This documentary about the oddball musician may not satisfy completists, but it’s still a fascinating run-through of Zappa’s greatest – and weirdest – moments
My wife can handle my snoring and my tendency to forget to do the dishes, but all bets are off when I drag out my Frank Zappa albums. To the great many people who just can’t stand the man’s music, it is an antic mess of arpeggios, endless guitar solos, puerile baby noises, irritating musique concrète and vulgar lyrics. (I’ll agree to a lot of this, and that’s coming from a diehard fan.) German director Thorsten Schütte’s documentary Eat That Question: Frank Zappa In His Own Words would finally, I think, get her to understand just what it is that I love about the foul-mouthed mustachioed freak. That is, if I could ever convince her to watch it.
Like Steven Soderbergh’s documentary on Spalding Gray,...
My wife can handle my snoring and my tendency to forget to do the dishes, but all bets are off when I drag out my Frank Zappa albums. To the great many people who just can’t stand the man’s music, it is an antic mess of arpeggios, endless guitar solos, puerile baby noises, irritating musique concrète and vulgar lyrics. (I’ll agree to a lot of this, and that’s coming from a diehard fan.) German director Thorsten Schütte’s documentary Eat That Question: Frank Zappa In His Own Words would finally, I think, get her to understand just what it is that I love about the foul-mouthed mustachioed freak. That is, if I could ever convince her to watch it.
Like Steven Soderbergh’s documentary on Spalding Gray,...
- 1/26/2016
- by Jordan Hoffman
- The Guardian - Film News
Why the Slamdance Film Festival isn't more celebrated for its documentary finds each year is a question I ask, well, every year. Sure, its annual feature-doc program isn't filled exclusively with good movies, but neither is Sundance nor any other festival. There have been at least a few in every crop of eight-or-so titles that I'd recommend, and in most year's there's at least one really terrific work. Look at some of the successes to come out of Slamdance for proof that it's worthy of serious doc fans' attendance: Mad Hot Ballroom, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists and Steven Soderbergh's And Everything Is Going Fine all had their premieres at...
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- 1/22/2014
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
Steven Soderbergh took And Everything Is Going Fine to Slamdance in 2010 Speaking to the co-founder and president of Slamdance film festival Peter Baxter over Skype, it's hard to believe how far technology has come since the January in 1995, when a small group of indie filmmakers - ticked off that none of them had managed to get into Sundance Film Festival - decided to see whether fortune would favour the brave. Twenty editions later - and with alumni including Boon Jong-Ho, Christopher Nolan, Seth Gorden and Marc Forster - its fair to say that their gamble has paid off, with even the likes of Steven Soderbergh - whose Sex, Lies And Videotape was an early Sundance hit - taking his film And Everything Is Going Fine there in 2010. When asked why at the time, he said simply, "Share the love, babe".
Back in 1995, though, there wasn't a huge amount of love around for independent filmmakers.
Back in 1995, though, there wasn't a huge amount of love around for independent filmmakers.
- 1/15/2014
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
When a filmmaker creates a period piece, the audience will expect certain details to be highlighted as an effort of world-building and cinematic magic. They are commonly referred to as costume dramas, a display of a large amount of money pumped into costume and set design to amaze modern audiences in their plight for historicity. With The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann was able to milk our infatuation to the point that several men’s fashion designers crafted clothing lines around the film. There are anywhere from one to three big pictures like this each year that will flaunt their stars in period-perfect garb, take home their Best Picture Oscar, and fall into obscurity. What may rescue many of these films is their ability to not simply match the look of the past, but its feeling, the atmosphere of the times that helps audiences relate to characters long dead and presented in unimaginable circumstances.
- 11/26/2013
- by Zach Lewis
- SoundOnSight
Here’s a first look at All Is Lost. Lionsgate, Roadside Attractions, Academy Award-winner Robert Redford, and Academy Award-nominated writer/director J.C. Chandor (Best Writing, Original Screenplay for Margin Call) jointly announced that principal photography has wrapped on the open water thriller All Is Lost at Baja Studios in Rosarito, Mexico. Chandor wrote and directed the film, and Redford stars in a solo performance of one man lost at sea and his battle against the elements to stay alive. Before The Door Pictures. Neal Dodson and Washington Square Films. Anna Gerb are producing.
“After an intense two months of shooting on the water, we.re headed home and have finished production on schedule,. said Dodson and Gerb. .Jc is making an audacious film with a brave performance at its center.”
The director of photography is Frankie DeMarco and the editor is Pete Beaudreau, both of whom collaborated with Chandor on Margin Call.
“After an intense two months of shooting on the water, we.re headed home and have finished production on schedule,. said Dodson and Gerb. .Jc is making an audacious film with a brave performance at its center.”
The director of photography is Frankie DeMarco and the editor is Pete Beaudreau, both of whom collaborated with Chandor on Margin Call.
- 8/8/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
By Allen Gardner
The Samurai Trilogy (Criterion) Director Hiroshi Inagaki’s sprawling epic filmed from 1954-56 is an early Japanese Technicolor masterpiece, rivaling the scope of filmmakers like David Lean and Luchino Visconti. Toshiro Mifune, Japan’s greatest actor, stars as real-life swordsman, artist and writer Musashi Miyamoto, following his growth from callow youth to disciplined warrior. The three films: the Oscar winning “Musashi Miyamoto,” “Duel at Ichijoji Temple,” and “Duel at Ganryu Island” are an incredible story of human growth, tender love and sublime, blood-soaked action. Not to be missed. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Interviews with translator and historian William Scott Wilson; Trailers. Full screen. Dolby 1.0 mono.
The 39 Steps (Criterion) Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 story of spies, conspiracies and sexual tension put him on the map on both sides of the Pond. Robert Donat stars as an innocent thrust into a deadly plot alongside a cool blonde (Madeleine Carroll...
The Samurai Trilogy (Criterion) Director Hiroshi Inagaki’s sprawling epic filmed from 1954-56 is an early Japanese Technicolor masterpiece, rivaling the scope of filmmakers like David Lean and Luchino Visconti. Toshiro Mifune, Japan’s greatest actor, stars as real-life swordsman, artist and writer Musashi Miyamoto, following his growth from callow youth to disciplined warrior. The three films: the Oscar winning “Musashi Miyamoto,” “Duel at Ichijoji Temple,” and “Duel at Ganryu Island” are an incredible story of human growth, tender love and sublime, blood-soaked action. Not to be missed. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Interviews with translator and historian William Scott Wilson; Trailers. Full screen. Dolby 1.0 mono.
The 39 Steps (Criterion) Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 story of spies, conspiracies and sexual tension put him on the map on both sides of the Pond. Robert Donat stars as an innocent thrust into a deadly plot alongside a cool blonde (Madeleine Carroll...
