Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Father to a Son About His Father is a deeply personal and tragically impactful documentary that goes beyond generic true crime tropes. The Dear Zachary documentary serves as a larger commentary on the American and Canadian legal systems, highlighting the need for reform and better handling of cases. Despite the heartbreaking ending, the documentary Dear Zachary inspires action and change, with the filmmakers encouraging viewers to support bail reform and donate earnings to charity in honor of Andrew Bagby.
Content Warning: This article includes discussions of child murder and suicide.
Going beyond the tropes of a generic investigative documentary, Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Father to a Son About His Father is deeply personal and frustratingly tragic, and it doesn’t have a happy ending. The 2008 Dear Zachary documentary is directed by Kurt Kuenne, who began filming when his childhood friend Andrew Bagby...
Content Warning: This article includes discussions of child murder and suicide.
Going beyond the tropes of a generic investigative documentary, Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Father to a Son About His Father is deeply personal and frustratingly tragic, and it doesn’t have a happy ending. The 2008 Dear Zachary documentary is directed by Kurt Kuenne, who began filming when his childhood friend Andrew Bagby...
- 12/11/2023
- by Colin McCormick, Shaurya Thapa
- ScreenRant.com
The Blacklist had an unenviable task ahead of it with Friday’s episode: Memorialize actor Clark Middleton, who passed away in 2020, and write out his recurring character, Glen, in an effective way.
The resulting hour, titled “The Wellstone Agency,” managed to do both of those things with a moving farewell to both Middleton and his alter ego. Though the episode also furthered Red’s pursuit of Liz, its more poignant focus was the loss of Middleton’s Dmv regional manager, who died from West Nile virus as his portrayer did in real life.
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The resulting hour, titled “The Wellstone Agency,” managed to do both of those things with a moving farewell to both Middleton and his alter ego. Though the episode also furthered Red’s pursuit of Liz, its more poignant focus was the loss of Middleton’s Dmv regional manager, who died from West Nile virus as his portrayer did in real life.
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- 2/13/2021
- by Rebecca Iannucci
- TVLine.com
I remember as a teenager reading Lois Duncan’s “I Know Who Killed My Daughter,” a gateway tome for many future true crime lovers. It was a story gripping in its narrative, but also utterly terrifying in the realization that homicide can touch anyone and leave a family with only fragments of tinted memories of who their loved one was, with a lack of answers into their death hanging over their head. I have no doubt that Madison Hamburg’s “Murder on Middle Beach,” on HBO will feel familiar to those who have read Duncan’s story — or that of any crime victim.
On March 3, 2010 Barbara Beach Hamburg was found murdered on her front lawn. The suspect pool seemed small and obvious; Hamburg was going through a contentious divorce with her husband who owed her a significant amount of alimony and child support. But as with most true crime documentaries,...
On March 3, 2010 Barbara Beach Hamburg was found murdered on her front lawn. The suspect pool seemed small and obvious; Hamburg was going through a contentious divorce with her husband who owed her a significant amount of alimony and child support. But as with most true crime documentaries,...
- 11/13/2020
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
“I never should have written ‘Hip to be Square’ in the third-person,” says Huey Lewis of the News fame. The man who has sold more than 30 million records, spawning such ‘80s classics as “The Heart of Rock and Roll,” “I Want a New Drug,” the Oscar-nominated “The Power of Love” and the song he’s fretting about now, a narrative lynchpin in both the book and film of Brett Easton Ellis/Mary Harron’s “American Psycho.” “People though I was singing about myself.”
The 69-year-old, longtime pal Jimmy Kimmel’s favorite rock star, is making a push for his underappreciated legacy with a pleasingly backward-looking blues/R&b, horns-heavy seven-song album, “Weather,” out on Feb. 14 via BMG Rights Management.
The album arrives at a bittersweet time, as Lewis has been suffering from a rare inner-ear disorder called Meniere’s Disease that causes his hearing to suddenly diminish, making it impossible for him to perform.
The 69-year-old, longtime pal Jimmy Kimmel’s favorite rock star, is making a push for his underappreciated legacy with a pleasingly backward-looking blues/R&b, horns-heavy seven-song album, “Weather,” out on Feb. 14 via BMG Rights Management.
The album arrives at a bittersweet time, as Lewis has been suffering from a rare inner-ear disorder called Meniere’s Disease that causes his hearing to suddenly diminish, making it impossible for him to perform.
- 2/4/2020
- by Roy Trakin
- Variety Film + TV
In 1961, Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld was killed in a plane crash in Africa under mysterious circumstances. Beginning as an investigation into his still-unsolved death, the trail that Mads Brügger follows in Cold Case Hammarskjöld is one that expands to implicate some of the world’s most powerful governments in unfathomably heinous crimes. Without revealing the specifics of the jaw-dropping revelations in this thoroughly engrossing documentary, if there’s any justice, what is brought to light will cause global attention and a demand for some kind of retribution.
Introducing his aim as either solving the “biggest murder mystery” or being fodder for the “most idiotic conspiracy theory,” Brügger begins in a self-reflexive mode that provides a structure to the investigation at hand. As a throughline, we’re continually brought back to two different hotel rooms that hold significance to the story. In both, Brügger is sitting behind a...
Introducing his aim as either solving the “biggest murder mystery” or being fodder for the “most idiotic conspiracy theory,” Brügger begins in a self-reflexive mode that provides a structure to the investigation at hand. As a throughline, we’re continually brought back to two different hotel rooms that hold significance to the story. In both, Brügger is sitting behind a...
- 1/27/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
I first became aware of Kurt Kuenne’s work when I saw his 2011 feature Shuffle on the festival circuit; that film, an audacious psychological thriller about a man who finds himself waking up each morning at a different stage of his life, was an extraordinary fiction debut for a director who, I later discovered, had also made one of the most powerful documentaries of recent years. Dear Zachary (2008) begins as Kuenne’s tribute to a murdered friend and develops into an excruciating portrait of a legal system gone horribly wrong; it’s touching, enraging, devastating, and inspiring in equal measures. Last year’s […]...
- 10/11/2016
- by Jim Hemphill
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Making a Murderer, Netflix's original true-crime series captivated the country this Christmas, with critics hailing it as the next Serial-esque obsession.
