Emmy voters may give an involuntary shudder while poring over potential nominees in the documentary categories. They abound with tales of mass murderers and eldritch crime: John Wayne Gacy, the Manson Family, the Night Stalker Richard Ramirez, the Australian serial killer known as the Night Caller, and the Golden State Killer.
Most of those series fit neatly within the true crime niche, but I’ll Be Gone in the Dark represents an exception. Yes, the HBO docuseries explores how Golden State Killer Joseph James DeAngelo was ultimately apprehended after decades eluding identification. But it does so through the perspective of gifted writer and amateur detective Michelle McNamara, who became obsessed with tracking down the mysterious killer and gave him his memorable three-word moniker.
Oscar nominee Liz Garbus executive produced the series through her Story Syndicate production company. She is one of four directors credited on it, along with Myles Kane,...
Most of those series fit neatly within the true crime niche, but I’ll Be Gone in the Dark represents an exception. Yes, the HBO docuseries explores how Golden State Killer Joseph James DeAngelo was ultimately apprehended after decades eluding identification. But it does so through the perspective of gifted writer and amateur detective Michelle McNamara, who became obsessed with tracking down the mysterious killer and gave him his memorable three-word moniker.
Oscar nominee Liz Garbus executive produced the series through her Story Syndicate production company. She is one of four directors credited on it, along with Myles Kane,...
- 6/23/2021
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
HBO’s forthcoming “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” follow-up episode will dive into the case the late crime writer Michelle McNamara had been investigating since she was 14.
The standalone episode, which will serve as a follow-up to the 2020 docuseries exploring McNamara’s investigation into the Golden State Killer case, will cover both Joseph James DeAngelo’s recent conviction and the hometown murder that McNamara had been following since 1984. It is set to premiere on June 21.
Per HBO, “This powerful special closes one chapter in McNamara’s investigative work on cold cases, and brings to light another, highlighting the start of McNamara’s life-long fascination with unsolved murders.”
Using McNamara’s archival research, voice recordings and interviews with people connected to the case, the new episode will investigate the unsolved rape and murder of Kathy Lombardo in 1984 in McNamara’s hometown of Oak Park, Illinois. According to HBO, McNamara returned...
The standalone episode, which will serve as a follow-up to the 2020 docuseries exploring McNamara’s investigation into the Golden State Killer case, will cover both Joseph James DeAngelo’s recent conviction and the hometown murder that McNamara had been following since 1984. It is set to premiere on June 21.
Per HBO, “This powerful special closes one chapter in McNamara’s investigative work on cold cases, and brings to light another, highlighting the start of McNamara’s life-long fascination with unsolved murders.”
Using McNamara’s archival research, voice recordings and interviews with people connected to the case, the new episode will investigate the unsolved rape and murder of Kathy Lombardo in 1984 in McNamara’s hometown of Oak Park, Illinois. According to HBO, McNamara returned...
- 5/27/2021
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
A special standalone episode of HBO’s “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark,” a 2020 docuseries exploring late writer Michelle McNamara’s investigation into the dark world of the violent predator she dubbed “The Golden State Killer,” will debut Monday, June 21 at 10/9c on HBO.
Here’s the installment’s lengthy description, courtesy of HBO:
“In the summer of 2020, former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo, also known as the Golden State Killer, was sentenced to life in prison for the 50 home-invasion rapes and 13 murders he committed during his reign of terror in the 1970s and ‘80s in California. Many of the survivors and victim’s family members featured in the series reconvened for an emotional public sentencing hearing in August 2020, where they were given the opportunity to speak about their long-held pain and anger through victim impact statements, facing their attacker directly for the first time and bringing a sense of...
Here’s the installment’s lengthy description, courtesy of HBO:
“In the summer of 2020, former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo, also known as the Golden State Killer, was sentenced to life in prison for the 50 home-invasion rapes and 13 murders he committed during his reign of terror in the 1970s and ‘80s in California. Many of the survivors and victim’s family members featured in the series reconvened for an emotional public sentencing hearing in August 2020, where they were given the opportunity to speak about their long-held pain and anger through victim impact statements, facing their attacker directly for the first time and bringing a sense of...
- 5/21/2021
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
HBO announced that a special episode of “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” will premiere on June 21 at 10 p.m. and will also be available to stream on HBO Max.
Based on the book of the same name that published in 2018, “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” first launched as a docuseries in 2020 and explored writer Michelle McNamara’s investigation into the dark world of the violent predator she dubbed “The Golden State Killer.” Directed by Elizabeth Wolff, the new episode brings shocking new revelations about the 1984 assault and murder of Kathleen Lombardo, which took place in McNamara’s hometown of Oak Park, Ill. and sparked the author’s interest in true crime. It will feature McNamara’s own research into the cold case, which led to her return to the town in 2013 to investigate it on the ground, thereby highlighting the inconsistencies she found in the police’s work...
Based on the book of the same name that published in 2018, “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” first launched as a docuseries in 2020 and explored writer Michelle McNamara’s investigation into the dark world of the violent predator she dubbed “The Golden State Killer.” Directed by Elizabeth Wolff, the new episode brings shocking new revelations about the 1984 assault and murder of Kathleen Lombardo, which took place in McNamara’s hometown of Oak Park, Ill. and sparked the author’s interest in true crime. It will feature McNamara’s own research into the cold case, which led to her return to the town in 2013 to investigate it on the ground, thereby highlighting the inconsistencies she found in the police’s work...
- 5/21/2021
- by Haley Bosselman
- Variety Film + TV
The documentary film community gathered virtually on Facebook Tuesday night to chat and cheer each other on at the annual Cinema Eye Honors Awards. Oscar ballots are due Wednesday at 5pm Pt, and many documentary branch voters were on the livestream.
At the start of the evening, as we waited for the pre-taped presentation to begin, “Crip Camp” nominee Jim Lebrecht congratulated “The Dissident” director Bryan Fogel for his BAFTA nomination that morning. International Documentary Association chief Simon Kilmurry was on the chat, along with Sundance artistic director Tabitha Jackson and Kirsten (Kj) Johnson.
She took home the directing prize for “Dick Johnson is Dead,” one of nine Netflix films nominated and among three winners for the streamer, including “Rolling Thunder Revue” and non-fiction short “Love Song for Latasha.”
Many filmmakers sent in videos introducing themselves, from Martin Scorsese in New York (“Rolling Thunder Revue” won an editing award) and...
At the start of the evening, as we waited for the pre-taped presentation to begin, “Crip Camp” nominee Jim Lebrecht congratulated “The Dissident” director Bryan Fogel for his BAFTA nomination that morning. International Documentary Association chief Simon Kilmurry was on the chat, along with Sundance artistic director Tabitha Jackson and Kirsten (Kj) Johnson.
She took home the directing prize for “Dick Johnson is Dead,” one of nine Netflix films nominated and among three winners for the streamer, including “Rolling Thunder Revue” and non-fiction short “Love Song for Latasha.”
Many filmmakers sent in videos introducing themselves, from Martin Scorsese in New York (“Rolling Thunder Revue” won an editing award) and...
- 3/10/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The documentary film community gathered virtually on Facebook Tuesday night to chat and cheer each other on at the annual Cinema Eye Honors Awards. Oscar ballots are due Wednesday at 5pm Pt, and many documentary branch voters were on the livestream.
At the start of the evening, as we waited for the pre-taped presentation to begin, “Crip Camp” nominee Jim Lebrecht congratulated “The Dissident” director Bryan Fogel for his BAFTA nomination that morning. International Documentary Association chief Simon Kilmurry was on the chat, along with Sundance artistic director Tabitha Jackson and Kirsten (Kj) Johnson.
She took home the directing prize for “Dick Johnson is Dead,” one of nine Netflix films nominated and among three winners for the streamer, including “Rolling Thunder Revue” and non-fiction short “Love Song for Latasha.”
