Continuing on with my crowdsourcing of blog posts for you, I followed up my tweet of "What's the first best lesson you learned about the film business" with one about what was your favorite quote. I didn't get anywhere near as many suggestions, but the results are good. More suggestions are welcome. Billie Burke On Hollywood: "To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony." - (via Randy Finch) Brian De Palma: "The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second. " (via…...
- 7/21/2011
- Hope for Film
Nerd Approved has the first look at an upcoming episode of Food Network’s new show Ice Brigade, which will show off a life-sized sculpture of Han Solo in Carbonite carved from ice.
The episode, which will air on the Food Network on March 24, 2011, will feature the show's star Randy Finch and his team at Ice Sculptures Ltd and their incredibly awesome geeky ice sculpture based on one of the most iconic images from the Star Wars franchise [...]...
The episode, which will air on the Food Network on March 24, 2011, will feature the show's star Randy Finch and his team at Ice Sculptures Ltd and their incredibly awesome geeky ice sculpture based on one of the most iconic images from the Star Wars franchise [...]...
- 3/18/2011
- by Empress Eve
- Geeks of Doom
Courtesy of the show
If you live on the East Coast and you complain about the cold weather, you should check out what Randy Finch does for a living and then put your chill in perspective.
Finch, whose Grand Rapids, Michigan ice carving company is the subject of the reality show “Ice Brigade,” spends his days in a freezer trying to change the world’s opinion on ice sculptures.
“We want to show people that an ice sculpture can be...
If you live on the East Coast and you complain about the cold weather, you should check out what Randy Finch does for a living and then put your chill in perspective.
Finch, whose Grand Rapids, Michigan ice carving company is the subject of the reality show “Ice Brigade,” spends his days in a freezer trying to change the world’s opinion on ice sculptures.
“We want to show people that an ice sculpture can be...
- 3/18/2011
- by Stephanie Krikorian
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Justin Bieber is officially cooler than ever. Randy Finch , star of the new Food Network show " Ice Brigade ," tells TooFab he made the Bieber ice sculpture in honor of the star's birthday earlier this month -- saying "we thought it would be somewhat topical, fun, kind of a whimsical piece. We wanted something that would be fun and recognizable to show the skill level of our artists as far as drawing it. Just fun and goofy to play with." Finch says he loves trying something different with his crew, telling us "It’s so much fun to learn what we can do and how hard we can pull it off." As for his favorite ice design ever, Finch says "We did an office prank where we replaced this guy’s office furniture in his office with ice. Everything down to his ink pens." See more of Finch's creations when " Ice Brigade " airs tonight.
- 3/17/2011
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
Ice sculpting fascinates, as artists use major tools to create ethereal works of art. Now Food Network brings a new series, which premieres Thursday, March 3rd at 10pm Et/Pt. Randy Finch and Derek Maxfield were two small town Michigan boys originally drawn to the culinary arts to fulfill their love of science and art, but eventually found their true calling in ice sculpting, and Food Network found them, lucky for us viewers. From Fn: Armed with chain saws, chisels and sledge hammers, Michigan-based chef Randy Finch and his team of renegade ice artists blow the lid off ice sculpting by developing out-of-this-world, original designs that defy the imagination on Food Network.s new primetimes series Ice Brigade. To...
- 2/22/2011
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Tasty news from Food Network! Two new shows are premiering next month sure to satisfy any craving. Tune-in on March 3rd at 10pm for the series premiere of Ice Brigade, which follows the top ice sculpting artists as they create original designs including interactive pool tables, bowling lanes and other unique sculptures beyond your wildest dreams. On March 6th at 9pm watch as our all-star chefs compete on Chopped for the spiciest season yet. Ice Brigade: Premieres March 3rd at 10pm Ice Brigade follows former chef Randy Finch and his team of renegade ice artists as they blow the lid off ice sculpting by creating original, unique designs that defy the imagination. To these frozen outlaws, the...
- 2/7/2011
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Ron Rifkin reprises his award-winning stage turn as an embattled publisher in a fine screen adaptation of Jon Robin Baitz's "The Substance of Fire".
Released for a one-week Academy qualifying engagement in Los Angeles and New York (it will be officially launched on Feb. 7), the film delivers Rifkin's tricky performance intact and offers solid work from an ensemble including Tony Goldwyn, Sarah Jessica Parker and Timothy Hutton.
While "Substance" arrives with a built-in awareness factor for the theater crowd, the piece has been considerably reconceptualized for the screen, and its even stronger portrait of a family torn apart makes for newly powerful viewing.
Rifkin treads a very fine line between pathos and disdain as the widowed Isaac Geldhart, a caustic New York literary publisher with three grown children. A Holocaust survivor (as a child, he was hidden by cousins while his immediate family was taken away), Isaac attempts to assuage a lifetime of guilt by undertaking the prestige printing of a four-volume documentation of Nazi medical experiments.
