"It was very important for me that the music not pay any attention to the genre of the film," says director Christopher Nolan of his latest collaboration with composer Hans Zimmer, whose haunting, organ-driven "Interstellar" soundtrack is a Best Original Score Oscar contender. The video, below, reveals why Zimmer chose to use a church organ in London, and how he built the score from the kernel of an idea about a father-daughter relationship, which gives this cosmic brain-bender its earthly, emotional heft. It's one of Zimmer's most gorgeous scores, and the fact that the German-born, eight-time Oscar-nominated composer hasn't won since 1995's "The Lion King," his sole win, may work in his favor come Academy Awards time. Nominees unspool bright and early on January 15. Read More: Five Oscar-Contending Film Scores That Got Under Our Skin Listen to the full score here, and read our summer 2014 interview with Zimmer here.
- 1/8/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Ace Eddie Nominations Reveal Weak Oscar Field, Wide Open Race Anna Kendrick Is "Feeling Groovy" with "Into the Woods," "Last Five Years" and "Pitch Perfect 2" Arthouse Audit: Eclectic Limited Holiday Films Led By "The Interview," "American Sniper" and "Selma" Ava DuVernay Rides the "Selma" Surge Best Supporting Actor Predictions 2015 Five Oscar-Contending Film Scores That Got Under Our Skin "The Hobbit" Tops Our Box Office Ranking of 19 Holiday Movies Hot Dp Bradford Young Talks Building Character Arcs for "Selma," "A Most Violent Year" How They Turned Sondheim's "Into the Woods" into a Post-9/11 Metaphor (Video) Julianne Moore on What She Learned Making "Still Alice" Lee Daniels Talks Transition from Film to Fox TV's Hip-Hop Musical "Empire" Marion Cotillard Delivers for the Dardennes in "Two Days, One...
- 1/4/2015
- by TOH!
- Thompson on Hollywood
The ‘Vampire Diaries’ star spoke with HollywoodLife.com about her passion & involvement with the Tbda.
Candice Accola looked picture perfect May 2 at the Tick-Borne Disease Alliance‘s annual benefit, which honored inidviduals affected by tick-borne diseases and raised awareness about the “national health crisis they pose.” But the Vampire Diaries star wasn’t just smiling for the cameras; she was there to Mc the Tbda event, as Lyme disease is serious illness that hits very close to home for her.
HollywoodLife.com spoke with Candice at the event, held in NYC’s Chelsea Piers, to find out what inspired her to get involved with the cause:
What inspired me to get involved was that my friend [who was diagnosed with Lyme disease] was completely immobilized, and I’d never even heard of the disease that she had. I remember saying to my mom, ‘Teri has Lyme disease; she seems to be in pretty bad shape.’ And my mom was like,...
Candice Accola looked picture perfect May 2 at the Tick-Borne Disease Alliance‘s annual benefit, which honored inidviduals affected by tick-borne diseases and raised awareness about the “national health crisis they pose.” But the Vampire Diaries star wasn’t just smiling for the cameras; she was there to Mc the Tbda event, as Lyme disease is serious illness that hits very close to home for her.
HollywoodLife.com spoke with Candice at the event, held in NYC’s Chelsea Piers, to find out what inspired her to get involved with the cause:
What inspired me to get involved was that my friend [who was diagnosed with Lyme disease] was completely immobilized, and I’d never even heard of the disease that she had. I remember saying to my mom, ‘Teri has Lyme disease; she seems to be in pretty bad shape.’ And my mom was like,...
- 5/3/2013
- by Andy Swift
- HollywoodLife
This is our first official look at Scarlett Johansson in the new sci-fi film Under Our Skin. In the film, Johansson plays an alien on earth, "disguised as the perfect aesthetic form of a mesmerizing woman. She scours remote highways and desolate scenery looking to use her greatest weapon to snare human prey -- her voracious sexuality. She is deadly efficient, but over time becomes drawn to and changed by the complexity of life on earth. With this new found humanity and weakening alien resolve, she finds herself on a collision course with her own kind."
Sounds like some kind of skinamax softcore porn sci-fi movie, but of course, it isn't. I'm sure it will end up being a great film. It doesn't hurt that I'm a big fan of Johansson these days, and it's not The Avengers that sold me on her. It was the film We Bought a Zoo.
Sounds like some kind of skinamax softcore porn sci-fi movie, but of course, it isn't. I'm sure it will end up being a great film. It doesn't hurt that I'm a big fan of Johansson these days, and it's not The Avengers that sold me on her. It was the film We Bought a Zoo.