Many filmmakers sent in videos introducing themselves, from Martin Scorsese in New York (“Rolling Thunder Revue” won an editing award) and...
At the start of the evening, as we waited for the pre-taped presentation to begin, “Crip Camp” nominee Jim Lebrecht congratulated “The Dissident” director Bryan Fogel for his BAFTA nomination that morning. International Documentary Association chief Simon Kilmurry was on the chat, along with Sundance artistic director Tabitha Jackson and Kirsten (Kj) Johnson.
She took home the directing prize for “Dick Johnson is Dead,” one of nine Netflix films nominated and among three winners for the streamer, including “Rolling Thunder Revue” and non-fiction short “Love Song for Latasha.”
Many filmmakers sent in videos introducing themselves, from Martin Scorsese in New York (“Rolling Thunder Revue” won an editing award) and...
- 3/10/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
“I had a murder habit, and it was bad,” Michelle McNamara says early in the new HBO documentary series I’ll Be Gone in the Dark. “I would feed it for the rest of my life.”
Like many things McNamara said or wrote, these words prove sadly prophetic. An acclaimed true crime writer, McNamara unexpectedly died in 2016 at the age of 46 while trying to complete the book on which the HBO show is based, an epic account of the crimes of the man she dubbed the Golden State Killer. He had...
Like many things McNamara said or wrote, these words prove sadly prophetic. An acclaimed true crime writer, McNamara unexpectedly died in 2016 at the age of 46 while trying to complete the book on which the HBO show is based, an epic account of the crimes of the man she dubbed the Golden State Killer. He had...
- 6/26/2020
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
A few days before “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” was set to premiere on HBO, the six-part docuseries based on Michelle McNamara’s book of the same name about the hunt for, survivors of and eventual arrest of the Golden State Killer still wasn’t finished.
“If there is some finality in terms of his journey through the criminal justice system, then we want to be able to share that with our audience,” executive producer and co-director Liz Garbus tells Variety.
Garbus and her directing team that also includes Elizabeth Wolff, Josh Koury and Myles Kane weaved a detailed tale half set in the world of Joseph James DeAngelo, the former police officer who was arrested in 2018 for crimes committed decades earlier, and half set in the world of McNamara’s investigation into who the perpetrator could be. McNamara’s part of the story has a definitive end: The...
“If there is some finality in terms of his journey through the criminal justice system, then we want to be able to share that with our audience,” executive producer and co-director Liz Garbus tells Variety.
Garbus and her directing team that also includes Elizabeth Wolff, Josh Koury and Myles Kane weaved a detailed tale half set in the world of Joseph James DeAngelo, the former police officer who was arrested in 2018 for crimes committed decades earlier, and half set in the world of McNamara’s investigation into who the perpetrator could be. McNamara’s part of the story has a definitive end: The...
- 6/26/2020
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Attention is a funny thing when it comes to the true crime genre. Sometimes paying too much attention to a serial killer’s sordid crimes can come across as tasteless and disrespectful to the victims. Not paying enough attention, however, can mean that an uncaptured serial criminal can continue to operate in darkness and anonymity. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark is the latest docuseries from HBO and will catalogue a case that falls into the latter category
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark’s six episodes will tell the story of the serial rapist and murderer known as the Golden State Killer a.k.a. East Area Rapist/Original Night Stalker (Earons). The series is based on a book of the same name by true crime writer Michelle McNamara. The show comes from documentarian. Liz Garbus (Ghosts of Abu Ghraib).
Here is everything else we know about I’ll Be Gone in the Dark.
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark’s six episodes will tell the story of the serial rapist and murderer known as the Golden State Killer a.k.a. East Area Rapist/Original Night Stalker (Earons). The series is based on a book of the same name by true crime writer Michelle McNamara. The show comes from documentarian. Liz Garbus (Ghosts of Abu Ghraib).
Here is everything else we know about I’ll Be Gone in the Dark.
- 6/10/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Michelle McNamara’s definitive book about the Golden State Killer case, “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark,” is getting the docuseries treatment on HBO later this month, giving the late author and crime reporter the chance to explain her obsession with the case in her own words.
McNamara spent 10 years following the case — which included 50 home-invasion rapes and 12 murders throughout California — before she died in 2016, two years before a suspect was identified and arrested based on DNA evidence. She is credited with bringing the case to wider attention with her blog, True Crime Diary, and a lengthy article in Los Angeles Magazine which served as the basis for “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark.”
HBO’s adaptation is described as “a detective story told in McNamara’s own words, through exclusive original recordings and excerpts from her book read by actor Amy Ryan.” The series draws from extensive archival footage...
McNamara spent 10 years following the case — which included 50 home-invasion rapes and 12 murders throughout California — before she died in 2016, two years before a suspect was identified and arrested based on DNA evidence. She is credited with bringing the case to wider attention with her blog, True Crime Diary, and a lengthy article in Los Angeles Magazine which served as the basis for “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark.”
HBO’s adaptation is described as “a detective story told in McNamara’s own words, through exclusive original recordings and excerpts from her book read by actor Amy Ryan.” The series draws from extensive archival footage...
- 6/10/2020
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
When author Michelle McNamara was investigating the East Area Rapist and Original Night Stalker (soon to be know as the Golden State Killer) cases, she needed to rely on a network of other individuals including members of law enforcement and the survivors themselves to piece together enough of the story to write her 2018 book “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark.” Sadly, McNamara unexpectedly passed away before the book could be published, leaving others to rally to make sure the work got done. Now, just over two years later, a team of documentary filmmakers turned McNamara’s book into a six-part docuseries for HBO. And the poetic nature of collaborating on this project is not lost on them.
“Writing is solitary and documentaries are such a collaboration. We got to go to work every day and work with 20-plus people,” said producer and co-director Elizabeth Wolff during Atx Television Festival’s virtual panel for the show,...
“Writing is solitary and documentaries are such a collaboration. We got to go to work every day and work with 20-plus people,” said producer and co-director Elizabeth Wolff during Atx Television Festival’s virtual panel for the show,...
- 6/6/2020
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Atx Television Festival has unveiled additional programming with HBO for its first-ever completely virtual festival, which will take place June 5-7.
Previously announced titles include Perry Mason, which will open the virtual fest, along with Little Fires Everywhere, Cougar Town, Scrubs, One Day at a Time, P-Valley, New Amsterdam, The Bold Type, and more.
Among the newly added slate is HBO’s new half-hour series, I May Destroy You, which will feature a conversation with creator/executive producer/star Michaela Coel. The show explores the question of sexual consent in contemporary life and how, in the new landscape of dating and relationships, we make the distinction between liberation and exploitation.
Fest-goers will get a first look at HBO’s I’ll Be Gone In the Dark, a six-part documentary series based on the book of the same name, exploring author Michelle McNamara’s investigation into the dark world of the violent...
Previously announced titles include Perry Mason, which will open the virtual fest, along with Little Fires Everywhere, Cougar Town, Scrubs, One Day at a Time, P-Valley, New Amsterdam, The Bold Type, and more.
Among the newly added slate is HBO’s new half-hour series, I May Destroy You, which will feature a conversation with creator/executive producer/star Michaela Coel. The show explores the question of sexual consent in contemporary life and how, in the new landscape of dating and relationships, we make the distinction between liberation and exploitation.
Fest-goers will get a first look at HBO’s I’ll Be Gone In the Dark, a six-part documentary series based on the book of the same name, exploring author Michelle McNamara’s investigation into the dark world of the violent...
- 5/26/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Atx Television Festival has added the HBO series “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark,” “I May Destroy You” and “Room 104” to its first-ever virtual festival programming lineup, Variety has learned exclusively.