The problem is that the publishing house he ran with his late wife is already in serious financial trouble, and his son, Aaron (Tony Goldwyn), a partner in the company, would rather he publish a potential best seller that happens to have been written by his boyfriend (Gil Bellows). But the elder Geldhart remains adamant to the point of firing Aaron and consequently disowning his other two children -- timid landscape architecture teacher Martin (Hutton) and energetic kids show performer Sarah (Parker).
Although his offspring would go on to have the last laugh -- the potential best seller more than lives up to Aaron's hunch, while the costly Nazi atrocity books drive Isaac to professional and emotional ruin -- a tragedy occurs that ultimately and literally brings the father back to his senses and his splintered family together.
In turning his Obie Award-winning play into a screenplay, Baitz has done some significant structural renovating, resulting in a more focused, moving central theme. Theater director Daniel Sullivan, who also handled the original stage version, makes an impressive feature film debut, managing to avoid most of the static trappings of stage-to-screen vehicles.
But it is the cast that shines brightest. Rifkin's notable balancing act aside, Baitz's words and Sullivan's direction coax strong performances from Goldwyn, Hutton and Parker, as well as a quietly affecting turn by Elizabeth Franz as Geldhart's loyal, long-suffering secretary.
THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE
Miramax Films
Director Daniel Sullivan
Screenwriter Jon Robin Baitz
Producers Jon Robin Baitz, Randy Finch,
Ron Kastner
Director of photography Robert Yeoman
Production design John Lee Beatty
Editor Pamela Martin
Music Joseph Vitarelli
Costume design Jess Goldstein
Casting Meg Simon
Color/stereo
Cast:
Isaac Geldhart Ron Rifkin
Sarah Geldhart Sarah Jessica Parker
Martin Geldhart Timothy Hutton
Aaron Geldhart Tony Goldwyn
Louis Foukold Ronny Graham
Val Gil Bellows
Gene Byck Eric Bogosian
Max Roger Rees
Ms. Barzakian Elizabeth Franz
Running time -- 101 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Released for a one-week Academy qualifying engagement in Los Angeles and New York (it will be officially launched on Feb. 7), the film delivers Rifkin's tricky performance intact and offers solid work from an ensemble including Tony Goldwyn, Sarah Jessica Parker and Timothy Hutton.
While "Substance" arrives with a built-in awareness factor for the theater crowd, the piece has been considerably reconceptualized for the screen, and its even stronger portrait of a family torn apart makes for newly powerful viewing.
Rifkin treads a very fine line between pathos and disdain as the widowed Isaac Geldhart, a caustic New York literary publisher with three grown children. A Holocaust survivor (as a child, he was hidden by cousins while his immediate family was taken away), Isaac attempts to assuage a lifetime of guilt by undertaking the prestige printing of a four-volume documentation of Nazi medical experiments.
The problem is that the publishing house he ran with his late wife is already in serious financial trouble, and his son, Aaron (Tony Goldwyn), a partner in the company, would rather he publish a potential best seller that happens to have been written by his boyfriend (Gil Bellows). But the elder Geldhart remains adamant to the point of firing Aaron and consequently disowning his other two children -- timid landscape architecture teacher Martin (Hutton) and energetic kids show performer Sarah (Parker).
Although his offspring would go on to have the last laugh -- the potential best seller more than lives up to Aaron's hunch, while the costly Nazi atrocity books drive Isaac to professional and emotional ruin -- a tragedy occurs that ultimately and literally brings the father back to his senses and his splintered family together.
In turning his Obie Award-winning play into a screenplay, Baitz has done some significant structural renovating, resulting in a more focused, moving central theme. Theater director Daniel Sullivan, who also handled the original stage version, makes an impressive feature film debut, managing to avoid most of the static trappings of stage-to-screen vehicles.
But it is the cast that shines brightest. Rifkin's notable balancing act aside, Baitz's words and Sullivan's direction coax strong performances from Goldwyn, Hutton and Parker, as well as a quietly affecting turn by Elizabeth Franz as Geldhart's loyal, long-suffering secretary.
THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE
Miramax Films
Director Daniel Sullivan
Screenwriter Jon Robin Baitz
Producers Jon Robin Baitz, Randy Finch,
Ron Kastner
Director of photography Robert Yeoman
Production design John Lee Beatty
Editor Pamela Martin
Music Joseph Vitarelli
Costume design Jess Goldstein
Casting Meg Simon
Color/stereo
Cast:
Isaac Geldhart Ron Rifkin
Sarah Geldhart Sarah Jessica Parker
Martin Geldhart Timothy Hutton
Aaron Geldhart Tony Goldwyn
Louis Foukold Ronny Graham
Val Gil Bellows
Gene Byck Eric Bogosian
Max Roger Rees
Ms. Barzakian Elizabeth Franz
Running time -- 101 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 12/8/1996
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Stage director Daniel Sullivan's feature debut is a competent adaptation of Jon Robin Baitz's 1989 play about a Holocaust survivor grown into a hard-headed publisher and hard-hearted father. "The Substance of Fire", an upcoming Miramax release, premiered locally Saturday at the AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival.