Online sleuths are already positing their own theories as to who killed young photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005. We'll leave the question of whether Steven Avery – a man who already served prison time once before for a gruesome crime he didn't commit – to the meticulous Redditors poring over the infamous case. Though Making a Murder has already been compared to HBO's Robert Durst miniseries The Jinx, here are three more true tales dealing with police corruption, wrongful convictions and crimes...
Online sleuths are already positing their own theories as to who killed young photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005. We'll leave the question of whether Steven Avery – a man who already served prison time once before for a gruesome crime he didn't commit – to the meticulous Redditors poring over the infamous case. Though Making a Murder has already been compared to HBO's Robert Durst miniseries The Jinx, here are three more true tales dealing with police corruption, wrongful convictions and crimes...
- 12/30/2015
- by Michele Corriston, @mcorriston
- People.com - TV Watch
Chicago – Sometimes, a simple will of the heart is like a drop of water in the ocean, which ripples so profoundly that it affects the tides. That will is illustrated in the heartbeat of “Batkid Begins,” the story of Miles Scott, a little boy fighting an illness, who wished to be The Batman.
Rating: 5.0/5.0
What happened next can only be described as a miracle. The desire of the boy was brought to the Make-a-Wish Foundation, who considers the requests of ill children and tries to fulfill them. As the mechanics for the transformation of Miles Scott to Batkid began to fall into place, something else occurred, based in part in our new era of technology. The details and the complexities of making the dream happen began to light up the Twitter sphere, through the Foundation and the participants in the wish. This drew interest from more volunteers, which led to donations of props and performances,...
Rating: 5.0/5.0
What happened next can only be described as a miracle. The desire of the boy was brought to the Make-a-Wish Foundation, who considers the requests of ill children and tries to fulfill them. As the mechanics for the transformation of Miles Scott to Batkid began to fall into place, something else occurred, based in part in our new era of technology. The details and the complexities of making the dream happen began to light up the Twitter sphere, through the Foundation and the participants in the wish. This drew interest from more volunteers, which led to donations of props and performances,...
- 7/11/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 20 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new film festival hit documentary “Batkid Begins” – the true story of a 5-year-old cancer patient’s wish come true!
“Batkid Begins,” which opens in Chicago on July 10, 2015 and is rated “PG,” stars Miles Scott as Batkid, Ron Oppenheimer as Superman, Or Oppenheimer as Catwoman, Eric Johnston as Batman and Mike Jutan as The Penguin from writer and director Dana Nachman and writer Kurt Kuenne.
The film won awards at the Ashland Independent Film Festival, Dallas International Film Festival and Heartland Film, was nominated at the Cleveland International Film Festival and was an official selection at the Chicago Critics Film Festival.
To win your free passes to “Batkid Begins” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Thursday, July 9, 2015 at 7 p.
“Batkid Begins,” which opens in Chicago on July 10, 2015 and is rated “PG,” stars Miles Scott as Batkid, Ron Oppenheimer as Superman, Or Oppenheimer as Catwoman, Eric Johnston as Batman and Mike Jutan as The Penguin from writer and director Dana Nachman and writer Kurt Kuenne.
The film won awards at the Ashland Independent Film Festival, Dallas International Film Festival and Heartland Film, was nominated at the Cleveland International Film Festival and was an official selection at the Chicago Critics Film Festival.
To win your free passes to “Batkid Begins” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Thursday, July 9, 2015 at 7 p.
- 7/8/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Warner Bros. Pictures has announced it will expand the release of New Line Cinema’s critically acclaimed documentary Batkid Begins.
The film, which chronicles the astounding worldwide response to a cancer-stricken child who wished to be Batman, just opened this past Friday in three markets: New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, where the Batkid event happened.
On July 10, the Studio will widen the distribution to Chicago, Toronto, Washington, DC, Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle, Denver, Dallas, and Minneapolis.
The film opens in St. Louis on July 24th.
Batkid Begins originally premiered at the 2015 Slamdance Film Festival and has since been applauded at film festivals across the country, winning Audience Awards for Best Documentary at the Cinequest, Omaha, Dallas, Ashland, and Rincón International Film Festivals. It has also been an official selection at the Bentonville and Chicago Critics Film Festivals. Since the making of the documentary, the filmmakers have also celebrated the fact that the Batkid,...
The film, which chronicles the astounding worldwide response to a cancer-stricken child who wished to be Batman, just opened this past Friday in three markets: New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, where the Batkid event happened.
On July 10, the Studio will widen the distribution to Chicago, Toronto, Washington, DC, Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle, Denver, Dallas, and Minneapolis.
The film opens in St. Louis on July 24th.
Batkid Begins originally premiered at the 2015 Slamdance Film Festival and has since been applauded at film festivals across the country, winning Audience Awards for Best Documentary at the Cinequest, Omaha, Dallas, Ashland, and Rincón International Film Festivals. It has also been an official selection at the Bentonville and Chicago Critics Film Festivals. Since the making of the documentary, the filmmakers have also celebrated the fact that the Batkid,...
- 7/1/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
A 2015 Slamdance premiere, “Batkid Begins” is a true life Capracorn tale that pleased Julia Roberts so much that she will play the real-life heroine of Dana Nachman’s documentary, charismatic Make-a-Wish executive Patricia Wilson, a woman to whom few dare say no, in New Line Cinema's upcoming remake. She masterminded the astonishing San Francisco November 15, 2013 event, attended by hundreds of thousands of people from all over the country, to give 5-year-old leukemia patient Miles Scott a chance to save Gotham with Batman at his side. Well over a billion tuned in around the world, including President Obama. Documentarian Nachman’s movie is as fun as it is heart-tugging, and should do well in theaters. It’s a crowdpleaser well-edited by Kurt Kuenne, a Bay Area filmmaker of “Dear Zachary” fame, who understood that the dynamic duo at the center of the film were the kid and the actor playing Batman.
- 6/25/2015
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
On one day, in one city, the world comes together to grant one 5-year-old cancer patient his wish.
The documentary Batkid Begins looks at the “why” of this flash phenomenon. Why did the intense outpouring of spontaneous support for a child reverberate around the world and become one of the biggest “good news stories” ever?
