Roddick was an author, academic, industry consultant and publisher as well as a journalist.
Tributes from many different sections of the film business have been paid to former Screen International and Moving Pictures editor Nick Roddick, who died on New Year’s Day aged 73.
“I have to say for me he was a classic British rock and roll type of guy,” Berlinale festival director Dieter Kosslick said of Roddick. “He looked a little like Abbey Road… He was very cool and he always had this humour I really liked.”
Kosslick, who first met Roddick in the late 1980s, had one...
Tributes from many different sections of the film business have been paid to former Screen International and Moving Pictures editor Nick Roddick, who died on New Year’s Day aged 73.
“I have to say for me he was a classic British rock and roll type of guy,” Berlinale festival director Dieter Kosslick said of Roddick. “He looked a little like Abbey Road… He was very cool and he always had this humour I really liked.”
Kosslick, who first met Roddick in the late 1980s, had one...
- 1/3/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Vincent Ward’s The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey will be available on Blu-ray July 24th From Arrow Video
Following the release of his 1984 debut feature, Vincent Ward returned four years later with The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey, a film that would cement his position as one of the most exciting filmmaking talents to emerge during the eighties.
Cumbria, 1348 the year of the Black Death. Griffin, a young boy, is plagued by apocalyptic visions which he believes could save his village. Encouraging a small band of men to tunnel into the earth, they surface in 1980s New Zealand and a future beyond their comprehension but must complete their quest.
Nominated for the Palme d Or at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey is a bold and often startling fusion of medieval fantasy and time travel science fiction, quite unlike anything you ve seen.
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Following the release of his 1984 debut feature, Vincent Ward returned four years later with The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey, a film that would cement his position as one of the most exciting filmmaking talents to emerge during the eighties.
Cumbria, 1348 the year of the Black Death. Griffin, a young boy, is plagued by apocalyptic visions which he believes could save his village. Encouraging a small band of men to tunnel into the earth, they surface in 1980s New Zealand and a future beyond their comprehension but must complete their quest.
Nominated for the Palme d Or at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey is a bold and often startling fusion of medieval fantasy and time travel science fiction, quite unlike anything you ve seen.
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- 7/3/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Vigil (1984) will be available on Blu-ray June 26th from Arrow Video
Vincent Ward once described as the Antipodean Werner Herzog made his feature debut with Vigil, heralding his status as one of New Zealand s most distinctive filmmaking talents and paving the way for such equally remarkable and unclassifiable efforts as The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey and Map of the Human Heart.
A stranger appears in a remote New Zealand farmland at the exact time a farmer accidentally falls to his death. The mysterious outsider grows close to some of the dead man s family, to the point where he and the widow become lovers. But her eleven-year-old daughter, Toss, struggling to come to terms with the death of her father as well as her impending womanhood, believes the intruder to be the devil and sets about protecting her family and their homestead.
Propelled by Fiona Kay s outstanding performance by as Toss,...
Vincent Ward once described as the Antipodean Werner Herzog made his feature debut with Vigil, heralding his status as one of New Zealand s most distinctive filmmaking talents and paving the way for such equally remarkable and unclassifiable efforts as The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey and Map of the Human Heart.
A stranger appears in a remote New Zealand farmland at the exact time a farmer accidentally falls to his death. The mysterious outsider grows close to some of the dead man s family, to the point where he and the widow become lovers. But her eleven-year-old daughter, Toss, struggling to come to terms with the death of her father as well as her impending womanhood, believes the intruder to be the devil and sets about protecting her family and their homestead.
Propelled by Fiona Kay s outstanding performance by as Toss,...
- 6/4/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
For the tenth edition of Film Art: An Introduction, David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson are partnering with Criterion to present Connect Film, an hour-long set of twenty videos on various aspects of filmmaking addressed in the now-classic textbook. Above: "Elliptical Editing in Vagabond (1985)." Kristin Thompson: "Most of the other Connect examples illustrate the chapters on the four types of film technique: mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, and sound. There's also a short documentary about digital animation."
More books. You may remember that Dave Kehr is quite an admirer of the writing of Arlene Croce, a dance critic for the New Yorker from 1973 to 1998. She's also the author of The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book and, in the new issue of the New York Review of Books, she reviews Todd Decker's Music Makes Me: Fred Astaire and Jazz and Kathleen Riley's The Astaires: Fred and Adele. As the Boston Globe's Mark Feeney writes,...
More books. You may remember that Dave Kehr is quite an admirer of the writing of Arlene Croce, a dance critic for the New Yorker from 1973 to 1998. She's also the author of The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book and, in the new issue of the New York Review of Books, she reviews Todd Decker's Music Makes Me: Fred Astaire and Jazz and Kathleen Riley's The Astaires: Fred and Adele. As the Boston Globe's Mark Feeney writes,...
