Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, is making waves with his upcoming debut series titled “Stardom”. Recent reports reveal that Aryan has roped in talented actress Mona Singh for a pivotal role, adding to the intrigue surrounding the project.
Aryan Khan’s Debut Series ‘Stardom’
Currently, Mona is busy shooting her part in the picturesque locales of Goa, infusing her character with depth and nuance. Sources suggest that her role in “Stardom” diverges significantly from her previous portrayals, promising audiences a fresh and captivating performance.
While Mona has already filmed scenes in Mumbai and Delhi, the shoot in Goa appears to be more extensive, indicating the importance of the setting in the series. Additionally, stringent measures are in place to prevent any leaks of footage from the filming locations until an official confirmation is made.
Excitement mounts further with reports hinting at potential cameo appearances by Bollywood...
Aryan Khan’s Debut Series ‘Stardom’
Currently, Mona is busy shooting her part in the picturesque locales of Goa, infusing her character with depth and nuance. Sources suggest that her role in “Stardom” diverges significantly from her previous portrayals, promising audiences a fresh and captivating performance.
While Mona has already filmed scenes in Mumbai and Delhi, the shoot in Goa appears to be more extensive, indicating the importance of the setting in the series. Additionally, stringent measures are in place to prevent any leaks of footage from the filming locations until an official confirmation is made.
Excitement mounts further with reports hinting at potential cameo appearances by Bollywood...
- 5/2/2024
- by Anshu Harvansh
- ReferSMS
Following their scary good Archie Comics collaboration last year, Cullen Bunn and Dan Schoening are reteaming to continue growing The Cult of That Wilkin Boy with the new one-shot Initiation, and ahead its April 24th release from Archie Comics, we have an exclusive preview to share with Daily Dead readers!
Now working in the music industry as a cunning manager, Bingo convinces musicians to swap their souls for stardom in our exclusive preview below, and here's what artist Dan Schoening had to say about continuing Bingo's hellish story:
"It's such an honor to come back and tell more of Bingo's story with such an amazingly talented team of creatives. This follow-up feels like a natural progression of a rock star that sold his soul for fame and fortune, and all the sacrifice that comes along with it. This time however, the stakes are much higher, and the scale of terror is much bigger in scope.
Now working in the music industry as a cunning manager, Bingo convinces musicians to swap their souls for stardom in our exclusive preview below, and here's what artist Dan Schoening had to say about continuing Bingo's hellish story:
"It's such an honor to come back and tell more of Bingo's story with such an amazingly talented team of creatives. This follow-up feels like a natural progression of a rock star that sold his soul for fame and fortune, and all the sacrifice that comes along with it. This time however, the stakes are much higher, and the scale of terror is much bigger in scope.
- 3/29/2024
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Supernatural horror Deliver US is out now on digital platforms including Google, Apple TV, Sky and Amazon in the UK & Ireland.
Maria Vera Ratti (Inspector Ricciardi) stars as a nun who claims to have conceived twins through immaculate conception – that the Vatican fear will fulfil an ancient prophecy that one is the Messiah, and the other the Antichrist. Deliver US also stars co-director Lee Roy Kunz, as well as Thomas Kretschmann (Infinity Pool), and Peaky Blinders star Alexander Siddig.
Co-directed by Cru Ennis, Deliver US us a slick, striking and seriously scary slice of religious horror that will appeal to horror fans who enjoyed The Pope’s Exorcist, The Omen and The Nun movies.
Synopsis: When a nun in a remote convent claims immaculate conception, the Vatican sends a team of priests to investigate, concerned about an ancient prophecy that a woman will give birth to twin boys: one the Messiah,...
Maria Vera Ratti (Inspector Ricciardi) stars as a nun who claims to have conceived twins through immaculate conception – that the Vatican fear will fulfil an ancient prophecy that one is the Messiah, and the other the Antichrist. Deliver US also stars co-director Lee Roy Kunz, as well as Thomas Kretschmann (Infinity Pool), and Peaky Blinders star Alexander Siddig.
Co-directed by Cru Ennis, Deliver US us a slick, striking and seriously scary slice of religious horror that will appeal to horror fans who enjoyed The Pope’s Exorcist, The Omen and The Nun movies.
Synopsis: When a nun in a remote convent claims immaculate conception, the Vatican sends a team of priests to investigate, concerned about an ancient prophecy that a woman will give birth to twin boys: one the Messiah,...
- 2/27/2024
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
Pharrell Williams’ life will be told via Legos in the new Focus Features movie Piece by Piece, directed by 20 Feet from Stardom Oscar winner Morgan Neville. The pic will hit theaters on Oct. 11.
The 13-time Grammy winner and double Oscar nominee posted about it on social today, saying: “Who would’ve thought that playing with Legos as a kid would evolve into a movie about my life. It’s proof that anyone else can do it too… #PieceByPiece.”
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The 13-time Grammy winner and double Oscar nominee posted about it on social today, saying: “Who would’ve thought that playing with Legos as a kid would evolve into a movie about my life. It’s proof that anyone else can do it too… #PieceByPiece.”
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- 1/26/2024
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son, Aryan Khan isn’t interested in acting but has a knack for writing and direction. Aryan will make his directorial debut with an upcoming show titled ‘Stardom’.
It will be a streaming show with 6 episodes and will be set against the backdrop of the film industry. The series is currently in its production stage.
It’s being produced by Aryan’s home production Red Chillies Entertainment owned by his father, who is fresh off the success of his blockbuster movie ‘Pathaan’.
A few years back, while talking to chat show host David Letterman, Srk told him that Aryan isn’t interested in building a career in acting more so because he has the towering achievements of his father to match-upto but he harbours dreams of being a director or a producer.
Apart from ‘Stardom’, Aryan Khan recently shot an ad film where he got to direct his father.
It will be a streaming show with 6 episodes and will be set against the backdrop of the film industry. The series is currently in its production stage.
It’s being produced by Aryan’s home production Red Chillies Entertainment owned by his father, who is fresh off the success of his blockbuster movie ‘Pathaan’.
A few years back, while talking to chat show host David Letterman, Srk told him that Aryan isn’t interested in building a career in acting more so because he has the towering achievements of his father to match-upto but he harbours dreams of being a director or a producer.
Apart from ‘Stardom’, Aryan Khan recently shot an ad film where he got to direct his father.
- 5/1/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Despite being a huge movie star, Brie Larson keeps details about her personal life relatively private. But in a recent interview, she dropped a bombshell about her romantic life. The Captain Marvel actor revealed that she and her partner Elijah Allan-Blitz are no longer together.
Brie Larson’s dating history includes a broken engagement with rock singer Alex Greenwald
After five years of dating and 2.5 years of being engaged, Brie Larson and Alex Greenwald have split. https://t.co/yt3F8G6JZR pic.twitter.com/2Bjf9weNiD
— E! News (@enews) January 11, 2019
Larson keeps out of the spotlight when she’s not in front of the camera, but some details about her celebrity relationships have emerged over the years.
In 2006, she reportedly dated Hannah Montana star Cody Linley but called it quits a year later.
In 2008, Larson began dating actor and musician John Patrick Amedori, known for his roles in...
Brie Larson’s dating history includes a broken engagement with rock singer Alex Greenwald
After five years of dating and 2.5 years of being engaged, Brie Larson and Alex Greenwald have split. https://t.co/yt3F8G6JZR pic.twitter.com/2Bjf9weNiD
— E! News (@enews) January 11, 2019
Larson keeps out of the spotlight when she’s not in front of the camera, but some details about her celebrity relationships have emerged over the years.
In 2006, she reportedly dated Hannah Montana star Cody Linley but called it quits a year later.
In 2008, Larson began dating actor and musician John Patrick Amedori, known for his roles in...
- 4/7/2023
- by India McCarty
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Lana Del Rey has shared “The Grants,” the latest single from her upcoming ninth studio album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.
On the track, Del Rey (born Elizabeth Grant) appears to pay tribute to the memory of her late uncle David Grant, who died in 2016 while climbing the Rocky Mountains. “I’m gonna take mine of you with me,” Del Rey sings. “Like ‘Rocky Mountain High’/ The way John Denver sings.”
“The Grants” was co-written with Mike Hermosa and features backing vocals from singers Melodye Perry, Pattie Howard, and Shikena Jones, who all appeared in the 2013 music documentary 20 Feet from Stardom.
Listen to Lana Del Rey’s new song “The Grants” below.
The single follows the album’s title track and the seven-minute epic “A&w,” the latter of which we named Song of the Week. Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel...
On the track, Del Rey (born Elizabeth Grant) appears to pay tribute to the memory of her late uncle David Grant, who died in 2016 while climbing the Rocky Mountains. “I’m gonna take mine of you with me,” Del Rey sings. “Like ‘Rocky Mountain High’/ The way John Denver sings.”
“The Grants” was co-written with Mike Hermosa and features backing vocals from singers Melodye Perry, Pattie Howard, and Shikena Jones, who all appeared in the 2013 music documentary 20 Feet from Stardom.
Listen to Lana Del Rey’s new song “The Grants” below.
The single follows the album’s title track and the seven-minute epic “A&w,” the latter of which we named Song of the Week. Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel...
- 3/14/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
Lana Del Rey’s soothing vocals over the soft sounds of a piano. It’s the type of sonic beauty we’ve come to expect from the beloved songstress. On Tuesday, Del Rey surprise-released “The Grants,” the opening song of her upcoming album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, which features a nod to some of music’s greatest background singers.
“The Grants” — named after Del Rey’s own family — opens with background singers Melodye Perry, Pattie Howard, and Shikena Jones recording the backing vocals...
“The Grants” — named after Del Rey’s own family — opens with background singers Melodye Perry, Pattie Howard, and Shikena Jones recording the backing vocals...
- 3/14/2023
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” seemed like a lock to win Best Documentary. The political exposé on artist Nan Goldin and the fall of a pharmaceutical empire was cleaning up among critics’ groups throughout awards season – including New York, Los Angeles, and Florida – as well as being named one of the top-five docs of the year by the National Board of Review.
But as we head toward the Oscars ceremony on March 12, “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” feels more vulnerable than ever despite a comfortable lead in the Gold Derby combined odds. After missing a nomination at the Producers Guild Awards, director Laura Poitras lost to “Fire of Love” filmmaker Sara Dosa at the Directors Guild Awards. Then on Sunday at the BAFTA Awards, “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” lost Best Documentary to “Navalny.”
Let’s start with the PGA Awards, which take place this weekend. The...
But as we head toward the Oscars ceremony on March 12, “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” feels more vulnerable than ever despite a comfortable lead in the Gold Derby combined odds. After missing a nomination at the Producers Guild Awards, director Laura Poitras lost to “Fire of Love” filmmaker Sara Dosa at the Directors Guild Awards. Then on Sunday at the BAFTA Awards, “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” lost Best Documentary to “Navalny.”
Let’s start with the PGA Awards, which take place this weekend. The...
- 2/27/2023
- by Sebastian Ochoa Mendoza
- Gold Derby
Paul McCartney is getting the documentary treatment from Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville.
Neville helped announce the news Saturday afternoon inside Milk Studios, host of Universal Music Group’s star-studded artist showcase, an annual Grammy weekend event presented by chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge that typically features a packed program of musical performances mixed with some breaking news on Uni film projects. Today’s installment, the first showcase in three years due to the pandemic, was no different with news on McCartney, a feature documentary on Grammy winner Jon Batiste from Oscar- and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Matthew Heineman and a spring release date on HBO for Love to Love You, Donna Summer.
The McCartney project is titled Man on the Run and comes from Mpl Communications (the umbrella company for McCartney’s business interests) and Polygram Entertainment (the film and TV division of Umg). Per official intel, the film will focus on...
Neville helped announce the news Saturday afternoon inside Milk Studios, host of Universal Music Group’s star-studded artist showcase, an annual Grammy weekend event presented by chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge that typically features a packed program of musical performances mixed with some breaking news on Uni film projects. Today’s installment, the first showcase in three years due to the pandemic, was no different with news on McCartney, a feature documentary on Grammy winner Jon Batiste from Oscar- and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Matthew Heineman and a spring release date on HBO for Love to Love You, Donna Summer.
The McCartney project is titled Man on the Run and comes from Mpl Communications (the umbrella company for McCartney’s business interests) and Polygram Entertainment (the film and TV division of Umg). Per official intel, the film will focus on...
- 2/5/2023
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Filmmaker Morgan Neville will helm a new documentary about Paul McCartney’s life following The Beatles, including his relationship with Linda McCartney and the formation of Wings.