- 5/12/2012
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
The Skin I Live In
Directed by: Pedro Almodovar
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet
Running Time: 1 hr 58 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: October 21, 2011 (Chicago)
Plot: A scientist (Banderas) uses the body of another woman (Anaya) to try to recreate the entire body of his dead wife.
Who’S It For? Anyone who has seen an Almodovar movie will have an idea of what to expect from tone, including the movie’s “telenovela” tendencies. Fans of psychological dramas might be sucked into this movie, so long as they are patient with its step-by-step storytelling. However, there’s no guarantee for anyone as to how the ending will settle with you.
Expectations: Outside of Banderas and Almodovar, I knew little about this movie. Those two names were all I needed to dive curiously into the director’s followup to the quite good Broken Embraces.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Antonio Banderas as Robert Ledgard: Simply put,...
Directed by: Pedro Almodovar
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet
Running Time: 1 hr 58 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: October 21, 2011 (Chicago)
Plot: A scientist (Banderas) uses the body of another woman (Anaya) to try to recreate the entire body of his dead wife.
Who’S It For? Anyone who has seen an Almodovar movie will have an idea of what to expect from tone, including the movie’s “telenovela” tendencies. Fans of psychological dramas might be sucked into this movie, so long as they are patient with its step-by-step storytelling. However, there’s no guarantee for anyone as to how the ending will settle with you.
Expectations: Outside of Banderas and Almodovar, I knew little about this movie. Those two names were all I needed to dive curiously into the director’s followup to the quite good Broken Embraces.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Antonio Banderas as Robert Ledgard: Simply put,...
- 10/21/2011
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
Netflix has revolutionized the home movie experience for fans of film with its instant streaming technology. Netflix Nuggets is my way of spreading the word about independent, classic and foreign films made available by Netflix for instant streaming.
Sorry, folks… there are simply too many great films streaming this week to post an image for them all, but that’s a good thing, eh? You’ve got your movie watching work cut out for you, due in great part to Miramax releasing damn near their entire catalog of films on one day!
B. Monkey (1999)
Streaming Available: 05/01/2011
Director: Michael Radford
Synopsis: Good-hearted schoolteacher Alan Furnace (Jared Harris) desperately wants some excitement in his life — and he may just get some. One lonely night at a London bar, Alan spies the raven-haired beauty Beatrice (Asia Argento) arguing with two friends, Paul (Rupert Everett) and Bruno (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers). Beatrice quickly befriends Alan and...
Sorry, folks… there are simply too many great films streaming this week to post an image for them all, but that’s a good thing, eh? You’ve got your movie watching work cut out for you, due in great part to Miramax releasing damn near their entire catalog of films on one day!
B. Monkey (1999)
Streaming Available: 05/01/2011
Director: Michael Radford
Synopsis: Good-hearted schoolteacher Alan Furnace (Jared Harris) desperately wants some excitement in his life — and he may just get some. One lonely night at a London bar, Alan spies the raven-haired beauty Beatrice (Asia Argento) arguing with two friends, Paul (Rupert Everett) and Bruno (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers). Beatrice quickly befriends Alan and...
- 4/29/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Netflix has revolutionized the home movie experience for fans of film with its instant streaming technology. Netflix Nuggets is my way of spreading the word about independent, classic and foreign films made available by Netflix for instant streaming.
This Week’s New Instant Releases… Title: Black Heaven (2010)
Streaming Available: 04/12/2011
Cast: Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Louise Bourgoin, Melvil Poupaud, Pauline Etienne, Pierre Niney, Ali Marhyar, Patrick Descamps, Pierre Vittet, Swann Arlaud, Francesco Merenda
Director: Gilles Marchand
Synopsis: While searching for the owner of a missing mobile phone with his girlfriend, Marion (Pauline Etienne), Gaspard (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) falls for the mysterious Sam (Louise Bourgoin), who draws him into a dangerous virtual-reality video game, where she provokes unsuspecting victims into killing themselves. Directed by Gilles Marchand, this intense French drama alternates between real-life events and those within the simulated computer world. Title: Heartless (2009)
Streaming Available: 04/12/2011
Cast: Jim Sturgess, Clémence Poésy , Noel Clarke, Luke Treadaway, Justin Salinger,...