- 3/19/2012
- MUBI
Witty, self-deprecating writer with a passion for cinema whose work shone 'like sparklers in the autumn gloom'
In Gilbert Adair's And Then There Was No One (2009), the third of his pastiches of Agatha Christie's detective stories, a writer called Gilbert Adair is lacerated thus by a reader: "The point, Gilbert, is that you've always been such a narcissistic writer. Which is why you've never had the popular touch … Postmodernism is dead … Nobody gives two hoots about self-referentiality any longer, just as nobody gives two hoots, or even a single hoot, about you. Your books are out of sight, out of sound, out of fashion and out of print."
Such self-referential gambits have exasperated some readers, but in Adair's staunchly postmodern, self-deprecating hands, the manoeuvre was disarming. Adair, who has died aged 66 of a brain haemorrhage, had often enjoyed playfully rehearsing his own literary erasure. In the 1990s he...
In Gilbert Adair's And Then There Was No One (2009), the third of his pastiches of Agatha Christie's detective stories, a writer called Gilbert Adair is lacerated thus by a reader: "The point, Gilbert, is that you've always been such a narcissistic writer. Which is why you've never had the popular touch … Postmodernism is dead … Nobody gives two hoots about self-referentiality any longer, just as nobody gives two hoots, or even a single hoot, about you. Your books are out of sight, out of sound, out of fashion and out of print."
Such self-referential gambits have exasperated some readers, but in Adair's staunchly postmodern, self-deprecating hands, the manoeuvre was disarming. Adair, who has died aged 66 of a brain haemorrhage, had often enjoyed playfully rehearsing his own literary erasure. In the 1990s he...
- 12/10/2011
- by Stuart Jeffries, Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
It's kind of insane that we're about to start talking about next year's South by Southwest and it's still October. Just last week I reposted a video from this year's SXSW! But here we go: today SXSW announced their first round of film programming, a preliminary list of panels you'll be able to check out next March in Austin, Texas. Highlights include a conversation with "Drive" and "Contagion" composer Cliff Martinez, a chat about arts criticism in the age of Twitter, and the return of the legendary "Jeffrey Tambor Acting Workshop." My favorite panel title on the list? "The Evolution of the Douchebag in Modern Cinema." It's sort of hard for douchebags to evolve -- that's kind of what makes them douchebags -- but I think I know what they're getting at.
The full list of announced panels is below. And, hey, it's not too late to submit your feature...
The full list of announced panels is below. And, hey, it's not too late to submit your feature...
- 10/26/2011
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
Cinema veers from one extreme to the other when depicting class, but Joanna Hogg's Archipelago is a breath of fresh air
I recently saw one of British cinema's grandest of grandees, Stephen Frears, give a Q&A – alongside film producer Sandy Lieberson – in which he talked about, among other things, Free Cinema – the documentary movement founded in the mid-1950s by the likes of Lindsay Anderson and Karel Reisz. It was, as Frears explained, a pivotal moment for British film – one where young, riled-up directors elected to buck convention and tell stories about ordinary people leading ordinary lives – to carve out a place on screen for the unseen world of factory jobs, fuggy pubs, bedsit rooms and dead dreams.
It's tempting to argue something similar could now be said of Archipelago, the second film from writer-director Joanna Hogg – that it hands precious screen time to a section of society...
I recently saw one of British cinema's grandest of grandees, Stephen Frears, give a Q&A – alongside film producer Sandy Lieberson – in which he talked about, among other things, Free Cinema – the documentary movement founded in the mid-1950s by the likes of Lindsay Anderson and Karel Reisz. It was, as Frears explained, a pivotal moment for British film – one where young, riled-up directors elected to buck convention and tell stories about ordinary people leading ordinary lives – to carve out a place on screen for the unseen world of factory jobs, fuggy pubs, bedsit rooms and dead dreams.
It's tempting to argue something similar could now be said of Archipelago, the second film from writer-director Joanna Hogg – that it hands precious screen time to a section of society...
- 2/25/2011
- by Danny Leigh
- The Guardian - Film News
Austin, TX – SXSW has released their 2011 SXSW Film Conference lineup, which includes two exciting key panels with Todd Phillips (The Hangover), and Paul Reubens (The Pee-wee Herman Show), as well, the cast and crew from Source Code will also be in attendance, in addition to many other panels and workshops to feed the creative mind.
Additionally, the complete schedule for the event, including screening and panel dates and times will be live starting Tuesday. at: http://schedule.sxsw.com.
SXSW 2011 – Saturday, March 12
A Conversation with Todd Phillips
Director Todd Phillips has forever left his mark on comedy entertainment with his own brand of films exploring, in often-outrageous ways, the nature of male relationships. With films like Old School, Starsky & Hutch, School For Scoundrels, Due Date and The Hangover, the highest grossing R-rated comedy of all time, he has worked with some of today’s most innovative and acclaimed comic actors.