Have some tissues handy as you watch this trailer.
The film explores what happens when an event goes unintentionally viral, and reveals surprising truths about what happens when a nerve is touched in our digital society. Will Make-a-Wish fulfill its mission to help Miles reclaim his childhood after battling disease for more than half his short life?
In the end, the film leaves audiences to decide; did Miles need the world for inspiration? Or did the world need Miles?
Batkid Begins was directed by Dana Nachman, who also produced the documentary with Liza Meak. The...
The documentary Batkid Begins looks at the “why” of this flash phenomenon. Why did the intense outpouring of spontaneous support for a child reverberate around the world and become one of the biggest “good news stories” ever?
Have some tissues handy as you watch this trailer.
The film explores what happens when an event goes unintentionally viral, and reveals surprising truths about what happens when a nerve is touched in our digital society. Will Make-a-Wish fulfill its mission to help Miles reclaim his childhood after battling disease for more than half his short life?
In the end, the film leaves audiences to decide; did Miles need the world for inspiration? Or did the world need Miles?
Batkid Begins was directed by Dana Nachman, who also produced the documentary with Liza Meak. The...
- 5/21/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Chicago – One of the great benefits at the Chicago Critics Film Festival is the opportunity to meet the filmmakers, for both Q&A after their film screenings and one-on-one opportunities in the Music Box Theatre lounge. Like these three – Kris Swanberg (“Unexpected”), Kurt Kuenne (“Batkid Begins”) and Noah Pritzker (“Quitters”).
HollywoodChicago.com also got a chance to talk to the three filmmakers on the Red Carpet, who all have created uniquely styled movie projects.
Kris Swanberg, Director of “Unexpected”
“Unexpected” was an unexpected surprise at the festival, a low key gem and slice-of-life, depicting two women (portrayed by Cobie Smulders and Gail Bean) who have surprise pregnancies, and are forced to deal with the issues surrounding the socio-economic, relationship and education status during their maternity. Writer/director Kris Swanberg – who is married to director Joe Swanberg – creates a virtuous look at modern women, who are redefining their identities as mothers...
HollywoodChicago.com also got a chance to talk to the three filmmakers on the Red Carpet, who all have created uniquely styled movie projects.
Kris Swanberg, Director of “Unexpected”
“Unexpected” was an unexpected surprise at the festival, a low key gem and slice-of-life, depicting two women (portrayed by Cobie Smulders and Gail Bean) who have surprise pregnancies, and are forced to deal with the issues surrounding the socio-economic, relationship and education status during their maternity. Writer/director Kris Swanberg – who is married to director Joe Swanberg – creates a virtuous look at modern women, who are redefining their identities as mothers...
- 5/5/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Friday, May 1st, kicks off one of 2015 Chicago’s most special events, the Chicago Critics Film Festival (Ccff) – a film festival as programmed by the members of the Chicago Film Critics Association. The place to be is at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago, and the titles included are an exciting batch of movies making their premiere here.
Many of the films had their world premiere at festivals like Sundance, Toronto and South X Southwest, and HollywoodChicago.com contributors Nick Allen and Patrick McDonald have been sampling the best of the festival, and offer this preview of the kick-off weekend. Each capsule is designated with Na (Nick Allen) or Pm (Patrick McDonald) – to indicate the author – or encapsulates the official synopsis from the festival.
Be sure to check back with HollywoodChicago.com on Monday, when we finish our preview of the festival by looking ahead to the weekday schedule,...
Many of the films had their world premiere at festivals like Sundance, Toronto and South X Southwest, and HollywoodChicago.com contributors Nick Allen and Patrick McDonald have been sampling the best of the festival, and offer this preview of the kick-off weekend. Each capsule is designated with Na (Nick Allen) or Pm (Patrick McDonald) – to indicate the author – or encapsulates the official synopsis from the festival.
Be sure to check back with HollywoodChicago.com on Monday, when we finish our preview of the festival by looking ahead to the weekday schedule,...
- 5/1/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Back in 2007, a documentary called Dear Zachary premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival. Directed by Kurt Kuenne, the film tracked the sickening story of a doomed romance Kurt's best friend Andrew had found himself in, and how things quickly spiraled out of control to the point where multiple people -- including Andrew and the son he never got to meet -- wound up dead. I was at the premiere of this film in 2007, unaware of its story, and that screening will forever go down as one of the most emotionally devastating of my life. I'm talking tears, sobbing and having to sit alongside Andrew's friends and family through all of it was an experience I value as a fan of movies, but one I really don't want to go through again. Eight years later in the very same...
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- 1/28/2015
- by Erik Davis
- Movies.com
Back in 2007, a documentary called Dear Zachary premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival. Directed by Kurt Kuenne, the film tracked the sickening story of a doomed romance Kurt's best friend Andrew had found himself in, and how things quickly spiraled out of control to the point where multiple people -- including Andrew and the son he never got to meet -- wound up dead. I was at the premiere of this film in 2007, unaware of its story, and that screening will forever go...
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- 1/28/2015
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
Kurt Kuenne‘s best-known film is Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, which is famous for being possibly the most gut-wrenching documentary of all time. He made a lot of people weep with devastation with that one, and now he’s got a new doc that will have you crying happy tears instead. Kuenne is not the director of Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Around the World – that would be Dana Nachman – but his hand in its making, as co-writer and editor, is definitely significant. And that’s good for him, as it kind of balances out his earlier film’s heartbreaking story with one that’s extremely heartwarming. In case you were living under a rock back in November 2013, “Batkid” was a five-year-old boy who became a worldwide phenomenon when the Make-a-Wish Foundation granted his desire to be the Caped Crusader, and more than 10,000 people helped to turn San Francisco into “Gotham...
- 1/25/2015
- by Nonfics.com
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Do you remember Batkid? He won our hearts in the fall of 2013 when the Make-a-Wish Foundation granted the five-year-old leukemia survivor his dream of being a costumed crusader for a day. San Francisco became Gotham City, and Miles Scott became “Batkid” while thousands of people, including the mayor and President Obama, helped him to become a hero through staged crime scenarios involving the Penguin and the Riddler and a ceremony where he received the key to the city. Now there’s a crowdfunded documentary about him and his special day called Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Around the World, and it’s premiering at the Slamdance Film Festival this weekend. On top of that, the production company Submarine has just announced that the documentary will be remade by none other than Julia Roberts. She will produce and star in the dramatic version — not playing the title character, of course (although that’d be sure to get her...
