Chicago – This week’s What to Watch on DVD, Blu-ray, Netflix, Amazon, On Demand and more is another seemingly random hodge-podge of offerings that you can use to guide your way through the new releases shelf at Best Buy, the On Demand section on Vudu, the store on iTunes, various online DVD retailers and maybe even Netflix and Hulu. Pick your favorites. This is the way we’d rank them if you have a free night or money to burn this week.
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Photo credit: IFC Films
“Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”
David Lowery’s beautiful drama was covered more thoroughly in our theatrical review and opens tomorrow at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago (and we’ve already run Matt Fagerholm’s interview with the writer/director) but you can actually watch it now On Demand and so we wanted to included it in What to Watch.
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Photo credit: IFC Films
“Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”
David Lowery’s beautiful drama was covered more thoroughly in our theatrical review and opens tomorrow at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago (and we’ve already run Matt Fagerholm’s interview with the writer/director) but you can actually watch it now On Demand and so we wanted to included it in What to Watch.
- 8/30/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Check out what's new to rent and own this week on the various streaming services such as cable On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, and, of course, Netflix. Cable On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical exclusives for rent, priced from $3-$10, in 24- or 48-hour periods Epic (animated family adventure; voices of Colin Farrell, Amanda Seyfried; rated PG) Scary Movie 5 (horror-spoof comedy; Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Ashley Tisdale; unrated) Amour (drama; Jean-Louis Trigtignant, Emmanuelle Riva; PG-13) Jayne Mansfield's Car (drama; Billy Bob Thornton, Kevin Bacon; pretheatrical release; rated R) No One Lives (horror; Luke Evans, Adelaide Clemens; rated R) No Place on Earth (documentary; Chris Nicola, Saul Stermer; rated PG-13) A...
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- 8/20/2013
- by Robert B. DeSalvo
- Movies.com
When Chris Nicola traveled to the Ukraine, it was to understand his own family's history and explore caves. Not only did he inexplicably discover everyday objects such as buttons and shoes in a remote cave, but he also unearthed a rumor of a group of Jews who lived in a cave. These discoveries led to an incredible Holocaust survival story of how 38 people lived underground for a year and a half -- the longest recorded sustained underground survival -- to escape the death camps. Nicola confirmed the story by locating 14 of the original cave inhabitants.
The experiences of these Ukrainian Jews is captured in the documentary No Place on Earth -- which opens in Austin tomorrow at Regal Arbor -- by longtime television producer Janet Tobias in her film directorial debut. The survivors are now in their eighties and nineties, but they were quite young when they took refuge in the cave.
The experiences of these Ukrainian Jews is captured in the documentary No Place on Earth -- which opens in Austin tomorrow at Regal Arbor -- by longtime television producer Janet Tobias in her film directorial debut. The survivors are now in their eighties and nineties, but they were quite young when they took refuge in the cave.
- 5/2/2013
- by Debbie Cerda
- Slackerwood
Once again film makers have mined the histories and stories of World War II for another fascinating, little known tale of survival. The best known story may be that of Anne Frank, who was back in the news recently thanks to a pop music star visiting her museum. Two years ago the St. Louis International Film Festival was wowed by In Darkness, a dramatic feature that told the story of Polish Jews who lived in the city’s sewers to avoid arrest by the occupying Nazi forces. In release now is No Place On Earth, a similar story told in a very different way. Earth is basically a documentary that uncovers a new survival story that’s every bit as moving and dramatic as the former film.
The new film actually begins in the United States, New York city to be exact. Underground explorer Chris Nicola decided to travel to...
The new film actually begins in the United States, New York city to be exact. Underground explorer Chris Nicola decided to travel to...
