A languorous, ethnobiological romance that’s lodged somewhere between yesterday and tomorrow — memory and anticipation — Jessica Oreck’s singularly transportive
Announcing itself as “a true story, set in the future,” Oreck’s film largely eschews action in favor of entropy, its plot simple enough to sound like a premise: As millions of people starve to death in a frigid city that was deprived of food for 900 days, two high-cheekboned workers at the world’s first seed bank fight to preserve a priceless collection of genetically diverse plant life. Eating the produce would feed a small handful of extremely hungry people for a few days, but harvesting the seeds might allow for the possibility of restoring the world’s agriculture when the war ends. If the war ends.
For Alyssa (Alyssa Lozovskaya) and Maksim (Maksim Blinov), the decision is so obvious that Oreck hardly needs to dramatize it being made. One day,...
Announcing itself as “a true story, set in the future,” Oreck’s film largely eschews action in favor of entropy, its plot simple enough to sound like a premise: As millions of people starve to death in a frigid city that was deprived of food for 900 days, two high-cheekboned workers at the world’s first seed bank fight to preserve a priceless collection of genetically diverse plant life. Eating the produce would feed a small handful of extremely hungry people for a few days, but harvesting the seeds might allow for the possibility of restoring the world’s agriculture when the war ends. If the war ends.
For Alyssa (Alyssa Lozovskaya) and Maksim (Maksim Blinov), the decision is so obvious that Oreck hardly needs to dramatize it being made. One day,...
- 7/27/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Look into the series Criterion Channel have programmed for August and this lineup is revealed as (in scientific terms) quite something. “Hollywood Chinese” proves an especially deep bench, spanning “cinema’s first hundred years to explore the ways in which the Chinese people have been imagined in American feature films” and bringing with it the likes of Cronenberg’s M. Butterfly, Cimino’s Year of the Dragon, Griffith’s Broken Blossoms, and Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet—among 20-or-so others. A three-film Marguerite Duras series brings one of the greatest films ever (India Song) and two lesser-screened experiments; films featuring Yaphet Kotto include Blue Collar, Across 110th Street, and Midnight Run; and lest we ignore a Myrna Loy retro that goes no later than 1949.
Criterion editions include The Asphalt Jungle, Husbands, Rouge, and Sweet Smell of Success; streaming premieres for Loznitsa’s Donbass, Béla Tarr’s watershed Damnation, and...
Criterion editions include The Asphalt Jungle, Husbands, Rouge, and Sweet Smell of Success; streaming premieres for Loznitsa’s Donbass, Béla Tarr’s watershed Damnation, and...
- 7/25/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
The tradition of Tarkovsky burns bright in Jessica Oreck’s One Man Dies a Million Times, a feature which premiered at SXSW back in 2019 and was planning a theatrical roll-out right around the time the pandemic hit. With the filmmaker wanting to preserve the theatrical experience, it’ll arrive on July 29 at IFC Center and there’s no plans for the film to ever hit online/streaming services.
Part documentary, part legend, One Man Dies a Million Times draws inspiration of the true story of a seed bank and the botanists who worked there throughout the Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944). Described as a “a true story, set in the future,” the film is about seeds and genetic diversity, about growth and decay, about love and war, about hunger of all kinds. About what it means to be human, even when all your humanity is stripped away.”
Shot by the great Sean Price Williams,...
Part documentary, part legend, One Man Dies a Million Times draws inspiration of the true story of a seed bank and the botanists who worked there throughout the Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944). Described as a “a true story, set in the future,” the film is about seeds and genetic diversity, about growth and decay, about love and war, about hunger of all kinds. About what it means to be human, even when all your humanity is stripped away.”
Shot by the great Sean Price Williams,...
- 7/19/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
In the Russian artist Uldus Bakhtiozina’s retro-futurist, feminist spoof on costume dramas, Tzarevna Scaling (Doch Rybaka), a young woman, Polina (Alina Korol), who works at a fried-fish food truck, is offered a mysterious herbal tea to assuage her insomnia. Upon drinking it, Polina wakes up the next day, only to be transported to a bizarro parallel universe. In it, an outlandishly dressed royal—a kind of pissy, mean-spirited fairy-godmother—leads Polina through a test, to prove if she has what it takes to become a tzarevna. Since Polina learns about her unique chance through an old, clunky television set, it’s possible that the entire dreamworld is a trap inside the television set, and Polina’s ordeal is nothing more than a cynical beauty contest.In Bakhtiozina’s Alice-in-Wonderland meets Cinderella quest, the final showdown gets solved quickly when Polina’s asked, rather predictably, what makes her think that she’s so special,...
- 3/5/2021
- MUBI
The cinema of Jessica Oreck beguiles. Mesmerizing and meditative, her work explores human connections to the natural world through backdoor stories on the fringes of historical memory. Her fourth feature, and her first foray into narrative film, One Man Dies A Million Times is a harrowing and lustrous black and white drama about two young Russian botanists manning the world’s first seed bank as war wages around them. Though dying of hunger in a city of quickly depleting resources, the two continue harvesting and safeguarding seeds from human consumption, an act of extreme self-discipline guided by their enduring belief in the importance of genetic preservation. In part a docudrama based on the experiences of those living through the siege of Leningrad, One Man Dies A Million Times skirts the trappings of the World War II film by consciously avoiding historical markers, focusing instead on the metaphysical experience of the body and mind under duress.
- 5/7/2019
- MUBI
The Montclair Film Festival will hold the world premiere of the restoration of the 1959 movie “The Diary of Anne Frank,” Variety has learned exclusively.
The black-and-white film, directed by George Stevens, has been restored by Twentieth Century Fox and the Film Foundation. The holocaust drama was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won three, including best supporting actress for Shelly Winters.
The festival, now in its eighth year, will take place May 3-12 in Montclair, N.J., and features more than 150 films, events, discussions and parties. The festival had previously announced that it would open with a screening of Tom Harper’s “Wild Rose,” with star Jessie Buckley attending for a post-screening Q&A.
This year’s Storyteller Series will include A Conversation with Mindy Kaling, moderated by Stephen Colbert, taking place May 4 and A Conversation with Ben Stiller, moderated by Colbert, on May 5. Olympia Dukakis will attend for a...
The black-and-white film, directed by George Stevens, has been restored by Twentieth Century Fox and the Film Foundation. The holocaust drama was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won three, including best supporting actress for Shelly Winters.