Entitled Man on the Run, the film will draw on “unprecedented access to a never-before-seen archive of Paul and Linda’s home videos and photos, as well as new interviews,” according to a press release. It will specifically chronicle the timeframe between The Beatles’ breakup in 1970 and Wings’ heyday in the mid-1970s.
Neville, who earned an Academy Award for 2013 documentary 20 Feet from Stardom, most recently helmed the Anthony Bourdain retrospective, Roadrunner.
“As a lifelong obsessive of all things McCartney, I’ve always felt that the 1970s were the great under-examined part of his story,” Neville said in a statement. “I’m thrilled to have the chance to explore and reappraise this crucial moment in a great artist’s life and work.”
The...
Entitled Man on the Run, the film will draw on “unprecedented access to a never-before-seen archive of Paul and Linda’s home videos and photos, as well as new interviews,” according to a press release. It will specifically chronicle the timeframe between The Beatles’ breakup in 1970 and Wings’ heyday in the mid-1970s.
Neville, who earned an Academy Award for 2013 documentary 20 Feet from Stardom, most recently helmed the Anthony Bourdain retrospective, Roadrunner.
“As a lifelong obsessive of all things McCartney, I’ve always felt that the 1970s were the great under-examined part of his story,” Neville said in a statement. “I’m thrilled to have the chance to explore and reappraise this crucial moment in a great artist’s life and work.”
The...
- 2/5/2023
- by Alex Young
- Consequence - Film News
Showtime is exploring an infamous teenage couple who were convicted of murdering 11 people in the 1950s in the network’s latest docuseries. The 12th Victim is a four-part docuseries following the crimes of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate.
Told through a stylistic blend of archival and recreated footage and countless film and television series inspired by the killings, the series reexamines Fugate’s guilty verdict, who was 14 years old at the time of the killings, through a modern lens, questioning the media and judicial system’s treatment of her despite her self-proclaimed innocence.
On Tuesday, Showtime released a trailer for the series and announced it will debut on February 17.
In 1958, a grisly string of murders terrified the Midwest, as 18-year-old Starkweather killed 11 victims in Nebraska and Wyoming with his girlfriend Fugate by his side. Fugate went on to become the youngest female in U.S. history to be tried...
Told through a stylistic blend of archival and recreated footage and countless film and television series inspired by the killings, the series reexamines Fugate’s guilty verdict, who was 14 years old at the time of the killings, through a modern lens, questioning the media and judicial system’s treatment of her despite her self-proclaimed innocence.
On Tuesday, Showtime released a trailer for the series and announced it will debut on February 17.
In 1958, a grisly string of murders terrified the Midwest, as 18-year-old Starkweather killed 11 victims in Nebraska and Wyoming with his girlfriend Fugate by his side. Fugate went on to become the youngest female in U.S. history to be tried...
- 1/24/2023
- by Katie Campione
- Deadline Film + TV
One of the core tenets of American mythology is the "rags to riches" story, the idea that any anonymous individual can, through sheer ambition and force of will, achieve lasting success in life. Nowhere is this myth best utilized than in the numerous stories about people making it big in show business. Most films about this topic throw enough hardship at their protagonists to keep things feeling realistic, but they make sure to perpetuate the myth: most of these stories have a happy ending worthy of a fairy tale.
"Pearl" is a different kind of fairy tale, and its emotionally harrowing finale subversively looks like a Technicolor happy ending while being anything but. This shouldn't come as much surprise to those who saw "X," which was co-writer and director Ti West's initial installment in what we now know is a trilogy of films. In "X," star Mia Goth portrayed both that film's nubile lead,...
"Pearl" is a different kind of fairy tale, and its emotionally harrowing finale subversively looks like a Technicolor happy ending while being anything but. This shouldn't come as much surprise to those who saw "X," which was co-writer and director Ti West's initial installment in what we now know is a trilogy of films. In "X," star Mia Goth portrayed both that film's nubile lead,...
- 9/16/2022
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
Although the fate of its subject is communicated early on, by said subject himself in his typical no-nonsense, matter-of-fact voice-over style, Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, still proves to be a fascinating and captivating portrait of the adored celebrity chef and author that also explores, in some detail, the question as to exactly why his life ended when, on June 8, 2018, Bourdain hung himself in his hotel room.
An intimate chronicle of Bourdain’s life from obscure, anonymous chef to world-famous author, the film is told from Bourdain’s own perspective using footage (both previously seen and unseen) from his various projects. Morgan Neville’s film is an uncompromising look at a true cultural icon and the tremendous impact he had on the world, and the toll that that inevitably had on him.
Throughout the film, director Neville seems genuinely enthralled by his subject, and it is rather easy to...
An intimate chronicle of Bourdain’s life from obscure, anonymous chef to world-famous author, the film is told from Bourdain’s own perspective using footage (both previously seen and unseen) from his various projects. Morgan Neville’s film is an uncompromising look at a true cultural icon and the tremendous impact he had on the world, and the toll that that inevitably had on him.
Throughout the film, director Neville seems genuinely enthralled by his subject, and it is rather easy to...
- 7/16/2021
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
"One minute I was standing next to a deep fryer, and the next I was watching the sunset over the Sahara." Focus Features has released the official trailer for Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, a new doc film about the late Anthony Bourdain. Everyone knows about him, everyone loves him (for the most part), and everyone knows that unfortunately he took his own life a few years ago. This film is made by one of my favorite doc filmmakers – Morgan Neville, of the acclaimed docs 20 Feet from Stardom, Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal, Keith Richards: Under the Influence, Won't You Be My Neighbor?, and They'll Love Me When I'm Dead previously. Roadrunner is a comprehensive doc about Anthony Bourdain and his extensive career as a chef, writer and host, revered and renowned for his authentic approach to food, culture and travel. This looks like everything I was...
- 6/3/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Focus Features will release Oscar winner Morgan Neville’s Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain in U.S. and Canada on Friday, July 16.
The documentary, which is making its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 11, follows the late storyteller, explorer, and chef Bourdain.
Neville directed 20 Feet from Stardom and Won’t You Be My Neighbor? He won the Best Documentary Feature Oscar in 2014 for 20 Feet From Stardom. Won’t You Be My Neighbor, from Focus, was a domestic B.O. smash in summer of 2018 grossing close to $23M.
Following the docu’s theatrical release, the pic will premiere on CNN and stream via HBO Max. CNN Films and HBO Max executive produced the film. Neville and Caitrin Rogers are producers of the film under Neville’s Tremolo Productions.
It’s shaping up to be a good summer for docus: Searchlight has their highly anticipated Sundance pick-up Summer...
The documentary, which is making its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 11, follows the late storyteller, explorer, and chef Bourdain.
Neville directed 20 Feet from Stardom and Won’t You Be My Neighbor? He won the Best Documentary Feature Oscar in 2014 for 20 Feet From Stardom. Won’t You Be My Neighbor, from Focus, was a domestic B.O. smash in summer of 2018 grossing close to $23M.
Following the docu’s theatrical release, the pic will premiere on CNN and stream via HBO Max. CNN Films and HBO Max executive produced the film. Neville and Caitrin Rogers are producers of the film under Neville’s Tremolo Productions.
It’s shaping up to be a good summer for docus: Searchlight has their highly anticipated Sundance pick-up Summer...
- 4/23/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Apple TV+ has picked up Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson, a six-part docuseries that examines sound creation and revolutionary technology used to shape music. It hails from Oscar-winning producer Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom) and is hosted by Mark Ronson, a renowned DJ and Oscar, Golden Globe and Grammy-winning artist and producer. Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson will premiere July 30, 2021 globally on Apple TV+.
Each episode of Watch the Sound follows Ronson as he tells the untold stories behind music creation and the lengths producers and creators are willing to go to find the perfect sound. Speaking with Ronson about music as the intersection of artistry and technology and how that has influenced their work are Paul McCartney, Questlove, King Princess, Dave Grohl, Adrock and Mike D from the Beastie Boys, Charli Xcx and more.
At the end of each episode, Ronson will create and unveil a...
Each episode of Watch the Sound follows Ronson as he tells the untold stories behind music creation and the lengths producers and creators are willing to go to find the perfect sound. Speaking with Ronson about music as the intersection of artistry and technology and how that has influenced their work are Paul McCartney, Questlove, King Princess, Dave Grohl, Adrock and Mike D from the Beastie Boys, Charli Xcx and more.
At the end of each episode, Ronson will create and unveil a...
- 4/13/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Broadway stars on a mission to raise funds and awareness for pulmonary fibrosis (Pf) will take the stage virtually for the first time in the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation’s (Pff) 11th annual Broadway Belts for Pff! on Friday, March 12, at 7 p.m. Et.
Broadway stars on a mission to raise awareness for pulmonary fibrosis
The free event will be live-streamed on the Pff’s YouTube and Facebook channels.
Award-winning Broadway actress and comedienne Julie Halston, will host the evening on her popular YouTube series, Virtual Halston along with co-host, Jim Caruso (Jim Caruso’s Cast Party). The evening will feature some of Broadway’s biggest stars as they raise their voices to help those living with the disease. Halston, who lost her husband Ralph Howard to Pf, describes Broadway Belts for Pff! as near and dear to her heart.
“We are bringing the glitz and glamour of Broadway directly to...
Broadway stars on a mission to raise awareness for pulmonary fibrosis
The free event will be live-streamed on the Pff’s YouTube and Facebook channels.
Award-winning Broadway actress and comedienne Julie Halston, will host the evening on her popular YouTube series, Virtual Halston along with co-host, Jim Caruso (Jim Caruso’s Cast Party). The evening will feature some of Broadway’s biggest stars as they raise their voices to help those living with the disease. Halston, who lost her husband Ralph Howard to Pf, describes Broadway Belts for Pff! as near and dear to her heart.
“We are bringing the glitz and glamour of Broadway directly to...
- 2/10/2021
- Look to the Stars
Patton Oswalt is heading back to the Sundance Film Festival, though the comedian won’t need a snow coat this year.
The Big Fan star and 2017 jury member will be hosting the 2021 Sff Awards Night on February 2, the Robert Redford founded shindig announced today.
Semi-virtual like all of Sundance ’21 because of the coronavirus pandemic, that awards ceremony will feature winners from all of the six competition categories – which saw 2021 jury members unveiled last week. As well, the awards show will see participation from the likes of Park City alum Diego Luna, Alison Brie, and Shira Haas, Sff also said today.
Following in the proud line of past Sff Awards show hosting such as Marianna Palka, Tig Notaro and Jessica Williams, the news of Oswalt’s ringmaster role comes just three days before Sundance 2021 kicks off, online and otherwise. The approximately 120-film strong festival will run until February 3.
“What makes Sundance,...
The Big Fan star and 2017 jury member will be hosting the 2021 Sff Awards Night on February 2, the Robert Redford founded shindig announced today.
Semi-virtual like all of Sundance ’21 because of the coronavirus pandemic, that awards ceremony will feature winners from all of the six competition categories – which saw 2021 jury members unveiled last week. As well, the awards show will see participation from the likes of Park City alum Diego Luna, Alison Brie, and Shira Haas, Sff also said today.
Following in the proud line of past Sff Awards show hosting such as Marianna Palka, Tig Notaro and Jessica Williams, the news of Oswalt’s ringmaster role comes just three days before Sundance 2021 kicks off, online and otherwise. The approximately 120-film strong festival will run until February 3.
“What makes Sundance,...
- 1/25/2021
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Ryan Reynolds, justifiably or otherwise, once had a reputation for being a Hollywood slacker. However, his days of rom-com fodder are long gone, as this look at his upcoming movies will demonstrate. Comedy fodder perhaps, but no more glorified professional vacations with Sandra Bullock. Stardom comes with a heavy price, you know.
Free Guy is the first of his new movies to be released, making a long-awaited debut on December 11th. The comedy about a video game character who becomes self-aware has suffered a lengthy delay at the hands of the coronavirus and it feels like we’ve been talking about it for a very long time. Fingers crossed it’ll be worth the wait.
Not content to be pigeonholed, Reynolds will also be lending his voice to family-friendly animation The Croods 2, where he’ll reprise the role of caveman Guy from the previous film. That’s out on December 23rd.
Free Guy is the first of his new movies to be released, making a long-awaited debut on December 11th. The comedy about a video game character who becomes self-aware has suffered a lengthy delay at the hands of the coronavirus and it feels like we’ve been talking about it for a very long time. Fingers crossed it’ll be worth the wait.