In addition, “A Black Lady Sketch Show” creator and showrunner Robin Thede will be joining the festival as part of the “Showrunners: State of the Union” on June 7, and Atx and HBO have announced the panelists for the previously-announced “Perry Mason” panel.
“We can still remember getting HBO’s support for the first ever physical festival in 2012; we may have cried,” said Caitlin McFarland, co-founder, Atx Television Festival. “We were told then that they wanted to say in Year 10 that they were there from the beginning. We aren’t quite to our 10th Season, but as we completely pivot to virtual, HBO has stayed by our side. We’ll miss seeing them at the Paramount Theater on Opening Night,...
In addition, “A Black Lady Sketch Show” creator and showrunner Robin Thede will be joining the festival as part of the “Showrunners: State of the Union” on June 7, and Atx and HBO have announced the panelists for the previously-announced “Perry Mason” panel.
“We can still remember getting HBO’s support for the first ever physical festival in 2012; we may have cried,” said Caitlin McFarland, co-founder, Atx Television Festival. “We were told then that they wanted to say in Year 10 that they were there from the beginning. We aren’t quite to our 10th Season, but as we completely pivot to virtual, HBO has stayed by our side. We’ll miss seeing them at the Paramount Theater on Opening Night,...
- 5/26/2020
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Michelle McNamara’s years-long hunt for the Golden State killer is almost ready for the small screen: HBO has dropped the trailer to “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark,” a true-crime documentary series which will premiere June 28.
The upcoming six-part docuseries is based on the late author’s book, titled “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer.” The docuseries will explore the serial rapist and killer’s — a suspect, Joseph James DeAngelo, was arrested in 2018 — crimes.
Per HBO, the series will also give a voice “to the survivors and their families, documenting an era when sex crimes were often dismissed or hidden in shame. A timely inquiry into our macabre preoccupation with true crime and a cautionary tale of the dangerous lure of addiction, the series is a riveting meditation on obsession and loss, chronicling the unrelenting path of a...
The upcoming six-part docuseries is based on the late author’s book, titled “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer.” The docuseries will explore the serial rapist and killer’s — a suspect, Joseph James DeAngelo, was arrested in 2018 — crimes.
Per HBO, the series will also give a voice “to the survivors and their families, documenting an era when sex crimes were often dismissed or hidden in shame. A timely inquiry into our macabre preoccupation with true crime and a cautionary tale of the dangerous lure of addiction, the series is a riveting meditation on obsession and loss, chronicling the unrelenting path of a...
- 5/5/2020
- by Tyler Hersko
- Indiewire
In today’s TV news roundup, HBO announced the premiere date for new docuseries “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark,” and Showtime released a first look at “Outcry,” premiering on July 5.
Dates
HBO has announced “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” will debut on June 28 at 10 p.m. The six-part docuseries, based on Michelle McNamara’s best-selling book of the same name, explores McNamara’s investigation into the world of the Golden State Killer. The series gives a voice to the survivors and their families, documenting an era when sex crimes were often dismissed or hidden. A Story Syndicate Production, “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” is directed by Liz Garbus, Elizabeth Wolff, Myles Kane and Josh Koury. Wolff and Kate Barry serve as producers while Kane and Koury also serve as co-producers. Executive producers for HBO are Nancy Abraham and Lisa Heller; Garbus, Dan Gogan, McNamara, Patton Oswalt and...
Dates
HBO has announced “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” will debut on June 28 at 10 p.m. The six-part docuseries, based on Michelle McNamara’s best-selling book of the same name, explores McNamara’s investigation into the world of the Golden State Killer. The series gives a voice to the survivors and their families, documenting an era when sex crimes were often dismissed or hidden. A Story Syndicate Production, “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” is directed by Liz Garbus, Elizabeth Wolff, Myles Kane and Josh Koury. Wolff and Kate Barry serve as producers while Kane and Koury also serve as co-producers. Executive producers for HBO are Nancy Abraham and Lisa Heller; Garbus, Dan Gogan, McNamara, Patton Oswalt and...
- 5/4/2020
- by Klaritza Rico
- Variety Film + TV
True-crime writer Michelle McNamara died of an accidental overdose on April 21st, 2016 — two years before the source of her obsession, the Golden State Killer, was arrested. Her drive to discover the identity of the prolific serial killer/rapist is captured in the upcoming six-part HBO documentary, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, out June 28th. The doc shares a name with McNamara’s book, published posthumously in February 2018.
“I just obsessed over it,” McNamara says in a new teaser. “What drives me is the need to put a face on an unknown killer.
“I just obsessed over it,” McNamara says in a new teaser. “What drives me is the need to put a face on an unknown killer.
- 5/4/2020
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
If December is a relatively quiet month for Netflix, perhaps that’s because they want you to spend the holidays scaling the seemingly infinite mountain of content they’ve released this year. Good luck with that. But the streaming giant’s latest batch of new releases, however scarce, offer a wild variety of things to see. From an under-the-radar family drama that some critics believe is the best movie the year, to a demented Michael Shannon Christmas movie that some critics don’t even believe is a real thing, these are the seven best films coming to Netflix this December.
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Okay, so “Pottersville” is a very, very bad movie. It still wouldn’t really be one of the seven best movies coming to Netflix this month if there were only six movies coming to Netflix this month.
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Okay, so “Pottersville” is a very, very bad movie. It still wouldn’t really be one of the seven best movies coming to Netflix this month if there were only six movies coming to Netflix this month.
- 12/1/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Detroit (Kathryn Bigelow)
Late into Detroit, Kathryn Bigelow’s docudrama recounting the racial terrorism that took place at the Algiers hotel during the 1967 Detroit riots, one of the innocent, young black men who’s been tortured for nearly the entirety of the movie is given a chance at escape. The camera follows him in his moment of triumph as the man weaves around corners, back alleys, and under a...
Detroit (Kathryn Bigelow)
Late into Detroit, Kathryn Bigelow’s docudrama recounting the racial terrorism that took place at the Algiers hotel during the 1967 Detroit riots, one of the innocent, young black men who’s been tortured for nearly the entirety of the movie is given a chance at escape. The camera follows him in his moment of triumph as the man weaves around corners, back alleys, and under a...
- 12/1/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
With the light-shining power of journalism, the scourge of sexual impropriety, and the privileged status of old white men at the forefront of the nation’s consciousness these days, the documentary “Voyeur” arrives at an ideal time. Filmmakers Myles Kane and Josh Koury shadowed octogenarian”New Journalism” god Gay Talese — author of the famous Esquire profile “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” and a handful of acclaimed non-fiction books — as he puts the finishing touches on a story he’d been following in some form or another for 30 years: the strange case of Colorado motel owner Gerald Foos, who secretly, proudly,...
- 11/30/2017
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
With character driven films such as Journey to Planet X and We are Wizards, duo Josh Koury and Myles Kane have carved out a reputation as observational filmmakers. Their Voyeur — which premiered at Nyff and is now streaming on Netflix — explores the unique relationship between famed writer Gay Talese and former motel owner/self declared voyeur Gerald Foos. Foos, who claims to have secretly watched guests having sex at his Colorado motel for several decades, sent Talese an anonymous handwritten letter detailing his “secret life” back in 1980. Intrigued by the subject matter, the writer agreed to fly up to […]...
- 11/30/2017
- by Cliff Benfield
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Once upon a time, somewhere in the span between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hunter S. Thompson, a dapper posse of aristocrat journalists thrived by combining pre-war sophistication with post-war sexuality. Belonging neither to the old world or the new, they were prophets of their present moment, a transitional group that helped lay the foundation for a culture that wouldn’t be able to accommodate them.
Gay Talese was perhaps the most notable of the group. The godfather of indulgent celebrity profiles, Talese elevated an entire medium by fleshing a routine portrait into a genuine piece of literature; published in the April 1966 issue of Esquire, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” might well outlive the magazine that paid for it. Talese became almost as famous as the people featured in his work, and his reputation protected him from the rest of the 20th century; it seemed unthinkable that someone who could write...
