Obsidian, Caleb Emery, Henry Hunter Hall and Jeannie Berlin boarding in key recurring roles. They join an already robust cast including Al Pacino, Logan Lerman, Jerrika Hinton, Josh Radnor as well as Lena Olin, Carol Kane, Saul Rubinek, Tiffany Boone, Louis Ozawa Changchien, Greg Austin and Dylan Baker.
The Hunt, created by David Weil, follows a diverse band of Nazi hunters living in 1977 New York City. The Hunters, as they’re known, have discovered that hundreds of high-ranking Nazi officials are living among us and conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the U.S. The eclectic team of Hunters will set out on a bloody quest to bring the Nazis to justice and thwart their new genocidal plans.
The Hunt, created by David Weil, follows a diverse band of Nazi hunters living in 1977 New York City. The Hunters, as they’re known, have discovered that hundreds of high-ranking Nazi officials are living among us and conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the U.S. The eclectic team of Hunters will set out on a bloody quest to bring the Nazis to justice and thwart their new genocidal plans.
- 4/11/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Tess Frazer joined Stacy Cochran for the opening night Write When You Get Work Q&A, moderated by Anne-Katrin Titze at Village East Cinema Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In the final instalment of my conversation with Write When You Get Work director/screenwriter Stacy Cochran, we go into the nature of the characters, played by Finn Wittrock, Rachel Keller, and Emily Mortimer, and touch on Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, Michael Powell's Peeping Tom, Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble In Paradise, and Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters.
Jonny (Wittrock) and Ruth (Keller), the couple at the heart of Write When You Get Work, struggle on their own until the death of an important person for both of them encourages Jonny to take audacious steps to enter back into her life. Ruth has moved on to a position at a private girls school on Manhattan's Upper East Side, run by an over-confident Guy Brinckerhoff...
In the final instalment of my conversation with Write When You Get Work director/screenwriter Stacy Cochran, we go into the nature of the characters, played by Finn Wittrock, Rachel Keller, and Emily Mortimer, and touch on Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, Michael Powell's Peeping Tom, Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble In Paradise, and Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters.
Jonny (Wittrock) and Ruth (Keller), the couple at the heart of Write When You Get Work, struggle on their own until the death of an important person for both of them encourages Jonny to take audacious steps to enter back into her life. Ruth has moved on to a position at a private girls school on Manhattan's Upper East Side, run by an over-confident Guy Brinckerhoff...
- 11/24/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The danger of crafting a complicated heist flick is the risk that your audience won’t quite understand what’s going on. That’s the case in writer-director Stacy Cochran’s “Write When You Get Work,” a romantic comedy with a criminal bent that undertells its story and therefore oversells how smart it really is.
The film begins with an up-close-and-personal shot of teenagers rolling around in the sand, though these teens look like adults: It’s Jonny and Ruth. Their tryst results in a child, whom we find out, when the film jumps ahead nine years, that they gave up.
Their forfeited offspring doesn’t add anything to the story, other than perhaps suggesting a bond stronger than most high school sweethearts have; when Jonny spots Ruth at a wake those nine years later, he breaks into her apartment later that day. It turns out that they’re both comfortable with such illegal pastimes,...
The film begins with an up-close-and-personal shot of teenagers rolling around in the sand, though these teens look like adults: It’s Jonny and Ruth. Their tryst results in a child, whom we find out, when the film jumps ahead nine years, that they gave up.
Their forfeited offspring doesn’t add anything to the story, other than perhaps suggesting a bond stronger than most high school sweethearts have; when Jonny spots Ruth at a wake those nine years later, he breaks into her apartment later that day. It turns out that they’re both comfortable with such illegal pastimes,...
- 11/23/2018
- by Tricia Olszewski
- The Wrap
A finite number of audiences on both coasts will get the chance to see Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma beginning Thanksgiving weekend. Netflix’s anticipated black-and-white feature, which is a Spirit Award nominee and won the Golden Lion at Venice will have the vast majority of its audiences view what some have called a masterpiece through the service. Roma is the second of three Netflix films — along with the Coen brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, which opened this month, and Susanne Bier’s Bird Box — to get a rare pre-streaming theatrical release as the company looks to boost awareness for its awards-season fare.