- 1/24/2015
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
There’s little doubt Dear Zachary is one of the most heartbreaking films every made. The 2008 documentary by Kurt Kuenne started innocently enough as the director tried to make a movie about his deceased friend for his yet-to-be-born son. But as the story unfolded, reality turned into a nightmare for the child, his family and, to a […]
The post Wtf: A ‘Dear Zachary’ TV Show Is In The Works appeared first on /Film.
The post Wtf: A ‘Dear Zachary’ TV Show Is In The Works appeared first on /Film.
- 12/5/2014
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
Editor's Note: A few months ago, Gathr founder Scott Glosserman laid out the case for Theatrical On Demand℠ platforms in his piece 'Gathr is the Love Child of Netflix and Kickstarter.' As a follow-up, we thought it would be helpful to present a case study from a filmmaker who has used the service to generate theatrical audiences for his film. This week, Kurt Kuenne walks us through his experience. Every filmmaker wants his or her movie to play in theatres. Seeing a great movie on the big screen is what made most of us want to make movies in the first place. But I learned a surprising lesson on my last film, a low-budget documentary called Dear Zachary: a letter to a son about his father. The film was released in theatres and on home video by the wonderful Oscilloscope Laboratories, founded by David Fenkel and the late, great Adam Yauch.
- 11/20/2012
- TribecaFilm.com
Dear Zachary Director, Kurt Kuenne Talks Shuffle! Click above to Listen Now! Jimmy O sits down with Kurt Kuenne, the man behind one of the most powerful documentaries of the last decade (Dear Zachary: A Letter To A Son About His Father), to talk about his new film Shuffle (available now on DVD and Netflix streaming). Law and Moreno take it from there and answer a few emails about remakes and child actors. There's more 'Sons of Anarchy', 'Boardwalk Empire' and 'Boss'...
- 10/8/2012
- by Jim Law
- JoBlo.com
If you haven’t seen, or heard of, Dear Zachary- and sadly, the chances of that are quite high- then you simply must watch it. It is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen, and definitely the most emotionally devastating- it is more effective and powerful that Catfish, Fahrenheit 9/11, The Cove or even The Imposter. Perhaps the reason it is so is because its director, Kurt Kuenne, was at the heart of the documentary- the subject of the documentary, the late Dr. Andrew Bagby, was Kuenne’s close friend- Bagby was murdered by his ex, also the mother of his son, Zachary. The documentary serves not only as a tribute to Andrew by those who knew him best, but also a harrowing portrait of how Andrew’s murderer escaped justice.
Kuenne is an eclectic and talented guy- in addition to directing documentaries like Drive-In Movie Memories and feature films such as Scrapbook,...
Kuenne is an eclectic and talented guy- in addition to directing documentaries like Drive-In Movie Memories and feature films such as Scrapbook,...
- 10/2/2012
- by Oscar Harding
- Obsessed with Film
Written and directed by Kurt Kuenne
Featuring T.J. Thyne, Paula Rhodes, Chris Stone, Tamara Taylor
Anyone remember that old U2 song “Stuck in a Moment That You Can’t Get Out Of”?
Meet photographer Lovell Milo (T.J. Thyne, of the seemingly immortal Fox procedural Bones). Not only he is stuck in a moment he can’t get out of, he’s stuck in plenty of them. As Lovell explains to a therapist in the film’s opening scene, one day he woke up and he was 92 years old. The next, he was 24. The next day, he was 15. Today, he’s 30. He can barely remember his name, or his situation, other than that sometimes he has an inclination to be a photographer. All he knows is every time he closes his eyes and falls asleep, he’ll open them and be somewhen else.
Shuffle, the full length fiction debut from documentary filmmaker/composer Kurt Kuenne,...
Featuring T.J. Thyne, Paula Rhodes, Chris Stone, Tamara Taylor
Anyone remember that old U2 song “Stuck in a Moment That You Can’t Get Out Of”?
Meet photographer Lovell Milo (T.J. Thyne, of the seemingly immortal Fox procedural Bones). Not only he is stuck in a moment he can’t get out of, he’s stuck in plenty of them. As Lovell explains to a therapist in the film’s opening scene, one day he woke up and he was 92 years old. The next, he was 24. The next day, he was 15. Today, he’s 30. He can barely remember his name, or his situation, other than that sometimes he has an inclination to be a photographer. All he knows is every time he closes his eyes and falls asleep, he’ll open them and be somewhen else.
Shuffle, the full length fiction debut from documentary filmmaker/composer Kurt Kuenne,...
- 9/22/2012
- by Dan Coyle aka Deadpool
- Planet Fury
I never feel more like an idiot than when I write a movie off or judge the proverbial book by its cover and then watch it only to discover what a gem I almost passed up. The indie film Shuffle is a perfect example of my narrow-mindedness. What sounds like a low-budget straight-to-dvd knock-off of The Butterfly Effect is so much more and is teeming with heart that movie could only dream of mustering up.
A man named Lovell Milo (Tj Thyne) begins waking up in different eras of his life. He's living out of order and aware of it. Cryptic messages from individuals in each time period tell him to pay attention so he can help save someone's life.
Director Kurt Kuenne perfectly captures on film so much genuine emotion it's almost overwhelming to watch at times. Not overwhelming in a bad way. It's in that rollercoaster ride kind of a way.
A man named Lovell Milo (Tj Thyne) begins waking up in different eras of his life. He's living out of order and aware of it. Cryptic messages from individuals in each time period tell him to pay attention so he can help save someone's life.
Director Kurt Kuenne perfectly captures on film so much genuine emotion it's almost overwhelming to watch at times. Not overwhelming in a bad way. It's in that rollercoaster ride kind of a way.
