The first stills of Tanner King Barklow and Gil Kofman‘s Israel-set romantic drama “The White City” have debuted via IMDb, giving us our first look at Thomas Dekker and Haley Bennett. The film, which marks King Barklow and Kofman’s second collaboration together since they first teamed up for the award-winning 2012 documentary “Unmade in China,” centers on an “emotionally charged love triangle between three young artists (played by Dekker, Bennett, and Bob Morley) that develops against the hot political climate of modern Tel Aviv.” In an interview with Thomas Dekker Source, Dekker revealed further details on the film, saying: “It’s [...]
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- 5/2/2014
- by Alfonso Espina
- UpandComers
Outsourcing to China has long been standard practice for American industries looking for cheaper labor and overhead costs, but with the country's film industry burgeoning like never before, could cinema become the latest free-trade frontier? Such is the question that Tanner King Barklow and Gil Kofman's doc Unmade in China explores, via the latter's experience shooting his thriller Case Sensitive in the country with an all-Chinese cast and crew. A tale of comic absurdity, Unmade details both the severe cultural differences and the sense of paranoia on the set that make filming a near impossibility. The director becomes increasingly frustrated as his screenplay goes through seven rewrites by a Chinese script doctor, each more incomprehensible than the last, and the ...
- 5/1/2013
- Village Voice
Documentaries about the production of a movie can go two ways. The film being filmed is completed without a hitch and the studio or distributor puts the “making of…” special on the DVD, or it’s a disastrous shoot and not exactly something executives want to flaunt in the form of a bonus feature. The latter can include docs on films that are miraculously finished (Burden of Dreams; Overnight; Hearts of Darkness) or unsurprisingly unfinished (Lost in La Mancha; It’s All True; the upcoming Death of “Superman Lives”). Either way, there’s usually good reason to isolate all that drama for a separately (or solely) released feature-length work. In the case of Unmade in China, the aim seems to have always been to cover a catastrophe. Director Gil Kofman (The Memory Thief) had already gone to the city of Xiamen to make the movie Case Sensitive, a YouTube-inspired thriller scripted by an American writer and intended...
- 4/20/2013
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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