Gay Talese was perhaps the most notable of the group. The godfather of indulgent celebrity profiles, Talese elevated an entire medium by fleshing a routine portrait into a genuine piece of literature; published in the April 1966 issue of Esquire, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” might well outlive the magazine that paid for it. Talese became almost as famous as the people featured in his work, and his reputation protected him from the rest of the 20th century; it seemed unthinkable that someone who could write...
- 11/30/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Gay Talese at home in his office: "Can you imagine if Anthony Hopkins was a voyeur? What a part it could be." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In the final installment of my conversation with the author of The Voyeur's Motel and the subject of Myles Kane and Josh Koury's documentary, Voyeur, Gay Talese envisions Anthony Hopkins playing the voyeur and notes that both Dustin Hoffman (Alan J Pakula's All the President's Men) and Jack Nicholson (Mike Nichols' Heartburn) played Carl Bernstein, so "anybody could play me", if the abandoned Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes feature film had been cast. He remembers Nicole Kidman who starred opposite Hopkins in Robert Benton's adaptation of Philip Roth's The Human Stain as "what a cleaning lady!".
We start out with a discussion of his latest book which takes us to Voyeur, the film, that had its world premiere in the Spotlight...
In the final installment of my conversation with the author of The Voyeur's Motel and the subject of Myles Kane and Josh Koury's documentary, Voyeur, Gay Talese envisions Anthony Hopkins playing the voyeur and notes that both Dustin Hoffman (Alan J Pakula's All the President's Men) and Jack Nicholson (Mike Nichols' Heartburn) played Carl Bernstein, so "anybody could play me", if the abandoned Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes feature film had been cast. He remembers Nicole Kidman who starred opposite Hopkins in Robert Benton's adaptation of Philip Roth's The Human Stain as "what a cleaning lady!".
We start out with a discussion of his latest book which takes us to Voyeur, the film, that had its world premiere in the Spotlight...
- 11/29/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Ah, December. A time for sipping hot beverages, retail therapy, and gathering the family around the television. This holiday season, Netflix will add blockbuster comedies new and old to its collection, as well as some more artistic fare fresh from festival circuit. Next month on the streaming platform, home viewers can catch the comedic stylings of Chris Pratt in “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” in case they missed it in theaters. If you prefer something a little darker, the Wachowskis’ dystopian epic “V for Vendetta” will also be available.
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Jim Carrey may be recently known for his painting skills and red carpet nihilism, but back in the ’90s he was just “Ace Ventura.” Beginning in December, you can revisit both “Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls” and “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.
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Jim Carrey may be recently known for his painting skills and red carpet nihilism, but back in the ’90s he was just “Ace Ventura.” Beginning in December, you can revisit both “Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls” and “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.
- 11/20/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Jairus McLeary in the Soho House screening room on The Work: "It's very masculine. That's why Amy Foote, our editor, and Alice Henty, the producer, they were the first women to see this footage." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Rebecca Miller's Arthur Miller: Writer; Doug Nichol's California Typewriter; Andrew Rossi on Okwui Okpokwasili's Bronx Gothic; Elvira Lind's Bobbi Jene; Michael Almereyda's Escapes on Hampton Fancher; Brett Morgen's Jane on Jane Goodall; Ceyda Torun's KEDi; Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum's Letters From Baghdad with Tilda Swinton voicing Getrude Bell; Griffin Dunne's Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold; Agnès Varda and Jr's Faces Places; Neasa Ní Chianáin and David Rane's School Life; Ferne Pearlstein's The Last Laugh; Lara Stolman's Swim Team; Kirk Simon's The Pulitzer At 100, and Josh Koury and Myles Kane's Voyeur on Gay Talese...
Rebecca Miller's Arthur Miller: Writer; Doug Nichol's California Typewriter; Andrew Rossi on Okwui Okpokwasili's Bronx Gothic; Elvira Lind's Bobbi Jene; Michael Almereyda's Escapes on Hampton Fancher; Brett Morgen's Jane on Jane Goodall; Ceyda Torun's KEDi; Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum's Letters From Baghdad with Tilda Swinton voicing Getrude Bell; Griffin Dunne's Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold; Agnès Varda and Jr's Faces Places; Neasa Ní Chianáin and David Rane's School Life; Ferne Pearlstein's The Last Laugh; Lara Stolman's Swim Team; Kirk Simon's The Pulitzer At 100, and Josh Koury and Myles Kane's Voyeur on Gay Talese...
- 11/17/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
It often goes: the more peculiar the story, the more fascinating the documentary. In a new film, Voyeur, not only is the story being explored, but also the means by which it was crafted. Based on Gay Talese’s New Yorker article, which was controversial in its own right, the first trailer has now landed for Myles Kane and Josh Koury’s feature.
Voyeur looks at the story of Gerald Foos, who used his Colorado motel in the 1960s to spy on his guests’ sexual activity, and Talese’s journalistic investigation. Promising to be a potentially disturbing look at the thin line between fact and fiction, it premiered to a strong response at Nyff earlier this fall and now it’ll get a release on Netflix next month. Check out the trailer below.
Voyeur follows Gay Talese — the 84-year-old giant of modern journalism — as he reports one of the most...
Voyeur looks at the story of Gerald Foos, who used his Colorado motel in the 1960s to spy on his guests’ sexual activity, and Talese’s journalistic investigation. Promising to be a potentially disturbing look at the thin line between fact and fiction, it premiered to a strong response at Nyff earlier this fall and now it’ll get a release on Netflix next month. Check out the trailer below.
Voyeur follows Gay Talese — the 84-year-old giant of modern journalism — as he reports one of the most...
- 11/7/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
"They couldn't hear me, they couldn't see me, it was exactly what I wanted." Netflix has revealed a trailer for a thrilling new documentary titled Voyeur, from co-directors Myles Kane & Josh Koury. This spooky, freaky, unsettling investigative doc follows legendary journalist Gay Talese as he investigates one of the most controversial stories of his career -- a motel owner who spied on his guests for decades. The true story is about a motel owner in Aurora, Colorado named Gerald Foos, who, for decades, secretly watched his guests with the aid of specially designed ceiling vents. As creepy as this sounds, the doc not only investigates this person and this case, but also goes deeper into asking questions like: who is really the voyeur? You might actually want to watch this trailer and see what it's all about before deciding to skip this. Take a peek. Here's the trailer for Myles Kane...
- 11/3/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: Take a prurient peek at the first Netflix trailer for Voyeur, the Josh Koury & Myles Kane-directed documentary feature which had its premiere at the New York Film Festival and opens in a handful of theaters and on the streaming site December 1. The film follows iconic journalist Gay Talese as he researched and wrote The Voyeur’s Motel, which chronicled a Colorado voyeur named Gerald Foos. A fan of Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Foos invited Talese to observe the motel he…...
- 11/2/2017
- Deadline
Woody Allen's inspiration for the title of his latest film - Wonder Wheel in Coney Island Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced additional screenings of the New York Film Festival's Closing Night selection, Woody Allen's melancholic Wonder Wheel, starring Kate Winslet, Juno Temple, James Belushi, and Justin Timberlake.
Spotlight on Documentary films: Brett Morgen's Jane; Alex Gibney's No Stone Unturned; Nancy Buirski's The Rape Of Racy Taylor; Myles Kane and Josh Koury's Voyeur - Main Slate: Chloé Zhao's The Rider; Dee Rees' Mudbound; Hong Sang-soo's The Day After; Special Event: Susan Froemke's The Opera House, and Film Comment Presents: A Gentle Creature, directed by Sergei Loznitsa, are the Sunday Encore films.
Public screenings of Wonder Wheel: Saturday, October 14 at 6:00pm and 9:00pm - - Alice Tully Hall; 6:15pm and 9:15pm - Walter Reade...