- 9/15/2012
- by feeds@themoviepool.com (Eric Shirey)
- Cinelinx
By Allen Gardner
Quadrophenia (Criterion) Franc Roddam’s 1979 film based on The Who’s classic rock opera tells the story of working class lad Jimmy (Phil Daniels) struggling to find his identity in a rapidly changing Britain, circa 1965. Jimmy is a “mod,” a youth movement dedicated to wearing snappy suits, driving Vespa motor scooters bedecked with side mirrors, popping amphetamines and obsessed with the new sound of bands like The Who and The Kinks. Their other pastime is engaging in bloody brawls with “rockers,” throwbacks to the 1950s, who listen to Elvis and Gene Vincent, wear leather biker gear, grease in their hair and drive massive motorcycles a la Marlon Brando in “The Wild One.” Often cited as a worthy successor to “Rebel Without a Cause” as the greatest angry youth picture ever made, it is that and more, including a first cousin to the “kitchen sink” dramas of scribes John Osborne,...
Quadrophenia (Criterion) Franc Roddam’s 1979 film based on The Who’s classic rock opera tells the story of working class lad Jimmy (Phil Daniels) struggling to find his identity in a rapidly changing Britain, circa 1965. Jimmy is a “mod,” a youth movement dedicated to wearing snappy suits, driving Vespa motor scooters bedecked with side mirrors, popping amphetamines and obsessed with the new sound of bands like The Who and The Kinks. Their other pastime is engaging in bloody brawls with “rockers,” throwbacks to the 1950s, who listen to Elvis and Gene Vincent, wear leather biker gear, grease in their hair and drive massive motorcycles a la Marlon Brando in “The Wild One.” Often cited as a worthy successor to “Rebel Without a Cause” as the greatest angry youth picture ever made, it is that and more, including a first cousin to the “kitchen sink” dramas of scribes John Osborne,...
- 9/4/2012
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. Shuffle Every time Lovell falls asleep he awakens at a different point of his life. His thirty year old mind and memories remain intact as a ten year old, a ninety year old, and anywhere in between. Things get even more complicated when he discovers his wife has died under potentially mysterious circumstances, but can he use his uncontrollable life-hopping ability to make things right? It’s tough making science fiction films on an indie budget, but writer/director Kurt Kuenne (Dear Zachary: A Letter To a Son About His Father) takes a sci-fi concept and uses it to tell a very human story. Loss, redemption, and forgiveness are just a few of the themes shown to transcend time, and the film explores them with beauty, humor and vitality. [Extras: Trailer, festival video diaries, making-of, black & white version] Breathless...
- 8/21/2012
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
At this year's 17th Annual Stony Brook Film Festival, Peter Miller and William Hechter's documentary about blues singer and songwriter Doc Pomus, "A.K.A. Doc Pomus," took home the Festival's highest honor. The festival ran from July 19th-28th and featured 33 full length and short films from around the world. Full list of Stony Brook Film Festival winners: Grand Prize Winner: "A.K.A Doc Pomus"- Directed by Peter Miller and William Hechter Audience Choice Award: "Wunderkinder"- Directed by Marcus O. Rosenmüller. Written by Stephen Glantz and Rolf Schübel from a story by Art Bernd Jury Award Best Feature: "Shuffle"- Written and directed by Kurt Kuenne "Taped"- Written by Marnie Blok and Diederik Van Rooijen Audience Choice Best Short: "Bordando La Frontera"- A Film by by René Rhi Jury Award Best Short: ...
- 8/17/2012
- by Dema Paxton Fofang
- Indiewire
In my last Doc Talk column, I celebrated a wave of hopeful documentaries, films that tackle issues and other real life topics optimistically rather than instilling fear in viewers that the world is going to hell in a handbasket if we don’t act immediately. While I’m fully for the idea of getting away from those doom and gloom docs, however, I do think there is a lot of room for other films that aren’t all bright and sunny. I just don’t always know how to recommend them to people. How many out there have really been encouraged to see Dear Zachary, for instance, with the claim that it will rip you apart inside and pour your guts out through your tear ducts? I wonder if Kurt Kuenne’s doc, a cinematic letter to a baby boy about how his mother murdered...
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- 5/17/2012
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
We're continuing to see a lot of documentary filmmakers make the jump to fiction as of late, (ie. Seth Gordon, Errol Morris, heck, even Morgan Spurlock also just revealed that he is shooting his first narrative film this summer), and although it makes sense from a career standpoint, it makes you realize that not every non-fiction director is cut out to direct fiction. So what about Kurt Kuenne, the man behind the acclaimed crime documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father? He was criticized by some for turning his non-fiction film into a very personal and passionate diatribe against the Canadian justice system, but it did make for a better story. Now he's putting those storytelling skills to use with his first fictional feature Shuffle, and it looks like it paid off as the movie just picked up a distributor. Shuffle is a science-fiction piece about...
- 4/11/2012
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Shuffle Trailer. Kurt Kuenne‘s Shuffle (2011) movie trailer stars T.J. Thyne, Paula Rhodes, Chris Stone, Meeghan Holaway, and Dylan Sprayberry. Shuffle‘s plot synopsis: “a man (Tj Thyne) who has no idea why he keeps waking up at different points in his life. Using clues from each experience, he begins to piece together why this keeps [...]
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Continue reading: Shuffle (2011) Movie Trailer: Kurt Kuenne, T.J. Thyne, Paula Rhodes...
- 4/10/2012
- by R.W.
- Film-Book
Article by Dan Clark of Movie Revolt
Welcome to the first installment of Streaming for Your Pleasure where I highlight interesting and unique films now available on Netflix streaming. In each segment I will focus on one major overall category – this first time round I am looking at some intriguing documentaries that are worth checking out.
Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade
Directed By Lincoln Ruchti
Synopsis: At the unassuming Twin Galaxies arcade in Ottumwa, Iowa, early gamers fought for bragging rights at the 1982 Video Game World Championships. See how competitive gaming started, and meet arcade owner Walter Day, who still oversees scoring.
Why You Should Check It Out: There is just something about that arcade experience that I really miss. Today’s online gaming world is full of foul mouth preteen kids mocking you in almost every turn. Back in the day those kids were standing right next to you...