Additionally, the complete schedule for the event, including screening and panel dates and times will be live starting Tuesday. at: http://schedule.sxsw.com.
SXSW 2011 – Saturday, March 12
A Conversation with Todd Phillips
Director Todd Phillips has forever left his mark on comedy entertainment with his own brand of films exploring, in often-outrageous ways, the nature of male relationships. With films like Old School, Starsky & Hutch, School For Scoundrels, Due Date and The Hangover, the highest grossing R-rated comedy of all time, he has worked with some of today’s most innovative and acclaimed comic actors.
- 2/15/2011
- by Albert Art
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
South By Southwest have announced the 2011 SXSW Film Conference lineup, which includes two key conversations with Todd Phillips (director of The Hangover), Paul Reubens (aka Pee-wee Herman), the cast and crew of Super (James Gunn, Ellen Page and Rainn Wilson) and filmmaker Duncan Jones (Source Code, Moon). Additionally, the complete schedule for the event, including screening and panel dates and times are live at: http://schedule.sxsw.com [1]. You can read the full press release after the jump. SXSW Film Festival Announces 2011 Conference Lineup Todd Phillips & Paul Reubens Among Key Panelists Schedule of Screening and Panel Dates & Times Now Live Austin, Texas – February 15, 2011 – The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival is thrilled to announce over 100 Film Conference sessions for the 2011 event, which will take place Friday, March 11 – Saturday, March 19, 2011 in Austin, Texas. These panels, largely selected from proposals submitted via the SXSW PanelPicker™ interface, offer fresh perspectives on...
- 2/15/2011
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Thirty features, documentaries and shorts have already been submitted for screening at next year’s South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas.
“It looks to be a great year for Australian filmmakers at this prestigious event,” said SXSW spokesperson Phil Tripp.
The early deadline for entries is November 4. Frequently Asked Questions are here.
The festival has also announced its film pannels:
Beyond 3D: How Interactive Screenings Will Save Cinema
(Henri Mazza, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema)
The Blogger Centipede: How Content is Eroding Credibility
(William Goss, Cinematical)
Can P2P Save Filmmaking?
(Jamie King, Vodo and BitTorrent Inc.)
“Did You Kill Anyone?” Reality in War Movies
(Paul Rieckhoff, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America)
Documentary Deities: Dispelling The Director Myth
(Eddie Schmidt, Ida)
The Female Funny: Is It Different For Girls?
(Rachel Sklar, Mediaite.com)
Funny Fits: Alt Comedy on Alt Platforms
(Jennifer Caserta, IFC)
Heard But Not Seen:...
“It looks to be a great year for Australian filmmakers at this prestigious event,” said SXSW spokesperson Phil Tripp.
The early deadline for entries is November 4. Frequently Asked Questions are here.
The festival has also announced its film pannels:
Beyond 3D: How Interactive Screenings Will Save Cinema
(Henri Mazza, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema)
The Blogger Centipede: How Content is Eroding Credibility
(William Goss, Cinematical)
Can P2P Save Filmmaking?
(Jamie King, Vodo and BitTorrent Inc.)
“Did You Kill Anyone?” Reality in War Movies
(Paul Rieckhoff, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America)
Documentary Deities: Dispelling The Director Myth
(Eddie Schmidt, Ida)
The Female Funny: Is It Different For Girls?
(Rachel Sklar, Mediaite.com)
Funny Fits: Alt Comedy on Alt Platforms
(Jennifer Caserta, IFC)
Heard But Not Seen:...
- 10/6/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Anyone that reads this site even on a semi-regular basis probably knows I absolutely love Federico Fellini's 8½ and that is one of the major reasons I am so looking forward to Rob Marshall's musical adaptation Nine. So, to learn Criterion is bringing the Fellini classic to Blu-ray with a brand new 52-minute documentary on Fellini's lost alternate ending for 8½ is almost too much for me to handle and is certainly too long to wait.
Along with the upcoming arrival of 8½, Criterion has also announced Blu-ray and DVD releases for Steven Soderbergh's Che and Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas. Details on these three titles are detailed below, but don't go yet there is a little more...
8½ (January 12, 2010) Introduction by filmmaker Terry Gilliam Audio commentary featuring film critic and Fellini friend Gideon Bachmann and Nyu film professor Antonio Monda Fellini: A Director's Notebook, a 52-minute film by Federico Fellini,...
Along with the upcoming arrival of 8½, Criterion has also announced Blu-ray and DVD releases for Steven Soderbergh's Che and Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas. Details on these three titles are detailed below, but don't go yet there is a little more...
8½ (January 12, 2010) Introduction by filmmaker Terry Gilliam Audio commentary featuring film critic and Fellini friend Gideon Bachmann and Nyu film professor Antonio Monda Fellini: A Director's Notebook, a 52-minute film by Federico Fellini,...
- 10/16/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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