The festival, now in its eighth year, will take place May 3-12 in Montclair, N.J., and features more than 150 films, events, discussions and parties. The festival had previously announced that it would open with a screening of Tom Harper’s “Wild Rose,” with star Jessie Buckley attending for a post-screening Q&A.
This year’s Storyteller Series will include A Conversation with Mindy Kaling, moderated by Stephen Colbert, taking place May 4 and A Conversation with Ben Stiller, moderated by Colbert, on May 5. Olympia Dukakis will attend for a...
- 4/5/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Discovering what it means to truly be human, even when all of humanity is stripped away, can be an emotional journey for anyone. But award-winning documentarian and short filmmaker, Jessica Oreck, is powerfully embracing that expedition in her new historical drama, ‘One Man Dies A Million Times.’ The writer-director-producer-editor’s narrative debut, which explores genetic diversity, […]
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- 2/24/2019
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
Pretty much on a breakneck pace since she introduced us to Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo in 2009 (here is our interview), there has been a longer gestation period for One Man Dies a Million Times. Jessica Oreck (Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys, The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga) proposes a docu slash fiction that comes equipped with subtitles and cinematography by celluloid specialist Sean Price Williams. Selected as a participant in 2017 American Film Festival’s U.S in Progress in Wroclaw, and landed the Tribeca Film Institute: Filmmaker Fund: Production Award the same year.…...
- 11/22/2018
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Now in its eighth year, the American Film Festival offers a unique perspective on recent developments in U.S. indie filmmaking. That’s because it happens in Poland, staged at the stylish Kino Nowe Horyzonty film center in Wroclaw, also home to the summer New Horizons festival, which has more of a European tilt.
Although the festival, which recently concluded, surveys many favorites from Sundance and South by Southwest, the curation doesn’t merely transpose selections to a new setting. It imports a lively assortment of filmmakers, as well, and creates a cozy, engaged atmosphere more akin to the communal vibe of the Maryland Film Festival. Indeed, to rub shoulders in a crowd that included Jody Lee Lipes, Noel Wells, Dustin Guy Defa, Nathan Silver, producer Mike Ryan, Jessica Oreck and Mike Ott is to experience a deep dive into the creative bustle of current indie ferment.
That spirit is...
Although the festival, which recently concluded, surveys many favorites from Sundance and South by Southwest, the curation doesn’t merely transpose selections to a new setting. It imports a lively assortment of filmmakers, as well, and creates a cozy, engaged atmosphere more akin to the communal vibe of the Maryland Film Festival. Indeed, to rub shoulders in a crowd that included Jody Lee Lipes, Noel Wells, Dustin Guy Defa, Nathan Silver, producer Mike Ryan, Jessica Oreck and Mike Ott is to experience a deep dive into the creative bustle of current indie ferment.
That spirit is...
- 11/14/2017
- by Steve Dollar
- Indiewire
“Columbus” director Kogonada is the latest director to share his 10 favorite movies of the last 10 years on Grasshopper Film’s Transmissions. Sean Baker, Andrew Rossi, and Benjamin Crotty have all done likewise in the past; like theirs, Kogonada’s 10/10 is heavy on auteur favorites. Here’s the list in alphabetical order:
Read More:‘Columbus’ Review: Kogonada’s Directorial Debut Is a Feast for the Eyes and the Heart “35 Shots of Rum” (Claire Denis, 2008) “Amour” (Michael Haneke, 2012) “The Arbor” (Clio Barnard, 2010) “Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo” (Jessica Oreck, 2009) “Before Midnight” (Richard Linklater, 2013) “Clouds of Sils Maria” (Olivier Assayas, 2014) “Flight of the Red Balloon” (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2007) “I Wish” (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2011) “Nostalgia For the Light” (Patricio Guzmán, 2010) “The Wind Rises” (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013) Read More:Supercut Guru Kogonada: How He Leapt from Small Screens to Sundance Next with the Mysterious ‘Columbus’
Kogonada also included a list of the five directors whom he feels “ruled this era”: Olivier Assayas,...
Read More:‘Columbus’ Review: Kogonada’s Directorial Debut Is a Feast for the Eyes and the Heart “35 Shots of Rum” (Claire Denis, 2008) “Amour” (Michael Haneke, 2012) “The Arbor” (Clio Barnard, 2010) “Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo” (Jessica Oreck, 2009) “Before Midnight” (Richard Linklater, 2013) “Clouds of Sils Maria” (Olivier Assayas, 2014) “Flight of the Red Balloon” (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2007) “I Wish” (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2011) “Nostalgia For the Light” (Patricio Guzmán, 2010) “The Wind Rises” (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013) Read More:Supercut Guru Kogonada: How He Leapt from Small Screens to Sundance Next with the Mysterious ‘Columbus’
Kogonada also included a list of the five directors whom he feels “ruled this era”: Olivier Assayas,...
- 8/10/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Jessica Oreck with Sloan Foundation's Doron Weber Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The Tribeca Film Institute and Alfred P Sloan Foundation Works-In-Progress Reading had Paul Schneider directing readings by Victor Slezak, Dascha Polanco, Tom Lipinski, Britne Olford and Marshall Factora of Emily Lobsenz's Invisible Islands; Eric Talbach, Olford and Lipinski of Thor Klein's Adventures of a Mathematician, and a clip from Jessica Oreck's One Man Dies A Million Times.
Jessica, the director of The Vanquishing Of The Witch Baba Yaga and cameraperson for David Byrne's Contemporary Color, directed by Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross, spoke with me at the cocktail reception. Amy Hobby, producer of Rachel Israel's Keep the Change, Ferne Pearlstein's The Last Laugh, and Treva Wurmfeld's Sam Shepard doc, Shepard & Dark, is the Executive Director of the Tribeca Film Institute.
Jessica Oreck's One Man Dies A Million Times at NeueHouse Photo: Anne-Katrin...
The Tribeca Film Institute and Alfred P Sloan Foundation Works-In-Progress Reading had Paul Schneider directing readings by Victor Slezak, Dascha Polanco, Tom Lipinski, Britne Olford and Marshall Factora of Emily Lobsenz's Invisible Islands; Eric Talbach, Olford and Lipinski of Thor Klein's Adventures of a Mathematician, and a clip from Jessica Oreck's One Man Dies A Million Times.