Welcome to the first installment of Streaming for Your Pleasure where I highlight interesting and unique films now available on Netflix streaming. In each segment I will focus on one major overall category – this first time round I am looking at some intriguing documentaries that are worth checking out.
Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade
Directed By Lincoln Ruchti
Synopsis: At the unassuming Twin Galaxies arcade in Ottumwa, Iowa, early gamers fought for bragging rights at the 1982 Video Game World Championships. See how competitive gaming started, and meet arcade owner Walter Day, who still oversees scoring.
Why You Should Check It Out: There is just something about that arcade experience that I really miss. Today’s online gaming world is full of foul mouth preteen kids mocking you in almost every turn. Back in the day those kids were standing right next to you...
- 4/9/2012
- by Guest
- Nerdly
Here's a trailer to a very interesting sci-fi movie called Shuffle, with a very cool concept. The movie was written and directed by Kurt Kuenne (Dear Zachary) and it's described as a cross between Groundhog Day and Memento.
It's the story of a man played by Tj Thyne "who begins experiencing his life out of order; every day he wakes up at a different age, in a different year, on a different day of his life." He "has no idea why he keeps waking up at different points in his life. Using clues from each experience, he begins to piece together why this keeps happening to him and sets out to end it once and for all."
I really like that concept and it looks like it was executed pretty well. It has a nice Twilight Zone kind of vibe to it. Watch the trailer and let us know if...
It's the story of a man played by Tj Thyne "who begins experiencing his life out of order; every day he wakes up at a different age, in a different year, on a different day of his life." He "has no idea why he keeps waking up at different points in his life. Using clues from each experience, he begins to piece together why this keeps happening to him and sets out to end it once and for all."
I really like that concept and it looks like it was executed pretty well. It has a nice Twilight Zone kind of vibe to it. Watch the trailer and let us know if...
- 4/9/2012
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Last week we brought you distribution news regarding the next film from the helmer of the tragic documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, and now a trailer has arrived. Directed by Kurt Kuenne, he is switching up genres with the sci-fi film Shuffle, which takes a Groundhog Day cue and follows “a man who wakes up at a different age in his life each morning.” I like the concept and while it doesn’t seem to be the most technically proficient film, I hope Kuenne can stir up the same kinds of emotion here in an entirely different genre. Starring T.J. Thyne and Paula Rhodes, one can check it out below via Movies.com.
Shuffle is the tale of a man who begins experiencing his life out of order; every day he wakes up at a different age, on a different day of his life,...
Shuffle is the tale of a man who begins experiencing his life out of order; every day he wakes up at a different age, on a different day of his life,...
- 4/9/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
If you've yet to discover the heartbreaking documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (watch it on Netflix Instant now), you're missing out on one of the best docs of the past five years and a really good cry. Director Kurt Kuenne, however, isn't exactly a star filmmaker, but he's sticking to his guns and has been making the rounds at film festivals with a narrative feature film called Shuffle. The film calls back to Groundhog Day with the story of a man who keeps waking up at various points in his life and must piece together why this is happening and how to make it stop. And now we have the first trailer below! Here's the trailer for Kurt Kuenne's Shuffle brought to our attention by Movies.com: Shuffle is written and directed by Kurt Kuenne (Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father...
- 4/9/2012
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Easily the most heart-wrenching, emotionally draining film I’ve ever seen is Kurt Kuenne‘s devistaing, enraging, but incredible documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father. If you haven’t seen it, head to Netflix or Amazon and watch it now with a big box of tissues. It’ll make the news that comprises the rest [...]...
- 4/9/2012
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
I was so incredibly moved by Kurt Kuenne's documentary Dear Zachary: a Letter to a Son About His Father back when I saw it in a packed Slamdance screening room full of sobbing moviegoers in 2008 that I decided to champion the hell out if from that day forward. After months of writing about the film, which Kurt made in honor of his best friend Andrew, who was murdered by a woman he had been dating, I struck up a personal friendship with the director and helped out in any way I could once the documentary finally aired on television, and then later lead to changes in Canadian law. To this day pushing that film to the moviegoing public and building awareness of the crimes it documents remains one of my personal career highlights, and I'm happy to see Kurt Kuenne -- a great guy...
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- 4/6/2012
- by Erik Davis
- Movies.com
If you have yet to see the tragic documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, I urge you to go seek it out without getting informed in terms of any sort of plot. Directed by Kurt Kuenne, the power of the film had a lot to do with uncontrollable events and so I’ve been interested to see if he has what it takes to helm something not under these circumstances. It looks like we’ll get to see the results soon, as Variety reports his next film has been picked up for distribution.
He has switched from documentary format to narrative for the sci-fi film Shuffle, which follows “a man who wakes up at a different age in his life each morning.” Starring T.J. Thyne and Paula Rhodes, distributor Screen Media Films has picked it up for distribution later this year and president Suzanne Blech...
He has switched from documentary format to narrative for the sci-fi film Shuffle, which follows “a man who wakes up at a different age in his life each morning.” Starring T.J. Thyne and Paula Rhodes, distributor Screen Media Films has picked it up for distribution later this year and president Suzanne Blech...
- 3/30/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Another flick to just hit our radar is Shuffle and after digging a bit into the meaty details of the flick we've deemed the endeavor cool enough to clue you in on. Read on for the first word and look at the teaser art!
Part "Twilight Zone"-style mystery, part Frank Capra fantasy, Shuffle stars Tj Thyne, star of the hit TV show "Bones", in his first turn as a leading man in a feature film. The film’s voluminous prosthetic old age make-up is by Barney Burman, winner of the 2010 Academy Award® for Best Make-up for Star Trek. The film was written, directed and scored by Kurt Kuenne, filmmaker of the acclaimed documentary Dear Zachary: a letter to a son about his father and the hit short film Validation, also starring Tj Thyne.
Shuffle is world premiering at the Hollywood Film Festival on October 21st and headed to the...
Part "Twilight Zone"-style mystery, part Frank Capra fantasy, Shuffle stars Tj Thyne, star of the hit TV show "Bones", in his first turn as a leading man in a feature film. The film’s voluminous prosthetic old age make-up is by Barney Burman, winner of the 2010 Academy Award® for Best Make-up for Star Trek. The film was written, directed and scored by Kurt Kuenne, filmmaker of the acclaimed documentary Dear Zachary: a letter to a son about his father and the hit short film Validation, also starring Tj Thyne.