Not content to be pigeonholed, Reynolds will also be lending his voice to family-friendly animation The Croods 2, where he’ll reprise the role of caveman Guy from the previous film. That’s out on December 23rd.
- 8/13/2020
- by Alex Crisp
- We Got This Covered
The shorthand summary of the story of Suzi Quatro story is simple: a pioneering female rock ‘n’ roll musician from Detroit who became a big star overseas in the 1970s but couldn’t find the same appreciation at home. And “Suzi Q,” a film by Liam Firmager that premieres on VOD this week, tries to right that imbalance, trotting out an array of female musicians to testify about Quatro’s importance in helping establish the very idea that it was Ok for women to pick up instruments and play rock alongside the guys.
That’s a worthy goal for the film, given Quatro’s influence on people like Joan Jett, Debbie Harry, the Talking Heads’ Tina Weymouth and the Go-Go’s Kathy Valentine, among others. Valentine, for one, said she’d never even thought of women playing instruments — and then she saw Quatro on the British TV show “Top of the Pops,...
That’s a worthy goal for the film, given Quatro’s influence on people like Joan Jett, Debbie Harry, the Talking Heads’ Tina Weymouth and the Go-Go’s Kathy Valentine, among others. Valentine, for one, said she’d never even thought of women playing instruments — and then she saw Quatro on the British TV show “Top of the Pops,...
- 6/29/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Before Alex Winter became famous as good-vibes goofball Bill in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure at age 24, he was a successful child actor, appearing in Broadway productions of such shows as The King and I and Peter Pan. It was a lifestyle that exposed Winter to acting methods, creative people — and sexual abuse.
Winter's new documentary, Showbiz Kids, due July 14 on HBO and produced by Bill Simmons and Glen Zipper, examines the extraordinarily vulnerable life of child performers like him. Through interviews with Diana Serra Cary (silent film's "Baby Peggy"), Evan Rachel Wood, Todd Bridges,...
Winter's new documentary, Showbiz Kids, due July 14 on HBO and produced by Bill Simmons and Glen Zipper, examines the extraordinarily vulnerable life of child performers like him. Through interviews with Diana Serra Cary (silent film's "Baby Peggy"), Evan Rachel Wood, Todd Bridges,...
- 6/26/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
While The Simpsons premiered as a TV show in December 1989, its history stretches back even further than that. Few of the show’s newest generations of fans are aware that the characters started out as interstitial pieces on Fox’s The Tracey Ullman Show in 1987. Nancy Cartwright has been the voice of Bart Simpson since [...]
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- 4/14/2020
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
The late celebrity chef and travelogue host Anthony Bourdain will be the focus of a documentary from CNN Films, HBO Max and Focus Features.
Directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville—who took home an Academy Award for 20 Feet from Stardom and made last year’s hit documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?—the upcoming Bourdain documentary will be released initially in theaters worldwide before heading to CNN and HBO Max for streaming, The Hollywood Reporter writes.
In a statement about the forthcoming project, Neville said: “Anthony Bourdain did more...
Directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville—who took home an Academy Award for 20 Feet from Stardom and made last year’s hit documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?—the upcoming Bourdain documentary will be released initially in theaters worldwide before heading to CNN and HBO Max for streaming, The Hollywood Reporter writes.
In a statement about the forthcoming project, Neville said: “Anthony Bourdain did more...
- 10/26/2019
- by Ilana Kaplan
- Rollingstone.com
Anthony Bourdain Documentary Directed By Morgan Neville Set From CNN Films, HBO Max & Focus Features
Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom) will direct and produce a documentary about the late Anthony Bourdain for CNN Films, HBO Max and Focus Features.
Described in the announcement as a film about the “uncommon life of the late storyteller, explorer and chef,” the documentary first will be released in theaters worldwide exclusively by Focus Features, with TV premieres following on CNN and streams via HBO Max.
CNN Films and HBO Max will executive produce the film. Neville’s Tremolo Productions will produce the film.
“Anthony Bourdain did more to help us understand each other than just about anyone in the history of television,” said Neville, who also directed last year’s Mister Rogers docu Won’t You Be My Neighbor? for Focus Features. “He connected with people not in spite of his flaws but because of them. To have the opportunity to tell his story is humbling.
Described in the announcement as a film about the “uncommon life of the late storyteller, explorer and chef,” the documentary first will be released in theaters worldwide exclusively by Focus Features, with TV premieres following on CNN and streams via HBO Max.
CNN Films and HBO Max will executive produce the film. Neville’s Tremolo Productions will produce the film.
“Anthony Bourdain did more to help us understand each other than just about anyone in the history of television,” said Neville, who also directed last year’s Mister Rogers docu Won’t You Be My Neighbor? for Focus Features. “He connected with people not in spite of his flaws but because of them. To have the opportunity to tell his story is humbling.
- 10/25/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
A feature documentary about late television star and chef Anthony Bourdain is in the works from Focus Features, CNN Films and HBO Max, to be directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville.
The director, who won an Academy Award for 20 Feet From Stardom and was also behind last year's doc breakout Won't You Be My Neighbor?, will also produce the feature via his Tremolo Productions banner. CNN Films and HBO Max will executive produce.
Focus will first release the film exclusively in theaters worldwide before it airs on television on CNN and streams via HBO Max.
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The director, who won an Academy Award for 20 Feet From Stardom and was also behind last year's doc breakout Won't You Be My Neighbor?, will also produce the feature via his Tremolo Productions banner. CNN Films and HBO Max will executive produce.
Focus will first release the film exclusively in theaters worldwide before it airs on television on CNN and streams via HBO Max.
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- 10/25/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A feature documentary about late television star and chef Anthony Bourdain is in the works from Focus Features, CNN Films and HBO Max, to be directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville.
The director, who won an Academy Award for 20 Feet From Stardom and was also behind last year's doc breakout Won't You Be My Neighbor?, will also produce the feature via his Tremolo Productions banner. CNN Films and HBO Max will executive produce.
Focus will first release the film exclusively in theaters worldwide before it airs on television on CNN and streams via HBO Max.
“...
The director, who won an Academy Award for 20 Feet From Stardom and was also behind last year's doc breakout Won't You Be My Neighbor?, will also produce the feature via his Tremolo Productions banner. CNN Films and HBO Max will executive produce.
Focus will first release the film exclusively in theaters worldwide before it airs on television on CNN and streams via HBO Max.
“...
- 10/25/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Platform acquires worldwide rights to Little Shop Of Horrors lyricist Howard Ashman.
Morgan Neville will produce and Jeff Malmberg will direct Untitled Mickey Mouse Documentary for Disney+ as the streaming platform offered a peek at its non-fiction line-up on Friday (19) in a presentation with International Documentary Association.
Neville won the Oscar in 2014 for 20 Feet From Stardom and also directed Fred Rogers film Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Malmberg’s credits include Marwencol and Shangri-la.
The film will attempt to understand the deeper significance of arguably the most recognizable cartoon character in history, and explore his cultural impact. From Tremolo Productions...
Morgan Neville will produce and Jeff Malmberg will direct Untitled Mickey Mouse Documentary for Disney+ as the streaming platform offered a peek at its non-fiction line-up on Friday (19) in a presentation with International Documentary Association.
Neville won the Oscar in 2014 for 20 Feet From Stardom and also directed Fred Rogers film Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Malmberg’s credits include Marwencol and Shangri-la.
The film will attempt to understand the deeper significance of arguably the most recognizable cartoon character in history, and explore his cultural impact. From Tremolo Productions...
- 10/18/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Dire Straits in Montserrat (Photo credit: Frank Oglethorpe)
Producer Cody Greenwood is drawing on strong family connections as she and director Gracie Otto prepare to shoot a feature documentary centred on a recording studio founded by The Beatles producer Sir George Martin.
In the 1980s Greenwood’s mother Frané Lessac, an author, illustrator and painter, lived on the Caribbean island of Montserrat where Martin built the studio which played host to countless pop and rock icons including The Police, The Rolling Stones, Dire Straits, Elton John, Eric Clapton and Paul McCartney.
Frané befriended Martin and many of the visiting musicians, Cody visited the island six or seven times and got to know Martin’s wife Judy and The Police’s Andy Summers.
Those connections paid off when Greenwood met with Judy and reps of Martin’s estate in London (he died in 2016) and got their permission to make the doc,...
Producer Cody Greenwood is drawing on strong family connections as she and director Gracie Otto prepare to shoot a feature documentary centred on a recording studio founded by The Beatles producer Sir George Martin.
In the 1980s Greenwood’s mother Frané Lessac, an author, illustrator and painter, lived on the Caribbean island of Montserrat where Martin built the studio which played host to countless pop and rock icons including The Police, The Rolling Stones, Dire Straits, Elton John, Eric Clapton and Paul McCartney.
Frané befriended Martin and many of the visiting musicians, Cody visited the island six or seven times and got to know Martin’s wife Judy and The Police’s Andy Summers.
Those connections paid off when Greenwood met with Judy and reps of Martin’s estate in London (he died in 2016) and got their permission to make the doc,...
- 1/22/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
InterviewIn this interview with Tnm, Tamannaah talks about her upcoming films and how she's returned strongly every time people have written her off.Haricharan PudipeddiFacebook/TamannaahIn the last two years, Tamannaah Bhatia has had just four releases in Telugu and Tamil, with SS Rajamouli’s Baahubali 2: The Conclusion being the most popular among them. If you thought she’s run out of opportunities, you’re wrong because with over half a dozen projects currently in her kitty – which include the Telugu remake of Queen, Devi 2 and Chiranjeevi’s Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy – she’s busier than ever. “This year I spent more time shooting. I’ve never shot for so many films in a year. I’m a workaholic and even though I feel exhausted, when I look back at the work I’ve done this year, I’m still high on enthusiasm, thanks to the overall experience,” she told Tnm,...
- 12/7/2018
- by Sowmya
- The News Minute
Just a week before the Nov. 2 release of the Freddie Mercury and Queen biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody,” 20th Century Fox has released a final trailer for the film. This one is even more Mercury-focused than the previous ones, providing previously un-aired looks at scenes between the singer and his family, his girlfriend, the band, the press — asking directly about his sexuality — music industry executives and, of course, more of the captivating recreations of Queen in concert.
Reviews of the film — including this one by Variety’s Owen Gleiberman — have generally said that Rami Malek as Mercury is spectacular while the film itself is an unambitiously conventional biopic that plays loose with historical accuracy and downplays or oversimplifies many of the complexities of the singer’s life. Still, the excitement of seeing almost-Queen in such a setting will probably outweigh any concerns for most fans.
“Malek takes on the role of Freddie...
Reviews of the film — including this one by Variety’s Owen Gleiberman — have generally said that Rami Malek as Mercury is spectacular while the film itself is an unambitiously conventional biopic that plays loose with historical accuracy and downplays or oversimplifies many of the complexities of the singer’s life. Still, the excitement of seeing almost-Queen in such a setting will probably outweigh any concerns for most fans.
“Malek takes on the role of Freddie...
- 10/25/2018
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
Welcome to this week’s Ring of Honor television review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have a lots of great action, with Martha Stewart destroying Cybil Shephard’s career and Edward Norton lamenting not having Bruce Willis’s bank account, as well a special message from Christopher Walken! Let’s jump into the Ring of Honor!
Match #1: Kushida beat Johnathan Gresham
This was as exciting an opening match as you’ll get in this day and age. These two were like watching a mirror clash with itself, as these two have an offensive strategy that is nearly identical. The wrestling here was very well paced and a stark contrast from a lot of what Ring of Honor usually books. The big surprise here is that a tremendous amount of the match is on the mat, with numerous holds flowing into great locks that helped set the right tone.
Match #1: Kushida beat Johnathan Gresham
This was as exciting an opening match as you’ll get in this day and age. These two were like watching a mirror clash with itself, as these two have an offensive strategy that is nearly identical. The wrestling here was very well paced and a stark contrast from a lot of what Ring of Honor usually books. The big surprise here is that a tremendous amount of the match is on the mat, with numerous holds flowing into great locks that helped set the right tone.