- 7/9/2012
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Master monologist Spalding Gray, a proven stage and part time screen actor, as well as the man behind such cinematic creations as Swimming To Cambodia, Monster In A Box, and Gray’s Anatomy, unfortunately perished in New York’s East River after a long and troubled bout with depression in 2004. Paying tribute to his friend and colleague, director Steven Soderbergh pieced together And Everything Is Going Fine, an autobiography of sorts, concocted of snippets from Gray’s many monologues, interviews, and home videos he left behind. A stirring, often funny film like this would never be possible to construct about most artists, but Gray’s unique creative expression was almost always an outpouring of personal experience, that when edited down to a single narrative, is basically his life’s story.
Like his light touch direction on Gray’s Anatomy, Soderbergh never interjects here. He allows Gray to tell his own story,...
Like his light touch direction on Gray’s Anatomy, Soderbergh never interjects here. He allows Gray to tell his own story,...
- 7/3/2012
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
This week on Operation Kino we're waxing our chests and strapping on G-strings, as we review the new Steven Soderbergh/Channing Tatum male stripper movie Magic Mike. From there we look over the year so far, pointing out our favorite and least favorite movies of the year so far, along with some of our favorite surprises. Before any of that, though, there's a lightning round inspired by the hotness of the Magic Mike cast, plus tidbits, in which Da7e tackles the depiction of women in Girls and The Legend of Korra, David talks up the Steven Soderbergh documentary about Spalding Gray called And Everything Is Going Fine, Katey praises the new indie release Beasts of the Southern Wild, and Patches is surprised to love Seth MacFarlane's Ted. We end, as always, with your lightning round answers for dessert. Take a listen below and find your downloading options; for...
- 6/29/2012
- cinemablend.com
A masterful craftsman even when directing fluff, Steven Soderbergh remains one of the more fascinating American filmmakers working today, continually demonstrating an ability to handle wide-ranging projects without blatantly phoning it in. His last two years of releases have included a documentary on monologuist Spalding Gray ("And Everything Is Going Fine"), an apocalyptic ensemble drama ("Contagion") and a martial arts extravaganza ("Haywire"). His latest, "Magic Mike," has much in common with previous Soderbergh efforts in that it glides along at a terrifically entertaining pace. The opposite of camp, "Magic Mike" is conventionally jolly despite appearances to the contrary. Only Soderbergh could turn a movie about male strippers into a universal crowdpleaser. "Magic Mike" has received plenty of pre-release hype for drawing its story from lead man Channing Tatum's early career experiences as a stripper before his...
- 6/27/2012
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
#617: And Everything Is Going Fine (dir. Steven Soderbergh) 2010 #618: Gray's Anatomy (dir. Steven Soderbergh) 1997 On March 7, 2004, a 28 year-old internet developer named Robin Snead found Spalding Gray’s body down by the Brooklyn waterfront. Complete happenstance. After learning that the waterlogged corpse was that of the famous monologist, Snead called Gray’s wife. In a piece for Esquire Magazine, this is how Snead described their conversation: “I get in touch with his wife, and I mentioned that I’d never try to exploit my discovery. She said, ‘No, please, do whatever you like. You don’t have to be tasteful. This is Spalding Gray. All he ever talked about was his own death.’” Spalding Gray was not a...
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- 6/27/2012
- by David Ehrlich
- Movies.com
After a lifetime’s worth of straight stage work, and several decades of fine tuning his own signature craft, Spalding Gray’s final long form monologue to be converted for the big screen was the Steven Soderbergh directed Gray’s Anatomy. Two previous works (Jonathan Demme’s Swimming To Cambodia and Nick Broomfield’s Monster In A Box) were basically condensed live performances of Gray’s original monologues captured on film, but Soderbergh is not one to follow in the footsteps of previous creators. So, the live audience was scrapped, the budget was minimized, and home viewers are brought directly into the room with a neurotic man born to recount stories, his glass of water, notebook, and microphone, which is anchored iconically to his wooden desk.
In the wake of his previous successful monologues, Gray was approached to create yet another in hopes of cashing in on his then current popularity.
In the wake of his previous successful monologues, Gray was approached to create yet another in hopes of cashing in on his then current popularity.
- 6/26/2012
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
There aren't any earth-shattering new releases on DVD and Blu-ray this week, but still a handful of comedies you might have missed in theatres and a couple of big TV releases as well. David Wain's Wanderlust pretty much bombed at the box office (somewhat surprising for a Paul Rudd / Jennifer Aniston comedy) but received decent reviews, while Project X was slammed by critics and yet it ended up being a financial success. Go figure. You can now catch both of those on DVD along with Jeff, Who Lives at Home starring Ed Helms and Jason Segel, Seeking Justice starring Nicolas Cage, and Brandon and Jason Trost's instant cult classic The Fp. Louie: Season 2 is also in stores this week along with the first season of the FX series Wilfred starring Elijah Wood, plus Criterion releases of Steven Soderbergh's Spalding Gray films Gray's Anatomy and And Everything is Going Fine.
- 6/19/2012
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Edit: I screwed up, I previously had 21 Jump Street on the list, but it doesn't come out until next week. Sorry for the confusion. Jeff, Who Lives at Home A very good movie with an ending that comes out of nowhere and really hits home. The Duplass brothers are, for me, a bit hit and miss, but this was a definite hit.
Wanderlust And here we have a complete misfire. A film sold as a comedy, but it forgot to make us laugh.
Big Miracle I never saw this film, but based on the trailers it looked like a harmless feature that probably would have been better served premiering on Animal Planet than in theaters. Based on the $20 million it made at the theater its receipts seem to agree.
Lockout Lockout is finally where it belongs, on DVD and Blu-ray. This is exactly the kind of film you're looking for...
Wanderlust And here we have a complete misfire. A film sold as a comedy, but it forgot to make us laugh.
Big Miracle I never saw this film, but based on the trailers it looked like a harmless feature that probably would have been better served premiering on Animal Planet than in theaters. Based on the $20 million it made at the theater its receipts seem to agree.
Lockout Lockout is finally where it belongs, on DVD and Blu-ray. This is exactly the kind of film you're looking for...
- 6/19/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
21 Jump Street I know a lot of people are really high on this movie, but the third act is such a misfire I can't give it my full support. Why make such a funny and inventive comedy only to depend on sentimentality and a cliched gross-out joke in the end, both of which are counter-intuitive to everything that was done leading up to those points? That said, I still think you should give this film a watch, but I just don't see it as a buy unless you plan on watching the first 75% and then stopping it after that each time.
Jeff, Who Lives at Home Alternatively, this is a very good movie with an ending that comes out of nowhere and really hits home. The Duplass brothers are, for me, a bit hit and miss, but this was a definite hit.
Wanderlust And here we have a complete misfire.
Jeff, Who Lives at Home Alternatively, this is a very good movie with an ending that comes out of nowhere and really hits home. The Duplass brothers are, for me, a bit hit and miss, but this was a definite hit.
Wanderlust And here we have a complete misfire.
