It's Fashion Week in New York City. You're on the bill to showcase a brand new clothing line, made up of almost a hundred pieces of clothing and accessories of your own design. Cutthroat “fashionistas” will be scrutinizing your one shot at success. Sketches have to be drafted, a crack team of helpers assembled, fabric bought, fabric sewn, wigs glued together, shoes made, production staff hired, lighting designed, set decorated, models cast, models fitted, show promoted, advertisements made, fliers handed out, invitations written, invitations distributed, all in a short span of mere months, and all for a short span of eleven minutes.
If your journey is anything like Jay McCarroll's, get ready for the long haul. If you're not familiar with Jay, he's the winner of the first season of Bravo's Project Runway, a highly competitive reality series built around the fashion world. Jay's already a quasi-celebrity, and we...
If your journey is anything like Jay McCarroll's, get ready for the long haul. If you're not familiar with Jay, he's the winner of the first season of Bravo's Project Runway, a highly competitive reality series built around the fashion world. Jay's already a quasi-celebrity, and we...
- 2/25/2010
- by Ryan Katona
- JustPressPlay.net
It's Fashion Week in New York City. You're on the bill to showcase a brand new clothing line, made up of almost a hundred pieces of clothing and accessories of your own design. Cutthroat “fashionistas” will be scrutinizing your one shot at success. Sketches have to be drafted, a crack team of helpers assembled, fabric bought, fabric sewn, wigs glued together, shoes made, production staff hired, lighting designed, set decorated, models cast, models fitted, show promoted, advertisements made, fliers handed out, invitations written, invitations distributed, all in a short span of mere months, and all for a short span of eleven minutes.
If your journey is anything like Jay McCarroll's, get ready for the long haul. If you're not familiar with Jay, he's the winner of the first season of Bravo's Project Runway, a highly competitive reality series built around the fashion world. Jay's already a quasi-celebrity, and we...
If your journey is anything like Jay McCarroll's, get ready for the long haul. If you're not familiar with Jay, he's the winner of the first season of Bravo's Project Runway, a highly competitive reality series built around the fashion world. Jay's already a quasi-celebrity, and we...
- 2/25/2010
- by Ryan Katona
- JustPressPlay.net
DVD Playhouse—February 2010
By
Allen Gardner
Hunger (Criterion) Harrowing true story of imprisoned Ira member Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) and his 1981 hunger strike protesting the British government’s refusal to recognize him, and other Ira members as political prisoners. Director Steve McQueen delivers the story with true filmmaking panache, mixing startling imagery that blends both stunning beauty and stomach-churning horror. Fassbender is absolutely brilliant in the lead. Not for the faint-of-heart, but not to be missed or, particularly, ignored. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Interviews with McQueen and Fassbender; Short documentary; 1981 episode of BBC series “Panorama” that covers the Ira hunger strike; Trailer. Widescreen. DTS-hd audio on Blu-ray.
Adam (20th Century Fox) Quirky romantic comedy about an eccentric, borderline Asperger’s Syndrome, astronomy buff (Hugh Dancy) who is drawn out of his self-imposed shell by a beautiful and sympathetic neighbor (Rose Byrne). Charming film with engaging performances by the two leads,...
By
Allen Gardner
Hunger (Criterion) Harrowing true story of imprisoned Ira member Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) and his 1981 hunger strike protesting the British government’s refusal to recognize him, and other Ira members as political prisoners. Director Steve McQueen delivers the story with true filmmaking panache, mixing startling imagery that blends both stunning beauty and stomach-churning horror. Fassbender is absolutely brilliant in the lead. Not for the faint-of-heart, but not to be missed or, particularly, ignored. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Interviews with McQueen and Fassbender; Short documentary; 1981 episode of BBC series “Panorama” that covers the Ira hunger strike; Trailer. Widescreen. DTS-hd audio on Blu-ray.
Adam (20th Century Fox) Quirky romantic comedy about an eccentric, borderline Asperger’s Syndrome, astronomy buff (Hugh Dancy) who is drawn out of his self-imposed shell by a beautiful and sympathetic neighbor (Rose Byrne). Charming film with engaging performances by the two leads,...
- 2/15/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
If Jay McCarroll is somehow a victim of his own fame, he won't admit it. The first winner of the Emmy-nominated Project Runway hasn't broken the fashion world wide open, and he says that's an impossible goal to achieve in just a handful of years.
But the outspoken McCarroll, who did not take his six-figure winnings from the show, is still trying to push towards that finish line, constantly working and re-working his line of designs. Eleven Minutes directors Michael Selditch and Robert Tate spent many months with McCarroll as he prepared for his brief walk under the bright lights of New York's Fashion Week, showing us exactly how the newcomer prepared for his first independent show...without the helping hand of Heidi Klum and company.
