Since 1964, Michael Apted’s seminal Up films have followed a group of British children from age 7 onward, checking in on their progress every seven years. (If all goes according to plan, 2019 will bring us 63 Up, the ninth feature in the series.) Phantom Cowboys, directed by Daniel Patrick Carbone (Hide Your Smiling Faces), is a kind of one-off American cousin to the Up films, though the aesthetic is — befitting its evocative title — more liltingly poetic, if no less thought-provoking.
Carbone follows three American men in two time periods, intercutting their experiences as teenagers in 2009 and as young adults in 2016. When we...
Carbone follows three American men in two time periods, intercutting their experiences as teenagers in 2009 and as young adults in 2016. When we...
- 4/30/2018
- by Keith Uhlich
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Since 1964, Michael Apted’s seminal <em>Up </em>films have followed a group of British children from age 7 onward, checking in on their progress every seven years. (If all goes according to plan, 2019 will bring us <em>63 Up</em>, the ninth feature in the series.) <em>Phantom Cowboys, </em>directed by Daniel Patrick Carbone (<em>Hide Your Smiling Faces</em>), is a kind of one-off American cousin to the <em>Up </em>films, though the aesthetic is — befitting its evocative title — more liltingly poetic, if no less thought-provoking.
Carbone follows three American men in two time periods, intercutting their experiences as teenagers in ...
Carbone follows three American men in two time periods, intercutting their experiences as teenagers in ...
- 4/30/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
It would be easy to dismiss Nick Reyes, Larry Young, and Tyler Carpenter as three variations on the same thing: poor American youth. The simple fact their stories are combined within Daniel Patrick Carbone’s poetic look at nature, nurture, opportunity, and struggle in rural areas of our country entitled Phantom Cowboys makes the case. But anyone who watches these parallel journeys will reveal this thought’s error. You’ll see how role models can improve one’s outlook on the future. You’ll see how the stigma placed upon us because of the color of our skin or the city of our birth can dictate fate’s path. These boys might be shown rejecting choices that would have objectively bettered their situation, but in their eyes those possibilities were never real.
This is our nation’s true tragedy. We live in a self-proclaimed “land of opportunity” that forgets the...
This is our nation’s true tragedy. We live in a self-proclaimed “land of opportunity” that forgets the...
- 4/25/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
The fall festival rush is upon us. Locarno is currently ramping up. Venice has released their line-up and Thom Powers and the Toronto International Film Festival team have dropped a bomb with a previously unannounced new feature from powerhouse docu-provocateur Michael Moore. It is truly a miracle that the production of a film such as Moore’s upcoming Where To Invade Next (see still above) managed to go completely undetected by the filmmaking community until it was literally announced to world premiere at one of the largest film festivals in the world. Programmed as a one of the key films in the Special Presentations section at Tiff, the film sees Moore telling “the Pentagon to ‘stand down’ — he will do the invading for America from now on.” Also announced to premiere at Tiff was Avi Lewis’ This Changes Everything, which has slowly been rising up this list, as well as...
- 8/7/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
It’s been a surprisingly interesting month of moving and shaking in terms of doc development. Just a month after making his first public funding pitch at Toronto’s Hot Docs Forum, legendary doc filmmaker Frederick Wiseman took to Kickstarter to help cover the remaining expenses for his 40th feature film In Jackson Heights (see the film’s first trailer below). Unrelentingly rigorous in his determination to capture the American institutional landscape on film, his latest continues down this thematic rabbit hole, taking on the immensely diverse New York City neighborhood of Jackson Heights as his latest subject. According to the Kickstarter page, Wiseman is currently editing the 120 hours of rushes he shot with hopes of having the film ready for a fall festival premiere (my guess would be Tiff, where both National Gallery and At Berkeley made their North American debut), though he’s currently quite a ways away from his $75,000 goal.
- 7/6/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Well folks, after a rather long and brutal winter (at least for me here in Buffalo), we are finally heading into the wonderful warmth of summer, but with that blast of sunshine and steamy humidity comes the mid-year drought of major film fests. After the Sheffield Doc/Fest concludes on June 10th and AFI Docs wraps on June 21st, we likely won’t see any major influx in our charts until Locarno, Venice, Telluride and Tiff announce their line-ups in rapid succession. In the meantime, we can look forward to the intriguing onslaught of films making their debut in Sheffield, including Brian Hill’s intriguing examination of Sweden’s most notorious serial killer, The Confessions of Thomas Quick, and Sean McAllister’s film for which he himself was jailed in the process of making, A Syrian Love Story, the only two films world premiering in the festival’s main competition.
- 6/1/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
It should come as no surprise that Cannes Film Festival will play host to Kent Jones’s doc on the touchstone of filmmaking interview tomes, Hitchcock/Truffaut (see photo above). The film has been floating near the top of this list since it was announced last year as in development, while Jones himself has a history with the festival, having co-written both Arnaud Desplechin’s Jimmy P. and Martin Scorsese’s My Voyage To Italy, both of which premiered in Cannes. The film is scheduled to screen as part of the Cannes Classics sidebar alongside the likes of Stig Björkman’s Ingrid Bergman, in Her Own Words, which will play as part of the festival’s tribute to the late starlet, and Gabriel Clarke and John McKenna’s Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans (see trailer below). As someone who grew up watching road races with my dad in Watkins Glen,...
- 5/1/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
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