The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced additional screenings of the New York Film Festival's Closing Night selection, Woody Allen's melancholic Wonder Wheel, starring Kate Winslet, Juno Temple, James Belushi, and Justin Timberlake.
Spotlight on Documentary films: Brett Morgen's Jane; Alex Gibney's No Stone Unturned; Nancy Buirski's The Rape Of Racy Taylor; Myles Kane and Josh Koury's Voyeur - Main Slate: Chloé Zhao's The Rider; Dee Rees' Mudbound; Hong Sang-soo's The Day After; Special Event: Susan Froemke's The Opera House, and Film Comment Presents: A Gentle Creature, directed by Sergei Loznitsa, are the Sunday Encore films.
Public screenings of Wonder Wheel: Saturday, October 14 at 6:00pm and 9:00pm - - Alice Tully Hall; 6:15pm and 9:15pm - Walter Reade...
- 10/14/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Nobody would accuse Gay Talese of being modest. The trim, dapper icon of New York journalism who runs hot and cold and ever opinionated in Myles Kane and Josh Koury’s unexpectedly comedic documentary “Voyeur” sees himself as a bold hunter ever seeking out The Big Story. He’s got reason to. The broadside books and in depth articles he’s produced over the decades, from his pioneering New Journalism story “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” to his deep-dive books on everything from the “New York Times” to the Mafia, try to tell the story of America in ways that fiction would struggle with.
Continue reading ‘Voyeur’ Is A Sneaky Comedy About Creeps, Writers & What They Have In Common [Nyff Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Voyeur’ Is A Sneaky Comedy About Creeps, Writers & What They Have In Common [Nyff Review] at The Playlist.
- 10/6/2017
- by Chris Barsanti
- The Playlist
It’s that time of year again. With fall festivals like Tiff and Venice now in the rear view mirror, the film world is focused squarely on the Mecca that is New York City, for arguably the year’s most interesting festival, Nyff. Running, this year, from September 28-October 15, the lineup includes not only the 25 Main Slate releases, but numerous others spread over sections ranging from experimental features to groundbreaking shorts and even a Robert Mitchum retrospective.
So how does one go about processing all of these films, or even where to begin when setting your own viewing schedule? Well, you could stick to the well known directors or the highly buzzed about properties that are making a stop on their long festival journey from as early as Cannes or Berlin of this year. But where’s the fun in that? How about a few genuine discoveries? That’s where...
So how does one go about processing all of these films, or even where to begin when setting your own viewing schedule? Well, you could stick to the well known directors or the highly buzzed about properties that are making a stop on their long festival journey from as early as Cannes or Berlin of this year. But where’s the fun in that? How about a few genuine discoveries? That’s where...
- 9/28/2017
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Let The Sun Shine In director Claire Denis and Joachim Trier (Thelma) will participate in a Film Comment: Filmmakers Chat with the magazine’s editor-in-chief Nicolas Rapold Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Lady Bird director Greta Gerwig; Richard Linklater on his Opening Night film Last Flag Flying; Serge Bozon and Isabelle Huppert on Mrs Hyde (Madame Hyde); Noah Baumbach on The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected); Making The Florida Project: Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch; Making Call Me By Your Name: Luca Guadagnino, Armie Hammer, and Michael Stuhlbarg; Documenting Creativity: Griffin Dunne, Rebecca Miller, Susan Lacy, Josh Koury and Myles Kane; Vanessa Redgrave on Sea Sorrow; Ruben Östlund on The Square, and a Film Comment: Filmmakers Chat with Claire Denis on Let The Sun Shine In and Joachim Trier on Thelma are a number of highlights announced by the Film Society of Lincoln Center's sixth edition of the free talk...
Lady Bird director Greta Gerwig; Richard Linklater on his Opening Night film Last Flag Flying; Serge Bozon and Isabelle Huppert on Mrs Hyde (Madame Hyde); Noah Baumbach on The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected); Making The Florida Project: Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch; Making Call Me By Your Name: Luca Guadagnino, Armie Hammer, and Michael Stuhlbarg; Documenting Creativity: Griffin Dunne, Rebecca Miller, Susan Lacy, Josh Koury and Myles Kane; Vanessa Redgrave on Sea Sorrow; Ruben Östlund on The Square, and a Film Comment: Filmmakers Chat with Claire Denis on Let The Sun Shine In and Joachim Trier on Thelma are a number of highlights announced by the Film Society of Lincoln Center's sixth edition of the free talk...
- 9/28/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Gay Talese on casting the Steven Spielberg, Sam Mendes film that never happened: "The voyeur - this is not an attractive person. It's not like George Clooney." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In the second instalment of my conversation with Gay Talese, the subject of Myles Kane and Josh Koury's Voyeur, The Voyeur's Motel author sheds some more light on the collapse of the movie deal with Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes. The Washington Post's research on his book, Joan Didion being seen as "a beloved angel", Nan Talese's reaction to the documentary, and the genre of Gay Talese storytelling are bared before the world premiere screening of Voyeur in the Spotlight on Documentary programme of the 55th New York Film Festival.
Anne-Katrin Titze: Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes pulled out on their film project.
Gay Talese: It's not that they saw it [Voyeur, the documentary]. This guy Myles Kane gave them...
In the second instalment of my conversation with Gay Talese, the subject of Myles Kane and Josh Koury's Voyeur, The Voyeur's Motel author sheds some more light on the collapse of the movie deal with Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes. The Washington Post's research on his book, Joan Didion being seen as "a beloved angel", Nan Talese's reaction to the documentary, and the genre of Gay Talese storytelling are bared before the world premiere screening of Voyeur in the Spotlight on Documentary programme of the 55th New York Film Festival.
Anne-Katrin Titze: Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes pulled out on their film project.
Gay Talese: It's not that they saw it [Voyeur, the documentary]. This guy Myles Kane gave them...
- 9/27/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The New York Film Festival kicks off later this week, sending us straight into the second half of a very busy fall festival season. In preparation for the festival, we’ve pinpointed its most exciting offerings, from never-before-seen narratives to insightful new documentaries, and plenty of previously-screened features looking to capitalize on strong word of mouth coming out of fellow tests like Venice, Telluride, and Toronto. In short, there’s plenty to experience in the coming weeks, so consider this your roadmap to the best of the fest.
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Ahead, 13 essential titles — from buzzy world premieres to highlights from the 2017 circuit— that we can’t wait to see at this year’s New York Film Festival.
“Arthur Miller: Writer”
Documentaries about family members are always a dubious proposition. Some can also come across as overindulgent exercises,...
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Ahead, 13 essential titles — from buzzy world premieres to highlights from the 2017 circuit— that we can’t wait to see at this year’s New York Film Festival.
“Arthur Miller: Writer”
Documentaries about family members are always a dubious proposition. Some can also come across as overindulgent exercises,...
- 9/27/2017
- by Kate Erbland, Eric Kohn, Anne Thompson, David Ehrlich, Chris O'Falt, Jude Dry, Michael Nordine and Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold director Griffin Dunne Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The Spotlight on Documentary programme at the 55th New York Film Festival has a number of high profile authors in the spotlight, including Gay Talese in Josh Koury and Myles Kane's Voyeur. Griffin Dunne's Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold with interviews with Harrison Ford, David Hare, Anna Wintour, Calvin Trillin, and Vanessa Redgrave (her Sea Sorrow is in the festival with Emma Thompson and Ralph Fiennes), and Rebecca Miller's portrait Arthur Miller: Writer (with Tony Kushner and Mike Nichols commenting on her father's career) are two excellent insider depictions. Aki Kaurismäki's The Other Side Of Hope (starring Sherwan Haji, Sakari Kuosmanen) and Chloé Zhao's The Rider, screening in the Main Slate, round out the four early bird highlights.
The Rider is the winner of the <a href="...