- 7/30/2018
- by Nathan Favel
- Nerdly
KollywoodThe song, 'Munnale Ponaale', is the new talk of the town.Digital NativeYoutube screengrabThe song teaser of 'Manikya Malaraya Poovi' from Oru Adaar Love went viral a few months ago, particularly for Priya Warrier’s wink. She shot to instant fame with movie buffs and celebs raving about it. Composed by Shaan Rahman, the song 'Manikya Malaraya Poovi', which created a stir with Priya Warrier’s wink, was rendered by actor – director Vineeth Sreenivasan. The video went viral and fetched one million views and 50K likes within 24 hours. It may be mentioned here that the original version of the song was composed by Thalassery K Refeeque forty years ago with lyrics by Jabbar. And now, another teaser of the song, Munnale Ponaale, is out and has turned out to be the talk of the town. The lead pair – Roshan Abdul and Priya Warrier – is back in the news and they are the latest internet sensation. Ever since the Priya Warrier wink created a stir, she has been flooded with offers from various quarters but the young star is waiting for the release of Oru Adaar Love. Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor is so impressed with internet’s latest sensation that he has predicted “huge stardom” for her. The actor wrote on his twitter, “I predict huge Stardom for this girl. Priya Warrier. So expressive,coy coquettish yet innocent. My dear Priya, you going to give all others in your age group a run for their money. God Bless and the best to you! Mere time mein naheen ayeen aap! Kyon? Lol.” I predict huge Stardom for this girl. Priya Warrier. So expressive,coy coquettish yet innocent. My dear Priya, you going to give all others in your age group a run for their money. God Bless and the best to you! Mere time mein naheen ayeen aap! Kyon? Lol pic.twitter.com/laYL1YE3Me — Rishi Kapoor (@chintskap) February 16, 2018 The film, touted to be a rom-com, is directed by Omar Lulu. It is bankrolled by Ousepachan Vaalakuzhy under the banner Ousepachan Media House. While Omar Lulu has penned the story of Oru Adaar Love, its screenplay has been written by Sarang Jayaprakash and Lijo Panadan. Sinu Siddharth is the cinematographer for this venture while Achu Vijayan is the editor. The film has Roshan Abdul Rahoof, Siyadh Shajahan and Priya Prakash Varrier playing the lead role and all these debutants were signed up after an audition. The shooting Oru Adaar Love is currently underway and is expected to be wrapped up soon. The film is gearing up for release on September 14 this year. Watch the song here: (Content provided by Digital Native) Also Read: 'Kaali' review: A slow-paced drama packed with suspense...
- 5/18/2018
- by Monalisa
- The News Minute
Nbff kicks off opening night with Sundance hit “American Animals.” The British-American true crime drama, written and directed by Bart Layton, starring Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner and Jared Abrahamson, will be followed by a gala reception at the Fashion Island shopping mall.
The fest will end its eight-day run with the West Coast premiere of “All Square,” director John Hyams’ dramedy about a small-time bookie (Michael Kelly) who comes up with a scheme to take bets on Little League games.
Following the screening, the fest, in partnership with Schiefer ChopShop and Via Lido Plaza, will host the closing-night celebration. The outdoor event will feature a hosted bar by Tito’s Vodka, Oban Whiskey and Guinness, with culinary tastings from top local restaurants.
In between those bookends, Nbff will host the U.S. premieres of the Italian feature “Wife and Husband,” the Chinese film “End of Summer,” the Japanese award-winning film “3 Ft.
The fest will end its eight-day run with the West Coast premiere of “All Square,” director John Hyams’ dramedy about a small-time bookie (Michael Kelly) who comes up with a scheme to take bets on Little League games.
Following the screening, the fest, in partnership with Schiefer ChopShop and Via Lido Plaza, will host the closing-night celebration. The outdoor event will feature a hosted bar by Tito’s Vodka, Oban Whiskey and Guinness, with culinary tastings from top local restaurants.
In between those bookends, Nbff will host the U.S. premieres of the Italian feature “Wife and Husband,” the Chinese film “End of Summer,” the Japanese award-winning film “3 Ft.
- 4/26/2018
- by Peter Caranicas
- Variety Film + TV
Earlier today the folks at the Northwest Film Center announced the full line-up for this year’s Portland International Film Festival, and have published a Pdf for all to read online. The printed copies will be making their way around town this week.
The Northwest Film Center is proud to reveal the 41st Portland International Film Festival (Piff 41) lineup. This year’s Festival begins on Thursday, February 15th and runs through Thursday, March 1st. Our Opening Night selection is the new comedy The Death of Stalin from writer/director Armando Iannucci (Veep, In the Loop). The film, adapted from the graphic novel by Fabien Nury, stars Steve Buscemi, Olga Kurylenko, Jason Isaacs, and Michael Palin. The Death of Stalin will screen simultaneously on Opening Night at the Whitsell Auditorium, located in the Portland Art Museum (1219 Sw Park Ave) and on two screens at Regal Fox Tower 10 (846 Sw Park Ave).
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The Northwest Film Center is proud to reveal the 41st Portland International Film Festival (Piff 41) lineup. This year’s Festival begins on Thursday, February 15th and runs through Thursday, March 1st. Our Opening Night selection is the new comedy The Death of Stalin from writer/director Armando Iannucci (Veep, In the Loop). The film, adapted from the graphic novel by Fabien Nury, stars Steve Buscemi, Olga Kurylenko, Jason Isaacs, and Michael Palin. The Death of Stalin will screen simultaneously on Opening Night at the Whitsell Auditorium, located in the Portland Art Museum (1219 Sw Park Ave) and on two screens at Regal Fox Tower 10 (846 Sw Park Ave).
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- 1/30/2018
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
"Let's make goodness attractive." We all know his name, we all know his show, but now we get to discover the complete story behind who this wonderful man really was. The iconic, irreplaceable Fred Rogers from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is the man who created and starred on the beloved television show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", which ran from 1968 to 2001. This new documentary film, Won't You Be My Neighbor? made by Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville (of The Cool School, Troubadours, 20 Feet from Stardom, Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal), provides an uplifting, humble look at Fred Rogers, as well as a definitive look at the show he created and its impact on the youth of America. It's so wonderful. I love watching documentaries like this that are moving and impassioned, built around the good found in us. After seeing many of films, there's no question that Morgan Neville is a master documentary filmmaker.
- 1/27/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
“Love is at the root of everything. All learning. All parenting. All relationships. Love or the lack of it. And what we hear and see on the screen is part of who we become.”
I have so many fond memories of sitting in front of my TV when I was a kid and watching Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. The man behind that series, Fred Rogers, taught so many valuable lessons to help kids grow up to be decent human beings. It's kinda sad that kids these days don't get to grow up with this kind of show in their lives.
If you grew up watching the show, you might be interested to know that there's a documentary that's been made called Won't You Be My Neighbor. This doc gives us an intimate behind-the-scenes look at the classic series and the lasting legacy that Fred Rogers left behind.
Today we have a...
I have so many fond memories of sitting in front of my TV when I was a kid and watching Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. The man behind that series, Fred Rogers, taught so many valuable lessons to help kids grow up to be decent human beings. It's kinda sad that kids these days don't get to grow up with this kind of show in their lives.
If you grew up watching the show, you might be interested to know that there's a documentary that's been made called Won't You Be My Neighbor. This doc gives us an intimate behind-the-scenes look at the classic series and the lasting legacy that Fred Rogers left behind.
Today we have a...
- 1/22/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
One of the standout documentaries premiering at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival is undoubtedly Won’t You Be My Neighbor? The film from 20 Feet from Stardom director Morgan Neville looks back at the lasting legacy of the children’s television program Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood by painting an intimate portrait of the man who hosted the show: Fred […]
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- 1/20/2018
- by Ethan Anderton
- Slash Film
Fred Rogers on the set of his show Mr. Rogers Neighborhood from the film, Won’T You Be My Neighbor, a Focus Features release. Credit: Jim Judkis / Focus Features
Kids growing up in the 1970’s only knew Saturday morning cartoons, as well as educational TV on the local PBS station. We were introduced to Sesame Street, Electric Company, Zoom and the magic of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. It’s where we learned how to use our imaginations and to tie our sneakers with Mister Rogers, the cool trolley that ran behind him (we all wanted one) and the land of Make-Believe.
From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom), Won’T You Be My Neighbor? takes an intimate look at America’s favorite neighbor: Mister Fred Rogers.
From Focus Features, watch the first clip.
Won’T You Be My Neighbor? will have its World Premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
Kids growing up in the 1970’s only knew Saturday morning cartoons, as well as educational TV on the local PBS station. We were introduced to Sesame Street, Electric Company, Zoom and the magic of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. It’s where we learned how to use our imaginations and to tie our sneakers with Mister Rogers, the cool trolley that ran behind him (we all wanted one) and the land of Make-Believe.
From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom), Won’T You Be My Neighbor? takes an intimate look at America’s favorite neighbor: Mister Fred Rogers.
From Focus Features, watch the first clip.
Won’T You Be My Neighbor? will have its World Premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
- 1/16/2018
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Totally and tragically unconventional, Peggy Guggenheim moved through the cultural upheaval of the 20th century collecting not only not only art, but artists. Her sexual life was -- and still today is -- more discussed than the art itself which she collected, not for her own consumption but for the world to enjoy.
Her colorful personal history included such figures as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp and countless others. Guggenheim helped introduce the world to Pollock, Motherwell, Rothko and scores of others now recognized as key masters of modernism.
In 1921 she moved to Paris and mingled with Picasso, Dali, Joyce, Pound, Stein, Leger, Kandinsky. In 1938 she opened a gallery in London and began showing Cocteau, Tanguy, Magritte, Miro, Brancusi, etc., and then back to Paris and New York after the Nazi invasion, followed by the opening of her NYC gallery Art of This Century, which became one of the premiere avant-garde spaces in the U.S. While fighting through personal tragedy, she maintained her vision to build one of the most important collections of modern art, now enshrined in her Venetian palazzo where she moved in 1947. Since 1951, her collection has become one of the world’s most visited art spaces.
Featuring: Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, Vasil Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Willem de Kooning, Fernand Leger, Rene Magritte, Man Ray, Jean Miro, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Kurt Schwitters, Gino Severini, Clyfford Still and Yves Tanguy.
Lisa Immordino Vreeland (Director and Producer)
Lisa Immordino Vreeland has been immersed in the world of fashion and art for the past 25 years. She started her career in fashion as the Director of Public Relations for Polo Ralph Lauren in Italy and quickly moved on to launch two fashion companies, Pratico, a sportswear line for women, and Mago, a cashmere knitwear collection of her own design. Her first book was accompanied by her directorial debut of the documentary of the same name, "Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel" (2012). The film about the editor of Harper's Bazaar had its European premiere at the Venice Film Festival and its North American premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, going on to win the Silver Hugo at the Chicago Film Festival and the fashion category for the Design of the Year awards, otherwise known as “The Oscars” of design—at the Design Museum in London.
"Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict" is Lisa Immordino Vreeland's followup to her acclaimed debut, "Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel". She is now working on her third doc on Cecil Beaton who Lisa says, "has been circling around all these stories. What's great about him is the creativity: fashion photography, war photography, "My Fair Lady" winning an Oscar."
Sydney Levine: I have read numerous accounts and interviews with you about this film and rather than repeat all that has been said, I refer my readers to Indiewire's Women and Hollywood interview at Tribeca this year, and your Indiewire interview with Aubrey Page, November 6, 2015 .
Let's try to cover new territory here.
First of all, what about you? What is your relationship to Diana Vreeland?
Liv: I am married to her grandson, Alexander Vreeland. (I'm also proud of my name Immordino) I never met Diana but hearing so many family stories about her made me start to wonder about all the talk about her. I worked in fashion and lived in New York like she did.
Sl: In one of your interviews you said that Peggy was not only ahead of her time but she helped to define it. Can you tell me how?
Liv: Peggy grew up in a very traditional family of German Bavarian Jews who had moved to New York City in the 19th century. Already at a young age Peggy felt like there were too many rules around her and she wanted to break out. That alone was something attractive to me — the notion that she knew that she didn't fit in to her family or her times. She lived on her own terms, a very modern approach to life. She decided to abandon her family in New York. Though she always stayed connected to them, she rarely visited New York. Instead she lived in a world without borders. She did not live by "the rules". She believed in creating art and created herself, living on her own terms and not on those of her family.
Sl: Is there a link between her and your previous doc on Diana Vreeland?
Liv: The link between Vreeland and Guggenheim is their mutual sense of reinvention and transformation. That made something click inside of me as I too reinvented myself when I began writing the book on Diana Vreeland .
Can you talk about the process of putting this one together and how it differed from its predecessor?