Jessica, the director of The Vanquishing Of The Witch Baba Yaga and cameraperson for David Byrne's Contemporary Color, directed by Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross, spoke with me at the cocktail reception. Amy Hobby, producer of Rachel Israel's Keep the Change, Ferne Pearlstein's The Last Laugh, and Treva Wurmfeld's Sam Shepard doc, Shepard & Dark, is the Executive Director of the Tribeca Film Institute.
Jessica Oreck's One Man Dies A Million Times at NeueHouse Photo: Anne-Katrin...
- 4/24/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Jessica Oreck brings sylvan stories of the Slavic forests to life in this part-animated meditation on haunted woodlands
New York documentary-maker and animal-keeper Jessica Oreck manages a well-attuned act of cultural ventriloquism in this nutritious cine-essay looking east for inspiration. Just as the majestic course of the Danube prompted a search for the roots of western culture in The Ister (2004), here the vastness and darkness of Slavic forests draw Polish-narrated reflections on the nature-culture boundary, interspersed with animated segments from the Baba Yaga fairytale. Dampening the recorded sound on the real-life excerpts (lumberjacks, Soviet-style towerblocks, a wedding) that are used as visual wallpaper, Oreck makes eastern European – or rather, human – life seem otherworldly. Occasionally, this hauntological stream flows too quickly, and the insight gets diluted. At its best, however, the imagery cleanses and reinvigorates the ideas in play: a sequence in a headstone-filled forest seems to touch on the defeat...
New York documentary-maker and animal-keeper Jessica Oreck manages a well-attuned act of cultural ventriloquism in this nutritious cine-essay looking east for inspiration. Just as the majestic course of the Danube prompted a search for the roots of western culture in The Ister (2004), here the vastness and darkness of Slavic forests draw Polish-narrated reflections on the nature-culture boundary, interspersed with animated segments from the Baba Yaga fairytale. Dampening the recorded sound on the real-life excerpts (lumberjacks, Soviet-style towerblocks, a wedding) that are used as visual wallpaper, Oreck makes eastern European – or rather, human – life seem otherworldly. Occasionally, this hauntological stream flows too quickly, and the insight gets diluted. At its best, however, the imagery cleanses and reinvigorates the ideas in play: a sequence in a headstone-filled forest seems to touch on the defeat...
- 9/29/2016
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Filmmaker Jessica Oreck (Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga) has created a new series for Ted-Ed, “In a Moment of Vision,” dubbed “an all-new, all-fun animated micro-series about the history of common objects.” The first episode tells the story of the invention of the bra, which you may be surprised wasn’t invented until the early 1900s.
- 7/13/2016
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Oscilloscope Laboratories has announced that it has acquired North American rights to Bill Ross and Turner Ross’s latest documentary featuring and produced by David Byrne, “Contemporary Color.” The film premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won awards for Best Documentary Cinematography and Best Documentary Editing.
The film’s camera operators included many well-known documentary directors and cinematographers, including Jarred Alterman, Sean Price Williams, Robert Greene, Amanda Rose Wilder, Jessica Oreck, Wyatt Garfield and Michael Palmieri. Oscilloscope will release the film in theaters in 2017 followed by a release across all ancillary platforms.
– Abramorama has acquired U.S. theatrical rights to Kim A. Snyder’s powerful documentary “Newtown,” which was produced by Itvs, while The Orchard will handle TV,...
– Oscilloscope Laboratories has announced that it has acquired North American rights to Bill Ross and Turner Ross’s latest documentary featuring and produced by David Byrne, “Contemporary Color.” The film premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won awards for Best Documentary Cinematography and Best Documentary Editing.
The film’s camera operators included many well-known documentary directors and cinematographers, including Jarred Alterman, Sean Price Williams, Robert Greene, Amanda Rose Wilder, Jessica Oreck, Wyatt Garfield and Michael Palmieri. Oscilloscope will release the film in theaters in 2017 followed by a release across all ancillary platforms.
– Abramorama has acquired U.S. theatrical rights to Kim A. Snyder’s powerful documentary “Newtown,” which was produced by Itvs, while The Orchard will handle TV,...
- 7/1/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
David Byrne conceives Contemporary Color by Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Of Horses And Men director Benedikt Erlingsson's latest The Show Of Shows (Storyville); Ferne Pearlstein's The Last Laugh with Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Sarah Silverman, Robert Clary, Rob Reiner, Harry Shearer, Jeffrey Ross, Alan Zweibel, Gilbert Gottfried, Judy Gold, Larry Charles, David Steinberg, Susie Essman, Lisa Lampanelli and Hanala Sagal (co-writer of Liza Johnson's Elvis & Nixon); Nicole Kidman, Christopher Walken, Maryann Plunkett, Kathryn Hahn and Marin Ireland in Jason Bateman's The Family Fang, screenplay by David Lindsay-Abaire; Contemporary Color, with camerawork by Jessica Oreck, Sean Price Williams, Michael Palmieri, Robert Greene, Wyatt Gerfield, Amanda Rose Wilder, under Dp Jarred Alterman and with Beastie Boys' Adam Horovitz, Devonté Hynes, Nelly Furtado, Nico Muhly, Ira Glass, St. Vincent, Money Mark, Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe, providing some of the music to David Byrne...
Of Horses And Men director Benedikt Erlingsson's latest The Show Of Shows (Storyville); Ferne Pearlstein's The Last Laugh with Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Sarah Silverman, Robert Clary, Rob Reiner, Harry Shearer, Jeffrey Ross, Alan Zweibel, Gilbert Gottfried, Judy Gold, Larry Charles, David Steinberg, Susie Essman, Lisa Lampanelli and Hanala Sagal (co-writer of Liza Johnson's Elvis & Nixon); Nicole Kidman, Christopher Walken, Maryann Plunkett, Kathryn Hahn and Marin Ireland in Jason Bateman's The Family Fang, screenplay by David Lindsay-Abaire; Contemporary Color, with camerawork by Jessica Oreck, Sean Price Williams, Michael Palmieri, Robert Greene, Wyatt Gerfield, Amanda Rose Wilder, under Dp Jarred Alterman and with Beastie Boys' Adam Horovitz, Devonté Hynes, Nelly Furtado, Nico Muhly, Ira Glass, St. Vincent, Money Mark, Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe, providing some of the music to David Byrne...
- 4/11/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Museum of Modern Art Department of Film Curator Jytte Jensen Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
As the Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art's 44th edition of New Directors/New Films is taking place, New York City and the film world has lost a champion of filmmakers. MoMA Department of Film Curator and longtime selection committee member Jytte Jensen died on Monday, due to cancer, at the age of 65.