This Week’s New Instant Releases… Title: Black Heaven (2010)
Streaming Available: 04/12/2011
Cast: Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Louise Bourgoin, Melvil Poupaud, Pauline Etienne, Pierre Niney, Ali Marhyar, Patrick Descamps, Pierre Vittet, Swann Arlaud, Francesco Merenda
Director: Gilles Marchand
Synopsis: While searching for the owner of a missing mobile phone with his girlfriend, Marion (Pauline Etienne), Gaspard (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) falls for the mysterious Sam (Louise Bourgoin), who draws him into a dangerous virtual-reality video game, where she provokes unsuspecting victims into killing themselves. Directed by Gilles Marchand, this intense French drama alternates between real-life events and those within the simulated computer world. Title: Heartless (2009)
Streaming Available: 04/12/2011
Cast: Jim Sturgess, Clémence Poésy , Noel Clarke, Luke Treadaway, Justin Salinger,...
- 4/11/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
If it's too cold to leave the house for your local theater, there's plenty of options if you stay inside online, on demand and on DVD. What follows is your guide to all the new releases coming your way between now and April.
Online and On Demand
My French Film Festival
Thanks to bids for Oscar consideration, the winter is traditionally one of the rare times foreign films get plenty of attention in the States, particularly at West Coast festivals such as Palm Springs and Santa Barbara. However, Francophiles in particular will be excited to know you won't have to go to California or New York -- or even Paris for that matter -- to be able to catch some of the most recent cinema from France since uniFrance is unveiling My French Film Festival, which is being billed as the "first exclusively online film festival celebrating French talent" that...
Online and On Demand
My French Film Festival
Thanks to bids for Oscar consideration, the winter is traditionally one of the rare times foreign films get plenty of attention in the States, particularly at West Coast festivals such as Palm Springs and Santa Barbara. However, Francophiles in particular will be excited to know you won't have to go to California or New York -- or even Paris for that matter -- to be able to catch some of the most recent cinema from France since uniFrance is unveiling My French Film Festival, which is being billed as the "first exclusively online film festival celebrating French talent" that...
- 1/11/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Four-time Oscar nominee Jane Alexander is rallying behind a controversial film on the academy's list of semi-finalists for best documentary feature — "Under Our Skin." Among its critics, for example, is Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman, who believes the film "embraces, with bits and pieces of skimpy evidence and a whole lot more paranoid leftist fervor, the notion that 'chronic Lyme disease' is a condition that the medical establishment is locked in a conspiracy to deny the existence of." But "Under Our Skin" filmmakers assert that they're exposing "one of the most controversial and fastest growing epidemics of our time," adding, "Each year thousands go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, often told that their symptoms are 'all in...
- 1/11/2010
- by tomoneil
- Gold Derby
Andy Abrahams Wilson In anticipation of this year's Oscars, Tribeca Cinemas will be showing six groundbreaking documentaries as part of the Docs on the Shortlist hosted by the Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund this weekend, January 8 and 9. We asked each participating filmmaker five questions about their documentaries. Director Andy Abrahams Wilson fills us in on why he decided to make the documentary about Lyme disease, Under Our Skin (Tff 2008). Please describe the story you tell in your film. What inspired you to tell that story? About six years ago, a friend of mine in San Francisco was getting sicker and sicker with mysterious, cognitive and neurological symptoms. She was diagnosed with Ms, and then Als or Lou Gehrig's disease (which is basically a death sentence). But she kept looking for possible explanations and, finally, was diagnosed with Lyme disease. Lyme disease!? I recalled that my twin sister in Upstate New...
- 1/6/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
Thanks to advances in digitial technology, filmmaking has undergone a radical shift in the past ten years, and with that, there's been an explosion of documentary films. This year's shortlist for the Academy Awards' Best Documentary Feature is a fine example of the fascinating human stories that can only - thrillingly - come to life through documentary film, and we're proud of the three Tribeca Film Festival alumni that made this list: Soundtrack for a Revolution, Which Way Home, and Under Our Skin. It's become a yearly tradition in certain film circles to grouse over the invevitable documentary 'snubs' of the year - and maybe that held some water when Hoop Dreams lost out on a nomination in 1994. Many on this year's list of the ignored - from Anvil! The Story of Anvil! to The September Issue to Capitalism: A Love Story (and many more) - were films with the...
- 11/24/2009
- TribecaFilm.com
The 15-film "short list" for this year's Best Documentary competition in the Academy Awards has provoked more than the usual shock and outrage, and for good reason. Every year, there's a certain level of white-noise griping about Oscar "snubs." This year's list, though, isn't just lackluster -- there's something fundamentally off about it. It's almost perverse. Compiled by a star chamber of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voters (it's not specified how many of the 151 documentary branch members actually watch the films and produce the final roster), the list omits far too many of the documentaries -- like,...
- 11/20/2009
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW.com - The Movie Critics
How could this be? Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" was snubbed by the Academy Awards!