- 6/19/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Moviefone's New Release Pick of the Week "The Fp" What's It About? In a hyper-ridiculous society that bares a few similarities to our own, a mysterious eye-patch-wearing hero battles evil gang leaders in "Dance, Dance Revolution"-style combat where only one man walks away. See It Because: Is it cheesy? Absolutely. Is it technically good? Not really. But an over-the-top midnight movie like this is perfect for a get-together with friends. Moviefone's Blu-ray Pick of the Week "Evita," "Newsies," and "Sister Act 1" & "2" Anniversary Editions What's It About? They were crowd-pleasers then, and they're crowd-pleasers now; four musical hits from the '90s are already eligible for "Anniversary editions." See It Because: They're entertaining as hell. (Also, did we mention you could win all four for free in our giveaway?) New on DVD & Blu-ray "And Everything is Going Fine" (Criterion Collection) What's It About? Steven Soderbergh's documentary of Spalding Gray,...
- 6/18/2012
- by Eric Larnick
- Moviefone
Photos of Daniel Radcliffe in costume as Allan Ginsberg on the set of Kill Your Darlings, and both Ryan Gosling and Rooney Mara at SXSW filming scenes for Terrence Malick's Lawless.
Photos from Riddick, To Rome with Love, Dark Shadows, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Chernobyl Diaries, Bernie and Sparkle.
Posters for Dark Shadows, Upside Down, Battleship, 4:44 Last Day on Earth, Chernobyl Diaries, On the Road.
A new alternate cut of the "Dark Shadows" trailer shows off Alice Cooper's cameo in the film in the final ten seconds. Check that out by clicking here.
Concept illustrator Phil Saunders talks about the design of Iron Man’s Mark VII suit for The Avengers.
"Christopher Nolan has presented his first cut of the anticipated "The Dark Knight Rises" to top Warner Bros. executives…" (full details)
"The world premiere of Marvel's "The Avengers" is set to take place on April 11th at...
Photos from Riddick, To Rome with Love, Dark Shadows, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Chernobyl Diaries, Bernie and Sparkle.
Posters for Dark Shadows, Upside Down, Battleship, 4:44 Last Day on Earth, Chernobyl Diaries, On the Road.
A new alternate cut of the "Dark Shadows" trailer shows off Alice Cooper's cameo in the film in the final ten seconds. Check that out by clicking here.
Concept illustrator Phil Saunders talks about the design of Iron Man’s Mark VII suit for The Avengers.
"Christopher Nolan has presented his first cut of the anticipated "The Dark Knight Rises" to top Warner Bros. executives…" (full details)
"The world premiere of Marvel's "The Avengers" is set to take place on April 11th at...
- 3/20/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Well, time to break open those vacation savings for this summer, as The Criterion Collection have dropped a heckuva slate for June, so let's get to it.
Hinted at in the annual New Year's clue, Danny Boyle's breakout debut film, "Shallow Grave," has indeed joined the collection. Starring Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, and Ewan McGregor, all it takes is a dead body and a suitcase full of money to kick off a twisty, funny and vicious little thriller. This edition will be loaded with extras, including "Digging Your Grave," a documetnary from 1993 about the making of the movie by Kevin Macdonald, two audio commentaries, new cast interviews and more. Pretty great set all around.
Steven Soderbergh and/or Spalding Gray fans have much to rejoice about as the director's 1997 and 2010 films "Gray's Anatomy" and "And Everything Is Going Fine" will get the wacky C. The former is essentially a...
Hinted at in the annual New Year's clue, Danny Boyle's breakout debut film, "Shallow Grave," has indeed joined the collection. Starring Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, and Ewan McGregor, all it takes is a dead body and a suitcase full of money to kick off a twisty, funny and vicious little thriller. This edition will be loaded with extras, including "Digging Your Grave," a documetnary from 1993 about the making of the movie by Kevin Macdonald, two audio commentaries, new cast interviews and more. Pretty great set all around.
Steven Soderbergh and/or Spalding Gray fans have much to rejoice about as the director's 1997 and 2010 films "Gray's Anatomy" and "And Everything Is Going Fine" will get the wacky C. The former is essentially a...
- 3/16/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
#23. Francine Directors/Writers: Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie ShatzkyProducers: Washington Square Films' Joshua Blum (And Everything Is Going Fine) and Katie SternDistributor: Rights Available The Gist: Francine (Melissa Leo), is a woman struggling to find her place in a downtrodden lakeside town after leaving behind a life in prison. Taking a series of jobs working with animals, Francine turns away those who take an interest in her and instead seeks intimacy in the most unlikely of places...(more) Cast: Melissa Leo is the heart and soul of the drama. Keith Leonard, Victoria Charkut, Dave Clark and Mike Halstead co-star. List Worthy Reasons...: The Tiff preemed The Patron Saints was my introduction to the extremely gifted husband and wife directing team of Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky. Some called their vigorous docu-essay depressing, I couldn't have been more animated by this unclassifiable document and I can just imagine...
- 1/8/2012
- IONCINEMA.com
Craig Updegrove's designed the poster for the Anchorage International Film Festival, opening today and running through December 11.
"Peter Kosminsky has earned that rare accolade for a director of television drama: a retrospective at the BFI." In the Telegraph, Jasper Rees notes that Kosminsky is "a pretty much unique figure in contemporary television who has devoted his career to giving the powerful sleepless nights. Tony Blair's sofa cabinet all hated The Government Inspector. The NHS was excoriated in Innocents, his drama about Bristol heart surgeons. The MoD weren't big fans of his early documentary about the Falklands. Laws have been rewritten thanks to Kosminsky's zest for asking awkward questions in front of millions of viewers." Peter Kosminsky: Making Mischief opens today and runs through December 22. On a somewhat related note — it's about British television, anyway — for Film Quarterly, Mark Fisher looks back at Andrew Davies's A Very Peculiar Practice,...
"Peter Kosminsky has earned that rare accolade for a director of television drama: a retrospective at the BFI." In the Telegraph, Jasper Rees notes that Kosminsky is "a pretty much unique figure in contemporary television who has devoted his career to giving the powerful sleepless nights. Tony Blair's sofa cabinet all hated The Government Inspector. The NHS was excoriated in Innocents, his drama about Bristol heart surgeons. The MoD weren't big fans of his early documentary about the Falklands. Laws have been rewritten thanks to Kosminsky's zest for asking awkward questions in front of millions of viewers." Peter Kosminsky: Making Mischief opens today and runs through December 22. On a somewhat related note — it's about British television, anyway — for Film Quarterly, Mark Fisher looks back at Andrew Davies's A Very Peculiar Practice,...