Liv: The most challenging thing about this one was the vast amount of material we had at our disposal. We had a lot of media to go through — instead of fashion spreads, which informed The Eye Has To Travel, we had art, which was fantastic. I was spoiled by the access we had to these incredible archives and footage. I'm still new to this, but it's the storytelling aspect that I loved in both projects. One thing about Peggy that Mrs. Vreeland didn't have was a very tragic personal life. There was so much that happened in Peggy's life before you even got to what she actually accomplished. And so we had to tell a very dense story about her childhood, her father dying on the Titanic, her beloved sister dying — the tragic events that fundamentally shaped her in a way. It was about making sure we had enough of the personal story to go along with her later accomplishments.
World War II alone was such a huge part of her story, opening an important art gallery in London, where she showed Kandinsky and other important artists for the first time. The amount of material to distill was a tremendous challenge and I hope we made the right choices.
Sl: How did you learn make a documentary?
Liv: I learned how to make a documentary by having a good team around me. My editors (and co-writers)Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frédéric Tcheng were very helpful.
Research is fundamental; finding as much as you can and never giving up. I love the research. It is my "precise time". Not just for interviews but of footage, photographs never seen before. It is a painstaking process that satisfies me. The research never ends. I was still researching while I was promoting the Diana Vreeland book. I love reading books and going to original sources.
The archives in film museums in the last ten years has changed and given museums a new role. I found unique footage at Moma with the Elizabeth Chapman Films. Chapman went to Paris in the 30s and 40s with a handheld camera and took moving pictures of Brancusi and Duchamps joking around in a studio, Gertrude Stein, Leger walking down the street. This footage is owned by Robert Storr, Dean of Yale School of Art. In fact he is taking a sabbatical this year to go through the boxes and boxes of Chapman's films. We also used " Entre'acte" by René Clair cowritten with Dadaist Francis Picabia, "Le Sang du poet" of Cocteau, Hans Richter "8x8","Gagascope" and " Dreams That Money Can Buy" produced by Peggy Guggenheim, written by Man Ray in 1947.
Sl: How long did it take to research and make the film?
Liv: It took three years for both the Vreeland and the Guggenheim documentary.
It was more difficult with the Guggenheim story because there was so much material and so much to tell of her life. And she was not so giving of her own self. Diana could inspire you about a bandaid; she was so giving. But Peggy didn't talk much about why she loved an artist or a painting. She acted more. And using historical material could become "over-teaching" though it was fascinating.
So much had to be eliminated. It was hard to eliminate the Degenerate Art Show, a subject which is newly discussed. Stephanie Barron of Lacma is an expert on Degenerate Art and was so generous.
Once we decided upon which aspects to focus on, then we could give focus to the interviews.
There were so many of her important shows we could not include. For instance there was a show on collages featuring William Baziotes , Jackson Pollack and Robert Motherwell which started a more modern collage trend in art. The 31 Women Art Show which we did include pushed forward another message which I think is important.
And so many different things have been written about Peggy — there were hundreds of articles written about her during her lifetime. She also kept beautiful scrapbooks of articles written about her, which are now in the archives of the Guggenheim Museum.
The Guggenheim foundation did not commission this documentary but they were very supportive and the film premiered there in New York in a wonderful celebration. They wanted to represent Peggy and her paintings properly. The paintings were secondary characters and all were carefully placed historically in a correct fashion.
Sl: You said in one interview Guggenheim became a central figure in the modern art movement?
Liv: Yes and she did it without ego. Sharing was always her purpose in collecting art. She was not out for herself. Before Peggy, the art world was very different. And today it is part of wealth management.
Other collectors had a different way with art. Isabelle Stewart Gardner bought art for her own personal consumption. The Gardner Museum came later. Gertrude Stein was sharing the vision of her brother when she began collecting art. The Coen sisters were not sharing.
Her benevolence ranged from giving Berenice Abbott the money to buy her first camera to keeping Pollock afloat during lean times.
Djuana Barnes, who had a 'Love Love Love Hate Hate Hate' relationship with Peggy wrote Nightwood in Peggy's country house in England.
She was in Paris to the last minute. She planned how to safeguard artwork from the Nazis during World War II. She was storing gasoline so she could escape. She lived on the Ile St. Louis with her art and moved the paintings out first to a children's boarding school and then to Marseilles where it was shipped out to New York City.
Her role in art was not taken seriously because of her very public love life which was described in very derogatory terms. There was more talk about her love life than about her collection of art.
Her autobiography, Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict (1960) , was scandalous when it came out — and she didn't even use real names, she used pseudonyms for her numerous partners. Only after publication did she reveal the names of the men she slept with.
The fact that she spoke about her sexual life at all was the most outrageous aspect. She was opening herself up to ridicule, but she didn't care. Peggy was her own person and she felt good in her own skin. But it was definitely unconventional behavior. I think her sexual appetites revealed a lot about finding her own identity.
A lot of it was tied to the loss of her father, I think, in addition to her wanting to feel accepted. She was also very adventurous — look at the men she slept with. I mean, come on, they are amazing! Samuel Beckett, Yves Tanguy, Marcel Duchamp, and she married Max Ernst. I think it was really ballsy of her to have been so open about her sexuality; this was not something people did back then. So many people are bound by conventional rules but Peggy said no. She grabbed hold of life and she lived it on her own terms.
Sl: You also give Peggy credit for changing the way art was exhibited. Can you explain that?
Liv: One of her greatest achievements was her gallery space in New York City, Art of This Century, which was unlike anything the art world has seen before or since in the way that it shattered the boundaries of the gallery space that we've come to know today — the sterile white cube. She came to be a genius at displaying her collections...
She was smart with Art of the Century because she hired Frederick Kiesler as a designer of the gallery and once again surrounded herself with the right people, including Howard Putzler, who was already involved with her at Guggenheim Jeune in London. And she was hanging out with all the exiled Surrealists who were living in New York at the time, including her future husband, Max Ernst, who was the real star of that group of artists. With the help of these people, she started showing art in a completely different way that was both informal and approachable. In conventional museums and galleries, art was untouchable on the wall and inside frames. In Peggy's gallery, art stuck out from the walls; works weren't confined to frames. Kiesler designed special chairs you could sit in and browse canvases as you would texts in a library. Nothing like this had ever existed in New York before — even today there is nothing like it.
She made the gallery into an exciting place where the whole concept of space was transformed. In Venice, the gallery space was also her home. Today, for a variety of reasons, the home aspect of the collection is less emphasized, though you still get a strong sense of Peggy's home life there. She was bringing art to the public in a bold new way, which I think is a great idea. It's art for everybody, which is very much a part of today's dialogue except that fewer people can afford the outlandish museum entry fees.
Sl: What do you think made her so prescient and attuned ?
Liv: She was smart enough to ask Marcel Duchamp to be her advisor — so she was in tune, and very well connected. She was on the cutting edge of what was going on and I think a lot of this had to do with Peggy being open to the idea of what was new and outrageous. You have to have a certain personality for this; what her childhood had dictated was totally opposite from what she became in life, and being in the right place at the right time helped her maintain a cutting edge throughout her life.
Sl: The movie is framed around a lost interview with Peggy conducted late in her life. How did you acquire these tapes?
Liv: We optioned Jacqueline Bogard Weld’s book, Peggy : The Wayward Guggenheim, the only authorized biography of Peggy, which was published after she died. Jackie had spent two summers interviewing Peggy but at a certain point lost the tapes somewhere in her Park Avenue apartment. Jackie had so much access to Peggy, which was incredible, but it was also the access that she had to other people who had known Peggy — she interviewed over 200 people for her book. Jackie was incredibly generous, letting me go through all her original research except for the lost tapes.
We'd walk into different rooms in her apartment and I'd suggestively open a closet door and ask “Where do you think those tapes might be?" Then one day I asked if she had a basement, and she did. So I went through all these boxes down there, organizing her affairs. Then bingo, the tapes showed up in this shoebox.
It was the longest interview Peggy had ever done and it became the framework for our movie. There's nothing more powerful than when you have someone's real voice telling the story, and Jackie was especially good at asking provoking questions. You can tell it was hard for Peggy to answer a lot of them, because she wasn't someone who was especially expressive; she didn't have a lot of emotion. And this comes across in the movie, in the tone of her voice.
Sl: Larry Gagosian has one of the best descriptions of Peggy in the movie — "she was her own creation." Would you agree, and if so why?
Liv: She was very much her own creation. When he said that in the interview I had a huge smile on my face. In Peggy's case it stemmed from a real need to identify and understand herself. I'm not sure she achieved it but she completely recreated herself — she knew that she did not want to be what she was brought up to be. She tried being a mother, but that was not one of her strengths, so art became that place where she could find herself, and then transform herself.
Nobody believed in the artists she cultivated and supported — they were outsiders and she was an outsider in the world she was brought up in. So it's in this way that she became her own great invention. I hope that her humor comes across in the film because she was extremely amusing — this aspect really comes across in her autobiography.
Sl: Finally, what do you think is Peggy Guggenheim's most lasting legacy, beyond her incredible art collection?
Liv: Her courage, and the way she used it to find herself. She had this ballsiness that not many people had, especially women. In her own way she was a feminist and it's good for women and young girls today to see women who stepped outside the confines of a very traditional family and made something of her life. Peggy's life did not seem that dreamy until she attached herself to these artists. It was her ability to redefine herself in the end that truly summed her up.
About the Filmmakers
Stanley Buchtal is a producer and entrepreneur. His movies credits include "Hairspray", "Spanking the Monkey", "Up at the Villa", "Lou Reed Berlin", "Love Marilyn", "LennoNYC", "Bobby Fischer Against the World", "Herb & Dorothy", "Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present"," Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child", "Sketches of Frank Gehry", "Black White + Gray: a Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe", among numerous others.
David Koh is an independent producer, distributor, sales agent, programmer and curator. He has been involved in the distribution, sale, production, and financing of over 200 films. He is currently a partner in the boutique label Submarine Entertainment with Josh and Dan Braun and is also partners with Stanley Buchthal and his Dakota Group Ltd where he co-manages a portfolio of over 50 projects a year (75% docs and 25% fiction). Previously he was a partner and founder of Arthouse Films a boutique distribution imprint and ran Chris Blackwell's (founder of Island Records & Island Pictures) film label, Palm Pictures. He has worked as a Producer for artist Nam June Paik and worked in the curatorial departments of Anthology Film Archives, MoMA, Mfa Boston, and the Guggenheim Museum. David has recently served as a Curator for Microsoft and has curated an ongoing film series and salon with Andre Balazs Properties and serves as a Curator for the exclusive Core Club in NYC.
David recently launched with his partners Submarine Deluxe, a distribution imprint; Torpedo Pictures, a low budget high concept label; and Nfp Submarine Doks, a German distribution imprint with Nfp Films. Recently and upcoming projects include "Yayoi Kusama: a Life in Polka Dots", "Burden: a Portrait of Artist Chris Burden", "Dior and I", "20 Feet From Stardom", "Muscle Shoals", "Marina Abramovic the Artist is Present", "Rats NYC", "Nas: Time Is Illmatic", "Blackfish", "Love Marilyn", "Chasing Ice", "Searching for Sugar Man", "Cutie and the Boxer"," Jean-Michel Basquiat: the Radiant Child", "Finding Vivian Maier", "The Wolfpack, "Meru", and "Station to Station".
Dan Braun is a producer, writer, art director and musician/composer based in NYC. He is the Co-President of and Co-Founder of Submarine, a NYC film sales and production company specializing in independent feature and documentary films. Titles include "Blackfish", "Finding Vivian Maier", "Muscle Shoals", "The Case Against 8", "Keep On Keepin’ On", "Winter’s Bone", "Nas: Time is Illmatic", "Dior and I" and Oscar winning docs "Man on Wire", "Searching for Sugarman", "20 Ft From Stardom" and "Citizenfour". He was Executive Producer on documentaries "Kill Your Idols", (which won Best NY Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival 2004), "Blank City", "Sunshine Superman", the upcoming feature adaptations of "Batkid Begins" and "The Battered Bastards of Baseball" and the upcoming horror TV anthology "Creepy" to be directed by Chris Columbus.
He is a producer of the free jazz documentary "Fire Music", and the upcoming documentaries, "Burden" on artist Chris Burden and "Kusama: a Life in Polka Dots" on artist Yayoi Kusama. He is also a writer and consulting editor on Dark Horse Comic’s "Creepy" and "Eerie 9" comic book and archival series for which he won an Eisner Award for best archival comic book series in 2009.