Fellow Venice, Telluride and New York film festival pic The Favourite from Fox Searchlight begins its theatrical run Friday in four New York and L.A. locations. Starring Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz, the period drama should be a heavy draw for audiences during the holiday.
Fellow Venice, Telluride and New York film festival pic The Favourite from Fox Searchlight begins its theatrical run Friday in four New York and L.A. locations. Starring Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz, the period drama should be a heavy draw for audiences during the holiday.
- 11/22/2018
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
Stacy Cochran on Good Night, And Good Luck., shot by her Write When You Get Work cinematographer Robert Elswit: "I think George Clooney did just this super fantastic job." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Stacy Cochran's Write When You Get Work, shot by Robert Elswit stars Rachel Keller, Finn Wittrock and Emily Mortimer with Scott Cohen, Jessica Hecht, James Ransone, Rosa Gilmore, Tess Frazer, Jennifer Mudge, Afton Williamson, and Andrew Schulz.
Ruth (Rachel Keller) and Jonny (Finn Wittrock) in Write When You Get Work
In the first instalment of my conversation with the director/screenwriter/co-producer of Write When You Get Work, Stacy and I discuss the spot-on look she created with costume designer Samantha Hawkins, the visual storytelling, what's in a word, camouflaging ourselves, her cinematographer Robert Elswit, and how writing a screenplay can be like writing a letter.
The title of Stacy Cochran's wonderfully offbeat, smartly written, and well...
Stacy Cochran's Write When You Get Work, shot by Robert Elswit stars Rachel Keller, Finn Wittrock and Emily Mortimer with Scott Cohen, Jessica Hecht, James Ransone, Rosa Gilmore, Tess Frazer, Jennifer Mudge, Afton Williamson, and Andrew Schulz.
Ruth (Rachel Keller) and Jonny (Finn Wittrock) in Write When You Get Work
In the first instalment of my conversation with the director/screenwriter/co-producer of Write When You Get Work, Stacy and I discuss the spot-on look she created with costume designer Samantha Hawkins, the visual storytelling, what's in a word, camouflaging ourselves, her cinematographer Robert Elswit, and how writing a screenplay can be like writing a letter.
The title of Stacy Cochran's wonderfully offbeat, smartly written, and well...
- 11/20/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
We don’t ever discover why or when high school sweethearts Ruth Duffy (Rachel Keller) and Jonny Collins (Finn Wittrock) broke up during the course of Stacy Cochran’s Write When You Get Work. All we know are certain circumstances and thus are left to assume the rest. Maybe they tried making things work after what happened and spent a few more years together or maybe they separated right away (read as Ruth left to take control of her life while Jonny stayed behind and apparently refused to ever grow up). This is why nine years post graduation finds the former working as the interim head of admissions at a prestigious private school and the latter running cons from a coat-check closet he otherwise works for tips as a favor.
This isn’t a bad thing by itself. Cochran is allowed to give her audience the benefit of the doubt...
This isn’t a bad thing by itself. Cochran is allowed to give her audience the benefit of the doubt...
- 11/19/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
"Could you leave me alone?!" Abramorama has debuted an official trailer for an odd, indie romantic comedy titled Write When You Get Work, the latest film from New York-based filmmaker Stacy Cochran. This premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and will hit theaters this November. Described as a "story about money, mischief, love and entitlement." The story follows two people living in New York City, who cross paths again years after they were lovers in high school. Jonny is as consumed with Ruth as he was in their school days, and he infiltrates her life for love and profit. Rachel Keller stars, with Finn Wittrock, Emily Mortimer, Scott Cohen, Jessica Hecht, and James Ransone. I dig the grainy 16mm look of this, and the heist twist, but I'm not sure it's going to amount to anything. Check it out below. Here's the official Us trailer (+ poster) for Stacy Cochran's Write When You Get Work,...
- 10/17/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Finn Wittrock takes on the role of a man obsessed by a childhood love in his upcoming romantic comedy Write When You Get Work.
In a People exclusive trailer for his new film, the American Horror Story actor plays Jonny Collins, a man dedicated to infiltrating the life of a woman named Ruth Duffy (Legion‘s Rachel Keller), who he used to know.
As Collins begins to spy on Duffy, he also comes to meet the wealthy Nan Noble (Emily Mortimer) who introduces him to the happenings of the upper class — which leads to a heist of epic proportions.
“My...