Lauded for his performances in the theatrical version, Ron Rifkin reprises the role of Isaac Geldhart, seen in a new opening as a child observing a book-burning during the war. The scene quickly shifts to current times, with Isaac in New York and a heap of problems about to ignite.
Having lost his family and wife and grown stony in the face of criticism for printing only narrow-interest works on the war, Isaac rebuffs his more practical son, Aaron (Tony Goldwyn). The latter is having no luck attracting investors and seeks to publish a potential best seller.
Isaac believes in high standards of craftsmanship and Old World integrity. A struggle ensues for control of the company, with Isaac losing his grip over Aaron's weak older brother (Timothy Hutton) and insurgent sister, Sarah Sarah Jessica Parker). All have equal shares, and Isaac is conspired against.
Meanwhile, Ronny Graham as a cranky author and loyal friend of Isaac lends support as Rifkin, with assured moves, takes us through the lead's mounting crises. Elizabeth Franz is another welcome presence as Isaac's won't-go-down-with-the-ship secretary.
Goldwyn, Hutton and Parker, however, are anything but inspiring. One develops little interest in their characters' problems when the spotlight shines so harshly on Isaac. Rifkin is commanding, but one grows weary waiting for his armor to crack.
One does learn a few things about paper stock and binding in Sullivan's latching onto cinematic possibilities, but the drama is still stagy while lacking the energy and urgency of a live performance.
THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE
Miramax Films
Goldheart Films
Director Daniel Sullivan
Writer Jon Robin Baitz
Producers Jon Robin Baitz, Randy Finch,
Ron Kastner
Co-producer Lemore Syvan
Director of photography Robert Yeoman
Production designer John Lee Beatty
Editor Pamela Martin
Costume designer Jess Goldstein
Casting Meg Simon
Cast:
Isaac Geldhart Ron Rifkin
Aaron Geldhart Tony Goldwyn
Martin Geldhart Timothy Hutton
Sarah Geldhart Sarah Jessica Parker
Miss Barzakian Elizabeth Franz
Val Chenard Gil Bellows
Louis Foukold Ronny Graham
Running time -- 101 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Lauded for his performances in the theatrical version, Ron Rifkin reprises the role of Isaac Geldhart, seen in a new opening as a child observing a book-burning during the war. The scene quickly shifts to current times, with Isaac in New York and a heap of problems about to ignite.
Having lost his family and wife and grown stony in the face of criticism for printing only narrow-interest works on the war, Isaac rebuffs his more practical son, Aaron (Tony Goldwyn). The latter is having no luck attracting investors and seeks to publish a potential best seller.
Isaac believes in high standards of craftsmanship and Old World integrity. A struggle ensues for control of the company, with Isaac losing his grip over Aaron's weak older brother (Timothy Hutton) and insurgent sister, Sarah Sarah Jessica Parker). All have equal shares, and Isaac is conspired against.
Meanwhile, Ronny Graham as a cranky author and loyal friend of Isaac lends support as Rifkin, with assured moves, takes us through the lead's mounting crises. Elizabeth Franz is another welcome presence as Isaac's won't-go-down-with-the-ship secretary.
Goldwyn, Hutton and Parker, however, are anything but inspiring. One develops little interest in their characters' problems when the spotlight shines so harshly on Isaac. Rifkin is commanding, but one grows weary waiting for his armor to crack.
One does learn a few things about paper stock and binding in Sullivan's latching onto cinematic possibilities, but the drama is still stagy while lacking the energy and urgency of a live performance.
THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE
Miramax Films
Goldheart Films
Director Daniel Sullivan
Writer Jon Robin Baitz
Producers Jon Robin Baitz, Randy Finch,
Ron Kastner
Co-producer Lemore Syvan
Director of photography Robert Yeoman
Production designer John Lee Beatty
Editor Pamela Martin
Costume designer Jess Goldstein
Casting Meg Simon
Cast:
Isaac Geldhart Ron Rifkin
Aaron Geldhart Tony Goldwyn
Martin Geldhart Timothy Hutton
Sarah Geldhart Sarah Jessica Parker
Miss Barzakian Elizabeth Franz
Val Chenard Gil Bellows
Louis Foukold Ronny Graham
Running time -- 101 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 10/28/1996
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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