He is a musician/composer whose compositions were featured in the films "I Melt With You" and "Jean-Michel Basquiat, The Radiant Child and is an award winning art director/creative director when he worked at Tbwa/Chiat/Day on the famous Absolut Vodka campaign.
John Northrup (Co-Producer) began his career in documentaries as a French translator for National Geographic: Explorer. He quickly moved into editing and producing, serving as the Associate Producer on "Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel" (2012), and editing and co-producing "Wilson In Situ" (2014), which tells the story of theatre legend Robert Wilson and his Watermill Center. Most recently, he oversaw the post-production of Jim Chambers’ "Onward Christian Soldier", a documentary about Olympic Bomber Eric Rudolph, and is shooting on Susanne Rostock’s "Another Night in the Free World", the follow-up to her award-winning "Sing Your Song" (2011).
Submarine Entertainment (Production Company) Submarine Entertainment is a hybrid sales, production, and distribution company based in N.Y. Recent and upcoming titles include "Citizenfour", "Finding Vivian Maier", "The Dog", "Visitors", "20 Feet from Stardom", "Searching for Sugar Man", "Muscle Shoals", "Blackfish", "Cutie and the Boxer", "The Summit", "The Unknown Known", "Love Marilyn", "Marina Abramovic the Artist is Present", "Chasing Ice", "Downtown 81 30th Anniversary Remastered", "Wild Style 30th Anniversary Remastered", "Good Ol Freda", "Some Velvet Morning", among numerous others. Submarine principals also represent Creepy and Eerie comic book library and are developing properties across film & TV platforms.
Submarine has also recently launched a domestic distribution imprint and label called Submarine Deluxe; a genre label called Torpedo Pictures; and a German imprint and label called Nfp Submarine Doks.
Bernadine Colish has edited a number of award-winning documentaries. "Herb and Dorothy" (2008), won Audience Awards at Silverdocs, Philadelphia and Hamptons Film Festivals, and "Body of War" (2007), was named Best Documentary by the National Board of Review. "A Touch of Greatness" (2004) aired on PBS Independent Lens and was nominated for an Emmy Award. Her career began at Maysles Films, where she worked with Charlotte Zwerin on such projects as "Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser", "Toru Takemitsu: Music for the Movies" and the PBS American Masters documentary, "Ella Fitzgerald: Something To Live For". Additional credits include "Bringing Tibet Home", "Band of Sisters", "Rise and Dream", "The Tiger Next Door", "The Buffalo War" and "Absolute Wilson".
Jed Parker (Editor) Jed Parker began his career in feature films before moving into documentaries through his work with the award-winning American Masters series. Credits include "Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart", "Annie Liebovitz: Life Through a Lens", and most recently "Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides".
Other work includes two episodes of the PBS series "Make ‘Em Laugh", hosted by Billy Crystal, as well as a documentary on Met Curator Henry Geldzahler entitled "Who Gets to Call it Art"?
Credits
Director, Writer, Producer: Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Produced by Stanley Buchthal, David Koh and Dan Braun Stanley Buchthal (producer)
Maja Hoffmann (executive producer)
Josh Braun (executive producer)
Bob Benton (executive producer)
John Northrup (co-producer)
Bernadine Colish (editor)
Jed Parker (editor)
Peter Trilling (director of photography)
Bonnie Greenberg (executive music producer)
Music by J. Ralph
Original Song "Once Again" Written and Performed By J. Ralph
Interviews Featuring Artist Marina Abramović Jean Arp Dore Ashton Samuel Beckett Stephanie Barron Constantin Brâncuși Diego Cortez Alexander Calder Susan Davidson Joseph Cornell Robert De Niro Salvador Dalí Simon de Pury Willem de Kooning Jeffrey Deitch Marcel Duchamp Polly Devlin Max Ernst Larry Gagosian Alberto Giacometti Arne Glimcher Vasily Kandinsky Michael Govan Fernand Léger Nicky Haslam Joan Miró Pepe Karmel Piet Mondrian Donald Kuspit Robert Motherwell Dominique Lévy Jackson Pollock Carlo McCormick Mark Rothko Hans Ulrich Obrist Yves Tanguy Lisa Phillips Lindsay Pollock Francine Prose John Richardson Sandy Rower Mercedes Ruehl Jane Rylands Philip Rylands Calvin Tomkins Karole Vail Jacqueline Bograd Weld Edmund White
Running time: 97 minutes
U.S. distribution by Submarine Deluxe
International sales by Hanway...
Her colorful personal history included such figures as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp and countless others. Guggenheim helped introduce the world to Pollock, Motherwell, Rothko and scores of others now recognized as key masters of modernism.
In 1921 she moved to Paris and mingled with Picasso, Dali, Joyce, Pound, Stein, Leger, Kandinsky. In 1938 she opened a gallery in London and began showing Cocteau, Tanguy, Magritte, Miro, Brancusi, etc., and then back to Paris and New York after the Nazi invasion, followed by the opening of her NYC gallery Art of This Century, which became one of the premiere avant-garde spaces in the U.S. While fighting through personal tragedy, she maintained her vision to build one of the most important collections of modern art, now enshrined in her Venetian palazzo where she moved in 1947. Since 1951, her collection has become one of the world’s most visited art spaces.
Featuring: Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, Vasil Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Willem de Kooning, Fernand Leger, Rene Magritte, Man Ray, Jean Miro, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Kurt Schwitters, Gino Severini, Clyfford Still and Yves Tanguy.
Lisa Immordino Vreeland (Director and Producer)
Lisa Immordino Vreeland has been immersed in the world of fashion and art for the past 25 years. She started her career in fashion as the Director of Public Relations for Polo Ralph Lauren in Italy and quickly moved on to launch two fashion companies, Pratico, a sportswear line for women, and Mago, a cashmere knitwear collection of her own design. Her first book was accompanied by her directorial debut of the documentary of the same name, "Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel" (2012). The film about the editor of Harper's Bazaar had its European premiere at the Venice Film Festival and its North American premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, going on to win the Silver Hugo at the Chicago Film Festival and the fashion category for the Design of the Year awards, otherwise known as “The Oscars” of design—at the Design Museum in London.
"Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict" is Lisa Immordino Vreeland's followup to her acclaimed debut, "Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel". She is now working on her third doc on Cecil Beaton who Lisa says, "has been circling around all these stories. What's great about him is the creativity: fashion photography, war photography, "My Fair Lady" winning an Oscar."
Sydney Levine: I have read numerous accounts and interviews with you about this film and rather than repeat all that has been said, I refer my readers to Indiewire's Women and Hollywood interview at Tribeca this year, and your Indiewire interview with Aubrey Page, November 6, 2015 .
Let's try to cover new territory here.
First of all, what about you? What is your relationship to Diana Vreeland?
Liv: I am married to her grandson, Alexander Vreeland. (I'm also proud of my name Immordino) I never met Diana but hearing so many family stories about her made me start to wonder about all the talk about her. I worked in fashion and lived in New York like she did.
Sl: In one of your interviews you said that Peggy was not only ahead of her time but she helped to define it. Can you tell me how?
Liv: Peggy grew up in a very traditional family of German Bavarian Jews who had moved to New York City in the 19th century. Already at a young age Peggy felt like there were too many rules around her and she wanted to break out. That alone was something attractive to me — the notion that she knew that she didn't fit in to her family or her times. She lived on her own terms, a very modern approach to life. She decided to abandon her family in New York. Though she always stayed connected to them, she rarely visited New York. Instead she lived in a world without borders. She did not live by "the rules". She believed in creating art and created herself, living on her own terms and not on those of her family.
Sl: Is there a link between her and your previous doc on Diana Vreeland?
Liv: The link between Vreeland and Guggenheim is their mutual sense of reinvention and transformation. That made something click inside of me as I too reinvented myself when I began writing the book on Diana Vreeland .
Can you talk about the process of putting this one together and how it differed from its predecessor?
Liv: The most challenging thing about this one was the vast amount of material we had at our disposal. We had a lot of media to go through — instead of fashion spreads, which informed The Eye Has To Travel, we had art, which was fantastic. I was spoiled by the access we had to these incredible archives and footage. I'm still new to this, but it's the storytelling aspect that I loved in both projects. One thing about Peggy that Mrs. Vreeland didn't have was a very tragic personal life. There was so much that happened in Peggy's life before you even got to what she actually accomplished. And so we had to tell a very dense story about her childhood, her father dying on the Titanic, her beloved sister dying — the tragic events that fundamentally shaped her in a way. It was about making sure we had enough of the personal story to go along with her later accomplishments.
World War II alone was such a huge part of her story, opening an important art gallery in London, where she showed Kandinsky and other important artists for the first time. The amount of material to distill was a tremendous challenge and I hope we made the right choices.
Sl: How did you learn make a documentary?
Liv: I learned how to make a documentary by having a good team around me. My editors (and co-writers)Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frédéric Tcheng were very helpful.
Research is fundamental; finding as much as you can and never giving up. I love the research. It is my "precise time". Not just for interviews but of footage, photographs never seen before. It is a painstaking process that satisfies me. The research never ends. I was still researching while I was promoting the Diana Vreeland book. I love reading books and going to original sources.
The archives in film museums in the last ten years has changed and given museums a new role. I found unique footage at Moma with the Elizabeth Chapman Films. Chapman went to Paris in the 30s and 40s with a handheld camera and took moving pictures of Brancusi and Duchamps joking around in a studio, Gertrude Stein, Leger walking down the street. This footage is owned by Robert Storr, Dean of Yale School of Art. In fact he is taking a sabbatical this year to go through the boxes and boxes of Chapman's films. We also used " Entre'acte" by René Clair cowritten with Dadaist Francis Picabia, "Le Sang du poet" of Cocteau, Hans Richter "8x8","Gagascope" and " Dreams That Money Can Buy" produced by Peggy Guggenheim, written by Man Ray in 1947.
Sl: How long did it take to research and make the film?
Liv: It took three years for both the Vreeland and the Guggenheim documentary.
It was more difficult with the Guggenheim story because there was so much material and so much to tell of her life. And she was not so giving of her own self. Diana could inspire you about a bandaid; she was so giving. But Peggy didn't talk much about why she loved an artist or a painting. She acted more. And using historical material could become "over-teaching" though it was fascinating.
So much had to be eliminated. It was hard to eliminate the Degenerate Art Show, a subject which is newly discussed. Stephanie Barron of Lacma is an expert on Degenerate Art and was so generous.
Once we decided upon which aspects to focus on, then we could give focus to the interviews.
There were so many of her important shows we could not include. For instance there was a show on collages featuring William Baziotes , Jackson Pollack and Robert Motherwell which started a more modern collage trend in art. The 31 Women Art Show which we did include pushed forward another message which I think is important.
And so many different things have been written about Peggy — there were hundreds of articles written about her during her lifetime. She also kept beautiful scrapbooks of articles written about her, which are now in the archives of the Guggenheim Museum.
The Guggenheim foundation did not commission this documentary but they were very supportive and the film premiered there in New York in a wonderful celebration. They wanted to represent Peggy and her paintings properly. The paintings were secondary characters and all were carefully placed historically in a correct fashion.
Sl: You said in one interview Guggenheim became a central figure in the modern art movement?
Liv: Yes and she did it without ego. Sharing was always her purpose in collecting art. She was not out for herself. Before Peggy, the art world was very different. And today it is part of wealth management.
Other collectors had a different way with art. Isabelle Stewart Gardner bought art for her own personal consumption. The Gardner Museum came later. Gertrude Stein was sharing the vision of her brother when she began collecting art. The Coen sisters were not sharing.
Her benevolence ranged from giving Berenice Abbott the money to buy her first camera to keeping Pollock afloat during lean times.
Djuana Barnes, who had a 'Love Love Love Hate Hate Hate' relationship with Peggy wrote Nightwood in Peggy's country house in England.
She was in Paris to the last minute. She planned how to safeguard artwork from the Nazis during World War II. She was storing gasoline so she could escape. She lived on the Ile St. Louis with her art and moved the paintings out first to a children's boarding school and then to Marseilles where it was shipped out to New York City.
Her role in art was not taken seriously because of her very public love life which was described in very derogatory terms. There was more talk about her love life than about her collection of art.
Her autobiography, Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict (1960) , was scandalous when it came out — and she didn't even use real names, she used pseudonyms for her numerous partners. Only after publication did she reveal the names of the men she slept with.
The fact that she spoke about her sexual life at all was the most outrageous aspect. She was opening herself up to ridicule, but she didn't care. Peggy was her own person and she felt good in her own skin. But it was definitely unconventional behavior. I think her sexual appetites revealed a lot about finding her own identity.