- 12/2/2011
- MUBI
The American Film Institute (AFI) today announced that this year’s “Secret Screening” at AFI Fest presented by Audi will be the debut of Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh’s highly anticipated new film Haywire, starring Channing Tatum, Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Michael Angarano, Antonio Banderas, Michael Douglas, Bill Paxton and introducing mixed martial arts (Mma) star Gina Carano in a demanding lead role that has her performing her own high-adrenaline stunts. AFI Fest will roll out the People’s Red Carpet prior to the screening Tonight (November 6) at 9:30 p.m. where all guests can walk the carpet and pose for photos.
A dynamic action-thriller, Haywire tells the story of Mallory Kane, a highly trained operative who works for a government security contractor in the dirtiest, most dangerous corners of the world. After successfully freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, she is double crossed and left for dead by someone...
A dynamic action-thriller, Haywire tells the story of Mallory Kane, a highly trained operative who works for a government security contractor in the dirtiest, most dangerous corners of the world. After successfully freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, she is double crossed and left for dead by someone...
- 11/6/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Steven Soderbergh’s 2010 compilation documentary And Everything Is Going Fine assembled a sensitive, affectionate oral autobiography of sorts out of performances and interviews by late actor and monologist Spalding Gray. Fine stitches together a life publicly offered up many times in candid but designed-to-be-likeable form. Those willing to brave a far less cuddly image of the celebrated writer—who commited suicide in 2004—will be drawn to the posthumous publication of his journals, but whether they serve any real purpose besides gratifying morbid fans is another question. Heroically whittled down from 5,000 pages by writer Nell Casey, whose ...
- 11/2/2011
- avclub.com
Filed under: Features, Festivals, Hot Docs Film Festival, Moviefone Canada
One of the best fests (and our favorite) for movie fanatics is Toronto's Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Celebrating anything and everything documentary, every year Hot Docs is overflowing with great features that not only teach or inspire but also engage us just as skillfully, happily and heart-wrenchingly as mainstream feature films. In recent years, we've learned how 'Girls Rock!'; how Euripides can speak to modern violence with 'Protagonist'; the verbose life of Spalding Gray with 'And Everything Is Going Fine'; and the struggle for Canadian justice with 'Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father.'
This year the festival -- which runs from April 28-May 8 -- has a little of everything, from features by award-winning filmmakers like James Marsh ('Project Nim') to the beats of A Tribe Called Quest,...
One of the best fests (and our favorite) for movie fanatics is Toronto's Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Celebrating anything and everything documentary, every year Hot Docs is overflowing with great features that not only teach or inspire but also engage us just as skillfully, happily and heart-wrenchingly as mainstream feature films. In recent years, we've learned how 'Girls Rock!'; how Euripides can speak to modern violence with 'Protagonist'; the verbose life of Spalding Gray with 'And Everything Is Going Fine'; and the struggle for Canadian justice with 'Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father.'
This year the festival -- which runs from April 28-May 8 -- has a little of everything, from features by award-winning filmmakers like James Marsh ('Project Nim') to the beats of A Tribe Called Quest,...
- 4/27/2011
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Moviefone
The 8th annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is all set to run for ten days this Feb. 11-20 in Missoula, Montana. This year, the fest will have a whopping 140 film programs, a growth that necessitates an expansion from its regular home at the Historic Wilma Theatre — where it will occupy two screens — to also feature screenings at the former Pipestone Mountaineering store.
Special events at the fest include a free opening night screening of How to Die in Oregon sponsored by HBO Documentary Films. The film, directed by Peter D. Richardson, examines the impact the legalization of physician-assisted suicide has had on the state. (In 1994, Oregon was the first state to legalize the practice.)
Also, indie rock band Yo La Tengo will perform their acclaimed live score of the films of pioneering French underwater documentary film director Jean Painlevé, something they have done for other film festivals all over the world.
Special events at the fest include a free opening night screening of How to Die in Oregon sponsored by HBO Documentary Films. The film, directed by Peter D. Richardson, examines the impact the legalization of physician-assisted suicide has had on the state. (In 1994, Oregon was the first state to legalize the practice.)
Also, indie rock band Yo La Tengo will perform their acclaimed live score of the films of pioneering French underwater documentary film director Jean Painlevé, something they have done for other film festivals all over the world.
- 1/15/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Tied for 1. I Am Love and I’M Still Here
My two favorite movie posters of 2010: one for one of my favorite films of the year, the other for a film that I didn’t even see (not from lack of desire, though Casey Affleck’s opening weekend fess-up dampened my enthusiasm somewhat), and a perfect pair.
I have a lot of affection for the simple movie poster that places perfectly chosen type on a beautiful film still, but these are something else. For one thing, their images are portraits rather than film stills (Tilda Swinton at her most elegant, Joaquin Phoenix at his most studiously disheveled), and for another, the title treatments are given equal billing to the image, seemingly fighting with it, potentially overwhelming it, ultimately embracing it. It’s nice to see serif and script fonts being used so stylishly in the age of sans-serif minimalism...
My two favorite movie posters of 2010: one for one of my favorite films of the year, the other for a film that I didn’t even see (not from lack of desire, though Casey Affleck’s opening weekend fess-up dampened my enthusiasm somewhat), and a perfect pair.
I have a lot of affection for the simple movie poster that places perfectly chosen type on a beautiful film still, but these are something else. For one thing, their images are portraits rather than film stills (Tilda Swinton at her most elegant, Joaquin Phoenix at his most studiously disheveled), and for another, the title treatments are given equal billing to the image, seemingly fighting with it, potentially overwhelming it, ultimately embracing it. It’s nice to see serif and script fonts being used so stylishly in the age of sans-serif minimalism...
- 12/31/2010
- MUBI
This month has been one of the best that I can remember for trailers. All the studios were desperate for their trailer to get released before the Christmas holidays and we were inundated with posts. Since I love trailers so much, the inundation was most welcome. In what I am considering making a monthly post, here’s a roundup of all the trailers so far for December which I have embedded below for your viewing pleasure!
I’ve embedded them in the order in which they were released start December 1st to 31st and if I miss any, please let me know and I’ll update the post.
I really want this to be intereactive so make sure you tell us which trailers you liked the best and which you think will be great or terrible movies from what you’ve seen! So, let’s go!
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Title: Cuckoo
Cast: Richard E. Grant,...
I’ve embedded them in the order in which they were released start December 1st to 31st and if I miss any, please let me know and I’ll update the post.
I really want this to be intereactive so make sure you tell us which trailers you liked the best and which you think will be great or terrible movies from what you’ve seen! So, let’s go!
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Title: Cuckoo
Cast: Richard E. Grant,...
- 12/31/2010
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Our three Austin-exclusive screenings of the new Steven Soderbergh film from SXSW, And Everything Is Going Fine, start next week. From Monday January 3-Wednesday January 5, 7:00pm at the Ritz belongs to this new documentary about Spalding Gray, the master monologist probably best known for his masterpiece Swimming To Cambodia.