Shuffle is world premiering at the Hollywood Film Festival on October 21st and headed to the...
- 10/13/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
For our first documentary special in quite some time, we decided to give ourselves an emotional beating for some reason by sticking with an unusual theme: three docs that focus on miscarriages of justice. First up in Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, which made famous the case of the West Memphis Three; then we skip ahead to 2008′s Witch Hunt, which chronicles a rash of mistaken convictions for child molestation in Florida in the mid-80s; finally, we’ll be talking about Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, Kurt Kuenne’s emotionally wrenching advocacy piece / rememberance / home movie about the death of his best friend and the turmoil that followed. Amidst the true-crime grimness, Simon tries to crack a joke or two (badly) while bungling several names and titles. Classy, as ever.
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- 4/26/2011
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
The deadline is approaching for the Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, a program of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, which awards up to five $30,000 fellowships to new screenwriters. The deadline for the award is Monday, May 2, 2011. Alum of the fellowship include Ehren Kruger ("The Ring," "Transformers"), Kurt Kuenne ("Dear Zachary"), Andrew Marlowe ("Air Force One"), Randall McCormick ("Speed 2"), Annmarie Morais ("How ...
- 4/25/2011
- Indiewire
The popularity of a documentary film is often based on word-of-mouth. Very few docs get a wide release (or a theatrical release at all, for that matter) or receive much press. Unless it’s the latest Michael Moore film, a massive advocacy film aiming for Oscar recognition or a mass-market oddity like Supersize Me, a documentary is unlikely to get much public attention. Speciality docs about World War 2, boxing, rap feuds etc. will always have a market among people who are interested in those topics. Occasionally, one of them will even transcend its genre and become a broader success, introducing people to a new sub-culture or perspective. Most documentaries, however, get their recognition because people hear about them or see them at festivals and tell others to watch them.
Narrative documentaries, films that tell a first-person story about an individual or event, are even less likely to garner the attention of the public.
Narrative documentaries, films that tell a first-person story about an individual or event, are even less likely to garner the attention of the public.
- 3/28/2011
- by Mike Waldman
- SoundOnSight
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is accepting submissions for the Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, which awards up to five $30,000 fellowships to new screenwriters. Alum of the fellowship include Ehren Kruger ("The Ring," "Transformers"), Kurt Kuenne ("Dear Zachary"), Andrew Marlowe ("Air Force One"), Randall McCormick ("Speed 2"), Annmarie Morais ("How She Move"), Eric Nazarian ("Mongol"), Mike Rich ("Secretariat"), Rebecca Sonnenshine ("Happily Ever After"), Victoria ...
- 3/7/2011
- Indiewire
Filed under: Sundance Film Festival, Cinematical
Attention festival-goers: Sundance Film Festivaal 2011 is now underway! If you're in Park City, use this as your handy guide to notable screenings and events popping up in the snowy mountain town. If you're stuck elsewhere, consider this your roadmap for navigating all the indie buzz.
The forecast for Friday, January 21: 32° with partly cloudy skies.
9:00 Am: 'Attenberg' screening at the Egyptian Theatre.
There's nothing like kicking off the first full day of festival screenings with a daringly insane Greek film from 'Dogtooth' producer Athina Rachel Tsangari. The film stars Venice winner Ariane Labed as a young woman busy with her cancer-stricken father and using her friend to practice mammalian sexiness, who often mimicks wild animal movements she learned from Sir David Attenborough's animal programs.
11:30 Am: 'Bobby Fischer Against the World' at the Library Center Theatre
Liz Garbus' documentary...
Attention festival-goers: Sundance Film Festivaal 2011 is now underway! If you're in Park City, use this as your handy guide to notable screenings and events popping up in the snowy mountain town. If you're stuck elsewhere, consider this your roadmap for navigating all the indie buzz.
The forecast for Friday, January 21: 32° with partly cloudy skies.
9:00 Am: 'Attenberg' screening at the Egyptian Theatre.
There's nothing like kicking off the first full day of festival screenings with a daringly insane Greek film from 'Dogtooth' producer Athina Rachel Tsangari. The film stars Venice winner Ariane Labed as a young woman busy with her cancer-stricken father and using her friend to practice mammalian sexiness, who often mimicks wild animal movements she learned from Sir David Attenborough's animal programs.
11:30 Am: 'Bobby Fischer Against the World' at the Library Center Theatre
Liz Garbus' documentary...
- 1/21/2011
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
This is a great story that I have to share with you today. Film and TV touch the lives of millions of people, but one film has the chance to save lives. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father. Directed by Kurt Kuenne. Zachary’s Bill was officially turned into law in Canada on Wednesday.
The film is currenly availble to watch instantly on Netflix. Here is a little background on the the movie. It's filming began as a portrait of Kuenne’s murdered best friend Andrew Bagby so that Bagby’s newborn son, Zachary, can watch it when he’s older. It becomes much more than that though once Zachary’s mom, Shirley Turner, who is also accused of killing Bagby, comes back into the picture.
Shirley Turner was was sent to jail for the murder of Andrew Bagby and is released from jail on bail...
The film is currenly availble to watch instantly on Netflix. Here is a little background on the the movie. It's filming began as a portrait of Kuenne’s murdered best friend Andrew Bagby so that Bagby’s newborn son, Zachary, can watch it when he’s older. It becomes much more than that though once Zachary’s mom, Shirley Turner, who is also accused of killing Bagby, comes back into the picture.
Shirley Turner was was sent to jail for the murder of Andrew Bagby and is released from jail on bail...
- 12/17/2010
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
One of the most gut-wrenching, heart-wrenching and emotional documentaries to be released in past few years is Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father. Directed by Kurt Kuenne, the film begins as a portrait of Kuenne's murdered best friend nm2878997 autoAndrew Bagby[/link] so that Bagby's newborn son, Zachary, can watch it when he's older. It becomes much more than that though once Zachary's mom, Shirley Turner, who is also accused of killing Bagby, comes back into the picture. The film's story isn't exactly a secret but on the off chance you haven't it and don't know the story, I won't ruin it above the jump. (It's available on Netflix Watch Instantly [1] and is a must watch.) For anyone who knows the film, though, its legacy now extends beyond the screen. Zachary's Bill was officially made a law in Canada on Wednesday. Explaining what that specifically means gives...