A lot of it was tied to the loss of her father, I think, in addition to her wanting to feel accepted. She was also very adventurous — look at the men she slept with. I mean, come on, they are amazing! Samuel Beckett, Yves Tanguy, Marcel Duchamp, and she married Max Ernst. I think it was really ballsy of her to have been so open about her sexuality; this was not something people did back then. So many people are bound by conventional rules but Peggy said no. She grabbed hold of life and she lived it on her own terms.
Sl: You also give Peggy credit for changing the way art was exhibited. Can you explain that?
Liv: One of her greatest achievements was her gallery space in New York City, Art of This Century, which was unlike anything the art world has seen before or since in the way that it shattered the boundaries of the gallery space that we've come to know today — the sterile white cube. She came to be a genius at displaying her collections...
She was smart with Art of the Century because she hired Frederick Kiesler as a designer of the gallery and once again surrounded herself with the right people, including Howard Putzler, who was already involved with her at Guggenheim Jeune in London. And she was hanging out with all the exiled Surrealists who were living in New York at the time, including her future husband, Max Ernst, who was the real star of that group of artists. With the help of these people, she started showing art in a completely different way that was both informal and approachable. In conventional museums and galleries, art was untouchable on the wall and inside frames. In Peggy's gallery, art stuck out from the walls; works weren't confined to frames. Kiesler designed special chairs you could sit in and browse canvases as you would texts in a library. Nothing like this had ever existed in New York before — even today there is nothing like it.
She made the gallery into an exciting place where the whole concept of space was transformed. In Venice, the gallery space was also her home. Today, for a variety of reasons, the home aspect of the collection is less emphasized, though you still get a strong sense of Peggy's home life there. She was bringing art to the public in a bold new way, which I think is a great idea. It's art for everybody, which is very much a part of today's dialogue except that fewer people can afford the outlandish museum entry fees.
Sl: What do you think made her so prescient and attuned ?
Liv: She was smart enough to ask Marcel Duchamp to be her advisor — so she was in tune, and very well connected. She was on the cutting edge of what was going on and I think a lot of this had to do with Peggy being open to the idea of what was new and outrageous. You have to have a certain personality for this; what her childhood had dictated was totally opposite from what she became in life, and being in the right place at the right time helped her maintain a cutting edge throughout her life.
Sl: The movie is framed around a lost interview with Peggy conducted late in her life. How did you acquire these tapes?
Liv: We optioned Jacqueline Bogard Weld’s book, Peggy : The Wayward Guggenheim, the only authorized biography of Peggy, which was published after she died. Jackie had spent two summers interviewing Peggy but at a certain point lost the tapes somewhere in her Park Avenue apartment. Jackie had so much access to Peggy, which was incredible, but it was also the access that she had to other people who had known Peggy — she interviewed over 200 people for her book. Jackie was incredibly generous, letting me go through all her original research except for the lost tapes.
We'd walk into different rooms in her apartment and I'd suggestively open a closet door and ask “Where do you think those tapes might be?" Then one day I asked if she had a basement, and she did. So I went through all these boxes down there, organizing her affairs. Then bingo, the tapes showed up in this shoebox.
It was the longest interview Peggy had ever done and it became the framework for our movie. There's nothing more powerful than when you have someone's real voice telling the story, and Jackie was especially good at asking provoking questions. You can tell it was hard for Peggy to answer a lot of them, because she wasn't someone who was especially expressive; she didn't have a lot of emotion. And this comes across in the movie, in the tone of her voice.
Sl: Larry Gagosian has one of the best descriptions of Peggy in the movie — "she was her own creation." Would you agree, and if so why?
Liv: She was very much her own creation. When he said that in the interview I had a huge smile on my face. In Peggy's case it stemmed from a real need to identify and understand herself. I'm not sure she achieved it but she completely recreated herself — she knew that she did not want to be what she was brought up to be. She tried being a mother, but that was not one of her strengths, so art became that place where she could find herself, and then transform herself.
Nobody believed in the artists she cultivated and supported — they were outsiders and she was an outsider in the world she was brought up in. So it's in this way that she became her own great invention. I hope that her humor comes across in the film because she was extremely amusing — this aspect really comes across in her autobiography.
Sl: Finally, what do you think is Peggy Guggenheim's most lasting legacy, beyond her incredible art collection?
Liv: Her courage, and the way she used it to find herself. She had this ballsiness that not many people had, especially women. In her own way she was a feminist and it's good for women and young girls today to see women who stepped outside the confines of a very traditional family and made something of her life. Peggy's life did not seem that dreamy until she attached herself to these artists. It was her ability to redefine herself in the end that truly summed her up.
About the Filmmakers
Stanley Buchtal is a producer and entrepreneur. His movies credits include "Hairspray", "Spanking the Monkey", "Up at the Villa", "Lou Reed Berlin", "Love Marilyn", "LennoNYC", "Bobby Fischer Against the World", "Herb & Dorothy", "Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present"," Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child", "Sketches of Frank Gehry", "Black White + Gray: a Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe", among numerous others.
David Koh is an independent producer, distributor, sales agent, programmer and curator. He has been involved in the distribution, sale, production, and financing of over 200 films. He is currently a partner in the boutique label Submarine Entertainment with Josh and Dan Braun and is also partners with Stanley Buchthal and his Dakota Group Ltd where he co-manages a portfolio of over 50 projects a year (75% docs and 25% fiction). Previously he was a partner and founder of Arthouse Films a boutique distribution imprint and ran Chris Blackwell's (founder of Island Records & Island Pictures) film label, Palm Pictures. He has worked as a Producer for artist Nam June Paik and worked in the curatorial departments of Anthology Film Archives, MoMA, Mfa Boston, and the Guggenheim Museum. David has recently served as a Curator for Microsoft and has curated an ongoing film series and salon with Andre Balazs Properties and serves as a Curator for the exclusive Core Club in NYC.
David recently launched with his partners Submarine Deluxe, a distribution imprint; Torpedo Pictures, a low budget high concept label; and Nfp Submarine Doks, a German distribution imprint with Nfp Films. Recently and upcoming projects include "Yayoi Kusama: a Life in Polka Dots", "Burden: a Portrait of Artist Chris Burden", "Dior and I", "20 Feet From Stardom", "Muscle Shoals", "Marina Abramovic the Artist is Present", "Rats NYC", "Nas: Time Is Illmatic", "Blackfish", "Love Marilyn", "Chasing Ice", "Searching for Sugar Man", "Cutie and the Boxer"," Jean-Michel Basquiat: the Radiant Child", "Finding Vivian Maier", "The Wolfpack, "Meru", and "Station to Station".
Dan Braun is a producer, writer, art director and musician/composer based in NYC. He is the Co-President of and Co-Founder of Submarine, a NYC film sales and production company specializing in independent feature and documentary films. Titles include "Blackfish", "Finding Vivian Maier", "Muscle Shoals", "The Case Against 8", "Keep On Keepin’ On", "Winter’s Bone", "Nas: Time is Illmatic", "Dior and I" and Oscar winning docs "Man on Wire", "Searching for Sugarman", "20 Ft From Stardom" and "Citizenfour". He was Executive Producer on documentaries "Kill Your Idols", (which won Best NY Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival 2004), "Blank City", "Sunshine Superman", the upcoming feature adaptations of "Batkid Begins" and "The Battered Bastards of Baseball" and the upcoming horror TV anthology "Creepy" to be directed by Chris Columbus.
He is a producer of the free jazz documentary "Fire Music", and the upcoming documentaries, "Burden" on artist Chris Burden and "Kusama: a Life in Polka Dots" on artist Yayoi Kusama. He is also a writer and consulting editor on Dark Horse Comic’s "Creepy" and "Eerie 9" comic book and archival series for which he won an Eisner Award for best archival comic book series in 2009.
He is a musician/composer whose compositions were featured in the films "I Melt With You" and "Jean-Michel Basquiat, The Radiant Child and is an award winning art director/creative director when he worked at Tbwa/Chiat/Day on the famous Absolut Vodka campaign.
John Northrup (Co-Producer) began his career in documentaries as a French translator for National Geographic: Explorer. He quickly moved into editing and producing, serving as the Associate Producer on "Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel" (2012), and editing and co-producing "Wilson In Situ" (2014), which tells the story of theatre legend Robert Wilson and his Watermill Center. Most recently, he oversaw the post-production of Jim Chambers’ "Onward Christian Soldier", a documentary about Olympic Bomber Eric Rudolph, and is shooting on Susanne Rostock’s "Another Night in the Free World", the follow-up to her award-winning "Sing Your Song" (2011).
Submarine Entertainment (Production Company) Submarine Entertainment is a hybrid sales, production, and distribution company based in N.Y. Recent and upcoming titles include "Citizenfour", "Finding Vivian Maier", "The Dog", "Visitors", "20 Feet from Stardom", "Searching for Sugar Man", "Muscle Shoals", "Blackfish", "Cutie and the Boxer", "The Summit", "The Unknown Known", "Love Marilyn", "Marina Abramovic the Artist is Present", "Chasing Ice", "Downtown 81 30th Anniversary Remastered", "Wild Style 30th Anniversary Remastered", "Good Ol Freda", "Some Velvet Morning", among numerous others. Submarine principals also represent Creepy and Eerie comic book library and are developing properties across film & TV platforms.
Submarine has also recently launched a domestic distribution imprint and label called Submarine Deluxe; a genre label called Torpedo Pictures; and a German imprint and label called Nfp Submarine Doks.
Bernadine Colish has edited a number of award-winning documentaries. "Herb and Dorothy" (2008), won Audience Awards at Silverdocs, Philadelphia and Hamptons Film Festivals, and "Body of War" (2007), was named Best Documentary by the National Board of Review. "A Touch of Greatness" (2004) aired on PBS Independent Lens and was nominated for an Emmy Award. Her career began at Maysles Films, where she worked with Charlotte Zwerin on such projects as "Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser", "Toru Takemitsu: Music for the Movies" and the PBS American Masters documentary, "Ella Fitzgerald: Something To Live For". Additional credits include "Bringing Tibet Home", "Band of Sisters", "Rise and Dream", "The Tiger Next Door", "The Buffalo War" and "Absolute Wilson".
Jed Parker (Editor) Jed Parker began his career in feature films before moving into documentaries through his work with the award-winning American Masters series. Credits include "Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart", "Annie Liebovitz: Life Through a Lens", and most recently "Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides".
Other work includes two episodes of the PBS series "Make ‘Em Laugh", hosted by Billy Crystal, as well as a documentary on Met Curator Henry Geldzahler entitled "Who Gets to Call it Art"?
Credits
Director, Writer, Producer: Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Produced by Stanley Buchthal, David Koh and Dan Braun Stanley Buchthal (producer)
Maja Hoffmann (executive producer)
Josh Braun (executive producer)
Bob Benton (executive producer)
John Northrup (co-producer)
Bernadine Colish (editor)
Jed Parker (editor)
Peter Trilling (director of photography)
Bonnie Greenberg (executive music producer)
Music by J. Ralph
Original Song "Once Again" Written and Performed By J. Ralph
Interviews Featuring Artist Marina Abramović Jean Arp Dore Ashton Samuel Beckett Stephanie Barron Constantin Brâncuși Diego Cortez Alexander Calder Susan Davidson Joseph Cornell Robert De Niro Salvador Dalí Simon de Pury Willem de Kooning Jeffrey Deitch Marcel Duchamp Polly Devlin Max Ernst Larry Gagosian Alberto Giacometti Arne Glimcher Vasily Kandinsky Michael Govan Fernand Léger Nicky Haslam Joan Miró Pepe Karmel Piet Mondrian Donald Kuspit Robert Motherwell Dominique Lévy Jackson Pollock Carlo McCormick Mark Rothko Hans Ulrich Obrist Yves Tanguy Lisa Phillips Lindsay Pollock Francine Prose John Richardson Sandy Rower Mercedes Ruehl Jane Rylands Philip Rylands Calvin Tomkins Karole Vail Jacqueline Bograd Weld Edmund White
Running time: 97 minutes
U.S. distribution by Submarine Deluxe
International sales by Hanway...
- 11/18/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
When it comes to rock and roll fantasies, most of us would surely put "hanging with Keith Richards' near the top of our list. Really, who wouldn't want to spend some quality time with the legendary Rolling Stones guitarist, spinning records, playing Fender Telecasters (preferably named after Dickens' characters) and having the old pirate regale you with tales of over a half-century's worth of musical adventures?