When I spoke with Jytte before the 2014 New Directors/New Films kicked off, we had an informative discussion on Switzerland's Ramon Zürcher's family drama The Strange Little Cat, Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson's saga-infused Of Horses And Men, Jenny Slate's performance in Gillian Robespierre's Obvious Child, Jessica Oreck's The Vanquishing Of The Witch Baba Yaga, Talal Derki's Syrian documentary Return To Homs and the connection with Hubert Sauper's Sudan doc We Come As Friends...
As the Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art's 44th edition of New Directors/New Films is taking place, New York City and the film world has lost a champion of filmmakers. MoMA Department of Film Curator and longtime selection committee member Jytte Jensen died on Monday, due to cancer, at the age of 65.
When I spoke with Jytte before the 2014 New Directors/New Films kicked off, we had an informative discussion on Switzerland's Ramon Zürcher's family drama The Strange Little Cat, Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson's saga-infused Of Horses And Men, Jenny Slate's performance in Gillian Robespierre's Obvious Child, Jessica Oreck's The Vanquishing Of The Witch Baba Yaga, Talal Derki's Syrian documentary Return To Homs and the connection with Hubert Sauper's Sudan doc We Come As Friends...
- 3/25/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
It seems with each passing year the flood of year end lists are published earlier and earlier, assuring that at least a handful of films deserving a place on any given list are missed due to a lack of time and opportunity. Even here at Ioncinema.com, posting my list after the calender year has actually closed, it feels a little premature writing up a list, knowing there are plenty of films that I’ve yet to see due to a lack of screenings nearby – Mr. Turner, Foxcatcher, Leviathan, Winter Sleep and Selma just to name a few. I should note that it seems there is a lack of international releases on this list as well, but rest assured, of the many I saw this year, most won’t reach a domestic release until sometime in 2015, so films like Christian Petzold’s Phoenix, Tsai Ming-liang’s Journey to the West,...
- 1/5/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
The seventh edition of Unknown Pleasures, Berlin's festival of American independent film, will open on January 1 with Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens's Land Ho! and run through January 16. Along with a special program devoted to the work of Alfred Guzzetti, highlights include Gregg Araki's White Bird in a Blizzard, Abel Ferrara's Welcome to New York, Robert Greene's Actress, Jessica Oreck's The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga, Mike Ott's Lake Los Angeles, Nathan Silver's Uncertain Terms, Tim Sutton's Memphis, Joe Swanberg's Happy Christmas, Gina Telaroli's Here's to the Future! and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky's Ellie Lumme. » - David Hudson...
- 12/5/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
The seventh edition of Unknown Pleasures, Berlin's festival of American independent film, will open on January 1 with Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens's Land Ho! and run through January 16. Along with a special program devoted to the work of Alfred Guzzetti, highlights include Gregg Araki's White Bird in a Blizzard, Abel Ferrara's Welcome to New York, Robert Greene's Actress, Jessica Oreck's The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga, Mike Ott's Lake Los Angeles, Nathan Silver's Uncertain Terms, Tim Sutton's Memphis, Joe Swanberg's Happy Christmas, Gina Telaroli's Here's to the Future! and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky's Ellie Lumme. » - David Hudson...
- 12/5/2014
- Keyframe
Redmayne lauded for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.
Belgian director Gust van den Berghe’s Lucifer was presented with the Grand Prix – including a €10,000 grant from the City of Tallinn - at the 18th edition of the Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 14-30) at the weekend.
This is the first year that Tallinn’s International Competition was held with Black Nights now operating as a Fiapf-designated non-specialised competitive festival.
Van den Berghe’s third feature had its world premiere in Rome’s Cinema d’Oggi competition at the Rome Film Festival in October and is being handled internationally by the Paris/Mexico-based sales company Ndm.
The International Jury including Finnish actress Kati Outinen and film-makers Andrei Proshkin (Russia) and Tomasz Wasilewski (Poland) awarded the prize for Best Cinematographer to Erik Põllumaa for his work on Estonian film-maker Martti Helde’s In The Crosswind and for Best Director to Kyrgyzstan’s Marat Sarulu for Move...
Belgian director Gust van den Berghe’s Lucifer was presented with the Grand Prix – including a €10,000 grant from the City of Tallinn - at the 18th edition of the Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 14-30) at the weekend.
This is the first year that Tallinn’s International Competition was held with Black Nights now operating as a Fiapf-designated non-specialised competitive festival.
Van den Berghe’s third feature had its world premiere in Rome’s Cinema d’Oggi competition at the Rome Film Festival in October and is being handled internationally by the Paris/Mexico-based sales company Ndm.
The International Jury including Finnish actress Kati Outinen and film-makers Andrei Proshkin (Russia) and Tomasz Wasilewski (Poland) awarded the prize for Best Cinematographer to Erik Põllumaa for his work on Estonian film-maker Martti Helde’s In The Crosswind and for Best Director to Kyrgyzstan’s Marat Sarulu for Move...
- 12/1/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Other prizes included a Best Actor prize for Eddie Redmayne for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.
Belgian director Gust van den Berghe’s Lucifer was presented with the Grand Prix – including a €10,000 grant from the City of Tallinn - at the 18th edition of the Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 14-30) at the weekend.
This is the first year that Tallinn’s International Competition was held with Black Nights now operating as a Fiapf-designated non-specialised competitive festival.
Van den Berghe’s third feature had its world premiere in Rome’s Cinema d’Oggi competition at the Rome Film Festival in October and is being handled internationally by the Paris/Mexico-based sales company Ndm.
The International Jury including Finnish actress Kati Outinen and film-makers Andrei Proshkin (Russia) and Tomasz Wasilewski (Poland) awarded the prize for Best Cinematographer to Erik Põllumaa for his work on Estonian film-maker Martti Helde’s In The Crosswind and for...
Belgian director Gust van den Berghe’s Lucifer was presented with the Grand Prix – including a €10,000 grant from the City of Tallinn - at the 18th edition of the Black Nights Film Festival (Nov 14-30) at the weekend.
This is the first year that Tallinn’s International Competition was held with Black Nights now operating as a Fiapf-designated non-specialised competitive festival.
Van den Berghe’s third feature had its world premiere in Rome’s Cinema d’Oggi competition at the Rome Film Festival in October and is being handled internationally by the Paris/Mexico-based sales company Ndm.