- 4/25/2013
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The new documentary No Place on Earth attempts to take viewers back in time to the dark days of the second world war, when Nazis were pursuing Jews, peril was everywhere, and still no one had any real notion of just how horrifying the truth really was. Through the use of full-on detailed re-enactments, first time feature film director Janet Tobias attempts to lucidly display the true-life plight of five Ukrainian families that hid in a massive underground cave for well over a year, unable to ever see the sun. Through the bookending exposition offered by Chris Nicola, the expert explorer who recently discovered proof of 20th century human activity in the cave, the unthinkable conditions these people so valiantly toiled in is clearly...
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- 4/25/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Chicago – The human face of the Holocaust – the Jewish genocide by Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Party – has been reflected through many incredible accounts of horror and survival. A new film focuses on another amazing story, set in a cave in the Ukraine, where five Jewish families hid underground from German soldiers in 1942. The survivors give their witness in “No Place on Earth.”
Rating: 3.5/5.0
The story of these survivors – children and teenagers then, old men and women now – adds another chapter of inhumanity to the desperate times of the Holocaust era. Through the accounts of the participants, and the precise re-creation of the events by director Janet Tobias, this unusual scenario comes to life from a faraway time, in a faraway land. And beyond the event itself, it is about the gutsy discovery of a cave explorer and his curiosity, the initial telling of the tale in National Geographic magazine,...
Rating: 3.5/5.0
The story of these survivors – children and teenagers then, old men and women now – adds another chapter of inhumanity to the desperate times of the Holocaust era. Through the accounts of the participants, and the precise re-creation of the events by director Janet Tobias, this unusual scenario comes to life from a faraway time, in a faraway land. And beyond the event itself, it is about the gutsy discovery of a cave explorer and his curiosity, the initial telling of the tale in National Geographic magazine,...
- 4/21/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
No Place on Earth is a documentary about one family’s “bedtime story”; a tale of a family in World War II who successfully hid from the Nazis by hiding in two caves for 511 days straight. As filled with miracles this story may be, the events are all true, as unearthed by cave explorer Chris Nicola. Director Janet Tobias brings the story to life with dramatic reenactments and interviews with the survivors in this enthralling documentary.
Read our “8/10″ review for ‘No Place on Earth’
This is Tobias’ first feature film, with her previous journalistic experience (as a producer) featured on television programs like “Frontline,” and TV docs like “The Battle for America’s Schools,” and “MSNBC Reports: The Next War.”
In this exciting opportunity, I was able to talk to three of the survivors whose story is told in the film, Sima Dodyk Blitzer, Sonia Dodyk Hochman, and Sam Stermer.
Read our “8/10″ review for ‘No Place on Earth’
This is Tobias’ first feature film, with her previous journalistic experience (as a producer) featured on television programs like “Frontline,” and TV docs like “The Battle for America’s Schools,” and “MSNBC Reports: The Next War.”
In this exciting opportunity, I was able to talk to three of the survivors whose story is told in the film, Sima Dodyk Blitzer, Sonia Dodyk Hochman, and Sam Stermer.
- 4/19/2013
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
In 1993, American cave enthusiast Chris Nicola traveled to Western Ukraine for two purposes—to learn more about his ancestral roots and to explore the Gypsum Giant cave system that is home to some of the world’s largest horizontal caverns. When Nicola stumbled onto some miscellaneous artifacts—a key, a comb, a woman’s shoe—he also stumbled onto a much shrouded and forgotten piece of World War II history. In No Place on Earth, director Janet Tobias explores this profound discovery, shedding light on a incredible story of endurance....
- 4/6/2013
- Pastemagazine.com
A caving hobby reveals the story of a lifetime and an astonishing testimony to the spirit of family and survival. When New Yorker Chris Nicola set off to chart yet another nearly unknown cave system in the Western Ukraine he had no idea the cave had a story that would knock him for a loop. As it turns out, the system is one of the longest in the world, a complex labyrinth of one chamber leading to another, complete with dead ends and imperceptible rises and falls in elevation. This is a world that confounds even people with extensive time in the directionless and horizonless underground. As Nicola began the first of his probes into the complex chambers he made...