In a People exclusive trailer for his new film, the American Horror Story actor plays Jonny Collins, a man dedicated to infiltrating the life of a woman named Ruth Duffy (Legion‘s Rachel Keller), who he used to know.
As Collins begins to spy on Duffy, he also comes to meet the wealthy Nan Noble (Emily Mortimer) who introduces him to the happenings of the upper class — which leads to a heist of epic proportions.
“My...
- 10/16/2018
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
Exclusive: Abramorama has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Write When You Get Work, the new movie from My New Gun writer-director Stacy Cochran. The romantic comedy starring Finn Wittrock and Rachel Keller, who play former lovers whose paths cross years later (with a heist thrown in for good measure), will bow in New York beginning November 23 ahead of a cross-country rollout in which Cochran will be on hand for a Q&A following each city screening. Emily Mortimer also stars.
Cochran calls her first feature since 2000 a “comedy, a love story, and a portrait of New York, a city where people live and walk in unexpected combinations, in their own heads but also together.” Set in New York at a private school for girls and in the world outside its exclusive walls, the pic centers on Ruth Duffy (Keller), a woman working to put her tumultuous days behind her...
Cochran calls her first feature since 2000 a “comedy, a love story, and a portrait of New York, a city where people live and walk in unexpected combinations, in their own heads but also together.” Set in New York at a private school for girls and in the world outside its exclusive walls, the pic centers on Ruth Duffy (Keller), a woman working to put her tumultuous days behind her...
- 10/11/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Not wasting their existence trying to prove they’re good enough to fit into a seemingly prestigious society is a motivating life lesson that helps draw people to where they’re truly supposed to be in life. That message is powerfully driving both the characters in, and filmmaker behind, the new comedy-drama, ‘Write When You Get Work.’ […]
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- 8/1/2018
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
Emily Mortimer, who is in Disney’s big Christmas release, Mary Poppins Returns opposite Emily Blunt, Lin Manuel Miranda, Meryl Streep and Colin Firth, has signed with UTA.
Most recently, Mortimer starred in Stacy Cochran’s drama Write When You Get Work and Sally Potter’s The Party and will next star in Isabelle Coixet’s The Bookshop — which was released in Europe earlier this year, and for which she received a Goya Award nomination.
On the television side, Mortimer created and starred in HBO’s acclaimed comedy series Doll & Em as Emily opposite her real-life best friend Dolly Wells.
Prior to that role, she starred as MacKenzie McHale opposite Jeff Daniels on Aaron Sorkin’s Golden Globe nominated series The Newsroom for HBO.
Mortimer is also an accomplished stage actress and has appeared in productions of Parlour Song, The Merchant of Venice and The Lights, to name a few.
Most recently, Mortimer starred in Stacy Cochran’s drama Write When You Get Work and Sally Potter’s The Party and will next star in Isabelle Coixet’s The Bookshop — which was released in Europe earlier this year, and for which she received a Goya Award nomination.
On the television side, Mortimer created and starred in HBO’s acclaimed comedy series Doll & Em as Emily opposite her real-life best friend Dolly Wells.
Prior to that role, she starred as MacKenzie McHale opposite Jeff Daniels on Aaron Sorkin’s Golden Globe nominated series The Newsroom for HBO.
Mortimer is also an accomplished stage actress and has appeared in productions of Parlour Song, The Merchant of Venice and The Lights, to name a few.
- 6/19/2018
- by Anita Busch
- Deadline Film + TV
The Asbury Park Music & Film Festival announced today their film submission award winners at a ceremony held at the Asbury Hotel.
Hosted by two-time Gracie Award winner Shelli Sonstein this year’s winners included the Justin Kreutzmann-directed Break On Thru: A Celebration of Ray Manzarek and The Doors for Best Feature Film Award as well as Corinne Gray Ruff for Best Aspiring Female Director Award for The Oyster Farmers and Sarah Galloway winning the Asbury Park Press Award for Bike Riddim.
The Apmff benefits the underserved youth in Asbury Park, one of the most challenged youth communities in the country. Funds raised through the Apmff support music programs for these children. The fest continues to provide music education, instruments and social connection opportunities for children in underserved communities.
Read the complete winners list below.
Asbury Park Press Award
Bike Riddim
Directed by: Sarah Galloway
Rwj Barnabas Health Award
Stay...