The International Jury including Finnish actress Kati Outinen and film-makers Andrei Proshkin (Russia) and Tomasz Wasilewski (Poland) awarded the prize for Best Cinematographer to Erik Põllumaa for his work on Estonian film-maker Martti Helde’s In The Crosswind and for...
- 12/1/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
With Jessica Oreck’s The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga opening today at MoMA in New York for a week-long run, we are rerunning Howard Feinstein’s review from the New Directors New Films festival. Running the length of this labor-intensive doc about man’s late-developing historical estrangement from nature are excellent hand-painted animated panels depicting a composite Slavic fairy tale about displaced tween siblings Ivan and Alona who have, out of desperation, taken refuge in a forest they had learned to fear as small children. Residing there is the evil witch Baba Yaga, whose house is built on chicken legs and […]...
- 10/15/2014
- by Howard Feinstein
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
With Jessica Oreck’s The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga opening today at MoMA in New York for a week-long run, we are rerunning Howard Feinstein’s review from the New Directors New Films festival. Running the length of this labor-intensive doc about man’s late-developing historical estrangement from nature are excellent hand-painted animated panels depicting a composite Slavic fairy tale about displaced tween siblings Ivan and Alona who have, out of desperation, taken refuge in a forest they had learned to fear as small children. Residing there is the evil witch Baba Yaga, whose house is built on chicken legs and […]...
- 10/15/2014
- by Howard Feinstein
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
It’s no small feat that Jessica Oreck’s The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga lives up to the singularity of its title, cramming a dizzying array of aesthetic strategies into its 73 minutes: fairytale animation, documentary footage of post-communist Eastern Europe, and recurring narration that blends philosophical deliberation with first-person recollection.
The quick, three-shot prologue, which moves in on an open window, introduces an idea that resonates across the film: “Culture imagines an inherent advantage over the wild and builds high walls to keep it out.” Images of wasted buildings and Weekend-style tracking shots past traffic-stalled vehicles illustrate the serious toll of human activity on nature. But such gloom is hardly the de...
The quick, three-shot prologue, which moves in on an open window, introduces an idea that resonates across the film: “Culture imagines an inherent advantage over the wild and builds high walls to keep it out.” Images of wasted buildings and Weekend-style tracking shots past traffic-stalled vehicles illustrate the serious toll of human activity on nature. But such gloom is hardly the de...
- 10/15/2014
- Village Voice
Jessica Oreck's latest film, The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga is a heady confluence of avant-garde collage, documentary portraiture, essayistic reflection and hand-drawn classical animation. Baba Yaga is a film about how myth and history are passed down and inherited, and about how, as in the Godard story, they are shared among families, communities and cultures. >> - Calum Marsh...
- 9/29/2014
- Keyframe
Jessica Oreck's latest film, The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga is a heady confluence of avant-garde collage, documentary portraiture, essayistic reflection and hand-drawn classical animation. Baba Yaga is a film about how myth and history are passed down and inherited, and about how, as in the Godard story, they are shared among families, communities and cultures. >> - Calum Marsh...
- 9/29/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Hp has joined forces with presenting partner Made in New York Media Center by Ifp (Filmmaker‘s publisher) to present Power Up, a five-day festival of new work and discussions centering around technology and creativity. Of particular interest to Filmmaker readers are events feature 25 New Faces Jessica Oreck and Andrew S. Allen; Paul Trillo’s short, A Truncated Story of Infinity, recently featured at Filmmaker; and a screening of director and Film Fatales founder Leah Meyerhoff’s debut feature, I Believe in Unicorns. Other notable events include an discussion on architecture with Daniel Libeskind and a panel on the VFX of James […]...
- 9/24/2014
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Hp has joined forces with presenting partner Made in New York Media Center by Ifp (Filmmaker‘s publisher) to present Power Up, a five-day festival of new work and discussions centering around technology and creativity. Of particular interest to Filmmaker readers are events feature 25 New Faces Jessica Oreck and Andrew S. Allen; Paul Trillo’s short, A Truncated Story of Infinity, recently featured at Filmmaker; and a screening of director and Film Fatales founder Leah Meyerhoff’s debut feature, I Believe in Unicorns. Other notable events include an discussion on architecture with Daniel Libeskind and a panel on the VFX of James […]...
- 9/24/2014
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Thanks to the increase in access to small scale non-fiction films through the barrage of streaming services viewers now have access to – Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime, Mubi, Vudu, etc – people are watching more documentaries than ever before. You can literally turn on any web ready device of your choosing and be watching any number of top quality docs within a number of seconds. It’s nothing short of incredible. But, with ease of access comes an over saturation of content used to fill in the curatorial gaps. For every Marwencol, Senna, Gimme Shelter or The Act of Killing, there are heaps of ordures cinéma clogging up precious bandwidth. And let’s not forget, cinemas themselves are enjoying a renewed trust in the non-fiction form, exhibiting over 100 documentaries on the silver screen last year and banking over $50 Million at the box office in the process, not including the hundreds of...
- 7/28/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Meeting up with director Jessica Oreck at this year’s Hot Docs Film Festival in the lobby of a hotel in the museum district of Toronto just an hour before she hopped on yet another plane as part of her current festival tour took a bit of persistence, not because the brilliant young filmmaker was being actively evasive, but that her tendency to cater to her introverted nature often keeps her from actively promoting her breathtakingly beautiful works of art. This fact might explain why Oreck’s latest film, The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba, still sadly lacks a domestic distributor, though, thankfully, she did finally agree to meet with me to discuss her latest film which delves into a kaleidoscope of ideas pertaining to Eastern European myth and the woodlands in which the rural population continue to live their lives as if frozen in a timeless fairy tale. Touching...
- 7/28/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
★★★☆☆ Having premièred at last year's Tribeca Film Festival, Jessica Oreck's Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys (2013) reaches UK cinemas this week on limited release. It's a meditative study on the lives and rituals of reindeer herders in Lapland - a delicate, deeply evocative 'slice of life' that tranquilly contemplates our relationship with the natural world. A documentary in the simplest sense, Aatsinki's minimalist approach observes a family of reindeer herders in Finnish Lapland for an entire year. The Finnish landscape is sublime, romantically photographed by Oreck with ice-layered vistas and crisp snow giving way to banks of firs trees that proudly stand to attention against the horizon.