- 4/5/2013
- by Ron Wilkinson
- Monsters and Critics
Part The Diary of Anne Frank, part The Swiss Family Robinson, and part The Shawshank Redemption, No Place on Earth, about a Ukrainian Jewish family in WWII who hides from the Nazis by living in caves, has all the elements of a great story: an epic quest (survival), formidable obstacles (Nazis discovering each hiding place), and clever solutions to those obstacles (digging new exits, finding new caves). Unfortunately, the telling, by director Janet Tobias, is no match for the story. At the beginning, the film seems to be a documentary about a spelunker, Chris Nicola, who years later discovers the remains of one of the family's encampments and seeks survivors and relatives with little luck. But our luck is much better; without explanation, the family is sudden...
- 4/5/2013
- Village Voice
The Descent: Tobias Brings Recently Discovered Holocaust Tale to Light
For her directorial debut, producer Janet Tobias documents a harrowing discovery made by a spelunker in the early 90s with No Place on Earth, which makes for one very fascinating and incredible Holocaust survival story. Through a series of interviews with survivors of this living history as well as combination of narration from one of the survivor memoirs and various physical reenactments, Tobias paints a portrait of perilous survival that’s difficult to comprehend.
In 1993, spelunker Chris Nicola discovered evidence of human dwelling in the expansive gypsum caves of Ukraine. Evidence seemed to indicate that a group of people had lived in them for quite some time. In asking the locals for information, he found that most people were unwilling to speak with him, which was no surprise due to the current political climate, with a group of people coming...
For her directorial debut, producer Janet Tobias documents a harrowing discovery made by a spelunker in the early 90s with No Place on Earth, which makes for one very fascinating and incredible Holocaust survival story. Through a series of interviews with survivors of this living history as well as combination of narration from one of the survivor memoirs and various physical reenactments, Tobias paints a portrait of perilous survival that’s difficult to comprehend.
In 1993, spelunker Chris Nicola discovered evidence of human dwelling in the expansive gypsum caves of Ukraine. Evidence seemed to indicate that a group of people had lived in them for quite some time. In asking the locals for information, he found that most people were unwilling to speak with him, which was no surprise due to the current political climate, with a group of people coming...
- 4/3/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
In 1942 a group of 38 Ukrainian Jews descended into a cave to hide from the Nazis. They lived in the cave for over a year-and-a-half to survive the evil tyrany. A trailer for a new documentary called No Place On Earth has been released that tells this incredible story of survival blending interviews with the survivors and dramatizations of the events that took place.
The film was directed by Janet Tobias, it chronicles the story of how cave explorer Chris Nicola just happened to stumble upon this underground cave, and how it lead him on a journey to uncover the story behind it. The story of which is both terrifying and inspiring. Here's the synopsis:
In October 1942, Esther Stermer, the matriarch of a Jewish family in the Ukraine, leads her family underground to hide from the pursuing Nazis—and stays nearly a year and a half. Their harrowing story of survival...
The film was directed by Janet Tobias, it chronicles the story of how cave explorer Chris Nicola just happened to stumble upon this underground cave, and how it lead him on a journey to uncover the story behind it. The story of which is both terrifying and inspiring. Here's the synopsis:
In October 1942, Esther Stermer, the matriarch of a Jewish family in the Ukraine, leads her family underground to hide from the pursuing Nazis—and stays nearly a year and a half. Their harrowing story of survival...
- 2/24/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
"I wanted to say thank you to the cave." Today's trailer on Oscar Sunday is for the documentary called No Place On Earth, an "extraordinary true story" about a cave expedition where they found remnants of a WWII camp that lead to the discovery of a remarkable and harrowing story of survival. This looks like yet another powerful doc, that begins one place, and ends in a completely different one. It tells the story of this group of survivors from the cave, and it seems to show them returning there for a revisit, though that might be giving away too much. There's some tricky editing in this trailer, but this otherwise looks worth watching. Watch the theatrical trailer for Janet Tobias' documentary No Place On Earth, in high def on Apple: While mapping out the largest cave system in Ukraine, explorer and investigator Chris Nicola discovers evidence that five...