Big Picture: Even though the runway show itself is short, it's nearly a year putting it all together, stitch by stitch. And in your situation,...
But the outspoken McCarroll, who did not take his six-figure winnings from the show, is still trying to push towards that finish line, constantly working and re-working his line of designs. Eleven Minutes directors Michael Selditch and Robert Tate spent many months with McCarroll as he prepared for his brief walk under the bright lights of New York's Fashion Week, showing us exactly how the newcomer prepared for his first independent show...without the helping hand of Heidi Klum and company.
Big Picture: Even though the runway show itself is short, it's nearly a year putting it all together, stitch by stitch. And in your situation,...
- 2/20/2009
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
I guess there's some kind of big movie event happening on TV this weekend, but enough about that. The Indie Spotlight is here to tell you about the limited-release films opening today that haven't been beaten into your head already by a thousand TV commercials. Here are the gems -- all of them very well reviewed -- that the indie gods have blessed us with this week:
Must Read After My Death (pictured) is a personal documentary by Morgan Daws in which he uses old Dictaphone recordings, home movies, and photographs to tell his family's story, including details he never knew until after his grandmother died. Cinematical's James Rocchi, reviewing the film at last year's L.A. Film Festival, said, "In a time when memoirs and tell-all books clot the shelves, the effort and skill evident in crafting the visual flow and soundscapes of Must Read After My Death make...
Must Read After My Death (pictured) is a personal documentary by Morgan Daws in which he uses old Dictaphone recordings, home movies, and photographs to tell his family's story, including details he never knew until after his grandmother died. Cinematical's James Rocchi, reviewing the film at last year's L.A. Film Festival, said, "In a time when memoirs and tell-all books clot the shelves, the effort and skill evident in crafting the visual flow and soundscapes of Must Read After My Death make...
- 2/20/2009
- by Eric D. Snider
- Cinematical
You may be a devoted follower of Leanne or Christian or Jeffrey, but if you're a real Project Runway devotee, you were there at the beginning, with Jay. Jay McCarroll was Project Runway's first winner, and since being crowned "the next great American designer" by Heidi Klum and Bravo, he's been working to find his place in a high-fashion world that he never particularly wanted to be a part of. Now part of that journey has been documented in Eleven Minutes, a film that documents the lead-up to his Bryant Park runway show at Fashion Week in fall 2007. Where the design and manufacturing process is shown in slick montages on Project Runway, Eleven Minutes shows all the infuriating details, from sending out invites to fashion editors to figuring out how much of the sewing to export to China. In the middle of it all is McCarroll, whose outsized personality...
- 2/20/2009
- cinemablend.com
Eleven Minutes
Featuring Jay McCarroll, Nancy Kane, and Kelly Cutrone
Directed by Michael Selditch and Robert Tate
Rated R
Reality television has created an almost embarrassing array of minor celebrities, everyone from the naked tax evader guy on Survivor to William Hung. If we've seen them, how will we ever forget that shrieking religious banshee of Trading Spouses or Omarosa from The Apprentice?
These shows aren't immune from big personalities; that's the reason most people watch. But few reality or competition shows have as much on the ball as Project Runway. The contestants actually have to do something, and do it in original ways. EVery stitch is scrutinized.
From a pool of fashion designers, three are chosen each season to display their new lines of clothes at New York's Fashion Week, one of the biggest events in that entire industry. It would be like determining the American Idol winner by...
Featuring Jay McCarroll, Nancy Kane, and Kelly Cutrone
Directed by Michael Selditch and Robert Tate
Rated R
Reality television has created an almost embarrassing array of minor celebrities, everyone from the naked tax evader guy on Survivor to William Hung. If we've seen them, how will we ever forget that shrieking religious banshee of Trading Spouses or Omarosa from The Apprentice?
These shows aren't immune from big personalities; that's the reason most people watch. But few reality or competition shows have as much on the ball as Project Runway. The contestants actually have to do something, and do it in original ways. EVery stitch is scrutinized.
From a pool of fashion designers, three are chosen each season to display their new lines of clothes at New York's Fashion Week, one of the biggest events in that entire industry. It would be like determining the American Idol winner by...
- 2/20/2009
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
No field attracts eccentrics like the cloistered world of the fashion industry, so it was only natural that Project Runway, Bravo’s wildly popular reality competition show, would nurture their idiosyncrasies all the more. But in five seasons, the cameras have never loved a character quite as much as Season One winner Jay McCarroll, a brash, uncompromising outsider from small-town Pennsylvania who provided a never-ending font of bitchy one-liners. Subsequent seasons have featured plenty of made-for-tv goofballs, but McCarroll’s personality never seemed like shtick, and his wit was often a cover for an underlying restlessness and insecurity. A couple ...