Moore's new documentary was largely favored by critics, including me, but apparently, it's not good enough for the Academy. It's this year's highest-grossing documentary (it has made $10 million so far), and Overture Films even opened it on Sept. 23, in time for the Academy's Sept. 30 cutoff date.
Moore won an Oscar before in 2002 for "Bowling for Columbine." He was nominated last year for "Sicko."
But this year? He didn't even make the shortlist! But Moore is not alone, other documentaries missing from the shortlist are "The September Issue," "Tyson," "Anvil! The Story of Anvil," "It Might Get Loud," and "We Live in Public."
I love all those documentaries, what's going on?
But the Academy has chosen their shortlist There were 89 films that originally qualified but the list is now down to just 15 documentaries.
And they are:
"The Cove"
"Food,...
Moore's new documentary was largely favored by critics, including me, but apparently, it's not good enough for the Academy. It's this year's highest-grossing documentary (it has made $10 million so far), and Overture Films even opened it on Sept. 23, in time for the Academy's Sept. 30 cutoff date.
Moore won an Oscar before in 2002 for "Bowling for Columbine." He was nominated last year for "Sicko."
But this year? He didn't even make the shortlist! But Moore is not alone, other documentaries missing from the shortlist are "The September Issue," "Tyson," "Anvil! The Story of Anvil," "It Might Get Loud," and "We Live in Public."
I love all those documentaries, what's going on?
But the Academy has chosen their shortlist There were 89 films that originally qualified but the list is now down to just 15 documentaries.
And they are:
"The Cove"
"Food,...
- 11/20/2009
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Although documentaries have gained a fair bit of mainstream acceptance over the past decade, the average moviegoer is still highly unlikely to know or care about most of the films that are being released in the realm of non-fiction. And considering the kinds of docs typically recognized by the Academy Awards, it's easy to see why people might be turned off from the genre. Year after year, they seem to place higher value on "important" subjects, rather than deft storytelling and artistic merit. Once again this year, the short list of movies nominated for Best Documentary Feature seem to be lacking in not only imagination but also accessibility. Which is not to say that there aren't some great movies on this list, but to be honest, I've only seen 1 out of the 15 titles -- and that's coming from someone who actually cares about docs. So it's only natural for people...
- 11/19/2009
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed their list of the final group of 15 films that will contend for the Best Documentary Feature award this week, and with said announcement comes a twinge of bittersweetness. On one hand, the very powerful documentary The Cove -- a Sundance premiere that takes on the brutal killing of dolphins in Japan -- did make it to the final 15, as did the sensational SXSW pic Garbage Dreams and the incredibly fascinating food industry doc Food Inc. On the other hand, fan (and critic) favorite Anvil! The Story of Anvil -- the energetic, sad story of one of the most famous rock bands that you've never heard of -- was curiously missing from the list, as was multi-Oscar nominee Michael Moore's latest film Capitalism: A Love Story, a doc about our current financial crisis. While Michael Moore has had his date with Oscar, his...
- 11/19/2009
- by Neil Miller
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
In a surprising snub, Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story heads a list of high profile non-fiction features ignored in the long-list vying for a Best Documentary Academy Award Nomination.
The rotund polemicist had previously won the award for Bowling Columbine and pushed for his Palme D’Or winning follow-up Fahrenheit 9/11 to contend in the Best Picture category. The snub is quite astonishing although it may well relate to his controversial acceptance speech in 2002 where he used the Academy stage to badmouth then incumbent president George W. Bush.
Capitalism: A Love Story is joined, rather incredibly, by James Toback’s insightful Tyson biopic and one of the years best films Anvil! The Story of Anvil. Moore was also not the only former winner to fail to gain a nomination either. David Guggenheim, director of An Inconvenient Truth, and his film It Might Get Loud also constitute a notable omission.
The rotund polemicist had previously won the award for Bowling Columbine and pushed for his Palme D’Or winning follow-up Fahrenheit 9/11 to contend in the Best Picture category. The snub is quite astonishing although it may well relate to his controversial acceptance speech in 2002 where he used the Academy stage to badmouth then incumbent president George W. Bush.
Capitalism: A Love Story is joined, rather incredibly, by James Toback’s insightful Tyson biopic and one of the years best films Anvil! The Story of Anvil. Moore was also not the only former winner to fail to gain a nomination either. David Guggenheim, director of An Inconvenient Truth, and his film It Might Get Loud also constitute a notable omission.