- 2/24/2013
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
See the first poster for Magnolia Pictures' No Place on Earth documentary, directed by Janet Tobias. The film won was seen at last year's Toronto Film,Festival, and won the Audience Award at the Hamptons International Film Festival in 2012. Zita Kisgergely, Paul Laikin, Rafael Marmor and Tobias produce while David McKillop, Jeff Field and J. Flint Davis executive produce alongside Susan Werbe and Katja Zink. In No Place on Earth, while mapping out the largest cave system in Ukraine, explorer and investigator Chris Nicola discovers evidence that five Jewish families spent nearly a year and a half in the pitch-black caves to escape the Nazis. This is the story of the longest uninterrupted underground survival in recorded human history.
- 2/20/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See the first poster for Magnolia Pictures' No Place on Earth documentary, directed by Janet Tobias. The film won was seen at last year's Toronto Film,Festival, and won the Audience Award at the Hamptons International Film Festival in 2012. Zita Kisgergely, Paul Laikin, Rafael Marmor and Tobias produce while David McKillop, Jeff Field and J. Flint Davis executive produce alongside Susan Werbe and Katja Zink. In No Place on Earth, while mapping out the largest cave system in Ukraine, explorer and investigator Chris Nicola discovers evidence that five Jewish families spent nearly a year and a half in the pitch-black caves to escape the Nazis. This is the story of the longest uninterrupted underground survival in recorded human history.
- 2/20/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
ComingSoon.net has your exclusive first look at the poster for the Magnolia Pictures documentary No Place on Earth . Opening in theaters on April 5, the Janet Tobias-directed film features Chris Nicola, Saul Stermer, Sam Stermer, Sonia Dodyk and Sima Dodyk. In October 1942, Esther Stermer, the matriarch of a Jewish family in the Ukraine, leads her family underground to hide from the pursuing Nazis . and stays nearly a year and a half. Their harrowing story of survival living in near total darkness in two cold, damp caves is one like no other ever told. It was life...like No Place On Earth. Click the poster for a bigger version!
- 2/20/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. theatrical distribution rights to the documentary “No Place on Earth,” which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival Monday. The company plans a 2013 theatrical release. Directed by former “60 Minutes” and “Nightline” producer Janet Tobias, “No Place on Earth” tells the incredible story of 38 Ukrainian Jews who survived World War II by living in underground caves for 18 months. The film includes interviews with survivors and Chris Nicola, the caving enthusiast who discovered the story. Read More: Living History: Toronto Doc 'No Place On Earth' Explores Remarkable Story of 38 Jews Who Hid In a Cave For 511 Days Rafael Marmor produced the project along with Tobias, Paul Laikin, Nadav Schirman, Susan Barnett and Zita Kisgergely. History Films, which produced, retains U.S. TV rights. "‘No Place on Earth’ is an incredibly moving and...
- 9/13/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
Another Toronto Film Festival deal, and this might not be the only one for No Place On Earth as suitors are angling for remake rights to the film. Here’s the announcement: Toronto, On (September 13th, 2012) – The Wagner/Cuban Company’s Magnolia Pictures announced today that the company is acquiring U.S. theatrical distribution rights to No Place On Earth from History Films™, which has U.S. TV rights. The feature documentary tells the gripping story of a Jewish family who took refuge in caves for nearly two years to evade Nazi capture. The acquisition announcement comes less than 48 hours following the film’s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday night, where it received a lengthy standing ovation. No Place On Earth brings to light the untold story of thirty-eight Ukrainian Jews who survived World War II by living in caves for eighteen months, the longest-recorded sustained underground survival.
- 9/13/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
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