Hosted by two-time Gracie Award winner Shelli Sonstein this year’s winners included the Justin Kreutzmann-directed Break On Thru: A Celebration of Ray Manzarek and The Doors for Best Feature Film Award as well as Corinne Gray Ruff for Best Aspiring Female Director Award for The Oyster Farmers and Sarah Galloway winning the Asbury Park Press Award for Bike Riddim.
The Apmff benefits the underserved youth in Asbury Park, one of the most challenged youth communities in the country. Funds raised through the Apmff support music programs for these children. The fest continues to provide music education, instruments and social connection opportunities for children in underserved communities.
Read the complete winners list below.
Asbury Park Press Award
Bike Riddim
Directed by: Sarah Galloway
Rwj Barnabas Health Award
Stay...
- 4/29/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Known for films including Boys and Drop Back Ten, writer/director Stacy Cochran is at SXSW with her latest drama, Write When You Get Work. Starring Legion’s Rachel Keller, Finn Wittrock and Emily Mortimer, the film tells the story of Ruth (Keller), an assistant at a pricey school for girls in New York who is barely getting by; Johnny (Wittrock), Ruth’s ex, a shady thief living on the edge; and Nan Noble (Mortimer), a mother of two young daughters whose life is slowly…...
- 3/13/2018
- Deadline
An outer-borough grifter finds a rich Manhattanite who doesn't even need to be conned in Write When You Get Work, Stacy Cochran's peculiar blend of crime flick and class-conscious love story. Boasting a strong cast and stronger Super 16 lensing by the great Robert Elswit, the picture benefits from a want-to-like-it factor that may carry some viewers through a scenario that grows increasingly shaky from the second act onward. Marking Cochran's return to the director's chair after 18 years, it seems unlikely to much surpass the limited success of her 1992 effort My New Gun and the 1996 Winona Ryder...
- 3/12/2018
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: In a new clip from the Stacy Cochran’s Write When You Get Work, we are given a taste of the Manhattan-set drama starring Emily Mortimer (The Newsroom), Finn Wittrock (American Horror Story) and Rachel Keller (Legion). The film follows Ruth Duffy (Keller) an assistant at a pricey school for girls in Manhattan who is barely getting by. She is managing to move beyond the trouble and loss of her teenage years. Jonny Collins (Wittrock) is working local jobs and…...
- 3/8/2018
- Deadline
With Sundance 2018 wrapped up, the next major American festival is South by Southwest Film Festival and today they’ve announced their lineup. Opening with John Krasinski’s horror film A Quiet Place, it also includes some of our most-anticipated films of the year: Jody Hill’s Observe & Report follow-up The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter (which Netflix has announced they’ll release), Andrew Bujalski’s Support the Girls, and Julia Hart’s Miss Stevens follow-up, the sci-fi film Fast Color (pictured above) starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
Check out the lineup below for the festival that takes place March 9-18 in Austin. It also includes many Sundance 2018 titles, and you can see our reviews of those here.
Narrative Feature Competition
Ten world premieres; ten unique ways to celebrate the art of storytelling. Selected from 1,408 narrative feature submissions in 2018.
Family
Director/Screenwriter: Laura Steinel
When an emotionally stunted 30 year-old woman is tasked...
Check out the lineup below for the festival that takes place March 9-18 in Austin. It also includes many Sundance 2018 titles, and you can see our reviews of those here.
Narrative Feature Competition
Ten world premieres; ten unique ways to celebrate the art of storytelling. Selected from 1,408 narrative feature submissions in 2018.
Family
Director/Screenwriter: Laura Steinel
When an emotionally stunted 30 year-old woman is tasked...
- 2/1/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
"If they hear you, they hunt you." Before it's released in theaters this April, John Krasinski's new post-apocalyptic movie A Quiet Place will have its world premiere as the opening night movie at South by Southwest.
Set in a post-apocalyptic world that's been ravaged by monsters attracted by sound, A Quiet Place was directed and co-written by John Krasinski, who also co-stars alongside Emily Blunt, Noah Jupe, and Millicent Simmonds.
Part of the Headliners screening slate, A Quiet Place will make its world premiere on March 9th ahead of the film's April 6th theatrical release from Paramount Pictures. This marks the third feature film behind the camera for Krasinski, who directed Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and The Hollars, as well as three episodes of The Office, on which he played the iconic character of Jim Halpert.