- 11/19/2009
- by Kieron
- ReelLoop.com
I’m sure if you analyze and dissect the rules for eligibility, you’ll find some kind of loophole that kept films like Capitalism: A Love Story, Anvil!: The Story Of Anvil, and Crude off this list of finalists for Best Documentary Feature.
Maybe it’s not based on eligibility at all. Maybe those movies just didn’t make the cut, which, in my opinion, and a lot of other people’s, as well, is a shame. This isn’t even taking into account some of the festival docs that didn’t make the cut, films like Pulling John, We Live In Public, and The Yes Men Fix The World. Politics wins out once again (as if there was every going to be a question of it), and here are the list of 15 films that have moved on in the voting process:
The Beaches Of Agnes directed by Agnès Varda...
Maybe it’s not based on eligibility at all. Maybe those movies just didn’t make the cut, which, in my opinion, and a lot of other people’s, as well, is a shame. This isn’t even taking into account some of the festival docs that didn’t make the cut, films like Pulling John, We Live In Public, and The Yes Men Fix The World. Politics wins out once again (as if there was every going to be a question of it), and here are the list of 15 films that have moved on in the voting process:
The Beaches Of Agnes directed by Agnès Varda...
- 11/19/2009
- by Kirk
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
However, hard-hitting eco-film The Cove and Agnès Varda's acclaimed The Beaches of Agnès are included in Academy's 15-strong longlist for best documentary Oscar
Michael Moore has touted it as his boldest, most ambitious movie to date. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, however, appears to disagree. Previously seen as a frontrunner for next year's documentary Oscar, Capitalism: A Love Story surprisingly failed to make the cut when the longlist was announced last night.
Moore's picture, which accuses capitalism of being both unchristian and anti-American, was not the only notable omission. The Academy's longlist of 15 pictures also snubbed James Toback's illuminating Tyson documentary and Rj Cutler's The September Issue, which went behind the scenes at Vogue magazine.
Among the films vying for next year's Oscar are Agnès Varda's acclaimed The Beaches of Agnès and the hard-hitting eco film The Cove, spotlighting the annual slaughter of dolphins off the coast of Japan.
Michael Moore has touted it as his boldest, most ambitious movie to date. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, however, appears to disagree. Previously seen as a frontrunner for next year's documentary Oscar, Capitalism: A Love Story surprisingly failed to make the cut when the longlist was announced last night.
Moore's picture, which accuses capitalism of being both unchristian and anti-American, was not the only notable omission. The Academy's longlist of 15 pictures also snubbed James Toback's illuminating Tyson documentary and Rj Cutler's The September Issue, which went behind the scenes at Vogue magazine.
Among the films vying for next year's Oscar are Agnès Varda's acclaimed The Beaches of Agnès and the hard-hitting eco film The Cove, spotlighting the annual slaughter of dolphins off the coast of Japan.
- 11/19/2009
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released the short list of features vying for “Best Documentary” at the Oscar telecast next March. The final 15 have been whittled down from 89 eligible contenders, which becomes five nominees between December 28 (when the ballots are mailed) and February 2 (when they are announced live).
The list includes a few popular titles, like dolphin activist film The Cove and healthy advocate Food, Inc., but several prominent docs were eliminated. Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story was snubbed, along with James Toback candid biopic of “Iron” Mike Tyson, music doc It Might Get Loud, and the first Academy screener, Anvil! The Story of Anvil.
Here are the films that made it to the top 15:
The Beaches of Agnes
Burma VJ
The Cove
Every Little Step
Facing Ali
Food, Inc.
Garbage Dreams
Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders
The Most Dangerous...
The list includes a few popular titles, like dolphin activist film The Cove and healthy advocate Food, Inc., but several prominent docs were eliminated. Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story was snubbed, along with James Toback candid biopic of “Iron” Mike Tyson, music doc It Might Get Loud, and the first Academy screener, Anvil! The Story of Anvil.
Here are the films that made it to the top 15:
The Beaches of Agnes
Burma VJ
The Cove
Every Little Step
Facing Ali
Food, Inc.
Garbage Dreams
Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders
The Most Dangerous...
- 11/19/2009
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced the 15 films in the Documentary Feature category that will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards. Eighty-nine pictures had originally qualified in the category.
The 15 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company: The Beaches of Agnes, Agnes Varda, director (Cine-Tamaris) Burma VJ, Anders Østergaard, director (Magic Hour Films) The Cove, Louie Psihoyos, director (Oceanic Preservation Society) Every Little Step, James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo, directors (Endgame Entertainment) Facing Ali, Pete McCormack, director (Network Films Inc.) Food, Inc., Robert Kenner, director (Robert Kenner Films) Garbage Dreams, Mai Iskander, director (Iskander Films, Inc.) Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders, Mark N. Hopkins, director (Red Floor Pictures LLC) The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith, directors (Kovno Communications) Mugabe and the White African,...