Our friend Jack Feldstein, an Australian animator and screenwriter, sent us this raving praise, and I think he conveys what this awesome film is about better than we could:
And Everything Is Going Fine is exactly what they tell you a film shouldn’t be. Pretty much 89 minutes of one talking head. But it’s a particularly unique talking head. Spalding Gray’s.
Spalding Gray (1941-2004) possessed two of my favorite qualities in a person: neurosis and gutsiness. In his case, as a monologist, these compelled him to tell his truth. The truth, mes amis, is always rare and riveting.
Our friend Jack Feldstein, an Australian animator and screenwriter, sent us this raving praise, and I think he conveys what this awesome film is about better than we could:
And Everything Is Going Fine is exactly what they tell you a film shouldn’t be. Pretty much 89 minutes of one talking head. But it’s a particularly unique talking head. Spalding Gray’s.
Spalding Gray (1941-2004) possessed two of my favorite qualities in a person: neurosis and gutsiness. In his case, as a monologist, these compelled him to tell his truth. The truth, mes amis, is always rare and riveting.
- 12/30/2010
- by Daniel Metz
- OriginalAlamo.com
by Steve Dollar
Dead men tell no tales, yet through the magic of the moving image they find a new kind of life, not in the flesh but the flickering resurrection of their own archives.
Spalding Gray left behind 120 hours of film and video when he died in January 2004, following a jump off the Staten Island Ferry, a fateful occurrence that came as a shock to the public. Family and friends of the actor and monologist had long coped with his suicidal tendencies, which had been aggravated by brain damage from a dreadful 2001 car crash in Ireland. The circumstances of the accident are touched on, and poignantly so, but the very end of Gray's life isn't part of And Everything Is Going Fine. Steven Soderbergh fashioned the new documentary out of old home movies, low-key documentary footage, TV interviews and ghosty videotapes of Gray's early performances in the late 1970s...
Dead men tell no tales, yet through the magic of the moving image they find a new kind of life, not in the flesh but the flickering resurrection of their own archives.
Spalding Gray left behind 120 hours of film and video when he died in January 2004, following a jump off the Staten Island Ferry, a fateful occurrence that came as a shock to the public. Family and friends of the actor and monologist had long coped with his suicidal tendencies, which had been aggravated by brain damage from a dreadful 2001 car crash in Ireland. The circumstances of the accident are touched on, and poignantly so, but the very end of Gray's life isn't part of And Everything Is Going Fine. Steven Soderbergh fashioned the new documentary out of old home movies, low-key documentary footage, TV interviews and ghosty videotapes of Gray's early performances in the late 1970s...
- 12/13/2010
- GreenCine Daily
Heading to theatres this week we have two potential blockbusters that are very questionable indeed. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's The Tourist may have an acclaimed director and two huge stars, but the reviews have been horrible and there is absolutely no buzz for it whatsoever. If it does well, it will be based on star power alone. Meanwhile, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawntreader will have to overcome a distinct lack of interest in the previous Narnia film. The weekend's best bet would seem to be David O. Russell's The Fighter, but the film is opening in just 5 theatres (it goes wide next weekend). Also in select theatres we have Julie Taymor's The Tempest, John Irvin's adaptation of Hemingway's Garden of Eden, and Steven Soderbergh's Spalding Gray documentary And Everything is Going Fine. What will you be watching this weekend? The Tourist...
- 12/10/2010
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
What can anyone possibly say about Spalding Gray that he didn’t articulate more eloquently himself? Gray devoted his career to unraveling the mysteries of his own tortured psyche before the pain he endured after a car crash became unbearable and he ended his life. In deference to Gray’s fabled eloquence and remarkable genius for introspection and rigorous self-examination, Steven Soderbergh, who collaborated with his subject on the performance film Gray’s Anatomy, turns And Everything Is Going Fine into what’s essentially a one-man show. Soderbergh follows Gray’s alternately sad and hilarious life story through performance footage ...
- 12/9/2010
- avclub.com
Before reality television, there was Spalding Gray. Part performance artist, part actor and part journalist, Gray's autobiographical stage performances were mesmerizing. The man was just a natural born storyteller. Armed with only a table and a glass of water, Gray would spend hours interestingly and hysterically exposing the cracks in his mind and his life. He was notoriously depressed, possibly bipolar and after having suffered a 2001 car accident and horrific injuries from which he never truly recovered, in 2004 he followed his mother's lead by committing suicide.
The life in between was filled with success, though Gray himself never seemed to realize it. He acted in many films including The Killing Fields, after which he wrote and performed Swimming to Cambodia, a stage monologue based on his experiences while making Tkf; Swimming to Cambodia later became a Jonathan Demme film. Gray won an Obie for the play and the National Book Award for his writing.
The life in between was filled with success, though Gray himself never seemed to realize it. He acted in many films including The Killing Fields, after which he wrote and performed Swimming to Cambodia, a stage monologue based on his experiences while making Tkf; Swimming to Cambodia later became a Jonathan Demme film. Gray won an Obie for the play and the National Book Award for his writing.
- 12/8/2010
- by Cindy Davis
Continuing our support of independent film, we invite you to check out the trailers as well as images from IFC Films' "And Everything is Going Fine" and "Shoah." Steven Soderbergh directs the documentary "And Everything is Going Fine," produced by Washington Square Films, which provides an intimate portrait of master monologist Spalding Gray, as described by his most critical, irreverent and insightful biographer: Spalding Gray. Next, go back in time with "Shoah," a 1985 release, now sent out again by IFC also on December 10 in New York. The critically-acclaimed holocaust documentary helmed by Claude Lanzmann, was twelve years in the making and features interviews with survivors, bystanders and perpetrators in 14 countries...
- 12/6/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Here is the first poster and trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s new documentary And Everything Is Going Fine, which is a tribute to Spalding Gray. Check out the trailer below.
Synopsis:
And Everything Is Going Fine, an incisive and entertaining portrait of Spalding Gray by director Steven Soderbergh provides an intimate look at the master monologist as described by his most critical, irreverent and insightful biographer: Spalding Gray. Soderbergh distills 25 years of rare and revealing footage to construct a riveting final monologue. An official selection of the SXSW, True/False and Edinburgh film festivals, this inspired one-man show is a bittersweet display of the writer-performer’s playful and embattled intelligence, and his gift for tracking universal truths by looking himself squarely in the eye.
The movie is will be released on December 10th.
Source: Watch The Trailer In HD at Apple (http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/andeverythingisgoingfine/)...
Synopsis:
And Everything Is Going Fine, an incisive and entertaining portrait of Spalding Gray by director Steven Soderbergh provides an intimate look at the master monologist as described by his most critical, irreverent and insightful biographer: Spalding Gray. Soderbergh distills 25 years of rare and revealing footage to construct a riveting final monologue. An official selection of the SXSW, True/False and Edinburgh film festivals, this inspired one-man show is a bittersweet display of the writer-performer’s playful and embattled intelligence, and his gift for tracking universal truths by looking himself squarely in the eye.