- 5/27/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Of Forest and Folklore: Oreck Lenses Extraordinary Essay on Eastern European Relationship with Land and Myth
Recently, Jessica Oreck has been settling into a more time sensitive short form with her ambitious etymology web series Mysteries of Vernacular, in which she unearths the surprising origins of the English language in two minute snippets. It’s understandable when you consider her densely layered latest feature, The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga, has been over five years in the making. The project began as an ethnographic exploration of Eastern European mushroom foragers in line with her beetle hunting debut Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, but it’s since transformed into something much more mysteriously enigmatic. Oreck’s dreamy tale unfurls as a poetic travelogue of a timeless Slavic territory, its inhabitants still following long held traditions and bearing all the scars of the region’s tumultuous history. The abiding antiquity of her...
Recently, Jessica Oreck has been settling into a more time sensitive short form with her ambitious etymology web series Mysteries of Vernacular, in which she unearths the surprising origins of the English language in two minute snippets. It’s understandable when you consider her densely layered latest feature, The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga, has been over five years in the making. The project began as an ethnographic exploration of Eastern European mushroom foragers in line with her beetle hunting debut Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, but it’s since transformed into something much more mysteriously enigmatic. Oreck’s dreamy tale unfurls as a poetic travelogue of a timeless Slavic territory, its inhabitants still following long held traditions and bearing all the scars of the region’s tumultuous history. The abiding antiquity of her...
- 5/12/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Above: The Apple
The celebratory attitude at the True/False Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri, speaks to the healthy state of nonfiction filmmaking at present. True to its name, the festival spotlights new films that incorporate elements of both fiction and documentary (and sometimes blur the line between the two), yet even the selections that resemble more traditional investigative reporting uphold a certain standard of artfulness. More impressively, the festival organizers make a point of incorporating the Columbia community into the celebration. Somewhere between 700 and 900 residents of the town and surrounding areas volunteered at the fest this year, and many businesses I encountered seemed happy to get in on the act too. (“Don’t be fooled by False advertising,” read my favorite sandwich board. “Try our True Thai cuisine!”) Roughly half of the screenings took place in locations not usually reserved for movies—a rock venue, a couple of churches,...
The celebratory attitude at the True/False Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri, speaks to the healthy state of nonfiction filmmaking at present. True to its name, the festival spotlights new films that incorporate elements of both fiction and documentary (and sometimes blur the line between the two), yet even the selections that resemble more traditional investigative reporting uphold a certain standard of artfulness. More impressively, the festival organizers make a point of incorporating the Columbia community into the celebration. Somewhere between 700 and 900 residents of the town and surrounding areas volunteered at the fest this year, and many businesses I encountered seemed happy to get in on the act too. (“Don’t be fooled by False advertising,” read my favorite sandwich board. “Try our True Thai cuisine!”) Roughly half of the screenings took place in locations not usually reserved for movies—a rock venue, a couple of churches,...
- 3/24/2014
- by Ben Sachs
- MUBI
"I think there is a little bit of a battle between nostalgia and reality" The 43rd New Directors/New Films in New York is presenting the World Premiere of Jessica Oreck's timely foraging of memory - The Vanquishing Of The Witch Baba Yaga. On the first full day of spring, I met up with the director at Lincoln Center where we discussed the influence of Vladimir Propp, the poetic connections made for her by Andrei Codrescu, going into the forest with Robert Pogue Harrison, mycology, and how it is best to edit at the threshold.
Golden chanterelles, a shepherd and grazing horses, a woman in traditional embroidered garb sitting in front of a blue house in a tiny village. A scarecrow made out of beer cans flutters its rope arms in the wind. A dismal, run-down Eastern Bloc apartment complex, each balcony a different shade, each shabbiness a different look.
Golden chanterelles, a shepherd and grazing horses, a woman in traditional embroidered garb sitting in front of a blue house in a tiny village. A scarecrow made out of beer cans flutters its rope arms in the wind. A dismal, run-down Eastern Bloc apartment complex, each balcony a different shade, each shabbiness a different look.
- 3/23/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
New Directors/New Films opening selection A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night "speaks volumes politically about Iran and other things" New York's annual showcase of fresh filmmaking talent, New Directors/New Films, kicks off on March 19 with opening night film Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. Other highlights include Richard Ayoade's The Double, Hélène Cattet's The Strange Colour Of Your Body's Tears, Albert Serra's Story Of My Death, Jessica Oreck's The Vanquishing Of The Witch Baba Yaga, and closing night portrait of Nick Cave, 20,000 Days on Earth directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard.
Marian Masone with Anne-Katrin Titze on New Directors/New Films: "At this point, just about every filmmaker is planning to come" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze Marian Masone, Associate Director of Programming at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, offered insight on filmmakers using a "genre to tell...
Marian Masone with Anne-Katrin Titze on New Directors/New Films: "At this point, just about every filmmaker is planning to come" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze Marian Masone, Associate Director of Programming at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, offered insight on filmmakers using a "genre to tell...
- 3/18/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
As a lover of old, rustic folktales and being married to a descendant of an eastern European Jew, Baba Yaga holds a special place in my heart. Creepier and more twisted than the Grimm Bros' tales, Baba Yaga tells a story of a witch who lives in a hut that stands on giant chicken legs and eats children who get lost in the forest. In its many variations, the witch is often perceived as both venerable and monstrous.Jessica Oreck's ravishing new film is not a mere anthropological documentary on Eastern Europe. As with her first two beautiful films, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo and Aatsinki: The Arctic Cowboy, Baba Yaga also falls neatly into region specific ethnographic study at first, this time, of the Slavic world....
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- 3/17/2014
- Screen Anarchy
2014 is now in full swing, the Sundance Film Festival has closed its doors, and film festivals like South by Southwest and Tribeca are generating more buzz for the year’s noteworthy indie narratives and documentaries. In recent years, documentaries such as Restrepo, Gasland, and Searching For Sugarman went on to become heavyweights. This year’s contenders include topics taken from popular memoirs and biographies, along with subject matter pertaining to youths and youth culture. Below, you’ll find a comprehensive list of Sundance and non-Sundance documentaries to keep an eye out for this year, equipped with official synopsis and trailer when available. 2014 is shaping out to a versatile year in the documentary world, ranging from heavy-handed family dramas such as Tracy Droz Tragos’ and Andrew Droz Palermo’s Rich Hill, to baseball biographies such as Chapman and Maclain Way’s The Battered Bastards of Baseball and Jeff Radice’s No No A Dockumentary,...