The 15 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company: The Beaches of Agnes, Agnes Varda, director (Cine-Tamaris) Burma VJ, Anders Østergaard, director (Magic Hour Films) The Cove, Louie Psihoyos, director (Oceanic Preservation Society) Every Little Step, James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo, directors (Endgame Entertainment) Facing Ali, Pete McCormack, director (Network Films Inc.) Food, Inc., Robert Kenner, director (Robert Kenner Films) Garbage Dreams, Mai Iskander, director (Iskander Films, Inc.) Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders, Mark N. Hopkins, director (Red Floor Pictures LLC) The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith, directors (Kovno Communications) Mugabe and the White African,...
- 11/19/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Oscar organizers joined the MTV generation on Wednesday, naming Hamish Hamilton as director of March's movie awards ceremony, and they also unveiled their shortlist of films vying for a best documentary nomination.British-born Hamilton, 43, is a first-time Oscar director, but he is a veteran of numerous live-event programs including this year's MTV Video Music Awards, and the MTV Europe Music Awards and Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 2008."His approach definitely won't feel like 'business as usual,' said one of the show's co-producers, Bill Mechanic.The Oscars, given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, are the second most-watched U.S. television show after professional football's Super Bowl. The ceremony also is seen in some 200 countries worldwide.But viewership has been in a general decline for many years due to the growing number of honors programs, among other reasons. As a result, Oscar organizers have tried to liven up their show,...
- 11/18/2009
- Filmicafe
Of the 89 documentary films eligible for Oscar consideration this year, 15 were selected for a short list of potential nominees, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday.Some of the year's most popular documentary features were overlooked, including Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story." The R-rated film was praised by critics and earned more than $14 million at the box office.Also omitted from Oscar consideration was the well-reviewed Mike Tyson documentary "Tyson," the rock-doc "It Might Get Loud," and the story of Vogue magazine and its editor-in-chief, "The September Issue."The short list of films is determined by a committee of members of the academy's documentary branch. They watch all eligible contenders and vote for their favorites by secret ballot. The top vote-getters make the short list of potential nominees.The selections this year are "The Beaches of...
- 11/18/2009
- Filmicafe
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has shortlisted 15 films that will advance in the race for the documentary feature category, culled down from 89 films that originally qualified.
The titles include the work of veteran French director Agnes Varda, "The Beaches of Agnes"; "Every Little Step," James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo's doc about the making of a revival of "A Chorus Line"; Robert Kenner's expose of the food industry, "Food Inc."; and Matt Tyrnauer's fashion doc "Valentino, the Last Emperor."
Not listed were such prominent titles as Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" and James Toback's "Tyson."
The 15 films are:
-- "The Beaches of Agnes," Agnes Varda, director (Cine-Tamaris)
-- "Burma VJ," Anders Østergaard, director (Magic Hour Films)
-- "The Cove," Louie Psihoyos, director (Oceanic Preservation Society)
-- "Every Little Step," James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo, directors (Endgame Entertainment)
-- "Facing Ali,...
The titles include the work of veteran French director Agnes Varda, "The Beaches of Agnes"; "Every Little Step," James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo's doc about the making of a revival of "A Chorus Line"; Robert Kenner's expose of the food industry, "Food Inc."; and Matt Tyrnauer's fashion doc "Valentino, the Last Emperor."
Not listed were such prominent titles as Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" and James Toback's "Tyson."
The 15 films are:
-- "The Beaches of Agnes," Agnes Varda, director (Cine-Tamaris)
-- "Burma VJ," Anders Østergaard, director (Magic Hour Films)
-- "The Cove," Louie Psihoyos, director (Oceanic Preservation Society)
-- "Every Little Step," James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo, directors (Endgame Entertainment)
-- "Facing Ali,...
- 11/18/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Let's hope the Oscars cite "Under Our Skin" next week when the academy unveils the shortlist of titles in the running for best documentary feature. It's not only a compelling work of filmmaking; it's important because of its shocking message: Lyme disease may be going undiagnosed as a greater and more widespread threat to Americans' health than AIDS. "Under Our Skin" has won more than a dozen top awards at film festivals (see the full list here at the docu's website), but it still doesn't have a U.S. distributor. It had its qualifying run in a Los Angeles theater to make it into the Oscar race — the week Michael Jackson died — but it...