The movie is will be released on December 10th.
Source: Watch The Trailer In HD at Apple (http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/andeverythingisgoingfine/)...
- 12/4/2010
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Apple have debuted the first poster and trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s new movie which has the rather strange title ‘And Everything Is Going Fine’. The movie focuses completely around Spalding Gray and I’ll let the synopsis do the talking:
Synopsis: And Everything Is Going Fine, an incisive and entertaining portrait of Spalding Gray by director Steven Soderbergh provides an intimate look at the master monologist as described by his most critical, irreverent and insightful biographer: Spalding Gray. Soderbergh distills 25 years of rare and revealing footage to construct a riveting final monologue. An official selection of the SXSW, True/False and Edinburgh film festivals, this inspired one-man show is a bittersweet display of the writer-performer’s playful and embattled intelligence, and his gift for tracking universal truths by looking himself squarely in the eye.
The movie is scheduled for release in the US10th December. No release date that...
Synopsis: And Everything Is Going Fine, an incisive and entertaining portrait of Spalding Gray by director Steven Soderbergh provides an intimate look at the master monologist as described by his most critical, irreverent and insightful biographer: Spalding Gray. Soderbergh distills 25 years of rare and revealing footage to construct a riveting final monologue. An official selection of the SXSW, True/False and Edinburgh film festivals, this inspired one-man show is a bittersweet display of the writer-performer’s playful and embattled intelligence, and his gift for tracking universal truths by looking himself squarely in the eye.
The movie is scheduled for release in the US10th December. No release date that...
- 12/4/2010
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Spalding Gray is best remembered as a theatrical monologist who gained notoriety through his public displays of introspection. Director Steven Soderbergh, having collaborated with Gray in the documented monologue Gray’s Anatomy, once again shows a symbiotic understanding of Gray’s fragile genius. After Spalding Gray’s tragic death by apparent suicide, his widow asked the director to make a documentary about her late husband. The result is And Everything is Going Fine, which is presented not as “a documentary by Steven Soderbergh,” but as “a tribute by” the director. There are no new interviews or narration; but rather a collage of archive materials simply used as a chance for Gray to give one final monologue on the events of his life. Here is the official synopsis:
Apple has the trailer in HD, and this synopsis:
And Everything Is Going Fine, an incisive and entertaining portrait of Spalding Gray by...
Apple has the trailer in HD, and this synopsis:
And Everything Is Going Fine, an incisive and entertaining portrait of Spalding Gray by...
- 12/4/2010
- by Kyle Reese
- SoundOnSight
IFC Films has just released an official trailer over on Apple for Steven Soderbergh's new documentary about the late, great actor, playwright and performance artist Spalding Gray, who most of you might know from the play/film Swimming to Cambodia. The doc is called And Everything Is Going Fine and Soderbergh "distills 25 years of rare and revealing footage to construct a riveting final monologue." One of my greatest memories from college is having a whole discussion dedicated to Spalding and Swimming to Cambodia, so I will consider myself a fan. I'm very excited to see this, and luckily it'll be hitting theaters fairly soon. Enjoy! Watch the official trailer for Steven Soderbergh's And Everything Is Going Fine: [flv:http://media2.firstshowing.net/firstshowing/everythingisgoingfine-firsttrailer.mp4 http://media2.firstshowing.net/firstshowing/everythingisgoingfine-firsttrailer.jpg 598 338] You can also watch the And Everything Is Going Fine trailer in High Definition on Apple The film is an incisive and entertaining portrait of Spalding Gray that provides an...
- 12/3/2010
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Steven Soderbergh's documentary about the late storyteller and performer Spalding Gray debuted at the Slamdance Film Festival earlier this year, but even though Slamdance occurs concurrently with and in the same town as Sundance, it's difficult to go to both festivals at once. So even though I'm dying to see the doc, titled And Everything Is Going Fine, I missed my chance back in Park City-- which is why I'm excited to see that IFC Films is distributing the movie, and has released a new trailer for it at Apple. The film, which Soderbergh refers to as "a tribute" to Gray, is made up entirely of his performances, interviews and other video records of his life, which ended in 2004 when he threw himself from the Staten Island Ferry. Though Gray had suffered depression and was never afraid to tackle dark subjects in his work, the trailer makes the film...
- 12/3/2010
- cinemablend.com
--> IFC Films released the first trailer and poster for the documentary “And Everything Is Going Fine.” The documentary is director Steven Soderbergh’s tribute to Spalding Grey. According to the official synopsis, it is “an intimate look at the master monologist as described by his most critical, irreverent and insightful biographer: Spalding Gray.” The documentary will be released on December 10. Check out the poster and trailer below. Click here is you want to see it in HD version from Apple.Source: Apple...
- 12/3/2010
- LRMonline.com
The idea of documenting one's life via confessional and storytelling monologues is hardly unusual in 2010, but Spalding Gray did it before almost anyone else. And he did it better; in films like Swimming to Cambodia, Monster in a Box and Gray's Anatomy his personal histories were a gateway to perceptive observations about life and the world around us. Gray's Anatomy was directed by Steven Soderbergh. After Spalding Gray's tragic death by apparent suicide, his widow asked the director to make a documentary about her late husband. The result is And Everything is Going Fine, which is presented not as "a documentary by Steven Soderbergh," but as "a tribute by" the director. The trailer is after the break. The film takes the best possible approach to telling Spalding Gray's story: it uses his own words. His widow gave Steven Soderberg a trove of tapes -- 90 hours or so --...
- 12/3/2010
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
The prolific Steven Soderbergh has already cooked up another film, a look at the life of “master monologist” Spalding Gray. The film premiered at Slamdance last year to positive reviews. I’ve never heard of Gray until now but his life definitely seems interesting, especially to get inside the mind of someone who committed suicide. Check out the trailer below via Apple.
Synopsis: And Everything Is Going Fine, an incisive and entertaining portrait of Spalding Gray by director Steven Soderbergh provides an intimate look at the master monologist as described by his most critical, irreverent and insightful biographer: Spalding Gray. Soderbergh distills 25 years of rare and revealing footage to construct a riveting final monologue. An official selection of the SXSW, True/False and Edinburgh film festivals, this inspired one-man show is a bittersweet display of the writer-performer’s playful and embattled intelligence, and his gift for tracking universal truths by...
Synopsis: And Everything Is Going Fine, an incisive and entertaining portrait of Spalding Gray by director Steven Soderbergh provides an intimate look at the master monologist as described by his most critical, irreverent and insightful biographer: Spalding Gray. Soderbergh distills 25 years of rare and revealing footage to construct a riveting final monologue. An official selection of the SXSW, True/False and Edinburgh film festivals, this inspired one-man show is a bittersweet display of the writer-performer’s playful and embattled intelligence, and his gift for tracking universal truths by...