The Spotlight on Documentary programme at the 55th New York Film Festival has a number of high profile authors in the spotlight, including Gay Talese in Josh Koury and Myles Kane's Voyeur. Griffin Dunne's Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold with interviews with Harrison Ford, David Hare, Anna Wintour, Calvin Trillin, and Vanessa Redgrave (her Sea Sorrow is in the festival with Emma Thompson and Ralph Fiennes), and Rebecca Miller's portrait Arthur Miller: Writer (with Tony Kushner and Mike Nichols commenting on her father's career) are two excellent insider depictions. Aki Kaurismäki's The Other Side Of Hope (starring Sherwan Haji, Sakari Kuosmanen) and Chloé Zhao's The Rider, screening in the Main Slate, round out the four early bird highlights.
The Rider is the winner of the <a href="...
- 9/24/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Voyeur's Motel author Gay Talese, subject in Josh Koury and Myles Kane's documentary: "As a voyeur, you should be curious. And both of us are, the voyeur I dealt with in the book, and me, the narrator of the story." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
On the afternoon of the first day of New York Film Festival press screenings at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Gay Talese welcomed me into his home to discuss the evolution of Josh Koury and Myles Kane's highly anticipated Voyeur, which will have its world premiere next month in the Spotlight on Documentary programme.
In the first installment of my conversation with Gay, he explained the roles played by Susan Morrison and David Remnick of The New Yorker and the reaction when Gay's literary agent Lynn Nesbit showed his unpublished work The Voyeur's Motel to Grove/Atlantic president and publisher Morgan Entrekin. We spoke about Gerald Foos,...
On the afternoon of the first day of New York Film Festival press screenings at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Gay Talese welcomed me into his home to discuss the evolution of Josh Koury and Myles Kane's highly anticipated Voyeur, which will have its world premiere next month in the Spotlight on Documentary programme.
In the first installment of my conversation with Gay, he explained the roles played by Susan Morrison and David Remnick of The New Yorker and the reaction when Gay's literary agent Lynn Nesbit showed his unpublished work The Voyeur's Motel to Grove/Atlantic president and publisher Morgan Entrekin. We spoke about Gerald Foos,...
- 9/21/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The 55th New York Film Festival will debut a starry roster of documentaries featuring giants of the art and literary worlds as well as Alex Gibney’s postponed “No Stone Unturned,” a critical investigation into the 1994 Loughinisland massacre in Ireland, which was pulled from Tribeca in April.
Other new works include films from directors Abel Ferrara, Sara Driver, Nancy Buirski, Mathieu Amalric, and Barbet Schroeder; Vanessa Redgrave’s directorial debut “Sea Sorrow,” which played at Cannes; and films featuring Joan Didion, Arthur Miller, Gay Talese, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Jane Goodall, plus stories about racism, American immigration, and the global refugee crisis.
Three documentaries spotlight acclaimed writers, including the world premiere of Griffin Dunne’s “Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold,” returning Nyff filmmaker Rebecca Miller’s tender portrait of her father, “Arthur Miller: Writer,” and the World Premiere of Myles Kane and Josh Koury’s “Voyeur,” tracking journalist Gay Talese...
Other new works include films from directors Abel Ferrara, Sara Driver, Nancy Buirski, Mathieu Amalric, and Barbet Schroeder; Vanessa Redgrave’s directorial debut “Sea Sorrow,” which played at Cannes; and films featuring Joan Didion, Arthur Miller, Gay Talese, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Jane Goodall, plus stories about racism, American immigration, and the global refugee crisis.
Three documentaries spotlight acclaimed writers, including the world premiere of Griffin Dunne’s “Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold,” returning Nyff filmmaker Rebecca Miller’s tender portrait of her father, “Arthur Miller: Writer,” and the World Premiere of Myles Kane and Josh Koury’s “Voyeur,” tracking journalist Gay Talese...
- 8/23/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The 55th New York Film Festival will debut a starry roster of documentaries featuring giants of the art and literary worlds as well as Alex Gibney’s postponed “No Stone Unturned,” a critical investigation into the 1994 Loughinisland massacre in Ireland, which was pulled from Tribeca in April.
Other new works include films from directors Abel Ferrara, Sara Driver, Nancy Buirski, Mathieu Amalric, and Barbet Schroeder; Vanessa Redgrave’s directorial debut “Sea Sorrow,” which played at Cannes; and films featuring Joan Didion, Arthur Miller, Gay Talese, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Jane Goodall, plus stories about racism, American immigration, and the global refugee crisis.
Three documentaries spotlight acclaimed writers, including the world premiere of Griffin Dunne’s “Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold,” returning Nyff filmmaker Rebecca Miller’s tender portrait of her father, “Arthur Miller: Writer,” and the World Premiere of Myles Kane and Josh Koury’s “Voyeur,” tracking journalist...
Other new works include films from directors Abel Ferrara, Sara Driver, Nancy Buirski, Mathieu Amalric, and Barbet Schroeder; Vanessa Redgrave’s directorial debut “Sea Sorrow,” which played at Cannes; and films featuring Joan Didion, Arthur Miller, Gay Talese, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Jane Goodall, plus stories about racism, American immigration, and the global refugee crisis.
Three documentaries spotlight acclaimed writers, including the world premiere of Griffin Dunne’s “Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold,” returning Nyff filmmaker Rebecca Miller’s tender portrait of her father, “Arthur Miller: Writer,” and the World Premiere of Myles Kane and Josh Koury’s “Voyeur,” tracking journalist...
- 8/23/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Netflix is adding two new documentaries to its crowded 2017 roster: “Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold.” and “Voyeur,” both of which will premiere at the 55th New York Film Festival and launch globally on Netflix later this year.
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Author Joan Didion’s nephew, actor-director-producer Griffin Dunne, has been laboring on this portrait of his aunt for years. The film spans more than 50 years of essays, novels, screenplays, and criticism, as Didion chronicled America’s cultural and political tides, from the literati scene of New York in the 1950s and early ’60s to her home state of California, where she wrote “Slouching Toward Bethlehem” and “The White Album” and such film scripts as “The Panic in Needle Park.”
Dunne unearths a trove of archival footage and interviews his aunt at length about the many people she met and...
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Author Joan Didion’s nephew, actor-director-producer Griffin Dunne, has been laboring on this portrait of his aunt for years. The film spans more than 50 years of essays, novels, screenplays, and criticism, as Didion chronicled America’s cultural and political tides, from the literati scene of New York in the 1950s and early ’60s to her home state of California, where she wrote “Slouching Toward Bethlehem” and “The White Album” and such film scripts as “The Panic in Needle Park.”
Dunne unearths a trove of archival footage and interviews his aunt at length about the many people she met and...
- 8/23/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Netflix is adding two new documentaries to its crowded 2017 roster: “Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold.” and “Voyeur,” both of which will premiere at the 55th New York Film Festival and launch globally on Netflix later this year.
Read More:Documentary, Now: Three Rock Stars Who Run The Fast-Changing Nonfiction World
Author Joan Didion’s nephew, actor-director-producer Griffin Dunne, has been laboring on this portrait of his aunt for years. The film spans more than 50 years of essays, novels, screenplays, and criticism, as Didion chronicled America’s cultural and political tides, from the literati scene of New York in the 1950s and early ’60s to her home state of California, where she wrote “Slouching Toward Bethlehem” and “The White Album” and such film scripts as “The Panic in Needle Park.”
Dunne unearths a trove of archival footage and interviews his aunt at length about the many people she met and...
Read More:Documentary, Now: Three Rock Stars Who Run The Fast-Changing Nonfiction World
Author Joan Didion’s nephew, actor-director-producer Griffin Dunne, has been laboring on this portrait of his aunt for years. The film spans more than 50 years of essays, novels, screenplays, and criticism, as Didion chronicled America’s cultural and political tides, from the literati scene of New York in the 1950s and early ’60s to her home state of California, where she wrote “Slouching Toward Bethlehem” and “The White Album” and such film scripts as “The Panic in Needle Park.”