- 3/9/2014
- by Christopher Clemente
- SoundOnSight
The uncompromising yet lovely vérité doc Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys takes an unadorned, soulful look at a year in the lives of a pair of brothers who are among a collective of reindeer herders in rural Finland. A departure in many ways from the zany Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, Jessica Oreck’s new film is bloody and ice bound, showcasing a world of rustic north European life rarely glimpsed on screen. The grim slaughter of reindeer and the daily tribulations of running such an operation doesn’t escape the director’s eye; neither does the tenderness and decency of the people doing such work. […]...
- 2/3/2014
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The uncompromising yet lovely vérité doc Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys takes an unadorned, soulful look at a year in the lives of a pair of brothers who are among a collective of reindeer herders in rural Finland. A departure in many ways from the zany Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, Jessica Oreck’s new film is bloody and ice bound, showcasing a world of rustic north European life rarely glimpsed on screen. The grim slaughter of reindeer and the daily tribulations of running such an operation doesn’t escape the director’s eye; neither does the tenderness and decency of the people doing such work. […]...
- 2/3/2014
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
There are helicopters and snowmobiles and walkie-talkies in use throughout Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys, but the tool most often employed in Jessica Oreck's patient, immersive documentary is a more primitive one: the knife.
The Finnish reindeer herders (primarily brothers Aarne and Lasse Aatsinki) whose rugged existence she's chronicled here, are forever stripping branches into smaller pieces of firewood; in one enveloping early sequence, we watch two workers dissect an animal into its exports of meat and fur using a palm-sized blade but also a hacksaw.
As in those firewood shots, Oreck's camera follows the trail of the blade, at least until the time comes to hunch over and extract the reindeer's swollen, slippery stomach.
Her film contains lit...
The Finnish reindeer herders (primarily brothers Aarne and Lasse Aatsinki) whose rugged existence she's chronicled here, are forever stripping branches into smaller pieces of firewood; in one enveloping early sequence, we watch two workers dissect an animal into its exports of meat and fur using a palm-sized blade but also a hacksaw.
As in those firewood shots, Oreck's camera follows the trail of the blade, at least until the time comes to hunch over and extract the reindeer's swollen, slippery stomach.
Her film contains lit...
- 1/22/2014
- Village Voice
For us in North America, Winter formally arrives this Saturday, December 21. But the season has already changed — online, at least, and to Fall — for the arctic cowboys of Aatsinki Season, the hypnotic online collaboration between director Jessica Oreck and transmedia developers Murmur. For the last nine months, an online extension of Oreck’s documentary, Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys, has been streaming and scrolling online, with each quarter bringing a new set of meditative observations. When the project premiered, Oreck discussed the difference between the film and the site: The film is very pure, direct cinema—an immersive […]...
- 12/19/2013
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
For us in North America, Winter formally arrives this Saturday, December 21. But the season has already changed — online, at least, and to Fall — for the arctic cowboys of Aatsinki Season, the hypnotic online collaboration between director Jessica Oreck and transmedia developers Murmur. For the last nine months, an online extension of Oreck’s documentary, Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys, has been streaming and scrolling online, with each quarter bringing a new set of meditative observations. When the project premiered, Oreck discussed the difference between the film and the site: The film is very pure, direct cinema—an immersive […]...
- 12/19/2013
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
The programme for the 57th BFI London Film Festival was recently announced, with the BFI’s Head of Cinemas and Festivals, Clare Stewart, returning for her second year with a rich and diverse group of international films and events from established and upcoming talent over a 12-day celebration of cinema.
The Festival will screen 234 fiction and documentary features, including 22 World Premieres, 16 International Premieres, 29 European Premieres, and 20 Archive films. There will also be screenings of 134 live-action and animated shorts. A stellar line-up of directors, cast and crew are expected to take part in career interviews, master classes, and other special events. The 57th BFI London Film Festival will run from 9-20 October 2013.
The Festival’s screenings are at venues across the capital, from the West End cinemas – Odeon West End, Vue West End, Odeon Leicester Square and a new addition this year the Cineworld Haymarket; to central London venues – BFI Southbank; the Ica,...
The Festival will screen 234 fiction and documentary features, including 22 World Premieres, 16 International Premieres, 29 European Premieres, and 20 Archive films. There will also be screenings of 134 live-action and animated shorts. A stellar line-up of directors, cast and crew are expected to take part in career interviews, master classes, and other special events. The 57th BFI London Film Festival will run from 9-20 October 2013.
The Festival’s screenings are at venues across the capital, from the West End cinemas – Odeon West End, Vue West End, Odeon Leicester Square and a new addition this year the Cineworld Haymarket; to central London venues – BFI Southbank; the Ica,...
- 9/18/2013
- by John
- SoundOnSight
This morning at London's Odeon Leicester Square, the British Film Institute announced the full programme for the 57th BFI London Film Festival, a twelve-day extravaganza showcasing the very best in upcoming mainstream, world and experimental cinema. With British director Paul Greengrass' hijack thriller Captain Phillips and Disney's Saving Mr. Banks (both starring Tom Hanks) already announced as the opening and closing films, the stage was set for a whole raft of high profile Gala screenings and premieres, including the cream of 2013's international festival crop. Amongst these will be Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity, Steve McQueen's Twelve Years a Slave and the Coens' Inside Llewyn Davis.
This year's Lff will screen a total of 234 narrative and documentary features, including 22 World Premieres, 16 International Premieres, 29 European Premieres and 20 Archive films. A stellar line-up of directors, cast and crew are also expected to take part in career interviews, master classes and other special events.
This year's Lff will screen a total of 234 narrative and documentary features, including 22 World Premieres, 16 International Premieres, 29 European Premieres and 20 Archive films. A stellar line-up of directors, cast and crew are also expected to take part in career interviews, master classes and other special events.
- 9/4/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Browse all the sections of the 57th London Film Festival (Oct 9-20) including the galas, competition titles and individual sections.