- 11/13/2009
- by tomoneil
- Gold Derby
By Brent Lang
Andy Abrahams Wilson admitted that prior to embarking on "Under Our Skin," his four-years-in-the-making documentary about the Lyme Disease epidemic, he was far from an expert about the tick-borne ailment.
"I didn't know much about the disease other than my sister in upstate New York got Lyme," Wilson told the audience at TheWrap's screening of his documentary (view a slideshow of the event here) on Wednesday night. "Then I had a friend in San Francisco who got really sick. She was diagnosed with M.S. and then Als/ Lou Gehrig's Disease, and it turned ou...
Andy Abrahams Wilson admitted that prior to embarking on "Under Our Skin," his four-years-in-the-making documentary about the Lyme Disease epidemic, he was far from an expert about the tick-borne ailment.
"I didn't know much about the disease other than my sister in upstate New York got Lyme," Wilson told the audience at TheWrap's screening of his documentary (view a slideshow of the event here) on Wednesday night. "Then I had a friend in San Francisco who got really sick. She was diagnosed with M.S. and then Als/ Lou Gehrig's Disease, and it turned ou...
- 11/12/2009
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
By Joanna Kerns (as told to Steve Pond)
(“Under Our Skin” screens Wednesday night at the Arclight Sherman Oaks as part of theWrap Screenning Series. Kerns will join director Andy Abrahams Wilson for a Q&A after the screeing.) My daughter Ashley is 31. She’s an attorney. She went to law school. She passed the bar. She made the Law Review. She was published. And now she has trouble reading a page in a book. She can’t drive, and three months ago she had to quit her job because she couldn’t stay awake, and was in so much pain she couldn’t function. Th...
(“Under Our Skin” screens Wednesday night at the Arclight Sherman Oaks as part of theWrap Screenning Series. Kerns will join director Andy Abrahams Wilson for a Q&A after the screeing.) My daughter Ashley is 31. She’s an attorney. She went to law school. She passed the bar. She made the Law Review. She was published. And now she has trouble reading a page in a book. She can’t drive, and three months ago she had to quit her job because she couldn’t stay awake, and was in so much pain she couldn’t function. Th...
- 11/10/2009
- by Josh Dickey
- The Wrap
Under Our Skin
Directed by: Andy Abrahams Wilson
Cast: Dana, Mandy, Jordan
Running Time: 1 hr 45 min
Rating: Unrated
Release Date: September 26, 2009
Plot: An exploration of Lyme Disease from the point of view of people afflicted with the disease as well as doctors who’ve dedicated their career to helping Lyme patients in unorthodox manners.
Who’S It For? Anyone except hypochondriacs. I’m not joking, any undiagnosed aches and pains will suddenly become Lyme disease.
Expectations: I was hoping for a well balanced documentary that made an interesting case for why Lyme disease is an “epidemic.”
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Mandy as herself: Mandy’s a newlywed, with advanced Lyme disease. She’s only 29 at the start of the film but she has trouble with movement, including walking. Lyme disease has changed her whole life, and it’s taken over her husband’s life as well. Though she’s a small part of a larger film,...
Directed by: Andy Abrahams Wilson
Cast: Dana, Mandy, Jordan
Running Time: 1 hr 45 min
Rating: Unrated
Release Date: September 26, 2009
Plot: An exploration of Lyme Disease from the point of view of people afflicted with the disease as well as doctors who’ve dedicated their career to helping Lyme patients in unorthodox manners.
Who’S It For? Anyone except hypochondriacs. I’m not joking, any undiagnosed aches and pains will suddenly become Lyme disease.
Expectations: I was hoping for a well balanced documentary that made an interesting case for why Lyme disease is an “epidemic.”
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Mandy as herself: Mandy’s a newlywed, with advanced Lyme disease. She’s only 29 at the start of the film but she has trouble with movement, including walking. Lyme disease has changed her whole life, and it’s taken over her husband’s life as well. Though she’s a small part of a larger film,...
- 9/25/2009
- by Megan Lehar
- The Scorecard Review
If there’s a subject that’s guaranteed to start my wife and me bickering like Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, it’s Lyme disease. In the late 1990s, after a summer spent covering the Hamptons for the New York Observer, I was overcome with overwhelming fatigue, blinding headaches, an acute sensitivity to light, joint pain and, eventually, intensely creepy muscle spasms and heart flutters that made me feel like I had a baby alien nesting in my chest. My doctor was convinced that I had contracted Lyme disease even though he could find no tick, no telltale bulls-eye rash, and the blood test came up negative. (Current Lyme tests have a high false negative rate.) After a three-week regimen of very strong antibiotics, I felt my old self again save for the still-palpable fear that I might somehow contract the disease again.