Other genre movies screening at SXSW, including the Midnighters slate, will be announced on February 7th,...
Set in a post-apocalyptic world that's been ravaged by monsters attracted by sound, A Quiet Place was directed and co-written by John Krasinski, who also co-stars alongside Emily Blunt, Noah Jupe, and Millicent Simmonds.
Part of the Headliners screening slate, A Quiet Place will make its world premiere on March 9th ahead of the film's April 6th theatrical release from Paramount Pictures. This marks the third feature film behind the camera for Krasinski, who directed Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and The Hollars, as well as three episodes of The Office, on which he played the iconic character of Jim Halpert.
Other genre movies screening at SXSW, including the Midnighters slate, will be announced on February 7th,...
- 1/31/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
The 2018 SXSW Film and TV lineups have landed, and Austin’s programming of new films and TV shows looks like nothing else out there. As the film section enters its 25th anniversary and the festival’s top programmer Janet Pierson enters her 10th, SXSW remains a distinctive presence on the festival circuit, one that speaks to an ever-changing media landscape and the variability of filmmaking outside of Hollywood. Here are some of the standouts from the announcement.
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Daryl Hannah Made an Experimental Western With Willie Nelson
As calls for supporting women filmmakers continue to dominate the industry, SXSW’s program provides a compelling response. Its 10-movie narrative competition is dominated by eight women directors, varying wildly in age and experience. These include first-time director Hannah Marks, who co-directed the drama “Shotgun” with Joey Power. Marks...
See More:sxsw Film and TV 2018 Lineup: Jordan Peele, Female Directors, and More Lead Latest Announcement
Daryl Hannah Made an Experimental Western With Willie Nelson
As calls for supporting women filmmakers continue to dominate the industry, SXSW’s program provides a compelling response. Its 10-movie narrative competition is dominated by eight women directors, varying wildly in age and experience. These include first-time director Hannah Marks, who co-directed the drama “Shotgun” with Joey Power. Marks...
- 1/31/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Jordan Peele’s The Last O.G to screen in Independent Episodic; Timur Bekmambetov’s Profile among SXSW line-up.
Source: Paramount Pictures
SXSW top brass on Wednesday (January 31) said the world premiere of John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place will open the 25th edition of the festival, which runs in Austin, Texas, from March 9-18.
Krasinski directed and stars in horror-thriller A Quiet Place alongside his wife Emily Blunt in the tale of an isolated family living in silence for fear of attack by an unknown force than tracks sound. Platinum Dunes produced the feature, which opens in the Us through on April 6 through Paramount.
SXSW launches the inaugural Independent Episodic section this year, an expansion on the Episodic section launched in 2014. Overall, the festival will screen 132 features, with additional titles to be announced.
The full line-up will include 44 films from first-time filmmakers, 86 world premieres, 11 North American premieres and five Us premieres. The films were culled...
Source: Paramount Pictures
SXSW top brass on Wednesday (January 31) said the world premiere of John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place will open the 25th edition of the festival, which runs in Austin, Texas, from March 9-18.
Krasinski directed and stars in horror-thriller A Quiet Place alongside his wife Emily Blunt in the tale of an isolated family living in silence for fear of attack by an unknown force than tracks sound. Platinum Dunes produced the feature, which opens in the Us through on April 6 through Paramount.
SXSW launches the inaugural Independent Episodic section this year, an expansion on the Episodic section launched in 2014. Overall, the festival will screen 132 features, with additional titles to be announced.
The full line-up will include 44 films from first-time filmmakers, 86 world premieres, 11 North American premieres and five Us premieres. The films were culled...
- 1/31/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The SXSW Conference and Festivals has announced its features lineup and opening night film, plus a selection of episodic titles for the 25th edition of the Film Festival, running this March in Austin, Texas. This year’s festival will open with John Krasinski’s Paramount-produced “A Quiet Place,” playing as part of the festival’s Headliners section. Elsewhere, the film lineup is stacked with a number of offerings from female filmmakers, including its Narrative Feature Competition, which includes eight films (out of ten) directed or co-directed by women, from Megan Griffiths’ “Sadie” to Stacy Cochran’s “Write When You Get Work.”
Other sections of the festival also include a heavily female bent, including three films in the Headliners section (which currently includes five titles), and the Narrative Spotlight section, which includes new films from Lynn Shelton, Miranda Bailey, Julia Hart, and Suzi Yoonessi. Those titles are joined by a slew of other SXSW regulars,...