- 12/17/2010
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
It might seem strange to kick off with a quote from 'Pump Up the Volume,' but we're living in a "'why bother?' generation." There are so many people that need help, slices of life that need to be improved, that it seems like too much -- a massive whirlwind where one person cannot make a difference. It often seems pointless to try, especially when it's a long and ongoing struggle, like 'The Cove's' attempt to stop the Taiji dolphin hunt.
But if there's any reminder for us to stop sitting on our collective behinds and do something -- anything, it's Kurt Kuenne and his documentary 'Dear Zachary, A Letter to a Son About His Father.' After experiencing a tragic loss that could have been avoided, he made a film and pushed not only for audiences to see it, but also the...
It might seem strange to kick off with a quote from 'Pump Up the Volume,' but we're living in a "'why bother?' generation." There are so many people that need help, slices of life that need to be improved, that it seems like too much -- a massive whirlwind where one person cannot make a difference. It often seems pointless to try, especially when it's a long and ongoing struggle, like 'The Cove's' attempt to stop the Taiji dolphin hunt.
But if there's any reminder for us to stop sitting on our collective behinds and do something -- anything, it's Kurt Kuenne and his documentary 'Dear Zachary, A Letter to a Son About His Father.' After experiencing a tragic loss that could have been avoided, he made a film and pushed not only for audiences to see it, but also the...
- 12/17/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Moviefone
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
It might seem strange to kick off with a quote from 'Pump Up the Volume,' but we're living in a "'why bother?' generation." There are so many people that need help, slices of life that need to be improved, that it seems like too much -- a massive whirlwind where one person cannot make a difference. It often seems pointless to try, especially when it's a long and ongoing struggle, like 'The Cove's' attempt to stop the Taiji dolphin hunt.
But if there's any reminder for us to stop sitting on our collective behinds and do something -- anything, it's Kurt Kuenne and his documentary 'Dear Zachary, A Letter to a Son About His Father.' After experiencing a tragic loss that could have been avoided, he made a film and pushed not only for audiences to see it, but also the...
It might seem strange to kick off with a quote from 'Pump Up the Volume,' but we're living in a "'why bother?' generation." There are so many people that need help, slices of life that need to be improved, that it seems like too much -- a massive whirlwind where one person cannot make a difference. It often seems pointless to try, especially when it's a long and ongoing struggle, like 'The Cove's' attempt to stop the Taiji dolphin hunt.
But if there's any reminder for us to stop sitting on our collective behinds and do something -- anything, it's Kurt Kuenne and his documentary 'Dear Zachary, A Letter to a Son About His Father.' After experiencing a tragic loss that could have been avoided, he made a film and pushed not only for audiences to see it, but also the...
- 12/17/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
We all know Kurt Kuenne as the man who ripped our hearts out, twisted them, and then handed them back in a emotional and sticky mess with Dear Zachary, A Letter to a Son About his Father. What you might not know, especially if the turmoil of that documentary wiped away from earlier moments, is that he also likes comedy. The year before Zachary hit, short film fans got a taste of sugary, feel-good Validation, starring Bones' Tj Thyne.
Like most good shorts, the premise is simple: Thyne plays a man who validates parking lot tickets. However, he doesn't just stamp the paper and shoo customers on their way. Each is served with their own specialized validation, like: "You. You are awesome." His popularity quickly grows to epic proportions, no stodgy folk being able to stand their crabby ground as the simple parking validator becomes a superstar, even validating...
Like most good shorts, the premise is simple: Thyne plays a man who validates parking lot tickets. However, he doesn't just stamp the paper and shoo customers on their way. Each is served with their own specialized validation, like: "You. You are awesome." His popularity quickly grows to epic proportions, no stodgy folk being able to stand their crabby ground as the simple parking validator becomes a superstar, even validating...
- 3/24/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
The last time I updated you about the political push behind Dear Zachary, A Letter to a Son About His Father, Bill C-464 (which would make it much harder for serious offenders to make bail) had gotten wonderful, unanimous support from all parties in Ottawa's House of Commons up here in Canada. But that was only support -- not an official vote. However, Cinematical has just learned from filmmaker Kurt Kuenne himself that the bill has been passed unanimously by the House of Commons, after David and Kate Bagby addressed the committee earlier this month. Now the bill has to be passed by the Senate, and then it will become law. Finally.
Kuenne said: "Now it moves to the Senate, so we're off to the races and in the home stretch. There's not much for me to do at this point but sit back, watch and cheer on our supporters in Parliament.
Kuenne said: "Now it moves to the Senate, so we're off to the races and in the home stretch. There's not much for me to do at this point but sit back, watch and cheer on our supporters in Parliament.
- 3/23/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
I know, blogs (including this one) are always asking what movies make you cry. But I'm curious about what kinds of films make you cry, and whether a true story is more apt to have you reaching for the tissue box. And is it worse if the film is a documentary?
This weekend I finally got around to watching Cinematical favorite Dear Zachary, a personal documentary by Kurt Kuenne about the tragic murder of his childhood friend. It's a very heartbreaking story, and Kuenne was certainly intent on squeezing out as many tears as his audience is able to spill. My girlfriend, who tends to weep during movies both tragic and happy (though never as much as the infamous crying wife), was a mess by the end of Dear Zachary, admitting that it's the saddest movie she's ever seen. Possibly because it was so real.
I, on the other hand,...
This weekend I finally got around to watching Cinematical favorite Dear Zachary, a personal documentary by Kurt Kuenne about the tragic murder of his childhood friend. It's a very heartbreaking story, and Kuenne was certainly intent on squeezing out as many tears as his audience is able to spill. My girlfriend, who tends to weep during movies both tragic and happy (though never as much as the infamous crying wife), was a mess by the end of Dear Zachary, admitting that it's the saddest movie she's ever seen. Possibly because it was so real.
I, on the other hand,...
- 2/23/2010
- by Christopher Campbell
- Cinematical
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