- 6/26/2009
- Vanity Fair
Weather permitting, I was planning to spend the weekend strolling through the woods of Woodstock with my trusty dog, Keiko. Then I watched "Under Our Skin." Now I'm not sure if I should leave Manhattan.
"Under Our Skin" is a frightening documentary about Lyme disease, so called because it was first noticed in Lyme, Conn.
The movie is frightening not only because of the severe effects the ailment can have on the human body but also because it shows that many doctors are unable to diagnose, let alone treat, the malady. Victims tell of spending years and...
"Under Our Skin" is a frightening documentary about Lyme disease, so called because it was first noticed in Lyme, Conn.
The movie is frightening not only because of the severe effects the ailment can have on the human body but also because it shows that many doctors are unable to diagnose, let alone treat, the malady. Victims tell of spending years and...
- 6/19/2009
- NYPost.com
Indie Roundup looks back at the past seven (or, sometimes, eight) days of news in the indie film community, along with a peak ahead to what's coming soon.
Opening. The highest-profile "indie" is Woody Allen's Whatever Works, wiith Tatia Rosenthal's stop-motion animation feature $9.99, Francois Velle's NYC drama The Narrows, Andy Abrahams Wilson's Lyme disease doc Under Our Skin, and Tommy Wirkola's Nazi zombie flick Dead Snow vying for attention on a limited number of screens. On the festival circuit, CineVegas drew to a close on Monday (Eric D. Snider covered it for us), the same night that Silverdocs opened in Silver Spring, Maryland. The Los Angeles Film Festival starts tonight and the New York Asian Film Festival kicks off tomorrow.
Box Office. Last weekend saw several strong openings, with Robert Kenner's doc Food, Inc. leading the way ($20,171 per-screen), followed by Duncan Jones' sci-fi drama...
Opening. The highest-profile "indie" is Woody Allen's Whatever Works, wiith Tatia Rosenthal's stop-motion animation feature $9.99, Francois Velle's NYC drama The Narrows, Andy Abrahams Wilson's Lyme disease doc Under Our Skin, and Tommy Wirkola's Nazi zombie flick Dead Snow vying for attention on a limited number of screens. On the festival circuit, CineVegas drew to a close on Monday (Eric D. Snider covered it for us), the same night that Silverdocs opened in Silver Spring, Maryland. The Los Angeles Film Festival starts tonight and the New York Asian Film Festival kicks off tomorrow.
Box Office. Last weekend saw several strong openings, with Robert Kenner's doc Food, Inc. leading the way ($20,171 per-screen), followed by Duncan Jones' sci-fi drama...
- 6/19/2009
- by Peter Martin
- Cinematical
Just about any American who’s spent any significant time in the oft-frustrating limbo of a regional health-care system should sympathize with the subjects of Andy Abrahams Wilson’s documentary Under Our Skin. Wilson talks to people who in some cases have been sick for years—feeling fatigued, pained, befuddled, spastic, and fraught with malaise—and yet can’t get their doctors to acknowledge what they know in their bones is the problem. Wilson’s subjects all claim to suffer from chronic Lyme disease, a condition that’s been a source of controversy in the medical community. Acute Lyme disease ...
- 6/18/2009
- avclub.com
A 2008 Tribeca Film Festival premiere, Under Our Skin is a fascinating, terrifying look at Lyme Disease, an often unrecognized pandemic that has taken root in our country over the past two decades. Even more frightening than the life-shattering disease is the reluctance of the medical, health insurance, and political machines to quickly and effectively address the problem. In too many cases, patients' symptoms are misdiagnosed, mistreated, ignored, or dismissed as merely psychosomatic. In Under Our Skin - one of our favorite docs of last year - director Andy Abrahams Wilson uses the stories of several triumphant Lyme patients (and their long, winding roads to treatment) to build a case for what amounts to an unflinching indictment of the modern healthcare system, where the interwined interests of physicians and insurance companies too often trump the well-being of patients. In outlining the scientific history of Lyme and the debates surrounding it, Wilson...
- 6/18/2009
- TribecaFilm.com
Andy Abrahams Wilson’s “Under Our Skin” “investigates the untold story of Lyme disease, an emerging epidemic with staggering consequences. Each year thousands go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, told that their symptoms are ‘all in their head.’ Following the stories of patients and physicians fighting the disease, the film brings into focus a haunting picture not only of our health care system and its inability to cope with a silent and growing terror, …...
- 6/17/2009
- indieWIRE - People
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