Other sections of the festival also include a heavily female bent, including three films in the Headliners section (which currently includes five titles), and the Narrative Spotlight section, which includes new films from Lynn Shelton, Miranda Bailey, Julia Hart, and Suzi Yoonessi. Those titles are joined by a slew of other SXSW regulars,...
- 1/31/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Lance Black’s Black 47 to open the event, which features seven world premieres.
Source: Iffr
‘Black 47’
The Audi Dublin International Film Festival (Feb 21- Mar 4) has announced its 2018 line-up.
Opening the 16th iteration of the event is the Irish premiere of Black 47. Lance Daly’s Great Famine-set thriller stars James Frecheville, Barry Keoghan, Moe Dunford, Hugo Weaving and Stephen Rea.
The closing night gala is C’est La Vie, from Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano (The Intouchables).
Playwright and screenwriter Mark O’Rowe’s directing debut The Delinquent Season is one of seven world premieres. The cast includes Cillian Murphy and Eva Birthistle, both of whom will attend.
Other world premieres include Stacy Cochran’s Write When You Get Work and artist Alan Gilsenan’s The Meeting.
Guests at the festival include Bill Pullman, presenting his new western The Ballad of Lefty Brown; Lynne Ramsay with a special presentation of You Were Never Really Here; Nora Twomey with Oscar-nominated...
Source: Iffr
‘Black 47’
The Audi Dublin International Film Festival (Feb 21- Mar 4) has announced its 2018 line-up.
Opening the 16th iteration of the event is the Irish premiere of Black 47. Lance Daly’s Great Famine-set thriller stars James Frecheville, Barry Keoghan, Moe Dunford, Hugo Weaving and Stephen Rea.
The closing night gala is C’est La Vie, from Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano (The Intouchables).
Playwright and screenwriter Mark O’Rowe’s directing debut The Delinquent Season is one of seven world premieres. The cast includes Cillian Murphy and Eva Birthistle, both of whom will attend.
Other world premieres include Stacy Cochran’s Write When You Get Work and artist Alan Gilsenan’s The Meeting.
Guests at the festival include Bill Pullman, presenting his new western The Ballad of Lefty Brown; Lynne Ramsay with a special presentation of You Were Never Really Here; Nora Twomey with Oscar-nominated...
- 1/24/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
In the mid-'70s, when women (among them Claudia Weill, Joan Micklin Silver, Joan Darling) were getting the chance to direct mainstream movies, Pauline Kael cautioned against expecting great things right away. Filmmakers needed a chance to learn and develop, she said, and there was always a chance they might not, or might simply become proficient hacks. It didn't matter, she was quoted as saying, whether there was a king or a queen on top of the garbage heap.
Daphne Merkin's profile of Nancy Meyers in the New York Times Magazine a few weeks back was an attempt to claim that a Garbage Queen was a step forward. The trouble with the piece, as with almost every plight-of-women-in-film article, is that the relentless focus on Hollywood winds up saying that the women directors working outside the mainstream don't exist.
The institutional sexism that still cripples Hollywood is appalling. When Mira Nair...
Daphne Merkin's profile of Nancy Meyers in the New York Times Magazine a few weeks back was an attempt to claim that a Garbage Queen was a step forward. The trouble with the piece, as with almost every plight-of-women-in-film article, is that the relentless focus on Hollywood winds up saying that the women directors working outside the mainstream don't exist.
The institutional sexism that still cripples Hollywood is appalling. When Mira Nair...
- 1/21/2010
- by Charles Taylor
- ifc.com
Add the words "and punt" to the end of this football-ish title, and you've got the dire outlook for this lackadaisical story about a struggling writer who goes on a puff assignment to profile an up-and-coming star. Clearly out of its league in the Dramatic Competition section of the Sundance Film Festival, this uninvolving movie is unlikely to attract any attention among the festival circuits.
In this slight piece, writer Pete Barnes (James LeGros) is a hapless, myopic journalist who manages through his dedicated inertia to lose both his job and his girlfriend the same day. Luckily, Pete calls in a favor and lands a cushy assignment to profile a young actor, Spanks Volley (Desmond Harrington), who is off making a low-budget movie. As you all know, there is often not a lot of real openness and easy access on a movie set, and Pete quickly encounters a team of flunkies and obstructionists that would do any AFM company proud. Essentially, Team Spanks wants him only to write what they tell him.