- 12/3/2010
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Spaulding Gray was one of, if not The most important modern master of the monologue. Not readily known by the general public, Spaulding Gray rarely had roles in what most would call a mainstream film, but his legacy remains in his uncanny ability to turn his own life and experiences into compellingly honest one-man performances.
Director Steven Soderbergh has honored this great American artist in his new documentary And Everything Is Going Fine. The retrospective film collects it.s material primarily from Gray.s interviews and performances, many of which have rarely been seen. The intimacy of this film is partially what makes it so effective. Soderbergh has cut together the archival footage in a way that highlights all of what made Gray so fascinating — for better or worse — told by the man himself.
As is evident in his performances and this film, Gray’s life was not a fairy tale,...
Director Steven Soderbergh has honored this great American artist in his new documentary And Everything Is Going Fine. The retrospective film collects it.s material primarily from Gray.s interviews and performances, many of which have rarely been seen. The intimacy of this film is partially what makes it so effective. Soderbergh has cut together the archival footage in a way that highlights all of what made Gray so fascinating — for better or worse — told by the man himself.
As is evident in his performances and this film, Gray’s life was not a fairy tale,...
- 11/13/2010
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Edinburgh film festival aims to surprise. But in order to do that, it needs less Toy Story, less iffy Britcoms, less big name documentarians, and a little more clout
For the last couple of years, ever since the UK Film Council offered it a substantial grant linked to a change in the way it presented itself, the Edinburgh film festival has constantly referred to itself as a festival of "discovery" – in contrast, presumably, to the London film festival, which perhaps considers itself a festival of "celebrity".
But what does this mean in practice? All film festivals, by definition, enable people to "discover" films they may not yet know about or have forgotten; their stock-in-trade, however specialist, is a mix of pre-release previews, archive retrievals – and squads of that odd beast known as the "festival film", the submerged nine-tenths of the film production world that gets only one or two screenings in its lifetime,...
For the last couple of years, ever since the UK Film Council offered it a substantial grant linked to a change in the way it presented itself, the Edinburgh film festival has constantly referred to itself as a festival of "discovery" – in contrast, presumably, to the London film festival, which perhaps considers itself a festival of "celebrity".
But what does this mean in practice? All film festivals, by definition, enable people to "discover" films they may not yet know about or have forgotten; their stock-in-trade, however specialist, is a mix of pre-release previews, archive retrievals – and squads of that odd beast known as the "festival film", the submerged nine-tenths of the film production world that gets only one or two screenings in its lifetime,...
- 6/21/2010
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Two highly-anticipated second feature films from U.S. underground filmmakers will be making their World Premieres all the way over at the 64th annual Edinburgh International Film Festival, which will run for twelve days on June 16-27. The films are Rona Mark’s The Crab and Zach Clark’s Vacation!.
The Crab, which screens on June 21, is the touching story of a verbally abusive man born with two enormous, mutant-like hands; while Vacation!, which screens on June 20, tracks four urban gals let loose in a sunny seaside resort down South.
Both Mark and Clark previously screened their debut features at Eiff. Mark’s Strange Girls screened there in 2008 and Clark’s Modern Love Is Automatic screened in 2009. Both films also ended up as runners-up in Bad Lit’s annual Movie of the Year award, again Strange Girls in 2008 and Modern Love in 2009. Sadly, these two masterpieces are still unavailable on...
The Crab, which screens on June 21, is the touching story of a verbally abusive man born with two enormous, mutant-like hands; while Vacation!, which screens on June 20, tracks four urban gals let loose in a sunny seaside resort down South.
Both Mark and Clark previously screened their debut features at Eiff. Mark’s Strange Girls screened there in 2008 and Clark’s Modern Love Is Automatic screened in 2009. Both films also ended up as runners-up in Bad Lit’s annual Movie of the Year award, again Strange Girls in 2008 and Modern Love in 2009. Sadly, these two masterpieces are still unavailable on...
- 6/4/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Oh how I wish I lived in the UK.
Let’s add the Edinburgh Film Festival to the ever growing list of why the UK is awesome. The festival is set to kick off on June 16, and not only does it open with one of my most anticipated films of the year, Sylvain Chomet’s ode to Jaques Tati (who wrote the script the film is based on), The Illusionist, but it features films from some of today’s most gifted directors.
Amongst the 133 features showing during the festival, films including Toy Story 3, Oscar award winner The Secret In Their Eyes, Steven Soderbergh’s Spalding Gray documentary And Everything Is Going Fine, and even Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant follow up, the film My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done.
However, what is the real kicker, are the classic films showing this year. They include Five Easy Pieces,...
Let’s add the Edinburgh Film Festival to the ever growing list of why the UK is awesome. The festival is set to kick off on June 16, and not only does it open with one of my most anticipated films of the year, Sylvain Chomet’s ode to Jaques Tati (who wrote the script the film is based on), The Illusionist, but it features films from some of today’s most gifted directors.
Amongst the 133 features showing during the festival, films including Toy Story 3, Oscar award winner The Secret In Their Eyes, Steven Soderbergh’s Spalding Gray documentary And Everything Is Going Fine, and even Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant follow up, the film My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done.
However, what is the real kicker, are the classic films showing this year. They include Five Easy Pieces,...
- 6/3/2010
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
London -- This year's Edinburgh International Film Festival will close with the world premiere of "Third Star," a British tragicomedy from newcomer Hattie Dalton starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Burke, Jj Feild and Adam Robertson.
The movie will bookend the Scottish shindig with the previously announced opening gala of Sylvain Chomet's "The Illusionist" at the festival boasting 133 movies from 34 countries, organizers said Tuesday.
British galas competing for the U.K. Film Council sponsored Michael Powell Award for best British feature include world debuts for Paul Andrew Williams' "Cherry Tree Lane," "Huge" by Ben Miller, Edward McHenry and Rory McHenry's "Jackboots On Whitehall," Nick Moran's "The Kid," Viv Fongenie's "Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World," "Pelican Blood," by Karl Golden and "Soulboy" by Shimmy Marcus.
Organizers picked Ryan Piers Williams' "The Dry Land," Werner Herzog's "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?," Floria Sigismondi's...
The movie will bookend the Scottish shindig with the previously announced opening gala of Sylvain Chomet's "The Illusionist" at the festival boasting 133 movies from 34 countries, organizers said Tuesday.
British galas competing for the U.K. Film Council sponsored Michael Powell Award for best British feature include world debuts for Paul Andrew Williams' "Cherry Tree Lane," "Huge" by Ben Miller, Edward McHenry and Rory McHenry's "Jackboots On Whitehall," Nick Moran's "The Kid," Viv Fongenie's "Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World," "Pelican Blood," by Karl Golden and "Soulboy" by Shimmy Marcus.
Organizers picked Ryan Piers Williams' "The Dry Land," Werner Herzog's "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?," Floria Sigismondi's...