Dunne unearths a trove of archival footage and interviews his aunt at length about the many people she met and...
- 8/23/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The Film Society of Lincoln Center on Wednesday announced the documentary slate for the upcoming New York Film Festival.
The fest will host the world premiere of Alex Gibney’s No Stone Unturned, which investigates the 1994 Loughinisland massacre in Ireland — a case that remained unsolved. The doc was originally set to debut earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival, but was withdrawn due to outstanding legal issues.
Other world premieres include Griffin Dunne’s Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold and Myles Kane and Josh Koury’s Voyeur, the latter about the investigations explored in Gay Talese’s book The...
The fest will host the world premiere of Alex Gibney’s No Stone Unturned, which investigates the 1994 Loughinisland massacre in Ireland — a case that remained unsolved. The doc was originally set to debut earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival, but was withdrawn due to outstanding legal issues.
Other world premieres include Griffin Dunne’s Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold and Myles Kane and Josh Koury’s Voyeur, the latter about the investigations explored in Gay Talese’s book The...
- 8/23/2017
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Voyeur's Motel author Gay Talese is observed in Myles Kane and Josh Koury's Voyeur, which will screen at the New York Film Festival Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the 55th New York Film Festival Spotlight on Documentary selections this afternoon. The program includes Three Music Films (C’est Presque Au Bout Du Monde, Zorn (2010-2017) and Music Is Music) by Mathieu Amalric, Barbet Schroeder's The Venerable W, Denis Côté's A Skin So Soft, Vanessa Redgrave's Sea Sorrow, Abel Ferrara's Piazza Vittorio, Alex Gibney's No Stone Unturned, Griffin Dunne's Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, Brett Morgen's Jane, Rebecca Miller's Arthur Miller: Writer, Sara Driver's Boom For Real The Late Teenage Years Of Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Myles Kane and Josh Koury's Voyeur.
Amnesia director Barbet Schroeder to show The Venerable W Photo:...
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the 55th New York Film Festival Spotlight on Documentary selections this afternoon. The program includes Three Music Films (C’est Presque Au Bout Du Monde, Zorn (2010-2017) and Music Is Music) by Mathieu Amalric, Barbet Schroeder's The Venerable W, Denis Côté's A Skin So Soft, Vanessa Redgrave's Sea Sorrow, Abel Ferrara's Piazza Vittorio, Alex Gibney's No Stone Unturned, Griffin Dunne's Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, Brett Morgen's Jane, Rebecca Miller's Arthur Miller: Writer, Sara Driver's Boom For Real The Late Teenage Years Of Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Myles Kane and Josh Koury's Voyeur.
Amnesia director Barbet Schroeder to show The Venerable W Photo:...
- 8/23/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Blindsided by a documentary on Gay Talese’s New Yorker article, DreamWorks and director Sam Mendes have abruptly pulled the plug on their movie adaptation of The Voyeur’s Motel, only seven months after the project was first announced.
According to Deadline, Talese’s controversial piece, one which chronicles the story of a deceitful hotelier who claimed to spy on his guests at their most intimate, had attracted documentary filmmakers Myles Kand and Josh Koury, who contacted hotel owner Gerald Foos about a potential feature. Kand and Koury went about their business, crafting a documentary on The Voyeur’s Motel that Mendes would later discover online, of all places. And so, despite a reportedly strong first draft from Krysty Wilson-Cairns, the Spectre filmmaker and the team at DreamWorks have decided not to pursue their planned movie adaptation. It’s disappointing, then, particularly after the studio had won a heated bidding...
According to Deadline, Talese’s controversial piece, one which chronicles the story of a deceitful hotelier who claimed to spy on his guests at their most intimate, had attracted documentary filmmakers Myles Kand and Josh Koury, who contacted hotel owner Gerald Foos about a potential feature. Kand and Koury went about their business, crafting a documentary on The Voyeur’s Motel that Mendes would later discover online, of all places. And so, despite a reportedly strong first draft from Krysty Wilson-Cairns, the Spectre filmmaker and the team at DreamWorks have decided not to pursue their planned movie adaptation. It’s disappointing, then, particularly after the studio had won a heated bidding...
- 11/24/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Back in April, we reported on James Bond director Sam Mendes’ upcoming film, The Voyeur’s Motel. The movie was set to be based on Gay Telese’s fascinating New Yorker article of the same name, an account of the life of Gerald Foos, a self-styled researcher in “human sexuality” who transformed his Colorado motel into a voyeur’s paradise by installing hidden cameras and ventilation shafts through which he could spy on guests. The project seemed like a perfect fit for Mendes, both because many of his films have focused on the tawdry emotional underbelly hidden in regular suburban life, and also because of all of the stuff about spies.
But now, real life has slammed a window shut on Mendes’ directorial intent. The director (and his partners at DreamWorks) recently learned that Talese and Foos were quietly concealing the fact that filmmakers Myles Kand and Josh Koury were...
But now, real life has slammed a window shut on Mendes’ directorial intent. The director (and his partners at DreamWorks) recently learned that Talese and Foos were quietly concealing the fact that filmmakers Myles Kand and Josh Koury were...
- 11/24/2016
- by William Hughes
- avclub.com
Myles Kane and Josh Koury are checking into the Voyeur’s Motel. Deadline has the news that the co-directors have completed their documentary “Gay Talese and the Voyeur,” which chronicles the writing of Talese’s controversial nonfiction book “The Voyeur’s Motel.”
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The book has gained considerable attention not only for its subject matter — a Colorado motel owner named Gerald Foos who spied on his guests for decades and documented his observations — but also for the fact that its veracity has been called into question. An excerpt was published in The New Yorker earlier this year, while the book itself came out in June. Steven Spielberg has acquired the rights to adapt “The Voyeur’s Motel” into a feature, with Sam Mendes (“American Beauty,” “Skyfall”) having been mentioned as a possible director.
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Read More: Sam Mendes Takes A Peek Into ‘The Voyeur’s Motel’
The book has gained considerable attention not only for its subject matter — a Colorado motel owner named Gerald Foos who spied on his guests for decades and documented his observations — but also for the fact that its veracity has been called into question. An excerpt was published in The New Yorker earlier this year, while the book itself came out in June. Steven Spielberg has acquired the rights to adapt “The Voyeur’s Motel” into a feature, with Sam Mendes (“American Beauty,” “Skyfall”) having been mentioned as a possible director.
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- 8/8/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Doug Liman’s action thriller starring Tom Cruise will now be called American Made.
The thriller moves from January 6, 2017, to September 29, 2017.
Cruise plays the real-life Barry Seal, a hustler and pilot unexpectedly recruited by the CIA to run one of the biggest covert operations in Us history.
Brooklyn Underground Films, Blumhouse Productions, Public Record, and Impact Partners announced on Monday that the documentary Gay Talese And The Voyeur will shortly wrap three years of production. The film is based on Talese’s new book The Voyeur’s Motel, which centres on the controversial story of a Colorado motel owner who spied on guests. Myles Kane and Josh Koury direct and the film is on the runway for a 2017 release.Toei Animation Inc. is revamping its feature film Digimon Adventure tri.- Chapter 1: Reunion for Us audiences by bringing on an exclusive English voice cast. Joshua Seth, who voiced main character Tai Kamiya in the original series...
The thriller moves from January 6, 2017, to September 29, 2017.
Cruise plays the real-life Barry Seal, a hustler and pilot unexpectedly recruited by the CIA to run one of the biggest covert operations in Us history.