Coincidentally, and this tale is chock full of coincidences, Pete encounters Spanks and finds out Spanks is actually a fan of a book that Pete once did on the NFL, "Drop Back Ten", a kind of "Any Given Sunday" expose about pro football. That this phlegmatic amateur actually wrote a book that annoyed the NFL is only one of many unbelievable things about the film's plot and characters.
In football jargon, writer-director Stacy Cochran's play-calling is haphazard and thin. "Drop Back Ten" never gains any story momentum, and eventually, we don't even care about any of the characters. In the middle of the foray, it heaves a big theme, which its underdeveloped, vacuous storyline cannot support.
With no significant upfront story blocking from Cochran, the players are pretty much left to fend for themselves. LeGros is sympathetic as the low-key journalist, while Tate Donovan stands out as a boisterous flunky.
Technical contributions are a fumble, as well. Cinematographer Spencer Newman's haphazard framings do nothing to invigorate the tale, while Pat Irwin's slushy music only results in a further loss of forward movement.
DROP BACK TEN
E films
a Stacy Cochran Film
Producer-director-screenwriter:Stacy Cochran
Director of photography:Spencer Newman
Editor:Nancy I. Novack
Music:Pat Irwin
Production designer:Lucy W. Corrigan
Associate producer-casting director:Todd Thaler
Supervising producer:Molly Bradford
Co-producer:Andrew Charas
Casting:Todd Thaler
Costumes:Sarah Beers
Color/stereo
Cast:
Pete Barnes:James LeGros
Spanks Volley:Desmond Harrington
Mindy Deal:Amber Valletta
Wally Bixer:Tate Donovan
Tom White:Josh Lucas
Jeanne Siezac:Yvonne Miller
Peggy:Jodie Markell
Running time -- 93 minutes
No MPAA rating...
In this slight piece, writer Pete Barnes (James LeGros) is a hapless, myopic journalist who manages through his dedicated inertia to lose both his job and his girlfriend the same day. Luckily, Pete calls in a favor and lands a cushy assignment to profile a young actor, Spanks Volley (Desmond Harrington), who is off making a low-budget movie. As you all know, there is often not a lot of real openness and easy access on a movie set, and Pete quickly encounters a team of flunkies and obstructionists that would do any AFM company proud. Essentially, Team Spanks wants him only to write what they tell him.
Coincidentally, and this tale is chock full of coincidences, Pete encounters Spanks and finds out Spanks is actually a fan of a book that Pete once did on the NFL, "Drop Back Ten", a kind of "Any Given Sunday" expose about pro football. That this phlegmatic amateur actually wrote a book that annoyed the NFL is only one of many unbelievable things about the film's plot and characters.
In football jargon, writer-director Stacy Cochran's play-calling is haphazard and thin. "Drop Back Ten" never gains any story momentum, and eventually, we don't even care about any of the characters. In the middle of the foray, it heaves a big theme, which its underdeveloped, vacuous storyline cannot support.
With no significant upfront story blocking from Cochran, the players are pretty much left to fend for themselves. LeGros is sympathetic as the low-key journalist, while Tate Donovan stands out as a boisterous flunky.
Technical contributions are a fumble, as well. Cinematographer Spencer Newman's haphazard framings do nothing to invigorate the tale, while Pat Irwin's slushy music only results in a further loss of forward movement.
DROP BACK TEN
E films
a Stacy Cochran Film
Producer-director-screenwriter:Stacy Cochran
Director of photography:Spencer Newman
Editor:Nancy I. Novack
Music:Pat Irwin
Production designer:Lucy W. Corrigan
Associate producer-casting director:Todd Thaler
Supervising producer:Molly Bradford
Co-producer:Andrew Charas
Casting:Todd Thaler
Costumes:Sarah Beers
Color/stereo
Cast:
Pete Barnes:James LeGros
Spanks Volley:Desmond Harrington
Mindy Deal:Amber Valletta
Wally Bixer:Tate Donovan
Tom White:Josh Lucas
Jeanne Siezac:Yvonne Miller
Peggy:Jodie Markell
Running time -- 93 minutes
No MPAA rating...
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