- 6/1/2010
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Spalding Gray had a knack for turning everyday life into art, not as hard-to-decipher poetry or visual expression, but as a free-flowing conversation that would pull you in, word by word, as piles of curiosity, recollection, and neuroses poured forth. A poetic journalist, his life was his material as he unabashedly flowed from happy reminiscences to pain and loss, dalliances with New Age medicine to life with a suicidal mother.
Since he reveled in the comedy of pain, it was easy to forget that it was, still, pain. After three years of struggling with the aftermath of a serious car crash in Ireland, Spalding Gray committed suicide, leaving a legacy of monologues and colorful yet frank recollections of his life. As part of her work to keep his memory alive, Spalding's widow Kathie joined forces with Steven Soderbergh -- who filmed the monologist for Gray's Anatomy -- to create a...
Since he reveled in the comedy of pain, it was easy to forget that it was, still, pain. After three years of struggling with the aftermath of a serious car crash in Ireland, Spalding Gray committed suicide, leaving a legacy of monologues and colorful yet frank recollections of his life. As part of her work to keep his memory alive, Spalding's widow Kathie joined forces with Steven Soderbergh -- who filmed the monologist for Gray's Anatomy -- to create a...
- 5/10/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
By Sean O’Connell
Writing about the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, A.O. Scott of the New York Times said, “A festival like this offers a sustained, concentrated exposure to the sheer emotional power of documentary filmmaking, its ability to communicate the drama embedded in human experience. In Durham … you (can) walk into the stately dark of the Carolina Theatre and lose yourself in real life.”
That’s exactly what thousands of audience members hope to do this weekend once Full Frame gets underway. The four-day festival promises to bring more than 100 films – as well as discussions, panels, and good old-fashioned southern hospitality – to a six venues in a four-block neighborhood in downtown Durham.
This year’s program includes new films by innovative director Michel Gondry (“The Thorn in the Heart,” pictured above), Academy Award winners Steven Soderbergh (“And Everything Is Going Fine”) and Alex Gibney (“Casino Jack and the...
Writing about the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, A.O. Scott of the New York Times said, “A festival like this offers a sustained, concentrated exposure to the sheer emotional power of documentary filmmaking, its ability to communicate the drama embedded in human experience. In Durham … you (can) walk into the stately dark of the Carolina Theatre and lose yourself in real life.”
That’s exactly what thousands of audience members hope to do this weekend once Full Frame gets underway. The four-day festival promises to bring more than 100 films – as well as discussions, panels, and good old-fashioned southern hospitality – to a six venues in a four-block neighborhood in downtown Durham.
This year’s program includes new films by innovative director Michel Gondry (“The Thorn in the Heart,” pictured above), Academy Award winners Steven Soderbergh (“And Everything Is Going Fine”) and Alex Gibney (“Casino Jack and the...
- 4/6/2010
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
The term “prolific” isn’t busy or broad enough to describe director Steven Soderbergh, who apparently never stops working. As the director’s latest documentary, “And Everything Is Going Fine,” prepares to screen at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, N.C. this coming weekend, news breaks that Soderbergh has wrapped another small project, this one about a couple who runs a Sydney theater troupe (which may or may not have been inspired by Cate Blanchett and her husband, Andrew Upton).
The Afp reports that Soderbergh started the film last year while directing a play at the Sydney Theatre Company, where Blanchett and Upton serve as artistic directors.
With so much talent at his fingertips, Soderbergh recruited the cast of his Stc play, “Tot Mom,” to star in the improvised comedic film, “The Last Time I Saw Michael Gregg.” The story follows members of a company as they...
The Afp reports that Soderbergh started the film last year while directing a play at the Sydney Theatre Company, where Blanchett and Upton serve as artistic directors.
With so much talent at his fingertips, Soderbergh recruited the cast of his Stc play, “Tot Mom,” to star in the improvised comedic film, “The Last Time I Saw Michael Gregg.” The story follows members of a company as they...
- 4/5/2010
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
This was my sixth SXSW Film Festival and my fifth as a distinguished member of the press. This was also the first SXSW that I seriously felt like an editor here at Slackerwood. If you look at our SXSW coverage list, you'll see why. We've written 50 articles during and after SXSW so far, not counting the guides and interviews done beforehand. We were able to run five articles a day some days, which is really fucking incredible for a site that used to be dead for two weeks at a time because Chris and I felt too busy or slackery to update it. We had unexpected contributors who pitched in and added to the fun. It did mean more time on the computer and less time in the theater, but I still saw so many wonderful movies that I can't complain.
Let's get to the fun part. I'm taking the...
Let's get to the fun part. I'm taking the...
- 4/1/2010
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
New England Wasp Spalding Gray and Jewish New Yorker Woody Allen are cerebral comedians of the highest order. Their content personal, warped yet brilliant, with a skeptical view of the world, both make us laugh and squirm at the same time. But Woody could never commit suicide. For a year, I'd been keenly anticipating And Everything Is Going Fine. The heavy buzz said the documentary would be the definitive cinematic statement on Spalding Gray. The director, Steven Soderbergh--Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Erin Brockovich, Traffic, Ocean's Eleven, Che--is certainly no lightweight. Two months ago, at the Sundance Film Festival, my enthusiasm was given a nasty kick. I had also been panting to see Howl, which turned out to be a disaster, a cinematic crime against human intelligence. Howl smothered the word, Allen Ginsberg's famous poem "Howl." With imagery ripping...
- 3/30/2010
- by Stewart Nusbaumer
- Huffington Post
The mega-sized Canadian documentary film festival, Hot Docs, announced its line-up of 166 films from 41+ nations yesterday.
The festivals opening films are the French documentary Babies (on the first year of life - from first breath to first steps - of four babies from different countries) and a music doc on Canadian prog-rock gods, Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage which was directed by the Metal: A Head Bangers Journey boys.
Want to see a documentary following David Lynch on a transcendental meditation pilgramage? David Wants to Fly is here. Stephen Soderbergh's Spalding Gray doc, And Everything Is Going Fine, which would make a fine companion piece with his 1996 monologue film Gray's Anatomy, is another highlight of the festival lineup.
Hot Docs is also doing a retrospective of some of the most influential documentaries of the decade and a few of the films are Tarnation, American Movie, The Fog of War, Spellbound and Into Great Silence.
The festivals opening films are the French documentary Babies (on the first year of life - from first breath to first steps - of four babies from different countries) and a music doc on Canadian prog-rock gods, Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage which was directed by the Metal: A Head Bangers Journey boys.
Want to see a documentary following David Lynch on a transcendental meditation pilgramage? David Wants to Fly is here. Stephen Soderbergh's Spalding Gray doc, And Everything Is Going Fine, which would make a fine companion piece with his 1996 monologue film Gray's Anatomy, is another highlight of the festival lineup.
Hot Docs is also doing a retrospective of some of the most influential documentaries of the decade and a few of the films are Tarnation, American Movie, The Fog of War, Spellbound and Into Great Silence.
- 3/24/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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