Director Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom, Best of Enemies) got to do just that while making Keith Richards: Under The Influence, which premieres...
Director Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom, Best of Enemies) got to do just that while making Keith Richards: Under The Influence, which premieres...
- 9/18/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Take another look @ "Mad Men" actress Jessica Paré in "Elle" (Canada) magazine, as well as an Nsfw clip from her appearance in the original "Hot Tub Time Machine".
Paré landed her first film role in the TV movie "Bonanno: A Godfather's Story".
This was followed by small parts in the TV series "Big Wolf on Campus" and the French film "En Vacances" (1999).
After auditioning for a bit part in the indie feature "Stardom" (2000), Paré was cast by director Denys Arcand to star in the film, followed by starring roles in "Lost and Delirious" (2001) and the TV mini-series "Random Passage" (2002) and "Napoléon".
Her notable feature film work includes "Wicker Park" (2004), "Lives of the Saints" (2004), "Protect and Serve" (2007), "Jusqu'à toi" (2007), "The Trotsky" (2008), "Suck" (2008), "Red Coat Justice" (2009) and the Hollywood feature, "Hot Tub Time Machine" (2010).
Paré's breakout role was in "Mad Men", playing 'Megan Calvet', a secretary at the ad agency 'Sterling Cooper'.
Paré landed her first film role in the TV movie "Bonanno: A Godfather's Story".
This was followed by small parts in the TV series "Big Wolf on Campus" and the French film "En Vacances" (1999).
After auditioning for a bit part in the indie feature "Stardom" (2000), Paré was cast by director Denys Arcand to star in the film, followed by starring roles in "Lost and Delirious" (2001) and the TV mini-series "Random Passage" (2002) and "Napoléon".
Her notable feature film work includes "Wicker Park" (2004), "Lives of the Saints" (2004), "Protect and Serve" (2007), "Jusqu'à toi" (2007), "The Trotsky" (2008), "Suck" (2008), "Red Coat Justice" (2009) and the Hollywood feature, "Hot Tub Time Machine" (2010).
Paré's breakout role was in "Mad Men", playing 'Megan Calvet', a secretary at the ad agency 'Sterling Cooper'.
- 12/23/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Take another look @ "Mad Men" actress Jessica Paré in a recent issue of "Elle" (Canada) magazine, as well as an Nsfw clip from her appearance in "Hot Tub Time Machine".
Paré landed her first film role in the TV movie "Bonanno: A Godfather's Story".
This was followed by small parts in the TV series "Big Wolf on Campus" and the French film "En Vacances" (1999).
After auditioning for a bit part in the indie feature "Stardom" (2000), Paré was cast by director Denys Arcand to star in the film, followed by starring roles in "Lost and Delirious" (2001) and the TV mini-series "Random Passage" (2002) and "Napoléon".
Her notable feature film work includes "Wicker Park" (2004), "Lives of the Saints" (2004), "Protect and Serve" (2007), "Jusqu'à toi" (2007), "The Trotsky" (2008), "Suck" (2008), "Red Coat Justice" (2009) and the Hollywood feature, "Hot Tub Time Machine" (2010).
Paré's breakout role was in "Mad Men", playing 'Megan Calvet', a secretary at the ad agency 'Sterling Cooper'.
Paré landed her first film role in the TV movie "Bonanno: A Godfather's Story".
This was followed by small parts in the TV series "Big Wolf on Campus" and the French film "En Vacances" (1999).
After auditioning for a bit part in the indie feature "Stardom" (2000), Paré was cast by director Denys Arcand to star in the film, followed by starring roles in "Lost and Delirious" (2001) and the TV mini-series "Random Passage" (2002) and "Napoléon".
Her notable feature film work includes "Wicker Park" (2004), "Lives of the Saints" (2004), "Protect and Serve" (2007), "Jusqu'à toi" (2007), "The Trotsky" (2008), "Suck" (2008), "Red Coat Justice" (2009) and the Hollywood feature, "Hot Tub Time Machine" (2010).
Paré's breakout role was in "Mad Men", playing 'Megan Calvet', a secretary at the ad agency 'Sterling Cooper'.
- 9/29/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Fox/Fox Searchlight and Lionsgate UK lead the nominations; The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Filth and X-Men: Days of Future Past are most nominated films.Scroll down for full shortlist
The Screen Awards 2014 shortlist has been announced, with Fox/Fox Searchlight leading the nominations with a combined 13 nominations and Lionsgate UK following closely with 12 nods.
Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games was shortlisted in four categories; Filth was shortlisted in three categories, as was Fox’s X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Starred Up, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and Frank each received double nominations.
The shortlist will now be debated by an independent jury of industry experts, who select the final winners. The Awards will be given out on October 23 at The Brewery in London.
Screen International Editor Wendy Mitchell said: “We were thrilled with the calibre and diversity of entries for the Screen Awards this year. Our expert jury of industry experts now selects the winners and they...
The Screen Awards 2014 shortlist has been announced, with Fox/Fox Searchlight leading the nominations with a combined 13 nominations and Lionsgate UK following closely with 12 nods.
Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games was shortlisted in four categories; Filth was shortlisted in three categories, as was Fox’s X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Starred Up, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and Frank each received double nominations.
The shortlist will now be debated by an independent jury of industry experts, who select the final winners. The Awards will be given out on October 23 at The Brewery in London.
Screen International Editor Wendy Mitchell said: “We were thrilled with the calibre and diversity of entries for the Screen Awards this year. Our expert jury of industry experts now selects the winners and they...
- 8/20/2014
- ScreenDaily
The Academy has announced the new class of invited members for 2014 and, as is typical, many of which are among last year's nominees, which includes Barkhad Abdi, Michael Fassbender, Sally Hawkins, Mads Mikkelsen, Lupita Nyong'o and June Squibb in the Actors branch not to mention curious additions such as Josh Hutcherson, Rob Riggle and Jason Statham, but, okay. The Directors branch adds Jay and Mark Duplass along with Jean-Marc Vallee, Denis Villeneuve and Thomas Vinterberg. I didn't do an immediate tally of male to female additions or other demographics, but at first glance it seems to be a wide spread batch of new additions on all fronts. The Academy is also clearly attempting to aggressively bump up the demographics as this is the second year in a row where they have added a large number of new members, well over the average of 133 new members from 2004 to 2012. As far as...
- 6/26/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 271 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures.
Those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy’s membership in 2014.
“This year’s class of invitees represents some of the most talented, creative and passionate filmmakers working in our industry today,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. “Their contributions to film have entertained audiences around the world, and we are proud to welcome them to the Academy.”
The 2014 invitees are:
Actors
Barkhad Abdi – “Captain Phillips”
Clancy Brown – “The Hurricane,” “The Shawshank Redeption”
Paul Dano – “12 Years a Slave,” “Prisoners”
Michael Fassbender – “12 Years a Slave,” “Shame”
Ben Foster – “Lone Survivor,” “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”
Beth Grant – “The Artist,” “No Country for Old Men”
Clark Gregg – “Much Ado about Nothing,” “Marvel’s The Avengers”
Sally Hawkins – “Blue Jasmine,...
Those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy’s membership in 2014.
“This year’s class of invitees represents some of the most talented, creative and passionate filmmakers working in our industry today,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. “Their contributions to film have entertained audiences around the world, and we are proud to welcome them to the Academy.”
The 2014 invitees are:
Actors
Barkhad Abdi – “Captain Phillips”
Clancy Brown – “The Hurricane,” “The Shawshank Redeption”
Paul Dano – “12 Years a Slave,” “Prisoners”
Michael Fassbender – “12 Years a Slave,” “Shame”
Ben Foster – “Lone Survivor,” “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”
Beth Grant – “The Artist,” “No Country for Old Men”
Clark Gregg – “Much Ado about Nothing,” “Marvel’s The Avengers”
Sally Hawkins – “Blue Jasmine,...
- 6/26/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Michael Fassbender and Lupita Nyong’o of 12 Years a Slave were two of the 271 artists and industry leaders invited to become members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which determines nominations and winners at the annual Oscars. The entire list of Academy membership—which numbers about 6,000—isn’t public information so the annual invitation list is often the best indication of the artists involved in the prestigious awards process. It’s worth noting that invitations need to be accepted in order for artists to become members; some artists, like two-time Best Actor winner Sean Penn, have declined membership over the years.
- 6/26/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Pop quiz: What do Chris Rock, Claire Denis, Eddie Vedder and Josh Hutcherson all have in common? Answer: They could all be Oscar voters very soon. The annual Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences invitation list always makes for interesting reading, shedding light on just how large and far-reaching the group's membership is -- or could be, depending on who accepts their invitations. This year, 271 individuals have been asked to join AMPAS, meaning every one of them could contribute to next year's Academy Awards balloting -- and it's as diverse a list as they've ever assembled. Think the Academy consists entirely of fusty retired white dudes? Not if recent Best Original Song nominee Pharrell Williams takes them up on their offer. Think it's all just a Hollywood insiders' game? Not if French arthouse titans Chantal Akerman and Olivier Assayas join the party. It's a list that subverts expectation at every turn.
- 6/26/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
Take another look @ "Mad Men" actress Jessica Paré in a recent issue of "Elle" (Canada) magazine, as well as an Nsfw clip from her appearance in "Hot Tub Time Machine".
Paré landed her first film role in the TV movie "Bonanno: A Godfather's Story".
This was followed by small parts in the TV series "Big Wolf on Campus" and the French film "En Vacances" (1999).
After auditioning for a bit part in the indie feature "Stardom" (2000), Paré was cast by director Denys Arcand to star in the film, followed by starring roles in "Lost and Delirious" (2001) and the TV mini-series "Random Passage" (2002) and "Napoléon".
Her notable feature film work includes "Wicker Park" (2004), "Lives of the Saints" (2004), "Protect and Serve" (2007), "Jusqu'à toi" (2007), "The Trotsky" (2008), "Suck" (2008), "Red Coat Justice" (2009) and the Hollywood feature, "Hot Tub Time Machine" (2010).
Paré's breakout role was in "Mad Men", playing 'Megan Calvet', a secretary at the ad agency 'Sterling Cooper'.
Paré landed her first film role in the TV movie "Bonanno: A Godfather's Story".
This was followed by small parts in the TV series "Big Wolf on Campus" and the French film "En Vacances" (1999).
After auditioning for a bit part in the indie feature "Stardom" (2000), Paré was cast by director Denys Arcand to star in the film, followed by starring roles in "Lost and Delirious" (2001) and the TV mini-series "Random Passage" (2002) and "Napoléon".
Her notable feature film work includes "Wicker Park" (2004), "Lives of the Saints" (2004), "Protect and Serve" (2007), "Jusqu'à toi" (2007), "The Trotsky" (2008), "Suck" (2008), "Red Coat Justice" (2009) and the Hollywood feature, "Hot Tub Time Machine" (2010).
Paré's breakout role was in "Mad Men", playing 'Megan Calvet', a secretary at the ad agency 'Sterling Cooper'.
- 5/12/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Sneak Peek "Mad Men" actress Jessica Paré, covering the Spring 2014 issue of "Fashion" magazine, photographed by Gabor Jurina and Zeina Esmail:
"I’m a huge Marlene Dietrich fan," said Paré. "She’s got this raunchy kind of strength. It would be hard to find a man who could come up with something hard for her to handle. She’s seen it all and done it all. I read her biography as a kid and it stayed with me since..."
Paré landed her first film role in the TV movie "Bonanno: A Godfather's Story", followed by small parts in the TV series "Big Wolf on Campus" and the French film "En Vacances" (1999).
After auditioning for a bit part in the indie feature "Stardom" (2000), Paré was cast by director Denys Arcand to star in the film, followed by starring roles in "Lost and Delirious" (2001) and TV mini-series "Random Passage" (2002).
Her notable feature...
"I’m a huge Marlene Dietrich fan," said Paré. "She’s got this raunchy kind of strength. It would be hard to find a man who could come up with something hard for her to handle. She’s seen it all and done it all. I read her biography as a kid and it stayed with me since..."
Paré landed her first film role in the TV movie "Bonanno: A Godfather's Story", followed by small parts in the TV series "Big Wolf on Campus" and the French film "En Vacances" (1999).
After auditioning for a bit part in the indie feature "Stardom" (2000), Paré was cast by director Denys Arcand to star in the film, followed by starring roles in "Lost and Delirious" (2001) and TV mini-series "Random Passage" (2002).
Her notable feature...
- 4/26/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
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