Brooklyn Underground Films, Blumhouse Productions, Public Record, and Impact Partners announced on Monday that the documentary Gay Talese And The Voyeur will shortly wrap three years of production. The film is based on Talese’s new book The Voyeur’s Motel, which centres on the controversial story of a Colorado motel owner who spied on guests. Myles Kane and Josh Koury direct and the film is on the runway for a 2017 release.Toei Animation Inc. is revamping its feature film Digimon Adventure tri.- Chapter 1: Reunion for Us audiences by bringing on an exclusive English voice cast. Joshua Seth, who voiced main character Tai Kamiya in the original series...
- 8/8/2016
- by govi2016@lawnet.ucla.edu (Alec Govi)
- ScreenDaily
If you read this article and still can’t remember the title of “Brad Neely’s Harg Nallin’ Sclopio Peepio,” that’s fine. “It’s intentionally meaningless,” said creator Brad Neely, speaking to IndieWire by phone last week, “which is a lot harder than you would imagine.”
Nonsense seems to be a strong suit for Neely, whose animated sketch show premieres on Adult Swim July 10. The first 10-minute episode made waves when it premiered on Vine last week, a first for the short-form video app, which typically hosts six-second videos. (Vine recently expanded its maximum time-limit to 140 seconds, but Neely’s show is the app’s first full-length video.) “Brad Neely’s Harg Nallin’ Sclopio Peepio” consists of short sketches that bear no relation to the previous one, but they’re all just wacky enough to appeal to Vine’s Adhd-addled viewers.
Read More: Aduly Swim: Out of 47 Shows on Their Current Slate,...
Nonsense seems to be a strong suit for Neely, whose animated sketch show premieres on Adult Swim July 10. The first 10-minute episode made waves when it premiered on Vine last week, a first for the short-form video app, which typically hosts six-second videos. (Vine recently expanded its maximum time-limit to 140 seconds, but Neely’s show is the app’s first full-length video.) “Brad Neely’s Harg Nallin’ Sclopio Peepio” consists of short sketches that bear no relation to the previous one, but they’re all just wacky enough to appeal to Vine’s Adhd-addled viewers.
Read More: Aduly Swim: Out of 47 Shows on Their Current Slate,...
- 7/7/2016
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Plus: FilmBuff acquiresI Am Gangster; and more…
The Film Sales Company president Andrew Herwitz has acquired worldwide sales rights to Halfway ahead of its premiere at the American Black Film Festival in Miami.
Quinton Aaron from The Blind Side stars in the thriller with supporting performances by Marcus Henderson and Amy Pietz. Ben Caird wrote and directed.
“So many gems have been discovered in past years at the Abff that this seemed the perfect festival to introduce Halfway to the industry,” said Herwitz.
Tribeca Film Institute top brass have announced the second annual filmmaker retreat in partnership with the Camden...
The Film Sales Company president Andrew Herwitz has acquired worldwide sales rights to Halfway ahead of its premiere at the American Black Film Festival in Miami.
Quinton Aaron from The Blind Side stars in the thriller with supporting performances by Marcus Henderson and Amy Pietz. Ben Caird wrote and directed.
“So many gems have been discovered in past years at the Abff that this seemed the perfect festival to introduce Halfway to the industry,” said Herwitz.
Tribeca Film Institute top brass have announced the second annual filmmaker retreat in partnership with the Camden...
- 6/12/2016
- by govi2016@lawnet.ucla.edu (Alec Govi)
- ScreenDaily
The New-York based distributor has acquired all North American rights to the Ifp Documentary Lab film ahead of its world premiere at Doc NYC on November 13.
Mad Tiger will open next year followed by a digital and home video release.
Directed by Jonathan Yi and Michael Haertlein, the documentary follows bandmates Yellow and Red from Japanese art-punk band Peelander-z.
In particular the film looks at what happens to their friendship when Red announces his departure from the band after a final tour. Josh Koury produces.
Film Movement president Michael E Rosenberg brokered the deal with the directors.
This is Film Movement’s second pick-up of a Doc NYC title after Don Hardy’s Theory Of Obscurity: A Film About The Residents.
http://www.screendaily.com/news/distribution/film-movement-pounces-on-theory-of-obscurity/5095947.article...
Mad Tiger will open next year followed by a digital and home video release.
Directed by Jonathan Yi and Michael Haertlein, the documentary follows bandmates Yellow and Red from Japanese art-punk band Peelander-z.
In particular the film looks at what happens to their friendship when Red announces his departure from the band after a final tour. Josh Koury produces.
Film Movement president Michael E Rosenberg brokered the deal with the directors.
This is Film Movement’s second pick-up of a Doc NYC title after Don Hardy’s Theory Of Obscurity: A Film About The Residents.
http://www.screendaily.com/news/distribution/film-movement-pounces-on-theory-of-obscurity/5095947.article...
- 11/2/2015
- ScreenDaily
The Hamptons International Film Festival also unveils its annual Golden Starfish competition titles.
The Hamptons International Film Festival (Hiff) is to honour filmmaker Joel Schumacher with the Golden Starfish Lifetime Achievement in Directing Award at its 22nd edition (Oct 9-13).
The director of The Lost Boys, Batman Forever and more recently two episodes of House of Cards, will also take part in a “conversation with” session on Oct 11, where he will be also be presented with the award.
Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank will also be in conversation at the festival on Oct 12, where she will receive the Creative Impact in Acting Award.
Swank won Best Actress Academy Award’s in 2000 and 2005 for Boys Don’t Cry and Million Dollar Baby, and her latest performance in The Homesman will be seen when the film is screened at Hiff.
In addition, Hiff has revealed the 20 films from 15 countries selected for this year’s Golden Starfish competition, including the Us...
The Hamptons International Film Festival (Hiff) is to honour filmmaker Joel Schumacher with the Golden Starfish Lifetime Achievement in Directing Award at its 22nd edition (Oct 9-13).
The director of The Lost Boys, Batman Forever and more recently two episodes of House of Cards, will also take part in a “conversation with” session on Oct 11, where he will be also be presented with the award.
Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank will also be in conversation at the festival on Oct 12, where she will receive the Creative Impact in Acting Award.
Swank won Best Actress Academy Award’s in 2000 and 2005 for Boys Don’t Cry and Million Dollar Baby, and her latest performance in The Homesman will be seen when the film is screened at Hiff.
In addition, Hiff has revealed the 20 films from 15 countries selected for this year’s Golden Starfish competition, including the Us...
- 9/10/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
New work from Claire Denis takes its place in the inaugural Short Cuts International line-up at the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 4-14).Scroll down for full list
A total of 36 shorts from filmmakers representing 29 countries will screen in five curated programmes.
“Some of the best filmmaking in the industry is happening in the short form and the introduction of this programme allows the festival to identify talented filmmakers and connect them to the rest of the world as well as the highly engaged audience present here in Toronto,” said Tiff director of special projects Shane Smith.
“From politically and socially provocative narratives, to aesthetically compelling animation and profoundly moving documentaries, the works in Short Cuts International are vigorous and vital films showcasing unique, yet universal, stories about the human condition.”
Short Cuts International is programmed by Smith; Kathleen McInnis, Short Cuts International programmer; and Magali Simard, Short Cuts programmer and Tiff manager Of film programmes.
The...
A total of 36 shorts from filmmakers representing 29 countries will screen in five curated programmes.
“Some of the best filmmaking in the industry is happening in the short form and the introduction of this programme allows the festival to identify talented filmmakers and connect them to the rest of the world as well as the highly engaged audience present here in Toronto,” said Tiff director of special projects Shane Smith.
“From politically and socially provocative narratives, to aesthetically compelling animation and profoundly moving documentaries, the works in Short Cuts International are vigorous and vital films showcasing unique, yet universal, stories about the human condition.”
Short Cuts International is programmed by Smith; Kathleen McInnis, Short Cuts International programmer; and Magali Simard, Short Cuts programmer and Tiff manager Of film programmes.
The...
- 8/12/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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