Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. To keep up with our latest features, sign up for the Weekly Edit newsletter and follow us @mubinotebook on Twitter and Instagram.NEWSAn Inconvenient Truth.Participant, the socially conscious production company, has closed, which filmmaker Julie Cohen called “devastating news to anyone who cares about documentaries.” Their twenty-year track record includes many nonfiction films, such as An Inconvenient Truth (2006), but also narrative features like Spotlight (2015) and Roma (2018).New data suggests that Hollywood production has gradually rebounded after last year’s WGA and SAG strikes, though not to the levels of the “peak TV” streaming bubble.The Archival Producers Alliance has drafted best practices for the use of generative AI in documentary, cautioning against the “danger of forever muddying the historical record.”In PRODUCTIONMartin Scorsese is reportedly developing a Frank Sinatra biopic, to star Leonardo DiCaprio as the crooner and Jennifer Lawrence as Ava Gardner.
- 4/25/2024
- MUBI
While Christopher Nolan recently directly explored the creation of the atomic bomb, a long-lost 1961 film explores the landscape directly after the dropping of the bomb in uniquely expressionistic fashion, set against the racial politics of the decade. Helmed by theater director Peter Kass and shot by radical visualist Ed Emshwiller, it’s now been restored in 4K by UCLA Film & Television Archive and Lightbox Film Center, University of the Arts at Illuminate Hollywood laboratory, in collaboration with Corpus Fluxus and Audio Mechanics from the 35mm picture, the soundtrack negative and the original 1⁄4” stereo master recording of Lejaren Hiller’s score. Ahead of a May 10 release at NYC’s Film at Lincoln Center and May 12 at LA’s American Cinematheque from Arbelos, the new trailer has now arrived.
Here’s the synopsis: “Emerging from the void, mysterious drifter Gaunt (The Sting’s John Heffernan) wanders the upstate countryside in a...
Here’s the synopsis: “Emerging from the void, mysterious drifter Gaunt (The Sting’s John Heffernan) wanders the upstate countryside in a...
- 4/19/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan are set to star in the second-ever New York staging of A Raisin in the Sun writer Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window.
Obie winner Anne Kauffman will direct the production, which will open at the Brooklyn Art Museum’s Harvey Theater on Feb. 23. It’s her second time helming the play following her critically well-received revival at the Goodman Theatre in 2016 in Hansberry’s hometown of Chicago.
The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window first opened on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre on Oct. 15, 1964, before moving to the Henry Miller Theatre. Directed by Peter Kass and with a cast that included Gabriel Dell as Sidney and Rita Moreno as Iris, the play ran for more than 100 performances before closing around Hansberry’s passing.
“We are in dire need of Hansberry’s voice … we...
Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan are set to star in the second-ever New York staging of A Raisin in the Sun writer Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window.
Obie winner Anne Kauffman will direct the production, which will open at the Brooklyn Art Museum’s Harvey Theater on Feb. 23. It’s her second time helming the play following her critically well-received revival at the Goodman Theatre in 2016 in Hansberry’s hometown of Chicago.
The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window first opened on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre on Oct. 15, 1964, before moving to the Henry Miller Theatre. Directed by Peter Kass and with a cast that included Gabriel Dell as Sidney and Rita Moreno as Iris, the play ran for more than 100 performances before closing around Hansberry’s passing.
“We are in dire need of Hansberry’s voice … we...
- 10/6/2022
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Broadway actor/director Peter Kass has died from heart failure. He was 85.
Kass passed away in New York on Monday, his son Robbie has confirmed.
Kass, a protege of American playwright Clifford Odets, is known for directing the first incarnation of 1950 showbusiness drama The Country Girl in a New Hampshire playhouse before it was taken to Broadway, where he was cast in a supporting role.
He also appeared in Broadway roles including Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit, before going on to direct four Broadway plays, including Odets' Night Music and 1964 show The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window.
Kass later became known as a celebrated acting teacher, holding court at Boston and New York Universities through the 1970s and coaching students including Faye Dunaway, Olympia Dukakis and Val Kilmer.
His son Robbie says: "He never even raised his voice to his children. If he raised his voice to his students, it was out of passion, to get a performance."
Kass is survived by his wife of 59 years, the former Nance Robbins as well as two sons and five grandchildren.
Kass passed away in New York on Monday, his son Robbie has confirmed.
Kass, a protege of American playwright Clifford Odets, is known for directing the first incarnation of 1950 showbusiness drama The Country Girl in a New Hampshire playhouse before it was taken to Broadway, where he was cast in a supporting role.
He also appeared in Broadway roles including Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit, before going on to direct four Broadway plays, including Odets' Night Music and 1964 show The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window.
Kass later became known as a celebrated acting teacher, holding court at Boston and New York Universities through the 1970s and coaching students including Faye Dunaway, Olympia Dukakis and Val Kilmer.
His son Robbie says: "He never even raised his voice to his children. If he raised his voice to his students, it was out of passion, to get a performance."
Kass is survived by his wife of 59 years, the former Nance Robbins as well as two sons and five grandchildren.
- 8/8/2008
- WENN
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