- 2/19/2009
- avclub.com
This week at the movies, we've got spirited scoundrels who join a cheerleading squad to meet girls (Fired Up!, starring Nicholas D'Agosto and Eric Christian Olsen) and a septuagenarian scofflaw who brings her brand of no-nonsense candor to the slammer (Madea Goes to Jail, starring Tyler Perry and Derek Luke). And that's just what's going wide. In the world of limited releases, we've got a powerful documentary about family dysfunction (Must Read After My Death), a Polish World War II drama (Andrzej Wajda's Katyn), and a documentary about Project Runway winner Jay McCarroll (Eleven Minutes). What do the critics have...
- 2/19/2009
- Rotten Tomatoes
With all eyes on the upcoming Academy Awards (not to mention the Spirit Awards, the afternoon before), it's a relatively quiet week at the box office. There are some bubblegum high school antics, a couple of documentaries about the dysfunctional, a children's literary classic and a somber drama set during WWII. Take heart, we're nearly over the hump.
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"Delhi 6"
BAFTA-nominated director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra returns with this transatlantic journey of self-discovery that offers itself as another girder in the bridge between Bollywood and the U.S. American-born Indian Roshan (Abhishek Bachchan) makes a pilgrimage from New York to India to bring his ailing grandmother home. In the process, he discovers a little something about himself, his ancestral homeland and the proud traditions contained within it. Veteran composer A.R. Rahman, who's vying for an Oscar for his work on "Slumdog Millionaire,...
Download this in audio form (MP3: 6:11 minutes, 8.5 Mb)
"Delhi 6"
BAFTA-nominated director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra returns with this transatlantic journey of self-discovery that offers itself as another girder in the bridge between Bollywood and the U.S. American-born Indian Roshan (Abhishek Bachchan) makes a pilgrimage from New York to India to bring his ailing grandmother home. In the process, he discovers a little something about himself, his ancestral homeland and the proud traditions contained within it. Veteran composer A.R. Rahman, who's vying for an Oscar for his work on "Slumdog Millionaire,...
- 2/19/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
Spring is a season of renewal, particularly in the movie business, where the completion of the awards derby allows Amy Adams to segue from playing a solemn nun in "Doubt" to a klutzy crime scene cleaner in "Sunshine Cleaning." Along with "Sunshine," there are plenty of festival favorites about to get their day in the sun, whether that's in theaters, on DVD or on demand online or on TV. This preview recognizes the many ways to get your indie film fix, as well as the special events you might want to head out to if you live in New York or Los Angeles, including "The Brothers Bloom" director Rian Johnson's week-long con man movie "Festival of Fakery" at L.A.'s famed New Beverly Cinema, about which we recently spoke to the director. But regardless of whether we're watching films from the past or present, we're looking forward to the next couple months.
- 2/18/2009
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Jay McCarroll, the first winner of Project Runway, makes great TV. That's a fact. He's bitchy, witty, eminently quotable, and truly likable, and it was pretty heartwarming when he was crowned by Heidi Klum as a designer to watch. However, with reality shows, the reality ends at the coronation. And the initial winners of skill-based reality juggernauts face a tricky time in the spotlight - on one hand, all eyes are on you and (binding) contracts are being thrown at your feet; on the other hand, you're newly famous, but not for your talent, quite yet. You're not exactly living off your skill, and if you choose the wrong path, you could end up in a Warholian nightmare, living off your moment of fame from the reality show. So what's a boy to do? McCarroll made headlines for turning down Runway's grand prize awards of $100,000 and a mentorship with Banana Republic.
- 2/18/2009
- TribecaFilm.com
[An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.] It’s doubtful anyone unfamiliar with Bravo’s series “Project Runway” will buy tickets to see the new documentary “Eleven Minutes,” even though Michael Selditch and Rob Tate’s film goes to great lengths to distance itself from that most trend-setting of TV reality shows. In its behind-the-scenes portrayal of “Runway”‘s season one winner Jay McCarroll, as he readies his first line for showcase and, hopefully, sale, “Eleven …...
- 2/17/2009
- Indiewire
By Neil Pedley
With all eyes on the upcoming Academy Awards (not to mention the Spirit Awards, the afternoon before), it's a relatively quiet week at the box office. There are some bubblegum high school antics, a couple of documentaries about the dysfunctional, a children's literary classic and a somber drama set during WWII. Take heart, we're nearly over the hump.