Alphabetical list of titles by section including feature premiere status
Wp = Wp
Ep = European Premiere
IP = International Premiere
UK = UK Premiere
Gala’s
Opening Night
Captain Phillips, Paul Greengrass (Us) Ep
Closing Night
Saving Mr Banks, John Lee Hancock (Us/UK) Ep
Philomena, Stephen Frears (UK) UK12 Years A Slave, Steve Mcqueen (UK) EPGravity, Alfonso Cuaron (Us) UKInside Llewyn Davis, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (Us) UKLabor Day, Jason Reitman (Us) EPThe Invisible Woman, Ralph Fiennes (UK), EPThe Epic Of Everest, John Noel (UK) WPBlue Is The Warmest Colour, Abdellatif Kechiche (France) UKNight Moves, Kelly Reichardt (Us) UKStranger By The Lake, Alain Guiraudie (France) UKDon Jon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Us) UKMystery Road, Ivan Sen (Australia) UKOnly Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch (Us) UKNebraska, Alexander Payne (Us) UKWe Are The Best!, Lukas Moodysson (Sweden) EPFoosball 3D, Juan Jose Campanella (Argentina...
Alphabetical list of titles by section including feature premiere status
Wp = Wp
Ep = European Premiere
IP = International Premiere
UK = UK Premiere
Gala’s
Opening Night
Captain Phillips, Paul Greengrass (Us) Ep
Closing Night
Saving Mr Banks, John Lee Hancock (Us/UK) Ep
Philomena, Stephen Frears (UK) UK12 Years A Slave, Steve Mcqueen (UK) EPGravity, Alfonso Cuaron (Us) UKInside Llewyn Davis, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen (Us) UKLabor Day, Jason Reitman (Us) EPThe Invisible Woman, Ralph Fiennes (UK), EPThe Epic Of Everest, John Noel (UK) WPBlue Is The Warmest Colour, Abdellatif Kechiche (France) UKNight Moves, Kelly Reichardt (Us) UKStranger By The Lake, Alain Guiraudie (France) UKDon Jon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Us) UKMystery Road, Ivan Sen (Australia) UKOnly Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch (Us) UKNebraska, Alexander Payne (Us) UKWe Are The Best!, Lukas Moodysson (Sweden) EPFoosball 3D, Juan Jose Campanella (Argentina...
- 9/4/2013
- ScreenDaily
The 57th BFI London Film Festival line-up has officially been revealed, and it is led by a slew of incredibly promising films, many of which have already been buzzing on the festival circuit, and a number of which will be making their debuts here in London.
As previously announced, Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips will open the festival next month, and John Lee Hancock’s Saving Mr. Banks will close it, book-ending the festival with Tom Hanks leading two highly prominent, Oscar-primed movies.
Stephen Frears’ Philomena was also previously announced as the Lff American Express Gala, with The Epic of Everest announced as the Lff Archive Gala.
And leading the line-up alongside them this year will be some of the most Oscar-buzzed movies of 2013, including Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, Jason Reitman’s Labor Day, Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (in 3D), Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis, Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem,...
As previously announced, Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips will open the festival next month, and John Lee Hancock’s Saving Mr. Banks will close it, book-ending the festival with Tom Hanks leading two highly prominent, Oscar-primed movies.
Stephen Frears’ Philomena was also previously announced as the Lff American Express Gala, with The Epic of Everest announced as the Lff Archive Gala.
And leading the line-up alongside them this year will be some of the most Oscar-buzzed movies of 2013, including Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, Jason Reitman’s Labor Day, Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (in 3D), Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis, Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem,...
- 9/4/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Sorry for the fairly short list this week. Been kind of a nutty week for me, so I haven’t been as on top of things.
Here’s an awesome new project that I missed linking to last week: Boston Viewfinder, which helps people find off-beat screenings in the Boston area — and appears there’s a ton going on there. Every city needs a site like this. Jeff Krulik has been busy getting interviewed a lot lately. Here’s one conducted by the Maryland Moving Image Archive, which is nice to see this great filmmaker getting wonderful local recognition lately. Robert Maier reviews the documentary The Iran Job, which sheds some much needed light on progressive movements in that country. Maier rates it an absolute “Must See.” Making Light of It has an amazing photo from the first ever screening of Wavelength, featuring Ken Jacobs, Shirley Clarke, George Kuchar and...
Here’s an awesome new project that I missed linking to last week: Boston Viewfinder, which helps people find off-beat screenings in the Boston area — and appears there’s a ton going on there. Every city needs a site like this. Jeff Krulik has been busy getting interviewed a lot lately. Here’s one conducted by the Maryland Moving Image Archive, which is nice to see this great filmmaker getting wonderful local recognition lately. Robert Maier reviews the documentary The Iran Job, which sheds some much needed light on progressive movements in that country. Maier rates it an absolute “Must See.” Making Light of It has an amazing photo from the first ever screening of Wavelength, featuring Ken Jacobs, Shirley Clarke, George Kuchar and...
- 7/21/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Less than three months since she premiered her documentary, Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys, at the Tribeca Film Festival, Jessica Oreck is both on the road and back with new work. This Working Man is a web project combining video portraiture, travel, and crowdsourced curation. From the project’s website: This Working Man is a series of short portraits of men at work. It is about practiced motion, kinetic movement, bodies, and forms. It is about a particular type of man: exceedingly capable, strong, confident, and diligent. The project is a search for humble masculinity and an unapologetic admittance of …...
- 7/16/2013
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Revelation Perth is wrapping up ripping it up Down Under today. Or, it may have just concluded by the time you read this — the time difference thing always makes me crazy. Anyway, there’s been loads of press for the event. Sbs interviewed filmmaker Richard Wolstencroft about his provocative new documentary The Last Days of Joe Blow that just World Premiered at Rev. (They give him a good grilling.) (Photo above is from the doc.) Meanwhile, ABC has a fantastic video interview with Rev founder Richard Sowada about the death of Hollywood that everyone’s gabbing about these days. The video has lots of great clips of this year’s Rev lineup. Then, at Fandor, Jonathan Marlow interviews filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer about his controversial film The Act of Killing, which has played Rev and lots of other underground fests so far this year. Helpful tip of the day: Beware of Icy Breasts.
- 7/14/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Comedian Patton Oswalt once said the reason why he loved the Coen Brothers' films is because they drop you in a place and a time, and they don't explain much. Rather than acting as tour guide through their world, they expect the audience to be smart and guide themselves through the experience. Jessica Oreck takes a similar approach to the animal documentary with Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys. There is no Morgan Freeman narration to lead the audience through the happy shiny world of reindeer herding, but as someone who has seen plenty of those Morgan Freeman nature documentaries, this was a needed change of pace.
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- 4/24/2013
- by Rachel Kolb
- JustPressPlay.net
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