Download this in audio form (MP3: 6:11 minutes, 8.5 Mb) "Delhi 6"
BAFTA-nominated director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra returns with this transatlantic journey of self-discovery that offers itself as another girder in the bridge between Bollywood and the U.S. American-born Indian Roshan (Abhishek Bachchan) makes a pilgrimage from New York to India to bring his ailing grandmother home. In the process, he discovers a little something about himself, his ancestral homeland and the proud traditions contained within it. Veteran composer A.R. Rahman, who's vying for an Oscar for his work on "Slumdog Millionaire,...
With all eyes on the upcoming Academy Awards (not to mention the Spirit Awards, the afternoon before), it's a relatively quiet week at the box office. There are some bubblegum high school antics, a couple of documentaries about the dysfunctional, a children's literary classic and a somber drama set during WWII. Take heart, we're nearly over the hump.
Download this in audio form (MP3: 6:11 minutes, 8.5 Mb) "Delhi 6"
BAFTA-nominated director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra returns with this transatlantic journey of self-discovery that offers itself as another girder in the bridge between Bollywood and the U.S. American-born Indian Roshan (Abhishek Bachchan) makes a pilgrimage from New York to India to bring his ailing grandmother home. In the process, he discovers a little something about himself, his ancestral homeland and the proud traditions contained within it. Veteran composer A.R. Rahman, who's vying for an Oscar for his work on "Slumdog Millionaire,...
- 2/16/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
"Eleven Minutes" (a.k.a. "Jay McCarroll: Eleven Minutes") is a documentary helmed by Michael Selditch and Robert Tate. The duo worked together in TV's "Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie" with Selditch producing and editing and Tate producing. The film sees a limited run on February 20th via indie distributor Regent Releasing, known for greats such as "Aurora Borealis" starring Joshua Jackson and Donald Sutherland. Check out the whole gallery.What's it about? It's been a while since the sharp-witted Jay McCarroll was dubbed "the next great American designer" on season one of reality TV's "Project Runway" and he's anxious to finally show his first line of clothing. The feature documentary Eleven Minutes chronicles his year-long journey preparing his first independent runway show for New York's Fashion Week in Bryant Park and the subsequent selling of his line to stores. The result is an in-depth, painfully raw and humorous exploration...
- 2/6/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
"Eleven Minutes" (a.k.a. "Jay McCarroll: Eleven Minutes") is a documentary helmed by Michael Selditch and Robert Tate. The duo worked together in TV's "Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie" with Selditch producing and editing and Tate producing. The film sees a limited run on February 20th via indie distributor Regent Releasing, known for greats such as "Aurora Borealis" starring Joshua Jackson and Donald Sutherland. It's been a while since the sharp-witted Jay McCarroll was dubbed "the next great American designer" on season one of reality TV's "Project Runway" and he's anxious to finally show his first line of clothing. The feature documentary Eleven Minutes chronicles his year-long journey preparing his first independent runway show for New York's Fashion Week in Bryant Park...
- 2/6/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
"Eleven Minutes" (a.k.a. "Jay McCarroll: Eleven Minutes") is a documentary helmed by Michael Selditch and Robert Tate. The duo worked together in TV's "Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie" with Selditch producing and editing and Tate producing. The film sees a limited run on February 20th via indie distributor Regent Releasing, known for greats such as "Aurora Borealis" starring Joshua Jackson and Donald Sutherland. It's been a while since the sharp-witted Jay McCarroll was dubbed "the next great American designer" on season one of reality TV's "Project Runway" and he's anxious to finally show his first line of clothing. The feature documentary Eleven Minutes chronicles his year-long journey preparing his first independent runway show for New York's Fashion Week in Bryant Park...
- 2/6/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Here! Films, the theatrical distribution and worldwide sales division of Here! Networks, has acquired worldwide distribution rights to "Eleven Minutes," a documentary about fashion designer Jay McCarroll, winner of the first season of "Project Runway." The project is co-directed and co-produced by Michael Selditch and Rob Tate.
Regent Releasing, Here!'s sister company, and Here! Networks will distribute the film day-and-date in theaters and on the cable network on Feb. 20.
In 2006, Selditch and Tate made a one-off TV special on McCarroll for Bravo called "Project Jay." "Eleven Minutes" picks up where that program ended.
The documentary chronicles McCarroll's year-long journey preparing his first independent runway show for New York's Fashion Week in Bryant Park and the subsequent selling of his line to stores.
Regent Releasing, Here!'s sister company, and Here! Networks will distribute the film day-and-date in theaters and on the cable network on Feb. 20.
In 2006, Selditch and Tate made a one-off TV special on McCarroll for Bravo called "Project Jay." "Eleven Minutes" picks up where that program ended.
The documentary chronicles McCarroll's year-long journey preparing his first independent runway show for New York's Fashion Week in Bryant Park and the subsequent selling of his line to stores.
- 12/17/2008
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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